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Arizona republican., 1918-04-15

action," and out of the dugouts or the pits where they sleep the gun crSTs leap to their appointed places. By night or by day the guns are always laid on permanent lines, known as $ o s targets, vulnerable spots of the enemy to be bombarded in an emer gency.
 Down in the gun pit there is a rush of figures. the crash of breech block and the lightning leaps from the mouth of gun. As it springs back from the recoil the breech is opened and back trail of fire bursts out, disclosing for a moment in its lurid light seven men stripped to the waist and working for dear life. In one minute twenty rounds have been fired and from far and near the night awakens to an unbroken thunder as thousand other guns take up the note.
 A few moments later at divisional headquarters general gasps. Thank God" as the group artillery comman- der informs him that the barrage of our guns held up the enemy, while our in fantry were able to occupy the crater and consolidate.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-15
PHOENIX REST ROOM
 ATTENDANCE CROWS

Word from the Phoenix rest room is that since the recent article in The Republican regarding the room, it's many conveniences and the boon it is to- tired women shoppers, the attendance at. the room has consid- erably increased. Mrs. Abbott, who is in charge of the room, states that many people never before knew of its. existence.
 The fancy work department of the room is proving to be one of its most interesting features. This depart ment was inaugurated by Mrs. Ab- bolt. It is her own idea and she conducts it wholly for the benefit of the women whose handwork is on sale. There is no commission charged for the selling. If there were, it would be necessary to charge more for the work, Mrs. Ab- bolt states.
 realization of the many beauti- can be gained only by visit to the room. Almost every kind of hand work is represented; crochet, tatting, knitting, embroidery, bead work, etc There are medallion edg- lnSS, cdInlSOleS, ScdflS, yOheS anu many things in Irish, tatted yokes and almost everything in that linJ a woman could imagine, certainly a man could not.
 Frequently the attendance the rest room runs to more than 300 Each day there are new visitors who exclaim at the convenience of tho room and the wonder that they never before had heard of it's existence.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-15
BUSY AD MAN FEELING GOOD
(By the Busy Ad Manl

Well. 1 surely am proud of you this week, by you" meaning all of my con- testants and I was surely proud of the bunch of correct answers the judges had to wade through in order to decide who to give the prizes to. I believe that the replies this week were just a little bit better than any weex yet and that's "going some" I'll tell the whole world. for I believe I've some of the most original and brainest folks try ing to solve my delivery of curves and inshoots, that there is in the state of Arizona and that means in the en- tire world, But it sure does get my goat to mark a reply 'incorrectv when I can see that whole lot of time and original effort has been put on, but one little answer wrong does the business and leaves them out of the running as far as. getting in the money is con- cerned .
 This week the replies sent in were many of them of a patriotic type ow- Ing to the third Liberty loan and I was glad to see that my folks were sure enough Americans. The best of these
Arizona republican., 1918-04-15

girl buglers will sound the Sells-F Floto fanfares; the hippopotamus will grunt his daily protest from his double den -"the blood sweating behemoth" has a special aversion for parade-gorgeou patriotic will swing into line; caval- ieres and ladies tableaux wagons and glittering cages will rein in their thor oughbreds to the regular gait; the clowns will whoop and sing at their long cared burros-in fact, all the glories of the march past of the cir GUS will be there.
 Performances will be given at 2:15 p. m. and S:15 D. m.
 It is announced that the big show this season is an all feature perform ance, exceeding by far those of former years. It is filled with novelty offer ings and thrilling features, opening wjsb The Birth of the Rainbow" a beautiful spectacular extravaganza employing 500 people and 400 horses
Arizona republican., 1918-04-15

The hoarse chanting of calliopes and Inc shrill mirth of laughing hyenas, to say nothing of the lifting blare of cir gus bands, the trumpetings of ele- chants and the neighs of long lines )f pompomed gray and dappled horses will be heard in Phoenix downtown streets Friday, for with the dawn the Sells-Floto trains roll into tbe city.
 Then, when the aroma of coffee and srisp bacon scents the fresh morning lir on the circus grounds at Seventh md Grant streets the cook tents, the aorse tents, the menagerie tent and the luge "big top" seating 10000 people, will be raised.
 At II o'clock in the forenoon the wonders of the street parade will be pulled by six to twenty-four horse cams rtewaFd the circus day crowds iowuto8p The bands will toot their blood qaickening lays; the mounted
Arizona republican., 1918-04-15
ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT {. \. l, IN PHOENIX

The annual encampment of the G. A. R. which will be held, beginning next Wednesday morning anticipates the regular date by abut two weeks. The holding of the encampment was ad- vanced in order that General A. J. Sampson who is obliged to leave the latter part of the week for the east, might be present Though the members of the G. A. R. are rapidly dwindling year by year is expected that the attendance at the coming meeting will bring out con- siderable part of the membership.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-15
WELL 7,a5o FEET DEEP
GIT & Bulletin)

The deepest well in the world, al ready 1868 feet deep is now being drilled on tho Golf fam, eight miles northeast of Clarksfuig, in north srn West Virginia. Until January 24, the recoId for ici tn : ha ttcen he:d ny boring at Czuchow, in Silesia, which had reached a depth of 7,549 feet. but on that day Dr. I. c. White, the state geologist of West Virginia, announced that the Hope Naturai Gas company hal dliven the .ft b a depth of 1850 feet
Arizona republican., 1918-04-15
Churches We'll Attended

The churches all report a large at tendance yesterday. Otherwise the day was very quiet, probably due in large measure to the many activities of the past week. Many have been using every spare moment to assist in the sale of Thrift stamps and Liberty bonds.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-15
GARAGE BUILDING
 NEARLY COMPLETED

GLENDALE, April 15-The new gar- age building south of the Methodist church is rapidly nearing completion. It promises to be one of the show places of the town when finished. It will con- tain all the modern cenvenienees and equipment to be found in any garage in e town the size of Glendale.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-15
MUCH SNOW IN JAPAN
(Japan Times)

Reports are arriving of the congested state of the railways caused by the heavy snowfall, and a remarkably huge quantity of goods has accumulated at various places on several lines. On the Tokaido line. altogether 1,171 freight cars are compelled to remain idle, six hundred of them being now detained at Nagoya alone. On other lines there were 270 freight cars detained.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-15
SHOWS POTATO PROFIT

A Kingston, Ontario, woman pur- chased a bag of potatoes from a grocer for $40. In emptying the bag .she found one of the potatoes had a sting tied around it and a card attached, which read: T sold at $1 for a 90- pound bag. What did you pay {. tSigned) Alexander P. Burns, Enter prise, Ontario, R. NJ D. No. B." The profit on this bag of potatoes, there fore, was almost 150 per cent.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-15
TELLS IF THE LIFE ] WHERE REAL WORTH
 ALONE |S COUNTED

Those who remember Celora M. Stoddard as a scion of one of the old-time families of Arizona, care 1 free and happy until the responsi- bilities of his fathers business fell upon him, will learn with interest that this popular young Phoenix boy already has made good in the ser vice of his country. He has already passed the first class gunner's eX animation and expects to leave soon with contingent bound for France. In writing to a friend in this city, the young man reveals a conception of the work he has undertaken that stamps him as of the true American l type, fearless, intelligent and pro gressive. With the personalities eliminated, this letter is presented herewith as an inspiration to other young men in whose veins runs, real, red blood. | The letter reads:
 Will Bank on Them
 l My Dear: I have thought of you many times since I started in this 1 business and tried to imagine what you would say, but I like it, not for 1 the disagreeable part of the life, but 1 in artillery we have a lot to learn and it's almighty interesting drilling and studying day and night, and enjoy it. I've just had my second shot and I feel a little bit funny but will pull through.
 I have gone into this game on d theory that, first, it's up to be to dc my duty, and second, I can stand as much as the other fellow, learn 1 just as much and make good. I am in the regular artillery from choice They are tough packages, but my God, they are here because they have guts, and I win bank on them stand ing by in a tight pinch God only knows what a bunch of grafters would do under fire.
 am getting along nicely and have made a lot of good friends 1 ignorant, but on the square and uh- like the fake stuff I have had to associate with so much in my life I am working, studying hard and hope to be able to go across with the next contingent for France. Ii is raining like the devil and I an glad I am not on guard tonight. Wins Promotion
 You know what a job that is 1T the rain. I passed my first class gunner's examination in fine shape and am now voted as a first class gunner and qualified to operate biz tmortars we have here. For this worked very hard and demonstrated I am capable of getting into things in quick order. Just as you advised
 me, I am trying to get myself ir shape so I can qualify when oppor- tunity comes along. I enjoy letters from you and realize you are ons person who knows what this game is and understand what fellow ha. to go through and keep smiling. An
 still on the water wagon and vii I stay there.
 Since the above letter was writer
 young Stoddard has been ordered tt
 the officers training camp where h'
 now is.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-15
Sales Will Continue

The Liberty bond sale and Thrift stamp sale will continue this week. Many are getting the habit of carrying
 Thrift card with them wherever they
 go, and some of the young men are
 buying Thrift stamps for her" in place l of candy.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-15
Homes are Nearly Finished

The two new bungalows being built for A. M. Hoel, south of the Woman's club building, are nearly finished. Just west of the Hoel houses the two new residences of MT. Clark is being built. These new houses are modern in every way. "
Arizona republican., 1918-04-15
Thrift Ball PIanned

Those in charge invite everyone to attend the Thrift ball and as one of the posters read dance your head off" Several amusing stunts will be pulled off during the evening.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-15
POULTRY RAISING
 PROVES PROFITABLE

The California Poultry Journal for April, published at Los Angeles, has an account of a flock of hens, owned by MT. Roy Bixby, formerly assistant secretary of the chamber of commerce, now a teller in the Valley Bank of Phoenix. This record shows that he has made a profit of $1.49 4-5 on ecah layer, during the quarter year ending Febrauary 2S. There are 79 hens in this flock and they have consumed an average of 19% pounds of feed which cost. 59c. They have laid eggs 53 weeks and the cost to produce these eggs was 13 1-5c per dozen.
 The feed consisted of bran, shorts. ground milo, meat scraps and salt.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-15
SPORTS
Glendale Department

Mrs. ShiveIy, correspondent; L. E. Kingman, circulation. Phone your items to 60; Phone your troubles to 67.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-15
Guest From Phoenix

Miss Ida West was the guest of Mrs. Price Quessenberry yesterday, return ing to her home in Phoenix
Arizona republican., 1918-04-15
Out to Visit Mothe,

Virgil Anderson was out yesterday to visit his mother. He is employed at the Palace Meat market in Phoenix.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-15
TIGERS WALLoPED BY REDS
Republican A. p. Leased Wire]
COAST LEAGUE STANDING
TReuublican A. p, Leased WireI
Yesterdays Result.

Morning game Vernon z, Los Angeles D. Afternoon game Vernon g, Los Angeles 4. Morning game Salt Lake 5, Oakland 3. Afternoon game Oakland 4, Salt Lake 3. San Francisco 0, Sacramento 6.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-15

Do not wait tin tomorrow-phone that WANT AID. to The Republican and dispose of, or get what you want.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-15
ST. LOUIS WINNINGS
 GIVES THEM SERIES
rRanuhlican A. P. Leased WIre1

ST. LOUIS, April 14.-By winning today's game, to l, the St. Louis Americans took the spring city series from the St. Louis Nationals in four straight contests. Score:
Arizona republican., 1918-04-15
sAcs SCORE ON FRISCO
CLUBS BREAK EVEN

Republican A. p. Leased Wlrel
Arizona republican., 1918-04-15

ltIVI IVo .HOCdDVi DuIIn "IIU INOII ick; Trough, Caldera and Murray.
The daily morning oasis., 1918-06-15
Self Education.

Some of the best educated men new.
er went to college. One Of the most
eminent biologists never went to
school. Many college and university
graduates think they have acquired
the sum Of human knowledge and rest
on their oars for the rest Of their lives.
while others with inferior advantages
pass them in the pursuit of knowledge.
One of the best-informed men In the
country, who became prominent In
business and diplomacy, left school
when sixteen years of age to enter
the services Of a firm Of East India
merchants in the old days Of sailing
vessels. He made many voyages round
the Cape Of Good Hope and devoted
his time on shipboard to study. He
read every word in one of the encyclo-
pedias of that day and learned seven
or eight languages. In this way he be.
came the best-posted man whom the
federal government could find in the
United States for special diplomatic
work. Whenever a subject arose In
conversation with which he was unfa-
miliar he looked it up in some book
OF reference and he said he never for
got what he read about matter that
interested him at the time. His was
perfect system of self-education.-
New York Commercial.
The daily morning oasis., 1918-06-15
AScRIBED TO FALLING STAR
Mystery Crater in Plain of Arizona Is
Thus Explained by Biologists
of Prominence.

About forty miles from Flagstaff,
Ariz., in the midst VI a great plain.
there is saucer-shaped hollow or
crater about three-quarters of a mile
across and 900 feet deep. The rim
of the crater rises between $50 and
2OO feet above the surrounding plain.
Rocky fragments are scattered about
for several miles around the crater.
Among these rocks many fragments of
meteoric iron, some containing black
diamonds. have been found. The in
ner walls show that the crust of the
earth was broken Wien the crater was
formed, yet no volcanic rocks exist
there.
Biologists have offered theories to
account for this phenomenon. One is
that an immense meteorite made the
hole, and that the meteoric fragments
mentioned are remnants of the falling
star. Another theory ascribes the
origin of the crater to a tremendous
explosion of steam in the rocks be-
meath, and a third combines the first
two by suggesting that the blow of a
falling meteor, striking the earth's
crust at point where subterranean
water had accumulated in the neigh
borhood of heated rocks was the cause
of the explosion.
The daily morning oasis., 1918-06-15
WORRY OVER SMALL THINGS
Unfortunate Habit Of Making Noun.
talns Out of MolehIlIs All Too
Common With All.

"One of the foolishest things we NOR
tails do" said Mr.. Gratebar, 'is to make
mountains out Of molehills.
"Half the worry and distress in the
world comes from this unfortunate
habit. It breeds distrust, creates hard
feeling, breaks up friendships, makes
diseord in families, it makes misery
all around, and all this in nine hun
dred and ninety-nine cases cut of a
thousand for just nothing.
"The commonest form Of molehill Is
the spoken word. Somebody says some
thing to us that we think is mean, or
that we think is suspicious, or lack
ing in appreciation, or twitting or sar-
castle, and right away we begin to
brood over it, to let it rankle in us, to
magnify it, to make mountain of 1t.
'It is at least an even chance that
the little thing of that sort that dis
tresses us SO was never meant that
way at all. But suppose 1t was meant
to be sharp. What Of it? We are all
human, and the best Of us are liable to
make little slips at times and say lit
tie thoughtless things that we ought
not to.
But why should we make noun
tains Of such molehills, of things that
would have been forgotten the next
moment If we did not dwell on them,
keep thinking of them and brood over
them until finally we magnified them
into great grievancesw
The daily morning oasis., 1918-06-15
Traced by Laundry Mark.

Perhaps the most striking instance
on record in England of how laundry
marks assist the police was that of
the Yarmouth beach mystery, when
the mutilated body of a woman was
discovered on the western shore Of
that, previous TO the war, popular sea-
side resort. Over 400 laundries were
visited by the police to discover the
ownership of the linen found on the
body. 1t was traced at last to a small
hand laundry at Woolwich, whittier it
had been sent by a Mrs. Bennett.
Twelve hours later the dead woman
had been identified and her husband,
Herbert John Bennett, was in custody
charged with her murder.
He had, as he thought, Obliterated
every clew. He had persuaded the
woman to stay at Yarmouth under an
assumed mama. He had also, by suspi-
cious pretenses, got her to hide her
identity in every possible way; and
he had decoyed her to the beach at
dead of night and there strangled her
silently, swiftly, secretly-while pre-
tending to caress her. But he over
looked the existence of that one little
telltale laundry mark-which brought
him to the Ccaffold.
The daily morning oasis., 1918-06-15
FLOOD IN ARROYO

Continued from Page u
Senator Karns picked him up in
his trusty Ford, and away they
raced to salvage the runaway
lumber.
Some distance north of town
they met Joe Wise, who is also
interested in the contract, COM
ing up the arroyo, and dashing
into the torrent from time to
time to drag forth a timber.
Not to be outdone by his part
ner, Bankson emulated this good
example, and when they finished
both were wet to the skin, but
had recovered about half of the
timber missing.
Some of it they had not taken
from the water, but siezed from
enterprising residents along the
canal, who were taking advan-
tage of the windfall to lay in a
supply of building material
without cost.
The daily morning oasis., 1918-06-15
Fancies Of Children

The Spectator speaks of that region
into which the 'grownup' has no right
OF entry, and no key to turn the lock, |"
the mind of the child, and then gives
some instantaneous flashes of the child
point Of view, point of view discon-
certingly aloof and apart from that Of
"grownups." A child, on torpedoed
ship, when everyone was anxiously
hoping that it would keep afioat, was
heard to say, in weary voice: "Oh,
when will the ship go DOWN." A small
boy who was being shown the bust Of
his grandfather, mounted on a little
circular stand, asked his mother
whether his grandfather had been a
very wise man, and then added: "But
was that all there was of him?" Per.
haps the Gaping story is that Of an
other little boy who, when told to make
no remark on a guests absent foot.
exclaimed: "Oh, no, and when get to
heaven I will say nothing to John the
Baptist about his head"
The daily morning oasis., 1918-06-15
TANGLE IN STREET WORK
CONTINUED from Page y

CONTINUED from Page II
meet the deficit, it seems PROP
able that an endless tangle is IN
sight. whatever action the coun-
Gil may take.
"Mr. Harrison and myself
fought the entire transaction all
the time in the old council" said
Captain Mix last evening, but
we were voted down at every
turn. and the republican major
ity pushed the improvement
through in its present shape, IN
spite of our protests.
"The contract amounts TO
some $4,000 or $4,000, and OF
that amount $4,230 was assess
ed against the properties repre-
sented by Mr.. Dunbar and my
self which is over fifth OF the
entire amount, in spite OF the
fact that little work was done
abutting our lands, and what was
done was more of a damage than
a benefit.
"I shall continue to fight thf
Injustice, and shall take it into
court, if necessary"
The council laid the protests
on the table, to give the city en-
gineer time to report to the city
attorney as to whether the con-
tract had been fulfilled by the
contractors, Littlejohn & Single
ton. If the contract has been
fulfilled, the council will take
up the question of the equity OF
the assessments.
'The whole muddle," remark
ed one of the present council
members, "is a heritage from
the former council, and promises
to make the present administra-
ton more trouble than the
treasury deficit which they be-
queathed to u.s."
The daily morning oasis., 1918-06-15
RETURN TO WAGER OF BATTLE
Warfare of the Future Likely to Be
Restricted to Comparatively
Few Combatants.

A day, not far removed, may come
when the embattled hosts of rival ma
tions will give place to wager of
battle to decide the conflict. The bat
tie will then be confined to the COM
batants alone without violent interfer-
ence with the peaceful pursuits of
noncombatants or destruction Of their
property.
First, however, we must evolve
great engines of destruction, so per
feet that few skilled heroes will di.
rect each one of them. These war ma.
chimes will be so costly that only e
few great powers will have the re-
sources to construct and maintain
them. Wise legislation and skillful
systems Of taxation will be necessary
to organize the whole people for their
support. A chosen few, picked from
the whole nation, will man them, men
In the full vigor of their strength,
physically perfect to endure the terri
BILE strain, and powerful of brain to
meet and surmount every intricacy of
mechanics and every difficulty of
strategy.
Above all, these hero supermen
must be of such answering character
that they will, day In and day out,
without surcease. devote their unf1ag-
ging zeal to the great task of defend
ing the civilization for which they con-
tend. The evolution and the increas-
ing economic burden of maintenance
of this machinery will make war the
luxury Of the most powerful states
and will cause the area of war con-
stantly to recede. Small nations will
no longer be able to maintain military
establishments, and eventually the mill
lions of men who now battle upon the
field Of honor will have been replaced
by contest among few men in con-
troll Of stupendous machinery.-Ellery
@. Stowell in the Century Magazine.
The daily morning oasis., 1918-06-15
Important Notice!
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES pRocIA1Ms FRIDAY.
NATIONAL SAVINGS
NATIONAL WAR SAVINGS DAY
GOVERNORS AND MAYORS MAKE SIMILAR pRoc1AmAr1ors
JUNE %, 1918,

AN INTENSIVE DRIVE FROM JUNE 10TH TO JUNE 28TH WILL BE
HELD IN ARIZONA, ILLUMINATING WITH THE HOLDING
OF MEETINGS IN EVERY COMMUNITY
CURE AND ANNOUNCE SUBSCRIPTIONS
FOR WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
Pursuant the procamions of
the this State
intensive pledges
and subscriptions June 10th eliminating
meetings will held to the amounts pledged and whom
communities the smaller
the
The school officers will conduct the meeting
ing record Of the proceedings
and the amount OF War Savings Stamps subscribed for them The
of
for doing. will also be
Savings (which United
Liberty Bond during
but intended that subscriptions will
June 28th. inclusive.
The Zach savings Stamp
which bought During each
January 1928 the Government Of the United States will all
SAVINGS Stamps $500 matter during which month 1918 they
bought They less during the months than the
months who buys earlier has loaned the
Government for longer time
BY of illustration note the following table: