Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-01
ByI. C. G~RINSTEAD
KaNeas City Star Staff

To beglh with I am not a liter
ary geniuE and II I were could not
begin to- lei Of the wonderful
things I kve seer In Brownsville
and the grounding Valley since
my arrival knless / had the knowl-
edge Of a &eientist. naturalist. ge-
ologist, agi ElturaliSt and the COM
bined kno dge Of men in all
phases Of keiness.
Folks. have a wonderful
country del here, a country Sec
ond TO moi But do you boost II
enough? are say you do not,
for I had heard the half OF II
until 1 int Hertently stopped off
here.
Viewing IL country and its Won
derful deve tpment and POSSIBLE
ties, I stopE md wonder just what
one can seq in the much advertis-
ed states ol Florida and Califor-
MIA. Thoset states have far less
than the Wiley offers. What do
you see In Florida? For the ben
eft Of thoS who have not been
there I viii iell you.
Chin Ehisker Florida
To begin with. Florida Is the
chin whisker state of the United
StatesI IL S six hundred miles
long. Two hundred miles wide and
three leet high. II is bounded on
the Moth by the eighteenth amend
ment shd on The other three sides
by the three-nile limit.
Floridh's principal sources of in
come ate hollis, fruits, alligator
skins, Tourists and vest-pocket
press aken-s II California. Flori-
da Is inhabited b. Indians. Ameri-
cans, white ven, black men and
feed-bag Soutts sometimes called
t.n-canner4. the reds live on the
Evergladesi TIN blacks live on rhe
whites The was live on the tosir-
lists ashd the toaists live on the nsu-
nicifal campin grounds. OF course
the principal hustry Of Florida is
the fruit.
Orange raisk coming first OF
course. Raisintoranges in Florida
is a cinch, alithat you need is
enough mone4c live on while
raising them. ext 70 the orange
is the grapeftt. The Florida
grapefruit is aroSs between q
lemon. a dose quinine and a
pumpkin, comp4d 70 that in the
VALLEY.
II has the cdr and disposition
o. d blonde ticA seller at q mo-
zion picture their.
Kumqd Clicks
The ~tangerine another member
OF the orange lmily, a distant
cousin OF the otge. II wears a
a loose ana cardss Mother Hub
bard style CT wrdsr and is much
easier TO disrobehan the orange,
but 1t has a morary and withered
and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES when
undresSed. The tumquat Is the
only thing in Fldia that lives I'D
to its name, 1t los and acts Just
the way ii sounds
That is about abne en- say for
Florida. They ha nothing down
there to brag abc but they are
sure to boost IL.
Now let US jumlout 10 Califor-
mia and see whatthey have out
There. Why. Calitnia's first dis
cot>ery has been inoubt. Some Of
the, local historiansut there claim
that, the Garden ( Eden was To-
Gated In the Southeastern corner
OF the Golden Gateark. lust back
Of the monkey-hou. Others more
modest give the da of its discov-
cry at the time til Noah landed
the Ark on the torf Mt. Shasta.
Angels nhbtfuI
But the best and believe the
most authentic acdnts give as
its discovery the yt 1903 when
Sir Francis Drake saed in through
the Golden Gate az started the
ST. Francis Hotel. Whear so much
! OF Los Angeles. do bu know how
10 was discovered? Fo2 Wei. I'll
tell youl One day on OF the mem-
CONTINUED on lage Io)