Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-23

IN OUR
VALLEY

~ L. H. ~ III
Valleyites are IN Austin today at
tending the hearing before the
State Railroad Commission at which
the subject OF truck regulation will
be given a thorough airing.
Just as no section Of Texas has
spent as much money improving
roads as have the Valley counties.
so no section Of the state is more
interested in the wear and tear TO
which those roads. which cost
plenty Of money. r subjected.
In Our Valley will say on be-
half OF trucking concerns owned
and operated in the Valley. that
their drivers are almost uniformly
courteous In observing the rules OF
the road and giving due consider
alton 70 the rights Or the motorist
on business or pleasure bent.
II more stringent methods or
truck regulation are adopted, the
trucking industry As a class will
have no one 70 blame but those
road hogs Of the business who
shoot those massive truck down
the highway at a high rate OF
speed. taking their half OF the road
out OF the middle. and letting the
car filled with women and children
take 20 the ditch TO escape a col
iision.
There have been times when we
would have cheerfully headed a
lynching party. with one Of these
truck drivers as the guest of honor.
and we have no doubt but that AZ
cry reader of this column has been
similarly affected.
During the cotton season these
veritable ocean liners were A posi-
tive menace TO the life Of the
motorist. as. secure in their own
invulnerability. they proceeded to
take over the highways. day and
night.
AS a matter % equity and justice,
those who use the roads as a part
of their business equipment should
pay more toward the construction
and upkeep OF those roads than do
those who use them more casually,
Or perhaps not AZ all.
Cameron and Hidalgo county
school officials who returned from
Austin the latter part OF last week
advise that the new reappOrtion-
ment plan sponsored BY S. NJ. n.
Mars appears due 70 be defeated
when the bill comes 70 vote in the
house on a minority committee re-
port. Valley schools. with a con-
siderable transient scholastic at
tendance. would be heavy financial
losers were the bill TO pass.
The children OF our lab8ring class
are in and out Of school as the
vegetable season comes and goes
In some OF our schools attended
largely BY Mexican children. the
attendance will be doubled in n
month. stay al that figure for
perhaps a couple OF months, and
then drop again.
Yet. our schools must be euuipped
with claSsrooms and with teachers
sufficient 10 take care o! the high
est attendance figure.
WE DOFF OUR hat to Nick Par
askevas. proprietor OF the Palm
Cafe az EdinburE, who serves his
breakfast patrons with a half OF
Valley grapefruit, squirt and All,
on the house.
Nick reads the Brownsville Her
aid. and Is apparently a customer
Of this column. Justly. ne is receiv-
ing many words OF commentator
from his cash customers. who ap-
preeiate his courtesy.
One who did not sign his name
writes IN Our Valley" calling
attention 70 the fact that al one
time huge baskets OF grapefruit
we're % Be found in the Hobbies OF
many Florida hotels. with a sign
attached inviting the stranger to
take one.
We must create an ever expand
Ing market for VI grapefruit. and
this plan Of enticing the stranger
within our gates to taste these
golden gobS or luscious sweetness
might be one az the WAYS OF cul-
tlvatlng new customers for our
citrus crop.
APPLICATION FOR A place on
the Herald staff ends with the
words hard worker. age thirty.
married In consideration or the
last two phrases. We submit that
the hard worker part was I'M
necessary. Any man 80 years OF
age and married in this day and
time IS bound TO be a hard work
er'-its either that orr.
And there is many a man IN many
n town who owes his present place
IN life to the fact that At one time
he was 30. and married. and had
10 work hard.
JUST TWO WEEKS from to-
night. and the opportunity OF a
lifetime viii be presented 70 many
Of US who have never been given
the opportunity OF hearing the in
imitable Cali Curci.
Too many nice things cannot Be