Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-16

-A>Ij. Gen. Clarence r. Edwards
"VHTHEN 1 decide to retire from
wv active life, I would like to move
to the Rio Grande Valley TO
spend the remaining years" declares
Colvin 3. Brown. washington man
ager Of the commercial organization
department Of the United States
Chamber Of Commerce.
Well put, good intentions, and we
hope you find time 20 try 1t, Mr..
Grown. But as a lover OF the VAL
ley, and IN observer OF its ways
the engineer of this column feels
it his duty TO inform you that 1t
Is not at all practical.
In fact. 1t can't be done. Mr..
Brown, you can come down here
and we will make you welcome. But
lust about the time you get re
tired" this climate and the vim, Wig
or and vitality Of its citizens viii
bkrin to permeate through your be-
YHg, and first thing you know you
will be UP and at things again. Mr..
Brown, when people retire In the
Valley 1t is when a six-fooT box Is
lowered in q six-foot hole and the
dirt Is laid on and gently patted
i. down. Several have tried II and II
Wasn't worked yet.
|ErHE Memphis freight bureau made
application to the Interstate
Commerce Commission for sus-
Iension OF the mixed car rule on
Vegetable and fruit shipments,
hitch when in effect will save VAL
7iey grower about $50 a car.
But the commission has stood pat
and the rule viii go into effect on
February IS. as was formerly the
plan. Protests against the proposed
suspension were fought by John
Garner and the South Texas Cham
Der Of Commerce.
That means that following Feb
ruary IS, about $4,000 per year
will be saved this territory. That Is
saving money before it Is made but
il will be that much cheaper, and
is not like counting profits n
losses on the stock market-"H !
mad closed out"
n New York district attorney,
IN Thomas c. T. Grain. has ruled
that two reporters were within
their rights while refusing TO divulge
sources Of their testimony made be-
fore a grand jury.
Except in one voluntary instance,
the two reporters refused TO say
who told them. Where did they get
the idea. anyway. that newspaper
people snoop around TO get news or
facts. Next TO a doctor and 81 law
yer editors and reporters pack more
condolences than any other class.
NOW, folks. the Valley Is about 70
V get another citizen, And he Is
coming from Arkansas. We
haven't said anything about Arkaa-
sas for a long time. but things have
broken loose up there again.
Guy r. Lippard OF Harrington has
sent us the clipping from the Little
Rock Gazette. which says 20 very
plainly. You see, 1t is like this. There
Is a gardener OF Benton, Saline
county. who has been hauling his
vegetables TO town on a sled. Along
a hard surface road by his
place and he says 10 the bus COM
pany: Several times last summer
your men u me and my mule and
my sled off the highway. and other
times your men made desperate
attempts TO run over me Now my
lgardening time Is or and your
: buses and me can't occupy the same
road and streets.
so / have proposed 10 the rail-
road commission that youall give me
Sl00 and transportation TO the Rio
Grand Valley and let me get out
OF your may, or stop your buses I'M
til August l. till l can make enough
To get out of the way. Reckon he's
coming?
MAYBE not. listen to this letter
M he sen TO the railway commits
sion at the same time:
Here is a letter TO the lawyer you
said write 10. and I ask you 10 see
that he gets it. Now you fellers must
ship me a machine gun so / car
mount il on my sled. l have a right
10 live a peaceful and honorable life
out here and / have to garden. SO
ship il at once. till we can arrange
a hearing and see how long we are
going 10 stop them from coming
through here. Which court you fell
lers want to have your hearing be-
fore. chancery or circuit?'
You be sure 10 send me plenty
Of ammunition that shoots well with
the machine gun. for I am going TO
live honorable If ii takes fighting
TO do It."
They are not going to run me
out, SO you fellers arrange a hearing
here at the expense Of the COM
mission or the bus company one. for
i have got TO begin my work"
GONE folks are prone TO think that
~ nothing really good is produced
from pens these days. Cartoon
ist Williams in out Our Way" hits
at the heart Of things in his draw
ings, in a way. which makes him
extremely popular. And he has to
draw one, or two. every day. Then
once in a while he breaks into some
good poetry with 8 meaning.
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