Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-11
NEGRO BOY ESCAPES DEATH IN CHAIR
IN OUR
VALLEY
o GOOD TO 5.

LOOKS GOOD TO IS.
This general feeling Of optimism
which is reflected in the press Of
the Valley.
A five million dollar citrus crop
already moving seems to have
perked everybody up considerably.
No reason in the world why it
should not.
Growers will receive citrus money
this year who have never seen it
before.
New groves have come into bear
ing.
A fair price is being realized.
Good payrolls are being spread
throughout the various Valley COM
munities.
New packing plants have been
and are being built.
Additions and Improvements have
been made TO plants in several
communities.
The Valley is getting ready TO
cash in on those goldc- globules OF
sweetness.
In a big way.
And we give a hand TO our ship
kpers.
Who are doing their bit by hold
! ing prices up.
Advertising to the growers their
intention to get them every pos
sible cent on every box OF fruit
that goes out.
Working like Trojans TO get and
hold a market.
Not only for the citrus crop, but
for the vegetable crop which will
begin moving in quantity within a
month or so.
The breeze Of optimism is about
to move our good ship out Of the
doldrums.
bringing 1t to the shore OF pros
perity.
Unfurl your sails and take ad-
vantage of the situation.
Get YOUR ship under way.
SEEMS LIKE WE are getting back
10 fundamentals.
IN the Valley and every where
else.
Good thing.
Should have done 1t long ago.
San Benito farmers are buyinb
feeder hogs.
Some work connected with hogs.
Good money, also, when feed Is
cheap.
~ - .haaN nou
Reminiscing the other day with
Henry Alsmeyer, Cameron county
agent.
Recalling the days when we both
lived in Hidalgo county.
When E. j. Hunt OF San Juan
thought nothing at all OF shipping
five or six carloads OF hogs every
week.
Sometimes that many in one day.
And then we get into society.
And stopped raising hogs and 1t
was too much work TO milk a pair
or so Of COWS and poultry was too
much bother.
But we are coming out Of society
now.
Getting back to bedrock, down
TO fundamentals.
And we'll all be better off.
IN THE COURSE Of that same
conversation Henry says we ought
to ask Valley folk to eat nor mems.
Says the farmer can Gull n non
laying hens from his flock and get
back some Of the money he has spent
feeding them IL our Valley house
wives will just think TO ask for
hens once in a while.
o. X. we are asking.
This poultry business deserves a
break. should be encouraged.
Told him we had a letter from a
lady up around Donna.
Who said that some of the hens
she bought seemed to have been
favored with spray right down to
the meat.
= Henry says that whoever sprayed
thnse hens did not use the right
And that he will be glad to tel
any and all Just what spray mater
ials should be used.
FUNNY, ISN'T 1T. how taxing
bodies can reduce the tax rate.
When the public demands that
the tax rate be reduced.
How they can find so many
things that al be gotten along
without.
without reducing the efficiency
of the particular political Sub-divis-
Ion for which thev lew taxes.
Now. honestly this observation is
not meant as a slap at anybody.
It Just occurred to US.
That perhaps we are getting back
10 fundamentals in government.
along with the thought expressed a
couple OF paragraphs above.
Which Is a mighty good idea.
Sure Is easy to spend money.
When that money belongs 70
everybody in general and nobody III
particular.
And the officers who spend the
none are not so much TO blame.
Their constituents usually figure
that as long as the city OF he
county OF the state Of the govern
ment' generally is spending the
none that 1t does not aost them
anything.
Forgetting that Jones pays the
freight"
Including taxes.