Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-26

IN OUR
VALLEY

AS "A MAN SERVES, SO Is his
place in the life of a community de-
termined. How Fred Starck served
Brownsville Is better known 70 the
Brownsville readers OF the Herald
than to this writer, who can only
say that there has passed from our
midst one whose life was given to
the service OF his city, n who was
loved BY his fellow man. and n
whose cheering presence will be
sadly missed.
Seldom has the pail Of sadness
been thrown over any community
over the passing Of any Of its citi-
zens as enveloped Brownsville on
Wednesday when the sudden death
OF MIR. Starck became known.
BEARING OUT THE statement
made in this column yesterday
comes the news from Kleberg coun-
~ that the commissioners court
there Is opposed 10 the proposed
splitting Of Kennedy county and the
annexation OF the northern half OF
hat county 70 Kleberg.
We yield to no one in our en-
thusiasm for good roads We travel
the country enough to appreciate
the merits OF good hard concrete
highways wherever and whenever
we find them-but-we cannot for
get that these highways are bought
and paid for by the taxpayers Of
the counties through which We may
be journeying. and we maintain
that 1t Is up to those taxpayers to.
say whether or not we shall travel.
on smooth or rough roads.
The building or good roads is the
answer 10 an economic problem.
NNeither Cameron, WilIacy nor Hi
dalgo counties would ever have
built a mile OF paved highway had
not the voters OF those counties
figured that IL would pay them in
dollars and cents to do SO.
To find fault with a sister county
because her voters do not authorize
the building OF paved highways is
like finding fault with our Ford
driving neighbor because he does
not purchase a Lincoln.
And to try to force our neighbor
county to build roads which that
county cannot afford to build.
merely because It would suit our
pleasure to have a paved road in
that particular location. is depart
ing from the attitude OF the true
neighborliness.
RAIN, AND LOTS Of II. is bring
ing the spring vegetable crop OF the
Valley to market some days earlier
than usual, and incidentally, the
said rain is not improving the quail
ity Of the crop. not SO you could
notice Il.
Thank goodness. there Is nothing
we car do about il. there is nobody
We can blame. The same Provi-
dence which gives us rain and hurts
our crop prospects sends frCxts to
California and hurricanes to Flor
ida.
QUEEN NOINO. SHE who reirns
over the onion festival or Willacy
county. viii soon be chosen. And
the Queen, whoever she may be,
viii reign over a happy kingdom,
where fesr or revolution never
brings shoulders to crowned heads.
and where prosperity and happiness
sit with her on the throne.
OF all the development which has
taken place in the Valley in the
past IS years. the coming out or
the brush of Willacy county is per-
haps the most sensational or any.
Sometimes We wonder how Lamar
Gill and w. A. Harding and the
rest Of those oldtimers up there
find their way around. things have
changed SO much since they first
put their hands to the pillow.
1AAID ~ ALkA4h9 QtEA tAE pitt
diction or II. p. Boyd that the
Valleys 1891 cotton acreage will be
the smallest in years. IL won't hurt
the Valley to cut its cotton acreage,
10 won't hurt the state of Texas to
cut its cotton acreage. ii won't hurt
the entire South TO cut its cotton
acreage.
A decreased acreage may pain a
little for the time being, but IL
would seem TO be the only way in
which the cotton surplus Of the
world can be cut down, and the
price Of cotton will never rise until
that surplus is eliminated. or at
least reduced to a minimum.
Just as soon as the surplus OF
agricultural products is cut down,
that very hour viii see the price
Of agricultural products rise. It's
the old. old story OF supply and
demand, a law that cannot be
beaten.
N R