New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-01-11

good account OF themselves in tn.
business at hand.-San Marciai Star
When the war broke out in 1871
the air was filled with lies ant
rumors Of lies, most of them concern
ing great disaster to the British fleet
that never occurred, The fleet is
still on watch and so are some oil
the liars.-,Socorro Chieftain.
The value Of the farm products oil
1o17. grown in the Elephant Butte
Reclamation project Rio Grande Val
lev of southern New Mexico and
western Texas, exceeds AO0OOO. And
this is only the beginning,-The
Earth.
Hooverizing is not such a bogaboo
as one might imagine, In fact with
ham at R cents per pound. and eggs
at 60 cents the dozen, the matter al
most works itself out.-Springer
Stockman.
A New York Judge has confirmed
the opinion of several million wives.
He decided that a wife has a right
to 60 through her husbands pockets.
Albuquerque Herald.
Most Of us can bear up under the
sugar shortage somehow or another,
but it has utterly ruined the old and
prominently known firm of Tom and
~Jerry.-Montague.
For Minister of Munitions-Goe-
thals or Roosevelt. With either one
of these punches of dynamite things
would move and move fast.-Las
Cruces Republic,
Jerusalem. Bagdad, and Mekka--
the three holy cities of Islam-are
all in the hands Of the Allies. This
Is the Entente's answer to the holy
war that Germany sought to foment
in the Mohammedan possessions OF
Great Britain and France.-St. Louis
Dispatch.
Germany is probably more inter-
ested in the fact that our artillery
wont be ready until next summer
than in General Crozier's explana-
tons of why it wont be.--Kansas
City Star.
We might initiate Russia. which
formed the famous Battalion Of
Death, and send to the front a regi-
ment of ladies recently acquitted of
shooting their acknowledgements
Gazette.
The work of supplying the Ameri-
can Army with machine guns is 60
ing ahead rapidly. Some factories
now preparing to make the
guns.-kansas City Star.
The new French loan has been
christened l. Emprunt du Chemin des
DANES. which is perfectly easy for
the French people to pronounce
Journal.
But wouldn't our governmental
red tape make fine defensive en-
tanglements if il could be placed
about the front-line trenches p
Chicago News.
Undoubtedly the Bolsheviki have
sounded a new note in diplomacy.
They never mind the peace terms
long as they promise peace
Dallas News.
The Bolsheviki are fighting the
-ossacks. The Bolshviki don't see
lnything wicked in fighting ANYBODY
the kaiser.-Philadelphia North
american.
Congress persists in its policy of
ruel and unusual punishment to-
ward La Toilette by refusing to put
i'm on trial-New York Evening
POST.
BY the terms of the Bolshevik-
armistice agreement the
russians quit and the Germans do
he rest.-New York World.
As a highly sensational movie
cenario. Mr.. La Toilette knitting
for soldiers might be worth
.hile.-Milwaukee Sentinel. ,
The only dr~aft-resisters that meet {
ny encouragement out tnis way are
he ones patriotic women are knit
ng.-Kansas City Star.
Expelled from the old Jerusalem.
re Germans are by no means GER {
lin of ever reaching the New.-An-
conda Standard.
1t is well enough to create a new
ortfolio of munitions, but in the =
.eantime why not create munitions?
Montague.
German Victories" on the west
ont will not cease until the last
erman typewriter is captured.-Ex-
iange.
The wages of sin is death, and the !,
is entitled to considerable paw r
II overtime.-Phi1adelphia Record. !,
And If may get so that a patch =
J your trousers will be regarded a
a thrift stamp.-Dallas News. =.
Wonder if Doc Dumba entertains '
notion that we are bluffing now?.e
Macon Telegraph.
Our brethren are already in the
eIdl Why stand We here idle p r.
ltrick Henry. a
Is pennies into MIif a
amps is being penny wise FL :!
erald. lie