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El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07
.SH|P-YARD MEN
HONORED SAME AS
THOSE WITH GUNS
Quarter Million Skilled
Volunteers Needed
by Government.

Washington, Feb. 6-Standing above
everything else in importance at this
time is the need of the United States
and the Allies for ships. Uncle Sans
fighting boys, and supplies, arms and
munitions for them, cannot be sent to
France without ships. ALI the depart
ments of the Federal Government r
now in earnest cooperation in the ef-
fort to put the required number of ves-
sells upon the high seal with the least
possible delay.
Charles Piez, vice president and gent
trail manager Of the Emergency Fleet
Corporation has made the following
statement with reference to the criti-
cal situation:
THE work of the state councils of
defense and Of the agents of the pub
lie service reserve in enrolling 100000
skilled workmen for the United States
Ship Yard Volunteers is of paramount
Importance in the early winning of the
war.
within so days three huge Govern
ment yards will be complete and soon
thereafter more than 10000 workmen
will be required to furnish for them
the three 8-hour shifts necessary, ii
these yards are to turn out their ships
according to schedule.
"The Shipping Board now has TIC
ship-ways, 1902 are for wooden ships
and Ala are for steel construction. The
yards in which they are established
are working only one 8-hour shift per
day. 90 weeks in the year.
Our program calls for the construc-
tion in 1918 of eight times the tonnage
delivered in 1916, at a cost of more
than 1000, 100000. The Shipping
board has the necessary yards, the ma
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07
DEV|S|NG PLANS
TO DIVERT RAIL
TRAFFIC FROM
CHOKED PORTS
Will Break Blockade by
Dividing Up Among
More Terminals.
McADOO NAMES
NEW COMMITTEE

(By Leased Wire to New Mexican.)
Washington, Feb. 6.-Further steps
looking to diversion of railroad traf'
fic from the most ~congested eastern
gateways were taken today by Direc-
tor General McAdoo by appointment
of a traffic investigation committee.
1t consists of B. L. Winchell, Chicago
traffic director of the Union Pacific,
G. Randolph, New York, head of a
number of trunk line committees and
II. o. Powell, Cincinnati, vice presi-
dent of the Southern railway.
This commission said Director
General McAdoo's announcement, lis
to make a study Of the great traffic
currents of the country with a view
to seeing what steps can profitably
be taken in order to shift traffic
from the most seriously congested
gateways to less congested gateways,
and from the more %congested ports
to the less congested ports"
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07
TIME NEARING
FOR BIG SPRING
DRIVES IN WEST,
ARTILLERY FIRE
GETTING INTENSE
For Last Two Years Big
Operations Began in
Early February.
u. S. ARTILLERY
KEEPS HUNS BUSY

(By Leased Wire to New Mexican.)
Raiding operations and ar
tillery duels are increasing on
the western front as the time
for the beginning of the spring
operations approaches. Two
years ago Germany began her
drive on Verdun February 81,
while last year the British cap
tured Grandcourt on the
Somme front on February z,
and the Germans two weeks
later retired from the Ancre,
the first step in the retreat. to
the Hindenburg line.
All official statements re-
port great artillery activity.
The big guns have been busy
around Ypres and before Cam
brai, on the British front, on
the right bank of the Meuse, on
the French front, and on the
American sector.
The British have made a successful
raid northeast of Ypres and French
raiders brought back prisoners in the
Argonne. German Attempts near Cam
brai and near Corbeny, in Champagne,
were repulsed.
There has been lively aerial and ar
tillery fighting in American sectors
northwest of Toul. The skies there
have cleared and the Germans are re-
ported to be b~ombarding villages un-
touched for many months.
British filters on Monday dropped
three tons of bombs and accounted for
eight enemy airplanes with the loss
of one machine. On the Italian front
Italian and British ayiators have
brought down 10 enemy machines
while the Germans again have bombed
Padua.
U. S. ARTILLERY KEEPS
UP CONTINUOUS FIRE.
With the American Army in France,
Feb. 6.-(By the Associated Press.)-
American artillery kept up a continu-
GUS fire on the enemy batteries
throughout Tuesday and the Germans
responded with the result that there
was lively Smelling along the entire
sector.
At the same time the American anti
air craft guns were busy repelling at
tempts of enemy airmen to cross over
the American lines. Two German air
planes finally abandoned the attempt,
after having been shelled heavily.
A member of the military police to-
day found three little French children,
a girl and two boys, wandering along a
road Immediately behind the front
which is shelled very frequently by
the enemy and is considered very dan
gerous. He turned the children ove
to an ambulance driver who returned
them to their homes in a nearby viii
lage.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07

terial and the money-all that is lact
ing is the spirit in the nation that will
send 5 $1,000 American mechanics into
the yards to give their best and most
efficient work.
we honor all men in the uniform.
and the same honor must be given to
the men who go to work in the var
Just as the navy is the first line of
the British Empire, and Just as Ger
many depends upon her submarine, so
must America depend for victory upon
the shipbuilders in the American yards.
ITO the women of America | say
send your men to the shipyards, for
they will be doing there no less a
service than in the army OF navy, and
they will be returned to you safe and
we'll, after having performed a duty
that is a primal necessity of the
war;"
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07
S. eputies Guard
Swift Lawyers Vault

Chicago, Feb. 6.-Deputy United
States marshals today guarded the
vault of Henry Veeder, attorney for
Swift and company after an all night
vigil following a raid on the lawyers
office yesterday growing out of the
federal trade commissions inquiry into
alleged illegal acts of the packers.
The marshals will remain on guard at
the vault until the court decides today
whether papers taken may be exam
ined and the search for other docu
ments continued.
The raid on the Veeder offices was
made under authority of a federal war
rant obtained by Francis j.. Tieney,
counsel for the federal trade commits
sion.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07
Roosevelt Operated
on for Assesses

Washington, Feb. 6.-Colonel Theo-
dore Roosevelt went to Roosevelt hos
pital today to undergo another opera
ton, the second within TIE last week,
for the removal Of assesses. The
first operation was performed at his
home in Oyster Bay. The trouble is
said to be not serious.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt has
gone to Roosevelt hospital, where he
will be operated upon for an abscess
which has been the immediate cause
of his trouble; and also for two sub
sidiary assesses produced In his ear
by the poisoning Of his system in his
Amazonian explorations four years
ago." read a statement issued by his
secretary at his hotel here.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07

| wise to send men to France untrain-
ed.
Secretary Baker replied that many
artillery officers were being trained
in France at q school turned over by
the French and that 1t took more
time to train artillerymen than Of
ficers.
THE plan Of the department" the
secretary added, lis to give as much
training in this country as possible
by concentrating artillery supplies In
units likeliest to go first to France.
but in no case for them to be used
in combat until their training is COM
pleted on the other side. | therefore
do mo- think 1t unwise to send men
over who are not completely train
ed"
Secretary Baker gave the opinion
that new legislation would be desir-
able to give the president general
powers to transfer and coordinate
functions of various departments as
conditions arise.
Tonnage Losses Light
American, tonnage losses, Secretary
Baker, said, have been exceedingly
light"
1.-THE service the navy has render
ed in protection of the army" he
said, has been unexampled."
Senator Weeks asked IL the war
department had succeeded in doing
as much as it had hoped for in DC.
tober.
II can answer that in this way"
Mr.. Baker said. "On January / we
had transported to France more
troops than our schedule had called
for.
Both combatant and non-combat-
ant troops?" asked Senator Weeks.
"That is the aggregate" Mr. Baker
said.
Senator Weeks said he had heard
that a military force ran about 40
per cent COMPLAINT troops.
Secretary Baker said he did not
have the figures but thought the
forces in France might show thst
ratio. He agreed to furnish Senator
Weeks confidentially with exact fig
ures as to the number of men ship
ped and the proportion Of the fight
ing troops.
Senator Weeks asked what ton
mage the war department had avail
able. He said he had heard that It
had 791, 900 tons on February 1. MI.
Baker did not know exactly but
thought that was an underestimate.
rs 1t unwise to send men not train.
ed at ALL men who have never seen
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07
HEATLEss MONDAY
REMAINS FOR PRESENT

Washington, Feb. 6.-Continuation
Of the heatless Monday program at
least for the present as essential to
the relief Of the acute coal shortage
in the east has been decided upon by
the fuel and railway administrations.
DR.. Garfield said state fuel admin
istrators reported to him a substan-
tial saving Of coal on Mondays. Pub
lie utilities concerns in 20 cities, he
said, save % per cent of fuel. The
heatless Mondays will be continued,
he added, until the railroads are able
to move coal. If the weather mod
crates DR.. Garfield believes embar-
goes perhaps will be all that is
necessary.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07

Hitchcock Wants To Be Shown
Senator Hitchcock, who has attack
ed particularly the secretary Of wars
statement that the United States
could put a million men in France
this year--dn addition to 100000
there early this spring-was insist
ent that Mr.. Baker should show the
committee what grounds he had for
believing there we're ships available
for their transport and supply.
Secretary Baker replied he did not
have the exact figures in his mind
but that his statement was made on
figures which had been prepared by
experts who took in the information
at the disposal of the shipping board
as we'll as what ships might be avail
able from neutral and foreign
sources.
The secretary made plain that he
was not counting wholly IN Ameri.
can ships to transport the troops.
Only General Survey"
Secretary Baker did say. however,
that probably the form of his orig
inal statement to the committee,
which has been made the basis of at.
tack, was unfortunate in that 1t TX
pressed his general opinion Of a
broad situation rather than the ex-
act statement Of experts dealing in
DEATHS.
THE misfortune for me, If I may
call it SUCH" said Secretary Baker.
LAY in the fact that l attempted ~
give opinions Of the broad general
situation as ] saw it, when the infor-
nation lay in details that ought TO
have been gotten from the exports IN
direct charge, or in statistics giving
specific facts. I was attempting a
general survey. 1t was a misfortune
for me to do that"
Shipping Estimate Small
An estimate of 100000 tons OF
ships available for transportation
February /, the secretary said, he
had thought was small rather than
too large.
The shipping board Senator Hitch
cock said, had advised him that on
November l there were available $50
American ships, all of more than
1900 tons each, including tank ships
and the German and Austrian ships
taken over.
Mr.. Baker did not know how many
troops that number OF ships would
transport but promised to inform the
committee later.
Depends on Weather
DO you expect to keep soldiers IN
the southern camps during the sum.
mer?"
Il can't answer" the secretary re
piled. It depends much upon the
nature of the summer weather, he
said. If 1t was comparatively as G.
we're as the winter, he said, 1t would
be necessary to move some Of the
troops.
Statements attributed to Lord
Nortscliffe saying preparations were
being made In America for raising an
army but little was being done to
provide for its transportation across
the ocean were read by Secretary
Hitchcock.
Hadn't Heard Of II.
Secretary Baker said he had not
heard of the statement and could not
remember II the subject had been
discussed in conferences with Lord
Northcliffe.
Declaring that ''eveIy body knows
about half the men, both officers
and enlisted men, in the camps have
never been trained with artillery or
machine guns" Senator Mcclellan
asked the secretary II he thought II
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07
GRAND SPRING DRIVE ON BAKER;
DEFENDS HIS SHIPPING ESTIMATES
or Not to Tell Germans Everything, Mat
ter of Debate; Cabinet Member Averse to Ped
ding Confidential War Information for Benefit
of Kaiser and Won Hindenburg.
nv Leased Wire to New MexIcan.)

Washington, Feb. 6-Secreary Baker came up for cross examination o.
day before the senate military committee on his picture of the state OF pre-
Iparedness of the army which congressional critics have attacked a s grossly
Exaggerated" But the principal point Of the whole contoyersy-the question
this year-was left untouched, partly because Secretary Baker did lot have
the detailed figures to show the committee oil what bassh he made his asser
ton and partly because the committee got into a squabble over whether 1t
would be proper to have the secretary of va disclose the figures In public.
The upshot II it raj that the question of ships was left to be presented
in detailed exact statements to the committee in secret session tomorrow and
the crossexaminauon wen on to other subjects of a general nature.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07
Welcome; Goldman Is
Penitentiary Arrival

JEFFERSON City, Mo-, Feb. emma
Goldman, accompanied by Deputy
United States Marshal John L. Whalen
and his wife, arrived here today to
complete her two-year prison sentence
for trying to obstruct the selective
service law.
She will be assigned to making
clothing.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07
BEATING U-BoATs
SAYS MR.. DANIELS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-secre-
tary Daniels said today the Unit
ed States and the allies we're win
ming the fight against Germany's
submarines. I'VE are having our
ups and down." he said, "but the
fight is being won."
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07
MILLION DOLLAR BLAZE

Jeffersonville. Ind, Feb. Give
of the 10 buildings of the Indiana
state reformatory we're destroyed by
fire here early today; loss, $1,000
900.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07

Many Officers and Men of German Sympathy or
Expressing Pro-German Sentiment, Statesman's
Yards of Loose Conversation Unwound by Law
makers.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07
CIVIL RIGHTS BILL PASSED

Washington, Feb. 6.-The soldiers
and sailors civil rights bill, provid-
ing a moratorium for men in the mil
itary establishment was unanimously
passed today by the senate, virtually
in the form it passed the house.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07
Can't Name Destroyer
Gardner; Namesake
Must Be a Naval Hero

Washington, FEB. 6.-Secretary
Daniels today disapproved the pro
posal to name a first class destroy
err the Augustus P. Gardner in
tribute to the former representative
from Massachusetts who died while
serving as major of infantry. Score.
tary Daniels told the house naval
committee that naval ships are
named for naval heroes and that the
army looks after its own.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-07
W sHoT IN ST. LOUIS

st. Louis, Mo, Feb. 6.-Two men
were shot in strike riots today.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-01-23

W. H.DORRlS-Attorney-at-Law, over
Exchange Bank, Cordele, Ga.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-01-23
TAG-YOUR-sHoVEL DAY

The Unieted States Fuel Admins
t alton has specified January 30, 1918,
as National ag-Your-Shovel Day. On
this day, all the school children of the
country, will tag the coal shovels
used in American homes. The tags
which are now being printed bear the
wording on one side, Save shovel
ful everyday for Uncle Sam
On he reverse side are specific hin
fer saving coal The nations coal
7 puirements have increased so great
" the ccal is not being mined rapidly
enough; consequently every shovelful
saved in American homes will add to
the governments coal pile and assist
il speeding up war activities.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-01-23
: NEW FIG INDUSTRY

Experiments have been under way
recently at Brunswick and other
Southern points. especially in Geor
gia which are said to have revealed
thai the valuable Smyrna fig can be
successfully grown i'm this section
That ii may bepossible within a
year or two to grow perfect Smyrna
figs-the superior imported type in
many localities CT he South. is the
conclusion of the United States de-
partment of agriculture specialists
based on recent investigations. De
velopemeuts this season, il is said
not only that such an industry can
be established. but have shown that
an unexpected condition exists; thai
Smyrna fig trees, some of large size
already are growing in the south
They have not bcrne fruit because
the fertilizing insect blastophaga, has
not been present The insect was in
troduced from California in one sec
ton this year and apparently has
established itself
Ever since the successful establish
ment OF the capri fig terulizing in
sect in California and the produc-
tion of considerable quantities Of
Smyrna figs on the west coast it has
been the hope of many people in tile
south and OF the department of agri-
Culture to establish a similar indus
try in the gulf states As many PEG
pie r. Is south know, there are in a
ppn a towns and villages large
Fix q which are sterile. Recent
ipsestis ms by G. P. Rixford of the
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-01-23

federal bureau of plant industry, and
George r. Murrell, horticulturist of
the Souther.l railway have shown that
many of these sterile are, in reality,
Smyrna trees which have not borne
fruit owing to the absence of the par
ticular insect necessary to fertilize
the flowers. Both male-called capri
trees and female Smyrna fig trees
are present.
With The cooperation of Mrs. L..
NJ. Russell, a grower, at Brunswick,
Georgia, a number of the fertilizng
insects were introduce from Califor
MIA last summer and apparently have
become tablished on two large trees
in that city. 1t is believed that they
will survive the winter, in which case
the necessary step to the production
Of Smyrna figs, in at least one locality
ia the sou Ii, will have been taken.
Cnce production has been demonstra
ted it is believed the new field will
be developed by paintings in many
localities.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-01-23
OFFICIAL ORGAN CRISP COUNTY.
ESSAY ON GRIPPE

Here is enough about the fashion
able cold to to reveal thai the write
has been along the path of tribulation
Says the Valdosta Times:
One of our neighboring editors
who has just recovered from the
grippe say it is a riproaring in
siitution of cold in the head
which has done more to enrich the
medical fraternity than toying
with a PROSTATE appendix. 1t is
called thepripe because it has
one which would make Frank
Gotch's toe hold look like a high
hand shake of Bar Harbor belle.
co The grippe is always introduced
to lie iamily by a series of high
HXposiVc sneezes, which sound
& like the muffler cut out Of an eight
cylinder ruck. 1t then locates
lnmelia ely back Of the eyebrows
,ard qaoses the owner TO see the
entire solar. system every time
he stoops over to lace his shoes.
If not attacked in the right flank
by a Quinine pill, it will settle in
the neighborhood of the thoraX
and hangs ON longer than an agent
who has not made sale in two
weeks, Sometimes it attacks the
lungs and causes the patient to
converse in loud and sustained
wheeze. One of its most melan-
choly effects, however, is to paint
THE nose deep carmine color and
1Drce people to use the shiny
highlystarched department store
handkerchief
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-01-23
RIGHT KIND OF FLOWING

The sacarcity CT labor has caused
mere missionary work in farming i'm
provement than has any other one
agency, The necessity Of doing work
by machinery and especially Of labor
saving implements has borne heavily
upon the shoulders of our farmers
who can now have only a limited
amount of labor.
In our fields more and more of the
labor saving machinery is being
laced. We regret to say most of it
is improperly housed, but it is being
used. or the advancement the Pro-
gressive Farmer has this to say
One of the most CERTIFYING sights
we see in travelling over the South
is the steadily increasing number
Ct farmers who are using two-horse
plows, harrows and cultivators in
stead of the old one-horse nipple
ments that have done so much to
keep the South poor
In the more backward portions Of
the world there are yet poverty
stricken farmers or peasants who
have no horses and work only with
heir cwn muscles. OF course, they
are miserable paupers hardly able
to keep soul and body together.
The farmer who gets to the next
stage and adds the muscles of an OK
TO his own does much better. He is
The man who by earnest effort can
"sori err get along" and earn decent
)assable living in a civilized land.
But the real profit in farming
comes when ~nlaIl---AaS--ad
the muscle not merely of one horse
but two, three or four horses. AS
we have so often said, the great
reason why the Southern farmer
is poorer than the Western farmer
is that the Southerner runs his with
one-horse power while the Western
er runs his with two, three or four
! orse power 1t is worth while to re-
peat again DR. Seaman A. Knapp's
famous remark: Where the South
Carolina farmer uses one mule and
one man TO plow. accomplishing less
han an acre per day from three to
four inches deep, the Iowa farmer
uses at least three horses, and plows
four acres per day six to eight in
ches deep"
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-01-23
WE MIGHT ADOPT THIS PLAN

WE MIGHT ADOPT THIS PLAN
Governor Dorsey the other day sug
asted that the various county con
+ let forces might be SEM to wood
ltting Immediately in order to pro-
, Idle an emergency supply OF wood for
communities that are undergoing a
heritage with no fuel relief The
aryces of the prisoners available for
" week would be one Of the surest
means of relieving the needs in Cor
ole that could be invented,
1t might raise complaint some
s here, but the county commissioners
l.uld promptly assure the complain
.lg tax payer that nothing has been
lost, for the wood could be bought
town and sold ON the courthouse
Quare at a nominal price, not to far
cXceed the cost Of it,
Since the governor made the sug-
estion, number of the counties
have taken it UP and the prisoners are
cutting wood with all speed In near
~ every case. some liberal hearted
citizens have given the supply free
Of cost and the prisoners have cut
and hauled to the courthouse square
Ill they could in a given time There
ii has been sold for fuel and the fund
sent back 20 the public treasury to
cover the cost of the labor expended
ny the convict force
If the county commissioners could
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-01-23

The total acreage sown to crops in
1917 in the invaded portion Of France
showed a decrease Of 24.4 percent
from the acreage in 1913 The burden
Of agriculture which has rested since
the war on old men, women and chill
dren will heightened considerably by
the 1900 farm tractors being shipped
t. France this winter by the United
States Food Administration.