Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-11
FINAL
EDITION
I'm OUR
VALLEY

SAMUEL M. GAINES is the grand
old man" of the railway postal ser
vice in Texas
His name has been connected with
the railway postal service IN Iexas
as far back as some of the Oldest en-
ployes can remember.
He is. superintendent of the ser
vice in Texas. And has been for
many, many years.
Recently Postmaster G. ". Den
nett of Brownsville and Leslie Neal
of Edinburg called to the attention
OF Mr.. Gaines the fact that inter
city mail in the Lower Rio Grande
Valley is worse in 1928 with 100000
population than il was back in 1910
with less than 10000 population
And receives a message from the
official indicating his full sympathy
with the situation.
There will be an immediate In
vestigation.
The service will be looked into. re-
ported on. After which bids will be
sought, no doubt, for establishment
Of mail service through the Valley,
by bus.
A NEW SORT OF praise for the
Valley.
Comes from . travelling salesman
who has Just visited the Valley for
the first time.
Has visited eighteen foreign coun-
tries, and each OF the forty-eight
states. He says:
VALLEY folks are more hospitable,
more friendly.
1T costs less for travelling man
to live in the Valley. Hotel prices
more reasonable, and as good or bet
ter than in most other sections.
Meals are cheaper in the Valley.
And good.
Even the beer across the river
here costs less than il does at other
border points.
Il came here on business, but feel
that l have been royalty entertained.
/ hope for an opportunity TO some
day come back-and stay
LESLIE NEAL, secretary manager
Of the Edinburg Chamber of Com
merce proposes that the questions Of
the population of Hidalgo county,
about which this column has become
confused because OF various figures,
be settled at Reynosa, Mexico.
But Reynosa is not neutral ground.
IL is certain to be biased. Il is quite
too near Hidalgo county.
We suggest Windsor, Canada. OPP
posite Detroit. Or the Canadian
point opposite Niagara Falls. Per-
haps The Hague or Lausanne would
be the last word in neutrality.
Anyhow. Mr.. Neael says:
"We wish to straighten out this
question by using the county scholas-
tic figures. The number OF scholas-
tics, as compiled BY the various
school district, figures well over d.
600 for the county. For this rea-
son we still contend that the popula-
ton Of Hidalgo county is approxi-
mately 100000"
THE MALLORY LINES, steamship
operators, are advertising Browns
Vile and the border country.
A few days ago a ten inch adver-
tisement was used in the New York
Herald-Tribune.
At the top was the word Browns
Vile" in script letters, starting off
an inch and a half high and trail
ing off.
"Where Mexico Meets Uncle SAM"
the advertisement went on TO say.
And il refers to the proximity of
Mexico and the fact that this is an
all-year round agricultural section.
In which the Mallory Lines joins
the Missouri Pacific and the South
ern Pacific in bringing this section
to the attention Of the country.
A BOOMER" pressman drifted
into the pressroom Of The Herald the
other day.
Hailed from somewhere or any
where "up north"
"Why. everywhere mp there they
say there's a boom on down in this
country" he said.
The pressman foreman, as il hap
pens, went through the "boom" in
Florida.
He got out soon after the boom
began 10 "flatten out
"Nope, no boom here" said the
foreman. "Just fine. steady growth,
conservative, and right. They're
wrong, those folks Up north. These
people here don't propose to let this
he a repetition of Florida"
1T ISN'T OFTEN that such an in
stitution as a laundry structure is
considered as one Of a city's attrac-
tive buildings.
But such is the case as TO the new
rlant of the Model Laundry, on
Elizabeth street and the belt line
railroad.
The laundry's new home is a real
asset to Brownsville, and certainly
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