Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-20

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higher than its source, so no
manhood" Il
-ev. John Roach Straton.
knowledge doesn't amount to
anything; 1t is achievement that
Is important"
Henry Ford 81
I'VE need not believe in peace
blindly, but We must believe in
1t profoundly"
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler.
A CLARIFIED and a cool atnos-
u phere today follows the down.
- pours and the thunder storms
Of yesterday.
Those who are supposed to know
tell the engineer Of this column
that the amount Of rainfall received
in the Valley is needed by the cot
ton, now promising TO give the VAL
ley the fourth consecutive banner
crop, but that some little loss will
be felt in the tomato crop as wet
fields will not permit picking and a
number will ripen on the vines. At
the present stage of the tomato crop
this is not thought TO be any great
amount.
So far the Valley has escaped the
severe storms and floods Of other
states TO the north. Seems like
every time something happens peo-
pie can sit back and figure out how
much better off the Valley is than
other sections.
THE port project. wrapped up in
the omnibus bill, is swinging
into action again, and this week
end will be a~nxiously awaited.
Special dispatches from Washing
ton yesterday said it is expected TO
be reported on the floor Wednesday.
or Thursday. Anyway the public
hearings are closed, and the COM
mittee goes into executive session.
today, to decide what it will do
about all that has been said and
done.
Private messages predict its pas
sage IN the senate. Tonight the
Harrington Chamber Of Commerce
meets and will bring the matter
before that body with the idea OF
endorsing the project as contained
in the omnibus bin.
With Harlingen changing her mind
on her public opposition 70 the bill
ii makes the backing Of II unan1-
nous in the Valley.
TALES floating down the Valley
today are to the effect that the
census rivalry between Harlingen
and San Benito has reached the
point Of requests for L. Z. Bennett,
census supervisor. to thoroughly scan
all names handed in by one town or
both.
When the final announcement is
made on these two towns there is
going 70 be a great shout Of JOY. or
an II told you So"
The count OF these two and
Brownsville should be announced
ere long now. Brownsville is being
guessed at by those who have been
close 70 the work in numbers rang
ing from $1,000 to $4,000.
Being Of an optimistic turn Of
mind the engineer Of this column
has written his down as 23,325.
ANIMATED Annie says this wet
~ weather makes for more back
seat driving. She adds that
people on the back seat who are al
ways telling drivers where 70 60
sometimes get told where to go TO.
"ALE ARKANSAW7 floats before
our eyes today. Haven't said
anything about II lately but we
know Of a spot high up in the
Ozarks where the strawberries are
ripe. And out in the hills the null
berries are turning; and late OF an
evening and early OF a morning the
squirrels come filing into the fruit
laden trees from almost nowhere.
Then there is White river so clear
you see the bass as they flirt TO
strike. Then, there is the place
where we used TO play before we
thought we were an editor. Just
= big old two story white and green
house with its quiet columns sit
ting in a grove Of nine sugar naples
with the blue grass underneath. And
a gray haired wonan we know who
would cry out with delight II we
should come strolling along the walk,
whatever others may think OF US.
Customers, of course w are not
homesick, or anything like that. but
here Is hoping our boss reads this
closely 70 see II there be anything
carried between these lines.
vXTHICH again brings TO mind that
w to continue TO beautify this VAL
- ley Is Of the greatest things
before us. We DO not believe in SEN
timentality to the point it becomes
weakening 10 the fiber, but look back
over your own years.
Is II the rush and hurry of bust
ness, with its victories and defeats,
that you remember early in the
spring and late in the fall?
or isn't 1t something else? No 1t
is not business: it IS generally some
ver6ant scene that remains from
youth to carry US back. Beauty is
the first impressionable advertise
ment Of any place.
We can plant more palms. If moth
ing else.