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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-05
Little inte0ieus
Sure Farmers Would Plant Tomatoes For Cruces Cannery
Bond Clerk Says Working People Here Best Loan Takers

city nor IS Il found in the hearts OF
those men whom the public usually
delights 10 honor. but IN humber
homes and In the breasts OF those
men whose daily labor keeps them
from want" said Robert kra kauer-
Subscriptions to this issue OF LID
erty bonds IS the test OF FL Faso 8
love for the country, and the records
show Enthusiastically on whom the Jnl-
ted States may depend II Is not Ialr
that one class Of our citizens should
actually deny themselves IN order 10
subscribe, while another holds back
not only enough to prevent the pos
sibiIry Of present concern but also
provides for future rainy days. Few
men who are worth thousands are
worrying their heads tonight over
how they will meet their OBLIGATIONS
and pay for their bonds. but hundreds
OF men who have nothing but their
wages to buy their daily bread are
now figuring out how they may pro-
vide necessities OF life after buying
their bonds. It would be exceedingly
Interesting 10 have the subscriptions
Of the rich and the poor all published
so that every one might see what has
been done and who is actually giving
OF his substance 10 his country
The United States Employment
service" said W. H Brooks. OF hte
local bureau with offices in the city
hail today. will promulEate a new
plan to bring into war Industries
large numbers OF men now engaged in
nonessential employment. in the near
future
AS result OF Instructions from ad-
ministrative headquarters, all com
munity labor boards viii shortly pre-
pare and publish in every city OF the
country lists OF occupants in which
men should be replaced by women.
These lists viii probably include
sales clerks and flOorwalkers IN every
sort OF marcanule establishments
clerical. cashier and office staffs in
mercantile. manufa turing. and IL
nancial houses and in the offices OF
transportation companies and other
public utilities; walters. attendants,
and many other occupations.
In the proposed plan women work
ers win take the places Of men IN
nonessential work and those men fall
ing to respond promptly for essential
work Will be classed as Industrial
slackers"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-05
Years Ago Today
FronA Ths Herald q
Thil Date. 1894

THE International Peace congress
1 adopted resolutions calling upon
Russia and Japan 20 end thu present
war and on the signatory powers OF
The Hague convention to impress upon
the governments OF Russia and Japan
the importance OF putting an end to
the strife.
The biennial convention o. the Ma
tionaI Republican league opened IN
indianapolis today with IS states and
territories represented by delegations
The league represents 1000, 600
members organized into zoo clubs
Postmaster general Payne died at 6
o'clock last night The end was peace
full He had been postmaster general
since 1902.
Extraordinary scenes were wit
messed at Liverpool IN connection with
the annual Church OF England con
gress now proceeding there. The
lord mayor held a procession at the
town han. which was attended By al
the leading bishops and clergy OF the
United Kingdom.
The most notable railway engineer
ing work ever attempted Is now IN
progress sixty million dollars for a
terminal viii be spent by the Pennsyl-
vania railway in New York
With a fire burning on the roof OF
the Great Northern hotel in Chicago
during a matinee IN the theater be-
low, the play house was emptied in
one and one half minutes No one
was injured and the great crowd was
in the streets before the fire depart
ment arrived.
The minister % marine. At Lisbon.
announced IN the chamber that a de-
tachment OF Portuguese troops. be-
longing TO the column operating in
Portuguese West Africa. were sur
prised by tribesman while crossing
the Cunene river and 500 men were
killed
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-05
Enemy Trying To Put
New Arn1u In BuLearia

London, Eng. Oct 5.-Ths Ter
mans and Austrians. the Daily Mail
says, are making great efforts 20
place a new army in Bulgaria IN Or
der 10 hold the railroad 20 CONSTANT
nople. Men are being drawn from
81 German and u Austrian divisions
in Russia. but the divisions generally
are poor in quality and weak In num-
bers. Their chief aim, the paper
adds. Is to maintain land communica-
tons with ConstantinOpie and 20 pre-
vent the allies from getting into touch
with Rumania.
Turkey. says the paper. will Be the
prize Of the army which wins the race
for the railroad
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-05
Salt Down The Extra Dollars

CHILLED labor is getting the highest wages ever known
y So is unslled labor but less in proportion to former
wages Mutudes Of mechanics and other skilled laboreTs
throughout the country here and elsewhere, are making
dollar hour more, So TO $40 day and on up Items
in the news tell Of phenomenal earnings especially among
shpbuilders and munitions workers. making $40 to
500 a day.
At the same time, the pick and shovel man, the
skilled worker is also getting money The wage Of
$3.50 day for common labor is usual Less pay geneI
labor dollar day n board" is gone for the period Of
the least Two half grown boys in front Of store
in the Five Points seetiSn few evenings ago de-
batting whether it would be worth while for one Of them
to stop school to take job paying S1a week.
This is the day Of wages noTdinatey high. that be
profteerng the most Of it. But the dollar hour
wormen and all the others should make the most Of the
opportunity When getting dollars than needed for
living on a simple scale, salt them down.
Put than fair share Of them in government bonds
and savings stamps. That helps with the and
makes them safe the nation itself Use Of them
for relief enterprises Put the rest in the banks at
interest them in safe securities, real estate pre-
ferred. Many working is lab0ring overtime,
ing every dollar possible and buying farm Others
buying homes in Either, bought at reasonable
price, is good investment
The idea to fight shy Of the temptation spend the
extra dollars Injuries and pleasures That is newt
able temptation, born Of years Of self denial But saving
viii give the greater pleasure in the future for the day is
coming when millions Of hands carrying guns viii
have to work and millions Of hands making ships,
guns amor plate and apanes viii have to have something
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-05

GGTO4EATOES yield = tremendous
crop IN the upper valley" said
". T. ScoEgins, OF Las Cruces 7
am quite sure that many farmers
would gladly plant this crop II q
factory in Las Cruces would take
their output. Beans yield a fine crop
here II planted at the right time. Ia
bic peas and beets are sure crops. As
paragus is another sure crop Of much
promise as a canning product. Just
think OF our bench lands with the
highline canal and how well they are
adapted TO peach growing. With q
little time, an efficient field man
could start q canning factory here in
March with asparagus. following with
peas IN Nay, snap beans in June and
July, tomatoes and green corn in Au-
gust and September and sweet pota-
toes in October and November, be-
sides many kinds OF fruit filled IN
with these named. Canneries are OPP
Grating IN many less promising FIELDS
and Just how we can afford TO be
without one longer is. not very plain
TO our farmers
7 have tabulated the subscribers
Of every issue OF Liberty bonds sold
in FL Paso and I have found that the
working people nearly all subscribe
something 20 every issue. while the
weather. persons sometimes sub
scribe and sometimes do not" said
Miss NeOmi Keller. chief clerk 10 the
Liberty loan committee. IF all men
living in FL Paso were as faithful IN
subscribing what they were able as
are the people who work for their
daily bread. there would be no need
for drives. committee meetings. or
anything OF the kind. for quotas would
be reached the very first day. II
must be that there IS a deeper feel
ing OF patriotism among the working
people than among those who are
safe from want on account OF what
they have accumulated or inherited
can see no other reason Tor what
the records show"
Business conditions are good on
the coast" said G. D. Pryor. OF Oak
land, Cal. but the thing uppermost
in my mind at this particular mo-
ment IS the terribly rough road had
to travel on my way to FL PasO. Al
though it IS 70 miles further TO come
by Douglas and Bisbee. vet Il is at
least 40 miles better than taking
the Parker cutoff by Wilcox How
ever. I made an average Of 10 miles
TO the gallon Of gasoline in a Buick
six which. after ALL was not so bad"
Absolutely no excuse exists now
for any one mechanically inclined for
not serving his country. for there IS
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-05

A MAN asks.
8IE To please writs-
IN NY column
ABOUT THE man
WHOSE WIFE and LITTLE boy
WHO IS seven years old
AND sPITs through a hole
WHERE THERE was = tooth
But THERE Is now vacancy
WENT AWAY to ths country
TO ESCAPE the heat
AND THE noise.
AND THE smells
OF THE city.
AND OF how tho man
PROMISED HIS WIFE
HE WOULDN'T be lonesome.
AND OF how the first night
HE CAME home from work.
FOR A quiet evening
AND PUT on his slippers.
AND COT the paper.
AND THE big chair
AND SAT down
AND THERE wasn't any little boy
TO ASK him qIestionA
THAT HE couldn't answer.
AND he couldn't read
BECAUSE OF the noise.
THAT THE clock made.
AND HE saw little old sandal
WITH A hole in It.
AND He put away the paper
AND WENT Up TO bed
AND IT was so quiet
HE COULD hear things
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-05
Uncle Walls Denatured Poem.
VonHertling

Won HERTLBG would berats with pain "our enemies
TIE Germans rank and file and Bill who gns above them with eagles his
thought
slaughtered ike butchers amuc till tottered beneath
foui blows they
fhe rulers all ounces
Sewing the although
pirates through the although with nhuman they piled the sword and
dix On babe and and gloed the this
hd It's morning its been the Prussn view with jes and the
laws q God Oh
Helng
clothing
bathing facing
Copyright WALT MASON.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-05

.MTE asked the young lady across the
W way what she thought of the al
lies piuching tactics and she said she
supposed something of the kind had to
be done to the German prisoners to
make them tell anything.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-05

" some green goggles on his mule
and tuned him into the cornstalk field.
Bliss Fruzis Allsop is working day
and night on a home talent drama 70
Be presented BY request at the Wild
Onion e~SooI house in the very near fu-
tine. The play starts off mild and
gradually grows more intense until at
the end Of thF fifth act the audience
has got 70 a point where It don't care
what happens.
Sidney Hooks says It is always dark
est night after the lamp has been
bowed out.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-05
RECRTTTING MOTOR sOLDTERs.

H. H. Edmonds. a representative OF
the government. arrived IN the city
Friday and Is assisting W. G. Roe,
president OF the FL Paso Auto club.
recruiting for the motor transport
corps being formed at Fort Bliss. Mr..
Edmonds IS at the Sheldon hotel
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-05

AND HELP To WIN THE WAR
Every morn when yOu arise
Get to work and swat the flies.
Ere you 70 to bed at night
WallOP every ny in sight.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-05
The Poor Man Whose Wife and Little
Boy Go Away For a Short Vacation

AND THERE was no one to talk %
AND HE got in bed
AND THE mattrssL
HAD BIG Jumps In It.
ALMOST As big.
As THE empty spot
IN THE mans heart
AND he didn't 20 to sleep
TILL AFTER four.
AND IN the morning.
he OVERSIGHT.
AND HAD to 60 to work
WITHOUT BIS Breakfast
AND He was lat"
AND THE boss Ieoksd at Aim
WITH A cold
AND CALCULATING OyA
BECAUSE HI dida's E.oV.
WHAT A terrible tragedy.
HAD JUST entered
INTO THE POor HrH'' HfA
THE MAN who writes M
SAYS IF IN write I0msthins-
ABOUT A man Ike that
he KNOWS his wife VII see It
AND SHE'LL read Il aloud
TO THE little boz.
AND AFTER that
THEY'LL NEVER 80 sway
WITHOUT THE nGA
AND THEY'LL AL Be happy.
AND MAYBE he can III r.
so THE little boz.
WILL PUT ne IN his prayers.
RIGHT AFTER the soldisrL
] THANK you
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-05

The "circling torpedo" Is nothing
new for the Germans. The torpedo
that hit the Lusitania swung around
he ever cot
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-05
Business Note.


The firm OF Booze & Doodle Is about
70 be suppressed for conducting
nonessential Industry.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-05

Ludendorff says he needs more
room for maneuvering. and Il looks as
II he would find it-on his own side Of
the Rhine.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-05

Ever notice the handsome and
authentic engravings on the War Saw
ing Stamps?
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-05

Thirty German hlgh OffIcIaIs VINO
are sent 10 Russia buy only one way
tickets.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-05

MERE allus glad when frost comes
W an uips tn fsIsr that says @to-
uottoesl" Lafe Bud WIZ so crazy Z
take his car out Sunday that he al
most went to church.
Copyright National Newspaper Service.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-05
Always.

with all due respect for Capt
D'Annunzio, we believe he ought to
have split bombs and peace tracts
$3.50 on that Vienna raid
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-05

Germans Long for Peace.-Head-
line. And a lot OF EN- are headed
for home to look for Il.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-05
a ORE TRUTH
IN THAN
80 POETRY

Undoubtedly.
Germans Go to Pskoff.-Ssws Item
And 10 remain TO prey.
Buy I'm.
Remember that war savings stamps
stick even better in hot weather.
Always.
We've got 70 get the truth about
the airplanes before we can get the
airplanea
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-05

Inc supreme ueEree OF PATIO ism
does not dwell IN the palaces Of the
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-11-04

can be put into cooperation. In the
meanwhile they must mil the avail
able shell charcoal with wood char
coal. This is not to the best interest of
the men because the wood charcoal
settles, making breathing difficult,
and 1t has not the absorptive qualities
of shell charcoal.
The people, because Of the smallness
of the task asked of them, failed to
realize it's Importance and did not re-
spond we'll to the appeal made during
the fruit season. What the help of
each persons means is shown by the
fact that two peach stones or two
large nuts turned in each day by each
person in the nation would supply the
needs. 1T is hoped, however. hat no
will hold to this schedule as there
will be many unthinking persons quo
ia to fill. -
Gas barrages for some time have
been one Of the principal factors in
German warfare. Their mustard gas,
with it's horrible after effects, is one
of the worst atrocities of the war. Even
now in their retreat, the Germans are
using a non-exploding, perforated gas
shell which they fire into marsh lands
and which makes the entire district
into which they are thrown a section
of death" for days afterward.
This can all be- successfully combat
ted il Americans will turn in their
hickory, brazil, walnut and butter nut
shells and peach. apricot, prune, plum,
olive. date and cherry stones, for gas
masks for American soldiers.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-11-04
ANOTHERIAPP'E|AI
T0CHnDRE'NI TO
d SAVE SHELLS
Chemical Divisions Of Army
ii Need Of Large Mum
Der for Gas Masks.

New York, Nov. avery hoy and
girl in this country Is again asked by
the United States to help save Amer
lean soldiers from the horrors of Ger
man gas. The chemical welfare divi-
sion of the army has urged them to
gather every walnut, hickory nut and
butternut in the woods about their
homes this fall to help make gas
masks for the American troops in
France. 1t is from the shells Of these
nuts that the charcoal for gas masks
must come for the next six months or
more.
There is said to be a ready and
profitable market for the nut meats.
making it practicable to turn the
shells in to the government immedi-
ately. Whole nuts can also be used.
For collection purposes the Red Cross
has arranged $50 collection centers
through the country for the concen-
from these points in car load lots to
the government carbon plants at New
York and San Francisco. w
The Boy Scouts have enlisted the
aid of their $4,000 members in this
work. as have the Camp Fire Girls.
Through the department of agricul-
ture all county agents of that depart
ment will organize nutting parties. In
addition every school is urged to
arouse the interest Of it's pupils and
to encourage nut gathering in every
spare moment of the pupils time.
The aid Of the young people will
be absolutely necessary to supply the
1000, 600 pounds of shells and fruit
stones that the government produc-
ton schedule calls for.i The govern
ment cannot buy more than one-third
the necessary shells at present. In
fact. they declare, that the shells of
all the cocoanuts grown in the West
Indies and Central America. if they
could be obtained. would not fill the
needs. They are making arrangements
to get the shell from the East Indies,
but it will be months before the plan
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-11-04

which seemed to be gaining but lit
tie, apparently sapped the strength of
the enemy. When the break came on
Saturday 1t took on aspects Of a rout
rather than an orderly retirement
such as has. been carried out on
dozens of b%attlefelds from the North
Sea to Chateau Thierry since July 1S..
On Sunday evening American con-
tingents were in Belval wood, six
miles directly west Of Stenay, a vital
point in the German line along the
Meuse. They rel only fourteen
miles south TOT Sedan, which is the
center of the whole German railroad
system in Eastern France.
1t now appears that the Germans
who, have been holding the line rum
ming westward through the Cham
payne country cannot retreat. east
ward but must be diverted northward
through Belgium. This will, add
journey that seemingly must be- be-
gun at n
In Belgium. the fall Of Client is i'm
minent. for the Belgians. French.
British and Americans are rapidly
moving ahead. The scheldt has been
crossed at Weldon, southwest Of
Client, while the Belgians are moving
toward the Scheldt northeast of the
city. This advance, il continued,
threatens the whole German army in
France, since its retreat eastward
through Sedan and Montmedy seems
about to be cut off. 4.
East Of the Meuse the roads are
crowded with ~retreating Gesfnans,, it
is reported. This would appsarstoan-
dicate a retirement to the Brieyy de-:
lenses. north Of Metz, but the magni-
tude Of the retrograde movement has
not as yet been exactly determined.
Austria will join Bulgaria and
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-11-04
NEWSPAPER MEN
OF RUSSIA ARE
MAIN SUFFERERS
Bolshevik Regime Has caus.
ed Great Trouble For
These Individuals.

London, Sept. 27.-(Correspondence
of The Associated Press.)-Newspaper
men have suffered more than n 9TH
er class of Russians from the Bolshe-
vik regime. They are the only ones alb
solutely unable to find employment
and who are condemned by the Boil
sheviki to literal starvation.
From the very first day the Bolshe-
wiki assumed control Of the country
fines, Imprisonment and suppression Of
In the worst periods of the emperor's
rule. The, fines imposed by the Bolshe-
Wiki ,commissars were incomparably
heavier than in the old days, when 81
0OC rubles was the. maximum amount.
They fined papers 10000 rubles for
publishing war news without permits
sion, and one Moscow paper was fined
10000 rubles for the same offense.
For spreading provocative rumors,"
in Moscow alone, in one day, four
newspapers were suppressed, five were
heavily fined and ten were indicted for
reports tending to discredit the gov
eminent"
The publishers could not stand the
heavy drain of constant fines, the edi-
tors dreaded the prospect Of a more
or less ~protracted stay in prison, and
the reporters were afraid to write
about anything rejecting upon Boil
shevik methods, as that might be con-
strued an attempt to discredit the
government. A newspaper acquaint-
ance of the writer, a member of the
staff of a most progressive daily, after
having been twice imprisoned and his
paper made to pay a fine Of 10000 ru-
bles for an ~inoffensive article, con-
fessed that he vas at a loss what to
do, how to. write,
Whenever public dissatisfaction be-
came too pronounced the government
suppressed all non7Bolshevik "bour-
geois'' publications. This example Of
Bolshevik craftsmanship was emulat-
ed by the Petrograd and other soviets
so that the Russian press entirely ceas-
ed to exist.
Barring the official ~Izvestia, the Po-
lice Gazette, as some workmen call it
published by every local soviet, and
the organs Of the Bolshevik and Left
Social revolutionary parties. not a sin
gle newspaper is published in soviet
Russia at present. All those who made
a living by writing for the press now
find themselves in dire straits and face
poverty and starvation If unwilling to
change their political faith and join
the ranks of Bolshevik journalism.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-11-04

Turkey as conquered nations this aft
ernoon at 3 o'clock. Terms of the
armistice have been signed but the
details of the agreement have no as
yet been made public. It may be as
sumed. however, that they are as
drastic az those forced upon Bulgaria
and Turkey.
In The meantime, italian and, Allied
forces have occupied Trent and have
landed at Trieste. Udine, which was
Italian headquarters during the
Isonzo campaign two. years ago, and
from which General Cadorna. was
driven late In October, 1917, has been
.recaptured from the Austrians. On
every front the Austrian resistance
seemed to collapse during the two
days prior to the signing Of the -armi-
'stice terms dictated by the inter-
allied conference at Versailles. Bel
grade, the capital of Serbia has been
recaptured from the Austrians. The
city was taken on December 2, 1914.
Forty-fve days after the Allies
launched their offensive along the
Macedonian front, the Austrian and
German troops were r~etreating across
the Danube out Of Serbia, leaving be-,
hind them the wreck of, German
dreams Of domination in the east.
Emperor William has written to
Prince Macmillan Of Baden, the Inn
perial chancellor, promising co-opera-
ton in the development of constitu-
tional reforms. 1t Is pointed out,
however, that no word has been said
by him relative to %abdication.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-11-04
War Summary
(By The Associated Press)

(By The Associated Press)
Germany, deserted by her Allies, is
apparently facing a great disaster on
the western front. There have been
many times during the last three
months that it seems that their
armies were in a critical position but
they always have managed to avoid a
debacle. Now, however, there is a
greater possibility than ever that
Germany's military doom may not be
far distant.
This crisis has arisen during the last
three days. American and French
attacks west of the Meuse river,
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-11-04

causes Of the recent rice riots in Kobe
and elsewhere in, Japan. These ex-
travagances aroused the anger Of the
element Of the public which seized
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-11-04
:ExTRAvAGANcE CAUSED RIOTS

Toxic, Nov. 4-Extravagance of the
richer Japanese people as well az the
abnormal price OF rice are officially
declared to have been one of the
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-11-04

upon the price Of rice as an oppors
unity to vent their indignation" say
an Official report Of the Ministry Of
the Interior. 4.