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The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-06-05
NOTICE

During absence of DR.. Swezy his
Office in Winneva building will be
occupied by DR.. Mangan. Hours 2 to
4 and 7 to S.-[Advertisement. 141
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29
1898 Precedent

1t is pointed out that on April II, 1895
President Mckinley, in advance Of war &C
ton by congress, proclaimed a blockade OF
the coast of Cuba and ordered Admiral
Sampson to enforce it. On April 20, 1898
the president Issued a call for 100000 volun,
.teers.
On April Is, 1898, congress formally de-
clared war as follows:
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives in congress
assembled, First-That war be, andNthe
same is hereby declared to exist, and
that was has existed since the 21st day
of April, A. D. 1898, including said day,
between the United States Of America
and the Kingdom of Spain.
President Mckinley was no t~impeached.
He was not accused Of transcending his au-
ithority. Yet Spain had not, when President
Mckinley acted, used its naval vessels to
commit deliberate acts Of hostility against
American lives. and property.
The debate over forms and ceremonies
has gone long enough.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29
Make a Garden

The United States department. Of agri-
culture wants every citizen to be q producer
this year.
We're a little shy on the normal amount
of sustenance in this country; we are likely
to have to meet a largely increased de-
mand, judging from the way things look
at present.
The sure way to beat the high cost of
.living-grow it yourself.
II every man and woman in America will
raise all the vegetables and cereals he has
time and soil to raise, we needn't worry
about the cost of living, war or no war.
Seeds don't cost much. They are the
best investment you can make. In the cities
they are going to have beans on every COR
ner lot; think what could be done in a
state like New Mexico, where you have all
outdoors to do 1t in.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29
The National Spirit
(From the washington Post.


France, like the United States, is a re-
public. The elective system is dissimilar,
but the spirit OF the national ideals is the
same. Yet when France was confronted
with a national railroad strike the employees
were called to the colors, the wage dispute
was quickly adjusted and national efficiency
was preserved.
Again, when France, even before the war,
found it necessary to increase the length
of military service and enlarge the army
there was no dificulty in accomplishing the
end in view. The French parliament acted
quickly. The people of France responded
quickly.
France, when she went into the war,
found herself fairly we'll prepared, but not
as we'll prepared as she now realizes she
should have been. Very little time was
consumed In making up for the deficiency.
The United States today is virtually with
out an army. Universal military service has
been Rroposed, but there is a superstition
1t is not more than that-in congress that
the people will not submit to 1t. Yet the
only objections come from professional
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29
NEED OF CONVERSION

Pennington Times-Hustler:--The Santa
.Fe correspondent of the Albuquerqu Journ-
al occupied a great deal of space in his
paper at the close of the legislative session
explaining how the lobbyist had prevented
the members of the legislature making a
merry mess of things. The Journal claims
to be a great newspaper and this is certain
ly a great piece of news. In fact, in all
our experience as a newspaperman we do
not remember having had such information
before placed before us. If the Journal cor
respondent is correct, why not abolish the
legislature and let Spices, Bursum and
Springer, with the Governor ex-officio, who
ever he may be, as an inconsequential mem
Der, constitute the law making power of
this state. There is sore need for someone
to convert both the Santa Fe correspondent
and the editor of the Jaurnal to democracy.
Notwithstanding that direct legislation
and direct primaries, these men. seem to
think the people do not know enough to
legislate for themselves without a set of
bosses to dictate legislation and control con
ventions.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29
The German Retirement
In Its Second Phase

k(Simonds in New York Tribune.)
In a leading article printed i'll this place
on Sunday, commenting on the capture OF
Bapaume, 1t was pointed out that this Incl
dent might have three possible interpreta-
lions. 1t might mean a mere local retire
ment made necessary by British advances
and comprehended in the surrender OF the
Bapaume-Arras salient and the withdrawal
to q new and straight line behind these two
points. 1t might mean a retirement on a
very considerable scale, the shortening of
the German line in the west, the surrender
Iof the Noyon salient and the final halt at
what has been described as the Hindenburg
line, namely, a new trench system based
upon Douai, Cambria, st. Quentin, La Fere
and Laon. 1t might mean a general retire
ment of the German forces to- the Franco.
Belgian frontier.
BY Sunday morning conditions had al
ready reached a point where it was clear
that the German retreat had gone beyond
the first possibility. BY that time the Ger
mans were manifestly drawing out Of the
Noyon salient as well as that of Bapaume,
and the retreat was going on over a wide
front, extending from Arras to Scissors
that u.s., some 1875 miles. What remained
and remains to be discovered is whether 1t
is a retreat to the Hindenburg line or to
the frontier, a partial retirement on a wide
front or a general retreat from France.
Now the factors in the problem. are these:
Three British and three French armies are
advancing on a tolerably straight front. The
advance is most considerable in the center
and relatively or absolutely insignificant ON
the two ends. These six armies have as
their detectives six considerable towns,
which are recognized. as being inside that
German system of defense known as Hin
denbugr's. line. Moreover. as each of these
six armies has only a distance OF rather less
than 20 miles to advance to reach its OBJ
~jective, we must know in a few days at the
most whether the Germans mean to stand
on the Hindenburg line or to 60 back to the
Belgian frontier.
The test will be simple. One British
army, that at the north of the field Of oper-
atoms, faces toward Douai and must adj
vance over the Arras-Douai highway; IL it.
reaches Douai we shall know at once that
the Germans intend to go to- the frontier.
But, as yet, this army has made no ma
teriai progress INF there remains q possi-
bility that the Germans do not intend to
leave ths front Of Arras, but to stand on a
line from Arras back to Cambria We may
suspect the latter to, be the case, il there is
a continued pause here.
The second British army Is moving out
of Bapaume along the Bapaume.Cauabrai
highway. It has now less than fifteen miles
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29
The Flag and the Gun

Mr., Parrot wanted the picture hung to tho
right of the mirror; Mrs. Parrot wanted 1t
hung to the left. For once he proved the
more insistent of the two, and Joseph, the
janitor, was summoned to hang the picture
according to his orders. Obediently Joseph
drove in a nail on the right, as directed;
this done, he also drove one in the wall on
the left.
What is the second nail for?" Mr.. Par
rot demanded.
It's to- save me the trouble OF fetching
the ladder tomorrow when you come round
to the missus' way Of thinking said Jo-
seph.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29
Attila Outdone

The Paris and Berlin accounts of occur
rences in the valleys of the Oise and the
Somme agree in one thing-namely, that
the French are advancing into and the Ger
mans retiring from a desert.
OF the civilian population only the aged
and the broken and a few pitiful children
are left; the men of military age have been
dragged off to slavery and the robust w0-
men to slavery or worse; the villages have
been burned, and the trees and orchards
thai It. has taken a hundred years to grow
have been laid low. Through the ravaged
region, in, times rated as barbarous, armies
have passed, but never before has there
been such deliberate and diabolic destruc-
ton. The Germans have done that which
Attila and his Huns shrank from doing.
And the German defense, says the New
York Globe in comment pm this ferocity, is
the familiar one that the havoc is a military
necessity; that the Germans offered peace
and the Allies refused; therefore the re-
sponsibifity for acts of ferocity that the
Germans may now commit is with the Allies.
We don't know whether Attila argued this
way when reproached by his victims; pro-
badly he did not, for Attila, although a saw
age monster, kept his soul free from the
additional. sin of hypocrisy.
From the beginning Of the war the same
story has come. Belgium, northern France.
Poland, Serbia, Observation-Disclosures the
kaiser has led his soldiers there is the
same black record. The atrocities are not
the result Of individual savagery. Let
alone, the average German soldier would
not be wanton. What he has done has
been the result of orders. What meanings
will attach in the future to the word Ger
man in the regions that have known the
German!
Should the Allies penetrate Germany and
plead military reasons for doing the things
done in France, what would Germany say?
Would the Justification be accepted as vail
i'd? Imagine Cologne wantonly shattered
to bitsy-o Treves, or Mayence, as Bapaume
or Peronne have been! Imagine the popula-
ton of cis-Rhine Germany carried off to
slavery, while every farmhouse was des-
troyed! Fearful is Athe bill of indemnity
that Germany is building up and which the
German people may Justly be called on to
pay because they have permitted their gov
eminent to do what it has done.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

THE s~TocK-DIP SAG

House Pioneer Press:--We have been In
formed that stock-dip, Just common stock
dip may become a popular drink by some
Of our younger gentlemen In the event of
New Mexico bacoming dry, that is, In the
event that they can procure the special
variety that will not quite kill them. Tho
new drink was tried out the other night by
one Of them. at the least, and yet he lives,
but from our information he does not rec
ommend it to his friends as a really de-
sirable substitute for old Hill & Hill or
any other popular brand Of booze. He, 1t
appears went to o dance. and being about
half tanked up, his friends separated him
from his favorite beverage and hid it. but
after being refused its return he went ON
q quiet search for the missing bottle. and
finding 1t, . what he supposed to be the
right one, he proceeded to drench himself
with the aforesaid stock-dip, which almost
resulted In a funeral.
We hope this incident will be q lesson
to the young man and others. who go to pub
lilo places to pull off q spree. and drink any
and everything including louise killer.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29
to Use the Muzzle

IL Is time co muZzle the emergency feace
Federation This organization has now be-
come the Pro7German Federation. Satur-
day night this federation at a mass meeting
in New York adopted a protest declaring
that;
There is no state Of war between the
United States and Germany--despite the
fact that Germany is firing on the American
flag almost daily, killing AmericanH and
destroying American property, plotting for
the assassination of the president and the
invasion of this country from Mexico.
That the U. s.. government appoint a
"ioint high commission to meet deputies
Of the German government and by Joint
agreement settle the issue involved"
That "if such adjustment prove impossi-
BILE the government defer the settlement of
our joint claims until after the European
war;
That Congress make nc declaration of war
until a referendum has been held.
In other words this Pro-German organi-
zation would have us make overtures to
Germany seeking her permission to back
down from our rupture of relations and ASK
ing her to tel us some way 70 save our
face, as we nave decided not to resist ner
var against rs If she'll lei us. Off this
time we'll do anything she says.
In case our eating dirt at this time does
not result in a settlement, let us postpone
this settlement until after the European
war, when Germany can devote all her at
tention to us. At that ime there is no doubt
that she would permit us to grovel even
more than at present, when she has her
hands full.
Meanwhile let Congress ignore the war
Germany is making o N US until it has been
submitted to a vote Of the people, by which
time German submarines will have had a
chance to blockade all our harbors, spies
will have had time to blow up all our mu-
milton plants and German reservists will
have had time to mobilize, the Mexicans
against us.
The resolution Of the Emergency Peace
Federation is one Of three things:
Insanity;
Idipcy, or
Treason.
In any one Of these three cases it should
be handled promptly by the government as
an institution dangerous to the safety of
the nation and one giving, Intentionally or
foolishly, aid and comfort to the enemy in
time Of war.
Another institution of a similar character
to which the New Mexican has repeatedly
called attention is the magazine formerly
called "The Fatherland' now disguised as
"Viereck's." This periodical which has been
devoted to an inflammatory campaign
against Americanism in America, recently
aDpeared with a nicturA of Senator Stone.
on the cover, extravagantly extolledAas the
champion of peace. This Senator Stone is
the representative Of the Pro-Germans of
Missouri who has placed obstacles in the
way of preparedness to resist Germany's
war on this country. The magazine is like
wise ~praising the work OF others who are
aiding the Germans at this time and has
modified it's anti-Americanism' only to the
extent which apparently believes discretion
demands! 1t should be suppressed.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29
Don't Bite the Hand

There is a popular son extant which is
growing more popular every day. 1t Is en-
titled Don't Bite the Hand that Feeds You, .
and is addressed to the American hyphen-
ates.
If you don't like your Uncle Sammy" it
runs, and don't like the stars In Old Glory,
go back to your home across the sea; but
don't bite the hand that's feeding YOU
The New Mexican, recognizing the grave
problem presented by unnaturalized Teutons
in this country, persists in the confidence
that the great majority Of American citizens
of German extraction sympathize, not with
the Prussian ~head-hunters, but with the out
ragged and hungry people of Germany whose
mutterings against the autocracy and the
war-caste are growing in menacing volume;
with the men who have had the significant
courage to denounce the kaiser and the
blood-crazed war-makers in the German par
lament; with the inevitable movement to-
ward democracy in their fatherland and with
the United States government in It's move to
help exterminate the wild beast of Prussian-
ism, to escape which these German-Ameri-
cans came here and found homes and safety
and contentment and prosperity. y
We do not believe these men will turn
against the flag which has given them peace
and protection. We do not believe they will
bite the hand that feeds them and fight
against the soil where they have taken root.
Meanwhile the line Of demarcation, be-
tween Germans in America ana German
Americans ought 70 be sharply drawn.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29
State Politics
THE APPOINTMENTS

Farmington Times-H Hustler: Governor
Lindsey, in his appointments and approval
and veto Of bills, has acted wisely and we'll.
We all the more gladly record our approval
because he is of the opposite political faith.
The appointments, as far as we know the
men, are in the main high-class and show
q desire ON the part Of the Governor to
serve the public rather than obey the poli-
ticians. AS long as he does this he de-
serves public approval. and as q part of that
public, without favors to ask, we propose
giving it to him.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29
on, FoReET Ir

Deming Headlight: In view of their sue
cess in having New Mexico's gold medal
presented to General John ]. Pershing out
side the state we recommend to the COM
mittee in charge, John Clark, Major w. HI.
H. Llewellyn, w. A. Hawkins and former
Governor George Curry, that they commence
an active campaign at once to prevail upon
Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy, to
order the new battleship New Mexico to Ell
Paso when it is completed, and that the
presentation of the states 5000 silver
service be made in that city.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

Mills Developer: The inquiry for land in
this section Of New Mexico is more extern
sive this spring than usual. Many eastern
people nave learned that the homesteading
days are past, and that the multitude of
foolish adventurists" who made sixteen
dollar bets with Uncle Sam in the east of
Mora county are now realizing So to SIS
per acre for their land.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

Congressman Mann's act In renouneins
the speakership of the house of representa-
tiyes If harmony in a national emergency de-
.mands, does the gentleman credit and no
has set a splendid example. There is no
tine for political wrangling in the United
States congress now.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29
sTuNG!
(Artesia Adyocate.)

(ATJeSla AuVOCaLe.J
1t was reported last Monday that oil
had been struck in a we'll 20 miles west
of Hope, at a depth Of 800 feet. A few
Artesia citizens drove out to the well to
investigate. On their return they drove
down the back streets and entered their
places of business very quietly, and the
excitement subsidized.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

The mere fact that as many as sixty-eight
teachers came over the hills and canyons
and valleys to attend the Santa ne county
teachers convention is a splendid dsmon-
ttration Of the spirit that exists in the coun-
~ schools. An esprit de corps has been es-
tahlished that many a. county In a pcpulous
eastern state might envy.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

Governor Lindsey has come oft strongly
for universal military training. It is one
more pledge before the country of New
Mexico's patriotism and approval OF national
preparedness. We are glad tho governor
made it strong. and incidentally pointed
ont that the country has already put the
off too long.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

WE HAVE become so used to the
news, New Mexico Guardsmen I'm
avoidably Detained at Border" that no
n is going to look for the boys until
they get of the train at the Santa Fe
station.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

A Mi-Careme supper dance was given
last night IN the Della Robbia room of
the Hotel Vanderbilt, for the benefrt Of
the New York Diet Kitchen Association.
1t was held under the auspices Of Aux
Hilary No. !, of which Mrs.. Edward M.
Stout is president.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

tLaB Vegas JUurHaI.J
Kansas boasts that she has more auto
mobiles than cook stoves That's moth
ing, says al exchange. New Mexico sta
tistics show that she has more Fords
than washboards.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

ONE OF the first bits of unfinished
business fortthe United States navy will
be- to corral n certain ship and vessel
known to fame Of the Moewe.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

NIGHT AS well get ready for a long
val and il it's short well be ~agreeably
disappointed.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

(From the New York WORLDLY
Young = was1tg . nice furnishef
room wiisre he esn practisel I1nsliaht be-
tween Seventh and Fortieth streets;
state full particulars; no other r0omers.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29
Primitive People and
The Food Question

(From the SpringneId Republican,
II is interesting to see people here and in
tho war-ridden countries learning from sci.
entists elementary facts in regard to food
and nutrition which their forefathers
learned IN the hard school of experience.
Men a. science sometimes overlook the fact
that life itself l. 4, laboratory where impor-
tart ara soratimas terr,ble experiments are
ha;rr r,ada wbey, neon,e have mora than
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

MEN LAUGH at m for the ap-
parently curious effects they achieve in
dress, but the same men will decorate
themselves all over with colored badges,
tin horns and feathers and join a booster
trip, says the Deming Headlight. Well,
isn't that what put Deming in the spot
light? Waddya ean laugh?
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

THE FULL name. of the monk, it ap'
pears, was Rasputin Hisoar.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

THE NEW game warden will raise
Kahn with the law violators.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

SOMEBODY FROM Albuquerque
probably brought up all that wind that's
been blowing round here.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

BUT YOU can take it from us, we are
sincere when we express our gratifca-
tion that it Is only temporary.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

VISITORS TO Indiana will probably
ask for accommodations in the cyclone
cellar.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

THE Ell PASO Pep, Push and Prog
ress'' excursion was badly in the hole on
Sunday.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

THE TURK is wildly but vainly Yell
ing whoa to that British general.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

FRENCH MAY snatch all the wash
off the Won Hindenburg line.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

TIT TROUBLE with that retreating
German army Is that the brakes won't
work. NH
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29
apo Won approve Of votes for women d

do you approve Of votes for women IN
your district I.
yes, replied Senator Sorghum.
"On what. ~grounds?"
Because they are mighty likely to get
the vote whether I approve of il or not; and
I'd like them to- think as kindly Of me as
possible Star.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

a smart guy in an auction room
thouGht it time " 80 home, and u the
a~ucticneer raised his hammer and said:
Going! going! Will anybody bid any
more?" he shouted:
II will bid more.
what WILL you bid?" asked the man
with the hammer.
II will bid You good night answered
the smart guy.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

KEEP COOL, says the New York
Herald, the Germans can't attack New
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

THE POSSIBILITY being that the
Germans can't stop because they've lost
the stopper.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

AFTER ALL it's Holy Russia that
those moujiks always fight for.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

York. Meanwhile We suggest the navy
send q few battleships to the Mexican
border.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

THE CHICAGO diplomat will Crane
his neck to see what's going on in
Russia.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

YOU CAN get used to anything. The
French troops on the march insist on
resting In she'll craters because they re-
mind them of their dear home-like
trenches.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

LET'S DON'T get the idea, either,
that we did all the relief IN Belgium.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29
PLANT A POTATO.

SUGGESTION-Let the Car and the
Kaiser make it a little party of two
picking flowers in the Crimea.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

PLANT an onion.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

COLONEL HOUSE being otherwise on
gagged,
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

THIRTY-SEVEN trawlers, eighteen
skiffs, two johnboats, and a couple Of
RATS have been sunk by the Germans in
the past few days.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

THE LID must be coming off when
you can denounce the Kaiser in the
Reichstag.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29

NOW, EVERYBODY join hands and
let's keep no politics in the city schools.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-29
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