Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-11
IN OUR
VALLEY
; BY CHARLES HALL

TO PUT 1t that the Brownsville
navigation commission regretted
and was sincerely disappointed
over the action Of j. B. Chambers
appearing before the senate COM
mittee Friday and attempting to
muddy the waters along which the
Brazos Island port project has been
sailing so smoothly is probably pick
ing out the best two descriptive ad-
lectives Of the reaction here.
1t was the concensus OF opinion
OF the navigation commission that.
had Harrington, or j. B. Chambers.
mad a chance To get the port for
Hslingen such action would be
justified.
But 1t was held that in view Of
the fact that the ultimate end Mr..
Chambers. accompanied by Engi-
neer Lansing Beach. could accom-
piish would be to so confuse the
s-ommittee that Harrington, Point
Isabel and Brownsville would lose
action on the proposed project. pro-
baby for another four years. Then
the Valley as a whole would be rob-
bed Of deep-water shipping, a chan
mel connection. and an enormous
Valley development during that per-
iod.
WHILE it is not believed that Mr..
WV Chambers can accomplish even
that, 1t was deeply regretted in
all the Valley that so important a
step for the Valley as a whole should
be endangered even by a straw. Fur
ther regret is that such action should
come from a Valley town. 1t was
held tina. if Mr.. Chambers has been
quoted correctly as saying that the
port connection could be established
cheaper at Harrington than at
Brownsville the statement approach
ed the ridiculous. This was in view
OF the fact that a channel 10 Har-
lingen adds nearly fifty miles OF
construction.
TT IS NOT believed that his argu-
mentS will have any effect on
the senate committee, and that
the port project will still be voted
despite the lateral stab that has
been injected.
INDIVIDUALS Of the maddest mob
Texas has e seen. today. a
Sabbath day. are sinking in
Grayson county homes. and If there
be n who dareS to return to the
courthouse district Of Sherman and
view the ruins Of his own hands. it
eAlr.fG ,.,,fc,r,arN 1rnrfnh ntsf
Illegally II is not.
H Fn, thu batter ss@rs 90 sv~o days,
Hangers, with orders not TO kill,
| fought a horde of maniacs, develop
ed on the spur Of the moment in
one Of Texas oldest and most cul-
tured towns.
AS the result a courthouse valued
at. $4,000. built by their own and
other peoples hands and money
lies in ruins, with the smoke slowly
curling about among the stones. II
was all in order to roast one self
condemned negro to death.
The mob spirit seems to be the
quickest agency to throw civilization
back upon heinous instincts OF hat
red and violence. It can be compar-
ed probably to nothing so much as
TO huge apes. frenzied by a madden
ing moonlight dance, which. when
the frothing stage is reached, turn
on hapless victims of their madness
and mutilate them. The Sherman
mob seemed equally as bad.
The crime Of the negro is not
thus being condoned. He would
have been hanged on his own con-
fession. But the stencil Of his burn
ing flesh must linger long in the
mind Of Sherman. and with a shud-
dering revolt in the nostrils Of those
who actually took part in the car
mage and incendiarism.