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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
Dagger and Bomb
Come Into Play

In 1875 the social propaganda began
to veer around; peaceful measures
were being replaced by daggers and
bombs. Vera belonged to q whole line
age Of warriors. She had q combative
spirit. Moreover, she did not believe
that the people would help; there was
nothing left but TO fell autocracy and
save Russia. She was the true daugh-
ter of that Rostopchine who. in 1912,
gave the order 10 burn Moscow at Ma
poleon's approach. and himself burne
his beautiful residence, on the out
skirts of the town, rather than see it
defled by the invaders presence. az
have nothing more to sacrifice" Vera
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
Never Permitted
To Live Nationally

To large extent It may be explained
by the old feeling of fear. and also by
the habit of cohesion. But even this
would account for it temporarily only
and locally.
There is a deeper cause and a more
tragic one.
The Jews Of the old country, hound
ed and starved, had little opportunity
to live there the life of their nation.
damned and cramped and forced into
pitiless struggle for existence against
each other, they could not discern in
the individual misery and wretched-
ness of their own the whole Of the
tragedy of the race.
Only when all the horrors of re-
ligious, political and economic persecu-
ton were behind them in America they
found themselves in a position Per
haps for the first time in history since
the loss of their ancient home-where
they could not only feel, sympathize
or suffer, but also live the actual life
Of the race, breathe its hopes and
dream its dreams.
To live with those and for those
who are still in the misery and pain
of the Old World and who are strug-
Cling to escape it and have not the
means.
1t is this suffering Of the race, the
wretchedness, the helplessness Of the
Jews all over the world. the constantly
lurking danger of anti-Semitism and
hatred from everywhere, the strong
mandate of the Jewish God and tradi--
ton not to abandon, but to keep up and
stand by their own flesh and blood, that
brought the Jews unconsciously TO the
consciousness of the necessity Of re-
naming a compact mass; unity, TO
perpetuate and preserve the scattered
parts of the race.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
New York Still Playing at War
By Lady Mary

was being done every hour of the day
by millions Of other men who had not
had the luck 10 be wounded and put
out of active service on any of the
battle fronts? A brave man certainly,
that vivid, humorous speaker, but 4
could name a hundred men in my own
knowledge who are not less brave.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
What "a State of War" Means

These are just the ramblings and
rawlings of a rather bewildered brain,
so don't take me too seriously, beg.
Remember | come from a city where
the shrilling of whistle through the
night-ridden streets means the signai
for an air raid and the prelude to a
deafening barrage from our protecting
guns which vomt shrapne. into the
air and thuSkeep at a respectful dis
lance the foe whose whirring air-ma-
chimes make the heavens abominably
noisome.
And then here in this land of plenty
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
German Socialists
Aware of Hopelessness

If we pass from America to Germany
itself, we find that the German Social
lists are fully aware of the utter hope
lessness of a revolution in that country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
By /: f. Miller
Editor Of a Pro-Ameriean weekly on
the East Side

the East Side
Wv 7HO does not remember the grew
~ some stories of the uprisings
W in India. when Hindus threw
their bodies against the mouths OF Eng
,isb cannon to stop their shots? Mad
,rerip "Barbarians!" we think OF them
IN discussing thei< action.
prt bereath and beyond our WORDS
Il tboughts there is vague con
80 that not all men are capaDle
80 sTch insanity; that the ordinary hu-
Nc, Claw does not give the type OF such
..iarborians and madmen' whose IN
,;rct Of safety does not call nm pacA
when called 10 coHlo"'
"a = YOU watched in the last may;
lie, cempqign the rolling waves OF
Fost side humanity beating against tIe
rocts of necessity and command Lheeu-
ioSli,, historically, challenging tates-
80, r,ov proclaim such attempt 70 stop
~ ,ror as mad and even as grotesque'
Ln, Won will readily concede that there
- boart in it and courage ana laIIh
and unselfshness. .-....,,o
t'' r. US a queer lot. and a picturesque
ono - too too this first batch Of the East
o'J ISy s. thew were. yet very few Of them hem
-. 1ov,ish and none OF them lev
SpoHe Many of them could quote Oy
49, cbanters from Buckles "OlNlll T.
ne"' ~ England" and quite lew
ta,;cors Of that epoch learned ~ ~,
- frst time from these flleIinlS,
~ nones and the works OF AmeIl0" .
,.roat scientists, Draper ana MoIsah;
All of those settlers were "o.Si.,S,
r;ng Vera Pavlovna OF CheT ms I'm
ppoyel "What's To Be Done anu 800 go,
Strort MuPs book on woman sun ..o|s
,rss the reference book on al n fa,r ~
on,ertaiuing to sex. But very .it,'tion
tbPr knew aught of the Cohs.1sui lad
If the United States, sun l w. I'D
bcard about Lincoln's lnaus"L~, IN, a
Jrces and not one OF them 49, ~
,rade or a profession to get S'"i' -
the struggle Of life. A~i.o
Thus thew plunged into america
some of them became vegetaIIaiH4a r ',,u
went West 10 try out the nun .,;Iation
Cult of August Comte-a egii'9 9reoms.
Of physics, agriculture anu toctories
some went 10 work IN tln"a .n 80 70 the
and tailor shops, ana some "0"'
Sn In this courage and in this un; sci s9
IN of the Fast Side, even IN It's a u-
pe1t re Of madness and danger y it9
tbo shirt which imparts to ~ ~
see see 't tSs Sou Soul of the East Side, when
s sou best he conceived in its history
''i Has soul history? Not Of Of t al.
i,d;vidual. not ordinarily; But tng
soul ou Of the East Side has history; ana
II can be grasped only through IT,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
HISTORY will remember the ex-
Gar as Nicholas ii, not as some
- - e -. aColon |

HISTORY will remember the ex-
Gear as Nicholas ii. not as some
papers speak of him, "Colonel
Romanoff." It is as ruthless autocra'
that he should be remembered for all
time; feeble, yet hard. cruel and unre-
lenting in his means Of punishment and
torture.
Not a giant like his sire, Nicholas /.
who possessed at least some redeemlng
qualities. he was a mere tool in the
hands of the merciless inquisitors
whose power was so great and means
so iniquitous that it makes US shudder
when the curtain, red with the blood
of victims, for an instant sways and
allows us to look through one OF It's
rents. Their world was that Of dark
ness, full of prisons. fortresses and
wild wastes of human anguish.
With truth Nicholas III might have
said as Rehoboam did to Jeroboam:
my father chastised you with whips,
but will chastise you with scorpions
No cruelty was spared to those who
dreamed Of happiness for others.
Neither social position nor youth
availed. There had been wholesale
trials and executions under his grand
father, Alexander III, and his successor,
Alexander III, but there had been
months Of comparative quietude; there
was even found-oh, the pity OF 1t all!
the draft of a constitution on the
Car liberator's writing table. awaiting
his signature, on the morning Of his
assassination. But Nicholas IFS reign
seems one long dark night Of iniquity,
lit up at intervals by wholesale MUIR
Sders, like that of the "Red Sunday"
No influence was of any weight with
the monarch who hid away from his
people, whose nature was callous,
timid, fearful. Thus | judged the man
as Czarevitch when spent several
days under the same roof with him at
Government House, Bombay; thus he
has proved himself to be.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
Spent 20 Years in
Solitary Cell

Still. great influence was not lacking
in the endeavors to relieve Vera Fig
ner from her living tomb in Schlussel-
burg fortress, where she underwent
twenty years solitary confinement.
had met her at the home of my friends,'
the Avramovs, in Petrograd, in 1877,
where they had gone to attend their
functions at court. Well do / remem-
Der the beautiful girl with the thought
full. intellectual face, in which the eyes
shone with all the enthusiasm OF youth
and lofty thoughts.
II was still the time Of social revo-
lutionary propaganda; desperate means
had scarcely been used yet, and | soon
understood that Vera Figner went
"among the people"-a euphemistic ex-
preston used by the social revolution
aries to describe their work of proselyt-
ism Though much younger than she, |
was highly developed already, as girls
soon are in my country. and | well re-
member conversations we had together
on the subject. She had been. as she
told me, living for some considerable
time with peasants in their isbas.
knew Russia we'll and understood
the ordeal she must have undergone,
living in a hut made Of bark, this girl
who was a born aristocrat and accus-
toned from her infancy to every COM
fort and luxury. Wearing the coarse
garb of the moujik's daughter or wife,
Vera Figner had talked to the people,
read to them, distributed tracts and.
above all, tried to rouse them from
their apathy by way Of teaching, ex'
planning to them how unjustly they
were dealt with and the measures they
should take, the means Of revolt.
In the towns she tried to influence
the soldiery. the absolute slaves OF
CARBON. Poor, dear girl, I understand
her so much better now than | did
then. She had idealized the people.
thought Of them, as many of our Gin
tellectusfs" have done, as so many fig
ures in Vatican picture.
We in France who wish to convert
our working women to the vote, and
above all to interest them in their eco
nomic status, experience the same diff
ficulties.
How often have I been told: eve
want money--life is so expensive. Later
on we shall trouble about enfranchise-
ment and the privileges or rights you
talk about"
at is useless" Vera sFigner would
tell me; "as we'll try to stem the tide.
They do not want to be helped. The
world has to be utterly changed for
them to understand. They do not seem
to mind their ignorance and abject
misery"
DAGGER and Bomb
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
Released and
Sent to Siberia

The Cars emissaries found vera
Figner hiding in Kkarkot. Ihey
offered her a constitution for Russis'
She demanded that TchernichsvsV
should be set free as a condition o. th'
party ceasing hostilities. But, once 'h'
Gar was crowned, the former conan
ton was not fulfilled.
Vera Figner was finally betrayed oy
a co-worker in the Peoples VIII. a
certain Degaiev, when arrested and pu.
under torture. sold her 70 Colons'
Soudyehkin. Finally he handed over
this same prosecutor Of the KeV0'u'
tionsries to the Narodnaia Volys iise'h
Degaiev escaped, but his sceompliees'
the two Terrorists who actually nu'
dered Soudyehkin, were thrown INTO US
Schlusselburg fortress, where Vera f'S'
ner was already confined.
Twenty years she remained ts".
And she bore those awful years -
believed she would, il health held 0'N
I often, during her long, solitary coz
fnement, have represented to nyx"
what this noble, heroic woman mus. -
suffering; wondering, also, low VS.
active, undaunted mind would bear ~
continuous strain Of absolute solItuosi
In 1904 Schlusselburg gave back ns
Gle-aged woman, shattered ~ heaIs.
did not even give her back 70 y"
friends. Car Nicholas ii sent hs'
e far-otf village close TO Arehange. i.
What must she have felt IN tns' "a
describable hour when she was '''s
that Russia and she were free!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
London Against New York Women

I feel like a child who. having been
punished, has been kept in dark cup
board for a long time. Then suddenly
she is released and taken into brill
liant room and shown a Christmas tree
full of lights. am bewildered, al.
most weary, with the strangeness o.
everything that | see. Remember that
to us in England the war no longer
evokes a hysterical frenzy Of knitting
and gossip and bszaars. We have passed
that stage. II is just stern, slogging
determination that carries US along
that road that must have only one goal
in sight.
1t is there that ali the light is con-
centrated. II is only when We arrive
there that we will allow ourselves to
expend oil those pent-up emotions
with which our hearts and brains are
stuffed.
Hero In New York, this gorgeous. vast.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
Pilgrim Fathers
OF the Jewry Arrive

7, Tho earlv sos dirty, rick
etv little liner Of transatlantic Hei
man packetboat company landed IN
The old Castle Garden several scores
of Jewish immigrants-all tugltll,v,e:s
from, the first Russian pogroms' ms
lttle boat was the Mayfiower OF tne
Ghetto These Jewish immigrants % We.
he "Pilrrim Fathers" of the East SIDE
No,, York was no wilderness at thaI
tin,ei We had all the regulation attrl,
bntcs NJ q properly established clvillzed
communitv. including even politiclahs
and qrafters. And our Jewish pilgrims
49, certainly not the first pioneers
when thew came, they were met ny
The Iews who had settled here long,
long before them. A..
hut they were the pioneers OF the
Fast Side. As far as they were con
.e~ned thew felt themselves IN desert
Not only the Gentiles but also the
Jews they found here were utter
strangers. strangers in. language;
etrangers in dress, in customs; strahg-
ors in feelings and thought, strangers
in aims and objects Of life; ana, aDove
all, strangers in their conception ol
Americas destiny and mems du'g i'll
the path Of its destiny. t..o
Al that time immigration was free
and unrestricted; a time wnen VheIo
we've no barriers 20 immigration no
qualifications required Of immigrants
Css+ie Garden. where the ocean steam
ors were unloading their human cargo
from abroad, designed for a FORT oull'
like circus and employed as me-
diuno 20 give the new arrivals the hrs'
baptism of Americenism, was an en-
tirelv different institution, standing
no comparison with the present Ellis
Island.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
r oNDoN seems q distant, dim,
i dream city. A place of ominouS

III
dream city. A place of ominou'
fears borne with brave CON-
posure. A city of nights unlighted
save by a moon that brings with 1t
horrid fluttering shapes that drop grim
burdens on spots that are "of no mill
tary Importance" but which often
house and home women and old men,
children and defenceless creatures.
And now / sit at my ease amid light and
luxury; in a city truly Of colossal
splendor.
To eyes worn with the WEAKNESS OF
constant watching and waiting all this
glitter and glory seem strange. Dur
ing that eventful voyage from Liver
pool, upon which l embarked few
short weeks ago, still heard and felt
the echoes and the stress of war
The way was made easy for US, and
I don't think any one on board our
westbound ship felt nervous or
anxious. but, still, war was on the
waters and in the air.
Little children with life-belts strapped
round their dimpled bodies played on
the decks. Women paced vigorously or
sat comfortably in the sunshine OF the
golden salt-scented days; they wore
life-belts, also, but did not seem to
see or feel in them the grim reminder
of what might come to US all.
We ate and slept and laughed the
DAYS and nights away, and the war was
slipping away from US as we pressed
our way against the waters toward the
Western world. .,
Our last touch Of the "old country "
Of death and destruction, passed from
US one night, and we woke to the dawn
of a fair day without the low graz
shapes of torpedo boat destroyers keep
ing pace with US through the water
ways. -,
And so goodby old England and the
Kings Navel"
Then came some marvellous noonlit
nights along the st. Lawrence, with tn"
northern lights looking as II all the
stars in the heavens had been scratched
by giant fingers and were shedding
their light through the skies like drip
ping translucent silver. All this light
from natural causes; and 20 meet II
sprang electric lights from the shorel
Fairyland indeed seemed all this glisten
and glitter to eyes that for close on
three years have seen only dimmed.
duled streets, trackless wastes Of
gloom!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18

has proved
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1917-06-28
HETTER FARMING PAYS.

County Agricultural Agent Peterson
says that visit to the different wheat
fields in Curry county will give some
good lessons in farming. He says he
has noticed numbers Of instances
where the yield Of wheat under the
same planting conditions and rainfall
will make different yield. This he
attributes to the different ways In
which the soil Is prepared. lie cites
one particular instance on the piarr
NJ X. Humphries. east Of town. Mr..
Humphrics has two pieces Of wheat
that were planted in the same tract
of land. One field Is on ground that
had row crop on 1t last year and the
soil was well prepared. The other was
planted on stubblp after the soil had
merely been disced up. Mr.. Peterson
says that the well prepared land will
make II bushels Of wheat per acre
and the other may possibly not make
over five or six. Mr.. Peterson points
this out as an unanswerable argument
for better farming.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1917-06-28
CLOVIS NATIONAL TO
BUILD NEW HOME

r,, ,,,,t., N.,,..i p.,. , ,
""''''" '''' INV 'o'''''"'''o" VI
new OaiR building VIII begin soon on
the lots on the corner opposite the
Southwestern Drug Go. The p;nns for
the new building baye inst been com.
pleted nv ]. Mertz Glover. architect
WIN recently located IN Clovis Tho
building will be 5OysO feet 30ysO feet
will be occupied nv the hank buildiny
proper. and odincent will he erected
N s,or. hui,J,,, oox M foo, Tho hr;,d
ing vii, be moderp IN evory n.rt;cu,,r p
and will no DESIGNED esneci,,lv for the
use Of the hank II win be one story
with basement and will be construct.
cd ~ IN. hest grade of m.t hricl with
tbc inside walls of hollow cloy t,,o
the portitions ,,so h.ipy construc,ed
of the file There win In some specio,
fenmres Il, the hui,diny tim, win max.
/, unite distinctive A bolconv wn,
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1917-06-28
HARVESTING WHEAT.

The last of this week the harvesting
of wheat will be In full sway
The yield will m from 10 to ~ bush.
els per acre which is remarkable con.
sidering the rainfall during the past
wear II is hard to estimate just how
much wheat win be produced IN the
county. but one thing Is certain, the
crop is going to bring quite an amount
Of ready money into trade channels as
the farmer will sell the grain for II
higher price than he ever has at thresh.
Ing time.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1917-06-28
REGULATIONS FOR DRAFT
ARE NOW READY

Washington, u, t., June -. -Itegula-
tions for drafting the new national
army now awaiting President Wilson'S
approval, coutaiu provision for every
step IN tue great undertaking except
the actual methOd of the draft itself.
No official announcement has been
made and official confirmation is being
withheld. but II has been stated that
the federal government itself will do
the drafting, probably In Washington,
so there will be no opportunity for local
favortism, political or otherwise.
As the regulations stand now, every
registered man bears II number, The
numbers will bc forwarded 70 Wash
ingt0n and drawing will he entirely
by number. The identity Of the mum
bered man will he unknown to those in
charge Of the draft machinery and can
be established only by comparing a
number with printed list Of the mans
home district.
The questions Of exemptions will &c
before the local boards. II a man Is
exempted the man bearing the number
which was drawn next In order will
take his place, and so on until the first
increment Of 625,O00 has been Assem-.
bled. The others will be called as the
need develops. II Is hoped to have all
the men IN training by Sept. I.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1917-06-28
JUNGLE SANS SOLDIER
BOYS ARE NOW IN FRANCE

The Thursday morning papers con
tain the announcement that U. \.
troops are now On the French soil aud
are prepared to fight side by side with
the French and the English In lick.
ing the Kaiser. Since the announce
ment that General Pershing had
reached France It has been known
that our troops would soon be there,
hut the voluntary press censorship has
kept the public from knowing when
the troops left the United States.
The American forces will be- n net
gain IL the allies. II will throw no
single burden Of supply or equipment
upon them. The troops will be fed
clothed. armed and equipped by the
United States. Around them at the
camp on French soil now are being
stored supplies that will last for
months.
Considering the distance to bc GOV
cred and the fact that all preparations
had To be- made after the order came
from the White House the night Of
May Is. II is practically certain that
never before has II military expedition
of the Size Of the first U. y. contingent
been assembled. conveyed and landed
without mishap IN ~ short time by
any nation. II is u good angury ~
future achievements The only rival
in magnitude is the movement Of Brit.
ish troips to South Africa In the Boer
war. and that was made over seas that
were unhampered by submarines
mines nr other obstacles.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1917-06-28
CURRY COUNTY NORMAL
BEGINS NEXT MONDAY

The Curry County normal will com
mrncr next Monday and will last for
two weeks. II is expected that h..
tween eighty and ninety teachers will
1" in attendance. T.. W. Bowycr will
conduct the normal and other teachers
will hc &. W. Mnttingcr Of Roswell aud
Mrs. Florence Bartlett of Santa Fc
state Superintendent ]. II. Wagner
will he here and address the teachers
ai some ie during the term. rs will
alsa Sir>. Ruth Miller of Santa Fc
state Director Of Industrial Educn-
tion.
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1917-06-28
COUNTY EXEMPTION BOARDS
ARE NAMED BY PRESIDENT

President Wilson has appointed the
members Of the county drafting boards
In New Mexico to carry out the Sc
lective service law The members Of
these boards will sit as the first Judi
cinl body to puss on applications for
exemptions from the selective draft,
In great majority Of cases the pee
sonnel Of the boards shows that Pres.
iient Wilson followed the suggestions
Of army Officers, that city and county
officials e. utilized The president,
however had asked the governors OF
the various states to nominate candi.
dates for the boards, aud Il may be
assumed that the boards as announced
have the approval Of not only the
president but Of the state executives.
In Curry county the board will abe
composed Of Sheriff ID. l.. MOye, Coun-
ty Clerk W. G. Zerwer, and DIR. ], b.
westerfield. The rules governing ex-
emptions have not been issued, but
will be soon. so the work of selecting
the army may be begun next week,
The Clovis news. [volume] (Clovis, N.M.) 1907-1929, 1917-06-28


What better advertisement can -"
ont from II county than the fact that
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.u .... .,r.,.. g..
IA' A''"I'''V"' '""'''' III ''''''
issue Wlrr ~ 'IoNis ddlr 'iIN gives
some Nod of what l- htln- doI ~.
cHiiunJ'iI iH Wli county
'ENru ''>'ti' '\''"'"'''"N "'
>ciiuo. matter. 100 curry county reveals
tine incf lhHt TINS county Is rapidly aS-
~nmlus u banner position III education
aI affairs ludrr the splendid leader
ship ui Supl j. VI. RlrklrN u record
for .cl""l building ANA consolidation
j. hcu- made that Nnuld hc nara To
>urpa-~
Re otd~ Ia the county "lIir" show
the following buildings either III pro
cr>~ Of construction or lu>l c"ln'lclrd {:
Moro~r. u SECOND building TrNir".
Sl1.md Linr"ln.'' ''laud consolidated hl*.
tricl, Sll0oO: Districts No. ~, ''6 con
Solidalcd, $1,000; St Nrin S1WW :
Clovis high school building SI1Ww.
In practically all eases thc amounts
shown represent the ""S' "I the pare
rdificr The cost of furnishings AMI
equipment will hr met From funds
raised from other sources than tn"
bond issues