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Arizona republican., 1915-08-02
FORUM MEETS
 AND REMEMBERS SICK

The Phoenix Forum, an organization formed by the colored citizens of the city for their moral, social and edu- cational betterment, three years ago, held it's regular weekly meeting Sunday afternoon at the A NJ. F. church, with J. A. Green acting president.
 Following the regular opening eXer cises, a hearty discussion ensued upon methods by which the Forum might reach the unreached of the city.
 One suggestion touching upon in creased attendance was that the pas tors of the colored churches be ur- gently requested to announce the meetings of the Forum each Sunday.
 J. A. Green and Mrs. Georgia Ow- ems were among the other speakers.
 The program for next Sunday is all ready arranged and the participants appointed. In addition to a vocal solo by one oe the local talents, Prof. c. C. Credle and Rev. N. F. White will at tempt to answer the question W Does Freedom Mean to the American Negro" As both the above speakers are well acquainted with the topic and are good takers, a large crowd is eX- pected at the Forum which meets at the C. NJ. E. church.
 The organization sent a beautiful floral token to Isaac Smith, one of it's members, who is on the sick list, but who is recovering.
 It has been stated by a number of reliable and conservative local individ- uals that the Phoenix colored citizenry has made more progress in getting to- gether, home getting, money saving and in mental awakening, with the last three years, than ever and that these encouraging results may largely be at tributed to the work of the Phoenix Forum
Arizona republican., 1915-08-02
SIDEWALK RIDING
 IS TO BE STOPPED
Chief Brisbois Orders Bicycle Ordi-
 nance Strictly Enforced

While the police have always been active in enforcing the ordinance mak- ing it a misdemeanOr to ride a bicy cle upon a sidewalk, there is to be special activity along that line under an order issued yesterday by Chief of Police George o. Brisbois Hereto fore the offenders have been dealt with leniently, but there have been so many cases reported where lives and limbs have been endangered, particu larly those of children, the chief be- lieves that drastic steps must be taken before some serious accident occurs.
 While the offenders in many cases are children or young boys, the prac tice is not confined to them entirely, and men are frequently brought into the city police court. Nominal fines have generally been imposed where convictions have been secured. In the case of children it has now become the rule to confiscate temporarily the bicycle of the youngster which is re- turned when the usual bail money or the amount of the fine is forthcoming.
 Chief Brisbois says that there is no desire to harass petty offenders but states that the practice of riding a bi- cycle upon sidewalk is most dan gerous and that the ordinance is a good one and will be enforced
Arizona republican., 1915-08-02
FOR WAR
 AND CATTLE BUSINESS
Newest Recruit at the Home of Bon
 Peterson

This country alarmed at it's state of is getting ready for war. Foreign invaders must be re- pulsed if they come. Another boy was born into the family of Ben Peterson yesterday afternoon but the arrival of the endorsements did not interfere with the scene of activity in the vicin ity of Ben's bOotblack stand.
 The Peterson family consists now, besides Mir and Mrs. Ben, of six sons and three daughters. This event like the last similar one. has q bearing on the cattle industry as well as the mili- tary preparedness of the country The last boy was the forerunner of a COW, the gift of John R. Norton who con tributeti a fine Jersey in consideration of the honor of having the youngster named after him.
 Ben has another COW in mind and in reply as to the probable name of the newest recruit, he said: I'm not quite sure yet; I'm looking around for live guy. I can find a lot of dead ones to name him after but 1 can't never get into the cattle business very far that way. l believe now that this boys going to be named Billy Cook Peter
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Arizona republican., 1915-08-02
Tempe News Notes
TEMPEANS INTERESTED
 IN MEETING TONIGHT
Local People to Lend Impetus to Subdivision of School Land
 Area

That there will be a gOodly rep resentation of Tempe citizens at the meeting this evening when the sub division of school land will be dis cussed. is quite manifest from the interest that has been taken in the movement The possibility of locat- ing a few hundred more people in the immediate vicinity of the town will no doubt be eagerly followed by Tempeans and as preliminary move it is intended this evening to draw up a set of resolutions asking that the state land department appraise the section of school land adjoining the corporate limits of Tempe on the west, and subdivide it into small acre tracts. Even this one section will make room for a goodly number of new homes in this section.
 Tonight's meeting will be held at the town hall at eight o'clock and all those who can are urged by the volunteer committeeman who arc boosting the movement to attend.
Arizona republican., 1915-08-02
"BUCKSHOT JOHN"

The famous story of "Buckshot John" by Charles E. Van Loan, will be shown at the Majestic tonight. This is the latest release by Bos- worth and is an unusually stirring and original play. The rounding up If a gang of desperadoes, the trial of the sole survivor. the way in which a fake clairvoyant gets hold of the secret of the cache. the escape of the survivor, Buckshot John, from pris- on and his relentless pursuit and ul- timate capture of the fakir are few of the thrilling incidents of the play. Hobart Bosworth plays the
Arizona republican., 1915-08-02
MOUNTAIN STATES PARTY

It might be termed a reunion of the Tempe employees of the Noun tain States company that was held at Chandler yesterday afternoon. Miss Nell Hansen. who was recently promoted from chief operator at the local board to ger of the Chan dler exchange entertained these members who are now associated with the exchange here: w. w. Pan key. Mrs Pankey and their son Gray. Miss Pearl Columbia and Miss Hazel SandOZ
Arizona republican., 1915-08-02
GARBAGE WAGON PATROL

Another step toward the betterment of Tempe's sanitary conditions be- comes effective today when the gar bage wagon will commence it's semi weekly collections. The manager has desired that residents of the town take notice of the new arrangements and that they govern themselves ac- eordingly. The wagon will make it's usual route every Monday and Thursday making the initial drive to- da..
Arizona republican., 1915-08-02
ODD FELLoWS INITIATE

Another candidate for membership to the odd Fellows lodge was treat ed to an insight of the mysteries of the initiation degree at the lodge meeting Saturday evening. The social hour of the evening was a smoker, officiated at by R. II. Harvey, who recently joined the order.
Arizona republican., 1915-08-02
ANOTHER WHEEL GONE

The wheel thieVery business con- tinues lively in Tempe and while the marshal is busy advertising the fin ding of one wheel somebody else has lost his He has now to report the Gisa ppcarancc on one night of last week a blue Racycle. large seat and large handlehars and with the fac tory number 564SS
Arizona republican., 1915-08-02
A NEW FACT FOR HISTORIANS

Funny answers by school children are ali old story, but the fact vouched for by one of these same children that Louis XVI was gelatined during the French Revolution" is new enough to sr,it thn rnn.t fastidious
Arizona republican., 1915-08-02
COLISEUM PROGRAM

Tonights bill at the Coliseum will have The Awakening" a two-reel VItacraph drama of the usual high standard of all Vitagraph pToduc- tions. Hearst -Selig News Pictorial with late war news and other hap panines and good comedy
Arizona republican., 1915-08-02
SHADES OF JOE MILlER

Edltor-I wish there were really such d thing as biting wit
 AsSistant-Why?
 Editor-.9o ! could took al the teeth of the jokes and tell their ase-Phil- adeIphia Ledger.
Arizona republican., 1915-08-02
MAKE TRIP TO SUPERIOR

F,rnIe Williams, left in his car carly yesterday morning for Superior, taking the members of the Mesa Iall team. who played game there ,-esteIday He was accompanied bv
Arizona republican., 1915-08-02
PRonucE 10 GLOBE

Tho big Hempcrly truck left Mesa yesterday morning loaded with pro dUce for Globe. It was consiencd to sid Mock, dealer in the wholesale produce at that place.
Arizona republican., 1915-08-02

part of "Buckshot John" His acting is superb. and he includes some hair raising stunts" such as leaping in front of q limited" express. Cour-
 tenay Foote makes the clairvoyant a never to- be forgotten figure.
Arizona republican., 1915-08-02
TO FAVE FOR COAST

Mrs. Clarence Baldwn and chil- dren will leave for the coast this af- tcrnoon where they will remain for the rest of the summer.
Arizona republican., 1915-08-02
LEFT FOR IDAHO

Mir. and Mrs. A. G. Green and family who have been living on a ranch northwest of town. left yes terday for Idaho where they expect to make their future home. MT Clemens, a brother-in-law of Green, will live in the home vacated by the ln nttDr
Arizona republican., 1915-08-02
BACK FROM THE COAST

Jesus ValenZuela of the Tempe Toggery has returned from a couple weeks vacation at Los Angeles and San Diego
Arizona republican., 1915-08-02
ENROUTE TO GLOBE

Nr. McCommey, of Florence, dis trict attorney of Pinal county, stop ped over in Mesa yesterday on his way to Globe, where he is going on court matters.
Arizona republican., 1915-08-02

tory to laying q cement sidewalk il front of the store building locatcf fGst east of the Coliseum. The plO- perty is owned by sam Mahoney.
Arizona republican., 1915-08-02

TEN DOLLARS REWARD for ar- rest and conviction of any party steal ing Republican from premises of sub scribers in Mesa.-AdV.
Arizona republican., 1915-08-02

cHas Lcsueur in his machine, who to,l5 rarty including Mrs. Lesuour
 Ernie Williams and Mrs. Dode Morris.
Arizona republican., 1915-08-02
WILL VISIT FAIR

Nr and Mrs. Garfield A. Goodwin departed last evening for San Fran cisco where they will spend a great CT part of this month. The relief man for the Wells Fargo company arrived last night and will assume charge of the local office today.
 LOST-Two check books, day book. letters and miscellaneous articles in bunch on sidewalk in Tempe last Tues day night Liberal reward return to Frank F'ogel, Tempe.-Adv. q
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-14

bird. all this with keen air of concen- trated interest Then they would an- nounce the breed, Orpington. Leghorn, or Sussex, as the case might be, and in very few instances did these blind Tommies' Judgment prove inaccurate.
 Back we came across the lawn, Pearson making a bee line for the steps of the terrace hundred yards away, and talk ing volubly all the time in answer to questions.
 we have now 106 men under our roof" said he, land 52 teachers. prac-
 tically all of them voluntary workers The initial difficulty is to persuade the
 blinded scholars to come. They think, I shall go quite off my head if I'm there among a lot of other blind men all moping and feeling sorry for them selves but, as you've seen, nobody does nope here. In reality 1t Is the worst possible thing for newly made blind man to be among seeing rela- i tives $ they are always sympathiz- l ing with him and making him still more de5ected. Here We are all blind together and all busy and happy. We all have to fall downstairs, and bump into each other until we know the rules of the paths and look silly till we learn | our particular 1ob and no one Is any better or any worse than any body else!
 q he went on, two in the morning and two in the afternoon, for there is no use in driving a blind man too hard unless he, himself, wants to work longer as many of our fellows do. The usual course here is six months. and after
 that we set them up in whatever trade they have learned. No, there is no hunting for berthsl For the most part it Is home work we teach them, and
 after they leave here it is merely a case of supplying them with sufficient work to do. And. while they are here besides just about enough work they
 have plenty of amusement, games, con- certs, and many other kinds of enter tainment, besides which we have a spe- cial noise room filled with grapho-
 phones and other musical instruments where they can go and kick up as
 much row as they like. We have been
 going now about a year and the pub lie has helped us magnificently. All
 kinds of famous folks come to visit and amuse us. too, including the King and Queen Alexandra and the Prince
 of Wales. who came to see us the last time he was home from the front on leave
 ''How can we teach blind man to
 be a diver?" I asked knowing that this
 was included in the curriculum
 "As easy as anything" was the prompt reply. After all what Is diver but a blind man? The diver who is building breakwaters and piers works in the dark. even if the water ia clear, his work disturbs it, and makes it impossible for him to see any thing through it. All blind work man needs for the work really is to learn to use the telephone and to give the right number of tugs at the com munication rope. And diving is one of the best paid of professions."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-14
HOME TURNED INTO HOSTEL
 WHERE MEN ARE TAUGHT TO BE BLIND"

London, October 2S.-when Otto |ahn, the American millionaire. visits ft. Dunstan's." his beautiful home in agents Park, nowadays. he must find hard indeed to recognize the won frful mansion that was built by the ! ird Marquis of Hertford. the orig al of the wicked Lord Steyne, in Fanity Fair
 For what was the wonderful ball. |hite and gold. is now filled with sks at which young men with shades i bandages over their eyes and with Diet women sitting beside them, are |orking typewriters and pounding Eay at other queer little machines at look like typewriters and yet obvi- &sly aren't. In the former library an- her group of young fellows are fouped around a skeleton and obvi- fsly studying anatomy. In what was @ conservatory, plants worth Kings |nsom have given way to benches
 d carpenters tables, at which boot |aking, joinery and basket and mat ,king are in active progress, while
 part of the beautiful grounds, cred hitherto to tennis, croquet and no doubt-to polite philandering, the
 mbie occupation of poultry keeping
 quite evidently going on.
 At first sight there is nothing par
 ularly surprising in this metamor- osis of one of the most renowned Ansions and most beautiful estates
 the London district, for, with such
 endles amount of war work going
 everywhere, stately mansions all CT the metropolis are being used for ht purpose. Even the most casual server however, could not fail to foanize that the men, all young, viz ous looking and apparently light artcd that one sees doing stunts here not ordinary war workers and at E seCcnd glance one sees that they P all blind and that so, too, are those 10 are instructing theml
 Those men are one and all British (diers and sailors who have been
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-14
By HAYDEN CHURCH

blinded in battle, some by bullets, some through explosions and some through pure shock, and here at "St Dunstan's' hostel, as the American millionaire's mansion has been renamed, they are being taught trades that will enable them hereafter to earn their own liv- ing. More than that, in fact. They are
 being taught as the phrase there goes, ''how to be blind" which means, in a word. how to manage best and be at least fairly happy in spite of their terrible affliction, perhaps the worst that can happen to one.
 The man who started this hostel. and who carries it on with characteristic en- ergy and wonderful cheerfulness, is blind man, one of the most wonderful of his time. He is c. Arthur Pearson, the ex-publisher. whose story is well known Beginning as an ordinary clerk in the famous house of Newnes, which issues the Strand Magazine, Tit-Bits, and so many other well known publica tions he rapidly worked himself up to the position of it's manager which he occupied for several years. Then he started out on his own hook, launched Pearson's Weekly and made a success of it by means of the
 missing word contest" started Pear sons Magazine, and made a success of 1t, and from that went on until a few years ago he was one of the most successful and powerful men in the publishing world of London, owner of the Daily Express and the famous Standard. s well as of several provincial papers, and one of the strongest supporters in England of the late Joseph Chamberlain and his tariff reform policy. Report says that he more than once declined the offer of a proud title And then he lost his s:Sht. Lost it first by degrees and then outright It was a "bludgeoning of chance" that would have crushed most men, but not Arthur Pearson. Alawys a philanthro- pist (his fresh air fund for poor children has brought happiness into thousands of wretched little lives), instead of sitting down and lamenting his hard fate, he de- voted himself instead to efforts to amel- iorate the lot of others afflicted like him self. Into the details of what he has in that direction one need
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-14

Marquis of Hertford, the Lord Steyne" of 'vanity Fair" when he was a lit tie boy, used to be taken down by his nurse to see them. He made up his mind then, they say, that, when he grew up and had a house of his own he would have these figures if they could be got and have them he did, as you see. When, in 1925, the old Re- gents Park was parcelled out, the marquis bought these 15 acres and erected this house and when later on it Was decided to remove these historic figures and the clock from the church, he bid them in, set them up here, and thereafter called his abode "St. Dun stan's."
 On our way to the conservatory which is now a workshop, we were now passing through sort of alleyway, between shrubbery, with a railing on each side. On this, I noticed, my guide kept one hand, and. directly we reached the end, where several paths branched off,s he turned sharply to the right.
 DO you notice?" he said. Just before we come to the end of this railing, my hand meets little raised button. That tells me that I must turn to the right And so on we went.
 In the conservatory we saw blind sol dier boys making all sorts of things under the direction of blind experts. One of the men who previous to the war had been a gamekeeper near Nottingham, was just finishing a wooden foster mother to be used in the hennery, others were making "telescopic tables,' stools and hat racks, and beautiful, indeed. some of the work was. Still, others were weaving mats, busy with basket work, repairing shoes. Most of them were whistling-one sight less boy, who, seated on the floor. was fabricating a basket being engaged in pouring out, "When the Boys Come Home" with all the strength of his lungs. talked with several of them and they all seemed interested in their work and hopeful for the future. Pearson had friendly word and a grasp of the arm for each of them and knew them all by their names.
 Next we visited the poultry farm and the market garden, and finally what is one of the most remarkable features of the place-the last two combined. Here, by most ingenious arrangement of wired enclosures radiating from the four walls of the chicken house, with door in each wall, the blind man learns to rear his chickens with orderly changes of run, and grow a succession of crops. The chief instructor in this branch is another won derful blind man. Capt. Pierson Webber an eX-army man who lost his sight in India, nearly 20 years ago. Now he Is one of the greatest poultry experts in Eng land, owning a big poultry farm of his own and holding the post of lecturer to three English county councils.
 As result of Captain Webbers in- struction his latest pupils can do surpris- ing things. They can. for example iden- tify any breed of fowl, as I saw for my self They would take up one, carefully submit the comb to a minute examina- tion, feeling the length and thickness, next doing the same to the foot of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-14
FRIENDLY NOTES FROM
 THE PICTURE STUDIOS

by Essanay. Mir. Totten directed the production of several feature photo plays on and near his estate in Con necticut. among them being "The Call of the Sea" The Village Homestead and "The Lighthouse By the Sea-
 "The One Woman" three-reel drama by Thomas Delmar is being staged at Universal city under the di- rection of Henry otto. Edna Maison. Douglas Gerard, Eagle Wing, Thomas Delmar and Orrin Jackson play the leading roles.
 Three hundred children, ranging in ages from to 10 years. became mo- ton picture actors when they appeared in a scene in "The Writing on the Wall" feature picture being produced by Tefft Johnson for the Vitagraph company.
 Murdock McQuarrie is directing the projection of and playing the leading role in a two-reel Universal story by Ben Cohn entitled "The Wager Sup porting McQuarrie in this are M. F, Aldis, Edna Payne and Arthur Moon.
 
 Raymond House, engaged by Pres ident Boeseke of the Santa Barbara Motion Picture company, as the juven- ile lead of the dramatic company. makes his initial bow to the Asso- Circle.'
 A story of circus life by William Anthony Mcclure entitled "Why Love Is Blind" is now fin course of produc- tion at the Selig Jungle Zoo. Jack PicSford plays the role of a youth who falls in love with the blind daughter of circus proprietor. George O. Nichols is the producer and the cast includes Guy Oliver William Scott, Frank Clark, and Lillian Hayward
 Norval McGregor has started produc- tion on another three-reel animal pie ture entitled "The Lions Ward" with Paul Bourgeois. Madame Bourgeois F. L. Wilson, Betty Schade and Lulu War renton in the leading roles and a strong cast of Universal wild animals in the subordinate ones.
 Charles Richman has been selected by the Vitagraph company to portray the lead, Lieut.-Commander H. A Col ton, U. s. N. in new feature picture with the United States navy as a back ground. entitled "Colton, U. S. N" It was picturized from Cyrus Townsend Brady's story, and is being produced under the direction of Paul Scardon.
 
 M. H. Lewis, branch manager of the Progressive Motion Picture company in Los Angeles, has taken three new of flee rooms to enlarge the present guar ters of the Paramount He has. as his guest this week, Carl H. Pierce of New York. who is the special representa- tive for the Morosco company and Pal lace pictures. MT. Pierce has not pre- yiously been here for sometime, and is delighted with the city and the film industry.