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PACK FOUR THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN. SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 22, 1919 THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN PHOENIX. ARIZONA Published Every Morning by the ARIZONA PUBLISHING COMPANY All communication! to be addreasedi to ibe Company: Office. Corner of Second and Adams Streets tillered at ttis Vostofflce at Phoenix. Arizona, aa Mail Milter of the Second Class President and General Manager Dwignt B. Heard Bjameaa Manager Charles A. Stauffer -wrt baiQCM Manager TV. W. Knorp Editor J. TV. Spear New Editor E. A. Touni SLUriCKlPTlON KATES -IN ADVANCE Laily and Sunday, one year Daily and Sunday, il month Da.ly and Sunday, three months Hiily and Sunday, one month TELEPHONE EXCHANGE Hranch exchange connecting all departments 4331 General Advertising Representative. Kt.bert E. Ward; New York Office. Brunswick Building; Chicago Office, Mailers Building. MEMIiF.K OK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Receiving Full Niglit Report, by Leased Wire. The Associated Prea Is exclusively entitled to the use for re-publication of all news dispatches cred iled to It or not otherwise credited in this paper anil also the local news published herein. All right of re-publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. ' "TaTI RDAT MORNING. FEBkTarV 22. 1M! America has furnished the world t ho character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of man kind. Daniel Webster. 1 1 i Highway Legislation The word has somehow gone out among former employes of the state, in road camps nnd on bridge work, and whose places were seiured to them by their loyalty to the Hunt administration that they are alout to come into their own again; that they will get their old places back. They are already congratu lating themselves on a turn of fortune which is about to restore to them what they lost in the election of last November when a majority of the people of Ari xona voted for a change. All this has an intimate relation to the pending highway legislation. We do not suppose that in the framing of senate lull 17 it was the Intention of the senators to revive, I he old road work machinery with Its notorious waste and ineffectiveness which have left so little to show for the hundreds of thousands of dollars which have been expended. We think too highly of the gentle men of the senate, though the circumstances attend ing the bill leave little doubt of the purpose of the majority to retain political control of the machinery w hi h they doubtless hope will be an improvement upon the old. They can have no assurance though that it will be an improvement and we do not believe Hint a good roads department constituted as senate bill IT arranges, can be an improvement, existing as.lt would, in a partisan atmosphere and conceived in a party caucus. The Republican is not strong for party. It falls iar short of that doubtful virtue known as "party regularity." It does not claim that virtue and we are nware that that virtue has never been attributed t . The Republican by either democratic or republic! politicians. Altogether, we are rather proud of its irregularity in this respect. We have gone Into this that we may speak tlia more freely, and urge that the complexion of the road department be left to determination by the governor, not because he Is a republican but because he is the governor. It Is proper, of course, for the legislature to take precautions against the playing of politics liy the governor and we think it can very easily do that. We do not believe though that Governor Camp bell or any other governor with a proper understand ing of his relation to the office and of his obligations tu the people will Introduce politics into such ai im portant thing as a good roads department. He could not afford to do. To secure the highest efficiency in that department, to secure the most roads for the least money is the governor's strongest play. The j ' worst thing he could do politically would be to allow I the department to fall down. His responsibility would I' j continually rest upon him. j A state highway board corn posed of officials j elected to other offices, after fierce primary and geti- 1 eral election campaigns, and burdened with political I I debts, could not take upon itself the responsibility j which would rest upon the governor. The responsibil ' j it y could not be fixed for failure, waste or even graft. J With the appointment of the highway commission ' I and the state engineer, the members of the highway j j Ixiard would have washed its hands of the matter.' ' ! The buck would have been successfully passed. The : j members of the highway board could meet the com : y plaints of the tax payers and the complaints of those against efficiency only by' expressions of regret. Each f I member would devote himself to proving that he was i . not individually to blame. All would put the blame j upon the commission and the commission upon the J j engineer. ! We believe the legislature will make a political j mistake if it creates such an irresponsible state high j ; way board. It would, of course, make positions for J I democratic partisans, but the people at large, the I thousands of them, democrats and republicans, do . : not care what party is holding the Jobs. They do care 'hongh when they learn that the Job-holders are I ; mostly and inefficient. ! I A Moo-tey Monument There is one thinj to be Bald in favorof house bill S, sometimes call id the Moone? bill, the measure designed to clothe th. supreme court with a power It certainly does not want and probably never would wear that of ordering a new trial for a murderer on a "showing" that he had been convicted by per lured testimony. The thing to be Mid in favor of it Is something that has perhaps not occurred to its supporters that is. It would be an entirely new frill in legislation. With such a law Arizona could rejoice In the circumstance that it had somehting that no other state has. So, if It is novelty and freaks in legis lation that we are aiming at, by all means let house bill (6 have a, niche In the statutory temple of Fume. TNe bill is freakish In form and purpose. The more ft is viewed the more It Is attempted to make it pre sentable, the more grotesque it becomes. That was Illustrated, yesterday during the discussion of an amendment designed in some way to enable a "yhow ibs" to be. made to the supreme court that there had been perjured evidence. Hitherto the only suggested way nf "showing" the supreme court was by means of affidavits which It was pointed out would be a pre k sterous showing. It wai explained in behalf of the 111 In reply to liie suggestion that it wiiuld be easy to swure affi- V'li'Vils c!nitt any testimony, that even if the r. ff ;ln - it would only give him a new trial. But that would be a good deal for a convicted murderer. But the thing might not end in a new trial. Sup pose the defendant should be convicted again and be sentenced to be hanged. Again under the law, false affidavits for. the purpose of "showing" the supreme court could be lodged against any essential evidence for the state at the second trial and the third and t lie fourth and so on until the defendant and witnesses had succumbed to the ravages of age. House bill 6i, whether passed on not. will never. 1.e an effective law. We do not suppose any supreme court in America would ever recognize it. It would be nothing more than a monument to Tom Mooney. The White House Dinner The members of the senate foreign relations com mittee who decline to attend the president's league of nations, dinner, offer .a. Y,ry good and sufficient rea son for not doing so. And, so likewise, do the senators and representatives who decline to refrain from de baling the 'Covenant of' the' league until they have heard his explanation of it. So far as concerns the announced absentees from ' the dinner. 'they' take t lie' reasonable ground that these White House functions involve secrecy. It is regarded as a mark of the worst taste for one to repeat what he hears there. Senators attending the dinner and who might wish to oppose the covenant, notwithstand . ing such .elucidation .of it as the . president may offer, would find themselves handicapped in subsequent de bate. They would have to interpose not only such ob- jections as they had raised before, meeting the presi dent but they would almost inevitably find it neces sary to oppose his views as he disclosed them in that secret meeting. And in' doing so, they would' be in violation of the rule of secrecy. After all, congressmen may well ask why they should wait for an explanation given secretly or otherwise. Is there something in the covenant not in dexed on its face? Something that the people at large should not see? Or, is there something in the cove nant with a contrary, puzzling meaning for which the president is bringing the key? It may well be argued by the congressmen that a work of this character must be taken at its face: that a constitution of a league of nations should con tain no hidden shadowy or difficult meanings we are pledged to open diplomacy and against secret treaties. It would be remarkable if we should begin our career of open diplomacy with a secret treaty on a subject of so great importance. We have never had a treaty with a foreign na tion which involved so much or touched the people so comprehensively and closely as this one will if it should be effective. It is asserted that it even changes the structure of our government to such an extent that the question of constitutionality has already been raised. Surely there should be no secrecy about this. If the people ever had a right to know what the gov ernment was doing they have that right now. The president in times past has never hesitated to go directly to the people, trusting to their under standing and their sense of righteousness. They have sustained him every time but one. In making these journeys to the people the president has frequently brushed congress aside, sometimes rudely. He was conscious of the righteousness of his cause and was confident of the popular good sense. Now, why, it may be asked, does the president wish to whisper to congress concerning something that the people, standing with alert ear, wish to hear? The people are, we believe, generally inclined t the covenant as they understand It. While all thought ful persons recognise that "it does not. and that nc human agreement can ever be an absolute guaranty of peace, they see in it a means of minimizing the chances of war. It apparently takes from them rio privilege or advantage they now enjoy. It contains two points, regarding the exercise of mandatory powers and arbitration that they would ask to be brought into a little clearer relief, but otherwise they are inclined to pass it on its face. Is the need of secrecy apparent when the people are so confiding? HELEN KELLER ENJOYS FLYING ( Topular Mechanics.) What is said to have been the first flight made by a blind and deaf person was that undertaken by Miss Helen Keller, who is known throughout the world for her remarkable achievements in spite of being deaf, blind and formerly dumb. The flight took place near Los Angeles with a widy known airman at the wheel, and lasted for nearly an hour. Miss Keller was enthused by the experience. THE WISE FOOL "It is the unexpected that always happens." ob served the Sage. "Well " commented the Fool, "if this is true, why don't we learn to expect it?" Cincinnati Enquirer. BLACK LACE ROBE FOR DINING HOME if k L I Beautiful, indeed, is this robe de signed fof wear at the informal din ner at home. Henna colored chiffon forms the uriderdre3S while (rorge ous black lace coat is the novel fea ture of the gown. ENOUGH WATER 15 WASTEDT0IHR1GATE W OF ft CITY SYRIANS KNOWING NEED Urging co-operation and united ac tion by everyone in Arizona, not for any one project, but for a general com prehensive plan for the development of all the water resources of the state, George H. Maxwell, in his address yes terday before the members of the no tary club at their weekly luncheon, made a plea for the saving of every drop of water that now goes to waste in this state. There was a large attendance at the luncheon which was held in the War Work building. The luncheon was served by the women of the Red Cross. Mr. Maxwell declared the prevention of water waste would mean the event ual irrigation of more than 2,000.000 acres of land in Arizona, including what could be given only a flood water irrigation at the start, but in the course of comparatively few years there would be water to give a sulfu ient amount to every acre In the state. The same problem confronts the peo ple of Arizona today, Mr. Maxwell de clared, that confronted them 16 years ago when we started the campaign for the Roosevelt dam. The people were then divided into factions and there were several different canal companies distributing water from the river. Un less they could have been united so that the government could deal with them as a unit, it would not have been possible for the government to build the Roosevelt dam. But the people were wise enough to sink their Ioc;al differences in one great movement for the general good, and the result was that every man derived greater benefits in the end than would have been pos sible if each had continued to fight for selfish personal or local benefits. "The consequences of that action have been so stupendous in the devel opment of wealth and population and annual production in the Salt River valley that it ought to be easy to bring the people together again for another one great drive, "Everybody, all to gether for Arizona" to get all the work1 built that are necessary to be built to bring into use every drop of water that falls from the clouds in this state." Mr. Maxwell explained the differ ence between the policy of the reclama tion act and of the Xewlands river reg ulation plan. Under the reclamation act the investment of the government is made a charge against the lands re claimed and must be repaid to the gov ernment. Under the river regulation plan, the government is expected to do only two things, first to make compre hensive plans and bring into co-operation and co-ordination not only all the different agencies of the national gov ernment, but also of the state govern ments and all local and other agencies, to carry out that plan; and second, that the government itself shall do only what is necessary for it to do to accomplish the complete standardiza tion of the flow of the rivers through out the year, leaving it to the states and other local agencies to distribute and provide for the beneficial use of the water. It is not contemplated that the government shall undertake to get its money back, any more than it undertakes to get back what it has spent for reservoirs on the Upper Mis sissippi, jetties at the, mouth of the Mississippi, levees on the lower Missis sippi, or the rreat lock and dam system on the Ohio river costing $60,000,000. "In the same way and under the same principle" said Mr. Maxwell, "that the government spends $60,000, 000 on the Ohio to provide a river for navigation, leaving it to the people to operate the loats. so it should regulate the flow of all western rivers for Irriga tion and power, leaving it to the people to provide for the utilization of the water." m p bit Phoenix Colony Gladly Does . Its Share And Expresses Gratitude For Assisting Suffering Countrymen. The Syrian population of Phoenix I have most generously done their bit in the present drive for relief in the near east under the capable leader ship of John liyder and W. Hibsher any. More important than the money raised among the Syrians is their ex pression of gratitude to the people of the United States in assisting .their fellow countrymen. This expression came as a letter to the state head quarters as follows: "On behalf of the American Syrians of Phoenix I take great pleasure in presenting to you herewith check cov ering our entire subscription of $225. While I regret that we only have a few of my countrymen in Phoenix, it is a source of great pleasure to know how cheerfully they responded to this worthy cause. Great to Live in United States "It is a wonderful thing to us to be so fortunate as to be living in this great free republic; a country where every man is free: a united people that stretches out a helping hand to the thousands of our brethren who are suf fering on the other side of the world. This, our adopted country, we certain ly love; and I speak not only for my self but for the 200,000 Syrians now living in the United States of Ameri ca. Furthermore, these 200,000 new Americans have done their bit as it has been estimated that fully 14,000 Ameri can .Syrians were in the soldiers and sailors uniforms fighting for Uncle Sam. "Every one knows that when Uncle Sam entered into this world-wide con flict that It was for the purpose of de stroying autocracy which makes slaves of the weak; that it was for the pur pose of making the world safe for the weaker nations, and establishing the democracy of the universe. History- will certainly tell of how Syria was saved from being wiped off of the face of the earth by the timely intervention of the United States. For If the war had lasted six months longer before this intervention, Syria would have been no more. The Hunger Cry "The great cry that has come out of both Syria and Armenia, worse than war itself, is the hunger cry. They are looking to us over here, men, women and children, to keep them from star vation; and America, the land of wonderful resources and open hearted people, will respond and will extend everything within power to save these helpless people in the far east. "In behalf of the Syrian population of Phoenix, I want to again thank you, Mr. Chairman, and the many great citi zens you represent in the wonderful work you are doing, and our one great wish is that God will keep you stead fast in your convictions and love i'or humanity." Today's Best Buy! r Ford The classiest little car in. Phoenix at a big sacrifice if sold today. Harper s Used Car Dept. PHOENIX MOTOR MART Phone 3594 235 W. Washington CASA GRANDE RUINS 1 WELL Id OWN E RECITAL G VEN I I THROUGH HIS EFFQH T Hon. Frank M. Pinkley, a member of the second state legislature, was in the city yesterday, on account of the illness of Mrs. Pinkley, who is at the Sisters' hospital. Mr. Pinkley, who is connected with the National Park Service and is immediately in charge of the Casa Grande ruins, will leave here at the request of the department for the Grand Canyon. After many attempts congress has lately created the Grand Canyon na tional park, the bill having passed both houses and is now awaiting the sig nature of the president on his return from Europe. It is proposed, said Mr. Pinkley last night, to connect this park with the Petrified Forest by means of a good road so that tourists may visit the former which has lain for a long time off the line of travel. Mr. Pinkley was attracted to this part of the country by the Ruins of Casa Grande, and some years ago was made the custodian. But that was before the park and monument ser vice of the government was developed, so that there was little for an ambi tious custodian to do. Mr. Pinkley. therefore, resigned and txok up mer chandising and politics in a rather healthful way. When the government got ready really to do something in the way cf parks and monuments Mr. Pinkley re entered the service, and during his recent control of Casa Grande he has succeeded in bringing it to the atten tion of the whole country until now it is regarded as one of the most in teresting places in America. TO PLANT TREES IN I OF i DEAD r A memorial tree planting will be held at the Roosevelt school Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Four trees will be planted In memory of four Southside men who have died recently. Dwight B. Heard and Rev. Dr. Lynd are to be the speakers. The Parent Teacher association will be present and the choir of the Neighborhood Congre- l Rational church will also be there. I Residents of the southside are cordial I ly invited to attend. The following: attractive recital pro-: gram was presented at the School of: Music yesterday afternoon, to a good i sized audience: By piano pupils of Frank Ronald; Evans, vocal of Romeo and Karola j Frick. violin of H. Klingenfeld, ex-1 pression of Vivian Florine Young, . aancing ot r.ona t'aiiia Kevare. Piano. "Soltegietto" (Bach). "Chop- , in" (Godard), Elizabeth Phillips. "The Mountain" (Hrainard), Regina i Luke. i Vocal. "Resignation" (Caro Roma), Anna Marie Calvert. Piano. "Water Sprites" (Chaminade), Lucile Banta: "Butterflies" (Ferrari), "Sundown" (Hoptkirki, Maude Stew art. Violin, "Concerto" lAcoIay), James Burson; accompanist, Lucile llama. Piano. "Reverie" (Schutt), "Shadow Dance" (MacDowell), Ada Galbraith. Reading, "The Whistle of Sandy Mc Graw" (Robert W. Service), Catharine Howard. Dance. "Rose Ring." Dorothy and Frances Hamilton. Piano, "Cantique d'Amour" (Liszt), Anna Marie Calvert; Prelude (Mac Dowell), Mary Lee. Vocal "V alentine" ( Hallett Gilberte), "Jeur.esse" (Youth) (Barry), Mrs. ,G. G. Morgan. ' Two pianos "Rondo Brilliant" (Mohr), Ada Galbraith aod Anna Marie Cal vert. ' MARICOPA COUNTY GRADUATE NURSES ASSOCIATION The graduate nurses of Maricopa county will hold a meeting at Nurses' Home. Polk street. Saturday, February 22, 2:30 p. m. Full attendance request ed business of importance, pertaining to state registration. . ROSE DARCY, Sec'y. (Adv.) dd OPEN TODAY with our usual Bargains Bananas, 1 On per lb. AUL Butter, KKg peril) Egg"' 40 c dozen lvt MeClariaus Nippy or Pimento Cheese 1 An pkg AUC Best Eastern A Ap Cheese, lb WL 3. lbs. Can Peanut QC, Butter Curtis Marshnial- "I ftp low Creme .-. And if you want some real fine grapcf nut at a bar gain see us. " (All Shrine rs Welcome) Arizona Grocery Go. Phones: 1954 1455 . We will be closed all day Saturday, Feb. 22. Washington's Birthday PUMPS and ENGINES See ns for Myers, Hand, Pitcher and Power Pumps, Pipe and Fittings. ? Stover Gasoline Engines if you want a good engine. See us for any size. EZRA W. 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