Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-26
IN OUR
VALLEY
, BY CHARLES HALL /,
wHooPs MY DEARl

WHOOPS MY DEARl
Cameron county is TO get her
$250,000 from the state to complete
the hard surfaced road to Point
Isabel. Looks like Judge Dancy and
his allies have gone and done" the
big thing by way OF presenting their
requests.
But did you know how the tele-
graphic dispatch read with refer
ence to granting the request? 1t
ead: When Congress takes SUBJ
Stantially favorable action on the
recommendations Of army engineers
for further developments Of Port
Isabel.
And then it went on to say that
the highway commission will visit
Brownsville and the Valley and in
spect all state highways Of the
county.
If that dispatch had been about
two paragraphs longer and had
kept on adding such development
prospects, We probably would not
have been able to stand the strain.
Now when we get a deep water
port Brownsville will be a city Of
100000 within ten years.
ALMOST IN keeping with what
was said in this column a few DAYS
ago about advertising the Valley
as q winter resort comes a letter
to A. d. Dickinson from Erie, Pa.
which speaks loudly toward more
advertising Of the Valley and
Brownsville in the East for all pur-
poses. Mr.. Dickinson. who has Just
returned from the East, exhibited
the following letter with which he
is In accord:
"The more I see of the East, the
better 1 think the of the South.
I'm just thinking though how much
asleep our Rio Grande Valley is
when they are not doing q lot Of
intensive advertising to reach these
people who are leaving here right
now by the thousands. and who do
not know any place but California
or Florida. They have no way OF
knowing that Texas has the climate
they are looking for. We. have been
instrumental in diverting several.
They don't want our trip, but want
TO 60 In their cars so they may stay
Being on the ground here makes one
see plainly what an intensive ad-
vertiSing campaign would do right
now. Honestly. most people here
think that one could drive from
Amarillo to Brownsville in two or
three hours. and they have heard
of Amarillo"
That should bring out several
ideas4
MAYBE YOU already know It, bu.
In case you do not. John Tanning,
manager Of the Publix Theaters, IS
q former newspaper man. There are
also others, who also speak the lingo
OF the brotherhood here in Browns
vile, but Mr.. Tanning has q work
ing knowledge OF Paradise Alley"
Of Fl. Worth. 1t Is said that more
financially crippled newspaper men,
who have afterward become famous
have passed the night in that spot
than any other one can name.
MIR flaming has a most interesting
story Of how Jack London came to
town broke. enroute to gather ma
terial for a big story. Mr. Fanning
loaned him his last quarter. In
day or two Jack got a check from
Munsey's for 5000 and presented the
Brownsville man with a suit Of
clothes and a hat.
Newspapers print millions Of pages
a Gay IN the United States and bar
rels and barrels Of ink are spread
and yet about one half of all that
really happens IS ever told. 1t would
take something like two hundred
million articles day to do it.
THOSE WHO have been studying
the stock market claim that not
nearly 50 much money was lost in
the big 1uctuation the other day !
as has been represented. That is.
yes. and no. 1t was lost on paper. |
That Is. they lost because they did
not sell when it was high.
As a result cheaper call money has
resulted. The banks have really |
Just as much money without as
many borrowers. How long this will
last none can say. but l. has been |
pointed out that the time to build /
Is during times Of cheap money.
Iexas really feels only the slight
eS tremor Of what the market did |
~ the East, but for all that as has /
peen said before the greatest danger
lies IN lack Of confidence. Now that 1
Governor Moody has answered Pres
loent Hoover saying he viii help in
every possible way in the boom idea /
ne mas advanced 70 the nation many
public works may soon open.