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The Benson signal., 1917-05-05
SONG OF THE AMERICAN RAIL
ROAD MAN

We are the wings Of the Eagle, spread
to the scarlet sky.
Sturdy and strong, we speed along
needing our Masters cry.
The Eagles beak is the Army, the
Navy its curving claws
And both may fight through day and
night. and the wings will never pause.
We are the wings of the Eagle and our
steel-lined tips are spread
From shore to shore where the oceans
roar. from North to Gulf Streams bed
Let the soldier look to his rifle. and
the sailor look to the sea
And what they need with eagles speed
be sure they will get from me.
We are the wings of the Eagle. Aecked
with our labor's foam,
With freight and mail we blazed the
trail for a mighty nation home.
AS in peace we have been your servants
so in war we will be your slave.
And our wings will hum and our pulse,
drum till the flags OF freedom wave
We are the wings of the Eagle, eager to
prove our worth,
Fitted by skill to do your will with the
best trained men on earth.
Then load us up with the burden and
FIRE the opening guns
And remember, Sam, the railroad man
is ever your loyal son.
Southern Pacific Bulletin.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-05

Remember that the boys in Ari-
zonas S contingent now serving on
the border have been doing just
this for year and more. In this
duty they are serving every man,
woman and child in the State. The
duty is unpleasant but it is an hon
orab1e part that Arizona would
have shared in with the rest of the
country had there been no Arizona
regiment. Think about it. They
are still serving their country and
doing itwell. What they need is
help. Who will be the next vol
unteer?
The Benson signal., 1917-05-05

weather, CONGESTION has disappeared
to great extent and the rules they
have adopted are showing good re-
suits.
TO further the cooperation be-
tween Government and railroad au-
thorities, the transportation execu-
tives have detailed special corps of
their men to work with army off
cials at all important centers of
mobilization, and it will be the du-
ty of these men to assist in work
ing out all problems of transporta-
ton that come before the military
chiefs.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-05
Railroads and the Government
Work Together

The entire resources OF the South
ern Pacific Company and auxiliary
companies, with their forty FIVE
thousand employees, are today
aligned with the United States gov
ernment for the mobilization of
troops and supplies, acting in con-
cert with the Federal authorities
under arrangement worked out by
a committee Of railroad executives.
President VIM. .Sproule has named
G. F. Richardson, Southern Pacific
Superintendent of Transportation,
as his personal representative and
assistant in the work or handling
government work in the Western
District.
Some time ago the American
Railway Association appointed four
committees of executives under the
direction of Fairfax Harrison, Pres
ident of the Southern Railway. The
committees represented the Eastern
Western, Southern and Central
portions of the country. William
Sprou1e, president of the Southern
Pacific Company is chairman of the
Western Department, with E. ?.
Ripley, president of the Santa Fe
system, and J. D. Farrell president
of the Oregon & Washington Rail
way and Navigation Company, as
associates.
l.. F. Loree is chairman of the
Eastern Department, R. R. Ashton
in charge of the Central Depart
ment and w. B. Scott, chairman
of the Southern Division. Each
chairman has associates represen-
ting all lines in his territory.
The experience of the roads in
the Mexican expedition last sum
ner has given the railroad officials
an indication of the requirements
of the country in war time The
movement of 100000 men. with
attendant food supplies, artillery,
horses, motor trucks, tents and
other equipment was handled with
dispatch by the carriers. Since that
time the lessons of mobilization
have been studied by the executives
with a view to just such crisis as
now confronts them.
The Southern Pacific Company,
which handles the burden of traffic
from the Western District to and
from the border, has made all ar
rangements for duplicating the feat
on larger and more expeditions
scale.
With wage controversies no
longer a disturbing factor, the rail
roads are in much better position
to meet the strain of the war than
they would have been a month ago.
With the approach of the warm
The Benson signal., 1917-05-05
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
United States Land ONCE at Phoenix, Arizona
March 49, 1917.
Notice is hereby given that Harry Bronson,
of Dragon. Ariz., who on December %, 1910,
made Homestead Entry No, 012902, for SWM
NW34, Section 13. and NJ NE4 and SEA NE4,
Section ID, Township 16 S.. Range % East G.
and s. r. Meridian, has filed notice Of intention
to make final Five Year Proof, to establish
claim to the land above described before L. V.
McCourt. U. s. Commissioner at Wilcox, Ariz.
on the 18th day Of May. 1917.
Claimant names as witnesses: Jackson p.
Richardson Mary S. Richardson, OF Dragon,
Ariz., and Allen Il. Wien, of Johnson, and
James B. Gregory, of Dragon, Ariz.
J. L. IRWIN, Register.
First pub. March "a.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-05

White men have heard the
war cry along the mystic
shadows of the Apache Trail.
Time was when this would
have caused a thrill of appre-
hension throughout the land,
but now the Indians are allied
with their Great Father at
Washington" and eager only
to fight in his behalf. They
have therefor summoned to-
gether the members Of the
tribe for a great "devil dance"
at Roosevelt Dam. That the
United States is now at war
has just spread among the
Indians, and they are eager
to offer their services to their
white brothers. Many of the
Apaches are skilled in mod
ern warfare, having been ef-
fectively used in quelling bor-
der disturbances. They are
conceded to be among the
finest horsemen and traiIers
in the world.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-05
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

035030
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
United States Land Office at Phoenix, Arizona
April 3d. 1917
Notice is hereby given that George Herbert.
of Benson, Arizona, who, on May 4, 1914, made
Homestead Entry No. 02503o, for S1& SWA
S1z SEA. Section 9, Township Is S., Range 20 E.
G. &. S. R. B. & Meridian, has filed notice OF
intention to make three year proof, to estab-
lish claim to the landl above described before
H. G. Brown, U. S.. Commissioner, at Benson,
Arizona on the 9th day Of June, 1917
Claimant names as Witnesses: Nelse Lof
green. John Cosby, William Sherman, Walter
Sherman all of Pomerene, Arizona.
J. L. IRWIN, Register.
First publication May 5. 1917.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-05
The State University and Pre-
pareiness

AC 0C0GC ohlVCk Saay GAIA L AC~
paredness
Tie CARL Of the nation for service
iir tive tfrtny fields Of endeavor Gre
ated BY the present crisis has given
the University of Arizona an OPP
portunity to Show its patriotism
and to demonstrate its ability and
readiness for service. From the
tirrle of the organization the Uni
versity has made military training
an important feature in its currlcu-
lum, and that has shown itself III
the fact that number of officers
of the Arizona National Guard now
OH the border doing duty are grad
uates of the University.
The creation of the Officers Re-
serve Training Corps was SO enthu-
siastically accepted that the Uni
versity will lose even before the
ordinary time taken for commence
ment the majority of its men stu
dents, and it is probable that with
in the next week between twenty
and thirty men in the upper classes
will be called to the training camp
at the Preside, San Francisco, Cal.
Over eighty of the men of the in
institution have enrolled in the
Officers Reserve Corps, and the
engineers almost to IMAM are Ell
rolled in the Engineers.
Practically every girl in the Uni
versity is enrolled for Red Cross
service and are receiving first aid
instruction.
DR.. Won KleinS1nid, president of
the University, as head of the In
tercollegiate Intelligence Bureau of
the State, has been III communica-
ton with the alumni of the in
stitution to ascertain when and
how they may best serve the nation,
and almost as a unit they have re-
sponded that they are ready for
immediate service in their various
fields.
Dr. Won KleinSmid, also as chair
man of the food production and
distribution committee of the State
Council for Defense, has an i'm
portant work laid out for him. DR..
A. F.. Douglas, dean of the College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and
Professor Chas. F. Willis, Director
of the State Bureau of Mines, as
members of the State Council of
Defense, have been assigned to the
work on scientific research.
Practically every member OF the
faculty has signihed his inten
ton and desire to put his entire
time if necessary on such work as
the government may assign to him,
and the trustees of the University
have offered to the state and to the
nation the entire plant, its equip
ment and personnel, for govern
ment use if desired.
Truly, no institution could re-
spond more readily to the call of
the nation than the University of
Arizona.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-05

In every war in which the United
States has engaged there have been
disloyal knockers who remaining
at home have tried to persuade the
boys to stay home i'll spite of the
country's cali. Are you letting the
disloyal citizen influence you in
your duty-doing
The Benson signal., 1917-05-05

The head of the miners or
ganizatioh at Globe, charged
with assault!ng a young man
for attempting to place the
American flag upon the min
ers' hall there, failed to per-
suade any of the local attor-
news to take the case in his
defense. They refused to rep
resent him as a result Of his
having recently issued an un-
patriotic statement denounc-
ing President Wilson for al
towing the United States to
enter the worlds war and of
his srefusal to allow an Amer
ican flag on the Miners union
hall.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-05

Did you ever stop to think that
in the countries that are fighting
now the home guards are composed
of men who are either disabled or
physically unfit. Home guard ser
vice is tue least that any citizen
can render.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-05
Echoes from the Firing Line

Don't be in such hurry to offer
your services to the Governor. En-
list in the First Arizona and then
he will know he has your service.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-05

Military service is patriotic duty
every citizen owes to his country.
Don't forget that.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-05

What the situation needs now is
fewer letters to headquarters and
more trips to the recruiting Office.
The Benson signal., 1917-05-05

For information regarding the
$40 acre homestead law write to
HAMPTON & ARNOLD,
LAND ATTORNEYS,
PHOENIX. ARIZONA
The Benson signal., 1917-05-05

Pacific Bulletin.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-05
MOST POTENT OF WEAPONS
Nothing Devised by Humanity Is Able
to Stand Against the Assault
Of Laughter.

In "The Mysterious Stranger"-thc
just-published posthumous book by
Mark Twain-that authority on humor
declared that most men possess only
"a mongrej perception of humor."
He elaborates his idea by saying
"The multitude see the comic side of q
thousand low-grade and trivial things
broad incongrulties mainly; gro.
tesqueries absurdities, evokers of the
horse laugh. The 10000 high-gradn
comicalities which exist In the world
are sealed from their full vision.
"Will day come when the race will
detect the funniness of these juvenili-
ties and laugh at them-and by laugh
ing at them destroy them? For your
race, in its poverty, has unquestion-
ably one really effective weapon
laughter.
Power, money, persuasion, supplica-
tion, persecution-these can lift at Il
colossal humbug-push 1t little
weaken it little, century by century !;
but only laughter can blow 1t to rags
and atoms at blast. Against the as
sault Of laughter nothing can stand"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-05
Group lmmodesry.

Why is it that men who indIvldu
ally are modest to the point of timid
ity are the very opposite when they
get together?
The United States has n number of
militia regiments which have attached
the words battling" and fighting" 10
their names. They did this before
they were much more than organize
and they have retained the wore
though they have seen no fighting am
smelled only the powder of the tar
get ranges. There are clubs and as
soclations which gather, seemingly, for
no other purpose than to absorb flat
terry. The sense of self-importanre
Is nowhere SO concentrated so humor-
ously tangible, rs in the halls where
congresses and state legislatures CON
duct their affairs.
We suppose that our friends, the
psychologists, have many-jointed
word for this group immodesty. But
we wonder If they have cure for 1t.
1t appears TO be increasing in our
country, and 1t would seem wise, If
there Is remedy, to apply it speedily.
Toledo Blade
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-05
is PATRON SAINT Of BIRDS
Squirrels Depend on Asylum Inmate
for Their Supply of 6utternuts
in Winter.

THE patron saint of birds and souri,
reis' Is happy. And though he Is sixty
years old and has been patient of
the state hospital for the feeble-mlnd-
ed for 36 years, his hair is brown and
wavy, his eyes are bright and spark
ling and his health is good. He has
been In the institution more than half
of his life, but his life seems to be
more sane than the lives of the thou
sands who have outstripped him in
the life race-and have become
wrinkle-cheeked, blear-eyed and hard.
fisted.
Albert Gentle has forgotten the
world, says the Milwaukee Sentinel.
He was entered in the hospital in 1880
because he loved the small animals
and food of the forests. He has been
there since, spending most of his time
gathering nuts or communing with ma
ture, never expressing the slightest de.
sire to get back to the outside world.
Last year l picked 27,500 butter.
nuts for my squirrels" he said. II
need just that many to feed them all.
They get so hungry in the winter time.
l make so many Of them happy. l
must be here always to care for Them"
He said it quietly, with dignity. I'm.
aginatively he somehow emerged from
the character of an old simpleton,
clothed In an absurd, rusty frock coat,
trousers of another day and genera.
appearance of Washington lrying's
schoolmaster and became the sancti.
fled keeper OF great trust. What
was more important than caring for
those little animals?
Most people do not know how i'm
portant 1t is that we should always
think of the tiny bits of life that God
has put on this earth," he said slowly.
"Often they do not think of each
other"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-05
"Warr and See" IN French.

The phrase wait and see" ha,
bothered the French newspaper CORE
spondents in London lately. No ac
count of the crisis, of course, would
have been complete without it, yet only
one correspondent, M. Coudurier. OF
the Journal de Geneve, has attempted
to translate it. His version is: AT
tendez, ct vous verrez ce qui arrlvera.' .
Thirteen syllables against three! 1t is
curious fact, always brought out. fol
instance. by the polyglot versions OF
the resolutions of international so
cieties, that English is the tersest Ian,
guage in Europe. The English version
on such occasions is always much
shorter than the French or Italian. Al
the beginning of the war, when all
cables had to be In English or French
the Italian and Russian correspond
ents in London chose English, and
found their cabling expenses much re
duced.-Manchester Guardian.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-05
LD>FAvORlTES TURNED DOWN
Boys Mo Longer Make Heroes Of Cow
boys, and Girls Are Abandoning
Their Paper Dolls.

In his love of romance Prof. Thomas
Stockton Baker finds the American boy
has discarded his old heroes and
turned away from his favorite pirates
and Indian fighters. The kingdom of
boyhood is ruled by the adventurers
who navigate the sea in submarines
and sweep through the clouds in air.
planes. Under the influence of the
war In Europe the workings of the
juvenile imagination have undergone
a swift and dangerous change.
After all, it Is not surprising that
the healthy, alert youngster should in
vest with fancy events that he hears
his elders daily discuss and should
live them over In his hours of play.
If the ideals of piracy are essential
to the moral training of the young,
some day another popular play may
help to safeguard the future welfare
of the race.
1t Is not yet time to despair because
high power mOtorcars and undersea
boats and flying machines occupy the
attention of the normal boy in his idle
hours. 1t would be really painful if
he were deVoting his time to unravel-
ing the tangled skein Of old world
diplomacy and determining the exact
terms of peace on which the belliger-
ents shall agree.
AS for the American girl, have any
of our eminent psychologists expert
enced q sinking of the heart ot tha
thought that she may abandon her pa
per dolls and amuse herself by play
ing at Red Cross nursing and NUM-
tion making? If she does, will she re-
cover or head straight for eternal per-
dition, like her little brother whose
mind runs to the mechanics of war?-
New York World.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-05
Exploration of New Guinea.

A few years ago elaborate plans
We're laid in Germany to explore the
hitherto inaccessible interior of New
Guinea by means of balloons, which
We're expected to drift over the island
In the prevailing winds. The project
was much discussed in the magazines
and subscriptions We're solicited in its
behalf. but it was never carried out.
1t Is now reported in the newspapers
that DR.. Eric Mjorberg, a Swede, is
planning to make use of au airplane
to explore the interior of New Guinea,
and Is in the United States inyesti.
eating the latest improvements in
aviation.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-05
Phonograph Station Announcers.

The invention by which names of
stations are to be announced auto
matically by phonograph on the Liver
pool tramways will no doubt have a
future If the name can be uttered In
such way as to be ineligible. The
defect of the phonograph has always
been the metallic twang which OBJ
scured the most familiar words and
voices. Was it not a phonograph oper-
ntor in one of o. Henry's stories who
promised TO give his Celebrated imi-
tation of Sousa march being exca-
waited from tin mine ?"-London OBJ
server.
Took the Opposite Course.
"Have you tried to uplift the
dramaT
"Yes," replied the manager. but
while l was experimenting In the high
er realms of thought the public rushed
away to the nearest underworld
drama"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-05
Ventilation Overdone,

American people have q very hicl
appreciation of the humor of English
men, and have been specially tickleu
by a story Colonel Cody used to tell
lie said that some years ago an Eng.
hshman who had never been in the
West before was his guest. They were
riding through a Rocky mountain can.
yon one day, when suddenly Il tremen.
dous gust of wind came swooping down
upon them and actually carried the
Englishman clean off the wagon-seat
After he had been picked up he
combed the sand and gravel out of his
whlskers and said:
Il say! l think you overdo ventila.
tion in this country v'-London Tit.
Bits.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-05
Do YOU MAKE 81, 800 A YEAR?
II Not, 1t VIII Be Quite Useless to
Ask One of These Girls to
Marry You.

II any of our gay young Lotharios
or Romeos of this bustling and enter
prising village have designs on the
charming co-eds at the University of
Omaha, they are warned to look to
their checkbooks. Big, black eyes,
pompadoured locks, glistening white
teeth and neatly manicured nails don't
cut any ice with the Omaha co-eds.
An income of at least $500 annual
ly is the first inducement bachelors
with an inclination to leap into the
matrimonial sea with an Omaha coed
must make. So the co-eds answered
Prof. Harry De Lamatre, instructor In
economies, when he asked them what
they considered suitable salary for
a man who is going to be married.
When De Lamatrc said he believed
an income of $1,000 a year was quite
sufficient from an economical stand
point, the fair young things burst
forth with simultaneous shout of pro-
test and incredulity: "Who would
want to live on that?" they demanded.
The Omaha co-eds don't demand lux
urious limousines, birds Of paradise
for their hats, ermine coats or bejew.
eled shoes, but they insist it takes ST.
800 year to keep a home going.
Peculiar Disease Of the Teeth.
The Colorado DoHtal society has two
of its members engaged in the inyestt-
CATION of a mysterious malady of the
teeth known, for the want of better
name, as "mottled teeth" which oc-
ours in this country in a number of
districts, principally in the southwest
ern portion of the United States. 1t
has been noted in a somewhat more
violent form in Italy Is years ago. 1t
manifests itself in children and per-
sists through life, and is often so dis
figuring that the victims resort to arti-
fetal crownlng. 1t is defect of the
enamel-forming substance, and 1t is
suspected that the cause Is due to
some element in the drinking water
which 1t has been impossible to def
nitely determine.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-05
BRIDE OF AN AUSTRIAN PRINCE
Popular Washington Belle ls the Lat
est to Figure In an lnterna-
tlonal Romance.

The latest international romance at
Washington, which eliminated recent
ly by the marriage of Miss Catherine
Britton Of that city to Prince Alfred
zu HohenloheS eSchillingfuerst of the
Austro-Hungarian embassy. has had
sufficient element of mystery to de-
light capital gossips. From no less
source than the august imperial head
of the united Kingdoms, 1t appears,
came the opposition to the marriage
of the young prince, bearer of one of
the proudest names of the Viennese
court, to the American girl who was
mot born" The recent death of
Francis Joseph, and the accession to
the throne of the young archduke, who
had not so very long ago made a love
match himself, changed the tide of for
tune for the young pair In America.
The prince Is twenty-seven and his
bride is twenty-four. Immediately
upon his arrival In Washington yeur
or two ago he began to pay her ntten-
tion. There were rumors of mar
riage, then the young prince was sud
denly detached from the embassy Mt
Washington and assigned to San Fran
cisco for the compilation of consular
report there. There was reason. and
this was said to be imperial displeas-
ure ut Vienna. The hew American
princess shortly after the outbreak of
the war went to Paris as a war nurse
with Miss Mona McAdoo. daughter of
the secretary of the treasury. She
has been a very popular belle In Wash
ington society.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-05
NOW DANCE IN BIG HOTELS
society" No Longer Bothers to Take
Trouble Which the Giving of a
Ball Entails on Hostess.

Where social pleasure reigns and
oay after day is given to entertain
ment, in such surroundings "only the
trouble of living is left to disturb the
equanimity of the pleasure-seekers
The social correspondent of a newspa-
Per in a large American city, writing
OF balls and ball-giVing, says: at is
most convenient way to give a ball
ut an hotel now that so many people
live in the country the greater part of
the winter. The guests can defy the
elements, blizzards and cyclones alike
They motor to town in the morning
and take their time to get their hair
dressed their face massaged and their
hands manicured. Their dainty per-
son once thoroughly attended to, after
iunching Mt friends and getting in
1ull dancing trim they give dinner
party at the hotel, go to the opera or
near 'Siegfried'-the soothing music
of which induces cat-naps of beauty
sleep While the lights are doWn-the
acts are long you know, and there are
four of them in 'Sicgfrled! So they
arrive freshened-up for tie ball about
midnight. 1t is all so easy. NJ bust
ling about anything only the tfouble
of living. No anxiety as to everything
being in good shape. If it is not
sometimes it is not, you know-well.
1t is not your affair. Your guests
blame it on the house, and you do,
too."