El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-05-03
What Arizona's Doing
In Way Of Preparedness

Phoenix, Ariz.-Dwight r. Heard of Phoe-
nix, chairman of the executive committee
of the Arizona Council ,of Defense, has
started for Washington, delegated to rep.
resent the state in the national defense
conference that will open at the capital
May 2. During Mr.. Heard's absence DR.,
d. T.. MacDougall of Tucson, director oil
the Carnegie desert laboratory, will head
the local committee
The committee has appointed an Arizona
board for the National Red Cross, with
Bishop ]. w. Atwood Of Phoenix at its
head. Strong recommendation has been
made that the flag be displayed profusely
and that patriotic songs be used in the
opening of all schools. Managers of thea
tiers and chairmen of public meetings are
requested to arrange that thu, national an.
them be presented only with tie audience
standing and uncovered, and that all ma.
tional anthems be not incorporated in med
leys and other undigniied arrangements"
Labor Needed
The shortage of labor in the Salt River
valley now is declared to be fully 5000
men, wanted to handle the May crop, that
soon will be merged into the grain harvest,
to work in. the cotton fields and to plant
summer and fall crops. Fully 5000 hands
will be needed for the cotton picking in the
late fall, SO the work will be constant for
the rest of the year. Procurement OF the
needed hands has been taken up with the
California Council of Defense, it being I'M
derstood that California has an Oversupply
of workmen. This correspondence is in
charge of J.. l.. Donnelly, chairman of the
1ahor ocrpritfoa and 1nod nf tho Arizona
Federation of Labor, and of Ex-Governor
|G. w. P. Hunt, chairman of the committee
on federal and state relations.
Indignation has been given expression in
the council over the efforts of individuals
at Flagstaff to corner the supply of seed
potatoes. A number of Flagstaff business
men are now offering to provide seed for
the planting of an acreage of potatoes far
greater than ever before known in Arizona.
The season is favorable, though late.
In the university and normal schools
full credit is offered to all students who
enlist before the end of the term. Agricul-
tural students at the university are urged
to take up their important work on the
farms of the Salt River valley and else
where, to assist in food production on the
largest possible scale. This recommended
ton also is made to all students who know
anything of farm administration.
Papers Censor selves
Chairman Allan B.. Jaynes of Tucson,
for the COMMITTEES on publications, is pre-
pairing a plan for a state newspaper CEN
sorship to be made effective by the news
papers themselves.
Mayor Corpstein has suggested to the
city council that all municipal employees
h join the army be financially encour-
aged by making up the army pay to their
usual wage in the case of married men and
half-pay for single men. Something of al
public demonstration was made this after
noon when III Flagstaff men, mainly nor
NAL school students, who mad enlisted for
the Arizona infantry, were escorted to the
depot by a brass band ana many autcnro-
biles. :,
The Phoenix Rife club Q has over 400
members, a large proportion enlisted also
in the local police reserve, Which now has
armed and effective force approaching
500. The last addition to both was a COM
pany of fifty organized within the order of
the Mystic Shrine