Arizona republican. [volume], August 19, 1914, Page PAGE TEN, Image 10

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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, WEDNESDAY MORNING, 'AUGUST "19, '191? ;
Lawn Mowers
Grass Shears
Hose Menders
Sprinklers
Cotton and
Rubber Hose
Tn fact cvprythin.u- needed on a lawn. See us.
EZRA W. THAYER
Everything in Hardware ,
124-130 E. Washington Street. 127-133 E. Adams
LETTUCE FOB
THE BIG EAST
Truck Gardeners Organize
Association to Market
Their Product by Iced
Car Lots in Six Days
from the Picking.
Up-to-Date Business Methods
Are the Business Getters
SHOW THE PUBLIC
that you are right on the job by having a
Bright, Attractive Store and a Well-lighted Show
Window
Prilliant lights bring people through your doors
A little money spent on your Store and Window
Lighting will
DOUBLE YOUR SALES
Don't let your enterprising competitor get away
with the cream of the trade. Go after
it yourself
See us about our low flat rate for Store and Win
J dow Lighting
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Letluce for the markets of Chicago,
Kansas City and St. Louis within a week
after it is plucked from the soil of the
Salt River valley is the plan of the
growers who met at the board of trade
yesterday afternoon. An organization
was effected. A plan of marketing
was submitted and now, the truck
gardening of this valley will be con
ducted along the same scientific lines
as the cantaloupe, cotton, watermelon
and other industries.
Six day refrigerator service between
Phoenix and Chicago was assured by
the Santa Fe, in the person of General
Agent W. S. Goldsworthy. It will be
rememnered tliat an experiment was
tried last year, of sending Salt River
valley lettuce to the markets of the
middle east in ice cars. It will also be
remembered that The Republican
printed a truck jobber's report from
New York City in which Salt River
valley lettuce was featured at a high
price, and with a comment on its ex
cellence. George Alkire says that lettuce is
the easiest thing in the world to raise
here, and the seed produced is im
mense. In a letter to the hoard of trade on
seed production. Mr. Alkire outlines
the possibilities of vegetable and flow
er seeds in this valley. His experi
ments will be watched with interest.
0
"BRIDGE THAT FAILED"
IS LION'S FEATURE
Amusements
When the Lion theater engaged to
show an Eclectic feature picture ev
ery Wednesday and Thursday they
made a ten strike. The wonderful
pictures have exceeded their fondest
expectations in drawing large crowds
to the popular picture emporium. The
bill today includes a splendid three
reeler, "The bridge That Failed." a
really wonderful picture from the
same studios that produced the "Per
ils of Pauline," a wonderfully popular
pictrue also appearing at the Lion.
LION THEATER
"THE BRIDGE THAT FAILED," Spe
cial three-reel feature. Seven reels to
day, i
Regale Theatre
THE HOME OF UNIVERSAL PIC
TURES Collest place In town
et That Bust Now!
MONEY TALKS
The Money You Save on one of these Stein-Bloch or "L" System Suits during our Big Clearance Sale
ought to tell you emphatically that now's the time to buy Extra Clothes. Rather than carry our Extra
Summer Weights over we're making them specially attractive through these low prices. You'll find it
the best kind of an investment, and you'll want to get in on the money savings early.
Odds and Ends in $30, $25 and $20 Suits Now $15. 00
$12.50 Suits now $15.00 Suits now $20.00 Suits now $25.00 Suits now $30.00 Suits now
$9.40 $11.25 I $15.00 $18.75 $22.50
ONE-HALF OFF ON STRAW HATS BI GREDUCTIONS ON LOW SHOES
Arizona's Largest
Outfitters for
Men and Boys
One-Third Off
On Children's
Wash Suits
FORUM
STATE WIDE PROHIBITION
The very Important Issue of state
wide prohibition has been raised. A
campaign in favor of a constitutional
amendment will be shortly instituted.
This, like all other important ques
tions has two sides, on each of which
are found honest and intelligent per
sons. The Republican has decided to pro
vide for a reasonable discussion of
this issue in its pages, allowing to
each side at least a half column daily
for signed articles, for which there will
be no charge. No anonymous article
will be published.
It is only stipulated that the com
munications for and against prohibi
tion be Just and fair and that in no
case shall there be any wild and ex
travagant statement that will in any
way reflect upon the reputation of
Phoenix for good order.
DRILL-CREW IS GOING
UNDERGROUND ON VERDE
Jones'
and
Outfit Now Installed in Camp
Has Begun Boring on Horse
shoe Dam Site
Drilling for samples of bed rock has i
begun on the site of the proposed Horse-
shoe Bend Dam on the lower Verde
ty. It should not be a long job, they
say, and the last indefiniteness ought
j to be cleared away within a week or
'two. The underground investigations
lure made necessary by the fact that the
site is surrounded by volcanic rock, or
(semi-igneous strata. The porosity and
j contour of the underground forma -i
tions must be determined with ex
treme accuracy before any construc
tion begins, for if the topography is
not right, the dam will not be useful
in backing up the Verde's floods.
It is suggested by The Republican River, according to Chief Engineer W.
that either side, desiring to avail it
self of this offer of space, name a
committee through which all matter
relating to the issue shall be trans
mitted. In such case, all communica
tions received at this office from
other sources will be rejected. We
believe that this arrangement is ne
cessary to keep the discussion within
reasonable lines.
No paid advertisements from either
side will be accepted.
EMPRESS
THEATRE
Van
(Singing
and
and
Davis
Dancing)
Johnstone
(The Man with the Mandolins)
Roseka & Co.,
(Colored Quartette of .Musical
Fun Makers)
This bill is a knockout. The
best bill ever at the Empress
Theatre. See it.
THEATRE DE L-UXE
J
A
PLAZA
TODAY THE EUROPEAN WAR ! ! !
Moving Pictures -the first . to reach
America of the greatest conflict of his
tory. . -'
LAMARA
A t Coming Coming
ALICE JOYCE
In NINA OF THE THEATRES
ini7AITl fllF 1 Tm Hear th0 wnderfu' Wurlitzer One-Man
AkIJINA I llhA I hK Orchestra. BEST PICTURES IN PHOENIX.
i r j.-. rU:U.H h P. a pit.
amission; lis vsnw,
FORMERLY SAVOY
RIVERSIDE PARK
Never mind the heat.
Come down and Swim.
Dancing, too, and Movies.
XXUAAAV"i
EMPRESS
VAUDEVILLE
and ; '
PICTURES
Try A Republican Want Ad,
Over 1,400 People
Saw the
"Baby
. Dolls"
Last
night and
verdict was
the
'Great'
$1.00 show
20-30c
for 10
In Preparation
"A Scotch High Ball'
7
QUESTION OF REVENUE
In every contest between the tax
payers and the saloon forces the argu
ment of the latter has been that the
revenues from the saloons made taxes
lighter, and that if it were not for the
saloons the taxpayer would have to
bear a greater burden.
Although this argument is an exam
ple of sublimated idiocy it has been
more or less difficult to reduce to act-
;il figures exactly what it costs to
maintain the saloons and their re
sults anil weigh this amount against
the revenues derived, and strike u'bal-
nce.
The common sense of the average in-
ividual revolts at this saloon argu
ment, but he is not prepared to figure
exactly how the account stands.
However, if the taxpayer will carefully
note the following figures he may ar-
ivc at enough of a conclusion to startle
im. He need not consider the question
from a moral standpoint at all. All he
needs to do is to figure out how much
costs him.
In the first place it is necessary to
Se the two dry counties in Arizona
Graham and Apache, hoth dry under
cal option, as a basis upon which to
make a comparison. By reducing the
assessed taxes in these counties to a
per capita basis and then figuring the
remainder of the state therefrom we
find that Arizona could easily get along
with $2,799,382.16, whereas the fact and
the truth is the taxes assessed for
ounty purposes in Arizona amount to
$4,742,618.45. making a difference of
1,943,236.29. which would represent
exactly in taxes for county purposes
the cost of maintaining the liquor traf-
ic.
To this must be ndded a great many
more items. For instance using me
same two counties as a basis we find
that we have sentenced to the peniten
tiary, last year. 289 convicts, while if
the state had been dry it should have
sentenced but 45 convicts, making a dif
ference of 244 convicts that can be
charged directly to the liquor mil tic.
These convicts cost to keep last year
$225.36 each, or a total of $54,987.84,
which should be charged directly to the
iquor traffic.
By using the same two counties as a
basis we find the state last year had in
the inssne asylum 579 inmates, while
it the state had been dry it would have
had but 334, making a difference of 245
insane, which can be charged directly
to the liquor traffic. The cost to keep
these insane Inst year was, net, $203.63
each, or a total of $49,889.84 for the
year, which can be charged directly to j
the liquor traffic. I
Mding together the excess taes, ex-
cess cost of criminals and excess cost
of insane, we find that these three
items aggregate $2,048,113.97, which can
he charged to the fact that the state is
wet.
At the same time that we paid this
excess of county taxes nnd this excess
of two items in state taxes we received
for the various counties revenues from
the saloons amounting to $170,980.34.
Thus we find that for every dollar
we receive as revenue we paid in the
items mentioned, $12.00 to get the one
dollar of tainted money. As Benjamin
Franklin would say "This is paying
entirely too much for our whistle."
This does not take into account at all
the expense of the reform school, which
can be charged up largely to the liquor
traffic. Nor does it cover the loss of
economic efficiency which amounts to
20 per cent of the total business done in
the entire state. Neither does it em
brace the original cost of the liquor
consumed. ""''IWW
We have 1009 saloons in Arizona and
we pay out over the bars of these
saloons $10,000,000.00 every year, which,
of course, is infinitely worse than wast
ed. This would make any economist
sit up and take notice. But conceding,
for the sake of the argument, that in
paying two prices over the saloon
counters for every drop of liquor con
sumed the drinker is getting value re
ceived, the more than $2.000,aoUM)
which the state is paying in taxes just
to get $170,000.00 in revenue Js cer
tainly poor financing.
Using the same two counties as a
basis we find that the one item of
l court costs shows that the state, if dry.
should pay in court expenses $386,
397.09, whereas, as a matter of fact, the
state pays $652,396.28. making an ex
cess of $265,999.19, which is IV, times
as much as we receive for the various
counties from saloon revenue.
And then as a matter of fact, the
saloons do not pay the revenue at all.
The most they do is to collect it from
their patrons, and pay it over under
protest in every instance. The people
of the community where the saloon is
located pay every penny of the revenue.
If they had proper consideration for
their own interests they would pay the
necessary revenue to the tax collector
instead of to the saloonkeeper, take the
"jag cure" by voting dry, and save not
only the $2,000,000.00 excess taxes
which they pay because of the saloon,
but save at the same time the $10,000,
000.00 paid out yearly over the saloon
counter for the stuff that kills.
G. F. RIXEHART.
R. Elliott of the Water Users' associa
tion, who organized the survey. Driller
Jones and a crew of eight experts is
encamped on the dam site, and the
outfit is noiv gouging out the cores as
though the job were a rush order.
Ten days of surveying by a water
users party has so well defined the
damsite that there has been no trouble
in getting the borers to work. The
diamond drills are cutting swiftly into
the hard volcanic rock which underlies
the gap below that great sweeping
bend.
The engineers feel very highly en
couraged at the progress of Jones' par-
SANITARY
EFFICIENT
DURABLE
Plumbing
go to
VOSSKUHLER
PHONE 1848
When In a hurry for quick repair
work.
ALWAYS ON THE JOB
AT
26 SOUTH THIRD STREET
WHAT DO YOU EAT ?
BEARS
Tonic Digestant
TONES THE STOMACH
So vou can oat anything.
You can Axe it to a babw
Prico oO fonts.
"Money back it' you want
It."
The Bear Drug Store
Op. City Hall.
P B 1
THE BRIDGE THAT FAILED
Lion
No. 1 "THE BRIDGE THAT
FAILED," a thrilling story of unusu
al interest showing the collapse of
in immense bridge and the hurling
of a pedestrian into the seething wa
ters below. By chance the unfortu
nate man's lover is near and stand
ing for a moment tei ror-stricken, makes a spectacular dive into the rushing waters below
to the side of her lover, who is fast becoming exhausted by his efforts to keep afloat;
picture to get the rest. .
Theatre!
She swims
well, see the
No. 2 "THE HOUR OF RECKONING" is the
sub-feature of the program and is from the
studios of the New York Motion Picture Co. It
us a film of unusual dramatic qualities, and one
that you should see.
Xo. 3 "MABEL'S BUSY DAY," a roaring Key
stone comedy featuring Mabel Nonnand and Mac
Sennett. A Thanhouser drama, "The Girl Across
the Hall," completes this special seven-reel pro
gram.
Canning at Home
Let nothing go to waste. Canning on the Farm. Millions of
Dollars Wasted. Start a Small Canning Factory. We are
Agents for the largest Factory in the world making Canning
Boilers. PRICES RANGE FROM $15.00. Larger sizes in pro-
. portion.
Arizona Hardware Supply Co.
Third Avenue and Jackson Street