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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-15
Kansas City Meat Bills

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Kansas City and Sioux City, through
their vast packing operations, create for
eign exchange in enormous amounts.
Bills drawn against the shipment of meat
products from these two cities and In
fact Chicago as well, are known tech3i-
daily as ''meat bills" These bills, like
those drawn on cotton exports in Gal
weston or New Orleans or Mobile almost
Invariably are RENTED to New York. The
reason for that is not difficult to discover.
Both by natural and by fortuitous cir
cumstances New York has become the
great importing city of the union. Al
most exactly one-half of the entire for
egn trade passes up and down the har-
Dor. The importations for 1918 are pre-
sumed to be of the money value of about
$1,000, 100000. American manufacturers,
merchants and others who buy commodi-
ties in foreign lands seek the New York
market for the purpose of securing bills
of exchange by means of which they can
pay their creditors across the sea.
In addition to his feature, there has
grown up in recent years an enormous
business with foreign bankers which is
known as commercial credits Amer
ican importers establish in London with
the bankers there a large line of credit.
This credit is usually secured through the
aid of private international banking
houses. A very large business of this
kind is done in Boston. When tho time
comes for the merchant to meet these OBJ
legations he is accustomed to go to the
New York or Boston or Philadelphia
bankers, saying that the time has come
for him to pay his bills and lfquate his
obligations. He does that In the form of
cash or it's equivalent. Then the banking
house buys bills or issues it's own. and
with these documents liquidates the COM
mercial credit obligation In Europe.
Transactions of this Kind represent the
very large movements of flour from Min
neapolis There foreign exchange in large
amounts is created But there the mar
ket for the sale of these bills is not to be
found. The great market for the sale of
these bills has now been established at
New York city
These facts will undoubtedly be taken
into consideration by Secretaries McAdoo
and Houston of the organizing committee
and will be finally acted upon by the fed
eral reserve board 1t Is hard to see how
any legislation can change the great mar
ket wherein foreign exchange of tnat
kind would follow the gradual but sure
Of for instance. Boston or
Baltimore or Philadelphia as CONNER
cial metropolis after having taken away
the prestige Of New York. But 1t does not
matter what the city Is. There must be
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-23
ASHES FIRE A SHED;
TRASH STARTS BLAZE

Hot ashes were responsible for. the fire
that destroyed the small shed in the rear Of
157 North Ochoa street Sunday morning at
o'clock
Boxes Of trash placed against the furnace
IN the basement Of the Two Republics build
ing, corner OF Texas street and Mesa avenue
started blazing at 9:55 O'Clock Sunday morn
ing. There was no damage.
Boys with matches SET the fence at AT
California street on fire at 1925 o'clock Sun
day. afternoon. A portion Of the fence was
badly scorched
run to the Trust building corner of San
Antonio and Stanton streets. Some one saw
the steam escaping from a steam radiator in
progress.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-23

wisdom, but In truth it merely blinds
US to obvious facts. Experience teaches
US all that the people who lay claims
to honesty and truth and other excellent
! qualities are the ones who will bear the
/ most watching. Yet, when we have
saved SIS and wish to deposit it in
| savings bank, we always choose the
| bank whose cashier makes a grand
stand play Of his honesty, and Just when
our interest is due, that cashier leaves
town on a freight train some dark
night, and the bank examiner takes
charge, and pastes a notice in the win
dow, to the effect that depOsitOrs viii
never see hide or hair of their money
again. People who have reached middle
age should know that conspicuouslv
honest people should be avoided, but
experience and observation teach them
nothing.
$50 these Industrious youth are held
up as models by elderly people, but the
real boys know they are fakes, every
time In every country school there is a
model boy who processes to love work.
If the teacher asks for a volunteer to
walk nine miles for a bucket of water
during the noon hour, the model bov
always gets the Job. So he becomes the
pet of the teacher, and she gives him
candy and lavishes the wealth of her
affections upon him; but all the genuine
boys hate him, and lie in ambush for
him on the way home from school, and
send him home weeping to his parents.
IF the model boy is detestable when
in his teens, he is doubly so when he
reaches mans estate. He acquires
despicable habits, such as saving his
money and spending his evenings in his
bedroom, taking correspondence school
lessons in civil engineering. He is ostra-
cised by all the red-blOod young men
of his neighbOrhood, and the girls have
no use for him. Finally he marries
tail, gangling woman with spectacles.
who has been chief wrangler at a semi
nary, and the two of them become book
agents and every mans hand is raised
against them
when 1 was a boy my father had to
scOuTge me to every task, and then
stand over me to see that I stuck to it.
If he turned his back for a moment I
was gone. [ hated all forms of work as
every sane and healthy boy does, and so
enjoyed the confidence and admira-
ton of all other sane and healthy boys,
and now that I am waxing old I point
with pride to my record. Put not your
trust IN princes or industrious boys, Mrs.
Jiggers."
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-23
Miss Fairfax Asks:
How Are Your Investments!
There Is No Investment Woman Can Make So Valuable
as Friendship of One of Her Own Sex.
r1T,TryT5
b. BEATRICE FAIRFAA

the boys falling in love with her" they
write. rand I intend to have nothing
more to do with her"
One silly Girl.
81 have had a girl chum for six years"
writes another one of these foolish
ones "but have ended our friendship
because a boy 1 adore danced with her
oftener the other night than he danced
with me-"
silly, silly girls to throw away the
genuine for the counterfeit; to malign,
abuse and turn down a good, faithful
friend because some boy who is here
today and will be gone tomorrow looks
at her with admiration.
A boy comes into a girls life, meta
phorically whirls her around once or
twice in a dance, and dances on to some
other girl. The girl friend of his part
ner was there before he came, and will
be there long after he is gone and for
gotten She is not a passing fancy, but
a very present and immovable fact. The
playmate of ones childhood, the conf
dante of ones youth, the inspiration
and consolation of ones mature years.
The dear old girl friend! How deplore
every tendency to give up such a friend
ship for the more transient friendship
Of one o. the opposite sex!
"Save your money" Wisdom cries;
you will need it for your old age
Save your girl friend" cry; For
you Will need her in every age and cir
cumstance You will find her the best
investment the heart Of girl can
make"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-23
INDUSTRIOUS BOYS
Adventures of a Crouch

ST HAD Willie Undertake come to-
day and do some chores about
the place." said Mrs. Jiggers,
"and he certainly is a model boy, so
willing and industrious. He says he
dearly loves to work. I had almost
come to the conclusion that no boys are
worth their salt, I had so much expert
ence with lazy ones, but Willie restored
my faith in boys"
IF you are going to have such
youth about the premises as a regular
thing" said the star bOarder, 1T viii
behOove the bOarders here to see that
combination locks are placed upon their
bedroom doors, for there is no trusting
a boy who claims that he likes to work.
1t Is a grievOus thing, my dear Mrs.
Jiggers. to see a lad of tender years
thus given to deceit and chicanery. I
fOresee that Willie, whose middle name
probably is Clarence, Is destined to come
to bad end.
"NO BOY ever enjoyed work, unless,
fOrsooth, it was work of his own selec-
ton. II is the nature of a bow to abhOr
everything that looks like honest effort,
and the boy who pretends that he rises
superior to the general rule IS a whited
sepulchre, and I wouldn't trust him any
further than 7 could throw a COW. In
every community there are model youths
who pretend that they like work They
are cold, calculating creatures, whose
highest ambition Is to win the conf
dence of elderly landladies with an ig-
noble end in view. Depend upon it, Mrs.
Jiggers, this Willie Clarence Undertake
has designs upon your pen of chickens,
OF he plans to familiarize himself with
the plan of the house with a view to
second story work His willingness to
labor is a thin disguise for some ne
fariOus scheme.
Gas L remarked, there are boys of his
character in every community, and the
curious thing is that they impose upon
the aged, although they don't fool the
Young for a minute. The sunset of life
is supposed to give us mystical lore and
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-23
Joyrider Drives Auto Into Post
AfterBadly Damaging Road
ster, MachineIs Abandoned;
Two Residences Robbed.

A JOY rider, after taking the Oldsmo-
bile roadster, belonging TO the AInerl-
. can Motor and Machine WORKS com
pauy, 313 Texas street sunday night
at $50 o'clock, left it considerably
damaged at Second and Florence
streets, where 1t was found by the 20
lice Monday morning at O'Clock Inc
auto was taken from Mesa ana IeAas
handled by the JOY riders. The left
front axle was badly sprung, the LETT
fender was damaged and the tool box
on the machine had been broken open
and some Of the tools taken.
The driver Of the car was going east
on Second street, evidently at rapid
pace. In the effort TO round the cor
uer to 90 into Florence street, the
car ran up on the sidewalk, where 1t
collided with an iron hltchlng post,
resulting in it's damage. Being put
out Of commission, the car was aban-
dOned. The American Motor company
is offering reward Of $50 for the ar
rest of the person who took the car.
Residence aBUrgIarized
Between the hours Of 1880 and
o'clock Saturday night burglars gained
an entrance to the residence Of g. NJ.
Wilson, 1922 MagOffin avenue. Money
amounting to S14 was missed.
Arrested With Chickens.
AdOlfO DaZa, having under his arms,
It is claimed, two chickens and three
eggs, was arrested by patrolman Par
night. The defendant and the poultry
products were taken 10 the city Jail
Daza was placed in a cell and the
chickens set free in the jail rUnarOund.
Wants Hen House Guarded.
With but one hen left out of a num-
Der Of chickens, Mrs. Nina Field, liv-
ing at us North oregon street, has
called on the police to place a watch
over her hen house. Chicken thieves
have been paying frequent visits TO
the place, and now, the report is, there
IS but one hen left and Mrs Field
would like to save it.
Boy Held For Theft.
Matllde GustOs, aged II years. was
dockeJed at the police station Sunday
afternoon on a charge Of theft under
sou Inc allegation is that Jake KaUf-
man, OF the Western Grocery company,
saw the boy leaving a freight car,
standing at the cOmpany's warehouse,
Seventh and South Ell Paso streets,
with two sacks Of flour under his arms
The boy was dOcketed in the county
court as Matilde Bustos and charged
with being a delinquent child.
B. Freeman, who has a shop at SIS
South FL PasO street reported TO the
police that Saturday night some one
entered his place Of business and car
ried away IL pairs of trousers.
Horse and Buggy Missing
Saturday night q horse and buggy
was missed from SOL North Oregon
street.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-23
MEXICO NO WORSE
THAN UNITED STATES
Mormon APOSTLE Calls Attention to Atrocities
Of Civil War and Says Intervention
-oA WETcrrr fnH

Of Civil War and Says Intervention
Not Warranted.
our own civil war and the American soldiers,
both north and south, resorted to greater
atrocities than either side has resOrted to
during the four years Of warfare in Mexi-
CO." declared A W. WINS, in the pulpit of
the Mormon church at Thatcher. Dr. WINS
is an apostle Of the Mormon church and was
IN charge Of the Mormon colonies until the
rebel soldiers under Gen: 1nez Salazar con-
Lscated the property OF the colonists and
sent them to 81 PasO as refugees. Mr.. Twins
was talking against intervention.
o7., Many people IN OUT eo tn are today
take hand in the war with Mexico. be-
cause Of wrongs to foreign citizens or for
national law does not require any nation to
give the subjects Of other nations better
protection than it aecords us own citizens,
ana people who are cIainoring Tor this
nation to go to war with Mexico are those
who are seeking to make that nation give
oLners greater protection IoI IRE and prop
erty in Mexico than the Mexicans thenf-
selves are receiving.
''f we should intervene in that country #
would but have the effect Of stopping a peo-
pie from working out their own destiny in
their own way The Mexican people have
conducted their war better than the Balkan
/ states conducted theirs
Il warn the people Of the United States
that II they intervene IN MeXlco.s affairs
they viii not find it an easy task to handle
the Mexican people 1t would have been
much easier four years ago Those who see
the lily clothed, barefooted and hungry SOL
diers Of NIexico may think it would be an
easy fight, but they are badly mistaken.
The MeXicans are patriotic and love their
country and will resent. our interference lust
as strongly as we would have resented if
had other nations interfered at the time
Of our civil war
"Our nation is asked to waste its treasure
to satisfy lot Of demagogs who want war
but would never fight in It, Too many Of US
think that our regular army VIII tight this
war, but it will not. Young men will be
taken from the American homes and their
bones viii bleach in Mexico. and the good
Of the world will not be furthered-
Elm our last invasion Of Mexico our SOL
diers were never halted, yet on one field
alone 1000 men laid down their lives. So har-
dened to the horrors Of war were the Next
cans that they actually. took the skulls of
those Americans, by wagon loads into the
city Of Mexico and made them into but
tons %
In closing Mr. WINS said he wondered that
the Mexicans were as good a people as they
were when the iron heel Of oppression has
ground them down for 800 years and the
power of an out Of date industrial system
kept them down.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-23

i v
Il It takes all my allowance to keep
L A the house going" A young girl
will reply that she spends all her
money on clothes and good time, and
the husband and father will take men
tai inventory of his stocks and bonds
and make no reply at all
No one seems to remember that there
are other, better and more necessary
investments than those that are made
over a counter. That the real invest
ment bears no interest Of 5 or per-
cent Its joys are not confined to Ger
tain cOupOn-cutting periods, and neither
business initiation nor depression af-
fects it.
The Investment IN Friendship.
It is the investment in friendship, and
Of all the investments woman makes
from the day she tOddles with out
stretched arms to the one holding out
the largest and most tempting Jolly
pop through the days of painful and
uncertain friendships Of youth and
love, when she counted quantity as
greater than quality, to the time when
she sits in her chimney corner and re-
jOices if she has one faithful friend
left, there is no investment she can
make so precious, so rich in coupon
bearing, so reliable and unfailing, as
in the friendship Of one Of her own sex.
I receive daily letters from girls COM
planning because Of the greater attract
lYeness OF some girl chum. she has all
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-23
DIsFRANCHIsEAIENT OF BANK
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Austin, Tex, March 23.-In an opinion to
commissioner Of insurance and banking Col
her the attorney generals department has
held that under the laws OF this state-stocl
in a banking corporation cannot be dis
franchised; that it lis clear the laws Of
this state require the control of a corpora
ton to be ultimately and finally vested in
each and all OF the stockholders. Further
that the incOrporators would not have the
right either in their charter or bylaws to
disfranchise any Of the stock Of a banking
CORPORATION.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-23
WOMAN ARRESTED; GIVES
500. BOND EOR ApPEARA

Minnie Marsh was arrested by the
police Saturday night and dOcketed on
a charge of running a disorderly house.
me house complained of is between
kansas and Campbell streets, on. East
San antonio street. The defendant was
released after furnishing q $500 bond
for her appearance for trial in the cor
poration court.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-23
Mexican Slabs Boys Who
Laugh; FLees, Is Lassoed

Los Angeles, Calf, March "a
Dolores Garlic, a Mexican, stabbed
Harley Crabtree and William Rocks
because they laughed when he fell
from a bicycle. He cut a 12-inch cash
IN Crabtree's left shoulder, seveTing
the left coIlarbone
Ihen Garlic fed on his wheel, only
TO be lassoed by a cOwpuncher and
pulled OF his bicycle. A crowd gath
cred and he was handled roughly until
me police arrived and put him under
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-23
PLAN CHANGES TO MAKE HOTEL.
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BALLROOM ACOUSTICS BETTER
Conventions and concerts NAV soon
be held in the Hotel Paso del Norte
ballroom, on the ninth floor, without
the annoyance of poor acoustics which
prevail there noW-~. Plans are being
considered for the remodeIfng and re-
decoration Of the bali room and banquet
hall The massive concrete beams
which break the sound waves are to be
covered with canvas, and the speakers
platform changed from the east to the
south side OF the banquet room. giving
better view Of the platform from ali
parts Of the room. These plans have
not yet been definitely decided upon.
but will probably be carried out this
spring.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-23
TELEPHONE ACHIEVEMENTS
telephone Service of Today The Creation Of The Ben Co.

In no line Of human endeavor has the inventive
brain of the scientist contributed more to the
worlds progress than by the creation of the art
of telephony, CT which the Bell system is the
embodiment
When the telephone was born, nothing analo-
gOus to telephone service as we now know it
existed There was no tradition to guide, no ex-
psrience to follow
The system, the apparatus, the methods-an en-
tire new art had to be created. The art of cleo
trical engineering did not exist. The Bell pioneers
recognizing that success depended upon the
highest engineering and technical skill at once
organized experimental and research depart
ment which is now directed by staff of over $50
engineers and scientists, including former profess
sors, postgraduate students, scientific investi-
gators-the graduates of over 70 universities.
From its foundation the company has contin-
uOusly developed the art. New improvements in
telephones, switchbOards, lines, cables, have fol-
lowed one another with remarkable rapidity.
While each successive type of apparatus to the
superficial observer suggested similarity each step
in the evolution marked a decided Improvement
These changes, this evolution, has not only been
continuous, but is continuing. Substantially all
of the plant now IN use, including TELEPHONES
switchboards, cables and wires, has been con-
struCted, renewed or reconstructed in the past
10 years.
Particularly in switchboards have the changes
been so radical that installations costing in the
aggregate millions nave frequently been discarded
after only few years Of use
Since 1877 there have been introduced s. tvpes
and styles of receivers and 70 types and STYLES of
transmitters. Of the 100000 telephone receiv-
ers and transmitters owned by the Bell Company
January l, 1914, none were in use prior to 1902,
while the average age is less than five years.
Within 10 years we have expended for con-
structiOn and reconstruction an amount more than
equal to the present book value of our entire
plant
Long-distance and underground transmission
was the most formidable scientific problem con-
fronting the telephone experts.
The retarding effect of the earth on the tele-
phone current often impaired conversation through
one mile underground as much as through 100
miles overhead. Overhead conversation had its
distinct limitations
No possible improvement in the telephone trans
mitter could of itself solve these difficulties.
The solution only found in the cumulative
effect of improvements, great and small, in tele-
phone, transmitter, line, cable, switchboard, and
every other piece Of apparatus or plant required
In the transmission of speech.
While the limit of commercial overhead talking
had increased from strictly local to over 1000
miles as early as 1885, it was not until 1905 that
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-23

conversation could be had over Iong-distance cir
cults of which as much as 20 miles was IN under
ground cables. By 1906 underground talking dis
lance had increased to 90 miles. By 1912 it was
possible to talk underground from New York to
Washington.
It was then that the construction of under
ground conduits from Boston to Washington was
determined upOn,-not that it was expected to
get through underground talk between those
Places but in case of storm or blizzard to utilize
intermediate sections in connection with the over
head
Our persistent study and incessant experimental
ton have produced results more remarkable still
We have perfected cables, apparatus and meth
DDS that have overcome obstacles heretofore re-
garded as insuperable both to Iong-distance over
head and underground conversation
Underground conversation is now possible be-
tween Boston and Washington, four times the
length Of the longest European underground line
This enabled the Bell System in the recent great
storm, so destructive on land and sea, to main
tam communication for the public between all the
principal points the Atlantic seabOard.
Telephone communication is established between
New York and Denver, is potentially possible be-
tween all points in the United States, and by
1915 will be an accomplished fact between New
York and San Francisco.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-23
VARGAS. Ell PAso's WAX WORKER.
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Francisco Vargas, the wonder worker
with wax, who makes such artistic statuets
at his home in East Ell Paso has written
from New Orleans that the report Of his
eyesight falling him is a mistake as he
has had no trouble with them and is not
suffering with cataracts Mr. Vargas saws
he is visiting his father in New Orleans
and is taking a rest from his work here
and IS helping his father with some work
he Is making for the Panama-Pacific ex-
position He expects to return to Ell Paso
in the spring and will continue his modelling
OF wax figures Of Mexican tradesmen, which
have made him famous
Pork shoulder roast, 17Kc Opitz
Market phone 36.-Advertisement.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-23

NEED GLAssEsF ASK sEcATT.
MOVED TO los TEXAS STREET
Advertisement.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-23

Lamb chops, 173kc. Opitz Market
phone 36.-Advertisement.