Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-18
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VALLEY
By CHARLES HALL

VWTHnOE6 Aig 0NoAs
wv Il IS not Wisconsin that is
.,,ting on our necks, it is Min
$3.50 In the ST. Paul papers ad-
..---lents are breaking out
- -aay result in untold harm
$3.50 .apefruit business. And the
eappearing over the name Of
N%r 70 \the most responsible gro
bat section of the country,
which ca
fold. o,,. hou
They arc $3.50 ngansfru,t e and
80 eHv re Texas variety IS. II
~" o"u tIAbeIieve il, listen 70 this
from the St.
ruary 10: r,o-;aa cra,efrr3.
r,oSsa ssiarsh Seedless Grapefruit.
hao.M min skin, smooth and full OF
easS' MOST OF THE TEXAS
Epe 2EFRUIT HAVE BEEN
lost BITTEN, WHICH MAKES
Item BITTER AND TASTE
LESS"
NOW that is something for us to
get busy on. That is not the
only advertisement appearing.
which gives the Lower Rio Grande
Valley a slap III the face.
In the same paper OF February
IA We find this: "FloriGa Seedless
Grapefruit: Heavy thin skinned,
fuk Of juice. The TEXAS GRAPE
FRUIT CROP HAS BEEN Sc
VERELY FROST BITTEN
In that same paper. the only
thing the engineer Of this column
could find to offset this lie IS a
single comparatively small type
line in a grocery ad which reads:
Texas Grapefruit. large size. 4 for
35c
Now folks, we are not saying that
the Florida grapefruit is not full
of juice. but we are saying that the
teller that wrote that ad about the
Texas grapefruit is full Of prunes.
ss
II IS TRUE that the recent freeze
killed some of our grapefruit.
But 1t rotted and fell off the
trees. Some bootleggers made ship
ments Of the bad fruit, but it never
did reach the consumer, so far as
we can find out. 1t rotted en-
route.
But the big question is: What
are We going 10 do about IL? Suoh
pusillanimous propaganda must be
offset.
I'VE HOPE We have made our
wv selves plain about that. Heard
a criticism OF ourselves the
other day saying that We did not
often take any stand on questions
arising.
Please let us take a stand now.
We are for the Valley as a whole,
al the time. and for the town in
which we live always. We are for
progress. peace and prosperity, first
and last. We stand for things fun
damental. For schools and church.
es and a rushing business and that
business always one OF square deal
ing between man and man. We are
for everything like that.
II is ~ intent TO print all the
activities Of the people where they
concern the public, or that the pub
lie Is Interested in. But this does
not mean that We are for, or
against, any individual business
leaders Of the Valley. In order to be
for or against certain other bust
ness leaders. 1t has been internal
diScension which has done the VAL
ley about as much harm as any
other n thing.
HAD q teller write IN yesterday
I'LL c~ancelltng his subscription, be-
IadSe as he said We sided with a
certain individual well known 10
the Valley. Funny, we have never
met that individual. Never saw
. him In our young life. Told a
' friend Of that individual what hao
happened and he said that Is rather
queer, We "Sorter had an idea al
the time yoI leaned the other
way" Guess We are being fair. II
both sides seem 10 think YOU are
"agin EN-" Which causes lis 70
say that because certain things OF
public interest happen, and they
are printed IN the news columns
II in no wise means whether the
editor thinks II IS good. bad or in
different. Which causes lis to say
that II anybody, or any group, IS ac-
tive in a public way in any man
ner, we just hope to hear about it
30 our readers can read about II
in The Brownsville Herald. If vol
get in jail and We hear about it
your name Will be there, too. Our
attitude is we hope we will never
be found as a ~diSgruntled "agin the
government" We believe the worlo
Is good and that everybody should
be happy, but al the time striving
for even better things.
YXyE HAVE been accused OF beine
Wv dignified. and the paper con.
sentative. We hope that such
will always be the case. IL make.
for stamina. But please do not &c.
the idea. We are "Skeered." We ar,
from Arkansas. Aye Crackies."
WHICH brings II mind that Far.
wv mer Jim Ferguson is going I,
run agin. Wonder what jim
Is going 10 run agin this time?
III, YES. that stand business.
we are a bit het up about wa.
with reference 10 politics. W.
think that a political muckrakinl