Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-16
SENATE DEMOS WARN anti:
IN OUR
VALLEY

v GAAHD u
Up IN Illinois where the hens have
gone on a spree due to some "un-
common" weather for those parts.
where 10 has been u~nseaSonably
warm, an enterprising grocer gave
away something like 500 dozen eggs
70 his cash customers IN an effort
20 stimulate business.
In New Orleans where they open
" boast OF their coffee and sub
rosa boast of their Sazarac cocktail.
= breakfast patron Is greeted
with a Gun with the compliments y
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 reverses
the New Orleans plan by giving
each breakfast patron = second cup
OF coffee "on the house"
So. o Valley re~stauranteers who
have been taking good natured
cracks at this column for advocat-
ing the presentation ~ a half grape
fruit 10 your breakfast customer.
there are plenty OF p~recedents -or
such procedure.
Good will advertising Is good ad-
vertising, and every half OF a Naliey
pomelo YOU see tit 70 bestow on
your morning trade Will bring YOU
vour establishment and IN Valley
lust gobS and reams OF mas KIND
Of advertising.
The cost-not SO much-n SNIP
pers and growers will join IN the
movement, as several have so stated,
and give you the cooperation the
movement deserves.
From La Feria comes the most
Welcome news that the Missouri
Pacific. whose = edeccsSor, ~ D
i, d. e. NJ. was indeed the Valley
pioneer viii establish a 20 acre bo-
fanical garden on the Valleys main
drag. lust across from the AoaihS
Gardens development.
Fine and finer and finest. Show
nlaces. real show places, where
people from Missouri and othsr
states are shown" the possibilities
az the Valley will work wonders
and how they will decorat6 the
main highways OF the Valley coun-
ties.
What a picture the nursery anu
gardens Of r. r.. Riggs between
Mercedes and WeSlaco presents 10
the traveller along that road. The
Solether orchard just west Of Wes-
laco. the McCol orchards between
Pharr and Mchllen, the Shary de-
veloument east Of Mission, or per-
hans we should a az Sharyland-
all OF these beauty spots and dozens
more we have not named. are ST.
lent statesmen selling the Valley 10
every paSserby. and selling II 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, to see 10 IL that his home
and surrounding grounds present
the most attractive appearance, fea-
turing II possible shrubs and flowers
peculiar 10 the Valley section.
The rose, the discus. the poin-
settia. the turks cap. 10 name just
one quartet out OF scores which
thrive here and brighten the land
scare curing the winter months 20
present a decided contrast to the
frozen north from whence come our
winter visitors-lets have more ~
them.
If perchance Il sprinkled a wee
bit IN your neiehborhood today or
Sunday. X was not raining rain
mercy no Those drops Of water
were the salty tears OF hundreds %
thousands Of farmers all over the
United States. unable 70 restrain
their emotion or hearing that Al
exander LeCee has resigned as
chairman q the Federal Farm
Board.
Mr.. Lcgre. as able a mar as biz
business has given 10 the United
States. passed Up a job paving $780,
600 per year 70 assume the chair
manship Of the farm board e. an
annual stipend Of $4,000. and he
must have known that he was ac-
lng an almost impossible task.
Laws may be passed and laws
NAV be repealed bv state legislatures
and hy the congress. but no 'lecisla-
tive BODY can legiSlate away or
amend the age long law Of supply
and demand. and when NJ. Legge
and his farm board attempted the
impossible-the holding un Of prices
az farm commodities In defiance az
that law. they failed as thev are
bound 10 know they would fail
Most OF the criticism heaped up-
on the shoulders OF Mr.. Legge came
from his truth telling propenSities.
n quality which viii carry a man
far I'D IN business and far down
when he holds a semi-political lob
which Is subject - the haraSSing OF
every citizen.
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