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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-24
.|LL|TERACY IS
DISAPPEARING IN
SANTA FE COUNTY
Work Of Moonlight Schools
Nothing Short Of Wonder
full; 65 Letters Received by
Conway From Pupils,
ts,se,Al eossssropOsres TO MORNING JOURNAL,

Especial coRNseponptnce TO MORNING JOURNAL
Santa Fe, Jan 23.-SlXty-fiv let
ters from attendants at the moonlight
schools were received on the first mail
today by County Superintendent j. V.
Conway. And thereby hangs a tale.
Al the request OF Mrs Cora Stewart,
founder Of the moonlight schools of
Kentucky, County superintendent
Conway is gathering Il few specimen
letters from aged people who have
learned to read and write in the San
Ia Fe moonlight schools, expecting to
receive at the most half a dozen. But
ii seems that every attendant of the
schools is going to write, and now
| Conway is wondering whether he
should hire another stenographer to
read and answer the letters or just to
let them come and leave them UNI
answered
Conway is also getting a fine re-
! recently to stamp out illiteracy. The
/ teacher in each district has mailed
him a list of every illiterate in the
! district. Conway addresses letter TO
each illiterate. a long letter at that.
The illiterate who receives letters sell
dom rushes to neighbor or to the
| priest with it to have it read. The
! letter, which is in a friendly, CONVEX
sational tone, calls the attention of
the recipient to the moonlight school
I saying: IF you attend that school for
! twelve weeks you will be able to read
your own letters and also to answer
them without summoning the help of
anyone" That argument generally
clnches it for the recipient usually
makes tracks for the moonlight school
the very next evening In one district
every one of the twenty-nine illterates
reported by the teacher has enrolled.
In Chimayo former probate judge
of Santa Fe county attends the moon
light school and addressed the people
as follows: Il did not learn to read
and write until after | was married
In those days We hired a teacher to
instruct lis in the evening. We each
had to pay him SO a week for that
work
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-24
Jump from Bed
in Morning and
Drink Hot Water
Tells why everyone should drink
hot water each morning
before breakfast.

Why is man and woman, half the
time, feeling nervous, Respondent,
worried; some days headachy, dun
and unstrung: some days really inca
pacitated by illness.
If We all would practice inside bath
ing, what a gratifying change would
take place Instead Of thousands of
half-slck, anaemic-looiing souls with
pasty, muddy compilations we should
see crowds of happy, healthy rosy
checked people everywhere. The rea-
son Is that the human system does not
rid itself each day of all the waste
which it aceumulates under our pres
ent mode ef living. For every ounce
of food and Grinl. taken into the sys-
tenn nearly an ounce Of waste material
must be carried out. else it ferments
and forms ptomaine-like poisons
which are absorbed into the blood.
lust as necessary as it is to clean
the ashes from the furnace each day
before the fire will burn bright and
hot, so We must each morning clear
the inside organs of the previous days
accumulation Of indigestible waste
and body toxins. Men and women,
whether sick or well. are advised to
drink each morning before breakfast
a glass of real hot water with tea
spoonful Of limestone phosphate in il.
as a harmless means of washing out
of the stomach, liver. Kidneys and
bowels the ndigestible material.
waste sour bile and toxins; thus
cleansing. sweetening and purifying
the entire alimentary canal before
putting more food into the stomach.
Millions of people VINO had their
turn at constipation, bilious attacks.
acid stomach. nervous days and sleep
less nights have become real franks
about the morning nside-bath A
quarter pound Of limestone phosphate
will not cost much at the drug store
but is sufficient to demonstrate 10
anyone, its cleansing, sweetenne and
frcshening effect upon the system.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-24
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. "a, isi
Our STREET SITUATION.

The journal publishes elsewhere n
communication from S. T. Gilbert,
chairman of tho street committee Of
the city council. who attempts to
shlft responsibility for the condition
OF the streets % the shoulders of the
mayor. For recent lack Of teams. he
may be right. hut for more than II
year, IL has been understood that Mr..
Gilbert was the directing hcnd OF the
street work. debating who should be
hired and who discharged, and. not
infreauently. when out delivering
groceries. directing the teams from
where they were working 10 some
other section Of the city.
Also. Il has been stated that Mr.,
Gilbert was responsible for concen-
tratlng the teams IN section of his
ward for three months on street work
where only seven resident families
were benefited thereby
But, let the blame belong partly
20 Mr. Gilbert. as beyond doubt Il
does. and partly 10 the mayor, as II
may, the unpaved streets Of Albuquer-
que were never In worse condition
than now. For example, there is the
street between Central aud Gold. in
front of the poatufficc building. Ii ie
In daily use literally by hundreds Of
people. aud IL III a bog whenever there
~ heavy rain or melting snow. II
would cost little TO gutter the street
and not much 70 gravel It. and would
remove an eye sore from the most
prominent part Of Albuquerque.
Let as consider Central avenue
along Honeymoon row. There is n
long stretch Of residences and no
crossing for blocks except through
mud shoe mouth deep. or course,
Central avenue should be paved %
old Town, but II rs not aud probably
viii not be for some years A few
cinder paths would be a great con
Vcnienee to the people Of that vicinity
and the work involved would be neg
nglble.
The trouble about It all is that
nothing positively has been done for
Albuquerque for two years. At the
outset of the present administration
there was a quarrel between the
mayor and the city council, both sides
then dug in. just like the opposing
armies III Europe ana the only thine
upon which there has been agree
ment was TO give an advertising mon
opoy Of the street corners 90 d
stranger for advertising purposes
That Is the only aggressive, new
thing done fer Albuquerque durinl
nearly two years Think Of T. i
another can be found, and the
Journal wlll be glad TO publish IL
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-24
YUAN Sill KAI YIELDS.

II is announced both from Japan
and china that the coronation Of
Yuan shi Raj has been postponed,
the Chinese announcement credlting
the delay to the revolt In the south
ern provinces and the announcement
from Japan stating that il was in
Difference 20 objections By the mika-
do'a government.
NOT long ago. dispatches from the
far east announced that the Japan
cse government, with the approval Of
Russia. Great Britain. France and
Italy. had presented a note TO China
cautioning her against the restoration
of a monnrchlal form Of government
al the present time. There was some
comment because the United states
refused TO Join IN the note OF protest
to the Picking government, since the
United states was the first govern
mcnt To recognize the new republic
OF China. This country. however,
follows it's settled policy OF nonin-
reference.
on the very day the powers deliv-
cred their note TO Yuan Shi kai, Toxic
dispatches announced that Japan had
signed the Russian French British
pledge not 10 make separate peace
with Germany. Likewise, Japan
pledged herself to aid the entente
allies in ways not specifically men
I toned.
In the light Of all these announce
ments the Chinese situation Is clearer.
Great Britain, already under obliga-
ton 70 Japan for driving Germany
from Asia last November year ago,
now finds her vast possession Of india
in danger Of revolt and Egypt threat
cnod By Turco-Gcrman invasion. Too
busy In Europe to cope with these
conditions, Great Britain has again
turned TO her powerful Aslatlc ally
For Il guarantee Of Russian and
British noninterfcrcnce In Japan's Az
pirations in China, England has prob
ably secured from Japan a PROMISE
OF direct military aid whenever need
ed in India or Egypt, and even per-
haps ON the front of eastern Europe.
Such are the portentous shadows
that are looming on the Great wall
of china And It Is still question
whether. when the war Is ended and
the roll OF nations called, among the
missing" viii not be faund~-China.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-24
The German Babies;
a N0Uel VielC of Them

editor Morning Journals
enclose a circular appeal, sent TO
All the ministers Of The gospel which
cannot understand aud therefore
ask you for a public explanation,
Why are the German babies dying
for want OF milk No invading army
has ever entered Germany and she
has all the COWS she ever had with
millions less people to use milk. The
German hahies ought TO have nearly
double as much milk al they had
before the war started
Besides there are thousands of
Cat babies IN New Mexico and old
Mexico who never had a drop Of milk
except what they got from the breasts
Of their mothers.
cannot buy a pint Of milk with
six miles Of whore | live, and Yet
there Is no lack of babies and no or
CARNATIONS raising a pathetic wal
about them.
Has this circular been gotten up by
some English sympathizers To max,
believe that the tefnlans are III want
Al the great men of Germany de.
clare that they have abundance OF
food. This must be a graft or an
/ English fraud
Hut even If The statements Of tn,
appeal were true. would it not be bet.
ter Go LEI the babies die? Germany
has grown men to XIII. Does II pay
Co grow men To kin and hc killed
Their pelts are worthless aud theii
pork viii not bring cen, pound
II We are growing them 10 XIII will j
not pay better Ia pat the money OF the
milk into pigs OF calves or any othei
animals How can you make il pa,
20 grow men To KIM
! A PREACHER.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-24

in better health than ever, and have
healthy baby girl. ] praise your Vege-
table Compound for my baby and my
better health. | want all suffering
women to know that it is the sure road
tohealth and happiness. Mrs. GEORGE
STEPHENS, r. F. d. No. 3, Patoka, I'll.
Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound is so successful in overcoming
woman's ills because it contains the
tonic, strengthening properties of good
old fashioned roots and herbs, which act
on the female organism. Women from
all parts of the country are continually
testifying to its strengthening, curative
influence.
1t has helped thousands of women
who have been troubled with displace-
ments, inflammation, liberation, tumors,
irregularities, periodic pains, backache.
that bearing down feeling, indigestion.
and nervous prostration.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-24

county which borders on Mexico a
telegram, saying
Irrespective of what sensational
lists may say my observation leads
me 70 the belief that here along the
border, where people have in way
a better opportunity TO understand
things the Administrations handling
Of Mexican matters has heretofore
met with real approval, and therefore
In present emergency whatever action
may finally be taken should he de-
termincd upon only after the same
kind of mature delheration hereto
fore exercised.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-24
Howard, Dallas; II. W. Means. Estan-

Howard, Dallas; r. w Means. Estan-
ella.
The climate Of Greece is as famous
MS that Of Santa Zee but even in Greece
the weather man occasionally SIPS a
cog, for Lord Morley says in his dairp;
Illusions as to the eternal summer
with which the gods have blessed the
Isles Of Greece vanished as they found
deep snow in the streets, icicles on the
Acropolis and snow-balling in the
Parthenon.'
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-24

this feeling has any justification II
beside the mark--thc feet that Il ex-
lists ~ a most unfortunate clrcum-
stance and IL evidence Of anything
but healthy condition.
Added 20 this is the fact that even
IN the more populous and wealthy
states. where lavish expenditures
have been made for the support cf
the militia. the national guard has
never been able to reach state Of
actual efficiency such az would be
demanded In time Of war The sys-
tenn seems to be fundamentally wrong
and out Of Joint with the times.
Commenting on this subject the
New York Times in a recent issue
says:
In Massachusetts u commission APP
pointed 10 look into the affairs Of the
national guard has come 10 the con
c,uslon that the state ought to have no
militia at all and that the guard
should be transferred 20 the control Of
the federal government We do not
know that n similar report has ever
been made In any state.
THE Massachusetts report may
nave no present result But the ex-
iatcnce OF the national guard In tho
form Of forty small armies viii con-
tinue TO cause more and more specu-
lation as the years go on, The states
need police. not soldiers, and with the
greatest respect for the admirable orr
gnnizatlon OF the national guard In
our own state. the soldIerlikc quail
ties Of 80 many Of It's men ana the
military Attachments and efficiency Of
rs officers. n IL safe TO predict that
while the public interest In prepared
ness lasts. and we trust IL viii last long
enough 10 make preparedness fact,
there win be a great deal Of talk about
the actual relation OF stnte-eonttolled
troops 10 national service"
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-24

to become a mother.
The doctor said |
never would have a
child unless | was
operated on for
female troubles and
/ had given up all
hopes when a friend
told me of Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound. /
took it regularly for
sometime, and | am
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-24

The United states now has a pop
ulaiian Of about ioooO0,0Oo and
wealth to the amount Of about $500
600. GOO, 900 That is about $4,000 for
eyery man. woman and child IN the
country. II you haven't yours ask
for il.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-24

The S. Louis Republic wants to
know what has become Of tho old
fashioned man who used to sleep
through the sermon? The fashion
may be old but hasn't gone out Of
style,
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-24

Colonel Bryan says every day brings
the end Of the war that much nearer.
Also, every day brings wilson's nom
nation that much closer.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-24
DEsPA|RING Woman
Now HAPPY Mother
Mrs. Stephens Did Not Need
The Surgical Operation.

Patoka, Ill. 81 had been married
five years and my greatest desire was
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-24

Chairman street Committee
Albuquerque, Jan %.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-02-25

Eucalyptus fence posts reduced to
12c each. A. H. Rehkopf, 2O4 South
Eighth St.-Adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-02-25
ITALIANS REWARD AVIATOR
CAPTAIN FOR HEROISM

Milan (via Paris, Feb. 25.-Details
ore now published of the raid carried
out recently by an Italian air squad
ron on Libach and it is declared to
have been eminently successful, chief
ly on account of the heroism of Cap
tain Salomone. who piloted large
machine carrying four men.
The task entrusted to this machine
was to engage adversary aircraft in
order to allow the other Italian ma
chimes to accomplish their mission of
bombardment. Captain Salomone at
tackled several Austrian aeroplanes
and in the battles which ensude two
Of his companions were killed and
he himself wounded.
He continued, however, to handle
his machine so skli!fully that his OBJ
server, Colonel Barbieri, was able to
keep up a steady machine gun fire on
the Austrians.
Bullets rained on the Italian aero
plane from all sides and Colonel Bar
bieri was killed. TIL pilot remained
alone with the bodies of his compan-
ions hindering the manipulation Of the
levers, that of Colonel Barbieri lying
across one Of the steering wires. Cap
tain Salomone finally managed to
move the body and that of another
man so that he could steer more
easily, and, having sufficiently de-
layed the pursuers to enable his fell
low aviators to reach their goal, he
finally landed at Palmanova and was
taken from his machine in a fainting
condition.
King Victor Emmanuel has award
him the medal for valor.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-02-25
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE SALE.

Whereas, Samuel N. Harris and Ma
RE d. Harris, his wife, by a deed Of
recorded on the End day of May, 1918,
in Book II, Page 116, of Deeds, Rec
ords of Imperial County, California, did
grant and convey the premises therein
and hereinafter described to w. T. Bill
and William M. Tisdale, as trustees, to
secure the payment of a promissory
the said Samuel N. Harris and Marie
ID. Harris, his wife, for the. sum of
sixteen hundred ($1,60OO0) dollars due
on or before LOG months after it's date,
and seven hundred and seventyfour
and 4O-100 ($774.40) dollars interest,
said principal and interest payable in
installments, of twenty-five and 4o-100O
($22.4O dollars on the first day of
each and every month and fine of 1
per cent a month on the installments
in arrears. in favor of the Home In,
deed also provides for advances not
exceeding three hundred ($3O0.00) dol
lars. in accordance with which provis..
ion advances were made in the sum Of
$3.50 with interest at one per cent
per month, amounting to thirty-five
(35c) cents, said advances and interest
whereas, default has been made in
the payment of the said promissory
note in this: That the installment of
principal and interest due s on 1ne nad
when due and that no subsequent in
stallment of principal and interest has
been paid upon said note; that no f mes
paid thereon; that the said installments
of principal and interest and tines
thereon, as provided in said note, nave
continued to be and are now unpaid,
and that no part of the said advance or
the interest thereon has been paid
and $500.
whereas, by virtue of said trust
deed, in case default shall be made IN
the payment Of six of said installments
when due, as provided in SAID promls,
a ri
and empowered to sell the properly
thereby granted on demand of the said
Home Investment Associations; and
Association has declared that such
default has been made and mas de
manded that the said trustees shall
sell the premises GRANTED a., by SAD aee of
the trust herein expressed; ..,,
Now, Therefore, Notice is hereby
given that the undersigned, by virtue
trustees, will sell at public auction to
the highest bidder for cash In United
States gold coin on saturday the tn
a. M, at the front ENTRANCE of the
County Court House in the City of FL 81
Centre, County of Imperial, state OF
them by the oressi deed
in and to the real property situate In
the City of Ell Centre, County Of Inn
nerial. State Of California. described as
Lot nineteen 40, Block twenty-nine
the City of Ell Centre. as per map
thereof No. 1O2 (Sheet No. ~. filed
March &c. 1913, in the office of the
County Recorder of Imperial County
California,
TO pay the amount due upon said
note, to wit: $1,621.39 apd the amount
due upon said advance with interest
$685.; amounting in all to $16B.24,
together with interest on the same
from the first day of February, 1916,
to the date of sale, and the expenses
of said sale and the expenses
of said trust in the sum of $4,000.
Terms of sale: Cash in United States
gold coin.
Dated Redlands, California, Febru-
airy 4th, 1916.
w. T. BILL,
WILLIAM M. TISDALE,
MonMar6 Trustees.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-02-25
Means Declaration of War.

Lisbon, Feb. 25.-Austria and Ger
many are expected to declare war up
on Portugal Immediately as a result
of the Portuguese navy's seizure of
! &c Austrian and German steamers,
some of them large, lying in the Ia
gus river.
P Foreign Minister Costa announced
today that the vessels were confiscat-
ed because Portugal needed trans
ports and feared the Teuton ships
would escape to the Atlantic and raid
vessels of the Entente Allies. In this
connection he emphasized the fact
that the German steamer Okenfels
had escaped from Funchal, Madeira
Island.
Though Germany and Portugal have
not been at war, Portugal has openly
sided with the Allies and has aided
the English against the Germans in
German Africa. The confiscation is ex-
pected to force break between Por-
tugual and the Central Powers, but
officials are confident that Spain,
friendly to the Teuton empires, will
continue neutral at least for the pres
ent.
The ships were seized by Captain
Rego. He stripped the Teuton colors
from them, ran up the Portuguese flag
and then fired a national salute.
Eucalyptus fence posts reduced to
12c each. A. H. Rehkopf, 2O4 South
Eighth St.-Adv.
Miss Jean Brooks, dressmaker, 657
Vine street. x26O
Imperial Valley press., 1916-02-25
BY Gibson Gardner.

Washington, Feb. 24.-"The army
and navy departments report that over
so per cent of the men who apply for
enlistment are rejected as being ply
sically or mentally unfit for the serv-
ice," said Senator Kenyon Of Iowa,
the joint resolution which
he introduced today in the Senate, au-
thorizing the president to appoint a
commission to inquire into the causes
of child poverty and suggest remedies
therefor.
"Inefficiency in adults must have
some cause" continued the senator.
"In England at the beginning of the
war 60 per cent of the men who ap-
piled were rejected as unfit. In Ger
many 10 per cent are rejected as I'M
fit.
"The Children's Bureau reports that
the infants of men who earn $40 a
week die at the rate of 255 per thou
sand, while the infants of men who
earn $25 a week or more die at the
rate of only "a per thousand. In other
words, the babies of the poor die at
three times the rate of those who are
in fairly well-to-do families. The In
dustrial Relations Commission report
ed that 70 per cent of the fathers of
ge-earning families earn less than
Imperial Valley press., 1916-02-25
Commission to Inquire
Into Child Poverty Facts

$500 per year. This means that be-
tween one-half and two-thirds of
these families were living below the
standards of decent subsistence, while
about one-third were living in a state
of abject poverty. And Judge Henry
Neil, the father of mothers pensions
reports that his investigation Of the
problem of child poverty shows that
thousands of children are separated
from their mothers on account of
poverty and that the depriving of chill
dren Of mother love tends to make in
efficient and unpatriotic adults"
Senator Kenyon believes that the
problem of child poverty has a direct
bearing on the efficiency of the ma
ton in its relation to preparedness
eve must prepare the human re-
sources as well as the material. 1t
is just as important-in fact more
important-that we take care of our
human resources properly, as that we
conserve our material resources. A
nation of units is not the kind of a
nation out of which to build a decent
civilization or one which will be prop
erly prepared to resist invasion"
Senator Kenyon's resolution is iden-
tical with that introduced in the House
on February 8 by Representative
Heating of Colorado.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-02-25

lions made through ability in sports.
Ouimet, Mclaughlin and Bundy are
being backed by many star athletes in
their fight against the ruling and it
may be action will result in depriving
the governing bodies of power to bar
amateurs from business careers.
Some athletes have stated they re-
gard the ruling as ridiculous. Others
say the powers are drawing the lines
too close and that revision of rules
is needed.
Ouimet has stated he will buck the
Imperial Valley press., 1916-02-25

professionals and barred from anna
teur competition.
The ruling on which the decision is
based says any person who uses his
ability as an athlete to make money
ceases to be an amateur.
The athletes claim they will not use
their ability on the tennis courts and
golf links, but are going into business
because they think they are good
enough statesmen to be successful in
business.
The governing bodies hold, however,
that the athletes will rely on repvta-