Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-08
IN DUE
VALLEY
! By CHARLES HALL

hS pen IN hano was VoAsN W
IA morning, a norther was report
ed as having already reached
San Antonio and moving southwark
toward Corpus Christi. A still fur
sher slump in mercury standings was
expected. but not enough TO do
much damage to growing things.
With the northern part OF the
country in the grip of a cold wave
all Yesterday, the Valley basked IN
sunshine with the lowest tempera-
ture last night at 68.
This is not written just TO talk
about the weather OF because there
is nothing else to tall: about, but be-
cause the weather is so wonderful
down here we want the whole world
to know about II. /.
In a spot where roasting ears, and
new potatoes. and strawberries, and
a list of vegetables. too long TO men
ton, can be eaten right out Of the
garden at New Years and Christ
mas the Canaanites just got mixed
up on which was the land flowing
with milk and honey.
TN fact the people in the Valley
seem so pleased with their lot
in life that they are even salts
"a with their own wives.
Now, compared to some places
that Is not so out Of place as IL may
seem at first glance. Take Holly
wood, for instance, where the lar
pest salaries in the world are made.
Fellow living out there. when he
wakes up in the morning, they say
has TO stop and think which wife ne
Is living with.
But records coming In from the
various counties and towns up ana
aown the Valley, show that the peo-
ple here are using good judgement
In picking their partners, and really
mean to make a life deal OF 1t.
Cameron county shows a prepon-
derance Of first selections being the
best. Even Hidalgo county, troubled
with SO many disagreements. finds
nothing wrong in its nuptial ar
raneements. Figures there show thai
only 80 were divorced whle l,l52
STAYED hitched. That is a vote OF II
70 | in favor Of abiding by the vows
the contracting parties solemnly
took.
Up Dallas way this year, things
are more peaceful. too. Not hall SO
many wives killed their husbands
last year. Personally. we prefer d.
yorce to numbering a husband. but
both are big blots on the escutcneon
Of America.
GUNDRY folks have been writing
~ to the papers about the gram
mar of Nicholas Murray Butler,
president of Columbia University.
He is charged with the heinouS
rrime-for a college profeSsor-of
7 king the statement, while broad
casting over the radio, that: "Neut-
rality don't involve breaking your
obligation"
whenever an editor makes a
grammatical error he always sinks
20 and skulks behind the apron OF
the printer. typographical er-
ror' has covered a multitude OF
writer's grammatical sins. But people
ought to be also considerate OF the
speaker before that little micro
phone disk, which hides a million
ears. 1t certainly gives an entirely
new form of stage fright. Ask us,
we know. Even President Hoover
YOU will notice, when speaking be-
fore II, as he is often shown on the
screen, is always following his notes.
1t looks like the more brains you
have the more that little disk ter
rifles you.
NRESS dispatches from Madrid
show that BARRIERS IN Seville and
:" elsewhere in Spain are suffering
terribly over a slump in business. II
seems that too many people are
wearing their whiskers long, or
are cutting them themselves.
This must be a deplorable condi-
ton. First thing you know we will
have a new organization formed in
America and people calling on Us
tout OF headquarters office" asking
Tor donations for the Spanish re-
lief from long boards. II also might
be said TO give a new form OF the
BARRIERS itch.
4IOW that We have had our little
spell of attempted punning
- which at best is cheap stuff, We
have got TO get down to o SER
sous business.
The Valley accident list, as car
ried in yesterdays Brownsville Her
aid. resembled a casualty report dur
ing the a
A continuance OF such a list ovei
the nation will. in time. make the
war only a picnic outing in the
manned, the crippled and the dead
Many have been heard TO suggest
Mat something more should be done
In a legislative way. State laws fully
rover automobile accidents, practi-
cally II not theoretically. Legislators
ran legislate until they are blue in
the face, and only scratch the sur
face Of the automobile accident pro-
blem.
The remedy seems TO be purely G
matter Of education OF the drivers
III we can get 1t firmly implanted in
20 the mind Of every human being
tn { a flying automobile travels
with one wheel in the grave, anc
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