Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-28

it is time for all the people of Har-
lingen to think aloud. Sometimes
it is necessary to make our friends
angry in order to bring them TO their
right senses.
When the counsel of anyone is
sought regarding the expenditure Of
money to bring permanent results,
it has always been my policy to
check up on the man who is advis-
ing the expenditure Of the money
and to see what financial success
he has made in life, whether he is
seeking to get a job at a good big
salary at the peoples expense, or
whether he is willing to serve the
community in a philanthropic way
without compensation. These are
matters worth considering.
I do lot know of any port on
the gulf coast where the commits
sioners are drawing a salary, and
men that serve on the commission
as commissioners of port develop
ment, who are not in position to
render public service without COM
pensation, should not accept such
DOOlIIOllS, DCOdQOC o41 1llOA4CJ CARCAAN-
ed on the waterways program is a
donation toward a public develop
ment. I want to commend the COM
miSsionerS court of Cameron coun-
ty for eliminating the salaries of
the Harrington navigation district.
There has been more than SOS, 900
practically wasted already and If
the program had not been checked,
it would all have been wasted by
this time. If the Harrington naviga-
ton district wants to bond itself
for $4,000, 900 and create a main
tenance fund of several hundred
thousand dollars a year without any
direct income from the investment,
and If it is able financially to do
this, then I have nothing more to
say, but when I know that it is not
able to do this, that 1t is a young
community and already our taxes
! are heavy enough, and that if you
will check up on the men who are
trying to waste this money, find
how much taxes they are paying
and then decide as to whether or
not you want to be guided by their
advice in the expenditure of several
millions of dollars, the result will be
that you viii not waste your half
million dollars II the present bond
issue. Tile people will refuse to vote
any more EcncS and then you Will
have a few rocks dumped in the
ocean, q channel built that will be
silted III tile first overflow and no
money to keep it dredged, but If
the government builds our channel
and maintains it, there will be
enough for us to do to assist the
government in building and main
tanning our wharves, and all you
have to do to convince yourself OF
/ this fact is to get on the train and
go to Corpus Christi, to Houston or
to any other port in the United
| States. and find out for yourself
what it costs to do these things, then
check up on your ability to pay and
you will reach the right conclusion.
National Proposition
The waterways program that is in
the minds of thoeS who have foS-
tered it is not a local proposition.
1t is a national proposition. We
feel that the entire nation, is we'll
as ourselves, will benefit from this
waterways program. When we con-
meet ourselves with 10000 miles of
inland waterways. with the other
rivers of the north, those communi-
ties will benefit the same as we in
the lower Rio Grande Valley.
We are merely a link in the chain
of the great national program,
therefore, it is a national problem
and the expense of it should be
borne by the national government
as a service to its citizenship. Our
local community should assist the
government in every possible way,
and we will then have enough to Go
in building wharves and docks, and
securing the rights of way. 1t is
up to us to convince the government
that our link in the chain is an i'm
portant link and it will take our link
to complete the chain, which will
not only add to our great trans
portation facilities but will be used
as a great asset in national de-