Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-21
IN OUR
VALLEY
BY CHARLES HALL

IVA olIecuS the policies OF a gIed.
string Of Valley furniture stores,
has returned to Brownsville after
an extended trip east and north.
The engineer OF this column met
MIR. Edelstein on the street and stop
ped to ask him for something fur
Their On the viewpoint Of the bust
ness world as he found 1t on that
business trip.
As a result he got an answer
which Is well worth considering and
which We arc hereby glad to pass on.
Il am not worried" said this bust
ness man. That is I am not worried
except about the people who are
worried" They should not be
worried. he implied.
After the Valley has emerged from
this freeze with so little loss he says
he sees no need for any one to be
alarmed at all. Il am buying about
as much as / yer bought, If not
more. All We need is TO proceed
with integrity and to work a little
harder, to do e. better than ever.
Is an illustration OF how a little
q blue" talk can almost start =
- snow ball Of blues" 10 rolling.
he offered this little story.
Il came to town today and on
the way down ] picked up my
washerwoman."
How are you getting along?"
Not so well. times are awful
hard, came the reply.
Why are times so hard, aren't
YOU washing for a living every day,
like you always have?"
Yes"
Then why do you say that times
ere hsrd?"
i do not know, Sir, people just
say they are"
As MI. Edelstein sees 1t, one Of the
"A business slogans for the year
should be. Eliminate Waste.
Nothing has gone wrong anywhere.
People really have more than they
have ever had in their lives. speak
ing of people as a whole. 1t mere
ly remains to eliminate waste. drop
the idea that times are hard. and
get TO work.
UTHICH brings TO the mind Of the
wv engineer Of this column the
idea why worry at all. This
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which people nurse. when all the
time 1t only puts grey hairs IN their
temples a little earlier in life.
II Is almost exactly true that the
fear Of anything is nearly always
greater than the thing itself and
how often as we have said before
To-day" proves only the tomorrow
we worried over yesterday. and 1t
did not happen after all"
As we c IL today about all the
IA Valley has TO worry over Is an
t--aneous report which got in some
of the larger upstate daily papers
20 the effect that this territory pro-
baby lost a million dollars from the
freeze.
II is not true, 20 why worry over
that. All we have to do is to tell
the world that We did not. Press
wires Of yesterday carried the re-
port, which has been furnished the
government by men In a position 70
know. and the percentage Of loss
was very snail.
And what II IL had been true that
the Valley had lost a million dol
lars. A million dollars is nothing
for a strip Of country eighty miles
long and chock full Of the good
things Of life.
Two deaths Of unusual people
have taken place within the past
days. These were that OF the
Rev. DR.. Henry S. Felix, the kid OF
Clusters regiment, and VIII Cobb
author Of many popular songs.
DR.. Felix was for twenty years
pastor OF st. Marks Lutheran
church OF San Francisco. He once
got a congressional medal for saw
ing the life Of Buffalo Bill. He died
at the age of "A.
VIII Cobb was the author OF
Goodbye. Dolly Gray" Waltz me
around agin Willie" and a number
OF other popular songs.
Il is rather a peculiar thing that
in such cases as that Of Will Cobt
people remember the song. and none
except close friends remember the
writer and yet all feel a loss when
they hear that the writer has died
IN the top floor Of Otto Kahn'S
country mansion at Cold Spring
Harbor, N. Y. are to be found