Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-10
IN OUR
VALLEY

- Dy HALL
nESIDENTS OF Brownsville were
IN awakened bright and early thi.
morning by the firing at For
Brown. At that early hour tht
guns sounded loud enough to be
heard quite a distance up the VAL
ley.
II was the military tribute being
paid TO Ex-President Taft, who died
Saturday afternoon.
Everywhere all over the United
States. where militia is gathered
thirteen guns we're fired at reveille
and one gun is being fired every
half hour during the day. AT re-
treat 48 guns will be fired at all
army and navy posts. On the day
Of the funeral 81 one-minute guns
will be fired.
TOR a period Of thirty days the
flag will be flown at half mast,
or half staff. as the case may
be, and the officers will e mourn
ing on their sabreS and on their
arms.
This is the last military tribute
to a man. who, as president Of the
United States, once ranked as COM
mander-in-chief OF both the army
and the navy.
THIS Is as II should be. What the
nation spends in paying its las:
tribute TO an ex-president when
all the army posts and naval sta
tons ale considered must be a huge
sum. II should be done as a last
tribute. The engineer OF this col
mn had in mind to estimate 1t for
the taxpaying public. just as a mat
ter Of curiosity. That Is, he had II
IN mind until he called Fort Brown
The other above information was
CONSIDERABLY given when he asked
for the adjutant's office. But when
he asked what it cost TO fire one
gun. the answer was, I do not
know, and If I did I would not tell"
We guess 1t is all right for young
officers. we suppose he must be
young. TO get sassy with the peo-
pie who pay for his bread and meat,
buI4 II does not sound good. OF
course, chances are, If we had got
hold OF the post commander, or
some higher ranking officer. we
would have been told. but We did
MOI care that much about it. We
were a petty officer in the navy
once, during the late unpleasant
ness in Europe, and we felt awful
" important. too; SO We guess the
person speaking at the post will
soon get over 1t, like lots OF us did
long ago. None Of the other Off
! GERS need feel bad about it. we un-
derstand.
TVTE KNOW all Of our readers en-
. w joyed the words of Mrs. Jessie
o. Wheeler. Sunday. Someday
we hope to have her with us again,
The difference between writing
something yourself and getting 70
read what some else, like Mrs.
Wheeler writes. is like being picked
up for a ride when n Is walking.
Il MONDAY and accident day. Head
lines in morning paper report
a." six killed in a grade crossing
accident. This is being written al
an early morning hour, and none
had been reported in the Valley.
We hope it IS true that there was
not one over the weekend here,
but we fear General Average" VIII
Il show I'D before the day Is over.
WHILE a congressional commit
Il w tee has been chewing the rag
~ for weeks over testimony OF one
set that prohibition is a rank fall
ure. and from others that IT Is q
huge success, nothing has been safe
Of anti-freeze solutions and JAKE
out Of Oklahoma one might be
misled TO believe that n shipment
of Jamaica ginger paralysed a good
" portion OF the city. Then out OF
johnson, Tennessee, comes the re-
J port that about fifty are paralyseo
bv an alcohol brew, and elsewhere
mora fatalities are attributed 70 an
III ti-free7e solutions. All OF this Is
found in one edition Of this morn
ing.
Man has ever been g robber. He
| robs the nest OF its eggs and con-
tinues TO take things via the fatteo
calf to the full grown COW. But
il is not believed that he can rob
the automobile radiators ana drue
stores and entirely get away WITH
it.
THANK goodness something OF
brighter tone. shows up in the
u mail. The Weslaco Chamber o.
H Commerce. where S. NJ. patterson
Iabors for a living. is in receipt OF
letter high in the praise OF valley
grapefruit. 1t comes from A. l.
Andres, Fort Madison, Iowa. MI
Andres says: Il am not sufficient
" familiar with the grapefruit IN
dustTv TO know what terms 70 use
"a describe the quality, but foui
things impressed me the absence
of the core in the center; practic-