El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-23
thinks VACATION
PERIOD TOO LONG
Prudential Says He VIII
Ask School Board For a
Longer School Year.

sam Prudential thinks the public
schools close too early. He told the
directors of the chamber of commerce
/ Thursday night that there were sew
eral things the chamber ought to take
iup in the interests OF the general pub
Lie and longer school terms was one
! Discussing this he said: Three months
land half is too long to loaf That
rule was made 80 years ago when FL
/ PasO was a village. I am senulng my
children to school during June 90 Keep
them off the streets I think the school
term Should continue through the
month of June. There is not anoIner
city of the same size in the United
States that has such long vacation
G. ii. Finley said: ''Our schools start
earlier than those of any other city in
Replying to this. Prudential said:
. eve have a climate that permits cnll-
dren TO attend school in June Other
cities in Texas have a warm Climate
it gets too hot for them"
June is the hottest month we have"
said v r. stiles.
wv knock our own clty- sai1 I tl-
denthaL How many of US realize thaI
while it does become little hot here
I'm the summer, there is comparatively
no sickness here during that period. II
is true we have some sickness among
small children. but compare FL Pasos
summer health with that or other clues
and see how much better of we are
What are you going 10 do about
ito" asked Mr. Shedd.
Call on the school board and ask II
to give US a longer school year, said
Prudential, and Nj Prudential was
appointed 90 make the call
To Invite Druggists
Scott White told the directors that
he was going down TO Galveston where
the state convention Of druggists viii
meet on June IL. and he is going to
try TO bring. them to FL Paso for next
q f-aafn tors tod
that he should be supplied with SOU
venirs to be distributed al the cOnVen-
ton and given the invitation of the
chamber OF commerce for the druggists
to come here. Between 500 and 200
attend these conventions
labor and Capital in Harmony
There is not a city in the state OF
Texas where labor and capital work in
more harmony than in FL PasO."
This is the statement that +. c. Stan
dish made when he and A. NJ James.
of the Central Labor union. reported
officially 10 the directors that they had
secured the 1914 convention of the
State Federation of Labor for FL PasO.
James said the convention would
probably be here in April, and between
300 and 400 delegates VIII attend The
directors thanked them for their ef-
To Arrange Permanent Exhibit.
committee composed OF f. j. reid
man as chairman. ). c. Aubrey. F. IL
Talbot and r. r. Rinehart was APP
pointed TO arrange for q permanent eZ-
hib-t 10 be placed In the chamber OF
commerce
The president was also instructed to .
appoint a committee TO work up a
scheme for a jubilee for the fall All
agreed that a fair would be the thing
for III PasO. but il is too late in the
year to start one
The directors resolved to request the
budget committee to appropriate $500
for the entertainment Of the Daughters
Of the American revolution. who viii
hold their state convention here in the
fall
Dell n Potter. by letter requested
the undivided support of the chamber
Of commerce for the Southern National
highways associations all southern
route Tt was decided to inform him
that his representatives viii be enter
tained and assisted when they come
here TO log the road, and the matter
VIII then be taken up, after definite
proposition has been put up TO the
board
Endorse All Road improvements.
The general sentiment expressed was
that the chamber Of commerce should
endorse all plans for the Improvement
Of roads. and antaEOnize none, after
= B. stevens had stated that support !
was already promised Douglas and
8isbee. who had stuck by FL PasO on
lighting il. and favOring the transcOn- /
-inental route through the northern
BART of Arizona and New Mexico.
Those attending the meeting Were-
" r stiles, s j. Freudenthal, Robert
krakauer, A Schwartz, @ II. Finley
T. A. Shedd. Geo. B. Evans. of the
directorate. and secretary A. w. Reeves. |