Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-15
BORDER GAMBLING CLOSED
in OUR
VALLEY

HAPPIEsT MAN IN Brownsville.
beginning Tuesday. Is @. w. Dem
nett. genial. hardworking and eff
Gent postmaster.
Nobody can possibly know how
happy he Is.
Think back 70 the time when
you first looked at the plans for
that home OF your own, and you
viii get just some idea how happy
he Is.
Bids have been called for the
construction OF Brownsvile's fed
eral building.
And that's not just newspaper"
talk.
Advertising calling for the bids
-Eas published in Tuesdays Browns
klle Herald for the first time.
catch Uncle sam spending any
money advertising for bids II he
does not mean he wants bids.
Said bids will be opened on Au-
gust IA in washington.
And we may expect actual con-
struction to get under way during
the current year.
Payroll on a s43o.OOO structure is
no small item.
The new building will be a credit
To the new Brownsville which Is
coming into being.
Post-office viii be glad to get the
enlarged space.
Federal employees will be glad TO
get into the new quarters, designed
for federal needs.
Federal court, federal Judge. fed
eral district attorney. marshall and
all of them, all will be happy.
But Postmaster bennett Is the
happiest man in Brownsville today.
Only time we ever expect to see
a happier man Is when we see
Postmaster bennett the day the
postoffice moves into the new build
ing.
AND THERE ARE some other
postmasters in Valley cities due TO
be as happy as the Brownsville
man.
san Benito. Harrington, McAllen,
Mercedes, Edinburg. all expect TO
hear the gladstone news within the
near future that bids have been
called on their federal buildings.
1t was not SO long ago that the
matter OF federal buildings Tor
Valley cities was q sore subject.
Trouble seemed to be that no one
valley city deserved a postoffice any
more than the rest.
Impossible to get n for each
city deserving.
Result, none got one.
Today the epidemic OF public
building hits them al. and nearly
All or our Valley cities have or Will
have federal buildings all their
own.
And we may al give thanks 70
cur Valley postmasters. to u John
Garner, to Senators Tom Connally
and Morris Sheppard and to the
HON. r. B. Creager, who works as
h2rd to secure things for his DEM
ocratic fellow citizens as II they all
voted the straight G. Q. P. ticket.
eThe Lord helps those who help
themselves we have all been told
that many a time from our child
hood days IN up.
The Valley. Valley cities. Valley
business men, Valley farmers. all
or US. have helped ourselves by dint
of hard labor in the years which
have seen this country reach It's
present stage or development.
We must continue to help our
selves.
our efforts. successful often, must
not be allowed to lag
We have work 70 do.
Let's do II.
Let's get our fruit and vegetable
marketing on a firmer basis.
Let's take up with real seriousness
this matter of Valley advertising.
Let's put our shoulders to the
wheel on this matter OF conserving
the waters OF the Rio Grande.
And-we list ii last-it is first in
the hearts or us all. let's not let
anything keep us from having deep
water and having it as soon as It
Is humanity possible 50 to 10.
We are none Of us old enough
in this Valley TO rest on our
laurels.