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The Coconino sun., 1915-10-22
Cost of Civil War

"ln our civil war we raised an army of 3,000,000 volunteers and the result is national debt of three billions. The pensions amount to $172,000, ,000, which is nearly as much as Germany spends on her army in time of peace. We must get over the idea that we are chosen people. am not plead ing for a large standing army. That is out of date. What is needed is g reserve created by military instruc- ton of our young men.
 "The kind of army l have in mind would not be expensive. There would be a standing army of about 100000. Back of this would be the militia but different one from what we have now. 1 have known many militiamen and never knew one yet that was not ashamed of the name. You can't blame them when you consider what they have done when they have gone to war. Yet they are good men-the same as volunteered for the Civil war In peace we give them no support and
The Coconino sun., 1915-10-22

call them tin soldiers and when we send them off to war we expect them Co act like regulars. There is q move ment now, however, to pay the m.li tiamen something, to make the militia a national force and take it out of labor troubles.
 Plan of Defense
 Behind the militia would be the reserve, the exact form of which has not been decided on. By this means an army of 100000 men could be thrown on the first line of defense in case of war while the volunteers were getting ready. In training our boys we might follow the example of Swift zerland, where all youths of high school age take such training, or Aus tralia where boys begin such training at 12 years old.
 Switzerland is a good illustration of the value of preparedness. The size of Massachusetts, it has an army of 500,000 men. That is why Germany did not attempt to pass through it on the way to France. It chose So con quer Belgium, a nation stceped in in- dustrialism. It is foolish to say that fine army brings on war. Does a fire department start fires? As q matter of fact, the United States, with it's marked peace procilvities, has had more wars in century than any oth- CT nation in the world and they have been the most destructive"
The Coconino sun., 1915-10-22
Wasn't Losing Any Chances

"Now, MT. Blank" said temper ance advocate to candidate for mu- nicipal honors, "I want to ask you a question. Do you ever take alcoholic drinks ?"
 Before I answer the question" re- sponded the wary candidate, q want to know whether it is put as an in- auiry or as an invitation"
The Coconino sun., 1915-10-22
Germany Shouldn't Kick

As long as the kaiser gifts aid from above he shouldn't kick cause tn al lies buy munitions in America. Tn auto has come t stay, but tn speeders are droppin' out right along.-Abe Martin.
The Coconino sun., 1915-10-22
Mother Definition

Little Lemuel-What's an egotist, paw?
 Paw-An egotist, son, is penny box of matches that thinks it is the whole fireworks.
The Coconino sun., 1915-10-22
Rude Girl

"I'm not going to that female bar Der shop again. There's rude girl there, don't you know"
 "What did she say?"
 "Why, she looked at my mustawsh and awsked me if would have it sponged off or rubbed in"
The Coconino sun., 1915-10-22

Sisters Caller-"I'm glad to see my photo on the mantle"
 Bobby-"Well, sis had to go some to get it in over Tom Smiths before you came in.'
The Coconino sun., 1915-10-22
New to Her

What I want is home loving lit- tie wife"
 Well" said the girl, q love tango ing and matinees and motoring. Home loving, eh? Isn't that new fad ?"
The Coconino sun., 1915-10-22
A Candid Juror

"Yes, we acquitted that woman, all though most of us considered her guilty"
 "Then you shouldn't have acquitted her"
 q know we shouldn't. She wasn't very good looking"
The Coconino sun., 1915-10-22
IA SOLDIER'S ARGUMENT FOR J. $. PREPAREDNESS

Major Charles H. Martin of the 18th U. s. infantry gave an address before the Parent Teachers club at Douglas recently that is worthy of note. It was a talk that could not help but make the responsible think ing people think.
 All the arguments usually advanced in favor of preparedness and military training and others not so well known were presented to mothers of the city | yesterday afternoon, when Maj. Chas. H. Martin, Eighteenth infantry, ad- | dressed the Parent Teachers club of the Grammar school. The auditorium of the Grammar school was well filled. A number of army officers attended. After the meeting Maj. Martin was congratulated by number of mothers for what he had said Many of the school teachers, Superintendent Lutz and Dr. F. T. Wright, president of the school board, were present.
 Maj. Martin first called attention to the fact that there have been some persons singing songs of peace" for 5000 years but that war still goes on. He mentioned the futile efforts of Charles Sumner, Jane Addams and The Hague to stop war. Then he took up by turn the argumnets against war-that it is against Christianity, against humanity and that prepared ness for war leads to it.
 War Helps Humanity
 He asserted that Christianity does not forbid war-that Christianity is for righteousness and that there have been many righteous wars. He assert ed that war had often advanced the cause of humanity.
 Take the discovery regarding vel low fever in our Spanish war" he said. That alone was so valuable that we could have afforded to go to war for that alone. It is often said that war does not pay. Some people gauge everything by the almighty dollar. They think it will purchase virtue, honor and righteousness. Shame on a people that fears the consequence of fighting for what is right. Soldiers do not glory in war but they believe that when the inevitable is to be faced it should be faced.
 ] Mark of Efficiency
 Tt is not true that preparedness brings on war. War comes when the people and statesmen fail to agree. The soldier is the court of last resort. 1 In his great book, Mahan shows that the condition of nations armament and soldiers marks the degree of that nations efficiency in all things. The three most efficient nations today are Germany, Japan and England, all heavily armed. The European armies, | however, are not made up of profes- 1 sional soldiers but of citizen soldiers. ] When the kaiser started his military regime in Germany, alarmists said he would bankrupt the country, but in- stead the nation has increased in ef- ] ticiency and progress. One reason IS | that the efficiency of each man is So increased by his military training that he makes up for the three years he spends in the ranks. As an illustration of where peace at any price leads to and the fate of nation without an army we need look no further than China"
 Ignorance Cause Slaughter
The Coconino sun., 1915-10-22
Ignorance Cause Slaughter

Maj. Martin said that the United States is the only nation except Eng land that maintains a standing army and that because of the fact that it does not train it's citizens, the later, when war does. come, are sent out un- der ignorant leaders to be slaught- cred.
 "The result is that our wars are un- duly expensive. Our school histories are to blame for not telling the truth about our past wars. In the war of 1872 we tried to raise an army of 500,000 men and the best we could muster was 16,500. We lost every land engagement but two and hand full of professional soldiers-3,5 ,500- burned our capital while 1000 embat- tied farmers called to the rescue were beat back into the woods. That was an illustration of how effectively an army can be raised between sunrise and sunset.
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-09-14

was to issue it, turned Cowardlv from
the task.
he opposed slavery and was an
advocate for peace. He was educat-
ed IN those principles.
Inc Quaker element in our popula-
uon was prominent in the early
settlement Of Eastern North Carolina
IN the colonial period, in the revolu-
uon and subsequently thereto up to
the half of the nineteenth century
When negro slavery and the threats
or the war had much to do with the
emigration of our North Carolina
Iuakers to Indiana and Illinois. Bel
vldere, in Perquimans county. still
remains representative Of that sturdy
people who made their distinctive i'm
press upon the character of that sec
ton. The old time Quakers were a
sturdy stalwart people conserva
tive, plain, direct in purpose and in
speech, averse to worldly vanities,
poised, prudent, undaunted by op-
position, shrewd in trade, and thrifty
in buiSinesS'' At Belvidere the
Quakers maintained first-cl IS
school conducted along the lines of
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-09-14

Quaker life and characteristics. Here
school
May we not trace to the training
of these years in that surrounding his
conservatism, his directness, his bal
ance, his prudence, his aversion to
all forms of slavery whether of mind
or Of body?
His devotion to the union was the
all absorbing 6 sentiment Of his being.
He opposed secession with all the in
tensity Of his nature. He read law
with a New Englander.
About the year 1920 there came
from Norwich, Conn, to Norfolk, Va,
on his way to Mobile, Ala, Charles
r. Kinney, young man about
twenty-SiX years of age, destined, in
after years. to fill place in the in
fluence, affections and bitter antagO-
nism Of the Albemarle bar. There
happened in Norfolk at the same
time, Miles Gregory a wealthy farm
er from Camden county, who was
stopping at the same hotel with the
| young stranger and who in a chance
| conversation found that he was seek
| ing emplOyment The converse ton
| resulted in his making an enSa cement
| with Mr.. Kinney to go TO Camden
county and teach the children of Mr.
| Gregory in his family. He went out
to Camden by boat through the Dis
| NAL Swamp canal, and took charge
f! of the Gregory children as a member
| of the household While SO gagged
| he became acquainted with John L..
Bailey, a member of the PasquOtank
| bar and afterwards Judge of the
| superior court Mr. Bailey sympa
| thized with the struggling, and soon
| found out the condition Of young
Kinney; poor man, ardent, ambi-
tious, educated, with refined and noble
instincts, and every inch a man. The
| result Of this friendship was the en-
trance cf young Kinney as q student
In the law office of Mr.. Bailey. He
| made proficiency in his studies and
was admitted to the bar He located
in Elizabeth City, and by his pro.es-
sional attainments. his superior
natural gifts, and his impulsive and
chivalrous nature he became con-
spicuous with friend and foe. Tc
his friends he was sympathetic, faith
ful, loving, making himself part ano
parcel Of their joys and SORROWS; tt
his foes he was dauntless, unyleldlns
firm, and as bold as tiger witt
fresh blood upon his teeth. He wa:
imbued with the New England theory
. of our American government. ant
was a firm adherent Of the Webster
| school of constituting our constitution
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-09-14

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The farmer and mechanic., 1915-09-14
GEORGE w. BROOKS
Last Federal Judge Of the State of North Carolina
and First Judge of the Eastern District

and dreadb
presentation Monday
Brooks Of portrait of the
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-09-14

Continued on Page Twenty.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
Building Colossal Bridge

From the Popular Mechanics Magazine. {. In its general dimensions as well as
 in the enormous size and weight of
 the structural members composing it.
 the Quebec bridge, now in an advanced
 stage of construction, surpasses any, other structure of the kind ever
 erected. The one bridge structure in. the world that approaches it in mag nitude is the famous Firth or Forth bridge in Scotland, the main channel span of which is nearly 100 feet shorter than that of the Quebec bridge. Both structures are Of the cantilever type.
 The channel span of thesQuebec bridge, measured between centers, of towers, is 1900 feet The design and fabrication of the steel for the structure therefore presented engineering froblems for which no precedents existed, and the first attempt to build the bridge, made by a private company, resulted in 1907 in collapse of the Structure in which
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
manv lives were lost Followihg th

many lives were lost. Following this catastrophe, the dominion government took over the work, and a year later undertook the construction of the bridge. The present bridge is on the same site as the original structure, but owing to an increase of 21 feet In the width between trusses and -tosa consid- erable Increase in the weight of the superstructure. new piers were neces- sary and these were built immediately, south of. and adjacent to,E the original piers The two. main piers alone con- tain approximately d0.0e0 cubic yards of masonry. and cost in the neighbor-, hood of 31,5O0,000. One of these piers goes to a depth of 50 feet below the bed of the river, and the, other to a depth of 80 feet. s ss In the erection, of the bridge the an chor arms, which lie between the main piers and the shore were constructed on steel falsewark. while the canttlever arms are being built out oversthe river without falsework. by the cantilever method The 640-foot suspended truss to connect the cantilever arms will be built on shore, floated into position on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
,o,, too,,sS ,sta , II tben sTaIsed by powerful

N itr o. pop toons, and then raised. by. powerIul Jacks and conn ected with cantilevers. For the erection of, the heavy bridge members two travelling cranes, one working on each side Of the river, are used. Each traveller weighs about lOoO tons and is equipped with two hoisting machines each capable of lifting 100 tons. The principal feature of the feet above the floor oi the bridge. Supported on top of the tower are cranes through which the lifting lines are worked. All the machinery ons the travellers is electrically operated. 'Y To avoid bringing uneven stresses on the partly completed structure. similar members on thes.two sides of the bridge are lifted by the cranes and erected simultaneously. The total length of the. bridge between abutments IS S2Ss feet. As now planned,H H should be pos sible for trains to cross the bridge by the end of the year 1916.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
The Kaiser and the Bavarian Army

From the Westminster Gazette
 The appointment of the Kaiser as a field marshal in the Bavarian army is a doubtful compliment, and probably intended by King Ludwig more as re hinder that he is head of his own army than as tribute to the military genius of the Kaiser. Only when the empire is in state of war is the Kaiser en1- powered under the constitution of lSH to assume supreme command of the whole German army. though it is always in his power to nominate field marshals in any of the armies of the federated states. Tn the times of peace the Kings of Bavaria, Saxony and Wurttemberg are supreme in their own armies. the sol- diers composing which are sworn in to them and not to the German Emperor, who has no authority over them. With the navy it is different. the recruits being sworn in to the empire and to the titulaf head of the federation. the King of Prus- sia. In most affairs the title of Ger man Emperor means nothing more than the president of the Germanic fedora ton of independent states.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
Of the station was largely. an experiment

of the station was largely an experiment on the part oftthe government, there hav- ing been a great deal of doubt before the experiment was tried as to whether an ob- server could stand, for an entire season, the lonely existence, the high altitude, and the storms. This point was conciu- sively settled by a mountain guide whom the government employed as san observer. This guide, who had already made $50 ascents of the mountain. succeeded in es- tablishing camp on the summit and spent the entire summer there in com parative comfort
 When it came to establishing the fire observatory on. the summit of Mount Hood. the work of getting the necessary equipment and supplies to the top proved to- be a big undertaking. Above the 6000- foot level the mountain is continually GOV cred with snow. while the slopes are so steep and treacherous as to tax the re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
AnslsBt Porcelain Factory

roin tHC NSpHA4r Mechanics MagazN
 The faHSs Spg reh Gheng porcs factory; from the, year 1896 nishedSa alEsths line porcelain for the ] pa'aceslof China. is to be reopened sk grant; of s2o.ooo has already been \ by the president of the republic for2 purpose. This factory was partly stroyed during the revolution in N the republic was established and the ous samples and patterns. kept there divided among the leading revolutioh While,sthe making of porcelain has one of the leading Chinese industrie generations, this factory is said to " only place in which the ancient wax making porce,a ain, with the beautiful cient colors and designs. has been served. The factory will not only b{, ployed in producing porcelain for thef ket. but will have special depar( in which porcelain of the highest qdN will made for presentation to the
 of other countries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
". - N l.ENIf :.

ihandeered at once and@ the war office paid for them. at price which afforded d first rate profit to all twho had any thing to do with the deal. "
 There has been lot of loose talk about waste of food in the soldiers camps There has been waste. of course but g good deal of 1t was unavoidable waste under the circumstances. Most of 1t has
 been stopped now but at it's worst 1t was never patch on the waste that is still. going on in the purchasing depart inents. f1 f"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
Eorest Fire Station

From the Popular Mechanics Magazine.
 During the summer of 1915 an innova- tion in the work of fighting fires In the national forests was brought about by the installation of a fire observatory on the summit of Mount Hood. one of the five highest mountains of the Pacific northwest, Mount Hood stands ,2B feet above sea, levels and even in mjdsqnlmer tie weather conditions at the. summit are at most times severe. The establishment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
The Store Wh Well Deserved Reputation for Reliability
DRENNEN co.
Drennen's Policy of Preps

se yourself last year? Didn't you say Next year I'm fighty good intentions. but remember what road is ms and don't let's furnish any more, paving material this year but get about this Christmas shopping in earnest If you do it now and do it at Drennens you'll be surprised at how satisfactorily you shop and with what credit to and satisfaction yourself
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
sources of the most skillful mountain

The difficulties encountered in carrying supplies and establishing a telephone line to the summit are graphically depicted by illustrations accompanying the article.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-02-25
ANNOUNCEMENTS

Socialists of 18th ward will organ
ize Rodriguez-Sissman club tomor-
row night at Burke School, Division
and Hoyne.
VIM. Thurston Brown, head of
Modern School league, win speak at
Colonial hall, 20 w. Randolph, Sun
day eve. Subject, els Love an Hlu-
sion, Art or Moral Achievement"
Edwin Cooley, advocate of dual vo-
cational training system, and Prof.
Judd champion of unit" plan, viii
speak at City club luncheon Saturday
noon.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-02-25
THE MEXICAN SITUATION

Washington, Feb. 25.-NeW trou-
BILE for the United States government
in its Mexican affairs was brewing
today.
Gen. Obregon's threat to confscate
property and imprison owners who
fail to obey his tax decree by tomOr-
row night caused officials concern,
inasmuch as such steps inevitably
would lead to objection from foreign
diplomats, whose bankers and bust
ness men are involved.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-02-25
coNFESSES TO CRIME YCJNo
BOY WAS EXECUTED FOR

ST. Louis, Mo-, Feb. 25.-Driven by
a prompting conscience which he had
stifed for IA years, according to his
story, Conrad P. PhisihOde, a chemist
is held in East st. Louis today by the
police to whom he confessed that he
murdered man whose death was ex-
plated on the guiIlotine by an limo
cent youth. The murder was COM
mitted in MikultscheUtz, Upper ST.
lecia, Prizihode said. A forest chief
named Cougjaka was the victim.
Prizihode said the woodsman Offend
ed Mrs. Prihihede and that he follow
ed Oesgieke through the woods and
shot him. Later, he said, peasant
and the latter's son were arrested.
The son, according to Prizihode was
executed and the father sentenced to
Is years. Prizihode's case has been
called to the attention Of the German
consul
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-02-25
BREAD CHEAPER IN EUROPE

BREAD CHEAPER IN EUROPE
A wheat expert today told The Day
Book that it cost more to live in
America than it did in any of the
larger warning countries of Europe.
''In. London a foUr-poUnd loaf of
bread is 16 cents, and in. Paris is
cents" he said. Here in Chicago
you pay 20 cents for the same size
loaf, and when I passed through New
York the price varied from % to 35
cents.
"Of course, it is more difficult to
obtain fresh meats, but in spite of
their scarcity the prices vary little
from those here. Canned meat is
exceedingly cheap and has been so
since the beginning Of the war. l
believe that it is all put up by the Chi
cago concerns"
Governmental action preventing
speculation was the remedy for the
situation given by the visitor.
sgEIeanor Reynolds of New York ate
81 broiled Holsters. If they'll tip us
what company she's with We'll dodge
that stage door when she comes to
town
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-02-25
WASHINGTON ORDERS INDIANS
TAKEN WITHOUT BATTLE

Dolores, Colo, Feb. 25.-Addition-
al ammunition was expected to arrive
at Bluff today for the posse under
Marshal Nebeker engaged with the
Piutes Indians about that town. All
arrangements are being made for an
other attack upon the renegades, but
the men will rest on their arms pend
ing attempts of Indian agents to ar
range a truce.
Instructions have been received
from Washington that every effort
must be made to persuade the Indians
to surrender before another general
assault is attempted. Old Polk and
his son, Tae-Ne-Gat, the latter want
ed for murder, and the cause of the
uprising, have again been located by
the posse, according to reports here.
They are said to be strongly en-
trenched at Chief Posey's camp in
Buffers canon, southwest of Bluff.