Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-04

WITH so many things in sight for
Wv the Valley within the next few
years. all that will be left for
this verdant section Of the United
States, according to the engineer OF
this column. will be for 1t TO further
increase its dinner pail brigade.
This is an old. old cry of city
building, but how effective when ac-
complished. Weekly pay rolls turn
edeioose in a city. or community,
make for many purchasers of small
articles which in turn fill business
eoffers in a manner to make every
s9ody happy all around.
When thinking Of such matters
it is the first impulse of a chamber
of commerce. or those interested in
city and community building. to at
Tempt to try 70 remove factories, or
big industries. from some ether
point 10 their own fair city.
This has only in rare instances
worked out to any great benefit.
The way to get factories and other
industries for a city. or community,
is TO build them at home and to
nurse those already started with
local support. Over at Val Verde.
out OF Donna, a new industry is
IN process Of opening. 1t is the new
grapefruit bottling plant. II may
lead 10 a gigantic enterprise with
many attendant business benefits.
III is only rarely that men with
business integrity pick up a go
ing nee and move 1t lock.
stock and barrel. Offers TO move
an industry usually forewarn that
the business is not doing so well
from a financial standpoint.
AS an example OF what we mean,
we will take an instance in Waco
some years ago. A leather dresser
discovered a new polish. He was a
saddle maker. He quickly tried 1t
on shoes already polished. 1t work.
cd. He had no capital. So he start
ed with two tubes. a dipper and a
few bottles. Within five years that
company appropriated one million
dollars for advertising in n year
and Dyanshine became known over
the United States.
A new idea though small may be
worth millions right IN your own
home town.
HOT an unsigned letter from Edin-
In burg today which deplored the
fact that laborers have been
brought into the Valley. who can
not find work.
Usually unsigned letters are
thrown away. Always when they
take US to task. But this letter
takes TO task Secretary Foore o.
the Harlingen Chamber OF Com
merce.
While The Brownsville Herald
carried interviews with various
persons. who advanced the opinion
hat not SO many laborers were
- leeded, Secretary Floore had some
substantial figures from well known
men listing the number OF laborers
they needed.
So he gave Ii to the press. as all
good secretaries should do. Now
there may or may not have been
needed 5000 laborers but at that
time a few thousand were needed
IL seemed from Mr.. FLORES data.
which we scanned. The other In
terviews were printed TO avoid Q
",aog-wild" rush.
But then dame nature stepped in
and the freeze came on. II was I'M
foreseen. with the result that quite
O few have come 10 the Valley and
have not been able TO get employ
ment. j. II. Fallin. government re-
preventative. looked Y e the situa-
ton and also decided some were
needed. but only vegetable pickers
ana the like. The freeze altered
he situation. No intentional wrong
was done.
CAID letter goes on 70 ask: do
Al you honestly believe that this
Vally will ever be benefited
by low standard, ~under-paid labor.
II may appeal 10 the avaricious
prospective buyer, but the better
class will 60 back home"
The writer also later points TO
the Johnson Box bills IN this con-
nection. But he has already point
cd out n great reason why the
Valley should be opposed to the
passage Of those bills.-"The better
ck.ss will 90 back home"
This writer believes in organized
labor. but the matter Of gather
ing the Valley truck and fruit crops
has never been n for organized
labor TO present a flock Of card
carrying workers when the Valley
grower needs them. whether he car
afford TO pay the price which would
be asked or not. Organized labor
is not interested in picking berries.
cr what not. The statement should
4 sd the higher paid class would
r. back home" and II VIC cannot
>Cct people to do the work from
across the border, al will suffer.