Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1918-02-10
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EE3 BY GIllen A. Cain.-D

OF all cities in the new world and
in the old, have become affected more
or less by the climate and the land
scape and the customs and the growth
or decay of their own institutions.
They are bronzed. keen eyed and
alert. They work hard and play hard
and are always ready to do more for
their town than for themselves. The
types of a nation show at their best
in that nations newer cities (Of
course this newspaper man knows
that FL PasO man knows that FL Paso
of yesterday is an old as Jerusalem
and the Cliffdwellers OF Montezuma's
day. but the FL Paso Of today is only
a few years old
And these men have built a little
old New York in the desert sands of
the southwest. Fact. People 20 to
New York to live in her hotels and
see her show places and her stores.
FL PasO is city Of hotels. stores and
plazas. Let us stop and rest while
in The Pass before we go through,
either to Mexico or the states" say
the people of the southwest And so
they stop and meet lot Of fine folks
and have a good time and are inocu-
lated with the toxin of the city's
growth and greatness. and often they
stay
FL Paso is much like her sister, Ok
lahoma City. founded and built in the
midst of the plains. She has no water
front or coal fields. so she did the.
best possible with the tools at her
hand. A railroad center. warehouse.
retail mart. distributing point. supply
depot, entertainment hall But she is
growing beyond these things and is
adding factories and institutions and
buildings and values and permanent
wealth and substance that will attract
and hold people for herself as well as
fer her ribbons and resting places
and les taurants and raphsodies picked
from the gutter.
The newspaper man mad the privi
lege of meeting one set of Fl Paso
business men at the University club.
thanks to the kindness of its presi-
dent, Norman Walker. the Associated
Press star, and another set AT the
AID Mems club. thanks to President
Benton OF that organization. They
wanted to hear about Arizona. and
he told them gladly Of the same red
sands, and mountains, set down like a
childs blocks, and the same men who
had come from the ends of the earth
to build cities OF the southwest.
They wanted to know about the
Bisbee deportation. and the newspaper
man told them more gladly still how
body of Bisbee men. the exact
counterpart in kindness. courage. in
telligence. endeavor and patriotism as
these men before him. had met and
agreed to save their town at any cost
Doctor. lawyer merchant. chief. COM
ing 10 the southwest from the same
states and cities and with the same
high purposes and love of the square
deal and gentle sympathy for the
under dog. these men of BiSbee. which
is a smaller edition of Fl Paso and
serving in a smaller way as a border
rendezvous for the brains. business
and pleasure OF the country round
about had done the only thing they
could do 70 rid their community of a
plague Fl Paso arrests her buns
and drives them out of town; so does
to handle at one time.
These FL PasO business men. they
warmed the newspaper mans heart
They are resular up-and-at-'em men.
Quick thinking and quick to act; mix
ing common sense and high ideals in
the proper proportions-no wonder
they have such a big. live town. FL
Paso belongs as much to Arizona and
New Mexico as she does to Texas. for
she is our market and warehouse to
the eastward. and il is there that We
go to gaze into the glass Of fashion
in her shops and stores. The spirit OF
the southwest is there, part and par
eel of the sunshine the desert and
the mountains and the distances.
Oh. yes. coming back on the train.
the newspaper man had his admfra-
ton kindled and his patriotism stirred
by the brakeman. who declared to a
tat passenger with whom he had been
the war; Il think the gov
ernment has been too patient with
these profiteers and allen enemies
and pacihsts and Slackers. They ought
shot. Our government is always too
patient with everybody. Maybe that's
the reason it is so great and com
mands so much respect when it does
make a move. But. anyway, il has
been TOO easy with soms Of these
cattle. And another thing; I hear
lot Of people kicking about the meat
less day and wheatless day and the
pleas to save and help in all the lit
lie ways. Ding my buttons, but | am
willing. and so ought every gent 10
be. TO live on one meal a day until
the war is won. We eat too much.
anyway, and like to eat as well as
anybody and | work about as long
and as hard"
No, this was not the brakeman who
Duilded the fire and gassed the train
/ night or two before This FL Paso
md Southwestern train was warm and
inc and the porter was ON the job
with a happy smile and all went as
1snNf IN fh., sara.