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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 14, 1914
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TUESDAY MORNING, APKIL 14, 1914
It's encouraging to sinners to
hear something against saints.
Mrs. George Wemyss.
Co-operation of Farmers
The sec-md National Conference on Marketing
and Farm Credits will begin in Chicago today and
will continue four days. The first conference a
year ago resulted in country-wide benefit. It
aroused in the first place, an interest in "the pro
posed rural reforms; it developed that many of
ihein were already under way with beneficial re
sults in progressive communities hut the move
ments were isolated; it sel students to inquiring
into the methods employed, in European countries
where the movement has been approaching a per
fected system, and it created strong sentiment in
this country in favor of legislation to encourage the
objects sought.
The first step, of course, is co-operation and
we can think of no situation in which co-operation
has a broader meaning than in this movement. It
is co-operation in all things, in the raising of crops,
in tile standarization of products, in marketing and
in the means for securing financial assistance. It
is much more than the grangers' plan of co-operation
of a generation ago or that of the various
farmers' aliances since. agreements to withhold
tlnir products from the markets for satisfactory
prices, to establish "corners'" for themselves, rather
than to let the middlemen do it.
It is proposed in this movement to stimulate
and encourage, rather than to starve markets; to
distribute the products of the farm so as to sup
ply the more insistent demands for them and to
simplify the marketing itoblem further by the ex
cellence and standardization of products.
We have lately shown how this has been ac
complished in the matter of Elgin butler, by which
is no longer meant, butter made in the Elgin dis
trict but butter made anywhere in the United
States, not only of the grade of Elgin butter but
marketed in the same manner and by men engaged
in the distribution of Elgin butter.
Hardly any other product of the farm presents
such difficult marketing problems as fruit. In one
l.Kality, fruit by the ton is going to waste. It is
absolutely worthless. In another, the cost of caring
for it and for shipping it is not met. In still an
other there may be a bare profit, while in many
..calities it would be taken at fancy prices if it
could be delivered. But such places of consumption
are separated from the sources of production by im
passable gulfs which can be bridged only by country-wide
co-operation.
Local fruit exchanges have helped somewhat,
luit the co-operation has been entirely local and
the benefits have been confined within narrow
limits. If there can be co-operation among ex
changes as there may be among the members of an
exchange the benefits would be extended.
The first problem to be solved is that of prop
er distribution and that can be secured only by
united effort in securing transportation at the right
time ami the right rates: in presenting a solid front
ngainst the demands of barrel and box manufac
turers; in the thinning of the ranks of the middle
men and in bringing the products of the farm as
directly as possible and with as little expense as
possible, to the cosumer.
Wool and the Tariff
Administration newspapers gleefully remind us
that the prediction of dire things as a result of the
tariff legislation of last year has come to naught.
They point, for instance, to the fact that wool is
higher now than it was a year ago, though it has
been placed on the free list. Surely, no one would
contend that a possible resull of such legislation
would be higher wool. We must look for some other
cause for the increased price, for the price is higher
now than it was a, year ago. Arizona wool sold
then for 17 cents a pound. Nearly all of the wool
snorn this year at the Alorristown camp has. been
sold at from 22 Vi to 2.1 cents. Certainly this ad
nnce of 5 or 6 cents a pound cannot be traced to
throwing down the bars to the wool of the world.
If that were true, low tariff or no tariff would be a
ban thing for consumers.
' The ract is there is a wool shortage all over the
v.oild. The Balkan war stopped a most important
contribution to the world's supply. Drouth in Aus
tralia reduced another source and it han happened
that something has gone wrong within the last yeir
in almost every producing country. This was or
servtd while the Underwood bill was pending and
it was that condition that emiioldened the deimerats
to place wool on the free list.
We recall a conversation we had with a mem
ber of the Arizona delegation in congress before
the passage of the tariff bill on the occasion of his
return to Phoenix while the bill was pending. The
effect of its passage upon a great Arizona indus
try was under discussion. He was fortified with
reports from American consular agents in all parts
of the world, showing that the supply of wool would
be at its lowest ebb this year. He concluded:
"This is the first time the Almighty has been with
the democratic party when it was monkeying with
the tariff."
But can the party count upon divine aid next
: ear or the year after? May there not be a heavy
v orld crop of wool ? The wool production of the
world is generally a matter of a season or two.
A tariff bill generally stands until it wrecks the
party that enacted it after having wrecked or
B" uly disturbed industry and commerce.
If, in spite of free wool, wool is five or six
tvn's higher than it was last year it would un
doubtedly still be higher if the tariff had not been
removed. We are not saying that it is not high
ei-ough now. It should never be so high as jo be
come a needless burden to the consumer who, by the
Vhy, was put forward by the democrats as the
chief beneficiary of the proposed legislation. But
he has not yet profited by it. Clothing is no cneaper
than it was under the old law and the chances are
that the consumer will pay more for clothing and
blankets next fall than he has paid for several years,
not, of course, because of the tariff, but because of
the wool shortage.
If, next season there should be a heavy world
supply of wool shid the price should drop as it ild
in the same circumstances when the Wilson bill
was in operation twenty years ago, when the sheep
industry was wiped out, consumers would receive
no more bei.efit from low wool than they did then.
The manufacturers and the middlemen would, as
they did then, garner all the profits to themselves.
Clothing has never been since so high as it was
durini, that blissful period of cheap wool.
We have in trade and commerce not only the
law of supply and demand to govern us. but wp
have human nature to deal vvjth. The law of sup
ply and demand is shifting but human nature is
uncharging.
The ushering in of the day at Sing Sing yester
day was a horrible affair, but in this world horrible
affairs are frequently inevitable if order is to be
preserved. If such things as happened at Sing Sing
had happened earlier; if cognizance had been taken
of the operations of the "gangs" of New York some
years ago, these gunmen, the sons of respectable
parents, would not have become gunmen and they
would still be alive. To have sent them to the
penitentiary for life would not have served the
purpose. It was generally believed that they would
not die. Death for a crime like those which had
been protected hy politicians and winked at by the
authorities was unthinkable. "Whitey Lewis,"
"Dago Frank," "Oyp the Blood" and "Lefty Louie"
were no worse than scores of gangsters who have
flourished in the past; they were not nearly as bad
as many. They sinned at a time unfortunate for
themselves out fortunate for society. The surviving
gunmen will lie low lor a time, meditating upon that
curious looking contrivance up at Sing Sing which
men call a chair, perhaps because those who sit in
it for awhile seemingly enjoy perfect rest.
We join in the welcome of Hon. Marcus A.
Smith on his return to Phoenix. Mr. Smith is a
lovable gentleman. He has done much for Arizona,
notwithstanding a certain campaign booklet issued
by republicans some years ago purporting to be
descriptive of his legislative achievements, though
it was filled with blank pages. -Mr. Smith is our
United States senator. We say "our," though we
in no wise contributed to his election. But we hope
that on that account he does not consider himself
a purely; democratic senator and still less, the
senator of any faction of democrats.
An actuary cursed he his kind has pretended
to have discovered that unmarried women live long
er than their married sisters. Isn't it hard enough
to inveigle women into the matrimonial corral with
out this additional incentive to stay out?
TO A ROSE
Here in evening's solitude,
Unwatched, unseen by anyone.
In happy sweet contented mood
Aline eyes o'er dear mementoes run.
Come forth fair rose and let me view
Thy rich perfections o'er again,
Those happy moments to renew
In memory's fond enduring chain.
Thy crimson glow I'm sure was caught
While to her cheeks thou wast held high.
h rapture sweet. Oh happy thought,
Perchance she kissed you, so will I.
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How sweet and fresh thy fragrance is,
What solace it doth yield to me;
Ah, yes I'm sure that with a kiss
She gave thy sweetness unto thee.
Now go back to thy place among
My other treasures, my dear rose,
Sweet token of a love now young,
That richer, riper, each day grows.
G. M. Willard.
A THOROUGH SCHOLAR
Rufus B. Richardson, for 10 years the head of
the celebrated American school for classical studies
at Athens, who has died at Clifton Springs, N. Y.,
was a sincere and thorough scholar. Besides having
been professor of Greek in Indiana university and
Dartmouth, he had been principal of the high school
in Chicopee Center from 1879 to 1881. Aside from
numerous shorter writings on art and archeology,
which had chiefly to do with excavations made by
the American school at Eretria and Corinth, his
books were "Vacation Days in Greece," "Greece
Through the Stereoscope" and "History of Greek
Sculpture." He married in 1876 Miss Alice Linden
Bowen of the well-known family identified with
Woodstock, Cofln., and, for many years, with the
publication of the Independent. Springfield Repub
lican. THE AMENDED TOUCH
The Beggar Oh, lady a halfpenny but what
a pity to open a beautiful bag for such a trifle!
ATeggendorfer Elaetter.
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The battleship Texas.
Here is Uncle Sam's newest battleship. It is one ot the most powerful
fighters afloat, carrying ten fourteen-inch guns.
Farm Notes
BY HOWARD L. RANN
One of the most pathetic sights on the farm is
hat of a genial work horse trying to take a cheer
ful view of life in the face of an ingrowing toenail.
Nine times out of ten it will be found that the
animal has been shod by a cross-eyed farrier wlio.se
ancestors inoculated, the noble red man with astig- .
matism and the booze habit. It is a lamentable
fact that the average horse shoer is aoout as
coarse in his work as a married flirt on a Sunday
school excursion. The blacksmith who fits a pair
of No. 9 calks on a genteel roadster Willi a high
instep calling for a 7 A last ought to have Ids
eyes straightened up with a pair of brass knuckles.
More racing mares have been ruined by black
smiths whose sight is as defective as the vision of
the night watch during the county fair than from
running a wire nail through a new half sole. If the
intellectual giant who shoes your horses is so near
sighted that he drives a nail' with the accuracy of
grandpa repairing the hen coop, you had better
trust them to the mercies of the nearest cooper,
stewed or sober.
The cupidity of man has destroyed a promising
industry, that of making soft soap ut of wood ashes
and gum arabic. This simple combination pro
duced a soap that would eat the lining out of a
copper boiler. It was chiefly used to wash out the
mouths of small boys who were caught in the act
of saying "galdum it" under their breath. One ap
plication of this soap would destroy the sense of
taste so that a boy couldn't tell a belt pickle from
a cream puff. It was also very popular for the
Saturday night bath, for a man didn't have to
grope around like a cross-eyed chambermaid hang
ing out the wash and finally locate it behind his
left ear In the sou'-east corner of the bath tub. It
is hard to improve upon the old wa.is.
THE RANGER
Lonesome? With azure sky o'er head,
And miles of plain to view.
Aly horse to ride, and by my side.
My dog a friend, most true.
Aly "Alaiiin" brings my food to me.
From forests, and the air.
And offerings of bush and vine.
Complete my bill of fare.
A stream or mountain springs is near
To quench my thirst, when dry.
And when at night I seek repose,
My Sentinel's alert, close by.
Coyotes' wail, my ears assail,
A burro's distant bray.
Or mournful sound of howling hounds,
A mile or two away.
The crickets chirp, or croak of frog.
As nature's lullaby's.
Floats in from far orf marsh or bog.
To close my tirexl eyes.
At break of day I'm on my way,
Dawn, always gladness brings.
My lungs inhale the wholesome scent,
Of green and growing things.
The cities hold no charm for me
With noise and glare, and sham
But out here on the mountain tops,
I am content a man.
M. Lauretta Green, Bisbee.
"Isn't this Senator Ash Hearst of Arizona a son
of W. R. Hearst?" was asked a reader who replied,
"No, my son, he is only an obedient and devoted
nephew."
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Killing Time
By WALT MASON
J. Johnson Jinks has wealth to burn, though
not a kopeck did he earn. His father croaked some
years ago, and left him forty kinds of dough, and
he has basked in gilded ease since he was lower
than your knees. And life to him is bleak and
drear, and every hour seems like a year. He does
not work like useful boys, but buys new cars and
other toys, and wearies of thorn when they're
bought, tor nothing seems to reach the spot. He
' travels here and travels there, and finds new bore
dom and despair; his only task is killing time, and
that's a nuisance and a crime. There's naught on
e-rth will take the kinks from out the soul of J. J.
Jinks, because he never learned to toil, nor had to
make the kettle boil. I'd rather labor in the ditch
than iie so useless and so rich. This world is but
a poor report for any overloaded sport who tries
to purchase cheap renown with wealth his old man
handed down. I'd rather have one silver bone, that
I have earned, that is my ow n, than have a bundle in
my till, awarded by some dead one's will.
MOTHER GOT THE WIRE
Here is one that was told at a recent dinner by
Senator William P. Dillingham of Vermont, when
the conversation turned to telephone talks.
Some time ago a woman in a New England city
took down the receiver of a party-line telephone
and found that the wire was busy.
"I just put on a pan of beans for dinner," she
heard one woman serenely informing another.
Mother hung up the receiver and waited for
the conversation to end. That is, she took down
the receiver again at the end of half an hour, but
to -her dismay she found that the wire was still
busy. Again she took it down and yet again, but the
complacent conversation flowed sweetly on. Then
mother became exasperated.
"Say, madam." she exc(aimed with piercing, dis
tinctness, "I smell your beans burning."
"Why, so they are!" came, back the gaspy cry
as the telephone closed. Philadelphia Telegraph.
EQUATIONS
A bird in the hand '
Is worth two in the bush;
A hair in the head -
Is worth all in the brash.
Put this in your pipe
And smoke it at home
A tooth in the mouth
It worth ten in the cornh,
Birmingham Age-Herald.
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ing the same bill a second time. 1 " .
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THREE CLASSES
"There are three classes of books." "What are'
they?" The few that you buy yourself because you
really want them; those that are given to you and
the sets that some clever book agent succeeds In
persuading you that you ought to have." Detroit
Free Press.
NOT IN THAT CLASS
"Have you had any experience with children?"
"No, ma'am; I always worked in the best fami
lies. Philadelphia Public Ledger. ';
- THEN HE BRISTLES UP
A Baltimore man, Mr. Hogshead, has applied
to have his name changed. He claims that the
name Hogshead makes him a butt.