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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-02-18

The reader OF history observes the
prevalence Of pearls as an article Of
adornment- Their beauty Is indis-
putahle. A necklace OF properly
matched pearls is a possession well
worth treasuring. We have Just re-
ceived new shipment OF inde-
strucri bic pearls which rival in beauty
and symmetry the pearls OF history.
II will be a pleasure 10 show them
to you.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-02-18
Hrs. Fred 4. Elliott Receives At Tea
CompIimenting Bevy OF Society Girls

service were in the dainty shade.
Mrs. Victor Moore did the honors at
the tea table.
Fifty Of the younger set called dur
ing the afternoon receiving hours
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-02-18

The Results Of Constipation
are sick headaches. bniousnezs nar-
vousnesz sailoW skin. waste natter IN
the body. Correct this UNDERTAKINGS
evn with Dr. kings New Life Pills-
Feel good every day Keep the system
eleansed sc a be.sle.-Ad~.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-02-18

Founding OF American Liberty at
jamestown"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-02-18

Mrs. H L Graham presided over
the meeting OF the Trinity Women's
church parlors Tuesday afternoon.
The topic for discussion was Recon
structiou Work in Europe The III
ness OF several members necessitated
a rhrm-a in she rrorTrnrr
New Britain herald., 1920-10-13
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE
FOR SALE;--l

FOR sALE-BarEain. Two three-tenement houses. all Improvements. garage and chicken coop. one Dwight St. Daily Ave. Just the thing to bring an income to pay on the mortgage and give you a
 free rent. Call l? Star St, first hooor.
 after o'clock. 1o-l2-dsx
New Britain herald., 1920-10-13
USED TRUCKS THAT ARE WORTH WHILE

We hay. the following CT hand in drst-claSs mechanical condition. ready to go work, 2-Ton Mack-Rebailt, with brand new rack body. guaranteed the game as new.
 s.Ton Packard-Chassis and cab. {, Two 2n n-Ton Maccary-One with sub. stantiAl padded body. the 0thhs with rack body. s-Ton White Dump-Newly painted z-Ton Nash-With brand-new lumb1e body, newly painted. .H@ Two 1919 6-Ton Clydesdale DumpS Four 1919 2-Ton Day-Elder 2s-pas- senger buses with Goodyear spare. worth investigation. Call Liberty <3O, or see f.. t4
 CHANDLER MACK MOTOR TRUCK CO. 36A MhaAey Ave-, New Haven. Conn.
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New Britain herald., 1920-10-13
USED TRUCKS

USED TRUCk9
 
 When in need of . good Used Truck. 1t will pay you to get h touch with us. Mack. Piercs.Arrow, Packard and others; some overs hauled. rebuilt and guaransseds taTms uit you a Phone Liberty 43o, CT
 CHANDLER, MACK MOTOR TRUCK CO, S6A Whnlley Ave-. New Haven. Conn.
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New Britain herald., 1920-10-13

Classified Advertising is the most inexpensive form of pub- licity. Try a For Sale or . Want Advt. in the Herald today. See for yourself. Only One Cent Word.
New Britain herald., 1920-10-13
USED TRUCks--At,ent,on. Ji.ney aud Du,

Men: The trolley situation confronting us. not only in Bridgeport, but in our own city ot New Britain, is critical. as you know. Now is the time to get busy and get while prospects are good. We have the following for safe at right priceS: Three l919 keo 1S-passenGer Ouses; one 1920 36-passenger Packard. These are all in hTBt-class shape mechanically, byanu new cord tires sll around; worth invest. gation. Call Liberty 430 or see Chandler. Mack Motor Truck Company. New Haven,
 Conn z-12-lG
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
Returning Member of One Of
the Old Families Says Civil
zation Has Stagnated

much be-uniformed, stood about in
groups, conspicuously armed and
eying the women.
The great broad boulevard which
leads from the center Of the city
toward Chapultepec was deserted as
we emerged from the Colon, except
for a few struggling Ford cars
hawking fares. We walked back to
the Plaza. Huddled in doorways Of
buildings around the plaza, within
stones throw Of the National Pal
ace, drawn close together in order
that one body might give warmth to
another, were those who were not
celebrating the birth Of 1920. Cow
cred often with miserably thin and
frayed zerapes and sometimes not
covered at all, they awaited the
dawn Of the New Year in slum-
Der. AS we walked along the prin-
clpal business streets of the Mexican
capital that night few doorways
were uninhabited. Here and there
a dog had crept in with huddled
mass Of humanity-street waits, old
men, old women.
Mexico City, at an altitude Of
5000 feet above sea level, lying
in a basin entirely surrounded by
mountains, develops low tempefa-
ture at night during winter months,
though by day the sun brings "a
springllke warmth. But the sun.
working strictly on the celestial
union basis plunges behind the
mountains at the prescribed hour,
illuminates the clouds and sky with
indescribable blends Of color for a
few moments, then surrenders to
twilight.
Darkness comes. Business ir
Mexico City ceases Merchants
mainly Observation-Disclosures the
city bolt their doors, draw heavy
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15

in Excelsior" Mexico City news
paper Of December 81, protesting
against the governments decree
against bullights and lotteries. To
gain Its point the newspaper saws ::
"Our history, 80 sad at times and
other times so shameful, does not
contain such period OF immortality
and lack Of discipline as that which
wo have been experiencing for over
seven years. Not even in the time
OF his most serene highness
(Madero), dismal epoch among
those which have occurred, has such
relaxation Of customs, such a per-
version Of sentiments been noted.
nor such an absolute inefficiency Of
all brides on public and Individual
morals and decency.
"Never has gambling been worse
nor have greater quantities of in
toxicants been consumed, nor have
more opium and morihuana been
smoked. The sumptuous dens Of
Colonia Roma exceed those Of San
Augustin de las Cuevas. After
many years Of being closed the cock
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
. NE HUNDRED years ago
to-day, in the little village
Of Adams, Mass, Susan B.
Anthony Was horn
Anthony was born.

She was born in q home Of COM
parative wealth, yet her young
mother, with three little children to
caro- for. did all the housework for
her own family and eleven Of her
fathers factory hands who boarded
with them. Daniel Anthony was a
generous man, who loved his wife.
and he was we'll able to hire help for
the housework, but neither he nor
any one else ever thought Of such a
thing. But the child Susan, playing
with her rag doll in the room that
looked out on the sunsets behind
Mount Greylock, had a feeling that
something was wrong. Anyway. it
turned out to be her lifework to
teach the world some ways Of light
ening the burden of women's lives.
To-day the. work is done. Women
have gone to Chicago from all over
the country to attend the last con-
vention of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association, which
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15

| part Of New York in winter. she re-
fused an offer Of marriage which
was accompanied by acts of devotion
which would have melted an ordi-
nary heart.
At Albany a wealthy and cul-
tured Quaker gentleman had been
an attentive listener to her address" :"
the biography relates, "and when
she took the stage a few DAYS later
at Lake George she found not only
that he was to be her fellow passen-
ger, but that he had a thick plank
heated, which he asked permission
to place under her feet. Whenever
the stage stopped he had it reheat-
eo' and IN many ways added to the
comfort OF her journey. At the close
OK the next meeting she found to her
surprise his fine sleigh waiting. filled
with robes and drawn by two spirit
ed gray horses, and he himself drove
her to his own beautiful home, pre-
slded over by a sister. where she
spent Sunday. In this same luxuri-
GUS conveyance she was taken to sev-
eral towns, and during one Of these
trips was urged in the most earnest
manner to give up the hard life sh.
was leading and accept t,e ease and
protection he could offer. But ~,
heart made no response to this an
peal while it did urge her strongly
10 continue in her chosen work"
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15

ask her to give up teaching and pre-
Size over home for him.
She had all the feminine accom-
pllshments OF her generation and a
reputation for being a good cook,
winch offset her unnecessary supply
of brains.
Susan's journal contains manv
entries, such as:
Did large washing to-day.
Spent to-day at the spinning wheel.
"ove three yards of carpet yester-
day. Got my quilt out of the frame
last Fifth Day The new savmil)
has just been raised. We had twenty
men to supper on Sixth Day and
twelve on Seventh Day
Her desire to study algebra was
mystery to her friends, and is re-
sponsible for the following anecdfote:
when visiting her irrepressible
brother-in-law, Aaron Mclean. she
made some especially nice cream bis
cunts Tor supper, and he said:
I'D rather see a woman mako
such biscuits for supper as these
Than solve the knottiest problem in
algebra
There is no reason why she
should not do both,' was the answer
There are many references in the
ners."
Once, when touring the northorn
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
Not Revolution Alone

beauty to attract both eye ant
heart
Again she writes: 4 dreamed
last night of being married; oueerIy
enough too, for it seemed as if | had
married Presbyterian priest, whom
l never before had seen. thought
repented thoroughly before the dav
had passed and my mind was much
troubled.'"
Among the outings enjoyed by the
young people were excursions tn
nelghboring villages. There were no
railroads, but every young man
owned his horse and buggy, and in
lieasant weather a procession of
twenty vehicles often might be seen.
each containing happy couple on
their way to supper and dance.
On one occasion, according to the
little diary. the night was so dark
they did not dare risk the ten-mile
drive home, as much of the road Law
beside the river, so they continued
the festivities until daylight. Once
q party went to Saratoga Springs,
and to Miss Anthony's grief, her
1avorlte young man invited another
girl and she had a long, dreary
drive, trying to be agreeable to one
while her thoughts were with an
other. To add to the unpleasantness
her escort took this nnno,.4:A
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
T HE mes0 Postof5ce in the
4 City Of Meraco, a beau.
tafal building finished Just
before the outbreak of the
first Of the revolutions.

robbed by tho drivers; that the
broad avenues, private and public
buildings were constructed during
the only reign of comparative peace
Mexico has known in eighty years;
that the electric lights and the street
cars were put there during that
peaceful time by foreigners who are
still operating them under consider
able difficulty.
That author saw the surface and
he looked no deeper. On the sur
face it looks alive, but / am still
willing, after my conversation with
the Cientifico youth and subsequent
impressions, to admit that if it is
not dead it is in a precarious con-
dition.
Not Revolution Alone
Revolution is responsible, but not
altogether so, to quote an editorial
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
Calls the Capital of Mexico "City of the Dea

ply their appeals for aims every-
where during the day, watch their
chance and stink to the doorways.
One night a<group Of Americans
emerged from the American Uni
versity Club on Bucarelli Street. A
bearded old man with large SON.
brero on his head and with a frayed
zerape over his shoulders stepped
in front of the group asking help.
He carried something in his arms.
With it ne pressed his appeal. It
was a dead baby-visibly dead for
many days. The Americans shud-
dered, passed the old man ~ coin,
and literally fed.
A Sordid Story
I am giving a sordid side Of our
neighboring capital. The descrip-
tion is superficial. 1t can be told
moro completely and moro sordidly.
There Is no use for the American
public to look into gambling dens
and other dens which thrive during
the long nights. 1t would be futile
to plead the cause Of wretched men,
women and children, the latter
utterly lacking in schools, teachers,
morals, uplifting influence Of any
kind, and often foodless, millions
of them, on our own continent,
while the United States contributes,
and is being asked again to con-
tribute, millions to feed starving
people on other continents.
Just call the Mexicans victims of
revolution and let it go at that.
Mexico is none Of our business-ap-
Our reputation for phil
lanthropy, charity and being big
brother to the poor extends North,
East and West, but not South. And,
furthermore, Mexico does not want
it to extend South, the political
Mexico that controls the destinies
Of the greater Mexico to-day.
Look at the sordid side Of Mexico
City and you are looking at most
Of Mexico to-day, a possible excep-
ton being Yucatan, which, fortu-
nately isolated from Mexico proper
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
A Reign of Graft

Purity Of management? Speak
Of purity to Messalina; to our col
lectors, administrators and distribu-
tors Of public funds speak only of
Clever management Of public
funds, of defaults which sum MANY
millions and Of general immunity
for liars.
"The 'Panamas' are legion. The
Panama Of the railways, Of the
loan department, of the Henequen
Trust, the Yucatan railways and the
Lord knows how many more may
come to light, if they ever. do.
Credit, not even on water; monetary
crisis, imminent; local and general
elections, chaos; universal disorder.
evident.
"And in the midst Of all this an
angelic voice is raised and in Apol-
linian tone to Eolian harpings
asks that bullfghts and lotteries he
prohibited! Scruples of a nun who
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15

1t Is the girl Susan whose secret,
are hidden in the biography written
oy Mrs. Ida Hustled Harper. which
Is now out Of print. Only one COPY
ls preserved in the suffrage library
From it the following quotations a re
taken:
When asked during the writing
OF this biography why her journals
were not full of 'beaux', as most
girls were, Miss Anthony replied:
There were plenty of them, but
1 never could bring myself to nut
anything about them on paper ,
There are many references to their
calling, escorting her to parties, and
so forth. but scarcely any expression
OF her sentiments toward them. One
of whom she says:
he is most noble-hearted fell
low have respected him highly
since our first acquaintance goes to
see rival, and she writes:
HE is at IS this evening. O
may he know that in me he has
found spirit congenial with his
own, and no+ cuff. ~.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
Streets and BOuleyards Deserted
at Night or Haunted by
Hungry Specters

fights have been resumed and high
military officers and others con-
nected with the revolution go there
to bet the wages Of the troops, the
gains Of supposed soldiers and the
'pickings' Of all kinds. Delin-
quencies have never been greater
nor worse. The jails are full, but the
inmates escape or kill one another
off, so that witnesses or accusers
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15

vate and public buildings, trolley
car systems, the cargadors (porters)
who carried his bags from the train
to the machine which soon sped down
scrupulously clean, we'll lighted
Streets, The author omitted saving
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
Suftrassts Observe Centennial of Susan Anthonvs R;rth

she founded, and which was the chic,
instrument in securing the erea
object of her lifework, votes 70,
women. The Susan B. Anthon,
amendment has been passed b,
Congress, and the suffrage associa-
tion is going out of business now.
There will be q great memorial
program in honor Of "Aunt Susan"
and suffragists will recall her SER
wees to the cause Of women in
many fields, college education, poll
ties, social usages and industry. We
may safely leave these things to
them and turn back to some chan
ters Of her life story that have been
forgotten.
Aunt Susan" was not always the
overworked, gaunt old woman in the
red shawl whom most suffragists
remember. Neither was she the
trousered, shrieking sister the car,
toonists imagined her. There was a
girl Susan who loved pretty clothes,
who could have counted her beaux ON
two hands, and could make such
good biscuit that her brother-in-law
had to forgive her knowing algebra.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
y THE Pazo de Construction the City of Mecico tkt
~ haunt at night Of starring men, and children

rather than to establish that old, IN
nocent game Of the lottery, which tt
those whom it does not reward Is
source Of illusion and hope. an,
which could, with the returns fo
taxation, contribute to the main
tenance of the teachers7 Strang.
as this may seem, it is SO. -
''Sfraining at Cnats''
I'VE shall have gambling house
at will, cockfghts in abundance
vice dens for the mere wishing. W.
shall also have untruthful admins
traitors, cashiers and defaulting pay
masters, privileged generals, high
way robbers on the Avenida Fran
cisco I. Madero, gray automobil.
bands'-we shall have everything
That harms us, causes us dishonor.
shame or ridicule. But bullfght.
and lotteries, no! That is what YOU
call straining at gnatsv'
Many readers may ask:
isn't there something good to
say about Mexico?''
The answer Just now Is "eso.
graphically speaking" yes. The
cause Of Mexico's plight is illiterscy,
revolution and its resultant evils.
The revolution may be charged
to the "Cientiflco" class who. though
highly, cultured, hold the peon
classes in the darkness Of Ignorance
and religious superstition. There
has never been any effort to uplift
this peon, who outnumbers the re-
mainder Of Mexicans four to one.
Ten years ago an idealist ATTEMPTED
TO aid Mexico's submerged 80 per
cent. Revolution came, chaos fol-
lowed and the government fell into
the hands Of inexperienced irrespon- -.
slbles. There it remains to-day.
The Solution
The solution of Mexico's problem
If one may venture an idea on,
solution-lies in a firm Mexican
policy within the United States GOV,
ernment, a policy justified by our
Monroe Doctrine and somewhat sim
liar to that once applied 20 Cuba
under similar circumstances. which
put an end to lawlessness. despotisni j
and illiteracy on that island. #
this policy cannot be maintained by
diplomatic pressure it should be en-
forced with other and more con
pressure, because Mexico is
undoubtedly Americas responsible
ity-not England's, Germany's nor
Japan's.
10 quote from one authority:
Mexico is the richest undevel-
oped, accessible country In the
world"
10 misquote another authority:
Mexico can be on the eve Of the
greatest era Of development and2S
prosperity that the country has evef
seer Worldwide demand exists
Tor snsANantially everything that
Mexi7'e css produce" ~
But Mexico is on fire TO day. ard sss
The nearest fire department IS ~.
Washington, D. C.,
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15

will be lacking in the trials. Crimes
and offenses abound; trials and hear
ings never come off; it has been
necessary to revive the old, odious
practice of deporting to the penal
colony on the Marias Island to re-
lieve the plague of thieves which
the law protects and justice shields.
Justice, since we are talking
about it, is trailing in the dust.
"The present administration, which
promised to 'quench thirst and sat-
isfy hunger has done nothing more
than to administer aperitives and
dry our throats. and we are more
thirsty and hungry to-day than ever,
without even a remote hope Of re-
lief.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15

would remove the ray and leave ,
beam in its place. Is the glass of
our immortality and vice 30 full tbs,
a few sword thrusts and thin hores
to whom to live is unbearable, will
cause an overflow? Such con.
fession is self-condemnatory to the
regime.
'1s it possible that It is preferred
to starve the teachers to dea,h
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15

steel curtains down over the win
dows and go home. The wretchedlv
poor, many of them beggars who
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15

by a jungle peninsula, has largely
escaped the blight of revolution.
In June, 1919, an American
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
BOKE Is the National Palace the White House of Meuico
monument of the Diaz regime.

writer visited Mexico and returned
to the United States bringing re-
ports filled with Mexican government
statistics, pink promises and much
omission. He described Mexico City
by day-the wonderful broad ave.
nues, busy streets, wonderful pri-
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
Searched for Weapons

On New Years night, accom-
panied by friends, visited the Cafa
Colon, once q place where spic and
span turnouts stopped to DISCHARGE
fashionable after-t -theater diners. As
we entered Mexican soldiers stopped
every one to search for weapons. In
the inner recess Of the place an
other entrance led to q dance floor
ertnged with tables. Here, again.
every one was searched.
Riotous celebration was going on
inside. A few Mexican women
we're there, but they were mostly
actresses and others whose profes-
sion flourishes just now in the Mexi
can capital. Among the men l was
able to pick out eight or ten Ger
mans, five or six Americans, a cou-
pie Of Englishmen there mainly to
seek some atmosphere Of hilarity In
celebration Of the birth Of the New
Year. Mexican army officers of the !
'ar'ety you may see In Mexico City. |
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
By Wilbur Forrest
<<TT T IS CITY Of the Dead
There isn't any other de-
scription. Here you are

L
There isn't any other de-
Il scription. Here you are
looking at civilization
stagnated."
This statement was voiced few
weeks ago In Mexico City. The
speaker was a young man Of the old
Cientifico class, member Of one of
the aristocratic families of the past
which thrived under Porfrio Diaz.
He was back In the Mexican capital
again, incognito, after many years
Of exile with his family In Paris.
He fought for France in the Foreign
Legion and was aching at the time I
talked with him in Mexico to fight
for the Mexican people.
ssNot that my class in Mexico ever
did much for the peon," he ex-
planned. "The peon got-what you
call it in English-the worst Of it.
But my class did not tear down Mex
leo. 1t was not destructive, but con-
structive. Look at Mexico, this city,
to-day and tell me if you don't think
it is the city Of the dead"
From where l stood with this
young Cientifico, immaculate IN his
Paris clothes, on the Alameda,
pretty little park in the heart Of the
city, glance around was sufficient
to see some truth in his outburst.
At our right was Mexico's National
Theater, a building far enough along
in construction to show that its ar
chitecture would compare with any
thing of it's kind in the United States
or Europe. It's white marble walls
climbed almost to a gaunt steel
dome left stark naked by the work
men who abandoned it at the first
shot Of the Madero revolution. For
almost ten years it has stood this
way until an entire wing has started
to bury itself, as If in shame, In the
spongy soil on which the city is
built, Glassless windows, roughly
boarded, complete a picture of
blight.