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EL PASO HERALD Week-End Edition, Jane 1918. DAILY RIFLE OUTPUT 7841 DEATH DAILY THE ONLY GIRL WHO EVER BEAT RASPUTIN, THE ONE OF NOW USES HER GUITAR, VOICE TO COLLECT FUNDS FOR RUSSIAN RED CROSS Doctor Asserts Horse Meat Is Good For Food Great Strides Made in Its Ignore Danger to Aid the Manufacture Since Men Fighting in War Began. France. By FREDRICK J. HASKI.V.

Paris, France, June the last Washington, D. June terrific drive, when the Germans maae their most frantic effort to recent announcement that more than break through along Aisne, American 1.500,000 rifles have been produced in Y. M. C. A.

secretaries distinguished this country for uso of oy fearless counuy lor ti.e use or tne i mteci tion with the French troops with States army, will probably put to rest i which they were stationed. Thirty of for all time the controversy, and the i the secretaries remained at their misunderstandings it engendered, over the supply of rifles available for our troops. In addition to these posts under heavy shell fire, retiring only when the troops retired, and acting as runners in the greatest danger, carrying food and supplies to the poilus after their own supplies cently manufactured rifles, we have had to reach them The Americans made their way back and forth across fields swept by shrapnel, high explosives and in use 600,000 Springfield rifles which were on hand when we entered the war. chine gun fire, carrying equipment As only about half of the men in an supplies, retreating and taking up array carry rifles, we now have ne'Y. Positions with the French troops.

Ninety three M. C. A. stations enough of them to supply a force of i have been destroyed or captured in 2 000,000 men, including the wastage for a year. Our average rate of production is 7941 rifles a day.

The truth ahout the rifle situation has been obscured by the dust and fuss of partisan contention. The public was told on the one hand that we had "a broom stick and on the other, that there was a rifle for every recruit. The real story of the American rifle in this war is known to but few. Arw pifle Designed. To understand that story it is necessary to go back to the beginning the drive.

Whenever possible, the Americans carried with them as much of the supplies and equipment as possible, leaving little to fall into the hands of the Germans. Three warehouses were burned by officials to prevent the stores in them falling in the hands of the Germans. Among the Americans who rendered splendid service are several women. Miss Marie C. Herron, sis- terinlaw of expresident Taft, and Miss June Bowler, of Cincinnati, canteen workers, particularly distinguished themselves, laboring with wounded troops and refugees under heavy bombardment and with vil- of war in Europe.

At that time the burning about them British government was just getting ready to manufacture a new model of rifle. A short time hefore, the Germans had discovered that a cartridge with a pointed bullet would shoot straight- pr and farther than one with a blunt bullet. Accordingly all the principal governments began manufacturing pointed bullets. But when the British tried to shoot a pointed bullet in their regular army fthe .303 Enfield), it work; the bullet turned somersaults in the air and otherwise misbehaved. By putting a little piece of aluminum in each bullet.

the British succeeded in restoring the balance of their missile, so that the rifle they had would shoot it. but this was a makeshift and an expensive one. Accordingly, they set to work and designed a neve rifle, freely from our Springfield model and from the German rifle. When war broke out in 1914. the British had a fine paper.

They did not have any considerable quantity of the new rifles actually made, and only a small supply of the old ones. The Germans had caught John Bull with his shirt off, so far as rifles were concerned. lionsr Delay Immediately the British agents rushed to this country with their designs for a new rifle, but altered to shoot the old British ammunition instead of the .30 as had been intended. This had to be done In order that all of the British rifles would use the same ammunition, for much confusion would be caused if an army had to use different kinds of ammunition in its rifles. The very best gun factories in the United States were now given contracts for the manufacture of the new British Enfield rifle.

The Immediate result was an unexpected delay. The American manufacturers were competent, but it took much longer to evolve a quantity production of rifles than anyone had realized. It was nearly a year and a half before rifles were shipped from this country to Fngland in large enough numbers to count. When the United States entered the war, we had the great good fortune to have already developed this quantity production of rifles In the interest of Great Britain. Had it not been for this fact, we probably would not have an effective army in the field todav.

But we encountered the same difficulty that the British encountered at the beginning, in that we had on hand rifles of another caliber. British Design Altered. There were, our own regular army Springfield rifles of .30 caliber. We had about 700,000 of them on hand, and two government arsenals with a capacity of about 1500 rifles a day, which was enough to supply the normal wastage on the 700,000. Tn other words, we were capable of producing the British Enfield rifle in quantity with none on hand, while of the Springfield rifle we had a considerable supply on hand, but could not produce quantities.

If we manufactured the British rifle and ammunition, we would be unable to supply ammunition for our Kprins- fieidsi and the 700.000 rifles of that make would have to go to the scrap Accordingly. the decision "as reached to altar the design of the British Enfield so that it would shoot the American .30 caliber cartridge was this change in design that caused all the delay, all the controversy, and all the charges that we were putting a broomstick army Into field. It was decided upon, however, by the leading rifle experts and manufacturers of the United States, and its wisdom seems to be demonstrated by the fact that we are now producing this American Enfield rifle in quantities. and are also using 600,000 of the Sprlngfields, all of these rifles shooting the same ammunition. Tendency To Burnt.

Fxnerts pronounce this new American Fnfield one of the best of modern rifles. In a test which comprised the firing of 850.000 rounds of ammunition, there only three accidents, and two of those were due to the carelessness of soldiers in dirt in the muzzles of their guns. It appears that there is a tendency for this rifle to burst, owing to the very high pressure to which the chamber is subjected when the piece is fired. This pressure is 51,000 pounds to the square inch. Men are being very carefully trained in the use of the arms, and officers are provided with proper gages and tools, Carl Little, of Brookfield.

returned to an abandoned burning village to rescue child refugees. William Eric May ell. of Nyac, N. and William Irving Ilastie, of Centerdale, R. fought against desperate odds, and braved greatest dangers to render invaluable service to soldiers Under fire.

Hastie located a bakery In village which was being bombarded, and securing flour from the Red Cross baked hundreds of loaves of bread and distributed them to the French troops before the village was taken. so that they can make frequent inspections, similar to those made of coast and field artillery pieces. By these precautions the number of accidents have been reduced to an almost negligible percentage. The rifle problem is not only that of supplying each man with a rifle, but of keeping him supplied. The wastage of rifles used to be calculated at about 40 percent a year, but in this war it has often been much lugher.

To be on the safe side, there must be produced at least two rifles every year for every man who carries a rifle. Every sudden retreat means a heavy loss of Germany Well Supplied. The making of rifles, as of other war materials, has been an immensely costly race between the nations. In tho Spanish-American war, some of our regiments were still equipped with the old black powder Springfield powerful arm, but having a poor trajectory. Then came the Ivrag- Jorgensen.

and it was followed in 1903 by the American Springfield. Each of these changes meant the selling of enormous quantities of the old rifles at a fraction of what it cost to make them. They are usually auctioned off, and are then resold by dealers at low prices to various state and municipal militia units, to military schools, and to some extent to sportsmen. Having an adequate supply of rifles has been one of great advantages, and lack of them one of the great handicaps of the allies. Although England and France, after a brief period of confusion, succeeded in supplying their needs, neither Russia nor Italy has ever had enough rifles.

Had it been possible to supply these nations properly, the Russian collapse might never have occurred, and tho great Italian retreat most probably would have been avoided. Says It Is Kindness To Fatten Old Horses and Then Eat Them. By WOODS IIITCHINSOV. M. D.

New York, June repulsion from the idea of eating the poor old, worn out wrecks of their former selves which we see tottering along in wagons, instead of an argument against horse eating, is the strongest kind of one in favor of it. The reason why these poor, old ghosts live on into this wretched and miserable stage of existence is that they have no beef value, but begin to go steadily down in the world from one degradation to another as soon as they lose their speed or strength. If they had a food value, just as soon as they began to develop any bigns of spavin, or sprung knees, or luminitis, or nevicular disease, or other of the different forms of lameness that affect their seneral health in the slightest, they could be turned out to pasture, fattened up and sold at a good price, more than the pressman or the peddler would pay for them, they would be saved an enormous amount of wretchedness and suffering. As well as securing for the community a large supply of that most expensive and important of all foodstuffs, protein, which now goes utterly to waste. Nor would this be a trifle in amount, as from the number of different sorts of livestock kept in the country taking the average horse weight at a thousand pounds, their beef would make an addition of something like 20 percent to the total supply.

From all that can be gathered, it is probably true that the flavor of horse meat is not quite as appetizing and attractive as that of beef. But then, for the matter of that, neither is mutton to a great many people, or pork or rabbit to others. It is purely a question of taste, and the majority of people can not tell the difference between horse beef and cow meat after they are cooked, while many, no doubt, who objected to the strange taste at first, would learn to tolerate and even prefer it afterwards. Vtt Tight Fisted Husbands Are Problem I Sometimes They May Be Brought Around by In- 1 genuity of the Wife in Making the Stinginess Hurt His Stomach, But Usually They Are Hopeless. rtv BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

uiimimiiiimtiuiitiiiiitmumiiiHiiiittfnitini HE following letter has come me from a woman who has a complaint against a close fisted husband: have been reading your articles for some time, hoping to find suggestions which would help me solve a problem I find most perplexing I 1 133 have been married two years such a situation afford an occasional movie or a bunch of street flowers. But when it is a case of such Ignoble meanness as my correspondent describes, where the wife is skimped to last penny and strangers are lavishly entertained, it seems to me that tlie wife is justified in calling in all her wits to deal with League Of Health For Great Britain Is Plan Of Olga Nethersole London, June Olga Nethersole, the distinguished actress, is busy founding a peace league of health, which she hopes will become an educational limb of the ministry of health. was never a time when people were more interested in she said, I believe there Avill he a wide support for my scheme. People are ready to the great battle against disease, but organization is needed. I hope to arrange a mass meeting at which the objects of the league will be explained.

housing, parenthood, hygiene, child welfare, maternity, the treatment of tuberculosis in its early are some of the questions we shall tackle. marriage question is of the greatest importance. The greatest good that could befall the British race would be that a medical certificate held by both parties should be necessary before they present themselves to the authorities for a religious or civil British Give Money As Well As Lives to Cause London, June fighting man is giving very practical evidence of his recognition of the urgent need for money to prosecute the war even more energetically. There are now over 650 war savings associations in army units in this country and since November, 1916, more than a million and a quarter pounds have been subscribed. The first army corps in France subscribed over a quarter of a million pounds in three months, and in one month the British force in Salonica subscribed nearly 200 000 30 SUTJ 9 1 sv SuiSunif jsilTsd fin oa'bii Avax uj uautoAv New York Painless Dentists EW YORK, June strikingly handsome figure, a mass of the most beautiful close cropped raven black hair and a contralto voice of the very purest quality, coupled with a charming personality, is a womanly combination which easily could control the destinies of any country.

Vera Smirnova is the possessor of all the above mentioned gifts. Her voice opened up the portals of the most exclusive of the exclusive set in the old regime of czar Nicholas. Society folk of the overthrown government vied with one another in having her present at their entertainments and dukes and princes were on such intimate terms with her that she called them by their Christian names. Little wonder, then, that as the lioness of Russian society she came to meet Rasputin, that most mystic personage whose w'ish was law. The story and incidents that led to the death of Holy of the ruling family of Russia are so w'ell known now that nothing could be gained to retell them.

Tt might be apropos, however, to take up one of the threads which was never woven into the often told story telling of the death of Rasputin. Orglen of There was a small coterie of ballet dancers who were members of the imperial opera house at Petrograd. The members of this coterie were on the most intimate terms with the and many stories have been told of the orgies at which they and Rasputin threw' caution to the winds and indulged in things that would pale the saturnalia of the orgies of ancient Rome. The wife of one of the grand dukes had issued invitations to a grand ball given in honor of her cousin, who had just returned from the front with wounds received in battle. Rasputin, of course, was to be present.

Vera Smirnova had been invited as one of the honored guests and she was to render the Russian gypsy songs for which she was famed. All went along as scheduled. The affair was one of the successes of the season. There were more jewels worn on this occasion than had ever before been seen at a smilar affair, and it promised that the grand duchess had promoted the most successful social gathering of the season. Rasputin On Drunk.

Someone discovered that the most powerful person in the domain was absent. Then someone else discovered that they knew just where the could be reached. An automobile was sent to a certain address in a certain street where certain people in the know all class that Rasputin hald court when not otherwise engaged. The chauffeur had no difficulty in finding the place, but he arrived at the very height of the orgy. The man to whom all i i Russia looked as to the Savior him- self was hopelessly bemuddled with! drink.

He had forgotten all about the grand affair, and it took considerable persuasion on the part; of the chauffeur to make him under-j only after Rasputin; had been doused with several pails of ice cold water that he could bo made to understand that he was wanted by the grand duchess. He marked almost beyond recognition when he finally stumbled out of the conservatory. When asked how he came to bo marked as he was. he explained that lie had just been wrestling with some evil spirits who were controlling a poor girl. Prince Yousoupov, the daring young man whose name will go down in history as the one man who freed Russia from the rule of Rasputinism was one of the intimate friends of Mile.

Smirnova. His wife, the princess Irene, who had experienced a similar affair with the was her closest woman friend. The morning following Vera's experience with Rasputin, Vera phoned to the prince and told him in detail her harrowing experience of the night before. Downfall Rasputin. The prince was enraged beyond and was engaged for a year and a half, which was the happiest time of my life.

my engagement I received every possible attention, courtesy and evidence of generosity. All of Two Courses Open. Two courses are open to the voting woman who has written me, she can get a position fortunately not a difficult thing these she can use her ingenuity to bring her husband to terms. When there is no money forthcom- which stopped with the last quarter ing for the laundry why not neglect of the honeym to send it? A lack of clean linen may husband makes more now than perhaps he a more effectual appeal when we were married, but 1 have! than either or entreaties, actually had to sell my wedding Tn a somewhat similal case the hus- presents to pay for necessary things, band of a woman, who wrote me sev .1 1 Uo.i i pe nil like laundry wrork. lie never takes me to a theater or a movie, never has given me even a field flower, and yet lie is most lavish with his friends.

I hear accounts of lunches downtown, poker parties with stag suppers, long motor trips given by my husband to his friends and sometimes their wives. eral times, had a habit of doling out pitifully small sums for household He would strip one or two dollars from the of his and. with all the anguish he might have displayed in having himself bodily skinned, present them. There was never money enough to run the house, and the wife invar- ives. run me ine who I remonstrate he says these: iably made up the deficit from a are given for and small income, which she was fortun- that he afford the extra expense ate enough to have.

This continued of taking me. I would go home to! until the wifely worm decided to my own people but there are two un-i turn. And the next time her husband married girls at home and it does not told her he was bringing home friends a -J nnom i tVlA Sin seem quite fair to them. wish you w'ould answer this let ter. as you know either of us, to dinner and accompanied the announcement by laying a couple of dollars on the table, his wife took it.

ter. as you aon ui uo, noimrs un me 1 and a little impersonal advice would went to market and did not exceed 1. 1 a iA ri A rvrinnnn! be very elcome. sincerely, I am afraid, my dear Mary your husband is only one more illustration of that synical joke regarding men of his type: run when you have caught the He has caught the car and he regards the transaction as finished. It the given sum.

And the principal dish of that little dinner was beef Her penurious helpmeet could hardly wait till his officers of the concern that employed gone before he demanded an explanation. He u'ot it. His wife took out pencil and paper and showed every penny most unbearable for her in Petrograd, so she gathered up her chattels and made her way, by way of Siberia, to the of the Free and i the Home of the Here, witlv her guitar, she has appeared at a number of Red Cross benefits where her remarkable voice brought many dollars to the coffers i of the Russian Red Cross. She is i devoting herself to war work exelu- sively now, and hopes soon to be able I to give a number of soirees at which I she will sing her loved gypsy songs i in her native tongue. prince still flushed with the wines he at this latest outrage.

"The had consumed when he arrived. limit has been said he. His dazed condition was attributed --Wait 48 hours and your revenge will to the fact that he had been com- be complete, for within that time the One will have become the Tho true significance of the message did not dawn on Vera until the historic day when the shot that star mining with the departed saints, as would be the wont of such a holy person as was Rasputin. IiOnthed by Singer. For many months he had cast longing eyes on Vera, who Is the Russian personification of all that is beautiful.

Vera loathed his very presence. She had shown him in many ways how much she detested him, but he had been rebuffed by many others in a higher station in life than her own, but always they had fallen under his hypnotic eyes. So ho waited like a cat waits for a mouse. After the entertainment, when the guests were separated into pairs, Vera was left for a moment alone. The had been waiting for this very moment.

Mile. Smirnova still believes it was all prearranged. Rasputin asked her to come with him to the conservatory. Unwilling to offend her In her own home, she flolowred. Then there ensued a struggle between hypnotism and the wits of a strong woman.

All seemed to go in favor of the "Holy and he was already gloating over another victim to be added to his scores when Mile. nova broke the hynotic spell. lUons on Scoundrel. Angered beyond control by her narrow escape, forgetting her surroundings and the powerful personage she was facing, she grasped Rasputin by his beard and rained blows upon blows on him until he pleaded with her to cease. It was only when she was utterly exhausted, however, that she did so.

face was tied all Russia was fired. some say by Yousoupov himself, some say by a group i daring men of which the prince was a member, and the life of Rasputin was snuffed out as is the life of a mad dog when it is killed a well directed t-hot. In a small circle of selected ones it was known that two shots were tired at the end of a festival where prince Yousoupov and Rasputin were the honored guests. When the soldiers entered the salon of the beautiful home where the murder was committed they found the dead body of prince favorite dog on ihe body of Rasputin. Pinned to the body Rasputin was a note in Russian, "So die all mad Whether or not prince dog jtad become mad no one will ever know until the prince himself throws light on the subject.

i.irl lumen to America. Within two hours of the death of Rasputin the prince had telephoned to Mile. Smirnova and informed her of the death of the This was exactly 48 hours after he had told her that revenge would be complete that time. With the death of Rasputin came, just as he had foretold, the overthrow' of the old Russian government. There were many in Russia who had heard of Mile encounter with Rasputin.

Life soon became al- Caadian Blows Up Bridge and German Airplane With Same Charge Of Explosive London, Hill, a special Canadian correspondent with the British armies in France, writes: blow up a bridge and bring down a Boche airplane at the same time was the unique experience of engineers of a Canadian railway construction unit during the recent fighting on the Ancre river. The incident is vouched for by an Imperial infantry colonel, w'hose men were holding the line in that sector. was found necessary to destroy the steel structure at the last moment after our men had crossed, a young Winnipeg lieutenant was intrusted with the task, to accomplish which he was given a lorry load of gun cotton. He had just completed the mining and the fixing of the fuse when a German plane swooped down and dropped bombs on both sides of the bridge. The lorry was hurried out of danger, but the officer stayed behind to see it any more of our infantry needed to cross the bridge before it was destroyed.

The airplane swerved round in a circle and came at the bridge firing machine guns as the last man darted for cover. The Canadian set his fuse as soon as the airplane had gone by and then dashed up the road. Just as the machine came swerving over the bridge for the second time the structure went up in a blinding flash. The airplane rocked with the force of the explosion, then suddenly flamed up and fell w'ith a crash. British infantry watched closely, but not a soul crawled from the ruins.

garus ine umoucu, papiri never occurs to him that he might accounted for; indeed she was lose what he took so much pains to cents short, and this she con- acquire. Or that he has lost the best tributed. how did you manage you have to faith and re-jso well spect. i manage; I donated. Nowy No woman, no matter how hard she; I am investing every penny I have tries to be loyal, can idealize a self- in Liberty ish, stingy man who indulges all his; wjsh could report that an 1 m- generous impulses away from home, mp(jiate conversion followed, but it Something Wrong.

did not. She kept strictly within the There is wrongr with amount her husband gave, and him, some blight in his make up, a road to that gentleman conversion dropped stitch in his was vja stoniaCh. in time he KreW weary of tripe. From the 'of the cave men liver and herring, and it nerved him the iTresent time is thl finally to strip his roll deeper than fnsunctive impul.e of nor, outer cuticle At he tA fnr own bas compensation for his suffer- hunch of' the little Ings; he knows what provisions cost, trinket, the fun of being taken knows what it takes to run a a theater or movie are all the veloped outcome of the cave Such cases are hard to understand, generosity. And if one of his de- Why should a man seek to humiliate scendants is wholly lacking in this; the woman he has chosen before all attribute, it might be to his wife's: other women? Why will he permit a advantage to know the reason.

niggardly impulse, bequeathed doubt- If it is poverty, or the high cost less by some unworthy ancestor, to of living that checks his liberal im- triumph over his better nature, his pulses, I have nothing but sympathy wife's affection, the very foundation for the cave many times re- of his home? Why does the little moved great grandson. Though it is power derived from holding the purse difficult to understand any one strings compare with what he loses short of an actual vagrant could in the way of loyalty, love and faith? Family Washing Only 7c a Pound COMBINES BUSINESS AND PLEASURE IT IS NOT ONLY It Make Certain Grea Men Mad? By F. opper VTHANST.Htl^A* 6ERMAMS AREjRYlHO To JPO To THEM A fomlRoro Rohber Plate. Note the thinness of the Aluminum Plate as compared to rubber. REMEMBER, WE DEFY ALL COMPETITION In workmanship and material used.

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At the morning session, one applicant, a native of Italy, was de- nied naturalization because he ex-; pressed an intention to return to his native land after the war. OPENS OFFICES. The associated charities, beginning Monday, will maintain offices in the basement of the courthouse auditorium, adjacent to the public clinics. The organization will maintain its other offices in the lower part of the city. But Also a to deal With the COURTEOUS AND ALWAYS OBLIGING Acme Laundry Man Phone 4300 FAMILY WASHING includes every article of wearing apparel for the entire family and all household linen.

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