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PAGE FOUR THE 'ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 15, 1914. )li ill Arizona Republican's Editorial Page 1l j The Arizona Republican p 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 Oarth 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 Postoffice at Phoenix, Arizona, as Mall Matter of the Second Class. Address all communications to THE ARIZONA REPCB LICAN. Phoenix, Arizona. TELEPHONES: Business Office 42J City Editor 433 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Dally, one month, in advance .75 Dally, three months, in advance 2.00 Daily, six months, in advance 4.00 Dally, one year, in advance )( 00 Sundays only, by mail 2.60 SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 15, 1914 By union the smallest states thrive, by discord the greatest are destroyed. Sallust. j. To a Misunderstanding Neighbor A great deal of The Republican's time is spent, but we trust not wasted, in setting its neighbors straight. A few days ago this paper took occasion to reprove the Douglas International for its an nounced yellow-dog partisan policy. It would stand by the democratic party, right or wrong; it felt bound to support the candidates of that party re gardless of its own opinion of their fitness. All of which. The Republican thought, smacked of servility rather than independence. No law of God or man requires loyalty to the unworthy. The International retorts that The Republican is hide-bound, and that it is the last paper in the state that should prescribe rules of conduct for in dependent newspapers, after having opposed so steadily a fusion of the progressives with the re publicans when the latter offered to surrender every thing but the party name. We have already explained that we opposed fusion because it was neither moral nor expedient. If the progressives had gone into it, they would not have been honest, and the republicans could not honestly have made the surrender they proposed to make. Such a fusion, moreover, could not have bound all progressive and all republican voters, and it could not have attracted any democratic voters. It would surely have repelled hundreds of progres sive voters who were formerly democrats. The Republican and progressives generally were not hide-bound; they were not sticklers for a straight progressive ticket. Many favored a genuine non partisan ticket. That would have been both moral and expedient. That kind of a ticket would have attracted every man, progressive, democratic and republican, who wants a good state government and does not believe that the present government is a good one. We expected, if such a movement was instituted, that it would have the support of Major Kelly and his democratic associates, and we believe now that they would have been loyal supporters of it. But we know that neither he nor any other democrat would nave supported a progressive republican fusion. Again, we say that the non-partisan plan would have been a success but for the selfishness of the republican leaders. They would not consent that their party should lose its identity for a single cam paign. They were willing to throw party principles everything but the party name overboard. The progressives were willing, for the sake of good gov ernment, to lose their identity for two years and to hold their principles in abeyance. No other party in Arizona offered to make so much of a sacrifice. Price Regulation The time will come, we suppose, when the gov ernment will regulate the prices of the necessities of life, such as wheat, bread, perhaps meats, sugar and whatever else enters into daily use by the aver age family. It will, of course, be a long step to ward such a regulation, but it seems more probable now than it did a generation ago that the govern ment would undertake the regulation of railroad rates, or that it would lay clown rules for the con duct of private business. It is not to be supposed that the government would fix and maintain a scale of prices at all times, but that it would take the power , to do so; such power as exists in Great Britain, has existed for many years, and which in the present emergency that government is threatening to exercise. Our government regulations so ,far. have not been of great benefit to the people, ' and were not primarily intended to be, though the people have been led by politicians to believe that they were to be the chief beneficiaries. Such rules as have been enforced against commercial exchanges have been intended to keep the gamblers from cutting one another - throats, a matter in which the people at large had no concern at all. Neither are the people concerned in the operations of the stock ex change except In so far as they disturb the financial current, and the new banking act will probably be a sufficient guaranty against such disturbances. How many fortunes are made or lost on Wall street by , the speculators on the exchange is nothing to us. Railroad rate regulation is really only beneficial to the great mass of the people, in that jt gives stability to the rate situation and prevents nite cut ting by the railroads, from which the people at large never received any benefit, and prevents rate boost ing by agreement, for which the people always paid in the shape of increased prices. But price regulation is another matter. What ever benefit would come from that would" ( come directly to the people. - jj t f Republics del Norte Carranza will probably remain in Mexico City as long as Carbajal, perhaps as long as Madero, but we do not think that his regime will be as long as Huerta's. He finds an empty town. Everything has been grafted closely, and he will do well if ho can find anything to loot and send abroad as his predecessors have done, against his hurried flight from the capital. Already the revolution Is under way and it is the most formidable in its beginning of all Mexican revolutions. Its army is larger and better trained than any that Carranza can summon, and at the head of it is the most skillful and successful gen eral, idolized by his soldiers and admired through out the republic. The new revolutionists may be content with a "Republica del Norte," composed of the best and richest states in Mexico. If so, they will leave Car ranza in the south to hold his own against Zapata and such other chiefs us may rise against him. A division of Mexico may, after all, be the best Solution of the Mexican question. The country is too big, considering the character of its pop ulation, which lacks homogeneity. Except that the people of the different states speak the same lan guage, the Mexicans of some states are as foreign to those of others as if they were of different races. A northern republic under such a ruler as Villa, who, besides displaying military' genius has shown some aptitude as a statesman, would probably be an orderly republic. The contact of the people of the northern states of Mexico with Americans and Europeans has prepared them for such a govern ment. The southern slates are very much the same . as those of the Central American republics, over which this country has found it advisable to estab lish an espionage, at times, to prevent the wildest excesses. An Interesting Vote We await with interest the vote in the senate and the house on the adoption of the conference report on the emergency bill admitting foreign built ships to American register. We are informed that there will be a stubborn opposition in both houses to the amendment, permitting such ships, after two years, to engage in coastwise trade, hitherto a sacred institution for Americans only. "We shall like to compare the vote on this proposition with the vote for and against the granting of free tolls through the Panama canals to American vessels in the coast wise trade. Every suspected railroad senator and represen tative voted against the free tolls proposition, on the pretext that it was in violation of the treaty. Their co-workers, the administration congressmen, voted against free tolls on the curious ground that the railroads owned the coastwise vessels. Now, will the railroad anti-free tolls senators and representatives vote to sharpen competition which may reduce water rates, or will they rest on the preserved inviolability of the treaty and the sacredness of our coastwise trade as an American institution? As to the administration congressmen, will they assume that the railroad-owned ships have been sufficiently chastised by the payment of tolls and will they believe that the time has come to discriminate between American and foreign built vessels in the coastwise trade by excluding the lat ter? That would be more effective than any sub sidy which our democratic friends so much detest. RECRUDESCENCE OF NATIONAL SENTIMENT (Chicago Tribune) It is the ideals of youth that determine the course of mankind. Given the ideals which the young men of a country cherish, and the history of that country for the next thirty years, until a new generation of young men with new ideals arises, can be fairly correctly foreseen. The ideals of the young men of Europe and of the world up to within the last fifteen or twenty years have rooted in science and rationalism. Dar win, Spencer and John Stuart Mill were the buiding posts of one part of the young generation. Saint Simon, Karl Marx and Henry George were the prophets of another. The young men of the last half of the nineteenth century in the main stood for ideals of liberalism. Their ideals were social ized ideals. Race and national boundaries were more or less submerged by the greater cause of humanity. A reaction from these broadly human ideals to ideals of narrow nationalism is now in full swing in Europe. This reaction has caught in its flood by no means an insignificant part of the population. While socialism, with its preachments of internationalism, retains its hold upon great hosts of laboring men, nationalism is gaining ground among the middle classes. And so fast is the nationalist movement, with its clannish divisions, spreading that, accord ing to one authoritative writer, Europe today "is organizing itself into two great camps socialism and nationalism." The assassin and would?be assassin of Arch duke Francis Ferdinand of Austria and his wife are the accentuated expressions of this rising national ism in Europe. They show the distinction between the past and the present idealism of youth in clear, sharp lines. In common with assassins and would be assassins of royalty in the last two generations the assassins of the heir to the Austrian throne have youth and enthusiasm. The assassin, Prinzip, i 18 years old. The would-be assassin, Gabrino vich, is 21. But while the nihilists and anarchists of a generation back slew royalty to further, as they thought, political freedom, the assassins of the Aus trian prince slew royalty in order to gain a king, so to speak a king of their own nationality. The anarchist assassins of the past slew royalty to break down social and economic barriers. The na tionalist assassins of today slay royalty in order to strengthen national barriers. The sentimental nationalism for that is what jt is which inspired the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne will, for a period at least, again occupy the center of the world's stage. Ap parently there is good ground for such a predic tion. Even the United States may not escape some of the problems created by this sentimental nation alism, for it is from the countries where this na tionalism is strongest that we get the bulk of our immigrants today, and the Americanization of such aliens may prove no easy task. HATCHED BY THE SUN In breeding goldfish, an industry which has flourished in China from time immemorial, the eggs are removed from the reach of the adult male fish and hatched by the sun in shallow dishes. The amateur golfer r.ddref-ses his ball, swings four times and then addresses it again more force fully. Philadelphia Inquirer. GERMANS WANT SVEABORG, THE UtOUMIXM. fc 11 i 1 jsfir : f a h f a fc- A view ot Sveaborg. The plans of the German war office are said to include the capture of Svenborg, the "Gibraltar of the Baltic." Sveaborg is a port in Finland, commanding the entrance to the bay of Helsingfors and the Finland capital, from which a railroad runs to St. Petersburg. Watchful Waiting By WALT MASON The Huerta reign is done, and watchful waiting won. The ciazy tyrant hung to office long, and clung, with equal strength and zeal, to gin and lemon peel. The symbol of bis cause a pocket corkscrew was; a bottle in his hand, he ruled his bleeding land. What sort of men are they who'd tolerate the sway of such a drunken freak? Are they insane or weak? But watchful waiting won, and toward the rising sun the jim-jam despot snil ed, and Justice must have wailed. All loaded down with wealth he'd swiped by force and stealth, lie sailed across the sea to riot in Puree, or booze in London slums with kindred thirsty bums. The man whose hands were red with blood of count less dead, the man of concrete heart, was suffered to depart from that poor land he jobbed, and har ried, rent and robbed. Was theie no dungeon deep where slimy reptiles creep? Was there no gallows tree or ax for such as he? Ah, well, the tyrant's gone, and there .perhaps will dawn a brighter, bet ter day let's hope so, anyway. Peace has an in ning now let's hope so, anyhow. But should the dove depart, and should the fireworks start, with bloodshed, as before, we'll watch and wait some more. HOW COCOANUTS GROW (Homer Crop in Leslie's) I had always imagined that cocoatnuts grew on trees just the way we see them down at the gro cery, but instead of that they have a thick mat around them. It's harder to get this off than it is to get the nut open. I wondered how my friend was going to get the hull off when he didn't even have a knife. Taking up the nut, he stepped up to the tree, turned his back and with long, powerful strokes began hammering the nut against the bole of the tree between his legs. After a dozen strokes the rough outer covering split enough for him to get his fingers in and pull it off. Then the nut began to look like the kind Ed Andrews has. Again I wondered how he could get into this, for back home it would be a Job with a saw and ax. Picking up a pointed stick, he punched out two of the eyes, one for an airhole, and turning up the cocoanut offered me a drink. It wasn't very fancy, but it was filling. When the milk was out he took a stone and gave the nut a few bard blows und the nut opened almost in half. With the sharp edge of another stick he rimmed the white meat loose as though with a spoon and there it was for me to eat as though he had had a whole carpenter shop. The meat was soft and slippery, like trying to pick up buttermilk. In Missouri I had never eaten them that way. for by the time a nut travels that far the meat is hard, and I hurt the man's feelings by telling him that I preferred the tough kind. One of the nuts was hard and he threw it contemptuously to the pigs that stood in a circle around us, noses in, but I rushed out and rescued part of it in glee. A few moments later I caught him looking at me as if he couldn't quite make me out, a man seemingly nor mal but who liked ripe cocoatnuts. MEAT EATER SEEMS PEEVED I want to warn meat-eaters against a cunning conspiracy to convert them Into vegetarians. A man whom I have since discovered to be a notorious nut eater, lured me into a strange restaurant yesterday morning and set before me something that looked like a mutton cutlet. I cannot tell exactly what first aroused my suspicions, but suddenly approaching the cutlet from behind I tore off its false frill and dis covered it to be some nuts and potatoes in disguise. Then I saw through the whole game at once. Some desperate band of vegetarians are sitting up at nights training bananas to look like pork sausages, and teaching innocent little wainuts to go about masquerading as deviled kidneys. If I had eaten that mutton culet. as they called it, thoy would have lured me on with celery steak and things until at last I should have been so firmly in their grip that they could boldly have thrown off their disguises. In a year or so I should have been tame enough to eat potato peelings from the hand. Meat eaters all, we must band ourselves together against the vegetarians, and fight them with their own weapons. As soon as I can find a chef who can make a mut ton chop look like a boiled carrot I shall open an imitation vegetarian restaurant and send out men disguished In sandals and health-fiber suits to way lay and bring in nut-eaters. Then we will give them Cambridge sausages disguised as bananas, mixed grills masquerading as fruit salads, and chickens which the vegetarians will think are cabbages, until they get the bones in their throats. Ivan Heald, in the London Dally Express. "GIBRALTER OF THE BALTIC" Habits By GEORGE FITCH Author of "At Good Old Siwash" A habit is an action with a self-starter. Most actions have to be begun by the man who produces them. But a habit attends to the starting itself. It goes wherever it pleases and carries its unfortunate owner along with it. A habit is produced by repeating an action er and over again. Some habits are very diffi cult indeed to produce. It is distressing to watch uno-O- SNOOGLELVf-r. GueGie I LM Drinking coffee with a loud baritone gurgle, a man patiently pouring gallon after gallon of whiskey down his throat in the hope that some day he will get the habit and can get drunk with out putting any care or thought on the process. It usually takes a man as long to acquire this rabit as it would to acquire a university education at half the cost. However, there is one consolation ;he habit will last much longer than the educa tion would. One can forget Greek and Latin but it is as hard to overlook the drink habit as it is to Ignore a case of jumping appendicitis. There are many different habits. Some of them are very meritorious such as going to church, get ting to work on time, breathing through the nose and swatting flies. Among those habits which should be removed by the aid of gas if necessary, ate those of swearing, chewing tobacco, looking up while driving, sleeping on the back and voting the ticket straight because father did it before the war. There are also many peculiar and harmless habits. Some men always put on their left shoe fust. One of these men once lost his left leg and had to go barefooted ever after. Other men get into the habit of drinking their coffee with a loud baritone gurgle. This harms no one but it keeps the performer very lonesome dur ing his meals. William J. Bryan once got into the habit of run ning for the presidency. However, he bioke him self of it by a great effort. It takes a strong minded man to break himself of a habit. We should all strive to run ourselves and not turn the Job over to a few habits, picked at ran dom. Sometimes they do a good job, but more often they run us as unsuccessfully and recklessly as a nineteen-year-old boy runs a racing automobile. PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE Crawford (in fashionable restaurant) Don't or der anything for me. I'm not hungry. Crabshaw But you will be by the time waiter brings it. Life. the 51 v 1 fertile eggs and get high prices. The infertile egg can lay around in the warm temperature of summer until it dries up and it will not become rotten. Why not in this valley ? It will add to' your bank account. The Phoenix National Bank VWMIWMMMWWMr CONVENIENCE ONCE YOU ACQUIRE THE HABIT OF PAYING YOUR BILLS BY CHECK YOU WILL WON DER HOW YOU EVER MANAGED THE OLD WAY THE VALLEY BANK Be Sure Get Our Guarantee Certificate of Title In buying real estate demand our guaranteed certificate of title, it is important when you place money into property that you get for all years to come absolute safetv in the title. C( insult with us. Phoenix Title and Trust Co. 18 North First Avenue. ,... . . . . n-1-ir.-.riiinnriiin.iu-n.i. THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES (Hugo de Vries in Science) The idea of the origin of species by leaps and jumps has the great advantage of answering in an unexpected and decisive way the numerous and in part very grave objections which have been brought forward against the theory of evolution from the serious difficulties which its adversaries have never ceased to urge against it. The oldest and most serious objection is based on the obvious useless ness of new characters during the first stages of their evolution, if this is supposed to be invisibly slow. Imperceptible odors cannot guide insects in their visits to flowers and assure to these a suffi cient advantage in the struggle for life. Adapta tions for the capturing of insects by plants would be of no value in a primary and imperfect condi tion and therefore cannot be evolved 'by the action of natural selection. Imperlect instincts would be rather obnoxious, according to Wasmann, and thus would be liable to be destroyed instead of increased by this action. So it is in many other cases. Be ginning characters would always be too insignifi cant to be of any value in the struggle for life. Evidently the principle of leaps and jumps at once relieves us of the necessity of this hypothesis. It does not admit a gradual appearance of characters, but assumes these to appear at once in the full dis play of their development, and without the aid of natural selection. BATTLESHIPS THAT CAN BE SUBMERGED The discussion on the relative value of dread naughts and submarines, raised by Sir Percy Scott's now famous letter to the London Times, still con tinues. The latest contribution is from Sidney F. Walker, a naval engineer of considerable experience, who urges that whilst Sir Percy Scott may be per fectly correct in his forecast, the naval constructors who believe in a large and powerful capital ship may also be right. May it not be possible, he asks that the war ship of the future will merely lie on the water when not going into action as the submarine does now, and will be submerged whenever danger arises and when going into action? Proceeding, Mr. Walker declares that he is well aware that it is a very far cry from the submarines of even the present day to a submerged battleship, but he points out that it was also a far cry from the pre-submarine days to -be submersible of today. The advance of naval engineering, he says, has been very rapid during the last .10 vears. and the great engineering firms are better equipped today for solving the problems that arise than probably any body of men ever were in the history of the world. Rooster Day The Poultrymen of Kentucky and Tennessee estab lished a rooster day, May 1( on which day all deal ers paid as much for roosters as for hens and pul lets. Those states have a reputation for selling in