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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 3, 1914.
llll Arizona Republican's Editorial Page 111
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FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 3, 1914.
"Without thought for far off
things, there will be troubles at
hand. Confucius.
A Single Slip
The Republican has lately had occasion to cri
ticise the city commission for its action in the
enactment of the new liquor license ordinance.
This has not been a general and indiscriminate at
tack upon the commission for whose members we
have the highest regard as citizens and whose gen
eral interest in the affairs of the city has been
praiseworthy. The Republican has given its sup
port to the commission when it could do so con
sistently and that has been generally. It will con
tinue to do so in the future but its support of it
will be no more indiscriminate than its criticism of it
has been.
In the case of the liquor license tax ordinance,
we believe that the majority of the commission
has merely been misled after having permitted it
self to be stampeded by what it conceived to be a
public clamor but which turned out to be only an
artificial noise created by the very interests which
have now succeeded in securing from it such fa
voiable terms for the conduct of one branch of the
liquor business, and, in some respects, the most
despicable branch, the one from which the greatest
harm will result.
It was this interest which inspired the oppo
sition to Ordinance No. 6. The hotel and dining
room proprietors were quick to avail themselves of
the numerous faults of that ordinance and of the
popular dissatisfaction with it, based In a large
part on a misunderstanding of it. Though misap
prehension concerning it was to a considerable ex
tent removed and business men, generally, were
willing to accept it with promised amendments, this
branch of the liquor traffic continued, under cover,
its agitation against the ordinance. It was pointed
out by The Republican at the time that the real
opposition, the mainspring of it, was in some of
the hotels and dining rooms whose strict regula
tion was proposed by the ordinance.
The commission might have gained an idea of
the character of the opposition from the signatures
of the referendum petition lists. While the lists
contained the names of many good citizens they
contained the names of practically all the I. W. W.
and loafers wham the circulators of the petitions
had been able to encounter. Business men gener
ally, however much opposed they were to the or
dinance, tefused to sign the petitions because, by
that time it had come to be well understood why
the referendum was being invoked.
We have found no fault with the commission
for repealing the ordinance though a more econom- .
ical way out of the difficulty was open, that of
amendment. The commission was to be blamed
though, for its surrender because, as it hus turned
out it was the beginning of a series of surrenders
to men who were desiious of securing special pri
vileges and who from the beginning have been try
ing to discredit and break down the commission
form of government.
The sooner the commissioners throw off the
influence of these men and these interests, the
sooner they will reinstate themselves in tile opinion
of sincere and right-thinking citizens whose only
concern is for good government.
We believe that the commissioners are desirous
of carrying out the will of the people but that they
have mistaken the noise of the clacquers for a
popular expression.
The Mexican Chaos
All Mexico is divided into four parts, one more
than there were in Gaul before Caesar began the
work of cementing them into one. We have what
is described in the dispatches of late, Carranza ter
ritory and Villa territory, both pretty well defined
by geographical lines. Then we have Zapata's in
definite dominions and the lessening area of
Huerta. All these are more or less hostile divi
sions. Zapata declares that his war against. Huerta
will be continued without intermission against Car
ranza just as his war against Huerta is a continua
tion of his war against Madero just as that was
a continuation of his war against Diaz.
Carranza is so establishing himself that he can
better handicap Villa and at the same time allow
himself an easy avenue of escape into the United
States If Villa should succeed in overcoming his
handicaps. Because of the quarrel between these
two leaders, prompted by the jealousy of Carranza,
his fear of Villa and his consciousness of his own
weakness, the movement against Mexico City has
been suspended. Villa, the only revolutionary lead
er who has won battles or made any headway in
the revolution has been deprived of ammunition
and the means of moving his troops.
It is out of this situation that is growing more
acute every day that our government is expecting;
that there will be evolved a regime of law and or
der in Mexico. Washington still persists in regard
ing the war as a struggle of patriotism against
despotism.
A Proposed Political Investment
The Bisbee Review believes that while this
government without a disregard of propiiety, may
pay the government of Colombia $25,000,000, it
should not apologize to that government for the
revolt of Panama and the loss of the territory
which includes the canal zone, now owned by us
or, as some think, held in trust by us for Great
Britain. The Review proceeds ably to show that
Colombia invited the Panamanian revolt and that
it deserved the loss of what it is complaining of
having lost. No mention is made by the Review of any
act by us connecting us with the revolt. Only our
futile effort to deal fairly and even generously with
Colombia are described. Our subsequent dealings,
reuniting in the acquisition of the canal zone were
witji Panama.
Plainly, on this showing we owe Colombia no
apology. Nor is there a showing of anything else
we owe that grasping government. Why, therefore,
should we pay it $25,000,000 or any other sum? If
we owe it money we owe it an apology also.
An apology would be humiliating, thinks the
Review. But, would not the payment of any sum
to Colombia in consequence of the Panama revolt
be in itself an acknowledgment that we still owed
an apology? We owe Colombia nothing. Any sum
we might pay it would be a political investment
by the present administration, an investment of
the nation's honor as well as its money. It would
be a very foolish investment.
Some Necessary Legislation
In some states, California among them, it is a
crime for a drunken man to run an automobile. It
ought to be regarded as a felony in every state,
punishable by nothing less than a term in the pen
itentiary. We believe that the laws of this state
are silent on the subject but we ttust that the next
legislature will so amend them that those who
menace life and limb in this manner may be
properly punished. Meanwhile, we who live in the
towns have a partial remedy at hand. We may
enact an ordinance defining the offense as a mis
demeanor, punishable by the stiffest penatly that
may be imposed under the charter. And, until
such an ordinance is passed in Phoenix, offenders
may be taken up for drunkenness and confined in
the city jail for the longest peiiod possible for that
misdemeanor. A term on the chain gang or in the
rock-breaking enclosure would have a deterrent
effect.
The other day two automobile drivers were
arrested, following accidents. In one case a boy
was hurt and in the other, city pioperty was
damaged. The first man arrested claimed that he
was not drunk and that the accident that preceded
his arrest might have happened in any event.
But, whether or not either of these drivers
admit intoxication, the suspicion that one was
drunk and the certainty that the other was, em
phasize the necessity of taking precautions against
accidents that drunkenness on the part of drivers
are very likely to induce.
BRITONS SUBSIDIZE MOTOR TRUCKS
The British government has a system of award
ing subsidies to motor truck owners, amounting to
110 ($530) per truck, of which fii) is paid to the
owner when the machine is enrolled, and the re
maining 80 is payable in six half-yearly install
ments. In order that the truck owner may receive
this subsidy, his truck must be of a make which has
passed the war department tests; and in the event
of "a national emergency," the government has the
right to purchase the vehicle for cash at a fixed
price. Two classes of trucks are acceptable for
subsidies; one of a capacity to carry one and one
half gToss tons net load; the other three gross tons.
To meet the war department specifications, the
machine must have standard gear changing mechan
ism, must have wheels large enough to furnish ample
road clearance under the machine, so that it can
traverse rough country, and, if necessary, pass
through streams as deep as eighteen Inches. The
road gear must be such that the engine can climb
the steepest hill with its load unaided, and a speed
as high as sixteen miles an hour must be obtained
when running on a smooth and level road. The
gasoline consumption must not exceed fifty ton
miles per gallon. The war department specifica
tions for gear ratios are as follows: First speed 5
to 5.3 to 1, second speed 2.9 to 1, third speed 1.7 to 1,
fourth speed direct drive. These gear ratios, with
the engine running at 1000 r. p. m., give road speeds
of 3.2, 5.5, 9.4 and 16 miles per hour. Engineering
News.
DIVISION OF TIME BY TOLTECS
The Toltcc women spun and wove cotton of
every degree of fineness, so that some resembled
muslin, some ordinary cloth, and some had a pile
like velvet; while in other fabrics they interwove
the fine hair of animals and many-hued bird feath
ers, forming a fabric of great beauty. They divided
the year into eighteen months of twenty days each,
adding five days to make up the full number of
three hundred and sixty-five days; these as belong
ing to no month were considered unlucky days. At
the end of every four years they added six addi
tional days to form leap year, and they kept their
chronological records by the use of strings on which
a knot was made for every thirteen years, and four
of these knots formed a division corresponding to
our century, represented by a number of reeds bound
together. A large cycle of one hundred and four
years was called "The Great Age," but was not much
used. While its organization was aristocratic and
feudal, the government of the Toltecs was fraternal;
military orders and titles were bestowed on distin
guished warriors and councilors, and an order was
established called the "tecuhtlis," which was divided
into the sub-orders of the tiger, lion, eagle, hawk
and other birds and animals, each having its pecu
liar privileges and initiatory ceremonies, somewhat
like those attendant on entering the order of knight
hood as conferred by European rulers in the middle
ages. Charles Winslow Hall, in National Magazine.
IT ALL HELPS
"You can't drop educated brains into a numb
skull." "I know; but do you think it really hurts to
drop a bit of education in where the brains ought
to be? Chicago Record-Herald.
Polly Chase (left). Sir James Mat
- thew Barrie and Lady Scott.
P0II7 Chase, ence a "Pink Pajama
.tA .Wfctpr of Kir Matthew
" r. , . - .
Barrie and an actress of universally
recojrnizea cnarm ana isieni, is in b
peculiar predicament Carrie is in
Her Busy Day
By WALT MASON
The British matron used to sit in gracious dig
nity, and knit, and patch her husband's duds; with
earnest zeal she used to make the bread, the dough
nuts and the cake, and boil the luscious spuds. But
times have changed; now, fiery-eyed, she lets Her
household duties slide, and treads her martial path;
ajid in that land of good roast beef, the men are
full of fear and grief, and shaken by her wrath.
She says that she will have the vote, if she must
set the isle afloat, to drift to Kingdom Come; she
burns cathedral, hall and school, and in her dainty
reticule, she packs a deadly bomb. She pokes her
one-price parasol through costly paintings on the
wail of this or that niusee: she chases statesmen
here and there, until they plunge, in their despair,
into the sobbing sea. The king's afraid to take a
walk, lest some, bold matron's club may knock his
itown across the street; be shivers on his royal
throne, and in her bower, depressed, alone, Queen
Mary has cold feet. The judges send the girls to
jail, and take, in fines, their modest kale, but little
does it help; from I.unnon Town to John o' Groat's,
the women, for their precious votes, kyoodle, shriek
and yelp. So let us glad and thankful be that in this
country of the free, the women are more wise; in
gentlemanly style they fight, that they may gain their
sacred right, the ballot, bless their eyes!
TERRACED FRONT HOUSES
A curious form of apartment-house construc
tion, designed to provide the greatest amount of
light and air and to make possible the erection of
higher buildings without violating the stringent
height resolutions in force in Paris, is thus de
scribed: In that city the permissible height of build
ings varies for streets of different widths, the re
quirement being that every part of the building
facade must be kept back of a sloping line drawn
toward the building from the opposite side of the
street and forming a specified angle with the hori
zontal. For the widest streets this line limits the
vertical height of a facade built on the street line
to sixty-five and a half feet, and any part of the
building higher than this must slope back parallel
with the line.
The essential feature of the new construction is
that the entire facade slopes back as a succession
of terraces, and at such angles as to intersect the
limiting line several stories higher than would be
the case with a vertical facade. The patented part
of the construction is the steel frame-work, shaped
like an inverted "V," which supports the middle
portion of the building. Popular Mechanics.
TEREDO NOT AT HOME THERE
Unprotected pile tops of white pine more than
eighty years old were found perfectly sound and
good when removed recently from the foundation of
piers 9 and 10, North river, New York. The tops of
the piles, about six feet long above high-water level,
were as sound and good as the submerged portion.
These piles were located near the center of the pier,
where the deck shielded them from sun and rain,
and were in an open well-ventilated space not sub
ject to rapid drying out by direct sunshine. The
pier from which these piles were taken is one of the
oldest that has been removed in New York, and in
it, as in others, it is found that timber is durable
under favorable conditions, although similar piles in
the exterior rows of the foundation, which are sub
ject to more rapid drying out by direct sunshine,
are liable to decay above high-water level. En
gineering Record. . .
,(?ve wLth -Scott' Ao1 of -E-
plorer Scott, and wants to marry her.
j But Mrs. Scott says she wo.t marry
i name unless folly steps out of ths,
1 family. ; '
The Reporter
By GEORGE FITCH
Author of "At Good Old Siwash"
A reporter Is a young man who blocks out the
first draft of history each day on a rheumatic type
writer. It is his business to accompany the earth on its
revolutions and transcribe notes of the trip into
reading matter. There are about 50.000,000 square
miles of land on this planet, and if anything is to
happen on any of this land without attracting the
attention of some reporter with an industrious lead
pencil it must take place In a furtive and secretive
manner.
At one time, it was necessary to sit on the
fence and interview passersby most of the time
in order to find out what was happening. The re
porter has relieved mankind of this burden. While
we sleep at night, the reporter attends fires, prize
"It was necessary to sit on the fence and interview
Passersby most of the time in order to find out
what was happening."
fights, murders, earthquakes, cyclones, tango par
ties, directors' meetings and secret gatherings of
frenzied financiers and stuffs the proceedings thereof
into the early morning newspaper. Thanks to the
reporter, we can now learn at the breakfast table
OtO HANK FERSUSON'f It MjlM
SON MARRIED TOE IberM TILl a
THE FLAG
President McKinley expressed the sentiment of the American peo
ple in an address in October, 1899, when he said, "We all love that
flag. It gladdens the heart of the old and the young, and it shelters us
all. Wherever it is raised, on land or sea, at home or in pur. distant pos
sessions, it always stands for liberty and humanity; and whenever it is
assaulted the whole nation rises up to defend it."
The Phoenix National Bank
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making change. Always have a
receipt for each and every trans
action, i
Carry on large or small transac
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Feel that your business operations
are on a dignified basis.
All this by simply carrying an ac
count in our Commercial Depart
ment, and paying all bills by check.
THE
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Our paid-up capital and
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We act In all Trust capacities, and give effi
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what is going to happen tomorrow and can make a
fair guess at what hapened yesterday.
At one time, it was necessary to attend political
meetings during a campaign in order to hear the
speeches.. Now the reporters attend the meetings
and the oter reads the speeches on his way down
town in the street car. For this reason alone, the
reporter is an inestimable boon to humanity.
To be a good reporter, one must have an investi
gative disposition, an indomitable pair of legs, a set
of feelings protected by Harveyized armor and a
great aversion to sleep. He should also be well
versed in politics, baseball, sleuthing in its va
rious branches, the habits and hiding places of finan
ciers, the movements of ocean steamships, the cost
of bitulithic pavement, the names of banquet dishes,
the amount of butter fat in good milk, the legal
rate of interest in Oklahoma, the legislation pend
ing in 49 states, the batting averages of Captain
Anson in 1886, the names of Pierpont Morgan's chil
dren, the Bertillon measurements of Pat Crowe, the
date of the Titanic disaster, the time of last cars on
all lines, the changes in schedule K and several mil
lion miscellaneous subjects of equal importance.
At one time, a knowledge of English was also
necessary, but the perfection of modern newspaper
enterprise has fortunately relieved the reporter of
this burden.
Reporters once followed events and gathered
up news. Now ,they arrange events when news is
scarce, accompany history hand in hand and meet
invading armies with cameras and notebooks.
For ,ull, his work, the reporter gets as much
money as a poor plumber. But he is permitted to
hang around back of the scenes and watch human
ity putting on its show which is so interesting that
reporting is as hard to give up as other stimulants.
Reporters do not become rich, but they could
if they told all they knew. Because they do not
do this, we should be grateful to them and not tell
them all the things we don't know which is at
present the great American diversion. .
NOT A BIBLICAL NAME
One day an old negro was brought in from the
mountain district under suspicion of maintaining an
illicit still. There was no real evidence against him.
"What's your name, prisoner?" asked the judge,
as he peered at the shambling black man,
"Mali name's Joshua, ledge," was the reply.
"Joshua, eh?" said the judge, as he rubbed his
hands. "Joshua, you Say? Are you that same
Joshua spoken of in Holy Writ the Joshua who
made the sun stand still?' ?'
j . "No, jedgc," was the hasty answer, "twon't me.
1 Ah'm de Joshua dat made de moon shine Excavat
ing Engineer. ;