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The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-03-06

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Knowing what be- nnW known "i
the cost INA men and treasure IL ina
momcnt in August. 1914. were % como,
tolny Great Britain would du Just
what she ala then would enter tue
war to defend The sacred treal''r ''
! which she had pledged her honor.
SO sacrifice would DEE too great '"'
thi. ,uuutr, ur Tor America, q" n'"N'
liberty safe ia the world. he on-w'ft'
Tho archbishop uf York paid 'l'"u''
90 the high idoailsm which ouFht tue
! United States iHtu the conflict.
What brought us into this war "'
asked. IT Was Helgium We never
stopped tu calculate what the ''7,
would be-. We realized that honor ana
idut, made essential the kccrinE "l owl
national faith. ", may not always az
20 people. bc right, nut wc are i l"''
| pcnulr and tho word Of AN Enrli~h''""
- his bone
There has is-u a strain "h '"'
| nerves ho addict that tvH- mo-
than We wish Go tly aud thls H""'l'
wa relieved far more than sou
well brIiey, ny the knowl"dHr ""','
| phc,rrd u- beyond words mat '"'
| United States had entered the Wnr
our IntrN Wns DcIihcini'.
your entry into the war We
/ zulkmuN different from ours o."
continued, "a was deliberate. u "''
| based upon conviction md pl'h' NV
We English hud no concern
| SOME of your internal diiicreno'N ~
| though we had received conilrllnR IT,
ports or what were the sympa'hl'N ~
America. ", had uualterhbl" re'",,'
ia the ideals of Your prcsid'l"
felt that he was educating the N",
can people to % realization OF '"'
Ideals and THAI 40 the proper
he would bring your nation NV"
conflict "a determined cnnNth''a '"
unuited people a..
81 believe that hut one end col '"
war is pnssihl, and that there mas "''',
/ horn INTO life new hoIsa f'l'' 49,
| froeuom are bound 10 comc Co the WI
ring umtiuus Of the world. Ih' "'
| idcalism ct America b. certain 'n ''"
20 an ultimate Nictury which WI /,
suit In a. concert 81 nations IN ""''
the penon of the world Shau "' ~
lcurcd'
Ambassador Jus~crupd @'lo "''
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the men any more. swatty lifted his
head and crawled up the embankment
and looked. wouldn't have done 1t
for million billion quadrillion dollars.
weren't thinking Of us. but were all
looking at the dead man on the door
and going away from us down the
railroad track. he scrambled across the
track and down the other side. He
rifle. and then he told me to get up
couldn't get up. SO he Kicked me two
or three times hard. and when he
and forgot to be SO scared and got up.
We ran through the corn field and got
Bony. and the three of us got across
the road and ran UP the hillside into
the woods as hard as we could run.
ran. We ran until we had to fall down
because our legs wouldn't work any
more. We sat In the bushes q while
and rested, and then we went on, but
we walked mostly. We only ran once
didn't know. but 1t went sort Of west :
and we went on down that road a long
way and that night we slept in d hay
stack.not because 1t was cold. but to
De MO. the next morning we went on
mighty hungry. Bony was hungriest,
and he cried a lot. and / cried a little
but Swatty was willing to fight us
whenever we wanted to stop and rest
too long. because 1t wasn't safe yet.
We were a long way from Arizona or
Montana or wherever we were going,
ana II was just about the time the
sherin and everybody would start out
to to hnd us II they thought we were
We just plugged along and felt
mean and tired. and thought about
mother and Mamie Little lot.
Swatty went up to house about
supper time and asked for some bread
and butter. and he got it and brought
part Of 1t to us. Then he made us go
on. because he said we ought to get
as far from that house as we could
after we'd been seen there. 80 we
went until was ready to die, and we
found hayrack in a field and we
were Just going to hide in 1t when
three men on horseback and some in q
buggy. came up the road and saw us
and Shouted at us. go. = r., -
Well, we knew 1T was all up, The
men started to climb over the fence,
and we walked toward them bacause
we knew we couldn't get away, and it
was just as we'll to be hung ais to be
shot trying to run away. f'lc > ~,
When we got up to them one Of the
men was Swatty's father and another
was my minister AS soon as Swatty
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I'd never see her again, even IL he
didn't marry her. Swatty was the
only one that didn't cry a little. He
didn't have to. because he let on to
be mad at us for being mushies, and
he swore instead. He swore at me
and Bony. and could have kept from
crying. too. II 1 could have swore. but
l couldn't, because l gave 1t up when
I got religion.
After we got beyond the houses that
are beyond the city limits we went
across the vacant lots and across the
hill. We got down to the river road
and climbed over the fence and got
under the barb wire fence on the
other side of the road and went
through the corn field. We forgot
about our footprints.
When we got to the edge of the
corn field Bony wouldn't go any far
err the dead man. Swatty and me
crawled under the wires and went
across the railroad track, and before
we were across them we lodged back
into the cut alongside the track; and
Swatty dropped fiat In the weeds. So
! dropped nat. too. The reason was
that there were eight or ten men on
the front deck of the ahanty boat, and
I don't know how many more inside
They had found the man we had
murdered.
We just lay there and held our
breath. 1 couldn't think of anything,
was so scared. again. don't know
what Swatty was doing, and 1 guess
as soon as was able ] started to try
to dig a hole in the railroad embank-
ment with my finger nails, to crawl
into and hide. because that was what
/ was doing when heard the men
come UP the other side of the en-
bankment. ~.
They were coming UP from the
shanty boat. and one of the men was
saying: STEADY now! Keep that door
level. can't your" So couldn't dig
any more. My fingers wouldn't work.
My arms and legs felt as IL they were
full Of cold ice water, and / couldn't
hit up my hands to put my hat on
tighter. which wanted to do because
I could feel my hair lifting up and
lifting my hat up. didn't think
about being hung or anything, but
just how awful.it would be If the men
let the door tip and rolled the muir
dered man down on top of us.
We heard the men carrying the dead
man away. I couldn't move and I
guess I would never have dared to
move again IL 1t hadn't been for
Swatty. AS soon as we couldn't hear
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only had IA cents. We knew that wasn't
nearly enough money. We didn't know
what Bony had, but afterward we dis
covered he only had dime. But Swatty
places we would get to, and we could
take green corn and roast it-only he
would have to take 1t. because had re-
llgiOn.
We thought the best thing to do
would be to start out Of our back gate
until we came to Montana or New
mexico. or wherever we, got to. only
we had to get the rife Arst, because
II we left 1t. It would be evidence
against US, and. anyway. we might
KIN some game with 1t; We had 1t all
then Bony came over the back fence.
and we told 1t all over again. We
didn't think he would go with us. but
he said he would.
: So s,,, we s, talked It all over. and i !
talked anything over. Most times we
Just talked about running away. but
this time 1t was mighty serious
thing. and we meant It. Other times
when we talked we were afraid to
run away. but this time we were
afraid not to.
1t was almost noon when we got
ready to go, and just as we were 60
ing mother saw US and called US back.
Son6 dSheu me IL we were gong TO the
woods. and we were, SO I said we
were. and she said we oughtn't to go
without lunch. SO she made us sand
wiches. and we were glad to have
them. said, Goodbye, mother" and
she said, Goodbye, my son." and she
didn't know that maybe 1t was the
last time she'd ever say 1t to me, but
l knew 1t. because maybe she would
grow old and die before I ever came
back.
Well. we started Off. We didn't talk
much-even Swatty didn't. We went
past his barn, and he went in to say
goodbye to his dog. but we didn't
dare take him along. because some-
body might know US by him, so he
whined and cried when we went
away. We didn't say anything much
until we got to the city limits and
then Swatty said: well, anyway,
now the, town police can't touch us.
because we are out Of town, and they
can't touch anybody out Of town." and
Bony began to cry.
II 1t hadn't been for being hung I
would have gone back. and would
have told the minister all about kill
Ing the man, because kept thinking
about Mamie Little and that some
other boy would play with her and
grow up and marry her, and maybe
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mako 1t lie. and all he could do was
lick me. anyway. hut he didn't lick
me. because he thought, maybe, did
have malaria. because I'd got religion.
l guess that was what hhe thought
SO Mr Higgins said: Never mind.
dollar" SO father paid him and
said he would take II out of my al
lowance; but he hardly ever paid me
my allowance, anyway, no that was
all right: He just gave me an allow
ance SO he could say he wouldn't pay
II to me. 1 guess. Anyway, we went
Well. I stayed awake for hours.
thinking about the murder and what
we had better do about 1t, but maybe
II N was only few minutes and the next
the side yard until i come down, "
~ M annth,n ne =. sag. have you thought
! hadn't thought of anything except
and tell him all about it. So Swatty
said II did he would knock my head
on. and ! knew he would, II he could.
.b"Wsil, have you thought of anything.
So he told me. he had sat up all
night thinking about 1t. He said he
had paced the floor with his hands
behind him and his brow knotted in
tnOu6nt throughout the still hours OF
the night until cock-crow. I thought
he was lying. but / didn't tell him so.
told him ! went to sleep, and told
him about Bony and Mr.. Higgins.
told him about the rife we had left on
the rocks. He said that complicated
matters, but we would have to make
the best Of It,
Then he showed me the braided
horsehair bride he had in his pocket
that his uncle had brought back from
Texas and the wooden tobacco pipe
he had In the other pocket He said
we might have gone to Texas. only
somebody in Texas might recognize
the bride and know 1t was the one his
uncle had had, and then known him
and connect him up with the. murder
In the shanty SO We would go TO Mon
tana or maybe New Mexico. He WASH t
sure which we would go to, but that
1t would be better to start right away.
Well. didn't like to leave home and
never come back until / was big man
with beard and the murder was for
fotten about, but 1t seemed the only
thing to do, I talked and Swatty talk
ed. and 1t seemed the only way we could
keep from being hung. because muir
der will out" 1t says in Our reader. I
had only 25 cents that ! hadn't paid
Mr.. Higgins for the skin, and Swatty
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got there his father took him BY thf
collar OF his coat and shook him and
hit him on the side Of the head and
told him what he thought of him fof
trouble; but when he let go Of him
Swatty Just dropped down on the
grass and shut his eyes. because he
was so played out that all he had to
scious SO Bcny started to cry I and
the minister. said 'Shame!"! and then
Swatty's father got red in the face:
and dropped on his knees beside Swat
~ and picked him up and kissed him.
saw man cry. =. .f.-'
So then I guessed I'd confess the
whole thing to my minister, and did.
The other men were all trying to get
Swatty to open his eyes. and my min-
lister listened to me. He listened to all
81 Tha lE "a about the murder and all.
and he said: you poor. boyi And YOU
thought ! was hunting you DOWN..
And I said: How long win it be be-
fore they hang usY" And he said;
George; hope you will never be
hung; because that man wasn't muir.
2 letter about It before he went to do
H." started to say how glad was.
ana when l come to, i was at farm
house and my. minister was trying to
DIV Ahc " oAiHh bOiuc ulllh. L.
So after while we went home. Father
wasn't there, because he was out with
some other folks hunting for us, but
mother and Fan and lot Of people
were, and my minister told them all
about 1t. and the women all cried to
think Of us three all alone with a
murder on our minds and our. legs
tired, i guess, and not much to eat.
But was SO tired didn't care who
was, there. was SO tired i wasn't
even glad wasn't murderer. Then
somebody came out from behind the
women. where she had been, where
they Wouldn't notice, her much, and
s Che didn't ii,sa LEX at me or at anybody:
well. I guess I'll 60 homo now" ),
why, Mamie Little. have you been
waiting up all this whtle?" my. mother
said. You should be in bed, child"
So she didn't look at me; and 7
didn't look at her. She just went home:
But then knew was glad / wasn't
murderer. Because + knew that
Mamie Little wouldn't have thought
II got religion very good II alt I'd got
let me go around numbering men in
shanty boats. And i didn't want Mamie
Little to think that, about me because
well. I don't care II you do know it
she's my girl. -. ~, !. M I
Copyright. 1918. BY Mcclure syndicat,,l
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thing to add to the comfort health
ana even the lives of our men.
:. my reputation and possibly my.
career as an officer in the ARMY would
70 70 a. Isaac sake Also. there was no time
causnt IN this. as in some other ways,
NOT fully prepared when we entered
the war. There had been plenty Of
experiments of rolling kitchens and
tae results had been an unsatisfac-
tory apparatus. 49, 60, =.
To sum 1t up concluded the in.
ventor OF this great boon to Ameri-
can soldiers, while, as I said before
our rolling kitchen is not the ideal.
II is delivering the goods. And / am
sure that there have been few days
than the day when we were able to
cook good hot meal on the first roll
Ing kitchen that reached the Aneri.
can G: H. Q. The commander in CHIEF
himself, with most Of his stan at
tached to Headquarters, came round II
emily, enjoyed It," =; 4
TO go with this interesting story OF
the genesis of an apparatus which
concerns SO intimately every Ameri-
can combatant In France (your son.
madam, and yours, old scout) I re-
quested a photograph. \, as,'
vtI u X -
The Signal Corps has just taken
snapshots of rolling kitchens, steam
ing in operation. among cooks and
star boarders. at the very front Of
open battle-a wrecked farm court
yard, captured an hour previously and.
awaiting the new shelling of q coun-
ter attack. Y.
The rolling kitchens had gone up in
the razzle of 1t, The men were
agog with admiration and delight.
The cooks were handing out corned
beef hash and hot apple tarts to hus-
kies In their steel helmets, who
strolled about discussed the, battle
excitedly. and came back for more
tarts with powdered sugar-the brave
boys! At any moment the cooks
themselves might have to don their
own steel helmets and hastily drag
the rolling kitchens to the. nearest
possible shelter, always. in fact, prob.
shelter the hot pie and coffee
first" has become n watchword Of the
very forefront fighters. f >.
~ ~ STERLING HELLO. !,
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Perverse Arts. Z

CAPT. ARCHIE FREEMAN, the Los
Angeles sportsman who is now
teaching machine gunnery to Ameris
can aviators in France. said one day
to machine gun class: =
Don't be discouraged, boys, IL your
bursts are all misses. at first. The ma
chine gun is perverse thing, and to-
learn 1t Is like learning to automo,
bile and to golf.
1T took me several years to mas.
ter those arts. and while learning to
automobile I hit everything, whereas.
"hiie learning to golf, hit nothingW
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Clean Hands.

"C'LEAN hands," said Senator Sims
MONS In Red Cross appeal.
THE allies have clean hands in this
war, while the Germans hands-and
well they know it-are dirty.
THE Germans lies prove to me that
the Germans are in exactly the same
frame of mind as the rich litigant.
This chaps lawyer wired him at
the end Of an important case:
Right has triumphed.
The rich litigant wired back:
Appeal at once"
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Rolling Kitchens Follow the Tide Of Battle

Special Correspondence OF The Star,
Somewhere in France. August /, 1918.
F YOU ask our. soldiers in France
what Is the greatest invention
OF the war. some might say gas
masks, some wireless telegraph
to aeroplanes. some the Carrel-
Dakin fluid: but the more ju-
dicious. who know that fighting
means feeding, would vote for the
rolling kitchens of tho American
Army.
They are a new invention for this
war. and certainly one Of its very
greatest novelties.
They are cooking ranges on two
wheels. and hot meals are prepared
in them while moving. never stop
ping They can go wherever two
wheels can take them over war
wrecked land. by tractor, mule or
man power. and they actually deliver
hot meals to the most advanced lines
in all the changes and chances Of the
war of movement as distinguished
from trench warfare.
Tho man who made it possible for
lieutenant colonel In France.
So, here Is the story.
At Washington, just before the first
American troops crossed, Capt John
s. Chambers Gas he then ranked).
regular army man from the
the mountains Of Kentucky, was on
duty lat the quartermaster generals
office. and there he drew up the speci-
fications, in q considerable emer-
gency.
The Army had, for years. been ex-
perimenting with various types Of
rolling kitchens. Now. the emer-
gency came when there was no more
time for experiment and satisfac-
tory type had not been produced.
The general specifications were
drawn up as follows:
The new rolling kitchen must cook
on the march. on the halt and Under
any and all weather conditions. 1t
must havo sufficient capacity to &C
commodate at least ESQ men with
three good meals per day, and not be
the timber type, with the flreless
cooker apparatus detachable from the
main cooker, 40 that 1t can be taken
up to the very foremost combating
lines and punches of men with its
food kept hot until 1t reaches them.
It must burn any sort Of fuel. oil,
wood. coal. charcoal. peat. trash or
anything that can be procured. 1t
must be heavy enough to stand the
wear and tear of the war of move
mont, yet not be so heavy and cum
berson that two mules cannot haul 1t.
1t must use standard escort wagon
wheels and running gear. so that II
It he necessary to replace part 1t
will not require a special model, but
permit the borrowing of wheel.
tongue, brake-block or whatever be
needed from any ordinary wagon
train.
Two American manufacturers were
able to meet these conditions and the.
orders were placed by the quarter
master general without ever seeing
the model, merely upon the drawings
and specifications submitted by them.
They were placed on their honor to
produce the article according to their
proposals, and even the price was not
mentioned, since at that time nobody
could determine what the cost would
be.
have just met Lieut. Col. Chambers
in France-in the midst of things.
Reluctant, at first like all his brotherN
officers, to answer questions. he was
finally induced by certain of them to
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speak of the rolling kitchens as they
work in battle.
I'VE have of course, made some
slight alterations" he said, "due to
service conditions and the natural
a new article, but the one fact of
which we are proudest is this: We
have been able to provide a kitchen
that does the business and, although
not perfect, 1t is sufficient evidence Of
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every angle. had been told that the
matter was entirely in my hands and
that l was responsible for producing
1t. We had been called on to supply
this. quite new cooker for the troops
in France and I knew that IL we ar
rived at successful model we could
ask no further reward than the feel
Ing that we had been able to do some.
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its success to point out that of the
hundreds of thousands Of American
soldiers over here, whose meals have
been prepared and carried on these
kitchens. none have had to go hungry
for a hot meal.
X
II knew that whatever article we
produced would be criticised from
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-07-24
kegociaaiones interVe-id as
tViene de Ia Pag a.

dos Unidos Y en- Mexico.
Una muy considerable porcion de
los socios de las citadas ~poderosas
companies. ~tienen, a su vez, grandes
intereses invertidcs en- varias de las
empresas mineras e industriales de
Mexico, y constituyen IN trust que
negocia con productos que en- Ia &C
tualidad Sc necesitan para usos de
la guerra, como metales, acero, COM
bustible Y otros productos considera-
dos como contrabando de guerra por
les paises beligerantes.
Entire las companies cue en- Nc
xico Sc italian establecidas Y que tie
nen conexiGn mas o mcncs directa
con las empresas cuyos negocios aca-
ba de intervenir el gobierao amer!-
cano, Sc cuentan la Compania lie Pc
noles. la Compania de Minerales Y
Metales, IA Compania MetalGrgica de
Torre6n, Ia Compania Carbonifera de
la Agujita, Coah., y otras Varias.
FL gcbierno nombro IN c~onsejo de
Administration tornado por ciuda-
danes americanos, para cue Sc en-
argue de Ia direction de los nego-
clos de las cmpresas intervenidas, y
estas ccntinuaran srs negocios en-
las mismas condolences en- que 10 We
Man hacienda.
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COAPL0T ALEaAN
Viene dc Ia 1a.)

Ell arresto vino a desc2brir IN vas
TO conplot fraguado por los alema-
mes para invadir Canada y Mexico,
por todos los ~reservistaS alemanes
radicados ell los Estados UnidoS y
los cuales suman varios cientos de
miles.
La dana arrestada Confeso, al ser
requerida para que hjciera declara-
clones, haber estadu compl;cada di-
rectamente en- ell conplot fraguado
con tai propoSiro. Y proporciono ? los
agentes federaleS los siguienteS in
formes que sen de verdad de gran
importancia ' que demGeStran que
el cornplct era de mCy v&stas pro-
porciones-
Ell plan que Sc tenia preparado
-dijo Ia DANA arrestada-era Ell de
invadir Quebec y otros pUntos del
Canada, aprovechando como princi-
pal centric para Ia invasion Ia ciudad
de Buffalo. FL objeto de mandar los
~reservistas al Canada era Ell de obi
gar a las autoridadeS caEadienseS 4
mantener en- Ell pals todas las fuer-
zas armadas cue estabGn sie2do pre-
paradss para enviarSe al frente Oc-
cidental.
0tra pa-te importante del plan
era ell de enviar. no enc de Glen
30 cincuenta nil reserviStas aiema-
mes a Mexico, Y de reclutar & toGos
los m~exicanos enemigos de los Esta-
dos Unidos, con e. objeto de iniciar
IN movimienso On Ia frontcra que
ecasicnara se~iGs 6ificultades entire
Mexico V los Estados UnidoS-
Sc dice que Ia de5ailada Informs
cion proporcionsda por Ia mujel
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EUGENIO LOPEZ FUE
Uienc de Ia la.)

Al giiero Lazaro, Sc le Sentencio
a sufrir la pena &c muecte, tras de
IN brevc interrogatorio, Y como inter
cediera por I'll sucrte un CAPTAIN ca
rraacista llamado T. R-S6ndez. tam
bian de Reynosa y amigo De L&zaro,
estuvo Z purto de sufr.r Ia mtsma
pena.
Otra noticia cue no carece DE- i'm
portancia, trausmit.da de "a frontera,
es la dc que un grupo de hombr's
armados sali6 de Matamoros para
ell campo de IA rebellion, con :! p-2-
pdsito H. unir5e al general Luis Ca
baIlero.
Segun 10 r5fie-cn las nol:clas r.
cibidas, ell rcferiGo grupo 10 forma-
ban doce hom0rcs y estaba enca-
hezado por Pelayo Quintana, hen
conocido On Matamoros y POI dos
hcrmanos de Eugcnio Lopez, uno De
los cuales ~pe-tenec!a a! ejerc!to ca
r~2nciSta.
Los rcferidos revo!ucionar;os apro-
vecharon. para abandonar c! p2erto
de- Matamoros n son de guerra, Ia
circunstancja de haber salito de d.
cho puerto para Reynosa, 81 coroneI
Tirso Gonzalez, con n parte de sus
fucrzas. Cuando Gonzalez regre:6 a
MatamoroS, Sc cncontro coEQue Pc
layo y los dos hcrmanos Lopez, asi
como otros matamorense5, sc h@Ji%n
s~ub,evado.