El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-30
LITTLE
INTERVIEWS

@ROTEsTANTIsM is going to be
the saving of Mexico in tho
4 end" declared Willard Patter-
con This upheaval that is going oIi
IN Mexico is the result of awakened
IDEAS of liberty and religious freedom
aoainst despotism and tyranny Ger
many. Great Britain, and our
own United States. every eoun-
try in which Professionalism has
| given absolute religious freedom to the
citizens. are countries that are doing
things in this age and that are forg-
ing ever ahead The South american
countries and other lands inhabited Dy
| the Latin race will remain IN just the
unpro gressiVe stage IN Whlch lney
now are, and which they nave Deeh 1or
| years, until they are awakened into pre-
1 gIessiVeneSS by Protes tantlsin. w neither
Il. a man be an infideI or church mem !
Der he must have religious liberty IN
order to develop and progress
IN intend to call a meeting in a
short time for the formation of
Retail Merchants association said A.
Schwartz today. Il nave been inter-
viewing a number of merchants and
/ they favor the idea and are willing to
| join in the move. 1t viii pc lndepend-
! ent of any other organization, without
any paid officers or anything OF that
| sort, Just an organization of the re-
| Uailers of FL Paso. It's purposes will
Z be mutual advancement and protec-
/ ton to the merchants. It will be
good thing for the city and all the
| merchants have talked to have read
lily consented to join"
! There is no sense in a man waiting
until the last minute before paying his
/ poll tax declared Louis E. Behr. The
/ time limit is midnight Saturday. Every
/ day the collectors office is becoming
more crowded with persons who have
/ put off paying their poll taxes until thu
last minute. The longer a man waits,
J the longer he will have to remain in
/ line before he can even approach the
/ window where he can get a receipt
/ 1t seems, though. that some persons
| refuse to profit by experience. The
: last time there were a lot of gooc
/ voters left out just because they wait
! ed until too late"
When you take into consideration,
I that we had high wind blowing, rails
/ ing a dust storm that almost blinded
7 sewer with 80 men in II days isn't Ia
] bad record" said sewer commissioner
J. W. HadlOck We are still working
J on the line which will extend from
! Leon street to Cotton avenue When
I completed it will furnish sewer con-
nectiOns for all residents south of the
canal
Lie. BOnales SandOval brought a let
ter of introduction from my brother
who is executive officer on the battle
ship Louisiana" said Walter d. Howe
> His letter recommends senior SandOva9
very highly. As Alfred is a lieutenant
P commander on the Louisiana. he is nos
given to recommending everyone he
happens to meet. Lie. Sandoval was a
guest on board the Louisiana at the
time Felix Diaz sought asylum Oh
the American battleship in Veracruz
harbOr. and the Mexico City attorney
made very favorable impression upon
the officers OF the ship. met him here
and he assured me that his visit to Villa
at Chihuahua was a friendly one and
/ had no special political significance"
/ "Deming is with FL Paso in anything
/ FL Paso wishes for the regional bank
! branch or anything else" said Willard
Z. Holt, secretary Of the Deming cham
Der of commerce. who was here Thurs
day for the chamber of commerce dir
ner. w e depend upon I'll PaSO Cor our
support and for our inspiration and we
are ready to cOOperate with FL PaSO
for the betterment Of the southwest
! This is the attitude Of all of souTn-
ern New Mexico. for Ell Paso means
more to US than any other city Of the
! southwest"
! young Bernardo Calero. who Will
probably be executed at MatamOras,
/ Coahuila, for being Huerta spy, is a
Z nervy young man" says Juan D. Burns.
/ of the "ConstituuOnalist' consular Of
: flee in FL PasO. He is a brother, you
know. of Manuel Calero. the Mexican
ambassador to the United States. who
, told some embarrassing truths about
I the Huerta government. Young CaIero
went to Sonora a while back and Of
J fered to join the revolution, saying THAI
he was against Huerta. He should
|! have been arrested and tried then, but
! Gen. Carranza merely ordered him Oul
| of the state and told him he would %
/ shot if he reentered. CalerO then went
| to MatamOras under the name of Car
TeTl and had bnnn there time he
( fore the rebel authorities discovered
his identity and arrested him as a SPY.
He has probably given some valuable
information to the Huerta faction
since he went to Matamoras. but his
day Of usefulness is nearly over"
X -
This cold snap is bracing and Il
beats the WindstOrms all hollow" says
Martin Sweeney. Eel PasO sold, like
Ell PasO heat, does not penetrate as 90
! the cold and heat Of other sections. 1
suppose the reason for it is that the az
mosphere is so dry. Visitors here hao
Legun to think that FL PasO never had
anything except lovely weather before
tn winds blew up Wednesday. and I'm
gla that we had a touch of disagreed \
bic weather so the town didn't fly un-
der false colors, If Thursday was the
cOldCst day of the wear. we are certain
" to be envied by poor nOrtherners."
"Civili9ns seldom really understand
the problems that confront an army Of
ficer in handling the soldiers under his
charge said Col Robert. D. Read The
army is drawn from every kind of tenn
permanent every type of human nature.
and every cOuditiOn Of life. In order to
be a successful commander. the officer
must know he personality and charac-
ter of every man. with whom to be pa
tent or with whom to be stern. The
number Of assertions that occur. while /
not many. in proportion to the large
number of men in a regiment, are all
responsibilities that fall upon an off
will a dnuaTw
quicker than to feel that his officers
are down on him, and how to arouse
the manhood in these men and show
them that the officer only wants them
to make good is a problem"
X
''Trailers ought to be run all day
on the Fort Bliss line" said S. E. Pat
ton today. During part of the day,
or except early in the morning and
late in the afternoon. there are no
trailers and, with the people inter-
ested in the Mexican prisoners at the
( fort there is always a large crowd
going to and coming from the post.