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Arizona republican., 1917-11-20
LOCAL DRIVERS
 BELIEVE THEIR
 CAUSE WAS JUST

So many inquiries have been made with regard to the unfortunate coHdi- ton which caused the delay in the au- tomobile program of last Saturday at the state fair, that & brief explanation is not out of place. There is no doubt what the contention of the local driv CTS, or, at least, some Of them. was.
 The Serious contender TOT the right to enter the professional free all was the Overland No. 8, a model "S1" machine. Early in the game, days before the date for the races. the local Overland people told the fair authori- ties, they say, that they wanted to en- ter their plucky little car in two events, the all-Arizona race and the profess sionai free -for-all They were told there were no entry blanks for the free-for-all but that they would be given one when they came. The Over land people point out thak they posted the entry fee not only for the Arizona race but for the professional event as well, the latter check being accepted on Saturday morning.
 On Saturday morning the Overland folk were told their driver must regis
  test associations classification, con- dition of which was that their driver do mile under the eyes of MT. Hank enson, representing the association. They went to the track to do such a mile but found it too wet from sprink- ling to make the trial safe. They say that while they were waiting for the track to dry, it was sprinkled again, thus putting off the trial until too late. Then being refused admittance into the race they placed their car upon the track, demanding their rights.
 The Overland No. has done mile on this track in 54 seconds, a second faster than any lap done last Saturday and it's owners say they merely wanted chance with the bigger machines. That their car won the Arizona classic in fine style, they point out is a test of it's ability
 Those who took part in the track de- bate state that Governor Campbell told them it was his wish to have the race made an al1-Arizona one when the diff ficulty came up and they believe that the trouble should justly Be charged to the visiting professionals who barred them the track and not to the Arizona drivers who were ready and willing to put on a real show for the great crowd at the fair grounds.
Arizona republican., 1917-11-20
LAY 1 TO 400 SHOT
 KITCHENER ALIVE
(London Shronicle)

Legends once well rooted die hard. Many people believe that Earl Kitch- ener survived the sinking of the Hampshire, and is either a prisoner of war, or, escaping in a small boat, has reached some remote part of the world and is living in anonymous re- tirement.
 The romance gained a fresh lease of life when Mrs. Parker, sister Of the great general, publicly announced at Hastings not long ago her firm belief that her brother was alive and would one day return.
 It is impossible to argue the matter. One can only believe or disbelieve. A measure of credence which business men attach to the story is to be found in a letter printed in the Liverpool Echo. Messrs. A. Letton, Percival & Co.,, insurance brokers of that city say that a client of theirs wanted to know what rate could be quoted to cover the following risk:
 That Lord Kitchener was alive
 on August 31 1917, the onus of
 to be furnished within three
 months from peace being signed
 Lloyd's underwriters were prepared to accept ten thousand pounds at five shillings per cent, and the insurance if that is the right word for it, has been completed.
 The chances of Lord Kitchener be- ing alive are, therefore, regarded by unsentimental brokers as one in four hundred.
Arizona republican., 1917-11-20
BULLETIN LAYS
 DOWN NEW RULE

Principal R. T. Cook of the Phoenix Union High school yesterday issued the following bulletin to teachers of the institution;
 All pupils are required to be in class or study hall eight periods each day. Pupils having long distances to come and those having special work to do outside of school hours may be excused from study hall upon written request from parents or guardians approved by the office. Pupils who are excused for any period or periods must get out of the buildings and off the grounds dur ing the five minutes between periods. Beginning today any pupils found on the grounds or in the hall during any part of period in which classes are in session will be refused permission to leave and sent to the study hall with out further notice. Classes have been disturbed by pupils in railways and by pupils leaving the grounds on motor cycles and in cars during class periods.
 Since all boys are required to take military training they will not be per mitted to play tennis during any one of the eight periods of the day. Girls may take tennlS Uurlng any O1 the eight periods assigned them by Miss Hurley for physical training but no girl may take more than one period for tennis or physical training and any girl not actually engaged In playing during a period must report to study hall
 Pupils sent from class by teach CT must go to the study hall Pupils coming to the campus during any per iod must report at once to the study hall. Pupils on an errand for any teacher must carry a written permit from the teacher. Pupils will not be excused from any period for school ac- tivities-in short-the presence of a pupil on the school grounds during any one of the eight school periods will be considered an infraction of the schoo rules. Pupils wishing to wait for any school affairs which take place at the close of the school session must wait in the study hall.
 Our school work is our first consid- eration and all other affairs must con- form to the best interests of the school Ali teachers are requested to report any violation of the rule"
Arizona republican., 1917-11-20
PROBLEM TO HOUSE
 THE WAR WORKERS
(Phila. Public Ledger

Before many months have passed the federal government is likely to have become the nations greatest landlord. This unprecedented expansion of fed eral activity has been made necessary by the concentration of war industries in a comparatively few cities of the north and east, with a resultant crying need for houses for the laborers in the industries. From Bath, Me, to Nor folk, Va. from the Mississippi to the Atlantic coast, wherever there are new munition plants and shipyards the new coming laborer is houseless.
 In Bridgeport, Conn; Chester, Pa; Youngstown, O.; Erie, Pa; Newport News, Va, and a score of other cities, according to reports which have come to the government in Washington, the housing shortages are so great that it is necessary for the same bed to be used by three men. each occupying it for eight hours of the tWenty-four
 Recently a shipbuilding company en- gagged on an urgent government con- tract hired two hundred badly needed laborers one morning and lost them all the same night when places for them to sleep could not be found even in barns or the railroad station. Some companies have reported that because of the lack of houses they find it necessary to hire four men to keep one continuously on the job.
 These conditions already prevail. But | worse conditions are ahead, for new plants are being erected by the score in the very localities where the con- geStion is greatest. For example, not
 bed is to be had in Bridgeport. yet a new factory which hopes to employ | l,., l ing completion. That factory will not | be able to run one day until houses are built in which it's laborers can live. In a word, new workmens houses | have become as important in our war
 preparations as new factories of work
 mems houses has become an essential
 part of every industrial undertaking in the cities which lie east of the Mis- sissippi.
 The war department and the Coun- | cil of National Defense recognize that | thousands of Workmen's dwellings
 must be built, and built at once. It is | reported in the government depart ments that England, in meeting this
 same problem, has spent one-half bil- ! lion dollars during last year, and it is i expected that the United States will find it necessary to spend at least
 that lmuch during the next twelve | months.
 i It is recognized that the companies | whose workmen need the dwellings cannot be expected to meet the pres ent extraordinary situation. Aside l from the fact that workmen dislike l living in company houses, and there fore under the orders of a company
 for twenty four hours a day action by
 individual companies would be diff 1 cult to obtain and slow.
 The remaining alternatives are ac-
 tion by the states and action by the
 federal government. The first move
Arizona republican., 1917-11-20
DEBT

Debt is hell
 Don't you let 'em fool you. son, talking about credit being necessary in big business and great being great borrowers and all that. At least, wait until you a big and have big business be- fore you begin.
 If you want anything. buy it after you get the money not before.
 It may hard work get the money to buy what you want but it isn't nearly hard working for money to pay for what you've had used up, and don't want any
 It's like paying for dead horse
 Debt usually improvidence, which means weakness
 Debt means flabby character.
 I don't urge you to be miser. pinch every nickel any of that thing Be good fellow pay your share, but
 Don't get in debt!
 If I could get into spot upon the earth all the heart burning and anguish debt has caused, it would surely burn hole straight through 10 China.
 If the tears shed of debt should flow together, there would be roaring than Niagara.
 And if all the signs, and groans and oaths caused hurricane devastating than anything ever Cuba, and a tornado more terrible than Kansas Oklahoma could furnish.
 Of course there's great deal to be said the other side, upon the advsability going in debt in respectfully
 And don't do it,
 And for fear I have made by meaning plan l will repeat that the idea have in mind is Don't go in debt!-(Copyright, 1917, by Frank Crane).
Arizona republican., 1917-11-20
A MILLION ACRES TO DRINK

During the first year of the the English de- stroyed in the making drink average of million and half tons of food and feeding stuffs. I realized that somewhat when had translated it into 37 800 freight cars full of food, stretching from New York about twothirds of the way to Buffalo. The land used in making the drink a million acres.
 English workingmen smuggling liquor into yards and factories and English soldiers were dying at the front. Moreover the manufacturers with so much more work to do, asking for more men, and soldiers were being recalled to factories. And all this time there hundreds of thousands of men, enough w1rkers to populate the city of Buffalo who were engaged in the sacred British work mak- ing and selling liquor. Six thousand miners alone were needed to provide the coal necessary to take care of the liquor traffic-and soldiers were being sent from the front to into the mines Men beinl used thus to tlake the rich of England still richer while Sir Ian Hamilton with who knows what an- guish of spirit making his desperate appeal hundred thousand
 If this help could be sent at Once' he wrote, we could still clear passage for our troops to Con- stantinople. Maud Radford in Everybody's Magazine
Arizona republican., 1917-11-20
ConUratulations

We have received letter almost apologetic in character in terms calculated break to gently the news of a disaster-that there will be no annual of Rivers and Harbors Congress this year. The reason given is that the hotels Washington are so thronged with persons who are called to the national capital by the war; who think they have been called. that there is no room. Already hundreds who have business, real or imaginary in Washington have find lodging in Baltimore.
 We will try to bear with equanimity our deprva- tion the session of the Rivers and Congress. To some, indeed, this will be regarded as a mitigation of the horrors of the war; and thanks will be offered the whatever other agency may have intervened to avert the session
 The Rivers and Harbors Congress sessions have usually preceded extraordinary demands upon the treasury through the medium the rivers and har- bors bill. criminal but persistent legislation the disgraceful through which the public money has been allowed to go waste
 The congress was formed ostensibly and per naps really for the purpose providing a systema- tized program of needed rivers and harbors improve ments, but systematzation has resulted. Our contributions to Squaw Creek and the Bay of Bill vile have been made as regularly as before.
 We thought that the face of the war last spring with the expenditure of billions confronting us con- gress would the decency withhold this waste But it did not it appropriated s31 100000 with the air of body which had virtuously im- posed upon itself great restraint when it might easily have made way with twice many millions.
 We can only hope now that for some time to come we shall hear of rivers and harbors. We would not prevent necessary improvements but each such proposal should it's own merits and not upopAthe support any log rolling s(ganization, in
Arizona republican., 1917-11-20
TELL IN R|ME
 IF BUSY TIME

Local men in camp who hold Sher- mans idea of war have contributed the following verse: From Arizona boys at Battery B, 3S4th Field Artillery, Camp Pike, Arkanses. Listen. Good people. and a story I'll
 tell But first must mention that this war
 is hell: We were first at camp Funston but
 now we are at Pike, Where they drill us all day, and they
 sure make us hike. There are men here from Kansas, and
 other states too, But men from Arizona are sure very
 few. There's Wilky and Hale from Phoenix
 they came, There's Hacker and Speer who's hair
 is flame, Three men here from Prescott, two
 from Clarkdale, While my name is Nihell, and from
 Jerome I hale. We squad right, squad left, till our legs
 are sore, Eat all we can get and holler for more we uOll knoW Hiuci Ao", pul oic sur
 getting wiser, And hope to soon get chance to "clean
 up" on the kaiser, And when this war is over we're con-
 ing back home, And all have agreed that no more we
 shall roam, We're all coming back to the best state
 we've seen, Where the roses are red and the hills
 are so green, When the kaiser is finished, and fight
 ing we're through, We'll be back Arizona, for we surely love you.
Arizona republican., 1917-11-20
Waste Paper

Never since paper began be made there such a wild profIigate and sinful waste of it as at the present time. The mails are laden with worse than useless matter. Some of it is issued by the government and by private concerns, all intent upon some sort of exploitation It is like the waste of ammunition in a Mexican battle.
 It is all intended, of course, for publication but comparatively little of it attains that end It lodges in the paper basket whence it is rescued by conservationists who bale it and sell it at small fraction of its original to be made into paper again.
 The wasters are people who do not know the value of paper and still less of the value of the stuff they cause be printed it. The more words they get the better it suits them Whether it will be given publication or not or whether people would read it if published matters of minor considera- tion or no consideration at all. These writers are often untrained the of writing for public con sumption They have some facility for essay writ ing perhaps, in the preparation of matter that pleases themselves a small circle of friends of their own way of thinking, but outside that circle there can be no interest their tiresome ucubratons
 More recently, however the government has ac- ccpted the voluntary service of real writers, news paper and magazine people whose work is very good, but there far of it than necessary and more than the newspapers can possibly handle The government is alone the waster There are hundreds of business concerns throughout the country flooding newspapers with matter intended for publication. The heads of these concerns are business and very naturally they select for pub licitv work trained men and not essay writers Up 10 this point their business them well. But they fall down at the next step. They measure the work of their publicity experts not only by its quality. but by its volume The experts know very well that volume does count, if it counts, it paper which might accept a short, interesting, sue cinct story would unhestatngly upon the floor a column story of the thing. They know, too, that if the publisher should be blind to print it. his readers would be appalled, the first glance at the length of it and would pass it by for some thing shorter
 The experts know all this, but yield to the gnor- ance of the employer who demands volume, and as a result there is of paper and just that much additional weight thrown upon the shoulders of the janitor who up the filtered floor and empes waste paper baskets.
 Dr. Frank Crane said that $50 words much as one should write any subject. He meant, no doubt that the reader would not readily be- gin on a longer article, and he will not unless the subject is one which he is already interested. This is something that publicity experts and those who employ them. all contributors design ing contributors to the public prints should know.
Arizona republican., 1917-11-20
NEW MILEAGE
 TO bE SHOWN

By general order issued by the state corporation commission yester- day all railroads in Arizona are or dered to file with the commission statements of new mileage con- structed by each company in the state from January l, 1917 to De- cember 1, 1917, showing whether such construction was new track, siding or double track paralleling main lines. Also the location of same and estimates of additional new track to be constructed between De- cember 1, 1917 and December 31, 1917. The information should be in the hands of the commission not later than December 31, 1917, it is stated.
Arizona republican., 1917-11-20
MANY QUESTIONS
 ASKED OF b0YS

The "Questionaire." the sixteen page pamphlet filled with questions which every man who on June registered for military service and who already has not been sent to training camp must answer. has been receieved in quantity by Colonel Fred S. Breen and is being sent out to all local boards in the state. Two and one-half tons of them were placed in mail sacks at the state house preparatory to being placed in the mail
 The registrant is required to fill out the questionaire and return it within seven days from receipt of notice. Fail ure to do so is a misdemeanor punish able by fine or imprisonment for one year.
Arizona republican., 1917-11-20
ASKS DEcREE-Alle,

ASKS DECREE-Alleging that her husband, Joseph Anthony Marlborough, has failed to provide for her and that she is in indigent circumstances, Mrs. Annie Eleanor Marlborough yesterday filed suit for divorce. The plaintiff. who gives her husbands business as bookkeeper. claims they have commit nifty property in Brooklyn where they were married in February. 1911. She asks for a division of this property and such other relief as the court sees fit. She also asks the right to resume her
Arizona republican., 1917-11-20

or out Of congress. We have too much other more urgent use for money to waste any of 1t in tho repair of congressional fences
 There great many activities with which We can very easily dispense and with more easily than those of the Rivers Harbors Congress
Arizona republican., 1917-11-20
AUCTION

Big cattle sale today south of Phoe- nix and miles west of auction flag on South Center street. c. R. Green, owner.-Adv.
Arizona republican., 1917-11-20
NOT so DIFFERENT

When was boy wanted to be clown in a circus.'
 of course you outgrew that"
 "Oh, yes. Clowns don't get very much salary. Now I wish I actor in the movies. From the Washington Star.
Arizona republican., 1917-11-20

Learn patience from the lesson Tho the night be drear and long; To the darkest sorrow there comes a morrow,
 A right to every wrong.
 J. T. TroWbridge.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1917-11-22
OUT FROM ELK.

Geo. Yahraus and Jack Stone came
out from Elk City last Friday reaching
the county seat in the evening, and on
Sunday morning departed via the rail
road for southern Idaho to the vicinity
OF Nampa, where the former has val
liable mining property that he and Mr..
Stone viii develop during the winter
months. Mr.. Yahraus spent the great
er part of last winter at the property,
which Is located on the Snake river,
and states that there Is a vast noun
tain Of decomposed matter that carries
gold. The tests to be made this winter
will convince the gentlemen as to
whether or no it will pay to work
the property. Owing to the nature of
the decomposition and its proximity
to transportation. it is stated that Ii
can be handled for approximately $1.00
per ton.
Both these gentlemen are experienced
mining men and win no doubt be able
TO satisfy themselves as to the value
carried.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1917-11-22

Enterprise A twenty thousand
pound shipment of mining machinery
arrived this week for the Buckhorn
mine of the Ten Mile district. This
shipment consists of a Lane mill and
the machinery necessary to operate
this unit of power successfully. The
Lane process needs no screens and is
fiotation process clear and simple.
The trouble in the past with the handl-
ing of the ores in this mine was the
sticky nature of the tale found through
out the ore making 1t impossible to put
the proper amount OF tonnage through
the mill The fiotati0n process does
away with this and allows free run
ming of the ores. The first unit now be-
ing taken in will develop capacity of
thirty tons which can be gradually In
creased, as units are added, to $50 tons.
Oil process will be used to separate
the concentrates. This Is one OF the
closest saving systems known to min
| ing. A very rich strike has recently
been made In the Buckhorn. A cut
on a seven foot ledge showing $4S to
the ton. The machinery shipment will
be made by johnson & Phillips, of this
place who will load the shipment Mon
day w. II. York. superintendent OF
the mine. and George III. Good will ac
company the freight shipment into ths
mine.
The Gilt Edge mining property 10
Gated In the Ten Mile district wa.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1917-11-22
FIND BODY OF MAN ON BANK
OF SOUTH FORK OF
CLEARWATER
j. Burns Employee of The Grangevie Light and Power
Co., With Family Residing In Spokane Thought to
Have Been Temporarily Deranged

The body of j. H. Burns, an en-
ployee Of the Grangeville Electric Light
and Power Co., at the plant ON the
Clearwater river, was found Tuesday
about 80 yards from the waters edge,
up near the Forest Service bridge, and
was brought to this city yesterday by
the coroner and Deputy Sheriff Eller.
Investigation divulged the fact that
Burns had been in the employ Of the
company but short time and that
his home was in Spokane, at 1910 Hart
son avenue, where his family now re-
side.
While coming out from the Maclyie
Williams ranch over on the South
Fork Of the Clearwater river last Sun
day, Ira (Kid) Smith found a pair
OF mems shoes, coat, pocketbook con-
tanning four one-cent postage stamps,
and mans pocket Knife just at the
brink of the river where he crossed at
the Forest Service bridge. Mr.. Smith
made a slight investigation without fur
ther discovery and came on into the
city and notified the sheriff's office, and
also informed the officers that Walter
Rice was coming out Tuesday and he
was asked to make a thorough inves-
tigation when the point where the
shoes, etc, were found, and on doing
so located the body of a man barefoot
ed and in his underclothes, in a clump
of bushes about 90 yards from the
place where the articles above mention
ed were found, the mans clothing be-
ing wet, indicating that he had been