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Arizona republican., 1916-07-11
British Citizen Soldiers"

British reports of the present offensive against the Germans north of the Somme. unless. events of future operations show them to be based i'm perfect observations will be seized upon by pacfists argument against preparedness Though these kitchener soldiers are referred to the reports as "citizen soldery" or British citizens" distinct from trained soldiers, they undergone rigid and heartbreaking training under high pressure. In the early days of the the citizen soldiers did not make a good showing against the trained soldiers of Germany They in the way. Their presence demoralized the trained soldiers of France and more than one occasion it is said, that their giving way at critical moment, invited defeat which ended in a rout.
 After few experiences of that kind Kitchener sent levies to France. The recruits were put through grinding course of training at home and thus hardened and prepared for the test. If the million and half British soldiers now in France have been made fit for actual war had been made fit at the beginning there would have been war Or if in spite of such British preparation. the Germans had persisted in war. it would have been shortened and there would today be many hundred thousand EngIishmen alive whose bones scattered in Flanders, the peninsula of Gallpoli and in the depths of the Also, much needless slaughter would have been spared France and Russia as well the Teutonic allies
 But it has not yet been demonstrated that "Kitch eners soldiers" have been sufficiently trained against prolonged and steady resistance of the Ger man machine or to resist carefully planned counter offensive The rush of the last week proves nothing. Under curtains of fire which incapacitaed the enemy in the forward trenches the British of whose bravery there is no doubt rushed deeds of individual valor against an enemy outclassed in numbers and caught by surprise the defense is usually surprised There will come the settling down to stubborn contest where training will count after the first flush of excitement has passed
Arizona republican., 1916-07-11
BIRDS ON THE FIRING LINE

The rest of the day spent in that delgh'iui wood surrounded by the marsh deep water on three sides. Behind about mile one Of our patteries was busy with most offensive guns. The roar. which was ncessant, physical and mental pain each time
 Above grew the talest and largest ana stralsh'- est willow trees ever saw affairs. IheSe ready seed their fluffy stuff and the cohcus sions from these guns showered 1t down on us a'' the afternoon. IL seemed strange, too. to near the cuckoos Never have heard so many cuckoos' ol so near. They cuckooed all day long at the closest range There were other birds also that whisued wonderfully Loud and musical whistling calls, en- tirely All this going on, almost m the firing line.
 I actually bird fall dead or nearly so' out of the sky when in the support trencnes ou- ing a heavy bombardment week or so ago. u dropped close to where flatening myself agalhst the sand bag parapet about thirty yards away anu looked like swallow should think that the rush or air around a big shell would easily kill small pru and noticed good many swallows flying apout .n' day. Larks, too up high.-Lieutenant I' biiti'ii Army, in Scribners Magazine.
Arizona republican., 1916-07-11
BIG CHAUTAUQUA
 FOR FLAGSTAFF
(speciaI correspondeneel

FLAGSTAFF, July 9.-F1aCstaff is preparing for big Char.auqua week.
 The first entertainment begins We'd
 nesday, July 20. Three weeks ago the business men of the city made m advertising run to Williams. Some
 laIf' hundred machines participated.
 Today another big run was made ta
 Wirslow This advertising excursion
 Was entered in upon by more ma
 chimes than the first and moreover
 Winslow was alive to the occasion. The Flagstaff people were met ten miles If Winslow by the people Of that city All of the machines then formed parade and drove into WinsloW. In the city they were roy ally entertained iy a band and vari- ous committees from the Commercial club the Elks Follies, to be held in August at Winslow, and the city
 council. On the return most of the advertisers stopped off for a short visit to Meteor Mountain. one of ma lures greatest curiosities in northern ! Arizona.
 Everyone in Flagstaff is booster 1 for the big ChautauGua and it was
Arizona republican., 1916-07-11
Where the People
 May Have Hearing
The Initiative and Referendum


 Editor Arizona Republican;
 The Republican of the 9th instant contained an article entitled How itI Works" referring to the system of legislating by means of the method commonly known as the initiative:
 l cannot believe that the author of the article was moved to exert himself solely in order to lay before Repuhli- can readers a mass of facts that are patent to every intelligent voter in the state, for it looks to me more like a shot from a masked battery, in the conspiracy. secret and persistent to destroy or at least cripple the ini- tiative and referendum to such an extent that they would he practically imperative. X cunniugly worded and harmless appearing bill was passed by the last legislature. proposing an amendment to our state constitution, and referring the same to the people to he voted upon at the coming elec- tion, which if approved will leave both the initiative and the referendum so badly vitiated as to render them of no utility to the masses; this nefarious 
 tion of individuals and corporations to get back to the old system by which legislation can be easily con- trolled in the interest of those seek ing special legislative favors. without let or hindrance from the masses, has | received scant if any notice, from the | public press of the state. On first thought this fact might seem strange, until we look further and discover the | further fact that the public press of | the state, is with very few notable exceptions owned or controlled by the 1 powerful corporations. and used prin- cipally for the purpose of deceivine the people, and lulling their fears where the real dangers abound anC arousing their suspicious where nc danger is found It is an old gam' that has done duty since the birth oi politics. and l should like to see The | Republican give it's able influence in exposing it to it's readers. That the initiative and referendum are very uu- l weildy pieces of political machinery i: an incontestable fact and we do no pretend to defend them because o | the1r excellence, but because they dl' the best weapons of defense and of fense yet devised to offer a system that had become SD vicious and of fensive that it could no longer be en- dured. Let them say and prove wha they may against the initiative an' referendum, yet the fact remains tha it will seldom be resorted to by tn individual or corporation seeking spe cial privileges The fact that the, can not be utilized along these lines accounts for their great hostility fo them in certain quarters.
 The I and R have come to stay, bu the less we are obliged to use them the better will we like them, and tn sooner will we feel safe in discardini them.
 G. NJ WILLARD
Arizona republican., 1916-07-11
The Waste of Money

In the coming presidential campaign Democratic orators and newspapers will excuse the need for the extraordinary revenue legislation which they have found necessary to enact two grounds. They have already declared that the Democratic war tax was necessary to supplement the customs receipts which were lessened in consequence of the though on their own showing imports for the last eleven months have been greater than they for the eleven months of year preceding the outbreak of the war At the time of the passage of the war tax legislation it was not contemplated that the country would be subjected to any extraordinary expenditures. MT Wilson and MT. Bryan were then pacifists and there was no talk among Democrats of an increased army and
 Now we are told that the revenue bill is in tended to take of these added expenditures for preparedness, for adding about 5o0O0 men to the army and for a naval program not greatly in excess of some that have had in the past. How much the revenue bill will produce We do not know. but we do know that it will raise greater many times over, than the cost of all the military and naval increases for which provision has been made.
 The Democrats with much more enthusiasm and with division passed at the present session the rivers and harbors appropriation bill carrying something in excess of s40000000 in spite of plead ings for economy this time and the showing that fourhs of the proposed appropriation would be wasted; that there immediate need Of inn provement many legitimate projects for which the other fourth of the appropriation was to be made The leading advocates of still larger pork barrel ap- propriatons men who were opposed to larger military and naval appropriations They wanted more money to pour into the creeks and coves of their congressional districts mostly in the southern states No brake, either, put by Democratic congress- men upon the demand for public buildings.
 Our Mexican fiasco of course has cost and Will cost still. sum but with iness-like management of the nations affairs and the disregard of the pork barrel, all extraordinary expenditures could have been met without the enactment or revenue measure every session of congress-
Arizona republican., 1916-07-11
The Cruise of the Deutschland

The arrival of the German merchant submarine the Deutschland at Baltimore aroused the same inter est that any and unexpected feat may awaken it IS by means the greatest of submarine perform ances In the Dardanelles campaign U-boat made the much longer journey from Kie or Wilhelmshaven to the Dardanees. threading it's way from the be- ginning to the end through lanes of British. French and Italian warshps and celebrated it's arrival by sinking two British battleships Not long ago a Ger man submarine carried a personal note from the Kaiser to King Alfonso of Spain where was re- ceived with ceremony and whence it departed with out much ceremony. Its presence in a Spanish port was widely advertised. Yet it slipped away and on its back to Wilhelmshaven it sank French armed merchantmen
 It can hardly be expected that the Deutschland will fully reopen commerce between Germany and the United States A line of such boats running without hostile obstruction could accomplish much in the carrying And with hostile craft now on the lookout for repettons of the Deutschlands per formance. German American commerce seems very precarious
 We know that the cargo of the Deutschland con sisted in part of dyestuffs chemicals and uncensored mail What else do know. but is a safe guess that there many barrels of sugar Wurtzburger, Pilsener, larger consignment of Wesphaa hams and other articles, our deprivation of which has led to accept General Sherman's definition war
 The Deutschland has been to commerce what the pony express to overland transportation in the United States in the early latter half the last century. The pony express carried excess weight such as love letters other weighty missions The riders small and it is said neither whiskers mustaches They wore no overcoats only close fitting jackets, and altogether, they
 
 tance to the wind which they were hired to split The letters they carried of the utmost inn portance and the toll paid by the senders was tre mendous.
 It is probable that there was not an item in the Deuschland's list of 75O tons that was not worth times it's weight in gold. There many chemicals which made only in Germany and which would be worth much s1eO a pound here. American substitutes selling for half much: in many they worthless and in all unsatisfactory. The value of the Deuschland's cargo may be estimated to be worth from s1OOOOOOO s20OOOOOO
 As to the status of the vessel, there is room for interesting conjecture It is stated that the Deutschland is unarmed; that is, the armament is such any vessel employed in merchant service may carry. Whether it is equipped with torpedo tubes is not stated but torpedo tubes without tor pedoes aboard would not be regarded offensive armament. It is quite possible though. that when the vessel slipped out of Bremen it carried both tor pedoes and the heavier armament of the U boats; that it met lonely spot off the American coast by tug which took off it's offensive ment and that it's trip it will be by the tug and renvested
Arizona republican., 1916-07-11
Carranza Stands Pat

: As matters stand Senor Carranza is standing his ground in his controversy with the United States while have receded. a review of events troops from Mexico will show. The first negotia- tions following the demand took place at Fl Paso. What would have resulted from that do not know, but the Glenn Springs incident intervened and made it impossible for to comply with the demand for withdrawal if had been disposed to with draw. The Glenn Springs incident also weakened the Mexican position that the Carranza forces competent to prevent bandit raids into American territory.
 After that the Mexican demand that we withdraw troops temporarily suspended but in place of it a peremptory order issued by the Mexican office. of which government duly noti- fled, that American troops in Mexico moving either east west south would be subject to attack Dis regarding that order, force of American cavalry moving eastward in the direction Of carrizal attacked several were killed and others were taken prisoner.
 We called upon Carranza to dsavow that act but he has not done The order under which troops attacked still stands unprecedented by We have since accepted it and American troops in Mexico have moved in any other direction north. Having stood pat his order which is the really important thing from both the Mexican and the American points of view. Carranza acceded to the American, demand for the release of the prison taken at Carrizal-a minor matter compared with the killing of Americans there. That itself a minor matter compared with the standing Mexican
Arizona republican., 1916-07-11

order relative to the movement of troops in Mexico.
 The MeXicans either right wrong in their contention that have no business in Mexico-that we are doing good there. If they right the thing for to do is to withdraw honestly and gracefully possible to own territory instead of pretending to stand ground the while slowly recedng. If the Mexicans wrong in is suing order regulating troop movements they wrong when they attacked and killed Amer- can soldiers
 Our course in Mexico is either of a weak hesi- tating nation that of a buffer who seeks to i'm press upon onlookers that he is courageous and firm when his cowardice is palpable
Arizona republican., 1916-07-11
"WACO KID" IS ARRESTED
Republican A. p. Leased wircl

lRepuDiICan A. r. Leased WHcI
 DENVER, July 1o.-Willard Powell alias the Waco Kid wanted in Chi cago in connection. with alleged po- lice graft trials, who was arrested in Denver yesterday, will not return to the Illinois metropolis without a legal fight, according to his attorney today. Powell was taken into cus- tody while walking along a down. town street by Detectives Brick and Mulligan of the Denver police de- rartment who recognized Howell from photographic circulars.
 According to the attorney whom Powell engaged, the prisoner declared he was guilty of no crime, and al- legged that he was wanted in Chicago merely to testify against certain po- licemen. He is declared to have said he would not submit willingly to his removal to Chicago. The prisoner is booked here on a fugitive charge.
Arizona republican., 1916-07-11
TO HOLD JOBS FOR eUARDsMEN

The business institutions of New York city are proving that America is first. Almost hourly some large firm corporation to it's employees enlisted in the guard that while in the service or their country their salaries will continue and thelr places will be held open until their return R. H. Macy Co. came forward with an even more gener- ous offer this concern each of its employees in the guard that in the event his death $500 will be paid to his beneficiary.-New York Herald
Arizona republican., 1916-07-11

only through strenuous efforts that it was possible to hold it there. The entertainments alone cost over $25,- eoo Many who are spending the summer here hal this new attraction With delight for it will be another great benefit to he derived from their Vacations spent here.
Arizona republican., 1916-07-11
WILL HOLD RECITAL

William Conrad Mills has an- nounced that on Friday evening July If he will give song and ballad recital at the Federated church, for the benefit of the Mems club of the church. Mr. Mills will be assisted by Miss Work.
Arizona republican., 1916-07-11
GRAVES HERE

E. L. Graves, wife, daughter Mary and son E. L. Jr., with Miss Bruen
 MT and Mrs. A. Ferce, were in Flag staff Saturday evening and Sunday morning. They are travelling by ma chimes after teir rest nere they start cd on to their journey to the various reservations northwest of Flagstaff. Graves is on his annual trading tour for the purpose of stocking up his big Phoenix Curio Store. .-
Arizona republican., 1916-07-11
AMERICANS ARE RETURNING

VERA CRUZ, July f0.-Most Of the Americans who fled here from Mex ico Ci'Y when the crisis between Mex ico and the United States became acute. arc returning to the capital since all signs of trouble have passed Tie auxiliary cruiser Dixie arrived today and max take on board 70 American refugees from the trans port Hancock and some others or shore.
Arizona republican., 1916-07-11
IS North First Ave.

attending summer scEool here has re- turned to Phoenix. Miss Creighton received cablegram from Shanghai, China few days ago offering her a position as instructor of music there. She immediately wired her acceptance and left for home where she will begin preparations for her voyage to China in August.
Arizona republican., 1916-07-11
RECOVERING FROM POISON

Delwin |. Jewett of Phoenix who suffered severely from a bad case or ptomainc poisoning last evening is making wonderful recovery and doubtless will be able to attend tn his york in the nognal school by to- morrow.
Arizona republican., 1916-07-11
. FROM TEMPE

Mrs. R.-A. wndes, one of Tempe's pioneer women arrived here the first of the month for months visit with ter daughter Miss Alice Windes, an instructor in the training department of the normal school.
Arizona republican., 1916-07-11
CALHOUN IMPROVING

Republican A. p. Leased WireJ
 CHICAGO, July 10.-The condition of William J Calhoun. former United States minister to China, who has been seriously i'll since last Wednesday. was reported improved today.
Arizona republican., 1916-07-11
PRESIDENT OF CREAMERY HERE

J. F. Cook, wife and son Paul ar rived Eere Wednesday in their big Fuick six They with Miss Marion Cook who has been attending the Northern Normal school for the p2st three weeks will spend the summer at oak Creek with other Tempcists now camped there.
Arizona republican., 1916-07-11
TUESDAY MORNING, JULY Il, 1sl

The sponge that ceases to absorb quickly shrivels - the man who uses his tongue oftener than his ears soon squeezes his brain dry.
 - Herbert Kaufman.
Arizona republican., 1916-07-11
RETURNED HOME

Miss Jesse Creighton Who has been
Arizona republican., 1916-07-11

Everyone in Flagstaff is booster or the big CtautauGua and it was
Milford chronicle., 1916-08-11
PAUL PRY's GLENDALE
LETTER.

After a spell Of intense heat that baf-
,ied the efforts Of everyone to keep cool
ahe rain of Tuesday night came as q
rsreat relief. On Monday and Tuesday al
dumb beasts suffered severely. as well as
the people, and work Of all kinds ceased
No fatalities have been reported. W. S.
Dickerson found a fine fat COW, which
NE had just purchased dead; the cause
eof its death is unknown unless II was
Sometime ago the Rev Kelley lost his
Faithful old steed and now he has pur-
chased an automobile which Will be
ifound much more convenient.
peter Walins Of New York is entertain
ang party Of jolly young people, who are
making the neighbOrhOod lively with
Lheir music and gayety. Mr.. Walllns IS
spending the summer at his farm mere
sthaI his children might escape the dan
3gers Of infantile paralysis. The young
rpeaple spent Wednesday at Slaughter
Mrs. NIargie Carpenter Of wilmington
has been visiting her old home and with
her parents has gone to Oak Orchard for
Big Thursday.
Walter j. Fisher has charge Of the bar
iber ,snop here while the proprietor is com
fpeiied TO go about on crutches suffering
with an infection Of the knee.
what is the matter with the tomato
'patches?" is heard on every hand. The
Winas are large, green and healthy but
NO fruit is there. Some early patches
are ripening fine, and the acreage is un-
usually large this year. The two can
neries are making preparations for a
noa W pack and building more homes for
their foreign help, but the question
comes up when win they be ripe?"
Esquire Euegood is summering at his
cottage at slaughter Beach.
Harry Jester and family are occupying
their new cottage at Oak Orchord.
Milford chronicle., 1916-08-11
FRANKFORT.

Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond P. Long are
the parents Of twin girls, born last Sat
urday morning. but on Monday one of
the little ones passed away and was
buried on Tuesday morning.
Mrs. William c. Robinson's mother
and sister of Boston, Mass, returned to
their home on Thursday, accompanied by
Mrs Robinson, who will spend two
months in Boston.
Mrs Annie Murray entertained num-
Der Of her friends to. a supper party on
Wednesday evening
Captain George Tunnel Of Philadelphia
is visiting his brother, Captain Henry
Tunnel.
Clarence Eashum has purchased an
Overland touring car.
James b. Hudson, who has been con-
fined to his bed for several weeks, with
rheumatism, was able to go out for
drive on Sunday.
Work on the new concrete bridge by
Hickman's pond has begun.
Miss Helen Walls has returned to her
home after spending a few days in the
city. She was accompanied home. by
Miss frankie Nelson. VINO viii spend the
month Of August with relatives and
friends i'm FrahllfOrd.
Massey Gum sprained his ankle last
week.
Milford chronicle., 1916-08-11

Isaac CIendaniel has gone to Bowers
Beach for a visit by the shore.
Mrs Johnson and Miss Ethel Johnson
have gone to Bowers Beach.
Mrs. Florence Hills, of Wilmington, IN
company with some other ladies', came to
Ellendaie on Tuesday evening to speak
In the interests Of Woman Suffrage, but
Ellendale does not seem to be particular
ly Interested in this subject.
Miss Lima Warren, Gaughter OF Samuel
Warren has been engaged 70 teach the
intermediate school al Glendale, to take
the place Of the teacher who resigned.
Robert Veasey is very i'll with typhoid
fever.
John p Hastings was taken suddenly
very in on Wednesday afternoon.