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Imperial Valley press., 1917-02-03
AUTO CLUB ESTABLES
80 INFORMATION BUREAS

AS result of the growth of the
Automobile Club of Southern Cali
fornia during the past year, and con-
tinuing support being accorded it by
automobile owners, the organization
has established thirty touring infor-
nation bureas and branch offices
throughout the southern part of the
state, with five more contemplated in
the immediate future.
Never in the history of motoring in
America has any territory been so
completely supplied with facilities for
the obtaining of information on high
way conditions, special tours and new
roads.
That the opening of these bureaus
in every center which warrants their
establishment is a part of the pro-
gram of advancement adopted by the
Automobile Club as the membership
grew and the support given it be-
came stronger, was stated yesterday
by Secretary S. L. Mitchell. Includ-
ed in this program is the acquiring
of touring information from neigh
boring states and from locations on
ell transcontinental highways.
Motorists from the East now visit
ing Southern, California, and all those
who come here in the future, will
practically never be more than thirty
miles from a club touring bureau in
the most heavily travelled regions.
Every county, from San Diego on the
south to San Luis Obispo on the north,
will have it's main branch office and
its battery of touring bureaus.
According to Secretary Mitchell,
this system will be so arranged that
all road information emanating from
Los Angeles headquarters can imme-
diately be in the hands Of the rep
resentatives throughout this territory,
if the call is urgent, as in the case
of storms. The ordinary information
necessary for touring motorists will
be dispatched to the club bureaus
through the branches from the head
quarters.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-02-03

San Francisco, Feb. 3.-Polish up
your automobile vocabulary.
Familiarize yourself with eights,
skies, twelves and fours.
Learn to talk full elliptic, cantilever,
bridge suspension and the many other
styles of springs.
For know all ye who own motor
cars, ride in motor cars or hope to
own motor cars, that the date of the
Pacific Automobile Show is rapidly
approaching.
In less than a month the beautiful
Exposition Auditorium in San Fran
cisco will have been transformed in
to setting for the most beautiful
of motor car products. AS some
youthful writer is certain to say, "the
motor car will be king" but most ap-
propriate will the glories of the
throne room.
The many special exhibits which
will be sent to the Coast from the
Eastern factories must be en- route
within the next two weeks at the lat
est. Many are already on the way,
as the wise exhibitor realizes the pos
sibilities Of freight delays and is TAX
ing no chances.
Many of the exhibits will be exact
duplicates of the New York exhibits
and in some cases more models will
be shown here than in New York.
The artists who will have charge
of the decoration effects are hard at
work. The sculptors have their i'm
mense figures of Mercury well under
way and the murals are being paint
ed. Darcy Ryan has consented to
take charge Of the lighting effects
and the show is certain to bring back
memories of the Exposition.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-02-03

very far from the soft music and
small flowers ceremonies yet. Foss
expects to have delivery body mount
ed on the old chassis soon and will
then use it as a service car for the
Rex Arms Garage.
"The old car has already towed in
q lot of cars which cost more and had
had not seen half the service which
this old Velice has KNOWN" said Mr..
Foss recently, in speaking Of the car
to A. L. Luce, local Velie dealer. In
fact, we consider this old boat a sort
cf pet around here and call upon it
for service which we have no rea-
son to expect from so old car, but
it has never disappointed US yet"
The ancient Velie is quantity old
fashioned in appearance, but has a
high speed motor, three-quarter clip
tic springs, genuine honeycomb radia-
tor and other specifications now rec
ognized as standard.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-02-03

Make a big day of it. Meet tES
girl and have lunch with the Ten
Thousand Club, Davis drug stores,
Saturday, Feb. 10. If
Imperial Valley press., 1917-02-03

By all means stop referring to a
Limousine as a sedan or cabriolet as
coupe.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-05
Bishop Lawrence
Urges President
To Prepare Nation
Protect Citizens on Sea and
Land at All Costs,
He Says

Boston, March Bishop William
Lawrence OF the Episcopal diocese Of
Massachusetts,, in a statement to-day
called upon President Wilson nov
that Congress has failed the President
and the country" 70 lead the people
to defend at all cost the integrity OF
the nation
"On this Attn OF March. 1917, We no
longer look backward. but forward
the statement said. Our President
has spoken strong words IN behalf OF
humanity. To these ne has pledged for
us our lives and fortunes. We believe
that he will stand 10 this pledge
1--WE citizens Of the commonwealth
now demand that ne stand 20 It. We
call upon him in this Iuncture 20 use
20 the full the powers with which the
Constitution invests him 70 protect the
citizens of this country on sea and land,
20 prepare the nation 70 meet every
emergency which may endanger its I'D
critics, and 10 lead the people 70 defend
at all cost the integrity OF the nation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-05
Village of Mametz
Swept Of the Earth

Sometimes in the Sunday supple
ments scientists or alleged scientists
used to write articles describing the
time when the earth would begin IN
dry up, when flames from inside the
narrow crust would burst forth.
What they sought 10 describe the
artillery of the last great war has
illustrated on the slopes of the
Picardy hillsides.
Standing still on the slopes Of the
Mametz hill, on the slopes toward
the north and east, one looks out
upon the sites Of many villages. At
YOUR feet was Mametz, but Of
Mametz there is not stone. not a
fragment. II has not been buried ;
IL has been literally blown from the
face Of the earth; IL has dissolved in
dust. and the dust has been swept
away. Here was a well built little
French town, with its solid houses
Of plaster and stone, old houses en-
during from other centuries. IL had
the usual church, the familiar place,
the fountain, all the slight but per
rnanent details Of French village,
and now there is just nothing.
And what is true Of Mametz is
true Of Montauban; it is true OF
Fricourt; il is true Of do not know
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-05

branch of the league, with the AID OF
a committee OF ifteen. is planning q
state convention of the League TO
Enforce Peace, to be addressed by hr.
Taft.
A similar meeting is 10 be held in
Oklahoma City. 10 which Goyerno,,
Williams and the mayors OF cities VIII
appoint delegates.
As the South and Southwest have
been clamoring for months for a
visit from Mr.. Taft. the tour IL ex-
peeted 70 be a great popular success.
Mr Taft. sitter speaking OF the aims
Of the league, said: =,
with the greatest reluctance
have come 20 the conclusion that we
should have compulsory military
training. We are now looking over
the brink Of hostilities with some OIL
the belligerents in this war. Could
We have better proof OF the need
FOR a body Of trained men 70 defend
the country. That we may avoid war
IN .he present issue We pray. bu,
n our rights be invaded again under
the declaration OF ruthless warfare
A. sea Il /. our duty to resist that IN
vasion. because Il is Of the same
nature as IL our country we're oeins
invaded
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-05
Tank" Fits Into Scene
Asa Symbol of Fury

Beyond Mametz, at Trones Wood,
nv guide showed me C Tank dis
abled and lying beside the road.
Oddly enough, IL seemed TO me the
only really appropriate thing IN the
whole accursed region roundabout.
II seemed animal rather than me-
chanical. like a prehistoric animal,
and il was not difficult to imagine
that all the scene Of desolstion that
extended on every side was the work
Of this animal, Of many animals such
as this: that there was still gong
forward the war of some prehistoric
age between man and this scaled
creature. and that in its fury, its
diving fury-for this Tank was
dead-it had torn up the Trones
Wood. lashed about itself and over
turned trees and rooted them up.
One more detail All this field Of
contrasting waste and reconstruction
is well within reach Of German shell
fire. Now and again the storm be
gins and the caravans Of men and
animals slowly extend, draw out into
thin groups-and go on. 1t never
stops by day or by night, this steady
even flow of human life toward the
extreme front at which humiliation
becomes absolute, at an arbitrary
frontier Of sandbags.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-05
Only Skeleton Left
Where a Hill Stood

Turning of the main road one
leaves the car and climbs heavily up
a hillside. Along this hillside ran
the first line Of German trenches, but
now there are neither trenches nor
semblances Of trenches. This hill
and all the surrounding hills are
worked by shell fire until they re-
semble nothing so much as the pict-
ures Of the surface Of the moon, IA
miliar TO all who recall the geogra-
phies of their youth. The flesh of the
hill has been swept away; only the
skeleton remains.
Occasionally, where the slope of
the hill is undulating, the suggestion
Of a German dug-out remains, per-
haps a dug-out overwhelmed by the
first deluge Of fire and still holding
in its unexplored depths the scores of
Germans who inhabited it when the
avalanche arrived. All over the hill
side. too, is the litter Of war, unex-
ploded shells, the fragments of
bombs, the debris of earlier and later
camps. Always, too, wherever there
is a bit of level ground, are graves,
endless graves, graves placed with
cut order and without systematic
graves dug by men pressed with the
need TO get forward, compelled to lay
aside all regard for the ceremony of
inhun1ation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-05
Malignant War Spirit
Blights Land Forever

do not think one can get any con-
ception of the real terror Of this war
who has not seen the country Of the
Somme or of Verdun, who has not
seen the fashion in which this war
like a malignant war spirit, has not
alone destroyed all that there was OF
homes of human habitation and OF
the fields Of human effort, but mas
swept the earth with fire and sown 1t
with salt. as if in the determination
that there should never again be
life. that men should not exist or
fruit and foods grow IN the relds
over which it had passed.
Yet il is not alone the sense OF
destruction that one feels at the
Somme. Indeed, l think the sense OF
human industry, Of enormous ef-
fort Of innumerable men at their
tragic task of war, even passes the
impression of desolation. Take one
Of the large anthills that one some
times sees in a country field, draw a
rake deeply through its curved sum-
nit and watch the myriad Of ants
come swarming up and begin what
seems a mad and frantic outburst OF
industry. and you will have some
faint suggestion Of what the battle
field of the Somme is like.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-05
Steady Bombardment
Resembles Earthquake

The centre Of the storm has passed,
but the storm area includes all OF
the torn and wrecked country, and
always there is TO be heard, not dis
tant. the steady drumming Of heavy
artillery; the hills are shaken almost
every moment by the tremendous ex-
plosions, and the intermittent can
nonade rises 10 the magnitude OF
ar earthquake again and again.
A year ago visited the field Of
the Marine. Here there was nothing
of destruction visible that might not
have been the work of the men and
the machines that fought Napoleon
on the same ground a century before.
On the battlefield of Champagne, of
1915, as have said, the effect of
she'll fire was patent but temporary;
the walls IF houses stood and the
fields can BE ploughed and planted
when the trenches are filed and
tho barbed wire removed. But at
the Somme there is nothing more
terrifying in all the terrible things
that one sees than the mutilation Of
the surface Of the earth itself. the
permanent destruction of the hills
and the lasting soaring Of the hill
sides, sown as they are with the
shattered fragments Of half a mill
ion of human beings and condemned
IN eternal sterility. Surely the
Somme must be the last word in war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-05
7. r. Declines
Bryan Debate on
Preparedness
Like Discussing Propriety
of Benedict Arnold's
Acts, He Says
Calls 1t Unbeatable
Colonel Quotes Scripture as /,
Warning to the
Nation

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt sent q
letter 20 the Congress Of Forums yes
terday refusing 70 meet William Jen-
nings Bryan in a joint debate on pre-
paredness. It would be, he holds, as
proper 20 debate whether Benedict Ar
mold was justified in his treason, the
advantage Of reintroducing slavery,
the non-desirsbility Of homogeneous
marriage or the right Of judges 70 ae-
cept brides.
Mr. Bryan. before he knew Of Colo
mel Roosevelt's refusal, had agreed TO
enter the debate with certain reserva'
tions In letter Of acceptance ne
said the debate should not Re held until
the present crisis had passed. His con
ditions, as outlined in a letter 20 A
Lyle De Jarnette. executive secretary
Of the congress. are that the expenses
o. the undertaking be shared by the
speakers. that admission be free and
by card, so that both sides may nave
an equal representation in the audience
and that the debate be given in all the
large cities of the country.
The invitation 70 Colonel Roosevelt
IL is understood. was sent following .
conference Of Mr.. Bryan's friends on
his last visit 20 New York il behalf OF
the pacifst propaganda. It was signed
by Edward F. Sanderson. director Peo-
pies Institute, Cooper Union; Percy
Stickney Grant. rector Church Of the
Ascension; Stephen s. Wise. rabbi
Free Synagogue, and Mr.. De Jsrnette
Colonel Roosevelt's Reply
In MS reply, dated at Sycamore Hill
February %. Colonel Roosevelt says in
Part:
81 cannot accept your proposal OF the
Dist. because I regard 1t as waste OF
time 20 debate n-debatable subjects
To debate with Mr. Bryan his views
against national preparedness would IN
nv Judgment be precisely on par
with debating the undesirability OF
homogeneous marriage or the morality
OF aboEshing patriotism or the advan-
tage Of the reiutroduction OF slavery
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-05

falls, so the people Of the region be
lieve, peace will come. But Albert
is only a shelled town; many Of its
houses stand, most of them retain
their walls and many their roofs.
But a mile the other side Of Al
bert, travelling toward Peronne, one
comes suddenly out upon the most
terrible and bewildering scene Of
desolation it is possible to imagine.
From the upper layer of the earth
there has been swept away not alone
the trees, the sod. the outer COW
ering, but the very depth, Of the
lower strata have been churned up
and scattered about. Of a sudden
in the midst Of the landscape Of
Picardy, with smiling valleys and
pleasant woodlands, there is the
image Of the Sahara, Of something
more than the Sahara, Of the fields
above Pompeii or Messina, down
which have flowed the streams Of lava
which not only engulf but endure.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-05
German Dugouts Intact
In Champagne Waste

From these old French lines you
IAN walk a hundred feet and you
will come 70 the first line trenches
Of the Germans in the Champagne
battle-time. Good. solid trenches, as
well built as are all the German field
works and wholly undestroyed, the
deep dugouts Just as they were when
the Germans swarmed up to meet
N. first lines Of the French. Just
outside Souain in the cemetery the
lines approach until they literally
divide a tomb, and they are as good
to-day as ever. save as there has
been some erosion. some wearing
away due 10 weather. All the
terrible Commandment that filed the
world with its noise neither de-
stroyed nor seriously mutllated these
works: It stripped of the barbed wire
and that was all And because this
vas all that bombardment could do.
then, the Battle Of Champagne was
a French failure; the German lines
we're not cut clean through.
The contrast on the battlefield Of
the Somlme is Undesirable. Over
an area ten miles by twenty, per-
haps, the whole face Of the earth has
been changed, the heart of hills has
been blown out; you look up the slope
Of a considerable hill. you climb with
difficulty up its rounding slope. and
suddenly you gaze down into a
chasm. a volcanoes crater; all the IN
terror Of the hill has been blown out
By a mine: the hillside is an empty
she'll: an ocean liner could be con-
cealed in the crater.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-05
Industry Amid Ruin
Wrought by Destroyer

For in spite Of the desolatlon there
is no lack Of population, there is no
lack Of human activity. Indeed, look
ing down upon any section Of the
field it suggests pictures that one
sees Of some great engineering oper-
alton. the removal Of a mountain, the
transformation of some square miles
of the surface Of the earth, labor
ike that of Panama. For gridironed
amidst all the waste are railroad
tracks. the bottom Of every valley IS
carpeted with rails and the noise OF
the distant artillery is deadened by
the shrill whistles Of engines as they
drag cars up toward the front-tow-
ard the railhead-the dump Of the
military argot.
And beside the railroads are high
uavs. the white, even and splendid
highways of France. They alone
have survived the ruin, as the stones
of the Appian Way have outlived the
centuries and the onrush Of other
barbarians. And along these high
WAYS flow the most amazing streams
of mankind that are conceivable, and
rot alone men but motors and
horses; the voice Of the Missouri mule
challenges the passage of the Tank
and the donkey Of the pack train
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-05
Frontier of Desolation
Is Outlined Sharply

From the hill of Mametz one looks
westward beyond the battlefield.
Across little ravine the opposite
slope rises, still but little Scared.
The frontier of desolation is ex-
actly marked; it is as plain to the
eye as if it were indicated upon a
map. But looking westward over
miles and miles, there is nothing but
the wild scene Of desolation. The
surface Of hill and valley has been
swept away; it is as if the outer and
the inner strata of the earth had in
some fashion changed place. 1t is 8
destruction suggesting that Of Sodom
and Gomorrah-a destruction DELHI
erately designed TO make impossible
forever the return of men TO their
old fields.
do not know any way that one
can give any slight hint Of the des-
olation of the battlefield of the
Somme. There it lies, ten miles
deep, one shore touching the furnace
which is still burning up and de-
stroying the surface Of the earth
and all animate and inanimate
things thereon. At the other shore
there begins sharply the countryside
Of France, and between the two
shores is an Internal region in which
at least a million and half of men,
British, German and French, have
keen killed or wounded. Perhaps
half a million men lie buried in the
shattered folds and turns of the
SCARED hillsides or in the fats be-
side the little brooks.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-05
Taft Will Rouse
South and West
To Defence Needs
Ex-President To Be 10th
Century Paul Revere for
Universal Training
Big Rally for Atlanta
Leading Men in Many Cities
Plan to Help Along Pre-
paredness Tour

Believing that there are some
things worse than war" 20 use his
own words, William H. Taft has can
celled all mis- paid lecture engage
ments from March IS to April that
he may awaken the men Of the South
and Southwest as Paul Revere did the
Massachusetts, Colonials. 10 sPpreci-
alton Of their duty 20 defend their
rights, now and hereafter.
Mr.. Taft's itinerary follows: Rich
mond. March 81; Greensboro, y. C.,
March %; Atlanta. March %; Bir-
mingham. March "a; Nashville. March
IS; Memphis, March g, morning;
Little Rock. Ark. evening; Dallas,
Tex, March 27; Oklahoma City March
2s and 30 Leaving Oklahoma CITY on
the evening OF March 2s. Mr.. Taft
will arrive in Chicago on March 80
and will reach his home in New Ha-
ven April /.
The tour is 70 De made under the
auspices OF the League 20 Enforce
Peace, of which Mr. Taft Is president.
the arrangements al each stop being
made by the local branch Of the or
ganization, cooperating with leading
citizens and organizations. At At
lanta. for instance, Governor HARRIS
Of Georgia. Mayor Gambler Clark
Howell. editor of The Constitution;
the Chamber % Commerce and. in
deed. all the leading citizens are
working with energy and enthusiasm
70 make Mr. Tsft's visit 20 the Geor-
gia metropolis the most notable event
Of the kind in the states history
A. Birmingham the Chamber OF
Commerce is arranging a luncheon al
which President Taft Is 70 be the
guest OF honor. and a mass meeting
in the largest auditorium IN the city
in the evening, at which Mr.. IGit IS
20 De the principal speaker.
In Arkansas Governor Brough. with
the aid OF the Chamber Of Commerce
and a strong committee. 10 arranging
a state convention OF the League TO
Enforce Peace. 20 be addressed by Mr..
Taft. Governor Williams OF Okla
homa - also 20 deliver an address az
the Little Rock meeting.
A. Dallas Mayor Lindsey, one o.
the influential men o. the Lone star
State and chairman Of the Texas
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-05
Scene Of Destruction
To Live for Centuries

do not know how any one can
quite describe this battlefield Of the
Somme so that the man who lives
in peace on this side of the Atlantic
can understand it or grasp some
thing Of the supreme insanity and
the supreme intelligence which are
both unmistakable there. | am sure
that centuries from now men and
women will go to this place TO see
the surviving evidences Of the storm
that blighted it a year ago. | have
never seen anything that approached
the terribleness Of the sight, save
about Verdun.
Yet an engineer, a man interested
in the moving Of mountains or the
transformation Of valleys to human
ends. would look down also upon
these fields to-day and see an order,
an organization, a development Of
human genius and human system,
which would take him completely
and command his admiration. The
saddest and most completely wasted
corner Of a valley may conceal a
terminal station that would make an
operating railroad man jealous. A
New York policeman, traffic man,
used to the problems of Fifth Ave
nue. and Forty-second Street, might
shrink from the task of separating
and ordering the stream that flows
through what was once the main
street of Montauban and is now a
white road in the midst Of powdered
ashes.