El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-02
Roundabout Town


peuse-none of il in payment against
construction Of the dam.
Crop yields are being reduced by
the rising water table and scarcity
OF water and the rancher without out
side means will not long survive with
out relief from some direction
THE question in the farmers mind
is not how much better off he is IN
der the great dam, but how much
worse off he is The government is
charging him for storing the water
above the dam and for the actual wa
ter delivered into the ditch whether
used or not, ana other assessments
seem to have multiplied in an alarm
ing way.
Considers Charges Unjust.
cit is felt that the above charges
by the government are unjust and
one reclamation official so declared
At least he abrogated it. but last fall
another official reinstated IL and the
rancher had the alternative OF pay
ing this charge for 1915 and IS or no
I venture to say that 30 per cent or
this money had to be borrowed
The only relief I can see, aside
from the abandonment Of these
charges by the government, Is the
taking over and operation Of the
bitches by the reclamation service
It has been the impression that the
government would take over these
bitches and pay their value. I IN
derstand this has been done in two or
three instances, hut I am informed by
a responsible official OF the reclama-
tion service that they have no such
intention as to the ditch I am speak
ing Of. The owners do not understand
why they pay for some and take them
over and not others.
Wants Chamber of Commerce Help.
1T is barely possible that il the
chamber of commerce would get be-
hind this matter. the stockholders
might be shown that it would be to
their interests to donate their ditch
to the government. or TO the system.
provided the service would take II
over and operate it.
There is still much unimproved
land in the valley and much in large
tracts that must be cut Up and sold
to smaller farmers. The need OF the
valley is more farmers It is going to
prove a difficult matter to get them
with the present scarcity Of water
and the excessive charges for it.
III something is not done TO re-
lieve the situation the valley is going
to meet with a setback that will take
may years and much effort to over
come
Hubert Hunter, of the Herald staff.
the on college graduate who ever
two syllable words, has another story
about Herbert C Hoover, national
food administrator. Mr. Hunter got
the story at Stanford university when
he was there qualifying for member
ship in the FL Paso University club
According to this story, young Hoover
went to Stanford with lots OF energy
but no cash. He had to make his own
way. and in doing It. he landed JOB
as waiter on table in \ sorority house
Between meals he took off his wait
er's apron and dug into his books or
attended lectures.
The sorority girls were awfully ex-
elusive and all that, sort OF thing.
don't you know. and the student
waiter was a notch or two above the
Chinese cook. out not much more That
went for all but one girl and she fell
in love with Hoover and married him
about the time he left the university
In the engineering profession. he
went up like a rocket and made money
with both hands A few years after
his graduation. he presented his wife's
sorority with a $4,000 chapter house,
the best on the campus at that time
The girls gave a house warming in II.
and IL was a great affair-real society
stuff Mr.. and Mrs Hoover were
counted upon to hold the center or
the stage-but Hoover baked His
wife could go. but not for him when
he hadn't been good enough as a stu
dent to receive their notice.
The house was indirectly a tribute