El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-10
HOW GAMBLING IN JUAREZ AFFECTS
EVERY MAN AND WOMAN IN Ell PASOT

ENORMOUS sums Of money are going out Of FL PasO to
L Juarez for gambling and liquor Some reports have It
that high 100000 month is being netted By the
joints there after al license fees and other expenses
have been paid.
Most Of this money goes to Mezicans, and even if a
portion Of it comes back to FL PasO for deposit in the local
banks is only available loans at high rates Of interest
and the diversion of such out Of the legitimate chan
nss Of trade and business is to be disastrous.
It ought be clear anyone that continuance Of
large patronage of Mexican gambling and liquor joints by
Fl Pasoans VII affect every line Of honest trade Pay
ents Of rent VII lapse be evaded and the owners OF
real estate put to loss and expense IN getting nd
Of undesirable tenants and finding new tenants multi
tude of small bills at the grOces Butchers bakers drug
giss Doctors dentists, gas otlc water otrioe eleere
office drygoods store, clothing store, department store
dairy laundry and al the other kinds Of shops VII be
slipped and evaded instament payments on monographs
furniture and even automobiles VIII be passed. small bank
leans VIII be lost fratena and insurance orgauiEa
lions cluhs and societies viii 20 unpaid money ts VIII
be robbed books falsisd and merchants and agents VIII
put heavy expense IN recovering their goods OF money
ar enforcing collections.
dret: Every merchant and business establishes BY
his experience what the average proportion CT lost
accounts is and oads every price in his list to take care
those osse-he is not apt to underoad tie prices eher
for be must protect himself against such losses.
The result is that the gambling losses and liquor bills
the loose-ved and really being paid all
the tine bv the honest and decent portion Of the community
which sooner OF later pays increased prices for every
thing an amount sufficient to insure the banks and
chants against excessive losses due to the dishonesty Of
customers and thefts and entertainments due to dssolute
habits Of employees.
FL Paso business waking up to the menace.
Women and men who frequent the yuarez resorts may
as well know right now that they being watched and
their names reported to al who may be interested
Employees Of banks and large business institutions can
not play the games there frequent the saloons
without being caught at It and their names turned IN
Their credit at the stores banks VIII be ruined their
Jobs VIII be put in jeopardy.
Homes WIN be broken up, families divided, children
wronged wives abandoned husbands ruined, If and
continue they have been doing in their patronage
One significant and distressing thing about the situation
the large proportion Of border permits which being
Women in large numbers from FL PasO and including
many whose friends would be amazed know Of their
downfall going Juarez regularly whether to gamble
drink, drug themselves, merely to Ssee the old
church" Women Of family mothers Of children, are
acquiring the gambling drinking drug, and smoking habits
dissolute.
woman may of course go over once or twice Isgiti-
uately as sightseer, but the regulars" present diff
number of detectives are at work IN JuaTez for the
Fl Paso banks and business houses, and already good
deal Of interesting material has been gathered and is on
record
Women and men who have been frequenting the games
and saloons IN Juarez may make themselves happy IN
the feeling that their actions have been duly recorded and
their changed status IN the social and business community
has been written IN the card caaogs notified to those
who purpose to protect themselves against preventabe
losses.
So If you are asked to pay cash hereafter OF if you
find It difficult TO renew little note at the bank PEI
haps You VIII suspect that there is a reason.
It nay be asked what FL Paso do about It Juarez
in foreign land But It happens that the members Of
the federal provisional government realize that It IS bad
thing for Mexico have these conditions persist the
border They realize that the first impression Of tourists
apt to be lasting, and that many Americans see
anything Of Mexico the Mexeans except when they step
the line and back again between trains They want
make the border cities show places truly typical Of what
best IN Mexico and not mere dens Of robbers and nests
Of VICE.
If the Mexican states and municipalities want to III
their Golfers this way, there nothing that the federal
government do directly, but indirectly there is much
that the federal government do to clean the border up
and this indirect pressure VIII be brought to bear
e Paso and the state Of Texas and the government at
Washington can considerable moral and economic
pressure to assist the Mexican provisional government
Every encouragement should be given the Mexcans who
the night track and anxious improve conditions
The sirst thing to 90 Is to make Fl Paso and other
American border cities clean and keep them clean.
The next thing is 20 make It unfashionable and even
dangerous for American border residents to paronze the
Mexican joints.