El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-03
r4TtII-AHITITA's salvation lies

~HIHUAHUIIA'S SalVallOn hes III
bammering on the cleanliness
~ side of the situation. With de-
cent living conditions established there,
also. the chances for the goodness OF
that quarter would be greatly i'm
proved. This was the substance of a
very strong paper read by Mrs. y. A
Rawlings at the opening meeting OF
the NOmanS Missionary union helu III
the assembly rooms Of the First Pres
byterian church Thursday afternoon
"If anyone has any desire for mis-
sionary work" said Mrs RaWllns,
here it is, all you want OF II ana
more. right at our very DOORS
Mrs. Rawlings asked the people II
they remembered their first trip TO
JuareZ, and their first impressions OF
the narrow streets, the poorly Venu-
lated adobes and the general squaior
She asked if any Of her hearers had
ever been through Chihuahua,
down any Of the alleys off the streets
traFersed by the street cars Ihen
she described the coP0ltlons-
Bring Conditions With Them.
These people come over the Mex
lean border line, bringing their own
unspeakably filthy living conditions
with them. Conditions in Chihuahua
concern US as vitality as they concern
the Mexican resident. If disease IS
bred in that quarter, the whole town
is more or less exposed to 1t II We
benefit that quarter we are benellt-
ting ourselves more than they, for II,
in its present condition, IS positive
menace to all FL PasO."
To further emphasize her remarks
she read extracts from one Of the as
trict nurses reports There are no
toilets and the stencil in these guar
tiers is so terrible that II is simply
unbearable- In two rooms found II
families and 80 children living IN ao-
solutely filthy conditions. Most of
2 "a. hsna~
furniture, almost no ventilation, and
over all and everywhere flies as thick
as batter. These places are owned
by wealthy men of FL Paso.
Could Be Easily Trained
Despite their lack of any idea of
sanitation or healthy. living, Mrs
Rawlings went on to say that the
Chihuahua MeXicans have many char
acteristics that could be trained Most
of them are adept with any work
done by their hands, and most of them
are musical
Fortunately as a promise of some
degree Of betterment the city is build
ing a sewer through this quarter and
when il is completed people viii be
compelled to nave sewer connection
with their houses" she said The
board OF health has also condemned
some of the fiIthiest quarters and these
are being torn down If people who
own the ground in Chihuahua, in
stead OF renting 1t out at 81 a month
e44lQ 4GlLLlt5 the ptOpAt Dul4Q llltAE
Jacals Of tinc2ns, boards, willow
matching and adobe, would erect
decent sanitary habitable houses, tho
greatest evil of the present condition
would be solved"
Free Garbage Service Needed.
Then one thing Chihuahua needs
more than anything else is free gar
bage service In every little town in
Mexico they have free garbage service.
Here there is no place to dispose Of
1t, so it all goes into the streets,
forming stagnant pools. black with
flies and adding indescribabIe stenches
TO the already overOurdened air.
ITO give these people free garbage
hauling would be OF great benefit. If
these people are to be made American
citizens let the American people help
them to be clean; we can teach them
everything else after we have taught
them that. But they have TO be given
some decent kind of quarters to live
IN IN order 10 teach them to keep
clean
There is one popularity about these /