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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-03-04
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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-05-16
EXPERTS TRAIN
MEN AT CAMPS

The National Army and many or
CARNATIONS Of the National Guard
having been equipped with the Uni
ted States rifle. model Of 1917 mod
flied Enfield), It became necessary
to devise some plan whereby troops
could be efficiently trained in the
use Of this weapon In short time.
A statement authorized by the Or
dnance Department tells how experts
In shooting, many of them members
Of United States teams which won
International shooting matches. were
commissioned and sent to various
camps to instruct officers and men
In shooting and In the operation and
care of the rifle.
|, In one camp officers under instruc-
ton from these men gave demon
stration In dismounting and assem-
bling this rifle while blindfolded. the
record time being seven minutes for
dismounting and 20 minutes for as
sembling. There are SO partp to the
rifle. These officers In turn instruct
mechanics classes. the mechanics be-
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-05-16
NATIONAL EFFICIENCY

The man who complains most bitterly
about the lack of national efficiency,
about public waste and costly public SER
vice, is frequently the same one who
votes f0rNmen for public office who know
nothing about business. ~, aee
National efficiency depends to large
extent on public service, local, state, and
national. We shall never get efficiency
SO long as we fill our public offices with
the old line politician type, log rollers and
pork swappers. ea ls <g
r. Take the waste of public money in riv-
ers and harbors, public buildings, ETC., it
is ridiculous to talk of national efficien-
cy while we permit these abuses to 60 on.
Temporarily they are checked by war
conditions. But the pork seekers will be
hungrier than ever after the war. We all
know that these things are wrong. Yet
year after year we send men to Wash
ington who tolerate them.
It is hard proposition to get good
schools when so many people will vote
for the school authorities on political
grounds. We shall never get in that way
a type and quality. of education that will
turn out young people fitted for effici-
enC pf0ducC1On.. Il, ID
( So great many of our troubles come
down to the voter at the polls. What is
he going to do with his franchise? Will
ne vote for 3 man because he stopped him
on the street corner the day before, ask
ed solicitously for his wife and children,
and seemed deeply interested in his per-
Ssonal welfare? Let him remember how
colby the same man passed him month
ago. Or will he vote for another man
because he has promised to parcel out
some offices to this voters clique? There
is no national efficiency coming in that
way. But no limits can be placed TO
American achievement If we could ret
our public services run on strictly bust
ness basis.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-05-16
GET TRAINING IN
NIGHT DRIVING


Night driving of motor truck sup
ply trains from the West to the sea-
board has been started by the Quar-
termaster's Department as step to-
ward final training to fit men for
service in France.
According to the Council Of Ma
tional Defense. the experience gained
In cross country convoy work has
made the truck companies able to
travel entirely independent Of the
countryside. Camps are made at
the regular hour. no matter where
the company IL located. except that
open country is given preference
over cities. a 'gbn
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-05-16

Anyone who doubts ! the imperative
need Of haste in getting troops over to
France, need only look at map Of the
trench line to be convinced. Here we
find the British army dug in on line
about forty miles at every point from
the English channel If at the southern
end Of their line, they should lose as
much territory as they lost in the Ger
man rush beginning March 81, they
would be surrounded by the Germans
and be compelled to fight it out alone
against superior forces.
If the British should lose consider
able pRrt Of their army now in France,
which may number 100000 men, it
would greatly prolong the war and in
crease our casualties.
The war would not necessarily be won
by the Germans even if they did drive
the British back and capture the channel
ports But our difficulties would be ter
ribly augmented. The British supply
factories in Calais would be gone, and the
work Of equipping their army greatly i'm
peded.
Furthermore, the control by the Brit
ish Of the straits of Dover has enabled
them to block those straits to the SUBJ
marines. To get to the open ocean, the
u boats have had to 60 around the nor
thern tip of Scotland. Now if they cap
ture Calais and can slip through the
straits, they will save sea voyage of
about 300 miles. That will make it far
easier for them to get at the United
States transports loaded with our boys.
There will be nests Of them awaiting our
ships on their passage to France.
The.tim to step on the German snake
as now. One soldier in France today is
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-05-16

Billy Jones-maybe your son or the
son Of q neighbor-was In the front
line trenches IN France when the Ger.
man bombing party was driven hack.
His enthusiasm to get the Boches car.
ried him over the top Of the trench,
and at the edge Of No Mans Land .
Hun bullet got him.
A cofnrade-maybe your boy-crawi.
I'd out into No Mans Land and brought
Billy Jones back to the American
trenches. 4 49, rs v.sr45s
Other comrades carried him back
through the maze Of trenches to .
dressing station. where his wound was
cared for.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-05-16
PLAYING WITH AMERICA

In one telling episode in Ambassador
Gerard's story Of his experience in Ger
many, as put into the authorized motion
picture form, you can see about how the
masters of Germany trifled with this
country. The picture shows Mr.. Gerard
calling upon Chancellor Won Bethman
Hollweg of the Imperial German govern
1nent, to protest against the deportation
German fields and factories.
Mr.. Gerard was hot with indignation
at this atrocious outrage. He came as the
accredited representative Of 1OO,OOO,OOO
people, who were entitled to be heard on
this or any other question. Yet while he
stood waiting for the German minister's
attention, that potentate amused himself
for time with his dancing doll figures.
He considered 10O,OOO,OOO people, ex-
pressing the protest of outraged humani-
tartan sentiment, of less account than
his jumping jacks.
The same spirit ran through the Ger
man court from the Emperor down. The
Americans were considered mere dollar
seeking pigs, who would never dare to 60
to war, but were bent merely on seeking
their money swell.
We could be jollied along like children,
lied to, ignored, our women and children
murdered, our brave seamen sent to the
bottom of the seas. And the Germans
thought that all these outrages that cried
I'd heaven, could be atoned by the vague
promise Of q money indemnity, which
promise was only "scrap Of PAPER"
The Germans are very bright people.
They have q very astitute spy system
over here, to which they pay big money.
They spent enormous sums to control our
public opinion. But they did not quite
size us up right. The true American
character is beginning to dawn on them
where at they are greatly surprised.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-05-16

worth two next year. Every laboring
man who holds up the war work with
strikes or who fails to do his level best
to speed up, every manufacturer who OBJ
structs by profiteering, is an enemy to
his country. Every government official
who is trying to run great war on
peace time basis, may be doing his little
best, but he is worth more to the foe
than battalion Of spies.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-05-16

ing trained to make repairs to rifles
in the field. Frequently they will
have to do their work at night. when
they will not be allowed to use any
lights. and therefore they must be
thoroughly trained in taking down
the rifle and putting in new parts
by sense Of touch.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-05-16
A SCORE OF REASONS ,
FOR The RED CROSS
II q Playing a Big Part In the
War for Democracy.

What does lt mean 10 you to know
that your America Red Cross:
ID supporting $4,000 -Treuch children.
Sends supplies 70 S.l2S French miii.
tary hospitals. -
Provides 1000 French hospitals with
surgical dressings.
II operating 80 canteens at the front
line. H 'lt tth aV
II operating six other canteens q
French railway functions, servint
$1,000 French soldiers q day.
Operates q movable hospital In four
units accommodating 1000 men.
u operating q children's refuge in one
part Of the war sone. and In another
medical center and travelling dis.
pensssy, both capable Of accommo.
dating moro than 1000 children.
Has opened . long chain-vf ware.
houses stocked with hospital sup.
piles. food, soldiers comforts, to-
bacco. blankets, etc, al the way
from the seaboard to the Swiss
frontier.
Has warehouse capacity for 100000
q tons. ~
Has 400 motor cars and operates seven
garages, making all repairs.
Has shipped ~ freight car loads Of
assorted supplies to italy from
France within two weeks after it
began operating In the former coun.
try.
Had . battery Of motor ambulances
ut the Piave front four days after
the United States declared war ON
Austria. a. va
Started a hundred different activities
IN Italy ct the time that nation was
In lts most critical condition.
Has established i've hospitals In Eng.
land and operates q Workshop for
hospital supplies employing 1000
women.
And that 10000 cases of supplies
have been received at the Paris
headquarters Of the American Red
Cross from your various chapters
scattered throughout the United
States.
What does all this mean to yous
And have told you but q fraction Of
the work your Red Gross has done
and 10 doing. II means that without
this ceaseless, heroic work Of the
American Red Gross, We could never
win this war.
without your Red Cross thousands
In Rumania would have starved to
death.
without your Red Gross Italy would
never have realised that powerful sup
port Of the United States In the hour
Of need.
Without your Red Gross thousands
Of French soldiers now CALAMITY light,
ing for you at the front would have
died Of wounds. exposure and lack Of
food.
But now we must oil redouble our
efforts and sacrifices for our Red Cross
because---a million mothers' sons are
going to carry the stars and stripes
to the greatest victory God has ever
given to men fighting for honor and
liberty.
With the help Of your Red Cross
your boy will win.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-05-16
RARE METALS BILL

A bill is being put through Congress-
appr0priating fifty million dollars to ia
velop the production of the rarer metals
about which little is known by the pen-
eral public but which play an imporfsnt
part in war materials, sf As. !.
IN order to make the United States in
dependent OF the world during war time
ny production Of necessary ores, such a.
tungsten, molybdenum, graphite and
manganese, q bill was favorably reported
by the House mines committee.
The measure is intended also to enable
the government to conserve the supply.
control and distribution, and. if neces.
sarE to fix the price Of these materials.
Inc bill is approved by the Secretaries
OF War, Navy and Interior, and practic-
ally every man who appeared before the
committee Endorsed the bill. The report
OF the House Committee says: IF prop
er encouragement is given the producers
OF these metals, most of them, if not all.
can be developed in our own country for
our own needs for the army and navy
and for the necessities in civil life."
More people can be reached oftener
and at less expense by newspaper adyer-
Using than by any other medium. Don't
spend just few dollars for advertising
and then say that advertising does not
pay. Make advertising consistent policy.
u y -
Reports received from State and Fed
eral employment bureaus by the United
States Employment Service, Department
Of Labor, indicates shortage Of woman
labor in "a cities. The greatest demand
is for domestics, and next, factory work.
sers. Twenty of the "a cities report scar
city of domestics. Nine report demand
: for factory workers.
New Japanese concerns numbering over
100 are reported as having entered bust
ness at Shanghai during 1917. The Jap
arese population is rapidly increasing,
now being about $4,000.
Arizona republican., 1918-06-17
A Protective Wall Around Bookkeeping

But for one thing we would favor the Rutherford amendment to the automobile confiscaton bill If it practicable should like law which would make patrons of booeggers equally guilty with the bootlee- gers for if there patrons, there would be booteggers With such amendment, though, bootleg ging would be encouraged It would be almost impossible enforce the law In much than half the convic tons that have been effected in this the evidence has been furnished by patrons Some of them have unwilling but truthful witnesses, and some of them have been detectives. willing and believe, gener- ally truthful
 With such a law there could be 10 such witnesses. The detectives occupation would be gone and other persons who had bought whisky would not and could not be made to testify against them.
 There would be left only two ways, and both of them most uncertain, to proceed against boot leggers. One would be the chance observation of a transaction. As these transactions occur in se- cuded places usually in the night time. it would be only by the merest chance that it would be observed and it would be still that the observer could to the precise nature of the transac- tion
 The only other way left to catch the bootlegger would be officer to catch him, and that would be rather accidental with quantity of liquor in his possession Once he had brought his stock into a hiding place his criminal business would be a pro- tected business. No other kind of crime would be difficult to detect. It would be long before there would be dozens of places in Phoenix and every other town in the state where intoxicating liquor would be sold almost openly for there would be to testify that it was intoxicating liquor.
 We have how this kind of a works in the operation of anti-cgarette and tobacco law When secured the law making the purchase by youths of these articles a msdemeanor. we felt that we had accomplished a great triumph of reform. There has been conviction under that law. Its only noticeable effect has been remove what ever restriction there had been against the sale of cigarettes and tobacco to minors
 The automobile confiscation law alone would itself discourage bootleggng It would not of course, stop it, but it would greatly reduce it. He would be very reckless bootlegger who would risk much as an automobile in the enterprise.
 Some have urged that such a law would be unconstitutional We do not know why, and no req has been offered to that The federal govern ment for forty years has confiscated vehicles on Indian reservations and question of constitution, ality has ever been raised There is certainly noth- ing in our state constitution standing the way of this legislation.
Arizona republican., 1918-06-17
Our Brilliant Censor

The gentlemen who direct the voluntary censor ship of war brilliant, cunning sly, and even cute, as will hereinafter appear On Saturday night there received from Washington a dispatch relating to General Pershng's communique in which 1t stated (though not in the communque) that American flyers had bombed "a town behind the German lines." That seemed proper and sufficient Not American reader in 10000 wondered or cared what town it Two hours later there came along correction suggesting that the dispatch be changed by making it unnamed town" The telegraph editor softly, not because he was put to the trouble of hunting up the dispatch and writing in the word unnamed" but at the seeming asininity of the proceeding.
 It was unnecessary. he thought to identify the town. As no name had been given it in the original dispatch it was to be presumed that it was unnamed In fact there more than presumption; it was evident and almost certain that it was unnamed It seemed to the telegraph editor less necessary that he should go to this trouble, since farther along there this quotation from the communque itself: Last night aviators bombed the station and railroad tracks at ---.' It was plain and incontrovertible that the town was unnamed The genius at Washington who had made up the intro duction to the communique had devised the further description behind the German lines' himself prob ably right on the spur of the moment with one hand and working only few of his brains. But for his sagacity the reader might have supposed that the town bombed by the American aviators was in front of the German lines, occupied by the Americans ths British or the French. General Pershing in his hurry had not thought to inform the public that the bombed town was behind the German lines. Probably he thought people ought to have enough to guess that.
 But the telegraph editor is conscientious and fol- lowed instructions. He figured that perhaps the censor was deeper than he, and he was not going to take the risk of being responsible for information reaching the Germans to which their towns was bombed last Friday night. So he emphasized the fact again that the town unnamed After we have whipped them when reach Berlin we'll have the laugh on them and will guy them about not being able 10 find which of their towns was bombed the night of June 15 191s If the plans of the work out we will be able to
Arizona republican., 1918-06-17
TN. I. |S BEING MADE
 AT THE UNIVERSITY

TINT the famous explosive that is playing such an important part in the great war, is now being made at the University of Arizona. Many of the courses at the university have been somewhat modified as a result of the war, and this notably true is the case of those offered by the de- partment of chemistry. Thus, in the regular course in organic chemistry tri nitro -toluol, or INT as it is more familiarly known, has been pre- pared by the students.
 This is probably the most import ant high explosive used in the present war, and a knowledge of the method of manufacture is not only of great interest to the student, put it may also be very useful to him if ne en- gage in chemical services for the government.
 Like many other high explosives, INT requires a detonator or fulmi- nate cap to set it off. It is said that a rifle ball may be fired through a box containing this substance with out it's exploding, and it is therefore, as safe to handle and to prepare in the laboratory as the other products commonly synthesiZed there. This ex- plosive is manufactured from toluol,
Arizona republican., 1918-06-17
Arizona Vacations

We for Mrs. McKays resolution relating to the vacations of Arzonians. We have always been for it. even before the exigencies of war gave it force There is no better place in all the world for a vacation than Arizona at any time of the year. vaoAtion spots are scattered with generous hand all the state. Our varied climate gives the full winter resorts.
 The White Mountains embrace the greatest hunt ind and fishing grounds in the United States-for that matter in the whole civilized world. For those who merely want to in the summer time, where else in the world there such spots Flagstaff Prescott Iron Springs, the Caalinas the Chircahuas, the Graham mountains and many other places, all of easy access
 All these places have the most noble and pictur- esque surroundings the Grand Canyon, the Painted Desert Petrifed Forest, the great pine forests of the state
 For the winters, we have the valleys of the Salt, the Upper Gia, the Colorado, and Tucson. where certain and absolute relief from climatic rigor is found. There is other such region enclosed by state boundary lines, in all America
 All this enjoyment will cost vacatlonists little money. There for Arizonians expensive rah road journeys no living in stifling, stuffy apart ments with high rentals. The money saved can be used to help win the war and the space saved on railroad trains be far better employed by the government.
 We are not in accord with all the notions of Mrs. Mckay; perhaps, not with many of them. But we are most heartily in accord with this one.
Arizona republican., 1918-06-17
LITTLE MISS HURRY

Little Miss Hurry
 All hustle and furry Comes down her breakfast ten minutes too late Her hair is a-rumple,
 Her gown is a-crumple, She's no time to button and hook herself straight She hunts and she rushes
 For needles and brushes, For books and for pencils flies upstairs and down; If you'd find her
 Just follow behind her A trail of shoe buttons and shreds of her gown But little Miss Steady
 By school time is ready, All smiling and shining and neat in her place; With no need to worry,
 She ptes Miss Hurry, Who but yesterday sat here with shame in her face Her heart beating lightly,
 With duty done rightly, She vows she will never again change her name; For, though you'd not guess it.
 I'm bound to confess it These two little maidens and the same
Arizona republican., 1918-06-17
A Hinh literary Standard Maintained

Not long ago took occasion to lament the de- cadence. of current literature. Perhaps we spoke hastily, for, says the Houston Post:
 In spite of the claim of some hghbrows that there is very little good literature nowadays, now and then something inspiring enthrals the vision Yesterday, for instance, written on a small blackboard in front of corrugated iron hut this surpassingy beautiful sentiment: Complete chicken dinner thirty five cents" Could literary genius go further in this day of fate?'
 To which the Kansas Sity Star adds: Tt is indeed a gem even though it is probably fiction"
Arizona republican., 1918-06-17

is really a sixth great lake of the St. Lawrence chain, and unquestionably the main source of that great river.
 Tt is,' he writes, some eighty miles long by forty miles wide, and many islands dot it's surface. In this respect it is different from other great lakes, unless we except the Georgian bay of Lake Huron and the eastern extension of Lake Ontario, known as the Thousand Islands.
Arizona republican., 1918-06-17
SIXTH GREAT LAKE
(Vancouver Sun.l

Chief Locating Engineer Wicksteed
 of the Canadian Northern Railway, the man who determined the route for the line of that company between Sudbury and Port Arthur, contends that, while still but little known to the outside world, and never at all correctly mapped until 1870, Nipigon
Arizona republican., 1918-06-17
NEW USE OF MAGNET

A means of making of the electric magnet under water has been devised in Japan and it prom ises to be of great assistance in locating sunken vessels to recover which salvage operations on a big scale are expected after the war. Tests on this magnet have recently resulted in bringing up thou sands of Japanese shells, fired in practice at sea and it is understood that it will be used in ex tactng shell scraps from European battle fields The value of the iron at present is huge.
Arizona republican., 1918-06-17
Where the People
 May Have Hearing
The Editorial Page

June IA. Editor Republican:
 Some time ago I read an editorial of yours wherein you stated in gen. eral way that it was a sign of in tellectual quality for a person to turn to the editors page first. I hardly think I would put it that way, but if every newspaper had an editorial page on which could be found occasionally selections as good as Why We Hate to Die" I am sure we would look at that page first and last. For an eA cellent reason, I think you cover the ground thoroughly.
 P. l.. GREEN. (Mr. Green is slightly in error in the statement that it was said in an editorial of this paper that it was a sign of intellectual quality for one to turn to the editorial page first. If the editor thought so, for an obvious reason, he would hesitate to say SO The article in which that statement appeared was not an editorial. but a reprint coming under the head o1 "Miscellany."-Ed