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Arizona republican., 1918-02-03
GREAT EXPLOSIVE
 COAL TAR PRODUCT

Rochester Democrat -Chronicle)
 If there is any one thing that seems to be more fascinating, awesomely fas- cinating, than anything, or all things, else in the world, it is speculatinG about what is going on at the bottom of the sea. Long before the days of the late lamented McGinty. who in the fearful ballad was supposed to descend to this mysterious region and remain there in a condition of continued dampnesS, it was a fruitful source of discussion. Some scientists have even argued, to the convincing of them selves at least, that from a fecund slime there found, man has been ev olved.
 Recently the argument was resumed. the phase of the question under dis cussion being the density of the water there The editor of the Scientific American gave his opinion in these words
 The belief seems to be widely held | that at a certain depth an iron ship or an iron ball will remain suspended. | floating about and never reaching the | bottom. These inquiries confuse weight and pressure. A body sinks in a fluid when it weighs more than the i fluid. which it displaces. which evi- dently has the same volume as the body. For this reason any heavy body
Arizona republican., 1918-02-03
BRAN NEW MAXWELL MAKES UNUSUAL
 LONG TRIP

Going half way across the continent in a new car. which had been out of the freight car only three hours before the start and had never been given a trial except the factory test, J. NJ. Hameling and his three sons recently arrived at San Bernardino. Cal. in one of the 1918 MaXwells, being probably the first owners of this years cars to make a cross country trip.
 Starting from Kansas City the trip was made leisurely through Kansas and Colorado, where Hameling reports good roads In New Mexico the party attempted to drive over an unfamiliar stretch of the road at night and lost the way. They rolled along for more than 50 miles over what Hameling says are the worst roads on the face of the earth.
 There were boulders and huge rocks everywhere" he states, and those few parts of the road which were free from rocks were some of the steepest grades we have ever attempted to drive over. A sharp rock punctured one of the tires, but aside from that there was not bit of mechanical trouble on any part of the trip
 We have been over the same route " years, and both of the other cars were larger and supposed to be more power ful than the Maxwell, out they gave us trouble time and again, and frequently baked at the steep grades. The 1918 Maxwell certainly proved that the Maxwell company has brought out the | best Maxwell ever produced, and that is saying lot, for the MaXwells of the past have been good cars. | During the night we were lost 1T New Mexico, when our tire was pune. tured. The advantage of having Z spare wheel and demountable wheel. instead of demountable rims was ma d, clear to us, for we changed to the spare wheel in less than one minute and we could not have changed to ; demountable rim in less than ten min. utes.'
 The Hamelings are going to drive th, car back to Missouri.
Arizona republican., 1918-02-03
MOTOR FIRE TRUCK BRINGS UP TIRE
 QUESTION

Since the adoption of motor driven fire apparatus as standard fire fighting equipment, the selection of tires best suited to the different types of cars, has been uppermOst in the mind of both officials and people
 There is a human sinterest in a fire fighting machine. Its speed, bulk and use compel attention. While on duty it has the right of way, undisputed by anyone. On no other type of vehicle is the tire equipment more important or varied. There are so many varying conditions to overcome that trucks used in fire fighting service vary from the lightest passenger car type to that of extreme bulk.
 The tire manufacturers have had to be familiar with the needs of fire trucks with reference to the adoption of just the proper kind of tires for the different kinds of fire trucks, realizing that the safety and even the existence of the community, lay at the mercy of properly equipped fire apparatus.
 So both the tire manufacturers and the fire apparatus makers have been interested in motor driven fire trucks. One of the first to become interested, among the rubber manufacturers, was the bOOuyedr Ire ana RuDDef com pany. This company now supplies more than half the tire equipment now in use on motor driven trucks
 Safety of course, is the prime re- quirement, and speed one of the prere- quisites. These two considerations really determine the kind of tires that must equip each piece of apparatus For years only solid tires were used pneumatics being eschewed for theil liability to puncture. But gradually
Arizona republican., 1918-02-03
TIRE MANUF FACTURER GIVES ADVICE 0N
 WINTER DRIVING

AdVlce on the care and use of tires Tor winter driving is given to autoists py the service manager of the Fisk Rubber company of Chicopee Falls. Mass. He states:
 TO the careful driver of an auto- mobile the snow covered roads mean tlre economy. The tire coming in con- tact with the dirt, cement or macada m road IS worn more or less by the fric ton and rough grinding which it en- dures.
 IraVeling over the snow the action ot this srindstone feature with the presence of the softer, lighter road bed tlre obtains traction without tread wear Enormous mileage records could pc optalned in running over the snow II II were not for the ruts and the holes that injure the side walls of inc tire. ''-O
 The spinning of the wheel in deen snow or soft slushy holes in the road is thlng that should be carefully avoided by the drivers. as the sninnin |, u the wheel in this fashion often re- suits Tn bad tread cuts as the tire. is llaple to come in contact with a stone or some hard object in the road he'd that IS hidden from view. srindins agalnst such an object when the tire IS spinning, usually means ini,Irv to the tread around the entire circumfer ence of the tire.
 Avoid spinning the wheels in sta ri lns' uo not run tire in the ruts and the winter tire expense will be reduced to minimum
Arizona republican., 1918-02-03

lost, with six hundred of a South Afri l can labor battalion, was that the CO., lision was caused by the wrongful act and default of the master of the Darro, l whose certificate was suspended for twelve months
 Just a little para graph in a corner of the newspapers, the epitaph, perhaps, to fine career.
 That is one of the bitter tragedies of the merchant service-long years of toll, and zeal, and skill, and then, by the error of a minute, a moments faulty judgment or seamanship, a career is cut short.
 In no other service does there exist the unwritten law that he who has failed is ruined, and no other service has such long and pitiful list of sui cides to it's name, for few shippers have cared to survive the disgrace of suspended
 There have been instances. however, when men have lost their ships in cir cumstanceS which are not to be eX- cused.
 Very few people are aware that the commanders of one company's liners are forbidden to have any social inter- course whatever with passengers dur ing the voyages.
 This rule dates back to the time of l the stranding of its big ship. the China l which was run ashore on an island in the Red Sea in 1897.
 A birthday party was in progress for one of the passengers, who was a widely known woman of title. She sat on the captains right hand, and the reports of the inquiry showed that he was so engrossed in his fair neigh bors conversation that he paid no at tention to three notes which were sent him from the bridge
 These notes were from the officer of the watch, and they warned the cap- tain that the vessel was rapidly near ing a certain point, and that the course should be altered.
 Conceiving that he had done all that
 was required of him. the officer die
 nothing more; and before the diner:
 had reached their coffee, the vesse struck.
 .. Perhaps the saddest instance of tn,
 rule that those who go down to thu
 sea in ships must pay the cruel penalt, of shipwreck with their lives was thu
 fate which overlook the captain of ;
 liner. which grounded on a cora
 island in Jamaica.
 The boat, was crowded with passen gers, making pleasure trip to th' West Indies, and fortunately, as tn i, weather was calm, all were safel. 3 landed But the captain returned t ) his ship and shot himself through tn 5 head.
Arizona republican., 1918-02-03

the city's two larger taxi companies and d fleet of 50 new taxicabs with built bodies mounted on Dodge Brothers chassis.
 Taxi rates have been soaring in Bos ton, in common with everything from soap to sole leather. But travellers to Boston may now ride from the railroad station to their hotels for a quarter in stead of the usual 40 cents, and an eX- tra passenger only costs a dime more. At that, the passengers read the me ters themselves for these are mounted in plain view in the passenger com partments of the new cabs.
 First delivery of l9 of the new cabs was made about the first of Decem- Der by the Henshaw Motor company, Boston representative for Dodge Brothers cars, and they were imme- diately put into service by Town Taxi Inc. a consolidation of the Rocket and Frankline companies. By this time all the cabs have been put into service. They are distinguished as finely built upholstered and appointed and bytheir green paint with orange stripe.
 In Chicago and several other cities taxi service has made use of Dodge Brothers cars for the last several years
Arizona republican., 1918-02-03

Light Foar Model 90 Touring Car o.t t. Toso-Taz Free Prfcs saIjea Q oOsfs sitAo~s sos
Arizona republican., 1918-02-03

their compartments behind the rear seat
 The body is mounted on the standard Liberty chassis which is being con- tinued with only few minor changes, chief of which is an aluminuDi crank case on the motor Performance of Liberty cars in the past year, and the research of the engineering department, have failed to reveal where any change of importance was necessary or ad yisable.
Arizona republican., 1918-02-03
BOSTON TAXI PRICES ARE CUT WITH
 DODGE JAR

Boston has now joined hands with Chicago, New York and Pittsburs in hc matter of cheaper taxi fares. The mediums whereby this move has been
Arizona republican., 1918-02-03
SEAMEN GIVE LIFE
 IN PAY FOR ERRORS

The finding delivered the other day of the board of trade inquiry into the collision between the Mendi and Darro last February, when the former was
Arizona republican., 1918-02-03
LIBERTY SEDAN HAS MOST DISTINCTIVE
 OF DESIGNS

The new Liberty sedan recently re- ceived and displayed by the Leach Motor Car company presents the us- ual distinctive appearance of all Liberty models, being marked by the straight lines and trim appearance which have characterized the Liberty from the start. However, there is an obvious intention in the general design to insure absolute comfort as well as distinctive appearance.
 The location of the doors is such that easy entrance for the driver is permitted without the necessity of dis turbing any other passengers. This is accomplished by Staggering the doors, the one on the left opening into the drivers seat, while the door on the right opens into the rear compartment. As the front seats are separated. all seats are thus easily accessible from either door. The drivers seat is ad- unstable.
 The new sedan gets much of it's smartness from the top, which is hung somewhat lower than in average prac-
 tice The car is upholstered in pleated
 gray whipcord and is fitted with silk curtains. The exterior is finished in cobalt blue and the wheels may be procured in straw or cobalt, either Of which harmonizes with the body. The switch controlling the interior | lights is placed at the side of the rear | compartment so that it may be con- venient to all occupants. The door to the front compartment may be locked from the inside, thus making it un- necessary that more than one key be used to lock the whole car from the outside. As with certain other sedan
 models of the advanced types, the | front windows drop into the body l nanalS and the rear windows have
Arizona republican., 1918-02-03

pneumatics were fitted and now many types of apparatus operate on them.
 Generally speaking, all chiefs cars were pneumatic tires. Pneumatics are ideal on medium weight machines, which must run over streets partly un- paved or of sand or clay Where streets are paved or of hard surface cushion type of tire is needed on heavy trucks that must exceed B miles an hour. On the heavy pumping engines. water towers and aerial trucks solid tires are generally used. Speeds of over 20 miles an hour are seldom de veloped by this class of trucks.
 AS no one type of shoe meets all human needs, so no one type of tire meets all fire apparatus needs. The cushion tire predominateS in the fire truck world, for it's general utilitarisn gives and is the most comfortable qualities. It cannot puncture, yet it gives and is the most comfortable riding of the tires that the public knows as solid tires. Yet the pneu- | matic is gaining rapidly. as it's hitherto unknown virtues are discovered
Arizona republican., 1918-02-03

A Porto Rico illustrated journal in- dicates that the queen of dancers, Anna Pavlowa, recently visited San Juan, and created stir among the ance-loving Porto Ricans. with her incomparable pirouettes. The automo- bile which she used during her stay on the island was equipped with Goodyear tires.
Arizona republican., 1918-02-03
PERSONNEL OF THE
 NAVY OF UNCLE SAM

The total strength of the navy, in cludlng the marine corps, on Noveno- Der l5, 1917, was 272,00o officers and men. The distribution of this force was as follows:
 Enlisted strength of navy
Arizona republican., 1918-02-03
s59O,S26.55

S0JNi io-D.11 This represents 16.7 per cent on $500 000 preferred capital for the quart CT which is equivalent to 66S per cent Tor the year.
 President Edward $. Jordan says. in commenting upon the present situa- ton in the motor car industry:
 "The general business of the coun- try in 1917 when measured in dollars represented by bank clearings. shows an increase of 9 per cent over 1916. Just within the past few days. since the announcement of the government taking over the railroads, there has been a very marked increase in the sales of motor cars in the medium price class.
 The demands being made upon the motor car manufacturers by the gov 7rnment, will unquestionably mean great reductions in the winter pro- Auction of most companies with con- tequent shortage in motor cars in the bring
Arizona republican., 1918-02-03

He HdN al fltlltld Tn IedeF2l service are known as national naval vol unteers,' and nearly all the militia are now in the service of the navy. Only those who volunteered for fed eral service were mobilized. Hospital corps, April 6, 1s17. 2,OO0 Hospital corps November 15,
 I5li 1000
 The coast guard with about 5000 officers and men are serving under the navy department for the dura- ton of the war.
 There are about 13,oo0 officers in navy, naval reserve force and na- tional volunteers:
 Marine corps. enlisted strength
 April 6, 1917 ............. ..... 1s,2SS Marine corps. commissioned
 officers April s. 1917 ...... 426 Marine corps, enlisted strength
 November 15, 1917 ......... 50, 900 Marine corps, reserves and ma
 tional naval volunteers in
 service, about ............. 1866 Marine corps officers ........ 1,1s7 1 Total strength commissioned
 and enlisted of marine corps,
 November 15. about ........ 3,oed
New-York tribune., 1918-08-05
Fusion Against Hillquit Socialism

julius Gerber, executive secretarv nc
the New York Socialist party, iudqinp
from the tone of his quoted remarks. is
not displeased with the action of the
Republicans and Democrats in fusing in
the 18th, 18TH 14th and Goth Congress-
districts, tha object of the fusion being
the defeat OF Socialist candidates for
Congress-
Mr.. Gerber, who shares with Morris
Hillqult the management of the So
clallst party in this country, predicts
that as a consequence of the fusion the
Socialists will increase their total vote
from 100000 to 100000 That would
signify nothing. Women will vote this
year and the vote of all parties NAV bo
doubled for that reason. The signif-
cant thing, even to Mossrs Hillquit and
Gerber, must be the fact of fusion
against socialism. 1t is an answer to
Hlllqult's boast last year that he would
not buy Liberty bonds 1t is an answer
to the declaration Of the Socialist Dartv
under his direction that the declaration
OF war against Germany was crime. 1t
Is an answer to the assault made bv
1iillGWt, when the flame was not so
high, upon all that we meant to do and
are now doing to make the world safe
Tor democracy. There is crystallzing in
tins country new feeling against the
KIND OF socialism Hlluuit represents
And that is what fusion means.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-05

ment. In the case of Presidents Wilson's
war address of April 2, 1917, more than
half OF the text, by an actual counting OF
the lines, was omitted in the Wolff Bu-
reaus version. The convincing recital Of
the causes which provoked US to war was
curtailed and distorted, while the denuncia-
ton of Germany's system of intrigue, with
the reference to the Mexican note, was
dropped. The declaration that 1.-The world
must be made safe for democracy" was de-
leted and the passage disclaimlng any de-
sire to seek selfish compensation for Amer
ica's sacrifices was struck out. The blue
pencil also run through the express
sons of friendship for the German people
and the eloquent statement of what we are
fighting for; right that is more precious
than peace, democracy, the principle of
self government, the liberties Of small ma
tons and universal dominion of right by
a concert of free peoples.
The Germans even extend this campaign
of "Pan- -Munchausensm' Gas an American
editor aptly put it to their own troops.
Captured German soldiers, supplied only
with official news, have disclosed the most
fantastic ideas Even as late November,
1914, German troops in Belgium were led
to believe they were in the vicinity of
Paris. One of the soldiers near Roulers,
in Flanders, having understood that he was
within eight miles of Paris, asked to be
shown place from which he might see
the Eifel Tower. News of different sorts
is served on different fronts Two sets of
what purported to be the same edition of
the General Anzeger," of Dusseldorf, were
prepared with Identical dates and serial
numbering, but one intended for cir
culation in occupied Russia. and the other
in Belgium, the news matter varying ac-
cording to the audience. Such tactics, ac-
cording to the German theory, would
hearten the troops. improve their morale
and develop will to victory"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-05
Saving Children

The children of to-day are the nation
OF tomorrow. They are the second line
of defence. If our devout hopes are full
hlled, there viii be no war for them to
light; this war is our job and we purpose
to see it through. But theirs will be the
task to carry forward the nation. our
America, IN Its new ventures at home
and overseas, through all it's problems of
reconstruction and rebirth.
Therefore, the most precious possess
sion we have is the children Of America.
That is humanity and it is hard headed
economies. Already the nations of Fu-
rope have begun to husband child life.
We are facing the problem, and upon our
answer Will literally hang the fortunes
OF America generation hence. AS we
sacrifice the bravest and best of our
youth in to-day's battle, we are urgently
bound to save and guard at all cost the
children who will succeed them.
This seems self-evidont Yet the spe-
clfic chance which our city has to-day to
save the lives and health of children
hangs in the balance We mean school
lunches. The proposal now before the
Beard of Education is to appropriate
$1,000 for the introduction of cost
lunches Cat five cents or more) in thirty
more schools. There are fifty-two schools
which already have them. President
Somers has cordially approved the plan,
The system avoids the charity element
which free lunches suggest 1t is work
ing most successfully in the schools
where it is in operation. Yet the Beard
of Education has delayed action upon the
appropriation, and there is said to be o.
position to its passage.
The need Of these school lunches was
clearly stated on this page by DR.. Holt.
Malnutrlton, always a danger to child
health among the poor, has been grie-
Vously aggravated by the war prices of
foodstuffs. The hardships of war have
delivered their most dangerous blows at
the children of the nation. The effec-
tive education, the health and lives of our
school children are seriously menaced.
We cannot conceive that the Board of
Education will defeat this measure and
condemn just so many OF our school chill
dren to inefficiency, malnutrition, disease
and death. 1t is no time for obsolete
prejudces. 1t is no time for delay. We
must face the problem of safeguarding
cur children resoutely and promptly.
The cost is immaterial. 1t is posses
sion without price that is in danger and
that we can save. 1t is also, let US never
forget, a possession that no wisdom after
the fact can ever replace
New-York tribune., 1918-08-05

scarcity of heroes. Early in the war
Immediately after the plague of Amerl-
can refugee plots) they declared ban
on war plays and decreed that the Old
familiar cowboys and reformed million
aires should disport themselves in the
mountain passes and the moonllt glens
just as if there were no war just as if
all the cowboys and reformed millionaires
were not actually disporting themselves
in the trenches with star shells instead
Of moons, and no girls in sight. The
short story shines in virtuous contrast.
Whatever its faults, it at least has never
tried to evade it's responsibilities toward
the year in which it lives. 1t never
acted as if heroes should still be made
OF shertfs and polo players, when every
body knows to-day that they are made
of Frenchmen and eX-bank clerks.
With full understanding of the limi-
tations placed upon it by the draft, and
with good nature exceeded only by the
good nature with which the American
woman undertook to make bread Of
straw when the wheat shortage threat
ened, the American short story raj led
to the emergency The midsummer fic-
ton numbers are the measure Of its sue
cess, and the summer girl can repair to
her hammock with a whole battalion of
heroes.
Lovers we have with US in great abun-
dance, as square jawed as red d-headed
,,>I
dered to an extent that makes the old
fashioned bronzed tennis hero look like a
stenographer on his first day in training
camp. We have them with us on furlough,
on special and secret mission, on sick
leave, and on payday. We have spy sto-
rles, which allow them the most delightful
latitude in the matter of cominr and
going from country estates in Maine,
and we have them in the cornfeld doing
their duty by the land army and the
farmerette. The ordnance department.,
Of course we have always with u.s.
incidentally, we notice that Cupid has
speeded up his performance since he got
into khaki. It doesn't take him whole
summer now to shoot the right girl One
weeks furlough will do it, one climb ur
a mountain where nest of spies have q
wireless outfit one broken leg. At pres.
eht the record for quick action is held
by that hero of Samuel Hopkins Adams
who met and charmed and won his girl
all in one night when they were marooned
during thunderstorm. He was a pri-
vatc in the army There is no telling
what will happen to the speed records
when the marines hear about it.