Arizona republican., 1918-06-16
CENTURY MAGAZINE NOTES

There over million men systematically en- gagged in athletic activity in the military training camps in this country and the primary purpose of it all is to educate the to be better fighting organisms. Incidentally of course there is recrea- tional value to athletics Indeed it might be gen. eralized that the aim of athletics in the training camp here is to make the men fit to fight while lover there it is matter of keeping them fit to fight. lp France and the foreign seas where the career of the soldier sailor extremely strenuous at times and deadly monotonous at others the rec reaiona value of sports naturally becomes more inn portant than the training value. Men just of the trenches after nerve-rackng days amid flying bullets and bursting shells turn nstnctively athletics for diversion. But at first the problem is distinctly of educating body together with mind along lines of offensive fighting Athletics for the Army is said to be the subject of an article by Raymond B. Fosdick and Edward Frank Allen to appear in the July Century. Muscle counts for little unless there are behind it driving force and control; apathy in an army or a navy is fatal. But the fighters who play and who laugh they play are irresistible.
 Queen Marie of Rumana is a story-book queen so yariously gifted and altogether regal in her charms that one who writes of her must fear the accusation of flattery. Even a few minutes in her presence enables to understand why all Ru- manans, and the foreigners who have met her, glow in praise of the simplicity, naturalness warm heartedness, and talent of this queen who is kins woman to many other queens and kings, and who has lived all her life in the purple. The womanness of the queen and the quenness of the have made her the idol of a kingdom Dr. William T.
 
 Rumanis during the and into personal contact with Queen Marie, will contribute to the July Century, it is announced, a study of "Ru- mana's Soldier Queen Courage according to pr. Ellis. is instnctive with Queen Marie In all the terrible days of last winter when plague and death ravaged the remnant of Rumania, she visited the hospitals, going the smitten ones, indifferent to infection. Always she rides about without an armed escort.
 Long ago it became apparent that the United States infested by German spies German plot ters, German propagandists, and active o-German sympathizers, ranging from high officials of the German imperial government, prominent fnanciers, and we'll known business down restaurant walters. The majority of course, underlings whose business to carry out orders from the comparatively few higher up." Most dangerous of all were the German spies who however, did not be- come spies in the legal meaning of that word until went to with the country they represented; for spy is a person who is engaged for the time being in obtaining information for enemy De feating the Germany Spy System in America" is said to be the subject of article by Henry Rood In the July Century. Mir. Rood is said to detail several astonishing incidents connected with the baeful tvities of the Germans in this country to tell how the government is coping with them