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Arizona republican., 1917-06-27
ANNIVERSARY OF
 BIRTH OBSERVED

CHANDLER, June 27.-Mrs. George Armstrong entertained a number of her friends Monday evening in honor of MT. Armstrong's birthday anni- versary, at her home on Dakota street. Dainty refreshments were served, and a very pleasant evening was enjoyed by the following: MT and Mrs. Harry Stall, MT. and Mrs. George Armstrong, Iva Rogers Andy Hansen, Nora Chitwood, Blanche Bur gan, Mabel Chitwood and the Messrs. Ora Rogers, Albert Wolf, Edwin Stromberg and John Calhoun. Will Leave for Prescott MT. and Mrs. B. L. Marsh and three children will leave for Prescott this week, where they will spend the re- mainder of the summer At Blue Point
 A large number of the Chandler young people are planning to motor to Blue Point, on the 4th. Woman's Club News A business meeting of the executive board of the Woman's club is called i for Wednesday afternoon. Import ant business will be transacted. The i time set for the meeting is 4 o'clock.
 Chandler Personals MT. and Mrs. Thomas Toston and three children left Wednesday fol California.
 The following were Phoenix visitors Saturday, Dr. Chandler, Bob Sellers Mr. and Mrs. D. l.. Lecky and James Lecky and Mrs J. R. Turner Ora Rogers was a Tempe visitol
 Saturday
 ar~ L. Rogers is visiting Mess
 friends
 Mrs. G. Brass and Nellie Bras!
 were visitors of the capital city oi Monday
Arizona republican., 1917-06-27
ACROSS PACIFIC BY
 RAIL |S PROPOSED

A through railway route from the United States to Petrograd by way of Canada is outlined in a lengthy re- port to the Winnipeg Grain EX change The scheme has been con- sidered for some time and negotia- tions with the railways and govern ments which will be involved in the project will be opened in the near future.
 Increased transportation to the vest ward without running the risk of sub marines sinking ships, and assistance in the war for Russia with munitions and food will result if the proposed connection is established. The plan provides for a standard railway line from the United States through British Columbia and Alaska with Boring Strait and line from the Siberian cost to the Trans -Siber ian railway. Large ferries would car " freight ar passenger cars across the S6-mile wide strait.
 Negotiations have been opened with the Russian government to improve the Trans Siberian railway. The Unit ed States commission to Russia will take up that phase of the proposed line with the new Russi9n govern
 ment.
 Men back of the undertaking be- lieve that within a few years an in- l ternational railway will connect New | York with Petrograd. They are taking l into consideration the possibility oi l the war lasting several years. The l promoters of the project are satis- 1 fled that future benefits would jus | tify the vast financial outlay that 1 will be necessary. They declare tha
 few years of world peace would make ' the most important railway l roIlta on earth
Arizona republican., 1917-06-27

Pa. I happened to be at this con- vention in Pittsburg, and returned to Arizona glad that l had such q rare opportunity to meet and hear so many speakers of national repute. Arizonas representative was treated royalty and made to feel that he was one of a large number of workers in the interest of the child.
 It might be of interest to know that the name was changed to Chil- dren's Home and Child Welfare So- ciety. This means that it was de cided to enlarge the idea of the work to include all the interests of the child-home, delinquency, insanity, poverty, education, degeneracy, labor laws, reform school, probation courts, home finding.
 The second thing I want to get berore the public at this time Is the fact that we have several children in the home for adoption. None of them are babies. One is boy +
Arizona republican., 1917-06-27
WEDDING
 SURPRISE HERE

Leaving town presumably on a sum mer vacation and returning with d bride J. " DeSouza of the state en- gineers office and a brother of Justice Frank De Souza surprised his friends when he arrived in Phoenix yesterday accompanied by Mrs. De Souza.
 The couple Were married in Portland on June E at the residence of Arch- bishop Christie, Rev. Father Smith of ficiating. Mrs. De Souza before her marriage was Miss Ruth Covert, a charming Portland belle.
 After a brief stay in town as the guests of Justice and Mrs. Frank De Souza the young people will leave for Pinto Creek where Mr. De Souza has charge of the survey between Globe and Roosevelt While here q number of so- cial affairs are being planned in their compliment. one of the most delightful was the dinner given last evening by MT. and Mrs. A H. Mcclellan who asked Mir. and Mrs. k. F. Belcher Miss Anna Daly and William Harrington to nee. the guests Of honor.
Arizona republican., 1917-06-27

years old that we would like to get into some good home in the coun try either for adoption or just for temporary home While we are maS- ing a lot of noise about conservation of resources, we should not forget that the first duty is to look after the child resources within our own com munity We will do the rest, but we will not forget this. Help to find a good home for these children that they may have a good chance, and they will hedp conserve the nation later on. Otherwise, they may be- come a menace to us.
 The third thing relates to food con- trol. Food control on a small scale. In the home in Tucson, 430 West Fifth street, there are 3S children be- ing cared for. Like other children, they are unusually hungry. They are well fed, but fruit is expensive in Tucson, and they are starving for fruit At least, they are hungry for
Arizona republican., 1917-06-27

population was about 1,400. Phoenix vas then the third town in Arizona; 1; Tucson and Prescott had double and trebble, the number of inhabitants. Business lots were selling at S206 to $500 and ranch property could be had for S15 to s25 an acre.
 But. to return to the subject. The Herald received for publication its first poem,. written lY love sick swOin who wished his verses orrected and improved. Make it gush all oyer Make it peppery and full of passion ate eXplosiVes-With volcanic emotions the real stuff, sabe?"
 MT. Morford, being too busy with his editorial duties, handed the poem to the Herald's poet laurete to i'm prove it as desired.
 The next day after the publication of the poem, tall gauky individual with his trousers tucked inside his No. II boots and carrying q six shooter in his belt, rushed into the Heralds office and excitedly asked: Who is the Topped d-eared and white livered pupt that mutilated my poem?" Con- tinuing, he said Now MT. Editor am a peaceful man and am opposed to the use of harsh language and en- ergetic adjectives but I would like to meet the adulterated goslin with a mush intellect, that embryological tamale, that intellecutla hole in the atmosphere-Yes.I I would like to have, for just five minutes, that parroquet with a quien sabe cereberelum, that .decomposed carrot with d plug hat. That-but, as I said before 1 am op- posed to the use of harsh language" The poem is given as originally written and again as improved CD
 The Original If I could fly with sea bird wing
 Over the land and sky and sea, I would not ask that l might sing
 If I might fly to thee. To level battlements and bower
 To rule over man and land, These too, renounce to be a flower To wither in thy hand.
 Or sweeter still to be a word
 That thou didst's love to say, So thou might breathe it all unheard, To charm thy tears away. But should I cross over sea and land Unchanged to ask thy will, I would be only as I am,
 If thou couldst love me still.
 As Altered
 If I could fly with sea bird wing
 Over land and sky and sea- I'd scoot and slush like everything
 And whoa and haw and geel 'sTo level battlements and bower.
 To rule over man and land" You'd be a mule of 12-horse power
 With ears and heel so grand. "Or sweeter still to be a word
 That thou dids't love to say" You'd cackle like a gander bird,
 Or like a donkey bray.
 But should I cross over sea and lan6 Unchanged to ask thy will I'd want the cash down in hand
 Adn you to foot the bill.
 A. REDEWILL.
Arizona republican., 1917-06-27

it. They told me they were Some one who reads this may have more than he can handle. At the same time he may want to do some good with it. If you do, send a box or several boxes to the home. They will be glad to pay the express. If you happen to be able. it would help just that much more if you could pay the express Let me know by phone S493, or drop Mrs. Tom Davenport 601 North Tyndall avenue, a line when you do send it.
 Don't forget that this home has children: that they eat, and wear out 1, clothes; that it costs about s400 per month to run it, and that we have no endowment, and not a dollar of income from any source except what is given to us; so that food and clothing is the same as money. E. D. RALEY.
 Superintendent of the Home. Phoe-
Arizona republican., 1917-06-27
TESTIMONY TO
 BE EPANTOM|ME

Although she attended school in Tue son for . year Alma Allen, the seven tee1- year-id deaf and dumb girl did not master the sign language and her tes- timony in the preliminary hearing of Hugh Wilder, charged with criminal as sault, will have to be taken by a deaf mute and in turn interpreted. The mute told the authorities yesterday that whether or not they used the sign lan- gu2ge they understood each other. We have q pantomine language" he eX plained.
 Alma and her twin sister, Alice, have developed language of their own but in addition to the sisters story will be that of wholly unbiased witness.
 Wilder was arraigned before Justice De SouZa yesterday his bond. which he failed to furnish, being placed ill the sum of S5000 He will be given his pre- iiminary hearing at o'clock tomorrow lift ernCon.
Arizona republican., 1917-06-27
BIRDS, INSECTS AND CROPS

| Save the Food CroDs, Save Our Bird Allies is the heading of a war time leaflet now being distributed throughout England The cry that the birds were iniuring the crops, had started an indiscriminate slaughter, and it was only by the ravages of in sects and the abundance of weeds that have enormously reduced the crops, that the people realized that in killing the birds they were destroying the first aids to agriculture. Russia and France also are suffering from the de- struction of crops by insect pests and weeds. and are now making great eff 1 forts for the conservation of bird life. While it is possible to a certain extent to protect crops and fruit trees from i the ravages of insects, by the generous
 use of expensive sprays. our forest
 can only be protected by birds.
 l According to our best sources of
 information the loss to agriculture and forestry from insect ravages in the 1 United States exceed billion dollars annually" "A Nebraska naturalist 1 has estimated that the birds of that
 state eat one hundred and seventy car loads of insects per day and it is cal l culated that the birds of New York de- l stroy more than three billion bushels of noXlous insects each season. Reed calculates that the birds of Massa 1 chusetts destroy twenty one thousand
 bushels of insects daily from May to September" (Frobush State Orni biologist of Mass)
 It IS estimated that thousands of carloads of weed seeds are yearly con- stunned by the birds; just in proportion
 as birds are destroyed. are men re- quired to keep our crops free from
 weeds and insects. So great is the economic value of birds in saving our crops orchards and forests, that states
 are making rigid laws to prevent the
 killing of non-game birds, and protect
 the game birds. Our orioles, thrashers mocklng birds, wrens and the host ot small plrds of the desert are protected
 by our state game laws, which says:
 section 23. It shall be unlawful fol
 any person in the state of Arizona tc
 laKe' gather, or destroy, or have ir possession at any time the eggs of an. quail, bob-white, partridge. grouse
 pheasant, grouse, pheasant. dove. vii, turkey, wild duck, wild goose hrant
 snlpe, rail or any song bird of an, kind o's section %. It shall be unlawful fo,
 any person in the state of Arizona a s any tune to hunt, pursue, kill. or de } stfoy any lark, thrush, sparrow. Q } any other song bird of any kind
 r section 35 Any person violatin, ? any of the provisions of the above sec. tlons shall be punished by a fine n not less than ten dollars nor more tba, I one hundred dollars or imprisonmen e Tor not less than ten days nor nor Q tlah ninety days. or both such fin s ana Imprisonment, in the discretion a e the court
 eur state maintains a game wardel | ana several paid deputies for the nre servatlon of game and wild birds at
 great expense. Every sheriff and hi 2 oephties are empowered by the stat ' to enforc the game laws.
 il THOMAS K. MARSHALL. !. rres. Arlzona Audubon Society Tue r son, Ariz.
Arizona republican., 1917-06-27
ARIZONA cHlLDREN'S HOME

Three things, at the present mo- ment, are of interest in connection with the Arizona Children's Home.
 First, the Arizona Children's Home Is now part of the national orsani- zation, having been received into the national organization at the recent national convention held in Pittsburg,
Arizona republican., 1917-06-27
EARLY "REMINISCENCES
The HeraId's First Poem

"One upon time" or many years ago-thirty seven years ago this month,-when Phoenix was still wad- ding in it's baby clothes. N. A. Nor ford editor and proprietor of the Her aid the first newspaper, with a cir culation of about 800.
 There were no hotels then in the town and only a little ten-room adobe used as boarding and rooming house, owned by F. Ganz There were no banking houses: the only banks then extant were fare banks in pletf ora of saloons in every quarter of town. No railroads, and only Concord coach es to convey passengers and mails to and from Maricopa and Prescott The
Arizona republican., 1917-06-27
Rouqh Stouqh

To indicate some of the difficulties that our language presents to foreign CTS, subscriber sends us this: T sat on the bough of a tree and began to cough, having some dough in my mouth and my feet in a trough. was not thor oughly tired, though roughly used. Wasn't that tough ?"-F'rom the Youth's s Companion.
Arizona republican., 1917-06-27

enabled several hundred thou This spring offensive favoby has almost reached The British French the full force of German arns fighting defensvely ,
 the fighting other fronts reached Here fighting Here the Ame-
 
 fighting troops be sent Russian power colapses.
 The points front have during the past fort definitely and positively fxedhe two pots Of the German line, the of ATras and that of Laon
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-05-26
NATIONAL GUARD TO FRANCE.
LIKELY no FORM SECOND ExpE.
DITTON.
War Department Kept Busy Rushin,
Mobilization OF First Division.

Washington. May 22.---From the
best information which 1t is possible
to secure here today it is understood
that the National Guard forces OF the
different States will form the second
expeditionary force in France.
With men being assembled an quick
iy as II In possible to complete the
first American force to battle. in the
French trenches. the war department
Is rapidly completing plans for the
second and larger force to follow Gen.
Persh,ns's lead.
All the machinery Of the war de-
partment is being worked overtime in
rushing the mobilization Of the first
army division Of men to 60 under
Pershing. Part Of this force. 1t is
stated. b being brought North from
tho Mexican border.
The navy department Il concentrat-
ing It's marines and. in addition. nine
regiments Of engineers, of approx
mately 10000 men. are practically re-
cruited to 60 Immediately to France
for work on the line Of communica-
tlons. and forestry regiment Of 1000
men Il being formed to join the forces
carrying the American flag to the
French fighting lines.
Mobile troops to the number of Is
regiments now being gathered at
concentration camps, will form the
groundwork Of IS additional regi-
ments which will probably bring the
regular army strength up to 2S3.000.
When this task h completed there will
be seven full divisions Of the regular
army to form the backbone Of the
forces from the United States.
At the divisional camps In the
Southeast. the National Guard will be
centred.
The machinery for putting into ef-
feet the third and largest force was
started moving when the president
t'xed June'6 az the day Of registration
- form the first army Of 500. 900 un-
der selective conscription.
The National army. al the con-
scripted force will be hereafter
known. viii in short time be heard
from with. the regulars and National
Guardsmen at the French front.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-05-26

can do SO best and most effectively nv
uniting with the Red Cross. He ex-
planned the duties Of the several com.
mittees Of the organization and sug-
gested the methods that have proyed
most successful in carrying on the
work in local chapters.
The Recessional was sung by the
Philharmonic Club. and then Rev.
VIM. Way, of Charleston, talked ON
service and preparedness, particularly
food preparedness. and the duty OF
every man in every calling doine his
share to win the war for the salvation
of democracy and liberty. He said
that only two percent Of the popula.
ton would be called to fight in the
army and navy. but there would hs
work and service for everyone of the
ninety-eight per cent. left at hom.
The Red Cross furnishes the med,um
through which the civilian population
can do its share and it not onlv need.
the cooperation Of the people but II
merits it.
After the "Marseillaise" had been
sung by Mr., w. b. Daughtrey, DR.. s.
e. Baker announced that those pres
ent' who were not already members
OF the local chapter would be xiven
an opportunity to enlist for service.
Cards were passed by the ushers and
quite a number signed UP to do their
bit.
The exercises were brought to =
close with the singing Of "The Star
spansled Banner" the audience
standing and Joining in the singing.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-05-26
TO CONSIDER UNION.

Presbyterians Vote to Appoint Conf
mittce to Confer OH Matter.
Birmingham, May 24.-The general
assembly Of the Southern Presbyter-
ians by a vote Of one hundred and
forty-two to forty favored appointing
q committee to confer with q commit
tee of the Northern Presbyterians on
the question of uniting the two
branches.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-05-26
PLOT BY KAISER,
SOCIALIST MEETING IN STOCK.
HOLM UNDER SUSPICION.
American Officials Take Prompt Steps
to See That Disloyal of This COun.
try Do not Attend Stockholm Con-
ference and Give False Impress
sion.

disapproval of the peace propaganda
of European Socialists was expressed
today by the American government
who denied passports to American
delegates to the Stockholm conference
and issued a warning that any Ameri-
can taking part in the negotiations
would be legally liable to heavy pun
ishment.
No formal announcement of pur-
poses was issued hut officials explain
cd that the governments course would
have the twofold effect Of discrediting
generally any peace moves by unau-
thorized persons and Of condemning
in particular the present Socialist agi-
tation, regarded since its inception as
inspired by Germany.
In making known the decision not
to give passports. Secretary Lansing
cited the Logan act Of 1899 as de-
flning the punishments which might
be expected by any American now
In Stockholm or who might go there
without a passport and participate in
the peace discussions. Under this
law unauthorized persons who direct
ly or indirectly treat with foreign
agents regarding controversies of the
United States may be imprisoned for
three years and fined $1,000.
The American delegates to the con-
ference. authorized TO represent the
American Socialist party over the pro-
test Of some Of its foremost members,
are Victor L. Berger of Milwaukee
and Morris Hillquit and Algernon Lee
of New York. They were selected by
the party's executive committee after
notable group Of Socialists, headed
by Charles Edward Russell and Will
liam English Walling, had condemn
ed the movement in a joint statement
as "the most dangerous of all the
kaiser's plots" ".T''
The statement denounced Hillquit
and Lee, who are Socialist writer's, as
radically pro-German. Berger, q ma
tive Of Austria Hungary. has been edi-
tor of several German language news
papers in Milwaukee and in 1911 was
the first Socialist to sit in congress.
American diplomatic agents abroad
have kept close watch on the So
cialist movement and their reports
are understood to show clearly that
the plan for a conference at Stock
holm had its origin in Germany and
has met with the active encourage
msnt Of the German government.
Russian Socialists also have select
cd delegates to the meeting as a re-
suit. it is believed here, Of German
influence. It was in Russia that the
proposal Of mo annexations'' first
came into prominence and it promptly
was taken up by the German Social
lists. Such proposals are regarded
here as only blind to end the war
while Germanys expansion to the
south is secure
Tho Socialist party Of Great Britain
has refused to send representatives.
Officials made 1t clear tonight that
their decision should be regarded
rather as n disapproval of the peace
mo"c than as q reflection on the sin
cerity of Socialists in this country.