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Arizona republican., 1918-08-06
THE DANGEROUS AGE

When IS the dangerous age' Always a little around the corner from where your particular phil osopher happens to be located. says the cync. Rut there generalizations of some standing and the is adding a and important one true for men. at any rate. it is contended
 ms particular dangerous age vas described by French lieutenant as beginning around 4o and ing those years when still feels young and can in fact, as a result of his years of experience do everything more skillfuly than before in his life but cannot, in purely physical contest maintain his skill or his pace. The of ability in these dan gerous years is very great and very real but fatally deceptive You feel better than ever before in your life. And you are better-whe you last.
 Deceptive, treacherous years they are rather than necessarily dangerous. For it is only thte purely physical side that the failure comes Mentally man grows. should grow. better and better. And woman, too If you would go to you must be that your task does not ask the impossible of your body. - ta
 Careers, by all means. Start them whenever you will-at 66, as did DeMorgan, if you prefer The more dangerous the year the better It is only the bayonet and the airplane and such like toys of youth that must be denied your old codger of 40- odd.New York Tribune.
Arizona republican., 1918-08-06
4 Vote Today, Vote for the Valley

If all those qualified to vote at the election today the taxpayers of Phoenix go to the polls in the city and the members of the Salt River Valley Water Users Association all in their several districts. the valley will adequate drainage project.
 If a large number should remain at home, the project may defeated that is 1t would he indefinite y delayed. but would have it sometime though late thousands of acres. Sometime the rising water would convert every in the valley into an active advocate of drainage system.
 The tendency of voters to take personal interest elections there candidates to be elected is well known From sixty to eighty per cent of the vote is brought out such election. Yet, the results of such elections relatively unmportant If elect bad congressman governor constable. the damage is not irreparable. We can find remedy two years later
 But if we elect today to sit still there will be ire parable damage wrought before make another move. The rising level is steadily and always moving. It has already grasped and made worthless lands in this valley. The of the ruin will inevitably extend time passes. Nomsn be foolish to imagine that the water will Stop and wait until have settled among ourselves, by long drawn discussion, the best way to meet the peril.
 Delay is the foolish since there is disagreement to the essential facts Every man realizes the menace of the underground waters. It is there. Abandoned here and there about the valley prove that to all except the blind eye and brain
 It is also agreed that there only two ways of getting rid of the underground At first it thought that could best be done by means of drain ditch but when more thought given it, that found to be impracticablc. A ditch would carry the surplus water to waste beyond the project when it is needed but under, lands within pro- ject land lying in the valley outside the project
 One of the most competent and experienced en- gneers in the west has made survey and an esti- mate for system of pumping plants by which the water may be removed and at the time served-by which it may be converted from a threat to benefit.
 The cost of such system will be s600,O0O. It is proposed that the city shall raise s100000 by bond issue to be voted today to purchase and install pumps 10 be owned and controlled by city, the water so to be developed be added to the cty's present supply.
 It is proposed that the water shall also vote today 10 themselves s2.70 acre to raise s5oO,OOO to purchase and install pumps where they may be determined by scientific investigation to be needed the water thus developed to be made sup plmenta supply.
 These the plain facts and these are the pur- poses of the elections be held the city and the country today. We have much to gain by installing drainage system We have much to lose by rejecting >a drainage system.
Arizona republican., 1918-08-06
Where the People
 May Have Hearing
The Drainaqe Project

A very grave danger confronts the people of Salt River valley in the rise of the underground water. There are a few places where the land has been practically ruined by it, and the .recia- nation engineers who have been eX- amining the situation tell us that it will only be short time until large areas will be water-logged and rendered val ueless unless it is stopped.
 Imagine how this will affect the growth and development of the city of Phoenix if allowed to happen. But ac- cOrding to these same engineers the water can be pumped out and used for irrigation thus not only relieving the situation but adding to the irrigable area of the valley by bringing lands into cultivation that now have no wa ter. And this addition to the irriSable area of the valley will make business for the city and add to her growth and development
 The plan of the city is to. install pumps in locations to be selected by a competent engineer. These pumps will help to reduce the underground water, and the water raised used for irriga- tlon and be q source of revenue to the , city besides helping to save the coun- tlNs liOil DelUS WdleT-lOSScQ uy lit continual rise of the underground Wa 1 ter level.
 The Water Users will vote tomorrow on the question of levying an assess ment on their lands sufficient to raise five hundred thousand dollars to be used for this purpose and from the eX- prosslon of opinions on the subject by the farmers themselves I believe that they will be almost unanimously 1T 1 favor Of it.
 And the taxpayers of the city vii also vote on the question of issuing one hundred thousand dollars in five and one-half per cent bonds to be usec as above outlined, and I believe that they will carry by very large ma jor- ity. As for me I am in favor of tho bond issue as a matter of self preser- walton.
 l. A. F. IRVINE.
Arizona republican., 1918-08-06
ADJUSTMENTS
SUFFER ID TALK AT
 RIVERSIDE PARK

Everyone in Maricopa and adjoining counties is invited to be in attendance at Riverside park on Thursday of this week. An extensive and varied pro- gram has been arranged and the gates of the park will be thrown open to the public absolutely free after o'clock A brass band of 25 pieces will furnish music during the evening. There will be several other big surprises, includ ing some novel sports and splashes in the big pool, and the management is making arrangements to entertain a record breaking crowd
 If you don't own a car of your own grab one of the Riverside park busses at the corner Of First street and Wash ington and in five minutes you are at the park. There is something special doing On Thursday and you will be overlooking a very good bet if you miss it. Hon. Fred Sutter candidate for the democratic nomination for governor. will deliver an address in the evening.
 Remember, the admission to the park is absolutely free after D. m. and all the resources of the park open to r your entertainment and the mana se- ment is making a special effort for an attractive program for this particular 1 day.
 1 It was not the policy of the park management to permit candidates to talk at the park this season. but the demand has been so great that it has been decided to give them all an equal opportunity. MT Sutter is the first to thus avail himself.
 s"Ooug" Fairbanks at Columbia
 Douglas Fairbanks, known to the motion picture world as one of the
Arizona republican., 1918-08-06
An unconsidered Effort

It appears that an effort is being made to crowd democratic friend w. A. Moeur off the track. In all the circumstances that seems alladvised. We will concede that there is congestion the There candidates for the democratic nomination for governor than comfortably compete. We easily that candidate of the architectural lines of MT. Moeur removed there would be measur ably for the rest to maneuver in much than would result from the elimination of the line figure of MT. Colter, of with the yacht like outlines of MT. Cobb.
 But the difficulties of pumping of so sturdy build Mir. Moeur off the track, however great the need of space should have been considered. Any of the candidates. MT osborn MT. Sutter, MT. Cobb or Mr. Colter is less immovable
 There has been exercise of bad judgment in this attempted shuntng of the unsyph like person of Mir Moeur. As strategic effort it is destined take it's place with the folly of the bull which disputed the right of way with a locomotive.
 It is none of our business who runs for the demo- cratic nomination for governor. who gets it. But occupying place the sidelnes in the grand stand feel that we have right to comment the incidents of the contest.
Arizona republican., 1918-08-06

An interesting development in con nection with the hostile shelling of the territorysaround Mont des Cats in the Kemmel region. where the fa- nous Trappist Monastery is located, is the fact that the Germans have been bombarding this Flemish eleva- tion heavily and the monks home has beer badly destroyed.
 The German emperor recently wrote letter to his commander in that area asking that Mount des Cats be spared because the aged prior of the monastry was the only living person who knew where the emperor's relative, Prince Max of Hasse, had been buried after his death in the monastery in October, 1914. The prince was attached to
Arizona republican., 1918-08-06
HUNS SHE'LL MONASTERY SAVE
 TO LEARN BURIAL PLACE OF RELATIVE SLAIN IN WAR

the cavalry which occupied Mont des Cats after the outbreak of the war.
 In an engagement with British cavalry Prince Max was mortally wounded and was taken to the mona stery. While he was being nursed by the monks his comrades were driven from the hill by the British who occupied it. The prince died and was buried in a certain place, the location of which was not disclosed to the world.
 The emperor wrote the pope, ask ing for information as to the princes grave and asked the return of the body. His Holiness forwarded the letter to the monastery and it was then that the kaiser got the famous reply: Not until he would evacuate Belgium and make just restitution would he learn the location of the princes grave.
Arizona republican., 1918-08-06
PARTY CELEBRATES
 OPENING NEW HOME

To celebrate the completion of the beautiful new home of Mir. and Mrs. J. W. Carver on North Central ave nue. opposite the Osborn school, mem- bers of the clerical staff of the county clerk office, where Mr. Carver is em- ployed were the guests at d house warming and dinner part Saturday night
 The house is of the Mission style Of architecture and a. source of great pride to MT. and Mrs. Carver and their friends. Those who were present are Mrs. Bolen, Mrs. R. T. Harrison. Mrs. J. W. Carver James Miller. Jr.. George F. Mcdonald. Thomas W. keyton, Leo Alldrich and J. w. Carver.
Arizona republican., 1918-08-06

They encounter a stranded wagon
 train, for this story is laid in 1S49, and the admiration for the pluck of a young wife with the train arouses in the leader of the criminals a desire to help the emigrants. and the unfold ing of the story gives Hart a grand
Arizona republican., 1918-08-06

chance to show his ability as a gun, man and rider.
 With the feature will be shown a Burton Holmes travelogue. "Yester- day in Samoa,'' a companion picture to that shown last week when the traveller presented Today in Samoa"
Arizona republican., 1918-08-06

So must be taken by average A horses value is determined by the market price. He is worth what he will bring But the tables of the acuares nearly possible. At any rate' they afford the only have of arriving at the money value of the mems priceless lives
Arizona republican., 1918-08-06

One trouble with this country in times past really all the times past, too much free speech The espionage act has taught good many people to keep their mouths shut If, permanent result we shall come to be restrained people that fact. too may be entered upon the credit side of the count.
Arizona republican., 1918-08-06

It is rather unpleasant thing to say even think but believe the laws can never be promptly and certainly enforced under a jury system
Arizona republican., 1918-08-06

It is really astonishing how much sugar we can do without ahd not hurt ourselves doing it.
Arizona republican., 1918-08-06

In the race across the salient the Germans must have run over jack rabbits and antelope there were any there.
Arizona republican., 1918-08-06

There be popular than a profits, CT excess profits tax. While this is ricn mans war jet the men who getting rich pay the bills
Arizona republican., 1918-08-06

If the kaiser thinks he afford to keep sub marines foong around among fishing schooners all right.
Arizona republican., 1918-08-06

The clouds after two weeks of bluffing actually cut loose on Sunday night and of Phoenix citizens surprised in their Arizona bed rooms hastily retired to previously prepared positions
Arizona republican., 1918-08-06
LOGIC

I ought to be 'birdman
 A flying through the sky. I think l was intended
 For some such purpose high. That she designed me for it Has Nature plainly showed ought to be a birdman
 Cause I'm so pigeon-to toed
 loo Shi,,
Arizona republican., 1918-08-06
Last Day of Farnum Picture.

Today sees the final screening of what many think the best outdoor picture William Farnum has graced with his art since the Spoilers" It has everything appealing to the lov- CTS of the open country, the great pine woods. the snow capped hills and is cleverly spiced with dash of New York society life to give it marked contrast in the telling. Then there is the Farnum fight. always a sure fire pleaser and if the picture fan thinks he or she has seen a screen fight. they have only to look this battle over. for it takes in everything known to the art of fisticuffs and the end is so startling that it leaves one wonder ing why some other director has not thought of the stunt before. With the feature is seen Wild Women and | Tame Lions,' a riot of fun in two | acts.
 Tomorrow Carmel Myers comes in another creation of the type she does so well, The City of Tears" a story of the chorus of New Yorks bright l way.
Arizona republican., 1918-08-06
Wm. s. Hart "The Tiqer Man."

WILL O. TTdTt TIO TTyVT WdT.
 ". $. Hart, dean of the good bad men, opens today at the Lamara in his very newest Aircraft special production. The Tiger Man" showing here for the first time in any Arizona city. There have been so many Hart pictures of old vintage presented from time to time that the public is advised in this one that it is his new big Aircraft and said by the city film critics to be one of the kind in which he alone stands pre-eminent. Hart is revealed as the leader of a gang of desert lad men escaping a posse with a wagon load of water and no food.
Arizona republican., 1918-08-06

s"Doug" Fairbanks at Columbia
 Douglas Fairbanks. known to the motion picture world as one of the
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-26
"K|TT|ED" FOR ANOTHER
BUT IS FINED FOR IT
Gambling Case Defendant Only
Took Out Money for Gas De
manded by .Landlady.

William Wiley, indicted for keeping n
gaming table nj house on French street
above Sixth, plcaded guilty before Judge
Conrad in General Sessions. Room No /,
Yesterday afternoon, and was sentenced
to pay fine of 500 and the costs in the
case or serve three months in the work
house
The circumstances surrounding the
case were somewhat unusual Wiley, IL
appeared. did not get anything in the way
Of kitty" out of the game for himself
hut "cut" the stakes it was said, in favor
of the laudlady to pay for the gas used
by Wiley and his friends in their friendly
game Of poker This is what brought Viii
cv within the law Ex-Deputy City
Judge loslyn laid these facts before the
court and informed Judge Conrad that
Wiley has moved To Virginia. where he is
working in a slipyard. and that he had n
family In view of all the circumstances
lcnicncy was asked Attorney General
Reinhardt said the State frankly admit
ted Wiley was not in the class Of pro
fcssional gambling house keeper, but he
thought something other than parole
should he dome in the matter because of
the rule against granting parole IN gam
bling cases Sentence "a already stated
ensucd
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-26
PASTORAL REC FPTION.
To he Given NJ Union NJ H. Church in
Honor of Rev ~ W Ewing

reception will bc held this evening
from until ~ o'clock in Union W Il
Church 1T Fifth and W aqhngion streets.
for Dr Harvey " Ewing thn nov pastor
br Ewing. who cornes hero from Morgan
town. " Va. has not served here for
the last 20 years whcn he was pastor
If Nft Salem Church
The program for the reception follows
Hymn, iIlesf hc the Tic That Rinds,
prayer hy Rev i II Collins. reading
The Church Pledge composed by
Flwo.d \ tllcston and read hy Miss
T. Gertrude smith. solo, Miss blanche
.enderman, greetings from Our City
Mayor Lawson, from Dr u. Franklin
Smiley. Rrv loeeph y Erwin. selection
by the Union Orchestra. greetings from
Wilmington Conference. Dr Robert
Watt bass solo T. $ Haynes, greetings
from Rev {, + Aldereon. and Rev
Carlisle l. Hubbard, selection hy orches-
ira greetings from mon congregation
tn Howard NcDanel greetings from
Cur boya. Rev ] Richard BirkIng,
solo. Miss Helen Allston response to
greetings. Rev II " Ewing
The reception will follow with re-
freshments
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-26
STOCKS OPEN UNSTEADY;
i. S. STEEL DROPS POINT
American Ice Gains: Mercantile
Marine Shares Show
Advances.
ny Associated Press TO Every Evening

Wall Street, New York, Sept. % -
rule IN the early stock market today
Selling orders in various issues counter
balanced the strength shown 1T other
points, but the variations generally were
fractional
Speculation was lively in Mercantile
Marine shares, common and preferred
gaining nearly n point each at 2gs6 and
1065S, respectively, notwithstanding lack
of official confirmation of yesterdays re-
port regarding the status Of the nego-
tiations with foreign syndicate.
Leaders like L. s. Steel Reading,
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific, were
shaded. the latter losing point
American Ice gained points
Noon With no particular initiative
by tho larger speculative interests re-
Gently actlyr prices fell under the i'm
pulse of professional selling
Buying power having disappeared to
n large extent, and the immediate do
mand Of the shorts satisfied. little op-
position was Offered 20 the sealing down
progress
Mercantile Marine shares unable 70
withstand the pressure elsewhere. re-
linqIlshed their gains, the preferred
falling ono point below vcstcrdnya closing
Tho lat stlfTcned at midday after = rise
of n point IN Reading. Baldwin Loco
motive. American Sumatra Tobacco and
American steel foundrles
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-26
STATE WOMEN PLAN
FOR LIBERTY LOAN
An Enthusiastic Meeting at Dover
Attended by Representatives.
Of All Sections.

s,c,,;a, Corrcspondence of Every Evening
Dover, Sept. % "A call having been
made for n meeting here yesterday Oh
women workers in the Liberty Loan
Drive throughout tho State hv MIS-
Henry Ridgclv. chairman of the Women =
Committee Of the Liberty Loan i3r
Delaware fully $50 women from MI
over the State responod
The first session was held IN the Dover
Century Club Rooms. on Dover Green.
with Mrs Ridpcv presiding She greet
ed the volunteer workers IN II most
bospitahlc manner which made az
feel NJ home and created a spnt OF good
Telling all through the day session
Fiyc-ninutc reports of the Liberty
Loan districts of the state were hcard
from Mis- Otbu Nowland ot Wilmington =
Mrs Waiter Morris Kent county;
Mrs William TuthcrlN. SussHX 'Huh ~
Mrs. W. L Rcvhold New Castle county,
ali giving enthusiastic reports Of the
prosprcts of the Fourth Liberty Loan.
Miss Fdna \ Taylor, state chairman
of puhhrity, also spoke urging all workers
to send in items of every nature. Incind-
mo the pathctlc. as we'll as the PATRIOTIC
side nf the war and of tho loa movement
Mrs ,I9nIcs GIrns, spoke ol the moving
picture and thr part II " ould play ~ th'
drive.
Mrs Frank Hall DAVIS of Dover
delighted the audience with her sIrging
of war songs
Mrs John Il Hutton of Dover spoke
hnc0v ON public speaking and speakers
The publicity chairman OF the three
counties. Miss Augusta lammottc ct
Wilmington. Mrs Clarence &. Stltcs oi
Rural New Castle. and Miss Nm'rcd
Morris of lNcnt county spoke hurilN 81
thur work and plans. NJ the conclusion
of the morning session, luncheon was
served
The afternoon session was held ~
the Dover Opera House and was pre-
sided over hv Mrs. Henry - JMnr
Of Philadelphia. chairman Of the lhird
Federal Reserve District She spoke
III the women dong their whole duty
in the present loan drive and called
cspccIal attention to the many Sar-
rif,ccs being madc"ovcr There hv our
boys and men Musical selections wore
rendered under tie direction IT mss
Frances Dewitt Mrs Frank lta'i
DAVIS and Rev Victor Ilghthournc
4 moving picture film was displayed.
showing war operations N the war zone
and the participation of Americans WITH
the Allies IN the various limos 81 war
defense including liquid hrc. bomb
throwing, ct.
The main address of the afternoon
was made bv Captain Frank Schwab
Of the English army who spoke ct the
war and its many dlversltles
James II Hughes and James tau
Anderson. chairman and secretary "i
the Mems Committee Of the ihhoTty
Loan. also made short addresses
The public school children Of Dover
were present and aided materially N
the singing,
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-26
CAPT. ]. l.. FISHER DIES.
Wilmington Man in Navy Medical Corps
Victim of Spanish Influenza.

Captain John Ice Fisher, of the Medical
Corps of the United States Navy, a
native Of this city died ON Tuesday AT
the naval hospital in Boston of Spanish
influenza
Captain Fisher was the only son VI
Mr. and Mrs John G. Fisher, 250l .Ief-
fcrson street and was born July 30, 1888
He was educated IN tho public schools and
entered the High School with the class
Of 1907. but left the institution before
hclng graduated, entering Delaware Col
lCge ~ take civil engineering course
IN 1908 he became q student of medicine
~ lIahnemann in Philadelphia. getting
his degree ~ 1912 Then he came back
to Wilmington and became resident
physician At the Homeopathic Hospital.
remaining until December, 1913. later
opening al office IT $50 West street In
Nav. 1917. he entered tho | nltod States
Medical Reserve Corps, from which he
was transferred 80 the navy medical
service. hclng stationed for q time at
Paris Island, : G. In July of this year
he was assigned to the battleshIp kcar-
sarge
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-26
CHESTERTOwN AND VICINITY.

Special CORES pondcuce ~ Every Evening
Chostcrtown. Md sept 26 The
BOARD If Supervisors of Elections has
designated October I 5 and l5 IS regis
tratlon and revision DAYS in l(cnt county
and registrars for each Of the districts
have hccn appointed
Charles y Hague has dccldcd to
discontinue tho blacksmlthiug and wheel
wrlghtlne business at l4ankford and has
rented a farm near kcnncdvvillc for
neft wear
Mrs James Dunhracco. who Is conva-
lcsclng from an Illness Of tVphold fever.
accompanied ty her daughters, Mrs
George Hroome and Miss Edith Dun
bracco, has gone 70 tho mountains for N
indefinite stay
Miss Vienna NJ kcllar. Maryland
State home demonstration agent, was IN
Kent this week and organized home
economies clubs al Still Pond. Fslrlec.
Norton and Locust Grove
Mr. and Mrs \ l. Hudson and daugh-
ter Catherine. and Misses Sus and
Hottie Hin of SMYRNA were weekend
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs Charles II Jcf-
fCrson
Mrs Mary Brown. mother Of II Clay
Brown died at the home Of her son
AT kcntmcrc on Chester river Tuesday
evening, Of general debility. aged about
SO wears Tho deceased was ono Of the
best known women IN this community
and WAS an active member Of the Nctho-
dist Episcopal church in her Younger days