Weekly journal-miner., 1917-10-10
THIRD CONTINGENT OF C0UNTY'S r
 SOLDIER LADS OFF FOR FORT RILEY
Housing Farewell Is Proffered By Huge Crowd As Boys Begin Long Journey
 To The Training Camp.

orator than Mir. Anderson, and at this time, all of the eloquence at the com mand of the speaker was brought into play, with the result that the audience was privileged to listen to an address which held the undivided attention of the great throng and which made a forceful impression on all who heard it. Mir. Anderson opened his talk with a mention of the recent visit of Gen. eral Pershing and his staff to the grave of Lafayette. The great Amer ican soldier reverently placed a wreath on the grave of the gallant Frcnchman and his laconic comment was: 'We're here, Lafayette"
 You boys who are in the audience tonight and who are to leave tomor- row for the training camp realize as well as anyone that the present time marks a turning point not only in your own lives but in the life of the nation and of the world as well. You arc leaving your relatives and friends and your business affairs and are en- tering into a new order of things. You all have new responsibilities to live up to, and you don't know how close the war is going to come to you per sonally. This is the turning point not only for you but for all the re- mainder of the inhabitants of the en. tire world. The old system of Prus- sianism which long has fourished un. checked Is to be uprooted and new order of government must prevail in the land where this pcrnicious system has had its birth. As President Will son so aptly phrased it in his reply to the peace ovcrtures of the pope, the American nation IS not going to be content until the principles which have prompted the German people to take arms have been thoroughly re- pudiated both by the soldiers them selves and by the rcigning house of the nation as well. You young men who have been honored by Uncle Sam should pride yourselves i'll the fact that you are being given an op- portunity to aid in ridding the world of the system which would have even tually reached 10 the very door ot America itself were it not checked, a system which had caused atrocities to be committed on the sea which the South sea pirates would have Shud- dcrcd to contemplate, and committed savagcry on land which surpasses even the crimes committed by tine fiint-heartcd Apaches in our own State in the century just past. Your forcfathcrs came to the wilderness and fashioned it into the State in which we now reside in peace, free from the mcnaces which were en- countered by the old-timcrs, and we arc of the belief that all of the lads who go from Yavapai county tomor- row night will prove themselves to be of the same mcttlc as the pioneers who made Arizona safe for the gen eration that was to come. So you fellows will have on your shoulders the larger task of paking the entire world safe, just as Arizona has been
 D. w. Russell favored the audience with a solo: Send Me Away With a | Smile" after which the chairman Of the evening made short speech in which he repeated the advice he had given to the last contingent of lads who had gathered in the same theatre several weeks ago. He told the boys to make every effort to side-step the evils which besct the pathway of the soldier, and to return to Prescott at the close of hostilities, clean in mind and body in order that they might be worthy of the esteem and gratitude which would be hcapcd upon them by the apprcciativc residents of the coun- ty who had been compelled to stay al home and watch the youngsters fight the battles in behalf of civilization.
 Some day the time may conc, ' said the speaker, when you fellows get over in the trenches in France and
 you are down in your luck and yon can't think of single cheerful
 thought to buoy you up during the
 hours that are dark, and here is a
 little tip for you When all the world
 seems dark, just think how funny
 that preacher looked who talked 10
 the bunch the night before they left
 Prescott, and then you cant help
 smiling"
 (From Fridays Daily)
 For the third time within the past