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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-04-25

rope and there gone mad after futile
attempts to persuade the great pow
ers to save him.
France" observes Grant. lis the
traditional ally and friend Of the
United States. did not blame France
for her part In the (Mexican) scheme.
That was a scheme of one man. an
imitator without genius or merit He
had succeeded in stealing the govern
ment of his country and made
change In its form against the wishes
and instincts of his people. He tried
to play the part of the first Napoleon
without the ability to sustain that
role"
Forgot Preparedness Lesson.
or continuous preparedness
ITO maintain peace for the future
1t Is necessary to be prepared for war.
There can scarcely be a possible
chance Of a conflict such as the last
one occurring among our own people
again, but growing as we are In pop
ulation, wealth and military power,
we may become the envy of nations
which led us In all these particulars
only a few years ago, and unless we
are prepared for 1t we may be In
danger Of O combined movement being
some day made to crush us out. Now
scarcely 20 years after the war, we
seem to have forgotten the lessons i,
taught"
The excerpts are from Grants con-
Guiding chapter. painfully written al
Mount McGregor within few weeks
of his death.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-04-25

heights beyond the rivers And. even
so, the Germans would not have reach
ed Amiens, which lies farther down
the Somme beyond the junction OF the
streams.
II the geographic conditions Of the
present situation have preponderat-
ing value, we might infer that the al
lies would seek to lead as many Ger
mans as possible into the area south
of the Somme; to allow them to &C
cumulate there large supplies and
many guns; to weaken them as much
as possible; and then to cut them off
.by advances northward from La Fere
and eastward toward Cambria and
Peronne. Such a manoeuver would
!applytothe Germans their favorite
play of the pncers.
Let the French and Americans ad-
vance northward from Noyons and La
lFere toward Ham and St Quentin
Let the British advance past Croisilles
and Bapaume on Cambria. And the
Germans, if they save their army at
all, must lose the larger part of it. So
1t looks to the man on the street.
These geographic suggestions of the
Immediate battlefield are not favorable
to the Germans. In sweeping into the
region south of the Somme they have
Iviolated a military precept, in so far
bax 1of4 ~,
across which II will be difficult to re-
treat. Obviously, they estimate the
lchances of the necessity for retreat
Jas small, or they are led on by an OBJ
could not otherwise be obtained. Some
have thought that objective is Paris,
but to win Paris will defeat neither
France nor Britain. Others suggest
land that the general purpose is mere
ly to break through, to separate the
French and British. and bring about
more open fighting. But larger OBJ
jective may we'll be attributed to the
German high command. To separate
the French and British to take Ami
ens-these are but initial steps in the
larger program. From Amiens the
valley of the Somme offers a broad
highway to the sea, which is distant
but 35 miles in a straight line. The
Germans have advanced 81 miles, and
IL now they can break through the
British defense they may confidently
hope to fight their way to the coast.
The British army would then be shut
hup in low corner of northern France,
surrounded on the east and south by
Germans, on the north and west by
the channel. Thus isolated they might
Ibe driven from the continent and the
Invasion of England might become
possible, even in spite Of the British
navy.
If this suggestion that England Is
,Germany's objective seems far-fetch-
ed, impossible, we need to change our
Nestimate of the purpose that domin-
ates the junker spirit. Weltmacht oder
luntergang (world empire or destruc-
tion) Is no idle boast, and thus far 1t
has been made good throughout east
fern Europe. No graver error could be
made than to under estimate the pur-
pose, the audacity, the intelligence or
the power of the enemy. We must
smatch 1t and overmatch it, Individually
and unitedly, confidently backing Foch,
lHaig and Pershing and the men be-
Yhind them.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-04-25
THE ENGlN EERS.

Who is the man who views the mines
and promptly turns them down?
Who Is the one that thinks this Is the
short cut to renown?
Who is 1t gives the bum advice to the
innocent financier?
The knowledge feigning, theory
straining mining engineer.
Who steals our gold and silver and
copper, zinc and lead?
Who takes the joy all out of life and
strikes our high hopes dead?
Who never wrote a schedule that to
anyone else was clear?
The sulphur belching, miner WEIGH
ing smelter engineer.
Who is the man designs our pumps
with judgment, skill and care?
Who is the man that builds 'em and
who keeps them In repair?
Who has to shut them down because
Tile valve StutS uloupPCStl
The bearing wearing, gearing tearing
mechanical engineer,
Who buys his juice for half a cent
and wants to charge dime?
Who when we've signed the contract
can't deliver half the time?
s,,lr Of OF
cent is nothing queer?
The volt inducing, load-reducing cleo
trical engineer.
Who is it takes transit out to find {
sewer tap?
Who then with care extreme locates
the junction on the map?
Who is it goes to dig 1t UP and find
1t nowhere near?
The mud despatched torn and tat
tered civil engineer
Who thinks without his products W.
would all be in the lurch?
Who has heather idol which III
designates Research?
Who tints the cheeks, perfumes tn,
air, and makes the Landscape
drear?
The stink-evolving, grass dissolvini
chemical engineer.
Who Is the man who'll draw a plar
for everything you desire?
From trans Atlantic liner to hair
pin made of wire?
With "ifs" and "ands," "howe'ers'' ant
butts who" makes his meaning
clear?
The work disdaining, retaining
consulting engineer
Who builds a road for fifty years thai
disappears in two?
Who changes his identity, so no ones
left to sue?
Who covers all the travelled roads
with filthy, oily smear?
The bump providing. rough -on- riding
highway engineer.
Who takes the pleasure out Of life and
makes existence hell?
Who'll fire a real good-looking one
because she can not spell?
Who substitutes dictaphone for cor
al-tinted ear?
The penny chasing, dollar wasting
efficiency engineer.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07

of Mrs. Lindsey, who is here with Governor
Lindsey--he attending the mining congress
and she extending the horizon of the busy
women OF the local War Defense council by
adding to their store the results of her
own experience.
Like other prominent and successful West
ern couples, the Lindseys travelled hand in
hand the way of progress and knowledge.
When w. q, Lindsey was elected COVER.
nor OF New Mexico. Mrs. Lindsey was al
ready chairman Of the legislative commit
Tee of the fei Tation of Women's clubs
and chairman OF the state Woman's War
defense council of New Mexico.
"And | won't give up all the vital actiYi-
ties Of life to become a society leader she
said when facing a new regime. wherein, as
first lady of the state, she was supposed to
set the social pace for all others.
Mrs. Lindsey realized that society as So
ciety is a dead letter and that no woman of
conscience can afford to be identified with
1t to the exclusion of worthier efforts.
Wherefore, on moving into the governors
mansion at Santa Fe, Mrs. Lindsey dedicat-
ed one of the most important rooms as an
office Of the Woman's State War Defense
council, and there'the women from all over
New Mexico gather to do their utmost to
help win the war.
Governor and Mrs. Lindsey have given
two fine sons to the national service.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07
American Gunnery

Yesterdays story from the American
front in France, telling of the damage in.
flicled on the Hun trenches by the Ameri-
can gunners, was to be expected. Americans
are naturally inclined to monkey with guns
They take to guns at an early age. Given a
fair chance Americans can make guns do
more things than anyone else on earth.
They can make them shoot around corners
and describe figure seventeens. They
can tie trajectories up in a sailors knot,
they can put the ball lin bailistics and the
efficient in coefficient. The remarkable
gunnery records made in the navy have
been made because the navy boys had a
better chance to practice. There is NJ
doubt that they will be equallled and more
than equalled by American artillery in this
war just as soon as the U.S. a%rtilleryiien
get warmed up to their work. No one
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07
Albuquerque Has
Smallest Man in
United States Army
albuquerque Herald


James X Elder, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. James
e. Elder of Albuquerque, is attracting con-
siderable attention at Camp Funston, Kan,
where he is stationed as a member Of the
tenth company, 164th depot brigade. Re-
Gently the Kansas City Star printed his pic
ture with the accompanying story:
standards Of measurements in the army
do not include the insides of a man, so when
they show Corporal James Elder to be the
smallest man in the army, it means the
smallest in stature and not by any means
In Importance as a soldier.
Shorty Elder is exactly five feet tall,
and at the time of induction into the ma
tional army weighed ninety-one pounds,
though he is now becoming quite obese,
having put on enough weight on army feed
to tip the scale beam lightly at ninety-five
pounds.
"His entrance into the army was attended
by many doubtful glances from examining
boards. His home is in Albuquerque, N. NJ.
but Shorty is disguised at the whole town
because one of the local draft boards or
dered him out of the line waiting to be
examined, telling him boys were not per-
mitted to go with their fathers through the
examination.
Somehow and In some way they set aside
the size regulations and shipped Shorty up
here along with a bunch of real western men,
hanging from only six feet ON up to six feet
five inches.
THE littlest man in the army has had
hard shedding from the very first. Uncle
Sam didn't figure on such men as Shorty
when the tailors and hatters and manu-
facturers we're given the specifications for
clothing. James kellogg Elder wears a
Is IL hat with a newspaper or two folded
under the sweatband, tailors have revamped
the smallest uniform the quartermaster
could find; and by two insoIes he is able
to get a semblance Of q fit in the army
shoes.
'Shorty's' fame for his smallness spread
rapidly, but it did not reach the attention
Of his company commander, Captain Joseph
H. Buckley, until the drills had reached the
point where the company movements were
practiced. The tenth company lined up
and Captain Buckley put them through the
manual of arms.
Fright shoulder he commanded as the
preparatory order and snapped 'Arms!' Up
to his shoulder went 'Shorty's' rifle.
"tOrder arms came Captain Buckley's
next order and dow to the ground went
'Shorty's' rifle.
Order arm back there in the second
.rank-down with that rifle,' called one of the
'sergeants as he saw 'Shorty's' bayonet still
sticking up above his head. But a second
look showed him that Shorty was not to
blame"
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07

doubts that when furnished with the guns
and equipment and ammunition and a little
practice they will shoot circles around the
Germans, do faster and more accurate and
more effective work. 1t may take them
some time to get on to the curves Of this
unaccustomed work; but they will take to
it like ducks to water and learn faster than
the soldiers of any other country not ex-
cepting Canada.
Sooner or later American artillery is go
ing to deal smashing blows at the Hun.
When it does the moral effect is going to
be powerful, There Is only one argument
that goes with the Prussian and that is to
get a harder blow than he deals. One clean
cut American victory on a sector of the
front however small is going to be i'm
mensely valuable. 1t may not come quickly,
but it will come; and meanwhile it Is the
duty of this government and the people of
the United States to furnish these fighters
with every weapon every bit of equipment
and supplies and every chance that is hui
manly possible to make good. They have
the spirit, the courage, the daring, the
nerve and the brains to make good, to de-
feat the enemy at every turn If they are
backed up to the limit of national %efficien-
cy at home. If Secretary Baker is wrong and
we haven't the ships in sight to keep men
and supplies moving across The Atlantic,
let's get the ships. There is no use to tell
the American people that anything can't be
done in a certain period. The thing is to do
it. There has been too frequent recur-
renee of the word can't in the debates in
the past few weeks.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07
Let the Language
Fit the Mule

Those responsible for the order that no
more profanity is to be used by the mule
dgivors in our army in France, we're doubt
less moved by a. worthy motive, the Ration
Reporter thinks, but like many other worthy
motives, it is more attractive in theory than
in practice. The mule is an American insti-
tuition. There has always been, in connec-
tion with this institution, a peculiar vocabu-
larry that fits no other. The amenities of
polite society are meaningless to his mule
ship. 1t is only when he begins to smell
the sulphur as it drips from the language Of
his driver that the long-eared hybrid wakes
up to the knowledge that there is 'some-
thing doing" and begins to asert himself.
if the report is true and the order is really
in effect, the mule will feel like IN orphan
in a strange land, and if mules can think,
he will call down curses 0 nthe day that he
wandered SO far from home and those
friends who, if not the most polished in
their diction, at least had the merit Of per-
feet lucidity,
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07
The Canadian Way

Major Robert Massie OF the Canadian
forces commanded a battery in the battle
of vimy Ridge, around Passchendaele and
all through that memorable campaign In
Belgium which brought out to such a strik-
ing degree the fighting ability of the men
from Canada, has made a number of talks
in Santa Fe and the community is under
obligations to him for the immense amount
of detailed information he has furnished.
The visit of Major Massie has given people
here a new and lively appreciation of what
the fighting really is in this war. He has
been lavish Of time and effort in answering
questions and brought the war home to
Santa Fe as it never has been before.
The fighting of the Canadians is of par
ticular interest to Americans. They are
our next door ~neighbors and very much the
same kin of fellows. Their dash and
initiative and individuality are more like
that of Americans than of any other nation.
In the fighting in Belgium they were not
bound by British or French methods nor
traditions. They had their own ideas about
how to get the Hun and they got him as he
has never been got before. Major Massie
has merely corrohorated and made more
real the reports which came over the wires
about the Canadian performance at the
Vimy Ridge.
AS we understand it these Canadians did
not go to school to either the French or
English. They practically trained them
selves with the aid of expert information and
instruction which they adapted to their W
ideas. Major Massie's explanations of the
artillery methods followed show that the
Canadians have used something beside nerve
and Drawn; they have tried to think a few
laps ahead of the German and have demon
strated the effectiveness of originality. 1t
is rather generally admitted that neither
British nor French have surpassed the Ca
nadians in getting results largely because
the Canadians have shown themselves in
teRsely practical and have a prediction to-
ward finding shortcuts to the desired end;
that of reducing the number Of live Prus-
slams.
The Canadians are our kind of fighters
and there are none better in actual prac-
tice; why shouldn't we have our men
trained by Canadian veterans? The men
who, like Major Massie, have gone through
the mill, have tried the thing OUT, have sue
c~essfully used the methods toword which
we naturally incline? 1t is no reflection
upon the glorious fighting spirit of the
French nor their methods to say that they
have much that is not adapted to Ameri-
can use; much that our men will have to
unlearn. The American forces have no spir-
it of super-confidence or Dragging nowadays;
they have gone to the other extreme. They
have everything to learn; but they should
not try to become French soldiers. French
methods must be adapted and American
lied. There is much to uphold the belief
that the route to American fighting eff
cheney would be much shorter via Canadian
instruction.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07
Cardinal Gibbons Appeals
For War Thrift Drive

To My Fellow Countrymen:
The door of opportunity to serve our coun-
try is flung wide open for practically every
man, woman and child by the sale Of war
savings samps. This is the most impressive
thing about the movement whcih is being
undertaken by the National War Savings
Committee. There can be few people whose
circumstances will not permit them to buy
at intervals the 25-cent Thrift Stamp, and
with each purchase gain step by step pos
session Of the war savings stamp, for each of
which the credit and resources of the United
States are pledged to return $500 for what
now costs $4.12.
Such a return being produced by the pro-
cess of compound interest carries the lesson
of thrift In a practical and convincing way.
| earnestly commend to young and old and
more particularly to parents, this simple and
easy method Of acquiring the habit of thrift.
Many sorrows are avoided and much hap
piness is to be gained by the timely appIica-
ton of the principles of thrift. To the build
ing of character it brings profitable ac-
quaintance with self-denial and self-reliance.
It is a valuable aid to good citizenship and
a blessing that once properly grounded is
- ithl NouupoAAOu tAApuSu lllG.
We have reached a time in our national
life when no loyal citizen of this country can
afford to spend a dollar for wasteful lux
uries. Such an expenditure resolves itself
into a disloyal act.
Welcome indeed, therefore, is the OPP
.portunity offered through the sale of these
war savings stamps to promote the culti-
walton of thrift n at the same time to
serve ones country by lending to it in such
small sums the price Of the first step-the
25-cent thrift stamp.
Such is not only a privilege, but it is the
clear duty of every American citizen, young
and old. / urge upon our clergy and our
schools to aid in every way in promoting
thrift through the purchase Of war savings
stamps.
For the help it gives to our country's
cause, for the good it will do those who take
such steps, may this movement carry it's
patriotic and practical mission to every nook
and corner of the nation.
Most faithfully yours,
lSigned) J. CARD. GIBBONS.
Baltimore, January IA, 1918.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07
How Does He Knowp

Nominating people to the Ananias Club
in the u. s, Senate doesn't appear to get
us anyS. here.
Secretary Baker says we have the ships
to get 100000 men in France early this
year. Secretary Daniels makes the same
statement. Sen Hitchcock in thinly cam
ouflaged language says they are both liars.
This is a pretty kettle of fish. Are we to
assume that no one in the cabinet or in
the Congress knows anything about any
thing? Are there no mere facts that any
one can lay his hands on? Is there any
reason on earth to assume that Hitchcock
knows more about it than the cabinet, or
that he is any more truthful than Baker or
Daniels?
Is everyone in the government a liar?
And If SO howc can we be sure of it? VIII it
be necessary for every citizen who wants
to know how many ships there are to hire
a submarine chaser and ranble around the
boundless deep to count them for himself?
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07
The Kaiser's Investments

The closing Of the Kaiser's najolica works
through lack OF coal will annoy him much,
for he made them his special hobby, and,
incidentally, made money out Of them, for
they were conducted on strictly beusiness
lines, says the Westminster Gazette. Even
his close friends had to pay for the "privi-
lege'' OF possessing some of his ware. He
has lost heavily in other ways during the
war. He was a large SHAREHOLDER in the
Hamburg-Amerika Line. In 1912 he had
some 100000 pounds in the concern and
his holding has probably doubled since then.
On this he has received little interest late
Iy; hut as a set-off there are the heavy divi-
dends which he must have received from
his large investments in Krupp's.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07
New Mexico Patriots
and Americas War
A REAL SENATOR

- REAL
Pennington Times-H Ex-senator Jones
of this state is not only showing himself
a force in the United States senate, but
he is right on all the questions that come
up, His rebuke Of Senator Reed during
the food investigation meets with the APP
proyal of every true American in this
state without regard to party. When the
Garfield coal order was issued the men
in the senate with hair-trigger brains i'm
mediately set about to have it annuled
or suspended without any particular knowl-
edge of its needs or its merits. Jones de.
Tended the order as he should have lone
and voted against the resolution asking
its annulment. If we are to win this war
we must expect to make sacrifices and
the man who shirks sacrifice is lacking in
love for democracy and appreciation of the
benefits this nation has bestowed upon
him.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07

ANOTHER THING that will puzzle
our soldiers Is English money. One
time an American who was the worse
for drink vas travelling in a railway car
riage when the guard asked for his
ticket.
Got none! Lemme lionel" maunder-
ed the Yank.
The guard took out his pocket schedule
Five and six. please" he said tersely.
"Whazat?" querried the tipsy one
Five and six, please" repeated the
guard.
ELEVEN" said the Yank. Nov move
long to re next boy.p-Boston Tran
script.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07
YOU KNOW HIM.

An awful pest is Daniel Doakes
He sure is a disgrace;
For when he laughs at his own jokes
He sprinkles in you face.
Luke McLuke.
Although he has a subtle wit,
Whenever Daniel speaks
] do not want the point Of it
To trickle down my cheeks.
Detroit Free Press.
To bear with Daniels wit, great guns!
You surely ought to try;
For you'll have to admit, my sons,
His humor isn't dry.
Newark Advocate.
Daniels, wit is not SO strange,
He's a mighty funny Teller;
But to enjoy him at close range,
You should histe your umbreller.
Las Vegas Optic.
This Daniel guy
Whom they decry
Who sprays your shrinking pate
This Mr.. Doakes who soaks the folks
Is too P~recipitate.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07
New Mexico Governor
Picked Right Girl
Says Frances Wayne
(Franoes Wayne in Denver POST

Frances Wayne in Denver POST
When a man has political aspirations he
should be as careful in selecting his wife
as in choosing his enemies.
Perhaps w. b. Lindsey, governor of New
Mexico, in the days of obscurity looked
ahead and realized that he must win a GER
tain fair yung girl If he was to succeed
as he dreamed Of succeeding, That he won
the fair young girl on whom his heart was
set, is evidenced by the presence in Denver
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07

"CUTHBERT," murmured the poets
wife, as she lit her cigarette with a re-
lection slip, why doesn't anyone want
your stuff" Her husband shuddered.
Il am an unhappy medium" he quaver-
ed, sand a victim Of forehead discre-
pancies. What l write is too low for
highbrows. and too high for lowbrows."
-Everybody's Magazine.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07

The Elks of the United States are living
up to their ambition to be a force for pa
triotism. Several of their club homes in
the larger cities have been given over to the
government for war use and they nave thou
sands of members in the army and navy as
volunteers.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07

WILL you be mine?' he asked.
ooh, no; | viii not be yours" she re-
piled, but / don't object to going
through the ceremony that will give you
the right to work your head off in or
der to buy me all the clothes and Jew
elry and social pleasure | want"
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07
NEVER SATISFIED

When the roses grace the plain;
And the summer suns agIow,
Well be wishing once again
For a chance to shovel snow.
Boston Transcript