Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-20
| N OUR
VALLEY Y

MRS. FRANK WRIGHT of Glen
coe, ILL.,, a suburb of Chicago, is
thoroughly convinced Valley grape
fruit has no peer.
Her father, DR.. z. z. Patrick of
Chicago, who has spent several
weeks here at the home of DR..
5. K. Hallam. recently sent her
box of Valley grapefruit.
"The grapefruit you sent us is no
more like the best we can buy here
than if it was a different fruit"
Mrs. Wright wrote in acknowledge
ing receipt of the box
Il went to the most reliable stores
in Glencoe and asked for their
sweetest grapefruit. The owner
sold them with pride. They are
juicy, but after a taste of those
you sent they taste green.
Il should not be thankless for
the fine Indian river grapefruit,
but I am spoiled by the delicious
fruit from Brownsville.
COLONEL CHARLES A. LIND
BERGH inaugurated air mail SER
vice between Brownsville and Mex
leo City. A few days later a plane
belonging to him was brought to
our airport and left, at the request
Of the flying hero. Later he flew
here and after remaining over
night, took off on an inspection
tour of airports through the West.
His first flight gave his endorse
ment to the airmail route; with his
second flight he placed his stamp
of approval on the location, equip
ment and management of Browns
ville's airport.
Both of these services are of the
greatest importance. Yet he has
been criticized in some quarters for
his failure to court the applause OF
the throngs.
PROPER INDIGNATION is ex-
pressed by woman reader:
"On every hand, since Colonel
Lindbergh's visit to Brownsville. one
hears complaints from the unmerci-
full public that he was not as gra-
cious and responsive as he should
have been What, in heavens
name, I ask you, does Colonel
Lindbergh owe us? What more can
wetesk of him than what he has
alre-dy done? He has given i'm
measurable impetus to our indus
trial progress, and, even now, is
devoting his extraordinary thought
and energy to the furtherance Of
that progress. He has linked the
separate sections of our own vast
country. He has brought into
closer contact all the nations of the
world-thereby opening the way for
a closer understanding of human
motives and making possible 4
more peaceful intercourse between
the nations But, greater than
all these things, he has uncon-
/, scionsly personified the ideal Of
American manhood for our sons.
eyes, but he can not ignore his
publicr we hear the arguments
about us. He must remember his
debt to his admirers
DEBT INDEED If there is any
debt-and, surely, we must agree
there is, we owe it to Colonel Lind
bergh. We owe it, in the name Of
humanity-the privilege Of a pri-
vate citizen-the right to the pur-
suit of happiness in his own way.
What could be more annoying to
a gentleman of reserve and culture
than to be paved in public by the
corpulent and pompous females who
fought their way through the null
titude on the day that he landed
at our airport, in order to be able
to say. with large and satisfied
grin on their countenance, I
touched him. Now, I ask you?
And my cheeks burn with shame
for my sex!
WITH ALL the dignity and re-
asrve appropriate to his position
with none of the egotism which
those OF us who are plued have IN
so great abundance, he is indeed
the charming, unaffected and chiv-
alrous young man that every moth
er in her heart wishes her own son
to be! But his example would be
defeated should he strike the
large-hearted, benevolent attitude
of our generous politicians and try
to bow and smile to the multitudes
who stamped his plane and his
person!
Flying Fool. Lone Eagle. Good
Will Ambassador nor Lindy are
appropriate names for Colonel
Lindbergh. The Prince of Flyers
more nearly expresses him-chiv-
airy coupled with skill.
And let us be content that our
sons, in our generation. can know