Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-20


ATOw that we have not had to get
lv on the telephone this morning
during the first hour in the Of
flee TO take an account of some ac-
cident in the Valley. we must write
about them anyway.
While no report Of a smash-up on
the highway had been received dur
ing the first hour, II the average
keeps UP there will be one before
the day is over. We will have one
orAelse it will be the first day this
Sew. have been reported so far
this week. four lives being reported
snuffed out in the seven. What price
speed?
rs our Main street, which we have
contributed with such pride, and
for which the tax payers are
now digging up in cold cash not able
TO care for our ever growing auto
mobile population?
Sometimes 1t seems 50. There has
been advanced. several times. the
idea Of double tracking and having
one-way highways, That would be
fine, II we IAN afford 1t. A. j. Nc
Coll, McAllen, who lies at the FL
Jardin hotel with a broken leg as
the result Of an accident which cost
the life Of Chas A. Hartmann OF Nc
Allen declared TO the engineer OF
this column yesterday. that the ac-
cidents themselves will pay for an
other highway. Mine will cost me
1000 with the loss Of my car and
IN the expense OF mending broken
bones. not to speak OF what / will
have to suffer while the mending
Is in progress" he saiG.
A one-way highway will pay for
itself In the saving Of human lives,
he declared.
Mr.. McColl may be right. But un-
til then 1t seems that our next best
remedy Is TO place more highway
officers on the track and add a few
Jail sentences to our fines for speed
ing or other violations Of the traf-
fic law. 1t has been found that
drivers will take q chance on having
to pay out a little money, where
they will not take a chance on
spending q few days in jail.
THIS fine weather makes one won-
DER why people want to live any
where else in the world besides
in the Valley. Got a letter from o.
II. Archer today Of Pharr. He says
Cartoonist Cargill is always saying
something about Florida and Cal
ifornia and that We ought 10 con-
vert him to the Valley. Eminently
correct Mr.. Archer. Mr.. Cargin
ought to be slapped on the wrist.
He'd better get hep TO himself.
MONTE Grande is being heraldeG
W as the Valleys newest town. 1t
is located six miles northeast OF
Rio Hondo. That will make an even
score of towns in the Valley proper.
1t is being developed by Al and
Lloyd Parker.
WELL, well. here is a criticism Of
wv our Half Minute interviews. 1t
is the first knocker tune we have
heard. 1t is 10 the effect that it car
ries the names Of so many persons.
who are not known in a public way.
with expressed opinions. Since when
has every private citizen not had a
right 10 express his opinion. Half
Minute Interviews is a conner for
tho man, who otherwise never has
O chance. because OF his position or
lack Of wealth to express his opin-
ion on public question or to advance
his ideas. This is a democratic coun-
try. Let's ever keep it so.
vrTHICH reminds us that The
wv Brownsville Herald is getting
bigger and better every day. He
that tooteth not his own horn same
shall not be footed. The engineer of
this column took three papers Of
this weeks issue and checked them
against three papers of the same
date last year. There were more
Brownsville and Valley stories car
ried during the present year in each
issue, than Of the year before. We
are growing with the Valley. We
daily get letters telling us how much
better the paper is than ever be-
fore but of course We are too mo-
dest to publish them. We just feel
good today. Look outside and see
why.
Attest wire news today is that
Thomas A. Edison expects mil
lions Of acres Of goldenrods 10
be devoted to culture for rubber
production. Mr.. Edison then says he
may have TO wind up by inventing
a cure for hay fever.
1t might be well for Mr.. Edison
to know that hay fever victims of
New York have incorporated. Forty
OF them have formed the United
Hay Fever Club to build a hotel and
club house in the White Mountains
TO be used exclusively by sufferers Of
the disease. That is something TO be
Orezed At.