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Arizona republican., 1917-02-03
COMMISSIONERS PLEDGE CALLING
 OF AN ELECTION
Three Speakers to One Say
 They Favor Retention of School Block for Public
 at Rotary Clubs Meeting

Today's the day when Phoenix will decide whether it is a forward looking city with up-to-date ideas and a de- sire for the best or whether it will sell it's heritage for a mess of pottage, for
 today's the day when the people vote for or against a step which means a
 great civic center or its indefinite post
 ponement. A vote to sell the Center street school site to private parties to- day means that Phoenix will proably never centralize it's public buildings, as all other forward looking cities are do- ing or planning to do.
 The objection advanced by those who see the dollar more clearly than the vision of the city's future, that moth ing will be done if the site is retained" is answered in the statement that the city commission pledges itself to sub
 init the civic center project to the peo- pie upon a petition of 200 citizens. With such a submission assured il
 means that if the people will hold on to what they own and vote mo- today ] on the plan to sell the land for com merCial purposes the next step to carry out the splendid civic center idea will immediately follow.
 The polls are open from 10 o'clock this morning until o'clock this even ing. There is but one polling place the Center street school Those who are parents of children of school age l or who are on the tax roll, may vote The question today is whether the block shall be sold for private and speculative use to commercially inter- ested people, or, if this plan is defeated be sold to the people themselves for a civic center. In the latter case. the school board gets the money it needs just as well as in the former. That ! Is why A. A. Betts of the school board said yesterday:
 "It is not advisable to sell the Central school property at this time. 1t will be a very unwise
 move on the part of the taxpayers, A clvic center will be far greater asset than the sum to be obtained from the sale of the property" MT. Betts knows what he is talkiu. about.
 Making Dreams Come True yesterday afternoon the Rotalt club' that band Of Tive wires" heard 1 arguments for and against civic center Three times as many mem oers spoke in favor of retaining the
 land for public use as spoke for its
 sac Tor commercial purposes. In fact. but three speakers spoke in favor of voting to sell the land today. Linn B. Orme well voiced the thought of the thoughtful when he
 said:
 "It is said that Civic Center IS dream. So was the Roose-
 welt dam a dream, a miohty
 dream which has come true. The | city could borrow the money to
 buy this property and make ! money in so doing. The Civic 1 Center may be a dream but about all we have accomplished in
 this valley have been dreams
 once. Unless we dream and plan 1 for the future we will never have
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Arizona republican., 1917-02-03
Carranza Waitinu

QUERETARO. Feb. 2.-General Car ranza probably will remain here until the eighth of February, when it is ex- pected he will go to Guadalajara to attend the commencement of the con- struction of the new railroad. There is some talk of General Carranza return ing to Mexico City on horseback.
Arizona republican., 1917-02-03
Refugees Suffer From Cold

COLUMBUS, N. M., Feb. 2.-The refugees arriving here suffered greatly from the cold snap on their way out of Mexico with Pershing's forces. The thermometer at Columbus registered ? degrees above zero last night and peo- pie of many nations, men, women and children, sat huddled around the camp fires at the international line waiting for dawn to enter the American side.
Arizona republican., 1917-02-03
NAVY GETTING READY

CHARLOTTE, N. C., Feb. D. The torpedo boat Bagley. being used as a mine layer, unex- pectedly appeared at Morehead City, N. C., today and took on full supply of coal Her officers refused to discuss a report that the harbor was to be mined. Later the torpedo boat Warden and subma- rine E-2 appeared at Morehead City.
Arizona republican., 1917-02-03
VILLA FOLLOWERS GRANTED AMNESTY
 FLEE TO MURGUIA
Republican A. p. Leased wire1

CHIHUAHUA CITY, Feb. 2.-Gen- erHl Francisco Murguia stated today that his proclamation of amnesty is bringing in increased numbers of Villa Followers who are giving up their arms and returning to civil life. He said he had the situation well in hand Local newspapers assert that the dis cord between Villa, Salazar and Aeosta has grown serious and two minor leaders, Frescas and Chavarria were killed during a quarrel
Arizona republican., 1917-02-03

LONDON, Feb. 2.-Count von Hertling, the Bavarian premier, says an Exchange Telegraph dis patch from The Hague, in ad- dressing the Bavarian diet, said:
 We know that America will not remain silent under our subma- rine warfare, but the time for considering other peoples opinions has passed in view of this being the only possible way of bringing the war to q successful end.
 Nothing can stop us from our plan, whatever it's consequences"
Arizona republican., 1917-02-03
FILLER P[UNGES
 OVER bANK;FIVE
 REPORTED DEAD
Republican A. p. Leased wIre1

~ GSNSco
 OMAHA, Feb Five persons are known to have been killed and a num- Der were injured when Chicago. Bur llngton and Quincy train No. F was wrecked near Cromwell station Iowa at ten o'clock tonight The train struck a broken rail and five Pullmans were thrown down a forty foot embankment into the ditch. The engine, tender and the observation car left the track but were not ditched. The injured are be- ing taken to Creston.
 COMMUNICATION CRIPPLED
 DIES MONIES, Iowa, Feb. 3.-The night operator of the Chicago, Burling- ton and Quincy railroad at Osceola, said he had unofficial information to the effect that several persons had been killed in the wreck of Burlington train No. F at Cromwell station. He said railroad communication was crip- pied and the reported deaths were told of in private advices.
 Calls for wrecking crews from Ot- tumwa, he said, were urgent. it being stated that it might be impossible to remove some of the injured from the
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Arizona republican., 1917-02-03
OUR OPINIONS USELESS

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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-12-08

AOte the result OF six months of mill
tary training. Compare lines A-A and
BIB in cut
ate and manly. His awkwardness had
disappeared. The change was wonder
full and it was all to the good. Here
is photograph showing before and
after taking and l am sure no patent
medicine advertisement could beat it..
well, mother and l were delighted
That was ten years ago, and Howard
says the year he spent at the military
academy was the best year of his life.
Now" said Uncle Dan, with great
earnestneSS, when such training does
so much good. makes better citizens and
at the same time fits man to defend
his country. why should not Uncle Sam
furnish this traSing at the govern
ment's expense? The government has
the right TO call anyone to serve in
case Of war, and without training. a
man Is worth nothing as soldier. En-
Gle sam has splendid new training
camps that win soon be available for
the purpose. therefore. here is double
reason why the Chamberlain bill for
compulsory military training should be
passed Mt once, so that every boy ply
sically fit may have this training and
not leave il for his parents TO pay for.
ON account Of the expense. not one boy
in 30 can take the training now. am
glad that You can do so. These big
crops and hig prices, ] find. make the
farmers rather 'cocky.' and that the
best is demanded by them"
Billie was up with the lark the next
morning. more excited and enthusiastic
than ever. He had a plan. He knew
Jimmie owned a colt worth 500: that
he would make almost another 500 on
his potatoes If they turned out well.
and that he had from his previous
savings. bought a 500 Liberty bond.
Biilie'S plan was 70 have Jimmie cash
in and 60 with him. He was disap-
pointed 10 find that Jimmie would still
lack about $500 of having enough to
see him through. His lip quiyering, he
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-12-08
TO JOIN THE NAVY.

A registrant, even though he has
been called by his local board TO
report for physical examination,
may enlist in the Navy prier to
December 18th. 1917.
1t will only he necessary for him
~ get certificate from his local
board that he will not be needed
to fill quota.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-12-08
NOTICE..

Amendment to the Charter and Act NJ
Incorporation Of the BONN Grocery Com.
pany. now the A. l.. Durand IL Companv
| Inc.
State Of Louisiana. Parish of st. Martin
BE IL known that on this twentisth
day Of the month OF November A. u
Nineteen hundred and seventeen.
Before me Dan. W. NOorhies. a Notarv
Public duly commissioned and qualified
IL and for the farieh Of Saint Martin
state OF Louisiana, and in the presence
The undersigned witnesses:
Personally cana and appeared:
ilr. Luke BONN. husband of Blanche
Durabd. of Saint Martin Parish. Lon
islaIa, and holder and owner Of twenty
eight shares of the capital stock Of the
Bonin Grocery Company. now the A. L.
Dnrand II Company. Inc. and
MIR. Albert Durand, husband OF Lon.
Is.ana DeBlanc. of Saint Martin Parish
Louisiana. and holder and owner of
twenty eight shares Of the capital stock
o. the said BOuin Grocery Company, now
The A. l.. Durand q Company, Inc. and
Mr.. Oswald Durand. husband of Adele
GaudIn, 0f Saint Martin Parish. State Of
Louisiana. and owner and holder of
Tour shares OF the copital stock Of the
Benin Grocery Company. now tho A. l..
Durand ~ Company. lnc. and
They declared that under a resolution
unanimously adopted at general meet.
Ing of the Stockholders Of the said b.
nin GTocery Company. held at Saint
hartinvIiie. Louisiana. on the goth day
If November A. u. 1917. the original
Charter ana Act of Incorporation Of the
said Bonin Grocery Company, adopted
April 81. 1911, and duly recorded and
published as required by law, ia the pa.
rlsh OF Saint Martin, Louisiana, its do
niIcile. was amended thus: paragraph
Two Of the said original charter and Act
a.. Incorporation reading thus: The
Name anu style Of this Corporation shall
be tae BONN Grocery Company" was
AMI IL amended So as to he and read
eau: lis name anl style Of this Cor
poratiou shall be the "A. l.. DuraiId and
Company. Incorporated"
Thus done aud passed AT Saint Mar
uhIiiie. Louisiana, III The presence OF
Alessf- Charles koti and Ignace Bien-
'eilu competent aad lawful witnesses
eiio have signed these presents with the
ippearers aud iue Notary after dus read.
lng 81 tie whole.
Witnesses: (oigned Charles Foti
lgnace Bienyenu.
tSigned Luke Bouin. - shares
II. MarlInvlile. La.
(oiSned \. l.. Durand, - shares
st. Mar;invlilp, La.
(SIgned Oswald Durand, 1 shares
st. Martinville. La.
(Sigued ban. W. VOORHEES,,
NDtarv Public.
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i'd: 'I'm mighty sorry to leave Tim.

said: I'm mighty sorry to leave Tim.
mie."
Uncle Dan was silent moment or
Two, then he asked Billie to 90 down
to the orchard and get him some nm.
piles to eat on the train. While he VA.
gone, it was arranged that Uncle Dan.
and Mr.. and Mrs. Graham would Al.
vance the money necessary SO that
Jimmie could 90. When Billie returned
he was told about 1t. He ran to the
phone and called Jimmie. saving.
Come on OvO, run just as fast as Won
can, I've got the greatest news you
ever heard Of"
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-12-08
VAR TALKS
By UNCLE DAN
Number Sis
Billie and Jimmie Will Take MiIitar,
Training.
Number Sis


Training.
Il am mighty sorry, Uncle Dan, that
this is your last night with us. Can't
you stay longer? We boys are having
IA peach of time" said Billie.
swell, if you get more out of 1t in
The way of pleasure than l." said Un-
Gle Dan, "yOu are going some"
"Billie, have been talking seriously
With your father and mother about
sending you to military academy and
they asked me to talk with you about
it."
"Whoopeel" Billie screamed, Ike
wild Indian.
snow, hold your horses,s said Uncle
Dan, land listen TO me. You know i
sent my boy. Howard, to one of these
schools for year when he was about
your age. He was narrow chested.
StOop shouldered, rather loose jointed
he had the big head and needed dis
cipline and physical development. He
was growing fast and / wanted him to
he strong. physically"
"Say, Uncle Dan," said Billie, II be-
lieve your description of Howard fits
me pretty well, eh?"
SWELL" said Uncle Dan, "to be frank
| think II does; you need the same
thing. Howard did not like il at first
am told for few weeks he had rough
sledding,' but after he found that the
only way was to obey orders, he caught
the spirit of the institution and liked
ii. We did not see him for about six
months then he came home for a few
days. We were astonished at his ap-
pearance. He had gained about 20
pounds in weight, his muscles were as
hard as nails, he stood as straight as
an arrow. he was courteous, consider
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-12-08
LOCAL NEWS.

WANTED \ young man to clerk
in the store. l.. J. Gardemal.
For sale One buggy AID har-
ness $500. Laizaire Bicnvenu.
-Cranberries, Mince Meat and
Fruit Cake supplies at a. u. Gou-
las.
The weather this week has been
disagreeable, heing damp and
warm.
Mr.. Custer Berard of New Or
leans was here this week to visit
relatives.
Assessor Homer j. Leblanc and
Assistant n. q. Thibodaux, made
a visit to Baton Rouge this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Gauthier
and Mrs. l.. &. Gauthier spent
several days New Orleans in this
week.
For sale = Surry S6O, Laizaire
Bienvenu.
Miss Lorena Bonin who is at
tending school at the Lafayette
Institute, was on visit here this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. X. Schwartz and
Miss Anna Ferran attended the |
dedication ceremony last Sunday |
at Lafayette of the new Masonic
temple.
The marriage of Miss Elise .
Olivier to Mr.. Berlin Brauuet is
announced to take place on Dec.
18th at the Catholic Church here
at $50 p. IN.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-12-08
Christmas Bazaar Dec. 18th

The annual Bazaar and Christ
mas Tree for the benefit Of the
Convent will take place Sunday
December 10th.
Toys for boys and girls. presents
to win and buy for grown folks
and babies too.
SO come one, Come all
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-12-08
NOTICE.
DEMAND OF ADMINISTRATION.
La the matter of
Estate of Chares Savoy
Probate Docket No. S1I1,

Probate Docket No. S1I1.
18Th judicial District Court.
state ct Louisiana. Parish Of st. Martin
" hrreas, Eioise kenneson of the Parish
OF st. Martin, Louisiana. has flied her
petition III this office applying to be ap-
pointed administratriX of said above
mentioned anu entitled succession.
Now Therefore Public Notice is hereby
given To all PARTIES interested to show
cause, If any they have in writing with
III ten days from this publication. why
'ald application should not be granted
AMI said appointment made as prayed
for.
Witness the Hon. James Simon. Judge
OF said Court, st. Martinvilie, La. this
9TH. day of Disc. A. ID. 1917.
Date of order Dec. >, 1917,
lGNACE BIENyENU.
w. Clerk of Court. st. Martin Parish. La
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10 Report on Dec. 18th.

DR. p. H. Fleming who enlisted
some time ago in the medical de-
partment Of the Army and who
was commissioned IA First Lieut.
enant, received orders TO rcpor. on
Dec. 18th. =
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MaS0nS Elect Officers

AT their meeting held Tuesday
the Masons have elected the fol-
lowing officers:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24
Songs That Make
Soldiers Forget
r Ohm PHILIP sOUSA says that his

r Ohm PHILIP SOUSA says that his
naval band of 200 members at the
A. Great Lakes training station is to re-
main a permanent organization. Recently
he was asked as to the kind of song the
American soldiers will make their Tip
perary," and Mr.. Sousa replied
The song the soldiers are going to like is
the song that does not constantly remind
II en- of their being soldiers. No good SOL
der likes TO be talked to about his patriot
ism. I should as soon care TO be asked IL
| know anything about music. The fact that
soldier wears the uniform is the symbol
that he is the guardian Of patriotism. II
is his job. As long as he is in the service IL
il his life, and when he sings he is not 60
ing to sing about himself. but something
different.
found that out during my twelve years
as director Of the Marine Band in Wash.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24

And visions of storied past arise
In towns and hamets and the peoples eyes.
Alas! the ancient majesties had fled
From cities and from souls: Il thoughD
instead
Was only rude necessity, scant livelihood
Laboriously gained, and narrow lives
Lived out in narrow streets and stunted
farms.
l was familiar with wars dread alarms
Through nineteen tagging months, till
struck
The hour of that great epic of the Somme
When long-leashed fury leapt upon
The foe, and broke his pride
And trumpeted his doom.
Yet little JOY was left to me who read
That story in the purple script
Of dear lives done to death and stricken
friends.
Then, with chill loneliness about my heart
came to Greece. Nor the delight of blue
waters
Nor warm skies shall heal my smart.
The poignant loveiness of hills and sea
Brings added bitterness to memory.
And old Olympus scorning clouds
And tossing his whte-bown locks
In the face of the sun, the Bermian rocks
Against the purple edge Of Thessaly,
Calm waters LAYING listlessly
The long lank fingers of the Chersonese,
And Hortiac's twin heights and their
bright company
Of romping hills that tumble to the sea-
And Saonica lying idly on the shore,
Like some old faded palimpsest
Cast there by centuries OF ebb and flow
All these seem but the gaudy, empty show
OF things, and hard and bitter is the core
may not daily with them like that care
less boy
Who played with Heen's hair
When Death was busy at the gates of
Troy,
Nor like those war-tried wanderers fain
to press
To hungry lips the flower of soft forgetful-
ness.
II were heresy for me to feast
On all this glorious riot of the East,
For this is Jupiter's domain--not Christ's.
An, no. my suffering God
Is in the fats of Flanders and the fields of
France!
He walks
The chatting pave and the mlry lane.,
L. r,,n;fast ~ pavyo,v styeate and pa-rou.
lives ----.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24
The Gods of War

THE Gods are grinding slowly, but the
mills run red,
The cruel cogs are crunching, as the mon
ster maws are fed.
There are muttered thunders sounding
mid the clash of savage years,
For the wheels are clogged with meanings,
and the bitter drip o tears.
Glad days and nights of laughter into the
past are fed:
The Gods are grinding slowly, but the
mills run red.
The Gods are grinding slowly, but the fuel
is piled up high,
The stars look down in sorrow, and the
moon weeps in the sky.
A stencil is on the southwind from the
pyres on the hills,
There is ruin in the rivers, there is poison
in the rils.
The souls Of women wither, like the bodies
Of the dead:
The Gods are grinding slowly. but the
mills run red.
he bOuS are SIlHuIIS o!O"iy, pu' iihc
mountains they are strong;
Their eyes are blind TO suffering, and their
ears are shut to wrong.
They've made pact with Charon, and his
boats wait on the shore;
Earth's minions stumble to them as the
vengeful cannon roar.
The river Styx is heaving with the blood
that mortals shed
The Gods are grinding slowly, but the
mills run red.
The Gods are grinding slowly, but the
mills are choked with foam,
Hate testers every hillside, Grief bides in
many home;
The winds of Jealousy run swift across
the smoking skies,
And Greed walks in the market place, DER
which the vulture flies.
Humanity, beneath their yoke. to sacrifice
is led
The Gods are grinding slowly, but the
mills run red.
j. Corson Miller. in Parsons.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24

WELL said the colonel, why not
make baker out of him? Send him into
the military neutrality-suspicious., only so
he leaves us in peace"
That is how Cruchard won his personal
victory before the Allied armies won theirs.
He kneaded pans of dough, put them in the
even, took them out again and declared
himself completely satisfied. Unfortunate
" there was a change in administration.
One result of this change was to revive the
soldier Orchards mental agony and his
creepings of the flesh. An order came
which sent back to the front, to the first
line. all the men Of his class.
This period of pacific repose had not
altered his soul. Cruchard asked Oh ar
irving at the front:
as it always bad here
"Worse than ever" they told him.
"Those pigs are always inventing some
thing new. One has no longer minute
of tranquility. The sector is becoming
disgusting You have only to look at the
ground
AS far as his eyes could see the soil
was torn up, to depth of eighteen feet, as
by the wheels Of some gigantic chariot.
And it continues its work-the chariot
Great shells buried themselves in the
fearful mixture Of slime, blood and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-24

the fesh-it remains none the less
miracle.
Only the miracle was not produced in
Orchards case. Let us assume that the
others are super-men. He remained only
a natural human being-and therefore
nothing very much to boast about.
Perhaps he had begun wrong. | once
had dog like that in whose ears some one
had foolishly discharged gun the first
day he was taken out to hunt. He retained
an insurmountabe horror Of firearms.
When he saw a gun he skunk away, his tail
between his legs and hid in cellar or
garnet.
The events of the war, the first time he
mixed into them, produced the same effect
on Cruchard. He never recovered from his
first fit of fear. On the contrary, its eff
fects seemed to magnify with every new
and disagreeable experience to which ne
was subjected. So that he reached the
point not only Of saying that he was afraid
when he had reasons to be afraid and to
conduct himself accordingly but of talking
about his fear when the causes Of it had
Professionally disappeared; Of living in an
anguish of dangers to come, of grooming
and trembling by day, of trembling and
grooming by night. He was not simply a
useless soldier and bad soldier. He was
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a dangerous and demoralzing soldier. He
spread the contagion of his own panic.
They tried furnishing him. He decided,
without concealment, that, no punishment
could be equal to the discomfort Of doing
the things which could save him from pun
ishment. His superiors tried to play on his
feelings. They appealed to his honor, to
his pride. But in vain. He answered:
What would you have? | am afraid.
That is a thing one cannot help. And /
shall die of fear-that is certain. But it is
still more certain that I would rather die
of fear than by bullet, by the explosion
of shsapne or a bomb, or by 800 shell,
or any other Of those miserable contriv-
ances which make such terrifying noise.
Oh. that noise! / want to get away
from it."
His only intrepdity was that of OBJ
stinacy. 1t ended by wearing out opposi-
ton. They had some scruples about shoot
ing such poor devil. You see, too, that he
never absolutely refused to obey. He
merely said that he was afraid and that 1t
was impossible for any one to discharge
cnes duty when he was in a state of
terror all the time. The colonel to whom
the case was submitted. finally said:
What does that man do in civil life?"
They looked up his record and found
that he was bakers apprentice.