Bisbee daily review., 1921-06-19
BY r. j. GIBBONS

opposing each other are the rival
factions of Chief Overseer Wilbur
Glenn Voliva and an Independent
group who have banded into "A vigi.
lance committee of 1000 members.
Ihere have been innumerable
cracked heads, wholesale arrests and
cointer'soTties on the police by yigi.
lantes.
Heading the vlgilantes is Rev. Tho
mas ii. Nelson, pastor of the Grace
missionary Church, whom Foliva has
ordered out of town.
The vigilantes have woman s aux.
lliary directed by the Misses Helen
Peters. Jessie Upp and Mary G..
Wheelock. They want removal of
style restrictions imposed by Voliva,
with freedom to wear silk hose. sheer
waists and short skirts, if they de-
sire. The male vigilantcs have this
platform:
Ousting of Voliva
State investigation Uf his adj
ninistration of city finances.
Control of the public parks by
the people.
Right tC worship as they choose
and recognition of property
rights.
Refusal to recognize the Zion
flag of gold, white and blue.
Zion City was incorporated i'll 1902
by John Alexander Dowie, a religious
leader who settled with his followers
on tract II miles square.
Today the town numbers close to
5000. half of whom profess allegiance
to Foliva and have the edge on their
independent neighbors by Il majority
of 400 voters.
Zicnists Lead "Biue Law" Life
All true Zionists lead plainly Sc
we're life. The Bible is their strict
and only code.
Voliva, as successor to Dowie, is
absolute dictator.
He boasts that all municipal offic-
ers ARE my men, and do as wish
Friction started about a year ago
when the independents increased
their number through the arrival of
new residents.
The Zionists resented what they
termed IAN encroachment upon holy
ground by the non-believers in Zion
ISM"
During the year they have enacted
number of blue law ordinances, all
sponsored by Voliva, which prohibit:
Smoking within the city limits.
Public use of the parks, which
Voliva claims are his.
= Modern dress by women, in
Guiding wear of short skirts
Vaccination against, communi-
cable diseases.
Moving picture shows, dances
and even sociable games of cards
Baseball, sale of ice cream and
corrections and operation of res
taurants on Sunday.
Cooperation of drug stores with
in the city
Following PRONUNCIATION of these
edicts. the Independents raised a $75-
600 defense fund.- and put Rev. Nell
Voliva.
Rev. Nelson says more than $4,000
has been expended payILg fines and
court costs for yigilantes who ran
counter to Voliva's police.
voliVa Defies' His Assailants
Voliy'a himself, in his executive
headquarters atop the Zion home,
where he lives with his wife and
daughter. Ruth, hurled this def at
his attackers:
I'm ruler here, Those who do not
want to obey my will. will have to
get out
This city and every inch of its
land is consecrated TO God. in the
name of our good leader. DR.. John
Alexander Dowie, and ! am his ap-
pointee to carry on the work by con-
sent of Providence"
These insurgents who are causing
SO much mischief are all poachers.
The ground their homes stand on be-
longs TO me. All their property is
held under leases. and | as oversecr
of Zion. hold the title and fee simple
to the land.
They'll never drive US out, be
continued Zion is an eternal city.
1t will always endure.
Put all this agitation is sign of
the times the unyest of sex and ma
tons.
Women are at the bottom Of it.
They have stepped from their place IN
the homes where they riehtfully be
long as helpmate Of man, and their
wild play is bringing disaster.
why, see their immoral clothes!
Those frightful dresses, those shame
less silk stockings, and all those other
disgust rg lures which they use TO
drag men to their ruin.
We do not want such in I;on. we
will not have what is unclean. That $
why tobacco was banned. That's why
we will have no medicine. no doctors.
no amuse mentS that corrupt.
My notice ale ON the guard. Every
dissenter shall he thrust back into the
world of sin. Zion does not belong
to the world.
independents Deny vohvs's CAIN
Pogalding NoIiva's assertion that
he owns the town and all It's land. the
independents rise in body. ana put