Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-02
in OUR
VALLEY
BY CHARLES HALL,

dered throughout the Valley
over the idea Of a deep water port,
8 already being felt. merchants here
declare.
One Brownsville business man saio
mat no only is the brighter out
look bringing more business. but
mat many accounts of some time
standing have been paid.
Asked how he could account for
e more optimistic tone causing the
payments OF back accounts, he said
It seemed to him that fear proba-
bly, i-naugurated with the stock mar
ket crash. has been boarding a lit
lie money all along, afraid that
something would happen to them,
although ! do not know what"
II such a condition a. is here ex-
pressed should prove to be city or
Valley-wide imagine what a gen.
eral wave Of prosperity could be
started by much money put into
circulation again.
It sounds like the old story where
twenty scholars sat around a table
OF a fraternity house. One man paid
a brother member a dollar he owed
him. And the dollar was passed on
until ten men had been paid debts
or one dollar each and the coin
came back 70 rest In the pocket OF
The nan who started 1t. II seemed
q lot o. people owed a dollar. but
no one had started one rolling.
EVEN the city stepped out yester-
day and got back on a cash
basis. Forty-five thousand dol
,ars was set in motion in the form
OF rs checks for bills and salaries
This money will percolate into many
tlls and Golfers. and perhaps fin
ally come back TO rest in the banks
1t started from. with many q per-
son out Of debt again.
There Is a brighter day for the
Valley, and for Brownsville in partic-
ular, than probably ever before
since the days of rushing cotton
across the border started building
Matamoros.
Fear is the greatest enemy OF
mankind, take 1t anyway you wish.
And that has nothing 10 do with
foolhardiness.
ny fear is not meant petty wor-
"a ries, with which mankind Is in
flicted. These come along and do
not amount TO anything SO long as
one does not magnify them and put
gray hairs in his own head.
Somewhere in the Bible 1t is SAID
the birds OF the air will fly over
your head, but you mustn't let them
nest in your hair. A few worries are
probably good for a person. Sorter
like fleaS on a dog. David Harum
OF story book fame once said that
"a certain amount of fleas is good
for a dog. they keep him worrying
over the fact he is a dog"
business is coming our Way. AL
I'D we have to do Is 70 get ready TO
receive it. Recent Associated
Press dispatches offer hopes even 10
poor newspaper editors.
Listen to this. The reason for
the fact that We have such remark
able captains of industry, in the
opinion OF Professor Edwin r. A.
Seligman, economist OF Columbia
University, Is the DETECTION of the
most brilliant minds into business.
And there IS a shortage OF scien-
fists. Prizes dangled before those
who enter the business world must
be made possible for the thinker"
What We want is for j. d. Moore,
president Of the international News
paper club Of the Valley, to take
hurried action for those mentioned
IN that last sentence. We guess IL
is all right to recommend yourself.
lCCORDING TO Associated Press
~ dispatches from Washington re-
ceived after press time. yester-
day, the Harlingen committee ap-
peared before the house rivers and
harbors committee and found John
Garner still urging the approval of
the S.. 000, 900 project at Brazos Is
land.
At that time figures Of s2,3S8,oo0
with $50, 900 maintenance were
quoted as a modification OF the lat
ter. Those figures should not be al
lowed to confuse one. as the Browns
Vile Point Isabel-San Benito pro-
%ct Is divided into two or more di-
visions in %prorating the expenses
and tire 500 00c mentioned is a part
of the whole $3.50, 900 for maintenance
This was explained here by one OF
sInr- v-L~ - 81 NIr1UNs~-.
Mr.. Garner also suggested that
surveys be authorized for other pro-
posed harbors as soon as possible.
Now that is talking horse sense
Go ahead and build the ports at
Brownsville and Point Isabel while
the iron is hot and give the entire
Valley an outlet TO the sea. Then
let all others who wish to do so join
III on the chorus.
TODAY Is church day again. Do
not forget that The enlightment
Of America today has hinged on
the fact that she mas been a nation
With God in her thoughts.
GETTING back TO money. a most
III interesting subject TO individuals
when they are directly concern
cd, but usually rather dry when ia
ken as a whole, it might be we'll 70
sav that the income Of the people
OF he United states last year was
esl n1ted IT, r5 billion dorars last
yea compared 10 about SO billions
in 1922.
No nation is going broke on thai
There is really something 70 this
thing of prosperity being muchly a