Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-07


a visit from the highest officer
in the United States army.
General Charles p. Summerall,
successor 10 Pershing IN army cir
Giles, inspected Fort Brown. Gen.
eral Summerall made a flying visit
Of an official nature, but just the
same We we're mighty glad TO have
had him. OF course we would have
liked to have had time TO feast him
a bit and then show him the VAL
lay"
Showing the Valley is quite a set
program for entertainment. but,
folks. il certainly has its effect. We
show them the Valley. then IL they
want a little Of 10. we hunt around
land find ID for them. II is getting
10 where they are a lot more sur
prised at their reactions than we
are.
WILL Rogers failed 70 show UP as
w per schedule. Otherwise we
W would have had two celebrities
here at the same time. VIII declares
that all he knows Is what he reads.
in the papers. We might even be
able TO show VIII something else,
when he decides 70 come
CIR Arthur Conan Doyle has pass
~ ed on. During the latter part
~ Of the life OF the creator Of
Sherlock Holmes the great writer
turned much OF his attention to
spiritualism. He was a devoted fol-
lower Of that faith. Now hat he
has crossed into the beyond, those
Of that faith will be awaiting mes
sages from him.
Sherlock Holmes has probably
fired the imagination Of more
Youngsters in America than any
other one writer. Physically he has
come into life, lived as other men.
and then died as other men. But
behind he has left a monument that
will keep his pen name on the lips
Of youth as long as men collect and
treasure books.
ONG years ago, the engineer Of
this column remembers being
stood I'D in a corner and made
TO repeat the following:
Mans vapor. full of woes
"Cuts his caper and down he
goes"
Which causes some Of us some
times TO remark. What VIII II mat
ter a thousand years Tom now.
It only matters in the "caper' you
cut-but that caper lives through
eternity. And since the radio has
started picking stuff out Of the air
we are beginning TO think that this
means forever in more ways than
Fpthe generally accepted Biblical de-
&uction.
MINATED Annie opines that If
n life be but a sleep and a forget
- ting, how you sleep has much
to do with how you feel when you
wake up, again.
TROM what we car gather Browns
vile must now get ready 70 sell
itself on a business basis. In
uuiries are beginning 10 be made
concerning the city. But when bus
mess men mean to do business they
want substantial facts, not blah,
blah. II. II. Stowe. who recently
came to town TO make a survey for
the w. c. Grant company. came into
The Herald office and wanted more
facts ethan you could shake a stick
at. Said ne had not been able to
obtain them. For instance he want
ed TO know how the town IS divided
with reference to people and their
earnings: how much business pres
ent stores are doing: how many
radios there are: and questions too
many to list. 1t is the plan OF the
engineer 10 get from him his ques-
tionaire and see if il can be filled,
and II not see II the statistics an
not be gathered.
ryROM all reports brought to this
office, the fishing Is fine al Port
Isabel. That Is 1t will officially
be Port Tsahe' after August !.
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