El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-12-29

egTT Is amusing 70 listen 20 the
i various excuses speeders use to
escape punishment Tor violating
traffic laws" said justice OF the
peace Clark Wright and as they
tell them they keep q straight face
and almost make you believe them
one man viii come in ana swear his
vie was sick and he was hurrying
home 10 take her medicine The fact
is maybe. his vie IS out or town. OF
THAT he hasn't g wife Then another
one wiz say ne was hurrTing 20
catch q train Then another one
viii say he was rushing 20 get his
child to school on time. g lot Of
them say that Then another popular
excuse IS. Z don't doubt the officers
good word. but 7 am SIRE he is mis-
taken because know j was not
speeding Sometimes they say their
speedameters were out OF Fix A
woman Usually hasn't an excuse,
She says she wasn't speeding and
usually holds 20 IT. Ask her how
fast she was going she says she
doesn't know. but that she knows
she wasn't speeding
Congress should be asked 10 in
rroduce q Dill appropriatinE $4,000
OF $4,000 for the relief OF families
whose homes were destroyed when
the Franklin canal broke LAST sum
mer.4 said Bernahe Flores secretary
Of the El Paso Valley Water Users
association. The legal department
Of the reclamation service has held
thar the government VIII not be re-
spousihle for damages done by the
water when the canal broke, and the
claims have been turned down.
Thirty families suffered n the flood,
their homes being made uninhabit-
able Some or the men and women
lost the savings Of a lifetime
Il do not think the five governors
q 4-eEico, who recently met and
discussed the establishment OF a dry
zone along the border. VIII put their
plan through said W p Edwards,
In the first place Mexico IS deriv-
ing a vast revenue from her liquor
sales. They VIII not want 20 lose
rhar ana the license money. Then
in the next place, those governors
are not in constant touch with the
9or1er situation ana hence do not
reailze the real trouble resulting
ron smuggling They have 20 get
al their information second hand,
and thus cannot know enough 10
make them DO what theg discus used Z
Then, TOO, thinE Mexico thinks too
much OF the rights o. her citizens 70
have strip along the border where
men cannot drink or engage In the
LIQUOR business aud have tie rest Of
Mexico open 20 the liquor business. F
90 think that some solution must
be reached for the bofder liouor sit
lariol- but 81 won't come that way
u both governments win get down
70 b1siness and properly police the
border. and zt the same time ex-
terminate a lot Of costly red tape.
The thing WIN stop"
u don't know whether you have :
one said K v. Brown. but I think
an ordinance prohibiting the cree
ton q small Buildings IN your busl-
neEs district would Be a good thing !
p Paeo is growing IN leaps ana
bounds This can be verified BY your
real estate nen and your merchants.
] have looked about your city QUITE
3 DIT since coming down here from
Phoenizs and think that the only
criticism have IS that there are 2 &
number OF little one story buildings
n your business district which do
not look good II an ordinance fs
passed prohibiting the replacing Of
ehese little shops, or the remodeIiur
- any extensive way they viii