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de enemigoS. como Sc dice. \ digo
cue no debieron hacerse, porque esoS
eIsayoS, y parciSes por anadidura,
son reveladoreS de debilidad de in
juSticia de las dos coSaS. AdemaS,
pretenden que un gobierno llamado re-
vOlucionario no sea atacado en- Ia
prensi, en- las Camaras V en- .otros
lugares, cS revelar clara Y teYHlinan-
temente cu&leS son las tende Icias de
eSe gobierno y justificar. IN c!erto
modo. k opcSicion que Sc le hace en-
todoS los camEoS.'
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-06-13
Por que es ese Censo

Dos razones hay para !evantar un
censo de todas las Sersonas mayores
de dieciseis amos que residan ell el
Condadu de Bexar. Es una de elias,
Ia primera, que Sc desea dar todos
los habitantes del pals, por el De-
partamento del Tesoro del Eobierno
Federal, una adecuada y hecesaria
educaci0n economical persiguiendose
con este el ensenar a todos los re-
(Pasa a la Sa. Pag. Col. 4a.)
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La causa de tan inusitada proposition
Haremos inyestigaciones

En- posici6n de nuevos y mayores
informes, ratificaremos rectificare
mos esta sensational noticia. Por
ahora, solo agregareros que. segun
los informes que nos fueron proper
cionados, el general Diaz rechaZ6 las
proposiciones de CarranZa.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-06-13
TO ADVERT RTISERS

Y guarantee LA PRENSA has a
larger circulation than any other
Mexican newspaper in the United
States.
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Pasa a La Ga. Par, Col. 5a.)
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-06-13
LIBROS EN- ESPANOL

Compre usted sus libros en- espanol
a la Casa Editorial Lozano, 118 N.
Santa Rosa Ave-, San Antonio, Tex.
Es la mas barata.
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The Cordova daily times., 1918-01-25

nothing but the channel and the reeds. There is not a roof nor a spire in sight. We are getting up to what may be called the artillery defense line of Venice. On the way we passed a Brit ish monitor with her big guns pointed inland. The coast batteries and big gun monitors constitute another de- fense line. Here in the salt channel between the islands we come suddenly upon a floating battery or pontoon as the Italians call them. It is a big steel barge mounting a gun, which has been steadily pounding the Aus. trians on the Piave Vecchia all night. She is manned by sailors, for the ar tillery defense of Venice is entirely in the hands of the navy
 From Porte Grandi as far as the eye can see the land is covered with waste of muddy water with rows of half-submerged willows marking out the fields which it covers, and here and there an isolated clump of farm buildings emerging from the floods We are here on the edge of the Piave inundations, and in another naval ar. tillery defense belt High banked roads, dikes and farm houses are all that remain above water. Some of these farmhouse islands are held by Austrians and some by Italians, and it is the aim of both sides to destroy the farms held by the enemy. A few nights ago some Italian sailors under took a cutting-out expedition against one of the Austrian islands, captured and burned the buildings and came back with Austrian prisoners
 Nothing more dismal can be imag- ined than this battlefield among the reeds except the awful desolation of the Flanders front. Unending water, half drowned willows and farm houses under bitter winter sky compose about as melancholy a picture as even war presents. On many of the islands formed by the release of the floods to protect Venice are brave families clinging to their homes in the hope that 1918 will see the invader thrown back
 On this sector the Italians have superiority of artillery. It is at night
The Cordova daily times., 1918-01-25
VENICE FACES MODERNS HUNS
 WITH BRAVERY
(By Associated Press)

WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN ITALY, Jan. 25.-Before the menace of the modern Hun, Venice, whose lagoons centuries ago furnished an asylum of safety for refugees fleeing from Attilla, is today almost emptied Of the 150,000 persons who ordinarily inhabit the city, only about 1000 re- main. But this is not because Venice fears for her own protection Across the battlefield of the reeds it is be- lieved that no invader will penetrate The city puts her trust in the lagoons as confidently as she trusted to the sea in olden times
 To the visitor in Venice in these days, when the invading army lies only a short march distant, one of the odd memories of the war will be that of the music of the great guns bomb ing from the Lidi and the nests of reedy islets in the northern lagoon. That music accompanies you all day in Venice
 The Queen of the Adriatic has her face to the foe. She has shut her shops and sent her merchandise away. The army or the navy have taken her young men. Those that remain have bricked up or sandbagged her churches and monuments and now await the issue in entire calm, confident that although the enemy is no more than long gunshot away, it is not at her own gates that Venice is menaced.
 From Burano, a motor boat takes you through a maze of channels into the Canal Silone, where you thread your way between reed-covered banks toward the mainland You can see
The Cordova daily times., 1918-01-25
CENTENARIAN
 IS HALE AND VIGOROUS

SPOKANE, Wash, Jan. 25.-Frank Russett, who will be 1O3 years of age Tn February, has little use for such effete appliances as street cars. They are too much trouble, he thinks, and walking is quicker
 MT. Russett is the father of sixteen details of running a ranch across the Idaho line, made his first visit to this city in ten years recently to visit with his daughters.
 Mir. Russett is the father fo sixteen children. He was born in Montreal but came to the United States before he attained his majority, and cast his first vote for President Lincoln. He has spent more than half his life in the West.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-01-25

'uiiS or their work are to be incorpor- ated in the Northwest cookbook. The university of Washington worked on soy beans and fish, assisted with the latter by the Puget Sound college; Washington state college worked on skinned milk and honey cookery. yeast and quick breads; Bellingham Normal, poultry and game; Whitman college, sugarless desserts and pre-. serves; Tacoma public schools, cheese and eggs; Seattle public schools, le- gumes; Spokane high schools, vege- tables and fruit; Ellensburg Normal, Tat conservation; Cheney Normal, corn and cereal buildings; Washtucna school, nuts.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-01-25
HOOVER" COOK BOOK
CBv Associated Pressl

PULLMAN, Wash, Jan. 25.-A new "Hoover" cook book, especially adapted to the use of housewives of northwestern states, is being prepared under the direction of Miss Agnes Craig, director of home economics at Washington state college.
 Because of different conditions in the Northwest, the cookbook issued by the national food administration was found to be not adapted to use in this section, as it's recipes were based on the use of hard winter wheat.
 Colleges and high schools of the state have been assigned various sub jects for experimentation, and the re-
The Cordova daily times., 1918-01-25

that the Italian guns do their hardest work At night the Austrians always attempt to construct field works or to lay bridges of boats across the PlaVe Vecchia to the canals. They take number of boats, tie them together and swing them out from one bank, trust ing to the currents to float them Into place on the other side It is the business of the Italian floating Da'' teries to drive away these bridge-bulld- CTS and to destroy the fruits of thelr iabors, and this they do with surprls- ing success.
 Tn Venice herself I have seen no sign of actual damage, except a hole torn in the roof of San Giovanni and San PaOla by an Austrian airplane bomb. The front of San Marco and the pillars of the Doge's palace have been bricked up, so that nothing or them remains visible. The same pre- cautions have been taken with the famous statue of Colleoni and, in fact, with all the monuments of the town that can be so protected.
 Tn the Piazza di San Marco almost all the shops are closed, but a num- Der are still open in the Merceria, and although almost all the gondolas have vanished, it is still possible to find one to take you up the Grand canal
The Cordova daily times., 1918-01-25
NOTICE.

On account of the eight hour law coal orders must be received before p. m. to insure delivery same day.
 No coal delivered after p. m.
 ALASKA TRANSFER c. 1O-tfI
The Cordova daily times., 1918-01-25

Madame Lydia, the palnist, will be found in the Currier & Mickelson building on c. street. 16-tf
The Cordova daily times., 1918-01-25

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New-York tribune., 1918-12-01
ID aw Wealth
AN For the Taking

But deslre isn't enough The days OF wish
ing are over and gone. The South knows it
Inc South understands quite we'll that the
END worth while, the end Of strong growth
and real attainment will demand something
more than the mood of the war wears
Tor achievement. The South does not need
TO pe persuaded that constructive effort is
altogether different from tie labor Of pro-
ducing raw materials You NAV take Il
Tor granted that so far as mental percen-
ton goes, these states are ready for tho
change which must inevitably come. Thew
know that somehow new order of things
must come to pass and that it must be
developed by new order of genius.
But the way is not plain and straight.
The South has the choice Of two courses.
IL isn't at all unlikely that if no pro
VehtlVe measures are taken there NAV
come at once a huge, oldfashioncd "boom"
occasloned by scramble for possession Of
the sources of Southern wealth-her lands.
her tlmber, her ores and coal and oil, and
~hat not Long before the war many mill
IONS of outside dollars had found such in
vestment; but it was deliberate. cautious
investment in the main, because no man
could foresee when broad DEVELOPMENT
would begin. These resources were honcht
because they were to be had at ridiculouslr
low prices, not because Of any promise Of
early profits. Such speculative buying
made no particular impression-therc
wasn't enough of it, measured against the
South's vast treasury. Values were there
beyond question, but the sheer deadweieht
Of the mass of opportunities forbade profit
taking. There was no boom.
1t seems quite certain that in the new
time easily available raw wealth like this.
no matter what its volume, is not to re-
main drug. 1t will be sought. War time
has called attention to it, Instead of ad
New-York tribune., 1918-12-01

"NHEY were seated side by side on
the beach. She plunged her
n hands in the sand as she talked
and let the grains tricklc
through her fingers The bay was d
sheet of light. spreading toward the
glowing and rcddening west. A band
Of clouds, irregular in shape, formed
on the horizon a pathetic outline of don
ions, towers and steeples, encircled by
q wall of pearl gray vapor. The breeze
came in from the sea, just strong enough
to 0atten the young girls white silk
costume against her arms, shoulders and
breast
To him, who had just left the war
behind him and who was about to be
swallowed up by it again within few
days, the setting, its calm. tho voice
which came to him out Of the clear
depths Of the others soul-all seemed
unreal. lIo looked and listened, con-
fused in his sensations of happiness, not
knowing whether it was truly for him
that those words were taking shape
words Of singular quality of tone, pure
rs the air, words which he wished al
ways to recall. They had the fresh per
fume of youth protected by modesty.
When phrase had come and gone the
silence seemed still to vbratc with it.
The young man didn't dare to break
that silence in spite Of the eager i'm
patience Of his heart. Then the young
girl asked him some question, with
smile Or she began to talk once more,
yielding to the attraction of certain
words which revealed her mind, but
which neither her parents nor her best
girl friend would ever have heard her
use as she was now using them. Their
facile outpouring surprised her. and
it seemed to her at times that she was
almost discovering herself when she ut
tered them.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-01

The policy of secrecy and suppression
so 1t must be described) pursued by the
War Department seems indefensible Six
months ago the War Department gave SOL
emn assurances that it would be frank with
the American people 1t has not been. No
one will contend for an instant that it has
not known, and long known, the truth.
Having been guilty of deliberate sup
pression it does not lessen its offence by
suddenly Pumping out the gross figures
of tripled list. Giving no names and only
stating totals, it has brought cruel anxiety
to approximately 100000 American house
holds. Each is wondering whether its loved
one is included in the unpublished list.
Having deceived the country for several
months, it would seem as if there might
have been persistence in the deceit until
the names were available and could be COM
municated TO the bereft Every family
which has not heard from it's absent mem
Der since the close of hostlities now sits
in fear because the War Department, rec
ognizing that the truth must soon come
out, suddenly resolved to confess and was
so desirous Of escaping from its embarrass-
ment that it did not care about anything
else.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-01

change her state of mind it is merely
prophesylng the obvious to say that she
faces n period Of speculative trafrickinr in
this great resource.
The temptation will be strong. The sem
sat1on of having plenty Of ready money
has been very pleasant all the more pleas.
ant because it came without any special
extra effort. If the flow stops from one
source why not open another? And here
is that other source ready at hand
AS have seen the South in the last two
or three years, met her moods, judged of
her intentions, am persuaded that she will
not submit to any mad boom frenzy with
out protest; certainly, she will not de-
llberatey invite it. Five years ago she
would have welcomed almost any sort Of
land boom upon almost any terms, but not
TO- day.
Go where you will, from the Carolnas
to Eastern Texas, and you will find the South
erners pretty much of one mind concerning
this proposition of the right disposition Of
her surplus undeveloped land Here is a
composite presentment of their reasoning.
What we want now is not dollar-chanp-
ing, but development; not juggling with
'"o HSlloHS Ol CdSnlnH In on our raw
sources, but turning those resources to
permanent account. It's true that the
proper farming Of our unused lands will
require that we pass them into new hands
but what hands? Boosting land prices
by the straightforward Of speculative
methods won't create new wealth. If we
stand for that the spectators will pocket
the profits of the trading and leave US lust
where we were, so far production is con-
ccrned. Before we can be any better
off, in fact, these lands must be farmed
SO it's farmers we want. Let's 90 after
the farmers"
That argument is finding very clear and
we'll organized expression IN hundreds of
communities. There's New Orleans. for
instance. New Orleans has prospered
greatly in war times, through war indus
tries, but this long time she has been
thinking ahead, knowing that war must end
by and by, and desiring to be ready for
the readjustments of peace Her planning
has been anything but vague She has or
ganized herself Speaking for her, for her
New-York tribune., 1918-12-01
IS way to the Promised Land-in the South

ner prosperity end II conditions IN +ho r,,w
'"' markets. result in n narrowing
-" '' proht! VIII she be content to so
y" :" ,ne old ways, with happy go lucky
a''P'S'''oh TO be reconciled to whatever
""ppons or VIII she develop new initia-
'''e' new strength, and undertake a big
programme of industrial development?
mat last part of the proposition is what
'he South is bent upon, what the South
earnestly and seriously desires, of course
NO people having once enjoyed a state of
substantial well-being will deliberately coax
Tor something less. If desires were means
Tor accomplishing ends the desires of the
South would carry her far in the time just
ahead
New-York tribune., 1918-12-01

Aren't you afraid of catching cold 2"
asked the young man.
She shivered, as if he had touched
her. Then she answered. quoting Yer
ainc:
1T is the exquisite hour"
In vain she talked of the dinner, of
the guests who were now playing bridge,
without giving even glance at the sea.
In vain he talked Of other things. They
were thinking each of the other, and that
fact. which troubled them equally, quick
ly suspended their conversation
The horizon was fading out Under
the yelowing sky the brown rocks
emerged, enormous, from a scintillating
green gold surface. She was thinking
that in a few days he would be looking
at the ravaged country at the front, in
stead OF all this quietude and spendor.
AT the same moment he exclaimed:
"And to think that it is necessary to
go back therer'
Without transition, he added:
Il have only you, mademoiselle--to
whom I cling"
Letter by letter he had confided to
her his whole life-all his ambitions,
what sorrows had softened him, the ma
turity which had come to him through
the rude trials of the war. He had sent
his picture to his dear godnother," in
order to induce her, in exchange, to re-
veal little of her outward appearance;
her age, at least; if she were free, or
merely the color of her hair. She had
ended by agreeing that he should come
New-York tribune., 1918-12-01

at all about that Wherefore the farmer
IS ready to run neck and neck with the
speculator for possession Of these lands.
There is not the least need nor any real
justification for the Intervention of clever
middemen to bring the lands into use.
Another factor will help nightly in set
tling this matter properly. The South is
: planning to take hand in every construc-
tive industry which may be based upon the
use OF her numberless raw materials She's
ready for that; she's bidding now for the
men who will make it possible. In the time
coming she viii be in the market for all
manNr of skilled workmen. And she knows
well enough that she cannot get them un-
less she can insure the best of living con-
ditlons at reasonable cost. The American
skilled worker just won't live out of tin
cans and paper boxes He must have a
real food-the best He'll insist upon good
fresh meat and plenty of (which means
that the South must go into meat growing
for her own home markets He'll insist
upon abundance of the best dairv prod
ucts-which means that the South must go
INTO dairy farming as a business. He'll
want quantities of fresh farm stuff. every
day of the week, instead of taking it for
Sundays and holidays only-which means
that Southern farming must be able to
supply this demand.
Say what you ike about the offer Of
higher wages; talk yourself black in the
face about soft climate, and all that; the
plain fact is that the skilled American
workman just won't try to get along on
diet of salt pork and turnip greens and corn
bread. The food question, more than any
other-more than all the others pat to-
determines whether he's WILLING %
live end work here or there. lie wouldn't
take job laying golden pavcments in the
New Jerusalem if the table living weren't
up to the mark. IF the South wants him.
she must feed him And the South knows II.
In time past, many and many Il promising
industry has blown up in the South Tor
exactly that reason. And now the South
has quit trying makeshifts and expedients
for meeting the condition Labor simply
won't stick anywhere if it can fare better
somewhere else. In short, good modern
farming, diversified farming, must be for
the South as for every other region tho
very bedrock of sound industrial develop
ment. There is no alternative
The South shrcwdIy secs that period
Of land booming, however interesting or
exciting, would seriously handicap the
business of productive farming and would
delay the whole of the industrial scheme
upon which her mind and heart are set
SO she'll have none of it if she can pos-
sibly manage to head it off
New-York tribune., 1918-12-01
McAd00's Mysterious Move

its futjlty. The Administration is now in
the hands of two Cabinet members from
Texas, and Mr. House, also of that state;
OF Mr.. Baker, who was born and educated
IN Virginia and only recently moved to
ONO, where he entered public life
There is not left strong man in the
Cabinet, but 1T is believed that majority
OF them are of socialistic leanings. That
is what makes the retirement of Mr. Nc
Adoo the more lamentabe He was an
able, safe and sane man"
There is little but praise for Mr.. Nc
Adoo's career prior to his resignation.
The New York Globe" says of him:
"lie has steered middle course lavine
on New York a burden not always fair, and
yielding at times too much to Kitchinism.
but never TO the extent of provoking in
surrection. The highly successful cam
palgns for the Liberty loans, of which Mr.
McAdoo was commander in chief will long
be remembered AS Webster said of Ham
llton, so it may be said of Secretary Nc
Adoo, that he struck the rock Of private
riches and abundant streams of wealth
gushed forth
"The New York Times" thinks it a
pity that
New-York tribune., 1918-12-01

thing very discredtabl to our country"
But "The Philadelphia North Ameri-
can" bluntly calls him "the gutter" in
an editorial from which is quoted
The Secretary goes out of his way to
impress upon the public that his service to
the nation has been performed at serious
financial loss to himself The emphasis
may have been used in order to discredit
reports that he had not suffered heavily
IN this respect. One undoubted merit of
his statement is that it does not invite
admiration on the pretence that the de-
cision is an act of patriotic self-sacrifce.
Mr.. McAdoo does not invoke the lofty sem
timents which he urged upon his country
men in his eloquent appeals to stand by the
government at any cost
And now, while a million young Amer-
cans are to continue at their posts of duty
abroad for $50 a month and up, the Secre-
tary coolly announces that he cannot afford
to serve the nation at $4,000 year, and
must abandon his work at crucial time in
order to make money. From any other
member of the Cabinet or at less trou-
blous period in the nations history, Mr..
McAdoo's decision would have no omnous
meaning. But coming from him, and in
view of the responsibilities committed to
ms care, 1T reveals a concept of public
duty which reflects upon him and will 20
further to confirm the belief that personal
interests, and not public service, control
the whole Administration.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-01

1.-The niggardlincss of our democracy tow
ard its servants has again compelled pub
llc officer Of the first order of worth ana
capacity to resign an i'll paid office at a
critical time to repair his private fortune,
no small part of which has been spent to
pay his living expenses while in Office"
Of his ability, "The Washington Post"
comments:
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, who
is to leave the Cabinet very soon and who
will quit as Director General of Railroads
in January, is the recipient of more offers
of good jobs than any other man in the
country. Big business concerns are after
his services and are willing to pay him as
much for one month as the government
pays him for whole year A man of his
capacity and proved ability can dictate his
own salary when signing up with business
establishment"
Very unfortunate thinks "Thc Balti-
more Sum;
"To say that the government of the great
United States must be deprived Of the ser
vices of such a man because it cannot pay
him a living salary is to confess some