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El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28
IA Bit Of Hell


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The following poem was sent to Hal
Franklin by Howard Sears, who is in the
aviation corps at Camp Travis, Tex, with
the request that & be Published in the
Swastiks, We don't know where Howard
got 1t, but It is evidently quite popular with
the boys In the camps.
I'm sitting here and thinking
OF the things | left behind,
And | hate to put on paper
What is running through my mind.
We've dug a million trenches
And cleared ten miles OF ground,
And a meaner place this side Of hell
| know 1t can't be found.
But there's still one consolation.
Gather closer while l tell
When we die we're hound for heaven,
For we've had our bit Of heEl
We've built a hundred kitchens
For the cooks to stew our. beans,
We've stood q million guard mounts
And cleaned the camp latrines.
We've washed a million mess kits
And peeled a million spuds.
We've strapped a million blanket rolls
And we've washed q million buds. }
The number Of parades we've done
Is hard for me to tell;
But ven not parade In Heaven,
For we've done our bit Of he'll!
We've killed a million rattlesnakes
That tried to take our cots,
And shook a million centipedes
From our army socks;
We've marched a hundred thousand miles
And made a thousand camps,
And pulled a million cactus
From out our army pants.
But when our work on earth is done.
Our friends behind will tell,
When they died they went to heayen,
For they did their bit of hell!
When the final taps is sounded
And we lay aside our cares,
And do the very last parade
Right up the golden stairs,
And the angels bid us welcome,
And the harp begins to play,
While we draw a million canteen decks
And spend them all one day; y
II As then wen hear st. Peter
TELL us loudly with a yell,
Just take a front seat. boys,
For you've done your bit Of hell"
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El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28
The March To Petrograd

Germany seems definitely to have com
mitted herself TO an Invasion Of Grea
Russia. The only material difficulties II
the way Of the march on Petrograd are the
walking, which is slushy at this season d
the year, and the perverseness Of the Max
imalist troops who commandeered all ths
rolling stock for Old Home Week, says the
New York Tribune.
At first glimpse the distances involved
seem somewhat forbidding. 1t Is a little
less than 300 miles from Riga to Petrograd,
and about double that distance from Petro
grad to BrestLitoysk, the late home OF
peace" and the great fortress which will
undoubtedly be used for concentrations CO
operating with the Ukrainians, who are TO
be protected" From her naval bases al
ready established on Dago. Oesel and Moon
islands at the mouth of the Gulf of Riga,
Germany has another clear roadstead to
Kronstadt and Petrograd.
On the sea the Bolsheviki possess the
defensive inheritance of a few scattered
mine fields and a modern battle feet in
capable Of ghting. On land their sure
shield is an aggregation of guerilla bands
accustomed nov to scamper at the first
spiked helmet on the horizon, and Trotzky's
slippery tongue, which Kuehlmann SENS to
have feared more than General HOFFMAN,.
The German problem. then, Is not one OF
conquest, but merely one of occupation.
1t would be absurd to dignity such an
excursion as a campaign. The march to
Picking during the Boxer uprising present
ed greater obstacles. No strategic maneu-
vres are in order, no vast masses Of ar
tillery or munitions are needed. The es-
sential requirement, as in, any foray, is to
possess and police the chief centres Of pop
ulation.
* far as the Allied fronts are concerned
these movements viii have no Immediate
military significance. They will not in the
least delay such Withdrawals OF troops for
service in the Western theatre as Ger,
many is already making. The twenty-odd
divisions which Hindenburg in any event
intended to leave In the East will be suf-
icient for all purposes. Landsturmers, UNI
able to face the Hell Of Flanders" can be
depended upon to bleed the Red armies
white and give them a little more sympa-
thy for the Beigians. No loss OF morale on
the Allied civilian from should result, any
thing that may happen in Russia Is already
discounted and smothered in disgust.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28
ANIMAL JOKES.

The schooimaster was giving tle boys a
lecture on thrift and pointed out how SPUR
|rels stored up nuts for the winter. Then
he asked for another Illustration Of thrift
in animals and one boy cried out:
q dog
"a dogl In what way does a dog prac-
tice economy"
"Please sir, when he runs after his tail
he makes both ends meet,
The master laughed and another boy
said:
"a BEAR
wen, what does the bear do?@
H makes n coat last him q life
time"
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28

industry to the success OF the war;
The kinds Of pictures desired by the Army
and Navy Commissions for use In the camps
will be chosen by the National Board pE
Review from the lists OF productions of all
the companies. The plan Is to provide for
an adequate number Of first rate pictures
which shall be available at any point the
Training Camp Commissions may designate
and at q much lower cost than heretofore
has been made possible for those 0rganl
aafions which are responsible for the enter
tainment of the men while in The canton.
ments. This Will be done through the ex.
changes Of the various motion picture com.
panies scattered throughout the country.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28
ARlE no APPEAR,

John Philip Sousa, who is organizing milf
tary bands for the army, was talking to a
correspondent about the submarine danger,
"A friend Of mine, a cornet virtuoso," he
said, was submarined in the Mediterranean,
The English paper that reported the affair
worded It thus:
"'The famous cornetist, Mr.. Hornblower,
though Summarized by the Germans in the
Mediterranean, was able TO appear at Mar
settles the following evening in four
pieces. Journal.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28
KNEW WHAT II A

The teacher was giving a talk on coins
and they had been thru the entire range
from pennies to double eagles. one little
girl was inattentiye. Her gaze was fixed
upon q playful sparrow ON the wiadow sill,
and she had no thought OF coins.
Suddenly the teacher placed q half dol
lar ON the pupils desk and demanded:
whats that?"
Heads" came the instantaneous answer.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28
WAR MEASURES.

A learned discourse on shrinking under
garments in Mems Wear" prompts a pite-
GUS appeal from q wearer who is himself
shrinking. "The pity of 1t u.s. he signs,
that | am ~collapsing latitudinalIy while my
alleged woolens wane in the longitudinal d.
~rection only. Could we not have a war
time fabric, warranted to shrink in girth
alone ?"-London Chronicle.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28
The Liberal Fills a Want

Thanks are extended to the enterprisine
Western Liberal Of Lordsburg for a book Of
up-todate maps Of the European battle
iields. The Liberal is filing a recognized
want when it provides a means Of learning
just what the dispatches are talking about
when they display a bunch Of names Of
towns that look like scrambled sections Of
the alphabet.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28

THEY KEEP HER A

Fort Sumner Review.-A Fort Sumner man
is seriously considering a plan to fatten
his cows. He says the wind whistling
through their ribs at night makes his wife
SO nervous that she cannot sleep. He
thinks he has t~wentysnine head, but is not
certain, as the count varies nearly every
~time-when one of the animals stands
l~engthways to him 1t is too thin to be
seen distinctly and he oyeriooks one or
two every time and the total varies &C
cordingly. These are facts, founded on
fiction.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28
you can have the ocean," remarked the
HEkNEM.

Unsuspected-The Producer have en-
gagged a new prima donna, and ! want you
to- make an appointment with her and go
over the songs. You win find she is a ricc.
agreeable woman You ought to get on
well with her. Her name is Ina Blank.
Do you know her?
The Conductor-Of course | do. | was
married to her once.-New York Tele-
gram. reveal 9t@ffE
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28
No WoNpER.

what is the matters' asked the mother
of a six-year-old girl, as she came home in
tears after her first da yin school. ~9f
Il don't like the teacher, ; said the little
one.
why you hardly know her. What has
she done to your. fH
When l went in she said: You sit here
for the present. and she never brung IT,"
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28

A little Kansas Cit ygirl, relates the Star
received a nicely engraved invitation to an
afternoon party the other day, In honor of
a playmate's birthday. Delighted at the
prospect, she gave the invitation . second
reading, and then she suddenly began to
cry. 1T says from 3 to s." she explained
to her mother. 'and I'm 81 III
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28
CAUTIOUS.

Walking through the village street one
day the widowed Lady Bountiful met old
Farmer Stubs on his way to market. Her
greeting went unnoticed.
reiE beg your pardon. mlady," was the re-
ply, but my poor wife amt dead nlore'n
two weeks, and | amt started lookin' at the
winmen yet,"-Minneapolis Tribune
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28

IT'S VERY simple. II 0 have any
kick about coal prices, just write a let
ter to the local fuel committee, wherev-
er you live. What it'll do furnishes a
diverting question.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28

And, furthermore, as long as the boys
are willing to do the fighting, the he
critters who stay at home should be
glad to dig up money for the bandages
that will bind their wounds.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28

AS LONG as the women are willing
to do the work the men SHOULD be vii
ling to furnish the money to keep the
Santa FN Red Cross going.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28

TAMMANY HALL is going to let the
New York women. have q voice in its
affairs. About one in every ten will
keep the Tiger boys shouting to make
themselves heard-believe usi And
what they say may do some good, If
anything can
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28

THE SECRETARY Of war is a Baker
but, the food administration hasn't tried
to run him yet.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28

SLAVS, says a headline aend May
Turn at Bay. But we fear It viii be
Batfin Bay, or Doccook Bay. or some
other bay equally remote before their
turning amounts to much.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28

It has been ascertained that Tfot.
zky was disinclined to do much Rorksky
while a resident Of this country. Which
bears out certain theories Of Our own.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28

PNHUM0NID plague Al ChlnA. NOW
why IN the name o. an insofutscie Pro
pidence couldn't that plague hare bust
loose in Germany
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28

HUN still thinks that II viii take nB
Two years, as Britain did, b turn
out one real soldier or oE1ceE.. The
Most Highly Kplturea stins has some.
thing to learn. ae should know BY tbs
time that an American never did do
anything Just ike somebody else.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28

"QUICK@ The NEEoLEI"
Since the Kaiser ought 10 be caught
alive,
Without ~camouflage or screens,
The best bait that | can suggest
Is a plate of Pinto Beansl
INA Knutt.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28

TO THE DAY-when we junk the
junkers.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28

How many thrift stamps have you sail
ed safs away?
How much 20 Red Gross dld you alvs,
You Gee?
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28
LITTLE roo BREEZY

The Missourian visiting in New York had
run out of breath, then got a fresh start
and said:
IF we could only have the same ocean
in our city that you've got at your doors,
New York wouldn't be one, two three with
U.S.
You can have the ocean. remarked the
New Yorker dryiy.
Have IT, What do you meanf demand
ed the w~esterner.
well, If you can draw in your breath
as hard as you can blow It out. pulling the
ocean over to your burg would be a small
task
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28

AUSTRIA for a fact doesn't seem I'd
have any great enthusiasm about
crushing the Russians, sic her on an
Italian and It is something else again.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28

So DIG UP, ana do It ~eheerraIly.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28

TOTAL OF 10000 sloyaks and
Czechs training In France to night the
Hun. When a French OFFICER gets into
al argument with a ponehead Czech
recruit 1t must sound like q lombard
ment.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28

A NON-sinkable ship is reported i
have sailed from a Gulf port. Glad the.
think so. Here's hoping.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28

ALL that Germany really wants of
Russia, she says. is a tride OF $780,
900 square miles, Of land with a popula-
laton of 1s,O00,OOO people. and an in
demnity of three billion rubles.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28

II anyone still needs to be convinced
that Germany abhors q war conquest
this ought to settle it.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-06-21
A NEW INTEREST.

It was Reva's thirteenth birthday and
eighth grade several weeks ago. That
was why Mr.. and Mrs. Rosen decided to
entertain in her honor. About forty rela-
tives and friends were invited, and every
thing made ready to receive them Reva
was anxious for the guests to come She
knew that they were going to bring her
many. beautiful gifts, but since she was
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-06-21
| 8 THE Gypsy JEWESS &

they had witnessed A company of men
went out to look for the gipsies. Per-
haps they would find them and save the
little girl, but their search was in vain.
The gipsies knew they were no longer
on safe ground, so they at once broke up
camp, and before any from town could
come out they were speeding away on
their steeds to another town.
That night all the children of the town
were busy telling the story of the gypsy
Jewess. Those that knew not the whole
story completed it from their own mag
ination. Others, especially the girls, were
specializing who this little singing girl
might be, while the boys were discussing
what they would have done had they
been in the place of the boys that met
her.
There was one fellow however, who
was unusually sad that night-Samuel,
the boy who first spoke to the girl and
advised her to flee from her cruel mas
ter. While the people were out search
ing and after they had returned in de-
spair Samuel walked about gloomy and
disheartened. Samuel himself lived in
a neighboring town and had come with
his mother to visit his uncle. His cousin
had invited him to go out to celebrate
Lag Bonner with the other boys and he
went, little knowing whom he would meet
there and what effect it would have
upon all the townspeople. All this, how
ever, did not bother Samuel His SYM
tho OIL ri
and the more he thought Of her the more
chagrined he became
IT was the one that first saw her."
he muttered. II spoke to her first. Why
didn't I save her? Why didn't I make
her to go with me, rather than simply
advise her to run away? The time we
spent talking to her we could have
bought her in town to my uncle. Poor
girl, she must be undergoing awful tor
ments. She seemed so afraid of the
stick We were a number of boys; we
could have saved her easily. It was our
fault that she is lost now, and especially
mine, for I was the oldest one present"
It was long time before Samuel fell
asleep that night and when he did he
had most awful visions He imagined he
saw the little gypsy girl, with her hands
and feet bound, her long golden locks
tied to a tent pole, and a husky gypsy
beating her most cruelty with heavy
stick, while she cried pitifully. 'Let me
go! Let me go!" he heard her cry in
his dreams. Samuel cried, too, but soon
awoke to find his mother by his bedside
1t was morning, so Samuel dressed
quickly and went downstairs. That day
Samuel and his mother went home
(To be continued).
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-06-21
(Adapted from the Hebrew by Ben
ADAM
CHAPTER I.

dumbfounded. What could it mean?
Where did it come from? Who was its
owner? They looked about for mo-
ment and to their surprise saw a little
gypsy approaching them with song.
"Look, a gypsy, and she knows He
brew!" exclaimed one.
81 wonder how she got here. She
wasn't here when we first came, was
she?" asked second.
tfShe must have dropped from the
clouds. That's just like what we learned
in Hebrew school today. You know:
when the three angels suddenly appeared
before Abraham" added third.
The little girl came closer to the boys,
and when she was within talking distance
said to them in Yiddish, "Give me some
candy, boys; I'll sing for you. I can
sing some more songs"
The boys searched through their
pockets, but none had any candy just
then.
"How is it you know how to speak
Yiddish and sing Hebrew songs?" one Of
the boys who was holder than the rest
said, "aren't you gypsy girl?"
81 am gypsy girl, now" she answered,
"but-there, I was Jewess. But this was
long ago, before I was stolen. This was
when still lived there"
did they steal you? Why don't you
run away" the same one again said.
Because they hit me. Oh, they hit
me so hard with heavy stick. I'm not
allowed to run away. she answered.
"Who hits you?" =
Father and mother"
"What father and what mother?"
''Those people over there; that gypsy
and his wife,"
"Are they your father and mother?"
"Now they are; but they usent to be-
long ago." ..-->
"But why don't you run away, and
never go back to them any more? Come
with us, We'll hide you from the gipsies
They'll never be able to find you, and
if they do, they won't hurt you"
The little girl looked up, and her color
suddenly changed-she saw her father"
approaching.
a'Run away boys, and don't say any
thing, for here comes my father. Don't
tell him, anything, please; because he'll
hit me. Please run away, boys" All
this she said excitedly, and ran back to
meet her father"
What you have just read took place
in the outskirts of small town in Rus
STA, on one of those Jewish national holi-
days, Lag B'oner, (the holiday between
Pesach and Shvuoth) when the boys who
go to Cheder get "haf day off,. On
such an occasion the boys generally as
semble on vacant lot in the outskirts
of the town and play war. 1t was there
that the above episode took place.
When the boys saw the gypsy approach
ing them, they at once took to their
heels. In few minutes they were, back
in town, telling everyone the incident
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-06-21
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The Winslow mail., 1918-05-31
Railroad Pay Envelopes.

Director General McAdoo has
approved the report of the COM
mission on railroad wages, and
the new schedule will take effect
Saturday. In addition to the in
crease granted to all the en-
ployes, which is varying per
cent, the larger increases going
to the low salaried employe and
decreasing as7the wage increases.
In addition to the increase every
employe will get back pay on the
new schedule from January 1st,
which will range from about $100
to over 5000 to each employe.
The per cent increase is not based
ON the present wage, but the
wage paid in 1915, which in the
cases of many will amount to
very little as the wages have
been materially advanced in GER
tain lines of employment. An
other feature of equal interest is
the recognition of an eight-hour
day for all employees, and while
the, hours of labor will not be
reduced owing to the exigencies
Of the war, all overtime is to be
paid on pro rata basis. The
new schedule will add several
thousand dollars a month to the
Winslow pay roll.
The Winslow mail., 1918-05-31
Death Penalty Legislation.

Senator Roberts, of Cochise
county, has introduced resolu-
ton proposing an amendment
to the constitution re-establish-
ing the death penalty in Arizona,
as a means of circumventing the
Governor from interposing his
veto. There are enough votes in
the legislature to repeal the
present law on the statute book
abolishing capital punishment,
but the bill if passed would be
vetoed by Gov. Hunt, and it is
doubtful if it could pass over his
veto, but the passage of joint
resolution amending the consti-
tuition does not have to go to the
Governor for his approval. Gov.
Hunt is wrong in his attitude
toward capital punishment, and
if he would just glance over the
long list of cold -blooded murders
that have been committed in the
state during the past year, since
the death penalty was abolished,
he ought to be logical enough to
discern his error. There have
been more murders committed
the past year than in all the
other years since statehood, and
Arizona has become the rendez-
vous of thugs and criminals who
are wantonly killing people for
the few dollars to be thus OBJ
tanned, and are willing to take a
chance of being captured and
sent to the pen for a few years.
The Winslow mail., 1918-05-31
Found Dead.

A brakeman named Fl arry
Jones, who has been rooming at
the Peters home, was found dead
last Friday morning lying on the
floor in his room. He was last
seen alive Thursday morning,
when he came in on his run and
retired to his room. He was dis
covered by other roomers in the
house, who went to his door to
call but could get no response.
Officers were called to break into
the room. From the appearance
of the body it was evident he
had been dead for some hours,
and the condition of the bed and
froth about the mouth indicated
he had died in great agony, prob
ably from alcoholic poisoning. A
coroner's jury brought in a YER
dict that death was due to causes
unknown to the jury.
The Winslow mail., 1918-05-31
Penalty Fits Crime.

The news comes from Hol-
brook that Judge Sapp has SEN
fenced the trio of Winslow
professional bootleggers, Dick
Hesser, Charlie Ross and Matte
Peters, to six months in Jail,
with an additional fine of $500
on the two men and $500 on the
woman, and if the fines are not
paid, it is to be laid out in Jail at
the rate of 81 a day. All three
of the defendants were convicted
on two charges, and under the
law the second offense could be
made felony with a penitentiary
sentence, and it is to be regretted
the Judge did not give them the
limit. Winslow can get along
without them if they never come
back. But will the decision of
Judge Sapp stick, or will he be
granting them probation after a
few weeks on the specious plea
that the expense of maintaining
them in Jail is too great a burden
on the taxpayers?
The Winslow mail., 1918-05-31
Red Cross Fund.

The latest figures on the money
contributed by Winslow during
the drive for Red Cross funds
amounts to a trifie over $4,000,
and the total contributed by
Apache and Navajo counties,
which is under the jurisdiction
of the Winslow Chapter will ex-
ceed $1,000. The quota assigned
to this Chapter district was
S2500. This is an excellent show
ing and should be a matter of
pride to the citizens in the terri
tory, who are demonstrating
every day they are 100 per cent
American.
The Winslow mail., 1918-05-31
Death of v. E. Butner.

This community was shocked
yesterday by the announcement
OF the death of Mr.. V. E. Butner,.
who suddenly passed away at
his home shortly after the noon
hour. Mr.. Butner had been i'll
and under the doctors care for
several months, but recently he
seemed SO much improved and
was able to be about on the
streets, and was looking forward
with interest to the day he would
be able to resume his place on
the road as conductor. About
a week ago he was again con-
fined to his bed, but no serious
results were anticipated until
yesterday morning, when he was
suddenly attacked with sinking
spell and passed away a few
moments after the physician was
summoned to his bedside.
Mr.. Butner has been a resident
of Winslow for nearly twenty
years, and has been in the en-
ploy of the Santa Fe continuously
ever since. He leaves a wife and
two daughters Miss Jessie and
Mrs. Savage - to mourn their
loss of a devoted husband and an
affectionate father. At the hour
of going to press we have not
been able to learn of the funeral
arrangements.