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EAGE FOUH THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 29, 1913 Arizona Republican Editorial Page The Arizona Republican Published by AP.IZONA PUBLISHING COMPANY. The Only Paper in Arizona Published Every Day in the Year. Onlv Morning Paper in Phoenix. iJwiglit H. Heard President and Manager Charles A. Ktauffer llusinss Manager larth W. Cate Assistant .Business Manager J. W. Spear Kditor Ira 11. S. Huggett City Editor Exclusive Morning Associated Press Dispatches. Office. Corner Second and Adams Streets. Entered at the Postoffiee at Phoenix, Arizona, as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Address all communications to THE AKIZONA REPUB LICAN. Phoenix. Arizona. TELEPHONES: Business Office City Editor ... . .422 !433 S U BSCR 1 PTION RATES : Daily, one month, in advance Daily, three months, in advance Daily, six months, in advance Daily, one year, in advance Sundavs only, by mail .. .75 . . 2.00 . . 4.00 . . 8.00 . . 2. 50 TUESDAY MORNING, JULY -'J. 1913 If a man be gracious and cour teous to strangers, it shows lie is a citizen of the world. Francis Bacon. Why the City Manager People win) are demanding a change in the form of municipal government are not asking for a change for the mere sake of change. They realize that there has been too much waste and inattention under the old system. Politics has been the chief contributory cause to this waste. Therefore, they demand the elimination of party politics. These remarks do not apply especially lo Phoenix, but to every town and city where the spoils system has prevailed;' where 'men who have taken an active part in party politics are holding appointive offices as a reward for their services; where the elec tive ofifces are filled by men whose personal pop ularity, rather than their fitness, elevated them. In short, the change is demanded because peo ple believe that business principles should be ap plied to government. They believe that such an application will give not only a more economical government, but a more efficient government; that the people will take a deeper personal interest in a government which they regard as a business en terprise in which they have a personal and finan cial share. Their interest in such a government will be quite different from their interest in a govern ment for the conduct of which they have perfunc torily elected certain officers to perform perfunc torily certain duties. It having come to be understood that politics and business were inconsistent, it was decided to eliminate politics. The commssion form of govern ment seemed to be the most effective instrument and it was employed with a considerable degree of suc cess. But it has not been unqualifiedly and uni formly successful. While it has broken up party lines, it has not always prevented the organization of machines, as we have witnessed in Des Moines, a pioneer in the commission form of government, where, a year ago last fall,, the old machine, under a new name, secured a -majority of the commission and a distribution of the appointive offices was made among its members. Then came in other cities the manager system as an attachment to the commission form. That, of course, is not perfect, as nothing human is per fect, and the human element must always be reck oned with. But the city manager plan places addi tional and almost insuperable obstacles in the way of the political or factional machine. Places on the commission which pay only nominal salaries are not attractive to professional office seekers. They are apt to be filled by public-spirited men who have a. genuine interest in the city. They select as man ager a man in whose business ability and honesty they have confidence, and holding him responsible for the management of public affairs, as they them selves are responsible to the people, they give him a free hand in the selection of his assistants. Under no obligation to any political party or faction, he selects men with sofe reference to their ability to help him make the municipal business a successful business. This is an arrangement that must appeal to every citizen who favors an economical and efficient government in which all are stockholders. But it does not appeal to the grafter or to the man who deplores the passing of the machine. Tha Monroe Doctrine "The Monroe doctrine obsolete," says a head line of the Nogales Oasis. This is a little prema ture, but it will very shortly be obsolete or it will be given vitality. At present it has none. It is in a state of coma. The Monroe doctrine has never been recognized by foreign powers except in the way of taunting the United States with a neglect to exercise it when it seemed in urgent need of exer cise, as at present. Since it has received no outside favorable recog nition, if now at this critical moment this govern ment fails to recognize it, we may consider the Oasis' headline as accurately prophetic, and agree that it will be obsolete, neglected of all the world. It will probably be replaced by something else. . the form of treaty which the United States is now properly proposing to impose upon Nicaragua and which, in due time, will probably be extended to all other Central "American republics. Such a treaty would be preventive of many embarrassing situa tions for the relief of which the Monroe doctrine in the past has been either inadequate or has be'n unapplied. It would prevent the banana republics from entering into such entangling arrangements with the people of Europe as in the past hav-e put those severe strains upon the Monroe doctrine. Foreign powers would probably object less to such a succession to the Monroe doctrine w'.iieh has been only vague and threatening, a chip, on the shoulder of the United States. If General Obregon had let that villing Sur geon General Ojeda operate on him instead of those Nogales doctors, he wouldn't have been "set back" so much in cash, and the operation would have car ried with it a guaranty against a recurrence of a distressing ailment. General Obregon is plainly not a patron of home industries. The water supply question is a vital one at Tucson just now, as vital as the water itself is vitalizing. Tucson, as we gather -from the papers, can get along after a fashion with its present sup ply, but it is worrying about what it will do with that 00,000 population some of these days. The shooting of young Mr. Dixon at Juarez last Saturday .was most inopportune for the Mexican federal government at a time when the nerves of the United States were already considerably un strung by the racket. "Mrs. Medler Sits on Rattlesnake," says the Albuquerque Herald, describing the misadventure of the wife of a judge at u picnic near Fort Selden. Well bet that snake rightly guessed the name of the intruder. The Chinese rebellion seems to consist chiefly of a waste of gunpowder. We are surprised that our wily old friend, Mr. Wu, should be associated with such a movement. JAPANESE COMMERCE AND MANUFACTURES Under Japan's new tariff the importation of raw materials increased by upward of $33,000,000 in 1912 as compared with 1911, while the importation of wholly manufactured goods decreased by $2,500, 000 during the same period. The principal de crease in the imports of manufactured goods in cluded $2,3.-10,000 in shirtings and cotton prints, $1, 870,000 in woolen cloth and serges, and $735,000 in locomotives and rolling stock. At the same time there was an increase in iron nails of $5o0,oo0; in machinery, $1,500,000; and $850,000 in miscellaneous importations of manufactured goods. The increase in raw materials imported into Japan during 1912 was headed by raw cotton, this single item representing $27,000,000 of the total gain. Wool came next, with an increase of $2,500,000. Klax, hemp, jute, etc., increased $900,000, and phos phorites $500,000. In partially manufactured pro ducts, intended for further manufacturing use in Japan, bar iron and plates led, with a total gain of more than $7,000,000. This increase is largely credited to the United States, resulting in part, no doubt, from unfavorable labor and transportation conditions in Europe, particularly in England. The importation of rice into Japan increased by $6,000,000, while in beans and peas there was a decrease of $000,000. The importation of wheat in creased $350,000, coming . mostly from the North Pacific coast of the United States. With a view to decreasing the cost of food products, a reduc tion in the import duty on wheat is strongly fav ored by many influential industrial interests in Ja pan. The importation of wheat flour remained un changed during 1912. but the imports of sugar ad vanced approximately $3,500,000. There was a slight decrease in leather imports of which the total im ports were valued at $1,659,000 in 1911 and $1,622, 000 in 1912, and in steel rails and dry indigo the decreases were about $700,000 and $800,000, respec tively. The decrease in petroleum was over $300, 000. The increase in imports into Japan from the United States for 1912 was unprecedented, being upward of $22,000,000 or 50 per cent over the prev ious year, making the total more than $63,250,000. This increase was chiefly due to the activity in the exportation of ra.-w cotton, bar iron, steel plates, etc. At the same time Japan increased its sales to the United States by approximately $13,000,000 dur ing 1912, thus marking a total increase in the com merce between the two- countries during the year of 912 about $35,000,000. This constitutes the most remarkable increase in trade yet recorded, the nale of American goods in Japan having more than doubled in two years. Consular Report. NEW OSLER PHILOSOPHY (National Magazine) A few years ago the startling assertion of Dr. Osier that the usefulness of life ended at sixty years of age startled the world. The assertion did not check the energetic young fellows of 60 from going right ahead and doing things without a thought of the chloroform bug. The doctor may have intended that his utterances should be taken in a scientific Pickwickian sense, for in meeting him one would never believe him responsible for such a grim edict. Now that Dr. Osier is himself approaching the "age limit," he may miKlify his original statement, arid with' the honors of knighthood 'thick upon him," Sir Will-am Osier may take a brighter purview of long life as the sunset of 60 approaches. One bit of philoscphy lately advanced by Dr. Osier seems destined to live to bear good fruit. There is no use, he remarks, in worrying about yesterday and tomoirow today is what we must take care of. When one stops to think of it, most of orir real worries co.ne from regrets for mis-spent yesterdays, or from apprehensions of possibly unhappy tonorrows. little realizing that between the sunset and sunri-ve of today, lie all-important and imperative duties. Dr. Osier insists that when one starts the day with the first two hours going right, smooth sailing for all day is forecasted. This reminds me of the adrronition of dear old grand father, who used to say, "Never get up in the morning without a hearty laugh. If you can't think of anything humnous tickle yourself." In other words, let your day begin with a temperamental sunrise, for cheery words and thoughts constitute a. radiant dawn that glows on into noonday bright ness, whether the weather outside be indicative o gloom or a threatened tempest. SHOULD COOKS KNOW THEIR BUSINESS? Woman's Home Companion) The man who exercises, the man in an office, the woman at 'work, and at play and in idleness, the anemic and the full-blooded child, the fat and the muscular, now sit down at the same boards and partake of the same food, quite regardless of their varying needs. Why should they not? Nobody studies or registers them. We have hardly entered the field of specializing foods, outside the sanatorium and the hospital, -which build up that which would never be torn down if we demanded the applied knowledge as a preventive instead of merely as a remedy. Indeed, it would seem that this may point one of the many new days now almost open to us. Let us once be familiar with the fact that dietetics " is a profession and that practitioners who carry on this " profession without a license should be dealt with on similar terms to the doctor or the lawyer unauthorized to follow his profession, and we may understand also that wifehood or motherhood or servanthood do not constitute one a holder of that license HAPPENS FREQUENTLY We don't know who put the punc in punctua tion, but we do know a whole lot of punctuation Is put into punk. Binghampton Cloak GIRLS DROP FROM BUILDING TO DEATH ON FLAGGING FIFTY FEET BELOW Dinghampton (?Icak UuilJir.g. Fifty or sixty pirls are dend at I'inharnpon, N. Y., as the result of a fire which destroyed the factory of the Iii'nrharnpton Clothing Co. The younjr women were roasted to death in sij;ht of. thousands, or' mangled, in some ca:;?s beyond reco'jnitio-i, by the hard flagging- to which they jtimpe. from the windows. The upper story was fifty feet from the sidewalk. ji The Iceman ! Such Is Fame i; 'l By HOWARD L. RANN j !; By WALT MASON ! The ieeuuin is a self-posses.-ed individual who sells river water by the lump. Some of these lumps are "shorter than others which come at the same price, which causes suspicious housewives to bristle in seveial different directions after the iceman is out of hearing. The nature of the iceman's- business is such that he remains cool and collected under the mst trying circumstances. You can meet an iceman at the back door with an invitation to fight stick ing out of every pore and tell him that he ou.t;lit to have his eyes tested or his scales adjusted to the A. & A. M. rating, and you can tell by the enthusiasm with which book that he harbors no ill iceman never feels hurt when alleged f0-pund chunk of ice he attacks your ice feeling whatever. An somebody sizes up an and remarks in a po lite but firm tone that it can t be made to weign over 35 pounds unless the iceman and his assistant stand upon it. The iceman always makes it a point to get around early in the morning, so as to prevent his patrons from oversleeping. It is very easy to tell -when the iceman is corning, for he usually carries along an assistant who is stone de:if in both ears and has to be given directions which can be heard through a brick-veneered residence at a distance of nine blocks. The iceman also manages to carry on an animated conversation with his assistant while dragging a piece of ice over the front lawn on its stomach, and if the entire family is not awake by this time he will attend to it by hammer ing forty pounds of ice into thirty pounds of hole and whistling off the key on the return trip. Some icemen can give one look at a load of ice and tell to a pound how much it will take to com pletely depopulate a $4. Go ice book. Others are less accurate and in order to fit the ice chest have to shave off several pounds and leave it on the cellar .stairs, just where the hired girl can step on it and turn a double-back somersault with a hod of coal. The ice lok is a collapsible device with van ishing coupons which are too tired to register any thing below five pounds. When a brand new i e book is four days old it begins to wear a wan, pinch ed look and sheds leaves faster than a, hard maple tree after the first frost. SHAPE OF HEAD SHOWS RACE ("A Study in Hats," .Strang Magazine) The study of heads reveals some interesting facts. One is that the left side of the head is almost always larger than the right, due, it is said, to the universal practice of using the right hand more than the left. Another curious point is that nationality considerably affects the shape of the head. It would surely be an interesting subject for a biologist to explain why it is that the- nearer the equator a race resides the rounder their he-ads be come. No one needs reminding of 'the round, bullet -shaped skull of the negro, but the hatter will assure us that a Frenchman's head is rounder than an Englishman's, and similarly an Knglishin:; n's rounder than a Scotsman's. The average Scot's head tapers considerably toward the front, narrows at the tem ples, and becomes square 'and prominent at the: forehead. German heads, on the average, are rounder than English, and broader at the back. Irish heads, in general, are long, like the Scotch, but scarcely as narrow. The Slavonic head is narrow in front and very broad at the back. When the recent Peace. Con ference took place in London a fe w months ago, the first thing that the delegates of the Ualkan states did on arrival was to call on Messrs. Heatlr with a demand to be immediately fitted out with the top hats that their new position necessitated; anil that famous firm was well nigh nonplussed to provide, at instant notice, hats of so totally unusual shape. Building In Flames cr- s & .lames Jiinpson st"ie a million bones, a bunch f stocks mid deeds; and then the press, in thun ! r tones, proclaimed his mighty deeds. The coun try hot (i with the fame of Jim, who was a bird; in every hut and hall his name became a household word. Ard every day you read of Jim in papers a:il in books, and murmur, while your eyes grw dim. "Tile country's full of crooks."' Tom Teller, in the viil-ige bank, has worked for thirty years; all day the money's tuneful clank is sounding in his tars, and never has he swiped a plunk from all that pile of locks; and never has he packed a trunk with stoh n bonds or stocks. As honest as the day is Ioiilt. he goes his useful way; if his accounts were one cent vr. ng, he'd sweat for half a day No cor l cs! ndents h:;n indict in red -hot telegrams; as copy, men who walk alight aren't worth so many dams. And so the news is full of Jims and read ers :adly wail: "The land is full of ornery limbs who might to lie in jail!" Hut there are fifty Toms on deck for every Jirulike skate; and where you see one moral wreck, a hundred men are straight. The upright men don't make a noise in yellow public in hits, nor paint the country, with the boys, in striking, lurid tints. ; lams Forme r copper eeins. THE L(5NG ROAD (Martha Haskell Clark in the Outlook) O it's weary I am of the miles I've gone. And the miles that are still before. For tin- white road beckons and stretches on . Past many a cottage door; And 1 catch a glimpse through a latticed pane. Or over a threshold low Put it's shut my heart and it's on again. For there's many a mile to go! Though I'm sick at heart at the miles to go. Ami the miles I have trod before. And the dip and turn of the road below Past inany a quiet door. A bit of a house when a body's old. With a smoke---wisp threading blue. Ami a peat-warm corner against the cold When a wanderer's day is through; '1 he kettle singing beneath the thatch. Crooning so cozy-low Put there's ne ver a touch of my own home-latch In the miles that are still to go. And it's sick at heart at t'he miles to go, And the clutch of the evening-cold. Commercial Banking This institution is essentially a commercial bank, and, as such, invites the accounts of manufacturers, corporations, firms and individuals. While its large resources enable it to take care of the needs of large depositors, yet it also welcomes those who can maintain only moderate balances. . The Phoenix National Bank Phoenix National Bank Building A Bank Account started in the time of your prosperity Will Save You worry and trouble when you are old THE VALLEY BANK The fourteenth consecutive quar terly dividends just mailed by Home Builders Did YOU receive ONE ? The best evidence that careful, conservative methods pay. Home Builders Offices Greene & Griffin Co. 127 Xorth Central Avenue No Questions Are Asked About the Title- When you can offer the buyer a Guarantee Title Policy issued by the Phoenix Title and Trust Co. 18 North First Ave. With never the gleam of a hearthstone's glow To cheer when a body's old. O the trail is sweet when a body's young And the springtime sunsets burn. There's a laugh and song on a gypsy tongue, And a challenge at every turn. Put O the miles that are still to go. With never a door my own. With never a welcoming taper-glow Or beckoning threshold-stone. And it's sick at heart at the miles to go. With the miles I have trod before. And the dip and turn of the road below- Past many a quiet door.