El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-10

MUST GET BACK
New York Refuses to Have
Them in Hotel District;
New York Gossip.

New York. April 1O.-The bold at
tempt, without official help. to shut the
clothing factories out Of the central ho-
tel n retain shopping district n
thrust these hives of Industry back
south of Thirty-third street is appar-
emily successful. .
German cities are carefully zoned,
with certain classes of business kent i'm
certain limits and the maximum height
Of buildings specified for each street.
But there is the iron hand of bureau
crazy prescribing to the people what is
good for them.
This. on the contrary. is a typical
American movement. The merchants.
hotel keepers and other business men
OF the beautiful central section. COM
prising Fifth avenue between Thirty
third ana Fifty-ninth streets and the
adjacent side streets, banded together
and appealed to the sense of fairness
and justice OF the manufactures.
So reasonable did they make their
demands and so d~iplomatically did they
conduct their propaganda that the man
ufacturers themselves united to put the
new policy into effect.
So in a few months It will not be
good form for a manufacture TO have
an address in the restricted zone. In
other words. that good address which
the manufacturer especially wanted
when he paid a high price for a rent
uptown viii be a discredit 10 his sta
tionery instead Of a credit.
Incidentally, when the interloping
manufacturer who has seen the light
moves back south again he viii saw 2g
or 50 percent on his rent and be nearer
to the homes of his workers.
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Don't let the picture theater owner
make you your own furnace
This is the warning given by the
license and health commissioner, after
q joint inspection of 1000 movie thea
ters IN New York. They found that the
theater proprietor usually saves coal
bills when cold weather comes on BY
stopping the electric ans which bring
in the fresh air from outside and letting
the heat Of the human movie fans
bodies get the interior W to the proper
temperature.
out of 1000. only Is houses were Civ
ing the legally ordained 500 cubic feet
OF fresh air per person.
X x =
A mosquito fleet to hunt for subma-
rines in our next war is being organized
here.
Graduates Of New York public schools
viii gather next summer according to
plans. and learn how to scout for peri
scopes in fast motor boats. Craft over
30 feet long are expected to carry a
three inch gun.
Thus the clever amateur watermen
who swarm around these waters will
have q chance to do something for pre-
paredness, wen in the Piattsburg idea
doesn't appeal TO them
x X =
A new school with all the things ira
d~itionally Objectionable to little ones
cut outfits is the latest Rockefeller
idea.
It IS just by chance that this sug-
gested plan OF the general education
board appeals to the boys and girls, for
the prime purpose IS to create a new
school course which will bring the
youngster into a state fit for business
life two or three years earlier than un-
der the present system.
DR.. Abraham F1eXner. prepayment OF
the idea. would abolish grammar. most
Of school mathematics, useless histori-
cal facts and obsolete and u-ncongenfai
classics, meaning by the last, Latin and
Greek.
For these he would substitute actual
activities in science, industry. esthetics
and civics. with the stress on science.
Living languages would be included,
however.
The children would begin work by
getting acquainted with trees, plants.
animals. hills. streams n rocks and
they would learn to care for animals
and plants. and so OF through various
stages until they were taught the use
of the camera, the wireless telegraph
and the f~ireless cooker.