Arizona republican., 1918-04-15
PHOENIX LAD EDITS
 PAPER; PROFITS 60
 INTO THRIFT STAMPS

Labor troubles or the task of accum- ulatA1g a Saturday payroll do not worry the owner of "The Neighborhood News" the newest of Phoenix publica- tions. John Stevens, proprietor Of the | daily newspaper, also is editor, likewise I reporter, proofreader, copy reader, fea- ] ture writer, re-write man, composltor, | cartoonist, business manager.
 In fact, he is everything except de- livery boy. That is left to someone else, for John stays in bed most Of the time.
 '"The Neighborhood News circulates on West Monroe street and immediate vicinity, near where the editor and owner lives at 1918 West Monroe with his mother, Mrs. H. E. Stevens who came to Phoenix last month for the benefit of the health of her son, John Huston Stevens, who is only II years old.
 Every evening, except Sunday, the little paper issues forth, and the sub scribers eagerly await it's arrival, for it's bright little sheet, with some real neighborhood news in it, a dash of war news, considerable fun and numerous clever pictures from the pen of the youthful editor artist. Then it is - a valuable adjunct to the Liberty Loan drive, every issue admonishing the peo- | pie to put their money to work in drlv- | ing the kaiser back, to Berlin or to wherever else it may be that he ought to go.
 The entire paper is hand work, and the subscription price is only 5 cents month, the cheapest daily in the world in price, and worth many times that amount The money John derives from the parer is being invested in War Savings stamps which grow into baby bonds. The paper carries no ad-, vertising, therefore advertising man. ager is one more of the few things that John isn't.
 The headlines in the paper are grip ping, like this: Cruel huns murder babys who have been alive for but a few hours. Let us kill the huns who has the stain of mothers and new born babys on their bayonits." Here is an other: British line bends but does not break it an iron bar can be bent but v broken by any Germans"
 Here is a local news scoop on all the
 Phoenix papers. Mail has been stolen at IT avenue and Van Buren street It
 has been stolen more than once."
 The Wit and Human" department is
 not neglected. Here is some:
 "Boy-Ma. I got hundred in school today. Ma-What for? Boy-I got
 fifty in spelling and fifty in arithmetic, and I know that fifty and fifty make lone hundred.'
 The Wit and Human" editor got
 started on another:
 There was a young lady from Linn
 Who was so awful thin
 , That when she was made
 To drink lemonade
 She slipped through the straw and" The editor at this interesting point
 evidently was called away, to the tele-
 phone or to meet delegation or some
 thing, for it wasn't finished and went to the subscribers just that way.
 The cartoons, which are by far the best things in the paper, are not com plimentary to the kaiser nor his sons
 nor his generals. Just minute, Will lie, is the admonition to the kaiser in
 one cfftoon in which someone has been made to slip up. behind him and de- posit a sputtering bomb.
 | The Neighborhood News" is a valu- able ally to the government, for large
 part of it's space is given over each day to boostine the Liberty Loan. , John acquires his literary and jour- nalistic talent naturally, as his mother
 IS writer of note. Under the name O, ! Rhea Huston. Mrs. Stevens has had 2
 series of stories published in the Sat. urday Evening Post and in other pub. ncations. She is the author of tho 2 book Society In Our Town John himself has achieved fame in nf small way on the stage, having ap. peared in Maeterlincks "Bluebird" a, Titil. touring many or the larger cit. 5 1es before lil-health compelled him tt I abandon stage career
 The home of the Stevens family is i, St Paul, the father, H. E. Stevens. be n ing chief engineer of the Northern Pa t cific.