Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-21
/. BY CHARLES HALL

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As an illustration OF how a little
IN blue" talk can almost start :
snow ball Of blues to rolling.
~ offered this little story.
Il came to town today and on
the way down I picked up my
washerw oman"
How are you getting along?"
Not so well, times are awful
hard. came the reply.
Why are times 50 hard, aren't
you washing for a living every day,
like you always have?"
Yes"
Aren't you getting as much or
money for 1t than you ever
<lid?"
Yes"
Then why do you say that times
are hard?"
4 do not know. Sir. people Just
say they are"
Mr.. Edelstein sees it, one Of the
"A business slogans for the year
should be. Eliminate Waste.
Nothing has gone wrong anywhere.
People really have nor than they
have ever had in their lives, speak
ing Of people as a whole. 1t mere
~ remains TO eliminate waste. drop
the idea that times are hard, ana
get TO work.
WHICH brings to the mind OF the
VIZ engineer Of this column the
idea why worry at all. This
seems 70 be one Of the blightS Of
which people nurse, when all the
time it only puts grey hairs on their
temples a little earlier in life.
1t is almost exactly true that the
fear OF anything is nearly always
greater than the thing itself and
how often as We have said before
To-day" proves only the tomorrow
we worried over yesterday. and it
did not happen after all"
As We see 1t today about all the
- Valley has to worry over is an
l aneous report which got in some
OF the larger upstate daily papers
20 the effect that this territory pro-
baby lost a million dollars from the
freeze.
II is not true, so why worry over
that. All we have 10 do Is to tell
the world that We did not. Press
wires OF yesterday carried the re-
port, which has been furnished the
government by men in a position 70
know. and the percentage Of loss
was very small.
And what If ii had been true that
the Valley had lost a million dol
1ors. A million dollars is nothing
II a strip Of country eighty miles
long and chock full of the good
things Of life.
Two deaths of unusual people
have taken place within the past
days. These were that OF the
Rev. DR.. Henry S. Felix, the kid OF
Clusters regiment. and VIII Cobb
author of many popular songs.
DIR. Felix was for twenty years
pastor of st. Marks Lutheran
church Of San Francisco. He once
got a congressional medal for saw
ing the life Of Buffalo Bill. He died
at the age Of "A.
Will Cobb was the author OF
Goodbye. Dolly Gray Waltz me
around agin Willie" and q number
81 other popular songs.
1t Is rather a peculiar thing that
in such cases as that Of Will Cobb
people remember the song. and none
except close friends remember the
writer and vet all feel a loss when
they hear that the writer has died.
IN the top floor Of Otto Kahn's
country mansion at Cold Spring
Harbor, N. Y. are TO be found
three rooms devoted 10 a miniature
railway station. with switches and
everything. There are two keys
30 the room, 1t is said. the house
keeper has one and Roger Wolfe
Kshn, musician and aviator. has the
other. The latter often spends hours
IN those rooms, playing with his
trains.
Texas also boasts q rather novel
home. Col. Ernest o. Thompson OF
Amarillo and his grand-opera sing
er wife live on top Of the Amarillo
hotel. which the colonel owns. There
they have built a home with every
thing that people of means could
want. They even have a little fencl
Ground IL. II furnishes a real perch
for his song bird of a wife. and her
voice can often be heard floating
out from the home over the city,
when she takes a notion 10 sing ia
some Of her friends or practice for
Son,e concert.
1T is a boon to live in the Valley.
Land q privilege to live in Browns
vile. How about saying that
oyer ard over from time to time,
and see If 1t will not equal Day by
day in every way, ] am getting bet
Ter and better.