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El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

How many men present, at the age Of
fourteen, could resuscitate a drowning per.
son, put out a. forest fire, translate the code
Of army bugle calls, wig.wag signals, apply
first aid to a rattlesnake bite or a bullet
wound, save a person from burning to death,
put up a tent, cook a meal, pack a pack
horse, saddle a bronco, obey an order with
precision and promptness, drive an automo-
bile truck, stop a. runaway? How many
had thoroughly mastered the fact that a
sound mind in a sound body is the desidera-
Itum, that profanity, cigarettes, shady stories
and lying are signs Of weakness, instead OF
%manliness, that a helping hand for the
weaker is twice as grown-up as bullying,
that consideration for the comfort and con-
venience Of others comes first in the eata.
logue, and had the conception that efficient
service was more to be desired than a good
time? H
All this is what the Boy Scout move
ment has done in the past few years. Mo-
where in the country has IL received a more
Interesting and convincing demonstration
than here in Santa Fe. No one can place a
value on the service done the community
by the training OF these thoroughly boyish
boys, the leaven hat has been introduced
into the life of Santa Fe thereby.
Discipline without tyranny, teamwork.
self-control, clean fun, honest work, strong
muscles, gameness, sportsmanship,s unseltf
ishness; these are the lessons these boys
have mastered; and to watch them pitch a
camp pull off an athletic meet, sor merely
around in roughyand-tunble boy fash
ion is aslesson in what applied SYMPATHY
and intelligent discipline can do with boys
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28
AZ Census softhe Bugs;
Why Not License Elm?
(Los Angeles Times,y

u. N tGu5 Au8oicpt khAccfJ q Ah4HH Y
1t is announced that the department Of
agriculture is about to take q cen~us Of the
bugs Of our insectladenF land. Heretofore
we have been plugging carelessly ON with
only a vague idea Of the number Of grass.
hcppcrs on section thirteen. Their, are vast
colonies 81 sed ants that have never been
counted sinec the republic was born. and. Of
the myriads Of beetles few have ever been
registered save those funny buzzers namei
after Henry Ford.
The government has q census bureau, but
1t has chiefly concerned itself with the
counting Of men and money. II has made no
effort to round up and enumerate the cock
reaches and cutworms of the nation, and our
children have been brought up in squalid
ignorance Of the bug population Of almost
every township save Patton.
1T is Interesting to note that the new in
sect tabulation will not be intrusted to the
Census Bureau with its practical but sordid
machinery. Rather it will be turned over
to the Bureau OF Entomology, where it viii
become a labor OF slovet An entomologist
is a refined soul who would rather count
lE~epidoptera than money and who collects
Coleoptera rather than coin lie can be
relied upon TO trace every bug and worm
to its lair. rr5g YrsTm sM.W
But while the administration is enumer-
ating its crawlers, why not do something in
the way of registering or licensing them?
Then we would know where a sand fly was
when we wanted it. Make the squash bug
show a, blue card before 1t be allowed to go
to war. 1t should have no rights beyond our
other soldiers. Let the slogan be-: NO
lice without a license. Z Roughly speaking,
all bugs and worms will be listed in two
general classes-the desirable and the un.
desirable, with the undesirable greatly in
the majority. High license, regulation, re-
'striction and segregation would be favored
in most cases-absolute prohibition in some.
Why not make the start when the bugs are
being counted? Register EN- b'goshi We
keep tract of our criminals because we nave
most Of them located In jail. Let us quarans@
tine the boil weevil and segregate the chinch
bug.
The department intimates that it Is 4
part If its purpose to pick out the hardened
criminals Of the insect world, make a cata-
Elogue of their offenses and put men ina
way to catch them in their crimes. IL we
have their ~postofice address, license number
Bertillon measurements and thumb prints
this would be SO much the easier.
Z While the bureau is counting and index.
ing the bugs it cannot make its work too
complete or far-reaching. Even thetheads Of
the departments should not be overlooked.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

COCCHI cannot believe that his hith'
erto unblemished character has been
wrecked and ruined by the ~inadvertent
murder of a young girl because he felt
funny when she looked at him. We trust
the machinery Of the law will succeed
in convincing the gentleman.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

WE TAKE it as a distinct and most
fiattering compliment to the perfesh
that Frederick Palmer, a newspaper
man, Is on the Intelligence depart
ment of General Pershing's staff.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

INDIGNANT Young Wife Gas soon as
Aunt Matthias hss rstired after dinner)
John, I'm surprised at you using such
language as You did Just now
John-Couldn't help IT.; my dear. I
burnt my fingers.
Indignant Young Wife-StilI, you had
no right toto swear before Aunt Ma
tilda. &N "A By
John drritably)-Ohf how was ! to
know she wanted to swear first.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

PERCY NOODLES. the snap shot
MAI states, says that when he asked
the capitalists daughter If she thought
he would look nice in a Joffre hat with
pli1mes on it she said she was afraid he
would knock the feathers off when he
waggled his ears.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

AMBASSADOR BACKMESTIFF has
passed out the word with the bark on IT
that Russia is in the fight to stay. We
hasten to take him at his word. And by
the time Elihu Root and his experts
look over the situation and inject ?
little Yankee pep into the somewhat be-
wildered SIav, things ought to be do
ing. 49,
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

VIE CONGRATULATE the Woman's
Board OF Trade, which now owns its
own home, and has laid up $1,000 a yeas
for rs years. That achievement, how
ever, is nothing to the monument which
1t has erected in the form OF unselfsh
and efficient labors for the good Of
Santa Fe and its people for a quarter
Of a century.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28
o-U-siNNERsl

pheasant View Cor. Estancfa News.)
Bro, Pickens of Cedar Grove preached
Sunday at II O'Clock from nan. 10 Chap.
and Rev. Is Chap. Bro. Pic.Ntn portrayed
the signs of the times very forcibly, which
made his discourse very interesting, even
to the sinner portion OF the congregation.
He announces if no hindrances, he viii
preach for us again July s.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

IT IS pleasant to read about a real,
honestrto-goodness center shot that sim
ply busted the U-boat clean in two in
the middle. One likes assurance, when
a U-boat sinks, that she sinks involuns
tarily. s1e4A4rsa4 s5aNssA "a
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28
a o %succEsrIoN

Stranded Passenger-Who's that singing
In. there?, VA NH. s.ars4s
SO little to do now, theresain't many trains
stop ERE. so 'e's settin' the timetable 10
music for the porters to learn when they
come back from the war!-London Opinion.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

MR.. BRYAN endorses the admins
tration food measures. But it gets him,
alas, only 2-line S.point headlines.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

THE POLICE have pulled up the
picket pins of the White House pick
ets-this doubtless being regarded as
distinctly mean and ungentlemanly be-
havior. 1855
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

HAVING interested the Mescaleros
in the Liberty Loan, we'm might mail the
Kaiser copies Of life-sketehes of the late
iamented Victoria and Geronimo and let
him know what be Is up against.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

BY TILE same-token the high winds
Of this year have doubtless been respon-
sible for the disappearance of much OF
our real estate. ~ z
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

THE HOME defense committee ought
to sally forth to Tesuque without delay
and meet that eutworm invasion. Y
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

DALLAS NEWS idea Of a model wife
is n who keeps her husband from
making a fool Of himself.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

AFTER ALI, II is easier and more
feasible for us just at this time to let
the Chink tongs do their W mutual
determinations in the Celestial republic.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

WI ACCIDENTALLY sold So per
cent more Liberty Loan bonds than we
needed to. Those are the errors in
national bookkeeping that give Wilhelm
angina peCtoris.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

THE RUSSIANS doubtless are Begin
ming to calculate that they must all
hang together or separately.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

MEANWHILE We with
glee that they have begun to lombard.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

REMORSE for a crime is often much
more acute after the criminal is caught.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

COUNTY EQUALIZATION. board has
discovered a fearful mortality In horses
by means OF the tax returns.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

1.-THE mother who conceals her grief
While to her breast her son she presses,
Then breathes a few words and brief,
kissing the parti0t brow she blesses,
With no one but her secret God @ki
To know the pain that weighs upon her
Sheds holy blood as e'er the sod
Received On freedoms field of honor"
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

HOW ABOUT fixing the Buchanan
bridge, gentlemen?
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

MANY A dam doubtless burst forth
from the lo~ng-suffering farmer after the
breaking of the big one up in Utah.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

TAKE A memo pIesse--eishteen per
cent due on the aforesaid Liberty Bonds.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

RATHER iow-srade. those high-grad-
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

Germany because the kaiser refuses to
make the German garbage can an adjunct
10 the blockadingE TESTS that cut of his food
supply.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28
Y he Brave at Home

While all honor is due to the young men
who are enlisting for service abroad and
while the country will keep in fond remem,
brance the splendid way in which they have
fulfilled the call to duty, let us not, says the
Los Angeles Times, forget the brave at
home-the, maids, wives and mothers who
have surrendered their lovers, husbands and
sons to the undying cause of freedom. Thorn
as Buchanan Read has embalmed them in
imperishable. verse. He pays an eloquent
tribute to the maids and wives and offers
this to the mothers:
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

BRITISH KEEPING up steady push
on 120-mile front-and a 120-mile push
Is some, push, receive it from us.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

BUSINESS OF settling back and
watching 81 coal men and ~ GOAL com.
panies do the hotgriddle Tendance on
the federal stove.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

MANY OF them were see palins.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

THE SILENT pickets have given Of
tense.
VIZ "HD
BEING, INDEED. as you say. the low
est form Of wit.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28


WE MAY be lazy
Unprepared ?
Fat
Sleepy s
Cpmmercialized
A polygiot boardin' house
UnpatrfOtic
Unresponsive,
Fond of the movies
Too busy talking
All hot air, at @g F.
But we oversubscribed the Liberty
Loan, right OF the reel, about a billion,
more or less, put half a million men into
the army, navy and National guard In
six months, registered nearly 10,00O,80o
men, and raised a hundred million for
the Red Cross.
WV"
SAY, BETHMANN, can you get His
Nibs to- figure out exactly what we
would do If we got Interested?
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

NOT SO simple, that. Swat slogan
nowadays. Instead Of "swat the Fly"
II reads az follows:
Swat
The Fly r+F
The Bean Beetle
The sqnash Bug
The Green AphIs b
The LadNbug
Tn cutwcrm
The Eeuse
The Tomato Worm n
The Potato Bug
The Ant.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-06-28

J~oUREcKoN it'll rain?
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-05-29

Rooms decorated in blue VIII help 70
Keep out the flies.
Mix together one tablespoonful Of
cream. one OF ground black pepper and
one of brown sugar. This mixture Is
poisonous 10 flies. Put IN q saucer,
darken the room except one window
and iu that set the caucer.
TO clear the house Of flies. burn
pryethrum powder This s|tupehes the
flies. but they must be swept up and
burned.
Recipes ior Stables and Barns.
Borax j. especially valuable around
farms aud out of doors. One pound
OF borax TO twelve bushels Of manure
van be found desirable as a poison
without inJuring hes manurial qualities
or farm stock. Scatter the borax over
TIE manure and sprinkle with water.
Lye, chloride of lime, or copperas
(sulphate OF from dissolved In water
crude carbolic acid, or any kind OF
disinfectant may be used in vaults.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-05-29

i.an commercial outlets that omen np.
on IL Also me pear Pacific n IS Vi.
tal 10 fhe sefet, al az canal on the
aesf a. tha enif = 80 mo raai
Moreover Mexico IA mo- land an.
proath ~ . + border N ar.
ui.hrs easy access not onls for traffic
h4t aiao for invasion mo boundary
limo u ACROSS tsrr.tor, uhirh n dlf.
rrntf ~ def.nae ftrn 81 f4~pe mobile
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-05-29

curt Roark left last Friday for Dill
Ion. Montana. to stay with his brother
1T that place until harvest when he
expects 10 return to this part OF the
county to stay through harvest.
W. M Campbell has purchased an
automobile. We suppose that W. NJ.
Is going to try and make good use Of
the new highway going down Warm
Creek past his ranch.
Atlas Crowder was q business visi-
tor in the Falls the latter part of the
week.
Tom Elgin was "a Falls visitor Fri
day and Saturday.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-05-29

IS the carrier Of the germs Of typhoid
fever. f. Is widely believed that II Is
also the carrier" Of other diseases.
Including possibly %infantile paraly-
sis.
The very presence OF o ny ls a sig
Aal and notification that a housekeep-
~ is uncioanly aud inefficient.
10 not wait until the insects begin
@ poster; anticipate the annoyance.
April. May and June are the best
months % conduct an a~uti-fly cam
paign.
Tho farming and suburban districts
provide Ideal breeding places. and the
noW born flies do not remain at their
birth place but migrate. using rail
roads and other means of tranpsorta-
tion. 20 towns and cities.
KIN flies and save livesl
Recipes for Killing Flies.
The United states government makes
the following suggestion for the de-
struction of house flies: Formalde-
hyde and sodium salicylate are the
best fly poisons. Both are superior
"a arsenic. They have their adgan-
tases for household use. They are not
"a poison 10 children: they are con
Went 10 handle. their dilutions are sim
pie and they attract files.
A f~ormaldohyde solution OF appro-
ximately the correct strength may be
made by adding three teaspoonfuls of
the concentrated fo%rmaldehyde solu-
ton. commercially known as formalin.
No. q pint of water. Similarly, the
proper concentration Of sodium sal
icylate may be obtained by dissolving
three teaspoonfuls of the pure chemi.
eel "a POWDER 10 a pint OF water.
An ordinary, thin-wallcd drinking
glass is filled or partially filled with
me solution. A saucer, or small
plate. in which Is placed a piece OF
white blotting paper cut the size OF
lhe dish, IS put bottom up over the
glass. The whole % then quickly in.
verted, a match placed updor the edge
I ot the glass. and the container is ready
Tor use. As the solution dries out OF
the aucof the liquid seal at the edge
81 the glass Is broken and more liquid
flows into the lower receptacle. Thus
the paper IS always kept moist.
other simple P%re,entl,es.
ANY odor pleasing 10 man Is of.
.ensise to tho fly and vice versa. and
nill drive them away.
Illu two rpUfat Unrfh of oil of Ia.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-05-29
NOTICE.

1 win not be responsible for any
accounts contracted or made in NV
name without my personal signature
or written authority.
GEO. HALL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-17
VOTE ON CONSCRIPTION
Important Election in Canada Today
to Determine National War Issue.

Ottawa, Ont, Dec. 17.-Upon the
decision today of the voters thruout
the dominion rests the fate of the new
union government which, if retained
in office, will enforce seIective con-
scription to fill the ranks of the
Canadian army overseas
Opposing Sir Robert Borden, leader
of the Union force, is the veteran Lib
eral leader, Sir Wilfred Laurier, who
proposes a referendum as an alterna-
tive to the compulsory CONSUMPTION
law, pledging the liberals to abide by
the will of the voters.
The polls opened at o'clock this
morning and will close at p. m. By
reclamation already made, eighteen
Laurier and eleven Borden supporters
have been returned without opposi-
ton. Four contests have been de-
ferred, leaving decisions to be given
in 202 constituencies. 1t is estimated
that there are a million and a quarter
male domestic votes, three thousand
oversee soldier votes and probably
half a million women who are per-
mitted to vote thru relationship with
soldiers in service. Both the Borden
and the Laurier managers express con-
fidence, while the prevailing belief is
the decision will be given by the SOL
dier and the women votes. The gov
eminent bases its hopes on the soldier
and women elements to retain the
Borden ministry and confirm conscrip-
ton with heavy majorities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-17
ASK HOOVER TO COME
State Agricultural Society Wants Food
Expert for Topeka Meeting.

Livestock and agricultural experts
Topeka for the annual meeting of the
state agricultural society January
ell. An effort is being made to Sc
cure Herbert Hoover, federal food
administrator, for a speech. Hoover
has promised to visit Topeka if af-
fairs in Washington will permit him
to leave.
]. c. Mohler, secretary of the state
board of agriculture, anticipates a
record attendance at the meeting in
Topeka next month. Reports from
over the state indicate every county
will send a delegation of at least sew
eral representative farmers and stock
men. Farmer organizations will be
heavily represented and the meeting
will be the feature agricultural event
of the year.
Among the speakers positively as
sured for the meeting of the state or
ganization will be E. V. Wilcox of the
farm management bureau of the fed
eral department of agriculture;
Charles S. Brand, chief of the bureau
of markets of the United States de-
partment of agriculture; and other
men associated with the federal gov
eminent in its campaign for maxi
mum crop production. War questions
the issue concerning the regulation of
prices and the problem of maximum
production, as well as farm labor will
be discussed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-17
THEY'RE A LOYAL LOT
Many of ''Bird of Paradise" Company
Heed Call to the Colors.

When THE Bird of Paradise"
which comes to the Grand Wednesday,
finished its season at the Olympic
theater, Chicago, last summer the Ha-
waiian members of the troupe left for
various parts of the country. two of
them going back to the Hawaiian
Islands.
Time for rehearsal came around and
two of the Hawaiian singers were
missing. This caused Ben Giroux,
manager of the company to telegraph
to Walter Kolomoku in New York
asking the whereabouts of one Tan
dy," which brought this cryptic reply
by letter:
Dear Boss: Tandy here in New
York. He's gone now. Load of mules
and ammunition to France. He be
back in time for rehearsal, maybe.
German submarine! Boom! Aloha!
WALTER"
On receipt of the reply Giroux re-
marked. THAT 'Kanaka' doesn't waste
much language, but he sure tells it
all. Besides a great steel player he
also has a sense of humor for an Ha-
waiian"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-17
SEIZE CHURCH BELLS
Austrian Govt Requisition Second Lot
for Munition Metal.

Copenhagen, Dec. IA second
requisition of church bells has taken
place in Austria to the sorrow of the
Catholic population of that country.
according to advices received here A
limited number of bells had been
spared. thanks to the vigorous repre-
sensations of the Episcopal church
authorities. But the government
came to the conclusion that further
result that the church has had to sac
rifice many more of its familiar and
cherished bells to the never-satisfied
Moloch of war.
The idea of substituting steel bells
for bronze has not yet eventuated,
owing to the onerous conditions stipu-
lated by bell manufacturers, who de-
manded, among other things, that the
price should be paid in foodstuffs for
the workmen in the factories.
RequisitiOn Linen School Maps.
Berne, Dec. 17.-German ingenuity
has once more found a way to stave
off the crisis threatening by reason of
the lack of cloths and clothing The
authorities of the so-called imperial
clothing headquarters, according to
Berlin papers just arrived, have or
dered all schools to turn in old wall
maps that are mounted on linen or
cloth of any sort.
The maps, it is explained by the
clothing headquarters, will then be
separated from the cloth by a cleans
ing process, and the supply of linen
thus obtained will be used, for cloth
ing II possible, but in any event for
Innings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-17
MOTHER OF q TO PEN
Defies Judge to Do His Worst-Re-
Dukes Soldiers and Government

Bismarck, N. D., Dec. 17.-Federal
officers today left with Mrs. Kate
Richard O'Hare, st. Louis Socialist,
for the Jefferson City, Mo, peniten-
tiary. where she was Saturday SEN
fenced to serve five years She was
convicted a week ago of making
speeches against military registration.
Until recently she was associate editor
of Rip Saw. a Socialist publication.
She is the mother of four children, the
oldest Is and the youngest 8.
The sentence followed a long speech
by Mrs. O'Hara, in which she reiter-
ated statements declaring her opposi-
ton to war and defied Federal Judge
Wade to do his worst
Witnesses at her trial testified Mrs.
O'Hara declared in her speech at
Bowman that mothers who raised
their sons to be cannon fodder were
no better than a farmers brood sow"
and that young men who are foolish
enough to enlist or volunteer are only
good enough for German fertilizer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-17
Death ThroDs Frank Gotch
Monarch of Mat Champions
He Was the Greatest Grappler
Country Ever Produced.

Humboldt, Ia, Dec. 17.-Death had
eliminated another champion of cham
pions today.
Frank A. Gotch. retired heavy
weight wrestling title holder, died late
home in this city
Following by only a few weeks the
death of Robert Fftzsimmons, former
heavyweight boxing champion, this re-
moves from the sporting world two
men who were regarded as the great
est athletes of all time in their partic-
ular fields.
Gotch had been in poor health for
the last two years and was reported
seriously i'll several times.
He was born on a farm near here
April 81, 1876. His first public appear
ance as a wrestler was at an amateur
tournament in 1899. He won the
American championship by defeating
lost to Fred Beel the same year, but
wiped out that defeat a few weeks
later.
Gotch's most important matches
were with George Hackenschmidt,
whom he threw on two different occa-
sions and Stanislaus Zbszko. Gotch
owed much of his success to the tutor
ing of Farmer Burns, former chanh-
pion.
Gotch is survived by a widow and
a four-year-o son.
Gotch is said to have accumulated
more than 100000 thru his earnings
on the mat most of which was invest
ed in Iowa farm property.
Gotch had been confined to his
home since an operation in Chicago
several weeks ago, when an affected
kidney was operated on. His wife and