Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-03
IN DUE
VALLEY
> BY CHARLES HALL.

g. BY CHARLES HALL
TODAY Brownsville and the VAL
ley is celebrating Texas hide
pendence day.
To tE sc who are not familiar
with the why and wherefore of the
semi-holtday today, IL might be well
TO say that "a years ago yesterday
Texas was declared a free end in
dependent republic.
A convention for this purpose was
called at Washington on the Brazos
on March /, 1886, and the following
Gay drew up the document Of in
dependence and founded a govern
ment On a constitution very similar
to that of the United States
All objections raised BIZ Mexico
were cone away with by Sam Hous-
ton at San Jacinto on April 81.
Whatever may have been the
causes leading up TO Texas inde-
pendence, we are not so much con-
cerned with, as that descendants of
the same two peoples. today, live in
peace and harmony along the banks
OF The Rio Grande, with the idea OF
peace and progress uppermCst in
their minds to bring TO them the
better things Of life. The Rio
Grande Valley Is one of the best
things coming out OF Texas indie
pendence.
ACCORDING TO articles now ap-
~ pearing in various magazines,
President Herbert Hoover,
whom 1t seems many Of the Demo-
cratic leaders are getting ready to
take after with many woroS. has
set another precedent, with refer
ence TO publicity by the president.
Mr.. Hoover Is the first president
OF Tire United States. interviewed
directly by reporters, who permits
himself to be directly quoted.
II IS q daring thing. Not that he
Will be misguided, or his statements
distorted. but that when he
presses opinions, or sets forth ideas
Of procedure. and his words strike
a wrong note with the public. IL
will be Mr.. Hoover who vii. bear
the brunt from many angles.
ROOSEVELT was the first presi-
IN dent TO talk 10 reporters and
. discuss with them questions of
~ x. But he was never directly
reoted. II came out as 1T is said
at is understood, " etc. Harding
was a newspaper publisher. and
was very free with the reporters.
He understood them. Wilson start
cd the idea of the Spokesman" Of
the White House, which Coolidge
kept alive. Hoover mas thrown
away the Spokesman and IS quoted
directly.
America is getting more demo-
cratic every day. and the press as
Stunning more and more response
billty in matters Of developing a
government or O territory. There
is nothing that will ever exactly
take the place Of the daily printed
word OF what is going on in the
world.
WHILE the showers received Sal
wv urday evening may not have
" been all the rainfall that i
needed, great benefits are reported
from some sections TO the potatoes.
The Valley this year not only has
one OF the biggest Irish potato
crops in the number OF acres, but
the pl-nts probably look as healthy
as any ever seen. A drive Though
El Jardin section will delight the
hearts OF any who love TO see
things growing, healthy and sue
culent.
TITHTLE prohibition is gradually
wv crawling back into the poll
teal limelight, next CAM
paiEn by blue sky law advocates
may be against bridge.
One Of the latest indications Is
that Mrs. Lila Gray Colyer. who
not long ago held Is diamonds at
bridge. and went set twelve tricks,
is suing for a divorce.
The story is that she won the
contract at six no trumps. after a
spade bid by an opponent, and
when she went down her husband
hit her with a cut glass bowl. we
suppose the bowl was the nearest
missile
nNE OF the best known places
TO start a good political argu-
" mens Is probably the home Of
Charles Fl. Tuttle. federal attorney
for the New York district.
Mr.. Tuttle is a republican. His
daughter. Charlotte. student al
Vassar. IS a socialist. His daughter,
EVELYN, is a staumch republican.
and she recently Q a prize OF a
GIRLS republican committee with an
essay which attacks socialism The
engineer Of this column will wage
a fur-lined bath tub that politics
mentioned at the breakfast table
in that family makes for a peaceful
day.
nR DO such people eat breakfast
III any more. That Is one greaS
hAmerican institution that seems
c.f@the wane. 1t should not be a.
lowed. despite what doctors OF
would-be dietitians say to the con
trary. Our mighty forefathers did
not think a breakfast Of sausage,
hot cakes. oatmeal, grits. soft boiled
eggs, coffee and maybe pie. any
thing unusual. And they say they