Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-04-22
OVER 100000 HOMELESS in FLOOD AREAS
I'm O u r
VALLEY

JUST AS THIS column predicted
a few days ago. Valley newspapers
are talking about 4 million dollar"
rain.
No reason why that arbitrary
value should not be placed on il.
It's worth million all right, all
right. IL il doesn't produce it in
crops. it ~ least makes most Of US
feel like a million.
Authentic telephone reports TO
The Herald indicate that the rain
extended through extreme South
went Texas, which interests US.
IL makes this difference, for in
stance. With this rain. Starr coun-
~ likely will produce some 5000
bales of cotton. whereas II IL had
not come at this time. Star county
might have gone into the summer
without cotton crop.
And there are growing crops in
the irrigated section that il will ben
eft. Cotton. corn, feed crops-yes,
and potatoes.
Grapefruit trees will be helped by
the natural moisture.
And up in the so-called dry farm
section, where cotton has been look
ing good-and corn. too-the rain is
being appreciated very much.
Our visitors will be surprised at
the cool weather here. And we'll let
sr
ADOLP1POLLACK. Confederate
veteran. piR citizen of Browns
Vile, coming re when the war be-
tween the states ended, has gone to
the Great Beyond.
lie helped carve out civilization
along the frontier in times when liv-
ing was hazardous matter.
His was n daring. intrepid figure
in guerrilla warfare over in the
mnrshes OF Louisiana.
The shock Of his wife's death !.
short three weeks ago. was one
(which even his sturdy constitution
Nbuld no. withstand. 4 week ago
ne began 70 fill.
H's nassinc will be mourned BY
numerous friends.
TOM PHILLIPS. Santa Rosa phil
osopher and humorist. en- route to
Chicago. writes to The Herald from
st. Louis in this vein
There is no flat rate change in
the new irrigated area in Arkansas
and Louisiana Acreage charges are
ril and there is no need to hustle
after the ditch rider for service.
Slushing along in a train twenty
four hours late. pushing water out
of the way like any other partly
submerged submarine with nothing
in sight but water and the tops of
trees and excursion parties in hom y
made craft
"Thc Missouri Pacific No. is de-
livering the goods and at tho same
time giving the cash customers
Rock baseball game was postrone1
owing To swimming tournment
having been arranged. several
thousand men. women and children
taking advantage of the floods an1
the fact that the day is Saturday
Entire blocks Of business houses ar
from five to fifteen feet under wa
ter and scores Of automobiles wholly
or partly submerged. Carloads Of
sacks are arriving and thousands az
men filling them with sand and IN
most eases succeeding in keeping the
river banks from breaking through
At the rate the wafer is rising il is
hard TO say how long this viii last"
THE LIST OF Valley Rotarians
who are going 70 attend the inter
national convention at Ostend in
June j.. as We suspected. larger
than the list published few days
ago
The San Bcnito Light calls at
tention to the fact that Jim Gra-
ham Of San Benito l. among those
who are going 70 this worldwide
meeting
The Valley list now comprises A.
WAYNE Wood of Brownsville. Duval
West. Jr., Of Harlineen. Tom Phillips
of the La Feria Club and Jim Gra-
ham.
Any others
NATURALLY A St. Paul paper
would have something 70 say edi-
torially about Oscar n. Smith :
Texas land opinions. Smith. you
know, is immigration. or 2nigra-
tion. commissioner for Minnesota.
The st. Paul Dispatch comments
as follows-it's bunk. but read it
ANYWAY:
Mr.. Oscar TT. Smith. our Mime
sofa immigration commissioner.
stand accused Of the indelicacv of
having mentioned "land boom" in
connection with the state Of Texas.
Tha; is an offense. Omission from
bis bulletin of reference to the
character Of the Texas population
would have been considerate. but il
would not have s0other effectively
~ hurt from the intimation that
there are Texans who actually wish
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