Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-04-19

I'm O u r
VALLEY
ZEN WONDERING Why the Coi

htcd 10 see Brownsville and the
kher towns or the Valley.
Mrs. Marshall Jones Spoonts.
president Of the Corpus Christi
1 Chamber Of Commerce. let the cat
out Of the bag just before the play.
"The Whole Towns Talking" a.
! tn Queen Theatre last night.
Mrs. Spoonts said she was down
here a few weeks ago.
What she saw interested her
greatly. She decided that IL would
do the business leaders Of Corpus
Christi good il they would come down
here and see for themselves what is
going on in this city and in the Val
lev generally.
audience. who came to see the Cor
pus Christi Little Theatre folks III
action, that the Layout" which in
cluded Hotel III Jardin. the Mis-
souri, Pacific station and the Cham
bcr OF Commerce was beautiful
harmonious. and attractive in every
way.
She was particularly Interested in
that Chamber Of Commerce.
And we'll bet that before Mrs. Mar
shall Jones Spoonts leaves the pres
idency Of the Corpus Christi Cham
her Of Comm ercc. there'sll be some
thing doing in the way OF home
for the organization.
MRS. SPOONTS. like q true Cor
pus Christian, didn't miss boosting
the port Of Corpus Christi
! She told her audience that the
Agyowth Of Corpus Christi depended
III on the growth Of the Vail -. It may
A have been that the noise OF the fan
Jinterfercd with our hearing, but
" somehow we believe that eve heard
Mrs Spoonts say that the growth ~
the Valley depended on the develop
ment Of Corpus Christi and her port.
Wight have been mistaken about
that.
Mrs. Spoonts may not have heard
of the port being developed az
Brazos Santiago. which 70 expected
10 form the principal water in-outlct
for this section. At least. il She
has she failed TO mention H. Nor
did she couch upon the various in
land waterways that are being
urged.
SPLENDID BUNCH of people that
came down from Corpus Christi 20
see the Valley.
For some of them il was III first
trip in many years. Corpus Christi
somehow. hasn't been quite as close
10 Brownsville as she was in for
mcr years. Back in the days of the
A old South Texas League We know
each other much better Thcre1
one good thing about inter-city base
ball. Teaches Us something about
our ncighhor towns that othcrwis
we wouldn't know.
And this tour hy Corpus Christi's
own Little Theatre movement Is
something of the kind. They made
no attcmnt 20 initiate professional
actors. They acknowledged freely
they were an amateurs bent upon
doing their part in helping % keep
alive the memory of the stage that
preceded the moving picture de-
cvlopemnt All were part perfect
all were good. II was humorous
4 plav very well presented.
Those Of Us who had the pleasure
~ witnessing the presentation hone
that the Corpus Christi folks will
come more frequently.
They show ~ McAllen tonight.
The Herald commends the play "a
the MeAllen folks. They should sec
it.
A SCORE or ear boys from thc
school Of journalism Of the Uni
vcrsity az Oklahoma visited The
- Herald office Monday afternoon.
Fine. clean looking bunch ~ young
Efellows. these Oklahomans.
They came down 40 see the Val
lay. but principally they were in-
W tefcsted III newspaper offices. no
M ter what the offices looked like
Also, they are interested IN news
pancr offices in the nearby Mexican
cities. Monterrey and Saltillo. They'll
find very good plants in ooth CITIES
particularly that ~ 81 Impartial ai
Monterrey.
They went un the Valley. und er
the leadership of Rob Stuart of Har-
linren. Saw aIl the country be-
tween Harlingcn and Mission asd
between HarlinEcn and Brownsville
And today thev visited the future
mart M Point Isabel