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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 25, 1915
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T' KSIUY MOUXIXG, MAY 2a, 1!H3.
I To be friends with evervbodv, to
i till every human relation with the j
! spirit of friendship is there am- I
lliintr more' than this that the wisest
aiitl best of men eah hope to do
Washington Gladden.
Jokes Chance with Age
A correspondent of The Republican yesteida
iivimii'; jocularly treated a very serious incident
; which we lately directed attention that of a
tiii. -at by a delegation of ladies to mark for politi-
i! -.xtinct ion a member of the legislature uiihs
t. should vote as they desired him to vote, and
oiij.lt l wi'h (he threat the statement that two
l i.-inl rs of the supreme court had heen so marked
loause of their interiiretation of the law.
Tlie lightness with which our correspondent
d-.iit with this matter recalls those happy by-gone
:as when "'mule buying" in the legislature was re
yarded as a joke and when obloquy attached only
t.. til.- iin mr who would not "stay bought."
'.'ribery and bribe-receiving were held, to he honol
;it it- transactions, jiossessing settle element of
humor.
In those golden days, too, the theft of a hill
..!. the eve of its passage near the close of a legis
l::ti - session was a mere pleasantr, though finally
it lrt-c.inie so mmh tif a nuisance that more srritius
liunded legislators, who had heen annoyed at the
fre...ieiit recurrence of the joke, enacted a law
ti.- Iriring this form of humor to lie a felony punish
able by ineareerati.m in the terriiorial prison. The
joke, it n i ike wine, lost in fiavor with ige
We suppose that we will advance to a point
vme tiice when an attempt to influence legislation
l.y means of threats will not he regarded as inno
i. iit hilarity. ur laws do not now so regard it.
In. t the efficacy of a law deiends wholly upon the
N ice of sentiment behind it.
our col respondent more seriously excuses the
attempted intimidation of th legislator in this
ase on the ground that in voting the way the
i. legation wanted him to vote, he would have fol
lowed the expressed wish of the people of Ids county
at the last election. Hut he would not have fol
lowed the wish of the people of the whole state.
Whither would we be led by this theory of our
eoi iesM.nient? of the fourteen counties which
..:cil on the prohibition amendment, only four
lavored its adoption. Would the members of the
legislature from the other ten counties lie justified
in accepting the verdict of their constituents rather
th:-n that of the voters of the whole state? If so,
tie peace officers of those ten counties would be
;i.?-t if.cd in disregarding the amendment which
their constituents had refused to endorse.
We have seen, at great expense to the state, this
iew of our rorres)ondent prevail in this legisla
ture in the regular and the extra session. Most of
the promised constructive legislation of the rep-ular
session, as well as the general appropriation bill,
failed because members were not able to look be
i.iul the lxiundaries of their counties. For the
same reason, the general appropriation bill in th
-tra session is now threatened with failure.
We will alwa"s be in danger of such failures
i.ntll a majority of the members of each house
l-ome to understand that the state is the smallest
unit of legislation: until they come to realize that
they are not representatives of counties, towns, or
individuals, but of the state.
"Trade rt Home"
An'on; the advertisements in The Republican
last Sunday was one by the Arizona State Press
relating iiartly to job printing and partly to the
cott... "Trad at Home." The advertisement men
tions three cases of home job printing within a
week, the contracts aggregating nearly $2.1100."
more than half of which went for wages, a part
of the rest to th6 proprietors of the shops and
the balance, a comparatively small part, for ma
terial. Only the money paid for the last named
i:-n went out of town. Fifty per cent of this
S.M.oo has since been distributed among the gro
ceries, bakeries, meat markets, dry goods, clothing
and shoe stores, and other places of business in'
Phoenix.
The. Arizona State Press' advertisement was
written for the edification of business men and
others who are inveigled by glib-tongued agents of
the large printing houses of the coast and else
where into giving large orders, which are executed
by men who never siiend a dollar here. Frequently
letterheads and billheads bearing a foreign imprint
are received from local dealers who deprecate a
tendency" on the part of citizens to send away to
I lie large mail order houses for merchandise
which can be bought at home.
The Republican speaks of this advertisement,
not b-oause it is engaged in joi j.rinting, for it
has no complaint to make of a lack of patronage:
it has plenty of work to do. It refers to this
advertisement because it is peculiarly a case in
point.
"Trade at Home" is a rather worthless motto
unless it is given a general application. If it is
- disregarded at all, it .should not be disregarded by
that class of citizens who have goods lo sell io
other citizens. The man who is. not dependent upon
the patronage of his neighbors, and who sends
abroad tor goods which lie can buy at home, is not
working for the best interests of his town: yet
lie cannot be accused of inconsistency. Put the
merchant who needlessly sends money out of town
is lessening the purchasing power of his own community.
Who May Be to Blame?
There is stil la hope, though rather glimmering,
that tha legislature in the extra session will yet
l ass a general appropriation bill But if it should
fail to do so, we may iniuite where the people will
locate the blame and against which house it wi'l
charge the expense of still another extra session.
The house to which the blame is attached will
also bear, rightly or wrongly, the blame for failure
to pass an appropriation bill in the regular session.
The people may not closely differentiate things:
they may only remember that legislation has cost
this year in the neighborhood of t'JO.iNiO. Not as
much, of course, in the aggregate, as the Euro
pean war, but much more, considering the num
ber of warriors involved.
We do not care now to discuss the appropria
tion Mil as it left the house, and as it was re
turned to the house by the senate. We may say,
though, that in some resiiecls the house bill was
the better, and that in other respects it was im
proved by the senate. The only matter in which
vte are now interested is the sentiment of the
people with respect to the house, in the event of
a failure to pass a bill at all, for that will lie
the bald and predominant fact before the people.
In the contest (and it was a contest from the
beginning of the present session), the house was
handicapped tit the outset by the record of its
failure to send a bill to the senate in the regular
session.
The friends of the house must regret that It has
been unable to remove the effect of that handicap,
and that circumstance has driven it, or it has al
lowed itself to be maneuvred, into a still more
unfavorable position.
The difference in the aggregate between the bi!!
as it passed the house and as it was returned to it
"was trifling a little more than $2ti,imo. The changes
made by the senate were for reductions in the cost
of running the offices and for increases for the
maintenance and improvement of educational insti
tutions. Then came 'he conference in which the
larger number of concessions were made by the
senate conferees, nearly all looking to increases in
salaries as demanded by the house. The result of
the conference v was so satisfactory to Chairman
l'owers of the house managers that he urged the
adoption of the report by the house. But the
house, having rejected many of tin? committee rec
ommendations in detail, suddenly rejected the re
port in toto and sent the bill back to conference
without any further instruction!! lo the house con
erees. If the senate cenferees should stand upon the
origiral report, if that report should again be re
turned to the house and should again be rejectee1,
the end of the matter will have come and the
people would necessarily absolve the senate of
blame, since tK.it body would have had no oppor
tunity to act upon the reKrt and would not be on
record as having instructed its referees. Xo amount
of explanation, however reasonable, if it could be
heard, would effacs the fact that the house turned
down the recommendation of its own conferees
while the senate was deiiarred from a consideration
of the report.
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RISE OF RAILROAD PRESIDENTS .
Only three of the twenty men who are at th
head of the great railroad systems of America to-lay
held those iiosit:ons t n years ago. There ws a
.time when the- list of railroad chiefs was a cata
logue of Coulds, Huntingtons, H.irriruans, ander
. bills and millionaires generally. Xow, with the ex
ception of Stotesbury of the R"ading. who is r
banker, and I- W. Hill of the Oroat Xorthern, who
is a son of J. J. Hill, nearly every man has worked
his way up from a lowly position.
Ripley, the giant who pilots the Atchison, began
obscurely as a clerk.
l.'ndet wood, who is evolving the Krit. l'rorr. a
joke to a railroad, was a brakeman. .
, Willard of the B. Ac O., chosen representative of
the Kastern group of railroads when difficult mis
sions have to be undertaken, was a fireman.
Klliott, savior of the Xew Haven, was an ex
rodman. Markham rf the Illinois Centrnl began as a sec
tion laborer.
Bush, who is slaving night and day to put i-.Iis-sourl
Pacific on its feel, did not have to work iiite
so hard when he received his railroad baptism as a
rod man.
Ilea of the Pennsylvania is a product of the en
gineering department.
Karling, piesident of the St. Paul, was a tele
graph operator.
Smith of the New York Central. Hannaford of
the Xorthern Pacific, Mohler of the Union Pacific,
Sproule of Southern Pacific, Gurdner of the Xoith
western, Thomas of ihe Lehigh Valley, Aludge o
the Rock Island, etc., have forged their way up from
the lowest rungs of the ladder.
LOAFED HALF THE TIME
The late Cleorge A. Hearn, millionaire business
man and art collector of New York, was noted for
his kind and reasonable treatment eif his employes.
Mr. Iloarn used to smile at the new scientific man
ageinect crai:e, cf which he once said rit a dinner:
"These- scientific management people with their
impossible claims of e'-oubling and trebling a man's
abor remind me of the humble hod carrier -i im
jKsihlc promise.
"A facetious boss said to a new hod carrier:
" 'I-ook-a-here, friend, didn't I hire you to carry
brieks up that ladder by the eiay?'
"'Yes, sir,' said the hod carrier, touching his cap.
"Well, I've had my eye on you, and you've only
elone it half a. day today. You spent the other halt
coming down the ladder."
"The hod carrier touched his cap again.
" 'I'll try to do better tomorrow, sir,' he said
humbly."
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CELEBRATE DAY
Jjaro flatlici'inu f British
ers, Their Friends and
Relatives Observe Knipire
Par at Riverside Park
Will Be Annual Affair.
Where the People
May Have Hearing
ORANGE PRUNING
ELKS PICNIC:
Kmpire Day was celebrated in Ari
zona for the first time yesterday when
between three and four hundred IJrit
ishers. theii friends and relations.
Joined with the Caledonian society in
commemorating the day at Riverside
park.
Scotchmen in their native dreyes and
many others in regular attire beijan to
assemble at the park early in the af
ternoon and by the time the picnic sup- j
tier was ready for serving, a host of i
I ritishtrs from many lands were on I
To the Kditor Arizona Republican,
f Sir: An article appears in your
j Salt Rivir Valley edition entitled
"Soi.ie Practical Suggestions on
! Orniifce l'runing." by II. Lcppla.
Kindly allow me to take exception to
out- of Mr. l.eppla's remarks, which in
unreasonable and not practical. In
. the first place,, his remarks on Cali
fornia methods of pruning are-wrong,
' for there is no set method of pruning
either here or in California, and Mr.
I.epplas trees that were pruned in
l'.U3 by the writer, arc the best look
ing trees in the valley and have more
fruit now growing per tree than any
trees in Arizona of the same age.
I also defy .Mr. I.eppla or anybody
elsi- to show where a single tree in
his grove or any other grove that has
been killed by California methods of
pruning.
RAY M. WARD.
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KIDS REJOICE!
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IMPORTANT FIGURES
IN PORTUGAL CRISIS
V'.'iver, can still oe bciTght in Rus
i. The price for a pretty eirl
hand to do justice to the feed and do j runs fr.'rr SK'O to Si'Hii.
honor to their mother country.
In the evening of song, story, pictures
snd dancing was given under the aus
pices of the society. The Rev. Dr.
Sinims made a ten minute address that
set band to c lapping and feet to stamp
ing, he lauded the Ilritishers in Amer- '
ica, their high type of citizenship and I
the asset they have proven to this
country. j
Mex Davidson, president of the Cale- ;
donian society and big chief of all the j
Scotchmen in Arizona, expressed his j
pleasure at the size of the gathering.
It gratified him to see so many Brit
ishers there and he hoped that this
preliminary celebration would develop
into a great annual affair that would
make the 24th of May notable in Ari
zona. It was evident that he held a
warmplace in the hearts of the audi
ence from tiie greting he received and
the wild applause when his picture, like
himself, in his native kilts was thrown
on the screen.
The Misses Raum and Stafford gave
a charming exhibition of Scotch danc
ing, Mr. R. F. .Tones sang some Rritish
songs in a manner that tickled his
hearers. Mrs. MacDnnald recited a
story and "little Hobby" sang "Where
the River Shannon Flows" until one
could almost see the water. After that
there were pictures, slides showing the
leading generals and admirals of Brit
ain, a picture of the late Lord Roberta
which received a fine tribute, pictures
of the troops at the front, in actual bat
tle scenes and on the march and scenes
from various parts of Scotland. After
that they sang "God Save the King"
and "America" and Arizona's first
Empire Day was at an end.
Annual Outing and Picnic
(iiven by Members of 11.
P. O. K. for Youngsters
and Old Folks at 1 fiver
side Park Todav.
of things to amuse them and along
about noon comes the feed, of course
this will not interest the youngsters
in the least; but the announcement is
made as ;i matter of course. Could
anyone imagine great freezers of ice
cream, with cake and trimmings, un
der the shadey trees of Riverside on
a hot day- appealing to any healthy
youngster? Of course not.
Al Williams has the affair in charge
and he has a fine young list of sports
and stunts prepared to keep both
young and old busy. The committee
in charge will be at the -park early in
the morning and from the arrival cf
the first kiddy until the last automo
bile carries home the final straggler
there will be something doing every ,
minute.
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SELECTING THE GERMAN FLAG
PLAY TIT-TAT AND WENT HOME
It was 3 o'clock in ir-P morning in
one of the Broadway lobster palaces.
Three youths were seated at one of the
tables. Thev had just ordered "another
bottle" of t're bubble water. Two of
them were hilarious and one broke into
song.
"I tell you what I'll do," said the
third, who was the soberest of the
three, "I'll challenge any of you to a
game of tit-tat-to on the condition that
you go home if I bent you."
The necessary diagram was drawn
on the table cloth and the game started.
At the end of the seventh play the
sober one cried "tit-tat-to" and pointed
to the three Xs. The gilded youth
studied them for a moment. Then he
nTid his pal rose to their feat and ex
tending his hand said: "Sir, I congrat
ulate you; you're a better man than I
am." And true to their agreement they
disappeared through the revolving
doors. New York Letter to the Pitts
burg Dispatch.
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All the animals in the Riverside
y.oo went to bed extra early last
night, the proprietor of the merry-go-round
ordered in an extra ton of coal
wit rPwhich to feed his wooden horses,
the monkeys were busy looking fen
estra high branches on the trees in
their cage, and the attendants at file
bath house were digging up all the
small sized bathing suits and putting
them in the front rows.
The reason for all this? This is the
day of the annua! Elks picnic for
children and old people, and all the
youthful Elks and Elkesses that are
to be will be bound Riverside Park
ward early this morning. It was ru
mored last night that the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
and parentshad its eye on the
wooden horses that prance around
the circular platforms oi the razzle
dazzle, but it is believed that it will
be content with "watchful waiting"
until the day is done.
Once every year the Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks gives an out
ing for the children and old folks of
lodge members. It is one of the
brightest occasions in the year's cal
endar and is looked forward to from
season to season by young and old
alike. All is in readiness for today's
picnic ant great have been the pre
parations to make it a success. All
Uie expenses of the occasion will be
borne by the Elks and young and old
will be met at the gate and supplied
with entrance and bathing tickets.
Inside the park they will find all sorts
When the present German empire
was established by uniting the several
German states into one realm, the
question arose as to what flag the new
empire should fly. As it happened, each
state wanted its own special standard
adopted, and no two of them were alike,
though as a general thing each was
composed of two color.: thus Prussia
had black and white, Bavaria blue and
white. Saxony green and white and
every other state, no matter how small,
possessed- a flag.
When the German empire became
an established fact, naturally it was
necessary to adopt a banner that would
be distinctive, include all the states, as
every government insisted on oenos
represented. A council was appointed
to take charge of the whole matter, and
the difficulty it encountered in coming
to a decision will be better appreciated
when it is remembered that there were
t least forty combinations to be made,
if all were to be satisfied with the ar
rangement. The larger states, the kingdoms, pro
posed that their flags should be united
and thus form the national flag, but
the delegates from the small princi
palities objected so strongly to the ig
noring of their claims to recognition
that this plan was voted down. An
other proposition was that all the
smaller states should be represented on
jack or corner of the flag, and have
a series of stripes, each representing
five cities or larger states. This was
also rejected as too cumbersome an ar
rangement. Again it was suggested to
have each state, large or small, rep
resented on the body of the flag, a
method of portioning out the surface
in squares, so much to each state. This
inconvenient and inartistic plan was
also rejected.
The Prussian delegates, however,
next prepared a combination of colors
and, of course, black and white were
not cast aside.. The idea was to adopt
a flag composed of black and white
and red, as this lattehad always been
Considered an imperial color. The
other kingdoms objected fiercely to the
predominance of the black and white
and green and white of Bavaria and
Saxony, but the Prussian delegates
found allies in those from the smaller
states, who, recognizing that there was
no hope of having the flags of their
own little states adopted, felt willing
to have the claims of the larger over
bearing states ignored, as well.as their
own, so they voted with the Prussians,
and the black, white and red was accepted.
Pres. Gun t Arriaga (top) and Dr.
Alfonso Costa.
- These men figure prominently in
Ihc- present crisis in Portugal. Presi
dent Arriaga is proving unequal to
the task of keeping peace in the little
re-public. Dr. Costa is ex-premier of,
Portugal and ..he leader of an im
portant faction. It is now believed
that the shots which -vere recently
fited at Senor Chagas. the new
pitmier, were really inter J"r for
Costa. j
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