Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-09-19
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q degree about the Brownsville foot
ball team this year. but question
them all day about the prospect.
Of the team and see how much In
formation you get.
In fact both of these trainers got
a meal under false pretenSe at noon
Wednesday.
AL the service clubs OF the town
met together and invited the
coaches and members Of the team
tt was a deep laid plot on the part
OF Rotary. Kiwanis and Lion Off
GERS TO get the low-down on pros
poets of the team, as well as tc
prove to the boys that they have
the support Of the town.
Speakers poured forth praises
every coach and every member OF
the team coming under the spot
Highland then Bill West. president
Of the Rotary club, called on Doug
Fessenden to tell what the team is
going to do. You all know more
about the team than do" was the
way he turned the matter aside.
Failing to accomplish one Of the
real purposes of the gathering In
this manner. President West paint
ed q glowing picture Of the opti-
mism of the athletic director and
called on him 70 tell what the
Brownsville Eagles are going 10 d.
this year.
Red Irvine responded by re-tell-
ing q story Of pure fiction he had
read in True Story Magazine"
But the other purposes of the
meeting was accomplished.
Members of the team, after that
luncheon. can have no doubt that
Brownsville is backing the team to
the limit and counting on them
winning high honors in the state
race.
GfORGE A. TOOLAN, resuming
a front page column in the Harlin-
gen Star which he calls 1T Seems
to Me" offers a different viewpoint
on the knocker. though George Is
entirely too polite to call them BY
any such harsh name.
He points out that field men Of
land companies often develop per-
sons who deal in destructive criti-
cism.
These field men, according 70
Toolan. will promise a prospective
land purchaser anything and will
tell them anything If 1t will help
close a sale. The interest OF these
men is only in earning a commits
sion-they have no care to protect
the good name of the Valley or 70
assure her satisfied citizens by sell
ing land only on claims which will
be borne out.
That these extravagant claims are
not necessary recently was proved
in a dramatic manner.
A member Of a land party could
not hear, but he could see.
The party was taken on the usual
drives, the members were given the
usual land selling talks.
The man who was deaf heard
nothing-he could only see.
Because he could not hear the
glowing pictures of this Valley as
they were painted by the orators.
the agents did not pay much atten-
ton to the man.
One day an agent was showing
other members Of the party a piece
Of land.
Have you any more land like
this" the man who could not hear
but who could see suddenly asked.
The agent took a piece Of paper
and q pencil and wrote that he had
and continued his sales talk 10
other members Of the party.
III buy ten acres" the deaf
man said.
No, there is no need for exaggera-
tons. or to be more impolite. lies
about the Valley.
Persons who buy land here should
not be told the Valley does not have
frost. The Valley does have frost
all parts Of il.
True the frosts usually do very
little or no damage, but we have
frost.
Persons who are planning TO buy
land here should not be told we do
not have freezing temperatures. We
do have freezing temperatures. Net
disastrous freezes, but freezes never
theless. OF course. it should be ex-
planned there frequently are years
when the mercury does not fall to
even near the freezing point.
Plug the ears Of every stranger
that comes into the Valley seeking
a new homeland and nine tenthS Of
them would buy property.
The Valley is good enough to sell
itsa,Gf There is no need for ''exag-
geradons."
THE HERALD welcomes sMr.
Toolan with his column. He con-
Quoted O like column in the Harlin-
gen Star when it was a weekly pub
lication and when he was head Of
the chamber Of commerce there.
His column in those days was q
mower for the good Of the Valley.
It will be constructive now.
THE LEAGUE Of United Latin
American Citizens, organized for
the purpose Of teaching American
ism to native-born or naturalized
Latin citizens of the United States.
has undertaken "a serious work
which should yield huge dividends