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Arizona republican., 1918-04-03
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to extend our thanks to the Santa Fe employees and the many friends for their kind assistance and beautiful floral offerings received in the death of our dear wife and mother. ROBT. TAYLOR.
 MIR. AND MRS. L. s. WTIRST
 (AdN.l It
Arizona republican., 1918-04-03
TODAY'S CALENDAR
High School Parent Teacher

The Phoenix high school Parent Teacher association will meet at the Chamber of Commerce today for an all-day sewing for the Red Cross. Mrs. R. A. Perry will be in charge.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-03

Everybody be sure to attend sale to- day, F mile south of Glendale, of hogs, horses, mules and farm machinery D. P. Mcintosh, Owner.-Adv. 1t
Arizona republican., 1918-04-03
PRELIMINARY HEARING

L. B. Hatfield who is alleged to have threatened to commit an offense was arraigned before Justice Wheeler yes terday and his preliminary hearing set for o'clock Thursday afternoon. Hat field was arrested on the complaint of William Clayton who declared Hat field had boasted he belonged to a fuedist family in Kentucky.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-03
OBITUARIES
j. E. IXester

Funeral services for J. T. Ivester will be held at the Moore and Mcclellan un- dertaking establishment this afternoon at ? o'clock. Burial will be made at Greenwood cemetery.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-03
PERSONAL MENTION

Dr. R. M Fifel of Chloride sa bus mess visitor to Phoenix. He is a guest at the Hotel Adams
 MT. and Mrs. A. Patterson of Pres
Arizona republican., 1918-04-03
FORMER PHOENIX MAN
 DIES IN COAST CITY.

Word has been received in Phoenix of the death of w. W. Catlin, Sr, who passed away in San Francisco, March 24. MT. w. w. Catlin. Sr., was the uncle of Will W. Catlin who for sev- eral years was one of the prominent business men of PAoenix and who owned the local Buick automobile agency previous to it's sale to the Babbitt Brothers w. w. Catlin, Sr., was well known in Phoenix.
 Everybody be sure to attend sale to- day, F mile south of Glendale. of hogs, horses, mules and farm machinery. D. P. Mcintosh, Owner.-Adv. It
Arizona republican., 1918-04-03

For Perfection and Puritan oil stoves see Wilky- Wartman Oil Co.,. 145 w. Jefferson St.-Adv. It
Arizona republican., 1918-04-03
LOCAL WEATHER YESTERDAY

IAOtso m ltIIptI dtuIt ytoI6IUdy degrees.
 Excess in temperature since the. first of the month 10 degrees.
 Accumulated excess in temperature since January IS degrees.
 Normal precipitation January 1 to date, 2.S7 inches.
 Actual precipitation January 1 to date, 2.52 inches.
 Accumulated excess since January 1, .15 inches. ROBERT c. GRANT.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-03

For Perfection and Puritan oil stoves see Wilky- Wartman oil Co, 145 w. Jefferson St.-Adv. D It
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-26

order shall adequately meet the needs
of the present emergency
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-26
THE LABOR PRESS
BY the Rev. Charles Stelzle.

Somebody recently said that the
average workingman reads his labor
paper as the early Christians read
their New Testament. However that
may be, a practical advertising man
ager insists that IS an advertising
medium n labor paper is fully ten
times as valuable rs the ordinary daily
paper.
The average labor union man reads
not only his trade journal which deals
with the affairs of his craft, but also
receives the local paper. which seeks
to keep him informed with reference
to the doings of organized labor in
the town in which he lives. 1t is safe
to say that nearly every trades union
ist reads some kind of a labor paper,
which he in many cases passes on to
his fellow workmen who are not in
the union. and in most cases it is also
read by the members of his own fam
lily. 1t has been estimated that the
labor press has a constituency Of
about ten millions. which includes the
persons in the homes of the subscrib
ers. From the professional advertis-
ing mans viewpoint, this is conserv-
ativc estimate. as there are about
three million trades unionists in the
SHlltu SlaltS anu NeAAlsiit. iilNSA VI Aiit
trades papers, at any rate, being dis
tributed in both countries.
The labor press does not always
offer a life of ease and comfort, even
aside from the trials that are peculiar
to editors. As a class. labor editors
are honest, in spite of the temptation
to graft" which comes to nearly
every labor editor from employers,
politicians and ambitious "labor lead
ers." That they withstand this temp
tation is to their credit, for the sal
aries paid them are, as n rule, pitt
fully small. One of the brightest and
best-informcd editors in this country
receives only SIS a week for his serv-
ices. They are supposed to be in
formed on trade conditions and to tell
about these things in the language Of
the man in the shop. And most of
them do it well.
The disposition to present the view
of the employing class in the labor
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-26
UNION MEMBERS
FOR YEAR 367,3S1
MINERS GROWTH FIGURES
GIVEN BY SECRETARY.
Additions During 1917 Totaled 55,595;
Immense Financial Transactions of
Great Labor Organization Like
Mine Workers of America.

According to the report of William
Green, secretary-treasurer of the
United Mine Workers of America,
read at the biennial convention of the
organization, now in session at In
dianapolis, the membership of the
union shows an increase in the aver
age paid up membership for the fiscal
year ending November 80, 1917, and
was 55,595 greater than for the year
ending November 80, 1916.
The number eXonerated from the
payment of dues because of enforced
idleness is 36,459 less during the year
ending November 80, 1917, than in
the year ending November 80, 1916.
The average paid up membership two
years ago was 311, ,7S6, while for the
last year it was 367 ,3S1. The number
exonerated two years ago was 49,24l,
and last year it was 12,7S2.
In addition the report showed that
practically 10000 members of the
union have entered the military serv-
ice of the United States, and are,
therefore, not paying members, but
are eXonerated from payment of dues
while they are carried as members
for the full time of their military
service. In November, 1917, the paid
up membership reached high water
mark for the biennial term, 4l0,600.
From Year of Organization.
The report set out the average paid
up membership of the United Mine
Workers from the time the union was
organized in 1890, and the figures are
interesting as showing the progress
made by the organization. They are
ID fg1l9y-l-
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-26

press is a source of constant sur
prise. Compared with the organs of
the employers associations. labor pa
pers are unusually fair in their treat
ment of the labor question. Contrary
to the general impression, rarely does
there appear an article which one
might call radical. The conservatism
and the restraint of these workingmen
is most admirable.
Constantly there is the appeal for
temperate living. Corruption in labor
circles is numerically scored High
ideals in the home and in family life
are insistently presented. The appeal
to the heart, in editorial, in story, in
illustration and in news item, is found
in nearly every issue
The trade journals in almost every
instance give considerable space to
purely technical matters. thus supply
ing 4 course in technology which must
be of great value to the mechanics
and especially to the apprentices in
the trade. Indeed, many of these Jour
mails are of the highest type in both
matter and in general makeup. COM
pairing favorably with the average
monthly magazine sold on the news
stands.
As a rule the attitude of the labor
press toward the employer is fair and
reasonable. There is disposition to
regard him rs n friend But toward
the man who opposes organized labor
thru an employers association or
citizens alliance with a determination
absolutely to crush it out, there is al
ways the strongest feeling of resent
ment and bitterness. There is no
class of men-not even the "scabs"
whom they employ-who are more
sincerely hated and more persistently
ridiculed. There is, however. not the
slightest disposition to advocate the
use of violence in dealing with them
The labor press suffers, as does
every other part of the labor move
ment, in that many of the men who
are developed in the ranks soon find
other and more remunerative employ
ment, where the responsibility is not
SO great and where the criticism is
not so severe. Some of them become
labor editors on daily papers, others
so into the professions, some become
politicians, many enter upon busi-
ness career, while still others are en-
gagged by large employers to handle
for them the labor problem as it ex-
lists in their plants.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-26
.S7a5.OSl.75

Total ..............S7 S735, ,03l.75
In order to supply the above finan-
cial aid to the members engaged in
the long, bitter strikes in Colorado
and Eastern Ohio, the international
was compelled to borrow SS77 $50 from
the various district organizations.
The report showed that all of this
indebtedness had been liquidated eN-
cept SlSO,97s, and that this balance
would be paid off soon.
The Balance on Hand
The balance on hand in the inter-
national treasury at the end of the
last fiscal year was SAT- 7,01S.94. The
income for the year 1917 was Sl,759,-
727.34 and the expenditures We're ST.
966 ,999.20. There was balance on
hand December /, 1917, of S209.-
7i5.05 The income for the two years
since Mr.. Green made his previous
report was S2,S07 .59S.44, and the eN-
penditures were S2,790. .4l0.36.
Mr.. Green said that even the large
income of the international organiza-
ton was not sufficient to meet the
growing demands that are constantly
being made on the organization. He
mentioned the heavy demands for re
lief for men who join the union in
non-union fields and their families.
He said these demands are greater
than can be met by the union, and
that some plan must be worked out
by which sufficient funds can be
raised with which TO meet these calls.
Funds in Colorado Banks.
For instance. he said, in June of
last summer $4,000 mine workers in
Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee and
their families, amounting to more
than 10000 persons. We're suddenly
made dependent on the organization
for support because of strike. The
need was urgent and immediate, and
MIR. Green was obliged to appeal to
local unions and district organizations
for help. They sent in $50, 10,
which was spent for food and cloth
ing. Altogether. in that district
alone. S25S, $50 was spent for aid, and
the money enabled the miners to win
their strike.
A total of S57 ,5Sl .35 of United Mine
Workers funds is still tied up in sew
eral Colorado banks, some of which
have failed. Efforts are being made
to recover this money.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-26

In the two years ending November
80, 1917, total of s735,031.75 was
paid out as aid to members on strike
and their families. This sum was
paid out of the per capita tax, no
assessment having been made. The
sums spent for aid in the various dis
frlcis Mnrn as follows.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-26

Oldti oIi1AA Inject Tie lttuS
of the present emergency.
Employment Service Bureau.
The department of labor authorizes
the following:
Denying the existence of real la
Dor shortage in the United States and
the necessity of a conscription of la
Dor, and asserting that the solution of
the war-labor problem lies in the
proper distribution of the available
supply of workers, the department of
labor announces that the United
States employment service will serve
as the national labor mobilization and
distribution machine. Allowing for
the turnover, the department esti-
mates, the rsorganized and expanded
federal service must place between
three and four millions workers in
agriculture, shipbuilding and the
other war industries this year.
Mr.. Densmore Director.
To successfully handle its gigantic
task, the employment service has been
divorced from the bureau of immigra-
tion and made a separate bureau of
the labor department, and one of the
largest and most important of the ma
tlonal governments war-prosecuting
agencies. John B. Densmore of Mon
tana, formerly solicitor for the labor
department, has been named by Sec
retary of Labor Wilson as director of
the reorganized service.
For several months the labor de-
partment has been quietly working to
equip the federal employment service
TO handle the war-labor problem.
Funds amounting to more than ST.
100000 have been made available and
will keep the labor-supply machine in
operation until the end of the fiscal
year in June; $3.50, 900 of the total
was appropriated by Congress at its
last session. and the President re-
Gently allotted SS25. 900 more from his
war-emergency fund.
Covers Entire Continent.
The service is now covering the en-
tire continent with a network of labor
exchanges, the department announced.
Federal. state and municipal employ
ment Offices and the facilities of the
various state councils of defense are
being utilized. Already more than 200
such exchanges are in operation and
the immediate establishment of fifty
more is projected.
In addition to naming Mr. Densmore
director of the service, Secretary Of
Labor Wilson has appointed Charles
T. Clayton of Maryland. assistant di-
rector in charge of the field work and
cooperating bodies, and Robert Wat
son of Massachusetts, assistant di-
rector in charge of administration.
Divided Into Five Divisions.
Five divisions will handle the de-
tail of the services national opera
tions- These divisions, with their
chiefs. appointed by Secretary Wilson,
follows:
Division of information, T. V. Pow
derly of Pennsylvania. chief: division
of farm service, A l. Barkman of
Kansas City. Mo, chiet: women's di-
vision, Mrs. Hilda Mahlhauser of
Ohio, chief: division of reserves, Will
liam f. Hall of New York, chief; and
division of investigation, Alexander D.
Chiqueine, jr.. of Philadelphia, Pa,
chief. The information and women's
division existed under the former or
ganization of the federal employment
service. The others have just been
created. Mr.. Hall, chief of the divi-
sion of reserves, is the national di-
rector of the public service and the
boys working reserves.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-26

II you want job printing in = hurry
on union label watermarked paper,
call up The Bulletin. Phone Main 1905.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-26
Free tOTwinS
THEIR MOTHERS AND FATHERS

READ THE ADS. OF THE MERCHANTS LISTED Be
LOW. THESE MERCHANTS WILL GIVE FREE TO
EVERY HOME IN DENVER OF THE READERS OF
THE BULLETIN WHERE TWINS ARE BORN DUR
ING THIS YEAR VALUABLE ARTICLES OF MER-
CHANDISE. THE BULLETIN MUST FIRST BE NOTI-
FLED OF THE ARRIVAL OF TWINS AND THIS
PAPER WILL IN TURN NOTIFY THE MERCHANTS
OF THE HAPPY EVENT AND REQUEST THEM TO
SEND TO THE HOME WHERE TWINS ARE BORN
THE ARTICLES OF MERCHANDISE OFFERED.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-26

O'Keefe, the popular jewelcr at s27
Fifteenth street, has those beautiful
bride rings. Don't be afraid, boys.
Cleveland County herald. (Rison, Ark.) 1888-current, 1918-08-08
CHAPTER XVIII.
Experiences in Holland.

But I was not quite out of the
woods.
I now knew that l was in Holland
but just where had no idea. I walked
for about thirty minutes and came to
a path leading to the right, and l had
proceeded along it but few hundred
yards when l saw in front of me a
fence exactly like the one 1 had
crossed.
'This is funny" said to myself. ST
didn't know the Dutch had fence,
too" / advanced to the fence and
examined it closely, and judge of my
astonishment when [ saw beyond it a
nine-foot fence apparently holding
live wires exactly like the one which
mad nearly been the death of mel
| had very little time to conjecture
what it all meant, for just then
heard a guard coming. He was walk
ing so fast that I was sure it was a
Dutch sentry, as the Huns walk much
slower.
| was so bewildered, however, that
l decided to take no chances, and as
the road was fairly good I wandered
down it and away from that mysteri-
GUS fence. About half mile down
Cleveland County herald. (Rison, Ark.) 1888-current, 1918-08-08
CHAPTER xVi-Continued.

From the kitchen you could walk
directly into the cow-barn, where two
cows were kept, and this, as l have
pointed out before, is the usual con-
struction of the poorer Belgian houses.
I could not make out why the caller
seemed to be so antagonistic to me,
and yet I am sure he was arguing with
the family against me. Perhaps the
fact that | wasn't wearing wooden
sboes-I doubt whether l could have
obtained pair big enough for me
had convinced him that l was not
really a Belgian, because there was
nothing about me otherwise which
could have given him that idea.
At that time, and 1 suppose it is
true today, about 94 per cent of the
people in Belgium were wearing
wooden shoes. Among the peasants I
don't believe l ever saw any other
kind of footwear and they are more
common there than they are in Hol-
hand. The Dutch wear them more on
account Of a lack of leather. I was
Tald that during the coming year prac-
tically all the peasants and poorer
people in Germany, too, will adopt
wooden shoes for farm work, as that
is one direction in which wood can be
substituted for leather without much
aoss.
When the young man left, I left
shortly afterwards, as I was not at
all comfortable about what his inten-
tions were regarding me- For all 1
knew he might have gone to notify
the German authorities that there was
a strange man in the vicinity-more
perhaps to protect his friends from
suspicion of having aided me than to
snjure me.
At any rate, was not going to take
any chances and I got out of that
neighborbood as rapidly as I could.
That night found me right on the
frontier of Holland.
Cleveland County herald. (Rison, Ark.) 1888-current, 1918-08-08
When a Prisoner Is EXCHANGED.

Ivan Rossiter, captured by the Ger
mans and later exchanged. says in the,
Farm and Fireside: '"Then lay down.
not to sleep but to think. / thought
of the day when l enlisted in Canada.
Of leaving home, the training camps,
the trip overseas to England, the
training in England, going across the
channel to Flanders, the terrific fight
ing at Ypres, of the many friends who
fell on that bloody battlefield, how
was wounded and captured, the inhu-
man treatment / received at the hands
of the German surgeons, who had four
husky Germans hold me down while
they cut five bones out of my wrist
and amputated my middle finger at the
second joint when l was wounded in
the palm of the hand, the kicks and
the cuffs from prison guards and the
terrible stuff the Germans called food
in the prison camps"
Cleveland County herald. (Rison, Ark.) 1888-current, 1918-08-08

wire fence and breathed the free air of
Holland. / had no clear idea just
where / was and l didn't care much.
| was out of the power of the Germans
and that was enough. l had walked
perhaps hundred yards, when l re-
membered the lace l had thrown over
the barrier, and dangerous as I real
lied the undertaking to be, / deter
mined to walk back and get it. This
necessitated my going back onto Bel
gian soil again, but it seemed a shame
to leave the lace there, and by eXer-
cising a little care l figured l could
get it easily enough.
When came to the spot at which
had made my way under the barbed
wire, I put my ear to the ground and
listened for the sentry. 1 heard him
coming and lay prone on the ground
till he had passed. The fact that he
might observe the hole in the ground
or the ladder occurred to me as / lay
there, and it seemed like an age be-
fore he finally marched out of ear
Shot. Then | went under the barbed
wire again, retrieved the lace and once
again made my way to Dutch terri
tory.
1t does not take long to describe the
events just referred to, but the Incl
dents themselves consumed several
hours in all. To dig the hole must
| have taken me more than two hours
| and l had to stop frequently to hide
while the sentry passed. Many times,
indeed, l thought 1 heard him coming
and stopped my work and then dis
covered that it was only my imagina-
ton. I certainly suffered enough that
night to last me a lifetime. With q
German guard on one side, death from
electrocution on the other, and starva-
ton staring me in the face, my plight
was anything but a comfortable one
1t was on the 10th of November,
1917 when / got through the wire. /
Cleveland County herald. (Rison, Ark.) 1888-current, 1918-08-08
CHAPTER XVII.


Waiting until it was quite dark,
made my way carefully through a
field and eventually came to the much
dreaded barrier.
1t was all that had heard about it.
Every foot of the border line between
Belgium and Holland is protected in
precisely the same manner. 1t is there
to serve three purposes: first, to pre-
vent the Belgians from escaping into
Holland; second to keep enemies, like
myself, from making their way to free
dom; and third, to prevent assertions
on the part of Germans themselves.
One look was enough to convince any
one that it probably accomplished all
three objects about as well as any con-
trivance could, and one look was all I
got Of it that night, for while I lay
on my stomach gazing at the forbid
ding structure 1 heard the measured
stride of a German sentry advancing
towards me and I crawled away as
fast as l possibly could, determined
to spend the night somewhere in the
fields and make another and more
careful survey the following night.
The view 1 had obtained, however,
was sufficient to convince me that the
pole-vault idea was out of the ques-
tion even if l had a pole and was q
proficient pole-vaulter. The three
fences covered a span of at least twelve
feet and to clear the last barbed wire
fence it would be necessary to vault
not only at least ten feet high, but at
least fourteen feet wide, with the GER
tain knowledge that to touch the cleo
trically charged fence meant instant
death. There would be no second
chance if you came a cropper the first
time.
The silt idea was also impractical
bic because of the lack of suitable
timber and tools with which to con-
Struct the stills.
1t seemed to me that the best thing
to do was travel up and down the line
bit in the hope that some spot might
be discovered where conditions were
more favorable, although don't know
just what l expected along those
lines.
1t was mighty disheartening to real
lie that only few feet away lay GER
tain liberty and that the only things
preventing me from reaching it were
three confounded fences. / thought or
my machine and wished that some
kind fairy would set it in front of me
for just one minute.
/ spent the night in a clump OF
bushes and kept in hiding most of the
next day, only going abroad for an
hour or two in the middle of the day
to intercept some Belgian peasant
and beg for food. The Belgians in this
section were naturally very much
afraid of the Germans and 1 Jared
badly. In nearly every house German
soldiers were quartered and it was
out of the question for me to apply
for food IN that direction. The prox
Unity of the border made everyone
eye each other with more or less sus
p1clon and | soon came to the conclu
sion that the safest thing I could dc
was to live on raw vegetables which
could steal from the fields at night az
Il had previously done.
That night I made another survey
of the barrier in that vicinity, but i
looked just as hopeless as it had tn,
might before and 1 concluded that
4only wasted my time there.
Cleveland County herald. (Rison, Ark.) 1888-current, 1918-08-08
Heard the German Guard Coming.

had made my leap from the train on
September 9th. Altogether. therefore,
just seventy-two days had elapsed
since l escaped from the Huns. If
live to be as old as Methusaleh, never
expect to live through another sew
enty-two days so crammed full of in
cident and hazard and lucky escape.
Cleveland County herald. (Rison, Ark.) 1888-current, 1918-08-08

Enough matches to light all its con-
tents are attached to recently in-
vented cigarette box. [