Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1920-04-27
Ell PASO'S PITY FOR
DEM|NG IS TOUCHING
Bunch Of Clever "Guardiouse lawyers"
From the Little Texas City Up to
Rate Hearing and Advise is
LOCAL BUSINESS MEN ARE SORE
Result Of PusillauimOus "Butting- In"
Will Cost Pass City business That
Runs Into Round sum

It's hell TO live ia hick' town and
anybody that hasn't any more sense
than To stick around in the weeds
when vi Pnso, that great commercial,
railroad. industrial center, has the
lntcl-strOng out, ought TO he pcnalized.'
After reading the article by l.. r. Clay
pool, that big-tOWn newspaper core
spondent representing the great metro
p0litan newspaper, the III Paso Herald.
this Is the only inference that can he
drawn. The bright correspondent Mr..
ClaypOol, in the Herald of April - and.
%, covers the rate hearing held here
last week, at which time the state cor
p0?HtiOn commission presented its case
before the Interstate commerce commits
sion. praying relief for Deming ship
pers against freight rates alleged 20 he
discriminating in favor Of III Paso.
Judging from the way Mr. Clayp0ol
covered the hearing, he knows even
less Of freight rates than the Graphic.
which. after all, is only IA country
newspaper In "hck' town, as Mr..
ClaypOOl would intimate. and can't be
expected To measure up 10 the mental
capacities of these smart fellers'
from the big city (meaning El Paso).
But what Mr. Clnypool doesn't know,
that intellectual giant, A. L. Tadock.
manager Of the traffic department Of
the III l'uso chamber Of commerce. can
easily supply. MIR Tadlock is simply
n wizard for figures and Is never al
his best until ne is telling Of the won
derful commercial Importance of E
Paso or how little aud unimportaui
Deming is. lie could give you the
freight rates on combinations from
New York here just as easily as ON
the carloads Of fertilizer of which I'll
Paso is the greatest of all distributing
points IN the United States and Mex
leo. Them birds is a pair" if you
Will excuse the idiom Of the sticks"
What FL Paso probably doesn't real
ize is that ii is expensive keeping men
like the two mentioned ON the job.
Judging from Mr. Claypool's remarks.
III PasO cannot attain lis final desiinv
mtil, like Carthage, Deming is utterly
destroyed. Now, as n matter Of fact.
Deming is one Of III PasO's best Gus
toners; and has been buying many
things there that can just as well be
bought elsewhere aud will be. II Dem
ing business men have any influence in
that direction The IN Paso represen-
tatiycs at the hearing seemed 10 lose
sight of this phase of the question.
Deming did not, as Mr. ClaypoOl re-
ported, attack ~ Paso rates. Demng
is Interested in its own rates aud their
proper relation "a other distributing
points in this territory. 1t would have
been perfectly proper for III Paso 20
Intervene in the hearing to protect lis
own Interests but the III pasO repre-
scntatiyes threw in" apparently with
the raiiruadS tO beat down Drmnp's
demands for rates that would be lust
TO all concerned. All Deming could do
would he tn ask for IAN even break
Certainly the Interstate commerce COM
mission would hardly grant preferer-
tial rates to Deming over III Paso.
Judging from the reports in the Her
aid, III paso fully recognizes that the
present rates are unjust to Deming:
The admission was also made hv
the plaintiffs witnesses that they
knew very little about how rates wer
made ur what Influenced their making.
Mr.. We~tlake Especial attorney for III
Pasol forced one witness to admit that
the city of III Pasu with denser papu-
laton and heavier traffic and greater
proximity 10 producing centers was
probably entitled 10 more consideration
than Deming.'
Can YOU beat that for unlimited gall?
~ Paso takes her own population at
10000 and admits that she Is the me-
tropolis of the Southwest though four
fiflhS are MeNicans and some "dense"
at that. Look at her eight railroads.
or COURSE, most Of them only run when
the bandits permit, but she has em
Then those factories. You would think
III Paso was "a new Pittsburgh instead
Of possessing only one real factory
the cement plant Naturally She has
more traffic; but, since when have the
railroads gone bHck 10 that ousolete
system Of fixing rates according 90
size uf shipmentsy Deming contends
and contends rightly that the published
rates should hold good in every uasc
and that the published rates should be
the lowest obtainable by any SORT of
combination, and the published rates
were cited because that's exactly
the small shippers pay
u is true tnat at t.iU present
that a shipper should have a IN
lartment In order 20 be sure thu
is getting the lowest possible rate
fact alone shows that revision of
lished rates are necessary. Mr. I-
lock thinks that Deining ought 70 taIi
he checking OF her freight bills over b.
tie III PasOc namber OF c0mmcr
Now, isn't that funnyf IL is the Kind
Of smail-town humor that makes Dem
ing business men feel TINT II they can