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Arizona republican., 1918-04-06
FRANCE IS NO PLACE
 FOR WOMEN OF U. $.
Cincinnati Times Starl


 The war department last August is- sued orders designed to keep out of France the wives and women relatives of American army officers. It was thought at the time that the more or less gentle hint conveyed to the ladies in the order would put an end to the threatened exodus. But it seems that wives and sweethearts, sisters and mothers of many officers have gone on the principle that the hint was irl- tended for others and not for them. Scores have found their way into France, greatly to the perplexity of the American commander. A new edict speaks in somewhat palmer language. It states that any officer, countenanc- ing disobedience of the order of last August, will lose his field command and will be returned promptly to this country where he can bask as long as he pleases in feminine society.
 War is q stern and deadly business. There is no place near it's borders for women who are attracted thence through mere sentiment. curiosity or a half understood instinct for adventure The wife who follows her husband to France does him an injury rather than a service. She interrupts by her pres ence the ceaseless concentration which the officer must put upon his duties.
 When the war first began both France and Great Britain went through similar petticoat drive toward the battle fronts. It required some stern measures and several inflictions of dis eipline to teach the devoted ladies that their place was at home, unless their presence was in response to some of ficial order or in performance of off, cially recognized duty.
 The well meaning. but perhaps over jealous women of this country may spare themselves some very embarras- sing. moments and their officer-hus bands humiliating discipline by taking 10 heart the plain warnings conveyed in ] the war deDartments order.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-06

Italy, the cattle and even the elephants. The Alps thereafter crossed by many military expeditions the impossible had been proved to be possible It is so with almost everything in this world that men of common sense and sufficient determination under take.
 Chimerical undertakings usually fail not be- cause, always of a of determination but because of the other necessary factor ordinary common sense.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-06
WHAT THE PUBLIC DFmANns

In St Louis, as in Boston and several other of the larger cities of the United States the traction question IS reduced to the point of deciding whether the existing operating corporations shall be relieved of their responsibilities through municipal acaus or the nes helped perform their functions atis lactorlly by grant of adequate financial support
 Ana Tn St. Lous as in the other cities confronted with similar problems, the way solution would be far simpler II the public only satisfactorily assured that in the event of financial aid being extended those interests and individuals responsible for the Wreckng Of traction companies in the past would be uenied an opportunity of wrecklg them in the future From the Christian Scieu3i ntor
Arizona republican., 1918-04-06
SPRING DANCE WILL
 BE PRETTY EVENT

Saturday evening will find the Wick ersham Academy prepared for a Spring dance. Without a doubt a more fitting place could not be found for dance of that kind. Amid the cherry blos- sons, palms and the pale pink glow that floods the immense floor, Phoenix in summer attire, will greet the spring
 The striking feature about the dances at the academy. is the dignity and refinement that prevails at the dances there and in this respect, Nil. Wickersham has indeed accomplished a remarkable psychological feat and Phoenix has an institution that it may be well proud of.
 Miss Margaret Priester and MT. Wickersham will dance.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-06
FOR CHEESE TRADE

The possibilities for building up cheese department in retail grocery stores and butcher shops, promoting sales Of American types of fancy cheese, may be seen in the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce repsrt on our former purchases of European cheses. During 1914 we bought e3 500 GOO pounds of cheese abroad.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-06
LINEN FOR AIRPLANES

tSaturday Evening Post)
 Castor oil. spruce and acetone were all problems for our airplane makers: but they fade in difficulty compared with the seriousness of the cloth prob lem. Nothing equals linen for use on airplanes--pure Irish linen. And noth- ing, it seems, is so hard to get as this required linen. The demand is tremen- dously in excess of the supply.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-06

Senator Lee s. Overman.
 Senator Overman of North Caro- iina recently declared before the sen- ate that enemy agents in the Curtiss sirplaHe works had delayed the out put of the factory more than two months by "doctoring" the planes and exhibited defective airplane part to prove it. Senator Overman said that were he secretary of war he would commander the plant and employ Americans to operate it.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-06
THE LIN SZnsEIEn

Ihose who are quite satisfied sit still and do noh ms Ihose Who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world-Landor
Arizona republican., 1918-04-06

Do not wait till ton1orrow-phone that WANT AID. to The Republican and dispose of. or get what you want.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-06
WHY WE ARE ATWAR RWITH
 GERMANY
EPHRAiM DOUGLASS ADAMS Executive Head, History Depart
 ment Leland Stanford Junior University

The object of this war is to deliver the free peoples of the world from the menace and the actual power of vast military establishment controlled by an irresponsible government, which, hay ing secretly planned to dominate the world. proceeded to carry out the plan without regard either to the sacred ob- ligations of treaty or the long -esta6- lished practices and long cherished prin- ,ciples of international action and hon. or; This power is not the Ger man people. It is the ruthless master of the german people. It is our business to see to it that the history of the rest of the world is no longer left to it's handling. g."-President Will son. August 27 19l7
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
By E. E. Hartman
Of the Ti1ilnntcs

For years dad has toiled for the bows
and girls without their doing a thing to
aid. He has seen his sons and daugh-
ters grow up strong and beautiful, but
oh, how careless, Indifferent and i'm
pertinent. The old gentleman has put
up with lot, has been patient, indul-
gent and kind, but the more he has in
dulged the young folks the more saucy
and inconsiderate they have grown.
Now dad is in a fix where he needs
help, must have help, and he has turned
to the boys. Some of them help him
gladly, some with an effort to conceal
their disgust and Discrimination, while
others openly are rebelling at The tasks
set them. They grumble and mutter
and talk to the neighbors about dad and
his failure to keep things going in the
old way. without annoying them. Dad
looks at the willing ones and warns to
them. He watches the unwilling. but
dutiful, sadly. He looks at the rebel
hous with new feeling yelling up In
his heart. "If were starting over
again at the bottom" he says, II would
teach every child to work and make
them do It, There would never be any
more OF this stuff where Jim carries
his own load and that of Percivul.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Getting Together
By Abbie Farwell Brown
OF the Vigilantes

How fine and fit they look, Our Boys,
as they march away! What broad
shoulders, straight backs and shining
eyes! We are proud Of them, aren't
We? Well, it has done something for
them already, hasn't it? 1t isn't wholly
bad, this war that so many deprecated
and that we all long to see rightly
ended. If we could but get the same
result without the actual war. Perhaps
we can, now we know how!
See what few months Of training
has done for the lads. Already it has
made husky men of lot Of round
shouldered, slack-kneed boys who might
not otherwise have found themselves
For the first time many Of them have
"roughed it" wholesomely. City boys
have had enough exercise outdoors.
Country boys have got concentration
and companionship in camp.
Look at their eager, alert faces; boys
of foreign birth and tradition-newly-
made Americans-sons Of old Colonial
stock, North and South, rich and poor,
educated and unschooled-all dedicated
10 one glorious cause; learning COM
radeship and nationality which make
happens it won't be all waste time,
money, strength, suffering
lives, evcn-if we learn what the ma
ton so sorely getting to-
gether"; and how to attain it-by uni
vcrsal service.
Us like this: when you're we'll you
prepare to conserve health by soap and
common sense. So in time Of peace We
must conserve peace by preparedness
With the awful example before us,
there's not much danger that any free
military machine. Militarsm is q
loathsome symptom of disease. But
sane preparedness is like vaccination
1t lnoculates against war and sedition
A wisely defended state is no more
militaristic than an athlete in training
is hypochondriac. He takes good
care of himself for an emergency, that's
all. Just as the best health insurance
is disciplined, supple body, so the
best peace insurance is trained, dis
ciplined body of young men, devoted
10 the state, fit to enjoy their own
manhood and pay the best citizenship
in this common bond, there will be no
splitting up into racial cliques and
foreign distinctions. No more hyphens
No more colonies of unassimilated
aliens. each speaking his own tongue
reading the fatherland papers, ignorant
Of American ideals and American
claims. No. Americans all, singing
the Anthem in English, brothers in
arms trained under the American flag
serving naturally as part of the debt
one and all owe for the privilege OF
citizenship. That will make for peace
without and within-pacifists, take no
tice! That will make for unity-prop-
agandists beware. And socia'
trength-Socialists observe! That will
make youth more efficient, life more
worth living, citizenship more valued
by every one
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Our Pilgrims
By Ellis Parker Butler
Of the Vigilantcs

FOR three centuries they have been
coming. our pilgrims First from
royalst England, religiously intolersn!'
TO land on Plymouth soil; then from
landlord ridden Ireland; from Gaiser-
cursed Germany; from Russia Of the
Gar and the pogrom and Siberian
slavery; fro migrant infested Balkans
from the whole Of aristocrat infesnd
Europe. In little ships and great ships
their faces turned hopefully WESTWARD
the numberlcss pilgrims came. Of lnsny
tongues, disunited, singly and in pitlis'
little groups.
Today our pilgrims are going bseL
oioe by side, shoulder to shoulder. N
united companies. in one uniform =,
freedom, one and ali Americans ans
ono and Gil American men. thousanos
hundreds OF thoUsand of our pligriuss
ere returning TO Europe, heads up %. .
eyes fearless. all chanting the sSn'
song, all marching under the one hss.
-, The like the world has never seen seen
has Is the true product of the Inels'ns
pot. For wellnigh three hundred yes.s
they came silently and separate iIen
ten thousand towns and cities; to-osy
welded together inseparably, fney y
back, carrying the holy grail OF q
moeraey they came to America to see.
Pilgrims? They came as pilsfims
seeking; they return as crusaders. ~
slowing. Democracy they soughsi g.
mocracy they found; democracy sns'
will bestow,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Linked Arms
By Theodosia Garrison
OF the Viqilantes

Into the little French town. town
that they must not name
In the dark of moonless night, the
American regiment came,
With never the sound Of a rolling
drum,
With never torch to flame.
But the townsfolk stirred, awoke, they
~, thronged to the little square,
There was neither sound Of a cheer.
nor murmur of whispered prayer
But never man of the marching men
Could doubt Of his welcome there
For the hlue-bloused arms were thrust
through the arms of khaki brown.
Shoulder to shoulder there they
marched through the little town;
AS men with their mates may walk,
AS comrades among their own.
There was never spoken word to well
come, rejoice or bless,
But clearer than word or sound was
the linked arms close caress,
For France said brothers of mine"
And America answered Yes"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

prolonged war or an early peace, and
whether the peace is definite or holds
a threat Of future war. The great les
son of our participation is that the
country can only be benefited by apply
ing the doctrines OF universal service.
In its practical form this means uni
versal military training.
At the preHent moment the Vigilantes
are working for the government on the
Russian service, referred to above, on
the Third Liberty Loan and the war
savings campaign. For these they are
supplying a special service to each of
the government agencies controlling
these campaigns.
For the Red Cross they are supplying
editors and writer's for special cam
paign to begin about the first of March.
Constantly shifting conditions devel-
oped by the great upheaval make it
clear that the Vigilantes will have to
| take on more and more new forms Of
endeavor. They arc constantly being
appealed to for assistance by all the
great charities and all the patriotic or
CARNATIONS, while demands from gov
ernment sources~continue to increase.
ms is OuIy NATURAL. 1 he NlSlldIICeS
contain practically all the most elo
quent pens in the country. They con-
tain the names best known and most
certain of an audience. To the extent
that they have the time to give to other
organizations they will continue to CO.
operate. But they cannot be diverted
from their main purpose.
To keep the public spirit keyed up
and alert, to make Americanism ap-
pear as the highest ideal, to make peo-
pie forget the Affections and burdens
which must come to all of us in this
great crisis. to make them willing to
endure anything rather than abandon
the lofty principles which induced this
country's participation in the world
conflict, these are the first aims of the
Vigilantes. And because they are able
to accomplish these better than any
other combination of individuals, they
feel that they have a special place
among the patriots working for the
country and that they are doing SER
vice which cannot be done by others.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Fool Tolerance
By Margaret Widdcmer
Of the Vigilantes

Whatever faults, crudities or vu1gari-
ties other nations have accused US Of in
the past-and they have not spared US
there has never been a word that was
not in praise Of American hospitality.
We have welcomed, wonderfully
genially, largely, all the visitors who
dropped in to write US up or make q
lecture tour; we have gone further
when the other nations told US we were
crude. or vulgar, or pushing, or grasp
ing We have meekly agreed.
This characteristic has extended it.
self not only to the wellbred lecturing
visitor, but to the immigrants We have
said in effect for generations: "Wel-
come! We are sure you are going to be
good Americans. We won't be rude
enough to tell you that there are some
Of your Old World characteristics we
dcn't like. If you wish to speak your
mind, why. speech is free, and you had
hard time over in the old country
you praise so desperately"
We have trusted, as whole, to their
good sense and honor and courtesy. It
is part sentimentalism, part the intense
America sensitiveness, large part
oasy-goingness and dislike of getting
into row. But We have been acting
polite hosts too long. There is such a
thing as fool tolerance.
The other night I was at meeting
Ct literary society where was read I,
poem-not, perhaps. perfect poem
but one full of good American patriot
ism and honest enthusiasm. A German
man known to all there as one of the
most clever and notorious of the propa-
gandists, rose and sneered at the poem
He said everything that clever mind
which wished to discredit Americanism
could suggest to belittle the poem. He
neatly picked out its vulnerable points
Then he smilingly sat down. There
was an aghast hush at his breach OF
good taste. And before any one could
tell him what they thought Of him an
! ether man arose-onc of the kindest
hearted of good Americans-and
stepped into the breach. He tactfully
smoothed over the objectionable thing
the German had done-the German who
was enjoying tho way he had made
&c OILS of the stupid Americans, and who
was smiling still as he heard the gooc
patricia genuinely good patriot, z
man who works hard for his country
cut of mistaken kindness, mistaken
mercy, mistaken dislike Of hurting
German feelings, cloud the issue Will
friendly words!
That is fool tolerance. An American
who had done thing like that in Ger
many would find himself being kicked
by German guards in an unsanitar,
prison camp the next morning.
AS q nation we've got to answer bacl
when self-respect demands it,
It's time we stopped fool tolerance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
The Wide Open Door
By Ralph Barton Perry
OF the Fi1iLuntes
Of the VigiLantes

1t is now regarded in some quarters
as evidence of intellectual advancement
to smile condescendingly at those who
declaim about patriotism, liberty, FRA
ternity and equality But never before
have these things possessed so much
substance and so much truth as to-day.
Liberty as self-government, as willing
submission to self-imposed law and to
benefcent institutions, is more clearly
than ever the only escape from the op-
posite calamities of license and tyran-
ny. Fraternity, or the sense of fellow
ship and mutual dependence. is the
only thing which can save our human
relations from the meanness of obse-
quiousness and from the hatefulnes.
OF arrogance. Equality, the recogni-
ton of the common lot and the com
mon humanity, the wide-open door of
opportunity, remains the only gospel
by which men may be saved from the
bitterness Of undeserved failure or the
false pride Of undeserved success.
These are more than ever the precious
things, the things worth living and
dying. for, the things we love and call
American: and patriotism is more as
suredly than ever the most powerful
force by which they may be kept alive
and safe in the world.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
The Great American Family

mere would be no more of having
Cuthbert loll in a hammock and strum
a banjo, while Jack carried in his share
of the wood and MIXED the brindle COW
for him. I'd make Algernon responsible
for just as much labor as Jake was
doing.
An Even Break
Then | wouldn't have to feel nv
face get hot when friend asked me
what part of the family burden Waldo
was carrying, and how long before
Cosmo would be breaking fifty-fifty
with Bob. would know that any time
there was hard job or an unpleasant
one on hand I could grab the first bow
that came through the door and tell
him to get busy. There would be an
even break all around.
Then l would know that l could
bank on the family strength as a unit
at any time that neighbor tried to
pasture his goats in our lettuce bed or
his mules in our sweet corn. II the
neighbors knew that every boy In the
family was backing me to a finish and
had his sleeves rolled up for action.
and if they all knew that every bow in
the bunch was just as we'll trained n
scrapper as Jim and Bob and Tim and
Jake, they would rope their goats and
mules and hobbie them.
! The family has got to como to Il or
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

How American Authors and Artists Haze Giuen
Their Genius to Offset German Propaganda and
Inspire NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Giuen Without Cost to
Host of Patriotic Movements and Government Efforts

get picked on by every pup and heel
biting cur in Christendom. They have
to come to it or get walked on and spit
on and used as slop jar by every filthy
nutocrat who sets up a dictatorship in
our village. When they know that a
poke at George is like Shaping the
family face, and that every boy is all
there and ready, they won't poke, be-
lievc me.
Poor old Uncle Samuel! Until every
man and woman has been made to see
where lies the wisest course there will
be grumblers. | meet them every day.
| know one who grumblcd loudly and
bitterly because her boy was induced
to enlist in the artillery. She could not
see any right nor justice in it. She
felt that the act Of the government had
been cruel and uncalled for. Then the
boy came home from the cantonment
and gave his mother course of lect-
ures extending over three days, his
time of furlougE.
Look at me, mother" he began. ~
vas ound-shouldered, holIow-chested
couldn't stand square on my feet, had
no muscle and was suprcmely selfish.
So he went on, telling her what he
had lacked, and she saw what he had
now. Then he gave her enthusiastic
accounts Of what he did and how he had
been made sergeant and how the com.
mandant had given him few words OF
commentator and what a fine lot Of
fellows the other boys were and how
the spirit of patriotism was growing
every day. The day after he went back
to his duties met her.
~ never saw him look SO we'll in his
whole life. He looks four inches taller
and his shoulders are so square and his
muscle is big and hard. He 10 so en-
thusiastic that he had me and his father
so excited that we wanted to get out
and march with him. He has gained SC
much and / fail to see where he has
lost anything wanted him to keep
His mind is taking hold Of bigger and
better things, he looks at religion with
more appreciation, his whole mental
attitude is improved. Take him out
| Not If could do it with word. am
proud Of him right THERE!"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

Emerson Hough.
Rupert Hughes.
Edward Hungerford.
Fannie Hurst.
Wallace Irwin.
Burgess Johnson.
Robert Underwood Johnson.
Reginald Wright Kaufman.
Joseph G. Lincoln.
Don Marquis.
Cleveland Motfctt.
Ethel Watts Mumford.
Meredith Nicholson.
Ralph Barton Perry.
Ernest Poole.
Harrison Rhodes.
Anna Steese Richardson.
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson.
Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Theodore Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt.
Edgar Saltus.
Henry Dwight Sedgwick.
Marion Couthouy Smith.
Ida NJ. Tarbell.
Booth Harrington.
Roland G. Usher.
William English Walling.
Stewart Edward White.
Caspar Whitney.
Kate Douglas Wiggin.
Jesse Lynch Williams.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

the Prussian government and the
leagues for promoting the teaching Of
German in primary schools of the coun-
try was clearly demonstrated; the pro
Germanism of Hearst, of George Syl-
vester Viereck and of numerous other
publishers was equally exposed; the
attitude of the German language press
and it's effort to hold the Germans and
Americans of German descent in line
for the Kaiser were made so clear that
legislation had to follow; through the
mouth of organized labor itself was
proved the falsity of the German-in-
spired assertion that this was a rich
mans war. So also this pro- German
leanings and tendencies of the Socialist
party and such pacifst organizations
as the League Against Mlitarism and
the Peoples Council were brought
under the spotlight
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
A Eew of the Nigilantes

Lyman Abbott.
Samuel Hopkins Adams.
George AIDE.
Gertrude Anterior.
Irving Bachelor.
Ray Stannard Baker.
Ralph Henry Barbour.
Bruce Barton.
Rex Beach.
Geraldine Bonner.
Cyrus Townsend Brady.
Abbie Farwell Brown.
Gelctt Burgess.
Thornton w. Burgess.
Amelia Josephine Burr.
George w. Cable.
Walter Camp.
Bliss Carman.
Robert w. Chambers.
George Randolph Chester.
Helen Gray Cone.
James B. Connolly.
Edith Barnard Delano.
James Montgomery Flagg.
Granville Fortescuc.
Hamlin Garland.
Theodosia Garrison.
Charles Dana Gibson.
Robert Grant.
Marion Harland.
Albert Bushnell Hart.
Hildegarde Hawthorne.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
They Pressed the N,
Of Preparedness

The pressing need Of preparedness
as eloquently brought out by Gelett
burgess, Ellis Parker Butler, Henry
wight >Sedgwick, Hermann Hagedom,
Arthur Bullard. Meredith Nicholson
nd Rex Beach.
The poets were not behind. Theo-
COSTA Garrison, Wallace Irwin, George