El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-06
LITTLE
INTERVIEWS

gym don't see me wearing any dia-
noonds on my thumbs from the sale
OF eggs this winter season" said Wal
ter Long, owner of the Long poultry
ranch down the valley. Eggs would
have to go to 81 a dozen before we
would make money at this season Of
the year. It is a fact that we lose
money during the winter months and
the high price Of eggs is not equal
to the cost of production. It is an
other fact that when eggs are 80 cents
a dozen we make lots OF money. The
fact that eggs are high is an indfca-
ton that they are scarce, and scarce
eggs means big feed bills and small
returns in the finished product But
wheH the hens are an laying and eggs
are down 70 80 cents we have lots
Of them and the cost of production is
no more than when we have a small
production of eggs. The average
through the year is what we figure
on for our profit and loss account
But the belief that the poultry people
make big money when eggs are SELL
4ng at SIS and 20 cents is erroneous
The reverse is true and I will be
glad to show anyone my books to
prove it"
IF the ministers Of the city would
advocate go to market day instead
of a go to church day there would
be more religion in the home" said
; an Ell Pasoan, who is a church mem
Der, Monday afternoon. Il do not mean
to knock the ministers movement to
get everyone to go to church Sunday,
But we are responsible for a large
part Of this high cost Of living thing.
We telephone for our groceries, have
our small purchases at the depart
ment store sent out and carry charge
accounts. The result is that the mer-
chants must add the extra cost Of
this extra service to the selling price
in order TO break even. Let everyone
in FL PasO take the old family mar
ket basket in hand, go down town
and do the buying for one day and
the merchants will realize such a saw
ing that they will be ready to make
special prices to shoppers who pay
cash, carry their things homo and do
not telephone for them"
He was fresh from a west Texas
farm. A round crowned, brown hat
Of ancient style sat down on his ears
like the milk crock when his mother
cuts his hair. He was waiting between
trains with his mother at the Union
station. Someone asked him to go
to the station master and ask for
left handed monkey wrench. He obeyed
and was sent 20 the superintendent.
Approaching Supt- W. R. Martin he
asked:
kin you tell me where at I kin
git a left handed monkey wrench for
Teller down stairs2"
Mr.. Martin could not, but he sent
him back down stairs. There he was
sent to Ben Stein, the cashier at the
Harvey house. Ben sent him to Capt.
William Hunt, who was eating at the
restaurant, and the captain sent him
to George Maslin. the manager. He
told the boy to go back and report
q T-cG h. a. l.
wrenches. Before he returned, Frank
Spencer, manager of the curio depart
ment felt sorry for the little fell
low gave him two oranges a banana
and an apple and told him to forget
left handed monkey wrenches and told
the bunch of "kidders" at the station
to pick on someone their size.
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IF I carried a pistol" declared Tom
Lea, and was on my way home at
midnight and passed a suspicious look
ing character, I tell you I would begin
shooting There seems to be many
can't tell just when he might be held
up. Now l have told you what I
would do If ] met a suspicious man
head on, and if I carried a gun. do
not know what I would do If a hold
up man came up behind me"
1.-THE occasion for the delays IN
criminal trials" said judge James J.
Murphy. employing his best judicial
voice, rs due to the fact that the time
IS consumed by the defendant conYinc-
ing his attorneys that he is innocent
1t may take from three weeks to a
month, or perhaps two months for
defendant to convince his attorneys
that he is absolutely innocent. It de-
pends on the case. During this pro-
cess the court must of course wait
When the attorney is finally convinced 2
that his man is guiltless he is then I
ready to go to trial"
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1T surely does sound funny the
way some of the newcomers around !
here pronounce these Mexican names" I
said Dave Lindsay. 'I was amused at /
neWSbOy who was shouting out some
Herald headlines. He was one of older I
fellows who had just come from the /
east to spend the winter. He called /
villa, Fila and Parral with one syla-
bic as if it was Parl' and Torreon, !
like 'TOrOn,' and Huerta was Hurtv'
I suppose it was natural enough for !
MIN to want to pronounce them that /
way but it sounded funny"
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II am strongly in favor of establish /
ing vocational school in connection ]
with the present High school," said 1
Eugene L Harris. while in a high |
school it is perhaps not quite as strong !
a question as in universities. At the /
same time, when practical courses are /
included, it enables many pupils to /
continue through school who otherwise /
would abandon any thought Of a higher /
The big percent of school I
children are not able to afford to go 1
to college largely because they feel /
that the college or university does not /
assuredly fit them for a means of earn /
ing their living. Now, if they can 1
learn a trade, with academic courses |
pupils may be able to either 4
go to work a while after graduating 1
from High school, and then go on to I
college to continue work along the I
college working at their trade. as 4
they continue their school work. From 4
my observation the establishing of vo- 4
cattonal training courses in schools /
has tended to keep pupils in schools /
that would otherwise be out, and this
way, they get academic education that I
alone without the vocational work they /
would not take"