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VOLUME HI.
RED CROSS 1ST
CONTINUE IÍS WORK
EOR LONG TIE
norms Greatest II unían itarian Or
(Híiizunon li us l lucí Burden to
in iir in I ins Vork, Chairman of
mr of k Council in-ciares, and
...ttust lliemore lie kept Et'ticieut;
:o f urther Money Drive Likely.
Washington, Dec. 10. Henry P.
Davison, chairman of the War Council
of the American Red Cross, who has
just returned trom a three months'
tour 01 trance, England, Belgium,
iuiiy and Switzerland, in a public
statement declares:
"That there will be an appealing
cry oi' humanity from all over the
world no one can doubt. The needs
oi f iance, Belgium, Italy, Russia and
uie
lilt!
Balkans will not terminate Willi
tormal declaration of peace. A
hard winter is ahead. Exposure and
the hardships of war and the dislo
caieu industrial conditions of the en
tire world have produced hunger,
wast and disease.
lomicauy the outlook for a new
and ueiter world is bright, but the
economic conditions are ominous,
lhere will be such distress in the
world that it cannot be met by vol
untary organizations. Governments
themselves must bear the chief bur
uen, and 1 am condiiident that co-oper
auu'n between the governments may
lü relied upon in an endeavor to meet
'this wholesale work of relief which
will be needed.
Calls Upon Women.
in addition to this, there will,
However, be the necessity and oppor-
miuiy tor supplementary work which
Red cross organization throughout
die world can do, should do and must
uo. Ceriaiuiy ihe women of America,
working through the Red Cross Chap
ters and the women in other countries
ame to do similar work will find their
hearts dictating more than their
cUH HO.
' i hope no woman will think of re
lax, ng her Red Cross activity, but
will rattier increase her endeavor to
the calls for supplies of whatever
character as issued from Red Cross
headquarters at Washington until a
comprehensive and definite program
may be worked out.
"Whatever plans may be developed
by governments, whatever calls may
bo made upon the Red Cross organiza
tions of the world to supplement the
.or.i. of the governments, it is clear
iuaí Uie American Red Cross must be
kept strong and efficient, that it may
do its share in full measure.
"As the world now finds itself, the
people of America are in a position
to do the most, the people of America
arc looked to for the most, and, in
my opinion, the people of America
owe the most to suffering humanity.
No More Campaigns
"As far as can now be foreseen,
there will be no further occasion for
campaigns for Red Cross funds. Dur
ing the week before Christmas there
is to be a roll call, giving every citizen
an opportunity to register as a mem
ber of the volunteer humanitarian
ageucy of the American people,
which is recognized throughout the
world as the American Red Cross.
"This membership involves no com
mitment, beyond the payment of $1
for dues, but this payment will reg
ister a continuance of humano sym
pathy and at the same time it will
have the very practical value of con
tributing to the continuation of Red
Cross Chapter work and to the meet
ing of the needs within our own coun
try." Mr. Davison reported that, in the
last eleven months 47,000,000 Amort
cans had contributed to the Red
Cross $313,000,000 in money and $44,
000,000 in manufactured goods. What
authorities abroad thought of the or
ganization's work he tells in the fol
lowing quotations:
.(iencrnl Pershing I want every
man, woman and chili! who has con
tributed even a dime in money or an
hour of work to the Red Cross to un
derstand that such contributions has
helped to meet the neds of our coun
try's soldiers. The value of the ser
vice is beyond computation.
General Ireland, Chief Snrgeon of
th American Expeditionary Forces
and now Surgeon (.moral The effi-
organization has been a constan
source of surprise and satisfaction t(
me and to the members of my staf
Always ready, always willing, imme
diately and effectively responding to
every call, they have rndered an es
sential service to our men, the valut
of which can never fully be known.
General Biddle, hi command of the
Hie American naval forces In British
niii Everywhere the Red Cross is
giving the best that can be given or
asked for. We in the army all feel a
gratitude to the Red Cross which i
is hard for me to express in words.
Vice Admiral Sims, in command of
lie American naval irrces in British
waters When our men are sick or
wounded we need quick action unham
pered and free. That is where the
Red Cross comes to the front. Disas
ters like the Otranto show how valu
able is its work. When an emergen
cy turns up we sometimes have not
the facilities sometimes not the legal
authority to do all that we ought to
do. The Red Cross can make a law
as quick as you can write a check.
The Red Cross is ever present to help
in time of trouble.
Marshal retain,- Commander-in-Chief
of the French Armies When
the story of this war is written there
will be no more brillant chapter than
that of the American Red Cross iu
I France. Nothing has contributed
more to the morals of my soldiers and
to the people of France than the
work of that organization. Some (lay
I shall go to America for the express
purpose of acknowledging to their
members and to the A'merlcan people
the debt of gratitude we owe. 1
Mr. Davison adds: "When Presi
dent Poincare decorated me with t
Commander's Cross of the National
Order of the Legion of Honor, and
Kine Victor Emmanuel with the
0rder of Grand Officers of the Crown
of Itayj .uul King Aibert 0f Belgium
wjth the Cross of commander of the
0r(ler of Leopold, each the highest
,iii.tin(.tion tw can be conferred on
a civilian, I was in each instance di
rected to express to the American
people the appreciation of the gov
ernment represented by its officers
and its people and to let our American
people know how much the great work
done' by the American Red Cross has
meant to the countries which were
conferring the distinctions. These
tributes were meant, for the
Red Cross membership."
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BED ( BOSS NOTES
On Saturday afternoon (December
15, 1918) at two thirty a Red Cross
meeting was held. On account of in
iinenza this is the first meeting since
October.
A box of knitted goods was packed
for shipmen
Those having assisted
in this work were
Mrs. D. A. Winkler, 1 sweater
Miss Ada Saunders, 1 sweater
Miss Ola Lassiter, 1 sweater
Mrs. T. A. Williams, 1 sweater
Mrs. J. It. Shaw, 1 sweater
Miss Johnanna Clark, 1 sweater
Miss Alice Hoyland, 2 sweaters
Mrs. B. Snell, 1 pr. socks
Mrs. L. A. Waldon. 4 pr. socks
Mrs. W. N. Walpole, 2 pr. socks
Mrs. W. W. Manning, 2 pr. socks
Mrs. Luke Burns, 1 pr. socks,
Mrs. J. H. Doyle, 1 pr. socks
Mrs. G. V. Hanlon, 1 pr. socks
Mrs. Melton, 2 pr. socks
I
There were two pair socks without from the mobiiizlng and demobilizing
name. Besides the hand knit goods of the stU(lent Amy Training Corps
there were 26 pair gray penitentiary at the university, seriously disturbed
socks and 27 white. Making a total of the ugual work of the lirst quarter.
S sweaters, and 71 pair socks. Practically all courses will begin on
Plans were discussed whereby the j.uulary 6th, giving students who en
school girls are to be allowed to do ter at lhat jime the Bame opnortuni
Red Cross work the coming year. lies for starting with their courses as
The Red Cross Roll Qall commit- afforded those who entered the Uni-
tee is now at work to start the new Versity in October,
year right. Those who are ready to The demobilization of the Student
accept, your membership fee are: Miss ! Army Training unit has now been
Mildred Webb and Mrs. Andrews, completed, and about one-half of the
Others were named on the committee
but on account of illness in the home,
cannot act.
On account of the prevalently of
the Flu, our people should not wait
for the committee to call on them,
but should see some member of the
committee. Mountainair has done
her share and has "gone over the
top" in every war work heretofore
proposed. We cannot afford to fall
down on the Christmas Roll Call of
Red Cross Members. Make it a point
to see that yonr name is on the Roll,
MOI'NTAINAIR, SEW .MEXICO,
THE COWBOY
T'm sure one crippled hombre, buh-lieve me, that's no lie;
"ve a busted leg and thovhUr. :i splinter in my eye.
I've been gassed and bombed .id shrapnelled, I'm riddled like a sieve,
i'uh'd think in such condition no man would care to live.
But su'thin gripped and held me when I 'lowed I must cash in,
When I just lay down an' reckoned I didn't care to win,
An' I clnmEcd onininns pronto I aint goinff to need no hearse,
A chap's a lot to live for wlun he's got a RED CROSS NURSE.
So here I am in hospital, my bed all white and clean,
With an angel sitting by me, the lirst I ever seen;
f uster boast poor simp of what I knew about the sex.
For I'd mixed up some with wimmen in San Antonio, Tex.
But I'd never been to heaven, and I hadn't no idear
They ever turned 'em loose up there, an' le't 'en stray down here.
Gee whiz the pain's a-comin' back t 0, Lord, don't let me curse
An' scare' her back to Paradise my little RED CROSS NURSE.
"here's a long, long trail a-windin toward the golden West;
-Iip rass is av'C.n 1 e?u!n it it leds to peace and rest.
Far from the din of battle, out on a sunlit plain,
Where broken limbs are mended and meji forget their pain.
It's calling, calling, calling its vojo.es. bid me come.
Far from the hell of warfare, safely and straightly home.
My .feet are almost on it; its silences immerse
My soul; but something holds me my little RED CROSS NURSE.
I've alius been a waster, a reckless, cursing cuss.
Whose spechulty is stirring up hell to make a fuss;
And I haven't got religion by a long shot no such thing,
But I been so near to heaven I heard the angels sing.
An' hereafter in my dealings I'm gointer. if I can,
Be neither saint nor dCvil. but just a regler MAN.
For no matter, what may happen, I gotter reimburse
SOMEBODY, 'cause I'm living my little RED CROSS NURSE.
Bv Mr?. Helen Combes, in the New York Herald.
ANOTHER GOOD
SNOW COMES TO
On Monday afternoon, about tour
o'clock, the rain turned 'to snow and
in a very short time, several inches
of the beautiful covered the ground.
During the night the snow continued
falling, and Tuesday morning found a
white blanket of seven or eight inches
covering the ground. Following the
moisture of the past month, the out
look for a bumper crop next season
is splendid. Those who have tried to
find dry soil, have beoome disgusted
after digging IS, 20 nd 24 inches and
have given up. explaining that there
'aint no such thing as dry soil around
Mountainair." The big snow melted,
away in tine shape and all of the mois
ture went down.
This morning found some three or
four inches added to the snow already
on the ground. Reports from the Mesa
country are that the snow of the lirst
of the week was about a foot deep in
that, section. With the splendid mois
ture already in the ground, it is al
most a cinch that the 1919 crop will
be large perhaps the largest ever
grown in this section. So mote it be!
INIYEBS1TY
TERM
OPENS JAN I' A II Y 6.
Albuquerque, N. M., Dec. 218: The
New Mexico State University will be
gin its second quarter of the college
year ou January 6th. This will
amount, in fact, to the opening of the
'college year, since the long influenza
Innldemii! n nd the confusion resulting
one hundred young men who enlisted
have remained as students. Although
the Student Army Training Corps has
heen demobilized military training
wm hy no means be eliminated. The
University has made application to
the War Department for the organiza-
tion here of an officers' reserve train-
ing corps, and there is every indica-
tion 110 that this will be allowed in
the immediate future. This will result
in continuing military training as a
permanent feature of university work
for young men.
M0UNIAIKA1R
i
THURSDAY, DECEMBER! 191S..
LANDS ARE DESIG
NATED UNDER THE
640-ACRE ACT
iseiow we puoiisn a list ot me íancis
designated in this vicinity as coming
under the 640-acre homestead act, the
act of Congress of December 29, 1916
Township 2 north Range 5 east
Sec. 5, SWU
Sec. 6,' EV NWU, SVs
Sec. 7, NEU
Sec. 8,' NWVi
Sees. 17 and 19, all
Sec. 20 NEU NEU. SV2
NEVi, sy2
NW'i, SVá
Sec. 21, NWUNWU, SWUSWU
Sec. 27, SViSWU
Sec. 28, NWUNWU, SSVs
Sec. 31, all
Sec. 33, NVi
Sec. 34. WV2NWU
Township 3 North, Bango i East
sec. r, wv&xeu, nwu, nm-nwu
NViSWUSWU, SEUSWU
sec. 17, Ey2. EVzNwvi, Ey2swu
Sec. 27. NVáNEU. N'UNWU, SWU
Sec. 28, Ey2 NE'i, EV2 SWU, SE'4
Sec. 34, NEVi
Sec. ;J5, NWU. N'Vfc SWU
Township I north Range 7 ?ast
Sec. 2.r., E'a
Township 1 north Bango 8 casi
Sec. 8, EV2 Wy, SEU
Sec. 9. SW'y,
Sec. 17, y2 NEU. SE'4
NEVi, NE
U NWU
Sec. 25, all
Sec. 27. SWU NEVi. SE'4 NWVi,
neví swvi, sy3 swu 1 wy2 seu
sec. 28, sy2 sy?.
Sec. 34, NWVi NEVi, .NWU
Township ,1 north Range S cast
Sec. 1, SWU, Wy2 SEU, SEU SEU
Sec. 6, Lots 1 to 12 inclu.
Sec. 10, SV'2 SEU
Sec. 11, sy2 SWU
sec. 12, xy? xya
Sec. 14. Wy.
Sec. 15, EVi E2
Sec. 22, SEU
Sec. 27, NEVi, S3
Sec 28, S'.
Sec. 29, EV NWU. SW4, WVa SEU
Sec. 30, EVs SEU
Sec. 31, EVi Ey2, NWU, NWVi SEU
Sec. 33, NU
FORD IS MAKING F0RI80SS
While Schwab is building ships and
Ryan is making airplanes and Stettin-
1ur ia buying war supplies and a hun-
dred more men who are cantains of
various lines of industry are working
hard in Washington and in France to
make America efficient in war, Henry
Ford is sticking to his factory. That
is where he can accomplish mot.
j The Ford tractor, to which Henry
is giving to-day his undivided atien
1 tion, is described as a drab thing four
feet high and five feet long. It is cal
led the Fordson and Henry is now
making it at the rate of a hundred a
day. The Fordsons go straight from
the factory into official hands to be
distributed where they will do the
most good.
The first six thousand of them went
to England to put one million acres
of grass land under cultivation for
the production of human food.
Canada will have a thousand of
them for use in her grain fields. Can
ada is short of men and it must raise
more wheat.
Michigan, Ohio, Kansas and Iowa
have takeu a thousand of the Ford
sons each.
There were forty thousand farm
tractors in the United States at the be
ginning of the year. Henry will turn
out fifty thousand this year. Next
year he hopes to turn ont one hundred
and fifty thousand. Henry believes
that his Fordson, now that he has
got it to suit him, will be as numerous
as his Ford. He planned to build trac
tors before he planned to build au
tomobiles at all.
WThon Mr. Ford had his tractors to
suit him he sent his plant manager to
England to build the machines over
there. The British Food Administra
te tested out the machine and asked
the visitor to go back home and build
tractors over here. The British fac
tories were too busy in munition man
ufacture. There wasn 't much of a
factory at Dearborn then, but sixty
days after Manager Sorensen got
home last August the first shipload of
tractors was on the way to England.
The last of the six thousand were ship
ped in March.
British agriculture will be revolu
tionized by the genius Henry Ford.
American agriculture will feel its in
fluence to a lesser degree this summer,
but the thousands of tractors in use
here will show their power of increas
ed production, too. Syracuse Post
Standard. TELLS OF COMFORT
OF (E B.HAN OFFICIALS
Sunday' Oct. 27th 191S.
My dear Mother:
It is your time to get a letter' isn't
it? I sent a paper this morning. It
gives sonithing of the operations in
this sector.
I wonder what you are doing to
night and where you are gootng. Some
how I'd like to be in the "home town
tonight." I suppose you are going to
church and will hear a good sermon
along with a. little praise of the boys
over here. No doubt you imagine we
are having untold hardships.and itcer
tainly is not all smoothe sailing but
it is altogether bearable so you may
be sure I can stand it.
We have had a pretty day here it
being still, warm and the sun shining.
It hasxulso been quiet comparatively,
only few aeroplanes were out for a
party this afternoon. About the best
thing we have here is the sunshine be
caause it is so rare. When it does come
out we appreciate it.
I visited some dugouts this after
noon that were held not long since by
tlie Germans. It had evidently been a
Headquarters, judging by the way the?
were fixed. They certainly had all
the comforts of home dug back into
the side of the hill, covered with U
inch of steel; then papered and floored
The furnishings were mugnificent, hav
ing evidently been taken from cap
tured towns and chateaus. They were
lighted by elctricity, had telephones,
fire places and porcelain stoves the
kind many of the French use. There
was all kinds of good furniture, hard
wood tables, dressers and side-boards
of inlaid mahogany,and one of the best
roll-top desks with a marble top that
I ever saw. We, of course, were not
fortunate enough to get to occupy
these particular dugouts. Out in front
of what seemed to be the main en
trance was a sort of beer garden with
tables, a swing and lawn benches. Ov
erhead was some very artistic camou
flage. That was the most interesting thing
I have seen today, so I'll try to save
' another Incident for next time. So
!far we have not been by the In-
I nueilza like tney have in the States
My best love to all,
JOHN H. DOYLE, Jr.
A. P. O. 756
1st F. M. C, U. S. A.
A boy with a new sled isn't alarmed
fet the prospect of a hard winter.
No. 1.1.
PRESIDENT WILSON
PROCLAIMS RED
CROSS ROLL CALL
This week began the membership
drive on Christmas Roll Call for the
Red Cross. In this it is simply de
sired that every man, woman and
child enroll as a member and pay the
membership fee of one dollar for 1919.
It is hoped that the money thus rea
lized will enable the Red Cross to
carry on its needed work without
abatement.
The following proclamation has
been issued by President Wilson:
"To the American, People:
"One year ago, twenty-two millón
Americans, by enrolling as members
of the Red Cross at Christmas time,
sent to the men who were lighting
our battles overseas a stimulating
message of cheer and good will. They
made it clear that our people were of
their own free choice united with
their government in the determina
tion not only to wage war with the in-
anents of destruction, but also by
every means in their power to repay
the ravages of the invader and sus
tain and renew the spirit of the army
and the homes which they repre
sented. The friends of the Ameri
can Red Cross in Italy, Belgium and
France have told and will tell again
the story of how the Red Cross work
ers restored morale in the hospitals.
in the camps, and at the cantonments
and we ought to be very proud that,
we have been permitted to be of serv
ico to those whose sufferings and
whose glory are the heritage of hu
manity. "Now, by God's grace, the Red
Cross Christmas message of 1918 is to
be a message of peace as well as a
message of good will. But peace does
not mean that we can fold our hands.
It means further .sacrifice. We must
prove conclusively to an attentive
world that America is permanently
aroused to the needs of the new era,
our old indifference gone forever.
"The exact nature of the future
service of the Red Cross will depend
upon the program of the associated
governments, but there is immediate
need today for every heartening word
and every helpful service. We must
not forget that our soldiers and our
sailors are still under orders and still
have duties to perform of the highest,
consequence, and that the lied Cross
Christmas membership means a great
deal to them. The people of the sad
dened lands moreover, returning
home today where there are no homes,
must have the assurance that the
hearts of our people are with them in
the dark and doubtful days ahead.
Let us. so far as we can, help them
back to faith in mercy and in future
happiness.
'As president of the Red Cross con
scious in this great hour of the value
of such a message from the American
people, I should be glad if every
American would join the Red Cross
for 1919, and thus send forth to the
whole human family the Christmas
greeting for which it waits and for
which it stands in greatest need.
(Signed) "WOODROW WILSON."
STOCKHOLDERS NOTICE
The annual meeting of the Stockhol
ders of the Bean Growers National
Farm Loan Association will be held at
Mountainair, New Mexico, January 14,
1919 at 2 o'clock p. 111. to elect direc
tors to serve one year, and for such
other business as may properly come
before the meeting.
All those whose loans have been
closed.are stockholders.and those who
have not received their stock certifi
cates can got them at this meeting.
Please make it a point to attend.
E. C. TELFORD,
Secretary-Treasurer.
Mountainair, N. M., Dec. 13, 1918.
SEVERAL NEW CASES OF I II'
There have been several new cases
of Flu the past wok in Mountainair,
but none have been seriously ill.
Among those confined to their homes
are: D. P. Chappell, Miss Lema Hale
and sisters, Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Mit
chell, Mrs. G. T. McWhirter.