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Arizona republican., 1917-01-16
EXPENSIVE RUG |S
 SIDEWALK COVERING

What is proving to be a unique demonstration of d product is that being made for the Barrows Furniture company is Whittall rug on the cement sidewalk In front of the Hip theater. Fred Barrows yesterday in commenting upon the demonstration said:
 The weather is playing into our hands beautifully We want all the mud. all the rain. all the wear under strain that can possibly be given this Whittall rug
 This rug in front of the theater has caused a lot of comment and of course the theater management is being ire Quently asked regarding the reason for placing e beautiful big rug out on the sidewalk fl Is an advertising cam paign conducted by the Barrows Fur niture company to demonstrate the rug. and it is very pleasing To the demonstrators to have the addcd rainy and muddy weather conditions in which to prove the rugs quality. After the rug has been used for seven days on the street 1t will be sent back to the factory for cleaning. When re- turned to the local firm 1t will be placed on display by them and will be sold by sealed bid
 The tremendous traffic particularly In rainy and muddy weather on Washington street over this rug for seven days Is indeed a unique test of its quality.
Arizona republican., 1917-01-16
WHAT CITY MANAGER DOES
lt Makes Good Government Easy ln-
 stead of Difficult

The advocates of the city manager plan do not guarantee that this plan is a panacea for all the present evils in city management It win not insure good results. but will make good re- suits more certain of attainment.
 It does not guarantee that an effl- cieut manager will be selected by the council but furnishes better method Of securing one and speedy means of getting rid of bod one
 It fixes the responsibility of select ing an efficient manager on few men whose sworn duty will require them to act upon careful considera- on. after thorough investigation. in stead of leaving the selection to sev eral thousand people, most of whom are too busy 10 give the question proper thought.
 It fixes the attention of all the peo- ple upon the conduct the methods. the successes. and the failures of one man, instead of dividing public attention and fixing it haphazard upon many public officials.
 It transforms city government from an experiment by inexperienced men to a modern business system.
 lt eliminates politics. ward bosses. ward heelers. and a multitude or con- sequent evils. and concentrates the at tention of the electors upon the char acter. the ability, and probable eff ficiency of a few men instead of di viding public attention among a horde of office seekers, thus rendering pub lie scrutiny and opinion ineffective.
 In respect to the selection of a man. arer. it adopts the plan of our public school system. under which school di rectofs have always served without compensation and eject school super intendents upon the principle of sup posed efficiency and without regard to the question of local residence. All will admit that in this respect. results have been fairly satisfactory. at least much better than they would have been had school suoerintendents been elected bv the popular vote on resi- dent candidates only
 IL relieves the councilmen of the ex ecutive management of each of the city departments. puts the administra- tive work upon the manager. and leaves the council free to legislate and to observe the results the man. ager is attaining.
 II furnishes a short ballot which limits the number of elective officers that are to be chosen ny the voters F. c. Platt in the Rotaran.
Arizona republican., 1917-01-16
HUGE BIBLE SCHOOL DREAM IF
 PASTOR BUCHANAN FUR PHOENIX

This IS attested by two enthusiastic teachers training classes. with a pres ept enrolment of thirty-one, and es- pecially by the splendid adult class taught by the pastor, with an enroll ment of more than two hurdred and fifty. This is the largest bible class in the state. ana one of it's aims is that it may, in time have a thousand members.
 Our hibIe studies, for the first six months of this year, are taken from the, gospel of St. John. which affords a wonderful opportunity to get in touch with the very heart of Christ IS revealed in this gospel.
 The insistent cry, as above stated is more room We hope to have not only his but better and more modern bible school equipment, at 9 not far distant date"
 The pastor and his people have 9 vision of q great ap-to-dste church hope to work this out within the next two or three years We realize that this is a great work" he said and all great works. tfat the world has been performed. at first have seemed impossible But nothing is impossible. when God is on our side.
 "In our work for the immediate flu ture. the city is being divided into districts, md district workers and sub workers are being appointed, all to cooperate and work together as one mighty force. In thorough, systematic and business way, we ex- pect to assist in taking Phoenix for Christ We have learned 10 cry. with with William Carey: Attempt great things for Gcd; expect great things from COdi"
Arizona republican., 1917-01-16
Where the People
 May Have Hearing
wba. Do the Tourists Say?

To the Editor of The Republican:
 Sir-lt has been said often that any government organized by community is just as good government as that community deserves. Since the making of roads and streets and their main tenance are governmental functions, it follows that any kind of a street q community has is the best 1t merits. We deserve bad streets since we cer- tainly have them. We have no right to complain. but the tourists have. They have been invited here through the agency of alluring advertisements depicting the glories of the climate Of the Salt River valley, the beauties and the delights of the country of winter roses. These ads make no mention Of the bumpy, automobile destroying streets. Think of some climate-b -bedev- lied customer perusing one Of these seductive Salt river advertisements de- picting the wonders of our winter cli- mate, the miles upon miles of oraage orchards. orchards Of grape fruit. olives and almonds. avenues of palms. fig trees, date palms, and not one word or untruth or exaggeration. This weather tired customer determines to stand the rigors of the Atlantic coast winters no longer. He ships his auto ahead,
 
 fairly counts the hours that separate him from this climatic paradise. He arrives. The climate is delightful. He takes q lease on beautiful bungalow, beautifully furnished. and they are here to be leased When he gets com fortably settled he gets out his car and takes his family aboard in gleeful an- ticipation of the joys of motoring through these avenues of palms out to the miles of orange groves. But right here Is where he finds out something that was not set down in the seductive advertisements. They had told but part of the truth. He sees noth- ing of the palms nor of the orange groves though they are there. He hasn't time. His whole attention is absorbed in avoiding the huge bumps )f dried mud. chuch holes, oottomless ''uts and the many fear-inspiring lDb- lollies of mud. Neither are the mem bers of his family looking at the palns and the orange trees. They are de- voting all of their time and energy at holding on or scrambIing back ito their seats. The experience reminds
Arizona republican., 1917-01-16

them of the time they were rescced from a stranded vessel in the brooches buoy. The tourist turns back to get to the bungalow by the shortest possi- hlc route. runs the tangled wreckage of his car into the garage, telephones to a dealer in used ap" cars. also to a good physician and the best lawyer in town. The dealer in used up" cars offers him $50 for the junk. The east- erner takes 1t and applies the $50 on the doctors bill The doctor in the meantime has been perspiring over the JoD of canVassing the bodies of the members Of his family searching for bruises. dislocations, splintered boges. displaced orgapq. s'ovcdup spinal col umns and evidences Of concussion of the brain. The lawyer goes over the lease and finds the inevitable flaw. The lease is handed back to he owner of the beautiful bungalow and the eastern man telephones for the ambu- lance. takes his family to the train and nies himself Co sdnlv southern Cali fornia. where the people understand the advantages of good roads and know enough not to advertise for tourists until good roads have been provided. When Mir. Fastener arrives in scrth- ern California he thenceforth becomes an enthusiastic and energetic knocker of Phoenix and the Salt River valley.
 Though this picture is somewhat overdlawn. there are many in this city who know tha' it contains much salu- tary truth. If bieved there were any real and uncnnquerable difficulties that prevent this little Big Town from having reasonably good streets I would say nothing. Flu. if Is a glaring fs ci that practically nothing Is done to re-
 pair the streets l 'Snow of many "chuch- holes" and cross ditches where pipes have beer laid that are deep and difficult to get over without breaking springs ana that have not received any attention in two years, excepting. of purse. the "ctssing" of the autoists who bump the bumps" There is nc reasonable excuse for the disreputable condition of the city streets If one aborer were allotted to every ten blocks of city streets, and if each man serc provided with an equipment no more elaborate than wheelbarrow, q pick shovel and a rake. and the man were req tired Co devote eight hours in 3ch of the six days of the week to the picking down of pumps and the filling lf holes. au immediate im1rovemeht of the dirt streets would result and they would be kept in fairly passable condition and repair.
 The feeble attempts at dragging the dirt streets after a rain are almost wholly ineffective. The work of drag ging the streets seems to be abandoned almost as soon as commenced and many of the worst streets are not touched at all
 If these streets are what the people like they have their prayers answered. But don't expect the tourists to like them. Tourists are generally persons of leisure. at least they have leisure when they are tourists. They generally have cars and enjoy the pleasures of motoring and they are not likely to remain in place where motoring Is a succession of narrow escapes. They 6c away not to return and Oh, what they say about Phoenix,
 R. D. q. JOHNSON.
Arizona republican., 1917-01-16

idea seems be to make the license prohbitive. even in that it is a question whether any hard dealer would pay the city $1OG0 for the privilege of selling these Georgia luxuries
 Pistol totng is of the greatest evils of the south. Most law abiding citizens down there have long since abandoned the vicious habit but from the record of the past it looks if there still enough hot headed southerners rambling around with quick empers and loaded pistols to put life there 6 plane with life the wilds of Africa.
 We venture the opinion that this prohhitive license will not materially lessen the evil There is to expect persons who desire pistols be deprived of them in that manner, when they be easily accommodated by the mail order houses
Arizona republican., 1917-01-16

A home without children is doomed home. A church without an active bible school Cor church school. as it has been aptly called). is destined to read the handwriting of its own decline and death upon the wall.
 When Rev. w. s. Buchanan, few months ago, became pastor of the First Christian church of Phoenix, he won the hearty applause of his members bv declaring himself "a bible school man, from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet" They have been applauding him ever since, for his zeal in this branch of the Lords work (as in all other branches) has been tireless.
 And he has not been alone in his labors Ar efficient superintendent and q corpse of trained. consecrated workers have upheld his hands and helped in building up the school to'its present propor tions And now the cry is. as it was once in the tribe of Ephrain: More room,"
 The members of the Christian church feel that the field is wide for a mighty bible school in Phoenix. Dr. Buchanan says, there are so many people who are not enlisted. ard who should be interested. The bible Is the greatest of all books, and the bible school. the only place wFere we have the opportunity of studying and teaching this great book. Our children have five days in the week in which to De taught the things of this life. and thirty minutes on Sun day morning in which to master the trre principles which fit them for this fife and for eternity,
 "Ocr bible school is training work CTS for efficient Christian service
Arizona republican., 1917-01-16
TO DIG FOR oRoEsus's GOLD
Cxredition Led by Princeton Profes-
 sor Will Visit Asia Minor

Groesus. king of Lydia and the worlds first great financier. escorted a committee of his subjects through his palace one afternoon in February. v. and after the committee had looked at Croesus' heaps of gold. one of the visitors. the first muckracker. evident ly. said it was wicked that anyone should have so much wealth and that something was going to happen. It did; half an hour later. most of ihe big mountain overha1ging Sardis buried the city. and when ihe earth quake was over. Croesus wealth was buried below mining depth.
 Prof. Howard Butler of the depart ment of art and archaeology in Princeton University, announced re- gently that he was going over to Asia Minor very. soon to resurrect the bur jed treasure. In 1909. Professor But Ter headed an expedition to Sardus and. though he found only bronze statues. his excavations were of great ~cientifi' wortn.-From the New York Times.
Arizona republican., 1917-01-16
The speedina Motorexelist

A motorcycst who was involved in a serious col lision Sunday, according a story of it printed in The Republican yesterday morning. took to him. self part of the blame for the disaster. He was looking behind him, he said just before the impact Inasmuch bystanders have estimated his speed at from forty to fifty miles hour his rearward re- search appears to have been work of supereroga- tion unnecessary entirely superfuous uncaled for exercise of caution. He not lettering. He was in the way of nobody behind him. He was in no danger of being rundown by horse-drawn vehicles or those swifter which run under their own power. He not obstructing in the slightest de- the traffic which pours down Central avenue on Sunday afternoons As well might the jackrabbit in full flight fear the pursuing mudturtle If the motor cyclist distrustfn of his ability keep out of the way of the other users of tte thoroughfare he should lave stayed of the street
 But he theory persists that the notorcycst was not afraid of the c-coming traitic in general but iooising to see whether there was moto. cop among it, in which doubt 1e would hay. fur ther expedited his movements
 U appears that this case has been so learly brought within the purview of police court that it might well be brought the rest of the way and lesson administered to moorcyclsts and other persons who endanger the lives and property of other per sons by such bursts of speed
 It is notorious that our traffic regulations are not enforced with that degree rigdity which insures respect for them Now and then when a rule is yio- lated especially if damage results the offender is, brought into court and given nominal fine In this case there serious damage. But whether damage follows not the offender should be as severely punished as the law permits and the punishment should be inflicted surely that fools and careless persons might be awakened to the possible conse- quences of their folly carelessness
Arizona republican., 1917-01-16
WHAT THEODORE VAIL
 THINKS OF COLLEGE MEN

In the January American Magazine Theodore Vail says:
 The young entering life must not be i'm patient He must accumulate experience. he learn the duties of his position by the actual doing before he has any value to his employer.
 The reason many college boys fail is that they are full of theories; they think they 1t A college course is good thing excellent thing but 1t must be given to the right kind of youth Quite a number of the highest positions filled by who went through college but who had false notions as to what required of them when they entered business. No is worth anything until has gone into the heat of the battle and had his theories subordinated practice
 The son of rich parents is handicapped in his youth He gets no experience of doing things and no opportunity to benefit from hard knocks such as the other fellows way.
 When a boy comes to ask put him through college I tell him it would be the worst thing that could happen to him. say: You would only have burden of debt your shoulders when you finished college, but you would have the additional burden of getting experence-and it pretty hard to get experience and earn money at the time You can money only after you have had ex- perience.' |"
Arizona republican., 1917-01-16

Joseph Caillaux, former member of the French cabinet, is in Italy making efforts to bring about an im- mediate peace. He has been taken to task by Paris newspapers, which have disavowed his acts.
Arizona republican., 1917-01-16
IODINE IN THE HOME
Toronto Mail and Empire

Toronto Mail and Empire
 Every family should keep a bottle of tncture of iodine in it's medicine closet Then if any member gets scratch a prompt painting of the place with iodine will prevent infection and further trouble Iodine is the best disnfecant for such purposes says an exchange. person may scratch a hand dozen times with i'll effects, and the next time with no apparent reason he may get badly swollen The safe thing to do whenever the skin is broken wash the places with and then paint with iodine If the wound is small it needs other atten- ton If it is cut, the place should be pro- teced by sterile dressing-a little cotton from the drug store. rag which has been sterillzed by boiling water. This treatment is bother but # is worth while to head off any possible trouble Take care in using It for it leaves ugly brown stain clothing.
Arizona republican., 1917-01-16

Yes, sir" said the station master. Safety First has spread all over this country. And nobody that comes to Beaver Hill will git in accidents fer want O warnin signs about. Jest look at that now
 The stranger gazed appreciatively at the sign nailed on nearby telegraph post Its stern message was:
 Tt is dangerous to walk stand on these tracks while train Is passing '-Everybody' Magazine.
Arizona republican., 1917-01-16
Pistol Sellinu

The city of Macon, Georgia, is trying to put the business of pistol selling something like luxury basis It is now proposed in that city to impose a license of slO00 every hardware dealer who sells pistol* and thereby make it of job for a man to become pistol owner and later a pistol toter The
Arizona republican., 1917-01-16
PEACE

What the world would like to see is peace that passeth all misunder- standing.-From the New York Sun.
Morris tribune., 1917-09-07
Four Generations Fight for Liberty

Wheaton Traveler.-John Sylvan
us Allanson left Sunday night, hav-
ing enlisted as private in Recruit
Company C, First Minnesota Infan-
try-the third one of that name in
his country's service. His great
grandfather, Lieut.. John S. Allansoh,
a graduate of West Point, died in
the service. His grandfather, Lieut..
John S. Allanson, served during the
Civil war in the Second Mass. Heavy
Artillery and later in the First New
York Engineers. After the Civil war
he served on the frontier in the
twentieth D. S. Infantry stationed
at Fort Smelling later at Fort
Wadsworth which afterwards became
Fort Sisseton, which is about 40
miles southwest of here.
Members of four generations
of the family have been stationed at
Fort Smelling at different times. GMaj-
or Joseph R. Brown, his great grand
father and father of Mrs. J. S. Allan
son of this city, whose life is inter
woven with the pioneer history of
the state, being ill treated by his step
mother when about IL years old, ran
away from his home in Maryland and
Morris tribune., 1917-09-07

stock, and because they will be worth
more next spring than they are today.
To aid farmers in Northwest Min.
nesota in keeping their livestock, the
state food committee suggests:
The cutting of all hay possible.
The saving of corn fodder, sto-
yer and straw.
The use of fall pastures.
The feeding of root crops.
The purchase of hay and straw
from other parts of the state.
The utmost care to avoid waste
in feeding.
Even the borrowing of money
with which to buy feed, if neces.
sary.
Pressure is being brought to bear
on bankers, merchants, railroads and
commercial interests to assist the
farmers in solving the problem of
bringing livestock and forage together
for the saving of breeding stock, that
the livestock industry of the North
west may not suffer a catastrophe.
Morris tribune., 1917-09-07
Steer Charges Butcher

Benson MonitOr-Peter Olson of
the firm Of Sneide & Olson of this
city had his arms and legs quite bad
ly cut by coming in contact with a
barbed wire fence on the Henry Nell
son farm near Clontarf last Tuesday
evening. Mr.. Olson went out to the
Nelson farm with the intention of
killing steer which the firm had
purchased. The animal evidently
seeming trouble and death would
not allow Mr.. Olson to get near
enough to put bullet thru his skull,
so as a last resort, Mr.. Olson took a
long shot, missed his mark, and Mr..
Steer becoming enraged made a
charge. On account of the darkness
and not being acquainted with the
surroundings, Mr.. Olson, in making
his get away suddenly found himself
tangled up in wire fence which was
directly back of him. When he got
thru-the fence-Peter had a num-
Der of bad scratches on his arms and
legs. The animal was killed and is
now on the block in the shop.
Morris tribune., 1917-09-07

Members of the committee believe
that there will be a large demand
for such animals throughout the
Northwest next season at ad-
vanced prices, and if the war ends
there will be an extraordinary de-
mand for such animals from ELL
rope. Already Europe is con-
tracing for breeding stock to be
delivered when the war is done.
The railroads are being urged to
make special rates in order to help
meet this serious situation and will
doubtless comply.
Burning of Straw "Crime."
To meet the desperate situation the
livestock, crops and markets men Of
the state food committee are appealing
to farmers throughout the state to
save every particle of straw. They
say that to burn straw is to burn food
and money, when others not favored
with such supplies are eager and will
ing to buy it. One prominent farmer
of Southern Minnesota said to mem
bers of the committee that to burn
straw this year was a crime; that on
his own farm he was saving every
wisp of straw for forage. Feed spe-
cialists at University Farm say that
oats straw fed with silage this year
will be worth all of SIS ton, and that
wheat straw fed with silage will be
worth as much as $40 a ton.
Farmers Urged to Keep Livestock.
The state food committee also ap-
peals directly to the farmers in the
drouth regions to make extraordinary
efforts to keep their COWS and heifers
and not to sell unless absolutely com
PEELED to. This appeal is based on
both patriotic and economic grounds,
because the country needs such live,