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Arizona republican., 1917-04-01
WINS
 HARD TEST RUN
 CHUCK HOLES

Making the longest and hardest run available fo~ q public road test and durability demonstration in Florida stock Maxwell touring can, leaving South Jacksonville with four passengers at II o'clock the night of Tuesday, March $, successfully with stood the polmding, of the 376 miles between Jacksonville and Miami in the astonishing total elapsed run ming time of nine hours ana thirty five minutes.
 This record officially observed gives the Maxwell distributor in Jacksonville. Fla and his driver, P. w. Gibbs, the grea test motor car at tainment so far achieved in the state, the Miami test having eclipsed as d demonstration, anything ever pre- ViOusly accomplished by automobile The car erased hours from the swift est passenger train time and it low cred the best previous motor car rec ord. established by a Hudson Super SiN, by approximately three hours
 Arriving in Miami at S:35 Wednes- day morning, the car was officially credited with having negotiated the . distance at the average speed of 394 route made the sum total cf trouble encountered
 ThiH surprising performance added to a previous record attained in a run from Jacksonville to Tampa in seven hours and twenty three min utes-an average of 3I6 mics an hOur-has impelled Florida motor en- thusiaste to the conviction that the sturdy Detroit product now has d beit tha; dangles with scalps. and therefore the Jacksonville distributor is out with au astonishing def to motor car representatives throughout the entire state.
 In all the road runs the Maxwell has been put to in the strenuous cam paign of durability tests it has made in attaining, during the last two years the official American inter city motor car championship. it is as serted that harder road to regoti ate never las been encountered than the one in Florida. Tie Miami run gave the car 20 rad cushioning whatever The chuck holes. of which there is a great sufficiercy. ard the nard te9 ring on the car at the turns and angles. were difficult enough. the driver asserted, to tear many cars p To pieces at such speed. and he cer- tified that no Maxwell ever before -eceivd such a trrific pounding.
Arizona republican., 1917-04-01

porting rapidly and economically a pig proportion of the citizens of this and other countries of the world.
 Alfred Reebes, general manager N. A. A. C.. has supplied figures that are a veritable romance in business and which show that the sales last year exceeded 1,600,U00 passenger. and freight-carrying automobiles. with a retal value of more than s1,000. DOC, 900, and an average price of, approximately '6i2 The average for passenger ve- hicles was $605 and for trucks $1,809 These vehicles were made by more than 400 companies and sold by 30,000 dealers throughout the United States and foreign countries, for motor car exports in 1916 will reach a value of more than s96,000,000 at wholesale, ex- elusive of parts and accessories.
 The available figures compiled by the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce shows a production for 1916 of 1,525,57S passenger cars and 92,130 trucks or commercial vehicles a grand total of l 1.617,70S vehicles. The passenger cars were valued at $921. .37S.- GOO, while the trucks show s1e6, $50, 2lS, or total of $1,0Ss,02S,273. which is the retail price paid for vehicles by American and foreign buyers. Of this number. exports for 1916 will amount to 5S,000 passenger cars and 20.000 trucks at a total value of 6,662 900, this latter being the wholesale figure.
 There is nothing strange about the rapid increase in the sale of motor ye- hicles. says MT. Reeves although it is a source of amazement to many peo pie who have figured motor car sales in comparison with the number of people who had incomes of $500 or more. They overlooked the tremen dous advantage ;, of the motor car to statesmen, contractors, and others in general business, and particularly to farmers, who have been the biggest buyers of motor COTS during the past couple of years. Thus we find real answer to this automobile trade pros perity in the magic word service. Just as long as the motor car can transport the individual or transport freight more rapidly and at lower costs than any other type of vehicle, just so long will this country and the
Arizona republican., 1917-04-01

titled to all the privileges of a stock holder
 The sweeping acceptance of the plan by the organization has stirred up the keenest interest among industrial ex- perts because of it's strikingly original features.
 For example. the stock allotted, ap- -proXimately $3,900000 worth was dis. tributed, on the basis of length of ser vice-not on the usual basis of salary earned. In short. the sweeper or the shoveller got more than the high ex- ecutive if he had served longer, up to q period of five years. All who had been employed over five years were on an equal basis
 This arrangement meant an adjust ment of longtime payments to enable those making the lowest salaries to get the maximum amount of stock Those who wish, of course, can pay for the stock immediately, but the minimum installment necessary on a one thous- and dollar purchase, for instance, is only S5.60 per month
 This is apparently the first time that a plan has been evolved and put through which in no way discriminates between classes of employees
 The stock was sold to employees at S100 per share while the market price quotation is s145 per share.
 The agreement provides that the company shall hold the stock for five years, after which time, if all paid for the certificate of stock passes wholly into the handy of the employe, whether he or she remains longer with the com pany or not.
Arizona republican., 1917-04-01
11.0OD FIRE:sTO|VE
 EINPLOYES PARTNERS

An important page of history in American business has just been made by the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. Akron, Ohio
 With the winding up of the books on the plan of stock distribution inaugu- rated by H. $. Firestone. president of the company, the records show that over ninety per cent Of the employees responded heartily to the investment offer made. Out of 12,50O employees. l1,000 are now stockholders in the company.
 This means that they are more than prolit sharers, as that term is gener- ally used. The Firestone company has shown their confidence to the extent that every employe subscribing under this plan immediately becomes a regis reted stockholder and as sucn is en-
Arizona republican., 1917-04-01
CLUB ENROLMENT

The enrolment campaign Tor DOys and girls club work will soon be in full swing. Already the office has been receiving the names of young sters who are anxious to get into the work. This year the boys and girls will have a greater assortment oi projects to choose from as other lines of work will ne offered. In addition to the corn, cotton, grain, sorghum, pig, poultry and canning, the young folks will have a change to enroll in a potato growing con- test and a garden club.
 Any boy or girl between the ages of 10 and IS may enroll in this work There are no fees or charges: in structions and personal help will be giNen free of charge.
Arizona republican., 1917-04-01

ent crisis" declared that advocates of peace are only asking the nation to de- Ilperate and think instead of being in tluenced by arrogant orators. The pac- lfist part is not German said Dr Jordan. If anything, the pacifistic party is lTo-F'rench and English. If we enter this conflict We must enter with the intention of fighting to the end so that the American influence and democracy will tend to force England back to the democracy that she enioved before Lloyd George and his pol;ticaI followers checked her liberties
Arizona republican., 1917-04-01
NJ MORE OLDS;.
 SALEsROOM |S.
 LONESOME SPOT

The outstanding feature at the sales rooms Of the Oldsmobile Com papy of Arizona last week was there were no cars. Funny looking place for a salesroon. was a question put Whats the matter27 All sold out" was the answer.
 Business Was transacted during the week on paper, orders being taken without demonstration by or exhibi- ion of cars. But the management informed prospective buyers that a carload of Oldsmobiles were now roll ing from the factory and would be ready for disposition at the sales rooms, possibly this week. In the shipment now rolling is a carload Of trucks. one of them one and one half ton Mack, and the other a two tor Mack. The two-ton truck is for the TriOolet Market for deliveries about Phoenix.
Arizona republican., 1917-04-01
AUTOMOBILE MAKING
 WORTH BILLION BUCKS

In it's record year and one showing progress as great as that attained by any other American industry automo- bile manufacture reached it's pinnacle in 1916 with retail sales in excess of the billion dollar mark, says the Mo tor West Moreover, there is no indi- cation of a decrease in the demand for the reliable, service giving, power driven vehicle that has taken an inn r7~tsnt nlace in the work of trans
Arizona republican., 1917-04-01
BORDERIAVI) ENGAGES
 SERVICES IF WEAVER

Leo Weaver, salesman for the Bor- derland Motor company, which is com pleting new salesrooms on North Gen. tral avenue for three years was a resi- dent of Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, where he was interested in the Von Hamm Young company, dealers in the
Arizona republican., 1917-04-01

Parents. let your young folks go into these clubs, as the benefits to be derived are manifold. Hundreds of boys and girls were benefited last year. Write Agricultural Extension Service. University of Arizona. Tue son, Arizona, for further particulars.
Arizona republican., 1917-04-01
"THE PRESENT cRjslsv

PHILADELPHIA, March 3O.-David Starr Jordan, chancellor of the Leland Stanford University, addressing a meeting of students at the University nf panncNl,-ania tonight n11 ..tha Ires-
Arizona republican., 1917-04-01

Packard. Cadillac and Buick auto mobiles, doing an enormous business tnroughout the territory weaver sand yesterday that the month he left Hon olulu his firm sold 90 cars. an average of three a day He said the roads of the islands are not favorable to the automobile business. being quite the worst he has ever seen.
 Rnfore going to Honolulu Weaver ranched in Lower California. He also D--e.--e,~a Ih tne stock raising business and took a part in the revolution. but after three years of the war was forced to leave the country; then he went to Honolulu
Arizona republican., 1917-04-01

The Jeffery is strictly factory made car and is a product of the Nash Motors Company. Within it's own walls, covering g acres the lief fiery is 939e built in its entirety, In buying motor car an important ques- tion-4is it factory made should be the first question asked.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-25
S1.O0 PER YEAR

cornet or srgnuard or rne Inree Coun-
ty troop That banner was designed
for a local company Of cavalry raised
In the counties Of Essex Suffolk and
Middlesex, Mass, in 1859. The Office
Of color bearer OF this troop was
kind OF Inheritance In the Page fam
ly. The standard was carried in King
Philips war in 1876. When the min
utemen were organized Nathaniel Page
Sd Of Bedford carried the old dag to
the drills At the midnight alarm Cap
tain Page snatched up the standard
and carried it with him to Concord,
where It waved above the smoke OF
that battle.S
The flag is now preserved under glass
In freproof safe of the Public library
at Bedford. Mass. and can be seen by
arrangement with the librarian.
The ground is crimson colored satin
damask emblazone0 with an outstretch-
ed arm, in tie hand of which is an up
lifted sword This representation Is
the color OF silver, as are three circular
figures that are probably intended to
represent cannon balls Upon a gold
colored scroll are the words Vince aut
Mortture" Conquer or Die The flag
Is about two feet long by one foot six
inches wide
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-25
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DEMAND REPRESENTATION.
Workers Want to Participate In Mobi-
lization of Nation For War.

lization of Nation For War.
AS the republic OF America now en-
ters the world war the ideals and free
institutions of this country will be sub
jected to a grilling test Democracy
can make good here as it is now max
ing good in Europe, but there only aft
er the baptism OF blood and steel has
brought freedom and justice to labor,
For centuries labor was a dumb giant
serving masters. Labor is no longer
dumb. 1t knows its rights and its in
dispensable service. The working peo-
pie of all countries have hearts, aspira-
lions and loyalty that respond to the
need Of country They are willing to
give service. But should they be re-
quired to bear an unfair share Of the
burden? In giving service the working
people give their bodies and their
minds flesh, blood and spirit They
demand that the government shall rec
ognize the transcendent value of such
service; that every other possession Of
the nation shall be held subordinate to
men, women and children. They de
A1lStAIA Ll4SAL LlADoC Ia ' AoACAAo pAOItSAtAls5
the health and life opportunity Of the
nation shall be the last sacrifices to
national defense.
The workers are willing to give serv-
ice-as free men with a right to repre-
sentation in the agencies that control
service. They demand representation
for their interests and convictions in
determining the finances Of the war
the board OF censors, food control and
all the forces that dominate life and
opportunity
The workers viii give service in the
war for freedom and human rights
During the struggle they demand that
their own rights and welfare shall not
be flched from them, and they demand
that they shall participate equally with
all other citizens in determining the
mobilization OF the nation for effective
service.-American Federationist.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-25
The Bonus Fellows.

Do you observe that it is the unor-
ganized workers who are accepting as
wages a bonus? The wages are not
increased as in the cases OF the organ
lied, who have demanded and have re-
ceiyed wage increases Wage increas ses
have a wire to them with the boss hold
ing tightly to the cut off end of it, ana
when the war ceases, whether the cost
Of living lessons or not, snap will 20 the
wire on the bonuses, and the poor dupes
who stood for them will get the worst
of it, as their bonus will be gone back
to the employers pocket. and the en-
ployee will have to do the best he can
for a time after the close of the war
until things readjust themselyes.-To-
bacco Worker
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-25
Labor,s Purchasing Power.

Let us not forget our purchasing
power, which is doubly important at a
time when wage earnors need every
particle Of strength they possess to be
used In their own interest Let us sup
port the union labels of all trades ev-
cry day in the year, thus giving en-
ployment to union workers. in other
trades 50 that they can in return en-
ploy unian boemakers making shoes
bearing the union stamp. The old say
ing that 1t is more blessed to give
than to receive" might in a union label
sense be revised to read, unless you
give you cannot receive. Shoe Work
erS' Journal
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-25
LABOR BRIEFS.

Carpenters of Denver will receive 70
cents per hour after Oct /.
Bricklayers of Little Rock, Ark, have
been increased from $6 to 81 per day.
Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers'
International union paid out $29, PIT in
death benefits during the past month.
Thirty-six local unions are affiliated
to Elevator Constructors international,
which has combined membership Of
2,S61.
Employment is steady in railroad
work, and men are in demand by al
most every road in Ohio, Indiana, Ilh-
nois, Maryland and Kentucky.
Typographical union of Columbus,
o., gained a 20 per cent increase in
wages after two day strike. Bartend-
ers have made good gains in conditions
after strike lasting forty eight hssxs
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-25
FOR LIBERTY AND LABOR.
Gompers' Appeal to Russian Workmen
a Model of Patriotism

Model OF Patriotism.
Faithful alike to the United States,
to the cause Of organized labor, to lib
erty and progress, Samuel Gompers'
appeal to the Council of Workmen's s
and Soldiers Deputies in Petrograd is
as fine in inspiration as in expression
Whether needed or not, it must stand
as model Of industrial democracy as
opposed to international socialism mis-
led and misused.
Mr. Gompers clearly shows that the
gained only by the defeat of autocracy
and that German intrigue in Russia is
necessarily hostile to such a purpose;
that commitments at this time to the
broad proposition that there must be
no anneXations or indemnities are GER
tain to be in the interest of the military
despotisms resting upon those ideas
and that the purpose of the American
commission headed by Mr. Root is not
to interfere with the local affairs of
the Russians, but to help them to
maintain their liberties and, by vic
torious Issue of the war, secure them
forever
The conquests which the allies seek
in this war are chiefly moral. With
tyranniZed nations and races free to
determine their allegiance and sup
ported therein by the triumphant de-
mocracy OF the world, despotic rule
must soon come to an end in Germany,
Austria Hungary and Turkey. In warn
ing his Russian brethren against yield
ing to the Establishments held out to
them from Berlin Mr. Gompers renders
stalwart service for both democracy
and labor-New York World
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-25
MODERN WAR DISEASE.
Shell Shock and the Way 1t Hits ard
Afflicts Its Victims.

Atfllcts Its Victims.
To the medical profession modern war
has brought new disease, known as
shell shock or shock she'll" as the
British war office officially calls it
To understand it's cause and action
we must take our place in the trenches
with a company on the first line. An
attack is simmering and the constant
preliminary hombardment of heavy and
light artillery is on
Shells, shrapnel, high explosives are
rained on them and on the trench with
it's narrow communication to the sup
ports in the rear until there is a con-
stant din of tremendous explosions and
the air is filed with noXious gas. Time
has come to seek cover and the soldier
ducks his stee! helmeted head into his
underground ,lueout, crowds down with
his mates and waits for the storm to
blow over. Hours pass, days pass, some
preliminary bombartlments lasting four
or five days and food, water. patience
and nerves are exhausted by the awful
din, the noisome air and the crowded
quarters with the sickening sights of
nearby men disemboweled or otherwise
wounded unto death.
Then it is that minds go awry. Shell
shock attacks the veterans as well as
the recruits. The poor lads with neu-
rasthenic tendencies, with poor nervous
reserve or with histories OF sapping
excesses and habits begin to expert
ence an ever growing fear. Their limbs
start to tremble, their hearing becomes
affected, they cannot talk or see, and
when they can be rescued In lull they
have become jibbering or silent, trem-
bling human animals, almost literally
scared to death.
Scientifically, the disease may be di-
vided into two classes. One Is the
pseudo she'll shock following the course
outlined in men OF unstable nervous
equilibrium, deprived Of food and made
to fear for their lives; and the second
class is true shell shock occurring in
men who really sustain blows of falling
sand bags and planks or are buried in
the Upheaval OF earth following shell
explosion Unfortunately the false dl-
vision comprises over 95 per cent OF
the total number reported, and they
offer the poorest hope of recovery %
the proper martial spirit which the sol
dier should have. The true cases gen
orally recover within fortnight. They
may, however slip on then into the
pseudo class and become unfit for ac-
tive military dgty.-Dr Kellogg Speed
in LcSlie's
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-25
LEONARDO'S STYLE OF ART.
Mona Lisa" Is No Mystery, According
to Kenyon Cox.

Leonardo da Vinci was tireless stu
dent of all kinds of natural phenomena,
and of many things he had learned q
great deal that has been rediscovered
only in our own time. Among other
things, as his notebooks prove, he had
studied effects of transmitted and re-
flected light, understood the difference
with its crisp edged shadows, saw the
blue shadow which has been introduced
into modern painting by the impress
sionists and knew the reason OF it,
He attempted none of these things IN
painting, and he tells US why. These
things, he says, after a long descrip-
tion of the effects of sunlight upon
foliage-of the color Of the sky in the
high lights, of the yellow light where
the sun shines through the leaf and
the interruption " this light where the
shadow of one leaf falls upon another
these things should not be painted
because they confuse the form"
The Florentine ideal in art was the
utmost realization of form. Leonardo
was a true Florentine, and he intro
duced into painting just so much of
light and shade as should assist in this
rea alization, no more 1t is his use of
modelling that is his most personal con
tribution to art
Much rhapsodical nonsense has been
written about the Mona Lisa" and her
enigmatic smile, and there have been
endless speculations as to her charac-
ter and the meaning of her expression
1t is all beside the mark The truth
is that the Mona Lisa" is a study OF
modelling, little more Leonardo had
discovered that the expression of smil-
ing is much more matter of the mod
cling Of the cheek and Of the forms
below the eve than Of the change In
the line Of the lips 1t interested him,
with his new power Of modelling, to
produce a smile wholly by these deli
cate changes Of surface, hence the mys-
terious expression.
Poets may find la Gloc0nda" a vam-
pire or what not. To artists with u
sense Of form her portrait viii always
be a masterpiece because it Is one of
the suhtiest and most exquisite lieces
Of modelling in existence. Kenyon Cox
ia Scribner's
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1917-05-25
PENSIONERS TO WORK.
Pennsylvania and Reading Roads to
Call Back Retired Men.

Call Back Retired Men.
A canvass has been started of all en-
ployees of the Philadelphia and Read
ing and Pennsylvania railroads who
have been pensioned OH age, with
view of ascertaiHing whether they can
not be re-employed in some capacity,
the purpose being to help solve the
present labor scarcity, which will be-
come more acute with conscription.
The plan is to continue paying these
retired railroad men their pensions and
such sum in addition as they might
earn in their new employment. 1t is
known that large percentage Of the
pensioners are still in good health and
would welcome unemployment with
the railroads many of them having oh
tanned work elsewhere.
1t is estimated that there are about
600 pensioners on the Philadelphia and
Reading railroad system They repre-
sent all classes. including engineers,
telegraphers. carpenters, machinists,
trainmen, clerks, agents. etc. The
Pennsylvania railroad has 4 $50 men
on its pension roll and it is estimated
that at least half this number are still
able to work