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Arizona republican., 1919-07-28
Keep America Reading

As demobilization proceeded, many of these libraries had to be aban- doned, and thousands of books had to be shipped home. but a large number are still in operation.
 Our public library facilities ,9fore the war were painfully inadeq late; they are much more so now. The li- brarians did not go to the trenches simply to get a view of the scenery. They went there to distribute books, and distribute books they did. They found the major portion of the army distinctly devoid of the reading habit, so they proceeded to cultivate it. And so well did they succeed that the war libraries became filled to overflowing and large force of people was kept busy on both sides of the Atlantic ocean circulating books to supply the demand. librarian was never too busy to disregard the personal tastes of each soldier. He would work for hours trying to find the books the man wanted and tactfully advising him in reading matter. content in the know 1 ledge that here was another possible book convert It was an unprecedent ed opportunity to guide the young men of America toward the habit of reading.
 The large demand for technical 1 books from the camp libraries in the early part of the American engage ment came as surprise to librarians. l Most authorities had held the opinion that the men would ask chiefly for | popular fiction, but instead everyone seemed to be bent upon self-improve
 ment. Electricity, mechanical en- gineering, astronomy, economics and l finance were the subjects that in- | trigued the American soldiers imagi- nation. With the signing of the ar I mistice, however, there was a sudden and most remarkable change in the
 nature of books read The men sur denly evinced strong inclination for | light fiction. Something light and 1 foolish" was the constant demand. Ir the American library in Paris, for ex-
 ample books on the technical subjects as we'll as those on art, history ant travel stood idle upon the shelves
 while the demand for worthless fictior
 constantly increased. Moreover" a. one librarian observed, "the quality q the reading was reflected in the face. of the men. They were unhappy, dis
 contented and restless They could SC,
 no beauty in Paris. and they wer, !, losing the historical significance of tn, l, place.
 This was the library's opportunity
 and it was quickly seized It was n, easy problem to catch and hold tn
 interest of these homesick men, bu
Arizona republican., 1919-07-28
WILSON WILL .
 GIVE TREATY VIEWS
Republican A. p. Leased Wirel

WASHINGTON. July 27-No word came from the White House today to clear up intimations that President Wilson, before beginning his speaking tour, might make some public ex- pression of his views on the reser- vations to the covenant of the league of nations, which some republican senators insist are necessary to it's ratification. Although no one in the presidents official family would take notice of these intimations, which are widespread, the impression continues to grow in congressional and official circles that the president has some such idea in mind.
 Tomorrow the president will receive callers at his desk in the executive of fees for the first time in several days. All his appointments are with demo- cratic members of the house or senate. No republican senators are to call to continue discussion of the league of nations. There is no indication when the president intends to call in more senators of the majority party.
 Mir Wilson was said to have under consideration an intinerary calling for his departure from Washington, Aug ust 5. If this date finally is decided upon the president should arrive In Los Angeles, August F, after making a few speeches in the middle west.
Arizona republican., 1919-07-28
NATIONAL HIGHWAY
 AROUSES INTEREST

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July zo.-Con- tinued interest is being manifested and work done to establish the Bankhead national highway that starts at Wash ington and ends at the Pacific coast as an officially designated state highway by the legislatures and highway com missions through the states 1t travers- es and also requesting congress to take the same over as the first national highway to be built in this country.
 The Legislatures of Alabama, NoFth and South Carolina have already passed acts establishing the Bankhead nation al highway in those state and memo ralizing congress to take over the Bankhead national highway as gov ernment highway.
 The Texas and Georgia legislatures that are now in session are expected during the coming week to pass sirnl- lar acts.
 Director General, J. A. Rountree of the United States Good Roads associa- tion is in Atlanta this week conferring with the Georgia legislators and the state highway commission in regard to taking over the Bankhead national highway as state road.
 The Arkansas legislature has been called to meet on July 2s to take action on the womans suffrage amendment. If it takes up good roads legislation there is no doubt that the Bankhead national highway in that state will be taken over by the legislature Just as fast as the legislatures meet, favorable action is being taken. The reports at headquarters show that wonderful work of building the highway is being | done
Arizona republican., 1919-07-28
(By FREDERIC j. HAskiN)

WASHINGTON, D. C., July 24.-An important question is now agitating the American Library Association. It would very much like to know what is going to become of it-whether it is going to have to pull in it's belt as rapidly and as gracefully as have other war organizations, or whether it is to retain it's present expansive girth now that peace has arrived.
 The army wants it to go on supply ing books to soldiers, and the navy Is equally anxious that it should continue it's ministrations to that service. But now that the war is a thing of the past, congress is losing interest in the welfare of the enlisted man, and is inspired with huge ambition for cutting down expenses. Neither the army nor he navy has the funds to keep the library association operating at it's present status. The military af- fairs committee of the house asked for $23, 3,000, 900 to carry out a recreational and educational program for the peace dime army and the appropriations committee reported an appropriation of $50, ,000--or about the same amount that was spent for handed boxing gloves in the army last year This does not leave much of margin to be spent on books.
 There is one other hope. however That is the hundred million dollar l educational bill pending in congress If the department of education is es- l tablished as this bill provides, the i organization built up by the American
 Library Association may be taken over bodily and installed as one of the bu- reaus in the new department. Unless l this occurs. or unless some of oul i leading philanthropists come to tht | rescue at the last moment, the associ- l atlon must close it's libraries. fire its
 force of trained librarians. cease ths 1 circulation of hundreds of thousand. i Of books, and shrink to it's pre-wa-
 size. A review of the associations ac
 tlvlties in the war reveals what calamity this would be to the nation At the height of it's career durin: the war, the association at one tim. operated 49 large libraries and 2.SS
 small branch libraries in this country
 and 1401 large libraries and a simila
 number of small ones overseas, Thir
 teen industrial war work plants an 115O ships. including 190 transports
 were also equipped with libraries. |
 addition, circulating book seryic
 was supplied to 230 hospitals in tn
 country, and to 13s overseas. Alto
 gether it was a stupendous agency fo
 putting the printed page in the han
 of the service man.
Arizona republican., 1919-07-28

we strained every effort tactfully to turn the current of the reading. Grad ually the morale stiffened. Soldiers who had walked through the streets Of Paris with unseeing eyes awakened to the knowledge that there was some thing more than cafes and vaudeville. Books on France were swept from the shelves. Fifty copies of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables' did not begin to fill the demand. Gradually the dis eontented faces grew less frequent; the restlessness was less apparent"
 If libraries can exert such an excel lent influence over men at war, it is believed that their influence would be none the less great in peace. As the association points out, social unrest all over the world is increasing by leaps and bounds. Uncle Sam is ex- ceedingly nervous for fear the large number of illiterates in his family will suddenly become infected with bolshevism. The librarians of the na
 tion are trained in the art of propa
 ganda. They are matches even for the bolshevists. Nothing can equal the way in which they have learned to excite a mans interest in the constitu- llO1I UT III tApuTSdl6u uiSlOIIcS OI IDC lives of our presidents. or in stirring accounts of the achievements of American business. The association believes that, if properly financed, it would be able to do more for popular education and social welfare work than any other force in the country.
 So far, the association has not per fected it's future plans of operation. It is waiting to find if funds will be forthcoming. But some of it's mem bers admit that one of the chief dreams of the organization is to provide more books for rural America. The rural American library as it exists today is a sad and feeble thing. With the ex ception of popular fiction, it provides very little in the way of education or recreation. In the midst of an agri- cultural community, it is useless tc 1 farmers, for it seldom contains any agricultural Information even in the form of an encyclopedia or of gov ernment bulletin.
 l This spring, Walter Prichard Eaton l the dramatic critic. who is also { 1 farmer, bethought him that the near est blueberry market was far ava!
 and high priced, and that he had som'
 idle land which might very well b'
 planted with blueberry bushes. H
 was not certain as to the kind of soi l required by blueberries, but he hat
 reason to believe that the question 0 1 blueberries was fully covered in 1 farmers bulletin issued by the depart ment of agriculture or in almost an. encyclopedia. The rural library nea his home failed to nrod1lce either how
 ever He was compelled to send ava, for the information, and by the tim i it arrived it was too late to plan
Arizona republican., 1919-07-28
D|SCLA|MS LIABILITY FUR HUN FAILURE II
 MAKE PEACE IN 1917

BERLIN, July 27.-Dr. George Mich- aelis, the former imperial chancellor. in declaration published by the Tag lische Rundschau, disclaims responsi- bility for refusal of peace overtures in 1917 attributed to him by Matthias Erz- berger, vice premier, speaking in the German national assembly Friday.
 On that occasion NJ. Erzberger de- clared that peace overtures were made to Germany by England and France through the Vatican in August, 1917, and that Chancellor Michaelis on Sep tember A wrote that the situation was not sufficiently ripe and rejected the overtures.
 Dr. Michaelis says that the proposals were laid before him early in Septem- Der, not August, and that he discussed them with pr. Won Kuehlmann, foreign secretary at that time. Later he re- quested the emperor to hold a crown council in the presence of supreme army and navy authorities. This was held September Il, and the result of the conference he says, was summed up by the emperor in the following written memorandum:
 "The annexation of Belgium is du- bious. Belgium could be restored. The Flanders coast, it is true is very inn portant and Zeebrugge must not fall into the hands of the British. But the Belgian coast alone could not be held The close economic union of Bel gium with Germany must be brought about. Belgium has the greatest in terest in this.'
 The former chancellor explains that he arranged with Von Kuhlman to make soundings, through a suitable person to indicate, in accordance with the crown councils decision. that pre- requisites for negotiation were recog- milton of Germany's territorial integ- rity, restoration of the German col onies abandonment of an economic war and no indemnity. Great secrecy was necessary and it was considered inadvisabe to negotiate through the Vatican.
 In conclusion. Dr. Michaelis says:
 ''I did my utmost and if the plans failed it was due to the fact that oui enemies were unwilling"
 General Erich Ludendorff. formel first quartermaster general, is also ou with a declaration in which he denies that he knew of the papal letter ol the reply of Dr. Michaelis until dis closed by Herr Erzberger.
Arizona republican., 1919-07-28
TROOPERS PATROL
 NATIONS CAPITAL

WASHINGTON, July 27.-All of the 2000 regular troops brought here to preserve order when last weeks race rioting and street disorders got beyond control of the police, had been with drawn tonight, but the national capi- tai was still depending upon the army, represented by a provost guard.
 The war department recreated the provost guard, abolished several weeks ago. Tonight the troopers, armed with riot sticks and six-shooters in open holsters, were patrolling the principal streets of the capital in pairs.
 Although race rioting and attacks by negroes on white women have sub sided, street hold ups have continued
Arizona republican., 1919-07-28
BAUER RESIGNS AS
 FOREIGN MINISTER

VIENNA, Saturday, July 26.-(By the Associated Press) s)-Dr. Otto Bauer, Austrian foreign minister, resigned the foreign portfolio today. IIe re- tained, however, the post of miSister of socialization in the cabinet. The for eign ministry will be taken over by Dr. Karl Renner, the chancellor, in addi- tion to the chancellorship.
 Representatives of the allied powers, as well as Austrians of the well-to- do order, are said to have been attempting for months past to bring about Dr. Bauer's resignation because of his sup posed bolsheviki affiliations
Arizona republican., 1919-07-28
WIFE MURDERER |S
 . SLAIN BY P0SSEMAN
Republican A. p. Leased WIre1

SANTA F7E, N. NJ, July 27.-Isidoro Martinez, wife murderer, under sen tence of death, who escaped from the county jail here several weeks ago while under reprieve from the gover- nor. was shot and killed by a posse at Las Truchas, in northern Santa Fe county late Saturday night, according to word reaching here today.
 The posse went to the house where Martinez was located. AS they opened the door he began firing, one bullet striking Mounted Policeman Alarid in the arm. Deputy Sheriff Baca then fired at Martinez and the latter fell dead.
Arizona republican., 1919-07-28
TO WELCOME PERsHlNG HOME

WASHINGTON, July 27.-Prepara- tions for the welcome of Gen. Pershing on his return home are being made by both Congress and the war department, but the plans of neither are complete The congressional program. as already drafted, calls for the gift of a sword, a vote of thanks, and the permanent rank of General on Gen. Pershing War depIrtment plans are awaiting re- ceipt of information as to the time of Gen. Pershings return.
Arizona republican., 1919-07-28
ITALY SOON TO LIFT
 BAN 0N IMPORTATION

ROME, July 27.-(By the Associated Pree).-The Italian war trade board has abolished many restrictions on i'm portations. The list of commodities allowed to enter italy, to be published soon. will undoubtedly be most liberal as regards American products.
 It is anticipated leather will be near the top of the new list, as the public is clamorning for American shoes.
 Senator LuZzatti, formerly Italian premier. in a statement to the Asso- ciated Press, predicted tariff wall against German imports in order to prevent a sudden avalanche of German products into Italy.
Arizona republican., 1919-07-28
SMALLPOX CASE HOLDS
 UP TRANSPORT MOBILE

NEW YORK. July 27.-The first case of smallpox discovered on board a transport held up the transport Mobile from Brest on her arrival today, re- sulting in the quarantining of the near ly 5000 officers and men on their ar rival at Camp Mills and the segrega- tion of 13S war brides"
 A Filipino mess boy was found to have developed a mild case of the dis ease after the vessel left France. All persons on board were vaccinated.
 The Mobile brought the first of the Fourth Division to return home, includ- ing the 93 officers and 3,151 men of the 47th infantry.
 The fourth division fought in the Aisne, Marne, St. Mihiel and Argonne offensives, suffering 2,749 casualties out of total of 5,3SO officers and men in action.
Arizona republican., 1919-07-28
WILLARD's s1oo.ooo DWINDLEs

NEW YORK, July 27.--Taxes levied on the s1o0,000 which Jess Willard re- ceived when he lost his heavyweight boxing title to Jack Dempsey decreased the amount to $6S,590 according to fig ures announced here tonight by E. J. Lynch, an internal revenue agent Dempsey actually received $23,970 of the s27,500 called for in his contract, he added.
 The former champion paid a normal tax of S7,840 and a surtax of s23,570, in all, $3l,570 according to the figures, while Dempsey's normal tax was S2,040 and a sfIrtax of s1 400
Arizona republican., 1919-07-28
ACCEPT FocH's REPORT

PARIS, Saturday, July 26.-The su- preme council has accepted Marshal Foch's report on the boundary line be- tween the Poles and the Lithuanians whereby the Poles shall move into Su- valki and withdraw to a line running northeast from Suvalki. The economic clauses of the Bulgarian treaty have been referred to the economic commit tee. It is expected the Bulgarian treaty will be ready to deliver to the Bull garian delegation by the middle of next week
Arizona republican., 1919-07-28


 To make each library fit the needs of it's community is the aim of the American Library association. More over, in the absence of any special need the association aims to create one. It wants to follow up the work started during the war-to keep Americans reading, and to keep thous ands of useful books circulating throughout the country.
Arizona republican., 1919-07-28
BELIEVED CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

GENEVA. Saturday, July 26.-Dur ing the month of June, S1 revolution ists against the present Hungarian Government were shot or hanged by order of Beia Kun, according to statement in a copy of Bela Runs or gan. the Voros Ujsag of Budapest re- ceived here.
Arizona republican., 1919-07-28
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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-02-22
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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-02-22
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Bureau Of Gas and Electricity
william ]. Keith, Commissioner.
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gineer.
Smoke Inspectors Department
William II. Reid, Inspector.
Room COS, City Hall.
City OIL Inspector
Paul Henderson, Inspector,
Charles Vavrik. Chief Deputy,
VIM. #, German, Assistant.
Bureau Of Statistics
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clan.
Frederick Rex, Librarian.
City Architect
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Purchasing Agent
Virtus C. Rohm. Business Agent.
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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-02-22
MICHIGAN TAX CROOKS
More Suits Filed in Van Buren,
County, Michigan, to Remove
Clouds on Titles Than in Any
Other County in the United
States.
Land Sharks and Others So Bold In
Their Juggling Of Books and De-
seriptions That Uncle Sam
May Get Thorn.

There are more suits fled In the
courts Of Van Buren, County, Michi.
gan, to remove clouds from land titles
than there are fled for that purpose
In any other county in tho United
States. including those containing the
largest cities In the country.
There have been more professional
land thieves at work In Van Buren,
County than In any other county In
the United States, and they are still
at work.
Men connected with certain lines
OF business and using officials elected
In some townships as their tools are
engaged all OF the time In clouding
the titles Of honest and bona fide land
owners.
This fact has done more to keep the
county back than any other thing.
The bad name given to this part Of
the State of Michigan by the land
crooks Is becoming by.word through.
out the nation.
Many of these crooks claim land
on the strength Of tax titles--ob.
tanned after the rightful owners had
paid the taxes--through juggling of
descriptions and tax books.
Efforts are to BIO made to reach
some Of them through Federal action.
as the peculiar hold they have on local
authorities precludes hope Of reform
In that direction.
Victims of these bands of crooks
are advised that II they live outside
OF Michigan they can bring suit
against officials, hackers. brokers or
others who damage them or their In.
terests In the u. 8. courts.
The citizens Of Van Buren, County
should Ike up to the situation and
retire these grafters to the peniten.
tiary or to some other place where
their public records cannot injure the
community.
Van Buren, County Is naturally rich
in soil, delightful In climate and geo.
graphically ideal for success In every
line.
Its prospects have been blighted.
The testimony OF all outside people
who have invested there is that they
have been skinned and bothered by
the land shark syndicate.
Congressman Thomas Gallagher OF
Chicago 10 one OF the most influential
men In Washington.