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The Coconino sun., 1917-11-09
Baptist Church
Church of the Nativity
School of the Nativity

This school IS conducted in connection with the Catholic Church of Flagstaff by the Sisters of Loretto, under the supervision of the Pastor Of the Parish.
 The curriculum of studies comprises all the branches that pertain to complete Grammar Course Music both vocal and instrumental, Is taught by the Sisters.
The Coconino sun., 1917-11-09
Christian Science Society.
Over City Hal.

Over City Hall. Sunday School, 9:t5 a. m. Church Services, II 100 a. m. Wednesday evening service 500 ?. m. All are cordially invited
The Coconino sun., 1917-11-09
Adventist Church

sabbath School Service at 2p. m. Preach ing at D. m Prayer meeting Wednesday evenings at 7:S0. Preaching service every Sun day evening at :30.. Everybody welcome.
The Coconino sun., 1917-11-09
LODGE DIRECTORY.

FLAGSTAFF LODGE NO. 2, F.&A.M NJ Regular meeting on first Saturday of each month, at Elks Hall. Visiting brethren in. vited to attend.
 GEORGE F. MANNING Jr VIM.
 N. G. LARTON, Secretary
The Coconino sun., 1917-11-09
A MAN LOST.

want to find my nephew, Charles Ernest Hoops. Was last heard from at Jerome and Flagstaff, in Decem- Der, 1916.
 He is 27 years old, medium build, dark eyes and hair.
 I will pay Ten Dollars for any in- formation about him.
 N. E. WALTON,
 109 High St., Butler, Missouri.
The Coconino sun., 1917-11-09
Church of the Epiphany

(EPISCOPAL) Sunday school9 3O Morning Servic II 100, Even inc service 7;90 Everyone cordially welcomed
 H. N TRAGTTT Jr. Rector
The Coconino sun., 1917-11-09

DoYAL NEIG HBoRS. FLAGSTAFF IN MALAPAI CAMP No.70SS Meet in Elk's hall 4th Tuesday oi each month. Visiting Neighbors cordially in vited. Mrs Mamie Williams, Recorder,
 Mrs Minnie Bartlett, Oracle,
 Mrs. Lucy Coyle, Receiver.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
The National Armv

According to the official bulletin of
the Committee on Public Information
on Saturday last, there are now
943, ,141 men in the volunteer armed
forces of the United States. Since
war was declared 100000 men in
round numbers have offered them
selves. The forces are thus divided:
In the land forces there are 55,541
officers and 654,4S3 enlisted men, a
total of 710,024. In the sea forces
there are 9,040 officers and 224,077
enlisted men, total of 233,117.
Since war was declared the enlist
ments have been: For the naval
forces 121, ,514,. and for the land
land forces, 327,345, giving a total of
44S,S59. The present enrolment of
nearly a million fighting men is the
best answer to the sneering belittle-
ment of our ability to prosecute the
war which Berlin industriously cir
culates. Uncle Sam has millions more
where these stalwart Americans
came from. To the officers reserve
corps from the training camps a.
BAL officers have come. From other
sources 800 have been added to
the corps This showing more than
justifies all the labor of years on the
part of General Leonard Wood and
others in establishing training camps
and maintaining them, often in the
face of the most stubborn official op-
extraordinarily Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
Bryan Welcomes Taft
[From the Commonerl


Having, 1 believe, been upon the
chautauqua platform longer than
any other man in public life, it falls
to my lot to extend a welcome to
former President Taft, who is MAX
ing an extended chautauqua tour
through the central west
He has a message to deliver and
he is finding the chautauqua audi
ence worth speaking to. With an ex-
President, the present Vice-Presi-
dent and Speaker of the National
House of Representatives (when they
have leisure) among the chautauqua
attractions, it will be hard for the
metropolitan press to class the chau-
tauqua any lonser with the circus.
These papers will have to cease re-
Wiling the great educational move
ment which, starting "A generation
ago on Chautauqua Lake, has spread
to over six thousand communities.
The ex-President may find 1t in
convenient to snatch a lunch at
depot restaurants and to change
cars at all times of the day and
night, but the pleasures outweigh
the hardships. Would that more of
our public men would avail them
selves of the chautauqua platform as
e. means of communing with the
masses.
w. j. BRYAN
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
In Re1pium's Name

Our last visitors of state from an
allied country, the Belgian commits
sioners, make the fitting climax. In
their restrained but poignant mes
sage on behalf of their devastated
country they sum up for Americans
the whole meaning of the war. Their
words that peril to civilization which
we have Joined hands with our allies
to destroy.
Theirs is a striking banner, indi-
vidual and beautiful. 1t is good for
us Americans to become familiar
with it. For it symbolizes aptly all
that individuality and beauty of q
small nation which the German idea
held as less than cannon fodder
when it obstructed for a day the
German way to power. BY her de-
votion to her national ideals, by her
swift decision to die on the battle
field rather than sell herself into
slavery. Belgium earned the right to
rank with the great nations of all
time. Her fame stands secure. We
of America are proud to do her
honor. We are thankful that at last
we have the right to greet her as an
ally and that in rendering our SYM
pathy we are making ready to back
our emotion with the sterner stuff OF
deeds.
Belgium must and shall be free.
Belgium must and shall be restored.
Such is the pledge which this Kepub-
lie devoutly makes to the greatest OF
small nations.-New York Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
Hats OFF to FLAG

In GLORIOUS France" every hat
comes off in honor of their Tri- Color.
Are we Americans less appreciative
of what the Stars and Stripes means
to us than the gallant French? We
love the flag as well as they love
theirs, but we do not show it.
1t is not suggested that every
American flag should be saluted as
one passes it, but when our common
country's emblem is carried in line
as our country's standard, then every
man on the street as the standard
goes by should uncover.
The city policemen would be the
proper examples to start with. They
are in uniform and represent the
citys authority. Usually they are
stationed at given intervals along al
parade routes and If at the approach
of the color-bearer the city's police
officers should set the example and
follow it by an order, Hats Off tC
the American Flag" 1t would soor
become the custom and practice o1
everyone. 1t would become our Sec
ond nature, and not to salute the
flag would then be so noticeable
that no one would desire to be in
that class.--W. II. Kerr in Pittsburgh
Gazette Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24

those in their own fair neighborhood.
Folks coming from Ohio and sister
Commonwealths in the Middle West
used to tell at Saratoga and at the
New England resorts how they hated
to even cross Erie county to get from
the Buckeye State to New York. The
roads in Pennsylvania were so ter
rible, you know.
And now, just now, without a cent
OF debt, the erstwhile derided Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania has es-
tablished State road system of over
1000 miles, rebuilt many miles of
it and maintained all of it in a man
ner that attracts the attention of the
men from the other States who used
% go to New York and Massachu-
setts to learn about making roads
and keeping them up. We have just
appropriated in the midst of war
over $10,00O,000 for road purposes,
and Notwithstanding flare-ups in the
Staet government in which roads are
at least nominally involved, we mean
to place Pennsylvania right at the
top when highways are considered
We have the money, the men and
the brains and we are not going to
let anything interfere with our plans.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
A Pound of Flour

Food Administrator Hoover asks
everybody to save each week one
pound of -four in every five. The
economy is made necessary by the
wheat deficit in the United States
and Canada of 400,000,000 bushels
in the amount required for the al
lied nations and neutrals of Europe.
There is an indicated surplus of
corn of 470,O00, 900 bushels and of
cats of 304,000,000 bushels in this
country. What is asked of the con-
sumer is not to reduce his allow
ance of cereals but to save wheat by
substituting twenty per cent. of 9TH
er grains.
To do this ought not to involve
much self-denial. Not to do it may
mean distress or starvation for our
allies. This and similar official rec
concentrations of food economy
should be taken seriously and applied
at home, not passed on for some
body else to do. Fighting may be
done by proxy. Other persons may
be called on to buy Liberty bonds
and make Red Cross supplies. But
food conservation must be personal
and all must cooperate. 1t will not
do to make light or serious condi-
lions and to belittle precautions for
outstanding the nations food supply
which must be observed If we are
TO win the war.-New York World.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
VETERANS AT BOSTON

= I is inspiring to know that the
G. A. r. heroes are standing so
firmly behind the President and
all associated with him in author
ity in this crisis. During the great
encampment of the old soldiers OF
the republic at Boston this week
there was much enthusiasm over the
part which has been taken by this
nation to safeguard the liberties of
the world. Each reference to the
unselfish motives which have
prompted the United States to enter
the struggle for the freedom of the
world without hope or thought of
reward brought the veterans to their
feet, cheering and waving battle
worn flags and pledging anew their
allegiance to the Stars and Stripes.
These men who wore the blue of
the former great conflict realize bet
ter than any other class of our peo-
pie what war means and when they
declare, as they did through their
commander-in-chie that "our lives,
our property and our sacred honor
are pledged in support of liberty in
the titanic struggle now waged be-
tween autocracy and democracy"
those of a younger generation should
be ready, every man, to stand
shoulder to shoulder with these
veterans in unflinching support of
every measure which will furnish
the cause of peace through an eff
cient prosecution of the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
COMMANDING OFFICER MUST
BE 4 GOOD HOUSEKEEPER

GO much has been printed about
- the training camps that C>-' SOL
~ dier boys scarcely know what to
expect when they leave the hills OF
Pennsylvania for intensive training
in some far-away state.
Some of the camps are good, some
are bad, and many are Indifferent,
for number of the camps were in
herited by the War Department, and
many of the posts have little to rec
ommend them. OF the camps claim
ing a large share of attention from
Harrisburg people at this time, Camp
Hancock, which is now the home OF
Company ID, and within short time
will be the training place for Com
pany / and the Machine Gun Com
pany, stands in high favor with both
officers and men.
Augusta is not far from the fa-
nous peach belt, and in the spring
and early summer there is great fish
ing in the rivers and lakes of Geor-
gia. Quiet, sleepy, historic old Sa-
Vannah is a comparatively short dis
tance away, and there the church in
which John Wesley preached is still
standing and is used for services each
Sabbath. The orange and citrus
groves are just over the line in Flor
ida. Camp Hancock is less than
twenty minutes time from the Sa-
vannah river, which is one of the
est-known stretches of water in the
southland.
1t is claimed by those in position
to know the facts that the Pennsyl-
vania boys in the quaint old suburb
of aristocratic Augusta will enjoy
both good housekeeping and sensi-
BILE, all-around training.
In some of the camps, the COM
plant has been made that the COM
manding officer is not good house
keeper; that there is a laxity about
the tents and about the kitchen
that is not conducive to the highest
degree of comfort, and where the
menus are poor and badly arranged.
In some instances the officer is O
poor housekeeper but splendid
fighting man, and the men are. kept
in fine trim despite the drawbacks
of the culinary department.
Occasionally, there is that perfect
combination-a commander who Is
an ideal housekeeper and good
fighter. 1t is said that the boys at
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
Slackerism. Not Power

or all the slackers under the Stars
and Stripes the most censurable are
those who received training at West
Point or Annapolis, at government
expense, later resigned and now fail
to respond 20 their country's need.
There has always been an excessive
demand for appointments to the
Military and Naval Academies. Ev-
cry man who received an appoint
ment kept out some other aspirant.
He who fails to devote his training to
the service of his country now Is in
the position of having kept some
patriot out of the academies and thus
deprived the nation of the help of n
trained soldier at a time when
trained men arc most needed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
MANAGER PLAN ENDORSED

D AYTON mas demonstrated its
confidence in the city mana
ger form of municipal admin
istration. Having just emerged from
a red-hot contest over the re-elec-
tion of those who inaugurated the
manager system with an overwhelm-
ing majority in favor of the new
plan, Dayton has given practical
notice to all other cities that a con-
centration of authority means eco
noHical and efficient administration
Harrisburg must eventually do one
of two things-either adopt the sys-
tenn now in successful operation in
the Ohio city, or demand that our
local government be organized on
such a basis as will provide for
personal supervision of the city's
several departments.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

A. V. Dively, prominent Altoon
lawyer, is a candidate for scho,
board.
The Rev. ]. w. Cochrane, il
well-known Philadelphia clergymaI
will go to Detroit.
Isaac Sharpless, promineI
among Quakers. is taking part in tn
presentation of the Friends positid
on the war.
A. Loo We'll, Pittsburgh alto
ney, is taking a prominent part
the Thompson estate settlement.
Colonel David ]. Davis, adjutaI
of the Pennsylvania division, is Gil
solicitor of Scranton and has bee
given an indefinite leave of absenc
j. s. w. Holton, Philadelph
maritime and business expert, is uri
ing that Philadelphia be given OF
OF the export agencies of the go
ernment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
SOMETHING TO SHOW

THE visit being paid to the State
Highway Department offices and
the inspection of the highways
under way by State road officials
from Maryland and Virginia this
week calls to mind that it is not so
many years ago, one might almost
say months, that officials of other
Commonwealths were urging the
people of the Keystone State to visit
them to see some real roads. We re-
call some playful jibes from New
York editors about the edification
awaiting Pennsylvanians when they
struck the network of highways for
which the sons of Father Knicker.
booker were bonding themselves so
literally and we distinctly remem Der
the way we were twitted by Jersey
men about the preference expressed
by Philadelphians for roads leading
from Camden TO Atlantic City over
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
WE MUST FIGHT FOR PEACE

WE MUST FIGHT FOR PEACE
THERE will always be more or
less criticism of military train
ing, but the people of the
United States are at least realizing
that peace will come sooner when
this country has demonstrated it's
lighting power. We have heard much
of the pacifist, but those who are
sending their sons and husbands and
fathers into battle will not endure
with patience tactics in the rear
which will tend to weaken the forces
in the field.
We are reaping as a nation what
We have sowed in other years. Men
in high places perished in the foolish
attitude of men who, having eyes to
see, saw not, and continued to as
sure an Indifferent and careless
people that preparedness for the
nations defense was simply an in-
vitation to war. They told us we
could raise million men over night
that military preparedness was she
millionaires; that we had nothing to
fear from any foreign foe; that we
were a powerful and invincible peo-
pie, whose ability to take care of
themselves would make any enemy
hesitate to attack us.
Thus the nation was lulled into a
false security. Thoughtless men and
women were led to believe that no
war would come to our shores.
Those who advocated preparedness
and military training of our young
men were condemned as jingoes and
fire-eaters who would plunge their
country into the vortex of war.
Many national leaders who are now
denouncing the mischief makers
who would weaken our own forces
by insisting upon a statement of our
aims and purposes in the war, which
aims have been stated over and over
again, were among the most active
propagandists of the theory that this
country should do nothing to pre-
cipitate war with Germany.
But the day of theorizing is past
We are now in the midst of war
1t is our business to make the Amer
! lean war machine as efficient and
powerful as is possible, to the end
that the peace which we are now
fighting for may be secured in the
form that will be permanent and
which will assure to those who come
after us the opportunities and bless
ings for which our forefathers gave
! their lives.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
They Will Pull Together

Our imports from Canada for the
first fiscal year 1913, under protec-
ton, totaled $121, 100000; exports to
Canada totaled $415, 100000. For
1914, nine months Democratic law,
imports jumped to $161, ,000,0 900, eX-
ports fell to $345, 100000. This fiscal
year we imported approximately
$500, 100000 worth of goods from
Canada, of which fully ninety per
cent. came in free, and sold her
about $75O,OOO,0O0 worth, huge
proportion of which was war ma
terial. The proposal of the Western
Canadians will not fool our farmers
nor will it cajole our manufacturers.
This country has passed through the
stage in which Canada is now enter
ing The end of the war will find
our agriculturists and manufacturers
pulling together for protection.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
The Mennonites

The Mennonites are named for
Menno Simons, of Friesland Q492-
1880.
There are about $4,000 in this
country, most of them in Eastern
Pennsylvania. They are divided into
twelve sects.
They believe that war is always
wrong. and in this belief they refuse
to take the oath and to enage in mill
tary service. The Dunkards. whose
doctrines are similar, make the same
refusal.
At the time of the Revolution a
Mennonite preacher, Henry Funck'
fought for his country and was ex-
pelled from the Church.
But the Mennonites did furnish
money and provisions, and furnished
them gladly. Lancaster, York, Berks
and Northampton counties, were the
sources of food supply on which
Congress chiefly depended to keep
the Continental Army in the field.
From every Pennsylvania German
neighborhood to-day many soldiers
are going forth to fight Germany
Philadelphia Ledger
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24

Camp Hancock have drawn this
prize.
In all likelihood the boys of COM
pany ID will fall in love with the
Georgia climate, for balmy breezes
and odors of the fragrant pines may
be expected throughout the sum-
mer. Contrary to a prevailing inn
preston in this section, the weather
is not likely to become extremely hot
in Georgia during the month of Sep
tember.
1t is possible that the fall of the
year may be warm and wet, for as
rule there is plentiful rainfall in
Georgia and Florida during the au-
tumn months. The winters are, OF
course, the greatest charm of South
ern life.
At any rate, stay of few months
in Georgia is not likely to move the
camp poet to the composition of an
effort similar to that written by ReGi-
nald Wright Kaufman, the author,
who spent the spring of this year at
Niagara.
The spring of 1917 was cold and
wet, and this is the poem which oc-
cupies place of honor in the camp
Y. M. c. A.:
AN OLD SOLDIER
L
frozen heroes there,
OF icicles suspended aglitter in mid
air;
Oh, speak not of that water as the
dampest ever seen;
slept at Fort Niag'ra in the May
of II!
The troops of old Napoleon from
Moscow to Paree
Had something on the Esquimos, hut
not a thing on me;
Those Russian SHOWS were warm
ing, those Russian fields were
green,
Compared with Fort Niag're in the
May of II!
! Oh, May is a balmy month, some
times-perhaps-s
With underwear all. fluttering anC
rose scents In the air;
But if you want to see it as 1t no
! where else is seen
| Just come to Fort Niagara In the
| spring of IT!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
RICHES FROM BARREN LAND

IN HE discovery that canister rock
has an important place in brick
production has turned the
mountainsido barrens of certain in
terror counties from worthless pieces
OF unproductive property. the bane
of farmers and lumbermen, into won
derfully profitable land.
Just the other day $1,000 acres of
these rock deposits were leased and
operations started that will continue
for fifty years at least, or so long as
the deposits hold out. 1t used to be
that cleaning lana of rocks was diff,
icult and expensive. Now, If it is
canister, the farmer not only gets
his land cleaned, but receives pay for
the privilege.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-24
EXEMPT THE STATE POLICE

TT does seem that the action of
local boards in drafting mem
bers of the State Police force to
fill up their quotas for the new
National Army, when the Provost
Marshal General has ruled that the
question of eXempting them is one
for such boards to determine, has
been taken without much thought as
to the result to the State. From all
accounts, the Provost Marshal Gen
eral has clearly indicated that the
local boards must be the judges of
whether such men should be taken
and the draft officials, bearing in
pal policemen are not exempt, have
placed the State policemen in the
same list and when they have been
accepted have ordered them to mo-
bilization camps.
Right here it would seem that
there was a chance for the boards
organized under the conscription law
to exercise that discretion which
Major c. B. Warren said in the con-
ference at the Capitol must govern
them in deciding what men should
be taken for national defense. Penn
sylvania has made its State police
force known throughout the coun-
try for efficiency and fearIessness. 1t
has invested millions of dollars in
examining, training and equipping
men and it has established a system
to which people in many districts
are accustomed and on which, espe-
cially in rural communities, they
rely for protection. The National
Guard is about to leave the State
and it would seem poor policy,
scarcely compatible with public in
terest, national defense and general
welfare, to disrupt the organization
which has been built UP with ex-
penditure of so much time and
money and which certainly has a
clear and well defined field at this
time.