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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20
II Years Ago Today
from The Herald Of IN. Date. 100s

MISS ALICE ROOSEVELT Is visit
w ing IN Korea She Is shown every
possible attention By the royal family
and is paid all the homage usually
given royalty.
Arrangements have been completed
for the concert in the plaza tomorrow
evening for the purpose OF raising
funds to put in new benches before
the opening OF the next concert sea
son
II. L Potter has returned from a
visit to his old home in Wisconsin.
where he was called By the death OF
his father.
The city council viii at It's meeting
tomorrow night. elect a successor 10
J. B. Larrazolo. r., as clerk OF the
corporation court.
". G. Sublett. junction manager for
the Western Union IN FL Paso and
Juarez. has returned from Kentucky,
where he married Miss Humphrey re-
Gently.
The first frost OF the season was re-
ported at Cloudcroft yesterday. The
frost was unusually heavy for this
season OF the year.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20
New Yorker Seeks Sec1uSion in "WiIdS"
of New Mexico. But Can't Lose FlivverS
Bv cERALD BRANDON.

7 NIGHT as well admit at the be-
/ ginning that 1 am a New Yorker
It does me no good to deny It, for
despite the broad stetson hat, riding
breeches and boots which I have worn
assiduously ever since my arrival in
FL Paso. I do not seem to be able 70
pass as a westerner.
IAN a collector OF impressions and
strong emotions. I seek experiences
out OF the ordinary-scenes and Incl
dents which win afford material for
"reminiscences at such time when old
age will confine me TO my fireside.
FL Paso no longer has thrills 10
offer Gone forever are the day
when the city could furnish front
seats TO revolutionary fans.
Hungry for a taste OF real western
life I eutrained for Engle. New Mex
leo. gateway TO what I was informed
IS one Of the most unsettled regions
in the United States.
Engle is an ideal spot for a Bill
Hart movie-a railroad station ana
tank. a score OF adobe huts, the usual
hotel and ex-saloons, and the familiar
type Of loungers. cowpunchers and
1lexicans.
But even Engle has its anachron-
isms. An automobile service station
with its inevitable gasoline fountain
mars the middle distance.
Not a horse could be hired IN Engle,
so 7 set out westward unromantically
in a flivver. driven by reformed
Reaching the Dam.
We Travelled 10 miles Of dusty mesa
where occasional steers exc out a
miserable existence on screw bean
mesquite, then five more miles OF
winding road in, Up and aroud
boulder strewn hills. Every hundred
yards a signpost warns OF danger
Gus curve ahead" What a roadl As
senator johnson thinks the Versailles
peace treaty. We met road gangs at
work but their desultory efforts viii
surely be nullified by the first rain.
AS we chugged around the shoulder
Of a bald butte, we caught our first
glimpse Of the imprisoned waters Of
the Rio Grande in what I am told Is
the biggest artificial lake in the world.
A couple Of miles further we reached
the Elephant Butte dam. massive and
monumental, promising Gnfailing wa
ter to millions Of thirsty acres.
Getting TO Hot Springs.
& final five miles and we reached
Hot Springs. a patchwork hamlet peo-
pied by healthseellers and built mostly
Of lumber salvaged from the defunct
dam construction camp.
Were Hot Springs in Europe, there
would be a titular local Madonna to
receive the credit for its healing wa
rers. Never have I seen patients with
greater faith and never have I wit
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20

may be predicted safely and Italy will have to dispose
Of DAnnunzo and his patriotic but misguided followers
best can relying on the League of Nations to take up
the Fiume question in due of time and night any
wrong done Italy in the peace conference.
In the meantime, probably everybody but the Jugo-
Slavs viii have admiration for the dashing spirit, not
the sense of Captain DAnnunzo. His occupation
Fiume and his annexation of it to Italy by rite Of kissing
flag climax his earlier exploits when
fought in the trenches against the Austrans and later
when he transferred to the aviation service and led
bombing squadron the seaport Of Pola with results
costly in life and property to the Austnans It strikes
being distinctly Latin that fiery poet should be
transformed into equally fiery fighting sodier-and re-
main poet still.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20
Watch Phoenix Grow.

IIGH of building not lettering Phoenix from put
ting up homes business buildings and hotels and
ought not hold back FL any longer Building PEI
ts issued Tuesday Phoenix totaled s164ooo In less
than week. permits totaling S5seooo have been issued
These included permit for concrete building to cost
s15oOoo Otherwise the permits covered structures Of
moderate size and cost Is be noted, however that
construction of hotel costing 100000 is about to COM
mence.
FL Paso realty and builders know well enough how
these figures compare with those of FL Paso notwhstand
ing that Phoenix is much smaller than FL Paso The dis
parity in size and population will not long continue if Phoe-
keeps growing very fast and FL Paso keeps growing
rather slowly Phoenix is extending its city limits two
miles to the and about to extend them to the In
school, three miles from the center Of the city Farms
ten years ago city lots now.
FL Paso might as well take note of young and grow
ing and enterprisng city in Arizona and not take
granted that because E Paso is the metropolis
the southwest hold that title without lettering
the other fellows best Building expansion and growth in
population well business acumen are required to
meet that test.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20

, messed more rapid improvement IN the
sick. Hot Springs. New Mexico, Is
mostly poor mans resort ana from
all points OF Texas, Oklahoma. Ari-
IONA and New Mexico they come II
flivver and in canvas covered Wa
gon, bringing with them entire fami-
lies and household goods Some rent
ramshackle adobe huts or frame
shacks; others camp out in the open
and a favored few patronize the two
local hotels, which boast modern
plumbing and electric light
Healing the Sick.
The water IS recommended for rheu-
matism and stomach trouble. You
both drink il and battle in it. There
is no charge for either.
made Hot Springs my headquar-
ters and took in the country within a
radius Of % miles All is over the des-
ert mesa I rode. wondering the while
how cattle ana horses manage 10 keep
alive on its scanty vegetation. poked
my nose up the Palomas. Animas and
Monticello canyons, where prosperous
Mexican farmers raise luscious melons,
fruit ana garden truck. irrigating
with water from the distant Black
I scaled the steep Cuchino noun
tains and fingered rich specimens Of
tin. lead, silver and copper ores from
claims mostly staked out by men in
for the present
The World Is Small.
I had never before realized how
Tar reaching was the draft Every
where I met discharged soldiers. most
OF them dark skinned chaps Of Next
can blood, who, for the first time
were considered Americans when they
donned the o. d Most Of them were
overseas men and our common ex-
'periences in France brought US to-
gether famously.
There was one chap who brought
back a French bride with him. She
cannot speak a word of English, and
he barely makes himself understood
in French Surely love must have
universal language like Esperanto, or
else how did he ever propose?
There was also a wounded aviator
at Hot SPRINGS chap who had
served with the Canadian army in
France ever since 1914.
Where. oh Where. Is secuIsiOnF
During two weeks 1 rode all over
Sierra county and rever once did I
meet a man on horseback. Everybody
owns a flivver and saddle horses are
out OF date. ] was offered a bunch
Of a couple Of hundred broncos for
eight dollars a head, colts thrown in
I looked them over. but did not like
them; they did not average more than
500 pounds and looked more like jack
rabbits than horses.
The oil craze has also struck that
section There IS q derrick going up
a couple Of miles east OF the Springs.
I had a pleasant vacation-hunted
some and fished little, but the wild
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20
Trace Lette



CEGOvIA is a dead city OF Spain
y There are dead towns in this eoun-
try. which both lived and died within
half a century. and few that are much
more than a century old But Seso-
via died centuries ago and it is as old
as civilization in Europe
The Romans built Segovia- It stands
on a rocky bridge between two swift
rivers-a compact little city Of mar
row streets and old stone houses
crowded together. A mighty aqueduct
which was built by the Romans. still
brings the city its water supply from
the Guadarrama mountains. Sego-
via, high and narrow on its ridge, lies
like a great ship IN the plain, moored
by its aqueduct TO the distant noun
tains.
segovia is city OF deserted
churches Long go il lay in sort
Of contested land between the region
held by the Moors and that held ny
the Christians. Sometimes one held II
and sometimes the other. Both built
churches there.
Now Segovia has lost so much OF its
population that most Of the churches
stand empty, despite the tact thar
Spain Is a pious land. some OF them
have been locked for centuries, and
only the bats know the secrets OF their
dark interiors where neither sound
nor sunlight has been for so long.
Others have attendants who will open
their doors TO the curious
once a week Segovia awakens.
Peasants come to the city from all
the surrounding country. They are
primitive people who look like Figures
from the middle ages. There is laugh
ter and color in the streets then. Bells
ring and a few Of the churches open
their doors to worshippers. But by
sunset all Of the peasants are gone.
and Segovia Goes 70 sleep for another
week.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20

a DRIVE is TO be made.
FOR THE salvation Army.
WORK IN FL Paso-
IF THERE ever was.
. AN ORGANIZATION.
THAT PRACTICED true charity.
THIS ORGANIZATION does It.
No MAN IS too lowly.
NO WOMAN is so far.
DOWN AND out.
But THAT they get help.
FROM THE Salvation Army.
EVERY SOLDIER.
WHO WAS over there"
HAS a good word
FOR THE blue bonnets.
OF THE salvation Army.
ASK THEM who served best
FOR THE fighting men
AND THEY answer:
The SALVATION army"
THE MAN who has been.
DOWN AND out completely.
WILL TELL YOU what it did.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20
We TOWNE GOSSIP
Registered Z. s.
ALWAYS THE OTHER FELLOW.
are called but few answer .Here."

THE WOMAN without = home.
WILL TELL YOU the sans
Ask THE fathsrless ehnd
Ask THE mothsrlsss child
WHO GAVE them a home.
THEY WILL answer.
THE salvation Army
WHILE IT is religious
IT IS NOT ssetarian-
ITS ONLY religion
IS DOING good
IT PAYS HOMAGE to God
AND WORKS IN His name.
IT REQUIRES no creed.
OF THOSE it serves.
IT Is THE great church
OF HUMANITY.
ITS DOORS are open 70 the world
WHEN MAJ. Burgess solicitors.
CALL FOR your help
MAKE IT big
FOR 1T MUST be big
TO BE appropriate
TO THE great work
THE SALVATION ARMY Is doins
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20
Ripping Rhymes
By WAIT MASON.
Taxes

NcLE SANS as slick is and he's class alone;
- for taxes, dig without groan dig
money put in sack Of qnny and with smile and carry him
the buck and bone And I'd do still
tell hourly daily,
Toubes like unsrd blowing bubbles caring
that their earning made
dollars cmy toll
in
really shouldn't feed already yet
digging a have earned them steering ghters
ja5Oree spending seeuy
shining pages
Of future sages, your redemption may traced.
Copyright WALT MASON
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20

Nobody would have suspected Judge Gary of being re-
sponsibe for intimidation interruption of peaceful
bly, false arrest obstruction Of justice and corruption Of
officials assault, robbery and murder until the steel
workers wrote president Wilson about it. Strange that
this awful orgy Of crime didn't become public until the
steel workers decided leave their story houses and
get in their ousines and go fishing because judge Gary
wouldn't recognize their union.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20

| e6TT LOOKS to me as though some
l plan Of combining the Rio Grande
along by FL Paso could be devised
that the small amount OF water that
now flows in it would clear out and
thereby lower the river bed" said
Zach White. "Of course. It IS known
that the rise n the river bed four
feet In the last five years. due 70 the
building OF the Elephant Butte dam
and thereby stopping the flood wa
tiers. is the cause OF the rise OF the
water level in the city. II Is getting
to be a serious problem. this rise OF
the water level here in Fl Paso. and
I it is damaging Easements and cellars
to some OF our best buildings The
problem has to be solved some way
and think confining the channel so
as 10 make Il narrower would do the
work. Tt would have 70 be done for
some little distance down. OF course.
It rs a question OF making small
amount OF water scour out the river
bed as the great amount OF Hood
waters used to do
'The farmers Of the Rio Grande
valley below FL Paso are going TO be
obliged TO begin fertilizlng their soils
now very soon," said mayor Charles
Davis. Since the building OF the
Elephant Butte dam the waters that
come 20 the lower farms no longer
contain the great amount OF silt and
fertiiizing elements that the water
taken direct from the river did be-
fore the dam was built On my farm
down the valley the water is quite
clear and already its lack OF fertiliz-
ing elements is beginning 10 show IN
the crops II is question OF 1ertlllz-
Ing and that very soon The Iertlliz-
ing elements OF the Rio Grande va
tiers do not get past the elephant
Butte dam in sufficient quantities to
keep Up the fertility Of the soil now"
Lots OF accusations are brought
against army officers. unjustly. When
these accusations are sifted 10 the
bottom Il is usually found that they
have no foundation in fact. or that,
maybe, some man wearing Uniform
who really knows nothing OF army
principles or traditions has brought
disgrace on the uniform OF an officer"
the headquarters staff Of the FL PasO
military district I'VE have people
make accusations against officers,
such as claiming regular army Off
GERS owe them money Usually when
we go into such an accusation We lind
the man so charged is not an officer
at all. Just the other day we heard
that three officers were courtmar-
tailed at Fort Bliss and had beaten
somebody out Of a bill When we in
vestigated we found that not one Of
fcer had been courtmartialed in this
district in a year"
san Antonio is a long ways TO go
for dinner, but 1 frequently do IL"
said j. B. Mabry, federal director Of
r. -
You see I live in san Antonio. I
own a home there and probably will
return. Consequently I have left my
family there while I look after the
governments business here. I some
times leave here Saturday and get
home just in time for dinner. About
an hour after I eat my dinner I catch
a train for FL Paso and get back here
Monday in time to do most Of a days
work"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20
TWO MEDICAL OFFICERS

WNUNlILE1U To y UNI NIIlI-I
Washington, D. C.. Sept 2O.-CapL
August Joseph Podesta, medical corps,
Is ordered from Camp Sherman TO
Fort Bliss: Capt. George Turner,
medical corps. Camp Sherman to Fort
Bliss: Capt. George Turner. medical
corps, Fort Bliss to Camp Grant.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20

and woody west" which was seeking
7 saw not. Can any OF The Herald
readers tell me Of a place where fliv-
vers are unknown
II you viii tell me, I will go there
for a couple OF weeks to enjoy the
local color, and then will apply to
Detrolt for the local Ford agency.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20

Austin. Tex. Sept. 20.-Miss Agnes
Ellen Harris, assistant director Of
home economics education. state de-
partment Of education, left today for
Dallas. From there she will visit
Paris and FL Paso Her mission is to
supervise and improve the work under
the smith-Hughes act.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20

ONE good thing, a actors strike
- couldn't tie up nOthin' but a few
hundred thousan' folks that can't hear
t stay at home. Upton Bud got his
wife's mail tn other day an carried a
12-pound piece o. army bacon around a
week before he remembered + give it
Z her.
Copyright. National Newspaper Service.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20

Somehow or Other the average American is much
concerned with getting together enough money to pay the
store bills on October than with the league Of nations
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20

THE young lady across the way says
she has believed from the first
that in the end president Wilson would
have his way and get in just the reser-
vations he wanted.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20

Times have changed so much that riding
bicycle viii draw every eye within six blocks.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20

It's queer but true that the higher cost of silk has
been explained away by advance of wages to the
slkworms
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20

Only those who in the past have spent 81 chicken
feed to produce two eggs don't complain about the hg
prices the stores charge for eggs
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20

Thnk not that tHy Dord and thine alone must be right
-Sophocles
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20
LittLe Chris

DADDY said Litti'
u Chris. sado you know
how they tighten IN
brakes on mOthe-'s -
cart Well the man
he put n long piece
OF iron in there and
then the other man ~
he got n Erinder-yoI
know what n grinder Is
and he turned-ed ans
turned-ed il and ii wa
flxed-ed.H
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-20

-nishes readera free Of
L any and all subjects
resources OF the vari-
ingress and the many
d Two cents in post
ie Information wanted
C J. Haskln Director.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03

From, the Liquor Dealers Asso citation
Massacre of Je1us
In Odessa Reported.

LONDON, Aug. "A massacre in
the Jewish quarter of Odessa, carried
out by troops of General Gregorieff
Russian anti-Bolshevik leader, which
are occupying that city. is reported
in advices received by semi official
Polish sources. The Jewish quarter
was surrounded by the troops, it is de-
clared, and a massacre was begun from
which no one escaped. The entire
quarter was for three days and nights
in the hands of the Russian soldiers
the advices assert.
The Jews of the Ukraine and Bessa-
rabia, it was added, have proclaimed a
mourning period of fourteen days.
General Gregorieff entered Odessa
early in July after severe fighting, and
at the time was quoted as saying that
he was ready to join the Allies in q
combined attack on the Bolsheviki, il
the latter began an offensive on the
Dniester River
Cecil B. Harmsworth, British Under
Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said in
the House of Commons on July s that
General Gregorieff was stated to be
strongly anti-Jewish in his sympathes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03
Bella Kun Out.
Ask
Peace of Allies
Budapest Soviet Leader
Resigns, Declaring, II
Did the Best l Could'';
New Cabinet Is Formed

VIENNA, Aug. 2 (By The Associated
Press).-Bela Kun's Hungarian Soviet
government was overturned Thursday
afternoon as the result of the Allied
refusal to make peace and the crush
ing defeat of the Red army Thursday
by the Rumanians, according to advice
received here.
Kun, the dictator, pale-faced on re-
ceipt of the news of his army's COL
lapse and with his back to the wall in
the final meeting of the government,
declared:
Every we'll, if you demand it I must
resign. made the best fight l could
A purely Socialistic government was
quickly formed under the leadership
Of Herr Peidll and installed in Office
by the trade unions
The new government has issued a
manifesto declaring that its chief task
will be to preserve international order
and enter into negotiations with the
Entente.
Ask Peace With Allies
Overtures for peace with the Allies
have been begun by the new govern
ment through Joseph Weltner, presi-
dent Of the Soldiers and Workers. So
Wet of Hungary, who, arriving in vi
emma from Budapest, asked Colonel
Cunningham, the leading representative
of the Allies at Vienna, and the other
Allied officials here, to recognize the
new government and treat for peace.
The commander of the Italian mill
tary mission at Budapest, according to
information received here, sent a wire
less message to Premier Cemenceau
at Paris stating the new Hungarian
government asked for an armistice on
the basis of the recent Allied pro.
posals. The Hungarian government
asked also that provisional frontie.
line with Rumania be drawn on the
Thesis River.
New Hungarian Cabinet
The new Cabinet is presided owe,
by Jules Foidll, formerly Minister OF
the Peoples Welfare in the Coun,
Co.,tirne1 NJ, nn1e ei1hf
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03
Shoots Wife.
Kills Man and
Wounds Three
Carpenter Stays Watchman
and Is Beaten by Crowd
at "Cood Husbands Club
Fete in Harlem Casino

Arthur Gould, a carpenter, of 104
East 112th Street, shot his wife at the
Harlem River Casino last night and
then broke up the festivities of the
Good Husbands Social Club there as
semblcd by firing the four remaining
shots in his pistol at the crowd. He
killed one man, wounded two others
and injured little girl. His victims
are:
Mrs. Irene Gould, thirty-one, of 531
East 135th Street, The Bronx, wounded
in the wrist and thigh.
Richard Gallagher, twenty-seven,
watchman at the Casino, shot through
head, dying instantly.
William Lahme, twenty-seven, 251
East Thirty-ffth Street, shot through
left thigh.
Thomas Smith, twenty-five, 238 East
Thirty-fifth Street, shot in right leg.
Emma Wilson, fourteen, 800 East
136th Street, shot in left ankle.
Separated from Wife
According to the police, Gould and
his wife have been Separated for two
months. Witnesses told detectives that
he met her last night at the casino
and became involved in heated argu-
ment, which terminated when Mrs
Gould exclaimed: "I'm not afraid OF
you. You don't dare"
1t was then, they say. that Gould
pulled a pistol from his pocket. The
woman turned to run and he fired at
her back, the bullet shattering hel
wrist and burying itself IN her thigh
Immediately the Good Husbands So
cial Club became a panic-stricken
crowd, seeking cover. Gallagher, how
ever, ran to the assistance of Mrs
Gould, whose husband brought him
down with a bullet through the head
He then emptied his revolver, wound
ing the three others.
Beaten by Crowd
The crowd, which had been hiding
under and behind every possible pro
lection, hearing the click of the empty
pistol as Gould pulled the trigger again
and again, rushed at him with chairs
beer bottles and other improv:sed
weapons. The man was down when
Patrolman Kelly and Probationary
Patrolman Meany fought their way to
him and held off the mob at pistols
points until the reserves from the
East 126th Street Station arrived
Gould was taken to the station, GOV:
cred with cuts and bruises and charged
with homicide. Mrs. Gould was taken
to Harlem Hospital spd the other in
jured were attended by surgeons from
Harlem and Knickerbocker hospitals
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03
Ex-Soldier Elected to
Congress i'm Kentucky

LOUISVILLE KY, Aug 2.-In the
special election in the Eighth Con-
gressional District to-day King Swope.
returned soldier, running on the
Republican ticket, was elected over
Judge Charles A. Hardin, Democrat,
by majority estimated at from 1900
to 1,4OO. 1t was the first time Re-
publican candidate ever was victorious
in that district. The seat was vacated
by the death of Harvey Helm.