Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-03
IN OUR
VALLEY
by CHARLES HALL,

& - III
~ by CHARLES HALL 49,
THAT rain We had last night a
i gladly welcomed by many resi-
dents OF the Valley.
Only yesterday morning a number
cf truck men were heard TO say they
had many seed potatoes in the ground
rand If we could only get a rain"
The frost Of a few days ago came
n little too early TO do any appre-
ciable damage to spud growers, but
ever since then knives have been
busy cutting up many a carload Of
old potatoes. in order to make new
ones out Of them.
Accompanying the rain comes
cooler weather, today which in turn
Is running up the grocery bill a bit,
but If 1t wasn't tax time no one
would worry a. bit.
Which reminds us that now is the
time TO pay that poll tax. VIZ had
a hard time getting down to it. In
this column. but why put 1t off? II
is Just like putting gasoline in the
car. Might as well fill it up at once
you never fool the car on whether
it is empty or not.
HINCE his announcement that he
has been made our new city
manager. z. A. Rosenthal has
had more nice things said about
him. We even broke out all over Duh
own column about him.
Going into his office, shortly af-
ter our daily column setting up ex-
ercises. the first thing we heard
from him was that If we wanted 10
make application for some office,
we would have TO do 1t in writing.
Declared he was not considering any
more verbal pleas.
Well, If it just has TO be In writing
here goes. Mr.. Rosenthal. After you
lay hand to the helm Of the city,
and begin TO straighten out VI fin
ancial tangle, will you kindly keep
your eye out for the first available
cash? Then take this available cash
and hire a man with a paint buc-
ket and brush and mark the names
and numbers of our streets on the
curbing. And If you want to greatly
please a lot o. folks. Mr.. Rosenthal,
kindly strain a notch or two, and
do this as early as possible. Yours
truly. "A whole lot of us"
vTOU see a lot Of folks come here,
and then they 60 in search OF
something to do. They 60 over
to the Brownsville Chamber OF Conf
merce. and Miss Malvina Garibay
tells them where to find Mrs. Ada
Nolan Mayer, hostess Of the tourist
club.
They see Mrs. Mayer and tell her
they want to see the ocean roll up
against the shore, or all placid and
still.
She tells them they can just drive
out Fourteenth street. and then they
can turn to the right and go 10
Boca Chica, or turn TO the left and
90 TO Point Isabel. The tourists
thank Mrs. Mayer get in their cars
and start in the general direction
of Fourteenth street. They hunt and
they hunt. They look for signs on
the buildings, signs on the posts, 81
signs on the curbing. Just looking
for what any u~p-to-date city would
have.
Finally they see a lot Of a r 60
ing in one direction, and they de-
eide they must be going there. They
follow them. They wind up in Har-
lingen and decide it is too far 10
come back-and Brownsville has
lost them. ANY way, whether 1t Is
that bad or not, We surely need those
street signs, Mr.. Rosenthal.
N c. Richardson. secretary OF the
In Brownsville Chamber Of Com
merce on his return from Laredo
said II is true that the customs
houses have not been closed there,
but that vises are required from
other consular offices before goods
pass through the port, which means
unavoidable delay and added ex-
pense.
He further said that the commit
tee from Brownsville. consisting OF
himself and J.. F. Blanton, visited
the Laredo Chamber Of Commerce
and explained how Brownsville SYM
pathizes with Laredo, but merely
seeks shipping business from there
only in case the port is closed. Ex-
pressions similar TO this were car
RED in the Laredo press. and Laredo
should now know that We stand
ready to cooperate with her in ever
way We can to keep the port open.
But If she must lose it. Brownsville
should be next in line. Hard feelings
are easily engendered during times
OF strife, but II is now thought that
Laredo realizes Brownsville's atti-
tude OF helpful watching.
aFTER further observations Of the
~ Valley, the engineer Of this col
umn has come to the conclusion
that If there ever was a corner o.
the country that represents one big
family, it is found In these same
Valley towns.
They scrape each other tooth and
toe nail for every commercial ad-
vantage, which tends toward a more
healthy state of affairs unless jeal-
ousy is allowed to take on too green
eyed a form.
But while they are going 1t in
such humiliation fashion just let
some outsider stick his head in some
particular family fuss. That same
outsider will emerge looking like &
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