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WEEKLY JOURNAL-MINER, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 6, 1918.
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t NO OCCASION! FOR PESSIMISM!
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The Germans continue to advertise their proposed offensive
against the allies on tlic western front. Tliis is not the way the
Germans usually go about a serious military operation, the tit
most secrecy was maintained before the storm broke at Verdun
The allies do not appear apprehensive of anything Hindcnburg
can turn loose against them. On the other hand indications are
that Haig and Fetain would weeome onslaughts such as the Ger
mans launch when they really mean to break through. It means
Germans forces coming on time and time again in close forma
tion;to be cut down in swaths by the .machine gun and rifle fire
of the allies.
Here at home one may detect occasionally an undercurrent of
pessimism as to the outcome, an apprchensiveness that springs
from, ignorance of the true conditions. This may be one of the et
fects- sought by the German advertising campaign. At any rate
every American should at once cast any such feeling out of hi
mind, for, it has no sound basis.
After all it should be remembered that the Germans have not
yet won a single military victory of importance, except by treach
ery and intrigue. They began by violating Hclgian neutrality a
characteristic piece . of treachcrv which enabled them to overrun
Belgium', and advatjee into .France. .But they were stopped at the
Iarne and at Ypres by forces far inferior numerically.
If the unprepared English and the outnumbered French could
stop, them then, how can the Germans hope to break through now.
On the eastern front German victories have been won by
wholesale corruption and intrigue. The German cabal at I'ctro
'grad, headed by the czar's German wife, early succeeded in paralyz
ing the Russian arms by corrupting high officials", cutting off
supplies of munitions and sending the common soldier into battle
without weapons with which to fight. It was thus that I linden
burg won his great victories in the Massurian lake region, and it
w'as by buying the Russian minister of war that the Germans and
Austrians were able to defeat the Grand Duke Nicholas in the
Carpathians.
Tjic case of Rumania is typical. Forced into war by a Rus
sian ultimatum and promised abundance of Russian military sup
port, he Rumanians were betrayed by the unspeakable Stunner,
who not only prevented Russian support but sent the whole Ru
manian campaign plan to Berlin, so that Mackcnseu knew every
move planned by the Rumanians and how to take advantage of it.
Serbia was left defenseless through the treachery of the Greek
king, brother-in-law of the kaiser.
The insidious undermining of the Italian morale by carefully
planned, unscrupulous propaganda was the indispensable preface
to advance into.Ycnctia last fall. But the Italian armies made the
most wonderful recovery of morale ever recorded, and stopped the
invasion before British and French reinforcements came to their
aid.
Germany has broken even tenet of international law. has in
dulgcd in every known form of illegal warfare, has invented
numerous new schemes of frightfulncss. Ilcr submarine campaign
is without parallel for barbarity and we have to go back to the
heathen world to find a parallel for the horrors perpetrated against
the p.cbplc of occupied territory.
But the Prussian bag of tricks is about exhausted. From now
on it is a case of fight, and nothing but fight, to win. In every
case where the 'western allies and the Huns have stood up against
each other -in battle the Huns have been beaten. If their
threatened offensive is launched, they will be beaten again, and it
will be their last gasp.
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J TRAITORS, STRIKERS AND SOLDIERS J
In recent months the country has been treated to the pectaclc
of various so-called strikes in certain parts of the country wlier.
government plants for war supplies have been located. In most
cases these disturbances have been traced more or less directly
to German spies and propagandists. They have not been genuine
strikes. Ignorant workers, for the most part, were misled by those
masquerading as laborers, into doing what upon second thought
they- would not have done: this is proved conclusively by the fact
that in nearly every case, the trouble was quickly adjusted by
the federal authorities ami the men returned lo work.
TI.e latest instance of this kind of thing is the strike of
shipyard carpenter- in Baltimore and New York. The men. led
by "Hutchcson. president of the carpenter's brotherhood, demand
ed a cl6;ed shop and increased W4c. Lndcr thf pressure o'
public opinion the men Ijae returned to work and will await a I
settlement bv the federal board.
The building of ships, in quantity and rapidly, is as every
one knows, of the most vital necessity at the present moment.
For a time England had the same trouble in the manu
facture of munitions. The people did not appreciate the true con
dition. The smallness and the petty spirit of the thing, the hag
gling for an increase in pay. when each day thousands and tens
of thousands of young Englishmen were giving their lives to stem
the invasion of France by the Germans, at last grew clear in the
public mind; strikes arc not popular in England any more; Ger
man propaganda finds poor soil there, and the spy has had object
lessons that make him wary and hesitating.
Captain Gilbert Xobbs, a British soldier, had both eyes shot
out in the battle of the Somme and was taken prisoner by the
Germans. Before his misfortune and while he was in the trenches,
workmen were striking in England. He thus gives the soldier's
point of view in his book: "On the Right of the British Firing
Line:"
Ammunition workers in England, and those who should be
munition workers, come right over here: creep with us along the
edge of Trones wood, and watch this amazing sight. Look
across to your left, those sticks showing on the sky line, across
the valley. In those woods, churned up in the soil, lie the rotting
bodies of your comrades, your brothers, your spns. Bring
out those strikers and let them get a glimpse of this and realize
their danger, and the horrors which will come upon them, their
wives, their children, their homes, if those guns fail. What is. their
quarrel to this? Shall we stop those guns for a penny an hour?
Shall we leave unprotected those desperate men across the
valley, who arc hanging on tooth and nail to those last trenches
gained? Shall we do these things for a penny an hour? Shall
we do these things so that we can stand up for these so-called
rights in England? Those desperate fellows on the other
side of the hill were to leave" their tasks they would be called
traitors. Yet. when men in England, whom these fighters are
dependent upon, and whose work is just as necessary for the
success of the war, throw down their tools they arc called strikers.
None of us has the imagination probably to picture clearly
this hell on earth now taking place on the Western front: we can
understand, however, the tremendous responsibility resting upon
us all at home; if we arc to escape German thralldom there must
be no haggling, no strikes, no profiteering. The time will come
when treason will not dare to raise its voice or show its hand:
when we begin to check off a casualty list of twenty, thirty, forty
or fifty thousand young Americans per week, who have given
their lives that we at home may escape the fate of Belgium,
France and Russia, then the traitor, whatever his guise, will be
taught his lesson wherever he may be in store or shop, in mine
or factory, in his home or on the streets and highways.
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YOUNG FORGER SHEEPMEN
SAYS HE WILL
PLEAD GUILTY
J CRITICISM FROM AN OLD FRIEND t
4H
If there arc any men in America who should be listened to
with respectful attention by the citizens of this nation, Henry
Wattcrson is among that number. He has passed the age when
political ambition could influence his judgment, lie is still in
full possession of his rare intellectual powers, as demonstrated by
recent utterances upon questions now under discussion. He brings
to the consideration of any issue a wealth of learning, observation
and experience. Even those who disagree with him, -must ac
knowledge the presumption in favor of the soundness of his judg
ment.
He was among those who foresaw the inevitable participa
tion of America in the war and urged preparedness even before
the sinking of the Lusitania. He has been a loyal supporter of
the government and an advocate of a vigorous war policy, though
not one of those whose servilitv blinds them to facts. In a some
what lengthy but extremely interesting and entertaining article
written on the seventy-eight anniversary of his birth, Wattcrson
pictures the danger unnecessarily invited by those who consent
to look upon the constitution as a mere scrap of paper and who arc
content to lie down to be trampled under the feet of officialdom
Says he, in his concluding paragraphs:
"That war involves autocracy I understand well enough, but
in the field, not in the White House: over the international situa
tion, not over our domestic affairs. The president, though
technically the commander-in-chief of the army, is still the servant,
not the master of. the people and should hold himself to the
constitution and be held to it. and not above it. He should not
get the new power he asks. He has power enough. His cue now
is to give us results. On these, and these alone, his future rating
will depend."
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AMERICANS O. K. J
M4 4 4 -4 44-M
The Americans have sustained the first considerable attack
from the Germans, and they acquitted themselves well. Subjected
to an intense artillery fire and gas shells, they held their ruined
trenches until the kaiser's shock troops rushed them. Then there
were things doing. With bayonet and rifle butt, automatic pistol
and knife, the Americans met the Huns and worsted them badly.
But one of the best bits of enterprise was that of the Ameri
can captain who took a machine gun and a detachment of soldiers
and waited in No Man's Land for the retreating Germans on
whom he opened a deadly fire as they were fleeing from the Ameri
can trenches.
That machine gun ambuscade is a favorite trick of the Ameri
cans. It will' be recalled that when Villa attacked Columbus, an
American lieutenant with about twentv soldiers rushed a machine
gun to a strategic position and raked the bandits, as they were re
treating before Major Tompkiii's men.
The engagement in France was not a big affair, but it was
the biggest fight in which the Americans have been called upon
to participate. Our men showed what stuff they are made of. We
are proud of them.
NEW YORK LAD WHO RE
CEIVED $5,000 ON BAD
CHECK FROM BANK AR
RIVES HERE AND IS
WILLING TO EACE MUSIC
"Yes, sir, I played the game, and
had a good time hitting the high
spots while the dough lasted, and
now I am rcadv to face the court
with a pica of guilty, get my pun
ishment over and get back into the
ranks of the United States army,'
said youthful Joseph Burton to a
Journal-Miner representative at the
county jail last night. "What be
came of the girl on whom I blew the
coin? Oh, she quit mc as soon as
she heard that I'd gotten in trouble,
just like they, all do," remarked the
cynical Mr. Burton when asked as to
the whereabouts of the young Los
Angeles woman upon whom he had
lavished most of the $3,000 which lie
obtained from the Prescott State
Bank last November by means of a
forged check.
'Burton was brought to Prescott
yesterday afternoon by Undershcriff
Robinson, who made a special trip
lo the Presidio to claim the young
law-breaker. The prisoner is a lad
of apparently 21 or 22 years of age,
seemingly well educated, and of pro
nounccd Jewish features. Burton, or
Blaichcr, as he was known during the
time he remained in this city in No
vember, came here from New York.
He had worked for a manufacturing
jeweler on Fifth Avenue, the head of
the firm being Robert Chapin. Bur
ton drew a check for $5,000 and
signed Chanin's name to it. So
clever was the imitation, that when
the local bank sent the check to a
Gotham clearing house, it passed the
genuine and the local bank was di
rected to pay the amount. Burton
left: Prescott as soon as he had se
cured the money,' and went to Phoc-
.rri.w Here he purchased a $1,500 car
and headed for the coast. The check
shortly afterwards came into the
hands of Chapin, and the fraud was
discovered, and the Burns operators
took up the trail of the young man
Arriving in Los Angeles, Burton
made the acquaintance of a .young
uonian whom he says be met on
Broadway. He went to a jewelry
store in the coast town and pur
chased a 3-carat diamond ring for the
girl, giving in exchange for it a bo
gus check. Hiring a driver, Burton
and his sweetheart set out for San
Francisco. It was there that the
girl agreed to marry him, and just
when the love affair was at white
heat, the Los Angeles jewelers, hav
ing found that the check was a bad
one, traced the young woman to the
Golden Gate city and seized the dia
mond ring and the gold nicsli bag
which her lover has fraudulently pro
cured for her. The jewelers also
took possession of the big auto
owned by the boy, and arc still hold
ing it. Apparently in an effort to
escape punishment for his shortcom
ings, Burton joined the army, his
lady friend having quit him cold
when she learned of the crooked
operations which Burton had been
engaged in. A few days later the
Burns people located the lad in the
Presidio, and caused his arrest and
confinement in the military guard
house there.
When he readied Prescott yester
day, Burton was clad in the military
uniform, and seemed to be not at all
disheartened at the plight into which
he had gotten himself. He was not
hesitant in discussing his case, and
stated that right now the big idea
was to plead guilty, get off as easily
as possible and get back into the
army and make an attempt to square
up for his misdeeds of the past few
months.
HARD
till BY LONG
LAWYERS PREYING
ON MISFORTUNE
OF DEFENDERS
LOSSES OF LAMBS ARE
HEAVY, AND BIG OUT
LAY OF MONEY BEING
MADE TO PROVIDE FEED
FOR THE RANGE.
What is said to have been one of
the most disastrous seasons sheep
men have ever experienced on the
desert in winter feeding, is reported
by arrivals from different places
along the S. F. P. & P. line, where an
outlay, of over $3,000 per day is be
ing made for hay and other food now
being shipped in.
One owner alone has expended to
date $21,000 for alfalfa, and this prac
tice is to be continued until new-
grass is high enough to cat, which
is anticipated next week. In the ag
gregate those wintering have ex
pended to date over $100,000 in food
alone. At several points on the
range may be seen thousands of
lambs born this winter which have
perished and they are stacked up
like cordwood, such a spectacle never
having been known for a "winter sea
son. To offset this deplorable con
dition is the high price for wool and
mutton, which it is anticipated will
reach to an astounding figure. The
fortunate sheepman this winter has
been the one who secured pasturing
in Salt River valley, but they arc
very few.
NO SUFFERING IN
THE HOMES OF
INDUCTED MEN
SERVICES OF A CLAIM
AGENT UNNECESSARY
IN PROCURING SUM
DUE FOR DEATH OF
SOLDIER OR SAILOR.
Fashion grimly orders that the cuffs be taken from trousers.
Little by little the privations of war arc overtaking us.
Socialism acts as if it were autocracy's hunbacked bruthcr.
(J.
We shall 2iae official spring in just twenty -one days.
SHERIFF HAS FULL
HOUSE RIGHT NOW
(From Sunday's Daily.)
Sheriff Joe Young stated last night
that there arc at the present time 82
prisoners confined in the county jail
in this city, this being the largest
number locked up in recent years,
and with one exception, the most
men ever held in the county bastile
Four or fic years ago the number
of unwilling guests of the county
reached a total of 86.
Of the 82 men and women now
there 57 arc federal prisoners, this
number including the Phoenix Molo-
kana Russians, who arc doing time
because they refused to register last
June. This leaves but 25 count
prisoners now in custody.
In spite of the fact that the Rus
sians arc confined in the new dctcu.
tion cells in the court house, the old
part of the jail is fearfully crowded,
man' of the men being compelled to
sleep on the floor, on tables or any
other surface which offers them an
opportunity to "bed down." Two
women prisoners arc locked up on
the second floor, and with the excep
tion of the one small cell which '
LOS ANGELES, March l.-Suffer
ing in homes, due to the induction
of men in the families into the mili
tary service, has been prevented, in
many instances, by a check system
handled through the public schools
according to a report on war work
in the schools just issued here.
The report states that in order to
get a list of homes where suffering
or hardship might have followed the
draft, teachers were asked to learn
from the pupils in each room whether
any members of their families had
joined the service. If they had rela
tives in the service, the teacher filled
out a simple card, adding checks
which indicated whether, from her
acquaintance with the pupil and his
circumstances, any possibility of hard
ship existed.
(The cards that indicated such a
possibility were turned over to the
relief division of the Red Cross, and
the cases investigated, many families
being thus saved from real hardship
and suffering.
The plan, it was said by the report
had the advantage that the pupils did
not know of its operation, and as the
queries were made quietly, no one
was wounded by any suspicion of
misplaced charity, while others who
needed help were found. A complete!
survey of the city was nijide, it va
reported, without any expense and
within a few days of its initiation.
One Big Mining
Deal Stimulates
Other Investors
J. A. Forbes, aa arrival yester
day from, Jersey Lily, reports an out
look which is far more encouraging
than known for many years for that
old mining field. The recent sale of
the Dos Oros1, Buzzard and Raven to
an Eastern syndicate, of which J. B,
Tomlinson is to be at the head of
operations, is creating favorable com
incut and also is bringing in other
investors, several deals now being
under consideration. The reviving
of the Dos Oros is occasioning par
ticular interest, and there remain
some mine owners in that belt who
arc confident of it proving as big a
silver bonanza in the future as it was
demonstrated in the long ago.
The Elk, Perry, New State and
Little Johnny arc also getting in line
again, and this Spring should sec
quite a large and well established
mining community in action in a ra
dius of five miles of the Hassayampa
river.
(From Saturdays Daily)
'Recently there have been many in
quiries on account of failure to re
ceive allotments and allowances from
the Bureau of War Risk Insurance,
due families or dependents of men in
the national army. F. G. Brown,
chairman of the local Civilian Relief
Committee of the American Red
Cross, has just been advised by the
Pacific Division of the A. R. C, San
Francisco, that on February 7th, the
Bureau of War Risk Insurance re
ported that checks for navy families
had been mailed for November, De
cember and January, that army
checks for November and December
had been mailed, that January checks
would all be mailed by February 18th
and that the work would be current
by the end of the month. In 15,000
cases payment could not be made on
account of incompleteness of the ap
plications filed by the men and in 10,
000 cases checks had been returned
by the postoffica because families
had moved or the address given in
the application was not intelligible.
Claim Agents Unnecessary
The Red Cross has been informed
that certain lawyers are watching the
reports of death and injury of Ameri
can soldiers and sailors and arc send
ing to the next of kin papers to 4c
signed that authorize them, to act as
claim agents in recovering insurance,
compensation, back pay and other
benefits due under thcWar Risk In
surance Law. Some of these letters,
being the first notice of death or in
jury received Have caused great dis
tress to the relatives.
There is no need whatever of such
agents, for the Bureau of Wr.Rtsk
Insurance will safeguard the rights
of the families free of cost. In man;
cases, however, the preparation of
claims can be facilitated and hastened
by local assistance from volunteer at
torneys. , J. E. Russell has offered his
services to the local Civilian "Relief
Committee ia this connection, and
will be glad to be of assistance to
any claimant. ,
BAGGAGE SOUNDS MOIST
AND COP NABS TRAVELER
INVASION RESUMED
LONDON, .March 1. Dispatches
received by the Exchange Telegraph
Company tiled in Pctrograd at 6 p
in. Thursday indicate that the Ger
man advance into Russia has been
resumed.
BUYS NEW CAR
E. J. Munroc, of Camp Verde, was
.1 visitor Sunday, and returned home
Monday with a new Maxwell auto.
Imz.
(From Wednesday's Daily.)
1L. McLanahan of Ash Fork on
Monday made a special trip over to
Needles to get a supply of wet goods
to relieve his thirst. In order to
guard against the long, thirsty days
which might be ahead, he brought
back with him a suit case containing
two dozen pints of shark soup. Just
as lie stepped off the train at Ask
Fork yesterday morning, Officer Pat
terson happened to notice that the
baggage sounded moist.
"What have you got in that suit
case, my good man?" said the cop.
"None of your business," responded
Mr. McLanahan, "and besides I "
don't know- what it is myself. I am
only bringing it in for a stranger
whom I met down the line.Hc heard
that I was conting to Ash Fork, and
paid mc to bring this suit case here
for him."
"Fair enough," spoke the cop, "but
let's have a slant at it anyway.'
Upon opening the suit case, the
true nature of the contents was re
vealed. Mr. McLanahan was really
shocked as he stated that he had not
had the faintest inkling as to what
the contents of the bag had been.
McLanahan is in the Prescott jail
and the shark soup is locked up in
the vaults in the sheriff's office.
LAYING NEW STEEL
(From Friday's Daily.)
The Santa Fc put a large fore
of men at work in the terminals at
Ash Fork the first of the week, lay
ing the new 85-pound steel rails
which will used to rehabilitate the
local division of the Santa Fe, Pres
cott & Phoenix road. The new steel
is displacing sonic of the old 65
pound rails, the latter having proven
to be too light for the heavy traffic
which is, being routed in this direc
tion. While there is as yet some
difficulty in getting as much of the
new steel as is desired, the work wilt
be pushed with all possible speed,
and the improvement completed as
soon as the rails can be procured
from the main line. There is also a
scarcity of labor at the present time,
and the road could use many more
men for this particular job if they
could find them.
-TOUGH ON PRINCE
PARIS. March 2. Mrs. William
B. Leeds, who now is in Montrcaux,
Switzerland, has authorized an abso
lute denial of reports of her marriage
to Prince Christopher of Greece,
youngest brother of Constantinc, the
Leeds states
uicd to cache the contraband boo;c. i ,. frnm ijirhfl.,,- w! depend king. Mr:
tcry part of the buildiug is novistlltcs, farmers and rangemcu in thattll3t has no intention of being
housing prisoners. country are in a prosperous state. married to Prince Christopher.