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Monday, September 20, 191). EL PASO MORNING TIMES EXCHANGE INTERVIEWS GLIMPSES OF THE PAST FROM FIXES OP THE TIMES OTHER EDITORIALS, WHAT THEY SAY BRIEFLY STATED OUR COUNTRY BY OCR PIIKSIDEN'T Hays tha Dallas News: "If we can't pre TWENTY-FOUR TEARS AGO TODAY. Poblliiaed Ewr In th Tw tir El run Time. Comfanr. taunt la I'oeioffir.

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vent the Mexican forays on this side of the Rlu Grande any other way, how would It Difficulties of Organization. (Copyright, 1901, 1902, by Harper Brother!) (Copyright, 1915, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) do to erect a barbed wire fence along the "Lightning has a peculiar effect on the blood of people that are killed by it," said J. J. Kaster. "Some kinds of death cause the blood to coagulate almost immediately.

On the other hand, a stroke of lightning causes the blood to become even more liquid than It Is in a person living." far side of that stream?" Pickets won't do, eh? was easier for Washington to play The Mertzon Star thinks most men spend the first half of their life dreaming of the great things they are going to do and the his own part of quiet authority and matter of course precedence than in fill tVtA nAW last half explaining why It waa they didn't do them. A I I 'offices of federal ad "One of the most beautiful sigh' in the city at night is the city hall dome with the American flag flying over it when a searchlight is kept playing on it," said Earl Maxon. "Recently a searchlight has been trained on the dome of the city hall at night, and as it catches the flag floating there it makes a sight that cannot help but Inspire a patriotic feeling." Jews In Russia will be permitted to buy property and live in all cities of the coun try except capitals and imperial residential ministration with men who could lend a like flavor to the Conduct of affairs. Ambitious men looked askance upon the new government; towns during the war. Ko far as is known no promises have been made to them after H.

H. MacWilliams left for Fort Worth on a two weeks' visit. Thomas M. Patterson arrived In the city from Denver as a delegate to the railroad convention. Webb Flannlgan will assume charge as collector of customs at this port on the first of the month.

Elaborate plans were being made for the reception to be tendered the delegates to the railroad convention by the McGinty club Tuesday night The Phats and Leans baseball team will clash this afternoon at Sportsman park. Old-time friends of Hon. Webster Flan-nigan tendered him a reception at the parlors of the Grand Central last evening. The committee on arrangements consisted of the following gentlemen: A. J.

Sampson, T. J. Logan, A. G. Malloy, S.

W. Russell, E. Kohlbcrg, S. L. Irvin, W.

W. Mills, S. H. Buchanan, H. S.

True and J. H. Mllliken. El Paso's delegates to the Albuquerque railroad meeting returned to the 'city. Alderman A.

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the war Enterprise. Perhaps the Russians are waiting to catch their breath before making more promises. "Any old time," says the Brownwood "When the Adclubs of the world come to El Paso In 1918, you ought to put signs up on every street warning strangers against going into Mexico unless they have a guide with them," declared Chauncey Bishop, of Chicago. "I went across, and because I didn't know the customs I got into trouble when they started to search me. It's this side of the border strictly for me in the future when I am in El Paso." Bulletin, "you happen to have a half hour to spare, do not use it bothering somebody who hasn't." The Texas Republic Is reminded that it la much easier to tell how a thing ought to be done than it is to make good when you try to do It yourself.

As for Instance, Major, what? The Louisville Courier-Journal tays Gen THIRTEEN YEARS AGO TODAY. "The Influence of Senator Sheppard in El Paso affairs can hardly be over-estimated, and he has always shown that he is the friend of the Pass City," said W. P. Brady. "He is on the military committee and can, therefore, help us in securing a brigade post here.

lie is on the irrigation committee and his aid on the Elephant Butte dam has already shown results." eral Carranxa declares himself on the high "Our Country! In her Jnlrnininso with foreign nations may she always lie In the right; lint mr country, right wrong." Stephen Decatur. road to victory with as much confidence as If he were made-ln-Germany. The Texas legislature has passed a law In Defense of the Rangers (Houston Chronicle.) We know those rangers are rather quick on the trigger, and we know they have earned the enmity of some few communities which have attempted to shield gambling and other lawlessness In the name of local self-government, but we're not go-ing to accept your word that they are outlaws, General Nafarette, and you can roll that into your cigarette and smoke It. Let us tell you something about these rangers. In the first place, they stand for a system of constitutional law and order, backed by popular sentiment, which may be difficult for you to understand.

They are; not like your rurales, hired to serve an absolutism whose tenure of power Is co-existent with its ability to pay. They are not pardoned bandits given positions at public expense to keep them quiet. They may be rough and short on talk, but they are every ounce men, and they know what It means to serve their state and their nation for the sake of patriotism, coupled with wages all too low. They are not the kind whom you can pay to do murder for so much per head, but they are the kind who shoot, and shoot to kill. If they think It conforms to their duty.

They don't know much about international treaties and international law, but they do know where the boundary line lies and they can tell the direction a bullet comes from without consulting a military treatise. They know a Carrar.za uniform when they see It, too. Do you get that? And they know that tho man In the uniform counts for more than the color of his pants. They understand perfectly that it Isn't the clothes which make a eutthroat, and that tho clothes must not be permitted protect him. Let us tell you something more about these rangers; we like to-talk about them, for during those wild and woolly days when Texas was a dumping ground for the flotsam and jetsam of two contending civilizations they stood as the law's chlcfest mainstay.

They rode the frontiers of the white man's sphere and held the thief and desperado bay. There were never enough of them to do the work and they learned to face any odds and take any chance. More than a few of them went down to early graves for the tsako of duty and Ideals and none of them were led on by the hope of any great reward. They were not trained In a military academy or tutored in the vagaries of diplomacy. Kuch knowledge ns they have, ami It is not so insignificant as you might think, they have acquired In the school of stem necessity, They have been forced to study and learn under the unbending master of experience and what they know they know thoroughly.

Further than this, as you may have observed, they are utile to use their knowledge promptly and effectively, which, in this age of speed, is more Important than ever. Sometimes wo could wish that they were mre gifted In parleying, especially when they face such desperate odds that there would appear no other way to save their lives, but on the whole we are quite satisfied to accept their in-varalble courage In lieu of tills. One can not cximtt everything, you know, and the most of us still feel that confidence in a forbidding swearing In the home. Ex-Senator Bailey will see In this doubtless another Plans were being made to have a number of noted lecturers visit the city in the near future. Detective Reilley, of the El Paso Southwestern railway, returned from a trip to Blsbee.

Colenel J. C. Evans and George C. Black returned from a trip to Eagle Pass. The city physician and the board of health Inaugurated a crusade for the enforcement of sanitary regulations in Chl- plot to deprive the citizen of his personal rights and the householder of "home com forts." New York Telegraph.

"The cattle ranges never looked greener and the cattle more beautiful than they do between El PaBo and Elephant Butte dam," said J. M. Wyatt, vice-president of the First National bank, who recently returned from a trip to the dam with Senator Sheppard. "With fat cattle, plenty of grass and the tanks full of water, nothing is left to be desired by the cattle raisers." While no such law has been enacted preferred the service of their if they wished political office at all; had to be persuaded to take federal office, and were asked to say nothing of the offer and refusal if they declined it. Fortunately, there were not many offices to be filled, and for these efficient men were found.

The congress created but three administrative departments at the outset, the department of state, the department of the treasury, and the department of war; though it provided also for the appointment of an attorney general. Washington chose Thomas Jefferson to be secretary of state, Alexander Hamilton to be secretary of the treasury, General Henry Knox to he secretary of war, and Edmund Randolph to be attorney general. A Mr. John Jay he made chief justice of the supreme court of the United States. His strong desire was to join parties in a common support of the general government join them at the outset, when their formation was but foreshadowed, not yet hardened to a definite purpose.

Alexander Hamilton the whole country knew to be one of the chief advocates of the new and stronger government; General Knox, too, was an avowed "Federalist," as well as a close personal friend of General Washington's; but, Mr. Jefferson, who had been in France when the constitution was framed and adopted, came rather lukewarmly to its support, and Mr. Randolph, though he had stood for its adoption, with Mr. Madison, in the Virginian convention, had favored it rather as a sensible politician than as an earnest friend. Mr.

Jay was known to be a Federalist. When parties formed it would begin congress; and the elements there were not difficult to reckon. There were but 81 members, all told; in the senate 22, in the house 59, until Rhode sland and North Carolina should come into the Union. It gave weight to the administration that hereabouts, we would question its constitutionality ourselves If it were proposed. The St.

Louis Times thinks the gasoline muddle offers fuel for thought. The Fort Worth 8tar-Telegram says when huahuita. Superintendent W. R. Martin, of the G.

H. railway left fori Valentine on business. R. W. Curtis, passenger agent of the T.

returned from a trip to his old home in Ohio. Auditor Mead, of the Sierra Madre, returned from a brief trip to Kansas-Clty. an opportunity hunts you up the chances are that you won't get anything out of it but experience. Anyway, we've been out every time it knocked at our door. Mr.

Burges Honored, PL PASO is proud of Richard F. Burges, and Justly so. lit; has come to be recognized eh one of tho foremost men of the great Southwest. As a lawyer and statesman he ranks among the first in Texas. As a devotee to thu cause of tho reclamation of arid lands by Irrigation there Ih no more energetic and faithful worker.

Tears of his life have been devoted to the problems of Irrigation by Mr. Burges and he has formulated plans whereby tho International Irrigation congress has been able- to give much assistance to the federal government in carrying out reclamation projects such as the Elephant Itutte dam. He is today considered an authority on all matters pertaining to irrigation and Is recognized throughout tho country as tho Southwest' most earnest advocate and devoted worker in the cause of reclaiming our untlllablo lands. And now his unselfish devotion to this cause has been rewarded in part, for on Saturday he whs elected president of the International Irrigation congress. No more fitting honor could have been bestowed upon this brilliant HI I'asoun, for to him tho work of this congrcHH means more than the mere gathering of men to discuss ways and means of making-certain lands arable.

It meaiiH the work of a life The Waco Times-Herald thinks the Washington government Is a long time finding some one In Mexico whom it can recognize. 'TIs better late than never sometimes. "I can hardly conceive of either recognition or moral support being given the Carranza faction "by the United States government," said Gunther R. Lessing, counsel for General Francisco Villa. "In the first place, It would be a case of the Pan-American conferees turning the other cheek for a second slap, in view of Carranza's antagonistic attitude to the very friendly invitation of the Pan -American diplomats.

Secondly, it is well known by the diplomats that the Carrancista party Is far from a cohesive faction notwithstanding the seeming accord which exists on the surface from the replies to the Pan-American committee by the Carranza generals. The ambitions of General Carranza, Obregon, Gonzalez and others are known to be absolutely conflicting and there is ample proof of this if one will consider the numerous dissentlons which have occurred in the faction during the last six months." The Beaumont Journal concludes that the dance craze must be dying dokn, as you can still dance in September the steps that were fashionable in August. Earl Kitchener's Optimism. (St. Louis Globe-Democrat.) Out of Earl Kitchener's address in the house of lords it is possible to catch an echo of his interview with Irvin S.

Cobb, afterward repudiated by him. There is the same disparagement of his adversaries, the same minimizing of their efforts in the face of their successful prosecution, and the same confident claims of victory for the entente allies. The German military staff is charged with having committed many blunders during the war and with maintaining its blundering record in the Russian campaign. In not a fevy places the Kitchener address reads so mu ch like the Cobb interview as to force wonder I. i .11 a john Adams had been chosen vice-presi dent, and stood with all his sturdy frankness for Federalism, and represented, besides, distinguished national service, both at home and abroad.

He had been the first minister of the Will UIEMIVUWKU HllCr U1W earl sees it in cold type or some candid' MnnJ nnlirinB i LI. I "I am confident that I have a world's champion in Bobby Waugh," said Frankia Edwards, Waugh's manager. "Waugh is a Texas product, havtng been born in Fort Worth. With Bobby Waugh champion lightweight of the world, Texas will add another laurel to her crown. Waugh is a consistent and conscientious worker and he will never lay down on the proposition of reaching thhlghest pinnacle in the gam.

After the fight here we are TTOlng to Shreveport, where Waugh will fight Ad Wolgast After that, we will re- new republic at the court of St. James, and had made himself and his country respected there, alike for statesmanship and for Integrity. He had been at Paris and at The Hague, always alert, always serviceable, always efficient, if never quite genial or attractive, and brought with him to his new duties In New York the excellent traditions of his state In politics and morals. Pruning Pigs (Pallas Journal.) The Kilgore Chronicle tells us: "Over In Henderson county they cut the tails off their pigs to save corn. They claim to have statistics to prove that It takes a full bushel of corn to maintain the curl in the hog's tall, and the curl Is useless at killing time." Light at last, good masters, after-all these-years of fog! The plg-prunlng plan lBn't new.

It was followed by the fathers in those yesterdays when ash-cured hams were realities, not memories, and home link sausages were fine enough to necklace the throat of Mmo. Eplcurmr THlt in those days the tail-trimmtng plan was followed as a matter of not of economy. Now comes Henderson county with the real reason. They trim nowadays to trim expenses; in other words, they take the kink out of the cost-of-feeding problem by cutting off the kink. Interesting, for a fact, particularly from the mathematician's point of view.

One might wonder: If it takes a full bushel of corn to maintain the curl of a pig's tail, how many pecks of persimmons would be required to maintain the prehen-Hility In a possum's caudal appendage, Sweet Science, say! lurn to El Paso and make every 'effort for a meeting between Waugh and Willie Ritchie." brave man which we are loath to give a diplomat, no matter how skillful he may be. At all events wo can truthfully say this: until it comes to regiments of mar-tlaled men with cannon, ammunition wagons and coitimlnsary trains, the rangers are the best we can offer In situations like that on the border. Further than this, General Nafarette, the rangers are not fighting Uncle Sam. They are not trying to hamper (leneral Funston. Texas is not In rebellion against tho American government and there is no quarrel between the state and national officials.

We do not question your good intentions so far as this side of the border la concerned, nor have we any reustm to believe that your first chief, Venustlano Carrany.a, is trying to stir up trouble between the two countries, but considering the large number of Mexican bandits that have crossed the Rio Grande anil considering tho preponderance There were marked differences of opinion in the houses from the first; some were inclined to a very liberal construction of their new powers under the constitution; others cried a warning against It, and pressed very earnestly for methods which should above all be conservative, and hold all things to a moderate course. It was easy to see how parties could form were forming; but as yet they re- time for which generations to come will be indebted, for millions and millions of acres of land will have been reolaimed. Mr. Uurges, naturally, is particularly In- terested in the Elephant Butte dam project for It means the reclamation of lands in and around his home city, but he is unselfish enough to believe that other projects are equally aa necossnry and is, therefore, as ardent an advocate of them. Ho would reclaim the desert lands of every section of tho North American continent with equal fairness.

IIIh choice as president of tho International congress insures this and his co-workers in thin great body of reclamatlonlsts knew and appreciated this when they chose him to guide them during the forthcoming year. In honoring Richard V. Burgos, the International Irrigation congress has honored Itself. "Anyone going to Los Angeles," said Gunther Leasing, "does not want to miss visiting the moving picture plants. To my mind, these plants constitute one of the most Interesting things to be seen in Call-torn la.

To see theplctures in the actual process of making and then to see them on the screen makes It doubly interesting. One can spend hours at the picture plants without having any Idea of the passing of time. They are most interesting." His detraction is not leveled wholly at the Teutons. Indirectly, as we Buspect from reading between the lines, David Lloyd-George Is attacked. Lloyd-George, recently commissioned to take over a large part of military work previously in Kitchener's hands, has still more recently published a book pointing out the imminency of a defeat unless the Britons rouse themselves to immediate action.

Earl Kitchener says there Is not a possibility of defeat. He insists that recruiting is more than could have been expected, and adds that he has recently sent over 200,000 fresh troops to face the German trenches. Assuming that the speech will, not be claimed as a misreport, there is one paragraph calling for serious consideration. Alliance with Rumania against the Teutonic allies was treated as an accomplished fact, He predicted the annihilation of an. invading army marching across Rumania to Bulgaria, now almost an admitted ally of the Germans.

This may be announcement of completed arrangements by which a Balkan league, Including Servia, Rumania, Greece and Montenegro, will cooperate with the entente and compass the crushing of Bulgaria tried two years ago. Such a league in the near future might Justify Kitchener's optimism, which nothing in the past or present can. vealed themselves only vaguely, and legislation moved unembarrassed. of military authority you are supposed to exercise, you have shown a woeful lack of ability in co-operating with American of Nothing Like It (Austin American.) "El Paso has more automobiles among Its American population than any city in the United States," said Jack Brace, of the International Auto company. "About 95 tier cent of the automobiles in the city ficers.

What, by the way, have you done with those whom our troops, rangers and Tomorrow: "Hamilton's Influence." deputy sheriffs have driven back into Mexico? Have you succeeded In appro -owned" by the American population and The Kl Paso style show Is on and many General Pershing heiniiiiK or punishing a single individual? a man can feel his bank account I 1 1 1 Senator Sheppard is sojourning at El Paso in the process of looking into border conditions. No doubt Pancho Villa, whom he some time ago congratulated by wire and wished every success in the amiable business then in hand, will be delighted to aid his good friend and distinguished patron in connecting with Inside data appertaining to the Mexican revolution. Your declarations as delivered to us through Consul Johnson are calculated to give great proposed military training camp for El Paso business men. Of course he does. Some day he may be called upon to handle a regiment or two of volunteers.

satisfaction, but somehow your acts appear In July In Texas births more than doubled the number of deaths. What is this race suicide they talk about, anyway. it might be said that there is one machine for every ten Americans in El Paso. Over 4,000 automobile licenses have already been issued in El Paso and there Is not a sufficient supply of machines in the city to supply the demands. El Pasoans buy high price cars.

The best is not too good for them. In Los Angeles and other cities you will see the greater majority of automobiles are of cheaper make, but this is not true of El to bespeak an attitudo of singular Indifference. In this connection your Insinuations against those citizens who are risking their lives in trying to protect the border Our idea of ill-advised criticism is that heaped upon tho Germans by Lord Kitchener. The Teutons are winning battles. American financiers don't propose to permit the purchase of war munitions with the mammoth loan to the Anglo-French financiers.

That's one way of cuttting short the life of the European war. must bo regarded as ruther untimely. Had source of surprise to me. It was a bxxt-prlse in this respect; that I had no idea a city could Improve the way El Paso has In a period of seven years. The buildings that have gone up in that time would Ho a nrarllt tn flnv ritv 'Whila am ma i.

The Pan-American diplomats seem bent on recognizing some one In Mexico. So long as, they do something, we should worry. Hut will they? you, or your troops, shown a disposition to Bulgaria has 'been asked by the tlcnte powers to define its attitude. We suspect the Balkan states have balked again. do, or succeeded in doing, one-tenth of what our small coterie of rangers have accomplished, then Indeed you might be justified -n calling attention to their vigilance and Ulll 1 1 fl, citizen of El Paso, I do not want to hear nnvone refer to it as a Vond town' trt An exchange observes that a boy who doesn't love a dog most always grows up to be a bachelor.

What's the answer? Vera Cruz is the source of the report that Juarez Is to be attacked. If all the announced attacks on the little Mexican border town had materialized there wouldn't be anything left by now to attack. in deprecating the accuracy of Ihelr marksmanship, As It is, you would do well to "Unless the other so-called large cities of Texas increase their pace, El Paso Is going to be In the lead in another few years," said W. W. Rew, district manager of the Petroleum company, with headquarters at San Antonio, Tex.

"It has been about seven years since I have been here, study tho situation more closely before in dulging In unfavorable comment and to re Paso; years ago, passed the town stage and is today a city in every sense of that word. El Paso is forging ahead all the time and other cities in the state will have to give-a good account of if they do not want El Paso to take the limelight away from them." The Kighth cavalry is en route to Kl Paso and the Fifteenth cavalry will go to the Philippines. A fair exchange, ete. A settlement Willi the Germans is in sight, says a headline, but our eyesight is becoming terribly strained these days. member that had you, or your chief, 20,000 We hope the Pnn-Americniv diplomats will use as good judgment in picking a president for Mexico as the International Irrigation congress did In selecting its first chief.

The Arkansas Gazette says: "However, as long as so much trouble is going on along the border. Fort Bliss oughtn't to be a misnomer to Hucrta." men in Mexico like our Texas rangers, there and I want to say that the thoroughly would be no war or revolution. metropolitan appearance of the city was a He'll Know 'em Next lime If He Sees' em Once ASTHMA SIMPSON By BILLY LIVERPOOL -tJL OONNaM yLCON WITH uiDYOoKOTice frWPe! HAVEN'T NOTICED CA IF -GUT VCX) GAM 0 7 I THReft TRAFFIC TO A. 3H0W KASUe. THft WOMORFO(- YS iVC BCCM SO HOW 'CM TO I Uf liFWS'K WITH Mg TP-NISHT ff3J ACOUSTICS IN SUSY USTCN.N' TO M6 A weVe I A THS, ZZjlM THIS TH6ATR TH6 INOIN3.

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