Weekly journal-miner., 1917-05-09
WAR COLLEGE IS INITIATED BY
 DIRECTORS
MILITARY AFFAIRS CON- SIDERED BY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE; ROAD
 TO JEROME MATTER IS
 LIKELY TO GET ACTION.
(From Fridays Dsi,y.)


 last night sounded like council of the war college or the board of strategy. Of late, large measure of war problems, touching on local com munity life, has been presented to this civic body for solution.
 It was announced by President Ha- worth that this would be his last meeting in the chair, as he aimed to go 10 San Francisco to learn to be a soldier right soon. Vice-President Smith IS also going, and this left the direction of affairs up to H. w. Heap, | second vice-president of the organi- zation. With Mir. Heap in the chair, the board passed resolution com mending the B men of Prescott and iavapai county. who have dropped their private affairs and enlisted to take the course at the Presidio school, and after that, to dig in and help lick i the kaiser.
 When the course of training for officers is finished, it will be up to the graduates of the various schools, to ! turn in and lick the cub soldiers half a million of them-into shape It was suggested that Fort Whipplc would be an excellent place to train unit for the war army. This sugges- i ton was anticipated somewhat by Mir. Fredericks of the military affairs committee, for he has already been in touch with Washington about the proposition. The board passed a | strong resolution, asking that every effort be made to secure the use of the splendid army post for this work It is said that provisions have already been made to rehabilitate the barracks and grounds for this purpose, and that the chances are good that within the next few months. a concentration camp for soldiers will have been To- cated here.
 To feed all these soldiers, together with the people of the United States and her many grub-dependencies, it will be necessary to speed up produc- ton to the maximum This brings things up to the third phase of the war college work of the board last night. A very thorough discussion of the food problem was indulged in. Some believed that 1t was the proper caper to put the Boy Scouts in touch with lot of idle land, that they might grow some beans and potatoes. 9th CTS believed that growing things in proper quantities was a man sized job. They asked that a city team be set aside for blowing up tracts of land for the citizens. and that if the scouts wanted to work, they could be set at the task of wedding and cultivating such gardens
 There was a great deal of discus sion of the proposed road to Jerome. this being a question on which all were agreed as to necessity if not as | to method LeRoy Anderson suggest ed a county bond issue to build | system of trunk line roads of a moro | or less permanent nature, covering i every corner of the county and lead | ing to Rome-that Is to Prescott. | Other speakers were keen for a road . distict. embracing Prescott, Jerome and the Upper Verde, together with a long thin strip along the proposed route. and the bonding thereof for this particular road. The discussion of ways and means was not completed, but the heat with which the matter was threshcd out indicated clearly that before the board drops it, some thing definite will be done
 President Haworth suggested that the board back up the Frontier Days work just as though he were here and plugging along with it. Re said he would like to leave his craftsmanship in the hands of one Lester Ruffner now a member of the said committee.
 LeRoy Anderson, chairman of the seat sale committee for the Chautau- qua pointed out the difference in cost to the ultimate consumer of season tickets and day by day tickets. The former set one back S, while to at tend by the day make Sl075 hole in the bank account. Tickets will go on sale Monday For school children : from the Kindergarten up to the eighth grade. there will be tickets ] sold for S3S0 admitting to the entire ! course.