davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Arizona republican., 1918-09-24

not understand that cotton for which there was arket could be 24 cents pound when three four years ago under the condition of market, low ordinary went begging at cents and the public confronted everywhere with the slogan Buy bac.F
 At conference at Dallas Texas the other day members the Cotton Exchange and representatives of the department of agriculture light thrown upon the cause of the glut but not on the for the sustained high price of low ordinary. It appears that the government is the chief cotton buyer and that buys only the best, "middng bet ter Practically all government contracts call for those higher grades whatever may be the to which the cotton is to be put. In the way of proof and illustration it stated that manufacturer with
 contract for mattresses and another with contract for horse collars were compelled by their contract with the government to use 'middng cotton better"
 This disclosure moved the Galveston News to moralize as follows:
 The government has habit of being exacting to the point of fastdiousness, in prescribing standards of quality for the things it buys, habit probably easily formed under the temptation of extravaganza which tax money to present to all who have the spending of it. since most the things the government buys for the service of men who fight for it. those who prescribe the stand ards of quality probably spurred by the thought that the best is not quite good enough If middling cotton makes more downy mattress than low mid ding patriotism will stifle protest that may to the lips. But patriotism will demur to the spcitude which is shown for the comfort of army mules by requiring that only mddlng cotton be in the making of collars And it will some of parenthetically that since it is the industries board that thus increases the demand high grade cotton. that body is somewhat inconsistent in com plaining of the price.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-24
A NEW PROPAGANDA CARRIER

Recent dispatches from Paris told of flocks of balloons sent up by the Allies on the western front each carrying propaganda in literature from which was dropped intervals behind the German lines and everywhere that the enemy had. it's forces employed or quartered While tons of literature were dropped in and around enemy forces not balloon fell into the possession of the enemy and the German soldiers were completely mystified to the source of the pamphlets.
 This was due to the invention of Lee A. Collins of Louisville Ky His propaganda balloon was given to making of it.
 The average balloon bag stands about three feet in height and is two and one-half feet in diameter It is constructed of silk other waterproofed material and is filled with hydrogen gas. An aluminium cup beneath contains spool wound with fuse which is regulated according to the distance to be travelled
 The fuse is cut off to burn hour-for instance if there is 40nle wind blowing and it is desired to send the matter forty miles back. When flock of balloons is released the distances regulated and wind carries them No Mans Land to enemy territory
 The simplicity of the invention and its adaptabil- ity to all conditions make Then too, 1t is inexpensive. and thousands be constructed at small cost.
 The explosion of the gas bursts the bag which usually takes fire and is destroyed When the bag bursts the strain of the carrier is immediately leased and the printed matter falls away carried rain down seemingly from nowhere, for the balloon travels six thousand the air and be It Is utterly destroyed by the time the printed matter reaches earth.-Louisville Courier Journal.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-24
The Juuo- SIavs

Phoenix, Arizona.
 Sept. 23. 1918.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-24
R. W. KRAMER
 T0 ADDRESSk,C |,

h..'N lli1am Kramer past state dep- uty of the Knights of Columbus, will address all members of the order To- cated. in Phoenix at the meeting of Marcos De Niza Council, this eve ming, at the K. of P. hall on the subject of the United War Work cam palgn. MT. Kramer will give the his tory and scope of the campaign and Will present the details of the plans Of the Knights of Columbus to indi- Vldually and as an organization take part in the nation wide drive which Will be launched about the first of the year. Following Mr. Kramers ad- dress steps will be taken by the local lcouncl. as representing and carrying out the pledges of the National Catho- lie War Council to organize and be in readiness to lend it's full assistance and cooperation to the National cam paign executive committee in its drive in this vicinity The unification and CO., ordination of all war service move ments" said Mir. Kramer recently, will go down in history as a. stroke of real genius on the part of the administra- tion. All of these movements hereto fore have been directed to the same laudable general end, but were inde- pendently conducted and resulted, at times. in an unnecessary conflict of campaign and duplication of effort Now that all of these movements have been combined and are to be financed in one gigantic drive, the entire Amer ican people, with one mind and heart, regardless of creed, color or ancestry as one, united and determined nation shoulder and shoulder and purse to purse, and in this move to back up our boys over there with the last dollar and to the last man. And the Catholic hierarchy and laity, compris- ing. according to the last census, one sixth of the population of this nation and furnishing. according to oftlcla report, third of its fighting forces are in this campaign, not as a sep arate entity, for such designation we have never claimed nor tolerated. but as part and parcel of our great Ameri- can citizenry, with every available re source and with every particle O strength the Almighty has given us.
 Grand Knight Volta announces tha
 new officers for the coming year vii
 be elected at the meeting this eve
 ming. and urges all members Of th' order to attend the meeting.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-24
Problems of Prohibition"

Speaking the other day of the disclosure that sroup of brewers had backed Mir Brisbane in the pur ,hase of the Washington Times, we gave it as an impression the Times had since been advocate nf prohibition and ardent supporter of the govern nent It was not clear then how the brewers they were admitted to be. and pro-Germans they suspected of being getting their moneys worth.
 But inc Times is not wholly neglectful of the in- Of the brewers In recent number under the caption Problems of Prohibition there is dabtribe against whisky such only Mir. Brisbane is capable of launching. The evils spirits are pointed out horribly. But in conclusion the Times observes:
 This newspaper in it's fight against whisky and drunkenness has advocated the theory and advice of Thomas Jefferson believing that while total absti- hence would be Inc ideal condition it would be diff ficuit. perhaps impossible, enforce it legally, whereas the elimination of whisky without legal pro- hihiton Of the very mild stimuants that other tons use temperately might solve the problem simply"
 It is too late now. But if this kind of a cam pairn had been begun half century ago; or even twenty-five years ago. the brewers would not need advocates Then, however. the brewers and Tho wine makers. seeing the rest of the people thought they saw, the hopelessness of prohibition, stood solIdy with the whisky makers, and the brew probably did discredit the saloon business sy their ownership and financing of low saloons than. whisky alone could have done.
 As prohibition spread state by state the dstillers deserted the brewers. It easier before the of federal legislation for protection of pro- hbition states, 10 smuggle in whisky than the bulky beer So many of the dry states more whisky consumed than The disters not only fused to contribute to funds against the spread of prohibition. but it charged that they actually encouraged it until such legislation the Webb Kenyon law began to loom up
 But by that time prohibition had gained an m- petus which has carried it forward until now, tho threshold of national and absolute prohibition
Arizona republican., 1918-09-24
The Housing Problem

The question of housing in Phoenix has been aiscd by the Phoenix Trades Council and it has be- ome a most important one Rents are as the trades council says in letter to the Council of Defense lbnormslly high higher than almost anywhere else in the country. There not nearly enough houses n Phoenix though many have been built the past season. But for the bounding prices of materials Phoenix would have had a building boom of vast proportions.
 We think the owners of property made mistake in not building regardless Of the prices of Shich will probably be any lower. They will crtainly be lower within years too long a period to be occupied by idieness
 But we are not confronted by what we might have lone or ought to have done but by the matter of 'rcssng rents. The same problem faces many of the ssstern cities and towns where war work has called great numbers of families together and various steps been taken for it's solution but we do not recall hat the aid of the government has been invoked to orce down or hold down But inasmuch as rent IS an item. and big one, of the cost of living and nssmuoh as the government has ntervened to hold in check other items we do not why it should not take cognizance of this one.
 No other Pacific towns except San Pedro md Oakland have been disturbed by question: md San Pedro owes it's unfortunate situation to the ,upidity of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce which advised against housing facilities for the housands that would be added to the San Pedro population Los Angeles heavily dotted with 'mpty houses and rents there were abnormaly low was not san Pedro part of Los Angeles. though "en'y-three miles distant from the empty houses?
 distance of twenty three miles is just as long inside corporation outside and it was too far for the rorknen to travel that San Pedro is acutely con- tssted.
 san Diego like Los Angeles is overrun with empty houses and rents arc low Both those towns built for future population which has not yet arrived Phoenix built largely from hand to mouth and since tho real growth of the town began half dozen years sgo has never had enough houses for the increasing population.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-24
RETAIL SELLER CAN
 FIX HIS OWN PRICE

After full consideration the Federal Trade commission has decided to is sue complaints against all business concerns who refuse to sell unless the purchaser will agree to maintain resale price fixed by the seller.
 When once an article has passed from the maker to a purchaser he owns it, and the owner of such article may sell it at any price that he chooses. provided he does not himself sell it at such price as to be below cost and thus thereby enter into un- fair competition with other retailers selling the same article.
 This decision, it is admitted, is go ing to be open to considerable contro- versy in relation to the subject mat ter thereby, and will probably have to be settled by an act of congress. Use The Republican Classified Pages for Resuts-Read for Profit
Arizona republican., 1918-09-24
Some Cotton Facts

week ago cotton prices ranged from about A
 cnis for low ordinary nearly 35 for middling
 nd they had then varied widely from the pre-
 aiiing prices for weeks. About the same time the course of the talk of price fixing and the an- nouncemcnt of why prices should be fixed stated that the markets were eutted and that a stabiization of prices would set the cotton motion We did not understand that. and especially we did
Arizona republican., 1918-09-24

on November l. The governor cannot appoint TO the office until the of flee is vacant. He can appoint FOR the office when he accepts the resis- nation of the former treasurer to take effect when the resignation of the former treasurer takes effect
 Very sincerely yours.
 CHAS. w. HARRIS,
 The Adjutatnt General.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-24

PnOen1X, Ar1ZOna,
 Sept. 23, 1918. Arizona Republican,
 Phoenix, Arizona.
 Gentlemen:
 Noting an article copied from the London Daily Mail in your Sunday ls- sue. entitled What Are the Jugo- Slavs?" I take the liberty of address ing your publication as follows. With the desire that same may be given space in your valued paper at an carly date.
 The Dalmatia nas never been Slavish | territory. It was a Roman province Tor centuries. and all the old and beau tiful monuments in Zara. Spalato and other small Dalmatian cities arc the witness of this assertion. It became a Ncnitian Republic Province at the time of the old glorious days of the DoSeS. and finally because of Napoleon ;; wickedness i' became and now belongs to the King of Austria. better known 1 between all the Dalmatians and Ital- ans as the King of the Gallows." Not l aithstandipg the latest Austrian dom | nation Daimatia is still ltalan-I:ai-
Arizona republican., 1918-09-24
THE STUFF THAT MAKES VICTORY

The slogan adopted at the Congress of Allied Wo- men in Paris is high and fine h'~ Believe Victory
 Think Victory.
 Preach Victory.
 Live Victory,
 But the stuff that makes victory is in the wild new slogan from the trenches:
 Hell Heaven or Hobokcn by Chrstmasl-Ncw York Tribune
Arizona republican., 1918-09-24

For us as a people there are now just two tasks of supreme import ance: To win the war for freedom and democracy and to fit ourselves and our children for life and citizen ship in the new world which the war is bringing in.
 -Philander P. Claxton.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-06-03
HIGH SCHOOL
EXHIBITION
Public Is Invited to witness Great VOTE
That Has Been Done By domestic
Science and Mammal Training.

The public is extended cordial invt-
tation to attend the open house al
tho Wheeling high school this evening.
between the hours OF $50 and $50. The
wonderful work that has been done dur
in..~1h. past term by the members OF
IN. domestic science and manual train
ing classes will be on exhibition. and II
* The wish OF those in charge that many
OF tho parents attend and examine the
work. so as 10 know their children have
been doing their b"s,. Members or the
board Of education will be the particular
guests Of the boys and girls or the
classes. while teachers and students Will
cnnduc; these who arr present around
thn building. giving them glimpse OF
AL Of the work
The manual training department. un-
der the supervision Of Professor Card
ner has done remarkably fnc work.
turning out splendid pieces Of workman-
ship, and many IF the boys arc nc"
skilled in various trades. Many OF these
buys will Immediately take up work with
various companies.
The girls Of the domestic science dc
rartment have turned out wonderful ar
i;cIrs and most OF them are proficient
s.amstrcsses. and all have learned the
are Of cooking. A great deal Of clothing
has been given to the POOR stricken Bel
gianS.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-06-03
De PALMA GETS
FIRST PLACE IN
Bic AUTO RACE

NEW YORK, June ".'-ltalph De
Palma was the winner Of the 100 milo
Hardness handicap automobile rae"
at Sherpshead Bay speedway ErSirr'
day. and moi Tom Milton. as al ilrHt
announced. according 20 Il revised re-
port given out by tho American Auto
mobile Association.
Immediately after tho race. he Ia!
ma, who had been placed fourth. pro-
tested. lie insisted "la; h" had lwlC"
Tapped carney rld!irld. credited with
second place, and that h" should have
been given second place at least ne
Palma'S representative" Ill thr irHc%
was tho first tn claim III" victory ZOE
his man. Later. Ihr figures Of IN"
scorers wrr" checked and DE rat
mas claims verified in tho report
made 10 the automobile association.
Fred WAGNER. Official times ana
starter ri The race, said INC errors
in tho first announcement Of results
were due to mistakes made by me
scorers
The position and aimr nf ~" racers
a. revised. were announced today Us
follows: pr ra!rIa. first. aS:2l;
Tom Milton. S"rond. IS:%l: uldilrl"'
third. $3.50: EILi" li"arnc. i"uT'h'
G0:a2: Dan Hickey. fif'h. 6l:in: Ira
Vail. sikh. 6l:ii: Omar T0il. seventh
&C. %; Louis Chevrolet. eighth. Us :AS.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-06-03

NEW YORK June c.--Thr winning
drive az he New York Americans was
IN. feature of the major leagues play
,,u-inr n. last week. With q team hat
ting average for the week OF SAB ANU
cut-Scorirg their opponents Is runs 10
Is. he Yankees WOO six games an" '"St
one Boston retained its Lad or one
game. however. as both E"stnn and New
York lost to-day. 10 Detroit and chicago
rcsrtct!vrlv Thr 81. Louis Americans
went into third plare ahead - ti'NrIand
beca,,s., q the Indians poor fielding and
ineffective though heavy batting.
CHICAGO cut New lnrk'S lead in the
National T.caT;i" 10 "re AMI MATT
games. The Cubs won four games out
% Eve while IT, Giants hr"k" sven IN
six games. Boston continued ITS Eo"N
play, winning 1--WE and losing tw" ana
Pntladel phia braced. srttins. four VIC
torres in six games.
New York ended !ts disastrous west
ON trip Ia which it won only five games
If the Il by losing TO Cn;raS" last sun
tav and Monday. New York then took
two out Of ,?,rer from Philadelphia. the
puakc-s. victory "Wednesday being their
frs over the Giants this season Perrltt
shut out Pittsburgh Saturday with three
hits. Ill luck at SecuT'c base stu pur-
sues the Giants, Niehocf breaking 4 le
IN Fridays game.
Rain interter,~i with the Cincinnati
Chicago series. The teams divided the
holiday double header Thursday. TpneE
Of Cincinnati, scoring his Erih StTGGne
victory and Vaughn OF thicaS" getting
his second victory o: the week by faI'n-
inS t,yclye men. chicago Opened us
cas,crn series Saturday by defeating;
Boston
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-06-03
RIVER NEWS

Tho stage of water A. six 2. m. ycs:cr-
hn- was ,cn fccr+siN inches and failing
slowly
The Milton arrived Yesterday morning
n .iSh. o'clock from Matamoras and
vii. i"avc today at II a. n. for The same
port.
Tho Dunbar left AZ one =. n. on her
way from Charleston 10 Pittsburgh with
4 hiE trip. She passed Wheeling on her
way down 10 Charleston Wednesday
rnornirC n seven.
All government dams IN tho river
w"ra r;tisnd vest" rciay with tho exc" pti"n
nf No. - ut Warwood. which viii DO
raised today. M. Is at McM"chcn. will
:" up about Thursday.
Yesterday n" Milton towcd a decked
barge from thr c. i. F1cshcr over TO the
,'r:,vi''t ship Success" Tho barge VIII
p. used as n ronfn"n bridge from tho
shore |" Tho ship whi.h Will Il" open TO
~. :GIhlir today ar tomorrow.
This week will So" tho launching ot
Tho casnlir" boat "Corcrct"" Al Pitts
burEh. -. looked forward to with Ere:,,
iat"r"S; by transportation pcnrl" IN all
,niaaG w,irrs md number &c represent
tpitv"s of thr various companies viii! ne
present II >uor' ssful Il number OF
u
RI us 80 a large foot This will b" the
frs; rrncr"'n hoar 70 r" hu.; for river
NAVIGATION and may r"vniutiouiz" river
transportation. Tho .mntiE" power Of
tn. ,raft - WiH,"n nut"mnhil" engine
Developing sky hnrS" 7nw"- Tho stern
wheel min" AMI = hall fr": IN liarl":"-.
s.,.vcn f"", wide with fourteen Inch
Buckets
III" repairs on Capt. sam WiIliarnson's
boat. ti,. Helen r. which IS laid up At
Point Pleasant. will ho completed In
about two weeks. when she will lea-.
for THIS port to enter Tho Wheeling and
E...r Na-tins.ill" tad" whore she will
make a round "trip 'laiiy.
River kilograms.
Davis Island Dam. tcet falling:
clear.
Strubenr!llc. I. feet. stationary:
cloudy.
Patkershure ia feet falling: cloudy.
Oil City "a feet falling: cloudy.
Warren II feet. falling; clear.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-06-03
PTichard is Warning
Against Coal Famine
Of the Coming Winter

Declaring next winter will. witness
an even worse fuel famine IN W"&t
Virginia, Secretary J. G.. t'richarh "G
the Stat" Manufacturers association.
has ISSUED an appeal 10 manufacturers
10 Law in fuel supplies now. IIr say.
II; is 4 most serious SITUATION con
fronting the country. and II ~ t""!'Sn
not 10 face il and prepare for II. Manu-.
facturrrs are urged 20 begin at uncn
10 store coal for tho coming winter
Owing TO The short fuel and tn" car
supply now, it is posElhl" for eyer!
manufacturer in Nest Virginia ~ 2"t
and store sufficient coal TO run his
PLANT during the coming winter TIL"
yas situation will be worS" than il has
ever been. and manufacturers cannot
expect to have gas TO rim their plants.
sincerely hope thai Tho members Of
this association will rcaliz" tn" scTi-
BUSINESS OF this matter and will act III
once
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-06-03
. LINE IN REALITY
INTERESTING SERMON BY REV.
CLARENCE z. ALLEN LAST
EVENING.
Uses as Text, Lord Will Follow
Thee" In Describing Life.

R"v. Clarence l.. Allen. pastor Of the
! Fourth Street VI. Il. church. delivered
, he following interesting sermon at the
, church last evening. taking his text from
! the book Of Lake. ninth chapter. sixty
! first verse, Lord. ! will follow Thee.
butt:
! Life seems to be commonplace and
often munOtunous. but in reality e;en
ordinary circumstances have great re-
! yraling power. Not merely the crises
bur thu small occasions show what man
n"r nr men We are. There are periods.
however when We recognize clearly that
! society Is being siftrd. Times when men
! must stand forth and declare themselves
! We are in such an hour. World condi-
! tiuns demand nf each one thr most spec
inc pronouncem"nt OF his attitude toward
the war. We tolerate no neutral pa
FirintS Negative patriotism Is positive
! treason.
| Tho most important question that
| faces every man and women relates to
their attitude toward Jesus Christ. He
! is IN" ono tigur" that mast reveals what
W" are. The disposition We make OF
| has call determines the quality Of life W."
irrqr"s"nt tt" is the great determining
| factor II w." do not believe :hcis let
u- try Ia imagine what life would be
with Jesus lett out. What bearing has
h" on ol!r aspirations. our ideals. our
, standards and our destiny.
Calls Us to Follow Him.
! Jesus calls us tn follow him-not pri-
! marly II follow creed, church. tradition
or form. These may help Us to follow
the Master hut the basic matter is that
We follow him. In these days the Qucs-
iiun AS /" just what that following in
/, wolves is being discussed intensely. We
must IT, open I" the leading Of the Holy
I SrIri; and tear away. if necessary. from
nrcc"nccIvrd notions and age-worn
! theories. But We must not discard
truth.
TIL. story Of the text is not merely
recital nf human experience in the days
, Of JESUS. II IS being enacted to-day.
! Among those who attended the earthly
, ministry uf .lrSuS were many who were
! i""s,ly attached IL him. They were not
: positive fulluw"rS. There ar" mnny such
to-day. THE iirs; man illustrates ono
who imui;lsiv"ly declares his allrEianc"
, /" christ. II" will 90 with him every
hero l|ur his impulse is due 10 an
rnl"tiunaliSm NOT directed by inlell-
c"ncG. So Jesus challenges his cnthu-
sinsm by indicating tn" life IF poverty
and sarri'irc Fellowship with him In
! wolves The Master calls us-but' he
wishes IL response based in wisdom. I'M
! ruls. and emotion are essential to prog
ross. We w"U!d not get far without
them. i;rt they must hr controlled by
intelligence.
Jesus wants us 10 count the cost Of
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-06-03
Weeks Review in Base Ball

Cincinnati had = poor week. dropping
:hr,. games TO Philadelphia and OVID
irS TWO with Chicago. PhiladGlPhia
"nlcd Tnnry's winning streak today. his
first t!"fclt ~ IN" season. PITTSBURGH
lost tyo ~ I;ostuu. giving the Braves a
Glenn sweep % the three game series,
and Won two out Of three with st. Louis.
Eos,on took three out of four FINN,
Eruoklyn which went into last place,
.,,nes OF st Louis pitched the two vic
tories over brooklyn. while Grimes
hlankrd the Cardinals Monday with two
hits.
The weeks record IN each league 81
games played. won and lost with runs
hits errors. men loft on bases and runs
sc,rrC. ny opponents including the
games OF Saturday. June l. is rs follows