El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-05
E PA60 To IF ONE Of THE F0LIR
GREATEST CITIES IN THIS STATE
Rotaran international President Says the Die Is Cast
Ell Paso Predestined to Be Great, but Not Merely Be
cause It Is Railroad Center; Says Don't Subsidize
Factories; Help Schools and Library.

ty for factories on nave the raw
material here for wool, cotton and
wood manufacture At present YOU
ship your cotton on foreign boats to
England to be spun into thread, then
shipped back TO New York on more
foreign boats, then transported to Min
nesota and made into garments and
shipped back to you here. You pay
five profits and the freight for all
that hauling when you could make
the goods up here
NO factory worth a whoop ever
comes to a town for a subsidy. EactO-
ries will come here when you show
show the promoters where they can
make a profit Transportation. raw
material and a market are the essen
tials for a successful factory city"
NiGGardIy support Of school.
The public school enrolment of $500
with a high school enrolment of 697
was pointed out as being only So per
Paso
He criticised FL Paso for not provid-
ing more school facilities and said:
You have invested about S25,OO0 in
manual training work, a mighty small
amount for a city that sends 91.S per
cent of its children TO work after they
leave the eighth grade and fails to
provide them with means of learning
a trade You contribute to your schools
"A mills on the dollar. In Gary, Indi-
ana, that city 'opprdeSsed and ground
down by the great steel trust as many
are wont to say, they give 10 mills 10
their schools. The entire state of
Pennsylvania gives II mills to schools"
While the Inadequate tax for school
ing was criticised. the speaker said he
was pleased to find some provision for
the play spirit of Ell PasO children. but
the entire sum expended for this pur-
pose was scarcely enough to carry on
a well conducted department Of mu-
nicipal research alone.
FL PssO's Death Rate.
The large death rate in FL Paso came
in for scoring, though the speaker ad-
mitted he was not familiar with condi-
lions which explain this mortality as
growing ont of the presence within
the CITY of many invalids who seek
Fl Paso for health. He said the rec
ords did not show this As a check
upon such a condition, he suggested
an enlargement of the work Of the
health department TO keep q close
check on all cases of tuberculosis If
respective Of their being local or from
foreign parts. He also advised that
more money should be expended in the
widening and broadening OF the field
OF the health department
Must Rise - Fall Together.
'Tou are Concerned as much with
the health of your Mexican pOpulatio
as with your American population"
he said, for history shows that where
one section of a population is diseased
another section contracts the disease.
There is Just as much danger to your
children in the American section of the
city as to the little brown children
whom YOU permit to wallow in filth
on the lower side" He suggested that
the people of FL Paso do all they can
and at once to make the whole city
a healthy one. as all must rise and
prosper together or all viii sink and
suffer together"
The Public Library.
A plea was made for the Fl Paso
~anrT l. H~rr to
his audience that il was through such
a source he himself acquired most OF
his education Your circulation at
the library shows one book for each
Of 10000 people annually: whereas the
average is not less than books for
each person. In Galveston I found an
average circulation of books to the
person OF the eighteen branch libra