Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-20

AIOW that we have not had to get
IN on the telephone this morning
during the first hour in the Of
flee to take an account of some &C
cident in the Valley. We must write
about them anyway.
While no report Of a smash-up on
the highway had been received dur
ing the first hour. II the average
keeps UP there will be one before
IN day is over. We will have one
or else ii will be the first day this
week.
Sevc.. have been reported sc far
this week, four lives being reported
snuffed out in the seven. What price
speed?
is our Main street, which We hsve
constructed with such pride, and
for which the tax payers are
now digging up in cold cash not able
to care for our ever growing auto
mobile population?
Sometimes 1t seems SO. There has
been advanced. several times. the
idea OF double tracking and having
one-way highways, That would be
fine, If we can afford it. A. J. Nc
Coll, McAllen, who lies at the FL
Jardin hotel with a broken leg as
the result of an accident which cost
the life of Chas A. Hartmann Of Nc
Allen declared TO the engineer OF
this column yesterday. that the ac-
Cidents themselves will pay for an
other highway. Nine will cost me
5000 with the loss Of my car and
in the expense Of mending broken
bones, not 20 speak of what ! will
have TO suffer while the mending
Is in progress he said.
A one-way highway will pay for
itself in the saving Of human lives,
he declared.
Mr.. McColl may be right. But I'M
til then 1t Seems that our next best
remedy is to place more highway
officers or the track and add a few
lail sentences to our fines for speed
ing or other violations Of the traf-
fic law. 1t has been found that
drivers will take a chance on having
to pay out a little money, where
they will not take a chance on
spending a few days in jail.
THIS fine weather makes one Won
der why people want to live any
where else in the world besides
in the Valley. Got a letter from 0.
II. Archer today .; Pharr. He says
Cartocnist Cargill Is always saying
something about Florida and CAL
ifornia and that we ought to con-
vert him to the Valley. Eminently
correct Mr.. Archer. Mr.. Cargill
ought to be slapped on the wrist.
He'd better get hep TO himself.
MONTE Grande is being heralded
I'M as the Valleys newest town. II
is located six miles northeast Of
Rio Hondo. That will make an even
score of towns in the Valley proper.
1t is being developed by AL and
Lloyd Parker.
VxyELL, well, here is a criticism Of
wv our Half Minute interviews. II
is the first knocker tune we have
heard. IL is to the effect that il car
rieS the names of so many persons,
who are not known in a public way,
with expressed opinions. Since when
has every private citizen not had a
right to express his opinion. Half
Minute Interviews is a conner for
the man. who otherwise never has
a chance. because Of his position or
lack Of wealth 10 express his opin-
ion or public question or TO advance
his ideas. This is a democratic coun-
try. Let's ever keep it so.
yITHICH reminds US that The
WV Brownsville Herald is getting
bigger and better every day. He
that tooteth not his own bora same
shall not be footed. The engineer OF
this column took three papers OF
this weeks issue and checked them
against three papers Of the same
date last year. There were more
Brownsville and Valley stories" car
ried during the present year in each
issue, than Of the year before. We
are growing with the Valley. We
daily get letters telling us how much
better the paper is than yer be-
fore but Of course We are too mo-
dest to publish them. We Just feel
good today. Look outside and see
why.
\ Attest wire news today Is that
Thomas A. Edison expects mil
lions Of acres Of goldenrods TO
be devoted TO culture for rubber
production. Mr.. Edison then says he
may have TO wind up by inventing
a cure for hay fever.
II might be well for Mr.. Edison
to know that hay fever victims of
New York have Incorporated. Forty
of them have formed the United
Hay Fever Club to build a hotel and
dub house in the White Mountains
10 be used exclusively by sufferers OF
tie disease. That is something 10 be