Arizona republican., 1918-04-19
TENCOUNT|ES REPRESENTED AT
 COUNTY DEFENSE COUNCIL MEET

Most advanced Of all Tn the way or | organization of county and community l councils is Pima county, represented by | Chairman Selim NJ Franklin and Dr. D. T. MacDougal Community councils l already are at work in the principal l settlements, while representatives of the county council have been named in every hamlet. The heads of all organ izations for patriotic work are included within the county councils executive committee. The Tucson Rifle club seems to have been attached to the Councils Defense committee.
 Maricopa Last to Organize
 Maricopa county has been the last to organize, yet already is showing evil dences of progress. Treasurer Charles Woolf of the county council told of the four-fold committee organization, covering defense, production, welfare and finance, laying especial stress upon the first, as covering such questions as labor and the public peace. Quick action in legal channels must be re- quired if summary action, by illegal means, is to be avodeds Chairman Parker of the production committee explained plans whereby every con- munity farm bureau has been made available as a branch of his committee. This has been simplified through the fact that MT. Parker is at the head of the County Farm Bureau organization.
 In a discussion led by the Pima coun- ty representatives was developed the fact that the draft boards in nearly all countries are being given material assistance in the filling of occupational cards, an immense task. In Tucson there are volunteer women at work, in | Phoenix the desk was cleared by a descent of school teachers, while in | Pinal county the high school students did the job.
 Labor Problem of Southwest
 J. O. Miller of the labor division of the department of agriculture told of | the peculiar labor conditions of the | Southwest, where his latest trouble has been in dealing with insidious propa- ganda among the Mexican laborers. In New Mexico, he found the clock change welcomed by Mexicans who had been told it would allow them to knock off work an hour earlier of afternoons. l The Indian bureau is cooperating with l the council of defense and will urge | the Indians toward labor on the farms. Reference was made by the speaker to- ward the advisability of such law as had proved effective in Maryland in eliminating loafers from the streets. Mrs. Pauline O'Neill of the womens 5 1 state committee told how the women of every Arizona community now are being organized for part in war work. | Even girls are embraced in the plans | they to take the places, in shops and in light employment, of boys and men who thus will be freed for enlistment in the army or for heavier labor, such as on the farms. The speaker sug- gested aid for the bogder communities that now are trying, unaided to at tend to the furnishing of delicacies to soldier patients in the military hos pitals.
 Tells of Boys Work Reserve.
 Lindley B. Orme, state director of the Boys Working Reserve, was at his best in discussion of his pet subject and aroused enthusiasm among his hearers. He declared the boys reserve an essential factor, not only for it's patriotic effect upon the lads for the return of their labor, but through the training for future occupation of simi- lar sort The boys of this valley last summer made absolutely good" Forty of them did more work than a similar number of unskilled laborers on neigh boring employment, while the latter gang for designated period con- tained no less than 12S individuals, re- cruited constantly to keep up the mini mum number first noted. In Arizona this summer 1,50O boys should take this offered employment. The local and valley high schools have offered practically all their male membership. From Fl Paso has come proffer of 150 to 200 for July. They may be utilized in the event of an expected 1-cent-a- mile agricultural employment railroad rate. Chicago has offered 1,50O, but is too far away. There is a shortage of cowboys, for places that may be filled by high school lads. There may be many places for the boys in shops and stores. But all should work, for their own and their country's advantage.
 Before adjournment, the conference approved by resolution the plan for holding a statewide conference in Phoenix May II, something suggested by the national authorities, which will send eloquent speakers.