Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-10-31
IN DUE
VALLEY
81 C. N. HALL

OKLAHOMA today IL attempting
to curb a well running wild,
which II estimates Of the flow OF
oil are correct make it about the
largest oil well IN the country.
Think OF sixty thousand barrels
OF wealth flowing out of the ground
per day. Even at seventy five cents
a barrel that would be $4,000 per
day gross.
How would you like TO be forced
TO flee from wealth like that? Yours
truly would not flee Ii. He would
stand still and rejoice BY being
bathed with it. He would lie down
and roll In it a bit.
And now they say that $4,000. 900
cubic feet of gas has been hit In
Los Dimes Oil and Gas company's
no. ! Kelsey Bass at $50 feet. If
true that is plenty OF gas at that
depth. and with such pressure the
OF, should be somewhere in that
section. 1t will be uncovered some
day. and those who own Valley land
are going to sit back with the
broadcast smile in the world.
TODAY is Halloween. IL is OBJ
served with a spirit OF revelry In
America. but time was when II
carried a serious sacred atmosphere.
No one really knows how Halo
ne'en started. although many
versions OF II have been given. Long
before Christianity pagan fires OF
Halloween were glowing in the far
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the lighting of the fires came the
belief In ghosts and COLLINS, queer
spectres against the moon, flying
back from Lapland. Lost souls thin
and white and frightened, broom
sticks that walked and owls that
used their wisdom once a year.
THE Druids, who believed that
spirits lived in the trees and
brooks, observed Halloween
much as We observe Thanksgiving.
They held an autumn festival. when
they lighted fires in honor of the
sun god. expressing their gratitude
fer tie harvest.
But back of this was o dark sha-
dow that dimmed the light Of the
red, red flames.
The Druids believed that on this
night the God Of Death called to-
eether the wicked souls that during
the past u months had been con-
demned TO inhabit the bodies Of ami
mails Small wonder that we still
catch our breath when a black cat
turns his lantern-green eyes our
wayl
The Romans, a little more civil
lied, followed a somewhat similar
custom. On November / they held a
festival IN honor Of Pomana, ex-
pressing tI1ankfullness for the purple
grapes, the crimson apples and the
golden grains in which their color
full souls delighted.
Apple ducking and the burning OF
chestnuts began at this time. An
other custom, no longer used, origi-
mated some place In Wales In the
dust-covered years OF antiquity.
When the fire had burned down. |
stones were collected, named for the
members Of the group and placed in
the embers. Next morning a search
was made for them.
II the stone belonging TO q GER
tain person had disappeared the
others shook their heads and started
TO collect for a funeral wreath.
20 II a black cat crosses your path
~ today, tip your hat and spit over
your left shoulder. And tonight
II you light the fires the evil spirits
will pass over you.
AND today Brownsville is off for
u the game at Robstown. AMI
mated Annie says football is one
game where the better fans are not
the betters. 4
TOMORROW is the day We chase
the wild goose. and the fast fly
ing duck ONE w3nging by.
Many a load OF shot will be hurled
st both and as a result Valley din
ner tables will blossom with game.
Baked apples, pumpkin pie, ducks
and geese, cranberry Sauce-if the
man Of average means in any other
nation could sit himself down on
an ordinary day TO a feast like that
he would think the millennium had
eome. And America has been con-
stantly talking Of hard times.
TIP in Hidalgo county a bitter cam
paign is coming to an end. A.
Y. Baker has returned 70 the
Valley after an absence OF some
time. and his return may be read
as significant Of the marshalling Of
the democratic forces 70 go to the
polls on November 4.
Meanwhile the Good Government
league Is organized as never before.
and stump speeches have been so
hot the boards would probably have
sizzied If they had not vibrated so
as to cool them.
whichever faction wins, and both
sides are vociferously claiming VIC
tory. and rolling their eyes az any
one suspected Of leaning to the other
side, IL Is hoped that Hidalgo conn
tx people some day settle their pol
it;cal squabble. and place OF keep
able business men at the helm Of
their affairs, so that securities will
never again be -shied at" as A. c.
Allyn, recent visiting representative
az big bond buyers. classified them.
He pointed out that the bonds are
GOOD and will come back strong
and that is what ell in the Valley
would like to see.
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FOLKS. when you 90 hunting to-
morrow. do not be In too much
y. haste to fire. II others are near
hr. Let's not have any funerals or