El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-06

Lc-L PASOANS OF Mexican birth
and descent are doing their
IL bit in the purchase OF Lib
erty bonds" said J. J. LongwelI. THE
Mexican employees OF my company
Friday subscribed for more than $500
worth OF bonds and counting the sub
scriptions Tor the initial days drive
our firm has bought S1100 worth This
amount viii be increased. The auto
mobile sales agencies and other deal
ers expect TO complete their entire
subscription among the employees
within a few days. There are nearly
30 members OF the teams selling bonds
70 the automobile men and we expect
to increase the amount Of bonds
bought by these men during the first
issue
II anyone doubts that this is a
good country for cotton. let him come
10 my residence and 1 viii show him
a patch that was 100 percent etflci-
emit" said Z. y. Lawrence. zone day
last year. I met a friend from a cot
ton section and I asked him for some
seed He had four seeds in his pocket
and he gave me those. I planted them
in my back yard and today ! have
four big stalks, each laden with
bolls."
From the encouragement given
the committees in the first day OF
the drive for the sale OF the second
isspe Of Liberty bonds I am sure that
FL Paso will oversubscribe its quota.
said r. B. Orndorff sales manager
While all the chairmen of these
committees have not yet made their
reports for the first days sales I
think It viii far exceed that OF the
inaugural days sales OF the first is
sue. The chairman and members OF
their committees are leaving their
business TO work for the sale OF the
bonds. This viii result in a greater
success than has been anticipated
Wooden shoes for American
men. in the latest caption in the
newspaper that has struck my eye"
said J. d. Carruthers. We thought
we had. got away from wooden
shoes when our forbears left Eu-
rope generations ago. They might
tolerate sabots in the country dis
tricts Of France; they might like them
In the fields OF Bavaria; the factory
hands In the suburbs OF Manchester
might trot TO and fro with resound-
Ing clacE over the cobblestones, but
as for us-never. Surely the world
do mOve'-mostly in circles"
"Arresting negroes found prOwl-
ing around the streets in the small
hours Of the night with the notion in
mind that they must be up to some
mischief is a practice which 1 have
noticed in a good many cities Of the
south" said J. G. stead. Now while
I would not say that a certain per
centage OF those arrested are not up
to some mischief. 7 do believe that
the majority Of the officers who do
the arresting and possibly some OF the
judges. too. are not aware Of the fact
that TO prowl around at night is a
race Characteristic as natural TO the
negro as il Is for the American in the
tropics TO hustle around in the heat
OF mid day when the natives are tax
ing their siesta"
About ten Of our students failed
10 return TO complete their studies
this year. said dean S. H Worrell. OF
the School Of mines. but every one
Of them is in the army, and what is
more gratifying, everyone has a COM
mission. awarded him after training
at Leon Springs. They are all second
lieutenants, even to one who had not
completed even the freshman year.
One Of our instructors, Tom Dryer,
is a first lieutenant. I know Of no
other educational institution which