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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY G. 1917
THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN
PHOENIX, APJZONA
Published Every Morning by the
ARIZONA PUBLISHING COMPANY
All communications to be addressed to the Company:
office, corner of Second and Adams Streets.
Entered at the Postoffice at Phoenix. Arizona, aa
Mall Matter of the Second Class.
President and General Manager Dwlght B. Heard
Business Manager Charles A. StauUer
Editor J. W. Spear
News Editor H. W. Hall
SUBSCRIPTION HATES IN ADVANCE
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MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Receiving Full Night Report, by Leased Wire.
TELEPHONES
Business, Advertising or Circulation 422
Editorial or News 433
Job Printing 499
General Advertising Representative, Robert E. Ward;
New Tork Office, Brunswick Building; Chicago,
New Tork Office, Brunswick Building; Chicago,
Advertising Building.
SUNDAY MORNING. MAY 6, 1917
I believe the greatest need of the
day and a need so fundamental as
to make other matters inconsequen
tial in comparison is the need of
universal military, industrial, and
economic preparedness.
Frank A. Vanderlip.
Murder and Punishment
Two murders in this community of the most fright
fully revolting character since the people voted to
abolish capital punishment last November have raised
the question whether or not a mistake was made then.
Within the same time there has been an increase in
homicide in other parts of the state. Whether or not
there is any relation between the abolition of the
fleath penalty and these two murders and the increase
in murder generally we do not know. It is natural,
though, for people to think that life imprisonment is
not an adequate punishment for the men who mur
dered Hughes near Tempo last December and cer
tainly not adequate for the crime of that fiend on
the Apache trail last Thursday night.
The Republican, which for a long time believed
that capita) punishment should not be abolished, and
especially believed that while the law providing for
it was on the statutes it should be enforced, last fall
did not oppose the abolition of the death penalty,
but suggested it by way of a trial. It de
ferred to the argument of those who con
tended that its abolition would result in a de
crease of crime by rendering punishment more cer
tain. The Republican entertained, however, none of
the maudlin sentiment of those who shouted "legalized
murder!" for there is and never was such a thing as
legalized murder.
The taking of human life on the scaffold or else
where is abhorrent, and if it could be avoided with
out lessening the security which the rigidly-enforced
law of capital punishment throws about the lives of
citizens, The Republican favored it. At the same
time The Republican suggested that if the abolition
of capital punishment failed of the result which its
friends claimed for it, it would be easy to restore the
gallows.
i
. A small majority of the people of Arizona evi
dently took the same ground. In spite of a vigorous
state-wide campaign for abolition, without a word
against it by the press or any public speaker, aboli
tion carried in a very small vote by an exceedingly
slender majority.
Russia and Submarines
The two foremost problems of the world war are
the Russians and. the submarines. More depends
upon the answer to the movement in Russia and to
the submarine campaign than upon any other ele
ment in the war. If the answer to the former should
be unfavorable to the allies all the sacrifice on the
western front will have been in vain. It would mean,
among other things, the overrunning and crushing
of Italy and it would mean the hurrying of vast
masses of American troops untrained and unequipped
across the ocean in an effort to save France.
Then there is the submarine problem, which must
'be solved before we can take part in either the re
inforcement of the allies or in supplying them with
the food and the munitions they must have if they are
to succeed, even if Russia does not enter into a sep
arate peace.
With both of these unknown quantities so promi
nent, the result of the war is in greater doubt than
it has been at any time since its beginning, nearly
three years ago.
Paper Milk Bottles
About the time we think we have found something
fairly sanitary and safe for food products some one
comes along and hits our confidence a body blow by
showing us that the thing we thought sanitary was
after all the best sort of a germ incubator.
The latest victim of the hygienic expert is the
ordinary domestic milk bottle. The Pennsylvania
health commissioner has condemned this important
food receptacle as a menace to health. As a result
of this ' decision the state health department has
issued an order that the dangerous bottle must go.
As a result of this action the milk dealers of that
state and those df some other states have taken
steps to provide milk containers which can be used
once and destroyed.
The favorite receptacle up to this time is a light
paper carrier, coated with paraffine, which can be
furnished at very low cost. Thesepaper bottles, like
the picnic plate of recent device and the paper ice
cream cartons, can be made in enormous quantities
by machinery, and when used once they are thrown
away or burned.
. The condemnation of the glass bottle rests on two
grounds. In the first place, even with the most im
proved methods, it is difficult to clean and it is im
possible to be sure that It is clean. Then, too, the
public generally often misuse milk bottles that come
into their hands and they are rendered unfit for milk
carriers.
, r If the condemnation of the milk bottle is based
on sound sense, and it must be confessed that the
case seems a good one, we may in a Bhort time see
the last of these dangerous devices.
The nursing bottle has been under suspicion a long
time, but we hardly expected to see the familiar milk
bottle banished just as it had completely ousted the
old fashioned can.
A Generous Response
The manner in which the citizens of the United
States have responded to the appeal to grow more
foodstuffs is indeed gratifying. The word want forth
that a concerted move was necessary to produce' big
crops if a food famine is to be prevented here and
the armies of our allies abroad are to be fed, and the
people immediately signified their willingness to make
every effort possible not only to increase the acreage,
but the yield as well, this spring and summer.
Not only have the farming communities heeded the
appeal, but the railroads are going to assist. Several
of the leading transportation lines maintain individual
departments of agriculture, these being used in or
dinary times to develop their territories. These
roads have agreed to co-operate with the government
to increase the production of wheat, potatoes, corn
and other products.
From everywhere comes reports of great activities
in agricultural lines. The farmers themselves are
taking hold of the matter in a way that augurs well
for the success of the movement to swell the output
of farm products. But the enthusiasm is not con
fined to the farmers alone. City people are becoming
inoculated with it. In several eastern towns moves
are already under Way to plow up and cultivate the
unused portions of golf courses. Farmers in the Kaw
valley, between Topeka and Kansas City, probably
the greatest potato producing section of the world,
were figuring on planting not more than half their
usual acreage owing to the high price of -seed potatoes.
Kansas City business men have agreed to furnish
seed with the understanding that they receive half
the crop in return, the business men's share of the
crop to he sold and the proceeds devoted to patriotic
purposes. This will insure the planting of the usual
acreage and under favorable weather conditions there
will be no decrease in the potato yield in that section
of the country.
Farmers in some localities have volunteered to set
aside from a quarter of an acre to an acre on which
they will grow crops for the government. The plots
will be cultivated by the farmers with their other
land and the production turned over to the war de
partment. The cultivation of idle land is be'ing advocated
that is, large tracts of land held in various states by
non-residents for speculative purposes. There are
seven million acres of this land in the four states of
Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado and Wyoming, which, if
properly handled, can be made: to produce excellent
crops of winter wheat. Other western states have
more or less land held by non-residents Which could
be placed under cultivation and made to yield crops
of one kind or another.
The plan under consideration is to make a survey
of all tillable land not now under cultivation, the
owners to be given the option of putting it to use
or turning it over to the government at a nominal
rent. This is a good move. The present is no time
for millions of acres of land to be lying idle.
Let us not be over-confident, however. Don't
think that the market is going to be overloaded with
foodstuffs for which there will be no demand. We
should not depend upon our neighbor, but every man
should do his part toward helping out. Plant what
you can. No matter if you have nothing more than a
small plot of ground in your back yard, dig it up
and make it produce. The nation needs your assist
ance and you can serve your country by consistent
efforts with your spade, rake and hoe if you are not
able to enlisfin the army or navy. You don't have
to wear a uniform and carry a gun, or walk the deck
of a battleship, to be a patriot and assist yor coun
try in her hour of need.
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TOO MUCH SOAP AND WATER UNHEALTHFUL
Is it possible that the braggart who proclaims his
daily "cold plunge" and his additional several, or
seven, times a week warm bath, as proof of his su
periority to persons who feel less frequently that they
need cleansing, is treating his health badly in the in
terest of his vanity?
Someone has said that all mankind may be di
vided into three classes, hose who bathe every day,
those who do not bathe every day, and those who are
clean enough not to need a bath every day.
The Medical and Chirurgical Journal says that
the abuse of soap and water, particularly the abuse
of soap, chips and furrows the epidermis and pro
duces .a scaly condition. Does anyone want to be in
a scaly condition?
Patches of scaliness seen o the face of the too
thoroughly scrubbed child are scurvy, this authority
informs the world. So, after all, the small boy's high
pitched protest against persons who overpower him
and scrub, rub and threaten to drub him is a reflec
tion of profound wisdom which the small boy always
has believed it to be. The scaly patches are likely to
prove lodging places for germs. Why wasn't this
battle cry of freedom published in the Youth's Com
panion or the official organ of the Boy Scouts rather
than in the Medical and Chirurgical Journal, where
it migh have yellowed in the files without reaching a
popular audience had not a friend of the boys rescued
it from the columns in which it was read by phy
sicians chiefly? '
Nurses overwash their powerless patients in hos
pitals, this high authority states. Surgeons used to
wash their hands so often 'that they became scaly
and subject to infection Louisville Courier-Journal.
RICHNESS
"A fine choice," the salesman flattered Mr. Brex,
"that necktie has such a rich effect."
"Isn't that rich?" inquired Mr.'Bnex's friend as he
finished his joke.
"The wall paper I picked out is very rich look
ing," said Mrs. Brex as they were dining later. Her
husband did not answer. After supper he opened a
new novel and read:
"In a richly furnished room of the hotel Walde
mar Hopkins was slowly, but methodically, anaes
thetizing himself with a cigar. He "
"Why a cigar? Why not let the surroundings do
their work?" Mr. Brex asked himself. He picked up
a magazine and the greatest serial ever written by
John Palsworthy since his last great serial began:
"The richly patterend curtains parted silently
and " .'
"I had a letter today from Emily," Mrs. Brex told
him. "She says the sunsets at the Grand Canyon
are beautiful, so rich, you know."
Mr. Brex tore his necktie from its fastenings,
threw the novel and the magazine ore the floor and
behaved generally in an irresponsible and alarming
manner. New York Sun.
HORSE WAS A PROHIBITIONIST
Yakima Pete, the most famous of all the pack
horses which ever carried a load in eastern Lewis
county or over the mountains into eastern Washing
ton, is dead, age unknown. He fell over a cliff a few
days ago and was killed. Yakima Pete was owned by
Will Hopkinson. For more than twenty years he
packed for tourists and government employes over
every trail in eastern Lewis county. It is said that
if the load placed upon his back were ever so small
a bottle of .liquor Yakima Pete could detect it and
would kick and buck until he had got rid of that bot
tle or the entire load in the attempt Portland
Oregonian.
RESENTED INSULT TO NAVY
. "Yort can't Insult the navy and get away with it,"
commented William Patterson, a sailor on the battle
ship Kansas, as he "polished off Ernest Wolverton,
who had created a commotion at the recruiting sta
tion in city hall courtyard by daring E. L. Bouton, a
60-year-old recruiting speaker to "lick" him.
AVoIverton waa severely beaten by the sailor, and
then the police locked him up for the night. Phila
delphia North American.. mi . 4
1 IS
NTT
ES
FOR THIS STATE
Clyde L. Timberlake. a linotype op
erator at The Arizona Republican, was
yesterday appointed by Governor
Thomas E. Campbell as Arizona repre
sentative on the National Committee of
Industrial Safety. Mr. Timberlake was
recommended for the appointment by J,
Clyde L. Timberlake
MINERS SI
TO BE W
F0H HARVEST
L. Donnelly, president of the Arizona
State Federation of Labor and a mem
ber of the executive committee of the
Arizona Council of Defense.
The position to which Mr. Timberlake
was appointed is recognized as one of
great importance in this state and
deals, primarily, with labor conditions
during the life of the war. In this eon
nection, he will be associated with some
of the , biggest labor leaders of the
country as well as many capitalists of
national reputation.
Activities of the Arizona committee
man for the next few weeks or months
will be directed almost entirely to the
collection of data and information rel
ative to existing conditions in Arizona.
Reports will be made to the committee
as a whole and at some future date it
is expected a meeting of the committee
of the whole will be held to discuss the
questions arising in various sections of
the country.
L. P. Palmer of Harrisburg, Pa. is
president of the national committee.
Mr. Timberlake for some time has
been active in the organized labor
movement in Arizona. He served one
term as secretary of the law and leg
islation committee of the state federa
tion of labor and for two years was ed
itor of the Arizona Labor Journal.
Immediate relief for the present labor ,
crisis throughout the Salt River valley
is seen as a possibility in the. report
reaching Phoenix yesterday that hun
dreds of idle men in various nearby
mining camps are willing and anxious
to take positions in- the fields in this
community. No time will he lost in
communicating with these men with
the end in view of immediately trans- i
porting them into the. valley.
According to the report reaching the
Arizona Council of Defense yesterday,
there areanproximately 500 men at
Chloride without employment. These
men are anxious, it is stated, to get
work and have expressed themselves as
willing to come to Phoenix. Conditions
in other camps, it is stated, are almost
is bad and it is believed that by mak
ing a caref'Si canvass of the situation,
iproxiraately 5'ift men can be imported
into the valiev for agricultural work.
It wa previously stated that between
two and three thousand men would be
needed in this community during May
to carry forward the agricultural work,
but this number has been greatly dis
counted during the past two or three
days. An additional rG0 men could eas
'v e put to work, however, in the
fields
To date, the situation has been well
cared for by J. L. Donnelly, chairman
of the labor committee of the Arizona
Council of Defense. In this work, he
has solicited the aid of every possible
organization and concern in the state.
AN ANIMAL WITH A PARACHUTE
FOR SALE
Will sell my
Beautiful Home
at ' .
810 North First Avenue
at a great sacrifice, a I have temporarily
moved to Los Angeles.
House is story and a half, three bedrooms,
toilet, lavatory and large screen porch up
stairs, two bedrooms, two bath rooms, (one
a shower) living room, den, dining room,
kitchen and screen porch, downstairs.
There is a large basement with furnace,
three different ways to heat water, one a
solar heater.
The lot is 75 feet, east front and on paved
street. There is a large garage with under
ground gas tank and pump.
Will be at the Arizona Club Sunday, Mon
day and maybe Tuesday. Phone an appoint
ment if interested.
G.E.NOLL.
Republican A, P. Leased Wire
Flying lemurs are found in the Malay
Peninsula, the Philippine Islands, anil
in the forests of Sumatra and Borneo.
Their average size is about that of an
ordinary small cat, and their most
striking external anatomical feature is
the skin parachute that stretehes not
only between the limbs, but is contin
ued in front to include the head, whi!e
posteriorly it takes in the entire rail.
These animals live among the trees,
flying from one to the other, as occa
sion demands, by the aid of the afore
said spreading, dermal parachute. In
other words, they perform flying leaps
a very different matter trom the
varied and sustained flight of the bats.
Several vernacular names have been
bestowed upon these mammas, one of
the most widely used being that of "co
bego." while in the Philippines and
elsewhere it is known as the "colugo;"
"kabting" is one of the old, native
names for a flying lemur.
R. W. Schufeldt in the Scientific
American says:
"When Richard C. McGrecor sent me
specimens of flying lemurs a few years
ago, upon which an account of their os
teology was based by me, he wrote that
'this animal seems to be strictly ar
boreal, and to feed exclusively on the
leaves of trees. It is an animal diffi
cult to see, as" whenever it suspects
danger it remains perfectly quiet and
hugs a branch. Its colors are quite
protective. When moving in a tree it
is very cautious, and seems to glide
rather than to move like a squirrel or
other small mammal; in fact its move
ments impressed me as being very
snakelike. The native nanie is 'ca
guan." "
"This animal sleeps suspended by th
hind legs, with its head downward,"
says another writer.
"The female produces one young at
a time. This she places in a soft nest
for four or five days: then it clings to
her breast, and accompanies her in all
her wanderings till it is able to take
care of itself."
When asleep and suspended by its
four feet it is said that its enemies
often take it for a fruit, which it re
sembles in size and color. This state
ment may be taken for what it is
worth, and yet it may be entirely true.
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! Whera the People ,
May Have Hearing
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The New Immigration Law
To the Editor of the Arizona Repub
lican. Sir:
I wish personally to thank you for
your editorial in Sunday's Republican
relative to the immigration law that
becomes operative tomorrow. I ex
pressed the same views In more detail
before the Cotton Growers' association
Saturday afternoon.
Enclosed I send you a copy of a tele
gram 1 sent to Mr. Heard, at Washing
ton. I have attempted to start the
movement you mention, and solicit the
jo-operation of your paper. This
movement should be taken tin by the
boards ol trade of Arizona, California,
Texas and New Mexico. The operation
jf the law should at least be postponed
until after the war.
As the largest single employer of
farm labor in the state, I am naturally
vitallv interested, not only on acount of
this company, but for the country as
well.
I also noted in your editorials re
cently, one relative to flies. You stated
that if a place is clean, flies would not
infest it. I notice on our screens (and
that of our neighbors) millions of flies
"roosting" for the night. Our neighbor
hood is cleanly. ,
Billions of flies ufflict us on our
ranches. I think I am conservative in
stating that it is impossible to maintain
better sanitary conditions than we have
on our ranches.
Filth encourages fly breeding, but
they prosper wherever man and ani
mals are, careful as we may be.
Someone must discover a spray that
will kill them off. Something We can
spray over possible breeding places,
igainst the screens, etc. By so doing
that person will not only make bis ev
erlasting fortune hut he will gain the
gratitude of the world.
Would not a general "clean-up" day
for Phoenix be a good thing? Cutting
down of weeds and cleaning up in gen
eral. Your Mr. Hall knows how effec
tively we did this in Pasadena.
Very truly,
EDWARD F. PARKER.
As the fraud at Douglas is proven to
have been committed in the interests of
democrats, I ask, was it done in, or
by the warrant, or knowledge of our
democratic central committee? There
is no personal insult in asking this
question, for it is unreasonable to pre
sume that individuals, from spontane
ous enthusiasm, spend their private
fundi and lay themselves liel lo our
penitentiaries, in the sole interest of
party candidates, so who, or where, is
the "Power behind the throne?" When
you say, 'unless prosecution follows,
and these miscreants are placed behind
the bars," you express the sentiment of
a law loving and law abiding communi
ty, and believe me the support of good
citizenship stands at your shoulder. I
don't exaggerate, or overstep any
bounds, by saying, there never was a
necessity for all this toil, turmoil and
mental, as well as financial distress,
occasioned by a drowning unfortunate,
grasping at stratfs, but the truth is
unearthed, and now use your pages
and influence to see that it is never re
peated, and more than this, let the
punishment, which is meted to all of
fenders, be the menace which prevents
a future repetition.
GEO. O. FORD,
40 S. Central Ave.
SCRIPTURE
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Hebrews 6: 13-20
For when God made promise to Ab
raham, because he could swear by no
greater, he swear by himself.
Saying, Surely bleusing I will Mess
thee, and multiplying 1 will multiply
thee.
And so, after he had patiently en
dured, he obtained the promise.
For men verily swear by the greater:
and an oath for confirmation is to them
an ena oi an suite.
Wherein God, willing more abun
dantly to shew unto the heirs of pro
mise the immutability of his counsel,
confirmed it by an oath:
That by two immutable things in
which it was impossible for God to lie,
we might have a strong consolation,
who have fled for refuge to lay hold
upon the hope set before us:
Which hope we have as an anchor
of the soul, both sure and steadfast,
and which enterest into that within tiie
veil:
Whither the forerunner is for us en
tered, even Jesus, made an high priest
for ever after the orrler of Meli-hWeriVe.
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MRS. MYRA WILSON, 18 E. Ada mi
Prcsecute Election Frauds
To the Editor of the Republican,
Sir: I have sojourned in this land
made famous by Senator Ashurst's de
scriptive powers, almost a score of
years previous to which, forty years
were spent in California. The Central
Pacific railroad was built during those
in the acquiring of lands, subsidies, and
everything wanted, absolutely forced
people to threaten representatives with
tar and feathers, if their votes were
bartered, but this did not deter expen
diture at primaries, or on election days,
when money flowed freely. .Arizona
at this time was called "wild and
woolly," and few ever dreamed 'hat
governmental laws were enforced, or
life protected. In a measure, Califor
nia has passed through one incubation,
and Arizona, at least since statehood.
was supposed bv momed investors, and
law observers to have reached its sec
ond period of civilization, lias it?
Never, since the statutes, promulgated
y o:ir forefathers, have been our
guides, has there been a contest in
these United States comparing to this
past st"te dispute. I will waive the
matter of cost, enmity, and attempt
:o frustrate the peoples' will, to ask
'.hese pertinent questions, which in
your editorial. "Is it to be dropped,"
you fail to refer to. Fraud is always
"omrr.ittcd for a purpose Money is
the usual Incentive for fraud. Has there
been money expended in this election,
and if so, by whom? This has no ref
erence to the ignorance disclosed by
many election boards, but to the rank,
rotter, iraud disclosed during this
trial. Each party has a central com
mittee to expend money, and manage
the nffairs of candidates on its ticket.
. PINE LAWN INN
Among the Pines
SANITORIUM FOR THE TREAT
MENT OF TUBERCULOSIS
AND ASTHMA
Cottage Plan. Rates -75.00 per
month. Doctor's services. General
nursing. Dr. J. B. McNally, Medical
Director. John Stroeher, manager.
PRESC0TT, ARIZONA
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usual moderate prices we have been charging.
Make Your Selection Now.
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Phone 1043 20 West Adams St.
II. B. WILKINSON, President
L. W. COGGINS, Manager.
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