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Arizona republican., 1917-11-09
A Possible Concentration Of the War

The state of Russia which has been reached by steadily descending situation undoubtly made pos sble the overwhelming attack upon Italy According the dispatches of last Monday the Italians regarded the huge concentration withdrawn from the Russian front as "very mysterious" Those words seemed to imply suspicion in Italy of an understanding be- tween Germany and an element of Russians that the the Eastern front practically at an end.
 Shortly previous that time-in fact the world did not hear of it until after the offensive against Italy well under way-German troops which had lately landed above Riga retiring without ap- parent cause. They were under pressure and even the Petrosrad dispatches furnished explanation of their withdrawal from territory so recently occupied
 How many Germany yet has the Eastern front who might be released by independent peace Is not known Before the Italian offensive was begun large had been transferred to the west Men
 ton definitely made of only five or six dvi- sions of troops from the Russian front though per hsps others taking part the little known Tren tno offensive.
 A peace with Russia would no doubt be quickly followed by with Rumanfa which according to the London newspapers had been approached by Berlin weeks Rumania isolated as it would be- could not carry that in any event. it would be ended the eastern front.
 peace with Russia resulting in the withdrawal of the Russian troops from in front Turks in the Caucasus would increase the difficulties of the Meso- potanan campaign The release, too of the Bugarians would probably force Serrail out of Macedonia There would then beleft for further oper- atons in that theater Thus the world war would be simpifed and concentrated along the Western front where the whole strength the Allies and that of the Alliance would be matched against one another
 This situation which hope will not be permit ted 10 be established would call for greater efforts on the part of this country only in supplying men hut in affording resources of money and supplies The greater task so imposed would be met with courage and determination
Arizona republican., 1917-11-09

priate design have been erected There is a spies- and-spanness absut the grounds and buildings that has hitherto been lacking
 Word from all parts of the state promises an ex- traordinary attendance this year. has been pros- porous year for Arizona. people have been making money. There has been employment all who wanted it and people than ever before will have the means of attending the fair
 The attractions, we mean those which do properly belong to the fair have been well selected and will be It is expected that there will be greatly enlarged agricultural exhibit for this has been unprecedented agricultural year in Ari- zona crop growing having been highly stimulated by the national appeal for more food. Almost certainly the greater activity the farms irrigated and dry will be reflected in the agricultural exhibit
 No other feature of fair draws so many people the racing, and the racing program this year will be more complete than Some the best horses of the west and probably more good horses from all parts of the country than were congregated in the United States any time during the past season will be the grounds when the fair opens next Monday morning
 We speaking only of the attractions, the visual and not of that constantly growing inter- in the fair an institution for the promotion of agriculture and stock growing which has already done much for Arizona in the past and which every year, makes the state richer
Arizona republican., 1917-11-09
Food RequIation

If any man thought that the government control of food going be joke, must by this time have revised his opinion. There may be yet some small ignorant who think they can beat the govern ment and whose smallness and ignorance will land them in trouble if not in jail But larger business men whether from patriotism merely from good hastening to comply with the regulations as fast they promulgated.
 For instance, wholesale grocers in the matter of have just sent to customers retail grocers confeconers and soda fountain proprietors request ing statements to the amount of their consump- tion in November and December of last year. They will be sold only half that of sugar for the corresponding months of this year, and they cannot buy any more except by subterfuge. There are sev eral in which subterfuges may be detected and the government, if not the wholesale houses or the refineres would almost certainly find them.
 The objects of these restrictions are two; one is to conserve the supply and the other to hold down prices to consumers at reasonable figures Consum- urged by the government and by retailers of the right kind to buy more sugar than they need more than thirty-day supply at time. In fact at some stores restrictions are placed upon sales. This also helps the railway companies by a more even distribution of the burden of transportation.
 More than a year ago when a great railway strike was impending people became panic stricken and pur- chased large quantities of sugar and other food com modities The result sudden scarcity and a soaring of prices. the hoarders saw their mis- take but it was profitable excitement for the re- tailers while it lasted
 Pancs of this sort will be averted under the gov- ernment regulations, If there is a tendency toward hoarding there will be government Intervention just the same there is certain be against monopoIies by dealers.
Arizona republican., 1917-11-09
The Twin Sisters

Prohibition and suffrage always move close together. The saloonkeepers who were never distinguished for intelligence were always smart onought to that, so that they always opposed woman suffrage and prohibition with equal fervor
 Whenever one of these sisters has arrived first she has either held the door open for the other or opened ii quickly The two are irresistible. They destined 10 spread all over the country and they rapidly accomplishing their destiny. The traffic in terror of the one. and the politician in panic to the other, are both hunting higher ground The rum power no longer fights; it is only pleading and the politician pretending have been always the friend of suffrage.
 Some of us are yet dazed at the progress which these sisters have made. It is not long since pro- hfhition was subject of scorn, joke and evidence ofrthe weak -mndedness of the states communities which adopted it. Woman suffrage was thought to he the surface indication of deep seated insanity It seemed impossible that either of them should ever come to be viewed with alarm
 They are now the chief concern of the. nation. With the shadow of war removed they would loom above the tariff above every economic and every rsrty issue. All are agreed that they destined soon 10 prevail and remain with us forever. It is impossible to stop them it is to halt time in it's flight
 In another quarter of a century, will wonder the barbarism which denied to women, merely be- they women, political equality with men. The civilization which has existed previously will be compared with entrusted with that of Indian tribes in which do all the drudgery and men do all the loafing There will be found to be mighty difference between the civilization of those dian tribes and that of day which denied votes 10 women.
 We shall wonder also why there any hesitation reluctance about the throwing out of saloons and the pulverization of the power. We will then the ridiculous inconsistency of period whensmen punished for poisoning the bodies of with morpha and strychnine when other licensed. protected under their license, poison both the bodies and the souls of men. The world is moving on
Arizona republican., 1917-11-09
STATE P1STMlSTERS
 TG MEET N PHOENIX

The Eleventh annual convention of the postmasters of Arizona will be held in the court room h the federal build ins in Phoenix on November 16, ac- cording to an announcement which has been made by Postmaster selim J. Aichelsou.
 An important matter 10 be discussed at the convention will be the central accounting system. which deals with the purchase of all stamps by third and fourth class postoffices from the of flee in Phoenix, and the making of re- ports by these smaller offices at the same place. Other matters of vital i'm bort to the department win also be talked.
 It is announced that an impromptu program will be arranged. Among the persons of prominence who will be presept are Congressman Carl Hayden, lnspectqr-i charge $. H. Morse, In spector Dutton and others who will make addresses of interest 10 the as sembled postmasters.
Arizona republican., 1917-11-09

tideless Aegean washes these empty beaches where once thousands o4 men from the empires baCk-blOC4.s maGe war as 1t had never been mado bearc.
 Two years ago 10000 IneG Walhas these paths They slept in te-sc aus outs, or In the trenches and inc de- tonation Of the guns pI the W1ls!ti shook loose tic sand aul c3rCh above them 50 that t laltlad down uu their faces, waking them from dreams of home to an uncomfortable reality. Think Of these three days two years ago! Think of the waterIess fight for Chocolate Hill; of the wounded lying in the brushwood and waiting for the sweeping grass fires to rescn their resting place. Men la5. there unable to move, some of them not able to pull their Water-botIe8 froF their Webb slinss. Think of them and remember them, for in all wars there was never g more gallant for lorn hope than this one.
 Lone Pine, Chocolate Hill, Sari Bair, and Biyuk Anafarta were goals set far ahead Many reached them and many never came back. Lone Pine was attacked oh August 6 and of all the attacks at Gallipoi this NdS, ileIlailS, tue most iH-L4tte. He Turkish trenches were provided with head cover made of stout timber. Under these were loop-holes from which the Turks fired with tenn porary immunity al the advancing Australian battalions. The enfnade fire was terrible, but the men boldly lifted the timher beams and dropped feet first into the dark trenches be- meath. By 5:47 D. m. IT minutes after the first advance, We held the trenches. At 1:30 the same night there came a terrific counter attack headed by scores of bombers. For seven hours the counter attack pressed, wave on wave of Turks coming to the very parapet often to be shot and to fall into the trench One Australian brigade, only 1000 strong. caFried this work in the face of an entire enemy division and held it during six days counter attacks. A thousand corpses were in the trench system after the occupatio and to make room for the fighting men these were stacked in piles at intervals between the traVeIscs.
Arizona republican., 1917-11-09
UNIQUE DEFENSES
 ON RIVER ZERETE

The River Sereth, one of the i'm pOrtant lines of advance for the Austro- German forces on the eastern front, is described in the following war geography bulletin issued by the National Geographic Society.
 Rising in the Carpathian% forty miles southwest of Czernowitz, the Sereth is one of the principal water ways of the Austrian erownland uf Bukowina. Taking q northeasterly direction from it's source. the stream describes a wide loop to a point a few miles below Czernowitz, then, turning to the southeast it traveraes the Rumanian province of MoldaTia finally entering the Danube a few miles south of the great commercial and shipping center, Galatz.
 The total length of inc Screth is nearly $50 miles, and it has numerous tributaries from the west, including Suczawa, Bistritza, Trotous and Mil kov, but only the Berlat from the east.
 "The Sereth is of peculiar interest from military standpoint because of the unique defenses, known as the Sereth line, constructed by Rumania in 1SS9-1S92 at a cost of more thai $5,500,000. These military works ein~ brace the principles of a Prussian en- gineer. Lieutenant Colonel MaXimilian Schumann, who conceived the idea Of a system of defenses which would eliminate entirely the necessity for forts and for infantry support lis reliance was upon the fire of pro- tected guns.
 "Rumania adopted the system and put it to the test on the line from which a Russian invasion might be expected There are three points on the northeastern front where a Rus sian army could cross the Sereth-the bridge heads at Focshani, Nemolassa and Galatz. The Sereth line runs from Galatz to Focshani, distance of forty yfive miles east and west Foe shani is the most strongly fortified point, with seventy-one batteries ar ranged on a semi-cireular front of twelve miles, at 3 distance of S0B0 10000 yards in advance of the bridge head. The immediate defense of these batteries of quick firing guns and mortars placed in armored cupo- las consists of a glacis planted with thorn bushes and wire entangiemeuts
 "All these elaborate and costly de- lenses are now considered practically obsolete after only twenty five years, because there is no provision made for the employment of infantry against the invaders Furthermore
Arizona republican., 1917-11-09
BUSTED RIFLES ARE
 GALLIPOLI DREAMS

Go through the calendar for the last three years and pick out any day marked on it. Whatever day you choose it will be the anniversary of some desperate battle, some gallant attack or brave defense.
 Two years ago men from England. Australia, from New Zealand, and even from the high hills of Nepal strove with gallant foe amid the dwarf holly bushes that clothe the western slopes .of the Gallipolf penin- sula, writes d correspondent of the London Times. Today all is quiet at Gallipoi The rows on rows of wood- en crosses at AnZac and Ielles. at Nibrunesi point, and Brighton beach look out over the Aegean, doubtless as blue as it ever was; the dead whc lie beneath these little monuments of great deeds have reached their rest In the scrub Lee -Enfields lie rust:Eg along side shattered Mausers. The pebbles on the long bleak beaches are mixed with shrapnel bullets, and in the sand of the dunes west of the Long Sap are buried bones and scraps of leather, clips of corroded cartridges and shreds of khaki clothing
 The Vineyard" has blossomed and the small green grapes cluster on Ne vines. The well by the fishermans hut has run sweet once more. The cave dwellings by Shrapnel Gully, Quinn's Post and Courtenag's are IS Quie and still as tombs. Grass and weeds have crept over the winding paths that thread the valleys and skirt the hilltops The sandba5s of the traVerses and trenches have rot ted and iburst, spilling their earth rn the Utter of these battles of yestereaS And out through the chessbo.r1 fields grave mounds of earth that we patted down with spade and enl1e.icn- ing tool have blossomed witlA wild
Arizona republican., 1917-11-09
Where the People
 May Have Hearing
Faith in the People

To the Editor of The Republican Dear Sir:
 Tread your editorial on the Canadian campaign in today's paper as knoWl- edge will speak 1 had to write you these lines. You, like the president, seem to have very little faith in the in telligence of the majority of the people and prefer q sort of benevolent desp0t- ism. President Wilson is such a despot and he knows what is good for the American people and the whole hu- man race. We, the Danish people who have left the Prussian rule in Schles- wig. and those of Poland and Alsace- Lorraine feel deeply that America is fighting for the liberty of small ma tions, and every optimist ought to do all he can to rid the world of the Prussian junker I wish that America would have gone into the war before Belgium was overrun, but it is better late than never. The presidents opin- ion of the German people is sound. They are peace-lOVing people and the German soldiers are not more brutal than those of any other na- tionality, but the officers are brutal to the extreme and such gentlemen as Max Muller of the late Emden one do4s not find often amongst them. Ches- teTton uttered a great truth when he said the English rule was a terror, but the German rule was a holy terror. If one doubts it, just let him ask those whose country has come under the German rule.
 IT JOHNSON, Glendale, Ariz.
Arizona republican., 1917-11-09
FRENCH DEVELOP
 ARMY TELEPHONE
lChieaeo Jo.Irnall

The French army has perhaps made greater use of aufelectrical means of communicating intelHgence than any other military organization of the present time Central telephone sWitchaaar5s are maintained at army hcalquarters. and many thousand IT. dio stations can hc found dust back of the battle lines. Tha telephone, tele- graph and radio stations are often To- C3Ied in the basement of a once beauti- fui chateau or church
 To the central leleph8ne switchboard cable lines are brought in from every important army division says the eec- trical eEDerlmen By means of a. fieN ble cord and attachment plug con nected to a wall telephone instrument an officer of the commanding staff, may instantly ring up any division commander and transmit orders or re- ceiye q special report as to the prog Tess of 3 battle at any certain part of the front,
 4 head telephones is used to listen in secretly into any line running from the trenches to headquarters. Thus the officer in charge may know if un- authorized talk is going on.
 But to the radio officer comes a full share of mystery. romance and action. He sits with his head receiver cIamped tight against his ears while from out of the boundIess ether there comes the news of victory os defeat-the call fer reiaforoements-message of every de- scription and. from Ihany points along the battle front. Needles to. say the military radio operator Lolds q most ! important position an importance which the peace-time operator never f7r ]. may lie the difference between life and death of hundreds, even thousands of men. He must not make a mistake. and his instrument must always work ESQ long as his antenna stays up.
 Do not wait until tomorroW-p phone that WANT AID to The Republican
Arizona republican., 1917-11-09
MANY MEN AFRAID
 UNTIL UNDER FIRE
Cst. Lotus Globe-Democratl


 Among all of the strange stories growing out of the war, none is strans- CT than this of DT. Mortimer M. Ray nor having been appointed q captain in the army for the reason that he has been a psychiatrist in the New York department of correction. A psyChia- trist, according to the dictionary is one who treats diseases of the mind. But Dr. RayHor is something more than that By the terms of his intro- auction to the public he is one who, after giving you the once over, can tell whether you are a coward or q brave man.
 Jack Falstaff had a-better plan He was his own psychiaTist and having after self-analvsis on a battles edge, decided that he would rather wear the ignominy of coWariice on his whole skin than have honor rest on his man gled epidorUis, at once ran away. Shakespeare presents Falstaff as sui seneris; not type of any sort of man. but Ealstaff himself, He was the only one of the thousands on the field who hid covering lO hear the changing blows and war cries. But anybody knowing anything of such matters does not even have to suess that all of of the others as fresh as Falstaff 10 wars alarms felt precisely as he felt at the opening of the engagement but con- quered the feeling by the assertion of that manly pride and self-respeCt to which the fat loafer of Cheapside was a total stranger.
 Nothing is better attested in old French chronicles as they have been preserved to us than that Henry of Ma yarre never was able to overcome a feeling of fainmess which came upon him in the beginning of every battle but remained only until the warmth of action aroused him 10 those prodi- gies of valor sung ip song and told in story ''Who combat bravely is not therefore brave,' wrote Pope in "Moral
Arizona republican., 1917-11-09

negligible in value in the present crisis, nasmuch as they are so placed as to ward off an attack of d Rus sian army, but do not take into ac- count the possibility of an advance by an Austro-G German enemy
 The Schumann 'armored fronta' system probably never again will 1e employed by q nation to guard Is frontiers against attack. The Sereth line is monument to the impractical in war dpfpnepS"
Arizona republican., 1917-11-09
PLlII INCEPTION
 TO NEIH MINISTER

GLENDALE, Nov S.-The recep- tion at the Methodist Episcopal church last night was one of the 1 brilliant affairs of the season. Ad- dresses by J. c. Hammels, o. c. Betts and Glen AppIeby were fol- lowed by 9 vocal solo by Miss Ethel Noel, a piano solo by Miss Mildred l White and a cornet solo by MT Appleby. Delicious refreshments were 1 served by the Methodist Aid. The reception was planned for the new minister. Rev. James E. Ferris, and his wife, and strangers were espe- cially invited to be present and get acquainted.
 i. 4 special matinee has been ar ranged for the children Red Cross workers for Saturday afternoon at , o'clock by Manager Cox at the Rain bow theater. A two-reel comedy and a drama will be the feature Prices 10 and E cents. The children will use this money for their, Christmas | boxes
 The Woman's Home Missionary so- ciety are invited to participate in a rally to be held i'll Phoenix Saturday. Tempe, Mesa and Creighton are also invited. The associate secretary of the Pacific branch of the society, Miss Belle T. Anderson, will be present to address the assembly, and Miss Ida Isham of Bengalon, India, will also be present to speak. The Phoenix Methodist Episcopal missionary wom- en will serve luncheon at the church and hold an impromptu reception be- fore the addresses.
 J. B. Walters bought the 40-acre ranch two miles east of Peoria owned by Howard Hornbeck. The consider ation was S200 per acre.
 The family of William Goldsworthy arrived yesterday from Winslow They will camp with Mir GoldsWorthy until the new home is finished, which he is having built on his ranch. This will be one of the best ranches ou P avenue when the builfings are completed
 The Methodist Aid met yesterday in an all-day meeting in the Sunday school room. Mrs. William Mays was the hostess. The women worked on the aprons and other fancy articles which will be sold at their bazaar the first of December.
 Call Ketchum's Poultry House Phone 20 or 5S. Highest cash price for
Arizona republican., 1917-11-09

Thank God, there is reason to think that the darkest hour is the hour be- fore dawn, and out of the very black ness of the present I see hope for the future, such hope as the world has never known before.
 Hall Cain.
Arizona republican., 1917-11-09

even nearer the fuu truth iQ writing in Maud" However we brave it out, we men are a little breed The Russian women in the Legion of Death have just shown the world what the emotional temperament- call it nervous if you lihe-is cap able Of in fighting.
Arizona republican., 1917-11-09
T he Fair

Next week is to be given over to the fair. Never before such careful and elaborate preparations made for this annual event. The grounds are more eeauiiIKi ana in better shape than ever New build- osnerra nent character and rleasis and enera-
Arizona republican., 1917-11-09

High Thinking-It is unfortunate that all grocers candid as the marketman in Hays who ad- vertises Food for Thought" That's about all the customer gets for dollar in any grocery this year, Kansas City Star>
Arizona republican., 1917-11-09

Shrnking-He-"Harry is the most terrible pre- varicator the campus"
 she-"oh, Ambrose you're always so modest!"~ Purple Cow
Arizona republican., 1917-11-09

Sherman Said It-"What are these?" War biscuit. What about em?' Sherman said it. That's alL"-Louisvine Cour- ier-Journal.