Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-26
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|, BY CHARLES HALL
WHOOPS MY DEARl

wHOOPS MY DEARl
Cameron county is to get hei
$250.00 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 70 granting the request? It
read: when Congress takes sub
stantially favorable action on the
recommendations OF army engineers
for further Developments Of Port
IA 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.
II 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
rs a winter resort comes q 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 / think the OF the South.
I'm just thinking though how much
asleep our Rio Grande Valley is
when they are not doing a 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 go 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
ideas.
MAYBE YOU already know It, bu.
in case you do not. John Tanning
manager OF the Publix Theaters, Is
a former newspaper man. There are
also others. who also speak the lingo
OF the brotherhood here in Browns
vile, but Mr.. Tanning has a work
ing knowledge OF Paradise Alley
of Fl. Worth. It 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.
Mr. Tanning has a most interesting
nnEtory OF how Jack London came 10
%sown broke. enroute to gather ma
terial for big story. Mr.. Tanning
loaned him his last quarter. In q
day or two Jack got a check from
Munsey'S for $500 and presented the
Brownsville man with a suit OF
clothes and a hat.
Newspapers print millions Of pages
a Gay I'm 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. It would
take something like two hundred
million articles day to do it.
THOSE WHO have been studying
The stock market claim that not
nearly SO much money was lost in
the big fluctuation the other day
as has been represented. That is,
yes. and no. III was lost on pape..
mat IS, they lost because they did
not sell when st was high.
As q 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 /. has been
pointed out that the time 70 build
is during times Of cheap money.
Texas really feels only the slight
es. tremor Of what the market did
in the East. but for all that as has
been said before the greatest danger
lies In lack Of confidence. Now that
Governor Moody has answered Pres
ident Hoover saying he will help In
every possible way in the boom idea
he has advanced 70 the nation many
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