Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-01
BY J. c. GRINSTEAD
Kansas City Star Staff

To begin with I am not a liter
AIRY genius. and If I were could not
begin TO tell Of the wonderful
things I have seen in Brownsville
and the surrounding Valley since
my arrival unless I had the knowl-
edge of a scientist. naturalist. ge-
ologist. agriculturalist and the COM
bined knowledge of men In all
phases Of business.
Folks, you have a wonderful
country down here, a country sec
ond TO none. But do you boost 1t
enough2 I dare say you do not,
for / had not heard the half OF II
until / inadvertently stopped off
here.
Viewing this country and It's Won
derful development and POSSIBLE
ties, I stop and wonder just what
one can see in the much advertis-
ed states OF Florida and Califor-
MA. Those states have far less
than the Valley offers. What do
you see in Florida7 For the ben
eft OF those who have not been
there I viii tell you.
Chin Whisker Florida
To begin with. Florida is the
chin-whisker state of the United
States. II is six hundred miles
long. two hundred miles wide and
three feet high. 1t is bounded on
the north by the eighteenth amend
ment and on the other three sides
by the three-mile limit.
Florida's principal sources OF in
come are hotels, fruits, alligator
skins, tourists and vest-pocket
press agents Of California. Flori-
da is inhabited by Indians, Ameri-
cans, white men. black men and
feed-bag tourists sometimes called
tin-canners, The reds live on the
Everglades. the blacks live on the
whites. the whites live on the tour
lists and the tourists live on the mu-
nicipal camping grounds. OF course
the principal industry Of Florida is
the fruit.
Orange raising coming first OF
course. Raising oranges in Florida
IS a cinch. all that you need is
enough none. tc live on while
raising them. Next to the orange
Is the grapefruit. The Florida
grapefruit IS a cross between a
lemon. a dose OF quinine and a
pumpkin, compared TO that in the
Valley.
1t has the color and disposition
Of a blonde ticket seller at a mo-
ton picture theater.
Kumquat Clicks
The tangerine is another member
of the orange family, a distant
cousin Of the orange. II wears a
a loose and careless Mother Hub
bard style OF wrapper and is much
easier TO disrobe than the orange,
but it has a more dry and withered
and disappointed disposition when
undressed. The kumquat Is the
only thing in Florida that lives up
to its name, II looks and acts Just
the way 1t sounds.
lldL Is dUOlt dl4 OAc C-I say IOI
Florida. They have nothing down
there to brag about but they are
sure to boost It.
Now let lis Jump out TO Califor-
MIA and see what they have out
there. Why. CALIFORNIA; first dis
covery has been IN doubt. Some OF
the local historians out there claim
that the Garden Of Eden was To-
Gated in the southwestern corner
OF the Golden Gate park. just back
OF the monkey-house. Others more
modest give the date of its discov-
cry at the time that Noah landed
the Ark on the top of Mt. Shasta.
Angels Doubtful
But the best and. ! believe the
most authentic accounts give as
its discovery the year 1903 when
Sir Francis Drake sailed in through
the Golden Gate and started the
St. Francis Hotel. We hear SO much
OF Los Angeles, do you know how
1t was discovered? Mop Well, I'll
tell youl One day one OF the mem
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