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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 29, 1920 PAGE FOUK THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN I'HOKNIX. ARIZONA Published Every Morning by the t. , auizon.v rrnur-uiTNc, compant i-ntcrea at the J'ostof fit-., at Phnir.iv. Arizona, as Mall Matter of the Srcoml Class i resident and lMbhshcr Lw.ight B. Heard 'neral Manager Charles A. Stauffer iisincss Manager W. Knorpp Editor ,T. v. Hpear ,A3 Uditor K. A. Young HL USCIUI'TION' KATES IX ADVANCE Daily aad Sunday OUTSIDE STATE OK" ARIZONA One year $13.00; 6 nio., $6.75; 3 runs., $o.r,0; 1 mo., !fl.25 IX ARIZONA BY MAIL OR CARRIER One year, JS.OO; S noa , $4.0; 3 inos., Jl'.OO; 1 inn.. 75c. SUNDAY EDITION by mail only J5.00 ier year fin no Prlvat Branch Exchange IIUIIC Connecting All Departments mernl Advertising Representatives: Robert E. Ward, V Brunswick Bid., Now York. Mailers lttdg.. Chicago; W. II. Jiarranger, Examiner Utdg., Snn Fianetsco, ' P"t Inteilieeneer I31dpf., Seattle, Title Insurance BIdg., Los Angeles. MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Receiving Full Night Report, by leased Wire The Associated Press exclusively entitled to the use for re-pitblieatton of ail nowij dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited -In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of re-publi attun of special dispatches herein are. ulno reserved. WEDNESDAY MOHXINO. DECEMBER 29. 1920 He is happy' -whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more ex cellent icho can suit his temper to any circumstances. Hume. ares tie The Republican and Its Friends We cannot forbear expressing again our appre ciation of what we must regard as a community ex pression of friendliness toward The Republican In attendance at the reception and at the formal opening of our new home on 'Monday night. That was a demonstration which must Inspire The Republican to further effort to give service to the community as a whole and to give a better paper to the members of It as individuals. ' , We have labored assiduously to render such a service and that we have In some measure succeeded, i we believe was evidenced in the volume of the at tendance at the reception. Curiosity to see the machinery and The Repub lican's new home, no doubt was an Incentive to many to come, but there was also a manifestation by prac tically all who came of a friendly interest in The Republican, more powerful than, curiosity. The paper within the last seven years has been iC financial success thanks to the appreciation of readers and that of the advertisers and we have earn estly tried to glvo both measure for measure. Both circulation and advertising have grown in volume and with a rapidity far beyond our expectations. In their growth haj been reflected in a great measure, the growth of the city and the community, but we thluk there has been a more pronounced reflection of the growth of Individual and community confidence in The Republicana desire to be fair and service able. There are certain rules evolved from universal experience for the conduct of newspapers and they cAnnot safely be deviated from. There are many uch rule, "some of them fundamental and others re lating to details. We have followed them as closely as possible. Rut every newspaper finds something In its community' different from what exists in any other community, to which it must apply a rule of its own. The newspaper is supposed to be something im personal, a machine, cither nicely r improperly adjusted. But it is expected to work acceptably if it is to succeed. It is supposed to stand apart from the community without emotions of love, sympathy, an tagonism or hatred. It is supposed to be in touch with its clientele only through community organiza tion. The Republican, though, is In a different posi tion. For seven years it has. had an individual touch. It has felt a relationship to its subscribers as indi viduals and not merely as parts of thA mass of its subscribers and its advertisers. It is its desire that this relationship may be strengthened and extended. The Regulation of Housing It is the belief of Englishmen, and we have in herited It, that one's house is his castle. But if true at all, it is true only of the house he lives in and not true of any other house he may own. The feudal buron may have had many castles; the American or Englishman can have but one. This idea Is developed by John H. Wigmore, dean of law in Northwestern University in an article on housing, the regulation of landlords by placing them under the control of public utility commissions. That America needs laws that will remedy the serious housing situation is agreed. Thousands of families throughout this country are homeless. Certainly the ta.te must tegard it 3 Its duty to provide them with homes, at reasonable rents. There is no more urgeet need of the protection which government is sup posed to throw over its citizens. It recognizes and has always recognized its duty to protect them against the rapacity of the burglar or the bandit. It is equally Its duty to protect them against all rapacity. t Many of our municipal governments have tried toafford this sort of projection, but the laws passed by them have been found generally to be unfair to both landlords and tenants and many of them have been declared to be unconstitutional. Mr. Wigmore has prepared a measure which he believes will stand the constitutional test and which will give the state control of the housing situation and yet give abso lute Justice to both the man who owns the house and the man who rents it. i Mr. Wigmore says: 5 The house that Is rented or leased ceases to be purely private property and becomes a public utility. The house shortage has in numerous regions given the landlord;? a practical monopoly of a public ne cessity. Under these conditions it Is a well estab lished principle of law, recognized by the federal supreme court, in Munn vs. Illinois, some forty years ago, that the stale has the right to guard the public interest and to regulate the use of the property by the public and the profits it may earn. Now. I s-uggest that the various states enact laws declaring the business of housing, that is, offering houses for tent or lease, to be "affected with a public interest." This same law would then create a com mission, similar in most respects to the public utility commissions which regulate other public utilites, railways, grain elevators nad the telegraph and tele phone companies. This law would bring the tenant and the landlord dint'lly und-r the control of the state. Either might .'tlpe.'U' before the commission ;ind ask adjustment of rents and the commission might rule with' one in one c;,e and ith the oilier in the next case. It. ii u: inipoxintit feature that this law would inaVce it pusnibb- f-r the state f decide each case on its o ti iiu rii-. 1 1. wooM not co:n landlords and ,, a i a; " v !,. n i,;,.:oi -tir 10 0111 . .. .-. . ..!..: j.d ' - ' at .in nd intace encc with private property. Owners of private prop erty have always been similarly resentful. It seemed preposterous to the railroad owners less tnan forty years ago that anybody shoud interfere with their operations and their rates. Likewise it was ridicu lous in the eyes of owners of gas and water works and street railways that they could not do as they pleased with property that they had built or bought and paid for. If the public did not like the rates or the service, there was no law forcing the public to accept them. But there was such a law the law of necessity. Now it seems to us preposterous that the govern ment did not undertake the regulation of these things earlier. And it will certainly be preposterous if the state does not undertake the regulation of landlords. s DO IT NOW! The Souvenir Edition The average "special edition" of a newspaper is an uninteresting publication. It Is a "boom" edition and we may be pardoned for saying usually a "bum" edition. Its chief quality is the size of it, a vehicle for wasting paper. It Is made up of "reviews'" for which few people care and glowing "forecasts" which still fewer believe. In short, there is usually little in the "special edition" to invito perusal and we have always imagined that few gave attention to any part of them except the pictures. The Republican in its souvenir edition of yes terday, a part of the regular edition tried to make something readable something on which readers would dwell with interest, and something that woul give them an insight into the operations of The Re publican, its struggles, its problems, its triumphs and its prospects a picture of the paper's growth and of the community's expansion. Unucky Ladders If one was asked how it happens to be considered unlucky to walk beneath an upstanding ladder, he might be unable to tell. And when he learns Just how this superstition had its origin it is likely he would smile. And the chances are, Just the same, that when he met a ladder following that, he'd give it a wide berth, so 6trong is the superstition instilled. Over in England in the early days people" were hanged very successfully, but in a primitive way. Usually the chief attraction at one of these ceremon ies had to walk under a ladder before reaching his place on the gallows. The ladder leaned against the structure for the convenience of the executioner. As the victim passed under the ladder it was fairly cer tain that he was soon to be hanged going to have a piece of bad luck, in fact. And so, because of that . early tradition, the person who passes under a lad der is supposed to be a subject for bad luck. Some folk think the reason it is a premonition of ill fortune to walk under a ladder is because of the chance one takes of a workman standing on it drop ping something on him. But as can be seen, that isn't the idea, ' Ths Crime Wave There is a timely discussion of crime epidemics going on in the newspapers and elsewhere. We are not sure that "timely" is a proper adjective, "Timely" is a synonym for ''appropriate." It there fore deponds upon the course the discussion takes whether it is timely. That there Is a crime wave of unprecedented proportions aud broad sweep is evident. Various causes are assigned for it and no doubt all of them are contributory. Some charge it to the newspaper head lines; some to the movies, some to unemploy ment; some to the greater need of money in the win ter season. We used to think alcohol had a great, deal to do with crimo and many, even thousands of crimes were traced to alcohol. But there is now comparatively little alcohol consumed. Many of the worst crimes which have been lately featured in the newspapers could not have been com mitted because of unemploj-ment. They were not crimes to which men are driven or tempted by finan cial circumstances by need. We have overlooked we think the real cause and an old and continuing one the prevailing laxity in the enforcement of laws agajnst crime, a neglect of the ordinary precautions which are taken in Euro pean cities against crime waves and a lack of the promptness and severity with which crime is dealt there. A Letter From Minister Hunt A letter from former Governor Hunt now min ister to Siam was lately received by a citizen of Blsbee. It appears that the former governor, both enroute and during his residence at Bangkok has de voted himself to a . study of prison conditions. Though such researches are not included in his of ficial duties, the latter are not so numerous as to be seriously encroached upon by Minister Hunt's indul gence in his favorite pastime. The prisoners of Slam, he finds, are fat, so, evi dently well fed but he thinks that the heavy irons they wear are a badge of their punishment that might be dispensed with. There is capital punishment in Siam, hut as it is never inflicted unless a decree is signed by the king and as the king avoids writer's' cramp, the conditions with respect to capital punish ment are much the same as they were during the early days of the former governor's regime in Ari zona. At the time of writing the governor had just learned that the country had gone Republican but he had not been apprised of the result in Arizona, He indulges however in this conjecture: '"Nothing as yet about Campbell, but I am sure that Simms de feated him. I don't see how it could be helped." We are left in doubt as to whether the former gov ernor made a careless use of the word "helped," or whether he regarded the election of Mr. Simms n something inevitable though undesirable. Before deciding upon your New Year resolution, study it and consider whether you will have strength to keep it. When a resolution collapses, it leaves the man who made It in a worse shape then he was before. A couple was married the other day at the base of the Statue of Liberty. How inappropriate the setting! An exchange says there is something dubious about the grief of the man who spills soup on the necktie his wife gave him 'for a Christmas present. And we may also say, something suspicious about the .sudden adstinenee of the man who quits smoking after his wife has bought him a box of Christmas cigars. yoo wiuv. HAVE- 1 jf ' ' J Is . - ---f-nn m "rU FORTY YEARS AGO TODAY From the Phoenix Herald, which was absorbed by The Arizona Re publican In 1899, and for a time was published as sn evening edition Wednesday, Dec. 29, 1880 Eas Vegas, N. M Dec. 28 A no torious band of outlaws composed of 25 men who, under the leadership of Billy the Kid, have for the last' six months overrun eastern New Mexico, burning and committing other deeds of outlawry, was broken up last Sat urday morning by the killing of two and the capturing of four others, in cluding the leader. The prisoners were lodged tin the Las Vegas jail and threats of lynching were prevalent, but the vigilance of the captors, deputy Sheriff Garrett and others, prevailed. Yesterday after Garrett and the other captors boarded the train with the prisoners for the purpose of taking them to Santa Fe. Then follows a long account of the opposition of the peo ple and the local officers to the re moval of the prisoners, as it was de sired to lynch them, but with the aid of the railroad authorities the prison ers were removed. Billy the Kid soon after escaped from the jail at Santa Fe and established a reign of terror throughout New Mexico. Some years later he was killed by Garrett, then sheriff of Dona Ana county. Denver, Dec. 28 A Tribune dispatch from Socorro, N. M., says that a se rious disturbance exists there. The authorities refused to arrest the mur derer of Conklin, the editor of the So corro Sun, and the citizens finding no recourse at law, have arrested and hold by force the sheriff and four others, including the murderer of Conklin. Res cue of the prisoners is threatened and bloodshed i3 imminent. " Local Harry Woods, member of the legisla ture from Pinal county, formerly stuck type on this paper. Editors art in the legislature from the. following papers: Tombstone, Nugget. Yuma Sentinel and the Silver Belt. II. M. Woods, B. A- Fickas, W. K. Meade, Donald Robb, C. Vanflevcr ana George Roberts are arrivals rtgistered at the Bank Exchange. O. B. Weed of Sheboygan, Mien, writes the Herald asking regarding the business for a drug store. We wrote him to plant himself elsewhere as tni field is filled. All imported beers are completely distanced by tht excellent quality being manufactured by the St. Louis brew ery. Many years' experience enables to speak thus. B- A. Fickas who two year:, ago was chief clerk of the house, now occupies a seat in the council. With experi ence also in California, he is thorough ly qualified to fill the responsioie place of president ot that body. e ue e m to TKiJi.1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS unit-fan- 1; . !l:o: ; o; M I"- ..-i :' '. d lntcrfcr- Mexi'.-o is beginning t divide the large ranches of Honora. and will sell the subdivisions to small la rrncrs. ;! d l ived from the livers of r liarUs ; being used as a leather i'-t.-yu.tj v Q. Is the dachshund a hunting dog? What is its origin? C. M. S. A. The dachshund is a true hound and is used for hunting in Europe, es pecially for getting foxes and other such animals out of holes, as it is a great digger, and its peculiar build en ables it to go down a relatively small hole. It has an ecellent nose, and will trail rabbits, foxes and other game with great tenacity, but it Is little used for hunting in this country because it is hard to train and manage, paying lit tle attention to orders and doing as it pleases. If the game goes to earth It is almost impossible to get the dachs hund away until it has been dug out, This breed is of great antiquity, one of its kind being painted on an Egyp tian monument of 2000 B. C. Q. What kind of a government has Iceland? M. A. S. A. Iceland is a crown colony of Denmark. The Danish king is king of Iceland, although the government has recognized the island aa a sovereign state. Its foreign affairs are under the control of Denmark. Q. Is an I. O. U. a promissory note? S. S. W. A. In England and in most of the United States an "I. O. U." is not treated as a promissory note because it contains no promise to pay. How ever, in some states by law or by Ju dicial decisions it has been declared a promissory note, and as such capable of transfer by indorsement. Every where it can be sued upon as an ac count stated, without proof of the ori gin of the debt. Q. What is known as the recent period in geology? I. M. C. A. This is the name given to an epoch that has elapsed since the Pleistocene. Many geologists now in clude it under the Pleistocene period. Q. What medicines are of use in cases of tuberculosis? H. I. K. A. The public health service says that no known medicine has any ten dency to destroy the germs in the body" The treatment consists of build ing up the general health of the body, so that its own forces may overcome the Infection. Q. I wish to drive into Canada for a visit. Would I have to pay a fee? M. G. A. A. The American Automobile asso ciation says that you may tour through the country for a period of SO days without giving bond for the re turn of the car. Merely stop at the port of entry and register to secure the necessary permit. Q. How can anyone test a diamond to see if it is genuine? Of what ma terials are imitation diamonds made? D. E. U. A. The geological survey says that there is no way that anyone except an expert can test a diamond. Many imi tation diamonds are synthetic white sapphires; others are rhinestoties or other white colorless minerals. Q. How should I proceed to get a copyright on a book? H. J. A. The copyright office says that to obtain copyright protection on a book. it must be printed and published with the copyright notice, and two complete copies, with registration fee of $1, and application form "A. I." be deposited with the register of copyrights, in the Cngressional library, Washington, D. C. Application blanks may be ob tained from the register of copyrights. Q. What is the latest date that Easter has come on .and how it the date of Easter determined? M. E. Q. A. The latest date that Easter has fallen on since 1800 was April 25, 1SSS. Easter is determined as the first Sun- iy after the full moon after the 21st ot warcn. NEW YORK. Dec. 28. The Harbor Boatmen's union voted tonight to re ject thet new working agreement for 1321, teudered by six hundred inde pendent -owners and to go on strike January 1. Arthur Olsen, secretary of the union, declared 2,200 men will be affected. Coincident with the announcement that the harbor boatment would strike, a committee of the Masters, Mates and Pilots' union, claiming membership of more than 2,500, de clared that its organization would loin in the walkout. The principal objection to the new working agreement offered to the men last Tuesday is a clause stipulating a 60-hour week, it was said. Both or e-anizations take the stand that, if they agreed to this, the employers would be given an opportunity to evade paying overtime rates. The marine engineers have accepted the 60-hour week. Leaders of both unions declared negotiations with the Independent Boat Owners and the Tow Boat Ex change had been broken off and the strike committee nad been author ized to proceed with its preparations for the struggle. Officials of the harbor boatmen stated tonight that they were sais fied to continue working on a 10-hour dav basis with overtime paid at the rate of time and a half but were un aVterablv opposed to the Tow Boat Exchanges proposition which they declared, virtually would deprive them of overtime pay. o 0EIC1TSSPLII WHENEMERE'NGY TARIFF MEASURE EACHES SENATE Two Roll Calls Required To Refer Measure To Finance Committee Spirited De bate Greets Bill WASHINGTON. Dec. 28 Indica tions of the fight ahead over tariff legislation were given In the senate today when several hours' spirited de bate and two roll calls were required to effect the formal, routine action of referring to the finance committee the emergency tariff bill passed last week by the house. Democratic forces spat in the open ing clash, five minority members vot ing with the solid Republican strengtn against a motion by Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, asking that the house bill be referred to the commerce in stead of the finance committee. After defeat of the Hitchcock motion and severe Democratic attacks on the MIL parried by Republican defense, the senate voted unanimously to send the bill to the finance committee. Senator McCumber of North Dakota, acting chairman of the finance com mittee, announced during the debate that the bill would be taken up In ommittee early next month and given fair and adequate consideration." there were indications that the Re publican decision against hearings would be revoked. The house bill was denounced as an -embargo" bill and "suicidial" by Sen ator Hitchcock, who charged that sen ate machinery was Fet to rush it through. American commerce should be aided, he contended, and not ham pered by tariff harriers. Senator McCumber denied that the bill proposed embargoes and was sup ported by Senator Smoot. Republican of Utah. The North Dakoto senator declared the measure gave practlrally no protection to wheat and sai-1 that he would not support the bill as drafted. Senator Harrison, Democrat of Mississippi, assailed the bill as "the most iniquitous piece of legislation the country has ever seen." The tariff measure was designed to enhance living costs. Senator Harri son said, adding that the hill was a sop" to western farmers and would not aid them. o Women Storm New York Court Room Denouncing Witch NO IDEA going for your (Any reader can get the answer to any question by writing The Repub lican Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. This offer applies strictly to informa tion. The bureau cannot give advice on legal, medical and financial matters. It does not attempt to settle domestic troubles, nor to undertake chaustive research on any subject. Write your questions plainly and briefly. Give full name and address and enclose 2 cents in stamps for return postage. All re plies are sent direct to the inquirer.) . o LYDIA FISHER'S JIG Few, perhaps, could "place" Lydia Fisher's jig. But if one hummed "Yankee Doodle" there ""would be no mistake about it. Well, truth is that the tune of "Yankee Doodle" was just stolen from another tune that was well known in the days of Charles the Sec ond. And that-tune was "Lydia Fish er's jig." The identity of Lydia has not been discovered but the story of the stirring inarching song of colonial times has been preserved. But vers ions differ. When in 1755 a regiment of Con necticut soldiers was organized and were dressed in motly uniforms, the English surgeon, Richard Shuckbury, a wit and a musician, wrote the words that have since become famous and adopted them to the tune of Lydia Fisher's jig, apparently in derision of the make-up of the fighting Yanks. "Yankee Doodle came to town, riding on a pony; he stuck a feather in his hat and called it maccaroni." And meccaronl was used to express con tempt and meant "dude." But the Yankee troops turned the attempt at derision into their favor, complimenting themselves on their unique appearance. Thomas Fitch, son of the governor of Connecticut, was the original "Yankee Doodle" and rode at the head of his troops. The English officers soon found that clothes neither make the man nor the fighter, for it turned out that the Yankee troops were as brave as the bravest. The soldiers who marc led to battle to the time of Lydia Fisher's Jig mirvht well take off their hats to the girl who acknowledged ! Charles the Second its her king. i o i Births in England and Wales during ! 1919 increased at the rale of IS.." per i 1000 population. 1 "Where are you "I haven't the least idea.' "But can't you judge from what you've heard your father and mother say?" "Well from the way ma talks should think we are going to Monte Carlo. Switzerland and Egypt. From the wav Da talks I should think w were coins to the workhouse." Lon don Opinion. Republican A. P. Leased Wire NEW YORK, Dec. $. Echoes of Puritan days resounded with in the Malls .of Washington Heights court today when screams of "witch! witch! she's a witch!" were hurled at Mrs. Bessie Avorin. She appeared as a complainant aeainst Mrs. SODhie Stern, whom she charged with having publicly denounced her with untrue accu sations, hut suddenly she turned defendant when Mrs. Stem came to cwurt with her two-year-old daughter who had been cursed, she saida by Mrs. Avorin. and had lost the power of her legs. "Up to a couple of months ago." said Mrs. Stern, while her sympa thizers booed Mrs. Avorin, "my baby was strong and healthy. Then this woman went and cursed it. Your honor, that woman is a witch. Two hundred years ago she would have been burned ats the stake." "The witch! the witch!" yelled the women spectators. Bang! went the magistrate's gavel. Then he dismissed the summons aganist Mrs. Stern for lack of evidence. A FEARSOME CREATURE "Do you suppose winter or summer is better suited for the output of poetry?" "All seasons are alike to me," re plied the grand and gloomy young man with the shell rimmed spectacles nd th ('luxurious locks. "Indeed, sir?" "What is a little snow or a littl rain, a little sunshine or a cloud to one whose soul Is attuned to the in- o UNRELIABLE A touching little ballad entitled "I Wonder If He'll Miss Me" wa re ceived one day by a music publisher from a young woman. He read it through and then replied: "Dear Madame: If he does he should never be trusted with firearms again." American Legion Weekly. T. f it . r"2t ' - yj GIVE THAT A CHILD MAY LIVE " A FREE FLIGHT OVER PHOENIX And ITS SUBURBS Will Be Given to Everyone Who Subscribes $10.00 cr Mere to THE NEAR EAST RELIEF Before January 2d, 1921. The Apache Aerial Transportation Company have generously donated the use of their large Liberty Six Standard Airplane for the benefit of the Near East Relief Drive and will furnish a free flight to the substantial subscribers to that fund. The flights will be made from the State Fair Grounds on January 2d, 1921, in the same sequence that the subscriptions are received. TICKETS WILL BE ISSUED ONLY BY NEAR EAST RELIEF 42 East Monroe Street Phone 1216 " GIVE THAT A CHILD MAY LIVE " THE