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El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-08-02
Farmers Army Backbone

Here are some facts from Farm and
Fireside'' which show just how important a
part farmers will play in this war. The
writer Of the article from which these fig
ures are taken says:
"At the rate of four pounds of foodstuffs
a day for the soldier. which is the ration
for camp or garrison. 4.000.00O pounds will
have daily to be provided for the troops.
This is something of a task. Of fresh beef
alone there win be call for | 1880, 900 pounds.
The army will drink So tons of coffee daily.
Two huge trainloads of foodstuffs will be re-
quired each day to carry the provisions for
the force in question. Think Of furnishing
the meals for a greaat moving city of a mil
lion people. or of provisioning a thousand
or more great circuses, and you will have
a better idea of what feeding the new army
means" 4
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-08-02
Their Most Thrilling
Experiences
LONG TO BE REMEMBERED

ut happened about a week ago." said
Chairman Arthur Seligman of the county
board Of irritation. I'VE were sitting quiet
Iy in the commissioners room, with a bat
terry of mine-throwers trained over the
counter and each wearing his steel helmet,
when q large man carrying q heavy steel
tipped cane entered. The commissioners
instantly took their places in the trenches
arranged behind the BARI mean the
counter-and seized the hand grenades. But
what was our astonishment when the visitor
merely extended his hand, with a glad smile
an said:
Gentlemen, | nave come in to thank you
for tripling my assessment. Not for the
world would / have paid so small a sum In
taxes had l realized how I was evading my
civic responsibilities. / am more grateful
than / can express that you have thus
pointed out to me my duty and In token
of my appreciation l wish to present you,
Mr.. Seligman, with this gold-headed cane"
YES" added Mr.. Seligman in answer to a
query. "The commissioners receive free
medical attendance from the county ply
stefan He luckily happened to be in when
the phone call was received"
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-08-02

was for many years q telling force in the
affairs of southern California and the state.
A man Of strong prejudices and hobbies, his
position on any public question was never
for a moment in doubt nor was the courage
of his convictions ever brought in question.
Otis built up one of the most. influential and
biggest newspapers in the country. As q
fighting editor he was in the trenches prob.
ably longer than any of his contemporaries.
and the most cordially hated, feared, es-
teemed and respected journalist on the Pa
cifc slope. Incidentally, slamming organized
labor, Hiram Johnson and other pet aver.
slams with unimpaired aggressiveness and
vigor at the age Of eighty, he put n more
nail in the coffin of the Osler theory. =.
We imagine Los Angeles tribute to the
dead editor will be one of rare impressive
ness,
Otis patriotism, as expressed in the Times
since America entered the war, was OF q
typically uncompromising, pugnacious, de-
termined and red-blooded variety, striking
straight from the shoulder and leaving no
twilight zonei' as a refuge for hyphenates,
slackers or near-patriots.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-08-02
Eat Bananas and Save Bread
New York Evening Mall

The best way to save -four is to stop the
eating of bread. But such advice is worth
less unless we know what to eat instead of
bread. During these summer months our
gardens and the cheap vegetables that flood
the markets furnish the answer. But all
the year around the banana, a tropical fruit,
which is easily, and cheaply grown, can be
depended upon very largely to furnish
starch and sugar. and a good supply of min
eral salts at a price which under ordinary
conditions is no greater than wheat flour.
Bananas are brought to our markets while
they are still green, in specially fitted boats
which touch the ports in the West Indies
and Central and South America. Our ability
to, get bananas at ten to twenty-five cents q
dozen, depending upon their size and condi-
ton, is regulated by the carrying capacity
of the banana feet. Any readjustment OF
our shipping to meet the need of freighters
for carrying munitions and supplies across
the Atlantic which withdraws these banana
boats from service cuts off a very important
food supply.
1t is foolish to urge people to save wheat
by consuming less bread IL at the same time
we make 1t impossible for them to get the
cheap food from the tropics.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-08-02
Upsetting Our Gravity
(Springfeld Republican,

M d..
In scientific circles there may be a furry
of excitement over the report cabled from
London that the last Zeppelin which headed
for Paris "fell II 900 feet in IL seconds
The achievement is the more remarkable
because the best falling record for eleven
seconds hitherto has been under 1000 feet.
If the Germans have amended the law or
gravity we should perhaps take more ser
iously the story, also from London, that at
the last big raid a 1%00~pound bomb which
had failed to explode had been dug up at
the depth of Ill feet. Otherwise 1t remains
rather dubious, for while the German planes
were certainly flying high, an altitude of
10, 600 feet was lately commented on as ex-
ceptional, and 10000 feet, or 3.45 miles,
would give but little over 100 feet for
striking velocity, or but half the muzzle We
locity of a h~igh-powered rifle There Is a
tendency to exaggerate the velocity of pro
~jectiles dropped by airmen, because the dig
zy altitude of the aviator attracts attention,
while the height to which shells. may be
thrown from guns is less in evidence. AS
a matter of fact, the gun which bombarded
Dunkirk from twenty-five miles away was
probably sending its huge shells to a height
of eleven miles, to which ~aviators do not
yet aspire. AS for penetration, twenty feet
of earth is commonly reckoned adequate
bomb-proofing for resisting all but the heavi.
est howitzer shells; it must be that the
Germans, having finished with international
law, are now violating the law of gravity.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-08-02
Speaking Of Sanitation

As has been pointed out previously, that
Santa Fe keeps we'll isn't her fault.
The prolonged drouth and big demand 70.
irrigation water has kept the Santa Fe riyef
nearly dry all the time where it passes
through the city. 1t is getting full of slime.
So far as we are advised, no precautions
are being taken to prevent the creek bed
becoming a menace to the public health.
We know of at least two young pigs which,
passing away at an early age, were flung
with gay abandon out on the bank of the
creek some days ago just back of upper Pal
ace avenue. No certificate of death has
been asked by anyone living in that 10
cality. The defunctness of the infant pork
ers has widely advertised itself.
Just for iHformation-is any regular In
spection being made of the Intercourse, or
other possible centers of un-sanitation In
Santa Fe? Ans. No.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-08-02
The Strike

Said one little bee to his working mate,
Il think we're fools to work so late;
Let us adopt the six-hour plan.
And be up-to-date-the same as mani"
"If we've no grub to eat this fall,
Well take to robbing, that is all;
Well make the flowers toe the line.
Or kill them all in course of time"
"We1l make EN- agree this very day
And bees who work must think our way
Come! Let us strike this very hour,
show the honeycrats our power"
walter M. Danburg. Santa Fe, New
Mexico.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-08-02
Facts About Our Navy
(By Lieutenant Fitzhugh Green OF
the ~vigilantes.)

A 14-inch gun is built up from eight or
ten hoops or steel tubes. Each is turned
to an exact fit, then heated red until ex-
pansion permits 1t to be drawn on, 1t cools
and adds strength not only by it's thickness
but by the grip of it's shrinking.
The first or inner tube has helical grooves
to give rotation to the she'll just as in any
sporting rifle. Tremendous firing pressures
between fifteen and twenty tons per suqare
inch combined with acid gases and other
products of explosion cause erosion or wear
ing away and pitting of the grooves. Inner
tubes must be renewed periodically. The
life Of the gun, so-called, is about $50 shots.
Since frequent target practices are held few
years elaspe before guns must be taken
ashore and retubed. The total cost of re-
tubing a 14.inch gun is in the neighborhood
of $4,000.
Besides the inner erosion constant shocks
of explosions crystalline the whole struc-
ture. Capitalization of metal may be Tx
ened to the drying of cheese. At first the
mass is relatively tough and elastic. After
the heavy punishment of protracted firing
gun tubes weaken and become brittle. MI
~crosopic examination reveals contraction
and disintegration of metal particles Just as
cracks and GRUMPY sections occur in cheese.
Further use of the gun is dangerous. Some
times the crystalized state is reached soon
err than was expected. The gun cracks or
burst. On the Michigan fifteen feet OF a
12inch gun broke off and fell on deck. On
the next load the gun captain, having opened
the breech to report bore clear" shouted
"There amt no bore!" Fortunately no one
was killed.
The charge of a 14-inch gun is 1856 pounds
of smokeless powder put up in four SILK
linen bags. The back end of zach bag is
I painted red and contains about four ounces
of black powder called ignition charge. A
brass primer similar to a rife cartridge
Except Is has 40 bullet, ignites the black
powder which In turn sets fire to the smoke
less powder. Contrary to popular belief
there is no real explosion but a progressive
burning OF enormous rapidity. Vast vol
umes of gas at high temperature and pres
sure are produced, forcing the proJectie
out.
A 14-inch she'll weighs 1900 pounds, is
five feet long, and contains a bursting
/ charge. Twelve strong men lift one with
difficulty. Yet from the gun it can sink
a battleship IL miles ava 1t travels at
the rate 1900 feet a second or a mile every
two seconds. On striking it expends an en-
ergy Of 65, 6S7 foot-tons, or enough to trans
port a load of two tons to twice the height
of Mt. Everest.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-08-02
THE TWO MIsslsslPPls

1t is an old belief that a mans name Is
a vital part of him. A magician can con-
lure with it. The names of the presiding
deities of old cities were a secret on this
account.
The name of the governor of Mississippi
is Bilbo. It is a name of war. 1t recalls
Bilbao of Spain, a city almost as famous
for the temper of its sword blades as To
ledo and Damascus.
Bilbo is still a word of war, a sword ct
fame. Governor Bilbo has emitted a proc
lamation wherein he commands "loafers,
slackers, idlers and parasites to leave the
state or take a licking" Apparently, local
committees are to interview the l~oafers,
slackers ,idlers and parasites and make
them work, leave the state or take a lick
ing. "We propose" cries Gov. Bilbo. TO
DO things in Mississippi in this hour of
extremity, when people tell us we can't
raise our own food At any rate Gov.
Bifbo says things. Is he trying to live up
to his name? Or are there two Mississippis,
the Mississippi of vardaman and the Mis-.
sissippi of Bilbo?-New York Times.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-08-02
The Sunshine State
sPINELEss CACTUS NOT
UP TO SPECIFICATIONS

Fort Sumner Review; A glib salesman
visited Fort Sumner early this season and
placed an order for spineless cactus for
propagation. He was a good talker and told
of the big yields 1t would make; It would
grow In any part of the semiarid west. He
had photographs, presumably taken I'm
Lower California, showing big fields Of IT.
growing In North Dakota. One of our citi-
zens who was willing to try almost any
thing once, ordered about two hundred
pounds. II was shipped fro mthe Burbank
cactus ranch. near San Diego, California
Arriving in due time. they sure looked nice.
They were distributed among the dry farm
ers and town residents with gardens or
yards and planted according to directions.
One man not only planted the way the
salesman told him to. but as an experiment
he planted them every way he could think
OF. some whole paddles we're planted, some
were cut In halves, and others cut In small
pieces each containing an "eye." The
planting was done deep. shallow. and some
were simply laid In the sand. They were
placed in position standing, laying. end
ways. sideways. slaunchways and other.
ways. Some we're irrigated plenty SONS
slightly, but mostly they were left dry ac-
cording to Instructions.
To date we have not heard Of q single
instance where the stun showed the least
inclination to take root.
Of course the State College experiments
developed that spineless cactus was not
adapted to growth in New Mexico, but a
good salesman can out-talk a college pro-
lessor any time.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-08-02
A Camp Ground

We are informed that Las Vegas has two
fine camping grounds for auto tourists, with
lights, water and all modern conveniences
and that the people take special pride in
keeping them up. How this must add to the
popularity of Las Vegas with the motoring
fraternity may be easily imagined.
Santa Fe processes to be-and is-a city
of even greater attractions for the overland
traveller than Las Vegas; having some feat
ures that no other city in the southwest
or the country enjoys. We do a lot Of ad-
vertising to get the motor tourists. But
we don't take enough interest in them to
furnish them an attractive place to camp.
This Is one little stunt we can do at prac-
tically no cost. Why not do it now?
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-08-02
LIBERTY LOAN AND
PATRIOTISM
(By Scott Ferris, Congressman from Okis,
A FACTOR TO AROUSE AND
INTENSITY PATRIOTISM

(By Scott Ferris Congressman from Okis'
homa.)
Tho generous response fri Il. al classJs
OF the American people to the call of their
government for the Liberty Loan has ce-
mented first and for all time the detern.,
nation of all classes to effect an early and
successful termination to the terrible war
that has been inflicted upon us. This can
but mean that six and a half million farm
ers who produce more every year than they
consume. VIII not submit to paralysis and
disaster caused by the closing OF the seas
by the German submarines. 1t means that
twenty million toilers of the republic who
toll for daily wages will not submit to des-
tuition, hunger and want, as a result OF
Germany's sinking OF our ships, numbering
our men, women and children, without hope
and without warning. 1t means that the
American business men will not have their
doors closed in bankruptcy, failure, panic,
and disaster by a trampling under foot of
our rights, a disrupting of our
and the destruction Of our republic. 1t
means that the proud young republic will
not sit in ease and plenty and allow inno-
cent American-born mon, women and chill
dren to be slaughtered, murdered, and
drowned when they were going where they
had the right TO go, saying what they had
the right to say, doing what they had the
right to do-only asking to be let alone. 1t
means that the blood of our fathers who
fought at Bunker Hill still courses through
our veins and that patriotism is not with
arpd dipintapra tpd and pOna n mama that
we will not follow in the wake of the paci-
fist, whose whisperings of timidity, cow
ardice, and craven furnish but a dim light
to lead the republic during this trying hour.
1t means that a lasting peace shall not be
fmperiled by the comforts Of the day. 1t
means that liberty, ambition. hope, freedom,
justice shall not cringingly give way to
Prussianism, militarism and kaiserism. 1t
means that we will not stand under the
charge of -degeneracy, inferiority, disinte-
grafton and dishonor.
1t means that men of every race who have
taken up citizenship in the republic are
standing faithfully and squarely behind
President Wilson in their determined effort
to bring about an early conclusion Of the
war. 1t means we shall succeed but it
must be no timid, hesitating warfare. 1t
means every man is willing to do his full
duty and that there are no places in the
land for shirkers, slackers, and those un-
willing to stand erect to duty the day that
duty calls.
1t means that the next Issue of Liberty
Loan bonds which will be announced by
Secretary McAdoo within the near future
must prove still more popular, still more
successful than the first because every
true American man or woman will try to
do their share by either buying more of
these bonds If they participated in the first
issue or by surely buying of the following
issue If they neglected to Participate in the
first.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-08-02
Our Mans Size Job

The tremendous drain upon French man.
power is graphically illustrated by a COM
parison of the German and French losses
in killed.
From London, dated July 10, we have a
dispatch giving the total list Of German
dead, SO far. 1t is the sum of the German
casualty lists. The Germans lost, "killed or
died of wounds" 1.032,S 800 men. They lost,
"dfed OF sickness 1880 men. The total
is approximately HOO. 900 men.
We have no absolutely official figures Of
the French lost and killed. Fred Pitney,
lately in France, in a series of articles IN
the Tribune. has given us the nearest ap-
proach to the French figures or the Killed
He stated that the French losses, from this
cause, already amounted to 100000 men.
His statement was challenged in a letter
to the Tribune by Mr.. Sheldon Bacon. on
July 9, 1917, Mr.. Pitney replied and gave
the source Of his information. He says
that the figures of the French losses were
given him by an officer of the general staff
in France, whose duties relate to that sub.
ject.
| mentioned figures I knew Of the losses
and killed at various times and asked, re.
ferring to the last figures / used:
What are the killed now?"
"More than that" he replied, and, pick.
ing up a paper from his desk, added, after
studying the paper, approximately 2,00O,.
O00.e
The figures. says the New York Evening
Mail, prove what Mr.. Pitney wanted them
to prove: that French man-power is ex-
hausted and that we must immediatlye step
into the breach for France. These figures,
taken in connection with the official Ger
man casualty figures, show that the Ger
man man-power is by no means depleted.
The total German losses consist OF the
1,100,0 900 already mentioned. and 5S 300
prisoners and missing. Against this grand
total of / LOO, 900 men must be balanced the
increments to the German fighting forces
arising from the annual entrance into the
service Of young men fit for military serv'
ice. In the last decade the German birth
rate has been so enormous that today there
are annually available for military service
approximately 10000 0
so the German army has gained 5000
900 and lost 1,700,0 600. That explains the
statements, now made by militady experts,
that Germany, in man-power alone, 10 far
stronger thar she was before the war. The
French birth-rate, as is universally known
has been stagnant. Mr.. Pitney reports that
the 1918 class in France did not yield over
225.oO0 men, and that to make that 225,00
1t was necessary to conscript every one that
could carry a gun. Note, also, that the
French loss Of 1000, 600 killed does not, of
course, represent the total loss, for II does
not take into consideration the number OF
prisoners, the disabled, nor those who have
died of sickness.
"A man's-size task has been pu up to this
country. The first thing to let us do Is to
realize the magnitude of the task. Fortu-
nate, with regard to the situation both on
sea and land, this realization is at last being
allowed U.S."
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-08-02
%.REApY-To sERVEn

am ready to serve my country!"
Tho movie hero cried.
And they put II up In threc-sheets
Throughout the countryside.
II was some advertisement.
The fans all yelled: "Hooray!
Well win out In a jiffy
When he gets in the fray"
"Pm ready to serve my countryl"
II tickIed as for days.
And then he started making
Another set Of plays.
We seem to hear him chuckIe,
AZ he gets the dough IN palfs:
"lm ready to serve my country
When the movie business falls
Roy MouIton In New York Mail
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-08-02
A Wild Ass Needed
clos Angeles Tipesl

The New York Herald announces the
death OF a Persian wild ass at the New
York geological Park. The Houston Post
says that If the question of nationality II
waived Texas can make good the loss with
almost any kind of a wild ass. But why
60 so far as Texas? There are wild asses
in the District or Columbia-oodles OF them.
Apply to Sam Gompers. 4
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-08-02
Otis

The death of General Harrison Gray Otis,
president of the Los Angeles Times, removes
one OF the most picturesque figures in Amer
lean journalism; one of the old-school mill
tant, belligerent, personal journalists,
whose character and personality we're lndel-
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-08-02
Not Necessarily

(Fort Sumner Review.)
The members of the exemption boards
will be down and out politically. henceforth
and forever. no matter how conscientiously
they fill their missions.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-08-02
WHITE CLOTHING

To keep white clothing from turning vel
low through the winter wash all the starch
out in the fall, rinse in bluing water and
put away unironed.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-08-02

ONE PIP-I'm marrying the sweet
est little woman under the sun on Tues
day.
TWO PIPS-Afraid it's illegal, old top.
One Pip-Illegal! What dye mean?
Two Pips-Well, you see, | married
her last week.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-08-02

KERENSKY says stout hearts and
stern hands are needed in Russia. Also
a number of well-oiled guillotines.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-08-02
rHe SORROWS OF syLvEsr

Sylvest was in a disconsolate mood
again last night as he pulled his ancient
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-08-02

SURE, YES, indeed, Gwemdolyn. the
Russians have put a lot OF ear-paths In
the C~arpathians.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-08-02

v@v-V-V

THERE WASN'T any negroes pro-
test parade in New Orleans, we noticed.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-08-02

VAN PUTTER-There is one good
thing about golf.
De Growche-Well, Pm glad to know
il, but / don't care to hear what it is.
Judge.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-08-02

-Excnange.
ANYHOW, they are still coming to
Santa Fe for the heatless days.
NO MERCY FOR HIM
A little Scotch girl named Mercy Nc
TOsh
Loved a Frenchman named Tony La
Vache.
whose love for this maiden was so noble
and strong
That it near brought their romance to
smash.
For he thought it would please bis lady
fair
Into English to turn his French name
And when she accused hin OF being a
brute
don't think that she was to blame,
When she learned what "a vachc," in
English did mean
/ can tell you she kicked up a row.
And vowed she'd be I'm old maid all her
Than sign her name Mercy She Cow"
Los Angeles Times.
DON'T CROWD your mind" warns
an exchange. We know a Teller which
one thought is a crowd for his mind.
WHEN YOU need to use court-plas-
ter, first try 1t ON the dog.
---
AN IDEA-Lock-jaw for the Pacifists
wouldn't be so bad.
SENATOR SHEPARD seems to have
the idea there is a wine cellar under
the capitol.
II we're goin to have a later
When the war is really on
We must first have a
Dictator
To see that they amt gone.
--v-v
THEY SWITCHED the. Switchmen In
FIRST VILLAGE BUM-Labor's
mighty scarce about here.
Second Village Bum--Terribul! | had
to help my wife with the potatoes this
morning.-Life.
THERE ARE almost as many crimes
committed in the name of Liberty as
in the names of literature and art.
NOT TO mention movies.
GERMANY is confiscating door han
dies for gun material. But the allies
may be able to open the German door
without a handle.
THE PRISON visitor on his usual
rounds noticed that a new man occupied
a cell that had been empty for some
time.
my friend" he began, may | ask
what brought you here?'
"The same thing that brought you
here replied the convict; "a desire 10
poke my nose into other peoples bust
ness, only | generally used to go 10 the
basement window"
--w
MEANWHILE. how would it be to
make those Mexican convicts earn their
High Cost of Living and reduce the nigh
cost of motoring, by working them on
the Santa Fe streets?
IN A KINDERGARTEN class flags
we're shown, and In answer to a ques-
ton a little girl gave the response that
was expected of her:
"This is the flag. OF my country
sand what is the name of your coun-
try?" was the next question.
a'Tis Of thee" was the prompt re-
ply.
THE TWO MIsSlSSlPPIs
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-08-02

YES, MISTUH BONES, we a tell
you what musical instrument produces
f~Oot-notes.