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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-24

r was decidedly the prettiest waist
Helen had ever seen, but It was
i rather expensive. Nevertheless she
l eyed it Iongingly. and the saIeswoman
| said beguilingly:
ITS really bargain for that
amount. madam. Il has been reduced
from S9.75."
"Oh. 1t is a beauty" Helen agreed,
but I ought not to pay $500 for a
waist. had hoped TO get something
for about five or six
But this is so dressy; there is
nothing on the other tables nearly as
/ effective" the saleswoman returned
Il know that" agreed Helen; Wen
T guess III have TO take it," and as
the saleswoman took out her newt
able book and pencil Helen fingered
once more the soft crepe folds Of shell
pink with their turquoise blue bands
II was really the most charming com
bination-
It wasn't until Helen reached home
that she noticed the little tag attached
TO IL that absOIved the owners OF the
store from any obligation after the
waist was Numbered That MADE
Helen consider again. The waist was
so expensive that she hated 10 LnlllN
that she must spend the money 10
have IL dry cleaned every time she
wore il. And IL was so delicate that II
would soil very easily she nau
thought, Of course, she could wash u,
but with such an injunction against IL,
she really doubted whether IL could be
done or not Something else claimed
her attention at the time, hoWete
and the waist was temporarily Tor
gotten -
Puts It Away, F0rgets.
Helen laid il away in her shlrtW sllst
box among her sachets and the week
end went by once she thought OF the
waist lust before she dropped off TO
sleep Saturday night, and she mental
ly decided TO take IL back MONDAY
morning. but Sunday deadened the i'm
pulse. Monday brought so many new
things TO do IN its wake that she for
got all about IT, And so she put the
matter off day after day until a week
had slipped by.
The matter was finally brought 70
her attention again by Bunty Brown,
who ran in 10 call one afternoon
Bunty was filled 10 the brim with the
new car Bill had bought, and Helen
felt a tWinge OF envy and regret that
Warren had disposed Of theirs The
next moment she forgot all about It.
however. in a more interesting re-
mark
I've had the most horrible ex-
perience with a shirtwaist,' Bunty
was saying. 1T had two cOlors and
they all ran together the first day II
was washed. I nearly cried, because
paid s. for IT,"
I Just bought one for IS. and I've
kept il a week trying TO decide
whether 10 take IL back or not
hate to think Of having it dry cleaned
every time"
That's what I thought. and
washed IL so carefully. but it's ruined.
and il serves me right Next time I'll
stick 10 all one color OF plain y hite-
Helen got into her street clothes as
soon as Bunty had left and decided TO
take the waist back Immediately she
could hardly wait 10 get into Croft q
Ordway's. and she hurried instantly
to the same saleswOman who had
waited on her
How did you like your Waist2' the
woman asked smilingly-
"Oh. I'm bringing 10 back" Helen
said quickly. Il didn't mean 20 keep
it so long. but I've been busy. 7 want
to have 1t credited and III take some
thing Of one color not so expensive J
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-24

6C" IL attitude Of the Mexican peo-
pie towards the United States
i has changed completely and
suddenly" said Thomas D. Edwards.
American consul at Juarez. I can
see it on their faces. When Pershing
was in Mexico they were surly. but
now that the troops are being taken
from the border 1Iexicans realize
Wilson wants TO be their friend. and
they appreciate it. There are no re-
ports Of any delays or baggage con-
hscation being inflicted on Americans
travelling IN Mexico now. and every
one is safe 10 come ana go. Also the
MeXicans are rehabilitatinE their
country rapidly and with remarkable
energy"
More than 100 newspapers and
other publications have either been
barred from the United States mails
or viii soon be- said Thomas X.
sweeney Il have recently been IN
Washington and was informed that
the postal authorities have refused
many publications which are spread
ing German propaganda. These are
mostly publications OF such orEaniza-
lions as the l. W W. Socialists. An
archists and other organizations OF
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-24

force OF men 10 work on the property
and viii continue to ship ore. large
bodies Of which are said to be uncov-
cred
Ellsworth ingalls, Of the court OF
private land claims Of santa Fe. and
a son OF senator John T. Ingalls, is in
the city. XXI
The Guggenheim Exploration com
pany has bought the Dolores silver
mine near Santiago. Durango. Mexico.
for 100000. This mine was the prop
erty Of Maguiro brothers. prominent
lawyers OF Durango
A. ". Cotton and wife came In from
the Fortuna mines which are 1ocat ted
southeast OF Casas Grandes. last night
on the Sierra Madre line. and Mr.. COL
ton is thinking OF locating permanent
" IN this city as mining engineer
The bid for the construction OF the
proposed hospital at Fort Bliss has
been rejected because the amount
asked was more than allowed for the
purpose The specifications will be
altered and new bids viii be called
for.
In many portions Of Mexico there
is a scarcity Of cheap labor. and the
question OF importing cheap labor
rom China Is now receiving more at
teutlon than almost any other IN Mex
leo. The American railway officials
and others are in favor OF importing
Cinnamon TO do the necessary work.
v lille the Mexican officials seem to
think such a move would not be ad-
visabls.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-24
Our Enemies Within

I ment has made for the sake Of the
war The war has ensiaVed the
worker and his children and his
grandchildren"
Paper Calls War Bloody Adventure.
In another Of its efforts Il says.
IN this time when the suffering
classes Of the American public, break
ing under the burden Of the war, be
gin TO raise their voices against those
who caused IT. official America and
all the traitors surrounding her. who
betrayed the cause OF the working
classes. are making every endeavor
to convince the worker Of the 'holi-
ness OF the bloody adventure started
press and in the patriotic meetings,
in the legislative bodies and in con-
ventions of workers delegates. in
factories and unions. everywhere ap-
pear new 'benefactOrs' Of the working
class. and their leaders do everything
proletariat to the party whose inter
ests are just opposite 10 its own It
is plain that they do IL for a dirty
and deplOrable purpose
Taking IS its text the fight In Con-
Eress for a higher tax on war pro-
fits. the Novi Mir says
The American nation did not want
the war, but the same bankers and
manufacturers who had started the
war fire in Europe dragged America
into the Cataclysm. And now the ma
ton must pay for the crime melted
by the Morgans ROckefellers,
Schwabs and others. kings Of the in
dustrial and financial trusts in
America Having started the war for
their own interests. they turned all
their attention 10 the end that not
they but the suffering classes should
give their muscles, nerves and lives
to maintain it. With the cooperation
Of their representa- tives in Congress
and the government these patriotic
bIackmailers lock up their revenues
and rapaciously accumulate money,
leaving it TO the suffering classes TO
die and starve for the sake Of the
country"
Resistance to War Tentured.
Usually papers like the Now Mir
halt before advising active resistance
to the war, but occasionally they
tread upon the very edge. In It's
issue for August q Il said:
The American worker does not
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-24

so I'm FL Plso-rhe proximity OF
Juarez and its vide open joints OBJ
viates that. Perhaps that is one OF
the advantages OF being on the bOr-
der. In san Francisco, Seattle, Chi
cagO-in all cities OF the country
distant from the border where they
have law against gambling. the
police have a merry time OF IL try
ing 70 break up groups and raidinE
dens which are being run on the
quiet"
II the copper com lanies OF Ari-
IONA are 70 be included I'm those fl
nancial interests for whose benefit
some Socialists and Pacifists say the
va between this country and Ger
many was brought about" said J. s..
Pratt. 1T cannot be said that results
so far are what they could light
months strike on its hands. the
government sets a rate on copper
along with certain other conditions.
On the one hand. which If not com
piled with. may result in the mines
being taken over and run By the
government On the other hand. pc
titions emanatlng from various
quarters are continually being sent
TO Washington urging that the gov
eminent do that very thiuE-fa Ike
over and run the mines. Many in
dustries vital to the prosecution OF
the war have been taken over in
ENGLAND. and I should not be sur
prised 10 see the same thing happen
here"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-24
Our Enemies Within
Appeal to Glass Hatred to Hinder the Government
War with Germany Is Called w Of Capitalists

THE special appeal Of the dis
loyal propagandists Is to class
feeling. They print columns on
columns Of stuff calculated to make
the industrial workers feel that this
country went into the war only TO
make them suffer. The following ex-
ample IS from the Novi Mir. a Rus
sian paper published in New York;
In the last three years the war
Industry has put into the back
ground all other kinds Of industry.
Millions, tens OF millions. OF men,
women and children are busy manu-
featuring rifles, guns, shells and
other weapons, instruments Of muir
der The production Of useful. ueCes-
sary. products gives place to the pro-
duction Of murderous instruments.
The ammunition kings heap up bill
lions But IL Is not enough for them.
They want more.
The more the wealth OF the rich
grows the more misery and suffering
increase. The exploitation Of suffer
ing has reached during the war
heights never before imagined. The
OF the capitalists, breaking strikes.
protecting the capitalist in his Op-
preston OF the worker, making the
worker a slave
NEelllmE LAaEH Hatred.
II. until the war, the capitalist
gave the worker Just what was
necessary TO maintain the plainest
living, now in time Of war. the work
or earns much less than before. so
that he must live like an animal The
capitalist and the government back
ing him, with the press in its service
and the official Church, tel the
worker that &c must be so. that he
must starve, for our country is at
war. and everybody must sacrifice on
the altar OF the country.
millions Of workers are bleeding
on the batlefields. Other millions
are starving to death. while the war
superprofits fiji the pockets OF the
masters Of life The worker has TO
pay for the war Some day the thun-
der Of the guns viii stop. but tens OF
years afterWard the oppressed the
Door classes. viii still have 10 pay
from their earnings the loans and
the interest on the loans the govern
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-24
IA Years Ago Today
From The Herald OF
- = this Date, 1908.

1.-THE International Brotherhood Of
Electrical Workers convention
gives FL Paso SIS votes; Louis
vile. 81: Milwaukee. 81. and Indian
apolis. Is, for the next convention The
Pass City thus gets a majority Of
votes, but the locals over the country
Will decide 6y vote between FL Paso
md Louisville as the meeting place
IN 1905. between now and that time
Fl Paso will get a great deal Of adver-
Using out OF the affair anyhow. as it
VIII be talked Of in every city in the
United states for the next two years
R P. Camden left this morning for
Mexico on a hunting trip.
T. II Hustled. a mining man from
Parral, is registered at the sheldon
Fred Mckeehan, acting chief OF the
local immigration force. left last night
Tor Albuquerque on Chinese business
s. w. Malthie has bought a group OF
claims near the Miser's Chest prop
erty in the Virginia district, New
Mexico. The new owner has put a
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-24
y Their Married Life ~
Helen Buys New Waist and Receives From Warren
Some Pertinent Advice.
1ertInent Advice.

The woman looked dubious 'Im
afraid il won't be possible 10 credit
it," she explained You see the store
has adopted that new principle since
the war no goods exchanged or
credited after a weeks time has
elapsed"
But surely they viii take # back. ."
Helen persisted. why, IL hasn't been
taken out OF its original wrappinEs."
Cannot Exchange Waist
I'm afraid that won't make any
difference it's a rule. you know and
Helen discovered that. argue as she
would the waist could not be ex-
changed
Just because she wanted to exchange
U, that nothing else would do She
forgot the beauty Of the waist. and
rem EN- bered only its perishab BILE quail
ties. Why had she ever been so fool
Warren was home when Helen
reached there and exclaimed at her
disappointed face Helen laughed q
little. and finally confessed.
or course / was foolish in the be-
ginning. Warren but It's a charge
and didn't think I'd have a bit OF
trouble exchanging it any time"
Did you ever stop to think how
much time and energy is wasted on
people like you Warren said earnest
~ livery department store has had
70 keep I'd a regular office force just
TO attend 70 the woman who don't
think before buying things. This IS
war time, you know. and service can
not be wasted If it viii teach you
a lesson 1 shan't mind paying for the
waist TO be dry cleaned After all, II
is a beauty. isn't it,"
1T is Helen assented. and do
see things more clearly. III really
remember and try not 10 buy fool
lsly-' And Helen thought happily OF
" arreu's fair statement OF facts and
how much more she profited by his
advice when IL was given I'm this
manner.-COpyrigh 1917. Interna-
riouaL NeMs $500
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-24
WAR ADVENTURES 'OVERTHERE'
BY RICHARD BOECKFL.
BY BRIGGS.
Some OF The Real Horrors OF Var

very often you step on something soft
II gives you q shock when you are
fresh at the game For you realize
instantly IL is one OF your cOmpan-
ions who has been wounded and has
fallen in the mud But after a time
you learn not 10 mind it. You reach
down and drag him Up above the
slime II there is still q bit Of color
in his face you drag him out and put
him I'D in back Of the trench. where
a retcher-bearer viii find him II
his face has gone dead white you re-
lease your grip, there is a splash and
you go on"
In speaking Of the power for
slaughter Of the casing Of q shrapnel
SHELL Lieutenant y said ne had seen
such a shell fragment take off the
leg OF horse, cut a man in half
20 feet TO the rear, take off another
mans leg IS feet distant and bury
itself some six feet in the ground
There are plenty OF atrocities on
the battlefield" he said, but We have
learned not to speak OF them The
atrocities are not all on the side OF
the Germans. either There always
viii De atrocities as long as there
is war. A story is told OF one Ca
madam regiment that charged a Ger
man trnch late one afternoon. It
was driven back. The next day it
repeated the charge. In the second
charge 10 found that the men who
naQ Deen WOUNDED IN the previous
days fighting and had been left on
no mans land had had their hands
cut g by Germans who crept out
during the night.
This discovery made the Canadians
fight like demons BY sheer force OF
their rage they carried the trench and
surrounded some so Germans The
Germans had their hands above their
heads. a token OF surrender. but the
Canadians went at them with their
bayonets.
Those who witnessed the slaughter
say il was frightfuL Not a single
German was left alive. Most Of them
were split Up the middle by the bay
onets Of the enraEed Canadians. It
was soon after that we learned Of
the order OF the German general staff.
Take no Canadian prisoners
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-24

~ ant TO sacrifice his life for the sake
OF increasing the fortune OF some
king Of Industry The stand or the
American worker toward the wal
does not vet appear in resolute and
consciously determined action. he
acts lnstlnctlvely. as yet The time
viii soon come, however, when he
VIII act resolutely as the result %
careful consideration. OF that the
pOssessOrs Of power are afraid"
The Novi Air is against the Roo
mission TO Russia 1t finds in Mr..
Roots speeches a constant text for its
preachments that the war is capital
istic and Americas entry was dictated
by the desire to Cypress the working
men Tor the benefit Of the wealthy.
POgrOms Near, NOvi Mir Asserts.
The paper appeals Jothe emotion
OF fear saying:
Arrests and raids in mass are in
progress and the meetings Of citizens
are being dispersed. Pogroms are
near. But the national dissatisfac-
LOn is growing day by day
This is another Of the Novi Mrs
statements about the war.
President Wilson is very much
afraid for the future OF Russia But
both the Russian and the German ma
tons do not care for his interference
In their affairs He has been told
this not once, but many times. Such
manifestations. however. seem TO
have no effect on him He keeps 70
his utterance and continues his false
hoods singing the old song of the
unset ffshness' Of the United States
here, where open pillage is manifest
ing itself and the intention is plain
Of American capitalism TO enrich IT,
self. while the MOrgans and Rookie
fellers have their dirty hands in the
game
THE American nation knows too
well that the sorrOwful hand OF VIII
son has prepared to bear on &c with
full weight, but the nation viii know
how 20 free itself from this hand. just
as other nations have known how TO
break the chains by which their sor-
rowful governments have Sound
them"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-24
ORlahond1s En- Route
TO TrdUis Riotous;
Big Indian Starts 1t

San Antonio, Tex, Sept. 24.-Be-
coming unmanageable after intox-
icants had been taken aboard their
train somewhere in northern Texas a
ontingent Of drafted men from north
ern Oklahoma arrived in the ustody Of
regular soldiers from waco. Tex. at
Camp Travis
A big Indian who took umbrage at
the appelation, chief troublemaker"
started the fighting on the Oklaho-
mans train, il was claimed. There
were 500 men aboard and perhaps a
third Of them were under the influ-
ence OF liquor. many had black eyes
and dozens were bruised and with
clothing torn
Oklahoma is a prohibition state.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-24
u DIE ROTTs.

y RICKET HICKS was among those
who took in the carnival at Tick
vile Tuesday night. He says life
may be a gamble, but that the carnival
man told him somebody won every time
the wheel turned.
Miss Fruzie Allsop was at church last
Sunday with her face camoufIaged.
Miss Hostetter Hooks would make a
fine vocalist at the Chautauqua, but
when she sang tenor everybody would
have to climb a pole.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-24
Uncle Walls Denatured Poem.
Time Goes On
MOTHER summers looped the loops; n

ped loops; the doorway
n golden
brings soothing people wearied
gives wonderful print She
daisy lasts vny Blasts
Wits and dToOps; another summers oOPe the loops Another summers
Travelled further
the road that leads to where VEN drop the load take mirror and
falchn
complaining July the chill
frost years. perhaps
hears whOOpsanOher
oourrrbt b. George 1Estnsv AdamA WALT MASON
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-24
= rAsHINGTON. b. d, 81. q.

w TASHINGION, ID. c. sept "a
M The horrors Of war" are
seldom spoken OF by the
British soldier. There are plenty of
horrors. They are TO be seen on
every hand over there But the man
who does the fighting prefers TO look
on the bright side Of things always"
Lieutenant " an American officer
in this country on sick leave, made
this statement as the preface to a
Fearful things happen in the mud, %
he said. when you are fighting in
cold mud Up to your waist. with men
falling on every hand, you realize
that If YOU are hit YOU are more likely
70 die from drowning than from your
wound
Walking through such a trench
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-24

man predicted New York would beat Chicago n the
worlds series and held for examination as his
sanity Of this happened in Chicago Had he made
that prediction New York. he would have been considered
one of the sanest men IN town.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-24

fact not to be overlooked that nine-tenths of the
peace talk emanates in Germany, where the talk
started
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-24

the Pullman company has enough foresight employ
lot Of beauty choruses for its emergency porters
patronage viii increase vastly and the day Of the negro
porter VIII be gone forever.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-24

Some Of those drafted men at Nogales must think tn
field base of American troops still Mexico judgin
from the way they have been going south.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-24
The Bemstorff Revelation.
BY n. S. H)

The state department again has asounded the world by
revealing documents IN proof Of German tricky IN
trigue One of the most sensational is communication
from German ambassador Bernstorf to the foreign
office at Berlin, sent last January requesting authorization
to spend $4,000 influencing the congress OF the United
States to vote against
Of all undipomatic and unneutral activities of which
German representatives, nave heen gully TINS Is
IN efrontery It IS as though ambassador Gerard nao
sought to hand chancellor Bethmann-Holweg piece
Of change If he would not to allow the ruthless sub
marine warfare program to 90 into effect
BernstOrff intended Of things, either to brbe
members of congress against TO bride
official persons or organizations to influence members Of
congress to the end Whichever it was he cOntem
plated despicabe unneutral and undplomahc act And
that in his message he made reference to
before.
Inasmuch as count BernstOrff successful in
keeping his sinister activities concealed from the public
and, since he was an urbane diplomat who spoke fairly
and seemed to champion things American, there very
general regret when the breach in relations between the
United States and Germany compelled his departure from
this country and hope expressed that time
he might return All such opinions have been changed
We have different light on Bernstorff now.
very significant thing about this message that at
the time sent, the United States and Germany
in full agreement The Sussex agreement had put end
the submarine dispute Germany apparently modi
flying the treatment Of prisoners of IN conformity with
protests of ambassador Gerard who represented the
entente allies IN prison inspection Germany not con-
Quoting war according to the rules but was apparently
hewing little closer to the line than before There
thought then of between Germany and the United
States. Congress believed the danger past President
Wilson on the very day that Bernstof sent this message
making peace proposal both sets Of begerents
Then why did BeTnstor ask fund to keep congress from
voting for war?
There be only explanation There would be
occasion for congress to vote unless
threatened The war menace could only come from Ger
many. It could only in way, reversion to
stcted submarine warfare. Then BernstoTff ruth
less warfare comngthOugh aterward he professed
be tremendously surprised and depressed-and he
making efforts in advance to counteract its effect by hog
tying congress.
Enough Of Berustorf Let him stay in COnstantinOpe
where bribery is usual and unappreciaed. We
through with him
One wonders what next the state department viii re-
lease Its chest Of sensations hardly be emptied And
many rogue must be squirting with anxiety, wondering
which OF his missives the secret service has seized
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-24

Let hope It also for Texas the end for all
time Of university regents "who viii stand hitched"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-24

The Irish battaons in the Belgian area are enjoying
the first fight Of their lives that the police didn't stop
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-24

lease Its chest Of sensations hardly be emptied And
many rogue must be squirting with anxiety, wondering
which Of his missiyes the secret service has seized