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Page Eight THE COCONINO SUN FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1918. ALWAYS PRACTICAL On the Lines of Merchandise We Sell in Our 197 Busy Stores 5?i Therefore this season of Christ- 4 mas time can be made a season of Thoughtful ness by choosing GJ FTS of Year Round necessity from our stocks. OUR QUALITY HIGH OUR PRICES LOW We Have a Beautiful Line of Stationery, in Holiday Boxes, From The most ac ceptible for gift this Xmas will be the practical kind This store is stockful of New and useful mer chandisesuitable for Gifts fPSMY 25c to $1.98 OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL CHRISTMAS J. C. PENNEY COMPANY, Inc. Operating 197 Busy Stores. : Flagstaff, Arizona. FRIENDS OF PRESIDENT '. POINT TO BLUNDERS By David Lawrence. (Copyright, 1918, by N. Y. Evening Post, Inc.) WASHINGTON President Wilson is himself so strong an advocate of frankness in public business and pol itics that he will not mistake the sin cerity of purpose and disinterested ness of his many friends who believe that he is face to face with a crisis in his own career both as the leader of the Democratic party and the rep resentative of America at the Peace Conference. .Briefly, there is a dissatisfaction and discontent inside the democratic party of which the public lias hitherto had no hint, but which, if left uncor rected by the President himself, will mean that as he goes to Europe he will leave behind a dejected and depressed following whose enthusiasm for him will have been seriously diminished. Men who are not officelioldcrs but unselfish friends of the President arc grieved and disappointed. They are not republicans, they are not his po litical foes, but they are the men who helped elect him in 1912 and in 1916, and they are talking earnestly among themselves about what can be done to make the President sec that he must have a clean house, that he must re organize his entire cabinet, and that he must .indeed, reorganize the dem ocratic party in congress so that he -will have advisers in the executive branch of the government and leaders in the legislative branch who are in sympathy withthc true wishes find spirit of the American people. After talking with dozens of these men, the names of any one of whom if published, would carry the convic tion that they are seeking only things which will help and not hurt the President, one gets a consensus of opinion which is unmistakable. Here and there are suggestions of method which differ, here and there are dif ferent, degrees of dissatisfaction, but, put categorically, these are some 'of the mistakes which the President himself is declared to have made or to be making today: First, the President in his absorb tion in foreign questions, has gotten out of touch with the true spirit of America on domestic questions. He has listened to a small group of ad visers who have had his car to the exclusion of the greater .group of friends who come from the middle west and west and sections of the cast where people are finding it difficult to. reconcile tho brand of .democracy which Mr. Wilson preached at tfce outset of his administration with the retention of distinctly autocratic and bureaucratic advisers and with his own seclusivencss. Second, the friends of the Presi dent are unable to understand why George Creel should be taken to Eu rope as the head of any committee 6n public information when Mr. Creel, notwithstanding his fine personality, and close personal friendship for the President and sympathy with the Wilson ideas, has lost the confidence of the American press, and thereby the people. Third, the friends of Mr. Wilso'n believe a grave mistake was made in announcing the dispatch of Mr. Creel fo Europe at the same time that Postmaster-General Burleson was permitted to take over control of the Atlantic cables. These things have been denounced as "colossal blunders", not merely by republicans, but by Mr. Wilson's loyal friends, who mean nothing personal by it either. Fourth, they believe that Mr. Wil son's Cabinet is superannuated, and in a rut, and that the resignation of William Gibbs McAdoo deprives the administration of one of its most ef ficient public servants, and tKat the President should have never permit ted him to resign until after recon struction was well under way, or at least Mr. Wilson had returned from Europe." Fifth, they consider that southern domination in congress and elsewhere will prove fatal to the democratic party's chances to regain the confi dence of western electorates. Sixth, they are deeply disappoint ed that Mr. Wilson himself should have kept himself nloof from men from various states, who have sought to aid him in the past, and that he should have depended so much onhis own, judgment or the advice of a small froup of provincially minded ad visers. . Seventh, and most important of all there is a deep-rooted feeling that Mr. Wilson has not taken account of theresentment of the American peo ple for his failure to take into his councils on foreign affairs republi cans as, well as democrats. It is true that there are some republicans who arenot in sympathy with Mr. Wil sonVideas but many republicans would be', if taken into the Presi ident's confidence. . Close friends of the. President be lieve it is his duty, at least, to call into conference republicans, of , all shades of opinion and lay before them the program he intends to pur sue at the peace conference. The last suggestion probably will not please tHe Prcseident, but tho time is past when friends of Mr. Wil son oflt of mere respect for his likes and dislikes, can afford to remain si lent. s.One of the most curious feat ures of the situation is that some of the men with whom I have talked do not feel that they can very well tell Mr. Wilson the truth. Some of them would be -willing to tell him the truth about his Joss of -prestige in this country if he only gave them audienc es. Others would just as soon write him their views, and some have done so. But the majority of President Wilson's friends are talking 'among themselves of the necessity of bring ing forciblyto Mr. Wilson's attention that he is driftinir away from the original precepts of openess and man aging the government in personal and private way which does not square with his professions of dem ocracy. Perhaps the most severe criticism heard is of Mr. Wilson's decision to go to Europe at this critical time. Nobody begrudges the President a great part in the settlement of the peace of the world, nor his remark- j able influence in bringing victory to the Allies; but the feeling of the men who are fond of the President and who have the courage to tell corres pondents how they feel is that he treated the American people with in difference when he failed in his first announcement to tell the exact pur pose of his journey and the provision he planned to make for the transac tion of public business in his absence. The revolt inside the democratic . party is not of recent origin. It has been growing for several months, and may explain the lukewarm activity of many democratic national committce- Imen in the recent election, many of whom felt a large part of the repub lican criticism of the record of the democratic congress was absolutely true, and that it useless to try to make the people think' otherwise. President Wilson may not know it, but the morale of his friends is at a low ebb. There is no one but himself on whom responsibility can be placed, and no one but himself who can re store the confidence of the people in him at a time when he must needs tell European statesmen, skilled in the bargaining methods of the Old World diplomacy, that he speaks for a united America, which doesn't want to see selfishness supersede a spirit of justice at the peace table, and is particularly anxious that the sacrific es America has made shall not have been made in vain. DIVISION GROWTH OF THE PAST TWO YEARS How the Red Cross movement grew in the Pacific Division from a mem bership of 2,000 in March, 1918, to 1,022,049 at the present date, tells the story of howwell California, Nevada, and Arizona realized jvhat was to be done bv the Red Cross when war I came, and how it must have members tq do it. What the story tells of Chapter ac complishment is: That it sent 614 tons of clothing to Belgium; That it sent 69,523 Christmas par cels to soldiers in 1917; That it carried on a steady program of Home Relief in the meantime which cared for an average of 3,196 fami lies every month in the year now end ing; That it has shipped 2,000,000 pounds of Red Cross supplies overseas since December, 1917, and nearly 3,000 tons in Siberian shipments; That, it has sent 143 men and 110 women into Red Cross service over seas; That the women in Red Cross Chap ter workrooms have put out 15,166, 346 pieces for shipment overseas in the last year; That the children enrolled in Jun ior Red Cross in every public, church and private school in the three states, with a membership of 649,605; That these boys and girls made surgical dressings, refugee garments, toys, furniture for Red Cross houses, surgical equipment for the army; That they took part in all .branches of government war.work and raised unaided $138,606 for purchasing Red Cross supplies. All shows the spirit of service in the great heart of California, Nevada and Arizona. Appeal to this heart to "Carry On" fbr the Greatest Mother in the World will come in the Christ mas roll call. To increase the Red Cross membership twice or three times its. present number is its pur pose. What the million and more members did during the past year giyes a story of work which must not lag' until all is done that the Red Cross can do for humanity. Money, work and membership con stitute the trinity which give power to the Red Cross, but the greatest of these is membership. Whenever the Red Cross has been given praise for its work during the war, the expres sion has included the statement that that the service was increased two fold by the knowledge that it came from the heart of the whole Ameri can people. With that ever before Red Cross workers in the Pacific Di vision, they are preparing to answer with a unanimous "aye" Roll Call week, December 16 to 23. WHY ARE GERMANS CALLED HUNS? It was their own Kaiser, Wilhelm II, now happily in retirement, who first called themso. In sending his troops to China about 18 years ago he exhorted the men to be like the Huns of old, and make the very name of Germany a terror in China for a hundred years to come. There had been anti-foreign riots in China and two Germans had been killed. The Kaiser seized upon this as a pretext for ravaging a part of China as large p.s the state of Illinois; just as he ieized upon the murder of the Aus trian Crown Prince, in 1914, as a pre text for starting a world war for which he was preparing. As to the original Huns, very little is known by historians. They were a Mongolian mce who suddenly appeared in Eu rope about the year 350 A. D., com ing from somewhere in Central Asia. ThC'y crossed the Volga and ravaged DPrts of central Europe, and as far v est as Gaul, now France. Tradition of their unspeakable cruelties and atrocities an about all that now re mains of the history of this invasion, which continued a whole century, bo th "sine of Hun became a synonym for atrocious cruelty. The Huns were finally defeated just where the Ger mans met their two decisive defeats in this war; that is, on the .banks of tho Marne. They disappeared from o 'All the news The Sun $2.50 year. Europe as suddenly as the came. Per haps they were exterminated. The period of their invasion from the middle of the fourth to the middle of the fifth century lies in what is called the "Dark Ages"; there is hardly any reliable history of that period. Ex. o OVER FIVE MILLIONS MORE SPBXT BY STATE THAN APPROPRIATED SOLDIERS ARRIVING TO ! GARRISON FT. WINGATE Legislature Has Actually Failed to Control State Expenditures, and Permitted State Departments and Institutions to Expend Over $5, 000,000.00 As Their Discretion Prompted. The last chapter of figures pre viously published shows the actual ex penditures for state purposes since statehood. Compared with the taxes raised, it shows just how far the state officials have exceeded legislativcJ provisions in the matter of amounts actually txpended. The people of this state hae paid $13,835,939.56 in taxes for support of state since statehood. The legislature provided that amount for the purpose. The actual expendi tures made during that period have totalled over $18,927,348.70. Over five million dollars has been expended beyond amounts appropriated by the various legislatures. e The fourth chapter of financial his tory of the state will be written along lines as directed by the Fourth Leg islature. What will that legislature do along lines of compulsion? No other word than "compulsion" will fit into a situation where in the face of previous attempts at control of amounts to .be expended, an aggregate of over $5,000,000.00 of excess expen ditures appear to have been made since statehood. Taxpayers' Magazine. PREDICT WET WEATHER? The heavy snow storm last Sunday and Sunday night spread over all of Apache county. About 6 inches of the beautiful fell at Springerville, 8 or 10 inches at St. Johns and a foot or more over Holbrook way. A decidedly cold brand of weather came with the storm and has not abated much since. Ice covers the reservoirs and pontu hereabouts and only the river remains open. Apparently the drouth is broken, and old timers predict that the coming season is going to be a wet one. St. Johns Obesrver. A Sense of Humor. Mrs. Fetherhed could hardly con tain herself until her husband came home, to tell him the excrutiating joke on the janitor. "He's just found out why we had no heat in the flat last winter," chir ruped the wife as she met her hus band at the door. "Why?" asktd Fetherhed. "He wanted to burn some papers this morning and he discovered there's no furnace in the building." While it is undecided whether or not Ft. Wingate is to be used as an ordnance depot, arrangements are be ing made which make it appear that the post will be put to that use. Near ly 300 men of the 20th Infantry ar rived at Wingate Thursday morning and are on guard duty. The party of officers who are in specting the post and the reservation have not as yet submitted their re port. The final decision as to the use of the post will be announced follow ing the submission of this report Something like 60 motor trucks are to be used at the post, a number having arrived the first of the week by train, which surely indicates that the post is to be put to immediate use. If the military reservation is to be used for the site of an ordnance depot it is now contemplated that 100 store houses will be constructed near the north limits of the reservation. Tem porary structures are to be put up at first to be later replaced by stone and concrete buildings. The store houses in which explosives are to be stored will be spaced ta intervals of 60 yards and will be surrounded by a wall or strong fence. The troops will be used for guard duty. There has been a report current in town for several days to the effect that a plant will be installed at Win gate for the, manufacture of certain explosives used in warfare. At this time nothing can be learned as to the truth of the rumor. Gallup Herald. o A Tactful Beginning. A speaker who thought very favor able of his own tactfulness was asked to deliver an address and started as follows: "My friends, I shall not call you la dies and gentlemen, I know you too well." It's Real Use. She had intently watched the sol dier for some time. Then she vtn tured: "The chin strap I suppose, is to keep your hat on, my man?" "No", replied the Yank, "it's to rest the jaw after answering questions." It Was and It Wasn't. A man was remarkable for the bad wines he kept.j He was entertaining some rather important guests one eve ning, when he turned to his butler and said: "Higgs, is this the best claret?" "No, sir," said Higgs solemnly, "it is not, but it's the best you've got," o Had Been There. "I once knew a man who went hun gry in order to buy feed .for his horse," said Jones. "I can understand his sentiments," said Smith. "Mapy's the time I have cut down on meat and potatoes in or der to buy gasoline." 'i ;r 4 P" jtJ. V;' r . j- V"i