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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-20
HOCWALLOW LOCALS
By GEORGE BINGHAM

Columbus All
sop has several
dogs, but none
Of them will
ever amount to
anything as they
spend too much
of their time
at the front
barking at the
Mail Carrier.
Raj Barlow
aNuacfS 10 he
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-20
PRIVATE CAR OF BENITO
JUAREZ GIVEN TO MUSEUM

Mexico City. Mex, April o0-The
private railway car formerly used by
president Benito Juarez and later used
by president Lordo de Tejada. has been
presented 70 the National muesum BY
Gen HeribertO lara The car, which
was made in England over 90 years ago
is a beautiful piece of workmanship.
the interior decorations representing
incidents in the life Of ST. Patrick
When the Constitutionalist army lett
Mexico City for Neracruz in 1914, the
car was pressed into use and has been
IN operation throughout the campaigns
since thar time.
The-e al. now over .eo.ooy women
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-20

The German hundreds trapped In the open before their
own wire barriers and screaming they couched
ned back and forth IN the storm Of bullets experienced
those last agOnzing moments they slaughtered
the full meaning of Gen. Shermans definition of war.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-20

Los Angeles writer says Germans are facing
interment- Perhaps he ntern1ent. little
makes a deal of difference.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-20

There advocates Of universal service
country
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-20

Motion pictures nearer to being the universal
language than voaPuk anything else of the kind
devised.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-20

II takes unimaginatrve mariner distinguish
errngy between the thunder Of the surf and the distant
muffled Of guns at sea.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-20

Raising the five piece Of pie cents is blow
at well established American Institution.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-20

Night irrigation and frequent hoeing the way 10 keep
down the irrigation cost in the backyard garden.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-20

ing IS. IN my opinion. impracticabIe.
because y is too expensive
One Of the principal drains on the
city water company At present is the
water taken by the railroads and in
uustrial enterprises The G. h rail-
road company, which. 2 year ago, was
operating its own wells, is now taking
all its water from the city We are
supplying every railroad IN the city
and every railroad is using every 10
connective it can get, so this Is a big
drain We are also supplying Fl Bliss
Arrangements are being made 70 install
a pump at Fort Bliss, but IL will be
year before 1t is in shape to furnish
the water for the post
We should have had our new pump
ing machinery almost six months ago,
but conditions are such that the manu-
factories cannot make delivery"
THE DOCTOR
(By Little Chris.)
4 doctor is z man who rides in
an automobile and makes people
pay for ii when he visits them
An ethical doctor won't pay for
getting his name in the paper. but
he gets it into the society columns
Of the paper when he performs an
operation
Ethical doctors won't take 9th
er doctors patients until The other
doctors have collected all that the
II you have plenty Of money
when you go 70 doctor and he has
lots OF business, he will send you
doing It: If You haven't much
money and the doctor hasn't much
20 do, the specialist doesn't get the
patient.
4 doctor won't tell Of the mis-
takes OF other dOctors-unless they
belong 20 different medical schools.
in other words. il is no harm for
au N l. TO roast a doctor Of os-
teopathy or a doctor OF hOmeop-
athy.
Doctors give prescriptions and
perform operations. II you have
money enough 10 pay for a hes
pital as well as the operation, II
is necessary 70 operate on you in
hospital If you only have
money enough for the operation.
II can be done al home
Doctors have offices where rhev
keep ola magazines, glass cabinets
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-20

Appreciation often has value above money Just
appreciation won't buy sugar and potatoes
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-20
FIGURES TOO LARGE TO GRASP
BUT THE IMPULSE is WORKING


II VERIFYING connected with this is grand
- people not so dazed with the magnitude of it that
10000 casualties in battle furnish headline for day and
forgotten The cost in grief in property destroyed and
money poured into the alike tremendous
So with s7ooooOoo0O bond issue, authorized
bill which has been passed by both houses of congress 1t
4 par with the war-on grand scale.
To give idea the magnitude of preliminary
fund here few comparisons drawn from statistics
prepared at the capitol:
The 1000 900 bond issue is 40 times amount
money placed disposal president Mckinley the
outbreak the Spanish-American in 1885, that
does not take into consideration the contingent fund Of
soooooo voted by to be placed to the account
vided for.
The bond issue IS slightly more than seven times the
of the bonded debt Of the United States pres
time.
is three times the amount of the bonded obligations of
the United States when the country emerged from the four
years Of the civil war.
The statistics approximately four half
times the amount of the total appropriated for all
mental affairs for the fiscal year
times the amount of the average annual appropriations dur
ing the past decade.
The interest On the bonds authorized amount to
$245oooooo annually This interest charge almost
much the government was apprOPrating for all its
Penses 40 years ago.
And this is but the start drop in the bucket If the war
ia prolonged We shall think of billions of dollars for
expenditure think of mlians.
Yet the country regards the money cost calmly. If life
is worth spending in the defence Of ideals of humanity
money matter of moment The United States having
entered the war, It must be sin all over and not with
tmid and tentative toe. We win nation
has always We the first figures with
interest but not with miser's spirit
The entente allies welcome the United States into the war
WITH degree of enthusiasm suggestive of genuine relief
The song of the farmer: Let rage STILL while
With viii at this peaceable trade of nine"
Appreciation often value above money but just now
appreciation won't buy sugar and potatoes
Raising the five cent piece of pie 10 ten cents il blow
at well established American institution
There advocates Of universal service
than the mothers who have given defend their
country.
Los Angeles writer says Germans facing
nterment. Perhaps he ntenment. little 81"
makes deal of difference.
Motion pictures to being the universal
language than vOlapuk anything else of the
devised
The German hundreds, trapped In the open before
wire barriers and screaming they scur-
ned back and forth the storm Of bullets experienced
those last agonizing they slaughtered
the full meaning Sheruau's defintiou nf
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-20

The entente allies welcome the United States the
With degree of enthusiasm suggestive of genuine relief
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-20

The song Of the farmer: LET rage STILL while work
With VIII at this peaceable trade Of nine"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-20

There aye now over eco. QUO women
farmers IL The United States
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-20

George Creel, who has been writ
ing some magazine stuff about
what great statesman president
Wilson IL, has been appointed
chairman OF the board of censors
FOR the war. The president knows
George knows good stuff
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-02-22


F. Wade Stamplicker. our genial post
master, has a son by the name OF
Horace; we'll Horace is q great be
lever in the survival of the fittest =,
whatever that means, The other
night he was deploriDg the aeroplane
fight Of shoes; just how he had paid
Que dollar ninety eight for the last
pair and the Grapevine Emporium
was now asking two forty nine for
some not near so. good. He looked
his old shoes over. Tenderly and
carefully noted the ravates of time
here and there and figured out how
he could perhaps save a little by
having them fixed, pending the
lowering of the high cost of, living;
that he was dead sure by spring
they would be making leather out
OF shark 3 hide, bull frogs, LIZARDS.
turtles, eels, snakes end 7erasshop-
pers, and taking this as his slogan to
secretly fight the leather trust, he
resolved there and then that the
Grapevine Emporium Wouidnet get
itch off of his misfortune. Affection
ately he raised one shoe. and the 9th.
tr before his optics and the more he
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-02-22

Flush chapter is going to try to jolly
the land ord along another month.
2. If a certain tow-headed fresh
man is made president of his class
he Con be snoGGed away from the
other frats and into our noble order.
Vote, Brothers. vote. 49,.
8. On the third or next month an
informal dance will be given with
an imported orchestra and when the
FIJI Gammas hear of it they will ex-
pire with envy.
4. On next Saturday night at mid
night three shudderink neophyfes
will be indicted intoothe awful myS-
teries of our mighty band. Let no
brother forget to bring q barrel
Stavc.
There are a few other dark secrets
but none as black as these.
Greek Letter Societies are harm
less and moreover are of great good.
Many a cclle Ian has through them,
learned the Greek alphabet so thorO-
uGhly that he has remembered it af-
ter French and Tri9onometry have
cantered from his memory.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-02-22
'ublis1 ed Nearly Evry Thursday morn.
EDITORIALS. And LOkaLS, dcferTh

This is going to be a sermonette
on safety razors-the kind that has
the blade concealed and a guard
from which it eets its name safety"
1t is alright as long as you don t cut
yourself justs so with the unsafe"
kind The other day, TO be more
exact, last Sunday, John Skin
flint. who lives near the old black
smith shop located in the forks of
the road, thought he would spruce.
up little for Sunday, being as he
was a-going to see his best girl. He
thought of his safety and the last
time he tried to pull the roots out
by force, due to dull blades. and
then he thought of the barber and
the 1Oc that would be exacted of
him. After thinking over the propo-
sition for quite spell and allowing
for the distance to the village shop.
decided that it was the economical
plan to use the safety and ccedit
himself with 1Oc which would buy
that much candy for his best gal.
No sooner decided than the razor
was brought from its long hiding. q
lltle lather applied to the face and
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-02-22

and stuck the severed piece on to it;
then she quickly bandaeed the
whole kiboodln up. One of the on
lockers who does not want her name
mentioned for fear of hurting the
feeling of Miss S. Kindfriend, says
that she stuck the toe back upside
down in her haste to relieve suffer
ing humanity. 1t is now too late to
remedy the matter and jail sympa.
thetic friends are a-hopin that this
informant is mistaken.
But wasn't that a rather strange
coincidence to have ones toe cut off
by q Ratchet on the day before we
celebrate the event when FatherGeo.
cut down the cherry tree with just
such Ratchet. Who knows but that
he would have cut off some ones
toe with his Ratchet instead of a.
cheap little old cherry tree, had he
been cracking hickory nuts with his
Ratchet instead?
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-02-22

a few rakes made across his face
when the fun began. A great
stream of blood was flowing freely
and Johns face was a.hurting nigh
~ badly from the self-inf1icted
wound and the meanderingS of the
dull blade across the tough whiskers.
But this is not all, two very pro-
nounced moles were completely sew
cred from their erstwhile resting
place! Oh my, what a predicament
Jon was in-Sunday-school language
and other kind, too. flowed as freely
as the blood from poor Johns face.
The sequel to the story with a good
moral, IS that John had to get bar
Der to finish the amputatiOn of his
whiskers and the doctor to dress the
terrible wounds and besides he was
ailing so badly and so out of humer
that he never got to see his best gal
Sunday afternoon. And here's the
Sometimes it doesn't pay to
bee too close and that even a safety
razor is a dangerous weapon in ex,
hands. ..
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-02-22

The works of O'Henry, the noted
Greensboro, North Carolina author
are to be put in pictures by Vito
graph.
Madamme Olga Petrova has trans
ferred from Metro to Lasky-Para-
mount. In . cent fire at the Me
rrO studio she lost some furs worth
$4,000 One Of her last pictures for
Metro is The Secret of Eve.
Henry B. Wathall's latest Essanay
play is hailed as the best III which
he has appeared. 1t is Burning the
Candle.
Mary Miles MiOter is to appear in
six chapter Mutual serial, 'Enyi-
comment" being the title OF the first
chapter.
JOnn r. Freuler. PRESIDENT of the
Mutual, is now in Los Angeles,
negotiating with CHARTS Chaplin for
another years COntrsc, with Mutual.
His pre- sent one will soon be up.
Horseback riding, skating and
automobiling are the best liked sports
ot the BluebIrd star, Violet Merse-
Teau. =.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-02-22
FASHION, TOO!

In Episode No. s of the Universal
serial The Purple Masks written
and produced by Grace Cunard and
francis Ford, Miss Cunard weaIs a
remarkable gown which has excited
much comment. 1t is divided into
two exact halves, and one side is
white and the other black. This
has a curious effect On the screen,
for when, she stands in profile you
think that she is wearing a black
frock and when she turns the other
side she seems to have suddenly
changed to a white one Even her
hat is .bisected. through the briD
and shows the two coIors.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-02-22
Pearl White the Winner, Helen Holmes I'd,

The Reviews movie popularity
contest to determine who the most
popular stars were, closed Monday
night. When the votes were count.
ed they showed that Pearl White,
the daredevil Pathe star. was the
winaer in first place, with Helen
Holmes. the Signal Mutual railroad
girl, second and Eddie Polo, the
Universal strong guy third. The
contest was great success, some
100000 votes having been received.
Only so votes were cast at a time
which make q remarkable showing
The winners will be notified of
the result i'll most unique manner,
a nicely printed certificate beine
sent to them. ..-..., -.
The Review and especially the
editor OF this department, wishes to
thank each and every voter for their
active part in selecting the winners.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-02-22

were engaged in cracking and eat
ing hickory nuts; Maria was a
standing up with her right foot
on the end of the rock q kind o hold
ing it down when Johnny delivered
a hard blow on the top of a slippery
nut which which sent the aforesaid
Ratchet crazy like ACROSS the rock,
clipping the end of Maria shoe and
p.eline off a small portion of her big
the. "A terrible scream went up and
all the neighbors gathered quickly
Iamentine the orful calamity visited
upon Maria who kept yelling bloody
thunder for what good was all the
sympathy when her big toe was a.
hurtin' terrible and the blood flow
ing freely. But alas, came upon
the scene Aunt Samanthy Kindfriend
who beaen to do some practical
work. Picking up the severed part
of the big toe she called for warm
water, some tar and a clean rag.
Well, sir, who would have thought
it, she was going to paste that big toe
right back where it belonged After
the house over Mrs. Goa
head could find no tar but brought
4 bottle of axle grease, allowing that |
it was just as healing and sure would |
stick closer than @ brother. Well
10 make long story short Aunt |
daubed a little Of the axle
crease on the end of the toe intact
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-02-22
Vest Pocket Essays Geek Letter SOcetiesBy Geo. Fitch

THE Greek Letter Society was in
vented over 100 years ago in
an American college and there
are new so many of them that the
Greek alphabet is becoming sadly
overworked and must soon be en-
larked to take care Of the rush Of
business.
Contrary to popular supposition
the members of these societies do
not spend their time writing letters
in Greek. No doubt they could if
they chose, but the hind Of letter
that father understands and answers
most kindly must be written in Eng
lish, and the Greek letter member
is usually a most faithful correspon-
dent as far as his father is concern
ed. ..
A Greek Letter Society is COM
monty supposed to be gang of des-
pera,e young men who have sworn
over a bloody skull to stand firmly
by each other and never to reveal
the name of the brother who blew
Up the court house. It is supposed
to be so powerful that when twenty
or thirty young men with pompa-
dour hats get together in a black
cellar under red light and whisper
in case-hardened voices they can de-
feat, the the~noble :SounG candidate
for CONGRESS who: is supported only
by a few shivering maGnates or q
plucky little railroad.
Greek Letter Societies are also
supposed to lead live of crime and
to encourage their .devotes to Gu
gulf large watts. of virulent stimu-
lants. Many a bright young man
who has gone to college with a poe
ket full of picture cards for perfect
attendance ut Sunday school is sup
posed to have emerged from the first
meeting of his secret society with q
fierce yearnine for hasheesh and the
blood of tender young children.
All Of these suspicious arise from
the fact that the Greek Letter So
ciety is secret and that its members
are supposed never, no. never, to re-
veal what has happened behind the
black curtain with the cross bones
on it. Anything secret is, suspicious.
40 John D. Rockefeller has found ont:
But at the risk Of invoking the hor-
rid veneean >es of the Alfalfa Delts,
the Delta Kappa SonOfaeuas, the
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-02-22

Shirley Mason, one of the Sin
9ers" in McClures, Seven Deadly
Sins is said to receive more publ
city than any man or woman on the
globe. In the last three months, in
magazines and newspapers alone,
ner picture has been published o> er
Seventy-five million times. =:
Max Under who recently came
over from France to- act in Essany
comedies has dog with a wooden
leg His name is "Wah"
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-02-22

Eta Bita Pies, the Sigh Whooperus,
the Mu Kow Moos and the Omega
Salves we are about to divulse the
four principal secrets of the Greek
Letter Society.
Turn down the lights, please. -
They are as folio rs:
1. The rent of the chapter house
is now two months overdue and to-
morrow the hif III priest of Delta
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-02-22
E1laHall >Y' cSe"SSSs I
N ~Nado 10 America Gown

. Mignon Anderson had to spend
days tanning some doves for her first
Blueh:rd picture, directed by Lois
Webtr.
na..y Carey has again taken the
directors authority and is at work
on a tive-reel. picture at Universal
City.
Dorothy Davenport. of Universe ,
has q hard time making her dogs
and her garden get along together.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-02-22
Aliens Foot-EaSe for thtoTrOOpS.

Many war zone hospitals have ordered Aliens
Foot=Rase, the antiseptic powder, for use among
the troops Shaken into the shoes and sprinkled in
the foot-bath, Aliens FOot-lEase gives rest and
comfort, takes the friction from the shoe, and
prevents the feet getting tired or footrore. Drug
and Department Stores everywhere sell 1t, CSC.
Don't accept any ss.bstIt,sse. Try 1t to-day.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-02-22

looked the better they looked. FIT
ing his previous words to action he
cot inside of his coat and hat end
eheerfuIly sauntered towards the
direction Of the village cobbler.
How much do you want to fix these
shoes. half sole them, put two new
tongues on, sew up The ripped parts,
put an iron tap On the heels, put a
heel counter on one and otherwise
restore them to their former stand
ing and dignity" The cobbler look:
ed first Mt Horace and then at the
shoes, and repeated the performance
many times while he chewed his
quid of tobacco. well what do you
say, insisted Horace and the cobbler
spat his quid to the floor and kind O
affectionately told Horace that to
perform tie various operations sue-
Gested by him would be the same as
making new pair of shoes and
while it was really worth three fifty
that being as he was a close neigh.
Dor and an old friend of the family
and old Dock, the mule, that he
would attempt to perform the. vari-
Gus feats required to restore the
aforesaid shoes to their former
standing and dignity for just two
forty nine. Now Horace is wonder
Ing whether it would be best to visit
tie Emporium or have the cobbler
to do the work-figurine this way,
perhaps the leather in my shoes is
better. the uppers and a part of the
lowers, than l would get in a new
pair at the Emporium. Any way
Horace will give the matter further
thouehtfully consideration.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-02-22

VIRGINIA FARMER
Restored TO Health BY Vinol

Atlee, VAT was weak, run-do~r,
no appetite, my blood was poor, I could
mot sleep nights and was rapidly los
ing flesh, but am a farmer and had to
work. Medicines had failed to help me
until I took VinoL After taking three
bottles my appetite is fine, sleep WE'LL
my blood is good and am well again"
ORLANDO w. BORKEY.
Vinol, which contains beef and cod
liver PeptOnes, iron and manganese
peptonotee and glycerophOsPhates. is
Nation Drug Co., High Point, N. C..
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-02-22

This is a Ratchet, similar to the
one that figured so prominently in
the Geo. Washington cant-tell, allie
cherry tree-incident': of the long ago
And it is also similar to the one that
little Johnny Goahead used yester-
day in cutting off his sister Maria's
big toe with You see it happened
in this manner. Johnny and Maria
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-02-22

The GuilfoFd County Co-Opertive
Swine Breeding association was form
ally organized at Greensboro Saturday
for the purpose: of encouraging the rails
ing of we'll bred hogs.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-02-22
No. 666

ThiS 10 Q prescription prepared especially
for MALARIA Or CHIIL8 a. FEVER.
Five or six doses will break any case, and
il takeM them 40 G GoNic the Fever will mot
return. 1t acts On the liver better than
Calomel and 2oes not Rrieo O 0iekoa. 16e
The Washington herald., 1917-12-02
GRANTS REGISTRANTS
right TO VOLUNTEER
Provost Marshal Throws Open All
Service Branches Until Dec. IS.

The provost marshal generals ONCE
last night made public Its letter to
State governors lifting the selective
draf ban on enlistments Of men In the
regular branches of-the service who
haye been called In the draft lottery.
This new order permits draft regis
trants to join any arm of the military
or naval service until December l5.
The letter reads:
Between now and December Is 1t
Is desired to afford registrants as wide
an opportunity as possible to enlist In
both army and navy. Therefore, any
registrant. evn though he has been
called by his local board to report for
physical examination, may enlist until
December Is upon presentation to the
recruiting officer of a certificate from
his local board that he will not be
needed to fill any deferred percentage
Of the quota of the board.
Regardless of re-examination OF
registrants under new regulations,
each board should keep available, and
should refuse permission to enlist to.
a sufficient number OF selected men
to complete deferred percentages OF
their quotas. See last paragraph. sec
ton Q, Selective Service Regulations.
As to enlistments in the navy after
December Is, see section ISL"