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Arizona republican., 1918-02-10
Electric Studio
Takes Real In.
terest in Work
They Aim to Please Themselves as
Well as Customers

You should come around to our
studio some afternoon and see the
crowd of people. Some of them are
waiting to have a sitting, others are
calling to get pictures that have been
finished for them.
All are apparently satisfied with the
treatment they receive and there is a
general feeling of satisfaction with the
quality and the charges we make
No matter what price you pay, and
with us it is very reasonable, you want
the very best work. That is what we
give you. We take pride in everything
that comes out of our studio. 1t is
more satisfaction to turn out an artis-
tic product than to obtain the small
charge that we feel is more than a
reasonable return for our labors.
The Electric Studio turns out a most
attractive panel photograph for sixty
cents per dozen. A beautiful folder
goes with these and may be purchased
for a small additional amount Post
cards are just the thing TO send away
TO your friends and can be purchased
for very reasonable prices.
In fact you will find that all the
work of the Electric Studio is of very
high quality and always a little cheap
e. than any other place in town. Make
IT point to visit them today at 81
West Adams.-Adv.
Arizona republican., 1918-02-10
SCHOOLS WILL
NOT CLOSE FOR
THRIFT DRIVE

BY unanimous vote, the Maricopa
county school trustees in session yes
terday decided not to close the schools
on Lincoln's birthday, as proposed by
Harry Tritle, state director of the
thrift stamp campaign.
The trustees ruled that each district
should conduct it's own thrift cam
paign with the cooperation of the
school children but that school should
not be dismissed nor the class room
work interfered with by the sale of
thrift stamps
Following Mr.. TITLES patriotic ad-
dress, l. Celodny, director of vocational
education in the state. gave talk and
Mrs. J. c. Norton president of the
Arizona Congress of Mothers, dis
cussed Community Interest In Chill
dren" Cooperative buying of school
supplies was the subject debated and
it was ruled that action should be felt
to the executive board which will meet
in the school administration building
at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, Feb
ruary 10.
The newly elected officers for the
year are as follows:
II. E. Austin, Roosevelt district,
| president.
]. D. Cage, Alhambra district, first
! vice president.
Dr. Rowell, Gilbert, second vice pres
ident.
John Porney, Peoria, third vice pres
| ident
Walter Wilson, Creighton, secretary.
j. d. Etter, Glendale, treasurer.
Mabel j. Hood, Glendale and Edith
La Rue, Balsz, executive committee at
large.
Arizona republican., 1918-02-10
GREAT PROGRAM
WILL De GIVEN
c. Of c. ANNUAL

February 10 will be a memorable
date in the annals of the Phoenix
Chamber Of Commerce.
On Wednesday next will be held
the nineteenth annual meeting of the
organization. 1t is expected that
every available seat will be taken for
the dinner. which starts at $50
o'clock. The affair will be held at the
Woman's club and the menu. selected
by Dave Goldberg. will satisfy the
most exacting. Food Administrator
Riordan has put his approval on the
arrangements so far as the dinner is
concerned
Herbert Hoover has been asked to
assist in making the program at
1ractive, and +. F. Cullen. who was
here i'll Phoenix a week or SO ago,
has been invited to return and make
the principal talk of the evening.
Word from California recently re-
ceiyed by President McClung Of the
Chamber of Commerce encourages the
hope that Mr.. Cullen Will be on hand
10 deliver one Of his famous addresses
A musical program is being pre-
pared by the Liberty Quartette."
This will be full Of live songs and. in
addition, the Indian school band will
play several choice selections. Another
feature of the program, Greetings to
the Allies" will be in the hands of
Col. J. II. McClintock, Major Gully
and Asdiutant Heath.
The presidents of the chambers of
commerce at Tucson. Bsbee. Douglas
and Prescott are all expected to be
present. These men, with officers of
their organizations who have been in
Nfted, will be the guests of the Phoe-
mix Chamber of Commerce that eve
ming.
There are four recruiting depots in
Phoenix at this time. The army the
navy and the marines and the Cana
dian eXpeditionary force. Each in
charge of a sergeant and each ser
Rcant has been invited to this annual
idinner as the personal guest of the
president of the chamber.
On Monday morning Dave Goldberg
will start his campaign for ticket sale.
Already many have been sold and as
the number that can be accommodated
is limited, each member should make
a reservation at once.
The election of a board of Is di-
rectors will take place the same eve
ming. The committee on nomination
has prepared list of 80 members to
be voted on by the members present.
The committee consists of Warren
Peterson, c. II. Akers, A. L. Moore
and H. l.. Aller.
Arizona republican., 1918-02-10


the very strict regulation in this re-
Spect.
Here is the message, to a friend, in
which Mel makes known his where
abouts:
Here we are, somewhere. By special
arrangement with the censor, who is a
fine fellow, / am able TO give you the
following exact description of my pres
ent location:
Approximately 10 inches due north
of my typewriter, and II feet southeast
of the office stove
Please do not disclose this informa :
ton to anyone except in the greatest
confidence, and after making sure that
no German spies are near
MEL"
1t Is a safe deduction that Mel" is
merry as usual and making the best of
things, also as per usual.
Arizona republican., 1918-02-10
CONSERVING To AID
DESERTER FROM ARMY

WATERLOO, Iowa, Feb. 9.-Clif-
ford Brown and wife, and Mrs. G. W.
Gettle, all Of Walker, Iowa, arrested
today by an agent of the department
of justice, are charged in warrants of
conspiring to aid Clifford Brown to
desert from the service of the United
States army.
Eugene Labers formerly of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, is in custody at Camp
Cody, for impersonating Brown as a
soldier. 1t is alleged Brown got a
furlough from Camp Cody and went
to Ell Paso and gave or sold his uni
form, army pass and railway trans
portation to Labers, who won't back
to Camp Cody and attempted to i'm
personate Brown.
All are held under $1,000 bonds
pending further investigation
Arizona republican., 1918-02-10
White Goods

NEW sKIRTINGS- Gaberdincs, pques, basket
slos n" nd 5spps Tc ap sps 80 S125
NEW HASTINGS AND FROCKINGS, checks
plaids, stripes and figures; also plain 9Rn
weaves. A wonderful value, yard $50 OON
AT Linen Department Main Floor
Arizona republican., 1918-02-10

ages. amounting to several hundred
thousand dollars. have been filed
against the city by parents of children
who became severely i'll after admin
istration-by city physician of a toxin
test for susceptibility to diphtheria.
The physician was dismissed by the
commissioner of public safety after the
health officer had reported that he had
administered toxin 20 times too potent
One child who was treated has died.
the coroner's verdict announcing blood
poisoning as the cause
Arizona republican., 1918-02-10
SHOT IN HOLDUP
TRHntthliran a . eoesd MIire

DENVER, Feb. 9.--John L. Gilhooley
was shot and probably fatally wounded
by two negroes who held him up and
robbed him late tonight on Champa
street between Twenty third and
Twenty-fourth avenues. Gilhooley was
shot in the right cheek, the bullet lodg-
ing in the neck. At the county hospital
it was said he probably would die.
Arizona republican., 1918-02-10

national and sectional championship
play during 1918. Applications for the
titular tournaments are expected from
Philadelphia, Boston and middle. west
clubs. The West Side club of Forest
Hills, Long Island, has announced it
will stage the championship again If
the association so desires.
Arizona republican., 1918-02-10
TUSCAN|A WAS SUNK
WHILE BEING TOWED
rRepubIlcan A. p. Leased Wire1

LONDON, Feb. 9.-The Sunday
Times today says it is finally estab-
lished that the Tuscania sank while an
attempt was being made to tow her
toward the Irish coast. The fact that
no submarine attack was made either
on her or on the towing boats is re-
garded as confirming the belief that
the submarine was destroyed by the
conveying warships.
Arizona republican., 1918-02-10
MEL F|CKAS GIVES
EXACT" LOCATION

At last the feline is out of the sack.
Mel Fickas has succeeded in getting by
the censor his exact location some
where in France. So far as is known
he is the first Phoenician to thus evade
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03


by on their first parade through London,
Smile, damn you, SMILE seems quite worthy
Of the place it now has among the sayings
of the great. At depot supply camp and
on other rare occasions | saw few of our
troops smile at the enthusiastic greetings
of the members of our mission, but for the
most part found them serious and grim
lot; and I certainly didn't blame them. II
had left my happy Brooklyn or Kansas
City home, and was dividing my. time be-
tween a bare, cheerlcss room in a French
PEASANTS hut and lying on my stomach in
shellhole lodging German bullets, and
stout American should fly by in a luxurious
limousine, wave small silk American flag
at me, and shout I'm from Iowa, where are
you from?' | would not only not smile at
him., but I'd shoot him.
"Why a man should so love his state
above all else don't know, but found that
many of the members of our mission always
had to settle the state question first. Moth
ing could discourage these 'Staters. In an
swer to their cheers of greeting, our boys
by the roadside, dusty and tired, would oc-
casionally return the greeting with "A nod
OF salute. but more often. as far as I
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03

could observe, by hard look; and I loved
them for it. However, this coldness had no
effect on the 'Staters.' At the very next
stop at some small village, while some of
the members, usually from the effete East
far West, would wander off to the near
est cafe for drink of white wine, the
'Staters would hurry away to find one of
our boys and tell him what state they were
from. l remember one occasion in particu-
lar where we had gone to the outskirts of
Paris to see the e4ty's aircraft defences.
On one side of the field great number of
aeroplanes of all kinds had been drawn up
in line, and far down the line one section
was manned entirely by American aviators.
We were very late and far behind our
schedule, and the French captain who had
us in charge was rushing. us along at great
speed By the tima W? had reached the
American escadrille we were out of breath.
and the captain positively refused to allow
us to stop to greet our men, who stood at
salute, each before his own aeroplane.
However. the 'Staters' were not to be denied
and as they passed each aviator they shouted
only the one word, the name of their own
state-'Nebraska!' Iowa!' Missouri"
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
This Vital Sector Is
l. on the Boil

This vital sector, though kept station
ary for time, or nearly stationary, is
on the boil. 1t is the scene of forces
perpetually thrown in and exhausted. A
look at the following figures will make
one appreciate the full meaning
When the pressure was first seriously
applied by the Americans in this vital
sector of the upper Meuse the enemy
had, l believe, eight divisions to meet
the first shock. In the shock the supe-
riority Of the forces opposing forced him
back, as we know, past Montfaucon.
He continued to pour in men. At the
beginning of October he had displaced
fifteen divisions, by the middle Of Octo-
Der twenty and at the close Of the month
thirty. The process continues.
He had Of available divisions ten days
ago, that is, divisions for the front,
though, Of course, not in their full es-
tablishment, but now heavily and in
creasingly depleted, rather over ITO, of
which less than 160 could be used act
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03

than Germany, for Germany will get nothing
at ali from Austria Hungary, Bulgaria aud
Turkey. This, at least, is the general opin-
ion.
We have seen that the German revenue
will be S1,75o,000 eco. This year the B =. ;:sh
revenue will be $4,000 900. 1t amply
covers the charge on our national debt, even
as increased by war. The revenue of the
United States is at the rate of $4,000 900 900,
which represents about the same proportion
70 Its wealth our revenue does to wealth
in the United Kingdom. In both these de-
mocracies, therefore, credit is fully secured,
and for simple reason. Our rich men and
corporations are ready to pay taxes. They
do it cheerfully and without loss of zeal for
the war. But in Germany the wealthy CAPT
talists, in alliance with the wealthy junkers,
have done their utmost to force all taxation
on the workers. Depending on wealth and
aristocracy for his throne, the Kaiser dared
not impose the kind of income tax which
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03

matter of life and death for him that
the advance of the Allies, whenever it
took place, should not be here. He
brought up against the American effort
everything he could possibly spare, even
to the extent of weakening other sec
tors to the north, and as far as mere
ground is concerned he has parried the
blow for the moment.
AS we all know, the advance in this
sector toward Grandpre which has been
reached and passed, and toward Dun,
which is not yet reached has been a
very painful and laborious effort and
expensive in men, and has covered five
weeks. Judged by the map alone, or
by any one who did not consider the
strategical problem as whole, it looks
like failure.
1t is nothing Of the kind. On the
contrary, it is an operation absolutely
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
Financial Structure of Germany Is Totterng to Fal

it is now clear that Posen will be detached
and also Alsace-L Lorraine, including the iron
mines. In addition it is at least very prob
able that Prussia will lose q part of Schlcs-
wig-Holsten, and the income derived from
these provinces will go elsewhere. The
Kaiser's little scheme for running q war of
rapid aggression without putting any new
taxes OH his people is therefore likely in
deed certain, to recoil heavily on his vic
tins thus deluded. ] do not deny that
Britain has been terribly hit in this strug-
gle-more, perhaps, than some Americans
realize. With wealth amounting to about
$100,000,000,000, which is less than half that
o. the United States, we have already spent
$4,000 100000 But of this sum $40 900 00O,-
600, or onequarter, is paid for by taxes.
SO that only $4,000, 900, 900 has been bor-
rowed, of which $8,ooo,O 900 900 has been lent
to allies and dominions. We do not expect
to receive payment for more than about half
this item, but even here we are better off
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
I'm From Iowa; Where Are You From?"

"HE American tourist of musical
comedy conception is, perforce,
off the boards, and will be till the
end Of the war, at least. 1t ap-
pears, however, that he has not been ex-
overwhelmingly diverted--and we
have in his place the variety that Charles
Belmont Davis, writing in "The Metro
politan Magazine" calls the "stater."
Like his predecessor, the "stater" is
harmless and well-meaning; neverthe-
less-well, here's what Mr.. Davis says of
him:
''From the first day of our arrival in Liv-
erpool think the real desire Of every mem
ber of the mission Of which was mem
ber was to see our boys in France. Once
there it was certainly not difficult to find
them. In Havre we found them on the pier
and on the streets and in camps and bar
racks. think what liked best
about them was that in few months they
had become so thoroughly an integral part
of the great war machine of the Allies The
remark of the coster girl after she had
watched line after line of our troops march
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03

plenty Of money for investment, but it also
meant that solid things like stocks of chem
icals, wool, food, ETC., were being turned
into paper. The time has come when paper
is the only plentiful thing in the "father-
land" and people are asking how the paper
is secured 1t is now admitted that the
ninth German loan of September last was a
failure. This means that Germany is spend
ing $32, 100000 day on the war without
being able to find the money either by taxa
tion or by loan. In other words, she is
living on temporary accommodation.
Incidentally, may compare her condition
with that Of the sUnited States, which has
resources amounting not to $4,000, 100000
but to $225,000,O 100000, and has borrowed
against those resources not $35,00o,cCc0o0,
but as yet only about s16,0oo,ooO,o0o.
That comparison is final in determining
Germany's ability to win this war. She
cannot last out.
She would be in better position if her
financial system were honest, but it is not.
Relying on hope of indemnties to be paid
by all countries which the troops occupied,
she expected to nreet the cost of short
war by means Of blackmail and plupder.
her. as upon Others burdens which are far
in excess of any possible receipts of this
kind, and with the certainty that the Allies
have it in their power themselves to occupy.
German territory the question to-day is
not how much of indemnity Germany will
receive, but how much she will be requested
to pay. This is situation as painful as it
is surprising to German financiers, and no
preparations have been made to meet it.
Let me explain what this means. In Lon
don our leading financial paper is "The
Economist" which estimates that the per-
manent revenue Of the German Empire on
the present basis OF taxation will be $1,750,-
100000. II interest is to be paid on the
debt expenditure will lie between $4,000
100000 and $5.0oO,000,00O. In other words,
the German budget to-day does not cover
one-half the certain outlay by Germany in
her first year OF peace. In this reckoning
I am not including expenses arising out of
temporary mobilization. The estimate is
for normal year, when things have settled
down.
The above figures assume that the Ger
many Of tomorrow will include ali the ter
ritorz which was hers before tho war, but
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03

Republicans and Democrats, Liberals and
Conservatives in the English-speaking coun-
tries Loyalty accept. The reason Germany
cannot meet her liabilities is that she can
not go for money to the people who have
money.
Her position is precisely similar to that
of France in the eighteenth century, when
revolution would have been avoided, so
far as we can see, if the Bourbons mad been
able to persuade the privileged classes to
forego their immunity from the burdens
which fell so heavily on the peasants. Some
people say that Germany can cut the Cor
dian knot by merely cancelling her debt,
which means that nobody would pay taxes
or receive interest. That is all very we'll,
but the debt was the security on which
commerce was to be rehabilitated after the
war; and if mans guaranteed assets dis
appear in the night how precisely will he
meet his liabilities in the morning? Even
Turkey, in her periods of spring cleaning,
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03

assumed responsibility for proportion OF
her debts, only leaving say, half to the
will of Allah, If Germany repudiates, then
it is reputation, and up to the present re-
pudiation has been regarded as tantamount
to national insolvency.
Gcrmany's position is the more serious
because her trade, which abounded before
the war, was largely speculative and based
upon borrowed capital Her balance sheet
was inflated by ambition and was much less
sound than the more cautious achievements
OF nations which regarded trade as human
service rather than imperial aggression.
That trade has largely gone, Consider for
one moment what Germany lost when she
despised Great Britain. Before the war
Britain was Germany's best customer. buy
ing from her goods to the value of 1,00O,-
100000 marks year. Even Austria Hun
gary, With larger population than ours,
only purchased the value of S50,O0O,0 900
marks. We sold to Germany the value of
800,000,000 marks, and 1 suppose she paid
the balance to US in freghts and interest
on our loans to her Commercially we we're
by far the best friends that Germany ever
had, yet to-day Germany has so antagonized
our seamen that they will not carry as pas
senger a representative of the workers like
Arthur Henderson because they think that
he might be too ready to discuss peace by
negotiation. The whole of that immense
trade. passing to and fro between Germany
and Great Britain, has been shattered and
while England will find other outlets, Ger
many. bereft Of tonnage, is left helpless
save in SO far as she can prove a sincere
repentance and desire to make reparation
for the crimes which she has committed.
All this has bearing on her ability to
double Or treble her taxes, rather the
revenue derived from them, which is not
quite the same thing. In the opinion of
many people the vast industries which Ger
many built up before the war will not
quickly recover, and mid Europe, dependent
for 8o per cent of its raw materials on
Allied nations, viii be driven back on agri-
culture as a main means OF existence. If
autocracy continues strict laws may be
passed against emigration, but under
revolutionary government such a policy
would be impossible, and we may expect to
see considerable bodies Of German refugees
drifting to freer lands than their own. II
is very uncertain whether the prisoners Of
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03

fundamental to the Allied plan. To make
this appreciated I shall turn in my next
points to the function of the containing
wing.
The great part of the Americans dur
ing the past weeks and pending further
operations has been to form the con-
tanning wing Of the great Allied sweep.
The function of such containing wing
in a movement of this sort is the most
useful and the most necessary of all,
but it is Of the kind that least adver-
tises itself in movement.
When you have at once the superiority
of numbers and also the initiative over
an enemy holding a bulge or salient
against you, you try to reduce the salient
by striking its two eXtremities That is,
you act principally Oh your two wings,
maintaining in the centre only as much
pressure as is necessary to pin the