El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-04-16

Teachers Find Advocate Move to Get Higher Salaries
81 PaSoS Drinking Water Supply Is Credit to the City

seEL PAsO has every right 70 b
Eproud Of her drinking water"
said alderman Bert sempls. There
was a time when water had to drawn
the night previous and allowed TO
settle before il could be used sand
and plenty Of II was a large ingFe-
dent Of our water. Speaking OF wa
ter, reminds me Of q story that they
tell on Kansas City, where / was bora
A man from the great Missouri cts
went for the first time to Chicagu,
After spending several days there he
woke up one morning a trtfle thirsty
and sent down TO the hotel office fO-
a large glass Of water. 1t was brought
to him He looked at IL and exclaimed.
I ordered water, this stuff is not
water. it Is not yellow FL Paso is
improving its water system every
year. The new plant that the city
will shortly take over, the one re-
Gently completed at the foot Of
Montana street is ideal from every
standpoint"
Business men and people In gem
erai In the city are In favor OF the
advance in salaries asked by the
teachers" said Mrs T. Arlington.
The teachers are not asking for
salaries that will provide them with
luxuries but the necessities OF life.
I have been told by some Of the lead
ing merchants OF the city that the
teachers have purchased the merest
necessities and that unless they re-
ceive an advance during the present
term, many Of them will be unable to
meet their bills by the end OF the
term"
TO further the back 70 the school
movement in America, the depart
ment Of labor has Issued 1900 Ian
tern slides. 10 be exhibited through
out the country" said Mrs. Ponder
Carter Il have already asked the CO.
operation Of the moving picture thea
tiers Of the city in exhibiting these
slides and, as they are now ready
for release by the government, we
expect 10 show some OF them soon
This method Is expected 10 be ef-
fective in the movement which, ac-
cording TO superintendent p j. Tighe,
has ALREADY, proved very successful
'El Paso should have q home de-
tense league one was started some
time ago but never carried on said
l. u. Rocket. TO show that IL would
be a good thing. I will give an ex-
ample OF what the home defense
league is doing IN Cincinnati. A few
weeks ago the fire department Of
that city went on q strike. because
two OF the firemen had been dis
charged. They became riotous- The
home defense league about 30oo men,
was called out, and kept order. II
ever a city needed an organization
OF this kind, It is FL Paso. with its
possibilities OF border trouble. The
organization could be used 70 defend
the city, II the ueed should arise"
The times are extremely hard for
the people in our part OF the Sierra
Aladres, with the mines shut down.
said Enrique Seifert, OF Ocampo. Chi
huahua- The big American company
that was operating in that district
shut down in 1912. and there has been
nothing in the mining line since eX-
cept a little 'gambusino' work here
and there and precious little OF that
Farming is out OF the question. except
an occasional little level spot on the
mountain sides For a long time after
the mines closed, which they had to
do for no fault Of the foreign owners
but on account OF the disturbed poll
tical conditions. the people placered
the creek that runs through Ocampo
into which the tailinEs and ueces-
sariiy some amalgam run from the
quartz mills. After the mines closed