Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-06
IN OUR

BY c. NJ. HALL

wv country and a comparat vely
low price received for cotton,
there has come over many sections
and TO a certain extent in the Val
ley a feeling that business is not so
good.
1t is also true that this feeling
has not prevailed IN the Valley TO
the extent that II has in other Sec
tions.
Accidental conversations with r.
r.. BledSoe Of EdelSteins and @. ".
Hamilton OF the Borderland, both
with their hand on the pulse OF the
furniture bus ness. find these two
men declaring that business is not
SO bad.
While business is not at a war
time height both Of these men ad-
vanced the opinion that much OF
whatever depression ex sits comes
from the mental attitude of the
people themselves. Business fears
enter into the people, they tighten
on their purse strings and loose con-
verSation on hard times. and as a
result pc; 5imism begins to take the
place OF pt mism. In other words
they hold that the best way to over
come Supposed hard times is to for
get them and keep hard at work.
ITTENT out TO the Brownsville fill
wv tration plant yesterday where
= the filtration system is being
cleaned. Those. who might be of the
opinion that Brownsville does not
need a larger filtration plant. should
60 out and gain some first hand
knowledge for themS i g.
It will take no expert to decide
the matter. What their eyes do not
tell them their nose will know.
Men were in mud wa st deep
cleaning out the watts. A tank or
two which the city is using for its
water flow reminds the engineer Of
this column Of n he saw being
used in a bottlng works at Abilene.
Texas, where as a boy he worked
after school hours and 1t is used to
supply a city like Brownsville.
While this cleaning out IS going on
Brownsville citizens should boil their
water as all Of it is not being given
full treatment.
TIM FERGUSON crawls on the
newspapers IN shoot 2 at Ross
Sterling. He says he advocacy
of Sterling's campaign Is being paid
for by the inch. II this were true
the amounts Jim says Sterling and
his friends have expended on him
Is hardly a starter. There are some
1900 newspapers in Texas. The
reams and reams OF stuff they have
carried ON Sterling, If paid for at
high POLITICAL rates would make a
million dollars look like a mole hill.
AL jim has done is to insult the
newspaper fraternity in which he
would claim membership through
his own paper. One of the latest
reactions we have noticed is that the
Victoria Advocate. which supported
Ferguson in the primary las be-
come disguised and turned its edi-
torials in favor Of the Houston man.
A. D. PAYNE, whose wife was
n killed by a bomb explosion at
Amarillo. has been arrested in
connection with the cas- some weeks
after Mrs. Paync's death. Evidence
produced by Gene Howe OF the
Amarillo Globe-NewS and "A. 3.
Macdonald OF the Kansas City Star
IS said 10 have led 10 the arrest OF
the widOwer.
We are glad to see that newspaper
men are doing something else be-
sides take Mr.. Sterling's money. and
that men sometimes do represent
the Kansas City Star when they
come 10 a strange community.
nut after considel ing the many
n tn NJ the Lower Rio Grande
Vale, is now facing. there bobs
UP one which looms against the sky
as a dire threat.
Folks. they say the pompadour IS
about TO return. While realizing
that in speaking Of the % .padour
one inadvertently displays his many
years, We must ask what are we
going 10 do about IL? And we a
answer right off. When y arrives
we will 90 right ahead telling the
dear things how pretty they look,
and %strangeSt OF all, after tn first
shock we will actually think S G.
Those who would keep up with
the times might start saving their
rats and those old pictures Of the
Gibson Girl. which Charles Dana
Gibson painted so freely might be
dug up. busted off. and replaced.
Yes sir. the world iurns In cycles
in everything L seems. and as soon
as the dollar gets back TO IT'S 1914
or prev r value, toward which It is
headed. salaried people will find
themselvr able 10 purchase more
clothing and grocer es.
FOUND ON THE WIRES
nITTSBURGH. Pa. Eugene c.
Grace. president Of the Beth
lehem Steel corporation. started
his career as a crane operator. Now
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