El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-01-05
LITTLE
INTERVIEWS

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It's long way to January,
It's a long way all right;
It's a long way to January,
For 1 swOre off New Years night.
Goodby, Johnny Walker;
Goodnight, Wilson high;
It's a long, long way to January;
It's long way, and dry.
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LGD ROSPERITY is returning to all
sections Of the country, a rep
resentative OF the California
Fruit Packers association told me re-
Gently, after an extended trip through
the east and south" SAID John H Grant
He came back with a most optimistic
story of conditions in the east and
south Steel mills of Pittsburg were
working overtime, the cotton and
wooden mills of the New England
states were working a large force and
everywhere he went he found condj-
tons fine ana getting better all the
time. Especially did he find this true
in that part of the south where cotton
was not the staple commercial article.
At Birmingham, Ala, the rolling mills
were planning to put on 5000 addi-
tional men and the general tone was
much improved in that section, he said.
His prediction was that the country
was preparing for the greatest year Of
business in its history. and California
ana the southwest WOuld reel the 5DDQ
effect Of this prosperity wave"
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"El Pasoans viii have an opportunity
to see steel in the making during MADE
in Ell Paso Week" said Frank Dun
ham, arrangements have been made
by the FL Paso Foundry and Machine
company to hold open house at their
plant an. to show visitors the actual
manufacture of steel from the melting
of pigs of iron to the completed product.
The plant is the only one of its kind
for a radius of hundreds of miles and
the exhibition win be most interest
ing one"
'Steinbach, in Alsace, mentioned in
the dispatches as having been captured
by the French, is but a few miles from
the town in which I used to live" said
Joe Geissmann. 1T is typical Of the
towns of that country, mostly built Of
stone, and the residence of numerous
comfortably fixed persons. Most Of
these, before the war, were in com
Portable circumstances and had a little
put by for old age. All were workers
and most of their worldly goods We're
represented by the houses they owned.
The very backbone Of a country is
broken when this class Of persons is
driven from their homes and sent cut
into the world destitute
most important parts OF the work Of
the Daughters Of the American Revolu-
ton" said Mrs. Horace w. BrOaddus.
But, besides patriotic education, the
organization does its part toward help
ing to give a general education to de-
serving girls. Through the scholarship
fund of the state D A. R., a scholarship
in the University of Texas is given
every year to one girl. 1t is the earnest
desire Of the OrganiZa ton 10 increase
the scholarship fund so that ii 1umher
of girls may be given q college educa-
ton. For the most recent scholarship
there were SO applications, all dsseTV-
ing, and it seemed Z great pity that
only one could be aelped - the eduea-
ton all soedesired-
'In view of the approach of Made in
Ell Paso' week, it is timely to warn
citizens against the pickpoekets," said
chief Of police L n. Davis. 'PickpOckets
always seek places where there are large
crowds particularly on occasions when
there are many strangers. They frequent
" work in pairs, one to attract the at
tention of the victim, and the other VINO
actually commits the theft. There is
a great variety of methods used in the
work and it behooves every citizen to
take precautions when entering
crowd It is not amiss, Furthermore, to
issue warning against pickpockets on
the occasion OF the Johnson Willard
IlEuls III case lllLA IblAtEol 10 olf GU al
Juarez. for there will certainly be a
big thrush of crooks of every desc-ip-
ton attracted by the crowds that Will
come then
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81 have been interested in noting
that the Womans club has seriously
discussed the merits of the Gary school
system" said Supt. R J. Tighe. 1T is
a wonderful system and solves a good
many problems in the handling of chill
dren. One of its main points of value
is that instead of keeping a child in
school for a few hours and examining
it to the limit, then turning the child
loose to waste an equal number of
hours, without any direction or over
sight, the Gary school system Keeps the
child constantly under intelligent over
sight, with the study. play and recre-
ative work evenly balanced. With the
constantly growing number Of people
in this city and the increasing number