Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-16
MANIAC HACKS WIFE WITH AK
IN OUR
VALLEY

AAN IL
Up In Illinois where the hens have
gone on a spree due to some ~un-
common" weather for those parts.
where 1t has been unseasonably
warm, an enterpriSing grocer gave
away something like 500 dozen eggs
10 his cash customers In an effort
to stimulate business.
In New Orleans where they OPEN
IL boast OF their coffee and sub
rosa boast Of their Sazarac cocktail
every breakfast patron Is greeted
with a cup with the compliments 3f
the house-a cup OF coffee, we mean
OF course.
Up in Amarillo. capital OF the vast.
Panhandle-Plains region Of Texas.
Boniface Ernest thompson reverscs
the New Orleans plan BY givinH
each breakfast patron a second cup
Of coffee ION the house"
So o Valley r-cstaurantcers who
have been taking good natured
cracks AZ this column for advocat-
ing the presentation or n half grape
fruit to your breakfast customer.
there are plenty OF ~precedents -or
such procedure.
Good will advertising Is good ad-
vertiSing. and every half OF a Valley
p0melo you see fit 70 bestow on
your morning trade viii bring you,
your establishment and on Valley
Just gobs and reams u that kinu
Of advertising.
The cost-not so much-if ship
pers and growers will Join IN the
movement. as several have so stated.
and give you the cooperation the
movement deserves.
From La Fcria comes the most
welcome news that the Missouri
Pacific. whose predecessor, the 81
L. 3. & NJ. was indeed the Valley
pioneer, will establish q 20 acre boz
tanical garden OH the Valleys main
drag. just across from the Adams
Gardens development.
Fine and finer and finest. Show
places. real show places. where
people from Missouri and other
states are shown the possibilities
OF the VALLEY will work wonders
and how they will decorate the
main highways OF the Valley coun-
ties.
What a picture the nursery ana
gardens 81 RI. r.. Biggs between
Mercedes and Weslaco presents 10
the traveller along that road. The
SolethCr orchard just west Of Wcs-
laco. the McCoil orchards between
Pharr and McAllen. the Shary de
yelopment east Of Mission, or per
haps we should say at Sharyland-
all Of these beauty spots and dozens
more we have not named. are ST.
lent statesmen selling the Valley to
every paSSerby. and selling Il as ef-
fectively. II not more effectively.
than any spoken words Of any sales
man.
Wherever they are. these beauty
spots do effective work for this
section. and a special responsibility
rests upon every householder. city
or rural. 10 see 10 II that his home
and surrounding grounds present
the most attractive appearance. fea-
turing II possible shrubs and flowers
peculiar To the Valley section
The rose. the Hibiscus. the poin-
settia. the turks cap. 20 name Just
Il quartet out OF scores which
thrive here and brighten the land
scape during the winter months 10
present a decided contrast 70 the
frozen north from whence come our
winter visitors-let's have more m
them.
II perchance Il sprinkled n wee
bit in your n~eighb0rhood today or
Sunday. II was not raining rain
mercy no. Those drops Of water
ere the salty tears or hundreds oil
thousands az farmers All over the
United States. unable 20 restrain
their emotion on hearing that Al
cxander Lcrre has resigned ~
chairman OF the Federal Farm
Beard
Mr.. Legre. as able n mar AS Bic
business has given 10 the United
States. passed UP a job paving $780,
600 per year 70 assume the chair
manShiD Of the farm board AZ an
annual stipend Of $4,000. and he
must have known that he was -ac-
inc an almost impossible task.
Laws NAV BE- passed and laws
NAV BE- repealed BY state legislatures
and bv the congress. but no icriSa-
tive bodv can ierislate awav or
amend the are long law ~ supply
and demand. and when Mr.. Iegse
and his farm board ATTEMPTED the
imncSSihle-the holdinr IN of prices
~ farm commodities II defiance Of
that Law. they failed as thev are
bound 10 know they would fail.
Most az the criticism heaped un-
on tho shoulders Of Mr.. Legge came
from his truth telling propensities.
n quality which will carrv a man
far I'D in business and far down
when he holds p semi-Dolitical ioh
which Is subject ~ the harassing or
every citizen.
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