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Arizona republican., 1918-01-01
Crossing the Party Line

When President Wilson gave a definition of democrat "one who votes the democratic ticket he did not lay injunction upon democrats always to vote that ticket He is advising them in at least instance. to vote for republican, United States Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota The time has when party lines must be crossed; when it is essential that the whole country should be well served than that the integrity of party should be maintained
 In urging the democrats of Minnesota to assist in the reelection of MT. Nelson to the senate the president recognizes the great service of the Mnne sotan at time when many senators of his party reluctantly, not at all, gave their aid to the measures urgently recommended by the president. Partisan action in the senate would have wrecked this countrys first movement in the war.
 This sign of -partisanship given by the presi- dent we trust is to be followed by other and whole sale demolition of party lines, for the and our part in it becomes complicated and burdensome, the worth of man. whether in the legislative the executive branch the government should be determined by party utilization. Those who seeking keep party lines intact at the of efficiency are in way playing into the hands of Germany
Arizona republican., 1918-01-01
Railroads and the War

Railroad presidents and managers all over the country welcome the taking over by the government of railroad property. No doubt their attitude toward this departure is inspired by patriotism, and doubtless also, they nothing in it to their interests after the war
 The position of railroad heads is generally set out fin the following statement by President William Sproule of the Southern Pacific:
 There can be no question that the highest motive actuated the president. Let not forget that the center of the target at which the nation is aiming war. If we will keep minds fixed upon that as the center we will have better of what is taking place This is well stated in Section 80 of the "Selective Service Regulations issued by the tary of to the selection and organization of the army. This section says in part:
 Two things to be accomplished to raise armies to maintain industries and agriculture
 It is self-evident that the problem is absolutely to prevent interference with industry for that is impossible; it is to reduce interference to minimum. A balance be struck and man. tained between the military and industry needs of the nation The success of the nations
 military operations is the dominant object to which the conservation of certain industries is related that end. The military necessity, being paramount, the task is to foster all necessary industries equally to the maximum, consistent with the military ne- cessities."
 This quotation omits portions of the section not material to the moment but the observations quoted will remain throughout the period of the war; Hence the public rely upon it that in the operation of the railroads interference with the normal business of the country will be kept to the lowest point con- sistent with the purposes of the government in the winning of the The fact is that in emergency the government can do without any question, things in the public interest that it would be unlawful for private ownership to attempt. should be evident to everybody that is the intention the not to impede industry it's carriage but to facili tate it, that the utmost facilities railroads may be put to the public and the business of the country gain in dispatch The plans of the president are so broad and stated in such clear that there should be no doubt of the intention"
 This attitude of railroad men who it might have been supposed would oppose government contr, ever more bitterly than they opposed government regua. tion gives assurance of their co operation with the government and of greater efficiency Both the gov. ernment and the public will be better served
Arizona republican., 1918-01-01
TRIPLE MURDER REPORTED
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PETROGRAD, Saturday. Dec. 29- The murder of former Premier Cor emyBin, his wife and his brother-in- law, is reported in the Petrograd news papers today. They are said to have been slain by robbers at the estate of the former premier at Sotohy, Trans caucasia.
 Goremykin was a conspicuous figure during the latter years or the old re- sine in Russia. In the fall of Premier Witte during the political upheaval of 1906, M Goremykin was called upon by Emperor Nicholas to form a gov ernment. After a stormy administra- tion of less than three months, he was removed. In February of 1914 he was again appointed premier, holding office until February of last year. After the revolution he was arrested and con fined for a short time in the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul.
Arizona republican., 1918-01-01

Prof. Albert P. Fitch of Amherst college is now telling the people of the United States by means of lec- lures and addresses what the Red Cross is doing to make life more en- durable for the civilians and soldiers in the war-wrecked districts of France. He has only recently re- turned from the front.
Arizona republican., 1918-01-01
PINCH zEPPEL|NS
 |S BRITISH SPORT
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LONDON, Dec. 31.-The Associated Press representative was invited this week to pay a visit to place in Lon don where number of British officers were engaged in 'pinching Zeppel- ins.' At first sight these 'Zeppel- ins'' seem to be Indian clubs. Then you see that they are of leather, and you notice a wire paper-clip at the handle end The paperclip holds the mouthpiece of an inflated rubber baS inside the leather Indian club.
 These "Zeppelins' are found in the gymnasium of hospital work shop where convalescent officers are trying to regain the use of their hands and fingers. The officers sit in ostenslole idleness with one of the ''Zeppelins in the injured hand. They appear to hold them anyhow, some by one end, some by the other. They appear to do nothing but hold them. But ln-fact they are all the time "pinchlng them. They are working their stiffened ing CTS continually on the inflated rubper clubs. first at the thin end, and then as their fingers get more open ana supple moving up and up to the thlcK ! end.
 i It is an odd sort of gymnasium. Like l a camouflage factory 1t IS 1uIl or things that are not what they seem, ] and men are working hard who appear ] to be doing nothing. All around the i room are odd pieces of apparatus tha' look like horizontal bars for children 1 of two to five years old, equipped with curious ropes and bars and pulleys. As | these men labor who have injured wrists or forearms, winding the weights 1 up and down.
 l In another part of the room IS a | great polished plank. on two supports screwed firmly to the floor. It moves up and down a groove of the supports 1 and Is held in by iron pegs. AL llrsl the visitor is uncertain whether IL IS an impossible massive jumping appara- tus or a gallows. It is for the training of weakened shoulders and arms, the
 patient sitting under it and drawing
 himself up and down.
 At the far end of the room is greaI
 ships wheel fastened to the blank wall
 A man stands in front of it, swinging
 over and back again, steering the un
 seen ship on the most cratic cours'
 that a ship ever sailed. Then he come
 to the side of the wheel and hand owe
 hand pulls it over fifty or hundre'
 times. The observer has a vision of i;
 frenzied ship going round and roun'
 in a continually diminishing circle. Bu
 there is no ship attached to that whee
 The man has shoulder joints an
 muscles to be loosened; that is all.
Arizona republican., 1918-01-01
Where the Blame Lies

An old man murdered at Glendale on Sunday by drunken brute, of two brutes that had spent week in debauch drinking prohibited lquor They must have had large store of it or have had easy and frequent the stores of the bootleggers though it is more likely that they themselves were bootleggers.
 This incident will, no doubt, be seized upon by those who opposed to prohibition and who will soint out that if the murderer and his companion could have supplied themselves with liquor time to time from a saloon, they would not have remained in place steadily drinking themselves into a murderous frency We do not deny that some men given to whisky drinking, will drink more immoder- atey from a stored supply. So, will concede that some men will consume more of bootleg whisky than of bar whisky. But against their greater consump- tion we have the consumption of those who not will not come into contact with booteggers.
 We have always believed that bootleggng could be prevented in dry state and stil lbelieve it be done. That it has been done is the fault of the manner of the enforcement of the law. do blame the booteggers alone because they have vio- lated the law We do not blame the rattlesnake be- he stings of the mad dag because he bites The prohibition law contemplated the activities of the bootleggers otherwise there would have been no need of the law But the law also contemplated the proper activities of those charged with the enforcement of the law; otherwise it might as we'll not have been enacted
 In most of the counties, sherffs and other peace officers have been fairly alert Arrests have been numerous and large quantities of liquor have been seized. But frequently and generally the punishment has been meted out that the bootlegger has been made to feel that only good -natured joke been played on him and he is encouraged to try it again. Time and again the have been tried and each time have received the jocuar slap on the
 
 lost sight of because of influence brought to bear in behalf of the criminal. The bootlegger who has been caught is not made to feel that he is criminal but unfortunate individual for whom things have broken badly. He is buoyed up by the hope of better luck next time.
 We will have bootlegging and attendant murde. and other crimes until the bootegger big and little with without influence, is held up by the courts and treated the despcable he s deserving in no circumstances, in the first or the fortieth offense of lenency.
Arizona republican., 1918-01-01
Lookinq at the Worst

We may well face the worst eventuality in the affairs of Russia. It is at hand if it has not already actually come about. It could possibly be only in Russia, deserting the entente should align itself definitely actively with the central powers. That, of course, will not happen But the Boshevik and the Germans have agreed upon terms of peace which, before they become nomnally effective the allies and the United will be given opportunity to share That they certainly will not share them will be bar to the final effectiveness of the terms indeed they may be regarded as effective already.
 One of the terms which vitally concerns the rest of the world is the release German Austrian and Turkish prisoners of war. How many of them there may be we do not know. If we accept the figures gwen out by the Russian war commques within the last three years we should place the number at several millions but we may regard the figures as published from time to time as greatly exaggerated However the addition to the Teutonic man-power made by the release of the prisoners will be for midable.
 Another of the terms of peace will be the demo- bization of the armies along the eastern and the Caucasus fronts permitting the transfer of vast Teutonc armies to the western the Italian and the Salonk fronts and heavy Turkish endorsements to oppose the lines of progress the British from Bag dad and Jerusalem
 These conditions of peace have been agreed upon between the central powers and the Boshevki It is admitted. of course, that Russian sentiment is not behind the Bolsheviki Perhaps considerably less than majority of sentiment is behind this element but that sentiment is inchoate disorganzed and with out prospect of early organization It is manifestlv impossible for it to take form solidty so rapidly as to prevent the release of the prisoners now held in Russia. It hardly be believed that anything will happen to prevent the utter Reorganization, if not Of thn all fronts
 One result of peace which Germany may not attain is the opening in Russia stores of food and supplies They all in southern Russia the great wheat granary and oil reservoir. It is in that part of Russia that opposition to the Bolshevi and Prussianism is most strongly entrenched and civil in Russia might for many months leave those supplies unavailable to the central powers An eventuality of the civil might make them per- manently unavailable
 The remedy for this situation which has been
Arizona republican., 1918-01-01

ne above names, arranged in alphabetical order are those to whom question1aires have been sen. oy the Maricopa board. There are almost as many undelivered oues tlonnaires sent to persons who are not within this Jurisdiction, from other boards.
 Returned to Board
 Following is a list of addresses to which questionnaires have been sett and the postoffice authorities unable to locate. This also is due to chang Ing of addresses without notifying the board. These questionnaires have been held at the local postoffice and notification made that the persons to whom they were sent could not he located. They may be obtained b, those for whom they are intended through the registrant calling at the | headquarters of the local board Otherwise the registrant is subject to the penalty fixed by the govern ment for failure to comply with the | draft regulations:
 Fernahd Gallo, Phoenix; Trinidad Alcaraz, Buckeye; Alfred Jensen | Tempe; Rosendo Vite Piedro, care s. F. Railway; Arturo B. Torres Congress; Frank E. Haynes, Cashion
Arizona republican., 1918-01-01

1908 E. Washington. Dec. 51.
Arizona republican., 1918-01-01

brought about by Russian idealists Russian traitors and a steady German propaganda, lies with us and it will be applied We to fill the gap left in the ranks of the entente by the defecon of Russia and we shall fill it, and Our resources of men and means are being rapidly mobilized but we have not yet had time to make them fully effectual. And We have hardly yet felt the drain upon ourselves; We stand strain infinitely more severe than any that has yet been put upon us.
Arizona republican., 1918-01-01
Where the People
 May Have Hearing
Mexican Spanish

Mexican Spanish The Editor, Republican Sir
 A little slip crept somehow into my letter as printed this morning. It need hardly be said that the Spanish gen. orally spoken by . the "Mexicans' of Phoenix is no more excellent" than the English used by the Americans. What said, or meant to say. was that anyone listening to speech by one of our Mexican" fellow citizens could be sure of hearing excellent Spanish There are several Mexican" speakers in this city to whose dignified. sonior- ous and clearly articulated Spanish it is a pleasure to listen. Your truly, T. H. BELL 1908 E. Washington. Dec. 31.
Arizona republican., 1918-01-01
WOOL GIVES WAY TO SILK

It looks if woolen materials would give way a good bit to silken fabrics from now on because everyone agrees with the government that the army and navy should have the supply of wool
 The beautiful French silk jersey materials have been already taken up by fashionable New York women. They make ideal daytime frocks, and are being ordered for the southern season.
 The plain material is combined with a brocaded silk jersey, called matelasse in suits and coats in lovely ivory white, Joffre blue taupe and black From the New York Herald
Arizona republican., 1918-01-01
GENERAL McCOOK DIES
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NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-Brigadier General Anson George McCook, presi- dent of the New York Law Publishing company and a veteran of the Civil war. died at his home here today from pleurisy. General McCook represented the eighth New York district in con gross from 1877 to 1883.
Arizona republican., 1918-01-01
-----------G G------------ MISSION FOR MARCONI

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 ROME, Dec. 31.-William Marconi, inventor of the wireless telegraph, has been appointed Italian high commis- sioner to the United States.
Arizona republican., 1918-01-01
WITH WELL DOING

For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye I Peter ii, 15.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-01
BAPTIST
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH,

FIRST BAPTIST cHURcH-Cor- her of Monroe street and Third ave nue; Rev. Geo. M Lehigh, pastor; Rev. M. M. Biedsoe, assistant pastor; W. W. Greene, superintendent of the Sunday school. Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. Preaching services at II a. m Rev. Lehigh will occupy the pulpit Sunday morning and will take for the subject of sermon, "The Significance Of the Cross The church will join Tn the union meeting to be held on the '. M. c. A. stadium at S:15 D. m. This will be the last union meeting of the season. and all are invited to be pres ent. Baptist Young Peoples union meets at p. m. for the weekly devo- tlonal meeting. Arthur McMillan of group 3 will lead the meeting Sunday evening; and the subject will be "AII for Christ. Our Tongues" Mid-week prayer meeting is held at o'clock on Wednesday evening. Everyone is in- vlted to be present at the mid-week prayer meeting, and to attend the church services on Sunday. A most cordial welcome will be extended to all who come and worship with us.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-01

in accordance with the coloners wishes as follows:
 To the American Red Cross St, 300.
 To the Knights of Columbus War Activities, s4,00O
 To the Jewish Welfare Board of War Activities, $4,0O0.
 To the Salvation Army War Fund. s4,0OO
 To the Young Womens Christian Association War Work council s4.0OO. As to the disbursement of the Y. NJ. C. A. share of the Peace Fund the colonel writes: My wife and I were very much struck with the work of Miss Rolles in connection with the colored Hostess House at Camp Upton, and I have requested that the money i,e used for the Hostess House for colored troops and for work among colored women and girls in and about the camps and cantonments.'
 To the Belgians, s1,000.
 To Serbian sufferers, s1 000.
 To Italian Red Cross s1,000
 To the Czecho- Slovaks. s1.000.
 To Mime. Botchkareva to use as she deems wise. S1,000.
 The remainder of the fund is allotted by the colonel to a score of other pur- poses in $500 sums, all of which ne names as well as the persons he desires to administer the respective contri- buttons.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-01
VON HINDENBURG'S CHRISTMAS
 DINNER

Von Hindenburg! Who was it, we heard say Would dine in Paris last Christmas,
 hey? Why didn't you come through? We were waiting there for you, To give a swell reception on that day. Yes, the feed we had in store You'd remember ever more. It wasn't limburger. sauerkraut, nor
 beer, It was a solid food We thought of, far more good, But bad for your digestion, sir, 1 fear We Sammies. all were ready With aim so firm and steady, But you tucked your tail And went the other way, With no apology at all Of why you didn't call, That we our best respects to you might
 pay. It wasn't turkey meat That we had for you to cat. But we surely taught you how to turkey
 trot, For we put you on the run. Toward country of the Hun, Back to your Kaiser and his Gott. There's another gay old bird. (Of which no doubt you've hear0, She's tougher than the turkey so they
 say; Do you think t would be sin, If we came tO old Berlin And picked your crow for Bill and you, Before next Christmas day? But you must slow your pace If you want us in the race, For Gee" how fast you Boches go. Stop and see the fun (Don't be so quick to run). Just watch our Eagle pick The feathers from your crow.
 $. M. JOHNSON,
 1760 West Monroe street
Arizona republican., 1918-09-01
MRS, bOARDMAN WRITES IF L|FE
 ON OTHER SIDE

The following interesting letter has neen received from Mrs. Bob Boardman who had just reached the other side where her husband is in Y. M. C. A. work:
 July 18th, 1918. My Dear Mir. Foster:
 I was indeed glad to have your letter written on the day that we arrived in London; it took just four weeks, you see. Just yesterday I was trying to figure out when l should receive a lettr from you in answer to that last Jumbied one of mine: l received two others from the states. so I feel closer to the grand old U. $. A. than for some time,
 Let me thank you first for your good ness in being so willing to take charge of my accounts: it relieves me greatly. ] hope that my monthly checks from the "f' have been coming all right and now my poor account ought to increase rather steadily.
 l know it is kind of mean to mention it to you Phoenicians, but can you imagine wearing a woolen dress in July? l assure you that it is perfect lv comfortable, but even so we Ari- zonians often wish for a bit Of your SunSnlue, Oeed we 10. W nen IL TdlilS here, as it does almost every day, it is quite cold and disagreeable but for about a week we had very nice weather, which the natives called "awfully warm.' much 10 our amusement; but ones closest friends are the raincoat and umbrella.
 l certainly enjoyed the trip across; The first week the sea was as calm as Riverside, then it rained a couple of days and from then on We had just nice sized swells; l love it, and didn't want the trip to end. We didn't even see q submarine, which really dsappointeC some people (not me) but of course that didn't keep us rom thinking about them! It was mighty nice tha there were so many PhOenician. aboard Messrs. Rockwell, Cater Winscr Day, Win. F. Field and Irvir Miller-and it has been a great hell here. too. though all have now gone tt their field work excepting Major Rock. well and Captain Cater who are il the office.
 The Red Cross office here is in a lif old residence, beautifully finished anC some of the fine paintings are left ol
Arizona republican., 1918-09-01
NOBLE PEACE FUND
 IF ROOSEVE[T'S ID
 HELP IN ''Y' EFFORT

Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., now working in the Y. NJ. c. A. in France is the recipient this week of d contri- button of 5000 from her distinguished father in law, Colonel Roosevelt. This fact was called to the attention of a "" army representative now in Phoe- nix by Colonel James H. McClintock who always reads all that is printed about Colonel Roosevelt and is uusally first to discover interesting sidelights on the personality of the former presi- dent.
 Colonel Roosevelt asked congress several weeks ago to return to him the Nobel Peace Prize fund which was awarded him for his connection with the peace of Portsmouth which closed the Russo-Japanese war. his was done last week and the Colonel immediately turned it over to war charities. The fund when cashed amounted to $45,4S2
 Colonel Roosevelt indicated in a let ter to congress just how he wanted this sum apportioned. and the first item in his request was to his son $ wife for use in her particular brancn of "Y" activity. In his letter upon the subject he said:
 As Mrs. Roosevelt is working in the '. M. C. A, l suppose that some or most of the money will be used m connection herewith but the disposal is absolutely at her discretion
 In addition to the 5000 the colonel has directed that s4,0OO go to the Y. M. C. A. National War Council through the treasurer. Cleveland H. Dodge.
 The Nobel fund. which it will be re- called, Colonel Roosevelt turned Over to the government with the idea O. using it towards establishing a peace commission, is to be further divided