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JiL FA5U libKALO LD1I OKiAL and MAGAZJINL FACifc
Friday December 1. lyib.
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Down With the "Egg King'
Workers Oppose Unwise Agitation I Germany s Futile Protest Strictly Party Papers Suffer Short Snatches From Evervhere
The American people will not sit up nights to extend
sympathy to a Chicagoan James E. Wetz who having
placed 72000000 eggs in cold storage for the purpose
of compelling the people to buy them at extortionate
prices when he chooses to sell is about to be compelled
to sell whether or not he chooses.
The attitude of the so called "egg long" has been re-
pellant for one thing. To investigators of the Chicago
health department who located the huge egg reserves in
cold storage "Wetz is said to have stated: "I've got
them. What are you going to do about it?"
Chicago proposes to show Mr. Wetz what is to be done
about it. A long forgotten ordinance has been un-
earthed which makes it illegal to hold eggs in cold stor-
age more than ten months. Millions of eggs were
placed in storage by Mr. Wetz in last March and April.
These eggs must be placed on the market not later than
January 21 according to health commissioner John D.
Robertson and he has advised the Chicago housewives
whom it was plainly Mr. Wetz's purpose to hold up for
the highest prices possible not to buy eggs until the
"tzz king" begins to market them.
Whether Mr. Wetr will try to fight the ordinance
has not yet been disclosed. How far the price of eggs
will slump if these millions are unloaded within about
60 days will depend on how successful is Mr. Wetz in
scattering them broadcast It will cost money to scat-
ter them over a vide territory. ...
The hope persists that the "egg king" will be made
to suffer. Abuse of the cold storage is very properly
made an offence against the laws.
o
Birds of a father make tough work for the one who
his to pick them.
Arizona Federation of Miners members in Miami re-
cenUy manifested extreme disapproval of Ed Donnelly
president-elect of the federation who with a man
named Moreno insisted on delivering a street speech ad-
vocating a strike in favor of the closed shop. The Miami
miners were receiving the highest wages ever paid in
their trade. Their working conditions were satisfactory.
They had no mind for a strike just to stir up strife
and the agitators learned that fact in no uncertain
Similarly an unrighteous attempt at a strike in the
Clifton-Morenci district died in its infancy. There was
no just cause for a strike and the American members
of the union opposed it almost to a man.
Phoenix has just passed a city ordinance prohibiting
boycotts having had almost continual trouble for sev-
eral years with boycotts with no beneficial results ap-
parent. Bisbee has succeeded in getting rid of obnoxious pick-
ets who likewise seemed to accomplish no good results.
The Warren district in which Bisbee is located has uni-
formly within the past year resisted every effort of
professional agitators among the miners to stir up strife.
A strike for fair wages and decent working conditions
that is one thing. It carries the sympathy of men who
have regard for. their fellows as did the Clifton strike
of a year ago. A strike merely for the purpose of tear-
ing the life out of a district or a town to carry a very
minor point deserves to be crushed.
o
Villa says he will fight the Legalistas and Carranza
alike and will establish the Democratic party in Mexico.
He has gone a long way in proving himself an anti-
protectionist and in favor of tariff for revenue only.
The protest of Germany to Great Britain against the
measures of expulsion as applied to the German Austro-
Hungarian andTurkish ministers at Athens is as seed
cast on barren soil. It will be unproductive. Ko pro-
test will be availing in changing the course of the en-
tente as applied to Greek affairs.
Germany's protest recites that the expulsion of the
diplomats is in violation of international law is a trans-
gression of the rights of neutral nations and an act alto-
gether reprehensible. At least that is the sense of the
protest if not the actual wording.
If the allies send a reply in concert as they very
probably will through the British foreign office it will
undoubtedly assert that the expulsion of the enemy dip-
lomats was in a measure parallel to the recall of Dr.
Constantin Dumba the Austrian ambassador to the
United States and of the German attaches Capt. Franz
von Papen and Capt. Karl Boy-Ed; tnat the diplomats
were engaged in unneutral activities which made their
continued residence in Athens a menace to the entente
powers and that the sinking of many ships in waters
adjacent to Greece would indicate communication be-
tween the diplomats and the commanders of subma-
rines. It will be interesting to see whether the allies will
attempt to explain the fact that if the diplomats were
violating Greek neutrality their recall should have been
requested by the Greek government.
A less crude method of procedure would have been for
the entente to bring pressure to bear upon king Con-
stantine to request the recall of the German Austro-
Hungarian and Turkish envoys. The entente has been
by no means slow to apply the screws on other occasions.
Referring to the trials of journalism in Arizona as it
has experienced them the Prescott Courier says:
"The proprietor of the Courier is one of the few men
who have succeeded in keeping a straight Democratic
paper alive in Arizona and the only one who has suc-
ceeded in doing so in Prescott. And the greatest fight
to keep a Democratic paper alive here and elsewhere in
Arizona is not from opposition from Republicans but
from a bunch of mercenaries calling themselves Demo-
crats who never voted a straight Democratic ticket in
their lives and are more noted for their efforts to de-
feat Democratic policies and Democratic candidates than
are the Republicans themselves."
Arizona is full of Democrats. One needs only look
back upon the results of the last election the governor-
ship vote excepted to confirm that. But the result in
the race for the governorship proved that Democrats in
Arizona are fully as able to scratch tickets as are Re-
publicans. It is no longer any particular virtue to "vote
the ticket straight." In fact it is an indication of a
better day in politics when voters are able to see beyond
party lines and to vote where greater merit lies. There-
fore a newspaper which tries to cram a straight ticket
down the throats of voters regardless must be prepared
to stand a little jolt now and then.
It may be significant that the most influential and
presumably the most substantial financially as well as
the largest newspaper in Arizona was not until the last
election either Democratic or Republican but Progres-
sive. . -o
The fact that men sometimes make monkeys of them-
selves does not necessarily bear out the Darwinian theory.
.a hn r.ni miTif rr
War has abnormally sumumieu i- "-
hips ind coffins. Chicago News.
Mr. Wilson's success has """j??1"1
everything else. Why may it not be due to Mr. W.I-
on? Philadelphia Kecord.
Now that the women are voting in so manv - tate--..in-
hats on the election i likely to prove an ex
pensive pastimc-Nasbidlle Southern umoermai.
Some of those political orators who bragged that
theiTTpeSfl.es -people thinking ar. now wishing
they hadnt made thern New lork Morning Tele-
graph. If that Democratic roajoritj in the senate has am
gratitude whatever it will give Hiram Johnson a Rood
Sommittee appointment. New York Morning Tele-
Alreadv president Wilson s reelection has underw
mined business to so alarming an extent that Steel
Common te now selling around Jl-5 per share -Ohio
tate Journal.
Milwaukee women have Kamed first page promi-
nence in the New York fun bv the sending out of the
reo?t rtat tbey peel potatoes w.th safety razors.-
Milwaukea "Wisconsin.
3ne1 the day when sme statesman of either
allancedwni9suSaen the .rM ' jjg
peace proposals so plain as. to need no interpreta-
tion": San Antonio Express.
v... rill liave to ioreive us lor ue.i n
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overnight about the result or tne eiecuun
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We get
about the same brand of information about the out-
come of Europe's battles. Kansas City Star.
The friends of Carranza have taken to doing pub-
licity work in his behalf by furnishing boost literature
to the American press. One gets about as far as the
statement that the first chief is an Idealist and then
there is another rustle of autumn leaves in the waste
paper basket. San Francisco Chronicle.
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Famous Georgia
Roundabout Town
CommaDcls Id Camp At El Paso j
Tkree Organizations Witn Long Careers Here
IN THE GEORGIA national guard
camps at. El Paso there are three
notable organizations commands
that have figured in the history of the
state and nation for generation?.
Compai y T. of the First Georgia in-
fantry is finown as "the Jasper
Greeiu ' named for Sergt. Jasper of
the Revolutionary war. and it ftrst
figured prominently in the war between
the TTnlted States and Mexico. It has
been kept up as a company since that
time. The uniforms of the company
originally were groen. Gen. Henry K.
Jackson noted in the military annals
of the country was the organizer and
first captain of the original "Jasper
Greens." Its. home is Savannah.
Company I Fifth Georgia Infantry.
is the famous -uate uir u .
tlanta. once invited by queen Victoria
to visit England and drill before her .
royal highness. Permission was also I
extended by the minister of war ofl
France for the Aimpany to gu a exhibi-
tions in that country and the Georgians
were ready to leave when it was dis-
covered by legal authorities in Eng-
land that no foreign military organiza-
tion could land on British soil with
arms. The "Gate City Guards" declined
to go unless they could take their own
arms. J. F. Peck was the captain at
that tirao and he took the company all
over the United States in competition
with other crack drill companies. Joe
Nealon of El Paso was a member of
the company at one time.
The "Chatham Artillery of Savan-
nah. Is the other notable organization
of Georgians now here. The "Chatham
Artillery dates back to the Revolu-
tionary war and is almost as old as
the Ancient and Honorable Artillery
of Boston. It is responsible for the
famous Chatham punch which is said
to have the greatest punch of any
BY G. A. MARTIN
lap and a typewriter and its tempting
keys in front of him.
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Force of habit: Milkman watering-
his own coffee.
Things to be thankful for: That
vou had a friend thoughtful enough
to send around a big fat gobbler the
day before Thanksgiving .es this
actually happened.
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Things that never happen. Being
able to get a number on the phone and
then not finding your party out.
Following out one or Its precepts
that Charity is the sweetest of all vir-
tues EI Paso lodge of Elks has set un
der way its plans for its usual distribu-
tion of Christmas cheer to the needv
Investigation will be made of all needy
American families in the city and bas-
kets will be distributed Seeral mem-
bers have donated their cars for the
use of committees on inestigation an
also for the purpose of making dis- i
tribution of the gifts The committee j
believes that there will be more case-.
needing attention this year than In f
previous jears. Charity is a virtue
the Elks never boast of. and it is one
of the tenets of the organization to i
practice its charity quietl and without
ostentation but the i:iks probably dis-
tribute as much in the wav of help for
the poor as any organization in exist-
- - - HOROSCOPE - - -
Friday December t MIC
THIS should be an unusually favor-
able day for most vocations. Ju-
piter Mara and Venus are all
strongly benefic In aspect.
The rule Is an auspicious one for
commerce and trade of every sort.
Bankers and brokers should make the
most of the day's opportunities.
Education continues a rule Indicating
great strides toward practical achieve-
ment and unusual honors to professors
and Instructors.
The south is subject to influences
promising prosperity. New Orleans
will benefit greatly.
Philanthropic and religious organi-
zations have the forecast of extraor-
dinary benefits und Increased activity
during the winter.
Business associated with engineers
contractors and builders should pros-
punch that evr punched. Admiral . per jn tne next few weeks especially
gre
ever
Uewev is credited with having been
incapacitated two days alter a bession
ivith the Chatham battery"s punch bowl.
rlm Ponder and Joe Nealon declare that
t is mild as lemonade to the taste
ut that it has a kick like an army
mule harnessed In chained lightning.
When Mrs. Charles S. Ward of Tula-
rost street cut her Thanksgiving
pumpkin to cook it and make it Into
pies she found one of the most unique
agricultural curiosities she has ever
cn -an nun believed to be UniQUe In
ihe annals of plant growth. Although:
the pumpkin was perfect in every re-
spect so far as outward appearances
went the seed Inside had started
growing and some of them .had roots
-everal inches long while one had
formed a stalk with leaves upon it.
Growth of seeds inside pumpkins has
een known where the shell of the
uumpkin had become broken but even
then a small plant with leaves upon
t has never been found so far as
known. This pumpkin had no defect
anywhere in the shell. The growth of
the seed inside the pumpkin had ap-
parently not harmed the meat and it
-nade as good pies as any Mrs. Ward
has ever cooked she says. The pumpkin
3nie from the Oklahoma state display
at the recent Soil Products exposition.
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According to Joe Nealon. judge Dan
Jackson recently visited one of the
Texas penitentiaries and there met a
negro who was "sent up" from fc.1 Paso
for a term of years. Judge Beaure-
gard Bryan defended the negro and
one of the first people the negro asked
tvie judge about was attorney Bryan.
You know Mister Booregard Bryan
doesn't you. jedze?" the prisoner asked.
Yes." replied the judge. "Is he still
flirtin wid de law in El Paso?" asked
the negro.
Along this line another lawyer tells
a good storv on judge Jackson. A
negro had been sent to the penitentiary
from El Paso and he remembered with
a great degree of gratitude the fair
manner In which Judge Jackson had
conducted his trial. He wrote the
udgo occasionally and just after last
Thanksgiving he said in one of his
letters: "We shore did have a fine
Thanksglvun dinner here judge." Then
thinking to show his solicitude for his
good friend the judge he added: "You
ought to be here."
Our idea of a snap Having collars
er.oueh not to run out before the laun
dry sets back.
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JBgnklvRfc iSigwvhs. This is what
happens when you are trying to write
stuff with a itwo-year-old boy on you
in the south and middle west.
Machinery comes under a direction of
the planets making for small as well
as large inventions which will revolu-
tionize Industry and reduce the cost of
living.
The seers predict a return to more
moderate prices for the necessaries of
life and sensational agitation concern-
ing various problems of economics.
Women have a promising sway dur-
ing this configuration. They should be
lucky in all business transactions. New
fields of endeavor will open to them In
the winter.
While the stars appear to presage
progress for all feminine ambitions
danger of a misuse of power or opportunity-
te foretold by astrologers
who warn women to be wise In press-
ing demands for political and indus-
trial reforms.
Weddings dinners and receptions
hae the best possible government of
the planets. The month will be marked
by many marriages of public interest.
Accidents may Hiuiupiy uuuui mt i
winter. Unusual care should be taken
to guard against railway disasters and
explosions underground.
Persons wnose Dirwuate n is iuvt
the augury or a prosperous year.
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W"'-TT' fl
0W
ower
Cult
ure
B"!
What's become o th' feller who used
t git t' th front with a log school edu-
cation? "Her Sweet Face Haunts Me
Still" is th' title of an ole song an
there's another face we can't git away
from th' face o' th' returns.
(Copyncht National JVewsDAser Servlca.)
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Cjeoria s rmest
. v--iIX)RICOLTUnE is developing
H in El Paso at a surprising rate."
said II. I Totter. "The city is
owing very attractive and flower
growers are going to be more success-
ful than they expect. Flowers can be
grown in El Paso as well as any-
where tlae and in some cases even
bettei e hae a good climate here
but we must understand it. Flowers
mLt be handled differently in El Paso.
In outdoor growing. Tor instance many
flowers that are planted In the sprlns
in the north and east should be plant-
ed here in the fall Many of these
flowers include the common garden va-
rieties such as marigolds verbenas
snapdragons hollyhocks and sweet
peas"
We really hae the ery flower of
the state of Georgia here on the bor-
der at the present time.' said Gen.
Little
Is
A
Interviews
Developing
Now On
In E1 Paso
Tne Border.
Children born on this day will be for
tunate in business and will rise rap-
idiv in life. Copyright. 191. by the
McCIure Newspaper Syndicate.
Snlurdn?-. December 2. IKlfi.
ASTROLOGERS read this as an un-
favorable day since the sun and
Mercury are strongly ewl In as-
pect and Jupiter. Saturn. Neptune and
Venus are all adverse.
It is a day in which to follow rou
tine affairs. All initiative should be
avoided.
Under this planetary government
1 mental instability is common and busi-
! ness judgment untrustworthy.
Politicians and others who seek
the influence of persons in places of
power should not risk their chances
while this rule prevails. .
Newspapers and periodicals come un-
I !.. 4 an.w InrfloHnw Vi?inc-A In man.
.t a ana. .wiu.h-..f w ..o" "
agement and ownership increase of ad-
vertising and success in exploitation
where national resources are con-
cerned. The rule Is not a lucky one under
whi-b to sign leases or contracts.
Love affairs have a sinister direction
indicating increase of susceptibility on
the part of men and women divorces
and scandals.
There is a torbioaing sign i.r juui-
neys especially those on the sea.
Saturn is in a place read as likely to
increase the number of suicides.
All through this month women will
occupy much attention the seers pre-
dict The public prints will give un-
usual space to questions relating to
their domestic as well as their politi-
cal problems. .... .
A month of mild weather Is Indicated
by the stars but it will be followed by
a period of violent storms.
In France public dissatisfaction will
be prevalent during the winter for the
passage of Neptune through Leo is be-
lieved to indicate changes in sentiment
on important questions and a strange
spiritual awakening.
Peace will be discussed from a new
point of view in the next few months
it ie predicted but nothing will be ac-
complished except thai sentiment will
begin te crystallize.
Persons whose birthdate It is have
the forecast of a troublesome year.
Tact and diplomacy will pay both in
business and domestic relatione.
Children born on this day rnav be
quick tempered and headstrong. These
subjects of SavHtanus are usually self-
reliant energetic and honest. Copy-
right. 191. by the McCIure Newspaper
S ndicate.
re
Hams "but when I think condition below the city but after that
Walter A
of January 1 I shudder. Unless some
change occurs wnereoy we are sent
back to our homes three awful catas-
trophies are going to occur in our fair
state. In the first place there is
going to be no education in one of our
counties for the reason that one mem-
ber of the board of education is here
with us in uniform: then. too. in one
.section crime is going to go unpun-
ished if there should happen to be anv.
because of the fact that the prosecut-
ing attorney is here and will not be
able to take his oath of office: and
lastly. I grieve to say that race suicide
is to be inflicted upon us because of
the fa't that the registrar of mar-
riages is also here with us."
"Some of these reports abo.it the
lower rlaks of Mexicans suffering in
i:i Paso are certainly myths as they
are in exceptionally good condition
right now" said C. D. Harden. "Numer-
ous refugee families came to El Paso
in straitened circumstances it is true
but there is plenty of work for the
laborer and he that desires to work
! may obtain it at any time. There was
always a certain amount oi suuenng
among Mexicans in Chibuahuita who
refuse to better themselves but these
conditions have been virtually done
away with and there Is no such thins
now."
"Roads leading into El Paso are in
exceptionally fine shape at present the
upper route in particular being a fine
one." said G. N. Graves. "As far as
Fabens Texas the road is in a good
Our Destination
it Is a oit sandy and nara to travel.
Too much cannot De saia oi iuo con-
crete road above the citv. which w
traveled night and da. and is making
a hit as one of the greatest roads c
the south."
'The sight of eoldie-s in ohve drab
i nothing new to lis h"re in El Paso
aid John M Wyatt. vice president of
the Ftrst National bank "and for that
reason we do not go out of our heads
and crowd the sidewalks and cheer when
some of them march by We are now
accustomed to them having seen them
for several years but the visiting
guardsmen mutt not get the Idea that
just because we do not loudly applaud
and cheer every time we see them that
we are tired of them and unapprecia-
tive of what they are doing and what
sacrifices they are making. There ts
no one prouder of the visiting national
guard than I am. but even at that I
can't leave my busmesa to go to sec
them all of the time." ;
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"Yes indeed the women are fully i
well informed with regards to this
sport as the men" said Julius Kri-
kauer vice president of the EI Jaso
horse show association. "The majorlty
of the women are riders and they can
distinguish good and bad ponies good
and bad riding and the reasons for
some horses of known worth not mak-
ing better showings. For the most
part they have been brought up with
horses and the mysteries of horse
flesh are an open book to them."
piHE poorhouse has no Persian rugs no costly chandeliers; and there well
I dwell and chase the bugs in our declining years. On bread and meat and
- spuds and pie there's an unholy price; the cost of coal has gone so high the
poor are burning ice. The butchers used to give away the liver of the cow; today
they wrap it up and say "Cough up a quarter now." The poorhouse has no movw
stage no joyous minstrel troupe; and there well spend our wintry age and live
on cabbage soup. When o'er the daily sheet we glance we drop it with a frown;
the price of everything's advanced and nothing because his stock more precious is
than gems; the tailor wets with tears the frock which drearily he hems. Man
wears his sweater in his bed because he has no shift and cries aloud while see-
ing red "Oh whither do we drift?" The poorhouse has no plutocrats no closed
or open cars; and there well dwell and swat the rats unta we climb the stars.
Copyright by George Matthew Adams. WALT iL4SOJ(.
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Hogwallow Locals
By GEORGE BINGHAM
After Raz Bar
low took Miss
Flutie Belcher out
driving in his new
brggy. Sunday
some horse nairs
were seen very
OToroinently on his
snouiaer. j.ms
looks mighty sus-
cidons. as Rax
drove a mule.
Atlas Peck no-
- tint this creek's Tickvifle Tidings
has the announcement that he made a
flying trip to that city last Saturday.
He says papers never do get thinss
right as he never walked that fast in
HsUfe.
tTae world every day has a '-Kg jor
x its hands supplying enough news
to fill ten or twenty pages of reading
matter.
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