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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-06-04
HOTEL CONVENTION
HERE JUNE 10-11

Programs for the convention Of the
Texas Hotel Keepers association, to be
held in Il PasO June 10 and H. have
appeared and are being mailed to all
OF the delegates VINO are expected 10
attend the convention The program
has a picture of Miss FL PasO" holding
Fl PasO on a tray, while a girl repre-
senting Juarez offers the Mexican
town on a tray
The program viii open with bust
ness meeting at the Hotel Paso del
Norte, where the meetings VIII be held
The convention viii open at $3.50
Thursday morning, June 10. A lunch
con at Hotel Sheldon viii be held at
o'clock The business session will be
continued Thursday afternoon until
4:3O, when an auto ride TO the Coun-
try clue, Fort Bliss and other parts Of
the city viii be made. In the evening
q banquet and dance will be given at
the Paso del NOrte-
Friday. the 11th there will be trip
10 Cloudcroft to spend the day. The
visitors viii be the guests Of N. B.
Hutchins. manager Of the Lodge Upon
the return to FL PasO in the evening a
trip will be made to Juarez on special
street cars. where the night life of the
Mexican border town viii be shown
r B. Orndorff is expected to be
elected president Of the association at
this meeting
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-06-04
PAVING REPAIRS
ARE BEING MADE
Mayor Lea Is Doing Things;
Is Working in Harmony
With His Aldermen.

A1aeoffin avenue paving which has
FOR months been almost impossible at
point near the city warehouse and
stables has been repaired and the
street is again in good shape at that
point The last time it rained. auto
mobiles and wagons dropped into the
water up to the axle in crossing this
place
How did you get the work done?"
mayor Lea was asked.
Just, wrote a letter to the company
that originally laid the pavement said
the mayor nOnchaiantly.
Noticing a crew at work tearing up
the pavement in the Boulevard at the
Mesa avenue crossing. a Herald man
asked mayor Lea what was being done
there The street car company is put
ting that street in shape so people can
drive over its tracks in safety" said
mayor Lea "I had grown rather tired
Of the condition OF the pavement be-
tween the car tracks at the Mesa cross
ing, so I told the street car company
10 Tx IT, There are some more Dad
pieces Of pavement between street car
and railroad tracks that are going 20
be fixed.
Also. since we are on the paving
question. ] may add that paving IS
going TO be put down on Campbell
street between that network of tracks
in the yards of the q. H & :. A. rail-
road 1t is like riding the waves at
COnev Island TO drive across those
up with the railroad yet, but the paving
viii be put down. I will take it up
soon"
Mayor Lea is not going TO let paw
ing companies or anybody else put any
thing over the people while he is in
office" said alderman John Fisher,
whose hobby is the parks and streets
I'VE Of the city council are more en-
thusiastic over him the more we are
engaged in the conduct of city affairs
with him and see the earnestness and
sincerity which he puts into his work.
We also appreciate his attitude 10
wards the council There is no inclln-
alton on the part of Mr.. Lea to be
boss and arrogate to himself all the
city's powers There are many things
that have come up since we were elect
ed that he could have handled without
consulting us-he had the right to do
it-but he has consulted the council in
everything"
And alde-nen O'conner and Jolly.
who were sresent-Mr- Lea was not
present-assented to what alderman
Fished had TO say
That's what 7 have been wanting
to see in FL PasO-a city administra-
ton that viii DO things: one that has
the interests Of all the city at heart
and we've got it now said a bystand-
er. a business man
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-06-04
LONGWELL TAKES CHARGE
OF INFORMATION BUREAU

J. J Longweu has taken charge Of
the information bureau and baggage
business at the union station upon re-
quest of the union station company,
pending the annual meeting Of the com
pany June s.
The LongweH Auto and Baggage com
pany viii handle all Of the mails from
the union station TO the pOstOffice IN
der this arrangement, viii have bag
gage solicitors on the trains and VIII
have charge of the information bureau
The information bureau, baggage
privilege and mail contract was Tor
merlv held by the Hotel Taxi and Bag
gage company, which was sold recently
to the Jitne company
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-06-04
WATER PERMITS ONLY AT
CITY WATERWORkS OFFICE

Contractors and others who desire
to secure water from fire dydrants will
hereafter be required to get permission
through H P. Jackson. superintendent
o. the WaterWorks system
It has been the custom for some time
for the chief Of the fire department to
grant permission for the use Of by
drants, but, because Of the inability
Of the chief to keep close check on
those using water and because Of Ger
tain abuses by those granted the priv
ilege, the new ruling is in effect.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-06-04
THREE NEXICANs HELD
FOR EETnVTAW r

Complaints have been filed by the
police in justice J. N. beavers court
against Antonio Rabali. charging him
with burglary, and against Antonio P
Lopez and Alfredo sAlcale, on charges
OF receiving and concealing stolen
property.
All three chages are in connection
with the recent burglarizing Of the
Feldman store when p pistols were
stolen
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-06-04

The FL PssO lee and Refrigerator Co.
Maintains its own delivery system.
Pure distilled water and ice. Phones
15.-Advertisement-
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-23

BILE. War and polygamy are both horri'
BILE, both desolating.
At fifteen / welded the Maharajah OF
kapurthala. My father, who was a
Marquis OF Spain, had lost his fortune.
Because l could dance l went upon the
stage OF the Royal Theatre of Madrid I
remained on the stage but four weeks.
The Maharajah had come to spain to at
tend the wedding of King Alfonso. He
came to the theatre. He met me. We
fell in love. We married.
He was honest with me. ! knew ! was
marrying a man already several times
wiVed. But / was young. | loved him,
as l have said. accepted the condi-
tons. Having accepted them | have
made the most and best of them. But the
system is wrong. l have lived thus for
nine years. l have a little son, Git.
Polygamy is dying as bad things die-by
the weight Of its own iniquity. There are
not more than three harems in all India.
There are men who have more tnan one
wife, many men. But they make no at
tempt to keep the women under the same
roof. Even In India that would be i'm
possible. The women would revolt.
When a man has more than one wife
Copyright, 1915, by the Star Comp
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-23

T o my way of thinking there is but
one solution, unless, OF course, ma
= ture steps in and male children
predominant; and even then the problem
would have to be shelved until matters
ievelled themselves up as a matter OF
time. would suggest that a law be
passed by which a man may be permitted
to possess one, two or three legal wives,
as the case may be, provided he can
guarantee to the authorities he is in
position TO support them decently and
properly and in keeping with his posi-
ton.
A few years ago l was permitted the
privilege of being a guest in an Eastern
harem, and during my stay, in which
talked and associated with a fair num-
Der of women, formed several opinions
which have firmly convinced me that in
spite of our boosted progress the solu-
ton to a worldwide problem was at any
rate in part expressed here.
L would tell you that life in an Eastern
harem is by no means in keeping with
the popular idea of such a place. 1t is
totally different from the place we read
about in novels or see upon the stage.
Far from IT. 1t is place where one finds
many lessons which it would do us wom-
en- good to take to heart and act upon.
The happiest and most restful and con-
tented faces / ever saw in my life were
in the harem, and among women possess
ing many qualities We Western women
would do we'll to emulate.
Nature invented or evolved woman for
a definite and special purpose; but civili-
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-23

the wives know little Of each other
They do not visit. They may meet as
chance acquaintance do at the great
Hindoo ceremonials, the religious fetes.
They are presented TO each other. They
smile. They chat about impersOnal
things. That is all. They are ships that
pass I'm the crowd.
Jealousy? Among the native womenS
Yes, / doubt not there is, but It never
reaches the Medean point. the point OF
tragedy, for as I said. they rarely meet,
and when they do 1t is by accident at
some great function. They do not speak
Of each other. They do not hear OF each
other. Around the different establish.
ments of the East Indian polygamist Is
wrapped the impenetrable veil OF silence,
the silence that tends to smother a fact
live, in the principality OF Kapurthala,
the life of a European woman. ! wear
European dress. ] keep my European
manners and customs. ! associate with
Great Britain Rights Reserved
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-23

T HE embarrassing situation in
which the women of England,
= France, Germany and Austria will
find themselves after the war through
the destruction of so many men is being
widely commented upon abroad. In Eng
land there are many who believe that
polygamy should be legitimatized-at
least for a period long enough to restore
the balance of the sexes.
Among those who advocate this is Mrs.
Frances Burke-Hardt, very well known
English writer, who, among others, has
spread her views widely in the English
press. One of the articles embodying
her theories is printed on this page.
BY a curious chance, the Maharanee
of Kapurthala, with her husband, is now
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-23

power that belongs to her station. The
rival is denied these. and because she
is denied them the European wife at
least enjoys the luxury of despising her.
Polygamy will die because It is wrong.
Il Is contrary 20 the high ideals of the
heart. Talk not 20 me of nature. We are
prone TO give TO every impulse in us the
name of nature. Humanity evolves and
each state is better than the last. In the
sense I'm which you say polygamy Is ma
tural, murder Is natural. In moments OF
anger we have the impulse to kill. But
who that is sane would Justify murderi
1t is natural that anger should rage in
our hearts when we have been baffleo
of some desire, yet anger, we know,
makes most of the miserles OF life. We
are out of a state OF polygamy and al.
ready II is regarded as stain upon civil
iZatlon.
The war babies? No. no, no. would
not grant polygamy even to remedy that
great evil. Some crack-brained persons
advise the forcing the soldier fathers,
even though already married to legiti-
Matte their offspring by marriage. I
don't believe that will be looked upon as
a solution Of the problem.
With 10000 war babies on its hands I
do not wonder that England is puzzled
as to its duty. II is a difficult question.
individual problem. If the mother loves
the child and wants to keep 1t allow her
to do so. Let England give charity
bazaars to aid her to keep it, II the
mother is without any natural love for II,
or ability to care for 1t, let II be cared
for by the asylums for orphans. ] think
too much is being said about these war
babies at any rate, Many such children
are being born every year, perhaps a
nearly equal number, and there is no pub
llcity about ii. The problem will be in-
dividually solved. Each problem has an
individual solution.
But polygamy needed TO repopulate
Europe? Atrocious idea! There have
been other wars as terrible and no such
hideous device followed.
Mrs. Burke Hardt-again I ask you is
she--says there are characteristics OF the
women OF the Eastern harems which
women NJ the Western wcrld would do
we'll TO emulate. / grant you one. Like
all peoples OF the East they think In vast
numbers of years. They reckon by aeons.
Their civilization IS old and calm. Their
history extends into the dim beginnings
OF the world. That causes them to look
far into the past and far into TIA future
They learn 10 wait. They have infinite
power to endure. They are, gifted with
n great patience. But patience is ar
overrated quality. Especially II It be pa
thence in the face of a great wrong
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-23

XIV IHO Is TINS Woman VINO says InIns5
M so absurd?
w Mrs. Burke.Hardt? Mrs.
Broken Heart, she should be called. For
that is what It is she stands for, sys-
tenn which will break the hearts of WON
en- and the minds Of men.
who know speak. Polygamy is i'm
possible among European women. They
win not have II. Tragedies more terri
BILE than the war, crimes more awful than
that OF Medea, who killed her own chill
dren TO avenge her wrongs upon their
father Jason, would be enacted were the
governments of Europe to attempt to re-
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-23
"A Law Permitting POlygamy the Solution
By Mrs. Francis Burke-Hard
The WeII-Known EnoIIsh Writer,

zation steps in and DEGREES otherwise.
Natures object is, therefore, frustrated.
The consequence of the present day mud
die as regards the sex question is a vast
army of women who with a stately air
of decorum and discomfort fill the pen
sions in overpowering numbers, who live
lives without aim or object, who cuddle
and kiss dogs instead of babies, who
country, whose mental and physical
energies die for want of proper express
sion, whose bitterness of soul is a dis
grace TO womanhood and a poor compH-
ment to an almighty power who sent them
into the world with a definite and sacred
mission to carry out.
All this will have to be changed.
Woman will have to be transplanted into
new order of things. No longer will it
be necessary for her TO stand in the
market place and shout her grievanceP
while she turns an anxious face toward
the world.
After this war is over woman is com.
ing into her own. And the vote is not
going to do 1t. That idea is dead long
since. No, woman is going to be the
means of her own salvation, aided and
supported by her proper and natural
partner-man!
Under the new dispensation all will -
different. Nature will be paramount n
everything. Civilization will look after
itself. There is no doubt that we are
overcivilized. AS the Irishman said:
I'VE must go back bit; but that1l mean
we're going forward"
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-23
HPOIygamy is More Tragic Than War"
By the Maharanee of KapurthaIa.

populate the stricken continent by this
means.
Again I ask who is this woman who ad-
vocates anything so monstrous? She
says she knows something of the harems
of the East. Doubtless she thinks she
does, but the harems do not give up their
dark secrets TO pTying Westerners. AL
ways the impenetrable veil Is between
them. How foolish 20 scrape the surface
of things and announce what you deem
a great truth
| should smile, should snap my fingers
at the absurd English woman were not
the theme she treats so great and terri
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-23

in New York The Maharanee was Sem
orita Delgado, who became the favortte
noble family, who became the favorite
of the Maharajah's four wives and
his numerous concubines. She gave up
her own religion for that of her husband
and has for a number of years been a
practical polygamist. Her interesting
discussion of the remedy" suggested by
Mrs. Burke-Hardt and others and her
conclusions regarding it are printed here.
This is the first and only statement
which the Maharanee has made in this
country. 1t is significant that, although
living happily, as she says, in a state of
polygamy, she sets her face pQuarely
against the ideas set forth by the English
women who, while practical monoga-
mists, advocate polygamy.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-23


native women. visit them and talk
with them when must. But we have
nothing In common, save children. They
talk of nothing but their homes and
children. They know nothing else. Their
minds are dwarfed. They are of the
mental stature OF little child. The life
there Is 90 different from that Of the
women OF Europe and America that the
difference IL incomprehensible. To UNI
derstand you must live there, have seen
day after day, and YEARLY tried 70 talk
with, the stunted creatures. Then you
would know that cannot be jealous OF
one Of them. Could you be jealous OF
q dog?
Polygany ia impossible in Europe for
two reasons. Europe is a Christian land.
1t would never embrace Mohamedanism,
which permits polygamy. The spirit OF
the old martyrs would rise In them. At
tempt to introduce Mahomedanism into
Europe and war more terrible than that
which Is now rending It would follow.
war yet more devastating for II would
be a war of determination.
IL Is for another reason not TO be for
one moment seriously considered. That
Is that the women OF Europe are too en-
lightened to accept II.
There is a phrase we often encounter
and at which we smile. 1t is 1.-THE war
the sexes. There are Misunderstanding,
differences, needs OF adjustment. Of look
ing at life through each others glasses,
OF standing as II were In the same place
20 view the problems OF the world. But
there would be a war Of the sexes should
a male government enact laws seeking
to establish polygamy. There would be
murder. individual and wholesale. II
would turn women into furies.
DnIgF Na aWrgI - 70 l.
evil to women. II is an evil TO children.
1t is bad for men because II causes them
10 worry. When there Is dissention in
his home d man is distracted. His eff.
cheney In the world Of business is di.
minished. Polygamy is bad for women
because 1t causes heartaches and heart
burnings. II creates spirit OF rebel
lion, for q women, no matter how unin.
telligent, knows that Il is wrong. II Is
bad for the children because they have
a sense of not belonging anywhere.
You have had in your own country
polygamy. have heard OF the ridiculous
practices in a place you call Utah. l
know also that the polygamy itself you
FIRST regarded as a fire and tried to stamp
It out. Then you learned that 1t is a
cancer and you must cut 1t out. That is
a universal truth.
know quite well that your mind will
ask: "Why does the European woman
rebel against another wife. when she sub
mits TO q rival?" / answer: First be-
cause a rival Is as a rule transltory
evil She is trouble that visits the home
and departs. But a wife would be an
awful fixture. At any rate the European
wife does not without a protest submit
60 the existence OF her husbands rival.
Hers is the outward patience OF the per-
sons suffering from disease The custom
OF having a rival is a social disease.
There is ever In the heart OF the sufferer
the hope OF cure.
Second, because romantic love is tran.
sient thing. A wife, especially II she
have children, comes to desire most the
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-05-15
JUDGMENT OF GOD.
ILLINOIS BACKS PRESIDENT

Not few state legislatures in session
have adopted resolutions assuring Presi-
dent Wilson that the members, repre-
sentatives of their states, will indorse
whatever action he may take in connec-
tion with the torpedoing of the Lusitania
The Illinois senate sent a telegram
embodying such resolution, to the Presi-
dent.
Senator Compton, who introduced the
resolution, said:
mo question affecting more the honor
and dignity of the American republic
has arisen since the Civil War than the
one involved in the sinking of the Lusi-
tania and the destroying of the lives of
American citizens.
'No President has ever been con-
fronted with more serious interna-
tional problem. 1t is question that
should receive the Thoughtful consider
alton of every citizen, and should be
handled with care, with caution and
with intelligence moved by the highest
patriotism
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-05-15
FEELING RUNS HIGH

A wave of anti German feeling is
surging through England, since the de-
struction of the Lusitania.
Workmen are refusing to labor along
side men of German birth, whether they
are naturalized or not. In many towns
the premises occupied by Germans have
been stormed and damaged or destroyed
There have been riots in Liverpool
Manchester, Stafford and Birkenhead. In
Liverpool the Germans have been in
termed, and those who are naturalized
subjects of Great Britain have been ad-
vised to go to interior towns or seek
internment. Many of them have de-
cided on the latter course.
A demand is being made by the news
papers that all the $4,000 Germans still
at large should be similarly treated.
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A TTEN TION
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divisions
Chicago Northwestern Railway, Lords Day May 49, 1916 1925
all of the captains the various all workers
Auditorium promptly
will district
will be supplied with of literature distribution
Jwely Zion Stores the
Administration Building $16
ALI attend the meeting Central Zion Tabernacle
Michigan Chicago held the General Ove
800 m.
All workers will leaving Chicago at 800
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SPECIAL NOTICE

The General Overseer accompanied Chorus divisions
of Zion Senior Restoration meeting
nac Michigan Avenue Chicago Lords 18TH 800
While working Chicago let all officers members rally
the the meetings City Chos
bands the orchestras all officers
ing the General 0veres absence the Zion City
Chicago the
ward there with will
every of the world.
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Is it war?

Is it war?
This is the question on the lips and in
the hearts of the American nation to-
day.
All eyes are turned in the direction
of Washington, waiting to hear the word
spoken by one man-President Wilson.
With the torpedoing and destruction
of the Lusitania, the speediest British
ship in the transatlantic trade, by Ger
man submarine, Friday, May 9Th, off
Old Head, of Kinsale, Ireland, in which
1000 passengers of different national
tiles, including over 100 Americans, lost
their lives crisis has been precipitated
between Germany and the United States,
the gravest in character since the begin
ming of the war;
Out of the maze of confusion and hor-
ror of the tragedy, bringing the war
home to Americans with shock, certain
facts are being brought to light, crystal
izing the situation.
1t is on the basis of these established
facts, with no doubt knowledge pos
sessed by him not available to the gen.
eral public) in calmness, and with un-
biased mind, must the chief executive
take such action as will result in one
million people either continuing in the
ways of peace, or plunging into the
bloody maelstrom in which is already
sunk one-half the peoples of the earth.
Is his hand moving toward the sword !?
GERMANY DEFENDS ACT
The following dispatch was at once
sent by the German foreign office to the
German embassy at Washington:
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struction, the German government, in
spite Of it's heartfelt sympathy for the
loss of American lives, cannot but re-
gret that Americans felt more inclined
to trust to English promises rather than
to pay attention to the warnings from
the German side"
FOREIGN OFFICE.
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Do not Forget Our
New Subdivision
South of 33rd Street

We are selling these tracts at reasonable
prices and they will make you nice home.
Now is the time to buy and begin i'm
proving it.
You ought to own all you possibly can Of
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makes good safe investment for you. Do
not delay.
Full particulars may be obtained at the
Zion Realty Department Will be pleased
to show you over the property at any time.
Respectfully,
w. HURD CLENDINEN,
General Manager
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BUILDING SUBMARINES

The German shipyards at Hamburg,
it is reported, are turning out three fin
ished submarines month. Two of
them are of the larger class and one of
the smaller type used for coast defense