Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-04-16
RESACA LAND
BUREAU tilt
GROWS WARM
Detroit s
Refuses Name Of
Employee

vile Chamber Of Commerce turned
on the Detroit Better Business Bur-
eau in an attempt to correct what
Is held to be erroneous and damag-
ing information on the Valley, the
battle Of letters today assumed the
appearance OF a siege. with the De-
troit bureau hiding behind an en-
Hankment OF not furnishing the
name Of the government employe"
who furnished the information.
AS the bureau hides behind this
embankment, letter guns r being
turned on the bureau. both from
{ .retary @. @. Richardson. Browns
vile and Harry Sexton Of Washing
ton. minority clerk OF the house.
To both Washington and Browns
vile the bureau still refuses to di-
vulge the name of its informant
for a correction. and Mr.. Richard
son today said that 50 far as getting
at this meat OF the question, the
two bodies might as well be discuss
ing the Einstein theory OF evolution.
Letters Sarcastic
The bureau letters are sarcastic
almost 70 the point OF provocation,
and the letters from MI. Sexton and
Mr.. Richardson keep boring in,
pointing out that ali they want is
the name Of the employe so that
a correction can be made.
II the controversy keeps growing
IL will soon be assuming national
importance, as Mr.. Sexton has writ
ten the bureau IN a second letter
that Il would greatly appreciate
information on this, as 1t Is very
apparent that If 1t vas from a gov
ernmental source, some department
or individual is laboring under a
misapprehenSion of the facts"
The matter carried in the bulle-
tin Of the Detroit bureau to which
the Valley takes exceptions Is con-
tanned in Paragraph 5 under "haz-
ards" and tends to show that re-
SAGA lands IN not properly drained
The Detroit bureau claims this in
formation was furnished by a gov
eminent man. Several letters have
been exchanged in an attempt &c
ascertain the name of that man
and during the fire the bureau take:
both The Brownsville Herald and
Mr.. Richardson TO task.
Herald Criticized
The last letter to be received by
Mr.. Richardson follows:
Frankly, ! am getting out Of pa
tience with your letters. and the alb
surd deductions which you draw
from omissions, Interpretations anc
similar mistakes OF the part Of YOU
local newspaper, or someone elst
concerned with our discussions, othe,
than newspaper men or reporters.
IF you can condone misStatement'
OF the type described in your owr
letter, and repeat them apparently
with elaboration, in an article ap-
pearing in The Brownsville Herald
Of April first, I am unwilling x
waste my time any further on the
matter.
To me It is ridiculous for you
or any one else, with good business
sense, to admit that my article wa!
not quoted verbatim, and yet ado
the statement that II the claim ir
our bulletin were true regarding the
poor drainage Of resaca land, 1t Ger.
tainly would not be fertile land. Fer
tility IS q question which, a. you
must know, depends entirely upon
the crop TO be raised and is not de-
pendent alone on drainage or the
lack Of IT,"
Avoids Giving Name
Perhaps, as you are quoted ir
The Herald article Of April first, YOU
can explain an additional attempt
on the part Of some one TO further
his own ends by leaving out the
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