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The Winslow Mail ! J. H. CHAPMAN, Editor. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice of Winslow, Arizona, under Act of Congress of March 1, 1879. Published every Friday. Sub cription, $2.00 per year. Friday, - - June 22, 1917. Will Winslow Do Her Share? This is Red Cross week, and people all over the country are giving: of their substance to raise the $100,000,000 that has been asked to put the Red Cross ac tively' into the service to take care of the soldiers who have to fight our battles that liberty may not perish. It is time for people to arouse themselves to a full un derstanding of what this war means in sacrifices they will have to make to bring it to a success ful end. The war we are now in is the greatest struggle the world has ever known, and the like of it will probably never be witnessed again. While it lasts the people will have to continue giving even to the extent of per sonal sacrifice, and let us start now doing our full duty. The Winslow Chapter has been given her proportion of SSOOO to be raised, and it should be the pa triotic duty of every person to come forward with his subscrip tion of $5, $lO or $25. To hold back because you do not approve of the entrance of the United States into the war only demonstrates you do not have the correct idea of loyal ty and patriotism. Look the truth squarely in the face. The United States is in the war, and when it closes we are either the victors or the vanquished. If we fail in our mission where is your pride of country? What be comes of your opinionated theory that you did not approve the war? Will you feel a pride in the fad ing glory of the Stars and Stripes that stands for liberty of thought and action? We of the men who are not called to shoulder a gun must put up our money to care for those who are compelled to go, and we should be glad to have that priv ilege. Ninety per cent of the men in Winslow can easily give five dollars each to this Red Cross fund and not miss the amount from their daily life, and they should do it, and do it cheer fully. Let Winslow show her colors to the rest of the state that she can always be depended on to do her full share in every pa triotic duty she is called upon to perform. The total registration in Navajo county under the selective con scription act was 802, of which 446 were registered in Winslow. It seems Winslow must furnish the soldiers as well as the money to run Navajo county, and gets nothing in return,not ever decent consideration of her rights. It may not always be so. According to Herbert C. Hoov er, who has been appointed as director of food supplies, the food speculators have been rob bing the people of $50,000,000 a month since war was declared. And still our patriotic Congress that wants American soldiers to go to the front to be shot at by the enemy, are frittering away the time discussing the food bills that is to put an end to the war grafting. It does not require any more loyalty and patriotism to invest in a government bond than it does to invest in a railroad bond. It is a good business investment, absolutely safe, and the best in vestment any person can make. But it take patriotism and loyal ty, and of the true blue brand, to let loose of your money for a cold donation to the Red Cross, when there will be no coupons to clip and the principal is never return ed. Now is the time to show your patriotism by subscribing to the Red Cross fund. Buy a Red Cross bond. It pays a hundred per cent interest ii the thousands of blessings that go up from every battle field for the kindly ministrations of the Red Cross. The principal never matures. There was a big hurrah made early in the war scare about en listing a few thousand Indians who were anxious to go to France and fight in the battles,but when it came registration day, the In dian braves in many cases refus ed to register because they were afraid it was enlistment papers they were signing, and they did not want to go war. The three new members of the state board of education, recent ly appointed by the governor,are S. C. Heywwod, county superin tendent, of Graham county, John D. Loper, superintendent of the Phoenix city schools, who is re appointed, and H. E. Matthews, principal of the Mesa high school. The other members of the board are the Governor, the superin tendent of public instruction, president of of the state univer sity, and Ithe presidents of the two normal schools. When you make your contribu tion to the Red Cross the money does not go into the hands of some irresponsible organization to be dissipated, but it is put in the hands of the greatest and most systematic relief society the world has ever know. Woodrow Wilson is president of the National Red Cross, and the society has the recognition of Congress as an important branch of war preparedness. The SIOO,- 000,000 to be raised by the Red Cross by the donations this week from the people in the United States is all to be expend ed in relieving the distress of sick and wounded soldiers in the war. You cannot tell how soon your son or brother may be of this class, and the little you give will come back many fold by the kindly ministrations given your own flesh and blood. The Germans continue to take their toll of merchant vessels without regard to the flag they are flying. But there will come the day of retribution, and too late the people of Germany will awaken to the realization that they were not fighting for a prin ciple; the cost in blood and treas ure was made to satisfy the vaunting ambitions of a war-mad ruler. The patriotism of the members of Congress seems to be guaged by the value they are to the food gamblers in delaying all the bills having for their purpose regula tion of food prices during the war. Food gamblers look upon the war as a providential visita tion that permits them to accum ulate millions in their nefarious business, that takes but little thought of the starving children. When you bought a Liberty bond you w r ere just lending to the government out of your abundance, and it will be repaid to thee with interest, but when you donate to the Red Cross it never comes back again. It is a free-will offering to a noble cause. It is your mite given to refieve the distress of some sol dier boy who has gone to the front to fight your battle. Theodore Roosevelt invaded the city of Lincoln, Neb., last week, the home town of W. J. Bryan, the country’s great paci fist, and a crowd of several thousand people turned out to hear the redoubtable colonel for cibly express his sentiments on the war. Among other things, he said “the professional pacifist who during the first two and a half years of the war occupied exactly the position of the cop perheads during the time of Abraham Lincoln,” and he pro bably looked over toward Fair view and the Bryan mansion when he made those remarks. 1 In This Sign, Conquer. From the New York Sun. Sixteen hundred years ago an j enemy host threatened Gaul, pre cursor of modern France. The first Constantine, surnamed the Great, led his armies to the de fense. Three times he was vic torious, and it was in this cam paign, as Eusebius and other his torians record, that he saw in the sky a luminous cross, with the Greek words which have been rendered into English: “In This Sign, Conquer.” After sixteen hundred years there blazes in the heavens a cross as luminous as that which struck awe to the heart of Con stantine, a cross fiery, flaming and red —red with the blood of millions who have died for free dom, red with the glow of the inferno wherein the liberty of the liberty of the world is being forged. The Red Cross must be the symbol in which America goes forth to conquer. All other forms of conquest we have re nounced. Ours is the task not merely to supply millions of men and mountains of foodstuffs, ships and the weapons of war fare; we must rebuild cities and hearten war worn peoples, pour oil on their wounds and bind them up, kneel by the dying and receive from their lips the sim-j nle testament of faith in which we are to rise, fight forward and finally rest on our arms victor ious. The tardiness of our en trance into the war must be the measure of our effort. Let us give our money without stint. The Red Cross has appealed to America for $100,000,000. There ought not to be an American who will not give something. A dol lar from each of us would suf fice. It must be more than that wherever possible. To give money is so little! Can you shut your eyes upon the shining Red Cross. The Liberty Loan has been over-subscribed is the news that comes from Washington. There is no danger of over-subscribing the Red Cross fund, so let every body get in and do his “bit.” I! Tfie 'Real I AtU. fofel/W.. \W.WM : A 11C I\Cdl W--: Joy Maker j "11 XJF’OU can’t beat PABLO for pic- Jh* ■ mw^, i I mes, pa rt i es , O** outings of any jfc M j P 1 «»o-wca S 3 ■ ewiw PABIX& it pure and AeaAVuP |^~j 9IIRIHIIBIiiIRIIiHiSSBBIB9BBEESE^3SEiEESSiBSiiIII'IBBIBHHiHii Notice. Tne dumping of garbage and rubbish on the Campbell land east of town must be stopped, and anyone doing it will be pro secuted for trespassing. J. F. Mahoney. • r \ ; ■' ' _i' In planning the home of to-day, the bath room is given far more thought and con ! sideration than in former yeari. Mound City Bath Room Enamel Is greatly in demand for enameling the walls and wood work of bath rooms in both old and new dwellings on ac count of its rich white lustre and it# resistance to both water and wear. Get it at CIIAS. CAHN General Merchandise. Winslow, Ariz. Graduation and Rich Wedding Presents. are what we are showing in the line of Jewelry, or Cut Glass ware. Spoons for use or orna ment and a long list of other artistic useful articles. We have also a beautiful line of Fine China Ware always a dainty and acceptable gift. Prices to fit all purses.? E. H. BLACK JEWELER. r Tailoring, Cleaning Toadies Work a and Pressing. Specialty. C. M. GILBERT 112 East Second Ave. Telephone 13. t Telephone 192 . Office: Downs Building t I D. E HANKS I ♦ * l General Livery and Transfer Busi- t * ness. Hay, grain, feed, coal and wood. ; * . . ♦> ♦ Delivered to All Pars of the City. t | Fine Horses and Good Buggies for Hire. I The Winslow Feed and -4 . Sales Stables Chas Daze, Proprietor General Livery and Transfer Bussiness % C*r*i** m Hav and Coal Tlks fourth oFjuly CELEBRATION Flagstaff, July 3-4 Two big busy days—Bronco busting, In dian races and sports—Auto races. Other special attractions, and—Governor Camp bell will speak at Flagstaff, July 3 Reduced railoroad fares. H * J FOUTS ’ Agen<-