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The Snowflake herald., 1918-08-30

l hereby announce myself a
candidate, on the Republican
Ticket, for the Office of County
Superintendent of Schools of
Navajo County, subject to the
decision of the voters at the
Primary election on September
10, 1918.
ROSABEL S. GOLDMAN.
The Snowflake herald., 1918-08-30

ROSABEL S. GOLDMAN,
MRS. A. r. GOLDMAN. }
The Snowflake herald., 1918-08-30

The Herald at $500 per-
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-12-06
ALLIED UNITY

1t must be counted fortunate that the first
journalistic attempts to prove that England
and France and the United States are already
pulling each others hair and scratching each
others eyes out were so screamingly absurd
as to mingle disgust with mirth The two
Innocents Abroad who allowed themselves to
be stuffed with cafe sweepings in Paris, ami
then proceeded to unload on supposedly seri-
Gus and careful newspapers in New York,
gOsSiped better than they knew. For they
were so credulOus, SO extreme in their guilt
bility, and so unconscious of their own ridicu-
lousness that they have effectively barred the
way to all imitatOrs. No one will dare to try
to retail sensations in that line after the near
duel between General Pershing and Marshal
Foch. We doubt if the New York Times
would now print story of that order unless
it limited that the Archbishop of Canterbury
was about to challenge the Pope of Rome to
mortal combat.
Putting all this rubbish one side, it may
fairly be asked if a coalition which was able
to act tremendously through terrible war
may not be expected to maintain tolerable
unity in settling the terms of peace. 1t was
the confident German prediction that the
allies could not hold together till the end of
the war. German diplomacy piled all its arts
to divide them One or the other was to be
ured or bribed and detached. The kaiser
was constantly pointing to the success OF
Frederick the Great in breaking up the COM
bination of his enemies. This was to be done
again The wedge was to be driven some
where OF other into the entente. But it never
was; and Germany, beaten into the dust by a
unified military command, surrendered uncon-
ditfonally to unified diplomacy. Is allied
craftsmanship. after proving sufficient for I'M
heard-of strain during four years of war, to
fall a-quarrelling over the establishment of
peace?
No one questions the fact that the victors
over Germany will have troubles to adjust
and minor differences of their own to thresh
out The purpose of the preliminary confer
ences at Paris may reasonably be supposed to
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-12-06
GOOD ROADS AND REcONsTRUCTION-By Theodore TIler

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-One of the major
reconstruction problems ahead of the admins
tratiOn and congress is the working out of
system of good roads and national highways
roads over which will move farm products
and other supplies required for the rehabili-
tation of the world
The good roads movement is already taking
form here 1t does not concern piecemeal
pork barrel bills, but a comprehensive
scheme for backing up the railroads ana
steamships with highways that bring nearer
interior points Members of congress and
government officials now appreciate the effect
of auxiliary transportation during the war
and the next good roads bill will not be called
justly pork barrel measure
This does not mean that congress is pre-
pairing to spend many millions for ornamental
military highways. The good roads of the re-
construction period must be serviceable af-
fairs, criss-crossing every section of the cOun-
try and pointing the way from remote points
to centers of distribution.
For several years the United States must
assist, or take the leading part in, the re-
Mobilization of the devastated countries of
Europe. This nation and its farms must not
only feed countless human beings, but it will
be required to furnish building materials and
other supplies on a scale never before ap-
preached in the history of our export trade.
Ships alone are not needed to transport the
foreign commerce of the United States in the
reconstruction period and thereafter. Behind
the ships must be the countTy's railroads and
behind them little systems of transportation
from the farm to the merchant and thence to
the nations ports.
The American Association of State Highway
Officials and the American Automobile asso-
citation are to cooperate in support of some
measure which will focus the attention or con-
gress upon the good roads question. Prellml-
nary discussion concerns plan whereby the
federal government and the states will join
in the construction of at least two great high
ways in each state, one running east and west
and the other north and south and connect
ing with similar arteries in other states.
A good roads bill Of half-billiOn or bill
lion dollars is tentatively in the minds of
some members of congress and highways en-
thusiasts.
Colonel H. V Warner, of Lexington, N. c.,
publisher of the Southern Good Roads Maya
zine, is now in Washington and hopes for the
introduction of a billion-dollar bill. He has
discussed the matter with membes of congress
and believes there will be action.
lone of the greatest reconstruction meas
ures which congress could pass, SAID Colohel
Warner sis a billon-dollar road bill.
Improvement Of the cOuntry's highways to
handle the commerce Of reconstruction is one
of the major problems ahead of us today ana
congress cannot give its attention too quickly
to this vital question What good roads we
have helped to win the war; a real system OF
highways-not military highways but com
mercial highways-is vital to our aftec-war
commerce."
The highways transports committee OF the
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-12-06

Council Of National Defense issued state
ment today which directs attention to the
necessity of goods roads if the products of
American farms are to be transported advaR-
tageOusly to the waiting markets of the world.
Earl CurZOn, of the British war board. is
quoted as having said recently that the cause
of the allies had been carried to victory on
wave of oil, because if it had not been for the
great fleets of motor trucks the war could not
have been won"
The Gil to which Earl CurZOn refers came
principally from America and he added that
cit was a victory of automobiles over rail
roads,
These automobile ,rucks, it may be said.
not only rumbled over the battle areas Of
France but back in the United States other
trucks relieved freight congestion, promoted
the expeditions movement of soldiers and
| transported innumerable tons of supplies over
American roads and to the ports of embarka-
ton.
The statement of the Council of National
Defense quotes a letter from E. n. Hurley,
chairman of the shipping board, to the high
ways transport committee, saying in part:
millions of cruelty starved folk face west
ward from every shore with mouths oDen to
the promise of America. These must be fed
and then clOthed-and also supplied with
the other necessities of life. Our grand privi-
lege is now here to restore life, strength and
hope to these martyTed brothers of hundred
tongues.
Highways transport facilities at the farm
er's gate and-at every farmers gate-mJst
Immediately suggest the initial phase of over
seas distribution; must make picture in the
farmers mind of the movement ~ the prod
ucts of his soil and labor from his own gate
through TO the distant points of the world; to
Europe, to Algiers, to Athens. and the
Orient.
1.-The highways transport service is the first
step in the great system of transportation to
the sea and then on the merchant marine to
the far points of the world.
Food must begin to move soon from every
hill, through every valley of the great coun-
try.behind our shores, down to the shipping
points before we can start our ships from the
ports and fulfill our duty; and, with the prom
Use of the wars end before us, the highways
transport committee throughout this land
could and should render peace-time service
by stimulating higl ways transport of nourish-
ment and supplies so badly needed. Routes
and channels from shipping points must be
opened up and efficiently maintained, and our
merchant marine must be built up to meet
the demands for distribution overseas.
Resistance in any form to the free move
ment of farm products must be reduced and
eliminated and the most efficient utilization
of man-pOwer must be introduced wherever
possible.
''The United States shipping board urges
that this message be carried through you and
your regional chairmen to the state organiza-
tions and on down through your great body
of patriotic men whose vision can we'll en-
brace the crying need of their brothers in
other lands for help"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-12-06
VEGETABLES
By DR.. Frank Graz

BY DR.. Frank Crane
Out of this war we have got at 4east one
large and pointed food hint.
1t is the Value of Vegetables.
We always knew they were good, but did
not realize how important they are.
Now we are told that the more vegetables
we eat the more meat and wheat we will
save, and meat and wheat are those forms
of food fittest to send abroad to our army
and our allies.
Vegetables are also helpful in preventing
constipation and other ills.
They also contain vitamines, whatever they
may be, and other things that are necessary
for the human machine, to keep it going
while it's inhabiting ego is engaged in the
pursuit of happiness, liberty, and the elu-
sive dollar.
There is spinach which seems to be the
bedrock and palladium of our constitution.
l never knew a doctor that did not recon-
mend spinach, and never knew one to eat
it. Some of them wear it.
And cabbage, and onions, and beets, and
carrots, and celery, and lettuce, and turnips,
and radishes, and peas, and beans, and
squash and pumpkins, and tomatoes, and as
paragus and corn, and parsnips, and egg
plant, and, last and greatest of all, our old
standby and loyal Irish friend, ne potato.
If l have omitted any from the list l ask
is pardon.
But the gist of the matter is, the more
vegetables you eat the more you are pre-
serving your health, helping your pocket
book, improving your complexion, saving
your country, aiding the allies, and con-
tributing to the Red Cross.
And what I had in mind when 1 began
this article, the great and valuable idea that
was in me struggling to forthput, is this
that in order to eat more vegetables than
you now eat, and less meat and pie and
cake
Eat vegetables frsti
When you sit down to the table what you
eat first you eat most of. Take of tn wire
edge of your appetite by vegetables. And
use the remaining stomachic space for other
things.
Elizabeth Towne has tried it, and Eliza
beth is hale and hearty, and full of new
thought and vibrations and all sorts of
dynamics.
Copyright, 1918, by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-12-06
HOOO America's Money Fought.

Some Of the wars most inspiriting history
is set forth in Secretary McAdoo's annual re-
port showing what the Nation has accom-
plished through its Treasury Department in
time of unprecedented need. In the world
conflict from which We are VIGOROUSLY
emerging, economic forces have played a
peculiarly important part. This was vastly
more than a struggle of armies; it was a strug-
gle of peoples, employing all the powers of
their spirit and all the resources of their life
The armies were spearheads whose shafts
were the toll and sacrifice of the millions back
home; from those millions came the stanch-
ness that made effective the shining valor of
them at the front.
Entering the field when all the belligerents
we're bent by economic strain, the United
States found that in no way could it strike
more decisively than in mastering its giant
sinews OF industry and finance, for thus it
could give speediest aid to it's allies and thus
only could it execute its own great military
plans. AS head of the Treasury Department,
Secretary McAdoo took up the burden of lead
ership in this tremendous task. With what
ability and devotion he has borne it, the re-
suits themselves best witness. AS long as the
story OF these stirring times is read. his
achievements will live in the worlds admira-
ton.
After all, however. il was the patriotism
and resourcefulness of the American people
that made possibl, the attachments of their
leaders both in financial and in military af
fairs; and 1t is to this great loyal rank and
file that Secretary McAdoO in his final account
ing before laying down the responsibilities of
office gives chief praise. No one can read
this report of how the wars billions have
been raised and used without quickened
pride in the country's character and a firm
er confidence in its destiny. Where the peo-
pies hearts were, their treasure went; and
went as an investment the dividends where
OF will never cease.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-12-06
THE TIMBERLINE-By John Brock

ing into each other in the blue distance, far
down into Mexico.
No sign of man, nor even of the cattle
that follow his footsteps. Once | glimpsed
tiny trail and looked about me with more
assurance until l learned that it was only
riders short cut through a rocky canyon
that led back to the trail below.
Still we wound up among the crags. Sud
denly we came on a grove of cottonWoods.
huddled together near a tiny stream-the
first trickle of moisture in twenty miles.
They marked the gateway into the magic
land-the land that lies beyond. Another
turn and we were in the pines-nIt scrubby
mountain pines, but SplenC trees that
lowered ninety feet into the air. And their
forest floor was no mere chaparral but hne,
close grass, matted luxuriantly about their
roots Through them the deciduous trees
famed bright; golden leaves blew past us.
animals scuttled and birds flew, fickers and
woodpeckers and all the family of nuthatch-
es and chickadees, sparrows, blackbirds, and
many more in such mad profusion one could
not pick them out one from another. The
lower desert birds sail across for an outing
here on mellow, sunny days. And wading
birds come here, for there is always water
on these mountain plains. Here, too, were
whitefaced cattle, sleek and fat, wild-eyed
as the deer which slipped into the brush.
And there were ranches nestled in the
hills at the head of open ranges where the
cropped grass was short and sweet as blue
grass pasture. And here snow falls and lies
for weeks after winter storms. For this is
the temperate zone, the climate of Kentucky
and Tennessee.
And yet l knew that out beyond the for
est, over the rim of the range-thousands
of feet beloW-the miles one might walk in
an afternoon stroll were they not set on end
so steeply that a squirrel would hesitate to
pass, trip possible only for birds, the des-
ert lay. desert of scOrching sand, with
cactus set at dreary intervals, where lizards
pant in the MONDAY heat, while far above
the cattle droop their head beneath the
pines and turn their tails toward furrying
snow.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-12-06
ALIFORNIA is lovely, but I miss !
the autumn foliage. Trees never |
turn out here as they do back |

the autumn foliage. Trees never
- turn out here as they do back
home" That is the last bubble of cOmplac-
ency from the tourist. l shall proceed to
prick it For nowhere in the world are
there more wonderful forests to turn under
the magic touch of the frost. Only they are
so far from the beaten trail the tourist
never dreams of them,
Elsewhere you climb a mountain to above
the timberline. Here you climb to it.
A genial stage driver had an extra special
call from the Cleveland National Reserve,
over beyond the Laguna Mountains-a mys-
terious message photographed across twelve
miles of mountain peaks to the nearest tele-
phone And so l got to go.
We travelled miles through the familiar
beauty of chaparral and cottonwood, climb
ing the Viejas grade far above the lower
trees zone to the bare slopes of greasewood
yucca, and silver sage, breathing the honey
laden air that seems almost to be tasted on
the tongue, so heavy does 1t lie in MINDLESS
hooks. Then we dropped down into the
broad basin of Pine Valley, its distances
fringed with the deep blue-green of the low
timber, which finds bit of moisture leach
ing down the bordering mountain sleeps.
Before us our road climbed winding about
the cliffs, up to the very skyline, up through
a waterless waste of crum bling rock and
stunted, struggling shrubs And yet beauty
was here, not only the beauty of the mas
sive landscape, rough-hewn till cons of
time shall polish it, but fine bright clusters
of gautamate tossed their yellow heads in
the winds that whistled down the passes, the
delicate stemmed wild fuchsias lit the bare
rock with their scarlet trumpests; and often
a handful of wee sparrows hailed us, their
clear voices ringing in the mountain air.
Up the crest-where we could see the
peaks that lay before us! Where we could
look down into sheer valleys, narrow as if
cloven by some gigantic knife! Some were
mere stab wounds in the red rock, one gave
an interminable vista of steep slopes, fold
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-12-06

be to take these matters in hand. The larger
debates will be closed before the peace con-
ference meets. That body will, no doubt, find
the treaty of peace in its main outlines draft
ed and ready to submit as the joint agreement
of the powers at war with Germany. In the
essentials there will be demonstrated unity
Application of the principles accepted may, in
deed, require discussion any may be referred
to separate commissions. There are undoubt-
eddy some danger-pOints, such as the relations
of Italy to JugO-Slavia, the territorial claims
of Rumania, Poland, and so on. But with
good will and frank dealing. all these difficult
ties can in time be overcome. There is at
least no present occasion for dismal forebod-
ings and wringing of journalistic hands in
advance.
For all this artificial excitement in certain
newspapers, there is an obvious reason. The
daily thrills of the war are past. Others must
be provided. People at the breakfast table
must be narrowed up, and the Mrs. Crupps
who feast on yellow journalism thrown into
nightly "spaZzums' Nothing so ready to
hand as weird tales about the allies acting
like Kilkenny cats. But this gutter sniping
will soon pass. The world will perceive that
it stands in the presence of sober realities.
The statesmen who gather at Paris, knowing
that they must lay the result of their delibera-
tions before the considerate opinion OF man
kind, may be depended upon not to act like
hole-and- corner politicians. Decisions big
with the tate or CIVILIZATION cannot De mdue
in the spirit of men scrambling for petty ad-
vantages and dabbling in sinister plots. The
sense of marching towards majestic events
will alone be enough to put down squabbling-
Men will not wrangle over single or
pane of erecting the whole durable edifce of
society. So while natural and honest diver
gencies of view may be looked for at Paris,
the work to be done is so staggering and
SOLDERING that wire-pulIers and intriguers will
shrink away from it in share. And we really
ought not to have used up all our stock OF
optimism in stubbOrnly hoping out the war.
We should have saved little of it for the
problems of peace.-New York Evening Post.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-12-06
Parting From Prussia.

Reports that Bavaria plans to open nego-
tiations for a separate peace revives the
question of the German Empires dfsln-
tegrating. Smarting under the disgrace
which Prussia's evil leadership has brought
upon them, the southern Kingdoms and
duchies may we'll be disposed to break away
from the confederation and set out upon new
paths for redemption. Their chances of
gaining the worlds confidence and good will
would be much improved, no doubt, If they
were free from the Prussian faint.
While all Germany must bear responsible
ity for the war and for the barbarities OF
Potsdam militarism, it is commonly recog-
nized that Prussia's guilt is peculiarly heavy,
for it was Prussian lust for power and loot
that started the raid on civilization, and in
herent Prussian brutality that fostered the
policy of Frightfulness. The remainder of
Germany itself has suffered keenly indeed
from Prussian domination and frequently
has registered its protest through a bold
poet or outspoken statesman. Quoting a
German publicist to the effect thai if conserv-
atsm is rooted in the administrative talent
Of the old Prussians, liberalism is rooted in
the intellectual peculiarities of the German
nation in the SOUTH" the New York World
remarks: South German science and art.
intellect and political sagacity remain-a
good foundation for rebuilding States that
may avoid the autocratic errors of the past"
In the example of little States like Den
mark and Belgium which, before the war,
were singulaTly prosperous and whose free
dom will be more powerfully guaranteed in
the future than ever in the past, Bavaria
and other non-Prussian divisions of Ger
many may find encouragement to assert
their independence and work out their own
salvation.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-12-06
Germany and the Bread Line.

however reports may vary concerning the
food shortage in Germany, there is no doubt
| as to its desperateness in other regions of
Europe. While political spokesman like
Erzberger ana Scheidemann keep shouting to
the Allies that trainloads of provisions must
be rushed to the Fatherland if orderly gov
eminent is to be maintained and the armistice
terms duly fulfilled, the Cologne Gazette de-
clares assuredly that 1.-The country can get
along with continued rationing;" and "the
sympathetic Miss Addams," to quote the New
York World, says Germany has food for
eight months" Few Americans, we assume
doubt either the practical wisdom or the duty
of doing all that is possible to keep the Ger
man people from starving-not that we have
any sentimental leanings that way, but simply
because we know that humanity is humanity
to the end of the reckoning
Fair play requires, however, that Germany
take her proper place in the bread line and
not try to thrust in where her recent victims
already are anxiously waiting For surely her
claims are no worthier than those of Belgium
and France, nor more pressing than those of
the millions of people in eastern Europe now
in direst restitution through no wrong of their
own. From Poland Lithuania, Russia,
Rumania, Serbia and Albania come authori-
tative reports sent in SC me instances by off
cial observers of our own Government setting
forth the .pit'able needs that cry for relief in
those countries. We have the word of the
American and Allied Council that Germany's
food wants will be served. Let us see to it,
by supporting humani arian movements to
that end that the wants of innocent sufferers
are not neglected.