Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-09

William Penn. !
BACK again. with hand ON the
II throttle, the engineer OF this
column rises to remark that if
there is anything better than a nice
vacation 1t is that Of getting home
again.
Vacations are fine except they are
not properly named. 1t is an Il
durance contest which takes your
mind off your work and therefore
rests you with a change Of activity.
But il Is well and good for every
live person has 10 be doing some
thing all the time.
Probably one of the greatest sum-
mer needs Of the nation today IS a
place TO recuperate from vacations.
TUT how good the Valley looks
N when you roll into it at Edin-
burg. Really there is no place
like it-except that right now we
probably need to all take II day
off and cut u weeds. This writer
almost had 70 call signals to get into
his own front yard. That is what
the rains have recently done.
o. MOST d~eplorable accident &C.
d. Cured al the Brownsville air
port Yesterday. Z. j. Snyder,
crack pilot Of the Pan American
company. was hurled $50 feet TO
his death in demonstrations for the
Brownsville Glider club.
The breaking Of a strap IS said to
have been the cause OF the accident.
which IA viewed by the largest
crowd at the airport since Lindbergh
visited the city. and n which RI
vailed the gathering of that day.
The incident brings to an untimely
end the life of a vigorous young
man. admired by his associates, but
il does net mean that gliding Is a
dangerous sport or occupation. Sny-
der's death is deeply regretted and
sincere sympathies are extended his
relatives and friends. but figures
show that gliding accidents are still
less frequent in ratio 10 that OF
automobiles.
rTOLKS, the Magic Valley is getting
more and more before the pub
lie eye. It's fame has finally
saturated into the smaller real es-
tate offices Of Arkansas. Now please
let none shoot us for that, but it is
true. The engineer of this column
dropped into a number Of such Of
fees, and told that he was from
Brownsville.
From several he got the following
response:
Lets see that is in what they call
the Valley. isn't it?'
s'Is that in the Lower Rio Grande
Valley or the Magic Valley?"
Now that Is what we get for hav-
ing two names.
T the time of Jul leaving. it SEEM
IA ed that the senate was just ready
- to vote on our port project, but
on our return we find the solons are
still tagging on the tariff. Guess
= will have to write John Garner
about it.
But the Brownsville navigation
district certainly did molly IN voting
the 81. 5 900 additional bond issue
and the city has a population Of
e22.050.
we told everybody in Arkansas
that we had $4,000, but they won't
find out the difference until we
catch up with the figure.
MINATED Annie says that travel
~ by automobile is again popular
~ izing the packing OF your lunch
along, which generally died out
about the time women quit wearing
sunbonnets.
WHILE we have been shooting
W somewhat at Arkansas as we
w come down this column we are
roing to tell you why. High up in
the Ozarks things move slowly. It
is because everything is so pretty.
and the people SO contented with
their lot in life that they do not
want to change it one bit They
have fine things, too. But we must
admit that we want a little more
action in life than getting up in
the morning and having before us
onlr- TO wonder what we will have
fofwhnner, and where we viii 60
ia that afternoon.
m z we were gone Hunter Os-
me, fireman on this editorial
n Of which we are engineer.
the throttle. Hunter did a
bod Job Of 1t. too, We think.
kur.d to have done so because
nice things about the en-
Djever notice that a news
Tor people, which, or who, is
saying nice things about peo-
= is always generally liked for
e reason or other.