Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-04

WITH so many things in sight for
Wv the Valley within the next few
years, all that will be left for
this verdant section Of the United
States. according to the engineer Of
this column, will be for it to further
increase its dinner pail brigade.
This is an old. old cry OF city
building, but how effective when &C
e&splished. Weekly pay rolls turn
al loose in a city. or community,
make for many purchasers Of small
? articles which in turn fill business
hcoffers in q to make every
body happy all around.
When thinking Of such matters
it is the first impulse of a chamber
OF commerce. or those interested in
city and community building. TO at
tempt to try TO remove factories, or
big industries. from some other
point to their own fair city.
This has only In rare instances
worked out to any great benefit.
The way 10 get factories and other
industries for a city. or community.
Is TO build them at home and 10
nurse those already started with
local support. Over at Val Verde,
VI OF Donna, a new industry IS
in process of opening. it IS the new
grapefruit bottling plant. II may
lead to a gigantic enterprise with
many attendant business benefits.
IT is only rarely that men with
business integrity pick up a 60
ing concern and move 1t lock.
stock and barrel. Offers to move
an industry usually forewarn that
the business is not doing so Wei
from a financial standpoint.
AS an example Of what We mean,
we will take an instance in Waco
some years ago. A leather dresser
discovered a new polish. He was a
saddle maker. He quickly tried it
on shoes already polished. 1t work
cd. He had no capital. So he start
cd with two tubes, a dipper and a
few bottles. Within five years that
company appropriated n million
dollars for advertising in M year
and DyauShine became known over
the United States.
A new idea though small may be
worth millions right in your own
home town.
GOT an unsigned letter from Edin-
I'm burg today which deplored the
fact that laborers have been
brought into the Valley, who can
not find work.
Usually unsigned letters are
thrown away. Always when they
take us 10 task. But this letter
takes to task Secretary Foore OF
the Harlingen Chamber of Com
merce.
While The Brownsville Herald
carried interviews with various
who advanced the opinion
Elat not so many laborerS were
Needed, Secretary Floore had some
substantial figures from we'll known
men listing the number Of laborers
they needed.
So he gave it to the press, as all
good secretaries should dc. Now
there may or may not have been
needed 5000 laborers but at that
time a few thousand were needed
il seemed from Mr.. FLORES data,
which We scanned. The other In
terviewS were printed to avoid q
~.log-w1ld' rush
But then dame nature stepped III
and the freeze came on. II was un-
~foreseen, with the result that quite
q few have come to the Valley and
have not been able to get employ
nent. j. II. Fallin. government re
preventative. looked owe the situa-
ton and also decided some were
needed, but only vegetable pickers
ana the like. The freeze altereo
the situation. No intentional wronG
was done.
CAID letter goes on to ask: do
Al you honestly believe that this
Vally will ever be benefited
by low standard. under-paid labor.
II may appeal TO the avaricious
prospective buyer. but the better
class will go back home"
The writer also later points TO
the Johnson Box bills In this con-
nection. But he has already point
ri out one great reason why the
Valley should be opposed 10 the
p9sssge Of those billS.-"The better
slass viii 20 back home"
This writer believes in organized
labor. but the matter OF gather
Ing the Valley truck and fruit crops
has never been n for organized
labor to present a flock Of card
rarrying workers when the Valley
grower needs them. whether he car
afford 10 pay the price which would
be asked or not. Organized labor
Is not interested in picking berries,
D. what not. The statement should
,ryad the higher paid class would
SO back home and If We cannot
-t people to do the work from
ACROSS the border, all viii suffer.