Arizona republican. [volume], September 08, 1921, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4

About Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930

Image provided by: Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records; Phoenix, AZ

                
PAGE FOUR
iHE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, PHOENIX, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1921
THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN
PHOENIX. ARIZONA
.Published Every Morning by the
.. , ARIZONA PUBLISHING COMPANY
entered at the Postoffice at Phoenix, Arizona, as Mall
t..k . . Matter ot the Second Class
Publisher and President. . . . Dwtght B. Heard
general Manager and Secretary.. .Charles A. Stauffer
Business Manager .W. W. Knorpp
f-dltor J. W. Spear
News Editor . . E. A. Xoung
SUBSCRIPTION 'RAT ES-lSf 'ADVANCE
.,. Daily and Sunday
OUTSIDE STATE OK ARIZONA One year," $13.00;
T . mos., 6.75; 3 mos., S.50; 1 mo., 11.25
IN ARIZONA BY MAIL, OR CARRIER One year, S.00;
mos.. 14.00: 3 mos., $2.00: 1 mo.. 75c
SUNDAY EDITION by mail only S5.00 per year
Phnria A1"i 1 Private Branch Exchange
A nunc tOO 1 Connecting All Departments
General Advertising Representatives: Robert E. Ward.
Hrunswlrk Bldg.. New York. Mailers Bldg., Chicago;
w. R. Barranger, Examiner Bldg., San Francisco.
Post Intelliget er Bldg., Seattle, Title Insurance
Bldg., Los Angeles.
MEMBERS OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Receiving Full Night Report, by Leased Wire
The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use
for re-publication of all news dispatches credited to
It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also
. - the local news published herein.
AH rights of re-publication ot special dispatches herein
are also reserved.
THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1921.
It is not the defects but the beau
ties which should form our criterion
of judgment in all matters of art.
Chapin.
A Lack of Co-Ordination
Tere Is a lack of co-ordination in the various
departments and bureaus of our government such
a lack of It as to bo ridiculous.- The best illustra
tion of it Is In the position in which co-operative
associations of CiJifornia grape and fruit growers
find themselves. 1
Formerly at the mercy of the Independent pack
ers of fruits who fixed prices and compelled the
growers to take them, under the encouragement of
the department of agriculture, they formed associ
ations for the handling of their own products, the
absorption for their own benefit of the profits for
merly reaped by the packers and those gleaned along
the way by hordes of middlemen.
They were patted on the back by the department
and were aided so far as the department could aid
them In copper-riveting their associations. All this
appeared laudable to everybody but the middlemen
and the private packers, who went to another depart
ment of government about It the department of jus
tice. Now the growers find themselves defendants
against the charge of violating the Sherman anti
trust law. -
We wonder whether In. the course of the litiga
tion the department of justice ought not to proceed
against the department of agriculture as an aider
and ebettor of the growers in a conspiracy to with
hold from the private packers and middlemen - the
spoils which they, had become used to enjoying.
increase in the last two years of the number of im
portant crimes. We mentioned at that time that
the men who commit such crimes bank burglaries,
great hold-ups. gigantic forgeries and who conduct
swindling operations are necessarily sober men. Our
belief was that such crimes as these could not have
been affected by prohibition.
But Mr. Grey points out that though prohibition
cannot be charged with having inspired crimes of
that class, it has in two ways facilitated such crimes
and placed a bar temporarily in the way of tracing
the criminals. In the past, says Grey, many a, pro
jected crime failed because an expert either in the
course of preparation, or commission, yielding to
temptation, had become muddled and bungled. In
the old days one of the problems of bandit leaders
was to keep their followers at all times sober.
And after the crime a criminal, his tongue loos
ened by liquor, was apt to drop a word which was all
a detective needed to set him on a trail. There were
then in all large cities ,"hang-outs" for criminals of
various classes. There was no secret as to the ex
istence of these "hang-outs." Policemen and detect
ives knew them, knew the men who frequented them,
and knew them to be "yeggs" or criminals in other
lines. The criminals also knew the detectives and
sometimes there was an understanding that the
former would not be disturbed if they refrained from
criminal activity In the particular city where the
hang-out was located. .
With the abolition of the saloons, the crim
inals scattered from their old haunts so that a revi
sion of police methods has become necessary and the
revision has not yet been effected.
General criminal statistics, it is true, show a ,
decrease in the number of crimes, but for the most
part trivial ones, misdemeanors, wife-beating, petty
thievery and homicides the result of Impulse. It is
agreed though in the article, "The Sober Crook," that
if prohibition can be made to "prohibit It will be
worth all it has cost in the increased volume of great
crimes Involving onl financial loss to the public. In
the greater cost of affording protection to society.
The lessened heart burning and misery which liquor
causes will be a sufficient recompense for these
losses.
Critical Moments
By Herbert Johnson
A Lesson Never ta Be Forgotten
After what happened to the ""Chicago baseball
players who yielded to the temptation of the ' gam
blers we think that the suspicion that some coast
players are being tampered with is not well founded.
We do not believe any roan who has sense enough
to play baseball will ever again sell out; that is, no
good effective player will, and the gamblers would
have no Incentive to approach any other kind.
It is true that the Chicago players escaped pun
ishment under the law. Thev were acaultted-bv a.'
jury and the Jury proved the worthlessness of their
verdict by going out and banqueting with the de-
fendants after-the trial. But there was a verdict
by the American people that carried with It a pun
ishment severer than any the court could have im
posed and its effect will bemoro deterrent than any
judgment of the court could have been.
The defendants are all out of the game perma
nently. There Is no league, bush or otherwise, which
would dare to sign one of them, now or heneceforth.
Probably Cicotte and Jackson and none of them
could ever be tempted again after what they have
gone through. . In that respect they are more im
pregnable than they have ever been.
But the public will not stand for them. : Even the
lower classes of movie picture makers, who - have
seemed to hesitate at nothing, have made no bid for
their services. Several towns In Oklahoma and Texas
have recently forbidden an aggregation of players
Including the members of the "Black Sox" to play
games in them. We do not think there is a sporting
community in the country which would receive these
discredited though acquitted players.
This verdict of the people may be unjustly harsh.
Though some of the players were undoubtedly guilty,
others may not have been, but in acquitting those
known to be guilty, the jury convicted all of them
in the eyes of the people; it deprived the possibly
innocent ones of ever vindicating themselves.
Life Is always worth living in Phoenix but we
have now come to these September days, the begin
ning of nine months of the finest climate in the
world, when we cling more tenaciously than ever to
existence. ' '
It is up to our Kiwanis club to demand a change
of name of the mutiny ship, the Chester Kiwanis,
which has belied the purposes of the organization,
which are far from mutinous.
Women arrested in England for anti-tax agita
tion! Bid England learn nothing a century and a
half ago about taxation without representation T
Gardner may be a train bandit, but the authorities
of McNeil Island must concede that he's no liar and
a fairly reliable prophet.
Charlie Chaplin's Long Journey -
"From Rags to Riches." That is the title of a
play in which Charlie Chaplin took part when he
was an English boy twenty years ago. Not long
before that, the son of actor parents, small, unim
portant and poorly paid, he had a residence In an
English workhouse what in this country we call a
poorhouse. He had already appeared on the stage
at the age of four. Four years later he was in
"Yorkshire Lads' and then came "From Rags to .
Riches." And Chaplin since then has traversed that
whole route.
He came to this country nine years ago all but
penniless. Now, divested of his ridiculous mustache
and shoes, he is on his way back home to the scene
of his earlier privations. He is worth millions. He
will be, readily admitted to his native land, because
there is no danger that he will again bceome a public
tharge.
Chaplin Is not a great actor, but he is a grat
worker and the movies gave him an opportunity
the movies and the peculiar taste of the American
people who frequented the movies In an early day
to coin his peculiar gifts into gold.
Without the movies there would have been no
such opportunity and with them there would prob
ably not have been the opportunity anywhere save
in America. That his pictures afterward were well
received in France and England is traceable to the
A. E. F.. who made him popular wherever they
happened to be in great numbers.
Anyway, Chaplin has gone a long way, measured
by money.
Crime and Prohibition
Not as an argument against prohibition but as
an admonition to the friends of prohibition to mod
erate their claims that prohibition has diminished
rrime. the current Collier's prints an article by
a tt smith and John A. Grey. The latter
,anaiu - - -
gpeaks from the inside, having been a leader of a
bank, bandit gang whose operation extended over
many years.
There is brought out a fact to which The Repub
lican called attention many months ago, the great
THE HAZER'S LAMENT
-, (Article in Arizona Republican says every Uni
versity of Arizona stundent must sign a pledge not
to engage in hazing.)
Gallants attend and hear a friend
' Trill forth harmonious ditty;
Sad. things I'll tell which late befell
In Old Pueblo ctiy.
Tho" strange it seems, with truths It beams,
And is vouched for a fact, sir.
The sophs last year met the Frosh dear
With tomahawk and axe, sir.
They attacked pell-mell, on the Frosh they fell
To' slaughter them like cattle,
The Frosh ne'er dallied but quickly rallied,
And fought a terrible battle."
With shrieks and groans, with screams and moans.
They loudly pierced the air, sir, .
And on the ground for miles around t
Were pools of gore and hair, sir.
- The conflict o'er, and the battle's roar
Finally stilled at dawn, sir.
The freshmen dazed on each other gazed, 1
And found their scalps were gone, sir.
ThA freshman rants, "Tho vengeance
' Be denied us this year.
'We'll take revenge on next year's men.
Revenge both sweet and dear."
Then later on the Junior throng.
Their play sign they did light, sir.'
And Napoleon's crew at Waterloo
Ne'er saw so fierce a fight, sir.
I now must tell who sorrow befell;
Prexy thus demands eternal peace, sir,
"The glorious life of gay class strife
. Must now forever cease, sir.
"The freshman sect, we will protect
From the vengeful sophomore.
He must not wreck their self-respect.
His hazing days are o'er."
So the sweet little dears no harm should fear;
Treat them like hothouse plants, sir;
You must not dock their golden locks
Or take away their pants, sir.
The sophomores tame gnash teeth in vain,
And with curses fill the air, sir.
With the "No Hazing" law, no scalps they draw
This they can hardly bear, sir.
And freshman pets this law will bless,
For saving the dears from harm, sir;
And profs will boast and eternally toast
This glorious, great reform, sir.
(With apology to Francis Hopkinson)
L. O., Phoenix, Ariz.
A BISHOP'S JOKE
Rev. J. E. Freeman, D. D., rector of Epiphany
Episcopal Church, Washington, wv a life-long friend
of the late David H. Greer, bishop of New York, who
dearly loved an after-dinner cigar. On one occasion
Dr. Freeman visited Bishop Greer at Bar Harbor,
and during the visit the bishop asked him to walk
down to the express office where he expected a con
signment of cigars. Inquiry at the office brought the
information that nothing had arrived for Bishop
Greer, though he had sent an order from the bishop's
house in New York for their dispatch. As he was
turning away, the clerk said:
"By the way. Bishop Greer, do you know where
I could find Bishop Potter?"
Now. Bishop Potter had been dead then, almost
a year. In surprise, his successor turned back and
asked:
"Why do you ask?"
"Well," said the clerk, "here Is a package for
him."
Examining the package, Bishop Greer discovered
that it contained the cigars he had ordered.
"There has been a mistake," he said. "These
are the cigars I ordered."
"But where is Bishop Potter?" urged the clerk.
"Well," replied Bishop Greer, with twinkling eye,
"I can't with any dcfiniteness tell you where he is,
but wherever he is, I am certain that he is not
smoking."
, J9JJ, tgr parfrrj JoftueZ
l't LIKE To ' . .
, if-T MY HANDS' -Qu
OH fHE NTuRE fAKrtf) fFih
TrtrNT Tout? ME You t
C.QUU? QQ d LONG, Wl
V AW NOW' WHAT T'do , i
CHINA
BY OR. FRANK CRANE
(Copyright. 121, by Frank Cranef
ABOUT TME STATE
Siren Breaks Up Concert ,
NOGA1.ES Fire of unknown ori
gin completely destroyed a small
shack at 8:30 o'clock last night. The
city siren, giving the alarm, blew
'for about 15 minutes following dis
covery of the blaze. A girl in the
telephone office pushed a plug down,
and it wouldn't release for 15 min
utes, during which time the siren
kept up one continual howl.
Later, when city employes went up
on top of the city hall to repair the
siren, it started again. The fire de
partment thinking another fire had
broken out, and having the shack fire
under control, left a Btring of hose at
the scene, end made a quick run back
to the ritv hall.
Refusal of the siren to behave broke
up the band concert, the musicians
returning to Camp Stephen D. Little
before the program was completed.
People living in the ouskirts of the
city, hearing the siren for so long
thought the entire city was burning
up. Herald.
Tiacher From Belgium
PRESCOTT St. Joseph's Acad
emv classes were resumed this morn
me at 9 o'clock. Notable and val-
, uable additions have been made to
the staff of teachers, among them
Mile Julie Bots, a graduate of
Bruges, Belgium, and teacher of
languages in the Academy Ruysse
lede. Mile Bots will be at the head
of the French . department in the
academy. Arrangements may be
made for private coaching and for
children and adult classes. Journal
Miner. To Honor Dead Soldier
KINGMAN The body of Sam
Swaskegame, hero of the World War,
has arrived at Hoboken, and will be
shipped in the near future to the
Swaskegame Post No. 14, at King
man .his former home.
The Swaskegame post, named after
this Wallapal boy who was killed
rhile performing daring scout servlc.
on the Marne, will hold military ser
vices here on some Sunday following
the arrival of the body here. . These
services, it is understood .will surpass
anything of their kind ever held here.
Mchave Miner.
Call Off Northern Fair
PRESCOTT After serious consid
eration and due discussion. President
Hedrlck Altken of the Northern Ari
zona state fair, yesterday announced
that this year's fair would be can--celled.
This step was taken after
ondeivorlng to iiave some authentic
information at hand regarding the
state appropriation. The state fair
has been canceled and it is not the
policy of the state department to
authorize the holding of fairs this
year. Apache and Navajo counties
each voluntarily canceled their fair.
Journal-Miner.
Eat More Meat
TUCSON Strong pleas were made
for the "eat more meat and demand
home grown meats" campaign by C.
S. Brown, president of the state farm
bureau, and William M. Cook, direc
tor of the agricultural extension serv
ice, at the chamber of commerce
luncheon yesterday.
"No one, no matter how far he
lives from the center of activity,
should be dependent upon the daily
markets for his meat supply," said
.Director uook. There are means
by which meats may be preserved
today that should make us all lnde
pendent."
Mr. Cook told of a year spent by
him in the East for the purpose of
studying the meat marketing prob
lems. He learned, he said, that
while the large packers are supposed
to have a monopoly on the meat
industry, that this was not a fact,
and that in all communities he vis
ited he found independent packing
concerns doing a thriving buslnesa
Star.
Drilling for Oil
TOMBSTONE S. N, Gordon and
daughter report that L. H. Klanken-
ship, independent oil driller, has ar
rived in Nogales and has advertised
for bids for the hauling of his well
rig to the site of the proposed test
well to be put down on recently
leased land from Harkey Brothers, T.
G. Matbes and the Gordons. Nogales
papers have been erroneously pub
lishing the fact, Mr. Gordon said, that
the test well is to be put down in
Santa Crus county, when as a matter
ot fact it Is a recognized fact that oil
the land is located in Cochise county
on which it Is claimed there is a
possibility to find oil. The oil rig has
a capacity of 4000 feet, and drilh'ng
is expected to be started within 30 or
40 days, the contract calling for 90
days in which to start the drilling.
The exact location of the well has not
yet been made public. Prospector.
Booster for Aie
AJO That AJo Is uestlned to be
one of the largest mining camps in
the Southwest is the opinion of
Tucson booster for the camp. W. F.
Schoonmaker. And the- building of
the proposed railroad to the Gulf of
California would greatly help and
hasten the expected growth, he
thinks.
Mr. Schoonmaker has Just returned
from El Paso. He reports one stack
in operation at the smelter there and
that another will be aaaea next, juon
dav. according to reports. It was
onlv a short time ago that the smel
ter was closed entirely. Copper
News.
Woman Holds Court
PRESCOTT Brief holding of the
September session of the United
States district court here yesterday
was In the hands of the only girl
deputy United States marshal in th
United States. Miss Minnie Seaman.
former Prescott girl, . opened and
closed the court yesterday morning
for the Dumoae of complying wltn
the law and fixing the postponed
session for October 3.
Miss Seamans came to Prescott
from her office in Phoenix Saturday
night. Yesterday morning she for
mally opened and closed court with
the courtroom empty and entered on
record tho proceedings thereof.
Deputy United States Marshal
Minnie Spaman Is the daughter of
Mrs. M. J. Seaman and the sister
ot Dan Seamon of this city. Jour
nal-Miner.
Labor Day Parade
TUCSON A celebration commenc
lng with a 'parade at 10 o'clock and
concluding with a dance in the Labor
Temple Monday night was partlc
pated in by organized labor in Tuc
son. on the occasion of Labor day.
Citizen.
Dining Cars to Mex:co
NOGALES Dinir g car service on
Southern Pacific de Mexico trains for
the first time in history between No
gales. Hermosilo and Mazatlan, Is to
be inauguarted next Tuesday, Sept.
Herald.
"A Chinese friend," writes John Dewey in an ar
ticle that appeared in "Asia," an American magazine
dealing with things Oriental, "A Chinese friend to
whom I owe so much that he wrould be justified in
arresting me for intellectual theft, has summarized for
me the stages of foreign influence in China."
Since Dewey stole the points from a Chinaman I
am going to steal them from him; and as he translated
them from Chinese to Columbia University lingo, so
I will translate them once more into common or garden
English so that the elevator boy can get them. -
At first the Chinese very naturally- supposed that
Western nations were stronger than Eastern because
of military devices. They said in their startlingly nude
way, "Christ was riding on a cannon ball to China.
It did not take long however ior tne quick cninese
mind to clamber out of this bog of delusion, a bog, by
the way, in which multitudes of Europeans and Amer
icans still wallow.
Then thev attributed China's backwardness to her
form of government. So they made a Republic, instead
of a navy. And that was no great shakes.
Third, thev sought to catch up with the roaring
West by cultivating applied science, engineering, and
the like. So they feverishly went to building railways, .
factories, and steam and electric devices. But here
again they were disappointed, for the footsteps of pro
gress still lingered. .
Next came a wave of moral reform, lhere was a
wave of all sorts of movements, such as anti-foot-bind
ing societies, anti-opium crusades, anti-gambling cam
paigns, and so on. But they discovered that supremacy.
did not seem to come via the methods of Pussyfoot
Johnson and W. F. Crafts.
Then, boring still deeper, they came to another
thing, which was expressed in the formula: China
could not be changed without a change in fundamental
ideas and beliefs.
This is pretty near the bottom of the well where,
as everybody knows, truth is to be found.
dro 'of'wate11' usyed had'o'be carded In a nutshen it means that the West does not excel
up over 400 feet in Jugs on the heads the East by some superior quality of Western blood,
t roiriremade onthth. c?e nor by any lucky chance, but by the discovery and use
where enough water could be stored 0f a truth that is universal and, like all truth, the ser-
to resist a iege. All of the corn and , - , , , ...
beans and other food of the Indiana Vant 01 anybody WThO Will USe it.
m,raaway. 'lLTl . That truth is this i That the object of human life,
carried to the top of the mesa, and an(j the DurDOse of all its endowments, talents, and dis-
enough of It stored there to make I j. i i i.
the inhawtans safe in case of an at- covenes, is not Enjoyment but Achievement.
t , . , In other words, Truth itself is of no particular
All of this Is conjecture of course, i. A j
and the flaw in the whole theory lies advantage eXCept aS it IS UScKl.
in the fact that there is at present e A 4- 1rtr.a J4- ; A 1,V "
no trail to the top of the mesa at ot-ieiiV-C uuca nub ucip unicoo iw jri.yii.
all. The Indian belief is that a trail I 1trrxAar1cro ic nnt Pntvprf until it. IS ntili7.fv? tn TV
once existed and that a landaide has ""V 1"
wiped it out, making the abandon- something.
SoTWV n" .mbeesn Sr7w.T,S -' " Religion grows stale and noxious unless it is di-
wind and rain so long and so thor- Drf1v unnlirl tr rnimJJTl hpt.tprmpnt.
And Literature, as with all these other goods, be
comes a Tree of Life, whose leaves are for the healing
of the people, only when it grows big and its branches
overnang mat mver or uoa, wmcn is running Diacx
with men.
CLIMBING THE ENCHANTED MESA
By Frederio J. Haskin .
WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 3 The
Enchanted Mesa, out in New Mexico,
was recently climbed for the third
time, so far as the records show,
and for the first time without anj
other apparatus than a rope.
The Enchanted Mesa is one of the
many mysteries of the Southwest.
It stands a few1 miles from the pu
eblo of Acoma in a vast stretch of
semi-arid wilderness a country of
gently rolling hills timbered with
pinon and cedar? Many mesas, that
is, plateaus, rise above the level of
this country, but the Enchanted
Mesa is different from the others. It
is, in fact, a thing unique. It rises
to a height of 430 feet above the
surrounding country, and has a per
fectly flat top about the size of a
largo farm. The walls are so steep
that there is only one place where
an ascent has ever-been attempted,
and there is a sheer cliff 40 feet high
oughly that it is now very difficult to
find a vestige of life . that once
crowned the mesa; but when it was
scended In 1897 by Dr. W. F.
Hodges of the bureau of ethnology.
he found bits of pottery, ax heads
and other articles which seemed to
prove conclusively the truth of the
Indian belief that the mesa was once
inhabited.
The first ascent of which was can
find a record was mad in 1894 by
Prof. William Libbey of Princeton.
Impressed by the steepness and- the
height of the mesa, this gentleman
provided himself with a life saving
apparatus. Including a mortar, with
which he shot a rope clear over the
mesa and pulled himself and his
party to the top. Dr. Hodges did
not believe such elaborate apparatus
was necessary.- He took to the
ground a long ladder in several sec
tions and reached the top without
much trouble.
The ascent made last summer
was unique in that nothing but a rope
was used and that the expedition
was Initiated by women, three of
whom reached the top.
A Daring Climb
Misses Hlcky and Fergusson are
two young women of Albuquerque,
New Mexico, who make a profession
of conducting parties about the coun
try, explaining to them Its historical
and scenic interest. Their motto is
to take anyone anywhere he wants
to go, so that when someone sug
gested the top ot the Enchanted
Mesa as a destination, they imme
diately agreed to make the attempt
They enlisted the aid of Richard F,
Woodson, a young Albuquerque bus
iness man, who is addicted to at
tempting the unusual and has a rep
utation for nerve and agility. He is
the only man who has ever navigat
ed the Rio Grande in a canoe, and
now he adds to this the distinction
of being the only man who ever
jS
Tennessee Bishop and the Eighteenth
Amendment
To the Editor 'of the Daily Repub
lican:
On the front page of this morning's
issue of The Republican Bishop Gall
er of Tennessee is quoted as saying.
'The writing into our constitution of
the eighteenth amendment was un
pardonable
The original constitution adop'eJ
under the presidency of George
Washington by the national consti
tutional convention In Philadelphia,
provided a method for making
amendments to that constitution as
conditions might require.
If any proposed amendment is put
into the constitution by any other
rrocess than that prescribed by the
constitution itself, the supreme couri
will declare it null and void.
But any amendment that has been
out into the constitution by the or
climbed the Enchanted Mesa bare-. d"' B" Ji, X? l? tif,
handed. He surveyed the face of the
cliff for a few minutes and then he
started up, climbing a fissure by cut
ting toe holds as he went. There
was one point at which the specta
tors thought a fall was inavitable,
and Woodson says that he. at the
time, agreed with them, but he final
ly reached the top. carrying a rope.
All of the party, including the three
women, ascended by this rope. They
were accompanied - by one Indian
from Acoma. named Henry Johnson,
who had never been on the mesa
before, although he was born In the
the force and dignity of the constltu
tion itself.
The bishOD Is Quoted as saying. It
was nothing short of hysteria tnat
nut over a. restriction whlcn could
not hope to suppress the evil." The
bishOD had Just been quoted as de
claring "the church was making
headway against what evil mere was
in liauor.
If it had been done oy popular
vote of the people, hysteria could be
charged, but when it was done in tne
orderly process required by the con
stitution, by the two houses of con
gress and a majority vote of three
which must be scaled. This singular
rock stands out of the desert like
a great ship from the sea, out-top
ping everything for miles around.
But the thing w-hlch awakens most
interest in it is the existence of the
traditions, supported by bits of pot
tery, ax heads and other remains
found on and about the mesa, that
many years ago before white men
came to America, there was a prim
itive city of Pueblo Indians on the
top of it. This desolate rock was
once the Gibraltar of the Southwest.
It was an impregnable stronghold
from which the sedentary Indians,
who were on the way to civilization
of their own, the ancestors of the
present Pueblos, defied the Navajos,
Apaches and other nomads. In the
primitive warfare of that day, the
Enchanted Mesa was probably a fort
whi -h never could be taken except
by sUu-ving the inhabitants out.
A Laborious Life
They paid a heavy price In labor
sight of it. He had always regarded fourths of the state legislatures, both
th ascent as impossible. houses of each legislature concurring.
Such a feat by women is not un- no fair-minded man will designate
.,iai in the Southwest as it would the method as hysterical.
be considered in the East. Down in The prime object of the Eighteenth
that country women seem to have amendment is to suppress the open
taken all outdoors as their province, saloon. The open saloon is sup-
It is hardly an exaggeration to say pressed, and the bishop is talking un
.... whon x'nii ff-ot nntsMp thn towns. I advisedlv.
hlrh are few and small, nearly half I The church was making headway
.r, vnn hnvn on trousers, against the evil there was in slavery
...h. nnii. hnvi h. I as the bishoo says of liquor, but it
almost conventional caro wa 1 - -
States and the legislatures of the
several states to suppress forever
slavery in this republic by the writ
ing into the constitution of the thir
teenth amendment in 1S6.
The church was really trying to
deal with slavery. Just as the church
was later trying to deal with the
-r t
1 Questions And
Answers
1
-o
i-nm o an
for women in the West. They ride.
fish, tramp and camp out Just as
men do. It is surprising now tne
women take to the hills and to horse
Some scientists say that women
more Drlmitlve ana closer to na
ture than men x n.a wwu.-a queslion of iiqUor. Does the bishop
be borne out by the fact that often Ljeclare it was nothing short of hys-
women fror, tne tan . aujusi teria that put the thirteenth amend
i,-.. tr the outdoor Hie more easily i ,, th- mn.iinHnnt rwx,
and seem to like it better than their not good cltizenRmp reqUire every
men folks. Woman's place is doubt- man to accept what has been regu
less still in the home, but if she is iariy and authoritatively put into the
young and nas pep sue ceiunui constitution?
does enjoy getting out of it.
The British territory of Aden on
the Arabian coast is an important
coaling station on the route to the
past
o I The Methodist Episcopal church in
Mexico is divided Into iS states, the the United States has a membership
federal district and two territories. of nearly 4.50U.0U0..
J. E. HARRISON.
Presiding Elder of the Methodist
church. 504 East Roosevelt street,
rhoenix.
September 7, 1921.
(Any reader can get the answer to
any question by writing The Repub
lican Information Bureau, Frederic J.
HasKm. Director, Washington. D. C,
This offer applies strictly to informa
tion, ine Dureau cannot give advice
on legal, medical and financial mat
ters. It does not attempt to settle
domestic troubles, nor to undertake
exhaustive rearch n any subject.
Write your question plainly and
briefly. Give full name and address
and f.iclose 2 cents in stamps for re
turn postage. All replies are sent
direct to the Inquirer.)
O. Do aviators ott news of fly
ing conditions from the weathSr bu
reau? A. G. N.
A. The weather bureau issues fore
casts twice a day regarding flying
weather in the 13 aviation soncs of
the United Statea These give visi
bility, kind and height of clouds.
wirld at various elevations, and other
information that might be helpful tit
aviators in laying their courses and
choosing their elevations.
Q. How should a tennis racket be
taken care of? F. W.
A. The most important thing is to
keep a tennis racket dry. After be
ing used, it should be wiped with a
dry cloth, placed in a water-proof
cover and a press.
Q. Are not most diamonds found
in volcanic districts? Would it be a
waste of time to investigate a very
old volcanic district? W. L. M.
A. The United States geological
survey says that most diamonds are
not found In volcanic districts. It
would not be advisable to spend a
great deal of time in investigating an
old volcanic district to determine
whether diamonds are there.
Q. Which of the states bought
another state? K. N. I.
A. Massachusetts bought the
claims of the Gorges heirs to the
state of Maine in 1677 for about 1359
English pounds.
Q. When and where was John
McCprmick born? N. M. A.
A. John McCormick was born In
Athlone. Ireland, on July 14th. 1SS4.
Q. When were horses first shod?
J. A. C.
A. It is Impossible to state def
initely when horseshoes were first
used. A coin in the British Museum,
from Tarentum, made about 30b B.
C. is supposed to represent horse be
ing shod. It is not likely, however,
that shoeing with iron was at all
ommon in the early part of the
Middle Ages. William the Conquer
or Is believed to have Introduced the
art into Britain. For centuries the
art of the shoesmlth ranked wltn
that of the scholar and bard in Eng
land and France, and even kings
practiced 'the craft.
Q. How many postoffices were
there in 1790 and how many miles cf
postal routes? M. G. T. '
A. In 1790 there were 75 post
offices and 1S75 miles of postal
routes. In the 130 years sircj. the
service has grown to the proportion
of 52.638 postoffices and 435,313 miles
of postal routes.
Q. What is copra used for? S.
M. G.
A. Copra is the dried kernel of
the cocoanut. It is valuable for the
oil which is extracted from it.