Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-28
FINAL
E EDITION
I'm OUR
VALLEY

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SONORA DOLORES LoNGoRIA'
wife Of a former senator from the
state Of CoahuiIa. Mexico. returning
TO Mexico after a visit to the United
States. has some observations con-
cerning modern United States that
should interest folks living on the
border.
Gives them something to think
about. after observing American
morals" in New York, Chicago, and
other United States cities.
She says, among other things;
1T is not the exploitation q
Mexican by American cap
ilal that Mexicans need fear; X Is
1.-The degradation OF the Mexican peo-
by American immortality that
Assent the most serious problem
before the people Of this 8 antry
(Mexico).
"Here on the border Of the United
States and Mexico, where our MeXl-
can girls used to play the innocent
game of flirting with their sweet
hearts thr ugh barred windows, J
find that American ways have al
ready corrupted opr young people
and they have taken to that horrible
practice of necking and petting.
"THE AMERICAN people have
to relish good literature and
Esuy only the morbid" she says
Americans as q whole have aban
I doned music and have gone mad
! oyer jazz, which is not music at all,
but only the expression Of immoral
desires.
even in politics you- oil com
panies corrupt some Of your high
officials and then want var with
Mexico because We will not suffer
them to do likewise in this country.
~You write about your revolutions
when in Chicago you have one con-
slant revolution that would make
red Russia blush with shame
And the news dispatches about
Sonora Longoria concludes with the
statement that she really liked the
American people of "the more re-
fined type" but that the nation Is
AZ whole is already on the brink Of
moral decay aud Is facing the fate
Z ancient Rome.
laE WHITE WING season, the
law says, opens on July l.
I Bat sportsmen Of the border coun-
try who really have the best inter
ests Of this sport at heart, will vol
UNFAIRLY delay the shooting season.
The law opens the season too
early. Nesting is still -.nder a
The killing of mature birds VII
mean that the next years crop vii
mot be SO good for the hunter.
So the sportsmen urge that every
white wing hunter make a volun-
1 tary pledge not to begin shooting
4 until at least a month later in the
! season, or about August !.
THE SOUTHWESTERN Bell Tele-
y phone company systems in the Val
lev and the Rio Grande Valley Tele-
4 phone company. have Joined together
10 issue q combined telephone d.
rectory.
The last telephone directory. that
Of the past spring. contained all the
Cameron county exchanges in one
ii hook. including la Feria. HarlinEen.
San Benito, Rio Hondo, Point Isabel
and Brownsville; in Hidalgo coun-
Nv, ell exchanges were also in one
hook, giving all the exchanges in two
books.
The next directory will cove the
Zsntire Valley insofar as the ex-
Ihanges owned BY the Southwestern
"a - Rio Grande company are
II concerned.
All m will be listed alpha
metically, making the directory Of
particularly convenient form for
itnr distance users.
Incidentally. il will be the only di-
rectory Of its kind in the south,
possibly ia the nation.
COTTON j. opening -anidly from
II pio Crande City to Brownsville.
Rio Grande City ginned its first
hale a few days AGO, at about the
same hour that bales were ginned
A. Mission and Edinhurg.
Bales were ginned later AZ Har-
4 iinren. weslaco and Hargill.
And now Brownsville gets into the
vamo with two bales. girned at The
\ Fourteenth street plant Of the Pco-
ple's Gin company.
The cotton came off he old Q. a.
= nlantation land that was hard his
l,st but which this year seems
hound for q mountaineering produc-
ton.
MrALLEN is getting set for its
Fourth of July celebration.
Reynosa viii not observe the
ronrth Of July. exactly, but will
800 4 corrida on that day expect
80 "a bring down some Of th'
-swdx from the democratic national
convention.
prownxviIle will also stage =
r-,vth ~ July celebration, with fire.
--orts. boat races. water carnival and
r.her events that promise to be in
feressing.
n other words. there will Re no
~esson for any Valley resident 70
spend TIE day at home.
there viii be plenty Of places TO
and mt Padre Isl.nd and Boca
rh;rn the waters are reported to be
s.r;fnr. And the fish biting.