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Arizona republican., 1918-09-22
Real Estate Investments, Acreage, Homes, Rentals
Splendid

efforts to obtain foodstuffs, but helps to build up this country which is one of the most fertile spots in the world today.
 MT. Shedd will be in Phoenix at his office at 107 North Central avenue for ten days. getting properties listed and things lined up for the winter business. During the last six weeks, he reports the following sales:
 N. W. A of Sec 34-2 N., ? w. .$36, 900 5000 acres desert land ... 15,000 N. w. F of Sec. 16-1 N, W. $500 Blenheim apartment to Mrs.
 Rhodes 5000 House 9th and Sheridan, Clark
 to Criswell ............ 1000 House on Indianola, Mooorehead
 to McGiven ............... 1900 House on East Portland Avery
 to Shugart ............. $500 Lot on East Willetta, Randall to bechldnd .................... 5OO
 In addition to these sales, this com pany has done $30000 leasing busi- ness which includes the leasing of the Empress theater to Brandon Bros, for consideration of 15,3O0.00, that par ticular deal having been consummated by Mrs. Butterfield of the F. w. Shedd company.
 Firm Sells Big Ranch
 Things are looking pretty bright around l26 North Central avenue these days according to MT. Fisher, manager of the Davie Realty company who says business is good with a capital c, and with prospects looking very bright for busy fall and winter. MT. Fisher says their office has closed more business in the past three months than they did any three months last winter, when ev- cry one thought business was about as good as it was possible to get without being called boom.
 Some of the important transactions consummated inst the past three months consists of the closing out of nearly six sections of desert land in Deer valley most of which has been bought by men who shortly expect to go to war and realizing the advisability of having 6 nest egg when they come home have taken advantage of the opportunity ol not putting their money where it vii be safe but are willing to gamble or what looks like sure thing namely tho completion of the Paradise Verde irri. gation project which will make thi: land as valuable as anything in tho Salt River valley. Mir Fisher says h, has left only about HOO acres of thi. excellent land at the original price O s9 per acre. He states that a grea many people are calling at his offic, . every day from Oklahoma, Texas ant
Arizona republican., 1918-09-22
RENT PROF|TEER|NC
 QUESTION COMES UP
 TODEFENSE COUNCIL

Arizona's State Council Of Defense has received from Washington a copy or thC so-called Federal Rent Proftcering Control" which had its first hearing on August 2s. This bill provides that inc president may desig- nate any section where he believes rents Go bc unduly high as a section in which ho proposes 10 fix rent charges and that hc may then fix rentals at a rate which seems reasonable.
 Undoubtedly primarily intended to prevent profitcering in rents in sec Hons where war work is going for ward, could be invoked in any section where landlords became unreasonable and Tor that reason the measure is of great importance in every part of the country
 ln connection with the rental situa- ton and the proposition for federal control or an building construction, the Following letter to Secretary Harry Iritile of the State Council of Defense, is timely and interesting:
 Phoenix, Arizona,
 September 19, 1918. NIT. Harry Tritle Secretary. Arizona State Council of Defense. War Work Building.
 Phoenix. Arizona.
 Dear Mr. Tritle.
 Tho Phoenix Trades Council desires fo call Co the attention of the Arizona state Council of Defense the housing condition of Phoenix as it at present ronironts the workingman with the hope that through your efforts the situation can he relieved.
 That rents are abnormally high and rental property scarce becomes inn mcdiatcly apparent when one goes in
Arizona republican., 1918-09-22

Tuesday. All south of Washington on Wednesday.
 New committees for the drive have been named as follows:
 Receiving A. M. Mayfield, w. B. Twitchell.
 Repairing W. L. Coffin.
 Pressing-A. C. Dodge.
 Packing-Joseph Stark
 Owners of all hotels, rooming houses and apartments are asked by the con- mittee to ascertain of all occupants of rooms or apartments whether they have any clothing for the committee, and if so to get it ready for the ma chimes when they call. Notify the com- mittee, telephone 1477. Mrs. Ralph Cameron. head of the
Arizona republican., 1918-09-22

Of Defense the proper body to institute survey on housing conditions in this city
 We would appreciate the opportunity Of appearing personally before your council that We might give you the names of parties herein referred to, and also other data on the subject. Appreciative of your careful con- sideration which we feel sure will be given this matter, we are, Very respectfully yours,
 c. E. TRACY.
 GEO. D. SMITH,
 Committee,
 Phoenix Trades Council.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-22
BALL CAME TODAY
 AT EASTLAKE PARK

The Arizona Reds" and the Tigers two baseball teams, the former Indian and the latter Mexican, will play a game at Eastlake park this afternoon beginning at 3 o'clock. These two teams are composed of some of the fastest ball players in the vicinity and a close and snappy game is assured. There will be no admission charged. Following is the lineup:
 Arizona Reds-Martin, If; Albert, of; Declay, lb; Webb, 2b Butler, ss; Morales, p; Collins, c; Mansfield, Sb; Jackson, If
 Tigers-Billy, C; Morales, D; Singer, 1b; Teddy, ss; Scott, 3b; P. Singer, 2b; Chino. of; Football, If; Joe. If.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-22

after making a visit, by ma chine, to all of his coast of fees, covering a distance of nearly 1000 miles. He opened many new offices and visited the ones already es- tablished throughout Cali fornia.
 Mir. Shedd says, "The bean crops of the coast counties of San Diego, Los Angeles, Ventura and San Luis o Bis DO are excellent; and farther north at San Jose they have a bumper crop of prunes. Coming across into the San Joaquin valley, we found a record crop of grapes. The people in these localities are paying as high as $1200.0O an acre for good land, and when one tells them of the oppor- tunities that abound in Phoe- nix, where We raise just as much per acre, at one-siXth the price for the land, they cant believe it until they see, and then it is an easy matter t osell them"
 Mir. Shedd has probably brought more people into Arizona in the past three years than any other agency, having brought more than 900 people into ou state in that time, strictly on farming rVl
 thousand acres have been put into cul tivation in the past few months whicl not only helps the government in thei
Arizona republican., 1918-09-22

With buyers plentiful, ranging all the way from the little fellow who wants only enough for his vine and fig tree to the big man who wants several sections in a lump, and with a number of good sales recently reported, real estate in Phoenix and the Salt River valley and ad- .iacent territory seems to be moving freely wherever of fered.
 Among the possible big buyers who has not yet pur- chased that have been look ing over the local possibili- ties in farm land was Patrick
 
 c. Campbell of Los Angeles who ha sbeen an extensive subdivider of both lots anC acreage in southern Califor- mia.
 Real estate men are com blaming, however, about the shortage of land offered fol sale, saying that the farmers either do not want to sell Ol have neglected to list theil property.
 Sales List Imposing One
 F. W. Shedd arrived Fri day morning from Los An geles with a party of buyers
Arizona republican., 1918-09-22
IF YOU MISS YOUR PAPER

IF YOU MISS YOUR PAPER
 City subscribers who do not re- ceive The Arizona Republican promptly should telephone the cir cuIation department, phone 4331, before 8 o'clock in the morning and copy will be immediately sent them.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-22

division which will inspect the gar ments brought in for Belgian refugees, requests that clothing thus donated be clean and sanitary. as dirty cloth ing cannot be handled.
 Mrs. Barry Goldwater and Mrs. W. W. Lawhon have been added to the committee in charge of collecting gar ments, of which Mrs E. w. Lewis is chairman and Mrs. c. E. Valentine has become assistant to Mrs. B. E. Marks in soliciting contributions
 It makes no difference what youi wants may be, you can have them SUD- piled by using and reading The Re- publican's Classified Pages-Arizona' s | Leading Advertising Medium.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
Where Women Vote

Some six million women are voting at
the general elections to-day in Great
Britain. All women of thirty and over
we're enfranchised by the new act, and
this is the first exercise of their new
power.
What is perhaps the most striking
feature of this revolution is the peace
full and whole-hearted fashion in which
it has been accepted by the entire coun-
try. The enfranchising act passed Com
mons and Lords by an overwhelming
vote, with only formal opposition. An
act was subsequently passed providing
that women could sit in the House of
Commons; and in to-day's election a
number of women, including Miss Chris
tabel Pankhurst, may be returned. In
all the discussions of the election the
entrance of women into political life
has been accepted as a necessary reform
we'll accomplished, change inevitably
resulting from women's work in the
war
In this country nationwide suffrage
still waits upon the Senate-upon one
vote in the Senate, which prevents the
thirds vote required. The current
is still strong. Three states of as diff
ferent location and character as Michi-
gan, South Dakota and Oklahoma joined
the suffrage ranks in November, the last
named state despite most difficult con-
stitutional restriction against amend
ments. There. cannot be more than a
brief, temporary blocking of the reform
But, for the time being, Great Britain
leads the United States in this funda-
mental item of democratic government.
The United States, beginning to-day,
falls to the rear of the nglish-speaking
nations of the world.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
America in Europe

The French have only to touch us with
the magic of their spontaneity and we
are sorry we had not two Presidents to
spare at one time. They are welcome
to Mr. Wilson. We forgive them for
having inveigled him away. By acclaim
ing him they f1atter us.
Who but the French would have
thought to reproduce the Statue of Lib
erty at the port of his arrival?
Brest was dressed in banners pro-
claiming: "Vive Wilson, Hail the
champion of the rights Of mani"
What other people could be so naIvely
and perfectly extravagant?
The uneasy sensation of surrendering
the President of the United States to the
protection of foreign fag-even to one
that we regard with so much affection
is swallowed up by the delight we feel
in the character of his reception. We
congratulate him upon a gorgeous hu-
man experience, and add wish for his
health and safe return.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
A Casualty Mislaid
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: feel that I must call your atten-
ton, on behalf of hundreds of others in a
like position, to the unwarranted inefficiency
and procrastination of the War Department
in reporting casualties.
My son-n-law, Lieutenant William A.
Chandler, 7th Field Artillery, a Yale man,
of the class of 1915, Phi Beta Kappa, joined
the American expeditionary forces imme-
diately after we declared war and was sent
abroad in September, 1917. He was wound
ed in August, 1918, and invalded to Eng
land, and returned to the front on October
l. My daughter heard from him regularly
up to the middle of October, but soon after
that his letters ceased. We however, con-
tnued to hope for the best, until decided
to appeal to my Congressman q few DAYS
ago to see if he could get any information
from the casualty records in Washington.
He found out two days ago that Lieuten-
ant Chandler was killed in action on Octo-
Der b, this being a matter of record in
Washington | do not know how long this
has been matter of record but at no time
has the War Department notified my daurh
ter of the death of her husband, and I feel
it duty to give publicity to such utter.
wanton and cruel neglect as has been prac
tsed by the War Department in report;no
this casualty.
My son-ln-law gave his all for his coun
try, and the least that the War Department
could have done was to recognize this obl
CATION to his family and notify them with
out unnecessary delay. If it had not been
for the investigation made by Congressman
Rowe we would have still been in ignorance
OF the death of my son-in-l law, as up to this
date no notification has been received from
the War Department. w. r. SEA1r
575 East Eighth Street, Brooklyn, Dec.
~, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14

plunged into all forms of manual work
in the war. In this attack upon the
class system of her country Miss Pank-
hurst sees women in the lead. "The
working womans instinct is to- raise
herself to the level Of the more fortu
nate, and not to drag the more fortu
nate down to her own level" "The
working women who spend their earn
ings on silk dresses, silk stockings,
shapely shoes, fine underwear, fur coats,
pretty hats and all the rest of it are
far better social reformers than all the
mems Socialist or labor organizations
rolled into one"
All this shows clear and fresh point
of view and is based for the greater part
on the broadest and soundest of eco
nomic principles. We think it easily
the most valuable and suggestive contri-
button to the labor debate of the day.
Plainly, woman has not entered indus
try and public life in Great Britain for
nothing. Already she is playing an i'm
portant part in the vital task of post
war reconstruction.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
Homage to Red Tape

There ought to be no hesitation in
Congress about legalizing the informal
contracts made by General Goethals
with concerns which furnished war ma
terial. The Controller Of the Treasury
recently ruled that these agreements
were invalid because they had not been
reduced to writing and signed.
They were made in absolute good
faith, however, and with the idea of
fastening production. General Goethals
merely cut red tape. The country had
been clamorng for speed and the War
Department hurdled over some routine
obstacles 1t was a pardonable, even a
laudable, war expedient.
The Controller cannot approve short
cuts. He stands for legalism. But Con-
gress can easily straighten out the tan
gle. The firms which undertook to do
necessary government work on General
Goethals's say-so should not be penalized
If tardy homage is to be paid to red
tape, let Congress cheerfully pay it.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
Taps for the S. A. T. G.

This week marks the passing Of one of
Americas most interesting educational
experiments. In five hundred colleges
soldiers are becoming civilians again.
Demobilizaton of the Students Army
Training Corps releases $4,000 young
men from military discipline. Most of
them seem glad to get away from drill
and guard and kitchen police duty. Bal
loting by the students as to whether they
wished to remain in college at soldiers
pay or to be free to ~esume their civilian
life on the campus or elsewhere showed
an overwhelming desire to be civilians
again. In many of the colleges military
restraint yielded to loud cheers when the
rehabilitation order came from the War
Department.
If the war had gone on American col
leges might have developed a we'll bal
anced course of military and academic
training. Nine weeks Of experiment have
been inadequate. In many colleges out
breaks of influenza have prevented any
classroom study at all. In others insist
ence on the details of military behavior
made the regime very awkward. Many
of these flaws were just beginning to be
ironed out. Contracts had been made
with the colleges to place them at the dis
posal of the War Department until June,
1919. The sudden return to the old aca-
demic order will entail some financial
loss to most institutions. 1t will make
difficult the restoration of normal campus
activity. But the second half year at
most of the colleges will be enriched with
new students attracted by the S. A. T. c..
and by new methods learned in it's brief
career
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
Blind .Ciuilians

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: May l ask space in your columns to
plead the cause of the civilian blind at this
Christmas season? The sale for the blind
under the joint auspices of the New York
State Commission for the Blind and the
New York Association for the Blind. at 4O7
Madison Avenue, is a great disappointment
to the organizations responsible for it. If
the stock is to be disposed of, at least $500
must be sold daily. The sale averages so
far about 5000 a day.
1t is we'll, perhaps, to remind the public
who are so fond of telling me that "the
blind are always happy" that few people
are happy if they are cold and hungry and
without adequate financial means.
This year is especially difficult N. c.
Nigel, the chairman of the New York COM
mission, has entered the government
vice and is abroad to render assistance 10
the men blinded in battle. In my many
conversations with the blind of this state
| have heard only praise for this action.
although the speaker knows that for him it
means hardship-a putting off of necessary
reforms; lowered wage. No buyer of Lib
erty bonds, no worker for the Red Cross,
could contribute so gracious gift to his
country as those handicapped workers do
as a matter of course.
1t is significant OF the attitude of the
public that blind beggar relates he
makes $25 week on the street, and during
the holiday season often S25 night A
blind weaver making between S8 and $40
week exclaimed upon hearing this: "Yes,
II could bring myself to that; but l can't
The sale is to last until December q.
VIII the public make up for lost time?
believe there are many people quickened
by the war into sense of responsibility
for the blind l appeal to a public which
has much to be thankful for this season to
assist us. If Christmas means anything,
this group should not be forgotten.
MARY V HUN,
Vice-chairman New York State Commission
for the Blind.
New York, Dec. 7, 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
The New Long-Distance Telephony

President Vail of the American Tele-
graph and Telephone Company an
nounces the successful issue of long
series of endeavors to multiply the
capacity of the telephone wires in the
same fashion as is done in telegraphing.
The principle is basically the same, but
the device is infinitely more wonderful,
and might almost be described as in the
nature of miracle. In the new scheme
the human voice, which is "low-fre-
quency' affair, is stepped up to ten,
twenty or thirty times it's normal rate,
and then, by the same device, presto! it
is stepped down again.
The idea is much the same as in the
transmission of electrical power over
long distances. AS is we'll known, gen
Grating stations either create electricity
at d high tension or else it is stepped up
-boosted-to high pressure. And then
at the receiving end it is transformed to
a usable low tension.
In the telephone it is cycles or fire.
quencies, rather than tensions or press
ures, that are employed. The human
voice averages around 1000 cycles, or
oscillations, per second. By the aid of
little device it is stepped up from 1000
to 100000 cycles, or more, as required
This little device, which a casual person
might mistake for an ordinary electric
light bulb, is largely the invention of Dr.
Lee de Forest and grew out of curious
observation made by Edison years agv,
and known since as the Edison effect" :"
This device, applied to the multiplex
system worked out by General Squier ten
or more years ago, is the basis of the
present development.
On account of physical difficulties the
new system is not feasible for short dis
tances, but for anything like Washing
ton, Boston and more distant points it
will be radical Improvement The
main cost of long distance telephoning is
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
When Monarchs We're
By Glendon Allvine

With no intention to strike man when
he is Gown, even by the indirect method of
taking jab at his ancestors, it may not be
amiss to consider the decline of the Hohen-
zollerns from the time when one of them
brought suit in Missouri, in 1s49.
Insanity drove Frederick William " from
the Prussian throne in 1853 Shortly be-
fore that tizzled German revolution came
near accomplishing the same result. But
Frederick William had his merry little fling
before he signed the throne over to his
brother. He fed his people the same "Me
und Gott" stuff SO popular with a recent
wilted offshoot Of the family tree, and he
got away with some of the same kingly ex-
uberance in the United States.
In 1849 St. Louis court was called upon
to consider this petition:
"The plaintiff (Frederick William ",
King of Prussia) states that he is the
absolute monarch of the Kingdom of
Prussia, and king thereof is the sole
government of that country; that he is
unrestrained by any constitution or law,
and that his will expressed in due form
is the only law of that country and is the
only legal power there known to exist as
law
Missouri jury to-day might balk at such
statement of fact. A typical American
court might be prejudiced against such a
petition. But the King won his suit.
The royal plaintiff was all worked up
about some money that had been taken
from the Prussian postoffice. An employe
had embezzled funds and fled to America.
The King being the government, had to
make good the losses to the patrons of the
postoffice. But old Fritz didn't propose to
hold the bag.
He engaged an American lawyer, long
prominent at the Missouri bar. The attor-
ney took hold Of the case and won it. Be-
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
The american Heart
(F'rons The Topeka Cap,tal)


II you have been obsessed bv the fear
that William will not get what is COMING TO
him forget it. Lloyd George, in speech
delivered yesterday, said William would be
prosecuted. That settles it; he will be.
II America had alone had William 10 deal
with he would at this moment be in verv
grave peril. But before ARRANGEMENTS could
be made to burn him at the stake a strong
demand for executive clemency would sween
the country and his sentence would be com
muted to imprisonment for life. Two
months after his incarceration he wouId he
released on parole. A collection would be
taken for his benefit and fund of five or
SIX hundred thousand dollars would be
raised and turned over to him. Six months
a1ter his release on parole he would receive
1ull pardon and the rights of citizenship
would be restored to him. A bill would be
introduced In Congress granting him pen
sion OF $4,000 year in partial reparation
Tor the indignities heaped upon him. In the
second session of Congress following its in
PRODUCTION the bill would pass both houses
and become law. In five years from the
date OF the signing of the armistice William
would be popular hero, the Governor of
some Western state, and a formidable can
didate for the Presidency.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
Hometuord Bound

n HEAVE, heave up the dripping anchor
", o, let the farewell bugles sound.
The nose of the transport swings to sea-
ward
We're homeward bound, we're homeward
bound,
Break outward through the crying whistles
And all the craft. that scream farewell
With cheer for our French and English
comrades,
A tear for the lads that fought and fell.
Each with his slanting cross above him
Crowding white on an alien hill
Hats, off, boys; hats off for a moment,
For Jack and Charlie, and Jim and Bill
0, heave, heave up the dripping anchor
o, let the farewell bugles sound.
The nose of the good old ship swings OUT
We're homeward bound we're homewara
bound, HARRY KEMP.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14

sides his fee, the attorney received two
magnificent vases from Frederick William
~ IN token of his appreciation. The an
preciative Hohenzollerns still remember
tnat good turn. The kindly William II, un-
III recently King of Prussia and Emperor of
the Germans, showed his appreciation of
the Missouri attorney by bestowing upon
him in 1890 the decoration of the Grand
Cross
old Mr. Hohenzollern and his boy, Fred
crlck William, both admittedly down and
out, probably often recall incidents such as
these IN rejecting on the good old days OF
the dynasty.