Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-15
IN OUR
VALLEY

@~@7A0ANAN@HN NAAE DAOMLoNAAAE Id
giles viii leave on the special train
for San Antonio carrying with them
q goodly number OF local football
fans.
It is now thought that at least
800 will make the hegira. Further
more, while one never knows, 1t Is
said 10 be in the cards for Browns
vile 70 come back home with their
opponents scalps to hang on the
pole Of the local football wigwam.
Brownsville is thus gaining for
-aerself no little credit in the world
Of sports. This is the first year in
class a football, and the showing
being made is something to be proud
OF. The further the team goes. in the
league the more upstate advertising
comes to the Gateway City and the
Magic Valley.
Up Waco way. and the same for
Abilene. Breckenridge. Amarillo and
Corsicana, a fight can be started
on the street by some one making
any slight remark about their high
school team. Football Is another
thing that grows with success. Not
iceably so.
IL has been said that a great high
school football team cannot come to
Texas south of San Antonio. Looks
like somebody has been proved they
are nothing but a naughty, naughty
word.
BRowNsvIILE evidently has
three lively luncheon clubs. This
writer so far has been guests at two
Of them.
There is nothing on earth. proba-
bly,, that shows how much alike the
world Is as q luncheon club meet
ing. There you find men striving to
know each other; and in under
standing each ether putting their
shoulders TO the wheel in a common
cause. Some may throw fellows bis4
cults and some may come in late
but they are all good.
This putting their shoulder to the
wheel together was once found in
the word cooperation. But that
word has now been 50 overworked
that it has now come more to mean. :
~Yes I will agree with the idea OF
certain things, bu / had rather let
George do the work, II ! can possibly
get out Of 1t with any grace at all.
Work is the foundation Of every
thing accomplished in the world. /
ever since Adam was told he would
have TO sweat for a living. First
glance at Brownsville clubs shows
they are not afraid of a little labor
for their city, and their community. /
Now that means that II is ultimately
for themselves.
RECENTLY the conductor Of this 4
column was asked for his first i'm
pressions Of the Valley.
Well here they are, after an after
noon drive: II looks SO much like I
q million dollars. that the writer re-
acted to for a bit TO maybe every
thing that glitters IS not gold But /
he drove on and looked little more. /
It looked more and more like gold. \
He stopped his car walked under I
the trees and examined some Of the I
soil. 1t was gold-so far as soils 60
and there you have 1t.
And now we come TO little Of |
the adverse with the delightful. In |
Brownsville there are number Of
fences. and lots that need cleaning, 4
maybe some unSightly signs. huff I
sed" let's get behind the Civic Club 4
and not let that cleanup idea go
dead aborning.
TWO OR THREE funny tales
were told. Just before removing here. I
That is they seem funny now. Here
4 one Of them. 1t was said that it \
y 50 hot and sticky in Brownsville
that Il was unpleasant and that the
mosuuitos would eat up nice ten
der newcomer.
II was also said that the air from
the gulf Is so salty that 1t eats
Ali the bright spots off an automo-
hiIe IN about ten minutes. Now look
al IL. So nice and snappy that the
only thing real sticky is good subs
fantial steak that viii stick under
vour ribs. And nary mosquito have
ne heard winging any solitude lull-
ably.
And the automobiles here act just
ike any others. except some OF the
streets are not marked so they can
eesily find their way about.
Fhere are q lot OF towns bigger
4han brownsville that any proposed
Exchange would have 10 be quoted
"A car load lots. !