Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-13

cred just about as quietly as cat
walking across a carpet, and, once
gathered, applauded laundering
speeches and shouted their ideas.
II nothing else is here said, re-
porter at such a meeting could not
help but get the idea that If that
group Of people did not happen to
like you, they did not mind saying
so from the platform and from the
audience in no uncertain terms.
THESE drives up the Valley just
get more impressive all the time.
Today the towns and country
side are putting on Christmas cloth
ing. Valley Christmas clothes con-
sist OF row upon row Of succulent
vegetables. Orchard after orchard
laden with ripe fruit, or trees lifting
their limbs again toward heaven
after the fruit is gathered.
Christmas clothes Of the towns In
the Valley consist Of decorating the
street posts In evergreens, and the
store windows In colors Of the holi-
days.
The Valley may have suffered loss
es at times and it may have known
periods of depression, but a country
that can produce so much, so quick
ly, cannot help but be one Of the
greatest spots on earth. in due time,
If it is not already so. 1t seems to be
able to recover a loss with another
crop quicker than any other place
on the globe.
ANENT the Brownsville election
~ the latest report Is that there
were quite a number Of mutilat-
ed ballots, which under the law had
to be thrown out. It would be quite
interesting to know how many there
were and 1t will probably come out
in the official count.
Whether the tickets mutlateo
would have made any difference IN
the outcome Of the election Is here
doubted but IL brings evidence that
some OF us ought to know more
about how TO do II before We 90 70
the polls to vote.
Take, those telephone calls TO the
Herald office on the night OF the
election. II was roughly estimated
that a call was answered every ten
seconds from four telephones 70
make 5000. Actual figures obtained
from the telephone company today
show that 3,126 calls were answered.
! And II you want 70 get an insight
into the interest, there were l,lO8
calls between the hours Of and 8
O'Clock, and 1886 between the hours
OF and 8 o'clock.
IF there still be any waiting for the
word TO go" before starting 10
do your Christmas shopping, and
they want us to give the word, all
we can say is that now is the time
to swing into action with a will. The
merchants Of Brownsville and the
Valley say they will wait on them.
And said merchants are backing
their words with exhibits OF one OF
the greatest displays Of Christmas
goods to be found anywhere. Don't
forget that the mails will be crowded
and that 'tempus fugits and fugits
fast"
TT was promised yesterday that the
kiddies should be informed to-
day whether Santa Claus could
make his parachute drop tomorrow.
We hate 70 come TO 1t, but Chris
KrinEle has written that he is so
busy reading his Christmas letters,
many Of them from Brownsville, and
making his toys in answer TO them,
that he cannot possibly make the
airplane trip. but added that he will
be here with bag full on Christ
mas day.
nURING the holidays the Browns
Vile Rotary club will dedicate
the new wading pool at the
new city park they have donated 70
the children Of Brownsville and TO
the Valley. II is the little good things
and the more magnanimous ones
IKE this. that make us feel the
world is growing better and more
considerate as the years roll on.
THERE Is one sign one reads once
in a while I'D and down the Ma
gic Valley main street" which
should be taken seriously by all. This
in effect is do not be a road hog.
Two cars can easily pass one another
on that highway, but in many STREET
ches the road hog can create real
danger, not only TO others, but TO
himself. II he takes more than his
share and forces the driver he is
meeting 10 swing his hind wheel
over the pavement, the loose dirt or
the drop off the pavement may
throw him right back into the road
hog. II is probably what the road
hog would have coming to him. but
it is hard on the considerate driver.
OUR next investigation, 1t now
seems will be Of the eligibility
Of one Of the men who played
with the Brownsville Eagles. II 1t
should be found that a man did
play, who was beyond the age limit,
men Of the calibre Of the high
school officials did not know II. and
while some penalty might result the
idea Of throwing the Eagles out OF
the league" seems to us nothing but
radical and q step which In the emo
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