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PAGE FOUR '" THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 3, 1914
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FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 3, 1914
It is a good thing1 to be rich, and
a pood thing to be strong-, but it is
a better thing to be beloved of many
friends. Euripides.
A State-wide Progressive Conference
There is printed in The Republican this morn
ing a call for a state-wide- conference of the mem
bers of the progressive party. It is a call, as well,
to those who have not been members of the pro
gressive party, but who have wearied of the futil
ity of the parties to which they have belonged.
For, by whatever names these parties have been
known, they have been only the parties of poli
ticians. Neither the democratic nor the republican party
within a generation has been a party of the people.
Both have claimed, during campaigns, the loyalty
of its members and have adjured them in the names
of Lincoln and Jefferson to stand firm for the party
of their fathers, though neither party has for twenty
five years borne a closer relation to the republican
ism of Lincoln or the democracy of Jefferson than
it has borne to the Guelfs or Ghibellines of the
middle ages. ,
Their platforms have been empty declarations
to allure voters. Xo promise to the people has ever
been held so sacred that it has not been violated
at the behest of some powerful special interest.
Now and then the wave of resentment of the
people has arisen so high as to sweep the dominant
party out of power or to terrify it, when relief would
be grudgingly granted the people, but as soon there
after as possible it would be withdrawn in the in
terest of some special privilege.
That is the record that both the old parties
have made. And what does any republican or
democrat owe his party in this state except for the
privilege of holding an office? And how many of
us have wanted or obtained office? Have we not,
rather, been made the tools of those who have sought
and held them? , ,
The progressive party of the nation and the
state offer the people something for themselves. The
platform is a covenant with the people; it is a cove
nant among the people. The men and women who
have entered into it have had to sacrifice every sel
fish ambition. Every political interest they have
has been pooled for the common good. The pro
gressive party is more than a party. It Is a move
ment. All but office-seekers are invited, urged to
join it. Let the handful of office-seekers, repub
lican and democratic, and the seekers after special
privilege form a party of their own. We can have
no sympathy with their political aspirations. They
have none with our aspirations for equality of op
portunity for all, for social and industrial justice.
Baby Shows
What's the use of eugenics in Phoenix, anyway,
when such a display of prize-winning babies as was
seen at a local theater on Wednesday night is pos
sible? What we need is a larger supply of brave
men to consent to act as judges at baby shows,
and what some of the mothers probably thought on
Wednesday night was a still more urgent need were
men of better judgment in the matter of the excel
lent points of babies.
After all, those whose babies were not awarded
prizes may console themselves with the reflection
that it was a matter of individual opinion by men
who were not experts. If any other three men had
acted as judges, the verdict, in all probability, would
have been entirely different.
There is no such a tiling as an expert judge of
babies, because there are no rules for Judging tbern.
Agricultural colleges teach us howlo Judge poultry,
pigs, cattle and horses. There are fixed rules as to
color, size, conformation, etc., perfection or approach
to perfection being represented by a certain num
ber of "points."
There Is no single-standard baby, and we do
not think there will ever be one There are, anil
there will always be, as many standards as theie
are babies. The man who permits himself to be put
into a position in which he will have to declare that
one standard is better than another belongs to that
reckless contingent out of which the working forces
of powder mills and dynamite factories are re
cruited. And, who would say that a ree!;Iess man
is a man of any judgment worth while?
Horns Rule in Gila
Recent history, in fact, history nut yet fully re
corded, is being repeated in Gila county, and espe
cially in Globe and its young rival, Miami the home
rule question is raging furiously. The Arizona Rec
ord of Globe, declaring that the citizens of Miami
to be peons and slaves to the whims of C'leve W.
Van Dyke, the owner-of the townsite of Miami, de
mands home rule for them, municipal incorporation
instead of the absolutism of townsiteism. The Sil
ver Belt, Mr. Van Dyke's newspaper at Miami, Is in
the position of the British Unionists, and defies the
Record fts Ulster defies those who would bestow
or impose home rule upon Ireland. The Record re
torts that it is only the mouthpiece of the peons
groaning under the grinding Van Dyke heel; that it
is animated only by the emotion of pity for the suf
fering. Meanwhile, there is another movement in Gila
for the separation of the county, the cutting of the
western half of Gila away from the parent stem.
That excised part is to be called Miami county, em
bracing the townsite of Miami, the mining district
in that vicinity as well as the mining camps in the
western part of the county. Initiative petitions are
now being prepared that the matter may be pre
sented to the people at the general election next
November.
That may be a proposition for a greater meas
ure of home rule than the Record and the people
of Globe think will be good for the downtrodden
Miamese; it may be believed in Glohe that the grov
eling people of Miami should learn to walk sup
ported now and then by the mother county, before
they enter Marathon races; that they should learn to
govern an incorporated town before they undertake
the government of a new and untamed count y.N It
is one thing to grant home rule and another very
different thing to concede absolute independence.
Meanwhile, public attention for the next few
weeks will be divided between the news from Lon
don and Dublin on the one hand, and the news from
Globe and Miami on the other.
What's Going On?
What is happening at Torreon? Is Villa ham
mering down one federal defense after another and
slowly gaining possession of that stronghold? Or, is
he being led into one ghastly trap after another, that
the revolutionists may be swallowed up and anni
hilated? It is only certain that none of the news
which has reached the outside world within the last
week has been at all reliable.
Previous to the final assault upon Gomez Pala
cio the reports from the constitutionalist front were
probably fairly accurate as to the things that had
happened or were happening, though rather florid
as to expected future happenings. Before the news,
of the slaughter of the constitutionalists was re
ceived, it was related from federal sources that the
constitutionalists were being led into ambush. That
was probably true. Since then the constitutionalist
press agents, except along the border, have not been
active, and the federal officials at Mexico City say
they are without news.
But, whatever happens at Torreon, the diffi
culties of the approach by the constitutionalists to
Mexico City have become more apparent. There is
to lie much more fighting than was expected, by
an army unexpectedly weakened by the battles about
Torreon, the first federal stronghold. There are
other and more formidable strongholds along the way
with vast stretches of desert between them.
But if the assault upon Torreon should fail, it
will be only the disheartened and small fragment of
an army that will find its way north again over
hundreds of miles of waterless plains.
DIAGNOSING INEFFICIENCY
No physician blindly prescribes a course of
treatment. He first examines to get at the facts,
then gives serious consideration to what, he has
collected- through questioning tests, etc., and from
his conclusions he is able to state what the matter
is and what will eliminate or cure the trouble. This
"synthetic analysis" is what is popularly termed the
"diagnosis." The engineer inaugurating an efficiency
campaign in any plant bears exactly the same rela
tion to the client as the physician to the patient.
The client is in no better position to tell the en
gineer what is the matter with him and what he
needs than the patient is in to tell the physician
what ails him It is, therefore, obvious that the en
gineer must diagnose exactly as the physician does.
He must analyze symptoms, local complaints, func
tional disorders, and then outline the course of
treatment. In other words, it is not so much a
question of what to do as of how to determine
what to do.
The engineer should, therefore, take his forms,
his time studies, his impressions, his floor plans,
his acts as to planning conditions, and other infor
mation gathered as the result of the examination
outlined, and after retiring to a quiet corner, com
mence the task of matching facts and considering
evidence. He Is a judge, in other words, considering
nrguments for and against the application of certain
delicate laws and principles. It is true that no de
finite rule can be laid down for diagnosing a case.
This is largely a mental process, but it is a process
nevertheless based upon and determined by the
many facts gathered.
The engineer is on speaking and perhaps friend
ly tei ms with the various members of the organiza
tion. He knows who are for him, who are against
him, and who are neutral. lie has a fair concep
tion how to approach each member. He knows
what each covers or is supposed to cover. lie has
in addition an excellent idea as to the real worth
to the company of each member of the organization.
The engineer is confronted with no easy task
in attacking this mass of evidence preparatory to
blocking out his plan of action. It is like valuing
intangible assets little to go by with plenty of evi
dence to work on. C. E. Knoeppel in Engineering
Magazine.
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WHY THE AUDIENCE STAYED '
This theater shall be nameless and this man
agement likewise, but that isn't going to hurt any
body's feelings.
With the tremendous business being done by
if l,".t four nf the attractions playing the city
last week, some houses had to suffer a drop in its
natural takings, and this was the house. The
nameless manager emerged at intermission r-vl wnt
to i nearby bar for strength and courage, that he
might bear up under the blow to his box office
rride. At intermission time, it must be explained,
this bar ordinarily gets a rush of trade from this
particular theater. Now the manager came in
alone.
"Isn't this intermission?" asked a bartender.
"Sure."
"Well, where's the audience?"
The manager looked around at the empty cafe.
Didn't he come over?" he asked. And then: "I
guess he's asleep."
"You look disgruntled," said the shoeman.
"Yes." snapped the hatter. "Had a little rush
just now, and a couple of prospective customers
walked out without being waited on."
"They seldom get away from me," declared the
shoeman. 'I take off their shoes as soon as they
come in." Judge.
' "
Queen Sophia and
Farm Notes
BY HOWARD L. RANN
A correspondent writes to ask if skimmed milk
should not lie thinned before feeding to young
pigs. We should say not. You might as well try
a thinner on circus lemonade. The man who can
founder a yearling pig on skimmed milk ought to
be able to bloat a whole kennel on a soup bone.
There is no way we know of to flag a pig's
appetite. A gunnt shoat may have a cold in the
head so bad that he can sneeze in four languages,
but you couldn't drive him away from the trough
with a pitchfork. You can flush a pig with skim
med milk for forty-eight hours without destroying
his savoir faire.
As a work of art, the modern seed catalogue
makes the product of the Chicago Art Institute
look like a tintype of grandpa at the age of thir
teen. If it hadn't been for the seed catalogue, the
impressionist school of painting would be about
as popular as a spoony girl with a cold sire. An
illustrator for these catalogues makes the work of
old Rembrandt and Mike Angelo resemble a chromo
of "Niagara Falls by Moonlight." He can paint a
blush on a tomato that will eat up more red paint
than a new barn. We saw a near-sighted man
chew the cover off of an apple catalogue the other
day, with the result that he got his pipes clogged
with yellow ochre and bad to be rinsed out with
gasoline. Every home where the love of art fur
art's sake has usurped the place of boiled cabbage
should have one of these catalogues on the center
table.
One of the most improving sights in urban life
is the popularity of the farmer at primary election
time. This pastime of cultivating the farmer every
once in two years has become quite a fad with
aspiring city candidates whose chief qualifications
are a tankfull of gall and an invariable wind pres
sure. Exercise the same care in picking out a can
didate that you would in buying a shoat. It re
quires about the same degree of perspicacity, and
both are liable to lie a disappointment.
If your girl insists upon hooking up with some
pecan-faced dude who wears a pair of red gloves
in his upper left coat pocket anil never earned a
dime in the world outside of a poker joint, don't
argue with her. Read the twenty-fourth verse of
the thirteenth chapter of Proverbs and get busy.
SALARIES OF PROFESSIONAL MEN
There Is no concealing th fact that on tl;e
whole neither pay nor prospects of the engineering
profession have of late been particularly encourag
ing. Technical pursuits of all kinds are, as a whole,
underpaid. Vet in comparing the rewards of tho
engineering professions with those of other profes
sions, the situation does not appear by any means
as bad as it might be.
The average clergyman, .is a matter of colt
blooded statistics, gets less salary than the average
motoiman or conductor or similar length of service
on a first-class electric railway.
In law the average earnings derived from strictly
professional work are probn'-lT little, if any. higher
than in engineering, although the exceptional law
yer unquestionably makes very much more tl'.'in th"
exceptional engineer,' or lias done so up to the pres
ent time. .
Medicine is notoriously a less well-pud rro
fessb n than law, and particularly as regards the
younger men, although those of high reputation can
show large yearly eirnings. Doctors with incomes
over $10,000 yearly oulru:mner engineers, although
tlu average in the two professions is probably not
far from the same.
The average young engineer at the age of "0 is
faring quite as well as his brother in any of the
older learned professions. The big prizes in en
gineering are comparatively scarce, but if oie rem's
the signs of the times aright the outlook in this re
spect is steadily growing better. Every largo enter
prise in the future will have to depend on a high
grade of -technical ability in executive positions.
High finance is somewhat less popular than it was,
and the plain stockholders are beginning to look
about for men of tried ability to take the place of
those who are distinguished as clever jugglers of se
curities. Engineering Record.
TO THOSE WHO ARE TROUBLED
You who are troubled with us, when the Lord
Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty
angels. II Thess. 1, 7. .
The : J &Ing Jtrinfc)! Catherine of
Greece, ttolrixth ' child of Queen
Sophia, the sister to the German
kaiser, -was born while her father,
the king of Greece, was at the front
during the Balkan war. '.While on
the battlefield he was appraised of
the birth of the princess and vowed
that every soldier of the empire
would be the godfather to his newly
born daughter. The fighting strength
of the Grecian army at that time
was 150,000.
iV.nccss Catherine.
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Wishes
By WALT MASON
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If wishes were but horses, the beggar folk
would ride, and there'd be free divorces for people
badly tied. We'd all be packing monies till spavined
in the knees, if wishes were but ponies, and roubles
grew on trees. "I wish," says little Willie, "I wish
I had a gun; I'd shoot till I was silly, and have all
kinds of fun." And then he starts a-wishing he
had a patent pole, so he could do some fishing
down by the swimming hole. And he might have
in plenty the things he wants so hard, if he would
work like twenty young beavers in the yard. His
father says, "There's many a chore, my lad, you
shirk; and I'd pay you a penny for every day you
work." Thus Willie might be raking in lots of
dough, my dears; by saving all he's making for
ten or 'leven years, he'd have his gun and tackle,
from all incumbrance free; and he might sing and
cackle in perfect eestacy. 'Tis thus with every
grownup, as 'tis with every boy; the truth we'd
better own up, that work alone brings joy. We
think we'd chirp like robins, and strangers be to
pain, if wishes were but Dobbins, and money fell
like rain; but grief would then enmesh us and
haunt us through the years; for things are only
precious that cost us toil and tears.
THE GROV.iNG CONSUMPTION OF BANANAS
"If yoi did not eat forty bananas last year, you
did n it Tvve vour share," writes Franklin Adams,
editor of 'he Monthly Bulletin of th-i l .i'i-Aiilei tcan
Union. "Over ii,'jo0,fl00 buncnes, or m-"j tb:!i
Zt (MKi.O-iC lii liartas, were imported by the Ignited
-;ucs in -.'I'-. The Immensity of thesis s-.M1r.'.o:ns
cm be m-Jie reat'ily grasped by the statement that
hty woult civet an area over twenty feet wide,
aching ir-M New York to San yrancsico, or,
rill ced end to end, would extend more than thirteen
limes around the earth at the equator. The 'slip'
in the peels would launch the ships of the worll.
The wholesale value of the 1913 importation, at
point of export, was over $15,393,000, while in nil
probability the consuming public of the United
States exepended over $40,000,000 for this delectable
fruit."
With the increased cost of living owing to the
proportionately decreasing food supply, the banana
conies forward as an Important factor in the
world's economy. While its use as a food is limited
in this country almost entirely to its consumption
in a raw slate, in localities where it grows it is
frequently fried or baked and is also used for mak
ing flour, delicious confections, elc. Placed in a
closed barrel and allowed to ferment, bananas pro
duce an excellent vinegar, while from the ripe fruit
a delightful cordial is obtained. Dried ripe bananas
are said to be superior to figs, weigh only about
one-ninth as much as the bunches and occupy cor
respondingly less space in shipment. In other
words, the banana has many kinds of food values
as yet but little known in the country which con
sumes the most.
Ranana culture is really one of the oldest of
industries. It seems to have been known almost
since the origin of the human race. Long before
the dawn of history in the Old World, perh.ips be
foie the Oid World rose from the waters, man lived
on the fruit of the musas. The banana was gen
erally considered to have been carried into America
by Europeans, until Humboldt threw doubt upon
' its purely Asiatic origin, quoting early authors, who
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asserted that the banana was cultivated in the
Americas long before the Conquest. It is claimed
that bananas formed one of the staple foods of the
Incas of Peru, who lived in the farm and temperate
regions of Montana. It seems that almost all tropi
cal countries claim the fruit as indigenous.
A ROLLING STONE
"They tell me you've lost your hired man."
"Yep, best farm hand I ever had."
"Sho! What was the matter?"
"Nothin'. John's a German, you known, and
these here Germans hev what they call the wander
lust. It's somethin' that keeps 'em movin' from
one place to t'other, an' don't let 'em stay long
anywheres."
"How long had John been with you?"
"Only eleven years." Cleveland Plain Dealer.