El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-02-04
LITTLE
INTERVIEWS
& a RGENTINE is the United states.

liX Martinez aIter his return
from five months stay in Latin
America as a commissioner from the
United States 1T is called the Yam
lxee land of the south and I agree with
the ones who gave it this name, for if
is splendid country. filled with 5000
600 people who have the characteristic
American energy and Who are the rich
est per capita of any peple in the world
/ 1 saw. one ranch Of 100000 acres COW
] cred with alfalfa, and they raise more
/ alfalfa than we do in this countr1r
! They are friendly to Americans and are
! preparing to give Americans fine re-
ception when they 20 there on their
! friendly conquest of that trade terri
tory"
at is matter Of local. patriotism 90
1 the Wilson administration for every
} member of the Wilson club to attend
/ the dinner for secretaries AIcAdoo and
/ Houston next Saturday evening" said
( judge J. NJ. Goggin, president of te To-
| cal Woodrow Wilson club. The secre-
taries are now officers of the whole
I people and not of any one political
party, and I think it would be mis-
I take to inject any politics into the
! meeting or reception for these men
But 1 do think that the members of
the Wilson club should turn out in a
! body and pay their respects to the men
they helped to nominate and elect"
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This city is maligned as a place for
babies in the summer" said Will Mari
I the other day, while discussing the rel
alive merits of his own and other ba-
bies. Il believe that Ell Paso is as good
a place for babies to stay in summer as
California, ClOudcrOft or any other
place. The water here is better, pure
milk can be bought daily and with the
proper care babies should get fat and
healthy during the summer months in
Ell PasO. 1t is not the heat but the
food that hurts children and the high
death rate among the little ones is due
to malnutritiOn among the Mexican
babies rather than any general cOndi-
tiOn of affairs here"
Every day about so men, mostly
Mexicans, come piling out here in the
; early morning on almost the first Fort
Bliss car, seeking work on the Fort
Bliss enlargement" said Jack Harmon,
Of the office force of the contractors
who are working on the fort enlarge
ment I'VE are, of course. using a great
deal of Mexican labor, for the eXcava-
TONS the unloading of the materials
from the cars and work of that kind.
However, that is the only work we can
give to unskilled labor. The brickma-
sons and carpenters will all be Ameri-
can skilled workmen."
That Franklin canal enlargement
looks good to me-" said Lawrence Mol
tame Tt is going to be a great i'm
provement in that section of the city
and fer the whole of FL Paso. They
are beginning to put in the cement in a
part of 1t now, and when that is com
pleted and the place parked with
grass. it is going to be mighty nice
ION account Of automobiles, pedes-
TRANS cannot be too careful in crossing
the streets, declared DR. W. II. Ander-
son. Z have seen some walk out into
the middle of the street and then when
they heard the horn of an automobile,
STOP still. Most people expect 2ut1sno-
biles to dodge them. Almost without
exception an auto driver uses every
precaUtiOn when driving mis- ear on the
crowded streets. but if a person jumps
right out in front Of a machine and Inc
brake refuses to wOrk-which mlghs
happen-they would certainly be Hp
against it. / certainly believe in auto
mobile drivers remaining on the right
side of the street
"I remember Mark Twain WELL said
William Ross. Il first knew him N
Virginia City. Nevada. where he WIS
reporter on the Enterprise. 1 was deal
ing in cattle in those days and every
time I got to Virginia City with a
herd. Mark Twain would be down az
the stockyards getting the news. There
was a good deal of validating in min
ing claims in those days, and numbers
of promoters would hand out bunch
OF stock to Mark Twain for writing up
out all right. and the stock would be
worth something
February will be memorable day
for the ConstitutiOnalists, says Gen.
z. A Benevides, of the Juarez garrison.
1T viii be remembered as the day on
which the embargo on arms and ammu-
milton was raised That does not seem
such an important thing to you Ameri-
cans, but it means much to US. When
we learned some months ago that there
would be no official recognition OF the
'Constitutionalist revolution. we decid-
ed that the next best thing would be
the lifting of the embargo act. R-Ol
months we have been eXerting quiet
but steady pressure in washington and
the campaign has at last borne. fruit
think. with Gen. Villa, that the war IS
over
1.-THE prison camp at Fort Bliss after
dark is a sight worth seeing says John
w Roberts. of Chihuahua. "A party of
us went out in an automobile the other
night and were well repaid for the trip.
Electric lights have been strung all
around the big, square barbed wire en-
closure Those strings of lights out on
that dark mesa make a wierd but pretty
picture. Few prisoners were awake in
the camp when we went out but ell TIE
sentries were wide awake They said
that the prisoners are beginning to get
sassy. because they have been well fed
and are thoroughly rested"
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They were at an afternoon tea. Said
one woman: Passing the Masonic
temple today I saw a well dressed but
sad faced young woman with her face
against the window pane, looking as
if she would like to get out into the
sunny world again. I wonder what her
life story is" Said the other woman:
Il have heard that they keep in prison
every woman who learns the secrets of
their order" THAT must be it," said
the first innocent; ct suppose they
keen them up in the roof story where
those queer barred windows are. We
should be careful not to ask too many
questions, I guess"
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'I want to congratulate the police" |
said w B. Latta, for the splendid |
success they have shown in arresting
standing automobiles whose tail lights |
are not burning. I consider that quite /
a feat. The number of automobiles
arrested in the last few days for this (
frightful crime must run up into the
scores or hundreds. 1t is a dangerous
undertaking fer the police, too. for
since the autos are dark, the officers
wearing binders as part of their uni
form might easily run into them and
hurt themselves. I suppose they send
scouts out before they go hunting after /
these criminals. I saw mounted pO-
liceman the other night with long J
distance flashlight and no doubt he was |
rsiur- this device from far off to detect /
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