Arizona republican., 1918-04-17
CENTURY MAGAZINE NOTES

Downing street the street of power in London, is certainly not imposing to look upon. Any casual foreign visitor who finds his way this famous spot must experience somewhat rude shock Gazing at this little group of stained brown brick dwell ing houses he must imagine that he has strayed into backwater of London life; for the street looks like a piece of an older world still clingng exist among the great modern palaces of Whitehall. There are three houses left of the old street No 10 No H. and 12-No. 10 is the official residence of the prime minister The rest of the cleared away in the early ninetes when the increasing burden of the growing empire forced Englishmen, very re- luctanty and after many delays, to build public offices for their great departments of state. Mum Der ten Downing Street., in the center of the British Empire, is the subject of illustrated article by Harold Spender announced for the April Century MT Spender is said to describe the interior arrangements of the famous old house and to tell something of it's illustrous history.
 There only three ways of getting sleeping quarters in the national capital when and ones wife start out on trip to see the war-whr in Wash ington these days especially when and the wife debark unannounced round midnight from train which on the somen promise of the compiler of the railway-sehedule is due to reach the Union Station Washington at the velvetry, wstful cocktail hour of twilight. In the first place. may spend the first night snatching bits of sleep in the meter-less taxi cab"-reschristened Auto to- Hre-between fruit less visits to all the hotels there are; secondly may start out bright and early the next morning and begin by cruising back the hotel route again to find any sort of Washington hotel room and bath ending up, If one IS lucky by finding them in Balti- more and, finally, one may spend the second night sleeping in Washington room. Such at least, is the report of Frank Ward OMalley, in article titled The War-Whirl in Washington announced for the April Century. MT. O'Malley, who is of the brightest wits of the New York Sun" is said to find much that is humorous in the present life capital but usual there is a salt of sense in his satirical comment.
 Never before, not even during the Civil War has there been gathered together in this country so great an admixture is gathered together in the inti- mate fellowship of preparation for And it is not always the men of native American stock who display the highest adaptaby for the soldiers task Furth- ermore, it is rather the citybred lad than the one from the farm or the rural neighborhood whose phy sique up to the army requirements. Such are a few of the deductions of Henry Rood who has been making semi official investigations at the various cantonments, and who will contribute to the April Century an article on The Man in the National Army One of the interesting points that MT. Rood is said to bring out is that the training the camps refrain from telling the the full inside truth about many German atrocities which come to their knowledge lest the will break all discipline when they come face to face with the enemy.