Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-03
||A N OUR
| VALLEY

Rio Grande Valley of Texas again
VIII attract attention to itself with
an unusual accomplishment.
\ I. L. ogiive, an experienced grow
cr OF this aristocratic vegetable,
forwarded one crate by express to
New York City Thursday night.
Grown in his 40-acre field near Har-
sill, where many more crates Of
the same product are approaching
the marketing stage.
The claim Is made that IL was the
first field grown asparagus for the
present seascn-a claim not likely
to be disputed.
ABOUT l25 ACRES OF asparavus
growing near Hargill on 0gilvie and
w. A. Harding farms. Many addi-
tional acres of the same vegetable
growing on the Stugard and other
farms in the irrigated section.
Money for the men who grew II
and another way OF letting the peo-
| pie Of the nation know about the
Valley.
X. B. CREAGER. republican ma
fional committeeman from Texas,
may need defense outside Texas
from slanderous charges made this
week against him before the senate
.dc9Tmittee investigating charges Of
E4se Of federal patronage. but not
ihg this state, points out the Times
appearing Thursday.
Herald os Dallas in an editroial
appearing Thursday.
The Times Herald says:
'rhe public generally in Texas has
wholesome respect for r. b.
| Creager, republican national COM
rlitteeman, both as a politician and
citizen. Very few people will be-
iieve that this son Of a Confederate
soldier. although he is Texas
republican. would stoop to the
things that one witness by infer
| ence accused him of before the SEN
ate committee in charge 70 investi-
| cation Of federal patronage. One
OF the accusations, according 20
Associated Press reports, was that
Mr.. Creager offered protection to a
hotel or two from federal dry
raiders.
MANY DEMOCRATS would like
TO see the republican party in
Texas put in bad but that wish
does not include Mr.. Creager per-
sonally. They respect him for his
! fighting ability and his sincerity
Of purpose in trying to develop a
respectable party. If there had been
any other regard for his organiza-
, tion Hoover would not have carried
Texas, for democrats by the hun
dreds of thousands would not have
| Joined with him in this enterprise.
"one swallow does not make q
| summer and the testimony OF one
. witness cannot overcome the general
| belief in social, business and, aye,
! political circles that Mr.. Creager is
man Of character--a man who
would net lend his talents for the
protection of bootleggers nor aid
in the sale of federal office for
personal gain.
"Mr. Creager may have some
explaining to do in Washington,
where he is not so we'll known, but
he will have no explaining to do
among the home folks in the state
Of his birth"
MAD DOG SCARES entirely too
numerous in West Brownsville. An
other Friday. Time something was
being done to remove the danger.
Nest of the disturbance seems to
occur outside the city limits. City
officers naturally hesitate to kill
the animals without special investi-
cation from citizens Of the area
most often affected.
Citizens OF that area might try
sending a committee TO Chief Of
Police W. B. Linton or Lieutenant
John T. Armstrong with request
that stray dogs be killed. This likely
woHc get the desired result and
put an end to the menace.
MOEG DC
obtained with dog tax and regula-
tions concerning keeping a dog in
the city or the thickly populated
area just outside the boundary line.
AT LEAST one banker of the
tffete East knows more Of the Val
ley and this border land than he
| did. Writing for one of his "good
customers" he addresses the San
Antonio Chamber Of Commerce with
request fer "some statistics on
Brownsville" and asks:
"What is the general atmosphere
81 Brownsville?
as il too simple a community to
cffer a good field for beauty
shops?
"Have they a chamber of COM
merce?"
HE KNOWS that "yes" is the
answer TO the last question quoted
above. and he probably has some
other highly altered views concern
ing this land by this time.
This enlightened inquiry was for
wsrded by the San Antonio organi-
cation TO the Brownsville chamber
and Manager G.. c. Richardson has
furnished the desired information
and then some.
"WE CAN hardly blame you who
live in the frozen North for having
very meagre information on this
sectipa,n writes Manager Richard
son.
we can not help but smile at