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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, MONDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 15, 1915 I 1,,, ' ,1 ' . . : - - v - , ; 11 II IK -i A Republican's Editorial Page i inzona The Arizona Republican Published by ARIZONA Pl'W.ISHING COMPANY. I'wlght H. Hoard President and Manager Charles A. .Stauffer Business Jianager Garth W. Gate Assistant Business Manager J. W. Spear Editor The Only Paper in Arizona Published livery Day in the Year. Only Morning Paper in Phoenix. Exclusive Morning Associated Press Dispatches. Office, Corner Second anil Adams Streets. liiitered at the Postol'fice at Phoenix. Arizona, as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Allen & Ward. Representatives, New York Office, P.runswick Building. Chicago Office, Advertising Building. . Address all communications to THE ARIZONA RE PUBLICAN, Phoenix, Arizona. Business Office City Editor TELEPHONES: ...422 ...4:'.3 l l..MHI'l'TIlM FtiTHS: Daily, one month, in advance ., Daily, three months, in advance Daily, six mouths, in advance Daily, one year, in advance Sundays only, by mail . .7B . a. oo . 4.00 . 8.00 . 2.50 MONDAY MORN I NO, KKBRCARY 1" 1110 ; Newcomers' Day Now, therefore, ye are no more strangers ;inl forciucs, but i'cllow ritizens. Ephesiaus, THe Mine Tax Bill Debate The Republican endorsed the principle of the pending mine tax nil!, believing though that it .should bo amended so that it would produce a larger chare of taxes from tile mines than the tei ins and factors seemed to provide. But it endorsed the principle of the bill because it possessed the quality .f defmiteness which was nowhere else visible. The tax commission promised nothing except that its duly 'would be perlormed according to the best of its ability and the oaths of its members." Evi dently the commission has no definite plan for tax ing the mines to propose; it is neglecting to take an anxious and inquiring public into its confidence. We were hopeful that some plan of the com mission would be disclosed ill the course of the debate un tjie bill in the house, though it had been . carefully concealed, if one existed, during the ex haustive hearings before the senate finance commit -te and those of the ways and means committee, as well as in the joint hearings of both committees. But the chief effort of the opponents of the bill on Saturday were directed against all discios-' me. against debate even, anil when, at last debate was forced, they could only bid us rely up in the integrity and the oracular wisdom of the tax com mission. Some foolish oomparisuns weie ni:'.de between mining and other classes of property, and there was . much talk against "special legislation" by gentle men who were alarmed at the sound of the term, without a clear idea of the meaning i;f it; gentlemen who have not kept pace with the progress which students of taxation have made in the last few years, and who still believe that equal or equitable taxation means that all property shall be .taxed in the same way. Some of the opponents of the bill urged that it was not within the province of the legislature W.' lake a hand in taxation; the commission had been elected by the people to perform thai tint;.. The following from the twenty-fourth annual re- poll of the .New York Tax Reform Association blank els all the.-:e ancient objections to "special legis lation:'' Most , of the constitutional provisions requiring uniformity were adopted many years ago before the development of modern industrial conditions. f recent years it has come to be recognized that the attempt to tax all property in the same way has broken down completely, and that the system of personal property taxation required by the uniform rule is impracticable and unjust. Special tax in vestigating commissions in many states have recom nn ruled repeatedly the repeal of such provisions. In Part;, Minnesota led the way by amending its constitution so as to permit legislative frtedom in dealing with an class of properly. Oklahoma and Arizona followed .Minnesota when they were ad mitted a stales." and Michigan abolished uniformity in the levision of l!Mt8. The Virginia constitution adopted in l'J2 provided that after ten years the legislature should be five to classify property. North Dakota now joins the roup of states which allow their legislatures substantial freedom in taxation. The reference to. Arizona in tl.e foregoing has to do with the late temporary mine tax law'. In Nebraska, Kansas, Kentucky and other staled efforts were made last year to abolish the uniform ily plan which is every ivherc being outgrown. In the first-named stale the effort failed for the reason that though it received a majority of all the votes cast, it lacked the two-thirds required for the adop tion oli a constitutional amendment. In Kansas no campaign was .made for the amendment, which was vigorously attacked, yet it was defeated by less than 10,001) votes of a total of ;;2;,,U0o cast on that ques tion. It will b: seen, therefore, that throughout the country, the tendency is toward a recognition of the fact that all classes of property cannot be taxed - V in the same way. We must admit that the debate on Saturday afternoon was not, on either side, very enlighten ing and did not disclose an overwht lining familiar ity with the subject, but we think that any fair minded, intelligent man must concede that the pro ponents of the bill had much the best of it, all the best of It. " But, when members are pledged, either in legislatures or in congress, debate is oniyr ano'her way of wasting time and words. The Republican has endeavored to take an im partial view of this question, the most important, by far, before the legislature. It has sougiit all available sources of information concerning it, and lias presented such information as it has acquired to the public. It believes in the principle of the bill, but it also believes that it should be so amended as to make sure that the mines shall pay their full slfare of the taxes first, by an increase of the multiple of the net produced by a multiplication of it by not less than 4'i and by the insertion of a clause, if possible, providing that the mining indus try sfiali always pay not less than 3B per rent, of all the state taxes. The mines paid almost that linn It last your and a little more than ilmt the year before. It was the evident opinion of other tax payers that that proportion' was not far wrong. We believe that if the' legistatiire will agree to some definite plan for the taxation of mines, this or another, it will be better for, every other class of taxpayers in the slate, farmers, merchants and all. We would suggest to the members to disregard the bugaboo of "special legislation" and petty poll tics and proceed til practical results. The Republican offers this suggestion the more freely since it is in no way connected with the min ing industry and is free from all suspicion of cor porate influence. It is interested alike in all the interests of Arizona and their harmonious progress. Military Training in the Schools The Republican has lately printed communi cations from correspondents, called out by a recent published interview with Adjutant General Harris, on the subject of military training in the schools. Many. similar suggestions have come from dil'lerent parts of the country regarding the introduction of military exercises in schools and colleges. Of the numerous plans which have been de scribed in print, one is a scheme for establishing summer camps for college students. This idea has a strong supporter in Dr. ilibben, president of Prineton Vniversity. Concerning the problem of setting trained men without '.he establishment of anything resembling a "military caste," Dr. ilibben says: TiUK end can be obtained, it seems to me. by the most admirable plan suggested some two years ago by the war department, and carried into effect during the last two summers. It is the plan of sum mer camps for college men. A few men have gone each year into these camps. 1 wish there might i.e more. These camps afford opportunities for inten sive instruction in military affairs. The course lasts only five weeks, but in that time quick-witted young men of trained minds are capable of progress at a remarkable rale in the theory am1 an of mili tary procedure. It is stated that young men of ordinary bright ness, after two summer courses in these camps, would be capable, if the need arose, of acling as first and second lieutenants. Those showing un usual aptitude would be qualified to act as captains, in case of war, our great problem would be the whipping into shape of thousands of raw recruits, finler such circumstances, the services of college trained officers would be invaluable to the govern ment. A large number of college presidents agree with Dr. Hibben that the sunmier-carpp plan is an ex cellent one. There is no apparent objection , it. The men so trained would not be asked to perform any further military duty. They would not be in any sense "reservists." The operation of the sum-iner-camp system simply means that young men of a patriotic turn of mind could, by sacrificing alto iether ten weeks of their summer vacations fit themselves for l,t-in very useful to the government tl. in a time of need, tbey should desire to volun teer. Moreover, the young men would undoubted!, ' derive considerable personal bendit from the metal and physical discipline of the training camp Some of the senators fear that the ship pur chasing bill, if passed with the provision -or the purchase or the interned ships or belligerents, will Kct us into troubi,.. The senators may dismiss their apprehensions. It ,s the business of the alio;. administration to sidestep , rouble at whatever -x-per.se. .No use will be made ' of the law to which Great Britain might object. There are symptoms of friction between the lo--tslat.ve house and senate, which is hkelv ,o become so p.orionnced that the machinery ot legislation ,s liaoie to be held up by not boxes. Arizona was three years old .Wsterdav. the lust.est infaj... of that age in existence. THE SLIT SKIRT AND MASCULINE VIRTUE tiling 1 ""Srb'e f'"' that l'iUa,"y f,aU ar-J volatile thing-masculine v.rtue-to be imperiled by fashions precisely contrary. The full skirt and the scant skirt and the slit skirt affect it alike disastrously At dif ferent periods man's apprehension of his" own sus cep ibility have been awakened by the tight bodice, the Mother Hubbard, by the Simple Susan He ha. become vocal and vituperative over the danger-io b.mself-in high heels, no heels, paniers, too manv petticoats, and too few. One age thunders agains't corsets; another is shocked at the natural figure One shrieks with hysteric fear of veils; another ex claims at the uncovered face. One sounds the alarm at clocked stockings; another pales at the threat to virtue in white spats. One is panic-stricken at the use of starch: another pants with terror of the insid ious corruption in silk. And the waist line, as U rises or falls, is the barometer of sex-murals, carrying with it mans uneasy susceptibility; only it always regis ters the same degree of pressure and whatever it points to, it invariably threatens storm! , The esthetic intention of costuming is not always clear, but its effect seems to be to put emphasis now upon one part of woman's body, now another; on the ankle and h g i 1!00, on the arms and back in 1800 on the hips in 1700, on the bosom in 1600, on the abdomen in 1100. And though fashions may come and fashions may go. in every instance the bell of male susceptibility rings out an alarm against the perennial offender in maters of costume a call to arms to grave students of sociology, men of affairs clergymen, criminologists, against what the leading religious paper of the' twentieth century denominates the shameless styles." ' What is modesty for women, so far as clothes express it? Who invented it-the men who set wom en s fashiors, or the men who cry out against them? Jt certainly had Us origin in the sex- that is still de vout and decorous and chaste by proxy. "The fewer clothes women wear tile better for their health." says the Chicago woman who is almost reverenced in irreverent America todav. She wiio has been called the Pope of American Women declines to be shocked hy so ephemeral and irrelevant thin" as fashion.iMiriam .Miehelson in February Sunset Magazine. BETTY'S CINCH Alice So you bet $r, with Tom that Harvard would win the football match and $r with Jack that Yale would win. That was funnv. You came out exactly even. Betty No, I didn't. I won the jr, from Tom and of course Jack wasn't mean enough to let me pay the ,$r, I lost In him. Boston Herald. KEW YORK SHOW HUGE 0KE-H0LL1NGSW0RTH Well Known Auto Fanatic Just Back From Big Motor Car Exposition; Took in Some Races. Dick Hollingsworth, oscillating sales man for the t'hanslor anil Lyon com pany, auto accessory dealers of most all the prominent coast metropolis, is in Phoenix for the first time since the famous occasion upon wnicn he made the last Los Angeles to Phoenix auto race a success. Since the finish of that well remembered contest, the moving pictures have shown Dick and his puttees at the finish lines of sev eral right famous classics, including the Corona and San Diego events. The New Y'ork auto show-, remarks Hollingsworth. was so internally big that a fellow had to go five times in order to see it all. He is just back from an eastern trip, which took in that great motor car exposition. o DIRTY SCALES MARK proper care devices, is That storekeepers and dealers gen erally do not take scales and weighin statement of o. X. Creswell, state in spector of weights and measures, who is now on his annual inspection tour of the state. "I find many scales in bad shape that cannot be condemned as false," said Inspector Creswell Saturday, at the close of his first week of inspec tion. "A scale should be gone over at least once every three months and thoroughly denned. But so long as they can weigh anything on it, deal ers generally do not seem to care how dirty the bearings become. Often, in stead of cleaning their apparatus properly, they try to grease the bear ings, with the result that the scale is in woise shape than before." Inspector Creswell. who is now in specting scales in the Sail River val ley, will spend tiie week on the south side, cheeking up weighing devices and goods kept by dealers there. the right to search American ships tious and races as well as with our and to force into the English navy own countrymen, made up bore in not only her own countrymen but 'America of the representatives- of in some lases those who wereAmeri- m,,nJ.' ,mti,'n and whore class dis can citizens. Thus, the war began. tl",'lons are hf""u bitter. England was the greatest naval , r svnll)',H'ies go out to the power then, as she is today, in the . , 111 "i gleat trial anil world. We had only a few wooden ships unworthy of the name of a navy but ail the same the pride of Hie English navy received a severe blow in the brilliant victory of Com modore McDonough in the waters of Lake Champlain and in other achievements of the American navy. On land, we were less fortunate and our humiliation reached its culmina tion in the capture of Washington by the British and the burning of the executive mansion, while the victor- jvv jMigianu alone cannot receive our I sympathy and moral support. This! country is cosmopolitan. She owes a great debt to England's great rival, i If England is our mother, Germany' is also an ancestor, since from the wave washed shores of northern '.'ermcoy there came the Angles and the Saxtns to found the English na-i tion What material, intellectual and; spirit - 1 strength we have received j through the settlement of the sons of moJcrn Germany all through the century in the heart of great republic. 'It is easier for this ions aimy overran the fields of Maryland, the humiliation of which) is only alleviated by the fact that it I ' easier lor us to follow the gave occasion for the writing of' our-J , ,he Indent of this cnun great national anthem of "The Star , '" ol,p-vlnS 'he law of neutrality Spangled Banner." Hut England, I l,eciUlse we can see with dearer proud and defiant, the strongest and ! Vls"i"1- "Cached and apart from this most dominant nation in Europe ' mig,,,y ron"sl- and life made up as through the recent defeat of Napo-I " . a''C", 0f V".''io11 na,i"ialities. Well 11 ..mi llll.l COMl I V n IS to eu-e.l Iron at Waterloo by Wellington, which meant the final overthrow of Era nee, her great rival for centuries, was yet eager for peace after years of warfare. By a strange irony of fate, the peace articles were already signed, but the news did not reach America until the battle of New Or-; leans had been fought and in the victory of our army under Genera! .lackson our national humiliation was succeeded by Phoenix Title and Trust Co. . Offers buyers of Keal Es tate an absolute protec tion in its Guarantee Title Policy consistently the counsel of Washing- t'n laid down in the beginning of our national history that America should have no entanglinir alliances with other nations. Well would it j . tii i.M i-.nmanu lr sue had followed the example of her earlier history in this respect. It is true here as everywhere that it generally takes two or more to mi.k. .-ii of feeling of pride and V-"e "l 8,oal nations exultation paralleled only with that dK' entirely innocent in this ... u iragic war tlial has brought disaster to our modern civ ilization and overthrown the love and j faith of many. Where the greater I blame lies, the future historians must l:,l,llv ll,rmlnl -i,,..,. .1, O "'""'V Wlieil IBCtS which followed the final victory al Yorktown. when, for. the first time, the British forces had to withdraw from this part of the continent. "A hundred years of peace, con- tliese Inter days; There arose first; the disputes over the boundaries be- become clear but then things evident to most now obscure are a few i men and one tween the Cnire.t smi.. ,,.! Rrit i.h I is thi,t "" Krt'at moral question was hi .ui.iiing cause oi this Euro-1 uean war. Each nation involved b..- , lieves that the war was forced noon ucr lor per own west. 1 , INVITATIONS 'TO THE TOURISTS ARE-POPULAR Manager Mitchell of Street Railway Company Orders Five Hundred of Them for Use in Mail The Republican's "invitations" are proving more and more iopulur with the business men. and now the record of those sent out exceeds two thou sand. How they are appreciated among the best business men is shown by the following letter to the chamber of commerce from Manager S. II. Mitchell of the Phoenix Kailway company: "We will be pleased to have jufi more of the invitations to send out with our eastern mall, -he same as copy received in today's mail from you. "We believe that this pamphlet should bring thousands of peop'e to this valley, providing the merchants and those sending mail to their east ern friends will follow it up closely." The .invitations are printed on at tractive brown i taper, and set forth the advantages of the $J.so stop-over trip from either of the main liius to Phoenix. HUSBAND'S NIGHT The Glendale Woman's club will celebrate "hus band's night" with a banquet at the club tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock, when husbands of the members will be the guests of the organization. Hire a little salesman a; The Re publican office A Want Ad will see more customers than you can. "The imir.eamirahlv better conditions of the beginning of this century over those at the beginning of the last are attributable directly to the influence of labor organizations." Rev. James S. Myers in the Topeka Capital. LEGISLATORS LISTEN (Continued from Page One) and dictatorial English commissioners by his attractive personality and diplomatic, skill; to him more than to any of the others is due the achievement of peace with honor to this country. Better known as the great financier and secretary of the tieasiiiy in more than one adminis tration; surpassed only by Alexan der Hamilton among the illustrious statesmen of finance in this country, yet Gallatin achieved now and later no less honor and distinction as the representative of the United States abroad. "We need not. go into the discus sion of the causes or the achieve. in the east and Oregon in the They were finally settled by the Webster-Ashburton treaties. Then there came the no less serious dis putes over the fisheries questions. which extended from the waters of i Newfoundland to the Retiring Sea, but the most serious misunderstand- i ing of all came in connection with our civil war. In the beginning of that contest, the sympathies of the English people, at least its leaders, were with the south. Gladstone in his famous- Newcastle speech declared that Jefferson Davis had succeeded in founding a nation. The Historian Freeman wrote on the title page of preservation and national existence it- ivellbeiiig, for ?elf. "Rut the root of the matter lies in race hatred and in the greed for power, foi land and wealth, because universal fatheihood and mans uni versal brotherhood are denied. We seem to become Pagans once - more, as each wVring country apparently believes in its national deity and like the Hebrews of the olden times thev think that Jehovah belongs to their nation alone. Why are great navies and great aimies built up? Simply ueeause one nation is unwillin his history that the period of which , "Al"'n ls ""Z that i, i , ,.,.,. , others shall share equally in the- session of the things of this world. Rushing hither and thither the Euro ptan countries pursued their mad race to possess the earth and its riches. Each nation was apparently jealous of the growing industry and wealth of the other. The seeds of hate and misunderstanding were sown easily and quickly. It is greed, it is jealousy. it is hatred that has brought on this fearful iconoclasm that brings disaster to this fair land of ours and to other lands who are innocent of offense. Fearful is the accusation that the underlying caus es for the overthrow of the modern world aie these; that most of the great . nations involved were fearful of the dissensions that ha arisen in their own ranks, that civil war was threatening them all. brought about by political and economic reasons and the denial in many cases, if not all. of human rights. The heavy taxa tion, tin. military burdens were mak ing white slaves in Europe today even as we had black slaves here in America half a century ago. If this be true, then for the time being the victory is with the warring nations for each country is apparently united at the present moment. "Rut the greater evils of the con flict are still to come. Let them consider this. who. in this countrv .i-iuiooo i,y the class hatred iias noen growing so late. he was writing closed with the down fall of the American republic. The southern states were perhaps tech nically correct in their claim that they had a rigid to withdraw from the union, but the question was more than a legal one; it was a moral question. If the heresy of state rights had not been stamped out. our national integrity would have been destroyed and we should no longer have had a place among the nations of the earth. The great question that divided the nation was, how ever, the belief in the north that hu man slavery must be destroyed; that the republic could not be half free and half slave. The cause of the w ar, t herefore, was a moral one rather than a political one and on which there could be no compromise, as England herself recognized later. "Rut we were not altogether blameless in our conduct toward Great Britain in this troubled period, as one of the officers in our navy committed the almost fatal blunder of removing from an English ship the envoys of the south on their way to England. There came a be lated apology on our part and the release of the envoys. Fortunately for us. Queen Victoria drew her pen through the objectionable phrases of the paper written by the English sec retary for foreign affairs, which would very likely have brought on war. There came also the difficul ties in connection with the Alabama claims occasioned by the depreda tions made upon our commerce by vessels fitted out in the ship yards of England. Happily, these disputes were peacefully settled by the treaty of Washington and the arbitration of' Geneva. Somew hat later came the j Venezuela message of President Cleveland, which threatened trouble I for the moment and which event we cannot view with much national ; pride, while we must confess we owe much to the restraint of the English government at that time. For a quarter of a century now. the two nations have been growing . together ill mutual understanding anil -. sym patby. . Peace and good will prevail; Long ago the sneering question of Sydney Smith. 'Who reads an Ameri-j can book:' was nobly answered by, the golden age of American" litera ture. W ah a certain condescension I England long regarded us, feeling a j certain pride in us as a promising j hut somewhat obstreperous .child and j thinking that we very likely needed discipline. Ami doubtless we were! over-sensitive, pugnacious and quite ready to fasten our American eagle i lav-As into the British lion's body if: the provocation w-as Sufficient. Com-' ing to manhood we are able io see' with clearer vision that English his- ! tory and literature are ours: thai! Washington and I.iiveoln are the successors of Cromwell and Hamp den; that Shakespeare and Milton I j belong to1 America no less than to England. We recognize that democ racy and the spirit of liberty finds home in monarchial England as Dodge Brothers Car Buy It Now $895 In Arizona PHONE 519 BROTHERS ciety is divided today, assert that war is a good thing because it weids a nation together and brings out the virile qualities that have been weak ened by prosperity and indulgence on the one hand and on the other by unending toil and sordid conditions of living. The great Napoleonic wars were followed by the upheavals and revolutions "of the middle of the luth century when thrones were shattered and overthrown but industrial and political freedom was achieved to a certain extent. The cost is a fearful one to pay, but as the outcome of this great European war. it is likely, that freedom will come to the human race. Democracy, which is Christian ity, will come into its own. Tiie militant spirit will be overthrown forever. The vast wealth in pro perty and human life destroyed, the priceless works of art gone, the aw ful harvest of hate "and sin, pain, and suffering, the wheels of civili zation stayed perhaps for a centruy. may be the sacrifice required for the new world that is to be built upon the shattered foundations of the old world, which, weighed in the balance, has been found wanting. Once more the fatal words are traced upon the palace walls of Europe today as' long ago they were written on the walls of a faithless king in Babylon. War gone forever, international and in dustrial peace accomplished, those who come after us will welcome the new day when the kingdom of God shall have come in its fulness of power and redemption, and Christ, the Prince of Peace, will claim the world for which he died, and peace and freedom. love and unity, will .,1.1 tliirnllia- Ilia . 1. , ,,., K..,l. ,. , . c- -. . "ii-i i ji un i .tii-i rai u Hid o i.l lli ll - the distrust between the vnrinn.'.rt,.. i u ,., sectt.mc i- . .-vo iinv our o.ti'i...v anu puiiiieu so Hons into which our American so- people." " "' " -' ' ' - ' tiiat appahngly of ments t the second war with Ene InnH Tl,. ...,.i..i..: .. ' a lo.ue.i.vmg cause was the e as in repblican America: that distrust and hostility between thethe aima and iueals of the El ' , Jc?:nlr,'eS' ?h"'h hml not died I speaking race are largely the same. mi i nv htuh- Hinpiii ox Anion vSimple Living' Economy Isn't scrimping ones food, or subsisting on an unpalatable diet. . mini oiu intngestiDies, surplus quantities; and plannin to balance up essential food values. nit meals can independence. Akin in blood and aims and characteristics, as in tire case of many families, quarrels were bound to arise in spite of sympathy, appreciation and even affection, but me direct cause was the net Ion of Great Britain in ' We stand united in our faith in God's fatherhood and man's brother hood. Justice and mercy and frater nity and equality are not meaning less words in the Anglo-Savon vo cabulary, even tboneh we fail fi.-iil lrbitrary (;;,,. often enough, to live up to claiming , thm jn 0r dealings with other na- The ordinary diet is generally deficient , in some of these values, such as the mineral elements, tl.e lack of which is often responsible for anemia, listlessness. nervous breakdown, and general inefficiency A daily ration of Grape -Nuts FOOD has been a boon to thousands. Made of prime, hard wheat and malted barley, it contains all the nutriment-including the vital min eral elements, phosphate of potash, etc.. which Nature has bounlitullv stored in these rich food grains. Urape-Nuts is long-baked, very easy to digest, and comes readv to eat from the package. A crisp, appetizing food that combines good simple living and true economy. There's a Reason" firm-era sell Grape-Nuts.