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'OLDEST AND LEADING NEWSPAPER IN CIRCULATION IN THE COUNTY OF LINCOLN, NEW MEXICO
VOLUMH 20
CARRIZOZO, LINCOLN COUNTY, NI5W MHX1CO, FRIDAY, OCTOliliR 3, 1919
NUMHICH 40
dovernment War Risk Insurance
or viiai imtRtsT io sikvia mm
AND UIMR kUAllVfS
Government Wur Risk Insur
ance is ol vital interest lo near I)
5,000,001) uietl. their families anil
relative. The fiict 1,200,000
veterans of the world war were
liilrn anil rained on farms clearly
indicates what a tretneinlons
factor farm have heel! in furnish
iny man power in Hie recent war.
The following article which shows
the vast amount of insurance
Carried by these men should prove
Of Interest to soldiers and their
dependents:
The farms of the country con
(diluted ahout one-fourth of the
man power of the forces of the
United States engaged in the war.
It is estimated that 1,200,000
men who served in the army, the
navy ami the Marine corps were
born and reared oil American
farms.
A total of 4,539,045 men took
out War Kisk insurance, their
aggregate policies totalling nearly
840,000,000,000, and each policy
uvcratjliii: iH,700. Of this total
insurance, service men from the
farming districts carried ap
proximately 110,420,000,000, ami
by far the greater percentage of
this insurance was made payable
to wives, mothers, fathers and
other relatives who reside on
farms.
The average age of the men
who fell in action, died of wounds
or from other causes during the
war,' was 2) years, and because
of their youth, by far the greater
percentage were unmarried men,
which explains why '17 per ceut
of the policies taken out named
mothers as beneficiaries, Hi per
cent named fathers and only 7 per
cent named wives.
In the original Wur Kisk Act
provision was made for the
policies written on service men
during the war to be continued
as permanent government insur
ance. To avail themsclvesof the
opportunity lo convert their War
Risk insurance into permanent
United States (ioverniiicut Insur
ance it is necessary that the nun
discharged from service continue
to pay their monthly premiums,
and at some time during the live
years following the formal de
claration ol peace that they con
vert into a permanent policy.
from the record it appears that
only about twenty-live per cent of
the men who had insurance dur
ing the war are continuing to
keep up their insurance. This U
largely due to the fact that the
men were unfamiliar with the
provisions of the act, or that they
have not felt financially able to
curry their insurance at this time.
To guard against iiuy man los
ing hi light to government in
surance because of this condition
the Secretin y of the Tieasim re
cently issued a ruling allowing
every ninii eighteen months in
which hr lint the oupwrtunin to
reinstate his iuaurtuice altet he
tins allowed it to laM bee hum of
non-payment of premium.
This reinstatement privilege
should be clearly understood. Ho
long a s mail is not paving hi
jireuihlllis lie i not iuinred. His
reinstatement privilege merely
givea lliiM the right io again have
governoHHil insurance without
undergoing phynienl t initiation,
and upon the payment of two
WtHiths pteuiitims.
A nation wide campaign has
beau inaugurated for direct per
sonal contact with former service
men through which they may he
Informed of their rights to per
itmuent government insurance,
aUd lii this campaign have been
enlisted the American Red Cross,
-the Y. M. C. A., the Knights of
' f V-l I .1. i. , . . . t
uuiiiiiiuiis, me aaivauou army,
the Y. M. H. A., the Hoy Scouts,
ami numerous other national
social welfare organizations. In
addition more than 50,000 life
insurance agents have been en
listed. The volunteer roll further
Includes thousands of bankers,
doctors, lawyers, manufacturers,
other business men ami repre
sentatives of all associations
which come in contact with dis
charged service men and their
dependents.
The former service man who
lives on the farm will b reached
to a large extent through bunks
which have volunteered to serve
as clearing houses for information
on War Risk insurance.
There are six permanent forms
of government insurance, as fol
lows: One, 20-year endowment;
two, 30-year endowment; three,
20-year payment life; fourth 30
year payment life; llfth, endow
ment at age 02; and sixth, ordi
nary life.
Applications arc being received
by the llureau of War Kisk In
suiauce lor changing the present
term insurance, which was issued
at the lime of entering the ser
vice, into the permanent forms.
If the policy holder is unable to
keep the full amount of the War
Kisk insurance he carried while
in the service, he may reinstate
part of it from $1,000 up to
$1U,00U in multiples of $500. Re
ductions may be made in multiples
of $500 to any amount, but nut
less than $1,000. Premiums are
due on the first of the mouth,
although payments may be nude
during the calendar, mouth,
"Why We Fought"
"Why We Fought," is the title
of a little book on the League of
Nations by Thomas 0, Chamber
lain, Captain U. S, Army, which
the Maeniillatt Company is
publishing. The author has been
a soldier at the front and since
Ills return has toured the country
with ex-President Tuft and Ur.
A. Lawrence Lowell, us one of
the league uf nations speakers.
The hook contains a foreword
by ex-Presideut Taft, several
brief chapters explaining the
league, the ollicial covenant, ami
the speeches delivered by Cupt.
Chamberlain in San Francisco,
Salt Lake City, St. Louis, Atlanta
and Portland, under the auspices
of the League to Kit force Peace.
The author discusses the pro
posed international organization
fiom the standpoint of the soldier,
and shows that it will go far to
ward the elimination ol war, by
reducing armament, outlawing
secret treaties, guaranteeing
small nations against aggression,
and aiiautntling hostilities until
after arbitration or conciliation
have been tiled. His plea reads
with I ar inure torce than that of
many opponents who know
'nothing of the honors and agony
that the league is designed tu
prevent.
Liberty Loan Payment
The hanks have mulled out
notices advising subscribes to
the Victory Liberty Loan that
the lllth payment on bonds
bought under the installment
plan is due ami payable on or be
fore October -I. The payment is
20 per ceut. The sixth nud last
payment will he due November
H. Prompt payment is urged
since the money must he remitted
to the Federal Reserve Hank at
Dallas, Subscribers may ui'k
payment in full for their bunds
on October 4, with accrued in
terest, if they desire to do so.
Proclamation by the Governor
Santa Fv, N. M. Americanization day will be ob
served In the public schools and the higher Institutions of
learning, on Friday, October 24, under an uKciil pro
clauiatiou that has been issued by Governor Lamnolo.
The state department of education will furnish to the pub
lic schools for use on that day programs based upon the
work of the lute Theodore Roosevelt for a greater America,
The text of the governor's proclamation follows:
WUKKKAS: In these days of reconstruction ami
readjustment of the internal affairs of State and Nation,
a constant remainder of the necessity of adherence to the
principles of true Americanism is an essential factor in the
education uf the youth of our land; and
WtlKREASs The purposes and objects of the
Roosevelt Memorial Association are the preservation forull
the people of our country of that inspiration of true Amer
icanism which burned in the heart of Thcodo-e Roosevelt,
whereby was kindled in the souls of all true Americans n
greater devotion, more loyalty, and a deeper faith;
NOW THI3R13FORH, in commemoration of the
ideals of duty, loys y and devotion to our country which
were voiced by this great American, Friday, October 24th,
1919, is hereby proclaimed to he Amhhicanization Day In
the Public Schools of the State of New Mexico, on the
afternoon or evening of whlch day patriotic programs and
exercises should be rendered and held by the student body
and under the supervision of the teachers in the Public
Schools utid governing bodies of all State Institution-.) of
higher learning in New Mexico,
Dune at Santa Fe this 24th day of September, 1919.
OCTAVIANQ A. LAHHAZOUO,
Governor of New Mexico.
CARRIZOZO SCHOOL NOTES
SUl'T. K k. com.
"Those who learn most earn
most money when they leave
school,"
The value of staying at school
is stated in dollars and cents in
figures compiled by the llureau
of Education and now being dis
tributed to boys and girls through
out the country by the Children's
llureau.
From a study of a large num
ber of actual cases It has been
found that at 25 years of age the
boy who remained in school until
he was 18 had received $2,000
more salary than the boy who
left school at 14, and that the
better educated youth was then
receiving more than $900 u year
more in pay.
"This is equivalent to an In
vestment of $18,000 at 5 per
cent," the statement said. "Can
a buy increase his capital as fust
in any other way? From this
time on the salary of the better
educated boy will rise still more
rapidly, while the earnings of
the boy who left school at 14 will
increase but little."
While wages have increased
with the war, the proportions
shown in u table uf weekly earn
ings still hold true, the statement
said. The boy who left school
at 14 at the time the investiga
tion wus made received an
average of $4 a week, his wages
increasing each year to $7 u week
ut IS. The boy who remained in
school until lie was 1H began
work at $10 a week. At 20 the
salaries were $9 50 a week for the
boy who left school early and $15
for his better trained competitor.
At 25 they were earning $12.75
and $31, respectively, and total
wages up to that time had been
$5,112.50 and $7,337.50, so that
the boy who remained in school
had earned nearly 50 per cent
more in the eight years than the
other lad in twelve years.
"Children should stay in school
as long as possible because educa
tion tneaiis better jobs," the
Children's llureau udds. "Doys
and girls who go to work ut the
end of the grammar school rarely
get good jobs. The work they
tiud to do Is Usually unskilled! It
offers Utile training or chance for
advancement. When they are
older they find they are still un
trained for the skilled work which
offers a future. Education means
higher wages,
Many boys and girls when they
leave school find work that offers
a high wage for a beginner. Hut
these wages seldom grow, because
the work requires no training.
A position with a future and
steadily Increasing wages re
quires school training.
Does it pay to continue your
studies? Kducatlou means a suc
cessful and a useful life; it pays
the individual. Education means
eflicient workers; it pays the
nation,
10. M. Urickley, cashier of the
.first National Uauk, was a very
I pleasant visitor at the high school
I September 20, and gave
talk to the students on
ject "Hanking." Mr.
a tine
the sub-
Urickley
j explained the various terms used
under the two headings Re
'sources ami Liabilities.
He also made the statements
that only a boy with a trained
mind, with a fair amount of
'education, could succeed in any
j branch of the banking business;
that the popular notion that any -body
with u will can succeed is a
mistake; that the best way for
any boy to succeed is to leuru all
he can learn how to write and to
spell well, to form good habits of
promptness, of application to the
duty at hand and be ready when
opportunity knocks at the door.
At the close of Mr. Drlcklcy's
practicul and very sensible talk
the studeuts showed, by very
hearty applause, that they
thoroughly appreciated it, Mr.
Urickley will always be a very
welcome visitor ut the Carrlzozo
High School.
To Drill for Oil In the
Hondo Valley
The Commercial Petroleum
company, In which California
people are largely Interested has
selected a drilling site in Town
ship 11 south. Range 1H east, in
Lincoln county. This company
is getting ready for drilling
operations. The site is in Hondo
valley near Tiuule about 35 miles
west of Roswell.
THE RUIDOSO HIGHWAY
Robert II. Taylor nnd William
II. Sevier, county commissioners,
made a trip to the Ruliloso this
week on county business. A
state highway Is being built along
that stream, bonds to the amount
of $55,000 for the completion of
which have been sold. The
particular business of the com
missioners' trip there, we under
stand, is to approve the right-of-way,
have fences moved where
necessary, and other matters con
nected with the highway.
The road, when completed, will
supply a link between the eastern
boundary of the Mescatero agency
and the Lincoln-Roswell highway
from which point the road is clear ,
on to Roswell. It will be a good i
benefit to tourist travel, and to
hunting and fishing parties, as
well as those living a,long the
route. It will be open tn travel
about nine mouths In the year,
but the heavy snows that fall In
that region in winter will make
travel by that route difficult.
The Ruldoso Canon is one of the
most picturesque places in the
county during the summer and
full months, and us the stream
has been recently rc-stocked with
trout fry, the fishing alone will
attract a great many tourists
with piscatorial taste:!. The
stream, up tu a few years ago,
alTorded the best trout thuing in
the county.
THE DEAD CAME TO LIFE
Uncle Sam Distributes Much
Money in New Mexico
Washington, 1). C, New Mex
ico families ii re being paid $3,312,
400 in War Risk insurance claims
by Uncle Sam. He Is making
restitution to those whose sons
and husbands died in the service
of their country during the great
est war of all times.
There arc 379 insurance claims
being paid in New Mexico
through the Uureau of Wur Kisk
Insurance to beneficiaries named
at the time application for in
surance was made by soldiers,
sailors and murines, now deud.
The uvcrage policy carried by
these 379 men was $8,740.
Disabled soldiers, as well us
widows and children and de
pendent parents of those who
have died, are being made com
fortable by the government which
is paying 334 compensation claims
to residents of New Mexico.
In addition to the insurance
and compensation claims now be
ing paid in' New Mexico, there
are 138 of both of these classes
of claims under investigation.
These cases, however, are rapidly
being adjusted following an in
vestigation by bureau represent
atives. On Schedule Time
Suuta Fe. Oet. 2. -Authoritn-tive
reports ol the stute health
department show that Fort Sum
ner has 12 cases of "H ie," llugtr
man 9 mid Albuquerque 1. The
New York health doctor who pre
dicted u return of the 19 IS epi
demic and named October as the
muii Ih for its appearuticc'was not
much oil in his calculation.
More Fords
The Western Oarage is receiv
ing two curs of Fords among the
number will be several with self
starters, demountable rims, etc.
With these attachments the Ford
becomes a much more practical
car uud will increase the popular
ity uf the little Henri.
AN ArifRMAIII 10 I HI AllICID
MURDlk AT ANCIIO
About the 15th of June n killing
was reported to have taken place
lit Anaho and the body taken
away in an automobile. The
man supposed to have been mur
dered disappeared and no trace of
him could be found. Ultimately
Sheriff Durnn rounded up u hunch
of seven against whom suspicion
pointed very strongly, and an ex
amining trial was held here the
latter part of August, with all of
which our readers are familiar.
At the hearing, it will be remem
bered, two of the accused, IsallCx
Moutoya and Sebero (loutulex
pleaded guilty to taking part in
the killing of Heruildo Sanchez,
and further testified that J. M,
Trujillo, one of the accused, had
materially aided in taking the
lifeof Sanchez with a knife thrust
hi the body.
The two making the confession
were placed tn jail and are still
there. Trujillo, who is said to be
handy with the knife, was taken
to the penitentiary for safe keep
ing on the order of Judge Mecliem
and at the request of the sherill.
A few daytt ago Sheriff Utiran
became cognizant of the reception
of letters by different parties pur
porting to be from the murdered
man, mailed ut Seligman, Ariz,
Naturally this aroused suspicion
and threw around the entire nlTulr
a mysterious air that unfiled ofli
cials. However, the sheriff de
cided to investigate, wired the
Arizona authorities to arrest
Sanchez and notify him. Upon
the reception of a wire that the
man was held subject to his
orders, the sheriff went to Arizona
and at once recognized Sanchez,
uud returned Sunday, bringing
the supposed dead man with hiui,
Deputy Fred Laloitc has gone
to Santa Fe to bring J. M. Tru
jillo back and will be here to
morrow. The two who confessed
are still in jail, and will have a
new charge preferred against
them perjury.
Now, the question is, "Why
did Montoya and Gonzales con
fess to killing Sanchez and im
plicate Trujillo?" And now that
Sanchez will not admit his death
and is here In the flesh lo con
front his confessed slayers, was
anybody killed and if so who?
It's a puzzle even if not of the
Oriental variety.
White Oaks I'o.t Office
May Be Discontinued
There is a rumor, ami it comes
from headquarters, that the post.,
onice at White Oaks lo liable t
be discontinued on the 15th Of
next mouth, except the patrons of
that otlice make satisfactory ar
rangements with the department
before that date. It is now up to
the people of White Oaks who
receive mall there to nominate
some otic capable of handling the
office who will be satisfactory to
the department, otherwise their
mail will go to Carrizozo, Rabeu
ton or the nearest postoflkc to
White Oaks. This will be a
hardship on many patrons of that
office, both in mailing or reeeiv
ing mail. Some of the stores in
that town should take the office
over, and if the receipts of the
olllce do not justify paying a
postmaster, chip in a few dollars
a month to make up the differ
ence. The V..lte Oaks office is
one of the oldest in the coiluty,
and II suspended it will be bid
fur the old camp.