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EL PASO HEKALL! EUllOKlAL and MAGAZINE PAGE AMERICAN TROOPS ARE HAVING A HANDY MAN AROUND THE HOUSE '. BY BRIGGS xC&SQlG& INTENSIVE TRAINING AT HOME (BY H. S. H.) H&y w.u. You ffrYTww??!-' t 'Vnk&Hl bking op that I V -foe trunk? ?1J !2issdr Trunk i want 7 1 V J p, . tmATrt TiLL uclachmeni 01 American troops lus moved inland from the French port where it landed and has entered a training camp behind the battle Hues its last intensive training. Other detachments will , lio until the last of the expeditionary forces- are there, -'-'.uZ the final lessons in the most modern warfare- Soon other transports, convoyed by warships, will be r ssing the seas and the troops they carry across the Atlantic will take their final course in preparation for var. It v.-ill be a continual inponring of American troops nto Eurone until the wax is won. Oar troops have a treat deal to learn, we are informed. os. but they are learning more rapidly than most people uasiac. Americans are in tor an agreeable surprise wnen aev find how soon our troops can be made ready lor war. The Associated Press correspondent at the British front a France sent a story recently to the effect that the British had discovered that machine guns could be used effectively for indirect fire; that previously all nations had supposed machine guns were valuable only lor direct fire and that their usefulness had been greatly increased when it was found that they could be adjusted for indirect fire so that enemy trenches could be raked effectively. He cited this in support of the assertion that troops must be in the closest contact with the firing line to keep posted in all the changes in tactics, and this Kas one of the lessons American troops would have to learn. Hachine gun indirect fire may be one of the latest novelties on the British front, but it has been taught for months at the school of fire at Fort Silt, Oklahoma, where military students are taught such accuracy in shooting that they can demolish unseen target after target on the far side of an intervening mil mere are in .1 ran now graduates of the school of fire who doubtless can operate machine guns in indirect fire as ably as anyone on the allied front Not all the lessons in advanced warfare will have to be taught the troops after they reach France. It is re vealing no military secret to say that troops, thousands of them, now in the. United States are being tanght trench warfare, bombing and the use of the hand grenade as well as hand to haul fighting with the bayonet and other weapons used in dose contact fighting. It may bring the wax a trifle closer home to state that a French officer is giving valuable instruction to the troops in the Browns ville district, of whom ose 1 Paso unit, company K, forms part. How that American troops in Europe and at home are making these preparations for our participation in the war, and sow that about 850,000 more are soon to be chosen by the selective draft to begin the same kind of training, tt is well to realize that our entry into this war was more or less Inevitable, for the principles for which we shaQ be fighting axe those upon which this nation is founded. They are summed up in a tribute which justice Harlan o the supreme court of the United States once paid to the American flag, in which he said: To every true American the flag signifies government resting on the coasest ei ua governed; liberty regulated br law: the protection or tne weak: aearast the scroop: security against the exercise of arbitrary power; and absolute nrcty of tree lnstftacHms against foreign ag greeKon-" Copper Prpfits And Wages A HIGHLY interesting booklet on Cochise county, Arizona, where two of the greatest copper mines and several smaller ones are slowly recovering from strikes meant to paralyse, has just come to hand. Though 't its authors have modestly obscured their identity, it has the look about it of board of trade literature. Possibly it was issued by the Douglas chamber of commerce and mines or the Warren district chamber of commerce- At any rate it contains some informative reading. There is a leaflet insert which says the population of Bisbee is 20,000 and that of Douglas 15,000; that the Copper Queen's earnings last year were $24,030,905 and that the Calumet & Ariiona in 1916 paid dividends of $3,849,947, while the Shattuck-Arizona paid $1,663,000 dividends. It says Arizona's metal output in 1916 had a value of $203,000,000; that 30,000 men are employed in mines and reduction works and that their pay is $40,000,000 a year. The booklet also says the United States Geological survey i expects Arizona to produce 1,000,000,000 pounds of copper ; LUid Jim, iuuic uidn un uinn iw uuifUL ul juvumim mm four times as much of the production of Michigan and Utah last year. All that array of figures furnishes added weight to the declaration of all well disposed citizens that the copper output should not be curtailed, the government disap pointed, the wage totals reduced and the population of the mining districts cut down for the sake of ill timed and im proper strikes. The vigor with which bona fide labor unions are de nouncing the Industrial Workers of the World may hastes the day when no laboring man will allow himself to be deluded by these lawless idlers. In sentencing 121 anti drafters, judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis proved he is running as true to form as when he clapped that $29,000,000 fine on the Standard Oil company. -o At last the debates on who began the war seem to have stopped. Bather than who began the war, we are inter ested now in knowing who win end it. o "Unpatriotic" El Paso has sent from the naval station here enough recruits to man a dreadnought and a couple of destroyers- Cardinal Herder is one of the few who are able to maintain the principle of free speech under all circumstances. Ttii prevailing iinMini nt is that tie squadron of 17th V. S. cavalry at Glebe will stand considerably less bully ing than && the HfiEeis national guardsmen at East St Louis. Assistance of the See department in patting eat thfce big Vfese is Jutes was worth more 'has a sillies words ifl ws$9RO i9C H fiicBiily ediQs Pekin is all eseted over the restoration of the mea acchy and qafte a few have lest their heads completely, o To get yosr wexk before the pafeKc, write a popular war sing. German prisoners are to be given Iron Crosses if they ! prove they weren't quitters and possibly wooden crosses if they were. Among the weaker nations coerced by strong military power is Austria-Hungary itself. Turkey n another. o With so much shooting going en, the people of Pekin are afraid to peek out. Imaginative persons who a few summers seeing sea serpents are now seeing periscopes. ago were Trying to uphold neutrality, Spain realizes what a tough time Atlas had. The reichstar reconvenes and Heiiwee prepares to take his periodical lambasting. Swedes wants us to increase the meat shipments but we cannot put much stock is Stockholm. o The I. W. W. is jest as welcome in El Pase as a scoarge of smallpox ORGANIZING THE NATION BY UNITS FOR WAR SERVICE 1 1 1 ) rsc?rrn s.x l vs if jnfM cam-t find it'. ffiut-r- j M irl, """4 WHJM IT A.raT DOWN ) gk W'll ""C'tU. ,: r WWm:W 7 i i 19. ' ' L I It dont make mm f. r 1 I BETTER UT I 1 r-XFAl VJAYT'TMel I j 1 iwSSFo BE-- 1 Hh0OT 'DeJei All difference what yon haint got ap- pUcatioa. MI don't know how they feel abat it t'day, bat wbes I lived m th' country a fanner thought any thing was good enough fer city folks," says 'Squire Marsh Swallow. Copyriffbt National Newspaper Scrrle Short Snatches From Everywhere We hope that the Russian republic lasts longer than the. one In Cuba. Dallas Times-Herald. The time for the war department to have prepared for a three year wa was three years agro. Tucson. (Ariz. Star. German efficiency got a sad blow when that shooter missed the kaiser in three trials at short range. Pitts tmrnr Dispatch. Lord Northcliffe says the war lost starting. And after frlarrcin over the wir map we are Inclined to think that It has sot a good start Austia Statesman. "IX ww take over men's Jobs, we de mand men's pay," says one organiza tion of women. Well, we hope they get It, If they earn It. But we don 1 know how fOm of them are going to live on It. Kansoa City Star. frressiona! district on the plin of the New England town meeting wo 1M have been a trifle too larpe, 10 the smallest political subdivision the election precinct or district wa" chosen as the ultimate base of all activity. ' Canvas Htte Tm lltmue. Friends of those working directly with Mr. Stowell were obtained and a committee was made up with at least one representative from each election district. Thse, In turn, can vassed apartment houses and dwell ings in every one of the Its districts. The surprising part about the be ginning of the movement was that the pioneers found no hostility, only welcome, in the houses they visited. This in spite of the fact that although they may have lived for years adja cent to a family, neither had spoken It was a means never before offered for everybody In the district getting to Know almost everyoooy eise. When the district had been can vassed. a meeting was railed. Tern porary officers of the small unit of the league were chosen. All It was necessary to do to become a mem ber of the league was to pay S cents initiation fee. This is the only con tribution paid to tne league proper, other contributions depend solely on the expenses and alms of the organ isation in each concrresfrlonal district or in eich election district. Everv woman was asked what line of work she was best fitted for and the list wat made up. election district br election district, so that Mr. Stow ell. a chairman of the entire 19th district, knew exactly, how many stenographers, cooks, clerical work pro, member of any calling, were In his terr tor?' Have HeMiree On Pile. The actuM good this does is that it allows every chairman to know the "home streitgth" of his district. Tie can tell you. after consulting his lit. Just how many cooks, nurses and other workers are In his district. That, however. Is not the object so much a the power of being In per otir1 touch with people. Mr. Stowell p-i"Thi,ef this when he received a i!l for cooks to go with the Red rros H sent out the notice to leaders iv the election dirtricts and shortly afterward they had obtained a score fr more of the men desired. One dis trict leader himself persuaded two mn To enlist. It Is this neighbor hnod" touch, this knowing every body in the apartment hous or city block that makes the possibilities of the plan so great, according to Mr. Stowell. IrfMnes Of Tfcr Tjeagite. "We are organising that we may serve the government of the United States." id Mr. Stowell. -and assist to the full In this great nglit ror the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts for democracy. TLe risht those w ho sul-mit to 1 1 j ...ritv to have a voie in their own po ernrr.ents. for the ricnts aid h r 't it of Finail nations, for or.il dominion of ci"iu-rt of free peoi peace ana safety make the world itself at last free. The Patriotic Service league aims to form in every congressional dis trict an organization to arouse, coor dinate and direct on the non-mihtary side the patriotic efforts of all citi zens of both sexes and of every age. so that an early and successful ter mination of the war may result. The government has called for volunteers to fill the ranks of our existing military forces. We should see that those recruits are obtained, due attention being paid to exemptions. Cases of need In the families or Roundabout Town Hp El Paso Will Be Od Anotker Interstate Hxgkway Will Rur From Vancouver, B.C., To Tke Border EL I of to By G. A. MARTIX L. PASO is to be pat on th. map ganlxalion of the Evergreen Highway t occasionally is good for another hlrhwav. Aecordine' association explained. i the most regular aaits- persoD or X. 1.1... f.nm ft..-. .ut..f. rt f th. letter received her. todav. aS30ciItlon su,tes that the- iart. on jQly IS two cars will start fron' traveling In seven passenger Over- Victoria, British Columbia, upon a " n A"KU8L . lelsurly tour of the route to Kl Paso, covering: the distance of 300 miles. The personnel of the party will ln- will .......... VT. .tkAnl flt.ll them and cooperate with the Ked ptiwi """'J bureau of em who nave Mir otm and for those who must state of Washington; a w ow seek employment wives and j lecturer, familiar, by pen Cross in aid. "We must have ployment for those tneir no sisters. "Food will be scarce. We mast find how to use it to the full. And we must make known to all the methods of this conservation. Only by intelli gent efforts for ourselves shall we be able effectively to stand back of those younjrer than we who fight." Oeorge W. Wickersham. former at torney general: Alton 3. Parker, once Democratic candidate for the nresiden-r: Oscar 3. Straus, former ambassador to Turkey these are but a few of the men who are working to extend the Patriotic league. The Patriotic Service league fur nishes the machinery by which the wisdom of Hoover can be brought with emohasis to every kitchen in the land. The citizen leaguers constitute the "third line of defence." Mr. Stowell said that the term "citizens" was used in Its now accent ed meanlnc to include women in the fullest sense. He pointed out that the ! success of the project In the 19th dis trict was due. In great extent, to the 1 fnerrr of women, nrominent amontr whom Tras Mrs. Nicholas M'irrav But ler, wife of the president of Columbia university. of the Evergreen Highway associa- .i . ... t. . . lost j .pu . nvwvu, Hvrewrj eu Known personal con tact, with the scenic beauties of the northwest; a representative df the Automobile Blue Book to make a log of portions of the route not hereto fore logged: a motion picture direc tor representing the nbnated Edu cational Film company, of Seattle. and a Pathe camera man. and a press and explained. "As we passed her correanondent. solng out or the door at the party." correspondent. . she said. "I pinched her arm. As you Stops will be made at all county and I were together, rm sure she seats and at as many cities and towns thought It was you who did the l'OOl J.D, tU WIUCT- MltU WUULT 1 Tit nCWlM. An El Paso man and his wife were at a party the other evening. As they passed out of the door onto the porch, the husband looked !ack and a pret ty girl they both knew, jauntily , waved her hand at him and winked. ; Later, when he met her on the porch, ! sue came np. took hold or one or Bis hands and talked in a most gushing manner, muck) more so than ke nasi ever known hea to do before. When husband and wife went home, as most husbands do, he began telling her all that had happened durinr the evening, and he related his experience I dressing those iivins; models this weei wnn mf srirt. i uei;eve one is run- at tne CTawtora. oat i ll net I ca ing with me," he said, "but I havei locate a few who are willing to do ,t never done a thing to start her." I for nothing, aid 1 won'; have to p it nen nis .in ours' into laugnier a want aa :n r.le uera.a to Iind ther- either. WONDER HOW MANY Birj S-V SCR1PTIONS WOULD BE FOKTHCOM IXli IF THE PAPERS DIDST PRINT THE NAMES OF THE DONORS? Why should a man cuy a brink for another when he meets him in a bar He doesn't buy him a suit of clothes if he meets him at his tailor's. "A easwlller of three b the best TTOrktsjg committee, sad even this ojwislll i aeeompHsbes more If two of them are siek, according; to the galley boy I don't know what Raymond TeV. paying that fellow Pressley fu "Good mawnin'""' "Are you From Iixier" commissioners, engineers, road super visors, state officials, good roads builders and enthusiasts generally, upon problems of proper location and construction of an all rear route lead ing into the Pacific northwest. The route traversed by the party has not been finally fixed as the route of the Evergreen highway. There's Mly ooe thins; In the mvrM that a mnn need net be tralaew far. and thd H Ittieiun tmn. Hat "fa at that, trahttoe Tttn heisu r- KXn.OSIVK MA-VrK.CTfBBn! I.VCREASE TRRHRX1MU SLY Washington. D. C July 7. The re markable growth of the country's ex plosives manufacturing Industry since the European war started Is shown in figures made public by the federal burean of mines today, showing a pro duction of explosives last year exclu sive or exports, totaling more tnan SOn.OOC.090 pounds. Exports of explosives which. In 1914. the t-st vear of the war. were valued at a Soft drinks are often as decelv Iriz all its parts. One of the objects of J JE bat thy don 1 llve up the trip is to study the subject of !o-j to lhelr cation, rrom close observation and local discussions with the view of S'tK th mr b?faii women bm In Bociand hare increased erer IOC cent. liogwallow Locals By DSXK BOTTS. They ought to have good golf links d.termlfiinr . deflnlt. Itln e . n" new ranaun country c:ut: t $tu.037.57, reached a total value In i outdoor attractions of the west, 11 of 717.1M.SS. ' the ourpoees. policies and plan a out mere. i" donrt hue to talk to preach a himi. low em LIVE ene. The man who can co through mm. specisl Interest, and distinctive cenes I njer to LI Paso jind still be an en. of industrial, manufacturing and into- thnslastle floriculturist, either is a ing operations. I candidate for the Mottonhe.i I clnl or At all night stops, and at various' for 11 "ledal 'or patience and forbear towns where stops are made for lunch BC or dinner. Illustrated talks will be msde upon the scenic beauties and Someodv ought to get up a con- route or routes that can be recom mended for long distance touring, during both summer and winter sea sons. Motion pictures will be taken of striking scenic attractions, sport and recreation grounds, road views or and of or Patriotic Service League Plans To Mobilize All Americans for Service. N Br DITTOS 9TODDART. EW YORK. July 7. Prominent men and women here have started a movement whereby : an. woman and child In the - d States may aid their govern '. win the world war. a-- been under way but a short ei assistance of great value - rucn to both the Liberty loan I'.ed Cross campaigns: the next cooperation witn i' se Is such 'ooer of Belgium' as to make THE five persona shown here are leaders in the Patriotic Service League, which will try to apply the New England town meeting idea to the en tire nation with the congressional district as the unit All patriotic persons will be carefully organized for emergency work. Alton B. Parker, Democratic candidate for the presidency in 1904, is shewn in the center. To the left is Mrs. Nicholas Hurray Butler, wife of the presi dent of Colombia University; below her is former attorney general George W. Wlckersham. To the right, Oscar Straus, once ambassador to Turkey, is seen on the top, and below him is Charles Fairdtild, chairman of the advisory council of the league. The drawing below the cot of Mr. Parker is a sketch of the pin adopted by the league. waste in the kitchen and on the table a problem of the past. The new organisation is called the patriotic Service league. It was con ceived by Prof. Ellery C. 8towelI, ex pert on international affairs and Back To the Farm SINCE Tm too fat to do much harm with sword or gun or saber, methinks ril go back to the farm, and do some useful labor. In carnage I would like to slosh, but as I've too much tallow, IH raise the large and shapely squash, the artichoke and mallow. Then, maybe, when the war is done, and Kaiser Bill's a goner, with him who plied the deadly gun they'll Jet me share the honor. When 'Im declared too fat to fight, I do not sulk or grumble; I say, "Whatever is is right 111 choose a task more humble. There sorely is seme useful sphere in which a portly duffer may do as much as though, with spear, he made a Prussian goffer. So I shall hum some martial chants while spading, raking, hoing; IH cultivate my nutmeg plants, and keep my string beans growing." Most men are glad to bear the flag to any wars track region, if they can ride on nrancine sae. and boss a fifhrinp levion. We nn n mar stripes of gold and train with captains courtly, for some of ns have vrown too .f??..?110-' "n Congressional old, and others are too portly. Bat there are places for ns all, whlte'er onr ! coworkers o7heYu meSeo? 'thee" ac aiauuu, iu mil oBner on me wiu ana ao tilings tor the nation. r- ght, by George Matttiew Adams. WALT KAS0N. member of the Columbia university faculty. The league's purpose is to weld the nation together, with the community Idea extended to include the whole people. "Work" In Xtw York. In New York, of all places, this community idea of nationalism has worked out. and very successfully, too. As the term "community spirit may seem rather Indefinite to some, the exact significance of what Mr. Stowell means when he uses the term may best be set forth by himself. Several months ago, when the ne cessity of rousing the country to the V1. . T V .reu r of the United States should be available for war. Mr. Stowell thought of the old town meetings in New England. "If." he asked himself, "this plan worked to weld together a town or village, why could not the same prin ciple be applied to the entire nation Intense thought on the question confirmed his Idea that it could. He selected the congressional district as the best s:eoeranhirai ittvisinn ttuu ox Liie jeague Mexico N ation s fcfc-pvItAN! L a ni -- Mm To H ave Lillle Interviews Real rmarces Need Banking Modern System; Method LANS for the establishment of national banking system In Mexico are being made by Roberto V. Pesquiera, financial agent for the Carransa government at Kl Paso," said Gunther R. Lessir.g. "A real banking system would do more to establish Mexico's finances than any thing else. Mexico has never had a sound national banking system or anv system of finances and as a result, it has always been weak financially.' Whether or not the numbers which were reported to have been drawn for the draft, were the correct numbers. tSe announcement caused some com motion in the city," said Julius Wild. Young men were going around with their registration cards In one h, nH comparing numbers to see If they were When they found they were mey usually gave drawn. not In the draft cry of glee. Others holding numbers which Indicated they had been drawn, seemed to take it In good part, in most cases. I am told that one fel low fainted when he found that he b4 been drawn." ROMANCE OF A NUT "rnless there are heavy rains with- event Such a race would attract some ... imc nni i wo ut nil" -tr..., 11- m lne sreatest automoDiie race driv ' ...on ,he ranges or the southwest! ers that ever sat at the wheel of a will be dying by the hundreds and the raring irarhine. The road between pre0 brt WH taCTea.se greatly." I this cltv ami San Diego has been made said Tod McClammy. well known cat- 150 miles shorter. This has cutoff ..v.. ...... in un, uwin t-uuim y mi -it-: i 01 rp.e worst pieces or road on Arizona. New Mexico and Texas, eat- the run to the coast, and the road is tie are dying for lack of water. The, now an ideal one for such a race -grass is burning up and there is little , forage. In the irrigated countries, i "j don't holieve the neonie it n Paso roalix-." said Ed Tloty. night desk man at central police station "how well the city Is protected since the new motorcycles have been placed on the streets. Every half hour the motorcycle officers call Into- the sta tion from the eight different boxes, and If ever this station was well in formed as to the condition of the city, i. is now." "I was very much impressed with the way the men at numher aot-.n have honored the firemen who have joined the navy." said fire chief John Wray, after an inspection of the sta tion out on Bliss street "The bovs have made a small battleship with workine parts and placed It at the top of the flag pole, in honor of the fire men from El Paso who have Joined conditions aitsmot so bad. hut r know of ope rancher who has a gang of Mexicans employed in watering SO cows with buckets. The water Is be ing drawn from wells. The larger ranchers cannot water their slock this way." "I believe the next big automobile road race that will be held in this part of the country win be staged be tween El Paso sad San Diego. Calif." said Robert H. Rinehart. -Such a race has been talked of for some time, and I understand that a large number of people In San Diego have again taken the matter up. They are influ ential business men and are anxious 1 " b run 1 don't believe there will ever be another El Paso-Phoenlx race, and aa s. result interest is cen tering on the El Paso-San Diego 1 test in this town and awar.l a prize' to th restaurant man or soft drink i stand man who can cut the thinnest! slice of bread for a sandwich It is I a momentous question that needs set tling, aa so many of us are willing' to back so many different ones for i the championship. Charlie Ward, foreman of The Her- ! aid composing room, received a te grani from Tucson this week ak:ng him to locate a printer desiring a ;ob in the Old Pueblo, and adding: "He must be sober." Where did we bear th report that Arizona was dry? The Army Auto Sland" sans a jt'gn noticed JesterJay. FR1SBT HANCOCK and others spent Thursday an Gimlet Creek fishing. They did not meet with much suc- Yes. I think :css u vere 0Dt lasC so. too. W,. nobody tootdd think LLVL SPnDS the army aato run. Haz Barlow OTerheard the dentist Fnl? EeMsddrng- Frk ?. KD0W' teU " qnet. at the Crawford. would take two or three months to put "Ton betena," replies Jaconet. -I've a bridge in his mouth. Sax is confi- been arrestin' for nigh onto 10 y.ir Ana ruu ran inoir hhmi " r. : Fields. Popular fiction: Automobile aol.s- man s declaration regarding the num ber of miles a car will make on a gallon of gasoline. Every man who bought a Liberty bond is not necessarily a patriot. Ton can't dance through life as a regular thing, but a little diversion' dent he could build a bridge with lat ticed banisters across Hog Ford in less time than that. A slick-tongue stranger came along the forepart of the week and had just about talked the Blind Man into buy ing an overcoat, when Sax Barlow, wm happened to be dose by, nndged the Blind Man in the side and told him winter was gone. iur. hia ''tilt v ami w (: iU.qWESoii Wtl iilT By T. E. Powers To lfE DIPPV HOUSE. EL PASO HERALD DEDICATED TO THE SERVICE OP THE PEOPLE. TH VT NO GOOD rit SB SHALL LACK A filtMHOX. AXD THAT EVIL SUALL CltSE XOT THRIVE I'NOPPOSED. D. Mater, editor and controlling owner, has direeted Th V" ' tinniiinii is jianasrer nod G. ,. Martin Is Herald for 19 Stm Editor. JIKJIMKH ASSOCIATED PRESS. AMKRICVN NEWS P PER Pcmisiin,. AypCIATIOX, AXD AUDIT Ht'REAl? c rVWVt-T "UvJ:?J',SHERS ai i ' f. t' c.i 1 1 1-:: r nin.v vnrcDisri) n. : lished in March iltt p, rC ST."." .f-f. r" "erald was estab- . . u. i nemn inctnaes -lut k, . k . i sn cession, The Daily News. The Telegram, T! -rZf.-ZrZ and Tribune. Journal. The Republican. The The Graphic. The Sun. The Advertiser. 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