Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-06
IN OUR
VALLEY
. BY CHARLES HALL;

Wy CHARLES HALL
MO Il. .le CONSERVATION was caused
IN in Brownsville and Matamoros
yesterday when meager reports
Of the attempted assassination OF
President Ortiz Rubio started coming
through about 4 o'clock in private
kilograms.
Today it seems that the attempt
to take his life was that OF a few
radical plotters. rather than any
general movement OF discomfort.
Since the churches YER recently
re-opened to the people Of Mexico
there has been more Of the though;
of the pillow and the hammer and
saw than of the rifle, except in
enough isolated insta ices to prove
the rule.
Another assassination by some
misguided person would have been
a most regretable thing for the ma
ton in her relation to other nations,
but since its failure the wielder OF
the pistol will be punished and the
government will go on.
There Is little doubt OF the pop
ulace of Mexico being tired OF blood
shed, which has torn that nation
since 1911. Rarely in history has
an assassination ever accomplished
any real good for the common peo-
pic.
WITH no little Of the prosperity
nv, Of the Valley Ringing on cab
bage. the lowly but nutritious
herb seems TO be doing its best TO
meet the situation.
{ITITHIN the past few months, the
WV engineer OF this column has
heard. probably more than ever
before comments on what the press
should display on the front pages
OF newspapers.
An able article recently coming
from the pen Of the well known
chief OF big news distributing agency
shows an interesting and g decided
change in the new the people want.
News of great personalities IS still
eagerly sought and read. But within
the past decade, financial news, re-
ligion and science are more and
more making their way on the FROM
pages OF American newspapers. Two
entirely new themes have mace their
appearances within the past ten
years. These are aviation and the
radio. Cheap crime, which flourish
cd so right after the war is fast TAX
ing a back. AS subjects are listed IN
the order headlined by the editors re-
ligicn and science come last in ten
big subjects, religion leading. but
the two have gained entree. Prohi-
bition is also taking a back seat in
the minds Of the people.
All OF which 10 us is very inter-
esting, for the wide-awake editors
present on their first pages what
they think the people want first TO
read about-and editors who are not
wide awake either do not remain
editors very long or their papers be-
gin 10 decline in popularity.
OVER in London, where mighty
minds are meeting to discuss
weighty matters for the nations
OF the earth. American stenogra-
pliers seem TO be gaining their share
Of the limelight.
You just cannot keep the dear
little things down. One broke into
print the other day via the tele-
phone. In England. it seems. when
a telephone connection is made the
operator informs the caller you airs
through She told an American
Stenograuher VINO had called a new
found sweetie she vas through"
and Miss Typist lowed as how that
operator didn't know anything tall.
She had Just started.
check-up OF the things coming
~ to Brownsville and the Valley in
yesterdays news while not show
ing an outstanding thriller as has
sreen the case OF the past ten days,
SHOWS the city and the territory on
the way up the hill Of prosperity.
Let's read a few headlines in The
Brownsville Herald and see what Is
the trend-Six hundred per cent
Jump in export trade-KanSaS City
Chamoer OF Commerce members
visit city with an air passenger line
10 Brownsville as one object-crim-
inal docket light III Cameron coun-
ty-Rotary sets forth some immed-
late needs for territory-cabbage
prices leaping upward-road 10 Ran
ge-vilie III offlng-90O baby chicks
sent 10 Mexico City by air Valley
school bans Wisconsin made fix
tures-Brownsville banks do largest
business in months over Weekend
visit Of solon's committe to Vale
Crystailizing-fight formally opened
OH hot check artiSts.-Harlingen dis
cuSses better drainage. And so on
and on. Development and growth
show in such headlines as those.
CURELY the ground hog must have
n been mistaken. Boca Chica
oathers are laughing at him.
HAD a letter from Wisconsin YES
terday wanting to know how far
1t Is 10 the nearest university
IRON Brownsville. Told them a two
years course could DC had here and
that Texas is very fortunate in hav-
ing the University located in the
middle Of the state. Was afraid that
400 miles, more or less, would make
residents Of any otter state think
We were trying 20 send them to Eu-
rope via our new channel.
Believe Farmer Died