El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-26
LITTLE
INTERVIEWS
THE INEVITABLE.

THE INEVITABLE.
When you think you're getting heavy
and you think the time has come
For going into training in the old gym
nasium,
And you struggle to reduce;
You keep strict tab on everything you
want to drink or eat,
And try course of diet that is mar
tyrdom complete:
But what's the use?
And when you think you're growing
thinner than you ought to be,
Although you turn to starchy food and
cut out toast and tea,
Your clothes keep hanging loose;
When nature has decided you shall
grow a certain way,
You're lucky to be healthy and her rule
you must obey
So what's the use?
X
- X EMINENT is fast crystalizing
among the Elks of the state in
favor of the movement, started
in Ell Paso, for the passage of a com
pulsory education law" said W. H..
Case.
''The movement started with the Big
Brother committee Of Ell Paso lodge
with the purpose of inducing the next
leB lSldLuIt 10 pass a law GOIADN4AAAAss
children of school age to attend ScnOOl,
and the aid of other Elk lodges in the
state was enlisted. A big response
is being met with and we feel certain
that we will be backed by all OF Elk
dom in Texas when the time comes to
press the matter. There are over 10000
Elks in Texas and their influence
should be felt. A great many people
are under the impression that there
exists in Texas a compulsory educatlon
law, but there is not. Texas is one
of only six states in the union without
this law. There is quite sentiment
against such law, particularly IN the
cotton districts where parents desire
the services of their children at cot
ton picking time. But children must
be properly educated and a compulsory
law is necessary to bring this ABOUT
1--WE gave the prisoners at the county
jail a good Christmas dinner said
sheriff Peyton J. Edwards.
Following a custom that has pre-
vailed for some time, we served a tur-
key dinner, with all the dishes that go
with such a dinner. We have always
fed the prisoners well and the Christ
mas dinner, like the Thanksgiving din
dition of turkey, cranberry sauce and
a few other seasonable dishes"
X
1.-THE thing which has struck me most
fOrclbly in connection with FL PaSOs
said H. B. Adkins, of New York, sis the
wonderful Christmas spirit shown by
everybody whom have seen here. In
the eastern cities the size of Ell PasO,
on Christmas day people meeting
friends or acquaintance exchange
greetings on the fly as a rule. Ere
quently they merely nod, or tip their
hats, and pass on. But I noticed Fri
day that FL PasOans no matter how
great a rush they appeared to be in,
frequently stopped half a dozen times
in one block to greet friends. They
invariably shook hands and stopped at
least a moment or two to exchange
greetings of the season"
"I have seen many holiday seasons
come and go, in many places" said
'Uncle Jimmie" Graves, the superin-
tendent of the reservoir. 81 cannot re-
call one when the prosperity was as
great as it is in Ell Paso and the south
west this year"
"Au Christmas day I could not get
the thought of the Christmas in Europe
from my mind" said adjutant James
Hunter of the Salvation army. This
is the saddest Christmas day in Europe
for hundreds of years. 1t seems such
an unspeakably horrible thing, the
slaughter that is going on over there"