Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-06
IN OUR
VALLEY
BY c. NJ. HALL

WIIH orougnts reported owe the
wv country and a comparatively
low price received for cotton,
there has come over many sections
and 10 a certain extent in the Val
ley a feeling that business Is not 50
good.
1t is also true that this feeling
has not prevailed n the Valley to
the extent that II has IN other sec
lions.
Accidental conversations with r.
r. BledSoe Of Edelsteins and G. ".
Hamilton Of the Borderland, both
with heir hand on the pulse Of the
furniture business. find these two
lei declaring that business Is not
so bad.
While business Is not at a war
time height both Of these men ad-
vanced the opinion that much of
whatever depression exists comes
from the mental attitude of the
people themselves. Business fears
enter int. the people, they tighten
on their purse strings and loose con-
versatiol. on hard times, and as a
reSlt pessimism begins TO take the
place Of optimism. In other words
they hold that the best way TO over
come supposed hard times Is 70 for
get them and keep hard at work.
INTENT out to the Brownsville fill
wv tration plant yesterday where
W the filtration system is being
cleaned. Those. who might be of the
opinion that Brownsville does not
need a larger filtration plant. should
go out and gain some first hand
knowledge for themselves.
1t will take no expert 20 decide
the matter. What their eyes do not
tell them their nOSe will know.
Men were In mud vast deep
cleaning out the watts. "A tank or
two which the city is using for its
water flow reminds the engineer Of
this column of one he saw being
used in a bottl.ng works at Abilene.
Texas, where as a boy he worked
after school hours and 1t is used TO
supply a CITY like Brownsville.
While this cleaning out IS going on
Brownsville citizens should o their
water as all Of 1t Is not being given
full treatment.
TIM FERGUSON crawls on the
newspapers III shoot : at Ross
y Sterling. He says the advocacy
Of Sterling'S campaign is being pad
for by the inch. II this were true
the amounts Jim says Sterling and
his friends have expended on him
IS hardly a starter. There are some
1000 newspapers in Texas. The
reams and reams of stuff they have
carried on Sterling. II paid for al
high political rates would make a
million dollars look like a mole hill.
All JE has done Is 70 insult the
newspaper fraternity IN which he
would claim membership through
his own paper. One OF the latest
reactions we have noticed is that the
Victoria Advocate, which supported
Ferguson in the primary has be-
come iisgusted and turned its edi-
torals in favor Of the Houston man.
A. ID. PAYNE, whose wife was
IN killed by a bomb explosion az
= Amarillo. has been arrested in
connection with the case some weeks
after Mrs. Payr Is death. Evidence
produced by Gene Howe of the
Amarillo Globe-News and A. 3.
Macdonald of the Kansas City Star
IS said TO have led 70 the arrest of
the widower.
We are glad 10 see that newspaper
men IRE doing something else be-
sides take Mr.. Sterling's money. and
that .hen sometimes do represent
the Kansas City Star when they
ONE TO a strange community.
nut after conSide L.lg the many
n things the Lower Rio Grande
Vale is now facing. there bobs
up one which looms against the sky
as a dire threat.
Folks. they say the pompadour Is
about TO return. While realizing
that in S eaking OF the pompadour
one inadvertently displays his many
years. we must ask what are we
going % do about it? And we can
answer right off. When 1t arrives
ne will 60 right ahead telling the
dear things how pretty they look,
and strangest Of all, after III .-rSt
shock we will actually think q.
Those who would keep up with
the times might start saving their
rats ant those old PICTURES OF the
Gibson Girl. which Charles Dana
Gibson painted so freely might be
dug up. busted off. and replaced.
Yes sir. the world trns IN cycles
IN everything i seems. and as Q
Is the dollar gets back 70 IS 1914
or pre-war value. toward which u Is
headed. salaried people will find
themselves able to purchase more
clothing and groceries.
FOUND on THE WIRE
nTrTSBURGH. Pa. Eugene c.
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