Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-04-16
RESACA LAND
BUREAU TILT
GROWS WARM
Detroit Secretary
Refuses Name OF
Employe

Win pupllClIy guns OF the
vile Chamber Of Commerce turned
on the Detroit Better Business Bur-
eau in a nattempt to correct what
is held to erroneous and damaging
information on the Valley, the bat
tie Of letters today assumed the ap-
pearance of a siege, with the Detroit
Bureau hiding behind the embank-
ment Of not furnishing the name Of
the government employe" who fur
nished the information.
AS the bureau hides behind this
embankment, letter guns are being
turned on the bureau, both from
6 cretary G. G. Richardson. Browns
vile and Harry Sexton of Washing
ton, minority clerk of the house.
To both Washington and Browns
vile the bureau still refuses TO di-
vulge the name of its informant
for q correction, and MI. Richard
son today said that so far as getting
at this meat OF the question, the
two bodies might as well be discuss
ing the Einstein theory Of evolution.
Letters Sarcastic
The bureau letters are sarcastic
almost to the point Of provocation,
and the letters from Mr.. Sexton and
Mr.. Richardson keep boring IN,
pointing out that all they want Is
the name of the employe SC that
a correction can be made.
II the controversy keeps growing
II will soon be assuming national
Importance, as Mr.. Sexton has writ
ten the bureau IN a second letter
that Il would greatly appreciate
information on this, as 1t Is very
apparent that II 1t was from a gov
ernmental source, some department
or individual is laboring under a
misrepresentation Of the facts"
The matter carried in the bulle-
tin Of the Detroit bureau TO which
the Valley takes exceptions is con-
tanned in Paragraph 5 under "haz-
ards" and tends to show that re-
SAGA lands are not properly drained.
The Detroit bureau claims this in
formation was furnished by a gov
eminent man. Several letters have
been exchanged in an attempt 70
ascertain the name Of that man.
and during the fire the bureau takes
both The Brownsville Herald and
Mr.. Richardson TO task.
Herald Criticized
The last letter to be received by
Mr.. Richardson follows:
Frankly. I am getting out of pa
tlence with your letters, and the abb
surd deductions which you draw
from omissions, Interpretations and
similar mistakes on the part Of your
local newspaper, or someone else
concerned with our discussions, other
than newspaper e or reporters.
IF you can condone miSstatements
OF the type described in your own
letter. and repeat them apparently
with elaboration. in an article ap-
pearing in The Brownsville Herald
Of April first, / am unwilling to
waste my time any further on the
matter.
TO me it is ridiculous for you,
or any one else, with good business
sense, to admit that my article was
not quoted verbatim. and yet add
the statement that If the claim in
our bulletin were true regarding the
poor drainage Of resaca land, it GER
tainly would not be fertile land. Fer
tility is a question which, as you
must know. depends entirely upon
the crop TO be raised and is not de-
pendent alone on drainage or the
lack Of IT,"
Avoids Giving Name
Perhaps. as you are quoted in
The Herald article Of April first, you
can explain an additional attempt
on the part OF some one 70 further
his own ends by leaving out the
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