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Wednesday, April 5, 1916. EL PASO and MAGAZINE PAGE Cecil Lyon Is Gone Gen. Gavira in Juarez has in many ways proved himself to be a capable and progressive executive. He is loyal to Mexico and Mexican interests, yet he is broad enough and intelligent enough to see that he could gain nothing for his people by refusing to acknowledge the necessity of a reasonable degree of cooperation in matters of mutual concern. The Juarez commandant is a man of simple manners and tastes, and notably free from traits of arrogance, insincerity, and ignorant suspicion such as characterize some Mexican revolutionary leaders of the last five years.

His rule in Juarez has been marred by no indications of hostility toward Americans or other foreigners. He has kept his military forces under good discipline, and Juarez has been quiet and orderly. Soon after he came to Juarez, the gambling games were all closed with the single exception of the race gambling establishment, and the liquor business was placed under extra restrictions. Gen. Gavira has cooperated with the Americans seeking to guard against the introduction or spread of infectious disease.

He has met Americans, both officials and private citizens, more after the manner of the old days of normal friendly intercourse, than can be said of most of his predecessors in Juarez. Yet with all that can be truthfully said of his attitude of dignified neighborliness toward the people of this side of the boundary, it is also true that no Mexican can justly charge that Gen. Gavira has been or that he has failed to look after Mexican interests strictly, as he interpreted his duty. El Pasoans who have met Gen. Gavira look upon him as representing a type of Mexican that promises the return of better days for the country, through, the application of practical and upright methods to problems of government.

It would be unfortunate if he should be removed, to make way perhaps for some man who might not deserve the respect or the confidence of Americans, with whom any Juarez commandant must necessarily come into frequent contact. There is opportunity for much mischief to be created, if the wrong man should be placed in charge in Juarez. Cecil death rejnoves a notable figure in Texas business, industry, and politics. The Herald place 9 politics last, because Cecil Lyon did not allow politics to interfere with business, nor did he let it affect his standing in the state as a man of conspicuous ability and unusual independence of thought and action. Lyon was active and energetic in politics, state and national, yet those who knew him well would not class him as a politician, in the sense that a politician is understood to make politics his chief interest or in life.

On the contrary, politics with him was a sort of diversion, a side line, in which he took pleasure, and to which he devoted much thought and energy and money, but without any desire for personal reward of any sort. He was a man of big affairs in business, successful and widely respected. Cecil Lyon was often misjudged, both within and without his party, which was formerly the Republican, then the Progressive. He represented a splendid type of American manhood, independently wealthy or at least welltodo, actively engaged in private business, and asking no public office or political or personal favor, yet willing to devote a large part his and effort to political organization. He was misjudged within the Republican party, at least in the earlier days, because a large faction of selfish machine politicians, always seeking office or preferment or personal gains of some sort, were unable to comprehend the mental processes of an honest and decent political worker when they saw one.

By such people, Lyon was denounced as an unscrupulous boss. The Democrats more than half believed the tales, because they naturally assumed that his own party ought to know what kind of he was. Lyon left the Republican party and took a leading part in the Progressive movement in the state, mainly because of his long time and very warm personal friendship for Roosevelt, whom he admired intensely, and who, on his part, relied implicitly on Lyon. His long service as head of the Republican paHy organization in the state coincided with the period during which the party was gradually losing its hold in every gressional district and vanishing off the map. Lyon has been held responsible by many of the old time Republicans for the complete failure of the Republican party in Texas to hold itself together as a real opposition party.

But the work he did was absolutely necessary to be done. He did scavenger work, reform work, disciplinary work, sanitary work, of a noble sort, even though it resulted, for the time being, in destroying the voting strength of the party. He took a stand, definitely and powerfully, for white domination, decency, and a clean ballot, and absolutely against the old negro element and white scalawag element in the Texas party which made votes at the expense of political and personal character. That he did not succeed in building up in Texas a strong opposition party after the work of renovation had been accomplished, was due to no fault or lack on Cecil part, but to a combination of many other well understood causes. -------------Several professors are taking a shy at defining a Defining it is like picking up mercury.

There never was a handier word. It is a mean word too, for it throws mud at learning and slurs refinement. Professor Brander Matthews cannot get any nearer it than to say is'a person who is educated beyond his intelligence, a person who has a habitual attitude of contempt toward that which is Both his definitions make the term entirely a slur, but it is sometimes used as a kindly separation of the idealist from the practical minded, it dismisses dreams for realities. can complain that president administration lacks romance. Now it is the white house physician, Dr.

Cary Grayson, who is a victim of Cupid. He is to marry a million-heiress, a friend of Margaret Wilson whom he courted while the president was courting Mrs. Galt at Cornish. At any rate the wedding bells keep ringing at the white house. When one sees William Dean Howells at 79 publishing a new serial story in one of the magazines, one wonders why youth and work are not everybody's portion, instead of so much of the world beginning to grow old and unproductive at 19 or so.

The Human Machine Short Snatches From Everywhere. Nowadays when the family doctor is called in and an ouch is brought to his attention, "he is likely to call down on the patient a specialist surgeon, a micro- scopist, a chemist, bacteriologist, dietician, neurologist, and possibly an alienist or an X-ray man. One or all are set to run down the trouble. Correct diagnosis is the aim. All sorts of sciences and specialties, each of which requires one best years to study successfully, are brought in to locate trouble exactly.

These men eliminate possible troubles or complications until they get as near is now humanly possible, to a correct survey of the flesh and bone and blood and nerve condition. There is less guessing, less medicine than there ever has been before. There was a gTeat deal of comfort in the good old days when a person could tell his troubles to the family doctor and get a box of fat capsules which were to be taken with reasonable regularity and there the responsibility ended. If he did not get better after the second box of capsules, it was up to the doctor, and he changed the capsules. The modern method requires a much greater effort on the part of the patient, who must remember what ailed his grandparents, and tell his dreams, and have his ear punctured, and disclose the skeletons in his closet.

When science has eliminated what the matter with him, and closed down on and captured what is, then it is up to the patient to have it cut out, or feed it milk, or sleep it out on the porch, or refuse it sugars, or submit to whatever mechanical work must be done by experts; and it is no such easy thing as taking a fat capsule every three hours used to be. We think we lead the world in equality and democracy, but it took Serbia to establish a land law by which every grown Serb has a right to five acres of land which is exempt from any debt claims, which he cannot sell or have taken from him, and which, with whatever it produces, is his always. The cost of living- can never so so high that it seem worth it to most of Globe. President Wilson at least, select for his sippointees men who have records of News. The bass drum makes the most noise in a band, but it be missed if it were Journal.

Having failed at Verdun, where will the kaiser direct his next fruitless (Ariz.) International. Portugal is refreshingly different. Tt makes claim that it was forced into this Post-Express. It is hard for a man with a grievance, remarks Jerome, gritting his teeth, to stick to the truth. Memphis Commercial Appeal.

An office that has to seek the man has either a small salary or or else it requires much hard Angeles Tribune. finish in Indiana: Harry New, first; Jim Watson, second; A. J. Beveridge, not even Post-Standard. After living in the same apartment house with a person for ten years, it is permissible to exchange a conventional City Journal.

Whenever a man is successful, half the people say that his wife made him and the other half declare that he is just naturally News. Very few of the Republicans jumped upon the elastic frame of Mr. Taft because he did not. rush into a war with Daily News. The president of the United German societies says the Teutonic vote favors justice Hughes, which may be one reason why he is so Star.

There is some compliment to Gen. Funston in the wky it has been made clear that Carranza is not the man Gen. Funston is afraid News Tribune. and a tough Mexican bandit appears to be a difficult geometrical problem, almost as bad as the Journal. Tf Villa is personally present at the different places indicated in various reports coming out of Mexico, he is a pretty numerous sort of Sentinel.

Making a Garden It Is Indulged In a Harmless Annual Pursuit Spring By City Folk very rsy HOWARD L. RANN. AKING GARDEN is a harmless pursuit which is indulged in every spring by married men tvlio envy the farmer. Nine out of en American business men are con- vinced, after casting up their bills payable at the end of the month, that they should be on the farm, and most of their customers agree with them, As few business men, however, are able to save enough out of their net earnings, after paying the hired girl, to buy a farfri, they console themselves by making garden which will not grow anything but the hardy and unterri- fied onion. There is great profit in making a garden, if it is done correctly.

The seeds do not cost anything, as they are sent out by kind-hearted members of congress, in exchange for a vote of thanks at the November elec- tions. The congressional garden seed comes in a neat package bearing the autograph, and every i once in a while will surprise the reci- pient by sprouting in an upright at- i titude. When the seeds fail to sprout, the congressman loses the vote of the plantee and all of his male relatives. I Some shrewd 'politicians figure that i more congressmen have btfen defeated for re-election by the non-sprouting garden seed than by all of the post- Everjr once in vrhfle the ional garden seed will surprise the recipient liy uproutinK. office fights in the district put gether.

The best authorities agree that the garden should be plowed before the is put in. as better results are obtained Great care should also be exercised in planting. Onions, ruta- bagas and summer squash can be planted at any hour of the day or night and will come up in the face of zero weather, but early potatoes and the delicate, high-browed turnip should always be planted in the full of the moon, with the wind in the southeast, There would be fewer total failures of the potato crop if people would oost rve this simple precaution. While the garden should be put out by man, owing to his superior judgment and mechanical ability, its and culture should be entrusted to his wife. Woman is admirably fitted to nurse the succulent string bean and the blushing tomato from tlie adolescence i to adult manhood, and after she has worked in the garden all day she will b' less inclined to gad to the picture show and drag a reluctant, tightfisted husband with her.

If every husband would turn over the garden to his wife, it might be induced to grow Sierra Madre Country Sidewalks Should Be Rougk Higher far as marching Is concerned the American troops are in a much more broken country at present than they have been in said S. C. Hadford. road from Palomas to Casas Grandes is very good compared to the present route of the troops whfch is over mountainous country, and which affords an excellent hiding place for Vina. 1 know of many prominent cattlemen who have driven herds of cattle from Casas Grandes to Palomas and Deming, and fattened them on the way.

There is plenty of water in that country compared with the district through which Villa is now being rapidly Paso is a modern city in many ways, with but one fault that I can find with it, and that is that in many places the sidewalks are on a level with the said N. D. Parks. cases like this large stones or curbings yet custom decrees that they must wear an unattractive, expensive lid of ancient design, built to shelter the head i from rain; while women wear a dress designed for beauty. Practically the same is true of footwear.

We men, are seldom or never out in the rain or mud without rubbers, keep our feet encased in leather the year around, while women wear sensible cloth shoes, cool and beautifully colored to match their gowns. Men are just now awaking to the fact that they can wear cool, sensible clothing of light fabrics in summer the same as women and that this manner of clothing is certainly more comfortable, healthful and better were almost afraid to come to El Paso when we found it was scheduled on our concert tour, from the reports that were current about the dangers here on the said Miss Malvina Ehrlich. have certainly enjoyed the visit here, though, for from a tourist point of the city pos- a variety of interesting sights Miss Tawney Apple, ticket seller th1 something disappointment and is off on ac jumson by the Ad- stsses should be constructed to keep vehicles i that are not to be found in the aver from running on the sidewalks, some age place. The presence of the large of which had been reduced to dust by number of soldiers that you have sta- ams Newspaper Service. Vir Ryan, r- freighters, manned by Ameri" can crews and flying the flag of the recently organized 10,000,000 Orient'll Alliance Steamship company, are soon to be placed on the trans-Pacific run between San Francisco and the Orient, according to Peter D.

Milloy, president of the company, who is here todav ar- Miller. E. R. McClintock. R.

J. Tighe, Rev. J. H. Allen, A.

J. Fraser and F. A. Shaw. Il AMERICAN SI1IPS TO GO OV TRANS-PACIFIC Rl San Francisco, April count of a broken bracelet.

Talk about hungry Democrats, Republicans even et smilax at a banquet at Melodeon hall, last night. (Protected by ACams Newspaper Service.) ranging for service. the institution of the the incessant grinding of wheels. corner I know of all four sidewalks intersecting the street have been poumled down until vehicles of all kinds make a practice of crossing rjr if some man breaks into print with a vigorous criticism of hats or clothing in said G. M.

Orr. appears to me that in the matter of dress women are the progressives and men the stand patters. Perhaps the majority of men residing in cities are seldom if ever out in the rajn without an umbrella, tioned here in camp makes it. more interesting. I wonder if you El ans take them so much for granted as you have become so familiar with thefr For Marching; 1 han Streets presence.

The various types of Mexican huts are curios in themselves. Where else can one find houses made of beaten out tin cans like you may see on an automobile ride down the i the census figures of the county schools, outside of El are not all in, the indications are that the scholastic population will reach fully said Miss Myra Winkler, county superintendent of schools. have occurred in nearly all districts, and on the whole the showing is very good. The increase means that we will get more money from the state this year than last, and the outlook is, therefore, for a very successful year, beginning next September." situation on the border has evidently affected travel over the southern said Charles W. Mundell of Kansas City.

my recent trip out here from Kansas City travel was lighter than usual and I was informed that the fear that trains running near would be fired upon lias kept many from taking the southern route in going to the Pacific coast. This fear has probably come as a result of the exaggerated stories that have been published in some of the papers of PAVING AWARD POLITICAL PLAY Rotary Club Assisting in Arranging for Coming of Entertainers. Definite steps to have a Chautauqua in El Paso during the first week in May, offering the attractions of the western ehautauquas. were taken at a meeting Tuesday night of a committee from 'the Rotary club and individuals subscribing to guarantee fund, when officers and chairmen of committees were elected. Shelton President.

W. H. Shelton was elected president; R. J. Tighe, president; E.

C. Davis, secretary and Edgar Kayser, treasurer. Chairman of committees were elected as follows: R. B. Orndorff, entertainment committee; E.

B. McClintock, grounds committee; R. H. Rinehart, automobile parade committee; E. L.

W. Polk, advertising committee; and A. E. Ryan, ticket committee. These chairmen will select the other members of their respective committees.

Program Outlined. Prior to effecting an organization, J. C. Herbsman, organizer and special publicity agent of the Western Chau- tauquas, and formerly head of the de- partment of public speaking in the University of Washington, at Seattle, outlined the program for the week and the work of organization, methods of conducting the advertising campaign, and other work of preparation. I But Moral.

chautauqua is not religious, but Mr. Herbsman told the committee. partakes of the church, the school and the theater and is none of these. it in a class by itself, teaching morality, offering educational features and providing wholesome entertainment. It is a boosting organization for every town in which its talent appears, and takes no part in religious or moral questions that may agitate the towns and cities where it is given.

The big ideas are education and a wholesome Marine Hand. Features of the week will be the Marine Rand of New York, moving pictures, the Kaffir Boy choir, lectures by Thomas E. Green, Sylvester A. Long and others: the Riner Sisters, entertainers; Alexander Skibinsy, the well know'it violinist; the Coraus Players, Shaksperian dramatic entertainers; the Sequoias male quartet, and numerous other entertainers. A feature of the chautauqua will be the children's chautauqua which will be held every afternoon.

The entire play hour of the week will be founded on stories of king court. At the end of the week the children will give a playlet in costume. This will be given at one of tire regular programs of the chautauqlia. With a little king selected from among them- selves, the boys and girls will form a miniature court. To Be Held in Tent.

The chautauqua will be held in a large tent with a seating capacity of nearly 2000. The daily program will be as follows: 10 a. lecture; 2:30 P. musical prelude; 3 p. lecture, 7:30 p.

m.T evening concert; 8:15 p. lecture. The'1 chautauqua will be held at 4 p. each afternoon. The grounds committee Wednesday morning looked at several available sites for the tent.

Wednesday morning Mr. Herbsman addressed the high school on the coming chautauqua program. Rotary Club AKtttated. The coming chautauqua, which it is planned shall be given every vear henceforth, is fostered by the Rotary elub, which appointed a committee headed by W. H.

Shelton to secure signers to a guarantee fund of $1500. Thirty-five signers have been secured, Present at the meeting Tuesday night ALWAYS TAKE ADVICE BY WHEELAN Petition for Injunction Al- to designate heavy standard bitulithic i pavina: is not made in the exercise of leges Fort Paving Was Awarded Fraudulently. Alleging that the awarding of the contract for the paving of Maple avenue, from Dytr street to the El Paso Southwestern railroad, a distance of 200 feet, to the El Paso Bitulithic company, was an attempt to favor personal and political friends and a waste of the funds, R. E. McKee and other contractors have filed an application in Jhe 65th district court for an injunefTon to restrain the commissioners court from carrying out the order.

The hearing for a temporary injunction is set down for Thursday at 10 a. m. Others Join In £ott. R. E.

McKee. Otto Krueger, J. X. Mayfield. W.

C. Shaw and W. J. Jennings. all of whom submitted bids for concrete paving under specifications prepared by the Southwestern Portland Cement company, joined in the suit as taxpayers, and county judge Adrian Pool, commissioners Seth B.

Orndorff. George Pendell, James Clifford and J. M. Walling: county clerk E. B.

McClintock. county treasurer J. D. Ponder, and county auditor Roy D. Barnum are made defendants.

Bidder. The petition calls attention to thrf law which provides that the contract shall be awarded to the lowest and best bidder. It is shown that the bid of R. E. McKee for concrete with sur- facing was $1500 lower than the El Paso Bitulithic company's bid for lithic.

The petition recites that on March 20, the court decided to pave Maple' avenue and to advertise for bids for standard bitulithic paving, commissioners Seth R. Orndorff and George Pendell voting in favor of the motion and commissioner James Clifford against. Patented an honest discretion of said court but is an attempt on the part of the commissioners. in calling for bids in the manner alleged, to eliminate competition. and is a fraudulent attempt to favor personal and political friends at the expense of the taxpayer and is a waste of the funds of said 14 YEARS Ago Today Froi The Herald of Tkla Date, 1962 Notice was served on water users of city that they will be allowed to use water for sprinkling purposes only one hour each day, while the city authorities have been notified that no more water could be ftfrnlshed for the street sprinklers for some time.

This is due to the threatened water famine, according to manager Watts of the water company, stated that he was taking the nccessary precautions. Charles O'Neill, a prominent mining man of Janlla, is in the city from that place. George Emerson left for Chihuahua where he will take up a position with a prominent mining company. The El Paso Social club will give another of its enjoyable dances next Tuesday night at the Sheldon hotel. George E.

Roe. district freight and passenger agent of the Santa Fe railway. returned from a trip up the line. Miss Annie Nations was expected to arrive in the city from Dallas, where she has been visiting for the past week. Mrs.

Rawlings arrived in El Faso from Kansas City to visit her son and daughter. Dr. and Mrs. J. A.

Raw- It is shown that, because of a patent on the bitulithic mixture requiring that a royalty be paid to Warren Brothers, Roy Wolcott, a nephew of Mrs. J. C. it 1s practically impossible to get Lackland, arrived in the city from competitive bids on that material. 4 Houston, Texas, to make El Paso his attempt of the commissioners future home.

The Watch WATCH wouldn't work worth a dime, it was always a fortnight too slow; instead of recording the time, it monkeyed around, to and fro. The mainspring seemed out of repair, it traveled by spasms and jerks; so 1 sat me right down in a chair, and studied the watch and its works. I took it apart with a wrench, and studied the levers and gears, all piled in a heap on a bench; I studied and wiggled my ears. I put the wheels back in the case, and shook them to give them a shock; but the hands go round the face, and the works tick nor yet tock. I asked of the plumber advice, and counsel I asked of the judge, consulted the dealer in still the blamed works budge.

I remarked, I wist, I must go to the He gave it three twists of the wrist, and the watch went along like a top. That kept me down in the plan that is doubtless the worst; I always reserve till the last the thing I should tackle at first. by the Adams Newspaper Service.) WALT MASOK. EL PASO HE3ALD DEDICATED TO THE SERVICE OF THE PEOPLE. THAT NO GOOD CAUSE SHALL LACK A CHAMPION, AND THAT EVIL SHALL THRIVK UNOPPOSED.

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