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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN SUAY ' MORXrkfoj IAI iCH 1914
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SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 22, 1914
The good or the bad fortune of
men depend not less upon their own
dispositions than upon fortune.
La Rochefoucauld.
The Appointees
The corporation of Phoenix has eliosn a board
nf directors, who will r.net shortly to make up an
official list for the actual conduct of the eitv's busi
ness. Our directors have generally assured us that
they have no favorites for appointment to this list;
that they are oi an open mind and that when tho
proper time comes they will favor for officers those
men whom they think can better do the 'hir.gs
that will be set for them to do than any other men;
that the politics, religion and personal relations of
applicants for appointive positions will not be taken
into consideration.
In times past, those who worked energetically
and effectively for the election of an officer to a
position which gave him power of appointment, be
lieved that they had the first call. The public too.
generally took that view of the case. Merit anil
qualification were secondary or wholly neglible mat
ters. But we hope we have come int'f a new era
when those who display extraordinary interest at
the polls will be working for the people and not for
candidates and they will expect their reward in
the shape of good government and not in the form
of an office with a more or less fat salary.
Any system of government leaves the elected
official still with a sense of gratitude toward those
who contribute conspicuously to his success, but we
believe that our mayor and commissioners have
such a clear understanding of their relation to the
people under the commission form of government
that they will feel that they are under obligation
to nobody but the people; that the people want no
one in office because of any political service he has
performed; but xnly because of the business service
lie is capable ot performing. 1
Such a proper attitude of the mayor and com
missioners toward applicants for appointive offices
is made the easier by reason of the fact that no
three of the elected officials, a majority of them,
are under obligation to any worker or to the work
ers of any particular set. Thus the matter of dis
regarding the workers and agreeing upon really
capable appointees is greatly simplified.
In speaking of the appointees we have in mind
nil of them. The mayor and commissioners can ap
point only three of them directly. The city manager
will make all the other appointments. But he will
be left with a freer hand if the mayor and com
missioners do not try to influence his judgment and
action.
A Matter of Veracity
Before we become excited and take sides in the
heated controversy between Speaker Champ Clark
and the officers of the National Voters' League, over
the vote lately' taken in the house on the question
of referring the Mulhall investigation resolution to
the house judiciary committee, we should consider,
that while either side may be wrong both may
be sincere. The record showed that Speaker Clark
counted the ayes, (and his friends are willing to
swear that they saw him count) and there were
only twenty-three affirmative votes, a number
which notwithstanding its talismanic character was
not sufficient to "skiddoo'' the resolution to the
committee. Some bystanders thought there were
more ayes than that, 'and on the authority of Pro
fessor Charles Zubloin it was publicly stated that
there were forty-seven ayes. Speaker Clark indig
nantly replied that any man who said there were
more than twenty-three affirmative votes on the
question was a liar and in peril of a certain lake of
fire and brimstone.
It seemed "to the voters league that there
was a way to settle this controversy and, accord
ingly, an inquiry was addressed to every member
of the house on that memorable occasion of the
vote on the resolution, as to whether he voted,
and if so, how he voted. Forty-seven members
replied that they had voted for the reference of the
resolution. Apparently the speaker was in a hole.
Of course, he stood on the record, but even the
record had been assailed. But there were the forty
seven replies to the inquiries. Zublein on the face
of things had been sustained. There was no longer
any question as to his veracity. He was eliminated
from' the controversy and it is now participated in
only by the speaker on one side and the twenty
four members, (exclusive of the twenty-three whose
votes were counted).
At first blush we may think that the speaker has
been put up against it, but then, we recall the
tendency of voters in general to say that, they will
or have, voted one way, when, as a matter of fact,
they intend to vote, or have voted, another.
Let the Mulhall committee include this problem
among those it is still engaged In solving.
Duels of Two Nations
We print this morning the story of an Austrian
duel in which an army officer who had been forced
into it against his wish by his brother officers was
killed. His antagonist a brother-in-law, was equally
averse to the combat. Both agreed that they were
without grievances warranting such an encounter.
In this instance we see the duel at its worst, for
though a duel in no circumstances, is justified by
any grievance on the part of either antagonist, a
duel without a grievance is a particularly cold
blooded affair. ,
The dispatches lately carried a story of a
French duel, and French duels are supremely ridi
culous, worse so far as the nation is concerned
than the bloody Austrian duel. In this case the son
of an Academician for some slight upon his wife,
challenged a playwright. The duel was fought, the
wives of both looking on at some distance, from
an automobile. They had been denied the privilege
of appearing directly upon the field of honor. One
of the principals received a slight puncture on the
forearm. That was as serious a casualty as was
expected.
If there must be duels, they should be the re'il
thing. The French may have an idea that these
absurd meetings cure some fancied dishonor, but
they have a deleterious effect upon the national
honor.
The President's Circumspection
President Wilson unbosomed himself before sev
eral newspaper men of the National Press Club on
Friday night, complaining that he had not been un
derstood and that his motives had been miscon
strued. If he seemed circumspect, he said, it was
in order that he might avoid blunders.
But many do not accuse the president of too
great circumspection. To be circumspect, following
the word back to its Latin origin, is to "look
around." There are some who think that the presi
dent has not looked around, but that he has looked
too steadily in one direction; that if he had looked
around this country and less continuously, along
a single line, he would have changed his Mexican
policy.
The president, though, has had the good for
tune to be able to do on a big scale what almost
anyone can do on a little scale to attract the gaze
of others in the direction in which he looks steadily.
We have all seen a man stop in the street and gaze
heavenward, apparently at some object. In a short
time he would be joined by another and another,
and the street would soon be filled with people
craning their necks, each wondering what the rest
were looking at.
So, the president's steady gaze at the Mexican
situation has caused many of his fellow citizens,
mostly members of his own party, to look along that
narrow lane. But the throng of gazers is falling
away. What is seen is less and less worth looking
at. The crowd wanting to see another kind of Mex
ican policy is increasing.
LITTLE JAMES
(Concerning Defects Which Mar an Otherwise Ideal
Popular Government)
Wun of th' Late Candydates he sez to My Paw,
sez he: "Bruther, we're no Doubt on th' Way to a
Perfeck Popier Guverment, but we got to go a long
Ways yit before we git there. An' 1 don't think 'at
we been takin' Reforms up in th' Regler Order. I
was jist as Strong as anybody fer Popier Rool, an
bein' fomerly a Relijus man, I always ended my De
voshuns with a Prair fer Guverment of th' Peeple,
fer th' Peeple and by th' Peeple. But it looks to
me like we ort to Started furder back. It's all rite
to let th' Peeple Rool. but they ort to have some
Preppyrashun fer it. It Stan's to Reeson 'at when
th' Peeple don't know a Good man when they see
him, an' can't Reconnize Merit, they ain't reddy to
Rool theirself:, yit. If we had a Monnarkial Form
of Guverment we wuddent want no Monliark which
was a ('hump an' didn't know Rite front Rong an'
didn't know enuff to git th' Rite Kind of Public
Servance to draw th' Salries. Monnarks is speshly
trained fer th' Job an' so th' Peeple ort to be.
"Th' Peeple ort to be not only Wiser'n they is,
hut they ort to be More Troothfeller. No Monnark
which was a Common Lyre an' into whose word you
a-uducnt put no Dependence wuddent be no Good
Rooler. Tou wuddent want no King or Umpire or
Zor 'loss yon knode 'where you could Find Him. It's
Jist so with th' Teeple. Till they git so's 'at they
.,'-.n lie Relide onto, they won't be Good Roolers which
they ain't now. s
"I ain't speekin' from no Idle Roomers about
their want of Verassity. My own recent Expery
ence is a Concrete Example. When I first come out
fer ffis, I went around to see these here Roolers
n' I sez to 'em, 'See here, I'm thinkin' of Offerin'
myself as a Candydate, but I don't want to make no
start 'less I got some show of gittin' somewheres.
Are you agoin' to vote fer me?'
"I figgered 'at I'd need about 2000 votes to be
'lected an' th' first 2000 'at I seen sez: 'Shure, you're
jist th' F:ite man fer th' Place. We was afeared
'at we cuddent git sich Good Timber as you fer
Off is. You're jist th' Kind of men we want in these
here Places of Truss an' Emollient.'
"My leckshun looked like it was Ded Ceiling, but
fer Fcer 'at some of these here Roolers mite be sick
on Leckshun day or otherwise Ineopassytaied from
attendin' th' Poles, to make shure, I went to see 500
more Roolers, all of which Ashured me of their
lioilty to my Coz. You see, by th' Returns 'at I
got less'n 1000 votes. Fridy mornin' when I recover
ed Conshusnous I feered 'at they had been a Eppy
demic which kep' more'n haf my supporters away
from th' Poles, an' I went around to see th' Lists 'at
th' Checkers kep' an' found 'at all my Loil frends had
been there all Rite an' cast their Votes fer some wun
else. Now, what Progrous can us Candydates, onto
which th' Safety of th' Country depends, make un
der sich Roolers?"
Anuther Candydate sez: "I ain't lost no Faith in
th' Peeple becoz I didn't git enuff votes to 'Lect
me when I had Reesen to b'leeve 'at my Leckshun'd
be Unannermous, as everybody had tole me. It
wasn't th' Fault of th' Peeple which their' will
was Thworted by th' Leckshun Bords. Senee th'
Leckshun I Been around town an' Personly -Intervude
more'n 3000 voters which sez 'at they all cast their
Francheeses fer me. But wot's th' Use, when we
have sich Leckshun Bords? We must have a Re
form in this Respeck before our Popier Guverment
is a Complete suxess." LITTLE JAMES.
A HOT ONE
Hub A word to the wise is sufficient, my dear.
Wife I know it, Henry. That's why I have to
be continually and everlastingly talking to you.
ACCOMPANIES HUSBAND WHO'S GOING TO
BEARD LION ON ENGLISH GOLF LINKS
f 02W3lz.,
i rTi - j
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Herreshoff.
Fred Herreslinff. the famous runner up, is now on his way to Eng
land, whi le he and Jerome I). Travers are to meet the crack golfers of
the British Isles on their own links for international golfing honors.
Accompanying Mr. Herreshoff is his wife, one of the famous Faulkner
beauties. She is a sister of "Hetty." who married F. ( '. Henderson, of
St. Louis, the- St. Louis Standard oil millionaire.
i FAMOUS SHORT POEMS i
I I
Printed in connection with the work done in the
English department of the Phoenix Union
High School. Conducted by Prof. I. Colodny.
THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE
Come live with me, and be my love .
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves and hills and fields.
Woods or steepy mountain yields.
And we will sit upon the rocks.
Seeing the shepherd feed their flocks
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
And I will make thee beds of roses.
And a thousand fragrant posies:
A cap of flowers, and a kirtlo
' Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.
A gown, made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair lined slippers for the cold.
With buckles of the purest gold.
A belt of straw and ivy buds,
Writh coral clasps and amber studs;
And if these pleasures may thee move.
Come live with me and be my love.
The shepherd swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May morning:
If these delights thy, mind may move.
Then live with me. and be my love.
CHRISTOPHER M A R LOWE.
154 153.
MODERN ART IN THE APRIL CENTURY
Increasing numbers of Americans are interested
in painting; the love of art is no longer confined
to a few. The present revolution that is going on
in the art world bewilders and distresses a great
many people who heretofore have got enjoyment
from pictures' without being shocked and startled.
The Century Magazine is performing a public ser
vice in attempting to sum up the present sit-'
uation in the art world, and to explain the whole
sensational movement. As it is, the editor's opinion
that no one person is capable of a thorough and
judicious analysis of this kind, he has gathered about
him in this project a grout) of men of eminence,
each with an entirely different point of view.
The April Century will contain articles by these
men, with more than fifty illustrations, two of which
are in full color. John W. Alexander, president of
the National Academy of Design, answers the ques
tion, "Is Our Art Distinctly American?" Edwin H.
Biashfield, president of the Society of Mural Paint
ers, describes "The Painting of Today." while "The
Painting of Tomorrow" is commented upon by Er
nest L. Blumenschein. Walter Pach. himself a post
impressionist, gives "The Point of View of the
'Modern.'" Jay Hambidge and his son. Gove Ham
bidge, present some curious discoveries in a paper
on "The Ancestry of Cubism." The whole collection
of articles is brought together tinder a general head
ing, "This Transitional Age in Art."
MODERN TOMMY TUCKERS
The door in one of the most popular restaurants
in Boston slowly opened at noon while half a hun
dred diners were eating and a small voice piped:
"Any singin'?"
"No," replied a waitress, and the owner of the
voice, a boy of eleven years, walked down the
street to another restaurant.
It is becoming a regular practice by boys to
sing for the diners for a little loose change. One
boy told me that he made $3 in one night recently
singing in restaurants. Boston Post.
GERMAN MILITARISM
The following interesting defense of the man
ners of German military officers was written by
one of their number: The outside world accuses
the German officer of usurping a position of supe
riority over his fellow-men. W'e do not exactly
demand that position, but, living in a military state,
we are undoubtedly in the enjoyment of it. It is
well that we are, not for our insignificant selves,
for we do not count, but the state is the supreme
thing, and there must be preferential treatment for
those who wear its livery and do its service. Do
not imagine that the life of a German officer is a
round of autocratic dolce far mente. He rises at
dawn Jind works ten to twelve hours a day at a
salary a shop assistant would scorn. A lieutenant
receives S lbs. to 10 lbs. a month. A colonel re
ceives up to 5o0 lbs. a year. We recently had a
war minister-general so poor that he could not
grant his lieutenant sons an allowance of more
than 2 I.ks. or 2 lbs. a month. Do you think a
station like Zabern, of which we have a dozen,
means luxury, comfort and social joy? Itsn't our
reputed "superior position" about all we have in re
turn fur instant readiness to die at the king's
call? You have lived in Germany a decade. Have
yor. ever seen the "superior" German officer saber
ing civilians out of hand, or elbowing women into
the gutter, or jostling children? We have some
"5,000 or 40.000 officers. There are doubtless hun
dreds of snobs among them perhaps only a fair
percentage that would find its equal in any or
ganization of corresponding numerical strength.
Have you not smiled oftener at the punctilious over
politeness of German officers than at their swag
gering? You have bivouacked with them at "Kaiser
maneuvers." Have you not always been struck by
tlie democratic comradeship between officers and
men? Of course, you have heard us snarl in regu
lation form when orders are to be given. That
is our little way of enforcing discipline and respect
our way of reminding French and Russian friends
that those bedrock principles of military strength
are still inherent in the German army. How long
do you think they would subsist if our officers did
not show their readiness to go to extremes to pre
vent and stamp out insults to the supreme badge
of state authority? Frederick William Wile in
London Daily Mail.
FRENCH PUBLIC OWNERSHIP EXPERIMENTS
A recent issue of the Journal des Transports
gives some figures showing the relation of the
French treasury to the government owned railways
which prove instructive. Since the state purchased
the Western railway in 1903 the advances to capital
account for that system and for the old state rail-
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Taid up assets $65,000.
ways have reached the enormous total of 718,300,000
francs. But this is only part of the drain which
government ownership has made upon the French
treasury, for these advances were entirely outside
the deficits due to the operation of these railways.
For the first five years of state ownership the defi
cit had exceeded .127,000,000 francs, growing each
succeeding year, as shown by the following table:
Francs
1909 :!8,74S.OOO
19j0 5S,412,oi
9H 68,798,300
1912 76,020,386
3 85,079.581
These treasuc advances will have to be funded
ultimately, and that is one of the troublesome prob
lems of French finance. The railways have been re
quired to pay only 2 per cent for this accomoda
tion, while the obligations placed with the public
call for 4.75 per cent interest, or nearly double the
charge hv the treasury. It is further to be noted
that no interest at all was paid upon treasury ad
vances from January 1. 1909. to December 31, 1911.