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PAGE FOUR THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 25, 1914 111 'll Arizona Republican's Editorial Page f il The Arizona Republican Published by ARIZONA PUBLISHING COMPANY. The Only Piiper In Arizona Published Every Day In the Year. Only Morning Paper in Phoenix. DwiKlit li. Heard President and Manager Charles A. Stauffer Business Manager Garth W. Cate Assistant Business Manager J. W. Spear Editor Ira H. S. Huggett City Editor Exclusive Morning Associated Press Dispatchem. Office. Coiner Second and Adams Streets. Knit-ivd at the Postoffice at Phoenix, Arizona, as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Address all communications to THIS ARIZONA REPUB LICAN. Phoenix. Arizona. TELEPHONES: Business Office 422 City Editor 433 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Doily, one month, in advance J .75 Pally, three njonths, in advance . . 2.00 Daily, six mouths, in advance 4.00 Daily, one year, in advance 8.00 Sundays only, by mail 2.50 SATURDAY .MliUXIXt!, APRIL 1.", lit 14. Do thy part Here in the living day, as did the great Who made old (lavs immortal! II. W. Gilder. A Damaging Dispatch The just indignation of the Arizona Star hits been aroused by tile publication by tile Kl Paso Tillies of it special dispatch from Tucson describing an anti Mexican demonstration there last .Monday. Tile story lost none of its luridness in the flaming head lines of the Times: "Race War in Tucson,'1 "Police Reserves Called out," "Situation So ".rave That City Council Holds Special Night Session and In creases Police Korce." The real trouble at Tucson seems to have con sisted of the discomfiture of a foolish and. perhaps, drunken lluertista by some Americans who resented his loud "vivas" for the dictator with whom the nation hud just engaged in war. There was a co incident but apparently unrelated strike by some .Mexican laborers employed in street paving work, instigated by I. W. W. agitators. There was prob ably no more disorder in Tucson thru day than might have been witnessed In any city of similar size in the United States. "Race War" lias an ugly sound fur it conveys the impression that a good many people filled with racial hatred are engaged in it, armed with weapons more or less deadly. A correspondent may greatly damage the town in which he lives by informing the outside world that there are conditions there out of which a race war might spring. It was still less helpful to Tucson to be pictured to the world as a place likely to be disastrously affected by a .Mexican war, though, in fact, life and property are as safe there as if Tucson were north of the Ohio river. But the people of the north anil east whom Tuc son is inviting and for whom it is building hotels and for whose adniiration it is beautifying itself, do not known that. Many of them believe that it is a border town, just as many people believe that all Ari zona towns are situated on the frontier surrounded by savage beasts and men. Tile average correspondent feels that he en joys a license to embellish facts, but he should re frain from blackening them and putting them in fiuoli a form as to make his town a scare crow. The telegraph editor of the Times should have known enough of Tucson to warrant his exercise of he blue pencil if not the waste paper basket on that misleading and damaging dispatch. We do not mean that the correspondent should conceal facts. If Tucson or Phoenix or any other town becomes a danger point it is proper that the public should be informed in order that the dan ger may be avoided- The Business Methods of Congress AVhat is needed in congress more than any thing else seems to be, a business manager somo liody to direct the expenditure of the funds which congress appropriates for tile conduct of its own business. Exceedingly loose methods have been disclosed by the demand of a young lady clerk of the committee on expenditures of the house, for pay for her services. The debate over tile question of making an appropriation for her pay at the rate of $l,", a month brought out several surprising but undis puted facts. She hart been employed by the chair man of the committee as acting clerk of the com mittee at the above named salary, she, hail per formed all the. clerical services that had been pel formed liy anybody. The chairman had promised her that congress would make the appropriation. Jle had employed her without authority. But with the authority vested in the chairmen of "11 com mittees he had previously appointed a regular clerk who had since drawn his pay month liy month, out of the contingent fund- That clerk had never performed any service and none of the members of the committee who took part in the debate had ever seen him in the committee room. (July one of them had any idea as to bis identity. He thought that the name of the clerk was "Uaker; Joe Baker." Where .Mr. Raker resided the congressman did not Know. -j - It is not certain that the young lady clerk will get her money though it is unanimously admitted that she earned it. The chief objection, and, per haps, the only one is the fear of establishing a precedent for the unauthorised employment of clerks. It was suggested that the chairman might simplify matters by paying her out of his own pocket, but as the chairman was either absent or declined to take part in the controversy, that re mained merely a suggestion One congressman, Mr. Mann by the way, learn ing that the. young lady had not received any salary ' at all, at, the end of either the first, the second or the third month, was of the opinion that she. was guilty of contributory negligence and could not be heard to complain if she were never paid. Ho believed that her failure to receive her salary at the end of any month was sufficient legal notice that her services were no longer desired and should have' been regarded by her as a notice to quit. We have heard of such a thing in private life as stopping tlie pay of an employe, leaving him to surmise if he chose that he had been fired, but his pay was not stopped while his service was going on. Such a procedure as is suggested in the remarks of Mi .Mann would not be regarded as honest outside the halls of congress. Talking for Villa The asperities of the war are smoothed anil softened by the El Paso correspondents when they clothe the alleged expressions of General Villa with flowing and fantastic drapery. Regarding the tele gram of Wednesday night from Carranza to Presi dent Wilson, Villa is made to say that it wan written "with the brain of a Saxon and the soul iff a l-atin" Many statements, some of them contra dictory, said to have been made by the rodoiibtahlo warrior were garbed in high-flown language by the correspondents, in the dispatches which emanated from Kl Paso on Thursday. Probably if General Villa were asked to describe the distinguishing characteristics of the Saxon, the Latin and the Frabjious Jiibberuok, he would find himself confronted by a much more serious task than the taking of TorreOn. Even his rumored, in tended capture of Kl Paso would seem easier. General Villa is a plain soldier, a valiant one and a self-made one. It is said that he learned to read in a Mexican jail where, from what we have heard, we believe there is less attention given to culture and refinement and the pursuit of the fine arts than in the state prison of Arizona. The course bgun by General Villa probably did not extend to a study of the races, and since his emergence from jail we have reason to believe that the general lias been too busy to pursue his educational career along peaceful lines. "With the brain of a Saxon and the soul. of a l-atin'." Mayhe the correspondent knew what he meant. We don't and we feel sure that General Villa wouldn't if the expression should ever b brought to his notice- The Commission's Forward Movement The new city government has been in power less than three weeks, but it has given proof of its pur pose thoroughly to modernize Phoenix. Phoenix is already modern so far as the energy and public spirit of its private citizens could make it. but our manner of handling public matters had fallen be hind the times. Tlie way in which the commission and manager have set about handling the garbage uestion, by the installation of an incinerator, must commend itsi If to all citizens. Phoenix has grown too, large to maintain a garbage dump any longer. The garoage question lias grown to such proportions that it must be met and solved. In many other ways the commission and man ager have given an earnest of their purpose to give the people the kind of a government they had a right to expect under the new charter- Generally, the appointments of officials have been wise ones. We believe that efficiency has been the main con sideration in making them. We are pleased to ob serve that the commission has established a rule for the peremptory removal from office of all who impair their, efficiency by indulgence in alcoholic liquors when there is a demand upon them for effi ciency. The tempered war news of yesterday oilers us the pleasing prospect that we may remove our shock-absorbers with safety. A Globe woman is threatening to organize a regiment of rifle-women for service in the Mexican war, (if there should be one). The war department should be informed of this, as of any other peril. An American soldier killed by a Mexican foe with malicious intent would be no deader than one slain by a misdirected bullet from a rifle in the hands of a well-meaning and patriotic country-woman. HOW A BABY LOST $12,000 In the May Woman's Home Companion appears a very interesting article entitled "The Safeguard ing of the Child." by Julia C. l.athrop, chief of the Children's Bureau in the United States depart ment of labor. Iu the course of the article Miss l-athrop shows the importance of the registration of births. She makes the point that thousands of children's lives could be saved if in the first few hours of life they could have proper attention. She also proves that in the United States no proper records are key.', of births- In the following extract from her article she tells the story of a case where the failure to register the birth of a child cost the mother dearly: "The importance of a birth record is very well illustrated by the case, recently brought to the attention of Children's Bureau, of a young Swiss immigrant, who. coming to this country and settling in Indiana, was killed, leaving a widow and infant child. The mother, in dire poverty, had trouble to keep herself and her baby alive by scrubbing and sewing. One day there came to her an official let ter from the government of Switzerland, staling that her kite husband's brother had left twelve thousand dollars to this child. All that was de manded was proof of Identity, with the customary birth certificate. Rut there was no such certificate, and the much-needed money was lost. "Another instance of the kind, likewise in In diana, had to do with a farm which was left to a girl by her grandfather. Being twenty-one years of age she was entitled to the property. But a dis pute arose. Her father, who had the use of the farm during her minority, claimed that she was only nineteen. Theie was not birth certificate to prove her age. But, happily, a neighbor remembered that a valuable cow belonging to the grandfather had given birth to a calf on the same day that the girl was born. ' The birth of the calf had been duly recorded, and, this evidence being accepted by the court, the young woman obtained possession of her farm.' "Did he decide to marry her?" "Yes: but she reversed his decision." May Smart Set, -" -- - i-i-.-ir-iripiriririni-rfinnrm.rijLnp Officers leading Michael P. Mahoney from courtroom; Frank L. Polk. That Michael P. Mahoney, the man who last w-eek attempted to shoot Mayor Mitchel of New York and wounded Attorney rrank L. Polk in-j stead, is insane is the belief of some ; alienists who have interested them- j selves in the.ca.se. Mahoney was in j the habit of attending the daily meetings of the Industrial Workers ' of the World, and was always great ly infiamd by the speeches he heard i at these meetings. He had just at- j tended at. I. W. W. meeting: before he attempted to kill Mayor Mitchel. ' Farm Notes BY H. L. RAN N We have our own opinion f the tanner who lakes liis boys out of school just at the age when they are able to straddle a cultivator or strip a heifer. If you want your son to grow up with a noisy vacuum where his head ought to be, take him off his books and tie him to the plow handle at fourteen years. You may have a contempt for book "larnin'," bat it Won't be a snet-r compared to tlie contempt the lad will have for you if lie tries to break into one of the professions with the mental equipment of a spring lamb. You owe it to the boy to give him the best education your means and his brains will stand Tor. Deny it to him. keep his nose to the grindstone, get all you can out of him before he becomes a village loafer, and when toi-y plant you on the hillside they will have to hire mourners from outside the family. The boy may have some pride, if you haven't, and when he mixes with edu cated young people, who have learned something be sides how to splice a whiffletree or set' a disc har row, he will mnrvel at their acquaintance with books and men and topics w hich are as' strange to him as a hobble skirt on a Hottentot. Then, too, the day has gone by. brother, when a six-pry ignoramus with a capacity for punishment in th" hay field makes the best farmer. It isn't going to feminize your son to know something more than the three R's. If he is the right sort, h won't look down on his dad. either. 1ecunse he can untangle a French quotation or distinguish the style of Thack eray from that of Bertha M. Clav. VARIETIES OF HUSBANDS RECOMMENDED TO YOU In the April American Magazine James Mont gomery Flagg contributes a piece in words and pic tures entitled "The Care and Feeding of Husbands." Below are reproduced some of his recommendations as to husbands- of the traveling-salesman husband he says: "Here is the ideal pet: That is, or course, if you can put up with a loud bark and' rather bi zarre coloring. They should rank high ns popular pets for the main reason that they :re no care at all. They attend to feeding themselves ami never are at home. And yet they belong to you! They are exceedingly friendly and will answer to a vari.-ty of names, such as Ho. Kiddo. old Man, Cul, Brother, Old Pal, and Pard. They are not water-loving ani mals. We have no hesitation in recommending theio." Of the English husband he says: "The march of the centuiies has made no change in this sturdy animal. Their love of hunting and killing is perhaps their most endearing quality. They will never distress you by coming home bleeding or mangled as they do not attack animals of their own size- They will eat anything except rea! food properly cooked. This is technically known as patriotism. Fanciers in Kngland claim prepos terous human qualities Tor them but this may be laid down to native enthusiasm. "Applications of arnica are excellent for bruises." HAND IN HAND "I tell you Pat, my boy," the big man of the town confided, laving a patronizing hand on the young Irishman's shoulder, "T wish T had your tongue." "Sure, sor," grinned Pat, "lint it would do yez no good without me brains." Jvluy Woman's Flome f 'ompanion. i finnnnrirninripii-ii--n--ii-, i i i "--- mm ------.- : fit- ifs- v vms. Jar Attorney Polk, who was shot in th face, is recovering rapidly. Now man goes forth and makes his garden, a hard' and painful grind; and then the crime beyond all pardon destroys his" peace or mind. His neigh bor keeps a string of chickens, ami they, inflamed with greed, come o'er and scratch to beat the uickeiis. and dig up all the seed. And then the m..n w hose wasted labor has set hiin seeing red, walks o'er to see that hennish neighbor and mani- lire:: his head. Thus village feuds are ofien started, and people raise tile deuce, and men and dames are broken hearted because soni" hens ran loose. In anv (own where leggy chickens run loose, in scorn of law, you may be sure that trouble thickens, ami hearts are sore and raw. old hens and roosters have created more trouble, caused more tears, than could in seven weeks be stated by seven auctioneers If ou must keep a herd of Dorkings or other brands ol fowls, oh, take them where their frantic workings won t stir up grief and howls. To some lone wilder ness escort them, some desert far away: there yon may cuddle them and sort them, and watch the blamed fools lav. HIGHEST BUILDING WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI The highest building west of the Mississippi, a page view of which appears in the May Popular Mechanics Magazine, has just been completed in Seattle, Wash. The tower rises 4".0 ft. above street level, and is so conspicuous that it is already being used as a beacon by mariners in making their vfa,y on Paget Sound, and it is planned to have it il luminated at all boms of the night to make it available for this use night and day. The building covers a lot that is Pts by V' ft. The main struc ture is 21 stories high, and to this the tower adds 1- stories. In addition to this there are two stories below street level. The height to the lantern at the top of the tower is equivalent to 42 stories. The foundation rests on 1.278 concrete piles driven to a depth of ,"i0 ft. below the surface, n building toe foundation 4,n barrels of cement and more thai- l.dilii tons of steel were used. On the-foundation piles a total weight of "li.atio gross tons will be carried, the steel for the superstructure alone weighing 4,7:;:: gross tons. Chickens By WALT MASON OUR SERVICE The banking service which a business man receives is an important mat ter to him, as it contributes largely to his success. It saves hint time and energy, prevents embarrassment and disappointment. This bank was organized in the year 1892 and has constantly given faithful, efficient service, extending every courtesy and attention to its depositors. The Phoenix National Bank m mm " - - - - - -------- - -i-i- -inqruu-Ln-ruTrij-r INCREASE YOUli INCOME. START A SAVINGS AC COUNT WITH "ARIZONA 'S LARGEST BANK." 4',', INTEREST COMPOUND ED SEMI-ANNUALLY THE VALLEY BANK "Everybody's Bank." Home Builders Assets $554,797,99 All its affairs are carefully and conservatively handled by its Di rectors, consisting of leading busi ness men of Phoenix. Investigate their plan if you have funds to invest and want the maximum of security and divi dends. Home Builders 127 N. Central Ave. PHOENIX, ARIZONA If it's a question of sub-division be stu'e to arrange for us to issue Guarantee Title Policies Phoenix Title and Trust Co. 18 N. First Ave. A Modern Trust Co. UNDER THE SNOW The snow and the rain Are falling together. And there on my window pane The frost makes pictures out f niy ;ii;hs As look for those everlasting eyes That I shall not see again, April or winter weather. Yet the snowdrop whispers under the snow: "I, too, am dwelling beneath the ground. But in spring you shall se be blow Like a long-lost jewel found: And thy two bright sleeping eyes Shall wake as they were before. And thy long-lost face shall rise Through the soft green graveyard floor. There is much music under the ground, Said the snowdrop under the snow. Richard Le.Oallietine in May Smart Set. UmpMMi