Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-21

c1garet or pipe does for a man. {
but it is an infinitely better (
way"
Duchess Of Atholl.
The wise people Of today /
work, and the weak-minded per-
pms do not" /
William j. March, Jr.. Connec-
ticut's ll-year-old %biographer {
Of President Hoover. (
Mr.. Tflden has done so much }
for tennis that he should be I
above criticism {
Helen Wills Moody.
HAVE you a little drain pipe un-
der your house?
II you have how the mosqui-
toes are rejoicing in az undistrubed
life Of peace and prosperity.
If this drain is from the ice box.
they may wax SO indolent on the
good things Of life they hate to use
energy enough TO come into the
house and bite you for their daily
three squares - or does a mosquito
eat more than three per? - but
they will.
Have been talking some to mos
quitologists for the past few DAYS.
and it may be interesting to you TO
know MI. Householder that that
little group Of mosquitoes harbored
in the drain from your ice box. or
any other clear water about the
house, is the most dangerous Of the
specie. III or on his p~roboscis Chigh
sounding term for bill he packs
the germs Of dengue and oft times
Of yellow fever.
HERE is another point for you Mr..
Householder this striped legged
variety Of more than a general
nuisance goes about his work with
deadly intent. He is not the loudly
singing outfit you knock your ear
down trying to kill and never hit.
He is strickly business and comes
In from the Matching place without
any ostentation and noise and pro-
ceeds 10 business with never a pause
He is a rather small fellow but what
he pops TO you is hard TO shake off.
business Of eradication is up 10
ID YOU MR.. HOUSEHOLDER. The
health department Of the city
will take the field Friday or Satur-
DAY and come around and tell you
so. Eventually they will see that you
do ii.
But it is going TO be UP to you
to do the work and you should have
enough regard for your own health
and enough civic pride TO beat him
TO it.
Here is another reason the house
holdSr can be SO effective. The
mosquito which spreads the terrible
denge and the yellow fever rarely
flies over l25 yards and he prefers
clear water. So it Is TO swat him
in the hooks and corners that
counts.
There is no yellow fever in the
Valley at present. and how do we
know we do not want it? But some
OF that variety Of mosquitoes have
been found.
NEXT comes Mr.. Malaria Packer.
IN He is the dirty boy Of the mos
quito world. No spot is too
dirty for him. So it IS against him,
we must oil or drain the little cup
holes and similar breeding places a
farther away from the house.
The thing We MUST do is get
busy at once. That is the where
fore Of this. Lastly the engineer of
this column would ask that all in
the Valley who carry advertising
select a slogan something Liza
Death TO all mosquitoes or slnI.a.
words with the same meaning ana
keep them standing in their adver-
easements, so that none may forget.
THIS Is an emergency, if you know
what that means. The next
emergency is nothing else but
our highways. II now seems that
that wonderful new road to Boca
Chica with its travelling thousands
adds another death trap. Already
we see we constructed 1t too narrow.
- 49, mint says ~ - EEL~
n ting so that the champion Val
ley optimist is the man who
drives TO town along our highways
and subScribes to the paper for two
years. How about it Judge Dancy?
OTHERWISE other things look
rosy. Many parts Of Texas have
been blessed with rainfall. and
a few lowering clouds today give
promise to the Valley. There is an
observation-disclosures readjustment
going on in the United States which
droughts have accentuated into
much unemployment but the Valley
has felt the sting least of all. II
you do not believe this ask return
ing visitors from other parts.
We are sailing along, but because
business is not at a zenith. we
sometimes do not seem to realize il.
And with the winter vegetable and
fruit crop coming on. this better
condition will change into that OF
good business.
Tut as business grows 50 will traf-
III fic on our roads. "One million
persons in the Valley within the
next ten years. When that Is true
and no parallel. one way. or wider
highways are constructed the crash
ing of cars. and the ~screeching of
women. mingled with the grooming
or the dying will resemble a charge
OF the Rainbow Division against a
German machine gun nest.
Beginning tomorrow. If Jack Rut-
ledge can get his drawing pen in
hand. the engineer OF this column
will have placed on page n OF The
Brownsville Herald a little speed
ometer on which will be recorded
the number Of accidents each dav.