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MANCHESTER |— Boys Homer 
FROM THE 
Private J. Irving Baker: of Man- 
chester, Co. A, 2nd Mass. Infantry, 
writes from Columbus, N. M.: 
‘“Phey lined us up today and issued 
recruit toilet kits that had a lot of 
things in them—a_ shoe brush and 
polish, tooth brush, hair brush, whisk 
broom, soap, razor, shaving brush, 
comb and a HOusearite mate needles, 
thread and buttons. It 
pins, scissors, 
comes in mighty handy. We were 
also issued new blankets. We had a 
slick dinner Sunday—beefsteak, po- 
tatoes with brown gravy, onions and 
apple pie. One of-our cooks was a 
baker—knows how to make them. I 
am sitting at the window of the Y. M. 
-C. A. and just across the road they 
are unloading the motor trucks to go 
to Pershing’s army in Mexico. You 
ought to see the men when they come 
back; they are all covered, with dust 
and dirt. It takes ten days for the 
round trip. They take two men from 
each company as guards, but I wasn’t 
lucky enough to be drawn. 
“There is not much doing just now, 
drill four hours in the morning and 
.then nothing in the afternoon, but 
take. a shower and clean your rifle. 
We had a ball game the other day 
with Co. M of the 1st New Mexico. 
[ played center field. It was a pretty 
good game. We haven’t gone on out- 
post again; some of the outfits are 
getting their turn, but “we should 
worry,” we had the first crack at it 
the: first -day we-were here. It 1s 
lots hotter here than where Harry 
(brother) is, according to the papers, 
but we don’t mind it much now. 
“The recruits came in the afternoon 
of the 16th. We had just put their 
tents up, when it began to rain and 
just poured. A good introduction to 
this climate. I went down as far as 
the border today, where we saw a 
number of dead horses they got in 
the raid. I got your package last 
night and it was great, if it was a 
little squashed, also the checkers the 
boys sent; two of the fellows in the 
tent are using it now. We were on 
guard at the bull pen all day yester- 
day. Took in five prisoners; one was 
. “spic.” This was a new experience 
for most of us. We are to have an- 
other physical examination at 10.30.” 
Musician Harry D. Baker, Co. H, 
Sth Mass. Infantry, writes from Camp 
Cotton, Fl Paso, Texas: 
“Sergt. Barnes and I went down 
tothe border a little while ago and 
he took a picture of the adobe hut 
where 
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with a 
there is a 
boundary 
foreground, 
Mexican outpost, 
monument in the 
One of the outposts was 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
kind enough to go down with us, and 
we both had our automatics. Safety 
First ! 
“The Youth’s Companion hasn't 
come yet; we certainly will use it 
when it does come. You spoke of a 
lady who had been down here, tell- 
ing you how to keep cool nights. ‘That 
is entirely unnecessary, as the nights 
are fine down in this section, and 
before morning you are glad cf the 
oid blanket and a little more. 
“Speaking of staying at the beach 
to see the moon rise, | want you to 
know that we have some fine views 
down here when the moon rises over 
the Mexican hills. And falk about 
sunrises! They are beautiful. On 
the whole, this part of the country 
has its beauties as well as old New 
!:ngland. El Paso is quite a busy city 
as those pictures will show. Ti.eve 
is also a very pretty residential sec- 
tien. ; 
“Don’t worry about the ‘canteen,’ 
because it is just like a department 
store, where you can buy .any- 
thing from a wrist watch to a cake 
of soap. A funny thing happened to 
me the other day at musicians’ school. 
We fell out for a short rest and when 
I sat down I almost sat on a horned 
toad. It probably would have hurt 
the toad more than me, but it startled 
me when it ran out of the way. 
“Our outfit was issued, new rifles 
tonight, and the old ones were given 
to the ‘rookies.’ We are very nearly 
all equipped, as all have the new uni- 
forms, shoes, underwear and_ stock- 
ings. It looks as though we would 
have to move out on border patrol, 
but we know absolutely nothing about 
the orders.” 
EQUAL SUFFRAGE, 
AND HEALTH 
JUSTICE 
(THE PRESENT SITUATION ) 
The National Woman Suffrage as- 
sociation has issued a call for a gen- 
eral national convention, to be held 
the first week of September in At- 
lantic City. This will be an extreme- 
ly important event for all the suffra- 
gists of this country, and a large 
delegation will go from Massachu- 
setts. The early date of this annual 
convention (which usually comes in 
December) is owing to the fact that 
the presidential elections in this coun- 
try come this autumn. Every day 
there is new evidence that woman 
suffrage will play a very important 
part in the presidential and congres- 
sional campaig at it is be- 
coming more and more a national and 
less and less a local matter. (Even 
the Boston Transcript is calling at- 
tention to this fact!) The women 
are watching President Wilson with 
Tuly 28, 1916. 
new interest, for he has just made the 
democrats -put aside their ‘‘states’ 
rights” argument and pass a federal 
child labor bill; and we wonder how 
he can, with any consistency, continue 
to use the states’ rights argu- 
ment against a federal amendment for 
equal suffrage. By the way, the South- 
ern gentlemen who wanted to con- 
tinue child labor in the Southern fac-_ 
tories are the same men who most — 
bitterly oppose woman suffrage. South- 
ern chivalry again! ~ 
Now, in connection with the nation- 
al situation, we note how large a share 
the women of the country have had 
in equipping and taking care of the 
militia,—the boys on the border—dur- 
ing this Mexican disturbance; and 
the fact has crept out that,—even — 
with all this. assistance—the authori- 
ties have in many instances not pro- 
vided proper food for the military 
camps at the border. Have the wom- 
en any control of these conditions? In 
return for their tremendous service, 
will they have any voice in the gov-~ 
ernment that controls all national and 
international questions ? oe in the 
Western states. 
A certain doctor has recently stated 
that the terrible epidemic of infantile 
paralysis in New York is very largely 
due to unclean conditions in parts of 
that city; and yet many men still in- 
sist that women shall not interfere 
in municipal housekeeping and that 
they are not needed in government! 
New York suffragists are helping in 
the fight against infant paralysis, and 
at the same time are carrying forward 
their second state campaign,—proba- 
bly their last! And, by the way, 
these wonderful New York suffra- 
gists combined a suffrage demonstra- 
tion with graceful and practical at- 
tentions to the departing militia, which 
made a great hit with the “boys in 
khaki.” 
are saying to the boys at the border 
and to American citizens in general,— 
“Give us, not ‘chivalry,’ but justice 
and health!” 
Lourr R. STaANwoop. 
Manchester, July 27. 
MANCHESTER 
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‘Taxi—Phone Manchester 290. adv. 
Take your bicycles to Peters to be 
repaired.—Opposite Manchester Elec- 
tric Co., Summer st. adv. 
Perley Roderick, one of the Man- 
chester men who enlisted in Co. H, 
Sth Mass. Infantry, for service on the 
border, was taken ill with pleurisy 
en route to the front, and has been 
confined to the hospital tent since 
arrival on the border. He has made 
application for a discharge. 
Taxi—Phone Manchester 290. adv. 
But they and all suffragists_ 
