Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-26
POSSES SEARCH FOR SLAYER OF five
IN DUE
VALLEY

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AND THE DEBUNKING process
goes merrily on.
Pins are being stuck In the bal
looms.
Many an animated wind bag Is
being Debated.
Brought down to his right size.
But folks, let's be careful.
There are some big things left
In this world.
And there are some big men left
in the world.
There are plenty of big men left
right here in this Valley.
Who are showing up bigger and
bigger every day.
The debunking process IS good.
1t is a fine thing TO get men and
things down to their right proper
ton.
Just as long as We keep sane
about it.
And don't 20 to the other ex-
treme.
This is not the time for a Wild
and indiscriminate condemnation
of everything.
Rather is 1t a time for a careful
3Sefghing of values.
For the sitting Of the ~old from
the dross.
It is a time for constructive
destruction.
You get the meaning
A time for the tearing down OF
false idols, or false ideas. Of false
ideals
That they may be replaced with
structures and ideas and ideals
based on the fundamentals Of COM
mon sense
And it is just as foolish TO destroy
without thinking as to ouuo
without thinking.
Let's keep our heads and above
all
Keep sweetly sane.
DEVELOPERS. CALL THEM
land men, If YOU will, are cheerful.
These men whose business it is
TO sell Valley lands see plenty
bright spots on the horizon.
Their agents come pretty near 10
covering the United States.
And they find people liking 70
talk about the Valley.
Wanting to come 10 the Valley
And coming TO the Valley.
Something about this section APP
peals to the people OF the north
and east and middle west.
We all know it, or most OF US
would not be here ourselves.
These folk coming down here on
land excursions see the same things
we saw 20 or Is or 10 or ) years
ago.
Things that some Of US seem to
have forgotten.
Remember, this country has the
same advantages today II had
then
And more.
The difference. II any, Is in US,
not the country.
FROM ALAMO COMES a defense
OF the girdling beetle.
Burl Stugard wants the Herald
and other Valley papers 70 stop
maligning the poor insect.
BY saying the girdltng beetle is
poisonous.
is NOT poisonous
In fact he doubts whethe. its
laws are powerful enough 70 even
pierce the skin, except IN very
tender parts OF the body where a
beetle has no business anyway"
Mr.. Stugard has been experiment.
ing with the girdiing beetle.
And the above conclusions are the
result.
He further SAYS that he doubts II
there are any insects in the Valley
wnpSe bite Is serious enough 70 call
fd medical attention.
Concluding with the observation
that spiders are not insects
A statement born out by Web
ster's.
MORE COMMENT comes in from
various quarters anent the state
ment recently published in the
Herald
That Valley citrus fruit was
bringing a premium over that o.
Florida.
Have done some more investigat-
Ing. ~,
Il all comes back to the same old
story.
our larger sizes are bringing Q
premium.
But our larger sizes are scarce.
SO when you read in the papers
OF Valley fruit bringing 50 much
and Florida fruit bringing more
bear that in mind.
The Valley fruit is running small
\ And the small fruit Is not bring
a condition that we hope will be
remedied as the season advances.
Growers are irrigating their or
chards.
It might even rain.
Bu. the moisture which Is put
on the orchards either by irriga-
ton or by rain is what the doctor
has ordered.
To bring the size OF the Marsh
seedless crop up to the demand o
the market.