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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 29, 1913
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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.
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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
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A Bank Account
started in the time of your
prosperity
Will Save You
worry and trouble when you are old
THE
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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.