El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-07-21
ELPASO MERCHANTS
JOIN TWO STRONG
ASSOCIATIONS
Mutual Insurance Company
Is Also Given Strong
Impetus.

! Retail merchants of Ell Paos, as rep
resented by the Ell Paso Retail Mer-
chants association and the Business
Mems association, will ally themselves
! with the state and national Retail
Merchants associations. It will mean
concentration of forces in the fight
| being waged with the many enemies OF
the merchant.
1t was decided at meeting of mer-
chants at the chamber of commerce
Wednesday afternoon, occasioned by
| the visit of James Breen, organizer and
secretary of the state association Those
present adopted resolutions of affliation
with the state and national organiza-
lions. There were no questions raised
as to the great advantage Of such &C
ton. an advantage to Ell Paso as a city
and FL Paso as a merchant, but the ever
present insurance question was injected
with great venom on its being men,
toned incidentally by the visitor.
FL PasOans Are Praised.
After taking few sharp raps at Ell
Paso's lack of cooperation with the rest
Of Texas, and at the same time praising
Ell Paso's vigor, Mr.. Breen outlined his
subject briefly and we'll Mentioning
FL Paso at the Elk's convention in Phil
adelphia, the Taft-Diaz meeting, and the
committee of FL PaSoans who attended
the rating board hearing at Austin, the
speaker said that the state association
Wanted Ell Paso and its workers. He
predicted that FL Paso will double in
population within 10 years, and that>co-
operation is the means to all ends.
The state board has appointed a ca
pable attorney TO do It's legal fighting"
said Mr.. Breen. I'VE are working on a
bogus check bill, with 80 days time of
grace, garnishment bill with a 10 per
cent attachment, and it already has &C
complished the abolition of the occupa-
ton tax.
Many Cities Represented.
There are 102 cities represented in
the state association. Each member
pays 81 a year to the state association.
p cents year to the national, and 81
as an admission fee. The national gro
GERS association got the pure food law
altered so as to lay blame on/Ie manu-
facturer instead of the retailer, and
now we are fighting the parcel post
movement, especially the BENEFIT bill.
Two rating bureaus are not success
full in one city. Our associations locate
the dead beats through a simple system
of inquiry blanks" In regard to that
system, the speaker mentioned the OPP
erations of two Chicago men, who, he
says, have been working in eastern
Texas with good results TO themselves
Cooperation is the most effective
system, sad H. u. slater, and l con-
slider the prOpocition very desirable 1t
is not so much the money as the feel
ing of common effort
Mutual Insurance Discussed.
In regard to the work of the state as
ISOLATION, Mr.. Breen mentioned that a
committee had ben appointed at the last
meeting to investigate the advisabflity
of organizing state mutual fire insur-
ance company. The speaker asked that
the meeting, in view of Ell Pasos inter-
est IN the questions, pass resolutions of
good will. That set the ball rolling.
Richard D. Thorne, as q citizen of Ell
Paso, suggested THAT the motion be
passed, and A. Schwartz raised some in
questions. This led to the ad-
vocacy of a local mutual company by
5. J. Watts, and tse whole argument
resulted in the joining OF Mr.. Watts
and Mr.. ThOrne with the local associa-
ton
1t was Mr.. Schwartz who moved that !
he local association affiliate with the |
state and national bodies, which was |
passed without objection. Mr.. Thorne |
moved the motion of approval of the In |
'urance idea and he was nominated an /
81 Paso representative on the state as /
ISOLATION committee.
AS president Of the FL Paso Business /
liens Protective Association, w. s. Clay |
on presided over the meeting