Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-11

nNE bit OF news Of interest was an
III announcement from the South
Texas Chamber Of Commerce 10
the effect that the House Committee
on immigration does not have time
70 visit the Valley.
Members OF that committee pro-
baby got so many kilograms asking
them to come, that they could plain
" see that what they would hear
down here would only be reasons
v1sy no restrictions on labor should
bqD placed. Anyway they found that
the Southwest is concerned over,
and "agin" legislation to that ef-
feet.
Another champion Of the cause
was found in Chairman Legge OF
the federal farm board. The South
Texas Chamber of Commerce gives
il as the opinion of representatives
CT that body that no restrictions will
be placed on the Mexican laborer.
II that Is what Is about TO happen,
that Is what the Valley people want.
ZONE few days ago, the engineer
N OF this column received a letter
from Joseph G. Cox OF Alamo.
Mr.. Cox says he has been reading
with great interest in the Herald
about the proposed paved road to
Boca Chica, and among the nee
ceSsities to get the road seems TO be
q right-of-way along the beach"
He declares it will be a calamity
for the whole Valley should the
beaches be converted into an auto
mobile speedway. He says: The
Cameron county beaches at Boca
Chica are the greatest asset the
Valley now possesses. Thousands of
Valley people will go there with their
families for pleasure, when there
is a highway. Visitors come to the
Valley and deplore the fact that the
sea coast Is not accessible"
The writer further complained
that when families go there and
park for the children TO play on the
beach automobiles are so thick
driving along the beach that the
children are endangered.
We thus gather that MI. Cox
would have the beach a place for
families to picnic. with the auto
mobiles in the back ground. We just
pass it along for what it is worth.
deep water port; a beach and a
~ hard surfaced road leading 70
It: q city museum; a million
dollar hotel and 4 causeway TO Pa
dire Island: more and more tourists,
@ hard surfaced road to Monterrey!
Nice prospects gleam for us in the
not far off future. But what about
a railroad south into Mexico. The
more We have the more we want be-
cause in a city's life the more it
needs.
nROBABLY the most unusual
burial ever recorded has recent
~ taken place in New York.
Howard Langford, actor expressed
a dying wish, according to press dis
patches to have his ashes sprinkled
along Broadway, where he worked
and played.
In carrying out this wish his wi
dow dropped them from an airplane
5000 feet in the air.
II mankind had the concern for
his soul, which lives after death. in
proportion TO the disposition OF his
body. which perishes. the work of
the ministers would be about done.
TOMORROW. America will observe
Abe Lincoln's birthday. In fac:
on that Gay many OF the enligh-
tened nations of the world will pay
tribute to the memory Of the rail
SPLITTER, who during a turmoil which
stirred mems souls as never before
demonstrated TO the world that
slavery is not good in the economic
scheme Of things and that a simple,
earnest conscientious life is the kind
that is lasting.
Hated by many political enemies
because while doing what he con
ceived TO be right he still had a
brotherly feeling for the wartime
enemies Of that day the life Of the
man some Seventy-odd years after
his death still stands as a monument
TO tenacity of purpose and a human
interest feeling toward mankind by
those in high places.
VISITORS to the Valley these days
r giving expressions OF their
impressions with the fact that
there is q single green sprig left af-
ter the freeze of a short time ago.
They heard there was ice down
here for two or three days in a row,
and In many cases their own homes
were Snowbound fartehr north. They
cannot understand it. Visitors. the
Valley is just thataway-nothing