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PAGE FOUR 1 THE ARIZONA KEPUBLICAN, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6, 191i Ill ill Arizona Republican's Editorial Page li -j The Arizona Republican Published by ARIZONA PUBLISHING COMPANY. The Only Paper In Arizona Published Every Day In the Year. Only Morning Paper in Phoenix. Dwight B. 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 Dispatches. Office. Corner Second and Adams Streets. Entered at the Postofflce at Phoenix, Arizona, as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Address all communications to THE ARIZONA REPUB LICAN. Phoenix, Arizona. TELEPHONES: Business Office 421 1ty Editor 433 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Tally, one month, in advance $ .75 Dally, three months, in advance 2.00 Dally, six months, in advance 4.00 Daily, one year. In advance 8.00 Sundays only, by mail 2.50 THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6, 1914 Power dwells with cheerfulness. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Europe Aflame One time a king dispatched a message to an other ruler: "Send me a white pig with a blue ribbon about his neck or I'll ." The second king replied: "I have no white pig with a blue ribbon about its neck, and if I had ." The message was interpreted as a threat, and the reply as a defi ance. The kings went to the mat, and, at the end of a long and bloody war, they talked things over and learned that the war was the result of a mis apprehension. If the first king had finished his sentence he -would have said that if king number 2 was unable to comply with the request it would be all right, anyhow. If the second king had finished his reply, he would have said that if he had the pig end ribbon he would cheerfully send them. The present war in Europe, in which the five most powerful nations are engaged, may have been as foolishly begun, but without any misapprehen sion. Notwithstanding the fiction in which each side is engaged in laying the blame upon the other, each nation knows why it is in the war, and all the world knows the causes, for they are many; the aggressions of Austria in the Balkans which it had long been predicted would set fire to Europe; the designs of Russia in the same direction; the de signs, more or less remote, of Germany against British India; the growing fear of Great Britain of Germany as a sea-power and an increasingly im portant commercial rival, and the ancient hatred of France and Germany. The attack upon Servia was only the first tiny tongue of flame from the long smoldering heap. One apparently certain result of the conflict will he the elimination of Germany as a sea-power. That is something that she must have counted upon at the beginning. But other results are, to a large extent, subjects of conjecture. There is a possibility that Germany counted upon her annihilation on the sea and was willing to accept that for what she might gain on the land. Napoleon was not strong on the sea, but only a aeries of accidents, which no man could foresee, prevented him from attaining complete mastery over Europe. Germany must have counted upon her highly trained armies to crush France and Russia in turn and so to establish herself in them as to make of all Europe a German empire. That accom plished, the isolation of Great Britain would be ac complished in an unexpected manner, and at her leisure Germany, in ten or twenty-five or fifty years after the war, could build a navy. In this view of the case, what happens on the ea in the present war will be a matter of com paratively little importance. It is on the land that the great and striking event: will take place. f American Citizens Abroad The promptness with which our government has come to the relief of Americans who have been caught in Europe by the war is commendable. 'o end of expense is to be incurred in caring for them, and bringing them home. The government could not, or should not, do less, for governments exist for the care and protection of their citizens engaged in legitimate pursuits, and travel abroad for either business or pleasure is a legitimate pursuit. The present activity of the government is in strange, though pleasing, contrast to its apathy re garding the situation of its citizens who happened to be in Mexico during the revolution. Most of them were there on business, under the guaranty of a treaty between the United States and Mexico. Most of them were comparatively poor men. All their worldly wealth was tied up there. Their appeals to the nearest American consular officials brought no relief. When the situation became more acute the American government advised them to get out of Mxico while the getting out was yet good. No representation was ever made by our gov ernment to the constitutionalists or to the federals regarding their treatment of American life and prop erty. Many Americans had been murdered without provoking a protest from Washington. After a British subject had been murdered by Villa, .and this government had been forced by the Insistence of the British to take notice of the crime, imme diately our government made a spirited protest to Muerta regarding the killing of an American citizen of Mexican birth by irresponsible federal soldiers. Finally, when conditions became more critical, and when the paralysis of American interests in Mexico was complete, our government tardily ar ranged to bring its ruined citizens out of the country. The Americans who are to be relieved now with Bo great promptness are wealthy or well-to-do. Otherwise, they would' not be in Europe. In the cases, of perhaps most of them, their detention abroad is a matter of inconvenience rather than of hardship, suffering or risk. Perhaps if they were lees wealthy and important, our national solicitude for them would not have been so prompt and active. This reminds us that while our government for a year had been indifferent to the appeals of small American colonists and mine-owners in Mexico, we managed to provoke an incident which resulted in the protection of the great American and British oil interests at Tampico when they were threatened with destruction. The Latest Mexican Epoch After the departure of Huerta from Mexico, the New York World remarked: "Thanks to Woodrow Wilson, a great country and an oppressed people are on the threshold of a new epoch." So they are, according to the dispatches of yesterday morning, with Carranza declaring his intention of fighting his way into the City of Mexico when a peaceful, but a less showy, way is open. Also, Villa, who for some weeks has been in a state of quiet prepara tion, is about to launch an independent revolution. For more than three years Mexico has been being placed upon the threshold of a new epoch, so that that distressed country must be getting used to it by this time, but each epoch has been a little worse for the great mass of the Mexican people than the preceding one, and each has been a little bloodier than its predecessor. There is nothing to be said in favor of Huerta. President Wilson was right in refusing to recog nize him, as President Taft had been right in with holding recognition, but President Wilson was wrong in lending a tacit recognition to the revolutionists and encouraging a prolongation of the disorder when it was evident that it could lead only to another phase of disorder. No man familiar with Mexican conditions could believe that the triumph of Car ranza, through the military genius of Villa, of whom he was already zealous and afraid, was going to bring peace to Mexico. The earlier Huerta was overthrown, the earlier there would be another revo lution. Of all the revolutionary leaders, there was not one on whose success could be pinned a hope of tranquility in Mexico. - It was plain from the time of the failure of the Madero government that Mexico could be quieted and kept quiet only by a strong hand. There was no strong man within, so that the force must come from without. This government had one of two things to do: either resign itself to perpetual dis orders in Mexico and guard our border, or else to go in alone, or in conjunction with other powers, tranquilize the country and maintain order by force. The Republican Ticket A handful of republican leaders have decided to put a state ticket into the field, and have proposed for nomination some gentlemen, presumably with their knowledge and consent, and some, we know, without their consent, which will never be given. This action has been taken, it is understood, on orders from the national committee which proposes to keep up the party organization in every state. There is, of course, not the slightest hope of the election of any member of a republican state ticket. There is not a. prospect that a good showing will be made; not a prospect that the showing will be as good as that of two years ago when the party brought up the rear of the procession. It is very evident that the contest next fall will be between the administration democrats and the progressives. Therefore, a vote cast for the re publican ticket will be a vote thrown away. Those who are not satisfied with the state administration, whether they be democrats or republicans, will find in the progressive ticket the only hope of effecting a change. A republican ticket will not militate against pro gressive chances. The supporters of it for the most part will be standpat voters who, in the absence of a republican ticket, would either remain away, from the polls or else would vote the administration democratic ticket. Progressive confidence is growing. From all parts of the state, from progressives, progressive re publicans and democrats, come messages of en couragement for Nelson, Young and Alexander. The Douglas Dispatch, speaking of the leaders of the progressive ticket, voices a sentiment which will sway the independent voter next fall: These men are well known in the state, and a feature that should interest the citizens of the state regardless of their political belief or affiliation is that they are business men, men who have been successful with their own aftairs, and who propose to take these methods into the management of the affairs of the state. They are not politicians, and consented reluctantly to'enter the contest, but are in it and will work for the success cf the party. Too many states are afflicted with men at the head of the government who have no idea of conducting the affairs of the state in a business-like manner, and they are becoming tired; the cry is going up all over the country for business men to take charge of affairs. The taxpayers want something for their money, and have grown so tired of the methods fol lowed so long that they are supporting men in whom they have confidence, regardless of former affiliation, and Arizona will probably be no exception to this rule in the coming contest Mr. Henry Ford, who is revolutionizing indus try, is about to take a further step. Having begun sharing the profits of his great automobile building industry with his employes, he is now contemplat ing sharing them with 300,000 purchasers of Fords next year, each purchaser to receive $60. AVe trust that Mr. Ford's next step will be to Include in his profit-sharing scheme the millions of inhabitants on the sidewalk who "watch the Fords go by.v SNAKE SWALLOWED INDIAN Rev. Thomas J. MeOormick, assistant director of the New York diocesan branch of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, has received a letter from Father Hood, a missionary in India. The latter describes how a dealer in molasses on his way home from Rangpur went to sleep at night and curled up in the road under his cart, and was swallowed whole by a hungry python. The snake which was killed later, measured twenty-ohe feet In length. Washington Post. M,aggi addressed a letter to the Trustees Tues day night, explaining the impossibility of making a decent living during the dog shortage, and suggested that a regular salary for the pound man be fixed In stead of paying him on a commission basis. The Trustees are inclined to act on Maggi's sug gestion, since he was such a competent dog catcher that he nearly worked himself out of a job. Ex change! - -- i w..m.-.MMKu'.s y,:wc''-xv;-:ix ill .--. V...W. . . . r,- . .yi -.. & S3 7 V, fop. a Bcene in the main street of ihe capiia! of Servia; ctntr, a qui-t sida street in Belgrade; bottom, entrance to the palate grounds at Belgrade. Cool Climate An Eskimo was sighing before his igloo door; the snow around was flying, which made him rather sore. The ice was in his galways. the snow was in his ears, and evermore and always the climate froze .his tears. "Doggone this beastly blizzard." the Es kimo remarked, "it chill's a fellow's gizzard and keeps his larynx barked. Ah, would that I were liv ing in those United States, where Natures always giving her sunshine to the skates! I've heard it said the weather is often there so hot that people get together and cuss delightful thought! They have a summer season when blizzards do not blow, and no one thinks of freezin- or dying in the snow! Oh, it must be delightful ti. live in such a clime, away from every frightful old elemental crime. But Doctor Cook informed me that folks don't like the heat the information warmed me with anger. I re peat); they don't appreciate it, the climate they have there; in fact, some people hate it, and rant around and swear." His meditations soured him he might have saved his breath; a polar bear de voured him, and then it froze to death. THE STATE AND BOOKKEEPING One of the nightmares of the business man in these days of new laws is bookkeeping bookkeeping for others. It Is reported that some of the state ments sent to the compensation commission by busi ness houses are ludicrously in error, the bewildered office men not having found their way out of the new tangle. Bookkeeping was once an art which came under the criticism of nobody but the man who owned the business. But now the state has peek at it, and so does the federal government. Ten years ago a man doing a fairly large business might almost be said to keep his books under his hat. If lie got his fig ures wrong it was his own misfortune. Not so nowadays. The state must know how much capital is invested and very nearly what he will sell the stock at, so that it may levy its cor poration tax on the money that is at work as an earner. The state must know the number of em ployes, their occupations and a lot more, now that the compensation law is in effect. The United States insists upon having the man's income tax report in more or less complicated form, and It also makes him, as the hearl of a corporation, report on his business every year, whether he has lost or gained, so that it may tax him on his profits. It makes him keep special books on the incomes of his employes; it makes him keep books for the government as a "withholding agency" of the treas ury. Year by year business becomes so complicated that it is no wonder some heads of small corpora tions wish they were back at the old salary job. And if things go on as they are going, some of the presidents of the big companies may think regret fully of the days when not they, but the boss, had to worry. The bookkeeping we learned in youth seemed complex enough, but now it is a howling wilder ness of pyramidic tables expressed In decimals, per centage charts and tax reports. New York Press. IN THESE BUSY DAYS "Gent uptown telephones for an officer at once. Burglar in the house.'" "Let me see," said the captain, reflectively. 'Tve got four men censoring plays, two Inspecting the gowns at a society function and two more super vising a tango tea. Tell him I will send him an offi cer In about two hours." Kansas City Journal. gkSHi: IS1!?"!? sV Nicaragua By GEORGE FITCH Author of "At Good Old Siwash" Nicaragua is a country which missed fume and fortune by a very small margin because it was too thick in the waist. And. unfortunately, Nicaragua had no means of training down like an overfed chorus lady. Nicaragua is situated north of Panama, at a point where the North American continent has begun to peter out rapidly. Here it is only about 100 miles wide. This, however, is 60 miles too much for when the United States government finished measuring the Isthmus of Panama it built its great canal there and real estate in 'Nicaragua went down with a rush. Like most Central American countries, Nicaragua consists of a backbone of extremely feverish volca- V Missed Fame and Fortune Because It Was Too Thick in the Waist noes, situated in a puddle of even more feverish swamps. The climate is very warm and encouraging to flora and fauna, but very discouraging to human beinps, and Nicaragua, which has been doing business for almost 40 years, has only been able to accumu late half a million people, most of whom look with suspicion upon trousers and would worship a bathtub as a god. Nicaragua produces bananas, coffee, rubber, gold KMfI EP -3 WW?- This valley is i i are grown here at less than halt' the cost in the Cen tral States and they very largely escape the diseases. Our fanners ought to grow two hogs where there is one grown now. It means monev in the Bank. The Phoenix National Bank ; SECURITY CAPITAL AND SURPLUS s. $300,000 IDEAL RESOURCES OVER . $3,000,000. THE VALLEY BANK Paid-Up Capital and Surplus $165,000 (And no demand liabilities) behind our Guarantee Title Poli cies. Phoenix Title and Trust Co. 18 North First Avenue. and silver and dictators in great abundance. It is a republic, but the constitution was mislaid by Presi dent Zelaya during house-cleaning many' years ago and has never been recovered. Nicaragua has only a few schools and a few short railroads. However, it has a cathedral which cost more money and is more beautiful than any church in the United States, and which would strike the visitor from the skyscraper infested wilderness of New York with great awe. All Latin-American coun tries have begun their existence by building tremen dous and extremely ornamental cathedrals. Unfor tunately, most of said countries have rested ever since completing this job. Nicaragua is one of the few countries in which a poor boy has a better chance of becoming presi dent than he has In the United States. During the revolution season almost anyone in Nicaragua can become president but only for a few minutes. Most of the citizens prefer f-pinal meningitis, which is less fatal. Nicaragua was once captured by an American, William Walker, who took a few friends down there and conquered the country. But he made the mis take of trying to become an emperor and his fun eral, which occurred soon after, was not largely attended. SETTLEMENT DAY IN CHINA It is part of the legendary history of China that the people in a certain province once got into bad habits, commercially and morally, and it became quite the fashion to repudiate debts. When every body had fallen easily into this habit, the governor of the province, being a highly intelligent Chinese, perceived that immediate action was needed to pre serve even the framework of a civilization. So he made a proclamation to he effect that everybody owing anything to anybody else must pay the debt on the first day of the new year, shortly to come, under penalty of having his head neatly chopped off Just below the ears. Some of the debtors presumed to disregard the edict, but when their neighbors saw the heads of these disobedient ones displayed over the doors of their late places of business, they decided that the new rule was a good one. The general re sult was a complete restoration of commercial in tegrity in the province, which spread throughout China, so that to this day the first day of the y-ir is held sacred as the debt-paying time amiras th Chinese, who have thereby acquired a world-wide reputation for honesty in their commercial dealings. New York Evening Sun. An ounce of prevention is not worth a pound of cure where there's something that needs curing. A dutiful wife is one who does hr duty as she sees it and not as her husband sees it. Deseret News. Hogs the greatest district in the United htates tor economical pork production. They ieed the year round in the open fields, without housing; the sows produce two litters a year annually; they