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Arizona republican., 1918-07-26
STATE TRADE BOARD
 ID MEET SATURDAY

The State Board of Trade will meet in the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce Saturday afternoon at o'clock to elect representative on the organization committee of the United States Elm ployment service for Arizona The State Federation of Labor has already made one nomination for the position. At the meeting the organization con- mittee will also nominate permanent advisory board for the service. This meeting will be of much interest and the employers throughout the state will be there to discuss matters of or ganiZation and so on. The meeting was originally called for yesterday after noon, but owing to the fact that number of the prominent Arizona em- ployers found it impossible to attend at that time it was postponed.
Arizona republican., 1918-07-26

gations may reveal to be needed in the various localities of the United States and which is not obtainable from the sources mentioned in the preceding paragraph, as nearly as possible at such times and places as the investi- gations of the department of agricul- tIre may show to be necessary.
 8. That in the matter of transport ing laborers to and from various parts of the country each party to this mem orandum of understanding will give such attention as may be required to the transportation of the labor made available by its own activities, but that each party will render to the other all possible assistance in this and all other matters pertaining to this COL cooperative understanding.
Arizona republican., 1918-07-26
NEWS IF WEDDING
 |S SURPRISE HERE

The surprise marriage of Miss Mill dred Pickett of this city to Mir Waltz of Washington, D. C., in Palo Alto a few days ago was made public yes terday when the new Mrs. Waltz re- turned to Phoenix. The news of her marriage came as a distinct surprise to the friends of the bride here, who, nevertheless wish the new bride all the happiness possible, regardless of the fact that she didn't tell them a word of the affair before it was all over
 The wedding was a quiet one, and took place in Palo Alto where MT. Waltz is identified with the United States army. Mrs. Waltz was formerly employed by the Stoddard Incorporat- ing company of this city.
Arizona republican., 1918-07-26
PHOENIX BOY BADLY
 WOUNDED IN ACTION

Word was received yesterday from Washington by Miss Rebecca Para of 1115 East Madison street that her brother, Lucas, had been severely wounded while in action on the French front on June IT. The telegram shortly followed a letter which he had written home on June 15, stating that he was in good health and feeling as fit as ever. His sister. from the wording of the telegram, believes that he is dead.
 If this is true, then Mir. Para is the first-Phoenix boy to give his life to his country while in action. As it is, he is the third Phoenix boy to be wounded in action in France. Miss Para has an- other brother in the service of his coun- try, but he is in the navy and is at present stationed at the Philippine islands.
Arizona republican., 1918-07-26
WOMEN F|CHTERS|N
 TRENCH WORK SHOWN

This has been called "a woman's war because so much has been done by women for the success of the allies, but it remained for the loyal and cour- ageous Russian women to set a pace for the world when they went into the trenches to shame their men who were inclined to show the white feather.
 Metro has taken for Edith Storey the tale of these brave women. Taken it is said, love story from real life A tale of Russian girl. of the czar's royal family, who was sympathizer
Arizona republican., 1918-07-26
FRUIT SHIPMENT |S
 36 CARS FUR DAY

Carlot shipments of cantaloups from the Salt River Valley for yesterday numbered 36 as against 62 for the same date one year ago. The total carlot shipments to date for this season num- Der 1,l02 as against 1915 for the same period in the 1917 season.
 Pittsburg heads the list with 10 and New xork is close second with eight, while Chicago is third with 6 and De- troit has four. Buffalo, Cleveland and Denver each took two while Boston and Philadelphia each got one.
Arizona republican., 1918-07-26
"Finser of Justice at Columbia

"Finger of Justice at Columbia
 The much talked of picture. The Finger of Justice" opened at the Co., lumbia theater yesterday for three day showing and much interest was evidenced at the opening performances by the large crowds which attended Thursdays performances. Praise of the picture seemed general.
 The Finger of Justice is based on Rev Paul Smiths crusade against the vice district of San Francisco, which resulted in the closing of the notorious
Arizona republican., 1918-07-26
BOARD THINKS RAND
 WILL BEAR WATCHING

Yesterday morning the members of the Local Draft board presented Gill bert E. Rand, who has been on the board for the past year, a handsome wrist watch in recognition for his serv- ices and as a remembrance of his com rades on the board. for Mir. Rand leaves for Camp Fremont California,
Arizona republican., 1918-07-26
DR. SLIPPER |s NOW
 MEMBER OF COUNCIL

Official notice of the confirmation by the board of supervisors of Coco nino county of the appointment of N NJ. Slipher of that county by Governor Hunt as a member of the new council of defense was received yesterday at the office of the governor
 Dr. Stipher is director of Lowell observatory at Flagstaff. David Bab- bitt was the first appointee of the gov ernor from Coconino county on the council of defense. but MT. Rabbit de- clined the appointment on account of ill-health.
Arizona republican., 1918-07-26

''Barbary Coast" The events are based on the actual facts relative to that campaign and story which car ries a strong heart interest has been woven into the picture which makes it very thrilling. The picture as a whole drives home a lesson in a direct ap- peal to parenthood to inform their children.
 A special musical program by the Columbia Liberty orchestra has been arranged to conform with The Finger of Justice"
Arizona republican., 1918-07-26

For Perfection and Puritan oil stoves see Wilky- -Wartmann Oil Co.,, 145 w. Jefferson St.-Adv. 1t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-13
THE MATTER.

From the Kansas City Star.
 What's the matter with the folks in this town, anyhow?" demanded old Lab Snuckles, drawing rein in front of the blacksmith shop in Petunia. ''Is the white caps around or the grand jury in session, or what? l rid up to the Right Place store, tide my mule. and started in. I had a switch in my hand and I sorter larruped my britches with it to get the dust off, as any gent would. The storekeeper was behind the coun- ter, and the minute I switched my leg he dropped something that smashed on the floor, and lit out of the back door like bat out of torment. A good deal the same thing happened at couple of other places. I don't look like I wanted to kill anybody. do I?''
 NO, I reckon not" replied the viI- lage chestnut, who stood beneath the blacksmith's spreading tree. But the news was norated around town spell ago that a grass widder lady. name not given. was on the street some'rs. with a rawhide in her hand. and muttering something about prominent business man. So you see how tt--yaw-y-wn! was"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-13
NEAR THE FOOT.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Among the enemies of Germany let us not forget Liberia. This tiny African republic entered the war in all serious ness, has contributed to the victory and bears some honorable scars. It estab- lished compulsory military service and sent hundreds of laborers into France for war work. It expects a seat some where near the foot of the great peace table.
 Some 200 German citizens controlled 75 per cent of Liberia's commercial acti- vities before the war. These 200 are now informed in France and the government took over their enterprises and sold them at auction. It will be remembered that the republics entire navy was sunk by the Germans last April. It consisted O. one small vessel and the submarine that punctured its hull also shelled Mon- rovia. the Liberian capital. and killed ten people.
 Liberia's military authorities estab- lished a basis for determining liability to army duty which is the acme of sim plicty. Natives without clothes are not eligible for service, but as soon as g man puts on shirt and trousers he auto matically becomes liable for enrolment and service. This is on the authority of Bishop Alexander P. Champion, head of the Methodist church in the repub- lie Though Liberia's part in the war has been small. it has been none the less creditable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-13
THE BOYS WE HELP.

From the Montgomery Journal
 The whole town was gathered on the platform that morning to see the train pull out-men and women and children. waving and cheering and trying to keep on smiling through their tears.
 Out of the car windows leaned the boys to wave last goodbye.
 Just average, clear-eyed country town boys; twenty of them altogether. And seventeen of them had never slept a night away from home before.
 They are dwelling in strange land tonight. whose language they cannot un- derstand.
 But across the mud and the snow a light gleams warm from hut on the edge of the town, and inside good cheer and happiness are ready for whoever will come in to claim them.
 Friendship dwells in the hut; keep it's warm fires burning bright this winter. Let it be perfectly clear to the men over there that you have not forgotten
 All for the sake of the men that only little while ago were boys who had never slept away from home
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-13

the year or more that our boys will be continued in service welfare activi- ties will be needed to assure the, men who have sacrificed their lives of the sympathy of the people who were not called to the colors, but who are now enjoying the fruits of victory.
 Nothing should be left undone to provide home-like comforts and means of wholesome recreation for the sol diers. A colonel in command of 1500 deserters held as prisoners at Fort Leavenworth ordered an investigation as to the cause of desertion. It was found that the main reason for their offense was homesickness. "It is the longing for home and for home com forts and companionships that has brought us into trouble," said one of IHe pIlSOHeIS.
 President Wilson and the prominent of our army have written to urge the necessity of the work which is represented by the united agencies now appealing for aid. If it is worth twenty-four billion dollars to America to keep it's men under arms next year, surely it is worth, as someone has expressed it, S170, 400, ,000 or more to create that indefinable, indispensa- ble factor, morale, in time of com parative inaction.
 We owe it to the troops as we'll as to give to the welfare fund with a generous hand. The calls on the people have been many, but there must be no waning of interest now. Let's make this weeks drive as inten- sive as any that have gone before.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-13
THE RED TRIANGLE MEN

From the Chicago News. Their huts are brown on the western
 front
 And pink in the eastern dawn They stand and serve where the men
 lie thick
 And the blinds of fate are drawn. Wherever the need of help is found Their footsteps gather and fall In shell-raked village and shattered
 towns.
 And God looks down on them all Some of the men are college men, Some hail from the nations schools; Each will give what he has to give In the lands where the war field
 rules. And few are young, and fewer fit To answer the greatest call, But each is doing his biggest bit And God looks down on them all. Under the lee of the fighting line. In tents that are pitched in haste. They set the food and the steamlng cup Near the slopes where the red death
 raced. There, where the guns in anger roar, And the whistling bullets fan, They serve--the Red Trina gle men And God looks down on them all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-13
Could Not Get Food

"A friend of mine told me that on Monday night he tried at two different they had been put out of business by the big rush after the parade" said Leo- pold Loeb.
 few of us decided to celebrate
 with a dance at the Phoenix club and
 about 25 couples were hurriedly got
 ten together. We told everybody to come on and we would just order some
 club sandwiches We ordered them all right, but up to midnight they had
 not put in their appearance. so all
 of us had tp go to our homes and search
 In the refrigerators and raid the pan
 tries or go to bed supperless."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-13
Birmingham Heroes
 Who Died In the War.

TN passing an ordinance introduced
 O by Commissioner John R. Hornady to change the name of Behrens park to Jordan park and that of West park to Ingram park, Birmingham's city commission has fittingly honored two heroic young men who died for their country.
 Capt. Mortimer Harvie Jordan and Osman Kelly Ingram proved their gallantry, the one on the field of bat tie in France and the other on the sea. Their names will always be il- lustrious, but the two parks will be tangible evidence of the esteem in which they are held. When the press of war work is over, Birmingham should turn. once more to the "city beautiful'' idea. Jordan park and h. gram park should be improved and beautified, lest they become in time a reproach to our patriotic senti ments.
 Some day a monument should be erected in Birmingham to the men of this city who died in the great war. It is to be hoped that a movement will soon be started to raise funds for this cause. The name of every man who died-the list is not as long as it might have been-should be in- scribed on a bronze tablet in order that future generations may honor these gallant soldiers and sailors who fought to make the world free.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-13
THE cHIvALRY OF THE TURKS

From the Atlanta Journal.
 There is no doubt of the justice and moral necessity of plotting the Turks rule out of Europe Yet it is worth not ing, as a correspondent observes that the soldiers who are driving him into seclusion in Anatolia like him better than any of his allies
 MT. Masefield astonished an Atlanta audience some months ago when, in the course of a lecture on Gallipoli, he told of the British leaving little gifts for the Turkish soldiers who were to take pos session of the trenches abandoned by the entente's ill-starred expedition-the Turk had fought so fairly that the Brit ish sense of sportsmanship instinctive- ly sought to express appreciation. Many witnesses bear like testimony to his chiv airy as warrior. He poisoned no wells, they remind us, violated no flag Of truce, used no liquid fire or poison gas. In combat he proved thousand times more humane than the Hun, and in all military dealings a thousand times more honorable.
 But, strangely enough, when he faced helpless civilian populations he became a monster after the Huns own heart. Some students of the Turk attempt to explain his horrible callousness n mas sacring the Armenians by pointing out that for centuries his fathers have been prosecuting Christians so that now he acts by sheer habit. This construction of the case, discriminating as it is for the Turks of the past, cannot absolve those of today. True, there is more extenua- tion for the barbarity of this people than for the barbarity of the Prussians, but not enough to warrant the civilized world in leaving them any chance for future outrages
 Confined to their ancestral and rightful domain. the Turks in time may work out destiny that will be worthy of their better traits; indeed, they may come to feel the regenerating impulse of new world order. But first of all, they should be made powerless for future harm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-13
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

You can't make a. skinny girl who occupies half seat in street car, be- .ieve that a corn fed girl. who occupies two seats in a street car. shouldn't be made to pay two fares.
 This would be nicer world if mar ried men were upheld in their homes the way they are held up in their homes
 If a man is always on the jump it is hard to keep him from leaping into fame.
 Marriage teaches us that 1t is a durn sight harder to follow 9 woman than 1t is to lead her.
 A woman's idea of an appropriate lid to wear to the movies would probably be a picture hat with filmy stuff on it.
 There are so may bum sports in the world that every man believes that he gets the worst of an even break.
 You might raise lion and a lamb together on the same premises. But you can't raise small boy and prize fern on the same premises.
 Anyway, the year 1918 will be notable for the crop of hopeless white hopes it produced.
 Your affinity may look to be the whole cheese when you are happy and Icarefree. But your wife sure looks SOON " JOu nhcu yO1 ~AS SAS1N. Any married man can tell you that a wife is a person who is always want ing something she can't afford. Don't get discouraged just because you~ make a few mistakes. Every big leaguer breaks into the error column occasionally. Funny how meek-looking little men want strong cigars and how big husky men prefer mild cigars. Never let your head get swelled. You will find that the acquaintances from whom you have been separted as long as six weeks have forgotten all about lyop.
 A wife would have mighty few quar- |rels with her husband If she would pro- Iceed upon the theory that what she doesn't know won't hurt her. When her face is her fortune and his face is his fortune the betting Is that they will put their fortunes together |after he has called of her five or six times.
 And you may have noticed that the girl who is just crazy about Holsters isn't bit that way after she maFries one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-13
BAKER FINDS PHONE.

bAAAtff FINDS PHONE. New York correspondent Pittsburg Dis-
 patch.
 When a short man wearing com monplace black overcoat and Fedora hat stepped from an automobile at the Bat tery entrance of the Governors Island ferry and approached one of the sentries there. the latter brought his rifle across his chest, as is customary in case of ap- proach by stranger The short man asked where he could find a telephone There is government one at the ferry entrance, but the sentry informed the short man that there were phones for the public in the municipal ferry house a short distance away.
 The short man stepped off as directed, but the chauffeur who had brought him leaned over to the sentry and whispered that the short man was the Secretary of War whereupon the sentry called to his inquirer that there was a phone on the spot, which he might use.
 While Secretary Baker was telephon- ing the ferryboat started for Governors Island. He was asked if he was going to the island. He said he was and the boat was recalled.
 The Secretary attended church services on the island and afterward talked with Major General Bell, commander of the department of the east
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-13
pr. Dobbs Here.

Tt is true that it has been a number of years since I lived in Birmingham, said Dr. s. l.. Dobbs, formerly presid- ing elder of the Birmingham district at the time it claimed to be the largest one of it's kind in Methodism, and now acting in the same capacity for the Gadsden district but I have never ceased to take a lively interest in it's doings and it is always doing mighty big and worthy things. I am glad to report that all of the 22 churches in my present work will make a good report at the conference which opens today, for they have all reached their appor- tionment"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-13

George Washington was no failure in life. yet Georges problems were small compared to those successfully solved by Woodrow Wilson.
 Washington has traffic policewoman whose picture indicates that she is good looking enough to halt traffic without lifting her hand. Somebody will have 10 provide lit- tie excitement Who will be the first person to fly across the Atlantie in an airplane?
 Holland probably feels like asking the Hohenzollerns, Why in the name of common sense didn't you go to switzer- land?"
 It's a humane idea anySay-that of beating foe into submission and then ndnu1nR nlfn something 10 eat.
 * * * Business is certainly looking up in the nations tango parlors and cabaret cir cles have taken on new life.
 * * * There is now nothing to prevent re- lentless warfare from being waged on "cooties" in all sectors.
 # # * The proposal to have Mir Bryan paged was premature. Left to himself he will eventually bob up.
 The Wilson brand of diplomacy helped almost as much as the hammering of the allies guns
 Another injection of socalistic virus in her arm and Germania will be standing on her head.
 Those idiotic Yankees feel reasonably satisfied that history will do them justice.
 Although the war is oyer here and there are patriots still "yarin' to go'
 # # <
 The whrligig of time may send Trot- sky back to his SIP week job.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-13
Ideal Weather for
 Fall Flowing


 1nHIS beautiful :. Indian summer
 ll weather makes conditions for fall blowing in Alabama ideal. Many of the farmers are still busy harvest ing their late crops, but the oppor- tunity for preparing fields for winter wheat should not be neglected.
 Alabama's wheat production this year was above million and quar- ter bushels. That was a great gain over 1917, but the sowing for 1919 should be for two million bushels or more.
 Every farmer is expected to in- crease his wheat acreage; in some counties 10 per cent, in others "A per cent. With the wonderful success of crop diversification and the increas- ing profits in live stock husbandry, the farmers feel more than ever en- couraged to pursue intensive methods. The Alabama extension service at Auburn is cooperating enthusiastical- ly with the tillers of the soil, and un- |der the leadership of the extension director splendid results are seen. Agriculture in this state has made strides indeed, but the next step along progressive lines will be the lse of the little tractor. The year 1919 should be notable as tractor year.
 A dispatch says the King of Italy seemed surprised by the warmth of his reception at Triest. There are still few popular Kings in Europe, but all of them could be carried comfortably in seven passenger motor car.
 A few citizens acquired wobbling gait toward the close of the peace celebra- ton, to the profound mystffication of others who tried to follow suit but couldn't find the liquid cheer X tt *
 T shall stand no nonsense from Amer ica." said William to Ambassador Ger ard. But that was not yesterday. nor yet the day before.
 * < *
 China did her bit and is entitled to a hearing at the peace table. We hops Japan won't make faces at her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-13
Important News to Them

T was very much amused by a chance remark which I heard one newsy make were flying thick and fast" said Rivers Carter Two of them, between yells. stopped for one brier moment, when one said to the other, Hey, Jimmie, have you heard de latest?' No, what 'tis?' They say, "wienies' is going up to cents; ain't it a bloody shame You bet your life 1t is, and we got to do something about it.
 "The worlds fate was hanging in the balance, but for them the big thing was the cent raise in their daily luxury"