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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-02

to be a broken part that only the ma
chinist can replace
OF course there must be 4 few 70
do the rough heUing. Boilernakers
and blacksmfths are the heavyueiEhfs.
Given half chance they might easily
drown the roar OF battle. But segre-
cation Of vice is one OF the warship-s
prime requisites The anvil chorus
doesn't penetrate the heavy bulkhead
which surrounds the sr1ithy Even
the band has practice IN = padded
cell' (watertight COMPARTMENT.
CopperSmiths are slightly higher
class. Their work can be an art when
the night before hasn't been too ar
quired. The dull routine OF endless
repairs sees TO IL that personality is
squaShed under the cold scrutiny OF
! standard specifications"
Pattern makers, moulders. czrpen-
tiers. and other suches. are few in
number Big work IN their line is
saved for the navy yards. But when
they are needed their usefulness is
great So they form little cliques OF
their own and count a single black
bail sufficient to deny entrance to
their pinocle IN the bag alley.
Oilers and their chiefs are really
engine tenders and drivers Most have
come up from the ranks OF the com
mon herd OF firemen-common only
in nun bers. For out OF the hundred
inapt- Takes strength 70 be a fire
man. and skill. and experience and
tenacious courage-for it's a man s
Job this mOtherinE OF the giant
Then the grimy coal passers-praiss
ye their namesi They are the soil
and the foundation The black local
black), rich (S24 perl, soil (-ed) from
which we grow our finished mechani-
clans They are the singing toilers.
slaves Of the hungry furnace. and vic
tins OF relentless tine. For time it is
Time, Time-Time to fire again.
More coal. you loafing lubbers-"
And so on through the watch Yet out
OF the $50 we have, two-thirds have
volunteered for the work
Believe me then, Il isn't all Just
shell and hammer. mCZzle disc and
tompion- 1t doesn't all mean murder
ON the surface anyway. We need
the best mechanics IN the country
And gradually we are getting them
or making them
Submarine Copyright
1918. by George Matthew Adams
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-02
Though in War, Average Man Listens
More to the Poet Today Than Ever

llll
HERE would seem little in the
present chaos to evoke poetry or
4 stimulate its reading. but # is
one OF the paradoxes OF the day that
the average man listens to the appeal
OF the poet as never before. proving
that, for the noncombatant as well as
the soldier. poetry answers a crying
need IN the human soul
To England the war gave as its
poet hero. Rupert Brooke. and to
France and America, it gave the other
soldier-poet, Alan Seeger, whose
poems and letters, the expressions Of
lbs brave heart, dauntless and una
fraid, amid wars vicissitudes. are an
inspiring revelation
No anthology is comparable IN hui
na minterest 10 a Treasury Of War
Verse" laying bare the soul OF three
nations voiced in the experiences Of
their sons. in none more spiritedly
than in Frankau's Song OF the Guns"
written in the lull Of the fighting at
Loos, when the gunners. sleepless for
five nights were resting like tired
dogs under their guns:
We have bartered our souls to the
guns;
Every fibre Of body and brain
Have we trained to them, chained to
them. Serfs2
Aye. but proud Of the weight Of our
OF our backs that are bowed to their
workings,
To hide them and guard and disguise,
OF our ears that are deafened with
% t,-,-5- e.. 49,, $1,000 - - 49,.
Grown hawklike with marking their
OF wings that are slashed as with
swords
When we hover, the turn OF a blade
From the death that Is sweet TO our
lords.
BY the ears and the eyes and the
BY the limbs and the hands and the
wings,
We are slaves to our masters the
But their slaves are the masters Of
kings"
Perhaps. It IS Canada's magnificent
fighting men, who have revivified in
terest in Drummond. her "Habitant"
singer. One often finds, too, the an
cient faith expressed in forms Of con-
ventional beauty. exemplified. per-
haps best. in the poems OF Alfred
Noyes. Readers can bolster their
shaken faith in human possibilities
by a perusal Of Hope. Mackaye. Mas
ters's Songs and Satires." Harriet
Monroe's New Poetry and America s
own John BurrouEhs's Ways Of Ma
ture" Nothing pictures more wildly
the Joy Of living and the lure OF the
open. than does Masefield. in his
''Tewksbury Road" in the story OF a
ROundhouse"
That the average man Is reading
modern as well as recent poets is evil
denced by a marked revival Of inter-
est in Bunner. as well as Sidney Lam
Ter and Henley. both assured OF a
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-02
~ Editorial Comment By
i ~ y "A Arthur Brisbane

rorbidding survivors to eat the
bodies Of those that died OF the
The French revolution did not
start with men and women tempted
in their misery TO. eat dead human
bodies.
The France that rebelled was com
paratively modern Paris. eating
wheat, drinking red wine. with iron
in the blood and thought in the brain
The well led, intelligent educated
descendants OF the illegitimats sons
Of French nOblemen, that had used
their "droit du seigneur," overthrow
government by royalty. nobility and
clergy
tt isn't the woman mentioned IN
The Song OF a shirt" that rebels or
goes picketing. She will stitch.
stitch, stitch her way into the grave.
The Prussisn gentlemen are en-
joying q rabbit drive In Russia-the
Bolsheviii being the rabbits
Fashionable English schools are In
creasing hours OF sleep and cutting
down lessons for the boys-becausa
their food rations are cut
This may enlighten those who
wonder that the poor do not do bet
ter" The brain gets its force from
blood manufactured IN the stomach
with good food
We give free education because We
hold in horror a starved brain
A brain starves for lack OF food as
we'll as for lack OF knowledge With
out food II can not receive or digest
knowledge.
We learn from England that strong
boys. carefully brought up. when
their food rations are slightly cut.
must have more sleep and less study
We may also learn that II would pay
this country to feed the poorer school
children in big cihes-5O per cent OF
them badly or ignorantly fed
=
Billy Sunday. IN his sermon al
Washington for women only. de-
scribes quietly and conserTatively
"the average girl today" as follows
@She n turning her home into
= gambling shop and social beer
and champagne drinking joint.
and her society Is make MP OF
poker players, drinkerss grass
wfdOwers, jiIted iades and SLAM
der mOagers. She II a matinee
Eadder.S
That being the case. no wonder the
kaiser IS planning to bring Us over
some kuItur and compel our women.
like tina women OF the German Ia
thsrland. TO interest themselves only
in the three K's-Kirche, Kuche, Kin
der. Church, Kitchen, Children
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-02

HERE Is Eucn business IN Fl
Paso and there would be a
great deal more, II al OF US
would get down to work on other
things and quit trying 10 bring SOL
diers 10 FL Paso," said T. E. Head.
This town did not have soldiers in
Years past TO make the business and
We do not have TO have them today.
What We need Is cooperation; q leader
who VIII bring all Of US together with
the truth and iii Us so full OF con-
1Idence and enthusiasm and optimism
that We cannot talk anything but bus
iness. We are actually letting much
business escape that We should be
getting. We seem to be IN the dumps
because we have no more soldiers
than We have. We should go after lots
OF new industries that should have
been here long ago, and II It Is done
IN the right way we are going to get
them too. The little town OF Texline
up in the big plains, has landed an
auto tire factory and disposed OF
most OF the stock right IN their own
city. This plant should be in FL Paso
and It is a fact that were It here, its
business would be much greater. Fl
Worth has landed a great big auto
mobile factory. This Is something
that could be located in e PasO.
Nashville. Tenn; New Orleans. and
many other cities have recently
landed shoe factories, overall plants
etc, and they are right IN the midst
Of their greatest competitors. FL Paso
could have these same plants with
no competition whatever, besides hav-
tng the richest territory Of the south
20 draw from IF ever a city needed
an overall plant FL Paso does, as we
have many thousand workmen right
FOR shoes. we have miners all around
US that are IN need OF the heavy work
shoe, the kind that is being turned
out at Nashville with limited terri
tory.
we need a plant TO use various
metals that are being mined in this
section. such as copper. lead, etc. All
Of our copper vessels, piping, etc.
come from the east, and these articles
could be manufactured right here at
home where we have the stuff TO
make them with Much has been said
shout fuel water and power. What
We want TO do is TO convince captains
Of Industry that FL Paso IS the logical
place in which TO locate, convince
them that they viii have q great vast
territory to draw from, that we will
show our faith N taking stock. As
for the fuel, water and power, these
VIII be their least troubles and wor-
Ties. What they want is TO be shown
ample cooperation on the part OF the
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-02
AMERICAN WAR COST
BILLION DOLLARS A MONTH

Washington, D. C., March 2.-The
States still Is running near a billion
States still Is running near a billion
dollars a month. The governments
outlay in February, according to a
treasury statement. was slightly less
than in either January or December.
and would have been approximately
the same IL the month had been long
as other months.
Expenditures amounted TO S1.002,-
S7S,6OS, OF which two-thirds, or $685.
100000, was for ordinary war ex-
penditures, and 1926, 900, 900 was in
loans to allied governments.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-02
FACTS ABOUT OUR NAVY
Work of Submarine Mechanics.
By LIEUTENANT FTTz HUGH GREEN. z. 5. ~


2 rs queer the notions we get OF
things we don't know anything
= about. I used TO think Eskimos
were covered with blubber and lived
in perpetual ice and SNOW was
wrong. They're very often thin; and
they pick flowers in August I have
discovered that rich men are not al
ways great. nor great men always
rich Even money itself is losing some
OF its illusions as I grow older.
Tou have made the same mistake. 7
wager. And now I'm going TO add
one more to your list: A battleship
below her water line IS not a great
mass OF roaring furnaces and pound
ing engines. Neither is she mostly
full OF deadly explosives. And the
skilled Iaborer who said to ne. 'the
navy Never-I want ny own 5obr
vas so far off the track that I've
rushed back TO the ship to put the
truth in print
call them submarine mechanics
because the man-o'-War is mostly me-
chanicai within her underwater body.
that is down deep in her lower decks
They work in clean, well lighted, pure
aired shops. The crashing destruc-
lAtn u udl-Ac Is a distant lulDEODa-
blity- Should its thunder penetrate
the polished alieyways and humming
lathe rooms men merely turn and
grin Mebbe, mate. We'll swim" says
one But all the answer he gets is.
-maybe-"then a quick. yer stilson.
Bill, and lend me a hand with this
here pipe"
The chief engineer is not a real
specialist. He's a lieutenant com
mander in the line Which means
that some day he will be captain. and
then admiral BY putting in a few
years at each kind OF duty from gun
merry to first-luff executive officer)
he fits himself for all powerful COM
ma1d- And he has to know It all;
contrary to the custom OF the mer-
chant marine. battleship skipper is
responsible for not only the naviga-
ton and plotting, but guns engines.
crew, food, and surgery. To say moth
ing or the main deck mascots which
he must censor eve had a yellow
cur deleted only last week.
Warrant machinist are the real
thing. For years they have lived. and
have loved the methodical main en-
gines- Twin boilers are their pets.
Long, high. wide lathes are their
pride OF life. And the men under
First come the machinist mates.
20 Of them, superintendent BY a half
dozen chief machinists; and backed
DE Two score trained helpers From
rebuilding the siX-foot after cylinder
crank to grinding the valves on q
wrist watch no job could be too big.
too intricate, too technical for them
to tackle-and finish.
The electrical gang viii tell You so.
For while the electrical gunner must
know more math. and the four chief
electricians get more high brow
Juice" out OF their IS electrical petty
officers. sooner Or later there's going
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-02

ROE. Macht,- Of Johns Hopkins
- University. says that his new
L drug, benzyi acetate, Is a
harmless opiate." It is to take the
place OF morphine. opium and cocaine
without any poisonous after ef-
fects." In other words, It is a drug
with no remorse in II
There could be no greater calamity
than such a discovery placed at the
disposal OF the general public
Men are put here to struggle,
worry and improve.
A drug that would stop worry,
without any punishment would stop
progress.
Nature provides only one "oplste
without any toxic after effect The
name OF that opiate is death And
while nature provides It, she makes
keep away from 10 and endure al
most anything in life's struggle "a
Their than take the permanent opiate-
Mans will is free. and that settles
It, said Samuel Johnson Neverthe-
less, in a few things nature controls
man wisely. She Furnishes him when
he tries with drugs, alcohol OF any
opiate to escape from the reality Of
life, its responsibilities and suffer-
ing.
And nature, knowing woman so
well. refuses TO let parents decide
whether the child to come shall be
a boy or a girl But for that wise
rule, which all the scientists can not
break, the world would soon have
nothing but men and the race would
die out Women are SO anxious TO
please conceited men everlastingly
demanding "a son like me-"
=
The American dentist Of the Ger
man emperor comes home With a
pass across the frontier that the en-
peror signed.
He saws that the food situation IN
Germany is not as bad as has been
reported. Possibly kaiser dentists
are fed better than the average
In Austria conditions are desper-
ately bad. The best ray Of peace hope
is there.
"Why don't they rebel. how soon
WILL they rsbel?' the world asks.
reading that men and women starve
| in Austria
STRENGTH rebels. not weakness
The starving are weary. It is easier
for them to lie down and die than
fight
IN France once the people were 50
miserably poor that laws were passed
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-02
War Cigars Break Up
Dinner To Germans In
BUDAPEST Roual Palace
canrrIeht u InternatlonaI - 80

Londcn, Eng, Starch "A dinner
was given in the marble salon Of the
Royal Palace at Budapest in honor
OF the president OF the German Red
Cross the emperor being represented
by the aIchduKe Franz Salvs tor
In Que course war cigars were
handed round While smoking one
o. these a distinguished guest be-
came indisposed and had to be car
ried 10 another room
Shortly afterward count Spiegel-
field suffered 4 similar attack, and he,
too, had to be removed on an i'm
provised stretcher. Then the arch
duke himself was overcome with
faintine and was only with difficulty
restored to Consciousness by a staff
physician. who piled the illustrious
host freely with brandy.
subsequently the members OF the
lie saving society were summoned,
by whom the sick guests were con-
veyed n lnnt.
An inquiry has been ordered to de-
Terminus she constituents OF these
periious cigars.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-02

niche in the APPRECIATION Of every true
lover Of poetry
If one still doubts that poetry Is
coming into its own, It must be con-
ceded that there are, in this country,
two magazines devoted exclusively TO
poetry: that literary reviews discuss
it at great length; that poetry Is fea-
tured in the popular magazines-pub-
fishers are clamoring for it The pub
lie may perhaps best grasp the signifi-
canoe OF this regeneration II il con-
siders lord Dunsany's exposition:
What is il to be a poet? II is TO see
at a glance the glory OF the world. to
see beauty in all its forms and mani
festatfons, to resent the wrongs Of
others as bitterly as ones own. TO
know mankind as others know single
men. TO know nature as bOtanists
know a flower, to be thought a fool.
to have at moments the clear voice of
God" F. g. c
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-02
Value Of Arizona Crops.

HE bulletin of March 7 issued by the federal reserve
bank of San Francisco shows that the value of crops
on farms in the 18th district during 1917 $685.
$4,000 The district embraces California Arizona Idaho,
Nevada Oregon Utah and Washington. The Arizona crop
valuation is given at California leading the list
with s4s2 2s5Ooo This very low valuation for Arizona
crops accountable only being the value Of the crops
harvested while they still the farms The Arizona
farmers received for the 1917 crops probably nearly one
third delivering at market
Even So the total as shown is very good for state
with small cultivated 1t must amazingly large
to those elderly residents who went to Arizona in day
when was considered nothing but DESERT cactus horned
toads and Indians Twenty years from this SGT
Will seem as small as the value Of the products 20 or so
years ago appears to US.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-02
Little lntHpieW
Saws Get Busy on Industries and Never Mind Troops
Doctor Glad to See So Many Being Cured at Clinic

Their drop. During the warmer
weather there will be larger losses
from Gambling eggs coming from
Texas, and this Will tend to keep
the price up. The retail price is
around so cents at present. Some OF
the best eggs on the FL Paso market
are coming from the Imperial valley
of California and these are among the
finest eggs l have ever seen in Fl
Paso. They will average about 81
White Leghorn eggs average about 81
pounds to the case. They show up
splendidly while being candled."
The people should have some reg
ular plan Of giving boys who go to the
training camps a regular sendoff."
said J. OrWitz- The chamber OF COM
merce should take the matter up, as
that seems to be the best organization
TO look after such things. The other
night when a large contingent went
off there was no demonstration what
ever. True it was very late. but the
boys would feel much better even il
there was only a trumpet and drum
to give them send off"
June and December are the two
big months in the marriage business %
said Chris Amanda "All the rest OF the
year they ramble along about the
ried every day, and then about Christ
mas they break loose. and there is a
perfect epidemic Of weddings. Things
quiet down again then, picking up a
little on Saturdays. perhaps, but not
always, and then in June they begin
to give US writer's cramp again. and
the judge gets tired taking in the
money Christmas is the worst They
come in a bunch then, and in June
they are strung out through the
month There isn't much difference
between the marriage market this
ting married at Just about the same
rate now that they were then"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-02
DON'T TRY TO HOARD COAL,
IS GARFIELD'S WARNING

Washington. D. C. March Con
sumers OF coal IN providing this
spring and summer for their next
winters fuel requirements. will be
limited by the fuel administration in
their purchases strictly to their needs.
In making this announcement last
night fuel administrator Garfield
said all local fuel committees would
be instructed TO see that there . no
boarding.
The fuel administration has advised
all consumers to begin as early as
sunplies.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-02
Uncle Walls Denatured Poem.
Winter WEAKNESS

snow, I'm of Pm
the wheat wintry weather be
cheerful strive
% every signing mortal To find Joy everything always
vor but how whE winter
~ swat his e to glad and pleasing numbers when nauht
break the winter be exhausted; and morning when find
frosted
Pm
chlbn tired nunzy;
blows Of
dirty every
tired chairs hoo-hoong;
climates built for polar
Copyright George Mattns Adams WALT MASON
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-02
Psychological Car To
Be Used At The Front

London, Eng. March "A fully
equipped motor car laboratory for
ARCHAEOLOGICAL tests at the war front
has been presented TO the war office.
The equipment includes incubators-
microscopes, hot chambers. Pasteur
oven, microtone, electric lighting out
fit and provision for animal cages on
the roof
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-02
Lille Interuiews

business men IN the city IN which they
locate
I'VE have many men in FL Paso
who know the needs Of the city They
know what is necessary to get IN
dustries here, they know what IS
necessary to make business PICK up,
so let's put IL UP to the TlghL
man 10 take the lead and bring all OF
the business men together for the pur-
pose of stirring things to activity
I'VE can have a hustling city 90
much building, do much promoting
Of new and important industries, anu
still be patriotic Other cities are
booming, building. bringing in big
plants. and vet doing their duty with
their government. Take for example
Tulsa. Okla. whose building permits
for the year 1917 were S9.416.zlO. Its
bank clearings were S53,4y5, 1889.
1t raised money and invested in LID
ertv loan bonds 10 the extent OF Sloi-
26O.450 from January to November
1917, and during the month OF No
vember raised an additional SlOO,OUO
for war purposes. They are not only
helping the government but they are
also helping themselves and their
great growing city This is the spirit
that wins and We have it in FL Paso,
only at this time we are not hitting
the ball
THE city has done its part in
levelins the grounds about the High
land Park school, said Henry NJ.
Walker. land approaching what has
been done, the Improvement associa-
ton OF the addition has decided to roll
the grounds and make further i'm
provements at its own expense. The
school board has agreed to pave the
sidewalks when all the leveling and
rolling is completed. When this shall
have been all done, Highland Park
residents will no longer have any fear
that their children might fail over
the steep bluffs that have existed
about the school mousse
at IS surprising and pleasing to
see 50 many men and women come 10
ton for treatment" said DR.. V. v.
Wood. The numbers coming for at
tention are increasing daily and Won
derful results are being obtained
When the sufferers realize that the
management Of the clinic has no in
tention Of molesting them or IN any
way curtailing their liberty. but de-
sires merely to make them more
healthy, the NUMBER OF patients viii
increase still more. No patient need
have any fear when coming to the
clinic Of anything but scientific
treatment"
at looks as though the price OF
fresh eggs hac reached a bottom
price for the summer" said A L.
Lawrence. From the It'll OF Febru-
airy the price OF fresh eggs has
dropped from S21 a case to S15 per
case, but 1 do not look for any fur
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-02

The proposal build 100000 addition to the Arizona
capitol building IS good one The capitol building is much
like the United States department before hostties
openedgood as far it goes but unprePared for ex-
sion. The building is crowded now with otce holders
that they almost step each others toes. 1t is case
of either adding to the building eliminating some Of
the political Jobs OF the latter alternative can't
be entertained for a moment.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-02

What's become O. tn ole time cor
netist that used T. run tn scale at
home? Nothin' makes US realize tn
awfulness o. war like restaurant corn
bread.
Copyright National Newspaper Service.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-02

Charles Schwab of the Bethlehem Steel company, says
that in the future labor will rule and he is careful TO in
cIude himself among the laborers.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-02

at looks as though the price OF
fresh eggs hac reached q bottom
price for the summer" said A L.
Lawrence. From the eth OF Febru-
airy the price OF fresh eggs has
dropped from S2I a case to S13 per
case. but I do not look for any fur