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PAGE FOUB THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1914 3 t l ill Arizona Republican's Editorial Page i jI The Arizona Republican Published by ARIZONA PUBLISHING COMPANY. The Only Paper In Arizona Published Every Day In the Tear. 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 Postoffice nt Phoenix, Arizona, aa Mall Matter of the Second Class. Address all communications to TUB ARIZONA REPUB LICAN. Phoenix, Arizona. TELEPHONES: Business Office 421 City Editor 433 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Daily, one month, in advance f .75 Dally, three months. In advance 2.00 Pally, six months, in advance 4. 00 Daily, one year, in advance 8. 00 Sundays only, by maii 2.50 TUESDAY MOKXIXG, SEPTEMBER 15, 1914 Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair George Washington. PROGRESSIVES STAND ON PRIN CIPLE The Republican prints this morning statements by George U. Young, Dr. J. B. Nelson and Captain J. L. B. Alex ander, declaring fearlessly and in a clear-cut manner in favor of making a straightforward, vigorous fight for the offices for which they have been nomi nated at the progressive primary, re spectively, governor, United States senator, and district attorney. These candidates elect to stand or fall on progressive principles, which, if they prevail, will substitute efficiency and economy for extravagance and in efficiency in the conduct of the busi ness of the state. These declarations must appeal to those voters who love Arizona more than they do any political party; who care more for the well-being of them selves and their families than they do for the well-being of bosses who profit from party success. The Republican will feel especial pleasure in giving these candidates as well as other progressive candidates who have been nominated, its vigorous support. Left With our an Issue The speech of Governor Johnson at Los Angeles last Thursday night, when the opening gun of the progressive campaign in California was fired, cut the ground from beneath the republicans. It may be observed that it was not solid ground anyway. The republican campaign material in California is not plentiful. Some months ago, almost a year, republican orators and newspapers were shouting "freak legislation!" Apparently they intended to rest their cause on the acts of the progressive legis lature, which was of a sweeping character, as they needed to be if the progressive pledges were to be carried out. The new acts had not then been tried, and perhaps some honest citizens were in doubt as to their effect. It seemed to the politicians safe to shout "freak legislation!" The newspapers and the orators were at first specific in their condemna tion of the legislation. They still call it freak legisla tion, but they have ceased to be specific. They are no longer pointing the condemning finger upon any special act. With a broad and indefinite sweep of the hand they condemn the legislation en bloc. Governor oJhnson calls upon the republicans again to be specific, to point out definitely some law en acted by the progressives that should be repealed and which a republican legislature would repeal. The new laws have been tried since they were first accused and have been given popular approval. The people are now satisfied with them and candi dates would have to have hardihood and foolhardi ness to promise to remove them from the statute books. Therefore, Governor Johnson asks his re publican opponent. Captain Fredericks, to' say which item of this freak legislation he would have repealed. The most bitterly attacked legislation was the workingmen's compensation act. That was seized upon by the republicans as the bete noir-because many manufacturers honestly feared that it would be disastrous to them. Perhaps the republican leaders themselves honestly believed and fervently hoped that it would b disastrous, but it has not been. Employers have since expressed their satis faction with its operation It is fair as between employer and employe and a fair proposition in the long run is always the best for both sides. The workingmen's compensation act of California is ad mittedly the best in the country, and now nobody but the special interests want its repeal, and the special interests and republican politicians are afraid to demand its repeal. The California republicans are in a bad way. They fear to choose an issue. They have no reason to offer for the defeat of Governor Johnson that they dare to utter. The Federal Reserve Plan Just when the federal reserve system will be put into operation nobody seems to know, and all are apparently equally in the dark as to the causes of the present delay of its operation. It was some time ago announced that October 1 would see the federal reserve plan at work, but bankers are of the opinion that it will not be in operation then.. While the organization of the federal reserve board - SrNftMr'SS A vc- MP. ' 5iSf "if msffw Llnrr. .,. , ..... lt. French troops on the march, and auto trucks used in mobilizing Russian army. was completed after some delay, six weeks ago, all the class C directors have not been named yet, and until that has been done all the district banks can not be organized. , Probably the organization of the system is wait ing upon an adjustment of international financial conditions brought about by the war in Europe, but that adjustment scorns now in a fair way of being made, with the gradual straightening out oC English finances, when the deadlock in the foreign exchange situation will be broken. Hut it may be confidently expected that the oper ation of the federal reserve system will not be much longer delayed, and then the energy of the country, especially in the west, will be unbound. It is in this part of the country that the reserve plan will produce the most marked benefits. It is here that the greater resources are awaiting development, and with their development, or the reasonable pros pect of it, it is here there is the most inviting field for the investment of capital in enterprises that follow development and become a part of it, railroad con struction, for instance. Money is always in greater demand, and, there fore, higher in the west than in any other part of the country. Though it is now low in comparison with the rates of a few years ago, it is much higher than in the east. The reserve plan wili have the effect of giving greater equality to rates in different parts of the country and will make holdings not now available convertible into cash for the devel opment of western industries. The American instructor who was arrested in Germany for telegraphing home that his "kale" was all gone and that he wanted "thirty beans" deserves further punishment. He should be removed from the institution of learning to which he is attached, unless it maintains a chair of slang. In that event his salary should be raised. Frederick the Great By GEORGE FITCH Author of "At Good Old Siwash" IS THIS SAFE BURGLAR PROOF? The Time to Use Ammunition. Under the head, "Ammunition Is Made to He Used," the Manufacturers' News reads an instructive lesson to the American business man who cuts down his advertising expenditures in these times, with the army which saves its ammunition in the face of the enemy. The lesson is chiefly directed at those busi ness men who are engaged in the manufacture of goods which were in competition with foreign goods which people used to buy when they could get them, largely out of habit. The Manufacturers' News be lieves that the manufacturers and dealers, by giving greater publicity to their wares, would help people 6ut of the rut into which they had fallen. The lesson, though, is just as applicable to mer chants generally. It is a short-sighted policy, false economy, to save ammunition in the face of the enemy. The dull season is the worst enemy of the merchant and should be bombarded furiously. There is a wide difference between the dull season and hard times. The dull season may find people with plenty of money but not quite ready to buy. There are things they want ami expect to buy some time. The silence or the apathy of the men who have things to sell is a reminder, if not the first intima tion, to buyers that the dull season is at hand, and such reminders produce a psychological effect. Peo ple begin after a while to confound the dull season with hard times, and then the merchant finds hini- self -face to face with a dangerous enemy. It should not be impressed upon buyers, or they should not be left to infer, that there is a dull sea son. One good, live advertiser in a community can do much to dispel any such notion. A community of such advertisers with profit to themselves and the. whole community, can wholly dispel it. In the face -of the enemy there is the greatest need for ammunition. Ingenious burglars have been given a new burglar-proof safe to tackle, designed to prevent the blowing of the safe by working nitroglycerin into the' cracks round the safe door. That method of attacking a safe is still the favorite one. The old way was to drill holes in the door and pour in the explosive; but long since the doors of the best safes have been made of steel that cannot be drilled by a burglar. Then the attack shifted to the cracks round the door; but the safemaker met this with doors fitted so perfectly that the simple insertion of a sheet of paper between the door and the jamb would prevent closing the door. The burglars responded by wid ening the crack according to several methods. One was to pound the edge of the door and the edge of the jamb with heavy round-headed sledgeham mers, distorting the edge sufficiently to permit "feathering" an explosive into the crack. Another was to use an electric arc or an oxy acetylene torch. Though the steel of the best safes strongly resists cutting by such torches, it may, nevertheless, be distorted under the great heat. By applying the torch to steel near the door and the jamb enough distortion could be obtained to widen the crack and so give an opening for tiie nitrogly cerin. A new design of safe has all these old protec tions and an addod one to take care of any nitro glycerin the burglar finally works into the crack. It has triple walls with an air space between them and each wall has a separate door. The outer walls have many small holes drilled through them. The doors do not fit so tightly on the inside of the jamb as on the exposed side. Therefore, if any nitrogly cerin is worked into the crack it will run down the air space and out through the hole; or, if any is ex ploded in the air space, much of the force of the explosion will go out of these leakholes. As the inside safe is itself strong enough to re sist explosions, the whole affair must be wrecked by an enormous explosion to get even the outer door open. Frederick the Great of Prussia was born in 1712, and was the son of old Frederick William, one of the sternest and most relentless pas on record. Because the young Frederick wanted an education and other frivolities he was imprisoned and abused, and when he attempted to flee to England his loving lather yanked him back and was about to have him shot when diplomats interfered. Those were the days when a Prussian king was about as healthy a thing as prussic acid, and even THE SOLDIER'S CHOICE Little Frederick is a fine, manly chap, and so far his overindulgent mother and father have not succeeded in spoiling him. He spends much of his time marching up and down with a fierce expression on his face. - "What are you going to be when you grow up, Frederick." asked an admiring friend of his one day. "Soldier, of course," was the brief reply. "Hut you might get killed." , ' Who'd kill me?" "The enemy, naturally." "Then I'll be the enemy," quickly retorted the lad. National Monthly. "Those were the days when a Prussian king was about as healthy a thing as prussic acid." crown princes were sadly oppressed. When Freder ick William at last consented to die, there were only 2.50,'HiO people in Prussia, and there would have been less if transportation facilities had been better. Young Frederick, who was then twenty-eight, be came king of a busted country, with an enemy on each side watchfully waiting in the most disagree able fashion. He had no money, no army to speak of, and nothing else but a fine education gained on the sly when his father wasn't watching. Less courageous men would have traded Prussia for a potato patch in a more agreeable territory and would have thrown up the king business in disgust. But Frederick was a patriot and decided to make things lively while he lasted. In this he succeeded eminently. He lasted forty-six years, and there were at least three rings and two platforms In his entertainment at all times. Frederick first lucked out his weakest neighbor and captured it. He then persuaded France an Bavaria to jump on Austria, which at that time , played a big horn in the concert of nations. He then got up a gang of five nations and captured Prague. Next he licked Saxony, and stood off that Your valuables must be safe. We rent modern Safe Deposit Boxes. The rental of some of them is less than seven cents a . week. Can you afford to be without one. THE VALLEY BANK OF PHOENIX, ARIZONA Insist upon a Guarantee Title Policy "It is the Safe Way." Better be safe than sorry Phoenix Title and Trust Co. 18 North First Avenue. country, Austria and Russia in a seven years' war. He then assisted Russia to dismantle Poland, per suaded Saxony and Russia to help bluff Austria out of Bohemia, and finally organized the German princes into a trust and told the rest of the world to keep off the grass. When Frederick died he left Prussia twice as large, with 6,000,000 people, $70,000,000 in the treas ury, and a reputation for fighting which kept peace In the neighborhood until Napoleon came along. He was not a lovely character. He hanged people on suspicion, scoffed at religion, and spent his old age quarreling with Voltaire at San Souci. He pro moted more quarrels than any other king and kept Europe in an uproar for nearly fifty years. But he saved his country and had as much morals as the rest of the world, so he Is called Frederick the Great. The Fine Season By WALT MASON How. sweet is the autumn, that's now at the door! The hot winds, dod rot 'em, will scorch us no more. The schools are in session, with black board and switch, the children are threshin' out fractions and sich; the schoolmaster's ruling, the kids work the brain; too long were they foolin' at home, raising Cain. No more are they pitchin' their indoor baseball; there's peace in the kitchen, there's calm in the hall. The cornfield is yellow, it glows in the sun, the husbandman ellow is counting his nion. Dame Nature, the tinter, is staining the leaves, and soon we'll have winter, but nobody grieves; of grub we have plenty our gods let us thank and eighteen or twenty fat bucks in the bank. How peaceful and tender the autumn world seems; it has all the splendor of worlds seen in dreams. The wearisome worry of summer is o'er, the hideous hurry is needed no more: there's loaf ing and languor where late there was work, from Boston to Bangor, from Yankton to York. WHAT ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Recently Jones attended a fashionable ball. Dur ing the evening he met a pretty young woman dressed in soft, filmy white and wearing the cutest little slippers that ever incased a dainty foot. In stantly Jones' eye dropped in that direction. "Par don me," apologized Jones, blushingly, "it was very' rude of me, I know, but I couldn't help noticing your slippers." "I see." smiled the young woman good-naturedly. "What do you think of them?" "What 3o I think of them?" exclaimed Jones with large emphasis, "they ara simply immense." Houston Chronicle. Are the Germans going home to mix more war medicine? If so, can they ever come back? A PENNSYLVANIA RADIUM DEPOSIT With the prominence given to the subject of radium; some interest attaches to. a brief report by Edgar T. Wherry describing a deposit of carnotito near Mauch Chunk, Pa., published as Bulletin TiSO-H of the United States Geological Survey. Carnotite Is one of the radium-bearing minerals, and this de posit is believed to have been formed by precipita tion from the ground water and can now be seen in process of formation where water trickles out through cracks in the rocks. The deposit is of significant interest, but the present knowledge re garding it is insufficient to warrant any statement as to its workability. So far as is now known the total area covered by the carnotite bearing lenses is very small, the observed outcrops being confined to a strip but a few hundred feet in ex tent. 1 J The Phoenix National Bank F II. J. McClung, President M. C. McDougall, Vice-Pres. T. E. Pollock, Vice-Pres, H. D. Marshall, Cashier II. M. Galliver, Asst. Cashier G. G. Fuller, Asst. Cashier