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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1914 3
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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
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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
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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
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