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Morning asd I.'Tenlng lldltioo, daiiy. including Sunday, ty raall. 4fv pr riioata: TO- two months: .'-" per m mth there after, or per jear in advance. Kuu-red at tLe .South iieuj poxtoCTice as 5-coüd cla mall. AnVFRTI?IN(; It AT Ks : Ak thr advertising depnrtmont Foreign A1?rt!sug lit prrs nutlv h : I ON K, I.OttBNZKN Ä; WOODMAN, 2 Fifth Av.. ..v York City, and Aiv. I'.ldg. C'Mrago. TLe ,.Ntva-'Iliiita endeavors tj keep Its a.i vtrtiMiig column free from fraudulent ml .representation. Any person defrauded through patronage of any advertisement lu this piper will t outre a favcr on the wanagemeiit by reporting ie ta'.ta couipletcly. JANUARY 2, 19 1 8. DRAFTING LABOR. Incident to the Investigations going on in "Wash ington these days, there U serious talk of conscripting labor f"r war work, particularly fur the construction of our ne.v merchant tbet. Several senators are known tc favor action by congress corresponding to the con scription of men for the army. With the experience of the hrst eight months of th war to judge by, they hay. the country cannot safely leave so vital a matter to the voluntary patriotism of labor. It has been testified, in the shipping inquiry, that out of shipbuilding plants no less than :I0 have ha i to .shut down, for arying periods, because of strikes .-in;' we entered the war. That has meant a loss of 60G.00Ö working day. ejuivalent to the labor of 20.OU0 men for a month. The unfortunate effect of suet loss at this time, wh"n the production of shinj Is so imperative, Is apparent to everyone. We used to point the linger of scorn at Great Brit ain for the "disloyal" spirit shown by many of her labor groups early in the war, but Kir Christopher Kent, an expert on I'.ritish labor problems, says: "If Great Britain had one-eighth of the labor troubled which the United States has had since the commence Tient cf the war in April, we would have been com pelled to conclude a disgraceful peace with Germany Jong ago." Under modern conditions, he add.-, no nation can carry on war successfully unless there is industrial peace. That is self-evident, carry on war and somehow or other, we must insure such peace. Workmen .are üatly accu.-ed of "labor profiteering." Possibly that charge is not quite fair. The wanes they have demanded nay be necessary and just, in view of present conditions, but it is not necessary or just that they should prejudice the highest interests of the country by striking on slight provocation. If their claims are rights, th re are other and better ways of having them considered, only at present no one knows what that way would be. Another evil generally complained of in our war Industries is that workmen leav their jobs and drift about too freely. This creates an artificial shortage of labor and seriously handicaps many important enter prises. Soldier b" not strike for higher pay, nor for any thing else. Soldiers do not uave their posts and arlft around from one cantonment to another. Why should war-workers do these things? "I cannot see." says ?on. Sherman, "that there is :my moral, leal or theoretical difference between ths c;ow mment compelling- American citizens to shoulder a gui- and compelling the labor of the country to work under discipline.' Nobody really wants to place American labor un der such compulsion, but it may yet be done. For ones wc would say. Sen. Sherman has an idea, even though ie must have borrowed it. ORGANIZING ATTACK. It has takri limitless patience for two years to .vatch the clow prore of the allied army butting i.uaiii.-t the western front. Up to a few months ago train of ."e 0 jards was regarded as good. Around i'pies this fall there have been several ains of a nile at a time. In the attack on Cambrai, the first ay's net was five miles, the biggest of the war, but i attacks were to slow up after one day and then long period of preparation must follow for another, is a. tedious job pushing the Germans to their ontier. Artillery preparation tears up the enemy defences Iretty well for a mile or so, and the men can then go i and occupy the territory. Ui.less they have such line of armored tanks as was provided for the ambrai attack, the attacking force then finds itself p against even stronger defences. In them are the iiemy, completely armed with machine guns, bombs ?nd grenades, our men meanwhile, probably have i scharged mon of their weapons and the attack has hold Up. The problem then is. in the confusion prevailing, to ep our men so well armed and organized that they n keep up attacking. The situation is one of dis ganization. confusing all plans and of tumult, up- Jtting every ones self command. The various units Just be so intermingled that it is difficult for the pply system to see tl::tt r.o group of men is neglect- Uurthermore the guns must be brought up quickly that they can support the men in their new po?'. n? and help them press on further, and all t hi- time e food organization must follow closely, for no dler can I'.ght ab ng while hungry and faint. Maintaining organisation and system amid all the setting conditions is on of the biggest problems fore the oflicrrs. an 1 it will take all the executive 11 and presence of mind they can muster. MEETING INTRIGUE. ne of Germany's greatest sources of strength is its rl.l wide syi-tem of intrigue. Its spies and plotters 1 agents have accomplished in Kussia what the man army cou'd r.ewr d . They have broken down resistance of a great nation where the armies could er h-ave drivfn them Lack. The allies have been slow to meet this peril. They and our government should be prepared to confront German Intrigue on Its own ground. The German agents have poured out tluir poison of lies into the heart of the Russian peasant. Mean while the allies have done little or nothing to present their case to the Russians. They need an efficient system for educating the Russian people up to what German power really means. They need to take steps to show the Russians that they must either fight the Germans or become their slaves. There is a similar danger in Italy. It is now well known that the Germans broke the Italian line by the treacherous work of the spies and plotters and socialists who lulled the Italians at a weak point in the line with false dreams of peace. Meanwhile n shock of tre mendous power was being prepared to overwhelm them. If the German and Austrian people really under stood the situation the war would end tomorrow. Aus tria is fertile field for educational work on the real meaning of the war. Here are a dozen different races held in slavery by the German minority. Had any of the allied nations been made up of such a racial tangle, the Germans would have been able to incite them to revolution long before this. It ought to be possible to smuggle literature and in formation about American aims into Austria, sufficient to make its people understand the real meaning of the war, and induce them to resist the autocracy that is driving them to battle against their interests. THE MELTING POT ft, Come Take Pot Lucfe With Utn CHILDREN'S CHANCES. It's no use saying, "every child has an equal chance." It isn't true. The child's chance depends, to a tragic degree, on its parents' income. Investigations made by the federal children's bureau in many cities show that among families where the father earns less than ?3."0 a year, one child out of every six dies in its infancy. Among families where the fatnors earn $1,050 or more, only one baby dies out of 16. Thus it appears that the doubling of the minimum income nearly triples the baby's chance of survival. The same sort of difference is found as incomes in crease beyond the $1,000 point, though the contrast is not quite so striking. Within reasonable limits, money inevitably means health and life for the children. And personal care means as much as money. It was fojnd, in this same inquiry that the babies of mothers who "went out to work" died at more than twice the rate of thos- whose mothers were able to stay at home and look after them. And so, after all, that announcement of a tremen dous German offensive on the western front, accom panied by a terrific bombardment all along the line, including new long-range gas shells, was merely a bluff, meant to scare the allies. After three and a half years of continual disillusionment, the Germans still imagine that, like the old fashioned Chinese war riors, they can frighten the enemy into submission by making horrific faces, noises and smells. Rvery wine cellar is more than ever a gold mine, since congress adopted the federal prohibition amend ment. Kvery bit of liquor "bottled in bond" takes on new value. Dealers are making the most of the situa tion, realizing that they may never be able to buy another quart of spirituous liquor. And despite the pre valent prohibition sentiment, they seem to be finding a surprising number of consumers willing to pay thei. monopolistic prices. Nirws prom tiii: front. IJy Ulla U tt-Icr Wilcox. Detached from life, the women overseas Wait only for one thing news from the front. The olden joys, and worries, hopes and cares. Aims and ambitions:, which made up their days Are meaningless and empty. Nothing seems Of any import but the waited word Prom dear ones who have heard the country's call And answered it and left vast loneliness And hunger of the hoart in silent homes. Rravely they do the things that must be done And make no protest: but, one wish alone Fills all their vhouhts by day, their dreams by night News from the front! I, too, detached from all that life once meant. Perform my duties and pursue my tasks As cheerfully and as bravely as I can: While like dead leaves on hleak November winds Old aims, ambitions, interests and desires Plow by me. One who heard the call of God And answered it left such vast loneliness And hunger in my heart that now my life Has roc.-n for only one compelling wish. Which fills my thoughts bv day, my dreams by night News from the front! (Copyright. ID 17.) Tili: MAXI IJy AVillla "I got a secret I'm going to spring on you, George," said the .Manicure Lady, who had been pac ing dreamily out of the shop win dow at the passing pedestrians. ".Shoot," said the Head Harber. "Nothing ain't no surprise to me no more." "I have been told that there is a fortune in my voice," the Manicure lady declared. "You mean singing?" asked the doubtful Head Barber. "Just that, George singing! I have found out, George, that I have got one of the swellest mezzo so pranos that was ever in a human chest. That's what a high priced teacher told me last week, and I guess my days around here is num bered." "I guess so, if somebody told you you could sing," said the Head Harber. "If you tried practicing around here we would have to give you your release anyhow, so you might as well resign." "I ain't ready to resign just no'v," said the Manicure L-ady hurriedly, "Don't jump at none of them con fusions, George. I only mean that some day, when I get good and fa mous In them operas, I may have to give up this situation." "Who would ever have thought it?" gasped the Head Barber. "Of course, I knew you had a grand talking voice, kiddo, always oiled i up and in grand form, but I never dreamed that you was a singer. How did the neighbors find it out?" "I been practicing," said the Manicure Lady. "Only by hard practice do we surmount them ob stacles on life's pathway, George. Only by labor do we mount them heights. "Labor never took me up to no to hazy which he ' said the his head. The individuals who put giound glass in canned tomatoes and breakfast cereals destined for the Amer ican army must have been the same gentle Germans who put tacks n oats shipped to the allies some time ago. When the miscreants are found, they ought to bo fed forcibly on their own glass and tacks. Other Editors Than Ours CURi: LADY, fii P. Kirk. top story," said the Head Barber sadly. "Labor along one narrow line won't do it," said the Manicure Lady. "But labor along them scien tific and artistic lines of endeavor will lead the mortal on heights of knowledge of never had no idea of." "It don't seem possible. Head Barber, .scratching "And so you are going to be a great singer. Well, well! This is Kind ot sudden, kid. Give me time to think it over." "I won't be walking out of this here situation right off the reel, George," said the Manicure Lady. "I intend to be around here long enough for you to find a new mani cure girl that has my skill, of course, and all like that. T wouldn't leave the shop flat, George, even to sing before them crowned heads." "I wouldn't want to sing before them crowned heads these days," said the Head Barber. "They would be a kind of grouchy audi ence for a singer now, I'm thinking. You better think twice before you pass up a sure thing, kid. You know every Saturday night the old envelope is waiting for you here, to say nothing of tips you get through the week." "The less you say of tips these times the better," said the Mani cure Lady. "TiVs is going the way of kings, George, the way it looks to me. My customers lately is as changeless as eternity, like them pools says. It is a longing for change, George, that has decided me on this change I am going to make." "All right." said the Head Bar ber, "and I sure hope ycu make good singing. Y'ou sure always made good talking." Come And Ses fja Store Opens 8:30 A. A f. Closes 5:30 P. Af. Saturday at 9:30 P. AI. Underwear Offerings for colder days Fleece Lined Vests at 39c. Women's hih neck. Ion:; sleeve, white or ecru veb Fleece Lined Drawers at 3Cc. Women's ankle length, white or ecru drawers. Union Suits at $1.00. Women's lun- sleeve, inkle length Union Suits, winter weight. In all sizes. A special otfering at Sl.oo. Knit Corset Covers 65c and 75c. Medium weight white. Hih neck, lon sleeve or round neck, elbow sleeve. Also Men's and Children's Under wear in complete assortments. KHAKI YARNS We have just received a .shipment of Eleisher Yarns in Khaki color. Eleisher Yams are also shown in most ever' new shade in neu- shipments jir't in. As is known Fleisher Yarns arc smooth, even and run the longest yardage to the skein. Ii Jr TWO UNUSUAL PRICES ON w omens Coats and $20 At the $15.00 Price --are the Women's Coats which till now have been priced S 16.75, S1().7.S and S25. At the $20.00 Price are the Women's Coats which till now" have been priced S25, S29.75 and S35. About mo Coats in the two lots. In the smart est winter styles, colors and materials. tried with felts of several colors and as a result larvae were obtained with a median streak of red, bl.io, green, etc. The dyes passed through the alimentary canal apparently unchanged." The War Against the Clothes Moth itv GAPjurrT p. si:kyiss. tin: oh.ij:(;i:s i.v war timi:s. (Springlicltl Sun.) Cornell uriversity has decided to close four weeks earlier next spring. It is predicted that many colleges will take similar action. This will release a body of capable young men who will be available for the var ious forms of war work. It will help toward getting a force of students at work on the farms in the planting season. No aspect of our national life can go on unchanged during the war. We must adapt everything to this period of storm and danger. For the colleges to go on studying the classic humanities in their secluded clois ters for nine months in a year while the world is on tire, makis them seem too much apart from life. This does not mean that we can afford to close up our institutions of higher education. To meet the world's new needs, we must have the best trained men. both in technical equipment and in the world's books of wisdom. But the courses can be cut a little for this emergency without serious loss. An instructor can con centrate the ripeness of his knowledge and philosophy into eight months about as well as nine. It would be a good policy to go a bit farther and make very brief holiday and spring recesses, c0 as to close in the spring at the earliest possible date. The student who goes out early and takes up some useful work in agriculture or other war task, w;ll lind it a useful supplement to his book education. It will count him much more than if he spent the intervening months in sports and social life. He will thereby gain a knowledge of fundamental processes, an understanding of life of manual toil, an acquaintance with the great working democracy. H will learn how to meet and get along with all types of people. He will go back to his books with a comprehen sion of common life that will give his learning a very human touch. Tin: AMi:m xi:gko i tiii: wak. (Plkhart Truth.) Germans who thought they could breed disloyalty among Negroes in this country were much mistaken in their estimate of the Negro's Americanism. But they were right in their estimate of his value to this country. The response of the colored citizens of the Pnited States to the nation's call for service has been great. Negroes enlisted in many branches of the army and navy. A fine group of Negro otf.cers were produced un der the otficers' reserve training camp system. For the first time we have Negro soldiers commanded by men of their own race. But the men who have joined the fighting forces are not the only members of their race who are sharing the nation's war work. There are many thousands who are materially aiding the country by faithful work, by production and conservation. Colored men are busy loading steamships, 1 uilding transportation lines, work ing in factories. Colored women are racer to learn the part they can play in winning the war, in their own homes, as servants and in the industrial world. Germany had it doped out beautifully when she fig ured that we would be seriously inconvenienced by a Germanized Negro population. Americans, b .th Mick and white, have cause fcr pride in the fact that this scheme of Germany's! wius so utterly impossible to carry Some facts about clothes moths recently published by Ralph C. Ben edict of Brooklyn seem to me of such universal interest that they i ought to be rendered available to everybody. AH housewives surely must be glad to be acquainted with them, for the war against moths is unending, and if you don't know your enemy well there can be no hope of finally defeating him. It appears that Mr. Benedict has been engaged for some four years in a special investigation of clothes moths, and he makes the disquiet ing statement that "moths were seen emerging from cocoons, and larvae were seen feeding during all months of the year." This seems to dispose of the traditional belief that moths come out only in the spring, and that their voracious progeny devour furs and woolen garments only during the warm months. One's faith in the protective ef fects of simple "cold storage" is also shaken by Mr. Benedict's state ment that winter stops the activi ties of th moths only when the temperature is very low I gather fom the experiments of other in vestigators on the persistence of minute life organisms under low temperatures, that cold at the best can only temporarily paralyze, and cannot destroy, such creatures. Heat is a destroyer, when intense enough; cold an arrester and preserver. But you cannot apply flame to fur garments or scald expensive clothes In boiling water. Another popular belief demolished by Mr. Benedict's studies is that cedar chips, or cedar-lined closets and tobacco will repel moths. He put the insects in a closed tumbler where tobacco was burning and they minded it no more than some men mJnd a smoking car. Cloth soaked in all sorts of odoriferous substances, warranted to repel moths at the rtrt whiff, were promptly filled with eggs by the living mine-planters, and the eggs hatched with normal regularity. An important fact, which may be new to most persons, is that the moths seeking nests for their eggs will use cotton or silk fabrics as readily as fur or wool, although the larvae (caterpillars), do not feed J upon silk or cotton, an.l must con sequently emigrate in search of provender as soon as they are born. It is on the larvae. Mr. Benedict says, that the war against moths must be concentrated. It is useless to fight them in their tiling stage. Bverybody knows that they can 1 eat a football player in dodging and the recent experiments have shown that their noses are not del leaf, and they don't mind smells. But now. lest the reader should begin to despair, thinking that the great moth war ha arrived at a deadlock, let us turn to something more encouraging from Mr. Bene dict's report. After saying that any method of attack to be effective must be directed toward the larval stage, he adds: "Camphor and naphtheltne, in closed places, kill all stages." After reading that re-animating sentence one finds a grim satisfac tion in perusing Its descriptive suc cessor: "The eggs and larvae turn from v hit'sh to a yellow ish brown ie col or; the larvae cease activity almost immediately." Thus, after brushing aside some of the most cherished superstitions about moths, we have one very old and very popular belief triumphant ly vindicated, the belief of our grandmothers, who were very wise women, as it now appears on the word of science, that camphor (they were not so familiar with naptha lene then), is a deadly enemy to moths as well as to headaches. How that brings back in memory the penetrating odor that spread around the house when the arrival of the first snow, and the jingling of the earliest sleigh bells, brought out the mink cloaks, muffs and collars from their summer hiding places. Interesting possibilities are also suggested by a further statement of Mr. Benedict's: "No gaseous poisons were tried, but undoubtedly the common ones would be effective. Kerosene and gasolene fumes were not effective." But the special prac tical object of the research was not after all attained, and that was the discovery of some poison, harmless to human beings, that could be In troduced into cloth and mak it "moth proof." This is a desidera tum yet to be reached. One surprise attended the investi gation, viz: that the species of moth which does nearly all the mischief is not the ppotted-w inged Tinea, but the yellow Tlneoln biselliUa. This, however, is a tid-hit of infor mation for naturalists alone. Pic turesque facts were developed on cerning th manner In which- the female moths carefully fasten their eggs among the threads of cloth, and the way the larvae make dumbbell-shaped holes in cloth by eating first from one end and then from the other end of thir woven cases-, afterward making a slit between the two. Interesting also is such .1 state ment as this: "Hatching began In seven days, the larvae emerging r.s millimeter-lore, translucant uhit. active caterpillars. Th--se hoirar o feed immediately, and w-ie then colored according to the iob of the cloth used. Experhi; were CONQUEST and KULTUR Aims of the Germans IN THEIR OWN WORDS A compilation from German au thorities by the committee on public information. Dy Wallace Notesteln and E. E. Stoll The UniTersity of Minnesota. SECTION IX. SUIiOIU)! NATION OF mANCi:. "In the first place, our political position would bo considerably con solidated if we could finally get rid of the standing danger that France will attack us on a favor able occasion, so soon as we find ourselves involved in complications elsewhere. In one way or another we must square our account with Prance if we wish for a free hand in our International policy. This is the first and foremost condition of a sound German policy; since the hos tility of France once for all can not be removed by peaceful overtures, the matter must be settled by force of arms. France must be so com pletely crushed that she can never aj-ain come across our path." (P. von Bernhardi, Germany and the Next War l'Jll, trans. 1914. pp. 105-106. For similar demands see pp. 5S, 167.) "Whatever Providence may hold In reserve for Germany it is on France that will fall the task of pay ing the costs, but in another meas ure than 4 1 years ago. It will be no paltry five billions they will have to pay. to ransom themselves, but per haps P.O. The holy mother of God at Lourdes will hive much to do if she undertakes, even through mir acles, the task cf healing all th? bones that our soldiers will break in the bodies of the unfortunate in habitants on the other side of the Vosges. Poor Prance! There is yet time for her to change her plans, but in a few hours it will be too late Then France will receive blows that will be remembered for many gen erations." ( National-Zeitung, July "1. 1314. Quoted by Dampierre. L'Allemagne et 1? droit des gens, 1S1Ö. p. 103.) (Speaking of France in the eent cf a war:) "The victorious German people will be in a position to de mand that the menace of the French foiever cease. France then must bo crushed. We must demand fur ther that so much French soil be c3ed to us as we shall need for final security. Th-n wi!I b- the time to consider the evacuation of which w b:c svo!;en. We .vould U: ally take ch "f her colonial pos-.- : 1 n s a s ' need." -te iL'aniti Frymc.nn: der Kaiser ware 1011, 21st ed.. 114. p. 152.) "For the sake of our own exist ence we must ruthlessly weaken her (France) both politically and eco nomically, and must improve our military and strategical position with regard to her. For this pur pose in our opinion it is necessary radically . o improve our whole west ern front from Belfort to the coast. Part of the north French channel coast we must acquire, if possible, in order to be strategically safer as regards England and to secure bet ter access to the ocean. "Special measures must be taken to keep the German empire from suffering internally in any way ow ing to this enlargement of Us fron tier and addition to its territory. In order not to have conditions such as those in Alsace-Lorraine, the most important business undertakings and estates must be transf?rred from anti-German ownership to German hands, France taking over and com pensating the former owners. Such portion of the population as 1 taken over by us must be allowed abso lutely no influence in the empire. "Furthermore, it is necessary to impose a mercilessly high war in demnity (of which more hereafter) upon France, and probably on her rather than on any other of our enemies, however terrible the finan cial losses she may have already suf fered owing to her own folly and British self-seeking. We must also not forget that she has comparative ly large colonial possessions, and that. should circumstances arise, Fngland could hold on to these with impunity if we do not help our selves to them." (Confidential petition of the German professors and other intellectuals June 20, 1015 G . , p. 1P.4, Among the signa tories are Predrick Meinecke, professor of history, Berlin; Hermann Oncken, professor of history, Heidelberg; Herr von Beichenau. retired diplomat; Herr von Schwerin, Ileg' irungs prasident. of Frankfurt-on-Main; and Dietrich .Schafer. professor of history, Berlin. This document, the oth'-r parts of which are equally harsh, was signed by ?,2 professors. 158 educators and clergymen, 143 administrative officials, 12 bus iness men, 25 2 artists, writers, etc., in all by 1,:;5 2 men of po sition. It breathes the sam predatory spirit ns the Mani festo of the Industrialists.) "We can s ire Germany's posi tion on the continent of Furope only If we succeed in smashing the triple entente, in humiliating France, and giving her that position to which she Js entitled, as we can not arrive at an agreement for mutual coopera tion with h'r." 1 F. vn Bernhard!, Britain a Germany's Vassal 1012, trans. 1911. p. 207. ) "If the fortress of Iin:".vy with the numerous blast furnaces of the r.'L'ion v.-ere returned to the French, then when a new war broke o:t, the German and Luxemburg fur r rices (list of which is given) would I paraBzed in short order by the few long-range g.ir.s. Thus about 20 per cent of the production of crude Iron and of German steel from the iron ore gives ta German agriculture the only chance of ob taining the phosphoric acid neede.j when the importation of the phos phates is blockaded. "The security of the German cm pire, in a future war, requires there fore Imperatively the ownership of all mines of iron ore, including the fortresses of Iongwy and of Wrdun. Tvhich are necessary to defend the region." (Manifesto of the sjv indus trial associations to the imperial chancellor. fG., pp. 129-CO. See note, p. C5.) A niANCi: ix it tiii: vor.; OM .MAN. Placing so many young men in the fighting ranks of the country is giving the young old man a banco for a comeback. The young old man has plenty of activity, but has been cast aside by emplojers in favor of younger blood. You may belong to this clas Have you ever tried to analyze the why of your starting dovsn the ladder instead of making a steady progress upward? You K"t into a rut .irei ou re mained there is about the sum anj substance of the whole matter. Had a disposition to ridicule modern ways of doing things and stuck to the way whih was mod ern 2 0. 10 or even live years ago. Then you jut got stubborn and thought that every man r person who endeavored to make sugges tions was insulting you and to act on his suggestions would le to ad mit that your ideas were not of the best. Well, you have had your leson another chance is given you to make good. Are jou going to modernize your ways at once und then keep up with the procession, or will you be a lo.-er again'. (Copyright. 1017, International News Service). WHICH YOLT,I YOU DO? By i:ila Wheeler Wilcot. (Copyright. 1917.) If in a neighbor's yard you A vicious tca.-t grown wild. And if you heard the frightened cry Of some death men.oced. child. Would you pa.s by without a sign And .-ay "It's no affair of mine." Or would you get your gun? The world is now our neighbor's yard. And ther the wild ba.st rro.d : ' And all the children of the earth Are menaced In their homes. Will you go culling summer flowers And say 'It's r.o affairs of ours". Or will iret your gun? "Pet u- say the that the Wei. a ..i high ornducticn Of steel derived BANDITS RAID THREE TOWNS AND ROB TRAIN N'GABi:s. Ariz. Jan. 2. Three towns were raid'd and looted and a t-outh-rn Pacific de Mexico train held up Monday by bandits opiat ing between here and 'anar.es. Son era, aecrding to reports reachin? here Tuesday. Three hundred fed eral soldiers have been ordered from Hermo.-i'.lo to take up pursuit ot th- marauders. Don't say you saw it In the newspaper. Say Ne-A-s-Times.