Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-09

William Penn. (
BACK again with hand on the
h throttle. the engineer Of this
column rises 70 remark that II
there Is anything better than a nice
vacation 1t IS that OF getting home
again.
Vacations are fine except they are
not properly named. u is an
durance contest which takes your
mind off your work and therefore
rests you with a change Of activity.
But it is well ard good for every
live person hes 70 b. doing some
thing all the time.
Probably one q the greatest sum
mer needs cf The nation today ~ q
place to ~recuperate from vacations.
TUT how good the Valley looks
IA when you roll into 1t az Edin-
burg Really there IS no place
like it-except that right now we
probably need to an take day
of and cut our weeds. This W-l.or
almost had 10 call signals TO get into
his own front yard. That is what
the rains have recently done.
MOST dcployabic accident oc-
- CURED at the Brownsville air.
pcrt Yesterday. r.. j. Snyder.
crack pilot az the Pan American
company, was hurled $50 feet 70
his death in demonstrations for the
Brownsville Glider club.
The breaking Of a strap Is said ~
have beer the cause OF the accident,
which was viewed by the largest
crowd at the airport since Lindbergh
visited the city. and n which RI
vailed the gathering Of that day.
The incident brings "a an untimely
end the life Of a vigorous young
man. admired by his associates, but
II does net mean that gliding is a
dangerous sport or occupation. Sny-
der's death is deeply regretted and
sincere sympathies are extended his
relatives and friends. but figures
show that gliding accidents are still
less frequent in ration 70 that OF
automobiles.
folks. the Magic Valley is getting
more and more before the pub
. lie eve Its fame has finally
saturated into the smaller real eS-
tate offices Of Arkansas. Now please
let none shoot us for that. but II is
true. The engineer OF this column
dropped into q number Of such Of
fees. and told that he was from
Brownsville.
From several he got the following
response.
Lets see that is in what they call
the Valley, isn't it?'
rs that in the Lower Rio Grande
Valley or the Magic Valley?"
Now that Is what we get for hav-
ing two names.
L the time Of our leaving. Il SEEM
II ed that the senate was just ready
10 vote on our port project. but
on our return we find the solons are
still tagging on the tariff. Guess
We will have TO write John Garner
about II.
But the Brownsville navigation
district certainly did nobly in voting
The s 1900 900 additional bond issue
and the city has a population Of
22.050.
We told everybody in Arkansas
that we had 25.O00, but they won't
find out the difference until We
catch up with the figure.
MINATED Annie says that travel
"a By automobile Is again popular
izing the packing OF your lunch
along. which generally died out
about the time women quit wearing
sunbonnets.
VyYHILE we have been shooting
w somewhat at Arkansas as we
W come down this column we are
going to tell you why. High Up in
The Ozarks things o slowly. 1t
IS because everything is so pretty.
and the people so contented with
their lot in life that they do not
want to change il one bit. They
have fine things. too. But we must
admit that we want a little more
action in life than getting up in
me morning and having before us
Ev 10 wonder what we will have
dinner. and where We will 60
hing that afternoon.
FHILE we were gone Hunter Os-
borne. fireman on this editorial
train Of which we are engineer.
at the throttle. Hunter did a
4 good Job Of It. too. We think.
Is bJund to have done 50 because
said nice things about the en-
Ger. Djever notice that a news
kyper, or people, which, or who. is
saying nice things about peo-
Me i always generally liked for
come reason or other.