Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-18
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moros, en- route to Mexico City Ia
spend Christmas with her son
Colonel Charles Lindbergh.
which further demonstrates the
/, practicability OF the Brownsville
Matamoros route into and out OF
Mexico, for northern and eastern air
1travel.
Colonel Lindbergh was at first
Fcneduled to use the Laredo route.
Changed to Brownsville.
SO was-and did-Mrs. Lindbergh
News photo and news reel flyers
hvere scheduled to pick up pictures
Fat Laredo.
Changed TO Brownsville.
A. A plane from Mexico City to
Nuevo Laredo changed and came to
Matamoros.
The coastal plain. with the sea
shore as clear marker, continues
70 perform admirably in the interest
If flying.
And now comes word from Wash
ingtcn that discussion there seems
TO favor the Brownsville Matamoros
route for the proposed Washington
Mexico City air mails.
THE WAR DEPARTMENT engi-
neers are authorized to 60 ahead
and complete the inner channel at
Brazos Pass.
So declares a resolution passed BY
the rivers and harbors committee Of
the house, at the instance or Con-
gressman John NJ Garner
And il that is not enough. John
Garner advises in a message TO The
Brownsville Herald. the senate com
mittee will be asked 10 make il a
joint resolution.
All Of which IL seems, should
hiring about the early completion oi
the inner and outer channels. and
permit small vessels 10 enter Point
Isabel harbor.
Once shipping is made available al
this coast, there will be shipping
development that will certainly prove
astonishing.
\ In the meantime Commodore Loul,
Cobolini has filed his brief in ar
appeal to the board Of engineers or
the Valleys request for a thirty
foot harbor.
This appeal is set for hearing in
February.
r, +. EVANS. pioneer resident oi
Mercedes, apnlauds the views Of
"Alandy" on the subject Of com
raHionate marriages, ms explained in
this column few days ago.
Says Mr.. Evans:
"A paragraph in The Herald has
already paid ne for the check I had
just sent you in renewal Of my
subscription.
II refer TO the story Of the good
lady in Cameron county relating tho
conversation or Mandy and her
mistress on the subject Of ccmpan.
ionate marriage. II is the best re-
Ply to Jadge Lindsey and others
that ] have read and that story
going the rounds of the papers will
30 thoroughly ridicule the comaan-
ionate marriage theory that il will
die a 'bornin'".
J. r. STYLES lives at Gainesville
Ga.
He has farm a few miles out OF
Brownsville.
Also, he has a farm at Gaines
willie.
He does the hiring and firing Of
labor on both farms. That is. he
writes the checks and does the pay
ing.
So he knows the cost Of labor q,
both points.
And arguing against the Box bill
he declares labor costs more in Tex
as-and west OF the Mississippi
than at does in Georgia.
Writing 70 Hon. ". J. Harris. NJ
e., Mr.. Styles says;
"HAvE JUST READ your bill
where you propose TO stop the tide,
or flow. of Mexican labor, from Mex
eco into Texas.
"You have the wrong conception
about this labor being cheap
II have been doing farming for
the past four years in the Rio
Grande Valley. near Brownsville,
and at the same time having farm
ing done here in Georgia.
On each place work is done by day
labor-so my Texas labor always
costs me more than II does here in
Georgia. We pay here from 81 20
SIPS per day, and in Texas. always
$3.50 per day. Cotton picking costs
us here rs cents per hundred. We
are paying from 81 to SIPS per
hundred in Texas.
$50, you can sec that the Texas
farmers do not rival Georgia farm
ers on account % cheap labor IN
fact. ali labor in the cotton belt Is
higher west OF the Mississippi river.
ssThe advantage the Texas farmer
fas over the Georgia farmer Il fer
tilitv Of the soil. which is more cas-
ilv cultivated there. In Texas you
ean use modern cultivators and one
rra cultivate ten acres there
while one man here cultivate one,
with the old way-one mule single
plow.
"Another advantage-Ne do not
buy commercial fertilizer in Texas
30 that cuts considerable into our
profits here In raising cotton tin
Georgia."
Mr.. STYLES sent copies Of his let
ter 70 Senator Walter r. George,
Senator Earl n. Mayfield and Sen
ator Norris Sheppard.