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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-03
FL PAsO AND SHOWS

FL fANo AND SHOWS
Editor Fl Paso Herald.
Why are Teal DuckIincs leaving IL
Pasoc We read with regret in The
Herald some few days back where
we are 10 lose the one and only good
company we have in Fl Paso. They
are going because the EI Paso people
will not support q good reasonably
clean show II is strange in a place
like Il 'aso, there being no amuse-
meuts of any kind where a man can
take MS wife or sweetheart to spend
an evening OF laughter and pleasure
tunless 90 picture show.
You look FOR somewhere 20 60 and
near good singing til your eyes grow
dim from strain. Still. when we get
q clean, good company like Raymond
IealS the people viii not support
il and try 20 keep them with us for
our own pleasure.
Ny family and 7 have attended
every show the Raymond Teal com
pany has produced and we have lived
In III Paso Is years and I saw I think
mat for the price tl mere 30 ceutSl
ave have never seen any company east
or west that can beat it for the
money.
anyone who has attended these
shows can see that IL is not El Paso
people who are supporting RAYMOND
Teal and his company What has
held them the seven months they re-
NAMED iu FL paso2 The bows and
their money at Fort Bliss. Raymond
Teal would have gone broke" LONG
ago had DE depended on FL Paso peo-
PIE FOR support. Stl ON an sides
you'll hear them say Goodness. what
town, Not even a theater to 20 to-
Believe me when Teal has gone he
and his company viii he missed.
The "li-h tones" as they call them
selves. go to California and bacl,
east take fin the i0 cent vaudevi1les
and walk out and hold No their heads
as ~ they had seen sometime great.
That was because it was in Callsor-
MIA and View York say tnis be-
cause I've done the same thing my
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-03

- OCK HOOKS, our congsnisl
blacksmith and erstwhile ton
- sorial artist, has added den
tistry to his accomplishments, and Is
now prepared to do staple and fancy
t0oth-pulling on short Notice.
Friends Of the camel have for long
time boosted that Il could 90 thirty
days without taking a drink But nov
a lot Of persons have TO 90 about
thirty states without one.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-03

SELF and have seen other II Pasoans
doing the same thiuE
just let some road show 1.-TWO by
FOUR come 10 Fl Paso and show Tor
$3.50 or s. seat twheu one could
see the same thing back east for e.
and SO ceutSI FL Pas0ans break helm
ueclss and run their tanks empty OF
gasoline trying TO beat the other Eel
low to the Texas Grand. Bur or
course so cents for an evening NJ the
crawl o-d is too cheap for some peo-
pie. Then some people never tire or
gazing into the beautiful mooulieht
over the Rio Grande for an evenings
pleasure.
So. as Raymond Teal would sneak.
I'LL sign this letter 20 The Herald
one or Teal s. Regular Customers"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-03

If W ". sympathizss and others from Blsoee and
DongIas AMI VIII sign their communications to The
Herald as evidence Of good faith The Herald would have
more confidence IN some of the statements they contain
and would be able under its rules to give puohcly 70
some Of the communications submitted
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-03
SOMEBODT TELL MN.

Editor II PasO Herald:
VIII YOU kindly tell me what's the
age Of Billy Sundays oldest som
II A. T.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-03

dev IS much diffrunce IN men. any
how
The galley boy asks # a girl refuses
to palk barefoot nix shoemaker
FOURTEEN YEARS AGO.
DR.. Hugh Grouse was running A
hospital In Victoria. Texas, DR.. Felix
Miller was practicing down at Mid
land Dr. Z. G. WithersDoOn was
teaching surgery at Chicago i'm the
Illinois university. and Dr. Paul Cal
lagher was going TO school. but FL
PasO people got sick just the same.
There was an adobe building occu-
pied by a restaurant where the Rob
erts-Banner building now stands. and
Hard Times Taylor, who ran the
place, Boosted that the guests at
the Sheldon came down and sat on
the benches i'm from OF his place.
picked their teeth and tried to make
the public believe they ate with him
s lot or men can spell BudWeiser
who couldn't spell little words like
enlist and 'army-"
Being a Texas university regent
isn't much TO boast about these days.
What's the difference in a road
house and the houses recently
closed in Fl Paso by order Of the
mayOrf We still have that Owl
cigar for the best answer.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-03

The bill agreed upon by the house immigration com
ttee punish by deportation or otherwise those aliens
who refuse army service under the draft ridiculous
The United Staes has night to penalize aliens
entering its military service than 1t has to con
script them. Suppose durng the revolutions IN Mexico,
the Mexican leaders had tried TO draft American citizens
ordered the deportation Of those who refused
accept service The howl that would have gone up would
have been heard 10 Washington The United States
has enough of its own citizens for To talk Of drag
ging IN aliens to do fighting IS nonsense
It IS announced that the New York stock exchange viii
be closed Saturday because of the heat It be
treev torid New York when the stock traders quit
reaching for the dollar. On the other hand, many
has quit account Of cold feet
Perhaps those back yard vegetables DO cost dollar
pound but, considering the fun Of watching them grow
they're worth It.
The purpose Of the British and French Is knock the
Germans from Flanders into flinders.
-O
In this war one side makes charge and the other
denial and the matter stands exactly where was before
-o
Soon the vacationists viii be coming home and saying
the Royal Gorge Is gorgeous.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-03
LETTERS To Ole HERALD


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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-03

The P-usslan mines employ over 10000
women in various capacities
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-03

way provided 20 Eive them some com
PORTABLE way -o get 20 and from town.
when they spend all their money in
- -.-.- Nrs- s L "
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-03

The purpose Of the British and French is TO knock the
rmans from Flanders into flinders.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-03

dev IS much diffrunee in men. any
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-03

In this var, one side makes charge and the other
enal and the matter stands exactly where It before
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-03

Z VII Dc CIeaUHT % TII = "IN Ut
through a beauty parlor' than
through a car paint shop If the price
of paint goes much higher the state
mcut adds. Then it says the cost OF
100 pounds as of May 1915. and May,
1917 is as follows
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-03

The galley boz asks # a girl refuses
10 Dalk bHefoo! nix a shoemaker
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-03

Soon the vacationists viii be coming home and saying
the Royal Gorge Is gorgeous
The Washington times., 1917-08-02
No Prohibition Childishness in
the House This Session
Congratulations to Mr. Webb and His Colleagues Apparently
the Prohibition Ladies Do Not Control Them-Yet

Mr.. Webb, chairman of the Judiciary Committee an
that the proposition make the entire nation dry by
Constitutional amendmenwhich proposition to put the
nation whiskey basis by Constitutional amendment
go over until the regular session.
common announcement
The dignity power and intelligence of the Senate has
appears been incapable of resisting the imperative orders
the AnSaoon League and of the ladies who want prob
ton
Among the Senators, ninety per cent moderate
Of alcoholic stimulants Yet they vote for that which their
lives contradict.
The House apparently intends to pay attention
the against Germany and not conne itself entirely
the against the rum demon
Possibly by the time the regular session around
both houses will realize that the possibility of amending the
Constitution not devised payhing for well meaning
reformers and hysterical fanatics.
This much is certain The proposition to please small
minority by putting this country whskey basis making
distilled spirits the only drink obtainabe and greatly ncreas
ing drunkenness will not go through without protest
Senators may decide to ugge with the Constitution
children play with toy balloon to curry favor at home
because they weary of Saloon League Importantly
And the House may follow suit
But the millions of workmen and the millions of common
in the United States who know that human nature
be changed in twenty hours the habit of
turtles ended on the OF hystecal minority will have
something to say before this nation goes back WHSKEY
THAT'S ALL"
The Washington times., 1917-08-02
Samuel w. Woodward
Washington Regrets His Death
The Work Done Bv Great Merchant Is for All the People

wide circle of friends, army of loyal employees
and the whole city Of Washington regret deeply the sudden
death of Samuel W. Woodward the famous merchant.
The who builds up great retail institution
in direct contact with the people supplies their individual
needs and is public benefactor in proportion to his
And Mr.. Woodward was among the most successful Of
those engaged the great national task of DISTRIBUTION
Long ago the world solved the problem of production
and selfish accumulation The problem of DISTRIBUTION
of making easy for the people get what they want de-
hveng direct to the from the who manufac
turethat is the big problem that the modern merchant
the people do not always realize their debt to him.
Mr. Woodward has done in his long and useful life the
work that most directly represents civilization
It stimulates in the first place production the highest
scale.
The really great merchant never satisfied with ANY
THING He wants BETTER every year. he wants that which
is new, in every good sense, each year.
The great merchant is the rider guiding and getting full
speed out of nations industries only the industries of
this nation but of all the nations.
For the big store of today really international
position.
The splendid organization that Mr. Woodward untmely
leaves behind him, is industrial and artistic mi
in which assembled the best products of all the
earths nations
The great merchant through his agents in touch with
China he is with New England and with India with
Alaska.
You who lead your lives comfortably who buy econom
caly thanks to intelligent competition and who need only
say to yourselves 81 and So will go the
and get it. remember the men to whom you this IA
cility.
There is long step from the days when he who wanted
spear sandals must make them to this day when that
man need only say Wrap it up and send it home
Genius Of retail merchandising is the typical genius of
modern civilization.
And Washington regrets the loss of one of the abes
leaders in that important work
The Washington times., 1917-08-02

one day when the coast was clear
/ deliberately stripped the fuchsia
tree of every blossom. It gave me
no pleasure to do so. My only
motive for the act, as l recall it,
was that l had been ordered not
to touch the flowers. But the
deed was accomplished, and / re-
allied what the results would be.
1t was practically certain that /
would not be allowed to go to a
children's party the next day and
wear my lovely new pink frock.
l could not face this possibility;
so when caught and questioned !
said that the little girl next door
had been the vandal, not l. She
proved an abb with dishearten-
ing ease, and then l put the blame
on a little boy up the street, but
he, too, wac equally ready with
the proof of his innocence. did
not go to the party in my new
pink frock, and worse, l was
scorned for lying and sent to
Coventry. l felt that l could not
live without my fathers favor.
But how was / to win it again?
Athletic prowess would not accom-
plish the result, for only a few
days since l had been dragged
from the pointed roof Of the
stable with harsh reprimands. De-
votion to lessons would merely be
looked upon as a duty. 1t must
be something spectacular. ! took
the heaviest tones from the IL
brary and ostentatiously absorbed
myself in them; but it was quite
in vain. / was still ignored. Then
! came to the conclusion that the
only way for me to win my rein
statement was to write a poem.
1t couldn't be any little four lines,
either; it must be quite long and
very great. Heavens, how /
worked! Other children played in
the glad sunshine. / chewed my
pencil and wrote. It restored me
to favor, but ever since that
phrase, "Tha way of the trans
gressor is hard" has had a pro-
found and poignant meaning for
me. That sticks, although many
of my early convictions have been
overturned by a wider experience
and a fuller knowledge of life.
One of the first of them to 90
was the belief that the world is
divided by a hard and fast line
into two classes. the good" people
and the bad" with all the church
members and pillars of society on
one side, and the murderers,
thieves, gamblers, and atheists on
the other.
Alas! In these iconoclastic days
no pillar of society can be re-
garded as safe from indictment
until he is gathered to his fathers,
and although my experience with
the criminal classes is not extern
The Washington times., 1917-08-02
New York World on Prohibition

First Column.)
What this means is that a prohibi-
ton amendment to the Constitution
Of the United States will become q
dead letter in all the States in which
public opinion is against it, and We
shall have a new scandal of the Con-
stitution Joined to the scandal Of the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth amend
ments, which no Congress, whether
Democratic of Republican, has ever
dared to enforce in respect to the
negro vote in the Southern States
in which the colored population could
dominate at the polls. The States
will be deprived of their police power
over the liquor traffic and the na-
tional authority will be unable to en-
force its own DEGREES in communal
ties in which public opinion is an
tagonistic. Senator Lodge truly said
that it was doubtful if We could re-
cruit an army large enough to sup
press the illicit traffic that would be
sure to spring up.
The evils of drink, the iniquities
of the saloon, have noShing to do with
this question We are dealing now
with fundamental issue Of govern
ment, and no government that the
world has hitherto known has been
strong enough even in time of war
to impose its absolute will upon the
people subject to it in respect to
what they shall eat and what they
shall drink and their ordinary manner
Of life. Nor can it be done in the
United States by the fiat of thirty
six State legislatures acting under
the whip of a prohibition lobby.
The amendment to the Constitu-
ton which the Senate adopted yester-
day is an amendment that has never
won a victory at the polls in any ma
tional election. 1t is an amendment
that no great party has ever adopt
ed, an amendment to which no sue
cessful candidate for the Presidency
was ever pledged in the whole his
tory of the country. Yet it is being
driven through Congress in the con-
fident belief that by the device thus
presented a minority Of the Ameri-
can people can impose their own per-
sonal habits upon a majority and
make their individual abstinence the
supreme law of the land
The Washington times., 1917-08-02

acquaintance who had played
hockey from school only a day or
two before. The fact was prompt
ly reported, and his parents pic
tured him spending a day Of wild,
free, lawless enjoyment, and
rather apprehensively wondered
what fresh piece Of mischief he
had achieved. But what actually
occurred was that he had sought
the home of a relative, announcing
that there was no school that day,
and then had occupied his time in
anxiously watching the clock so
that he might arrive home at the
time he usually came from school.
His day was one of worried stress,
and he paid for it, as he might
have foreseen, by being deprived
of some pleasure to which he was
looking forward. What he got
out Of his gypsying or what he
expected to get out of it is hard to
tell. Certainly the hours he put in
at it were more arduous and I'M
easy than any he could have en-
ployed upon his lessons.
Equally | shall never forget the
air of bravado, the self-conscious
smirk with which an old church
deacon of a Western village whom
/ encountered on Broadway told
me that he was going that evening
to see Naughty Marietta" then
playing at the Casino. The name
evidently aroused anticipations
which were not realized, for when
! met him again the following day
he said with sulky disappointment:
why, there wasn't anything to
it at all. All she did was TO come
out in a suit of boys clothes. The
Peaches From Paris company
gave a whole lot sportier show
than that right in the Opera House
at home"
Another proof Of my explorers
proposition, first dash out of the
box. That poor, old deacon had
travelled a thousand miles more or
less, and all he got for his pains
WAS a feeling of cheated chngrin.
How much easier and pleasanter it
would have been for him to have
stayed in his shoe store at home
and imagined what he was missing.
One of the things that make it
hard to be lad is, of course, the
way we have TO scheme and toll to
cover up our tracks, for we all
cherish the esteem of those about
US and will go to almost any effort
Of deception or subterfuge not to
lose il.
/ remember a beautiful fuchsia
tree which my mother greatly
priced. l was six years old at the
time and loved to tap the gorgeous
purple and scarlet bells with my
finger-tips and see them swing
back and forth. But was order
ed under promise of severe pen
alties not to touch the plant. Then
The Washington times., 1917-08-02

GONE one said to me the other
y day: at is so much harder
to be bad than to be good"
/ merely smiled politely. /
took it for granted tina. the man
who said it was trying to indulge
in brilliant conversation" The
cheapest and simplest recipe for
brilliant conversation" Is merely
to pick out some threadb0re plati-
tude and play it with the reverse
English. Thereby one acquires
sort of Shavian merit, and is
lauded as daringly original.
l had not heard my companions
name when he was introduced TO
me; but hadn't talked 10 him five
minutes longer before l discover
ed that he was distinctly not the
type of person to chatter for chat
ter's sake, or to attempt to focus
attention on himself by smart
repartee.
Later l learned that he was an
explorer and civil engineer whose
word carries weight, and who has
done many remarkable things.
Consequently l considered that
curious remark Of his anew, and
pondered it in the effort to find out
what he meant.
Of course, this statement was
entirely against all of our settled
and accepted theories. From the
time that | first went to Sunday
school in a starchy white frock
and pink sash l have been taught
that broad is the gate and wide
the way that leadeth to destruc-
ton Also it was instilled into
me that we must be constantly on
guard against the alluring snares
with which the tempter strews our
path. And how often at my
grandmother's table have ! heard
theologians discuss the stern doc
trines of election, justification by
faith, and eternal punishment and
original sin.
Ell mere WAS a IIldH WIZ Hdu
plumbed the wickedest depths of
Port Said, who had known the
Barbary Coast of San Francisco
in the days of its most Haunting
iniquity, who had ranged freely
somewhere east' of Suez, where
the best is like the worst" who
was familiar with the slums Of
London and the ports of the
Caribbean, who had foregathered
with yeggs and headhunters and
Mexican bandits and the crooks of
almost every nationality, and
could call them by their first
name.
Certainly when he asserted in
all seriousness that it is easier
being good than bad the PROPOSE
ton was worth thinking over, if
only as a mental exercise.
thought of a small boy Of my
The Washington times., 1917-08-02
CONTINUED from

NOOnIlnueQ IIOl
justed without the loss Of more than
500, 900 lives and the wasting Of bill
lions Of treasure.
The Prohibition States are now un-
dertaking to do what the slave States
once unsuccessfully attempted. They
are resolved to extend their prohibi-
tory system to the rest of the coun-
try and to override the States that
are opposed to Federal regulation Of
the sumptuary habits Of the people.
The Senate yesterday voted to sub
nit the amendment to the legisla-
lures of the several States, and I'M
less reason triumphs over fanaticism
In the House the country will be torn
for the next six years by this I'M
necessary and highly dangerous con-
troversy.
At a time when the most solemn
duty Of Congress is to promote
American unity and concentrate its
energies on the winning of the war,
a new subject Of national discord is
created by the insistence Of the Pro-
hibition lobby and the failure Of the
Senate to measure up to its great
responsibilities.
Under the Constitution as it now
stands the people of every State have
full power to regulate the manufac-
ture and sale Of all alcoholic liquors.
They can license it, they can restrict
it, they prohibit it as they please.
That is how it should be. That Is
how it must be if the fundamental
principles of the Government Of the
United States are not to be over
thrown and the Federal authority
made the dictator of the personal
habits of every man, woman, and
child in the United States.
Nationwide prohibition could new
er be enacted by the votes Of the
American people themselves. Its
only chance lies in the acquiescence
of thirty-six State legislatures which
actually represent q minority Of the
population Of the country. In the
adoption of a constitutional amend
ment. Nevada, with a population of
10s 900, counts for as much as New
York with a population of 10000, 900,
and Wyoming. with a population Of
1872 900, counts for as much as Penn
sylvania, with $780, 900.
The Washington times., 1917-08-02

sive, I am told that on the whole
they assay up very much like the
rest Of US. Meanness, cruelty and
deceit are by no means monopolies
of those who are outside the pale
Of the law.
There is this about it, too: Every
one, whether he be pillar Of So
ciety or recognized crook, would
prefer to 60 right rather than
wrong. In other words, the inclina-
ton Of humanity is toward good
ness. Poverty. drink, passion or
evil associations may switch US
temporarily from the track, but
that inclination will persist even TO
the last. The bank-looter always
intends to restore what he has
taken, the burglar to settle down
on a chicken farm when he has
made a sufficient haul, the drunk
ard to reform, and the convict
as no leaves the prison gates has
a firm resolution thenceforward to
go straight.
This is natural and sincere, and
besides all the incentive and re-
wards are on the side Of the
righteous life, all the pains and
penalties for the transgressor. So
the idea almost invariably when
one commits a crime is to get
away with it without being caught,
and then to return to normal vir-
tue.
And unless it be a crime of sud
den passion, the first essay is never
undertaken without more or less
hesitation, deep consideration and
great mental stress.
No one ever hesitates or expert
ences any perturbation at the pros
pect of being good. Even the worst
outcast will eagerly seize the OPP
portunity to demonstrate the quail
ties of virtue. Today the Apaches
of Paris are fighting heroically in
the trenches, and the Magdalens
are working in the ammunition
factories. So, just because we are
sooner or later forced to recognize
that human nature at the bottom
is sound and true and often noble,
/ believe we have to concede that
goodness, after all, is the easiest
way.
The world is growing better and
better all the time. Out Of this
seething melting pot of war
awful and horrible as it is-a new
era will emerge, with many of our
old prejudices and distinctions
burned away and a better under
standing of the needs and destiny
of the race-a better understand
ing Of men by men, and Of women
by women, and of men and women
by each other.
For this trial it is going to be a
better, cleaner, finer world to live
in, and in it being bad" will be
harder than ever, and being
good" that much easier.