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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-05

ton for the position. His capacities
as organizer and executive we're DEM
onstrated speedily and in q remark
ably brief space Of time he had se-
cured the cooperation Of industrial
leaders and producers and worked out
a system of ALLEGATIONS and price maxi
,ums that insured distribution with
out extortIon, and furnished the gov
eminent with all it required in the way
of raw materials.
In this work a spirit Of cooperation
prevailed between the board and the
business leaders Of the country In
fact, the board worked through the hat
ter, utilizing their services in an ad-
visory capacity and effecting the en-
forcement of regulations for conserve
ton directly by their agency. It was
by this means that the board gained
its results of maximum utilization Of
the resources of the country with q
minimum Of price arrangement.
Much Of the work of the new dis
appearing board will be carried on by
other means. Certain of the activities
will be taken over by the departments
of Commerce and the Interior, and
thus the country will gain permanent
ly in benefit from this wartime de-
velopment, which has been SO ably
conducted and is now to be suspended,
with the highest commentator for all
who have participated in the work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-05
The Senate and the Treaty.

1t is safe to assume that before the
Senate votes on the peace treaty, in
whatever form presented, it will in
form itself of all details of the draft
ing--will seek, and insist upon, the
full story of the Versailles conference.
Its duty to the country as we'll as to
itself will require such action. It
could not afford to vote, one way or
the other, blindly; and voting under
pressure Of any kind is unthinkable.
Too much will be at stake-too much
Of transcendent importance to the
world at large, as well as to ourselves
to make any other course safe or ac-
ceptable. The Senate will be on trial
as never before in the whole history
Of Congress.
Aside from this plain duty, the Sen
ate will be actuated by thoroughly
human feeling. 1t is smarting under
a sense of having been snubbed by the
President. Although it is associated
with him in the treaty-making power,
he did not before sailing take a single
member of that body into his con-
fidence about any intimate feature of
his journey. His attitude seemed to
be that it would be time enough for
senators to consider matters when a
treaty was laid before them.
There is opinion in some quarters
that the Senate has thus been placed
at the Presidents mercy; that at so
late day it would not do for the Sen
ate to reject treaty to which he and
his associate peace commissioners were
committed; that rejection would throw
so much out of plumb, the world might
be shaken by the performance.
This is something for the President
and his associate commissioners, as we'll
as for the representatives Of the other
nations at the council table, to con-
slider in advance. The United States
Senate cannot be ignored. It's power
in the premises is known and under
stood. It could not afford on any ac-
count to accept treaty which did not
square with its conception of what
the interests of the United States de-
manded. An evasion Of its duty would
bring lasting condemnation, and pos
sibly graver consequences.
Whether the treaty is debated in
the open chamber, as is proposed, or
behind closed doors, in the usual fash
ion, the debate is bound to be pro-
tracted. The instrument will contain
SO much and such a variety Of matter,
every one Of the ninety-six members
of the Senate may ask recognition of
the chair, and some several times. The
invitation to discussion will be the most
pressing senators have ever known;
and, as rule, our legislators require
very little pressing on that score.
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Street Railway Extensions.

It is in one sense unfortunate that
work is to start on the connecting link
between the Capital Traction and
Washington Railway and Electric sys-
| tens on 18th street between II street
and Pennsylvania avenue just at the
| time when the governments emergency
forces are about to be reduced and the
necessity for this additional facility is
consequently lessened. Had this i'm
provement been effected year ago it
would have been in operation at the
time Of the greatest congestion. As
| it is the work cannot possibly be fin
ished until after the need has ma
terially passed Yet it is a requisite
improvement and the public is for
tunate in finally getting the benefit
Of it.
After a year Of expert study of the
situation the Public Utilities Commits
sion should be in q position to reach
conclusion without further delay on
the matter OF permanent street rail-
way improvements. The city is bound
to grow larger despite the temporary
loss in population incident to peace re-
adjustment. Other extensions and
connections are quite as essential as
this short bit on 18th street.
Street railway construction during
the war time has been so expensive on
account of shortage of materials and
labor that there has perhaps been
reason for going slow in the matter of
compulsory extensions. Yet the public
needs are paramount. The car lines
are now getting the highest rate Of
fare for many years and carrying the
largest number of people in their his
tory, and the inadequacy Of the serv-
ice renders some additions to the
trackage imperative.
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the country for another democratic
Congress introduced it. Beth parties,
lin Congress- and ont. had worked eff
fectively together. and shared in the
credit Of achievements.
But, with Us, peace means politics
Conditions produced by the war must
be met, and will be decided. in politi-
cal fashion and by means Of party di-
visions. Democrats will take one line,
and republicans another. That fact
|is already showing; and the revelation
will increase in distinetness a. time
passes. By the spring Of 1920 it will
be as plain as . pikestan.
This is all to the good It is genu-
inely American. It means full and
free discussion, in Congress and out, in
the press and on the stump; and that
means far better government than we
should be able to secure by any other
method. And surely, after what has
taken place-the world shaken in every
quarter, and in some quarters turned
upside down-we need better, and
stronger, and more truly representa-
tive government in these United States
than ever before.
No time should be wasted in mere
talk-talk for talks sake. But the
men in Office on Capitol Hill will be
well advised if, whenever talk will
serve, they talk frankly and to the
point. In times like these, euphemisms
and indirectien are not the best
weapons for achieving the best results.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-05
The Youthful Veteran.

his mother caHed him "Algernoa,n
And not 80 long ago.
But when he heard a fight was on,
That youngster wasn't slow.
Hes only just q kid, vow.
Though CROWN somewhat tall.
Yet as . veteran he's now
Saluted by Us all!
As Aigernon he once was famed.
Since then that lad SO frank
Has been prosaically named
A "doughboy" and = "Yank."
And that's all right, I can't deny.
But when / must observe
That he's . real veteran-whys
i sort q takes my nsxveA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-05
The Real influence.

"You have the privilege Of naming
all these animals" said Eve, admir-
ingly.
"That isn't 80 much" replied Adam.
'The influential chap is tho one who
will eventually put the price tags on
those that are sold for meat"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-05

For a time the responsibility of
making the White House seem like the
old home rests entirely on Secretary
Tumulty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-05

Ex.Kaiser Karl expects to run for
Office in Austria. He will offer one Of
the most tempting opportunities ever
placed at the disposal of heckler.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-05

The resignation Of DR.. Garfield did
not involve as much correspondence as
that Of Mr. MeAdoo. But DR.. Garfield
did not hold quite so many Offices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-05

Berlin is in some doubt as to whether
the real trouble is over or only start
ing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-05

Tho former crown prince says Ger
many has renowned him. He mis-
takes a denunciation for a renuncia-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-05

Peru and Chile do not appear to
realize how unpopular war has be-
come.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-05

II is now expected that the Congress
eional Record will be embellshed with
q DAILY Hint from Paris"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-05

The bo1sheviki have not attained
|enough success in Russia to invite much
confidence elsewhere.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-05

International conditions maks the
telegraph operator a highly responsible
citizen at present.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-05

Paris has always called herself "the
world capital" but never before as
serted SO strong a claim to the title.
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Antagonisuls,

"A public Office is public trust"
eyes," replied Senator Sorghum.
But lot Of my old-fashioned con-
stituents persist in saying Down with
the trusts"
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SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Conserving Man Power.

NUu1c1VIuB UI6u IUWtIs
GNow that the war is over do you
expect Josh to come back and work on
the farms"
'Nope," replied Farmer Corntossel.
It'll be some time before we'll be
wiHin' to take a chance on gettin'
Josh tired out so that he can't tell us
all about the war when we come home
from our daily toll"
"De man dat says, Let dc bes' man
VIM" said Uncle Eben, "mos' always
thinks dat he's de bes' man hisseif."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-05

Scholarship to the Front.
The world is full Of titles new,
As aristocracies take fight;
But if you say "professor!" you
Are pretty sure to hit it right.
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The DelineatOr
at a Great Price
Concession

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woman. for The Delineator Is
distinctivcly the American
womants magazine. Once upon
time it was supposed to be .
fashion book, but today its
scope is so wide as to include
a good-sized periodical before
you get to the fashion pages.
There are the best stories by
the best authors, the most in-
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about household affairs. arti-
Giles on entertaining and dis
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Arizona republican., 1918-06-03
ARIZONA WINS
 SECOND PLACE

The executive secretary of the Ari- zona Anti ti-Tuberculosis association, Miss Carol F. Walton, writes that Ari- zona has won second place in per cap ita sale of Red Cross Christmas seals in class A. Class A includes states with population up to 1,250,000. Wyo- ming leads the sale with a per capita of 7.24, which exceeds its own prize winning record of last year nearly three times. Although the Arizona record was only 40 this is considered remarkable sale as this state ex- ceeded its own record of last year more than three times. Last year Arizona held eighth place and her ability to move up to second place this year is quite a victory. Arizona nearly dou bled Wyoming's record of last year. Next fall it will be necessary to make a ten per capita sale in order to win the prize, but Miss Walton believes that this can be done and that Arizona can be made the pennant winner in 1919. Phoenix, Arizona, leads the United States in the inter -oity and town com petition in class 5, which includes cities and towns from 5000 to 25,000 popu- lation. The Phoenix per capita was 1881; while Bartlesville. Oklahoma ranks second with per capita of 15.05 This is the first time that Arizona has ever won recognition for record sea sales.
Arizona republican., 1918-06-03
WIN SILVER CUP AS
 BEST COW TESTERS

The beautiful silver cup offered to the boys of the Boys and Girls club work who are the best cow-testers and milk record keepers of the Salt River valley has been won by the Pendergast club boys.
 This cup was offered by the State Bankers association to the club mak- ing the best record of the season. Six teams competed for the prize and the
 Pendergast boys were winners in a very close contest. Each one of the forty boys who finished the contest had been given examination and grad
 ed on his ability to make the Babcock test and each had also turned in feed cost and milk records. The boys of the
 winning team are Olney Pendergast. Adrian Higgins, Leonard Burris and Edgar Holden.
 The judges were County Agricultural
 Agent w. A. Barr and Assistant State
 Club Leader E. B. Oxley, who went
 carefully over all record and examina-
 tion grades in order to decide the
 winners. A number of individual
 prizes won by boys and girls of the various teams will be announced later
Arizona republican., 1918-06-03
AN AMERICAN SOLDIER ON IMMORTALITY

Is the slow progress of civilization which resulted from the teachings and martyrdom of Socrates, Christ Paul. Luther, Lincoln, to be swired off into oblivion in little puff of dust together with what immortality has been theirs in the memories of after generations
 have been trying to consider the duration of the world in its true relation infinity realize that its millions of years the single ticking of clock Can believe that is rational that those great souls created to endure a minute fraction of had the slightest justifcation-even granting that 1t benefited the race-if that be annihated at the end of the pendulums swing?
 In the light of true conception of the moment ary existence our physical world, such "Vir- tue is its reward" Immortality is the deathless- acters and deeds in the lives of children" fall aughably flat Why influence or people world that Is to be snuffed out an instant later?
 Can any rational mind picture a rational God or a rational universe which would itself for a watch-tick by creating dirt ball. peopling it with strange beings eliminating in man. inflicting upon man an infinity of mseries diseases, and uncom- pensated woes, developing certain of these men to magnificent spiritual proportions and then carelessly putting its heel the tiny affair lighting cigarette and walking away.
 If immortality Is not a fact, then above in a nutshell, is the story of the world. Nero getting drunk to the light of human torches intelligent and just by comparison to the creator of a world without immortality.
 Now, by the demonstration of all the great sciences, compelled to believe that thte force behind the universe is rational, that it's laws well balanced, that all actions upon physical matter compensated. I not able to believe that these rational laws suspended uniquely for human per- sonaty. I therefore compelled to believe in inn mortality. Nothing else balances, compensates, eXplains-An American Soldier of 32d Artillery. French Army, in The Outlook.
Arizona republican., 1918-06-03
WHAT THIS MAN GOT FROM THE WAR

A soldier says, in the June American magazine:
 People ask what have got out of the war; what, if anything. have gained from all the exper fences went through. hadn't analysed it at first, but I think I know. All of who have been over there have come back with more serious out look life than used to have. what I suppose you would call an individualist-and I was the indvidual I thought chiefly of my fun my hap piness, my pleasures.
 But I've learned that life is something more than a happy go lucky adventure Perhaps going through some hardships of my has made more sens- tive to suffering in others. know what 1t is be hungry to be lonely, to be in physical pain Seeing mems lives snuffed out in moment can't help af- fecting your own attitude toward life and death
 "The boys who have been there have a new feeling about religion though they may not talk much about 1t. I know I fellows going to church who am certain, never used to go there. Some- asked me the other day if thought of pray ing when was in a fight in the air. Yes I did It is so instnctive that it to pretty good proof that there is Supreme Being to whom naturally turn"
Arizona republican., 1918-06-03
EOlToRlAl-oNE ....
 Wheat Terminals

one of the most surprising and gratifying things developed by the is the almost universal spirit of self-sacrifice of the people-their willingness to cooperate with the government and their obedience to war regulations some of which appear to them to be negotiable. and many of them negotiable. necessarily so. because of varying conditions
 This spirit of the people in this community, at least is manifest to the food administration and to the council of defense, which have generally found a willingness and even eagerness to cooperate. There is seldom expression of desire to evade a duty. The people trust the government to make an equitable distribution of the burden when 1t has been shown that it is negotiable. Meanwhile they bear 1t uncomplainingly.
 Now in the matter of wheat, in which many thousands of new acres have been planted merely because the government needs the wheat Wheat raising has been attractive enterprise in Arizona This state has always been a consumer rather than a producer of wheat It has annually imported large quantity of wheat and wheat flour for the that other crops more profit ably grown. t.t
 But this year responding to the governments call the farmers of the Arizona valleys have undertaken to raise and export large quantity of wheat. That of course involves loss that Is, loss the diff ference between a wheat crop and a remunera- tive crop They only ask that this loss may be reduced much possible by their being placed on
 level with the farmers of other regions. At present they more dsadvantageousy situated than those of any other section-farther removed from a wheat terminal than any other and the long distance is marked by higher than average freight charges.
 That is why the government is now asked to establish more terminals in this state of mag nificent distances. We think the government would serve its own purpose by doing so. Undoubtedly it will need wheat more urgently year than 1t will this year. While believe that farmers will periodically do their share toward meeting that need feel sure that wheat terminals in Arizona would greatly stimulate production and result in the planting of still larger acreage next year.
Arizona republican., 1918-06-03
The Coal Question

In this part of the country we are not deeply concerned in the prediction of Fuel Administrator Garfield that there will be another serious coal short age next winter probably more severe than that of last winter This warning has been thrown out to stimulate conservation of coal and in consequence we have from sources proposals to abandon street lighting.
 There is something else to be done beside saving fuel to prevent fuel shortages. The first and most important thing is the production of the fuel and it was the failure of the fuel administration to stmu- late production last winter that contributed in the greatest measure to the coal famine-that and the Arrangement of our transportation facilities
 The price of coal was fixed by Secretary Baker at price so low that the smaller mines could not operate and the larger decreased their produc- ton during the summer months so that the people were facing coal shortage long before the worst winter in three decades set in. Mir Baker had over ruled the decision of a commission one of whose members was Secretary Lane, which had fixed price that would have produced abundance of coal and at the time would protected the people against extortion to which later they were sub iected by circumstances beyond the control of the government
 The commission stated the reason why it selected the figures at which the price fixed Mir Baker gave for reducing price except his belief
 
 is citizen of Cleveland. of which he had long been mayor. He was protege of the late Tom Johnson There Is no other city in the country that for years has felt more strongly the subject of coal prices than Cleveland For a generation it has been plun- dered by coal barons until now every Clevelander looks upon the coal producer his natural enemy MT Baker In lowering the price fixed by the commits son was really acting not as an official of the govern ment but as one of the SOoOoO plundered citizens of Cleveland. He knew that of the mines perhaps any of the mines which had supplied Cleveland with coal, could produce coal at lower price and make money He did not take into account the many smaller mines which could not and whose coal was 10 be needed as coal was needed before
 So the coal was not produced though we had later plenty of conservation heatless days darkened streets and closeddown all over the land and ships by thousands laden with priceless cargoe, tied to their wharves lack of coal because of tho expression of the Cleveland idea
Arizona republican., 1918-06-03
APPREcIArIVE
Florence, May 31.

Phoenix, June 1, 1918. Editor. The Arizona Republican:
 Phoenix, Arizona.
 My dear Editor:
 Publish it again. Publish it embord- cred. Publish 1t lest some one may have overlooked 1t; simply because it was poetry; that gem from the pen of Ian Adanac entitled, The Silent Army"
 It Is a gem from every standpoint from which we judge and criticise true poetry. It has in 1t almost all of the higher qualities. which move and en- noble and delight. It has the Light which never was on land or sea- While clearly patriotic, spiritual at- mosphere pervades 1t, and blessed is he and purified his soul. who can feel the Tears rise in his heart and gather in his eyes" as he stands in the midst of that truly awful silence of the blue sky overarching" and hears "The call of the silent army" I am sure connoisseurs will enjoy its Thy thm, and It's form. Thanking you for your selection and the Republican for the pleasure of these lines.
 remain very sincerely.
 JAMES HUNTER.
Arizona republican., 1918-06-03

w.. almost into excusatory defensive position We can illustrate meaning in this way Whenever denunciation is made of the I. w. w. they reply with a denunciation of something else for instance. the Bisbee deportations Close the l. W. W. and the Bsbee incident touched at Bisbee July F of last year. there is relation whatever between the two subjects. To mention in connection with the other his essay: Virtue is it's rewad and that is why I say the lion is the king of beasts"
 What the citizens of Bisbee did that day has nothing whatever to do with the outrageous princ- pies and conduct of that lawess cowardly organza- tion; nothing more to do with it than it had to do with the activities of the W. w. in the hopfelds of California and the wheatfields and lumber camps of the northwest.
 There honest differences of opinion to the degree of provocaton under which the citizens Bisbee acted and thus that becomes a two-sided question: either side of which honest disinterested citizen may take.
 The l. w. w. question is different matter. There can be disinterestedness with respect to that heartedly and fervently he must be I. W. w. either in membership in sympathy. There can be no middle ground.
 When man newspaper meets a proposal to punish the I. w. w. with proposal to punish the Blsbee deporters he is at once suspected of some desire to withhold punishment from the l. w. w He cannot afford to lie under such suspicion.