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The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-05-16
ALIENS F0OT-EASE DOES II

When your shoes pinch or your curns and bum
Ions ache get Aliens Foot Ease. the antiseptic
powder to be shaken into shoes and sprinkled In
the foot.bath. Gives instant relief to Tired, Ach.
Ing, Swollen, Tender feet. over 10000 PACKAGE
are being used by the troops at the front. sold
every where, 2Sc. Dent aecc.I am sslIIIEsS ADV.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-05-16
VALUABLE EXPERIENCE.

Englnnd's experience N train
Ing more than 300. 900 women to
help make up the deficiency In
man power on her farms will be
valuable to workers In this coun.
try should II become necessary
under labor stringencies In GER
tain sections to enlist women
farm workers. At this time II
is not apparent to officials Of the
United States department Of
agriculture that the farm labor
needs will require the services OF
women In other than the lighter
tasks to which they already r
accustomed. But In order that
food production plans for this
year shall not fall down. the de-
partment has advised its field
representatives to be prepared
to encourage women to perform
farm labor II the situation de-
mands Il.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-05-16
With MANY Others.

81 say, old boy, do you happen to
have an y about you?"
"Sir. nm y is IN unknown quantity
with me-"
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-05-16

Did II ever occur 10 you that sum
mcr girls and peaches disappear 81
simultaneously?
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-05-16

II doesn't pay to stick your nose
into other peoples huSiness-unless
you get n fee for so doing.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-05-16
Amono Girls,

F1orcnce-Oh, yes, he's all right. but
so old fashioned. Why he still refers
TO his mustache as II soup struiner.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-05-16
And He Did.

Clergyman-This infant may some
day make himself heard In the world.
Infant-Baw!
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-05-16
GOVERNMENT BULLETINS

II costs you nothing to get
government bulletins from the
department of agriculture at
Washington, giving results Of
experiments made by poultry
experts. These bulletins con
tain information on all phases
Of poultry raising, from proper
building facilities to the brood
ing Of early Matched chicks.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-05-16

The wise man makes hay while the
sun shines, hut the fool sows wild pats
by electric light.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-05-16

II mems faults were written on
their ~forchcads they would never re-
move their hntS
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-05-16
The Reason for Il.

"Lct that man down easy"
"Why must II"
because he's hard up."
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-05-16
HOW TO AVOID
BACkACHE and
NERVOUSNESS
Told by Mrs. Lynch From
Own Experience.

Providence, K III was all run
down in health, was nervous, had head
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-29
AN EMPHATIC NO.

Something is being said about w0m-
en- working on the farms. Were 1t
necessary to have them SO work, many
Of them would. But it isn't necessary.
not yet, says Knoxville Journal and
Tribune. Such necessity is not In
sight. 1t will not be in sight before
the necessity arises for having five
times as many men in the nations ar
mics as have been enlisted up to the
present date. There are lot Of
things to be done before it will be-
come necessary for American women
to work on the farms. There are yet
a good many idle men who must be
put to work before calling upon the
women to do farm work. The first
thing to be done is to see all these
idlers put to work. Most of such are
found In the cities, and at the start
would not make No. 1 farmhands. but
our young men don't make No. sol.
diers until they have been prepared
and trained for what they are to do.
If not good farm workers, and their
services are essential, take the idlers
and train them. If it can be done In
no other way, adopt such discipline as
will make something out of them.
Women were not made to do farm
work and should not be expected or
permitted to do such work except as
q last and desperate resort.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-29

Among the Incidental developments
of this remarkable war is the large
proportion to which has grown the
movement to provide the men in the
camps throughout the country with
proper and wholesome amusement and
recreation. In line with this, is the
care exercised openly and professedly
to provide the army and navy with all
the spiritual and moral help and pro-
lection possible respecting the lndivid-
ual beliefs Of the men. These inno-
vattons are in accord with the principle
that the world is to be governed In the
future by moral ideas to which force
Is to be subordinated, and this govern.
ment will be the natural result Of the
raising Of morality In the social, poll
teal and religious ideals Of present.
day living.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-29

An experiment is to be tried, q
newspaper informs us, to determine
the relative food values q white bread
and war bread. Foundfings win be d.
vided into two groups, one to be fed
on white bread and milk and the other
on war bread and milk. A careful rec.
ord Of the weights Of the babies In the
two groups will be kept and at the
end Of the test a statement will be
issued showing which group showed
the greater gain. The chances are
that the babies will not be able to tell
the difference between the two kinds
Of bread and that the experts In charge
Of the test will be in the same condi.
ton as the babies.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-29
ITALIA REDlTA

DIGIT gloriously has Italy atoned for
- her defeat year ago! Pell nell
in bloody rout over the Pave her
avenging armies are driving the fleeing
Austrian invaders.
That disaster was made, possible by
German lies and treachery that poisoned
the morale of her soIdiery with Bolshev-
ism; Italy's heroic sons have more than
repaid that score by their devoted gal.
lantry and the skill of their genera
Dlaz.
This signal defeat in the field may 50
much more inflame the hungry popu-
lace, that an internal explosion will
forbid Austria's further participation
in the war, if not, indeed, quite end the
Hapsburg dynasty.
It was always believed that when the
old Emperor Francis Joseph, who spoke
q dozen or 30 Of the languages of that
polyglot empire, should die, it would
fall to pieces like a rope of sand. Very
reasonably, therefore, under the added
burden Of an unsuccessful war it IL to
be expected that this dissolution will
occur.
So, Austria, from one cause or anoth-
er, may soon be out of the fight. II
20, while that would not necessarily
end the war, it would dangerously ex-
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-29

Atlantic City, N. j., Virginia Avenuel
Close to Beach, Steel pier and al.
attractions. Provides every comfort.
Rooms large, we'll appointed, two or
more. windows; all with outside ex-
posure. Private baths, running water.
elevator. etc. Notable table and white
service. Attractive weekly rates.
Daily rates beginning at So 90 American
plan. Booklet Auto bus meets trains
Capacity 600
w. F. SHAW.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-29
STILL BOOSTING s.B00zE''

SOO0oS
THIS Administration, through the
= mouthpieces Of some Of its indus
trial appointees, has found a new rea-
son why Booze should be protected.
namely. the very novel one that it is
q necessity for the makers of war mu-
nitions
OF course, the action IF England.
France and Russia in putting beer,
absinthe and vodka under the ban as
curse to workmen and soldiers, was all
wrong!
The like action for years Of all the
big corporations in the country employ
ing millions of men, including all the
railroads, forbidding their employees
to touch intoxicating liquors, was also
wrong! These oficeholders are far
wiser than all those nations and those
big employers of labor who have for
years known that drink makes . bad
workman. These wiseacres say drink
makes goodworkmsn
If this monstrous contention be true
as to munition workers then let this
Administration forthwith rescind the
order.forbidding booze to the soldier,
for if drink helps q workman engaged
in the nice business of making instru-
ments of war, it will also help the SOL
der that uses them. Any fool knows
that.
No, all the teachings, and experience
of scientists and physicians. and Of en-
ployers of labor are just to the contrary
of this absurd claim that beer makes
the better workman, and only nasty
politics, the power Of the Saloon"
impels this attempt to make the worse
appear the better reason"
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-29
MILLINERY GOODS

We have some choice Mill
linery still left; but this time they
simply MUST 60, as we cannot
carry them oyer, we need their
room. So, we can give you in
these things, all new and latest
styles, Bargains twice over
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-29
LET US STILL GIVE

CHALL we tire of lending and giving
- our money to help our own Nation
in its time of trial? ''But. the thing
will never end It's LIST Liberty Loan
then I'd, then Sd; Red Cross Drive No.
/, No. 2, ETC.: give to this cause-to
that cause, and so on with no end in
sight to my giving !"
The unworthy selfishness of this COM
plant is very plain when we stop
moment and compare our multitude of
mercies with the awful woes of those
less fortunate in other lands.
We have never known hunger. not
even the little war stinting that is
practiced in England and France. Plen-
ty to eat, and to wear; safe home to
shelter us; no peril to either life or lib
erty. Certainly pleasing picture this !
Then glance at any of the suffering
lands in Europe. what scenes of horror,
want and death everywhere
In Poland as a result of the cruel
theft by Germany of their food, all the
children under seven years of age are
dead of starvation And several mil
lions Of others enduring fearful suf-
ferings from war, famine and disease!
Think of the smaller horror of all the
children of our own state of like age,
dead for want of bread; or of millions
IN our own happy land plunged into
Poland's miseries and want!
Half million souls'in Armenia dead,
butchered or starved by the Turks
about one half the whole nation. Mil
lions more in Russia, Rumania, Serbia
and Montenegro, barely keeping life
in their tamished bodies, and in all these
lands, always including heroic Belgium,
the people abused in a hundred ways
by the devil-Huns-men shot, women
outraged, and even little children cruel
ly manned, hands cut off and similar
brutalities.
Then finally, while we remain here
at home with every comfort of life,
without any visible menace to our
health or our lives, these millions of
warrior-heroes, including now million
of our own 'boys, are fighting for us,
enduring many ills, some suffering all
the varied torments of War, then MAX
ing the supreme sacrifice of their lives.
Shall we then grow weary in well
doing" because we give little of our
cash. or loan some of it on good inter-
est /! Never! We should give, and
give, and give again and yet again.
Let US test the matter by the Golden
Rule of the tender Christ. How would
we feel were we thus suffering, If those
enjoying our blessings were to cease
giving on the plea that they had al
ready given enough?
Then let US buy War Savings Stamps.
Liberty Bonds, and give to Red Cross
needs, till it hurts, short of this we do
but little.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-29

The returns from feeding birds are
both direct and indirect. Results are
immediate and interesting. The per.
son whose observation is not amused
and whose heart Is not warmed by the
eager response Of q gathering Of birds
to the placing Of food in a location
where they can get foothold and peck
at 1t, must be exceptional and lacking
in the attributes Of humanity. Amuse
yourself, be q foresighted farmer and
be patriot all In one by feeding the
birds.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-29

It is said now that another great
commercial asset Of Germany has been
destroyed by the war in the supremacy
gained by American toymakers. Ger.
many, as the toy mart Of the world, "a.
joyed a tremendous trade in this i'm.
.portant branch. Now It has fallen an.
other sacrifice to the inordinate ambi.
ton Of the Hohenzollerps.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-29
LADIES' SKIRTS

Beautiful lot both Sport and
wash; latest fabrics, newest styles
in Gabardine, Corduroy, Honey
comb Cloth, and White Duck
much reduced, being SAMPLES
and Manufacturers, broken sizes.
Prices SIPS to $500
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-29
CHANNELL
Illinois and Pacific AYES.
Atlantic City, N. J.

is situated in the heart of the most
fashionable part of Atlantic City. It il
centrally located and is midway be-
tween all stations and within a stones
throw of the largest concrete II story
resort hotel in the world.
Reasonable Rates. Open surround
ings. Rates 200 up.
Hotel Channel has Beach Front
View, with a capacity of $50. Steam
heat, running water, and private baths.
The hotel has undergone extensive
repairs and renovation during the past
winter with more private baths and
running water. It is one of the best
modern Price Family Hotels in the
City noted for its excellent table and
best of service. American and Euro
pean.
Doors and windows screened in sum-
mer:- Bathing allowed from the hotel,
Write for booklet to get terms for
this season. Yours Respectfully,
A. C. CHANNELL.
Owner and Prop.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-29

poe 0ermany's 'llnk, not 70 speak o.
the further peril Of her, own people be-,
coming infected with the same con
tagion Of revolt. ff
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-29
SUMMER WEAR

n heels of cool weather since Spring this cold June
all records Consequently have not got
their Summer wear But ready for the
Foge Burstan nave 1u
stocks department of Summer Goods Here are some "
them:
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-29
SILK DRESSES

Handsomely made-up in the
latest STYLES Tafeta and Silk
Poplin-many colors, pink, blue
rose etc. These charming Silk
Dresses are also SAMPLES and
offered at Big Reductions from
usual prices, $3.50 to $500.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
Life Behind the
Screen in
Germany
Print Paper

IT HE German newspapers have been hard
L hit by the great advance in print paper,
prices. Since the war began the price has
risen from twenty-one to ffty-fo pfen-
nigs per kilogram, corresponding to near
~ cents pound. In consequence OF
this advance more than 1000 newspapers
have suspended publication since 1914.
About a month ago the government end
the Reichstag discussed the nrecarious po-,.
sition of the press and reached an agree
ment that the government gIve assistance
to the newspapers by bearing part of the
advanced price and making allotments OF
print paper to the publishers. AliotmeBts.
are regulated TO cover only limited part
of each newspapers requirements. and theff
price abatement, which amounts to sixteen
pfennigs per kilogram, applies only to
these allotments. This system applies
equally to the papers of all political parties
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03

Gus for recital. The cruelty with which she
has driven thousands upon thousands of peo-
ple-p1en, women and little chidren-into an
exile that implies almost certain death, till
sections of the country have been totally
depopulated the indecent treachery to
Christendom Of her filling the CONSTANT
nople harems with little Serbian girls; the
inhuman repression with which she has
tried to suffocate in the residue of the popu-
lation every last vestge of national spirit
and even of national identity-these things
augur i'll for the Balkans if Bulgaria be
left in any position of power after the war.
Compare these methods with the stand
point Of the Serbs. In the short time that
Serbia held Macedonia, between the end
Of the Balkan War and the beginning of
the Great War, her treatment of the Mace
domains was absolutely consistent with the
claims she had made regarding them She
had declared them to be Serbs and She
treated them as Serbs, as brethren re-
deemed at long last from foreign rule.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
The Charter of Our Island Protectorate, the
Newest Mode in Democratic
Documents

years ago it declared its independence. and
won it against the pick of Napoleon's fight
ing men. We did not help, because the
Haytlans were almost entirely Of African
descent and had been slaves. We did not
believe, and apparently some of US do not
now believe, though there was once war
about it, that the black man, like the white
nar, is included in the generalization that
"ali men are born free and equal" So for
two years we have been in military posses
sion of Hayti, which aided Bolivar to free
South America while we were preserving
neutrality in thought as we'll as deed
The President Of Hayti still lives in Port
au-Prnce, but the real government is the
United States Marine Corps, which takes
it's orders direct from Josephus Daniels,
who may be assumed to act under the d.
recton of President Wilson, and with the
advice of Mr.. Lansing; for although the
marines dismissed the Haytian Congress
last fall, they have not get sent his pass
ports to the American Minister, Mr. Bailly-
Blanchard.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
g he Came Close to the
~ Democratic Ideal

The natural instinct Of the Serbs is to
cooperate, and in the application of the
principle of cooperation 20 every aspect Of
their national life they have actually sue
ceeded in getting very much nearer than
most nations to what is presumably the
ideal goal of democracy: the greatest good
Of the greatest number.
1t was not for nothing that in the days
before the war Serbia was known as the
poor mans paradise.
In any case, If we secure for Serbia the
position to which she is entitled, we shall
have, as the leading influence in the hither-
to distracted Balkans, a contented state. de-
veloping on sane and natural lines, and de-
irving from institutions and customs which
have grown normally out Of the needs and
through the efforts of the people them
selves an infinitely greater stability than
can be expected in countries like Bulgaria.
whose development has been artifcially
forced from outside assistance.
We shall have, moreover, an unfailing bull
wark against any future revival Of Teutonic
aggression. nation whom We have proved,
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
Cerbia s Brave Work
~ of Reorganization

She found the country in a miserable
condition, poor, backward, with it's people
distracted by conflicting intrigue and propa-
ganda till they did not know where they
stood. She set to work with the slender
means at her disposal to rcorganize the
country; introduced her own equitable sys-
tenn Of justice, opened schools and did her
utmost to set the Macedonians on their feet
and make them feel that they had, so to
speak, come to their own people She had
indeed not time to do much before the
great war broke over her, but that she did
succeed in convincing the Macedonians that
it was a desirable thing to be Serb has
been clearly enough shown by the methods
Bulgaria has since found it necessary to
employ in order TO Bulgarze them
In the course of the insurrection which
took place in Serbia last year, the nsur-
gents seized Prokuplie, where there we're
500 Bulgarian soldiers. Remember, these
Serbs had been driven to revolt by seeing
the most inhuman cruelties practised on
their people. The last straw. according to
one reliable account, had been the carry
ing off of young girls to Constantinople.
If ever men had an excuse for seeing red
these had. But what did they do to the
Bulgarian soldiers in Prokuplie when they
had them in their power? They disarmed
them and conducted them to the outskirts
Of Vrania, where they released them, say
ing, I'VE do not want to hurt any one; all
We want is to free ourselves" The Bull
garians were not capable of seeing the
nobility Of that Eve don't want to hurt
any one" and the repression of the rebel
lion was appalling; but there is no need
60 go into that here. 1t is only one detail
of the whole horrible story; but the Pro-
kuplie incident serves well to illustrate
the essential difference in outlook of the
two peoples.
There is another highly important as
pect Of the question, from the general rs
we'll as from The Balkan standpoint. Most
of the best evidences of genuine civilza-
ton in the Balkans (apsrt from the an
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
ew Constitution Is Being Tailored for Hayt

the PRONUNCIATION Of the present constitu-
ton, are equally ratified end validated"
1t seems only square deal that il the en-
tire course of the American occupation be
approved, including the dismissal Of the
Haytian Congress, the failure to live up to
solemn guarantee of the convention to Sc
cure the national debt as to the payment Of
both principal and interest, President Oar
tiguenaves compulsory obedience to Secre-
tary Daniels should also be condoned.
Alas for Hayti! The first statement in
the new constitution reflects the ancient
pride Of her people.
"The Republic of Hayti is one and in
divisible, free, sovereign and independent.
"fler territory, which includes the ad-
jacent islands, is inviolable, and cannot be
alienated either by treaty or by conven-
ton"
That means, of course that there will not
be naval station for the United States in
Haytian waters, a more convenient site hay-
ing been found in Santo Domingo.
But the "free and independent republic"
has no armed force save its gendarmerie. as
provided by Articles CXvIII and CXIX,
which is established to maintain order,
guarantee the rights of the people, and ex-
ercise the police authority in both city and
countrv"