Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-03
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VALLEY

ASSuiAo All llCAI odtuIudy dlIpOTL
celebration?
v. A. Phillips, of the Port Isabel
Development company. Brownsville,
Sers suggestion.
He points out that there will be
\ number of newsreel photograph
ers in Brownsville for the occasion.
There will be but one way to
advertise the climate in the news
pictures, says Phillips.
That will be if some of the thou
sands expected to be present will
but don warm weather regalia.
If you can't get a straw hat or
white suite, come in your shirt
sleeves" he urges. "At least. that
VIII show the sort of weather we
have" he points out.
All of which is true. Perhaps
those in charge of the event will
take note of the suggestion.
NEWSPAPERS all through the
Lower Rio Grande Valley are call
ing attention to the Brownsville
municipal airport and the forth
coming opening of the port and
establishment of the international
air mail.
incidentally, they are urging
their own communities to take
cognizance of the movement with
q view to establishing landing
fields at various points.
The McAllen Monitor, writing
along this line, says:
Brownsville is worth a million
dollars more than it was a year
ago-or three months ago, for that
matter.
"The opening of the Brownsville
airport and the establishment of
the United States Mexico air mail
line, not to forget the appearance
there on March 9 and 10 of Col
onel Charles A. Lindbergh, Cap
tain Eaker with his dawn-to-dusk
flight to Panama, and Amelia Ear
hart, all these will be worth at
least million dollars to Browns
vile in nationwide publicity.
"a MILLION DOLLARS is a lot
of money" continues the Monitor
"At first it may seem foolish to
place that estimate on such an in
tangible asset. But is it? The
sfeirport returned profit to the
NIFTY Of $500 during January. And
i,iaa<is rumored that a company has
! 1fered a half million dollars for
Nhe port as 1t now stands.
Both the profits and the value
will increase. And stories of activi-
ties at the port will not cease after
March 10. This is an international
port and folks in all parts of the
country will be attracted by the
Brownsville date line stories in
their newspapers at frequent inter
walls. And who can say that such
isn't valuable publicity for the
Valley as well as for BROWNSVILLE?
1--WE rejoice with Brownsville
and at the same time we look anx-
iously toward the day when Nc
Allen will be in step"
THIS COLUMN is about to break
a rule Of more than four years
standing.
That rule was directed against
poetry.
But there never was a rule that
couldn't be broken, so this one goes
to smash to reproduce a Valley
boost.
About a year ago Mr.. and Mrs.
Rennie j. Allen of Endicott, N. Y,
came to Brownsville and bought
some land from the Janes-Dickin-
son company of Brownsville.
On February last they return
cd and bought more acreage.
They went back home. Mrs. Al
len photographed snow scenes at
Endicott, and sent them to Lee B.
James, along with the following:
Take me back to the land OF roses,
Away from the frost that red
denS our noses,
To the Valley which is most beau
tifully gowned
In a color of green the whole
year round.
I want to reach that Rio Grande
river,
And enjoy a ride in Charlie
y Knights flivver.
Walk up to the clubhouse, swing
IL along the gate,
! And pile Valley vegetables high
u on my plate.