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rs itrost rt'A,-" - h': fit . VOLUME 47 FIRST IN ADVERTISING FIRST IN NEWS FIRST IN INFLUENCE Setting a Pace for Competitors Forging Ahead to Greater Things Over Roads of Its Own Making YUMA, ARIZONA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1916. NUMBER 39. " The absolute indifference of the average corporation to the rights and comforts of the great consuming public was never better exempli fied than yesterday and today by the Yuma Electric and Water company. Witho fc. a reasonable excuse of r its utter afilure to supply power, lights, gas for cooking or water in any satisfactory manner to the public for some time, the company has completely failed for the past two days to deliver any service except such as was little short of an aggravation, and patrons have been saved time, patience and cash if the plant had shut down. In that event, Yuma business interests could have completed plans to connect with the Sanguinetti-Yuma Ice Company plant, which has been ready and willing to supply the town with its power and light service since August 15th, and the negligent company has had ample time to hook on and save Yuma people the many tor tures and inconveniences of an all but complete shut down. The Morning Glory did for once tell the truth this morning when it said "Municipal Ownership Is Becoming Popular." Common courtesy would dictate that the Yuma Electric and Water Company issue a warning to its patrons through the newspapers to draw water for drinking purposes. Though the Yuma Electric and Water Company withdrew its advertising from the Examiner on Aug. 20th, such a notice to our 5000 readers will be printed without charge. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooocoooooooooooooo o o o o o o o o o o Box and Chair and A Bathing Suit! Now For First Kellermann Lesson! This Tells You How to Make the "Breast Stroke," the Very First Essential Movement; Breathing and Its Relation to Swimming; You Will Be Swim ming Within a We ik from Today. ooooooooooooocooooooooooooocooopooooooooooo ARTICLE NUMBER FOUR ' " ANNETTE BY ANNETTE KELLERMANN International Record-Holder and Star of the Wm. Fox $1,000,000 Film "A Daughter of the Gods." Before taking up THE BREAST STROKE, I want you to obtain the following articles: 1. A piano stool, or some box strong enough to sustain your weight. 2. A kitchen chair. 3. A one-piece bathing suit or like garment to wear while going through the exercises. 4. A cushion or a pillow. Now, before starting, OPEN ALL WINDOWS. Fresh air is vitally es sential to good health. Place the piano stool or box in the center of the room and lay the cush ion on top of it. Then place the chair directly behind it, but a short distance removed. Lay yourself so that your stomach is on the stool or box and your legs on the chair. Keep your chest clear of the stool. That part of your body commencing where the ninth rib rests should just clear the edge of the stood. , Now place your hands on a level with your chest, palms downward and hands side by side. Do NOT place your hands in the usual attitude of prayer. This old method of starting the breast stroke is wrong and, be sides it means an extra movement. Keep your hands flat. Now bring them forward as if to dive. Stretch them straight out as far as you can. Keep them on a level with the chin. Raise your head a trifle so as to clear the imaginary water. You are now lying flat with arms extended as though making a dive. Turn your hands until the palms are facing outward, then as if cleaving or KELLERMANlK!, GREATEST WOMl SWIMMER AWC -Va.TJ OF WILLIAM "OX SlOCCCOO PICTURE ' ' m i ather plowing the water bring them COSI OF PAPER GOES 0P; OUR READERS SHOULD G01E ACROSS If bacl. in a wide circle until they are on a level with your shoulders. While you are making this move ment, inhale a deep breath. With the next movement bend the albow and pf I keeping the hands flat so as to cut if i the water, bring them back to their original position on chest and under f the chin. Continue this movement until you do it FAULTLESSLY. Keep it up juntil you are able to do it with per fect ease. Should this exercise make your muscles ache and become stiff, a- few Through a force of circum stances, over which we have no control, and which make self protection necessary, the Yuma . Daily. JaminerJs to day eliminating a hundred papers from its exchange list. This action is not taken through any lack of appreci ation of the papers with which it has been exchang ing for many years, but be cause the scarcity and the excessive cost of news print paper makes the conserva tion of that commodity abso- papers are doing likewise. As every newspaper publisher thru out the United States knows full well, the price of paper has increased 100 per cent within the last five months; ink prices, too, have increased fully 50 per cent. Paper is not only high in cost, but hard to get at any price, and the manufacturers and jobbers are at their wits' ends trying to solve the problem of keeping publishers supplied. - C ..---u. . The Examiner will not increase its subscription rates or its advertising rates, but it asks all of its subscribers who have not yet paid their subscrip tion to the paper to do so now. Unless many subscriptions are paid soon it will be necessary' for the Ex aminer to eliminate from the sub scription lists the names of all of those in arrears. Such an action would be taken with deep regret, but the fact that the costs of publication have nearly doubled within a few months, coupled with the fact that paper is hard to get at any price, make it necessary that only those Ex aminer readers who pay for their paper, shall receive it. Self preserva tion is the first law of nature, and the Examiner cannot do othwise than to ask our good friends to "come across." (Continued on Page Three) A much bigger issue than the impending railway strike now confronts the country It is not a new one but it has never before been so clearly drawn. It is the matter of the prevention of strikes which affect the public dis astrously. In a statement on Tuesday W. G. Lee, head of one of the railway brotherhoods, said: ' "Since the abolition of slavery no more effectual means has been devised for insuring the bondage of the working man than the pass age of the compulsory inves tigation acts of the character of the Canadian industrial disputes act." This is a clear-cut objection to the principle of arbitration, which must now be settled one way or the other. There must be either arbitration or no arbitration, says the Arizona Re publican. All the fooling with this a (Continued on Page Three)