Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-05-28
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VALLEY

UPSTATE EDITORS and head
writers need a course in Texas
Eeography-in so far as IL applies to
the bounds OF the Lower Rio
Grande Valley. at least
Valley Growers TO Hold Meet
ing. says a headline in the San
Antonio Light Monday.
Thinking The Herald had been
scooped on an important Valley
event. the editor reads the story.
Finds 1t tells Of a meeting Of
tomato growers 10 be held at Tyler,
away over in east Texas.
Evidently the fame OF the Valley
es a producer OF vegetables has
reached the ears OF that head
writer-to the extent that he imag-
ines the Valley is the only tomato
growing section in the state.
The incident wouldn't be worth
mentioning except that it occurs
so often.
Anything that happens in that
Section south of a line drawn from
Corpus Christi to Del Rio is lin
the Valley" in the minds OF many
editors In Texas cities.
For the instruction Of these:
The Lower Rio Grande Valley in
eludes Cameron. Hidalgo. Willacy
and part Of Starr county. no more,
no less.
A SHORT TIME AGO The Her
Md carried an item to the effect
that Roma. Starr county border
town. was without the services OF
d member Of the medical profess
kion.
Letters began arriving in that
Gown almost Immediately in whI:h
doctors asked for particulars.
One man who read the item did
not wait to write.
Dr. Whitehead OF San Antonio
boarded the train with a ticket TO
Roma. He is practicing there now.
AND NOW the big hunt is on.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and
II
- a honeymoon trip. Miss Anne
qsrrow became Mrs. Lindbergh in
wliset ceremony late Monday.
EInen Col. Lindbergh landed at
thsitnunicipal airport here several
weeks ago. after he had been r.
ported missing during the night.
Ahe limited 70 the writer Of this
trolumn that he intended soon to
disappear for a much longer time
than one night.
"And that will be no sign there
is anything wrong," he said.
l. He has ordered his blue Falcon
vsplane-the one in which he flew
here that morning from Mexico
Eprepared for flight from Roosevelt
iField
Indicates that he and his bride
contemplate an aerial honeymoon.
once they take the air the bic
Aunt will be on. Press wires in
all parts OF the country will carry
Ia continual stream OF queries.
"All points" these messages TO
the editors Of the nation will read,
Nkeep sharp lookout for Col. Lind
.ergh and his bride and prepare TO
trive quick coverage II sighted"
Too bad this hero Of the Ameri-
ran public cannot have the seclu-
zion and secrecy which he and his
bride SO earnestly desire.
But such Is the price Of fame.
The American public desires
every happiness for this young man
ewho "isn't a bit sentimental and
-doesn't care for girls" and for the
splendid young American woman
who has become his life mate.
~But the American public wants
20 know what its heroes are doing
and Il especially wants daily and
hourly bulletins on how these
young people are enjoying this
greatest experience.
THE JOHNSON BILL. passed at
the last special session of the legis-
lature. which was designed TO re-
tain the present supply Of farm
labor In the state and especially in
the Valley, seems to have teeth
tn II.
RI already has been attacked BY
a sugar company which annually
has been exporting large numbers
OF workers TO the North.
This bill requires any agent seek
Ing to take laborers out of the state
TO pay a license fee of $1,000 to
the state and a fee OF $2.500 TO each
county in which he operates.
It's terms were expected TO be so
drastic that labor agents would
desert the state and leave the pres
ent sup%ly OF workers in Texas.
This attack on the measure indi-
Gates II viii do what it was intended
10 do-if the courts uphold it.
COTTON FIELDS in NueceS
county. around Taft and in other
PARTS OF that section are turning
yellow because Of too much water.
Torrential rains fell in all that
terrskhry Saturday night
vafey cotton fields are In fair
condition but some of them around
Brownsville could use little Of
that surplus moisture which fell in
other parts
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