Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-17
i'm OUR
VALLEY

eoS OI oeuDeratlon on tne
subject Of banking.
Il was to be a day of strictly bus
mess, to conclude with a dinner. To-
morrow the visitors will have an op-
portunity to see all there is to be
seen throughout the Valley.
The Herald joins the citizenry Of
Brownsville and the Valley generally
IN welconing the visiting bankers.
Weather q little snappier than
usual. But that won't bother most
Of the Texas bankers. Long since
they have learned all about Texas
northers, and know what a Texas
norther can do to weather claims in
few minutes.
But, as we all know, they never
last very long, at least not in this
part Of the grand old state of Texas.
SATURDAY the people of Les
fresnos will celebrate the opening
Of the Paredes line concrete road,
connecting Brownsville and Los Fres-
nos.
The opening Of this road gives
southern Cameron county loop read
thirty-one miles in length.
Makes possible a nice drive from
Brownsville to Los Fresnos, thence
over the Barreda-Los Fresnos road
to Barreda, where the state high
way leads back into Brownsville.
This loop is even longer than the
famous loop drives around San An
tonic. In time it will have as
much or greater development.
BY the way, Frank Robertson OF
San Benito will be one of the prin-
cipal speakers at Saturdays celebra-
tion. Robertson built the first dirt
road in Los Fresnos, just sixteen
years ago.
UP IN HIDALGO COUNTY, near
Edinburg. the dirt is beginning to
fly on the s3,s00,0o0 permanent road
program for the Edinburg- Mercedes
road district.
In five years concrete Dads will be
as numerous in the rural sections
of the Valley as paved streets are
in many cities.
WILL Fl. MAYES, Austin, veteran
Texas newspaperman, is writing a
daily column for Texas newspapers.
Shortly he will pinch hit" for this
column for a few weeks under the
heading of "Texas."
Recently Mr.. Mayes wrote as fol-
lows in one Of his columns:
"The editor of a paper In which
this column appears regularly has
written me that he thinks the fea-
ture is going over good for he has
heard very little about it from his
readers, and that he seldom hears
from any Of them unless it is to
criticize something that appears in
the paper.
Newspaper editors get mighty
little encouragement from their
readers-that is, very little spoken
encouragement. If q man makes a
speech nearly everyone who hears
him and approves what is said will
crowd around him to tell him that
was fine; ! enjoyed it immensely,
but editors almost have to get out
on the streets and solicit compli-
ments if they get any. The criticisms
either drift into the office or come
rushing in.
"If you want to do 'gocd turn,
rs the Boy Scouts obligate them
selves to do every day, walk up to
the editor of this paper right soon,
slap him on the back and tell him
he is getting out q fine paper, and
then tell him what is fire about il.
1t will likely startle him, and he may
fall over in a faint, but he will re-
cover, and you will make him a life
long friend"
CAMERON and Nueees counties
seem to have the same voting
. strength this year.
Cameron county has s,306 quail
fled voters, exclusive of exemptions.
Nueces county has s,136. not in
cluding exemptions.
This is the first year that Cameron
county has passed Nueces in pcll
tax receipts issued.
DO YOU want to know how TO
take care Of your citrus fruit or
chard?
Have you been inquiring of your
orchsrd-owning friends about meth
DDS. when TO water, when to spray?
All these questions will be answer
ed in an article in The Herald on
Sunday, February 10. And many
more answers to many more ques-
fions.
All the result of experiments at
the Valley branch of the State Ex-
detrimental Station.
DO this: Cut that article out and
save it. Then you'll have il when you
need some information quickly.
ANOTHER special train, Mexico
hound, scheduled TO visit the Valley
an the first Of March.
This train will be made up of
Missouri and Midwest newspaper
editors and publishers.
The Missouri Pacific is sponsoring
ths train, which will visit the prin-
ripal cities of Mexico during a stay
= the republic Of nearly two weeks.
The National Realtors special re-
~ently came out Of Mexico at La
vedo after an extremely enjoyable
trip.
W;1lacv County Has