Arizona republican., 1916-02-23
SAYS ARTICLE
 VAS U AIR
Exception Is Taken to Man ncl' in Which Controversy Between Mayor Young and City Clerk Thomas Was Published

That the Republican did not present
 the exact situation in its story yester- day morning of the controversy on
 Monday afternoon between Mayor George L. Young and City Clerk
 Frank Thomas when the clerk re-
 fused or declined to send out a reg
 iStrar at the request Of the mayor to
 register patients at a local hospital, and that the article in question was
 unfair to him was the viewpoint of
 Clerk Thomas. The city clerks
 hands were securely tied by official
 action o1 the commission and the per
 Sona inclinations of Mr Thomas did
 not for a minute enter into his ac-
 ton, as was charged by Mayor Young curing his interview with Clerk
 Thomas, as reported in :he article
 Further investigation of the inci-
 dents at the city hall on Monday. part
 of which were included in the story of
 yesterday morning. shows that early
 .Ionday forenoon Mayor Young called
 City Clerk Thomas on the telephone
 and directed him to call q special
 
 five o'clock that afternoon. He said
 that the matter of the laying of d
 sidewalk on West Van Buren street required immediate attention and that there were paving bids to be opened at that hour. Before concluding he suggested that the hour had better be changed to three o'clock IS he want el tO present to tho commission motion to send out registering clerk to hospital where he had been in formed thcre were patients who were unable to visit the registration sta tons and who desired to Teaister. He made no cluest at that time to scnr opt a c,eri:
 When three o'clock came he was the only member of the commission in sight. although Commissioner Mac l;ean had been in the city hall about | two o'clock. After waiting for few minutes the mayor remarked that it was strange none of the commission CTS had come for the meeting. Mr | Thomas assured him all had been notified but that one or two had said over the telephone they didn't see just 1 how they could attend. He remarked l that he believed it was q political game and that the commissioners did not want to attend anyway.
 Then for the first time the mayor | asked the clerk if he would send ont a clerk to register patients at a hos
 pital. He said that the clerk was In l absolute control of he registration and that if he wanted to all Ee had | to do was to direct a clerk 10 go. | Alr. Thomas told the mayor that his 1 hands were tied Uy the action of the l commission at q previous meeting 1 when the question of sending out | registrars was decisively voted down. | He told him. too, it was matter strictly up to the commission and one I in which he had no voice. He told l him further that he could not. legally
 or conscientiOusIr, do as requested as | the action of the commission was his
 only guide
 That he had to consider neither the 1 tale of the greatest body of men in l the world, the Mounted Police of the 1 Canadian northwest. The story tells 1 of a rollicking Irishman, OGary, the pride of the fighting. fearless men | Wl.o look after the great woods coun- 1 try of Canada. o'GarY, true to the 1 traditions of his regiment undergoes l terrible priVations and hardshipS to l bring in his man. The story is done ln the great silent woods where na = l ture is at her best in the snow times. l Slippery Sims Wedding Day is d 1 one-reelor of the type that is made | for the care-Worn. It is just one laugh after another, and the fact that 1 Tom Mix made it is it's endorsement. 1 \ one-reel comedy likewise scream | is Boobies Baby"