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The Washington times., 1917-12-18
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK AMERICAN:
December 16, 1917.


There is great deal of complaint among Republican
Senators and Representatives in Congress about the conduct
of the war.
Secretary Baker being criticised for having tested
certain ordnance sufficiently, and then again for having
spent too much time in having tested and made of other
plans and preparations in the war.
There always people who think they do anything
better than is being DONE but have the Republicans in
Congress real to suppose that they conduct
better than the Democratic Administration is
Quoting this wari
The Socialists might do better We do not know. They
have not been tried
The ProhibitiOnists might do better They have
been tried
But the Republicans have been tried They conducted
the Spanish war, small against small weak nation
that any Administration ought have been able to
conduct without difficulty without scandal and without any
serious exhibition of inconvenience.
And there probably never has been war which was
msmaneged, far the Republican Administration
in power concerned.
The country will never forget the 'Embalmed Beef
scandals and the fact that soldiers at the front
fed with beef preserved in poisonous compounds.
They will forget the scandals at the camps where
ignorance and incompetence caused many deaths by
disease than occurred in the battles of the war.
They will forget being sent to the front
armed with the old Springfield muskes of half century
before.
The Washington times., 1917-12-18

They will forget the utter unpreparedness the
delays the lack of organization and cooperation in all de-
parments the lack of coordination between the land and
naval forces the disputes between commanders the utter
absence of discipline eliminating in the ridiculous Ground
robin of Theodore Roosevelt for which piece Of nsub
ordination he would certainly have been courmaraled in
the army Oh any other nation.
The Spanish won by the heroism of
and the courage and competence of individual
manders many of whom compelled to adopt means
similar to Deweys cutting Of the cables in order to free
themselves from the absurd interference of the ncompetents
at Washington. b
Everyone knows that the difficulties Of conducting
increase with the magnitude Of the and the pres
ent against the greatest military nation In the world
thousand times difficult to conduct than the little
conducted by the Republican Administration against Of
the weakest and most decrept of the European states
Yet this present gigantic is practically free from
scandal while the former infinitely smaller was full of
scandal and of scandaous exhibitions Of ignorance and in
competence.
It is difficult see, therefore, how Republican men,
bers of the Senate of the House of Representatives
have the hardhood to attempt to crcse the present Ad
mnsraon for the comparatively few faults and the
less unavoidable delays in the conduct Of this
There is such thing 100 per cent perfection The
German and French military machines not that per-
feet The English government has proved that it is far
from absolute perfection in its conduct of the
The American Government seems to be doing fully as
well any of the foreign governments and perhaps little
bit BETTER for it is not only conducting its military
affairs but largely assisting the allied governments in the
conduct of their affairs, civil and military.
Therefore it would that the patriotic duty of the
Republican members of Congress would not be to follow
loyalty to support the Government In all that it is doing well
and to eonne their criticism to constructive suggestion
Will you kindly make editorials along the above linef
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST.
The Washington times., 1917-12-18
Do Congressman Use Street Cars?
BH EARL GOODWIN

Wherever public utilities fail in their service the mind
OF the public always turns for relief to the suggestion
municipal or public ownership.
Just at this time the mind of the public firmly set oh
the failure OF the street railways here to handle the public
In the right way and the suggestion that municipal
ship should become realization in Washington welcomed
on all sides.
happen to know that members of Congress who have
experienced the daily vexatOns of getting from home Of
nee and from office to home in frame of mind which
bodies well for any municipal ownership proposal made
the Senate or House.
Senators who investigated the recent strike on the
Washington Railway and Electric Company showed plainly
the attitude of the Senatorial mind That committee can
not be called radical committee. The thought which
stands out plainly throughout all those Senators reported
is this:
perfect street railway system must be maintained in
the National Capital
railroad is evidently doing what it carry the vastly
increased traffic but cannot truthuy say much for the
other Neither line meeting the problem for
another. Wartime conditions used TO
every complaint but of the trouble started long before
the war.
Members of Congress would do the entire country
vice by travelling daily both lines here They VIII
that the complaint of Washington against the street s
than justified They should bear in mind that Wash
ngon is the manwar shop of the country and that the
gesed traffic conditions here would not be allowed IN any
other shop cantonment Slow Of Transports
ton clogs the business of in Washington.
The Washington times., 1917-12-18
Anti-SalOOn League, You Crack
the Whip Well
And Statesmen Hop When Your Whip Cracks. Yo
Understand Your Business

The Congress of the United States consisting of
haps per cent total absainers 80 per moderate
drinkers and u per cent hard drinkers votes for absolute
prohibition.
Our compliments to the Anti-saloon League for its
efficiency its knowledge Of the Congressional heart the
value placed by that heart upon its salary.
We not able to congratulate workngmen, told that
ce-water is to be their diet
And not able to congratulate the United States
which in due will be put upon basis of illicit whs
key, complicated by habit-forming drugs.
No fact, of course is changed by act of Congress
Human nature is not changed.
You may egisate in obedience to the cracking of an
AntSaooa League whip but you cannot leglslate any
change in fundamental facts or in human nature.
Mr. William Jennings Bryan, having been cheered in
the House by small group of cewater drinkers and large
group Of whiskey drinkers took the night train to
Down there it is warm HOT. The "Great Commoner
win eat cusard pie twice day and suck oranges many times
day-the hardest work he has done except make
speeches.
In the shpyards the rolling mills and the mines the
have little time for sucking oranges What they will
have say when they learn that dear Mr. Bryan at Miami
has put them icewater basis to take effect will
make interesting reading.
There is we suppose little doubt that the action of
hypocritical Congress- voting against its convictions
will find echo in the action of sufficient number OF little
hypOcrcal Legislatures voting against THEIR conVlc
tions
is well known that nations and individuals using the
mild temperate drinks have had no drink problem to deal
with.
It is well known that this country drunken-Thomas
Jefferson testified to it-when there light wine
beer to be had and when he said whiskey killed third
of the people
The action of the Anti Saloon League, helped by Mr.
Bryan and hypocitca Congress, will restore the United
States to whskey basis the situation being complicated by
the Of habit forming drugs cocaine, morphine heron
and others brought into common use since Jeersons day
Another complication resides in this: White workmen
the North who have not Mr. Byans leisure for sucking
oranges and lack his pleasant winters in Florida will be told
by Government It felt desirable to take alcoholic
smuans away from negro labor in the South Therefore
Southern Democrats voted to put you white workers the
basis coored labor in the Southto avoid any i'll
feeling Therefore you will drink only cewater henceforh
if you PLEASE"
While the Government sthis me bootlegger will
The Washington times., 1917-12-18
Give Your Children Christmas Presents, Buy Ws
Stamps for Them Also.

False economy is preached by those that say DO not
buy Christmas presents your pennies put on long
face fill with gloom the day that should be full of hap
piness."
Let the nancers and others that advise against Christ
generosity and Christmas happiness for children and
grown people remember this:
you advise against Christmas generosity you also dis
courage PATRIOTIC GENEROSITY.
The generous in giving at Christmas time is gener
Gus In the buying of Government bonds
The good father that buys rocking horse for his little
boy doll for his little girl fur coat for his grown daugh
ter will also start book of War Savings Stamps for each
of his children.
Those that seek to discourage Christmas happiness
acting unwisely in pernicious way. They will spread
mantle of gloom the country and the country cannot
afford to be gloomy at this time.
The nation wants cheerfulness hope happness-these
the mainspngs of successful effort in in
thing else
The soldiers that sing they march into battle triumph
in the battle
The nation that is happy and generous kind to the chill
dren cheerful in spite of ALL enters is the nation
that Will go through that war successfully.
FEED your children well do not let anybody persuade
you to economic in that
DRESS your children well economically generously.
No sacrificing the future generation because at
war in this day.
Make your family and your friends happy at Christmas
time
Take of the nations cheerfuness and the nation
viii take care Of the war.
The Washington times., 1917-12-18
The proeers should be made hold the flag in both hands

experiment in prohibition will be interesting and enghten
ing 1t comes reaction against the harmful effect Of
whiskey and other distilled liquors These alcoholic poisons
the ancient world never knew The making and selling OF
whiskey brandy etc. commercial way dates back only
about three hundred years And drunkenness as curse OF
humanity was born with the making of whiskey.
In London the sign Here you may get drunk for
penny dead drunk for pence came in with the max
ing of cheap gin And it went out with heavy government
tax gin.
Here in the United States cheap whskey caused drunk
enness Cheap light beer down drunkenness by more
than half, in spite Of whiskey's survival
The Presidents order stopping further manufacture Of
whiskey and than doubling whiskeys price again
The Washington times., 1917-12-18

reduced drunkenness 30 per cent shown by the reports
from New York city.
The wise action of the President limiting the percentage
Of alcohol in beer cutting OF the manufacture Of wkey
would have solved wisely saney and safely the pnk prob
lem for the United States
But prohibition fanaticism and Congressional hypocrisy
would not have it So
Therefore the country must make the prohibition
pertinent and stand the consequences
There will be manufactured and consumed vast quanh
ties of highly poisonous badly made alcoholic spirits in ad
dition to an excessive amount Of drugs
The fanatics of course, having succeeded in taking
away the light beer from workmen viii attack their
right to smoke tobacco That will supply another oppor
tunity for fanatcism and hypocrisy to combine
There viii be great dissatisfaction among workers.
unable to go to Miami when gets cold unable journey
to the cool Maine coast when it gets hot
Heavy labor is not done by people of our kind on ice
water Every that you the railroad track lifting
iron rails every that you sweating in rolling mill
is Of beer wine-Or whiskey you won't let him
have beer or wine
The Chinese do hard work on water with a little
be demand for Chinese labor help in the hard work of
the country. That will interest the white workers after
they have been told that they must drink cewater because
the South wishes the colored have any smu-
lant
tiSaloon gentlemen you have started something in
teresting; you have done it in a neat effective way
Some OF the big men that have helped you with small
part Of their many millions do not quite understand what
THEY have done.
Mr. Rockefeller for instance who has thousand mil
lion dollars and at least million wormen constantly add
ing to his pile will discover that man put on an icewaer
basis does good deal Of thinking
you force him to drink whiskey instead Of beer You
make him sulky and dangerous.
If you persuade him to take water only he does an
amount of thinking that makes little difficult for anybody
to KEEP thousand millions as his share
Good as well evil will from this prohibition
movement.
There will be necessary useful thinking done by the
working people There win be such an increase in the
Socialist party will make of the other parties worry
and worry is what they need.
And there will be many men with cold stomachs and
cold heads asking themselves why they should sling
sledge hammer icewater diet while the rich
undisturbed cuts his coupons and drinks champagne he
wants to.
You have started something dear AntiSaloon League
and dear Congressional hypocrites and will be time
before you hear the end Of it.
You have also probably brought smile to the weary
face of the old angel Gabriel
When he wrote down yesterdays proceedings, and
looked back few pages the whkey record of Con-
gressmen voting for absolute prohibition he must have said
to the angel him. They're queer lot down there in
Washington"
The Washington times., 1917-12-18

the New York election to all the
other New York editors combined
against him, we pointed out the fact
that he was the really big editor In
this country. Comic little men are
trying to run "a national news
paper" Hearst really does run q
dozen Of them, including one, The
New York Evening Journal, that has
double the circulation and ten times
the influence Of any other newspaper
I'm the United States.-EditOr The
Times,l
The Washington times., 1917-12-18
REPUBLICAN STONES THROWN
FROM GLASS HOUSES

tRead the following letter by W.
r. Hearst addressed to the editor
Of hIs newspaper, the New York
American, directing the policy of that
newspaper as regards the AdminIs-
tratOn and its difficulties. Then
compare this letter of Hearsts,
with the constant malicious attacks
that Theodore Roosevelt makes upon
Woodrow Wilson and others EN-
gagged In the difficult task Of war.
A few days ago, when we told you
in advance what Hearst would do in
The Washington times., 1917-12-18

say: "You can't have the beer light wine that didnt
hurt you, but give you home made whiskey of
which little will make you drunk and little more make
you unconscious"
What we say here is the truth Sixty per cent of the
House Of Representatives would admit it. privately
It was probably inevitable that of the prohibition
aacy be made That being the case it is as well to 20
through with 1t quickly possible and have done with
it. is to be hoped that the great breweres producing
the temperance drink that working Foundations from
drunkenness will be preserved until returns to
its sensesthat is to say until workngmen have chance
to say what THEY think about this regulating of men
lives by the whim of ignorant fanatics
Apart from its necessarily harmful efscs s national
The Washington times., 1917-12-18

What we say here is the truth. Sixty per cent
House of Representatives would admit it. privately
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-07
WOMEN SHARE IN
NEW MEX. LAWS
Despite Failure of Suffrage
Women Get Wider Recog-
milton in Legislation.

Santa Fe. y. VI. April Women
OF New Mexico are pleased at the pass
age OF laws affecting women. children.
sanitation and education which were
enacted by the last session Of the New
Mexico legislature which recently
ended
While all efforts to procure the pas
sage OF a suffrage amendment to the
state constitution. or its submission 20
the people failed. yet the legislature
they have received heretofore by en-
dorsing the governors appointments OF
three 10 various state boards
Three Women Are HOnOred.
Mrs. Josie LOckard. OF Colfax cOun-
~. for some time superintendent OF
schools in that division. was confirmed
as q member OF the state board of edu-
cation Mrs. E. c. CHAMPION. Of Ration.
was made A regent Of the state reform
school Of Springer. while Mrs. Hallett
Reynolds was placed on the board OF
regents OF the New Mexico Normal
university.
The Juvenile delinquent law was
broadened to permit district Judges TO
take control OF children. who are not
delinquent. from parents or guardians
held unfit TO core for them.
Another law OF special interest to
women Is that making an annual
cleanup" day compulsory in villages,
while still another ends a long fought
battle against the fly menace by pro-
viding penalties for exposure Of meat
in butcher shops 10 dust OF flies.
Additional educa tional laws. IN
which women's clubs have taken par
ticular interest. provide for the pay
ment OF travelling expenses OF county
euperintendents, who until this time
have been forced to pay their own ex-
penses, when visiting distant districts
Of their jurisdictions; stahllshing
county boards Of education. to have
general supervision over the district
boards, especially IN matters reiati
10 the employment OF teachers. out
side OF incorporated municipalities.
and providing for the establishment OF
night schools in any districts where
ton for them
women on County Boards
Four members OF the county boards
are to be appointed by the district
judges for the counties involved, and
the early interpretations Of the Law
indicate women will be eligible 10
serve on these
Elizabeth Garrett. and Mrs L Brad
ford Prince, wife OF former governor
Prince. was named on the commission
10 select q silver service for the bat
tleship New Mexico, FOR which the state
appropriated $4,000.
Woman's interest IN child welfare
and her work for IL was reflected IN
the passage Of . child labor law which
conforms to the federal statute. while
a district prohibition law. In which
women also were interested. viii make
several sections OF the state dry al
most Immediately. leaders OF women
activities believe
Measures affecting the state histori-
cal society and the School OF American
Archaeology, renamed the school OF
American Research" also were passed:
while the Santa Fe Woman's Board OF
Trade was permitted to acquire title
TO the land on which It's building IN
the capital has stood for several years,
but which until recently was state
property.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-07
TEXAS A. & NJ. WANTS AN
ARMORY: HAS 1850 CADETS

College Station. Tex. April The
A. * NJ college viii ask the legislature
for a special appropriation OF 100000
for the construction OF Al armory ade-
quats for the needs OF that Institution.
President Bizzell has returned from
Washington where he went 10 confer
with officials OF the war department.
department Of interior and the agricul-
turaI department He asked the war
department for tentage. equipment for
the establishment Of a unit OF cavalry
and additional officers detailed as MILL
tary Instructors at the college.
The A & NJ college is the largest mil
itary college in the United States.
there being 1850 men IN uniform and
under constant military discipline At
present there are two commissioned
officers. active. both graduates OF West
Point. stationed at the college. There
are nine noncommisioned officers from
the army. Arms. ammunition and other
ordnance Is given free 20 the college
by the war department
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-07
MAY CALL EXTRA SESSION
OF NEW MEX. LEGISLATURE

Santa Fe, \. n. April with New
Mexico militia mustered out OF federal
service and Texas guardsmen detailed
to guard the great Elephant Butte dam,
governor Lindsey IS trying TO deter
mine whether TO call a special session
or the legislature TO comply with the
provisions OF the national defence act.
He has wired the war department for
its ruling as TO the status OF New
Mexico Upon receipt OF the department
ruling he Will decide whether he will
call the special session.
The legislature. which adjourned in
March. made no effort to comply with
the defence act. but instead sought 10
abolish the militia The total appro-
priation made for the annual mainte-
nance OF the militia was only $4,000.
I viii call the session at once. y
necessary" said governor Lindsey.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-07
CutiCuPd Heals
Eczema On Head
Burned and Itched. Scratched
Making Scales Could not Rest.
Hair LfeleSs. Came Out. Healcd
BY Cuticura. Cost 75c.

81 had eczema On ny head 50 badly
that could not get any rest Il began
10 come slightly as a rash, and i, grew
worse all the time. Il burned and itched
so that scratched making scales On my
head My hair became lifelesA dry,
and came out when / combed It.
MY head stayed that way for about
one wear, and used every remedy but
without success. Then saw Cuficurz
Soap and Ointment advertised and sent
for free sample. NY head began to
get better, so I bought more and used
one cake of Cuticura Soap and one box of
Ointment when was healed" fSignedl
Miss Wayne Long, r. F. D. 1, Nun
fordyilie, Ky, Oct. ", 1916.
The majority of skin and scalp troubles
might be prevented by using Cuticura
Soap. and no other, for all toilet pur-
poses. On the slightest sign Of redness,
roughness, pimples. raShes or dandruH,
apply little Cuticrra Ointment
For Free Sample Each BY Return
Mali, address postcard: '+Cutieurs,
Dept. Il, Boston," Sold everywhere
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-07
United Verde to Use Steam
Shovel on Richest Ore Yet
Mined in That Way.
BY ERNEST DOUGLAS.

Jerome. Ariz.. April Within a few
months the United Verde Copper COM
pany viii be steam-shoveling probably
The richest ore ever handled by that
method.
Hundreds OF thousands OF tons OF ore
averaging around five percent copper
will be steam-shoveled and hauled
directly to the United Verde sneiter
at Clarkdale. where 1t viii go directly
20 the furnaces. This IS another
all ore now being handled by steam
shovel at the big copper mines Of New
Mexico, Nevada and Utah is conceE-
trated.
VIII Dig Into Burning Shaft.
The steam shovel pit viii be Just
northwest OF the site Of the old United
Verde smelter. at Jerome. When COM
pleted il will be about 800 feet deep.
The pit will 90 straight down to the
Hampton Slope, on the 300 foot level.
ing and raging by turns for % years.
This Will make possible the extin-
punishment OF the fire from above II
IS now estimated that within a year
and a half that troublesome fire viii
lie a matter Of history
In order TO handle the steam show
eled ore the United Verde's tunnel
railway Will be extended up to the
-atV-AOOL AEFEl OF LlG lllllEs T4EilA 81 LAlH
north end Of Jerome, and this camp
viii be given standard gage railroad
service.
The Verde Tunnel and Shelter rail-
road is six miles long and connects
the 1000 foot tunnel level OF the
United Verde with the Santa FEES Verde
valley branch. at Clarkdale. In order
TO bring 1t up to Jerome, four miles OF
additional road, including several
switch backs must be built At pres
ent the V. 7. & S. handles freight only
for the United Verde. but when its
terminus is at Jerome It will become Z
common carrier. Thereafter, II is ex-
pected most Of Jerome's freight and
passenger traffic will be handled by
the V. T. & S. and the Verde valley
branch.
Clarkdale is five miles from Jerons
by auto road. This camps only direct
communication Is over the United
y erde & Pacific. q narrow gage line
that runs westward to Jerome junction
on the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix.
The Q. V & P. IS said to be the crook
eldest road in the world. II twists and
turns total OF q miles to cover less
han half that distance in an air line
This road will not be discontinued
out viii be operated TO handle pSssen-
gers and express business.
Slope No. Getting Hot.
The United Verde Extension Is now
threatened with a fire. Slope No. :.
on the 1900 foot level. is extremely hot
Inc neat arises from low grade iron
sulphides lying right beside the ore.
air is being forced down into the stope
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-07

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