Arizona republican., 1918-10-01
MANY MATTERS ARE TAKEN UP BY
 STATE COUNCIL
Resolution Requiring the
 Placing of Cost Mark on all goods Will Today Be Discussed by Merchants

That number of important matters are to come before the state council or defense at its present meeting was announced yesterday by Charles E. Addams, vice chairman.
 The council went into session yes terday morning with all members pres eht, except George Webster, the rep resentatiVe from Greenlee county, and a representative from Cochise county. No member of the council having been endorsed as vet by the board of super vlsors of that county.
 1 The following include some of the more important matters taken up at 1 yesterdays meeting.
 1 It having been brought to the at l tentlon of the council that some of l the ranchers in Yuma county who had l planted small acreage of wheat were i suffering loss owing to the fact that threshing outfits discrmnated in favor of the growers with q larger wheat acreage. the council passed the following resolutions:
 owing to the fact that in certain counties of Arizona wheat is now un- l threshed, We request the food admin lstration of Arizona to exercise its power to immediately remedy that sit uation.'
 Stop Promiscuous Soliciting i Requests were considered from a l number of sOcieieS or organizations throughout the United States for the l privilege of soliciting funds in the state of Arizona for war work and it was decided by the council, that permission to solicit funds in the state of Arizona should not be granted to any organizations except those en- dorsed by the National Council of De- fense.
 A wire was received from F'ranklyn k. Lane, secretary of the interior, and newly appointed chairman of a com mittee recently formed by the National Council to take over the work of the woman's committee. informing the state council that the woman's com
 mittee and the council of defense were now consolidated and that the work of the two organizations would be combined and under the direction of one head.
 Mrs. IneZ Lee and Mrs. Theodora Marsh, yesterday were appointed by the Arizona state council of defense as a committee of two to confer with the woman's committee and report to the state council as to the best means of perfecting this consolidation in the state.
 To Aid Labor Board
 Instructions from the department of labor with reference to taking men out of non essential industries were
 read and the matter was referred to the labor committee of the state coun- cil with instructions to cooperate
 with the United States employment service by rendering every possible
 assistance to labor boards in carry ing out their program of putting women in the place of all men now occupying positions in non -essentia industries.
 A petition presented by the Retail | Clerks International Protective Asso- citation calling the attention of the council to the fact that number oi retail stores in Phoenix have refused to close on Sundays was presented and steps will be taken by the council | to adjust the cases in question. Dwight E. Heard, chairman of the committee on biological survey, re- | ported on the various matters that
 he had been requested to take up while recently in Washington. He stated , that a definite plan had been worked out for the eXtermination of roden pests and predatory animals. and tha he had sent out notices calling hl. committee together for meeting or Thursday, October }. at which time the plan would be presented in ful detail.
 To Discuss Cost Marking Another matter of importance in cluded in his report was the proba bility of an early adjustment of tn
 differences in connection with tn
 construction of the Florence and Gas; Grande diversion dam.
 The non-War construction program
 was given careful consideration. an
 a special committee composed O Dwight B. Heard. chairman. Homer
 Wood and William Nagle was ap pointed by Vice chairman Addams t
 give the matter further study and re
 port at todays meeting.
 This morning at g o'clock the Stat
 Merchants and Manufacturing Asso citation will meet with the state coun
 cil to discuss a resolution passed b
 the council at it's last meeting. requir
 ing merchants to display both cos
 and selling price on all articles sold a
 retail.
 Members present at yesterday
 meeting were. C. F.. Addams, vice 1J T..