Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-11
ONE bit of news of interest was an
W announcement from the South

ONE bit of news Of interest was an
w announcement from the South
Texas Chamber Of Commerce to
the effect that the House Committee
on immigration does not have time
to visit the Valley.
Members Of that committee pro-
baby got so many kilograms asking
them to come. that they could plain
ly see that what they would hear
down here would only be reasons
Why no restrictions on labor should
be-, placed. Anyway they found that
Tie Southwest is concerned over,
and 'agin' legislation TO that eff
feet.
Another champion of the cause
} was found in Chairman Legge of
the federal farm board. The South
Texas Chamber of Commerce gives
1t as the opinion of representatives
CO that body that no restrictions will
~ placed on the Mexican laborer.
If that is what is about TO happen,
that Is what the Valley people want.
GONE few days ago, the engineer
of this column received a letter
from Joseph G. Cox Of Alamo.
Mr.. Cox says he has been reading
with great interest in the Herald
about the proposed paved road TO
Boca Chica, "and among the nee
cessities to get the road seems to be
a r~ight-of-way along the beach"
He declares it will be a calamity
for the whole Valley should the
beaches be converted into an auto
mobile speedway. He says: The
Cameron county beaches at Boca
Chica are the greatest asset the
Valley now possesses. Thousands Of
Valley people will go there with their
families for pleasure, when there
is a highway. Visitors come to the
Valley and deplore the fact that the
sea coast is not accessible"
The writer further complained
that when families go there and
park for the children TO play OH the
beach automobiles are so thick
driving along the beach that the
children are endangered.
We thus gather that Mr.. Cox
would have the beach a place for
families 10 picnic. with the auto
mobiles in the back ground. We just
pass IL along for what 1t is worth.
A deep water port: a beach and a
n hard surfaced road leading to
II; a city museum; a million
dollar hotel and l causeway to Pa
dire Island; more and more tourists.
a hard surfaced road to Monterrey!
Nice prospects gleam for us in the
not far off future. But what about
a railroad south into Mexico. The
o We have the more we want be-
cause in a city's life the more il
needs.
PROBABLY the most unusual
burial eve recorded has recent
ly taken place in New York.
Howard Langford. actor expressed
a dying wish. according to press dis
patches 10 have his ashes sprinkled
| along Broadway, whsre he worked
] and played.
n In carrying out this wish his WI
dow dropped them from an airplane
5000 feet in the air.
II mankind had the oacern for
his soul. which lives after death, in
proportion TO the disposition OF his
body, which perisheS. the work OF
the ministers would be about done.
TOMORROW, America will observe
Abe Lincoln's birthday. In fac;
on that day many Of the enligh-
tened nations of the world will pay
tribute TO the memory Of the rail
splitter, who during a turmoil which
stirred mems souls as never before
demonstrated TO the world that
slavery is not good in the economic
scheme Of things and that a simple,
earnest conscientious life is the kind
that is lasting.
Hated by many political enemies
because while doing what he con-
ceived to be right he still had a
brotherly feeling for the wartime
enemies Of that day the life of the
man some se~venty-odd years after
his death still stands as a monument
10 tenacity of purpose and a human
interest feeling toward mankind by
those in high places.
VISITORS 10 the Valley these days
are giving expressions Of their
impressions with the fact that
there Is a single green sprig left af-
ter the freeze Of a short time ago.
They heard there was ice down
here for two or three days in a row.
and in many cases their own homes
were snowbound fartehr north. They
cannot understand 1t. Visitors. the
Valley Is Just thataway-nothing