El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-02-17
LITTLE
INTERVIEWS
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attitude in the regional bank

q n aDnTn-
} ciate Ell Paso's noncOmmittaI
attitude in the regional bank
/ matter" said George R. LeBaron, who
has returned from a trip to Chicago.
/ q stopped over at Kansas City and sew
eraI bankers came over to call on me.
( They thanked ne for the closed mo1Ith'
! policy FL PasO has adhered to in the
! regional bank fight. They believe that
] this citys attitude is virtually an sd-
/ mission of support for Kansas CITY The
/ fact that Ell PdsO did not come out and
! support Denver, San Francisco Fort
/ Worth, Dallas or any other city in the
hearing held here by secretaries Nc
AdOO and Houston, pleased the Kansas
City men and they want us to know
/ of their appreciation. 81 PasO may or
/ may not want to be in the Kansas City
( district, but it is certain that we have
] made friends by observing silence Is
golden rule"
! "Carranza has issued a new decree
! fixing the rates of duties on cattle ex-
ported from Mexico, or from that part
! Of it controlled by the Constitutional
! sular agent at Ell Paso. The eXporta-
I ton duty on calves hereafter viii be
( 81 a head; Oen and two year old steers,
! S.; steers and bulls three years old and
/ over and heifers of ali ages viii cost
| $40 export This decree makes void all
| those issued previously and takes pre-
/ cedence over all those issued by local
state authorities
Did you know that secretary Nc
AdOO and secretary Houston were ar
, rested by sheriff Edwards while they
! were in Ell Paso%' an Ell Pasoan in the
cabinet mems party asked recently. No
nor did anyone else, but the members
! OF the party, the secretaries and the
sheriff. They were hitting 1t up going
to the Country club to dance a while
before their train left for San Antonio
As they were going out Montana street
the sheriff cut in behind them with his
car and chased them He cut a corner
and overlook them. when he was told
that it was the secretaries party, the
sheriff said that it made no difference
If II was the presidents party, they
were violating the law and We're un-
der arrest 1t was finally arranged that
the charge would not be made, after
the drivers of the cars promised not to
do 1t again. But it was an uncOm-
Portable five minutes for the two cab
Argentine is the melting pot of
South America" Felix Martinez says.
All Municipalities 60 there, assimiIate
and become Argenunes. They are not
Germans, Americans, French or Ital-
lanS. All are Argentines and they have
the American spirit more than any 9TH
er country that I visited. They work
tOgether and have accomplished some
wonderful things in that country. While
there are a few foreign touches to the
cities it is more like the United States
fact that they are not in close contact
with US in any direct way"
Aunt Mary Woods knew her people
when she drew her will" said Judge
F. e. Hunter. The aged negro woman
knew that to leave $1,000 TO a negro was
placing a temptation in the way of the
average one, rather than being a help.
For this reason she insisted that
should become executor and should
make trip back to FredericktOwn,
NO, once each year, see how the reIa-
tives were living, how they had invest (
ed the money and observe their general
condition of life. She did not want
them to waste what she was leaving
them. and drew her will so that they
would be aided instead of hindered in !
their lives"
I'VE hear only occasional ruplOrs Of /
the Mexican v ar in Baltimore" said
William NJ. Atkinson, who was in FL
PasO Sunday and Monday 4 suppose
st is an old thing to FL PasOans, who .
have become accustomed to Mexican .
revolutions. Before L left Baltimore /
mad, or course, heard OF I'll PaSO just I.
as a border town. 1 pictrued it as such, I.
with long rows of adobe houses and T.
dirt streets. I want to say that in all T.
my travels have never been in a more f.
modern city Its very cosmopolitan air ?
impresses. you the minute you step off )
the train"
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Even in Russia one can see the tell /
ing evidence of the American and the /
part he plays in the upbuilding of not /
only his own country but foreign cOun- I
tries" declared Fred MarstOn, who has
just returned from BatoUm, Russia, /
where he has spent the last five years"
THE American miner and American ,
made machinery are to be fOund'in the (
copper mines of Russia. When it comes .
to copper mining, the foreigners go /
after the American. In the gold, sill .
yer, zinc and lead mines you will fiEd {
the Englishmen and Americans abOut
equally divided. Copper mining is be
coming a great industry of Russia;
still Russia imports about one-third of
the copper she uses All the native
copper is used by the Russians. St
has only had electric cars
about three years. These were in
stalled by an American company. MCU- (
ernizing the other Russian cities is go
ing to require q great deal Of copper
and the importation of the ore may be
Living expenses in Russia, /
[ believe are cheaper than they are in
the United States. I had been awey
from Ell PasO five years. [ am frank