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

HAPPIEsT MAN IN Brownsville
beginning Tuesday. Is @. w. Den
nett. genial, hardworking and eff
clent postmaster.
Nobody can possibly know how
happy he is.
Think back to 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 Brownsville's fed
eral building.
And that's not just newspaper"
talk.
Advertising calling for the bids
was published in Tuesdays Browns
vile Herald for the first time.
Catch Uncle Sam spending any
money advertising for bids If he
does not mean he wants bids.
Said bids will be opened on Aug
ust IA in washington.
And we may expect actual con-
struction TO get under way during
the current year.
Payroll on a s43o,0oO structure Is
Il small item.
YThe new building will be a credit
TO the new Brownsville which is
Z coming into being.
Post-office win be glad to get the
enlarged space.
Federal employees viii be glad 10
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 Va see
Postmaster bennett the day the
pcstoffice moves into the new build
ing.
AND THERE ARE some other
postmasters in Valley cities due 10
be as happy as the Brownsville
man.
San Benito. Harlingen, McAllen,
Mercedes, Edinburg, all expect to
hear the gladstone news within the
near future that bids have been
called on their federal buildings.
It was not so long ago that the
matter Of federal buildings for
Valley cities was a 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 all. and nearly
all Of our Valley cities have n will
have federal buildings all their
own.
And we may al give thanks 70
our Valley postmasters. to our John
Garner. to Senators Tom Connally
and Morris Sheppard and TO the
Hon. r. B. Creager, who works as
hard to secure things for his Dem
ocratic fellow citizens as II they al
voted the straight G. o. p. ticket.
THE Lord helps those who HELP
themselves We have all been told
that many a time from our child
hood days on up.
The Valley. Valley cities. Valley
business men. Valley farmers. al
otis, have helped ourselves by dini
az hard labor in the years which
have seen this country reach II.
present stage OF development.
we must continue to help our
selves.
our efforts. successful often. must
not be allowed 70 lag.
we have work TO do.
Let's do It.
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 u shoulders to the
wheel on this matter OF conserving
the waters OF the Rio Grande-
And-we list 1t last-it Is first ir
the hearts OF us all. let's not lei
anything keep us from having deer
water and having = as soon as n
is humanity possibf so TO 10.
We are none a. us old enough
IN this Valley TO rest on oul
laurels.