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.THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN. THURSDAY MOR.NING, JUNE. 26, 1919
THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN
PHOENIX. ARIZONA
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THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 26, 1919
It is no flattery to give a friend a
due character; for commendation is.
as much the duty of a friend as rep
rehension. k Plutarch.
A Party and a President
; "The wicked flee when no man pursueth." The
impression which all must have received from the
address of Chairman Homer S. Cummings of the
National Democratic Committee, at the Y. M. C. A.
: stadium on Tuesday night, was that the democratic
!ariy is on tne fletensive along the whole line. We
, have a right to entertain that impression, for Mr.
Cummings alone is the official spokesman of his
inere nas Deen no lnaictment OI tne democratic
parly by any body authorized to frame such a bill.
In certain speeches in congress members have laid
' MrfllQlllinne nraint( (hn ,-, i .- . . .... l.... 1.
- Hcx-usations do not constitute an indictment on which
Mr. Cummings need go to trial.
.' ' There has been some very vigorous and pointed
. criticism of the president for his conduct of the war
as well as for his hesitation and vacillation previous
10 our entrance into the war when it was generally
lecognized that war was inevitable. But these ac
cusations were uttered more plainly and more bit
1'urly by democrats themselves, notably by Senator
. tnamuenain ot Oregon and Senator Hitchcock of
Nebraska. There has also been republican criticism
;of the sixty-fifth congress but that cannot lie against
"democrats as a party since that congress was repu
diated by the people at the first opportunity afforded
after Ave got into the war.
'Raker and Burleson a,re democrats and they have
M";leen severely attacked by democrats as well as by
'icpublicans. Even Mr. Cummings himself has not
goffered a word of defense in behalf of either of
"ihem.
Back of his apparent self-imposed task of de
fending the democratic party, looms the real business
.of Mr. Cummings, the defense, the glorification of the
v president. It is not what the democratic party has
'done or has not done that engages the attention of
the chairman. It is the transcendent greatness and
-wisdom of the president, who ho informs us will us
Abetter understood fifty years hence than he is now.
! In a half century there will be a truer perspective, a
keener appreciation than we now have. There is in
4 this statement of Mr. Cummings an admission that
."Hie president needs a defense; that there' is a popu
lar impression, without reason, of course, that he is
culpable. But the world will see more clearly in fifty
"years which will be forty-nine years after the cam -
"Vuign of 1920.
S One can hardly free himself of a suspicion that
Mr. Cummings is preparing the way for the renom
vi nation of the president. His visit to hitherto "terrae
"-' incognitae" in national politics; to localities which
cpunt less in general campaigns than they do in na--tional
conventions, leads us to believe that he is not
solidifying the democratic party for November of
1020 but rather, that he is attuning the democrats of
'lie more sparsely settled states of the west to the
Ihird term notion.
His task, whether a difficult one or not, is an
embarrassing one, requiring a distortion of many
1 lacts and the ignoring of many others. He must keep
""t-'i'enoe about our .Mexican policy, about our vacilla
tion there as well as for three years of the world
v ar; he must gloze over our entire military unpre
;, paredness which was off-set in an unexpected man
gier by the genius of Crowder and the patriotism of
-merican men and women; of American labor and
v-merican capital, and the equally unexpected de
velopment of our national resources. He threw the
eil over the all but fatal blundering of Baker and
-camouflaged the fearful financial cost of the blund
,'.'iing, ' Testifying to the rapidity with which 'we moved
-vhen once we started, Mr Cummings said that at the
pilose of the war we had nearly 3,000,000 men in
Europe. As a matter of fact we had 2,080,000 and
when the great German drive began nearly a year
"after we were forced into the war we had less than
300,000 men there. .
We had at that time few airplanes of our on
IS
tiiipugh we had been experimenting and wasting
,'$600,000,000 for nine months, and as to equipment it
the testimony of every returning artileryman we
J. have met that after the training he had had in this
ountry, he had to undergo a hurried, intensive train
ing in France, if there was time, in the use of the
i' rench 75's, for the reason that American guns and
ammunition were not available. Frequently for lack
of time this new training had to be undergone at the
J"ront, under the fire of the enemy. Yet Mr. Cum
jnings spoke of our hurried and admirable equipment.
-That will not be impressive to the two million boys
who were there and saw, and will te.ll their neigh
bors what they saw.
. They will further resent the transfer of all the
g'ory of their achievements, and they were glorious,
-to- the president in whom Mr. Cummings finally
deposited that glory. Without his superhuman fore
"'.light and wisdom the courage and self-sacrfice of
:ur soldiers must have gone for nothing.
. Lastly Mr. Cummings commits the democratic
- party to internationalism, because the president is
nn internationalist, because he has enlisted in the
"direction of all human affairs. America is to be made
through the democratic party (by Mr. Wilsdn) sub
servient to humanity. AVe do not think the demo
cratic party will follow this lead. A good democrat,
the same as a good republican, is first of all an
American. It is by the building up of America that
he can best serve the whole world.
Soft Drinks By Definition
It was brought out in the debate on prohibition
legislation in the house on Tuesday that prohibition
which seemed to be pretty rigid is necessarily going
to be pretty flexible, depending upon the varying
spirit of the times. There is the very indefinite
meaning of the expression "intoxicating liquor." The
only definition it can have is what the law can giv
it. An alcoholic content of one-half-of-one-per cent -has
been rather arbitrari'y fixed for those beverages
known as near-beer. Whether the man most sus
ceptible to the influence of alcohol could get drunk
on that kind of a beverage is uncertain, but many
person who are peculiarly susceptible say that they
can "feel" a single glass of it.
Edgar Allen Poe who gained the reputation of
being a person of bibulous habits, It is said, could be
thrown into a state of intoxication by a cup of tea.
So likewise, mate, a drink of Brazil and other
South American countries, containing no alcohol at
all produces a degree of exhilaration "which cannot
be distinguished from a high state of alcoholic in
toxication which precedes the period of depression
which always winds up an alcoholic spree. Gener
ally we may conclude that a liquor which may be
intoxicating to one man is a non-intoxicant to an
other. It may be said, though, in favor of the near
beers of small alcoholic content that there is no
likelihood that they will produce intoxication for the
reason that not enough of that kind of bev
erage will be consumed at one time. Though
some of the near beers are so nearly like a
high grade of beer that experienced beer-drinkers
cannot ten the difference, and though they feel an
the so-called refreshing effect of old time beer no
one cares to drink more of that beverage than he
would of water or lemonade just enough to quench
his thirst. The near-beer lacks that excitant qual
ity which in beer induces men to guzzle stein after
stein until intoxication ensues.
Reverting, though, to the fact that an intoxicat
ing liquor is whatever the law says it is, we are
likely from time to time to have widely different
definitions, permitting alcoholic ' contents ranging
from one-half of one per cent to say, four per cent,
and in whatever it may be, will be reflected the sen
timent of the people at the time. So it may come
about that in a few years beer of considerable
strength and light wines will become "soft drinks"
according to definition by law.
In the uncertainty of legislation on this point,
however, it is not likely that a great brewery or
wine making industry will spring up. The near beer
plants, we suppose, would take on as great flexibility
as the law making power so that they could ac
commodate themselves readily to any new federal
legislation on the subject.
Also, there would doubtless remain in the states
and municipalities the same power to define intoxi
cating liquors as there now is to enact prohibition or
local option laws, so that a state, dissatisfied with
too great federal liberality could make itself "dry"
as to the federal ''soft drinks." '
Restoration of Peace
Notwithstanding a slight sting in the caption
"Our Near Metropolis," we accept the following from
the Tucson Citizen as a proper signature of the peace
treaty between Phoenicians and Ancient Pueblans.
Even the Germans sent with notice of their intention
to sign on the dotted line, some observations calcu
lated to irritate the allies:
The Arizona Republican shows considerable
heat because The Citizen responded in kind to an
article written for the El Paso Herald by Colonel
James H. McClintock, in which the latter made some
comparisons between Phoenix and Tucson, tending
to show that the old pueblo is far overshadowed ty
the capital cVy.
The Republican thinks that the editor of The
Citizen is suffering from a case of grouch.
Particularly is The Republican peeved because
reminded of the statement-of an illustrious citizen
to the effect that the Roosevelt dam will some day
fill up with boulders. -
The Republican is too serious. The editor can
not take a joke. The Phoenicians always take them
selves too seriously. No one in Tucson would try
to belittle in any way the greatness of Phoenix. The
people of that city deserve everything they get, par
ticularly at this season of the year.
The Republican concludes by saying some nice
things about Tucson and not to be outdone, we wanf
to pay our respects to the gem city on the banks of
the Salt. Phoenix is as progressive a city as one
will find in the whole country. The newspapers give
a fair idea of its prosperity. Both The Republican
and the Gazette reflect the-great enterprise of our
neighbor. The advertising columns tell of the great
growth and development of the capital city and Ari
zona may well be prond of the near-metropolis.
Far be it from us to say a word which would
cause a depreciation of the Irish bonds, but we think
the date of their maturity fixed by Mr. de Valera,
"six months after the English evacuation," is so In
definite that prospective purchasers will hesitate. In
six hundred years there has been so far as we can
now casually recall, but one instance of Englisu
evacuation. That was when the attempt to chastise
the rebellious American colonies was abandoned.
It is easy to see why it is difficult to find signers
on the part of Germany, of the peace treaty. In a.
future century, when the circumstances have been
forgotten, the names of the signers will be held in
national and popular detestation.
What are we going to do with all those 3 -cent
stamps we have left over, we'd like to know?
We do not expect the approaching thunder storm
to break the back of summer but we are trustful that
it will give it a jolt.
ODORS
A flower betrays you, you, the blithe and brave"
A succory blossom down some lane we knew;
For being lovely, it was all of you ;
Ever it runs betwixt me and your grave.
Or else a song; haply, in broken wise.
Shrilled in the dusk from passing market wain,
A word of spring, of white quince in the rain;
From my day's task I look up to your eyes.
But, oh, the scent of smoke across the air.
Blown through the yellowy, phantom trees of town!
Of grass, against a skirt out in the sun!
Of an bid cupboard glistening down a stairl
I think some time that I will sit me down
And weep my heart quite out, and so be done!
Lizette Woodworth Reese, in the Sonnet.
BACK
A Weekly With a Hump on It. "We Cover the Desert.
Price: Tut! Tut!
Ariz., June 26, '19
Twenty-first Trif.
THAT JUSTICE
MAY BE DONE
Having left the white lights and the
mad whirl of Phoenix' night life, we
relaxed the tight grip on the lines and
let the old mare jog her own way along
the moonlit road to the ranch while we
fumbled around for the can of tobacco
in its accustomed place between the
dashboard and the footrail.
It wasn't there.
We had left it there before we haa
gone into the movie house. Evidently
while we were being transfixed by the
1 errors of Trilby some more prosaic
local villain rifled the rig of our can
of tobacco. And here we were, horns-
ward bound on a Saturday night, fac
ing a Sunday on the ranch without a
pinch of tobacco on the pjace.
The prospect led us to contemplate
the greatness of our self-styled civili
zation, the 'superiority of ourselvt
over the rest of the world, and the pet
lection of our. great institution known
as "justice and the law."
Take the incident at hand as an il
lustration. Very probably either some
vagrant or a wayward youngster had
seen the can of tobacco in the rig, un
guarded, and had appropriated it. In
eitner event, follow the thing to a
hypothetical conclusion.
' If the vagrant had been caught at
it, he possibly would be lodged in jail
to languish over Sunday. On Monday
afternoon, we would have to take our
more or less valuable time and appear
as a witness against him. Unless some
clever attorney succeeded in having
the case thrown out of court on a
minor technicality, the defendant
would be found guilty. And his pun
ishment would probably be a sus
pended sentence of a little trick in the
local jail, the sentence being suspended
on condition that the bum leave town.
He would probably accept the condi
tion and hop a freight to the next town
and there go through a similar pi
gram. And so on and so on from one
town to another.
In the second instance, the young
ster would get word to his parents.
very probably, as has too often been
the case, not only in this town but in
others, the boy would "come of very
respectable parents, well-to-do and
prominent citizens." If the parents
had ample political pull the police
would withold the name of tlfe young
ster from the newspapers. Otherwise,
the parents would have to appeal to
editors of the papers for protection.
Same old gag: "Why, it's the first
time comes of very respectable peo
ple his mother is just simply pros
trated over it requires the attention
of a physician it would actually kill
her if the story were to get out. Etc.
Etc."
At the courts, the prosecution would
make a half-hearted attempt at con
viction, and would even then wind up
with a recommendation for leniency
on the part of the court. The court
would announce that he would not
pass sentence now, but would "take
the matter under advisement." ' And
police reporters will tell you that it
takes a regular sleuth to keep. track
of and find out some weeks or months
later just what they did to the pilferer.
In the meantime, the boy is turned
loose on the public, his mother grad
ually recovers from the shock, resumes
tao interrupted social calendar, and
begins tc prepare her lecture for the
next club meeting on "Crime In the
Slums of New York." The father be
gins to scurry around, visiting his
minister, the secretary of the local Y.
M. C. A. and other "welfare workers"
in an effort to learn what he should
have begun to learn when the boy was
yet in his swaddling clothes how and
what to do with him. At this stage of
the game he will probably wind up
with sending for a bunch of catafogues
from private schools, boarding schools,
"boys' " schools, and some so-called
"military" schools, where he can pay
to have others "take the kid off his
hands,"
And the public? Oh, the public has
gotten used to it by this time.
The public still comes to town in
rigs and automobiles. But they have
learned that they, can never leave tne
autos unlocked, nor can they, leavo
cackaces or extra wraps, blankets 01
cans of tobacco in their cars while
they go about their business in town
or to their desk in the office. It has
gotten to be funny, for if anyone is
goinr out on the street for a minute.
an anxious fellow employe gives this
parting exhortation: "Say, Bill, on
you'rt going down to the corner, look
ar.d see if my car is still there, and
if it is, see if that spare tire is still
thre or my overcoat or bundle of
laundry, etc., etc.
The remedy? Well, an eminent
jurist friend puts it this way: "It is
not so much a matter of providing for
heavy or severe punishment for the
c VMSBion of a given offense. It is,
to my mind, more a matter of seeing
to it that whatever punishment is pro
vided for by the statutes is carried
out unerringly, swiftly and surely.
believe that if a man who contem
plates the commission of an offense
against the peace of a community
knows and knows well that he will
be surely punished when caught, ho
will think twice before he commits the
crime. It is not that our criminal
figures that he won't get caught, so
much as it is that experience teaches
him that even if he does get caught
there is a prc-lty good chance of worm
inp out of it or having the punishment
lightened. And this, I believe, ap
plies whether the crime contemplated
is murder or petty thievery.
To be sure, whoever took our can
of tobacco knew that if he got caught
his chances of "getting out of it" were
very good. . "It would have made nn
difference to him whether the penalty
was "five and costs" or ten years.
And, we have the temerity to sug
gest, it is this that is at the bottom of
all this hub-bub and . to-do over the
courtmartial system in the army. The
swiftness, the sureness, and the rigid
ity of it all was too much for some of
the civilian attorneys who got into
the judge advocate general's depart
ment during the war. But, did you
ever have occasion to compare the per
centage of crime in the army with that
in a similar civilian population?
SING A SONG OF WISHES
Sing a song of wishes.
Motoring to town.
Here and there and everywhere,
Lp the road and down.
Wish for every spreading roof
1 hat happiness abide
With cheer and full prosperity
Around its fireside.
Wish for tender, loving care
lor every child you see.
Wish for perfect blossoming
For flower and field and tree.
Wish for singing, winging bird
Gladsome days to roam,
Ski- of blue to circle through
And brooding mate at home.
Hail the wayside wayfarer
As you would greet a friend,
Wish for passing motoaist
Joy at journey's end.
Sink a song of wishes
Scatter far and wide
Luck and love and friendliness.
On all the countryside.
Edith Rockwood.
WANTED: A K. H.
BIRD AND HIS
FRIEND
The Last. Word
Signs In Germany
Can't sign.
Won't sign
Resign
Will sign.
Or, to use the German of Hamlm.
soliloquy:
"Sein Oder nicht sein.
Das ist der frage."
And to make sure of it, we had to
drag out the worn Hun grammar of
oi school lays and look up the genoVr
of the word "frage." Strange to sa.
we had guessed it aright.
If some kind hearted bird
Were to beckon me and say,
"Bo, I'm going away for a rest
On the coast or in the hills;
And while I'm gone I think it best
That you take my auto and
Use it for yourself
And the wife and the kids.
Because I'm not going to use it
While taking my rest, and
The thing needs to be kept.
In running order while I'm gone.
rd hate to leave it alone
In tie shed; It might be stolen
O the shed might burn up
Or rats get into the gears
Or i might get all rusty
So take it and use it
And no thanks necessary."
Our musings were brought to an
abrupt end by the mare's pulling up
at the gate. After unhitching we led
her out along the ditch bank to the
rope and chain where we had her
staked out in the morning. If we had
any doubt as to the justification ot
our contention that our courts ano
the bar seemed to foster criminality,
it was banished by the sickening ease
with which we yanked the- rope
through the grass toward us. Thu
customary heavy drag of the- chain
was lacking. In our absence, some
nut-brown neighbor had come over
and cut off the chain for his own use.
Back to the rig we trailed, the old
mare ambling behind us. to get tint
hitching strap that we use in such
emergencies. And while rumaging
around under the seat for the strap
our hand fell upon a familiar object.
Cold sweat stood out on our forehead
and our mouth got dry.
. It was the can of tobacco that wt
were sure "some vagrant, or a way
WA..I youngster had appropriated."
I say, if some k. h, bird
Would speak words like them
To me what would I do?
Whnt would I say? why
A big lump would come up ,
In my throat, 'n my
Emotions would all swell up
And warp; and when I could
Get control o' myself
I'd say like this:
"Thanks, Mister. Now, if
You gotta friend like you
Who owns an oil well
Or a service station, and
You can get him to supply
Me with gas and oil, etc.
And especially etc.. Mister,
Why, 1 11 be glad to
Take your car and use it
And I'll be much obliged
to the two of you.
And I'll tell our minister
To use your kindness
As his theme in his sermon
Next Sunday."
Few pastimes are more fascinating
and entertaining of an evening than
for one to pore over some of the old
boyhood school books. Having settled
the matter of the sex of the Hun
word above, we mused through the
pags of our boyhood Lehrbuch. We
came to the "Funf und dreitszigst
Lektion," which leads off, in the well
known modest style of the Hun. some
what as follows: (we furnish the
translation free) "Of all language
the German is the most pliable .in J
the richest. In no language in trc
world (get that!) can one, out of 3
single word, build so many words as he
car, in the German."
Which choice morsel of modern
Lrought back to us over the waste ot
years a characteristically Hun crea
tion that runs something like thi:1
(being one word y'unnerstan't
"einigefreinigeisenbaumsatz." Some
pliability there, you can believe u.
What it means, we have forgotteni
very probably we have not pieced 11
together rightly. But it's a fair
sample.
And then we rambled over the pages
until we came to the fly-leaf, and there
v. e note one of our own rare pieces of
art. It is nothing more nor less than
a pen and ink portrait of a gent who
has, since sitting for our sketching
him. come much into the public eye.
Under the handiwork is the legind. put
there by our own little fist: "ft.t
Kaiser Wilhelm der Orosze (der
dritteh" But really, isn't he "der
sweitzte?"
He's a swell looking duck according
to our interpretation of him. Got him
in uniform, epaulettes and a sword:
We very probably did the work after
being ostracised from the class be-
ause we hadn t learned our lesson on
Der Kaiser." And the dear old Frau
Havercamp, our Teutonic teacher, h.id
very probably regaled us with he,
daily expressed opinion of us, towit:
"Ach! Setc dich, du faule, dtima
junge! Warrum studieren sie nicht?"
. There has been much sharpening of
pencils in the village and around the
southwest generally since our an
nouncement that we 'will soon put out
our "Sinall Town" edition of the
Camel's Back.
Poor old Frau! She was a good tfid
soul, and unwittingly peddled Hun
propaganda to the school kids for
years and years. And then she sud
denly died. There were a legion of
friends among the alumni some ot
them with grown children whom she
hr.d taught and who mourned her loss.
We all "chipped in" and placed 11
memorial 1 ablet to her memory in the
sacred halls of the old high school
building.
Und so geht es!
YES, AND THEN?
Through an exclusvie arrangement
with the Camel's Back, the traffic cop
will blow his whistle to notify our host
of readers of the signing of the peace
treaty by the Huns. Lassen for the
wisseL .
"Hump!" said the gen-ooine Ari
zonian as he stood before the street
thermometer and read 115 degrees,
"you have been a long time get tin'
here." Ond so saying, he pulled off his
ear-muffs and mitts, and waited anx
iously for the mercury to rise so th.1
he could take off his overcoat.
Copyrighted j cp&ftg
I, Too, Go in for Disguises and Find a '
Good One
Tommy was gone! To kill Hamilton
Certeis on my account! He was out
of sight before I could put a restrain
ing finger on his arm, or raise a pro
testing whisper! Once I had faced
death without fear, and something
worse than death, but never had I
been so shaken with mortal terror as
In the moment after Tommy left me.
Certeis deserved to die for his sins
against my country, and I did not care
how soon he might die but he must
not die at Tommy's handsj My adopted
brother must not be a murderer!
I realized that I must find Tommy
at once that I must stop him! Against
my own judgment and Tommy's advice.
I must go itno the streets with nothing
to prevent my friends from recognizing
me except my thick dark veil.
I didn t like the work before me and
as I hurried to my room to get my hat
and veil, an undercurrent of thought
bothered me. I compared Bob, sub
consciously, with the man I had last
talked to. I m always doing that. And
I thought that never, never would my
temperate Bob flare up so suddenly,
rush off so unreasonably, upon such a
mad venture, not even because of an
insult to me. .
I decided that I liked a man to be
reasonable like Bob. Any comparison I
ever make always comes out in Bob's
favor. I suppose there s some good rea-
sct why a girl chooses one particular
man and not some other for a mate.
Never would I have to follow Bob all
over town to save his soul from the
stain of murder.
I threw down the newspaper I car
ried and picked up my hat. A full-page
ad caught my eye. Women were wanted
as telegraph messengers. "Come pre
pared to go to work! Uniforms pro
vided!" the ad read.
A uniform! And for me a disguise!
And some disguise for the former Mrs.
"Isn't Nexdore's wife rather fond of an argu
ment?" "Is she? Why, that woman is so fond of
an argument she won't even eat ajiytiins that acrees
with her."
to put forth selling effort beyond a certain point.
The head of this concern with a 90 per cent monopoly once neia a con
vention of salesmen at his factory, to which he invited the wives of the sales
man, and he openly explained to the wives why the husbands did not bring
nome more raonej .
Robert Atwood Lorimer! And an oc
cupation which would keep me in the
streets downtown where I could watch
ftfr both Tommy and Certeis!
Before I took the initial step to get a
job, however, I tried to reach Tommy
by phone. The girl in his store re
ported that he had just called her up,
and had left some orders, and had said
ho had to go out of town to stay a day
Or two! " .
In a day or two Tommy would be in
jail unless I hurried.
As I adjusted my hat I thought that
my face in the glass was whiter than
usual. I had been shut up, practically
as a prisoner, first in one place and
then in another, ever since I had run
away from the Lorimer home. I was
rather pallid, and I recalled what a
good disguise a fashionable make-up
of rouge and powder had once achieved
for me. Of course that wouldn t do at
all for a messenger girl. But a coat :
of tan would meet my need perfectly.
1 lound all tne cosmetics 1 requireu
in .the hotel drug store. It was a shop
much patronized by actors. Among
other wardrobe properties, I came
across a w-ig, bobbed like the hair 01 a
musical genius.
In a short time I had achieved my
disguise and acquired my job with my
uniform and my first message. Ihis
took me to Syke's drug store, at the
corner, near Certeis' alley gate.
: I felt a stranger to myself, under my
cap, and back of my brown complexion,
as I smoothed down my straight bobbed
hair.
"Here's luck in a queer form." I said
to myself apropos of my uniform. I
was getting close to Syke's store, and
was walking along the street which
touches one side of Certeis' property
when I looked up and beheld a banana
peddler coming toward me.
He could touch me in passing. Would
he know me? ;
- (To Be Continued)
A Cleveland concern has a basic patent on a device used about railroaa
and mill yards for lifting metal on and off cars.
It allows its principal competitors to also make and sell this device with
out royalties.
The theory is that the burden will be divided in the matter of selling ant
advertising for a wider use of the device.
The fact that monopoly is not all that it is supposed to be may explain in
part why Standard Oil has made more money than previous to its un
scrambling. At least an artificial competition has been created witliin the organization
Department and district managers have been made to contest with each
other and have therefore put forth greater effort for increased production
and sales.
In their rivalry for a showing they have actually created business.
And sometimes the incentive to do more is competition the true life ol
trade.
The True Life of Trade
Monopoly hasn't the trade advantages that it has been supposed to have.
Business organizations with a monopoly of their products frequently go to
sleep, and there is beginning to be a revival of the old adage about compe
tition being the life of trade. ' ' . ,
For instance, there is an Ohio corporation that has spent at least a mil
lion dollars in buying out rivals and otherwise suppressing competition in the
production of a certain store specialty, and until it now maintains about a 90
per cent monopoly. .'
It has been almost openly stated by those within this organization that it
would make more money if it maintained only a 60 per cent monopoly.
The reason given is in the fact that .their salesmen have a tendency to fix
their standard of living at say $50 or $75 per week and that they will not work
after they have sold enough to equal in commissions their living standards.
There are no rival salesmen waiting around the corner after their pros
pects so that the salesmen make just enough calls and sales to equal their
weekly quota, knowing that other prospects are safe until the following week.
As a result this concern has been forced to give prizes and premiums-
create artificial competitions within Itself and in order to get their salesmen
California
vacation land
The vacation season is approaching
the time to plan for a change of scene,
for rest and recreation. It will be the
effort of the Railroad Administration to
aid in such planning and do everything
reasonable within its power to facilitate
passenger travel and make it more
attractive.
California with its beaches, mountains and numer
ous vacation haunts lakes and streams offers
every attraction for the vacationist
Summer excursion fares to resorts in Cali
fornia are now in effect
. The staff of the United States Railroad Adminis
tration will be glad to furnish illustrated booklets
and provide necessary information as to fares,
tram service, etc. Such information may be
obtained from the local Ticket Agent or the near
est Consolidated Ticket Office.