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The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-02-12
ZION THE ONLY SOLUTION OF
THE WORLDS DIFFICULTIES

Apropos of the article which appeared
in THE THEOCRAT last week, entitled els
There Need for Zion City?', the fol-
lowing communication from Elder Rich
ert, is intensely interesting, as depicting
the terrible conditions which exist in the
world today:
Chicago, Illinois,
January 27, 1916.
'REV. WILBUR GLENN VOLIvA,
Zion City, Illinois.
Dear General OUerseer:
Peace to Thee!
81 will give you the report of one day,
SO that you may have an idea of how
needful the work of Zion is in Chicago.
Yesterday, Wednesday, went out doing
house to house work. | gave out $50
handbills s. Is LEAVES OF HEALING,
and number of my own cards. Among
the many experiences l will quote only a
few.
81 went into every saloon one saloon
keeper told me that he would rather go
to HELM fact he was already engaged
by the devil to shovel coal.
"Then | met man about As, born in
Denmark, who was brought up in the
Lutheran Church, and was later con-
verified to the Methodist Church, where
he used to be a Sunday school teacher.
Five years ago he threw all his faith in
God overheard, and since that time he
has never darkened church.
''NeXt came to refined Jewish lady,
who had completed her studies in Ger
many. She absolutely denied the exis-
tence of God, and rejected the inspira-
ton of the Old Testament.
"NeXt | came to a French Roman
Catholic lady. I spoke to her in her
native tongue. She had no knowledge
whatever of the Bible, and God was to
her vague nonentity.
''Next came to lady in store, who
said that she was Christian, but she
refused to take any Of Zion's literature,
because she said it would be as danger
Gus to her as poison.
"Then | came to an old German SOL
der, rs years old, with the SHOWS of
winter on his brow. He had been in the
war Germany Of 1866-1871. He told
me positively that there was, or is, no
God in Heaven, no Bible, and no here
after.
81 spoke to all these people, but it
seems that the devil has led the world
into the midnight of gross darkness.
Cursing, swearing, vulgarity, profanity,
drinking, smoking, chewing and all the
curses Of hell are the associates of the
present generation. s.
"This was the experience of one day,
so you may see what beautiful para
disc CD we have in Chicago. When you
go to saloons and cabarets, with their
secluded compartments, private tables
and screened inches, it is no wonder that
the devil engages those saloonkeepers
to shovel coal in hell"
Another letter, also received this
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-04
CONGRATULATIONS OF A READER

TO the Editor of The Republican.
Sir-I notice in your Saturdays
issue a complete outline of the Sun
day school lesson for January ,, 1916,
and wish to congratulate YOU for haV-
ing taken up this important item.
This will reach the homes of all your
subscribers and give to them some
thing that will cause them to at least
notice your good intentions.
also wish to congratulate you on
the stand YOU have taken in the po-
litical matters. I agree with you fully
in city, county and state matters; let
US look to the man. In national let us
hope that the old republican party will
bring out such men in every depart
ment that we can all hold up our
hands for and that will bring us ulti-
mate victory next fall Your tele-
graphic news Is certainly a great step
forward. The Chicago markets APP
peal to me. Yours very truly,
WILLIAM A. WORK.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-04
The Filling of Americas Cup

With what information concerning the sinking
of the steamer Persia is hand. the offense APP
pears be a much more aggravated than the
sinking of the AncOna. In the OF the latter
there had been warning. The vessel tried
escape. # in her flight she had been sunk by a
torpedo her passengers had been killed by she'll
fire, the commander of the attacking submarine
would have been held blameess under an agree
mert between the Unttd States and Germany in
the course of the negotiations the Lusitania
affair. But the commander was blamed for the
keeping up Of the firing after the Ancona had
been brought a stop. and for contributing the
panic aboard which was largely
the the loss
The reports, which by the way, come from
London, concerning the sinking of the Persia
positively that there warning given the
vessel and that within five minutes after the launch
ing OF the torpedo the vessel plungtng down
into the Among the victims some Amer
leans, one official representative Of this govern
Notwithstanding the differences between the
circumstances surrounding the sinking of the two
vessels. there is a marked and what may call
an inverse contrast in the n which the
Of the disasters received by our
government. In the case of the former Washing
could await the facts before sending to
Austria a amounting to a conditional notifica-
tio: Of a severance of relations the latter
n4SpOSeu
what has happened and then request, in
stead Of demanding Austria a disavowsl Of the
of the submarine commander if it shall be found
that he FAULT Reparation in such case
would, course, be demanded.
notice BY the dispatches that the London
papers. commenting the Persia incident, ask
sneering!y if Americas cup is not filled
may reply that it has been full ana running
thar year almost since the
baUiO Of tba has naaD
times; first by unlawful interference with our
rights the by the Lusitania and similar
incidents: by the continued seizure merchant
vessels by British cruisers; by the seizure and
search of American vessels by French warships and
the removal OF passengers and members oe crews;
it has been filled by countless wrongs inflicted by
Germany France. Austria and Great Britain; by
Their continued treatment of the United States as
helpless. Chinese nation. No other two nations by
. the way. have been subjected such limitation
within the last year China and the United
States
1t IS rather rubbing salt into wounds for
any OF the belligerents inquire whether any one
incident fills cup of shame.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-04
Aio Copper


In the Tucson Citizens department, Twenty
Years Ago Today Tucson" we see on December
81 1899 A carload of copper brought in from
the Ao district YESTERDAY. t sampled and is
said to have turned satisfactorily. Regular
shipments will be made" 1t may be inter-
esting know that the price of copper then
about pound 1t might not have been
quite much only short time before
that that the price Of copper had begun rise
from cents pound and IN consequence there
great deal of interest amounting almost
excitement, among the merchants of Tucson.
At that time there a small smelter
the outskirts of the Not all the people in
Tucson knew there. many who knew
of of the part it playing
in the commercial life OF Tucson 1t popu-
larIy supposed that the town existing for the
most part on the Southern Pacific payroll.
much smaller than is now. 1t probably
more than $4,000 month. The cattle business
contributing somewhat but lust at that time
for years before the cattle industry the
territory low ebb.
Nobody really knew how much money that little
smelter turning loose in Tucson but doubtless
than the S. P payroll There hundreds
Of Mexcans and mary Americans small farmers
small cattlemen who owned knew of rich
copper deposits or near the surface. When
they needed ready money they loaded wagon
with rich copper hauled it the smell
1t sampled at and paid for In the
same way small farmers in the wooded districts
bacl,-rast, when a little money, hauled a
load wood and sold The
from the loads of copper a great
way toward keeping Tucson a basis while
the payroll enabled hundreds to pay their bills
the end of the month.
VIII get back Ajo shipment.
The facilities making coppe- as great
those present. even now to the
large mining companies ranges from cents a
pound to. we believe, much cents,
but they take the it of
is low grade. So that from Ajo
been rich to yield profit with copper a
10 cents poYnd, after the had been hauled
100 milee in wagons. We do not know whether
The shipments continued regularly but probably
not long, for the smeter, which
by English capitalists, ceased operations
latter part of the nineties the owners having
transferred the interests to a larger field
Interest in this old news lies in the fact
thai the development of the Ajo district been
begun an extensive scale by the Calumet &
Arizona company New Cornelia. There may
be there worth hauling $50
miles overland, but there is doubt much of it
left and there is certainly nexhaustibe supply
Of which be worked profitaby. And it
win be necessary to haul it overland for re-
duction works and railroad have gone there.
This reminds that a philosopher said:
Though live in the wood he built
better mouse trap has preached a better ser
mon than another, the world will beat path to
his door"
y Path has been beaten the Ajo district and
it Is up to the merchants
Salt River Valley to beat path to that path that
leads to Ajc. That can be done very easily
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-04
TO BUILD one
MILE Of TARVIA
Boardof Supervisors Decide
Is Cheaper TO Construct
Road Under Force Ac-
count and Adopts Tarvia
Specification.

Having rejected all bids for the
proposed Improvement of the road
between Tempe and Mesa and de
Gliding that the work can be carried
out more economically by force ac-
count than under contract. the board
of supervisors yesterday directed
that the first mile from Tempe to
the Pacific Creamery be constructed
in that manner and that the Tarvia
specifications Dc followed i'm this
construction. Under this arrange
mcut the work viii be under the di-
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-04
Superior. Ariz., Dec. %.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSONS
To the Editor OF Tie Republican:
Sir-Good for YOU, That editorial
ON Baron Aston" is great. 1t is one
of the best pieces Of both satire and
irony that ! have ever read.
Thank you also for publishing the
notes on the Sunday school lessons.
They VIII certainly make the paper
more popular among a certain class
and viii not injure it in the ewes OF
any.
The other day I woke up in the
midst of my reading 20 fiEd that /
was paying YOU an unconscious COM
pliment l was reading your editorial
and had not even glanced at the first
page of the paper. Such papers are
certainly scarce in towns of this size
and such editors are scarcer. Ions
may you live and your ink bottle
never dry up.
Please hand the enclosed check to
the proper department.
Cordially yours,
GEO X. VARNEY.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-04
Arizona Republicans Editorial Page

secret but unlike many other crimes
left
Il The doctor thinls that by holding the specter
of disease before the young and ardent he is going
stop kissing he is very much mistaken. Kiss
ing is merely IN expression of love; It is in
apred by love $ nothing else intoxi-
eating love and cortributory recElessness.
The strongest liquors grape juice in
arison with It. and all know what they will
90 to natural ANA reasonable caution and how they
win temporarily urseat human fear and make
rabbit spit the of a bulldog;
Inspiring. bold John BorIeycorn.
dangers scorn!'
again:
With usquebaugh face the devil"
Under the influence love the young and
young of Douglas viii bid defiance all
bacteria bacili that the doctors have $
far discovered likely discover within the
next ten thousand years If DR.. Greene should
succeed in performing a miracle and stop kissing
Douglas will give him blue ribbon and
niche in the Hall OF Fame
We notice also in the list of resolutions,
by Major Kelly, THAT 1 will spade up my mint
garden" There is something Delphic about this
really commit the major to anything
We do not cutie know what it 1t
be his purpose cultivate his mint patch
intensively than and raise luxuriant
CROP. for that is effect of spadng. or the
major may mean, since prohibitions holds sway
over the land devote the mint acreage
fitting and timely crop. But Douglas, the Dor
der separated Mexican territory by only a
few rods and in easy communication with Lords
burg n NJ, and Ell Paso, of supply, there
seems reason why the mint industry Doug
las Should rudely disturbed With a spade A
mint garden in itself is convincing proof of a
violation of the prohibition law At the most it is
only creumstantal.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-04
GENERAL STAFF IN
SEMI ANNUAL MEET
Heads Of State AIiliti;
Gather for Conference
in This City

The members Of the general staff Of
the Arizona National Guard held their
regular semi-annual meeting at the
state house yesterday, the session TO
continue today, the meeting being pre-
sided over by Colonel Charles Harris,
chief Of the governors staff.
The members of the staff are:
Colonel Donkersley of Yuma, Captain
+. NJ. Robinson of Flagstaff, Captain
J. +. Hoffman of Tucson, and Colonel
+ NJ. futile of Morenci, the latter not
being present at yesterdays meeting.
Yesterdays proceedings We're merely
routine matters, and it is understood
that no mention was made of the strike
situation at Clifton.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-04
Some DOUGLAS Resolutions

We find in list of resolutions adopted for the
year by the citizens o
Douglas several which engage serious attention,
one especially by DR.. w. A. Greene. That l will
stop the kissing habit in Douglas; it spreads
disease" The doctor has set himself task
if he hos sufficient political influence he may
secure the passage Of ordinance making it
lawful for persons to kiss in public. In fact there
have been ordinances and statutes forbiddng public
kissing. There one, believe, in the Blue
Laws" and another which made it offense for
one to kiss even his wife on the Sabbath day. But
like other crimes, kissing is usually perpetrated in
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-04
(Uncems@red Sense
and Nonsense
UNCENSoRED SENSE AND NON
SENSE
(Bv REMLIk

UNCENSORED SENSE AND NON
SENSE
by REMLfK)
\ knock, quite like boomerang,
Describes an arc through space;
And returns 10 stun the knocker.
Which describes the starting place
The knockers shaft grows weaker.
As more often it is sent;
And when it is exhausted,
The knockers force is spent.
He would knock on your opinion,
Your suggestion would deride,
IF you'd attempt to tell him,
He'd committed suicide
Some knockers crucified the Lord.
knocker started Hell;
And not a lifting knocker
Has succeeded very we'll
The evil thought. or evil word.
Sent out to hurt another
In time returns to stifle quite.
The unbalanced knocking brother:
And there's another mighty truth.
That the knocker may not know.
| Though, if he have intelligence,
He must see that ii is so
The knock he starts. quite boosts the
one,
That he intended harm:
! And usually bears the ear-marks.
Of a very false alarm;
! Instead of the intended creation
J OF more animOsity:
! 1t does some advertising.
And invites curiosity.
/ Men want to see the crooked one.
Whom they have heard maligned,
| And often are surprised to find,
| That he's Of humankind.
| They are prejudiced in the favor.
OF the widely slandered one:
And conclude there are TWO stories.
| When they have heard but one:
! And most Of humankind will hope
That the side they've heard Is
worst;
And won't decide against the man.
Till they've heard his story first.
And here's the very moment.
| When the knockers shaft departs.
on its rapid homeward journey
To the place from which it starts.
Ny compliments to knockers,
Who have a disregard,
For that very trite old saying
Hoist by his own petard.'
If the world, at large would eliminate
This malicious social weevH
! They should never hear. or never see
And more-shouId SPEAK no evil.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-04

CHICAGO, Jan. 3.-HogS receipts,
10000; next to the largest receipts on
record: steady at To 10 cents decline.
Bulk. S6.60U $50; light, S6.45H go;
mixed. $6.450 6.g5. heavy. $1,000 100;
rough. S6.5O6 eco, pigs. $500 $40.
Cattle-Recipts, 10000; strong. Ma
tive beef steers, $6.25H $50; western
steers, S6.3ONS.15. cows and heifers,
$3.UOuS.45; calves. $7.OOH1O.75.
Sheep-ReceiptS 1000: strong.
Wethers. S6.7007.15; ewes, $4.600 SOS.
lambs, $7.5O01O.O0
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-04
Some Come back

My husband having posted me in
the Bar Harbor Times, I wish to say
that as for leaving his bed, there was
some mistake, there being only one
bed in the house, and that belong
ing to my mother. The board was
so poor, 1 just had to leave. Mrs.
Hazel L. Arey.-HarbOr (AId) Times
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-04
Where the People
May Have Hearing
HE MUST HAVE THE NEWS

To The Arizona Republican:
Enclosed find my check
for five $500 dollars for another
years subscription.
must have the news
I am an American first. last and all
the time, but IN the war across the
water my sympathies are with the
Germans
l cannot resist the impulse to tell
you that / like your broad minded and
impartial editorials on the subject.
Every live man leans to one side or
the other. Even our neutral CD ad-
ministrauon at Washington leans to-
ward Threadneedle street.
All credit to The Republican for
giving us all the news and partieu-
larly for commenting on it fairly.
Very respectfully,
w. l.. HAGEN.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-04
STOCKS

NEW YORK. Jan. -(Closing.J-
American Smelling, 10 is; New York
Central, lO9 "a; Pennsylvania, 50;
Reading, 50; Santa Fe. 1O7; "a
Southern Pacific. 1913 3-S; st. Paul
1Ol 81: Union Pacific, 1882 L. :.
Steel common, SSls; L. :. Steel, pfd.
~.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-04

Thc movie audiences who enjoying
The Prince and the Pauper" may be interested to
know what Mark Twains first intention in writing
this story His original idea had been to build
mis- plot of the substitution of a poor boy for the
heritor of the throne, around King Edward VII
(thcn Prince Wales) the of Is Then,
says Albert Bieelow Paine, author of Mark Twain
A BoSra ply (Harper) he found that it would
to lose prince among the slums
of modern London. SO he followed back through
history TIL he to little Edward VI. In order
be quite accurate in his pictures of the period
q posted himself old London and studied a
poc1et map the minutest detail. Mark Twain
himself played a part in of the early dramatic
performances of The Prince and the Pauper,
which were acted the Clemenss home at Hart
fore
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-04
NEW YORK COLON

NEW YORK. Jan. Spot cotton
steady; middling upiands, 1910: sales.
$500 bales.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-04

:hcu the righteous man, that the right
eous sin not, he doth not sin, he shall surely
live because &c warned also thou hast delivered
Thy sOul--Ezekiel ill., 81.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1916-01-04

Doctors A. NJ. and p. H. Zinkhan
IF Washington, D. c.. who have been
made lieutenant colonies of the Rus
sian army for life by the car for
their work in the Russian war hos
pitfalls, have Just sailed for Russia on
the expiration of their furlough.
The Tupelo journal., 1916-09-29

so it would SEEM. said John
dryly.
Well, what's the use? Go ahead,
get busy with the phone
"You make me tired" said John.
yale, a bank and a pretty girl! That's
a good start for a play"
Its Gods truth, anyhow" protested
Drake fiercely. You won't believe it,
perhaps, but my first break came
about through Gertrude's mother. She
was suffering from tuberculosis, but
could be cured if given proper atten-
ton. The family was not well fixed
financially, SO / helped a bit-not
much, but enough to reduce the size
of my wad. l tried to eve things up
in a poker game. 1t all occurred in
one night. l deliberately joined a fast
set, drank heavily that evening, played
a crazy game, lost all the time, and
gave an /. 0. U.
THE brute who took it came to the
bank next day and showed it in at my
window. / asked for time, but he
raised his voice and said if ] didn't
come across there would be trouble.
/ lost my nerve-I never was a cast
iron proposition, anyhow-and prom
Used to meet him that evening with
the bills. When an opportunity Of
fered, l took the money from the draw
err. Then began the easy slide. Eras-
ures, false balances, wild plunging to
get out of~the mess, and an examina-
ton of my books by a bank inspector.
Almost before / knew where | was, /
heard a judge giving me two years.
And during those two years in Jail /
never forgot Gertrude's shrek through
the courthouse when she heard my
sentence. Sir, I've been all in ever
since"
How about the next five years." in
quired Burton.
What do you Think" said Drake
bitterly. Prison doesn't reform a
man. 1t taught me to be a sure
enough criminal. A cell mate put me
up to a few wrinkles"
I've been out now a month. |
tried to get a job in an Office. The
boss wouldn't even listen when | told
him something of my record. l made
a break at a laborer's stunt, but the
foreman looked at my hands and saw
they were soft. So he turned me
down. | couldn't ever sit in the park
The Tupelo journal., 1916-09-29


softly to himself. "Gentleman Joe, by
all that's holy! And logged up re-
CARELESS, too. Now, what do you know
about that?"
The occupants of the a paid no
heed to the loafer. They We're
whirled to the center Of the city, and
the automobile drew up outside a
attractive looking building which an
nounced t~iamboyantly to all the world
that this and non other was PRO
fessor Moretti's Dancing Academy"
Nor did they know that the professor
himself, advised by phone of Burton's
intended visit, was watching through
a window, and evidently keenly anx-
ious that this particular patron should
arrive.
When the car stopped, Moretti
turned to a pale but strikingly hand
some girl who seemed to be mi OF
his assistants.
Hurry up" he said emphatically.
Rush into some pretty clothes. This
fellow just coming in has money to
burn. You're to be his partner, see?
Do you get me?"
The girl smiled languidly. She UNI
derstood. She was merely o pawn
in the game.
Moretti, who could be both gracious
and specifically distinguished in man
ner when he chose, received Burton
and his secretary with much JUNCTION,
A maid took his hat and stick, and
Moretti moved away by his side. At
that instant the door opened, and the
girl who was to act as instructress
came in. Charming and svelte as she
had looked in her street costume, she
was truly bewitching in an ultra-fash-
ionable gown. She glanced idly from
the two men to the secretary, who hap
pened to be standing somewhat apart.
simultaneously the light of recog.
milton dawned in her face and brakes.
1t was thus, after seven bitter years
OF separation, that Gertrude met
once more her old-time fiance.
"Joe," she whispered, 'is it really
you?"
Eyes, Gertrude" he said sadly. Il
am overjoyed at seeing you, yet want
to sink into the earth"
Her feminine tact came to the res.
cue.
ooh, don't let US begin to weep
about the past the very moment we