El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-13
There Is Still Need For Closest Economy In America
Wants 4 Plan To Make Army Food Easily Purchasable

their city sisters. and they rebelled
at the alleged necessity OF wearing
shoddy clothes. But now thin has
changed The women themselves hav e
done IL Where the farm boys for
merly were attracted to the city girls
because of their pretty clothes and
better knowledge Of dress, now they
don't have to 80 further than their
own neighborhood TO find the same
It is going to result in many man s
staying on the farm. where he be-
longed, where formerly those country
lads got to the city at the first op-
portunity."
adjustment Of passenger rates Is
now in process at the rate conference
in Chicago" said Garrett King. gen
ersl passenger agent OF the El Paso
& Southwestern railway. An attempt
viii be made by the rate makers to
make a rate whereby charge for act
ual mileage Will be made for the
longer routes which are Is percent
longer than the shortest competing
route in any case Under the present
system the rate between two Dints
Is governed by the mileage Of the
most direct route regardless Of the
route taken Interchanging Of tickets
between the Southern Pacific and tie
FL Paso & Southwestern system on
the joint track between Tucson and
Los Angeles is not allowed by these
two competing companies. Exception
to this is made in the case where the
sale OF a ticket originates at Kansas
City or some point on the Rock Island
lines outside Of Texas"
The practice CT small boys here
In FL Paso throwing stones through
the semaphores along the railroad
lines and that OF riding on trains are
both not only nuisance. but also
hindrance and a danger to the train
service" said L H Trimble, safety
superintendent Of the FL Paso &
Southwestern railway "A semaphore
signal out Of order means a delay Of
trains or an accident and rocks
throuwh through windows Of trains
have nearly resulted in serious acct
dents TO trainmen. The solution Of
the problem lies largely with the pa
rents Of the children Most Of those
who create the nisance around the
tracks are the same ones who persit
in riding trains whenever the oppor-
tunity permits. This is a dangerous
practice and one that the railroads
have been making every effort to
stop"
The plan Of raising a big fund for
bringing factories TO a city has been
tried elsewhere with success. and
believe 1t could be done with profit
in FL Paso.' said Alfred E Rowlands,
prominent Rotarlan- a fund of half
a million dollars could be raised very
easily by graded assessments. and 1t
would not be necessary TO raise ii all
at once The attention of manufact-
uring interests all over the country
would be attracted through advertis-
ing. and enterprises might be brought
to the city which would in turn bene-
fit the subscribers to the fund"
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New York money is anxious for
investment in Texas and other west
ern oil enterprises" said lieutenant
arthur E Skeatss secretary treasurer
Of the Tex-Mex OIL company. "but
the New Workers want genuine pro-
ductions. not wildcat acreage and
wind Bona fide propositions get q
ready and sympathetic hearing Il is
believed that large sums viii be in
vested in oil enterprises next autumn
by eastern capital"
Columbus, \. NJ. Is feeling certain
that the route for the Borderland
highway will be selected in such a
way as TO run through that border
town" said Charles ". Powers. drug
gist OF that place Mayor J. Ross
Blair and citizens Of Columbus met
with the committee which went over
the proposed route recently and II is
now quite probable. we think. that
the route from Fl Paso west viii turn
at Alden on the Southern Pacific and
run westward 10 Columbus. thence TO
Hachita and Rodeo. all in New Mex
leo, and on TO Douglas, Ariz- We feel