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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-24
Are You Better Than
Your Neighbor?

~ hat gives you the right to believe
that you are any better Than any one
elsee Were we not all made equal2
Just because fate has given you more
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mobile Is no reason why you should
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hlgh-brow attitude You viii cheer
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-24
The FNapnySide
Of The War Is
TheHnnlanSide
In Washington There Are
Lots Of Stories; Here
Are Three of Them.

Washington. D. c., April 24-Con-
gressmen who have returned from the
fighting front in Europe have brought
back with them a collection of war
stories It has aided materially in re-
.vivifying the languishing cloakroom
industry of yarn spinning.
Representative Dill Of Washington.
swears solemnly that an American
officer in active service sprung this
one on the swivel chair" men in the
ordnance department Qots Of them
bother senior officers almost to des-
peration demanding active service):
4 hear the ordnance department
has bought itself a service flag. Three
of its men have been transferred to
engineers.
The Negro Yarn.
But you can't start telling stories
in Washington unless you're prepared
to listen to a southern congressman
begin on the wit of the darby boys.
Here's one Of them
a negro infantryman went over the
top in grand style. But just as he
got up toward the Germans. one OF
those big feet slipped and he dropped
his gun Fritz was at him
Reaching in his trousers leg, the
negro grabbed a weapon such as
darkies can have trust ina "razzer."
He made two passes. one at each side
of the Boche's throat
CThe reader is hereby kindly re-
quested to understand that the darby
had learned to speak German at Tus-
keEee Instituted
Never touched me-" tainted Fritz.
"Is dat coz Is dat so2" the negro
called back Just you try to turn
YOUR haid to one side and see what
happensr
Pat and the HIceoughs.
And here are the two congressional
standbys Of many years-Pat and
trench as well PROTECTED as they can
be from a terrific German barrage
which they know must precede an at
-ack- Mike, at this inopportune mo-
ment. has the hiccoughs-
Pat" he pleads. I've got the-hic,
Can't you-hic-do
something for mee'
eff Fritz nd let up. I'd get water.
Hold il a while"
Fifteen minutes more. and the hic-
7OuEhs still far from control;
8Iike-"Pat. help me. Do-hic-
7omethinE for me"
Pat-''What can do? I can't get
3Iil5e-"Get behind me-hic-Pat.
7nd-hic-kick me. IL may-hic-scare
me out of-hic-em."
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-24
L. :. MAY WTTHDR
OFFER OF GRAIN To HOLLAND

d Washington. p. c.. APRIL 24-The
United States is prepared TO withdraw
its recent offer Of three shins TO eN-
pedite grain To Holland. II the ha~sh
and unfair comment OF Dutch uewsDa-
pers. accusing the United States of
dupliclty in the condition that equal
tonnage should leave Dutch harbcrs
for America. is TO be taken as indi-
cative Of Nle feeling Of the Neither
lands government and people
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-24
Read What PERUNA
Has Done for Me

I gained so much in weight. from 80
pounds to 40, which is enormous
from the condition I was in. Il is a
year since then. but words Of praise
for Peruna we're on my lips daily TO
Friends who have taken my advice
and are also benefited.
] wish you could understand my
feeling toward your life saver. Pc
runa. If I need a little cleansing. it's
Peruna- If my friends complain I pre-
scribe Peruna. like a good old doctor
a safe medicine. Do not forget 10
publish my name in full for Others
benefit I have taken Peruna and
also Manalins and today I can say.
thank God for a good stomach and
appetite. Thanks 10 Peruna once
more I work in a mill and at home
and work also at night and stiIl
get stronger all the time"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-24

der in the trenches, or expecting any
day TO be moved into the trenches.
which is typical among many Of the
newly made soldiers
Somewhere In France.
February q. 1918.
my Dear -- Every day
we are expecting to receive orders
to move into the trenches. They are
not far away from US now and we hear
the continuous roar Of the heavy guns
and the rattle Of the machines. Every
day the stretcher bearers and ambu-
lances are moving back from the
front with some Of our boys who are
to be returned home. And the won
derful part Of it all is the fine spirit
of the Yankees, which it seems i'm
possible to kill Some Of the boys
are so badly wounded they cannot
move; others, and most OF them at
that. are smiling as they are being
carried back; some Of them give
feeble cheer for the old Red. White
and Blue. and a warm cheer goes up
from the crowds who are near.
All Enthusiastic.
They urge US to 80 IN and get the
kaiser some shout Remember the
1LlAG anu .AA pes 144E N40A AE4AV ~
who had had an arm shot off cried:
Remember the women and the little
girls and what the kaiser has done
to themr and another yelled 20 us
with all the rage he had left in his
feeble body. Drown the
kaiser in his own blood" And we
viii do it. They say we don't know
how to fight. but in every single
skirmish our bows get four Germans
TO every one Of US that goes Maybe
We don't know how TO fight but
the Germans are finding that in the
Yankees they are meeting something
that has more stamina than even the
men Of the famous Prussian regi-
ments-
do you remember Joe --?
Well. he received a commission as
;iuetenant and came 10 the front close
by here. Almost his first night he
a French officer into no
mans land Suddenly in the dark
thew came across three Germans Like
a flash, Joe attacked two OF the Ger
mans with his fists and beat them into
submit ssiou. while the Frenchman took
the other with his revolver When
Joe dragged his two captives in, he
showed them into the hands OF the
guard. drew himself up, exercised his
arms a little and said:
Wants to Repeat It.
Hell. that was so easy. believe
I could lick half the German army
III 20 out and try TO find some
more"
~Of course they would not let him
90 out again And want TO say that
II Joe had yelled Come on, boys lets
20 our whole blooming bunch would
have followed him.
SAY. when YOU get q chance. bake
me a fruit cake and tell
to bake one and send them parcel
post. Don't worry about how heavy
they may be. send them alonE- If
they are too tough for us 10 eat,
which is going some. we viii use thpF1
for shrapnel and cut a hole through
The German ranks all the wav 10 Der
lin Johnnie
The canfura Of the two Germans by
the American officer with his bare
lists. has been verified from several
sources.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-24
OIL EyEsTORs.

OIL INVESTORS.
Investigate before buying stock The
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OF The OH Nan all mailed free.
You CAN SHARE IN
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depending upon corporate mana ge-
msuL A recent issue Of The OIL Nan
tells all about oil Royalties. some Of
them now paying 3 per cent per
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send for The OIL Man today. Annual
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Tulsa, Gzia-Adv.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-24
Wa Time Service Special No. 10
CretOnne Pillow Slips
Or Dresser Scarfs, 40c

MARVELLOUS little articles worth great deal more than the adve
Used price Ceonne Pillow Slips for Porch and Sofa Pillows
and beautiful Dresser Scas Now that Spring here and Summer
the way you will them harmonic with your cretonne
dapere The scars PRETTY trimmed with heavy laces white
and There's host Of cOOngs and patterns IN these cetonne
articles, that will be snapped quickly viii
simply surround the tables the Art Needgok Section and carry off
these sca and pillow slips hurry. Gethere early Third Floor
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-24
If NY
Friends
Complain
I
Recommend
PERUNA

Mrs. Albert Huet 264 Haclzmatack
St, south Manchester. Conn writes;
Il had eatarrh Of the stomach.
bowels and Liver. I had all the doc
tors Of South Manchester and also a
specialist from Hartford, Conn. but
sad 10 say in the end I was taken TO
my bed entirely. Today I am almost
ashamed to 80 around TO my friends,
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-24
GERMANY HAS NOT YET
RATIFIED RUSSIA

London. Eng. April Germany
has not yet accepted the final draft
OF the peace treaty with Russia. ac-
cording to a German wireless mes
sage received here purDorting 10 give
the text Of a telegram SEM 20 81
Tchitcherin, the Russian foreign min
lister. by Odelph Jeffe. who has just
arrived in Berlin as Bolshevik agent.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-24
The List For Thursday Is ExcebtiOnaIEy Good
War Time Service Social No. 80
White and Novelty Skirting
In Smart Designs, a Yard 05c

HTFyE CENTS little less than the paid for good lot similar sking
They made manufacturing abEh War conditions prevented the factory
that absolutely astonishing There Gab Oxford Weave Cotton and Beach
them realize uhata eyad
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-24

Gun repairing our speciality. Allen
Arms & Cycle Co.. 400 n. oregon st.
ADV.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-24

The Y. W. C. A. has $500 paid secre-
taries in this country. Europe and the
orient.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-24
HERE : SPIRIT
j. s. BOYS SHOW
Americans in France All
Want a Chance for a Go
at the Kaiser.

Here is a letter from a young SOL
der in the trenches. or expecting any
day TO be moved into the. trenches,
which is typical among many Of the
newly made soldiers:
Somewhere In France.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-24
War Time Service Special al
a Sample Line Of Children's
Dresses Up To $3.50, At $3.50

EOLEASE but It has
pretty a well
models all
g o If
viii hard please We the lot vii The
s e and IN Fourth
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-24

Women are entering the glass blow
ing Industry II some parts OF the
country.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-24

Those who object to liquid medi-
cines can secure Peruna tablets.
The sun., 1918-10-06
1.-The Flame That Is France"

is sounded TO its utter depth. Man III hi,
terrible hour of agony is visualized as
no one has yet attempted during the war.
Everything is said in this book. After
reading it you will know the significance
of the year 1914. Exquisitely human,
Malherbe knows his task as a French SOL
der and as a French writer. A heart of
fire and brain of light cased in a will of
steel.
The book begins with three dialogues.
Before the soldier in his dugout Memory,
Love and Death come to speak to him.
Each is in the form of dialogue between
the soul Of the soldier and the shade.
Memory chides him lest he forget those
lie has left at home-"they who were
united about your soul as about q lamp"
Then Love. This is a controversy as to
the consistency or Inconsistency of the wife
or the sweetheart left behind. France
must be repeopled. Is the wife absolved
of her vows!
Then Death-and this is colloquy
which for sheer lyrical power and beauty
Uses TO the grandeur of the songs of
King David.
The chapter called The Burning Gaze is
a description of the battlefield from an
observation post. One literally lives with
The author in his lookout, so vivid and
vital is the prose.
In Moments Of Storm there are COM
pressed five or six stories, none of more
than two hundred words, that for stark
ness and incisiveness have nowhere been
equalled. They are silhouettes of horror
drawn by hand as sure as De Maupas-
SAINTS.
There are short, tremendous converse
lions on the basic riddles Of existence.
The author does not believe this war will
debase man, but that it will glorify him.
We are at the threshold of a heroic
human age. The race will come forth
from this baptism of fire with lordlier
stride. The trenches are bringing the
races closer together, not politically, but
officially. War is the great democrat.
We could quote endlessly from this,
great book, but space costs and paper is
dear. Besides, it is book TO be bought,
read, kept, treasured and reread hun
dred times.
THE FLAME THAT Is FRANCE. By
HENRY MALHERBE. The Century Com
pany. 81.
The sun., 1918-10-06
BY BENJAMIN DE cASSEREs.
1.-THE FLAME THAT IS FRANCE

fHE fLA4HE THAT IS FRANCE,
Il by Henry M9lherbe, under its
French title, La FIdmn.e du PONG, cap
tured the Goncourt Prize for the year
1917. 1t has been translated into Eng
lish by V. w. B. in mastery fashion.
1t is, In fact, not a translation, but a
perfect transcription Of the style, thought
and sensibility of the author.
1t has, as We said, won the Goncourt
Prize; but this book should be crowned
by the Nine MUSES. on the summit Of
Parnassus. II is great masterpiece. 1t
is the art, soul, sensibility, aspiration and
heroism of France packed into 1872 pages.
France can no longer be called coun-
try. She is a spiritual empire. The
Tri-Color is no longer flag. 1t is a vast
sail of triune fire fixed to the mast of the
earth as she plunges on her orbit.
We are tiny star lost in space. But
there is France! We shall, in time, crum-
BILE TO dust and be sucked back to the sun.
But millions of the dead, turned 10 stone
and ice, shall have lived when France
lived. For she is the perpetual Valley
Forge of freedom, the summit and the
glory of mans evolution
France is the great experiment Of the
human race. She has tried all ways. She
has been tried all ways. She is Oriental,
Occidental, pagan, Christian, mystic She
is a vibrating, electric. ihaumaturgic cha
meleonf She loves life like child-and
she can 60 to her death with the smile of
martyr in the flames.
The soil of France contains something
miraculous. It flowers minds It reeks
with life. 1t is the formulating tomb of
gods. 1t is the Hall of Surprises. Two
of the greatest miracles of all time nave
been enacted on that soil-the miracle of
Jeanne dare and, the miracle of Verdun.
Italy is magnificent bouquet an the
hands Of Aphrodite; but France is a mys-
teal fourishing sword in the hands Of
Prometheus.
The fame that is Franco is implicit
in this book by Henry Malhcrbe. The
style of the author is the style of France
itself. The soul Of the author is the soul
of France itself. The book is vibrating,
shimmering literary glory. 1t is a vast
symphony of words, images, sketches,
prose chants, horrors and apotheoses done
by French Beethoven of the pen.
In this little book there is compressed
Dante, Homer, Hugo, Lamartine. Tolsioi
(of War and Peace), Poe and Flaubert
1t is the Great War sifted through the
brain of French genius by one who has
lived in the trenches and pulsed to the
mad song of the Shells The human soul
The sun., 1918-10-06
"Diet and Health"

AUGH and grow fat or laugh and
~ grow thin; or, should the reader be
one of those happy individuals whose
weight Is in proportion to his height,
laugh and learn how to preserve your
ideal figure. DIR. Lulu Hunt Peters pro-
rides directions for doing all of the above
IN Diet and Health, wnh KEY to the
CGlorieS.
Facts scientifically accurate are blended
deftly with humor and satire in this clever
book of condensed information. DR..
Peters may have lost cons of pounds by
her own method, as she coyly admits, but
she still retains the breezy good nature
usually associated with the stout person.
Evidences of it flicker and flash through
out of the book like wlitecaps of wit on
scientific sea Of text, bobbing up where
one least expects them.
The author defines a calorie as "a heat
unit and food value unit; that amount of
heat necessary TO raise one pound of water
degrees Fahrenheit" Food burned in
The body by oxidation gives off approx
imately the same amount of heat as when
burned in the laboratory in a testing ap-
paratus, hence the basis for DR.. Peters's
computations.
Part Of the book consists of a table
giving the value in calories of an average
helping Of almost everything one is likely
to find on any menu, from peanuts back
again to. pretzels. Would you be fat,
then? Or thin? Or mediumf Consult
formula TO determine your ideal weight,
decide whether your mode of living re-
qulres more or less energy and regulate
your diet TO include food of greater or
less caloric value. 1t is delightfully."- SIM
pie and the author positively guarantees
results.
Sprightly marginal notes by DR.. Peters
and startling sketches by her nephew.
Dawson Hunt Perkins, precocious youth
OF 10, make bright book more attrac-
tive.
Watch your weight" admonishes DR..
Peters. The book is dedicated to Herbert
G. Hoover and will appeal to all whose
aToirdupois is a problem.
DIET AND HEALTH, WITH KEY TO
THE cAL0RIES. By DR.. LULU HUST
PETERS. Reilly & B,itton. 81.
The sun., 1918-10-06
"The Vandal of Europe"

they conducted business; dull and ossifed
when they were taught; awkward and I'M
polished wherever they appeared; without
taste when they bought; ridiculous when
they wanted to appear distinguished;
cowardly when it came to individual opin-
ion," and so on, for many paragraphs.
"Where, then," asks krupps former
director, ''is the great idea, the bold pro-
gramme, the illumination of the future,
which Germany represents and which JUS
titles its leadership We work hard and
mcthodically, we have become prosperous
and ambitious. But have our advances
and achievements in other fields kept step
herewith Were we not in the time Of
our political disunion and economic pow
erty more significant factor in the cul-
ture of the world and in the development
Of human thought than We are to-day?
'No wonder the German proletariat
finally welcomed test that it saw itself
rid Of an Alp like burden when it real
lied: Now things have broken loose and
we shall soon realize where We siand.''
In summing up Muhlon declares: II can
not too often din into the ears of Germans
that what is lacking in moral superiority
cannot be replaced by force"
Muhlon notes that the German press is
trying to explain away the unpopularity
of the German cause in the world by e1-
planning that ''they have not sufficiently
debauched the foreign press yet. Mark
the word debauched! not enlightened, or
educated! The German conception of the
rest Of the world is very simple! What
was beyond the skill of our diplomats is to
be accomplished by the Golden Ass.
"Oh, this foreign propaganda! Had
the Germans kept quiet they might per-
haps in their handicapped position have
awakened some sympathy and their true
nature might have been forgotten or never
known. But now they attach great value
to carrying out victorious press eam-
paign. For this end they are obliged TO
speak out. But no sooner do they speak
out than their last friend turns away with
horror from the coarseness and arrogance
Of their attitude"
These words were all written during the
first three months Of the war. A remark
able book
THE vANDAL OF EUROPE. By W.
HELM MUuLoN. G.~P. Putnam's Sons.
$3.50.
The sun., 1918-10-06

THE personal diary Of Wilhelm
l. Muhlon Former director Of
krupp's), which has been translated into
English by William L. Mcpherson under
the title, The Vandal Of Europe, is well
worth while.
The diary remains as it was written
during the first months Of the war; and
the astonishing thing about it is not that
some Of Muhlon's surmises were wrong
but that his viewpoint in many cases was
correct.
Shortly after the assassination at Sera-
jevo, Muhlon wrote: "Now we are sure
to have European war. Austria must
make demonstration Of some sort or else
her fate is sealed. Otherwise all the
Hapsburg races will shake themselves free
from the feeble and hesitating Dual Mon
archy Austria Hungary will not
grant to her discordant and disunited peo-
pies the opportunity they desire to create
out of her territory various smaller indie
pendent States. A generous and
cleverly planned liberation Of the subject
races might have had such a moral effect
that Austria would stand to-day far
stronger and less isolated in spite of the
diminution of her territorial holdings"
Hungary, the former Herr Direktor
says, is largely responsible for this and is
"a harsher exponent than Austria of the
principle of the suppression Of subject
races"
The author tells us that before starting
on his trip TO Norway in the summer Of
1914 the Kaiser had held conference
with the Austrians and had assured them
that this time he would 90 with them
through thick and thin" The Kaisers
promise has been so unqualified that the
German Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs admitted: thereafter, on the
German side, check or limitation could
not well be considered" The Secretary
thought, however, he could make a better
impression in Paris and ST. Petersburs
with statement that he never knew the
contents Of the note.
The German public, MIhlon SAYS,
awaited and greeted the decision for
war with relief. He proceeds to an ar
raignment of the German people as a
whole: Germany had become rich and
powerful in a material sense, but foreign
distaste for everything German had in
creased to an almost incredible extent. The
outside world found Germans brutal when
they pursued politics; hard hearted when
they were masters; INSCRIPTIONS when
The sun., 1918-10-06

Ben Kutcher, the young Russian Amer
lean illustrator Of Oscar Wilde's 4 House
Of Pomegranafes, is now with the camou-
fiage corps at Washington.
The sun., 1918-10-06
Josselyn's Wife

The story Of Ellen Latimer, a country
sul. who becomes the wife Of Gibbs
Josselyn. the son Of man Of wealth.
Gibbs Josselyn's father has married a
young and beautiful woman. II is she
who eventually comes between Gibbs
and Ellen. The affair is critical but by
no means hopeless, and Mrs. Norris
does not permit it to become so. The
crisis in their lives is rather fairly on
the way to be Strengthened out when
the senior Josselyn is inexplicably
murdered.
The murder followed a quarrel be-
tween father and sen. The interest in
the critical relations between Gibbs
and Ellen is now distracted and inten-
sihed by the desperate situation in
which the son finds himself. Theresa
murder trial. The great compulsion
upon Ellen is to stand by her husband.
She does it. The ending Of the book is
satisfactory and has the accent of
reality. The solution Of the murder
mystery is startling. sdroit and con.
vincing.
An excellent story Of Kathleen Nor
Kiss most excellent brand. From q
resieU in The New York Sun"
Kathleen Norri,
DOUBLEDAY. PAGE & COMPANY
The sun., 1918-10-06

THE vANDAL OF EUROPE. BY W.
HELM MUHLoN. G.~P. Putnam's Sons.
$50.
The sun., 1918-10-06

IHET AND HEALTH, WITH KEY TO
THE cALoRIES. By DR.. LULU HUST
PETERS. Reilly & B.itton. 81.