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THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL ;IM, 1H14
Great men are they who see that
spiritual is stronger than any mate
rial force that thoughts rule the
world. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
A New City Hall
The movement that has been instituted for
securing a new and modern city hall, suitably located
and possessing adequate facilities for the transac
tion of municipal business, brings us back to the
Central school property. A commission has been
appointed to fiather information regarding a site for
the proposed building and to collect other data. In
such informal discussions as have taken place
among the city officials, the matter of a joint city
and county building has been considered. The ob
jection has been raised that such a building would
be a step toward the consolidation of the govern
ments of the city and the county. We think thai this
objection is wholly without force. The last step need
never be taken, and it would never be takrn unless
a majority of the voters of each, the city and the
county, should desire it. A time may come when it
would be desirable, and then we would have the
necessary building, ftut that may all be left out
Of the question and we may consider the advantages,
from the points of architecture, economy and the
public convenience, of having the governments of
the city and the county under one roof.
We believe the voters of the county would easily
be brought into such an arrangement. There is
almost as great need of a larger and more com
modious court house as there is of a new city hall,
B)th structures are not only inadequate, but both
aip disfigurations of the landscape. They contribute
to' the similitude of Phoenix lo a country village.
Tliey have moved out of their proper locations. They
hive become absurdities. They encumber too val
uable property. Cnder the Somers system of valua
tion tor taxable purposes the ground they occupy is
worth In the neighborhood of $1000 a front foot, and
no ground in the immediate vicinity of either can be
bought at that price. The sites these buildings dis
figure is ground that would be worth more on the .
market if they were removed. Both sites would be
worth still more to Phoenix as beautiful rest places.
tVe have said that the people of the county
would probably consent to an arrangement for a
Joint city and county building- The people of Phoe
nix have already consented, and by a substantial
majority have already designated the site for it
the Central school property, which the development
of the city has made the logical natural site for such
a joint building. No other within the corporate
limits is so suitable and no other site can ever be
so suitable.
The people who own this block have offered to
sell it to the city and county for $250,u0. No other
purchaser could buy it at that figure, and it would
never be sold at that figure to lie used for any other
purpose.
The occupation of the block across the street
by the federal building, the Water Users' and the
Y. M. U.I A. building has especially set apart anil
dedicated the Central school property tothe pur
poses of a Joint city and county business building.
Taking in the Additions
The ordinance proposed by the commission, put
tine clamoring additions and subdivisions on their
good behavior and making them "go off and get a
reputation" before they can be admitted, is some
thing, we believe, to be new in municipal legislation.
But .after all, it is rather in line with the excellent,
conservative policy of Phoenix in the past, in deal
ing with additions.
While other towns have been eagerly engaged in
annexing all the adorned and unadorned landscape
in night, for miles around, sometimes taking reluct
ant additions by the "scruff of the neck" and drag
ging them in. Phoenix has never given way to a wild
desire for territorial extension. Its corporate limits
have always been surrounded by a circle of improved
property and a part of it has always been as highly
improved as that within the limits. There has been
nothing to distinguish the urban from the suburban
territory.
While the gates of the city were never barred
and the inhabitants of no respectable addition were
refused admission, we believe only once did the city
take means to force an addition in or ever hint that
the company of any addition would be regarded as
especially desirable. But the city, without extending
its boundaries, has for the most part generously ex
tended its water lines and other municipal benefits
to the adjacent thickly settled districts. Phoenix
has never evinced an abnormal ambition to make
a fine census showing.
The proposed new ordinance would impress upon
the additions that Phoenix is something worth join
ing, and that an initiation fee should be paid to get
in. The additions must qualify for admission by
giving . themselves an urban appearance, and they
must bring, in each, a park site as a dowry. The or
dinance is based upon the correct theory that a city
is something more than a plot of ground and an
aggregation of individuals surrounded by an irreg
ular line called the city limits. The future of Phoe
nix will be the better for the passage and enforce
ment of the proposed ordinance.
Villa and Carranza
In what shape Villa and Carranza will be left
when our affairs with Mexico have been adjusted, it
is impossible to say. It may be that II m-rta will
be eliminated, and that a new provisional government
will be set up to which the present revolutionary
leaders must accede or start a new revWution. It
may be that llm-rta himself will he left in power to
hold it if he can, reparation having been made by
him for the indignity and monetary damage this
country has suffered, and that things will he left
very much as they were, before the American m iriin-s
were arrested at Tampieo.
But it has been established that of the two nun,
Villa and Carranza, the former is the real leader,
the one strong man of the revolutionists and the
least unwise, if not the best among them. He pos
sesses considerable military genius, and the events
of the last two weeks have shown that he is Ihe
superior of Carranza in statecraft. There is no
reason why he should play or pretend to play second
fiddle to the provisional president any longer.
l-'or several months, ever since the capture of
Juarez, Carranza has generally been regarded as only
a figurehead, with whom such harmless Americans
as Dr. Topper and W. Bayard Hale might deal with
out danger of any beans being spilled. Bui Car
ranza never sought to exercise any control over Villa
except when the latter, lor purposes of his own, sug
gested to tile provisional president that the time had
come for him to wine upon the stage for a brief
period.
But he has made of himself a sorry figurehead
even. In a supreme moment, made necessary by tin
folly of Carranza, Villa was forced to correct tin
errors of his nominal chief. He can make no further
use of him as a figurehead.
War is not all a waving of flags and a beating
of drums. There is something beside the roar i
cannon pierced now and then by the inspiriting
strains of music. If that were all of war, we could
all go and not run much risk of being scared until
after the passing of the excitement. But there are
nerve-racking intermissions and long periods of wait
ing for the enemy to fire or charge or for the peace
makers to turn out a finished product.
The diplomats of Brazil, Argentina and Chile
may be wholly disinterested anil honest, but President
Wilson and Mr. Bryan doubtless see how it is pos
sible in their inexperience to be led into a morass
by men who know where the soft places are.
We fail to see how the reform school is going
to be reformed by a controversy between its super
intendent and the board of control or a quarrel be
tween factions of the board.
VOLUNTEERS WANT ROOSEVELT
(Waso, Texas, Herald)
So far as Waco is concerned. Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt appears to be the chosen hero to settle the
Mexican war. Everywhere In the city yesterday able
bodied citizens were offering to volunteer their ser
vices to go and light against .Mexico if they can join
Colonel Roosevelt's command. Postmaster W. if.
Hoffmann received inquiries as to where Colonel
Roosevelt could be located when he arrives in the
United States, and one man was anxious to find him
in order to tell him where he could enlist several
hundred cowboys. Postmaster Hoffmann says indi
cations are that when Colonel Roosevelt arrives he
will be swamped with applicants to join his command
in case he raises a regiment.
MEXICO'S FOREIGN TRADE
.St. Louis Republic)
Statistics gathered by American consuls show
that the Mexican foreign trade helped us surprisingly
well in 1913 in spite of the war. though some of the
heavy increases are in products which the war would
not be likely to aftect. This is true of the great
increase in shipments of crude oil, all of which went
to the Standard Oil company, and it is not unlikely
that this increased output of oil accounts for a
marked increased importation of pipes and fittings.
The demoralization of the railway business is re
flected n decreased imports of rails, cars anil other
equipment. In Mexico's greatest industry, mining,
there was a large decrease in shipments of copp.-r
metal, but an increase in ore shipments. Lead
shipments also fell off, but the gain in copper ore,
taken with the fall in pig copper exports, may re
flect a desire to get valuable things out of the coun
try with all possible expedition. Perhaps the most
significant item bearing upon agriculture is the
trebling of raw cotton and manufactured cotton
goods, from which it is evident that while the
spindles continued to turn, cotton did not grow. This
inference is strongly supported by the fact that im
portations of agricultural tools and machinery and
wire fell off to a marked degree.
MARRIAGE HERE AND ABROAD
(Woman's Home Companion)
i have made some discoveries concerning the
tremendous differences between marriage in America
and marriage in Europe. Apparently, over there
eveything is done for advantage. In Germany, for
example, the bride not only provides all the house
linen and table furniture, but also every piece of
furniture which goes into the house. Even in the
highest families every expenditure is settled in ad
vance. A friend of mine. Baroness von Frimden
herg for I have baronesses for friends now is to
to be married, and the contracts are now being pre
pared. Her future husband. Captain Count von Koll
nitz, is to take her to the theater twice a week
if she desires, and he is to pay for the tickets. But
if she has afternoon tea she is to pay for it her
self. However, beauty is much more highly prized
in Europe than in America, where it is so .much
commoner. A girl's beauty is really a dowry. I
noticed in England that most women of rank were
handsome- Englishmen of rank and fortune can
afford to marry penniless beauties.
OIL HAT WAY!
"It's such a silly- superstition to be always pick
ing up pins!"
"You may" call it a superstition if you wish,
but I know a chap who makes about Jfi a week by
doing it."
"How can n fellow gather that many?"
"He works in a bowling alley." Judge.
BIGGEST SUFFRAGE DEMONSTRATION IN HISTORY DUE IN
WASHINGTON MAY 9; WOMEN HOPE TO IMPRESS CONGRESS
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K. Claggctt and Mrs. Apoliine M. filair.
The greatest suffrage demonstration of all time is row bcirg plaiincd. It will take place in Washington
on M.-y 9, and will be in the form of an immense parade. Some of the lilot impo:tvt f;"'iros in the pro-es
sion will be Mrs. Juliet Barrett Kublee, grand marshal of the whole parade; .Mrs. George (Well of Illinois, chief
marshal; Mrs. Apolhnc M. Blair, leader and trainer of the chorus of a thousand voices that will sing on the
capitol steps immediately after the parade, and Mrs. Mary Kealty Claggett and Miss Fola LaFollette, who are
organizing the actresses' section.
Farm Note
EY H. L. RANN
A meek Ims.an.l imiuires if he ),.,. ii -l arotinils
for divorce because his wil'e refuses to sew buttons
on his pants. There is no ; , ! 1 1 1 it. li is a
penitentiary olieiise for a wife io allow lier liusi-ainl
to miiiRle in p.. lit- s.M-iety with his pants hooked 1.1
his shirt with a broken match. There is nothina m
tile marriage contract which s-ys tliat a luisloi nil is
obliged to ninke his toilet uitii ten-peimv nails
iiiil loothiii-k. W hat mis world needs is niort
and a
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luemiuni ham.
and fists like a
The populai ity of ihe ai uuiu e!e na : is exi.-nd-in
to lie farm. It is said that tins device has
caused Ihe lii-oom corn industry to !am;:'ish like a
fat lady in a inn-yard dash. After an untidy lu-iiei
lias been inassil-ied by one of (he.-o n:'!rh:i-cs she
ill be saiooiher tl.iin a hedge fence promoter. Til,.
.iciutm (leaner will clrtse the hair oil of a s!aildinn
KeldinK so fast that he v.iil resemble a s. aided s-li.iai.
If you have e er tried to carry on a moral conversa
tion behind a sorrel mare with a bed of loo.-e pair
which would make old Ks.tti look like a hard-boiled
ei;. you will appieeiale this advice. Tin- oiaulies of
nature have no charm for a man who lias imbibeti
a mouthful of sour horse hair on the summer nree.c.
HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF WASTE SAVZC
At the first annual hatapn-t of tin- Xaiioual
Association of W aste Material Dealers. In Id in New
York city this week, it was brought out tint by
collectiiiK and utilizing waste pioiiact-; the meiubi-rs
of the association transact an annua) business of
$7iJ(i.iiiii,ii'iii. The utilization of cotton-seed ml and
of cotton seed, until very recent years a men- waste
product of tne cotton crop,, it wis pointed out. is
now aba-il in the I'nited States alone at s.(i,nnii,iHm
a year. Curtis iluihi, cx-nmbassad'r to Kussia.
noted that wo ale now exporting sisal strings to
Kurope to lie turned into tooth brushes: that we
an- using tin- woi n-out painters brush, soaked witli
white lead, by cleansing and using tin- worn bristles
to provide inexpensive and durable serubainw
brushes, while exporting American colton stockings
to Kurope, where they are unraveled and used as a
cheap packing in thii manutactuie of raphoj-liones
and electrical machinery, while the patch' d and
darned Kuropean stockings, not having any otlier
use, ale exported from Karope to this country for
their only possible use as paper stock. The expoits
and imports of w lsle material are not et tlior-oL-ghly
reported by the depiirtmint, ami even the
commencement of their appearance in the ofirial
publications of the I'nited States ( Jovt rnmont dates
back to but a few years. For the calendar year
113 we exported cotton rags to ihe vaiue of over
$rnO,0(Mi, jKijier stock other than cotton mss to the
value of over $MMi,ifTii), w'oolen rags to the value of
f l,oii0,Hiil, scrap iron to the value of $1, 200,000, old
and reclaimed rubber to the 'value of 5 l.ti'lO.iimi, and
scrap brass to the value of over Si'.lino.iHiii. The fig
ures of the imports of waste material from foreign
countries are even more striking. In the year '11113
we imported scap iron to the value of ijaiOO.iiuii, old
copper to the value of t, 1,000,0m), silk waste to tin
value of $:), 000, 0110, old rubber to the value of more
than Jll.OOO.noO, cotton rags to the value of $:;,ihhi,
(ioo, and other paper stock which was neither cotton
tiigs nor wood pulp to the value of nearly $"v'!""i
000. Ilradstreet's.
THE RETORT PROFESSIONAL
Author I would have you knows sir, that I have
written for better magazines than yours!
Editor And did you get them'.' Judge.
"Don't you hate house-cleaning time?"
"N'aw. 'When ma cleans house she doesn't clean
me.'"
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By WALT MASON
The rains of .sprinKtinie
V -ah's flood, an.! turn this
place, into a stretch of mud. '
on no ilothes. which tills niv
-1 1 1 apace, ie-ai!ms;
arth. once pleasant
'la- mud is sp! isliins
ryes with t"ars, and
mud is clinging to my nose, and mud is in my ears.
.My whiskers catch a lot of mud when down the
street 1 creep, and oft I slip, with dismal thud into
a mudhole deep. The good roast le-ef 1 eat at noon,
and e'en tile me-.'!y spud, the pie. the doughnut and
the prune, the oaki all tu.ste of niul. Krom boot
heels to my diamond stud, the mud upon me shows;
my feet, from paddling in the nun!, huv wi-hs be
tween the toes. Hut people say. "Cheer up. old
son: It's splendid f r the oats' And it will furnish
crass for flocks of cms .111.; s-ose and goats: This
mud is what the farmers need, to make their turnips
tnnve: they whistle as t':-y sow their seed they're
glad that thev're aliv.-:"' I n to think of things
like these, and thus cool off my blood, when 1 am
wading to my knees in filly kinds of mud but it is
all in vain, oy h--!: I -ainpiy can't enthuse, for
mud is streaming down my nee!;, and li'ls my socks
and slioes.
A ST. LOUIS SOCIAL EXPERIMENT
According to official police repot ts. crimes
against wouieii have inere 1-- d !"ii ier ceut in ?t.
I.ou.s since tin- abolition of the sesreg..;,-.' district
there; likewise, women have sought residence in
1 lilts and houses in all parts of the city, so they
have done c cr ae re .-ie ai'd.-r .--Iruilar ciiciini
: lances, and gone imo ihe m..--a -.e ami manicure
parlor business on an 1 X! itmvc scale.
The experience, of course, is nothing new. in
dicating only that we are still groping in the dark
in i-lleinpts at readjusting a social condition almost
as old iis the wi.ri-1. In doaiing with this problem
vo are in the primer class, in the mi? first stages
of expel inicniation. ,'o one. therefore, has any
riri.t in crgii::; t-.e oMicitiey of any one sa-called
solvi nt. If any i f the various repressi measures
e i appiie.i li.ai actually met e peotatioiis v illi tan-gdl-
permanent le.-t.its, then the way would be
eleai-.-.
And we shall r-iuain in tin- dark, at h-ast so
i.e.. wo coaiinee 1 ill- P- de il with the effects,
while the causes are left to lake care of themselves.
1 .-'apt-ov meni is po:-s one cf iittainnii-iit. aut e'i,lentiy
not livmrely kicking the victitnji -if the ago-oal
system from pillar to post or running them out
liom tie- town ifi another. In the meantime, it !
hooves all fa -r-mineed people to lie p; ti- nt with
each ill er when they find themselves in ills '.gi ce
ment i n litis ticklish subject. 1 tmaka II .
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THEIR USE
Tourist (looking at the famous ciscadel What
ever becomes of all those sheets of water'.'
Facetious Ouide They go into the bed of the
river.
A DISAPPOINTMENT
"That man. I hear, drinks like a fish."
"What a shame. Is it really true'.'"
"Certainly. You may remember, that fishes only
drink as much as tiiev need."
DONE IN A JIFFY
You ask me if I'll print for you
A paradox? I will, sir.
A comb is one you part with it.
And yet you have it still, sir.
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