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El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06
Americas Cause for War

"The new German policy swept every
restriction aside. Vessels of every kind,
whatever their flag, their character, their
cargo, their destination, their errand,
have been ruthlessIy sent to the bottom
without warning and without thought Of
help or mercy for those on board, the YES
sells of friendly ~neutraIs along with those
Of beIIigerents. Even hospital ships and
ships carrying relief to the soreIy bereaved
and stricken people Of Belgium, though the
latter were provided with safe conduct
through the prescribed areas by the Ger
man government itself and were distin-
guished by unmIstakabIe marks Of iden-
tity, have been sunk with the same reck-
less lack Of compassion or Of principle.
"**a ! am not now thinking Of the loss
of property involved, immense and serious
as that is, but only Of the wanton and
wholesale destruction Of the lives of non
combatants, men,, women, and children, en-
gagged in pursuits which have always, even
In the darkest periods Of modern history,
been deemed innocent and legitimate.
Property can be paid for; the lives Of peace.
frI and innocent people cannot be. The
present German submarine warfare against
commerce is a warfare against mankind"
Woodrow Wilson, President Of the United
States.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06
The Potato Comes Back

The huge potato crop which the federal
forecast indicates will be produced in the
United States this year means that this i'm
portant food staple will be cheaper, and
makes it possible, says the department OF
agriculture, for American families that had
to cut down on potato consumption because
of high prices to restore the tuber to a
prominent place on their bill Of fare.
The department forecast, based or rell'
able estimates from all parts of the country,
places the total potato yield at more than
467 million bushels, as compared with 2S5
million in 1916 and $50 million in 1915. Po'
tatoes of the current season are already in
the market in large quantities and, since
the early harvested tubers can not be kept
easily, should be eaten more abundantly
now if spoilage is to be avoided.
Next to the breadstuffs potatoes are the
most important food crop of the western
nations. the department points out. They
are all the more important now that the
worlds wheat supply is short, since they
furnish starch, the principal food element
contributed by bread, and 50 may be SUBJ
stituted in part for bread.
1t is no hardship to Americans, says the
department, to eat freely of potatoes;
rather, it has been a hardship to them dur
ing the past half year to forego somewhat
the use of this common food.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06
Liberty Loan and Duty

This is no time for mild utterances and
redundancy but straight argument and plain
language. Our country is at war! To still
discuss the ifs and why's and wherefores is
folly and avails nothing. 1t by no means
changes the fact.
To let individual opinion influence per-
formance of duties places a stigma on 100
per cent citizenship.
There are two kinds of duty. Compulsory
and non-compulsory. To pay taxes, to abide
by existing laws are compulsory duties and
respective authorities have the power to
force fultillment of same. Non-fulfllment OF
such has direct and unpleasant conse-
quences.
To participate in politics, to vote at cleo.
tions. to he patriotic in the fullest sense
OF the word are noncompulsory, but duties
Just the same. The non-ful6llment of such
duties has indirect and detrimental effect.
10 give to your country, while at war,
your fullest support, to perform every duty
of a patriotic and full-1edged American
citizen is of even greater necessity than
in times of peace. 1t becomes imperative
and applies to everybody, farmer or fnan-
cier, artisan or business man, rich or poor,
JON'ot "oi VI lCIudlt. lUiS Is no
time for neutrality. You are either for your
country or against your government.
To conduct war and carry it on success.
fully takes above all, money. To furnish
the government such money by supporting
The Second Liberty Loan of 1917" soon
to be announced by Secretary McAdoo, is
the uneqnivocal duty of every American
man and m at all able to do SO.
In the words of Secretary McAdoo, "Ev-
cry man and woman OF the country must
get behind this loan.''
II you have the money, buy Liberty Bonds.
If you have not, borrow it or save it and
buy them.
1t will place you on the honor roll of the
100 per cent American citizens. 1t will
stamp you as a patriot, it will class you
among the people of thrift and it will make
YOU a prudent investor of your savings.
IL is a receipt for having lone your duty
to yourself as well as your country. It is a
means to enable your country to conduct
this war VIGOROUSLY and bring to a speedy
termination bloodshed and destruction, es-
tablishing peace for evermore throughout
the earth.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06
Save the Water

Many citizens of Santa Fe are wasting
city water. A prominent man yesterday
sprinkled the street in front of his house
while gardens of others a block away are
drying up because they are getting no irri-
cation. Thousands Of gallons are being usea
on the lawns at the capitol and executive
mansion. No one wants to see these beau
tiful grounds lose their lush greenness; but
1t Is more important to drink than to Craze.
The New Mexican warns the citizens OF
Santa Fe that the water situation is not
one to be ignored. 1t is going to be a
c~lear-cut alternative, unless it rains soon,
as to whether we shall drink the water or
put it o n the ground. Water must not be
used for irrigation; it must not be used to
wash sidewalks and to sprinkle lawns and
flowers and water vegetables If We are 60
ing to have it for domestic use. The situa-
ton is critical; it has only been equaled
once in a third of a century in Santa Fe.
The majority of citizens are conscien-
tious about his matter. Many have not
used water for irrigation for two weeks.
No serious hardship is being suffered. There
is moisture in the ground and nearly every
thing is far enough advanced to mature
with the aid of the infrequent light show.
ers, which, however, are not heavy enough
or extensive enough to help the Santa Fe
watershed. The stream is very low; but
it is sufficient to supply water for domes-
tic needs if every user is as careful as he
can possibly be.
Another thing: don't waste the water IN
the kitchen and bathroom. A bathtub full
of water is enough to supply one person
with drinking water for a month. You don't
have to stop bathing; but you can probably
use half as much water and be just as
clean. Don't leave taps running to waste.
Trow waste water on YOU flowers ana
vegetables Dish-water is as good an irrl-
giant as fresh water.
If the water supply is conserved, Santa
Fe villa pull through the unprecedented
drouth in good shape. If it isn't, we are
likely to suffer some hardships and get
some highly undesirable advertising. We
have the best and purest water in the
state and are simply facing a condition that
is general throughout the state. Let's save
the water, as sensible people.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06
Near-N Nature Fakes Of
The Wild and Woolly
(Tucumcari Sun.

CTucumcari Sum-
Glenrio recently had a lunar rain
bow"
A six-foot r~attlesnake, with five rat
ties, was captured on Main street in Tu-
cumcari.
A scorpion, or stingin' lizard "bit"
a lady in one of the northern counties.
An eagle perched upon the back Of
a live elk was seen in the Caprock re-
gion south of San Jon somewhere near
the Red Peaks copper mine, literally
eating into the very "innards" of the
animal.
of Tucumcari captured a seven-foot rat
tier alive, which was later exhibited in
the window of a local drug store. The
critter bit the man who caught it. The
snake died.
An outlaw mule at Rama kicked a
man breaking his (the man's) leg.
While the nan was in the hospital the
mule got drowned in Revuelto creek.
A crop of frijole beans near Roy was
beaten into the ground by a hail storm.
Three days later the owner discovered
that the vines had grown several feet
in length.
One of the most successful dry
farmers of the state is a Baptist
preacher living near Quay. He recent
ly marketed the first load of water
melons of the season in Tucumcari.
A Montoya man found a peculiar geo.
logical formation near a deep spring
which he thinks is a maidstone. Said
spring is 40 miles from the nearest sa-
loon.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06
People in France
Sure Glad to See Us"
Says New Mexico Boy

Artesia, N. NJ, Sept. 4.-Three Artesia
boys-John Simons, Lester Henrichsen and
Leon Meeks-are now in France with Gen.
Pershing, and Simons has written interest
ing letters to his aunt and other relatives
here. The letters are published in the
Pecos Valley News, and the following are
extracts:
"The people in this country sure were
glad to see us. Whole crowds follow us
down the street. Two of us can stop on
the street and start to talking. We will
not be there five minutes before there is a
crowd gathered around listening. If they
could only talk English they would show
us a good time. Some of the boys get
themselves French girls and walk along
with them. They try to talk to each other,
but in vain. We are sure having a good
time, SO don't worry about me.
Most Of the people here think the war
will not last very long. II the United
States win just push the troops over here
maybe we can eat Christmas dinner there.
This country sure is different from the
UnitedN States. The trains are about halt
as large as those there. The passenger
cars are about rs feet long and divided into
three parts. Some of the box cars are not
more han Is feet long. In fact, the whole
train here looks like a toy beside those OF
the United States. There are not many
automobiles here. Most of the riding is
done in carriages. Some OF them work
oxen. The first thing we saw on this side
was a Ford, but we haven't seen many
since. | guess they are all over the world.
Women take the place of men in lots of
places here. They run the street cars,
work around depots, run stores, act as
police, do the office work in the French
and English armies and nearly everything
that a man does in the United States.
We sure had q fine trip over, but it has
been cold. The sailors said a large iceberg
went just in front of the ship one night.
III we had been about fifteen minutes sooner
it would have wrecked the ship.
Then we didn't see anything until the
next morning. The gunners saw q lifeboat
a good ways off and shot at it thinking it
was a submarine because the waves would
splash over it and put it out of sight. This
caused some excitement and made every
body run to the deck with life-preservers
on. Then later in the day a fellow came
running down into his room and said for
us all to 60 on deck, that a torpedo had
Just passed the stern Of the ship. / didn't
believe it and told him SO rather emphatic
ally, but went on deck and found that it
was true. The gunners shot at the subma-
rine once and 1t went under. It was a
long ways off. The torpedo missed us
about so feet. This ship can outrun a
submarine. we had a large gun on each
OF the four corners of the ship, two In
front and two in the rear. The gunners
were a sure shot within six miles and could
shoot pretty good farther than that. So
Mr.. Submarine was afraid to show up. II
the ship had been sunk we had enough life
boats on 1t to carry every passenger, SO
we had a chance to get out, anyway"
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06

subterfuge and ~pretense-it behooves that
he remember:
Nrst--That intent may be deduced from
in law to intend the natural consequences
Of his acts.
Second-That adherence TO the enemy is
a phrase to denote a mental attitude on
the part Of the accused, and the jury may
deduce its existence from a PERSONS course
of conduct and the jury's deduction will
stand.
Third-That the utterance of either writ
ten or spoken words is as much an overt
act as is a deed.
Fourth--That doing or saying or writing
anything which tends to htearten or encour-
age the enemy, whether aimed against these
United States or in form against any ally In
war of these United States, is as much
within the provision of the constitution as
would be the rendering of material physical
aid to the common foe.
Ffth-That the test of modern conditions
will be applied in determining whether the
speaking or writing may be reasonably
deemed to have afforded aid and comfort
to the enemy, to have encouraged his re-
sistance, to have heartened his effort.
And, finally, that there is sure to be a
popular demand for the execution of trait
ors as soon as the lives of our men com.
mence to be taken. For experience has
shown that such a demand arises in every
country under such circumstances; being
urged as a matter of common prudence for
the protection of the land; and it is hard
to successfully show in every instance that
it is not justified. Wherefore it may be-
fall that all of the admirers of autocracy
may not be saved from the results of what
cannot but be designated their own criminal
folly.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06
Stop 1t

The water company should stop the
waste of water on the capitol and executive
mansion grounds. Over twenty.four sprays
were going last evening on these lawns,
Meanwhile scores of people are allowing the
little patches of grass around their homes
to die because of the scarcity of water and
the appeal OF the company to stop irriga'
tion.
Enough water was sprinkled on the state
house and capitol yards last evening 10
save a good many small lawns or revive
a good many wilted gardens in Santa Fe.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06
Keep Up Schools

A special appeal to cyub women In the
United States has been issued by the Unit
ed States commissioner of education, DIR,
|P. p. Claxton, urging that the influence OF
the organizations they represent be given
10 the maintenance Of the schools Of the
nation in their full efficiency during the
present crisis. DIR. Claxton says:
Everywhere there seems to be fear lest
our schools of all kinds and grades, and es-
pecially the public schools, will suffer this
year because Of conditions growing out OF
our entrance into the war. On the other
hand, both for the present defense and for
the future welfare of our country, as we'll
as for the individual benefit Of the chill
dren, it is Of the greatest Importance that
the schools shall be maintained in their full
efficiency, both as to standards of work and
attendance of children.
while the war continues there will be
many unusual temptations to many kinds
Of juvenile deiinquencies. Prompt and reg
ular attendance at school and proper EN-.
paoyment during out-of-school hours will be
the children's surest protection against
such temptations.
When the boys and girls now Of school
age have reached manhood and ~womanhood
there will be need for a higher standard
of intelligence, skill, and wisdom for the
work Of life and for the duties and respon-
sibilities Of citizenship than we have ever
yet attained. Our schools must now be 50
sustained and improved as to enable them
better to prepare our boys and girls for
life and work in the new age which will
follow the close of the war and the coming
of peace. No boys and girls must now be
neglected or exploited for selfish ends.
I'm all this probably no others can be
quite SO helpful as the club women of the
country, most of whom are also mothers OF
children. For this reason l am taking the
liberty of suggesting to them that in all
women's clubs this should be made a sub.
ject of discussion at their first meetings
this fail and from time to time through.
out the year."
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06
A LEAkY LIBRARY

1t was after prohibition had reached a
certain own in the middle west that an ex-
press agent telephoned a man prominent in
the town. This was the conversation that
followed:
is this Mr.. X?"
Yes"
1--WE have a package OF books for you.
Mr.. x, and we wish you would arrange to
get them at once, as they are leaking
badly."-Ex.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06
TIPS 70 SOLDIERS

How to Reduce Pants: The reduce
ton Of pants Is one Of the most diff
cult and yet most interesting operations
In the whole field Of military needle
work. Nevertheless, every sensible
man must acquire the knack uness ho
wishes to fall out Of his pants one Of
these fine days. II is done as follows:
Borrow an unraveier, a f~iatiron, a pot Of
glue, a pail Of tar, a piece Of vaIen-
c%iennes, a "Pirmus" oil stove, a couple
Of yards Of red flannel, a piece Of rab-
bit fur this Is for trimming and can be
got anywhere at two-three a foot),, a
bent nail, a piece Of chalk and a pint
Of beer. Sketch out with chalk on the
pants the area which you wish to re-
duce. Take a drink, burn out center
with flatiron, u~nravet, coat edges with
glue to prevent further ~unraveling, take
a drink, trim flannel with fur and valen-
c%iennes, cross-hitch the patch, stitch
on, and finish the beer, Neatly done,
It Is a pretty piece of work, but If clum-
silly done II Is not worth while showing
to your Enthusiastically Dope In Du-
range Democrat.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06
Gambling With Death
What is treason?

What is treason?
Charles Stewart Dawson. concluding a
warning in the New York Tribune, says:
1t behooves. therefore, that it be remem-
bered by anyone who may desire to play
dice with death-to shave the confines OF
eternity without cutting his own throat
through the blade Of his wit slipping an
inch too far-to injure this country yet not
pay the penalty; to evade and avoid by
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06
Plant a Bee
[Penasco YaIrey Press,

(PenascO VaIIey Press.)
A good report comes from the Oliver
%Scroggins' apiary at Greenfield. oliver has
fifteen hundred pounds Of honey and a Kan
sas City man offered him $1.1O per gallon
for the lot. Moral; PLANT a bee."
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06
JABS NH; s;:s ss.''

WANTED-Nice. rpomy desert island
for the Peoples Council Of America and
the ]. W. W. N
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06
MEANWHILE, as the
Days 90 by,
Don't forget to
strafe the fly.
THE FRYING PAN AND THE FIRE

- ''~ 'N' NV 'HS FINS
The board officials simply lated
At those who tried to dodge the draft
by means of marriage license graft
The Benedicts regret it.
The man who ducks his country's strife
BY taking to himself a wife
Deserves a war that lasts for life,
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06
And probably will get it.

MM MIIDMT || "M M
OLD FEB Jackson, the champion
whitewasher, walked down the main
street one morning, dressed in his best
suit with a large, brilliant buttonhole
bouquet and with cotton gloves on his
big hands.
Hello, zeb!" said the postman; ARE
you taking a holiday"
dish yere," said the old man with a
proud wave Of his huge hand, dish
yere am nah golding wedding univer-
sity, sab. Aim celebratin' hit"
But your wife, said the postman,
lis working as usual. saw her at the
washtub as ! passed your house"
'HerT said zeb, hotly. She amt
got muffin err do wifi hit. She's nah
fou'th."
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06

1T SEEMS that Tom Watson can't get
his disloyal paper back into the mails.
Curious how such persons clanor for
the use OF the distribution facilities Of
the government they have so aittle use
for.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06

THE BEST thing the G. o. p. sheets
can do is to just quit talking about the
Spanish-American regiment. Every
time they try to say anything they get
their several and collective foot in it.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06

TIE FIGHT in the senate is between
the Law and the Profits. &
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06

NO ONE can accuse the state tax
commission Of Incidence, anyhow.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06

HOOVER thinks the bakers bread
prices will remain high. Home-baking
is likely to prove popular II the re-
duced flour prices are available to the
consumer.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06

ARE YOU all ready for the next Lib
erty Loan campaign?
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06

AMONG the other slackers who
ought to be interned are certain weasel
wise gentlemen who think it a brilliant
coup to play politics with patriotism.
Indianapolis Star.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06

III YOU don't like "~Flounders," the
way the allies are going after the
Deutsch suggests that it might be
termed the Flinders Front.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06

ONE equipped with
speakers stand preferred.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06
"

THEN YOU might conserve water by
drinking less of it.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06

INCLUDING Francisco and Miguel.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06

THE SIGHT of local sufferers sug-
sests the scheme of organizing a hay
fever brigade to blow the Germans out
Of the trenches. .
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06

THERE is always the remote possi-
bilit ythat Berlin may be slightly preju-
diced. or biased, or something like that
in placing the United States in the same
class with Rumania.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06

SOCKS for soldiers-and Shocks for
Strikers.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06

ONE CAN hardly be critical Of an
American sailor for objecting to going
around with Kaiser Wilhelm in shiny
gold letters on his cap.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06

"V-V
SISTER SUSIE-Why did you allow
that horrid young man to kiss you?
Maisie-Susie, the idea!
Susie-Oh, you needn't idea" me!
One side of his face is powdered, and
one side of yours isn't.
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AS ANOTHER
Wartime measure,
Let the singers,
n you please,
Be forbidden the
Abuse Of
Toe much Freedom Of
High Cts.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06

WE ASK you, If $1,000 Austrian pris-
oners and Trieste demonstrate that the
Italians are not a factor in the war,
how many prisoners and how many
cities are required to make a nation a
factor?
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06

PROFITEERS, Picketeers, Bucca-
neers and Prussianeers-they're all get
ting theirs nowadays.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06
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THE CHIEF German crouch at pres
ent seems to be because Uncle Sam
unpleasantly refuses to send his men to
the front until they're ready.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06

THE Stockholm Socialist conference
is to be held Manana.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-06
commodious

ONE equipped with commodious
speakers stand preferred.
THERE is always the remote possi-
bilit ythat Berlin may be slightly preju-
diced, or biased, or something like that
in placing the United States in the same
class with Rumania.
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ONE CAN hardly be critical Of an
American sailor for objecting to going
around with Kaiser Wilhelm in shiny
gold letters on his cap.
III SEEMS that Tom Watson can't get
his disloyal paper back into the mails.
Curious how such persons claznor for
the use OF the distribution facilities Of
the government they have so aittle use
for.
ARE YOU all ready for the next Lib
erty Loan campaign?
--
HOOVER thinks the bakers bread
prices will remain high. Home-baking
is likely to prove popular II the re-
duced flour prices are available to the
consumer.
WE ASK you, If $1,000 Austrian pris-
oners and Trieste demonstrate that the
Italians are not a factor In the var,
how many prisoners and how many
cities are required to make a nation a
factor?
THE REV. Murderous Kelly evident
ly overlooked an equally important
scriptural injunction which says, "Thou
Shalt Not Kill.
THE government for the past year
cost us only nineteen billion dollars.
Cheap. we loan the allies more than
that every few minutes.
ANYTHING less than a billion dol
lars is piker money these days.
WHY" SAID she. its all nonsense
to say a woman can't buy her husbands
cigars. AS for me, / never have the
least difficulty"
"Nog What's your system?" she was
asked.
II just take along a sample stump"
she said, and there's never the least
trouble about matching the shade"
FITZPATRICK-"Say, Marrow, what
is the difference between vision and
sight?"
Marrow-"Gosh, | don't know"
Fitzpatrick-"When o see a girl at
night, she is a vision, but if you should
happen to see her in the morning, she's
a sight"
ROSCOE Gilmore Scott, an Indiana
versifier, contributes this Commercial
ICED heart throb' to Cartoons Magazine:
OLD VERSION
O, come with me-, my fair one,
To the garden of my dreams;
I'll plant a kiss upon your lips
In the pale moons mystic CLEANS.
Come, patriotic maiden, came,
In q pair of rural jeans;
Come help me plant potatoes
In the garden Of my beans!
THEN YOU might conserve water by
drinking less Of it.
SISTER SUSIE-Why did you allow
that horrid young man to kiss you?
Maisie-Susie, the idea!
Susie-Oh, you needn't idea" me!
One side of his face is powdered, and
one side of yours isn't.
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