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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN. PHOENIX. SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 26, 1921.
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SATURDAY MORNING. NOVE1IEER 26. 1921.
Scarcely two hundred years back
can fame recollect articulately at all;
and then she but maunders and
mumbles. Carlyle.
A One Sided Cat
We cannot see how, against the mass of evidence
that has been presented in The Republican by men
who are peculiarly qualified to testify against the
Xeril to the long staple cotton Industry of this valley.
Involved, any cotton grower may persist in a pur
pose to Invoke it by the introduction by the way of
an experiment, of a cotton of an inferior type to
displace Pima which has been developed to its pres
ent high standard and for which a market is being
ateadily established.
We have had the papers of Dr. T. H. Kearney and
Mr. O. F. Cook of the department of agriculture and
of Mr. Edward F. Parker who has been more exten
sively associated with the cotton industry here than
any other man, and who, of the residents of the val
ley, has more closely studied than any other, the
various types of cotton, market conditions of the
past and the present, and is, therefore, qualified to
speak of the future. We would especially urge upon
all growers to study the paper ot Mr. Parker which
appeared in The Republican of Monday.
" Against the testimony of these men, what have
we? Nothing at all except the fact that a certain
typo of cotton which can be raised on millions of
acres in the southeast and which has been found not
to be adaptable to conditions under irrigation, just
now under abnormal conditions in the markets, is
enjoying a favorable position. That is all.
And, on this flimsy evidence there are some
growers, though only a few, who would condemn the
rima cotton industry which has been so thoroughly
and painstakingly built up, to destruction by con
tamination of seed and by the possible introduction
ot cotton plant pests which have already laid waste
the Sea Island cotton Industry.
They would deprive thi3 valley of the freedom
from competition which its high grade cotton enjoys
by substituting for it a type of cotton which can be
grown over so vast an area that its over-production
any year might result in a glutted market. It is this
over-production of the shorter types of cotton that
so fx-equently reduces the price of cotton in the south
ern states to a ruinously low level.
We have in addition to the evidence in favor of
Pima cotton to which we have referred, the testi
mony of Mr. James Kendall, an Englishman who has
been in the city a short time, an expert of many
years in linen and cotton fabrics. He writes to The
Republican: -'
"Before leaving Phoenix I would say that I have
b-w?n greatly interested in your articles regarding
Pima cotton. Many years ago I used to buy for the
British army and navy thousands and thousands of
pieces of sheetings and cloths. In fact, I would buy
one season's output of certain grades at. that time.
It was a pleasure for me to handle finished goods
made of Egyptian cotton. For the last five years I
have handled large quantities of goods made of Pima
cotton. I must confess that although an Englishman,
I prefer your Pima cotton to the Egyptian because of
its beautiful silky finish, its high grade, its color,
and lastly, its wonderful wearing quality. I profess
to be a cotton and linen expert and I believe the
highest quality of cotton to be Pima."
In an Interview Mr. Kendall said that he believed
that in a short time Pima cotton would stand alone
as a cotton of the highest grade. Mr. Kendall form
erly spent a great deal of time in Egypt and he ob
served the deterioration of cotton there. Deteriora
tion, he said, is progressing until now he believes
that the best Egyptian will shortly rank as third
grade.
The Imperial valley affords a striking illustra
tion of the danger of trying to grow several types of
cotton in the same district, the cross-breeding de
veloped having produced an inferior type of hybrid
cotton for which there is no established market.
Careful and thorough tests of these varieties, con
sidered as a substitute for Pima should be made by
the government at the Sacaton breeding station so
that the fullest information may be obtained. And
these testa the government is prepared to make.
But to spot the valley over with patches of short
staple cotton Is a dangerous experiment, thoroughly
disapproved by all those who have made an impartial
and scientific study of the question.
The night air in Washington In April usually de
mands a more protective garb.
The advisability of "drastic action" was dis
cussed. The president said, "Of course, Mr. Bryan
you understand what drastic action in this matter
might ultimately mean in our relations with Mexico ?"
To which Mr. Bryan in the night air, his pacifism
evaporating, replied, "1 thoroughly appreciate this,
Mr. President, and fully considered it before telephon
ing you."
There was then a slight pause after which the
president asked Josephus how he felt about it. The
latter "frankly agreed," though so far, there had been
no pronouncement of any program. Thereupon the
president dii-ected Mr. Daniels to wire Admiral Mayo
to take Vera Cruz.
Mr. Tumulty, now that the conversation had be
come triangular gave rein to his imagination,
' 'As I sat at the phone on this fateful morning,
away from the hurly-burly world outside, clad only
in my pajamas and listened to this discussion, the
tenseness of the whole situation and its grave possi
bilities of war, with all its tragedy, gripped me. Here
were three men quietly gathered about a phone, paci
fists at heart, men who had been criticized and lam
pooned throughout the whole country as being too
proud to fight, now without hesitation of any kind
agreeing on a course of action that might result in
bringing two nations to war. They were pacifists no
longer, but plain, simple men, bent upon discharging
the duty they owed their country and utterly disre
garding their own personal feelings of antagonism to
every .phase of war. ,
"I pictured the flagship of Admiral Mayo, with
Its fine cargo of sturdy young marines, riding serenely
at anchor off Vera Cruz, and those aboard the ves
sel utterly unmindful of the message that was now
on its way through the air, an ominous message which
to some of them would be a portent of death. When
the president concluded his conversation with me
his voice was husky. It indicated to me that he felt
the solemnity of the whole delicate business he was
now handling, while the people of America, whose
spokesman he was, were at this hour quietly sleeping
in their beds, unaware and unmindful of the grave
import of this message which was already on its way
to Vera Cruz."
Perhaps a chronological disarrangement will be
' noted In the statement, ''Here were three men quietly
gathered about a phone, pacifists at heart, 'men who
had been criticised and lampooned throughout the
whole country as being too proud to fight."
-. The phrase "too proud to fight" had not yet been
heard. The president himself coined it at a later date
when a large part of the nation was clamoring for
action against Germany. It is true that many Amer
icans were urging intervention in 'Mexico, some per
haps unworthily, but others sincerely. The only
criticism of the administration was because of its
lack of a Mexican policy, the apparent futility of a
hope that a constitutional government might somehow
come out of the discord of corruption and ignorance
with which that unfortunate country was over
whelmed. Intervention was demanded not in behalf of either
or any of the Mexican factions, but for the security
of American citizens.
If Mr. Tumulty's perspective of passing events
was at times fault', because of his too close prox
imity; if the importance of many of them have been
minimized by time from his estimates, his work is
none the less faithful and useful in giving' us an in
sight into a stirring period of our existence, and a
"close up" of a man who was one of the great figures
of his time and perhaps of American history.
Though one of the most ardent of Mr. Wilson's
admirers, Mr. Tumulty's adoration of him is not
blind. This biography will undoubtedly be heavily
drawn upon, by future essayists and historians.
Coming In With tha Cash
The generous and prompt action of the Santa Fe
railroad in contributing its quota of $25,000 of the
Cave Creek control fund, we think will stimulate the
other parties in interest to Immediate action. The
money ot the Santa Fe is now available and we sup
pose that of the private contributors will also be, the
Arizona Eastern, the Standard Oil company and the
Union Oil company.
All these private contributors have a double
interest, or ought to feel it, in the most rapid prog
ress of the work. Kot only have they all valuable
property lying in the path of Cave Creek floods but
like all property owners of the state they are con
cerned in the conservation of property not their own
against destruction, thereby assuming the share of
taxes which should have bee-n borne by the de
stroyed property.
It is desirable that all the money which has been
pledged .by the state, the county, and the city as well
as by the private concerns, be available by Decem
ber 1. The city's share of $100,000 we understand is
already available as that of the Salt River Valley
Water Users Association has been ever since last
spring.
That Pup
By Herbert Johnson
The Work of Mr. Tumulty
Ha never weary of the perusal of Mr. Joseph
Tumulty's biography of Woodrow Wilson as he knew
him. There is an intimacy in it rivaled only in
Bosweil or in the documents of Las Cases, Gourgaud
and Montholon concerning the closing phase of Na
poleon. vn We have not yet come in the biography to the
Great War. Our latest readings are of the course ot
th administration toward Mexico. We think that
therein Mr. Tumulty is too hyperbolic, considering
the outcome of the events which he so breathlessly
describes.
For instance, following the Tampico incident
when word reached the state department of the ap-
proach to Vera Cruz of a German vessel bringing
I rms to Huerta, Mr. Tumulty became dramatic.
"About 2:30 o'clock on the morning of the
twenty-first day ot April, 1914," he writes, "the tele
phone operator at the White House called me at
home and rousing me from my bed Informed me that
1 the secretary of state, Mr. Bryan desired to speak
to mo at once on a very urgent and serious matter."
TJiereujion ensued a conversation which became
quadrangular, Mr. Bryan, Mr. Tumulty, the president
and Secretary Daniels of the navy standing in the
anctes. Mr. Tumulty at any rate was in pajamas.
Some striking things occur in the make up ot
the best regulated papers. In a headline on Thurs
day morning, the Los Angeles Times exalted by the
day piously screamed, '"Now, therefore. Our God, we
thank Thee and praise Thy glorious name." In big
ger and blacker letters the Times telegraph editor
still more vociferously proclaimed across the page,
"Murders for Fifty Dollars." Perhaps the Times
found cause for thanksgiving in the circumstances
that this low-priced crime was committed in Chicago,
and not in Los Angeles.
BALD
Baldness is more common among meat eaters
than among vegetarians, says Charles F. Pabste,
writing in the Western Medical Times.
He says, to check loss of hair, you should use
tonics, take special exercises, special foods, special
drinks, and exert mental effort only moderately. It
isn't worth it.
Man once was as hairy as a monkey. Fully
civilized, he will be as hairless as an egg. The bald
man usually lives in advance of his time, even though
a bald head probably started the theory.
GOLD
Steadily the world's gold flows into the United
States. More than half of it is here already. Makes
bankers feel secure to see our gold holdings approach
the $4,000,000,000 mark. One of these mornings they'll
wake up to the Gold Danger.
More gold we have, more certain our currency is
to bo kept inflated, with prices unnaturally high in
consequence. Also, less gold other countries have,
more their money slumps. It is our gold horde that is
strangling foreign trade. Better if some of it were
flowing out to our customers. You can't eat gold.
METER
One of your pet pests is the gas meter. Forgive
it, a moment. It is said to be the most accurate
measuring device ever invented. Put 100 of the best
watches against 100 meters in a test for accuracy,
exposed to same varying conditions of temperature
and humidity, and the meter will win out every time.
That is, unless the factory adjusted it to register too
much.
Yet the gas meter was invented by Bill Richards,
back in 1S44. Inventors have constantly tried to im
prove it, but always have had to give up. All of the
clever men aren't livius iu our generation.
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BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN: Bring ye all
the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat
i7i mine house, and prove me noiv herewith, saith the
Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the icindows of
heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall
not be room enough to receive it. Malachi 3:10.
STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS
BY DR. FRANK CRANE
(Copyright, 1921. by Frank Crane)
ILARDMEIS WEEKLY LETTER
By RING W. LARDNER
THE CRAWL STROKE I S NO USE IN TENNIS
To the Editor:
I am often asked the question how
often do I go to town, meaning N. Y.
City, and when I say I don't go thero
no oftener than I can help why
they look at me like I was a moron
or something and once in a while
somebody makes the remark that
they would think I would get bored
to death staying out here all the
time and I must be crazy to live so
close to N. Y. and yet hardly ever
go there and enjoy the excitement,
etc. Well, friends, when a man gels
to my age they don't go chasing
around after excitement, but even if
I felt a craving for same I wouldn't
half to leave- home to get same.
Anybody that thinks Great Neck is
a 2d Gopher Prairie if crazier than
Bugs Banr,
They certainly ain't been nothing
monotonous about my home life
lately, for though I have got prac
tically the same wife and kiddles
which I have had for many a moon,
still tney ain't har dly -a day passes
when 1 don't see a strange face in
tho house and they's been instants
when I was introduced to the new
nurse and the new cook the same
day. and before I could make out
which was which they was both
gone.
The most of them don't'walt for no
letter of recommendation, though
they has been a few who I would
of been glad to write about at great ,
length. For instance, they was one
nurse who I could of recommended
as tha most hopeful lady ever I seen.
She would steal a door or a double
bed and hope they wouldn't nobody
miss it. The day she left I got a
rope out ot the garage and tied th?
house to a tree. .
The last exodus was a married cou
ple that the husband orove. the fliv
and the wife was a incendiary. but
we was willing to eat what she burnt
because the husband could go to the
station and back without changing
tires. But they's something wrong
with all of them and it turned out
that this guy had been a Yankee fan
ever since "the American League
come to N. Y., and after the world's
serious he just simply quit work and
set around all day scolding different
umpires.
A NEW GAME
But a person don't half to depend
on the servant problem for excite
ment .as some of the boys has
started a new game alled law suits,
and they have got me playing on
defense. The fifth to the last driver
we had was coming along through
Gensington one day with a car load
children when all of a sudden
they was attacked by a taxi, but my
man knocked tne taxi ior a Kou.
spilled a couple of fares named
Dn..nhri. and Cohen or something.
Those 2 hovs was hurt so bad
that they had to walk over to the
drug store and buy a nickel's worth
c court plaster, and in a couple
weeks I got notice from their lawyer
that the both of them was practally
and wouldn't never io aiue to
work no more ami would 1 please
,.m, nr-rost with $20.f'0U.
Well, friends. I decided to not pay
It and the other reason was because
I figure that if a man is fixed so
that he can't work no more he should
..vf in v,o tickled to death and
v.e a rnrrt of thanks instead
trving to put the screws on me for
a week's pay.
ions about this same time they
was a rumor spread around that the
fnurt whicn tne man nun
tn have it built by the
of June was now ready for action
,.i the man that built it would kind
. lit, tr have his pay for same.
t shoes and went out and
n look at it and if they hadn't
told me it was supposed to be a ten
nis court I would of thought it was
the Great Lakes. I guess the man
must of heard some'iotiy refer to the
net eame and thought tennis was
some kind of fishing.
irfoj anyway. I says I would settle
. as sbon as land was sighted and the
man savs thoy was a svins up the
hill behind the court and the spring
drained right down on the court, but
that wasn't his fault, n- he hadn't
even knew the spring was there when
he started to build the court, so
told him to get better acquainted
with the spring and see if he couldn't
coax it to drain somewlieres else, and
when he done that I would settle for
the court.
But he went awav mad and now
juy lawyer is exchanging mush notes
After all is said and done we are strangers in a
strange world.
No apter name has been coined for us than the title
Pilgrims and Strangers.
There is Something or Somebody behind the uni
verse making it go. We call it God. We but give a
name to a mystery.
The scientist probes the sea, the earth, the mind.
He is like a Hottentot wandering in New York. He sees
many curious things and inexplicable. He endeavors
with his limited intelligence to classify them.
For what we call knowledge is not at all apprehen
sion ; it is classification. k
He sees things act the same way twice, three times,
ana proclaims a law; he nas not the slightest idea why.
it acted in the first place.
What we term knowledge is mere familiarity; a
scientist is a person who is at home with certain phe
nomena, those of his chosen field, or has learned from
another who is at home with them, and is like the society
dame who has learned how to use her spoon.
The unlearned person says all things are heavy; the
learned persons says every particle of matter attracts
every other particle of matter in certain proportion ac
cording to the law of gravitation ; the latter has simply
extended his generalization a little farther than the
former; he has been about more in the universe ; but like
his unlearned brother he, too, is a foreigner in the cos
mos, and returns home to the infinite having seen
strange sights.
Who can tell why bread makes life and arsenic
causes death, except to say that they have always done
so
And what is life?
A ghostly visitor, whose face we have never seen.
When it is present in this mass of flesh, certain
chemical reactions take place, the sum of which we call
growth; when it goes away, the minute the strange
spook vanishes, certain other chemical changes begin
in the body, and we rot.
But what is life? Nobody knows. Nobody ever
made a living thing that is, out of anything that was
not already alive.
What makes one human being grow large and an
other grow small? Said Professor W: J. Halliburton at
O TttflfitlTlff AT CAlfintlcfd V,rt f U I ni. ,
"One of the many ductless glands like the thyroid,
which have an important influence on health, is the
pituitary, situated at the base of the brain. This com
paratively insignificant little body is about the size of a
pea. It is concerned in sending out to the tissues some
thing which stimulates growth. If it sends out too much,
overgrowth results; if it sends out too little, there is
dwarfism. The happy meaji is what we call health.
It is supposed to be a great mystery, anything about
the ductless glands.
Why the pituitary gland acts so and so is no more
mysterious than why your fingernails keep growing in
the night.
At the same meeting Professor Lloyd Morgan re
ftrretl to "the theory that memory is stored in the
bi air" as "clotted nonsense."
Quite so. So is any other theory.
"the boys would half to add the Australian crawl stroke to their jinn "
with his lawyer and in the mean"
while if the tennis assn. decided to
hold the next championships on my
court the boys would half to add the
Australian crawl stroke to their
game.
In most towns where I have lived,
the first thing your new neighbors
asks you when they come to call is:
"Have you got your gas con
nected," or "Has the telephone been
put in.".
But the natural question In this
town is have you made arrange
ments for a lawyer.
When they ain't enough new nurses
or law suits to keep a person enter
tained, why all you have got to do
is visit one of the barber shops and
ask them to trim your hair. The
sport of fencing takes a quick eye,
but when you get in on of these
here barber chairs you have got to
watch your opponent a whole lot
closer than if he just had a sword.
Before the contest starts I always
Bay:
"Now I only want it trimmed
around the edges and 1 don't want
the clippers on the sides and I don't
want nothing off the top."
Might Just as well set down and
say:
"Scalp me, barber. "
When the game is over you look in
the glass and if you have still got
your cars you win.
They say it don't rain in this part
of N. Y. nowheres near as much as
in California for inst, but still 1
guess they's no danger of a stranger
not knowing whether be is here or
in Arizona, and when it does rain
our whole family parks themself in
the front windows to wave goodhy
to our driveway, which was built by
the same party that put in the liquid
tennis court.
The driveway don't generally go
no further than one-half way acrost
the main public road, but its fun
after the rain to set and watch the
flivs approach It and hesitate and re
fuse the jump.
So, os I say. a man can get plenty
of thrills in this life without going j
a stone's throw from tho 1st and 2t j
nortgage, and it has got so now that i
I can't enjoy myself at the theater
or opera bouse in N. Y. City on
acct of the dread thought that I may
be missing something at home.
RING W. LAB.DNEK.
Great Neck. Nov. ;5.
salted or unialted water? F. W. H.
A. Potatoes should be put on to
cook in salted, boiling water. Salt
added at the beginning of the cook
ing reduces the loss of mir-.-ral mat
ter about one-third.
Q. Why do we have n "e" in
liquefy instead of "i" sine liquid is
spelled with an "i"? M. S. B.
Liquefy is derived from lique
facere; ilquers, Latin words mean
ing to be liquid, and to make. Liquid
is derived from liquidus (liquer
liquere), the Latin word meaning to
be fluid. From these base words
you will see the reason for the "e"
in liquefy and the "i" in liquid.
Q. What is the Insignia of tha
American Army of Occupation in
Germany? A. D. H.
A. Their insignia is a large white
A surrounded by a red circle,
mounted on a circular piece of blue.
Q. Who was the oriflinator of mes
merism? F. F. F.
A. Mesmerism, a form of animal
magnetism not unqnown in previous
centuries, was advanced and ex
ploited by Franz Mesmer, born 1773,
died 1S13, at Paris. He was a physi
cian and used tha art of physical
magnetism in curing diseases.
Q. How many of ths manufactur
ing establishments of Illinois are in
Chicago? O. N.
A. In 1919. out of 18.594 manufac
turing establishments in the state,
10,f.3S were in Chicago.
Q. Who are Spain's delegates to the
Diaarmament Conference? V. . M.
A. Spain is not represented by dele
gates in the Conference on the Limi
tation of Armaments.
Q. How many miles of telephone
wires are there in tha United States?
A. In 1917 there were 2S.S27, 13
miles of telephone wires In the
United States. ,
Q. When was th talking machine
invented? C. 8. ,
A. An apparatus for recording the
human voice was known as early as
the thirteenth century when such a
device was made y Albertus Mag
nus, the philosopher.
I Questions And
S Answers j
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any question by writing The Repub
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Q. How do tney know thjit the
Unknown Soldier buried in Arlington
is an American? D. E. P.
A. The War Department says that
the body of the unknown was taken
from an American cemetery, from
one of a numher of pelecteil -.'tvt-s ot
unknown soldiers, all ol whoiu cro
gathered from battle positions occu
pied by American troops or from
American hospitals, all of whom
were attired in uniforms and under
clothes issued to American troops,
and all of whose possessions were
decidedly American.
Q. Is the United States going to
have a building at the International
Exposition in Brazil next year? E.D.
A. The Fnited States will take
rart in this exposition at Jlio de
Janeiro and J1mi).U"0 has been ap
propriated for the erection of a build
ing to house exhihitions of the var
ious government departments.
Q. Where is sea level reckoned
from? H. L. T.
A. Main si-a level is the average
height of the water, all stages of the
till- being considered.
Q. Is this a good time to invest
money in the Philippines? V. K. I.
A. Governor-General Wood say.
that American investments in the
islands are secure, that conditions of
public order are excellent throughout
the Archipelago and that iln-r- is a
keen .h-sne for investment o f-u-ioti
calii'.al .
Q. Should potatoes be cooked in When the
mm
Berton Braley
In Washington
THE EXTRAS
The delegates are relatively few, altogether there are but a score or two.
Put they sure have brought along an extraordinary throng
To assist them in their labors of converting swords and sabers
Into plows.
And of turning ships to scrap, thus preventing, it mayhap.
Future rows.
For eac'.i delegation carries clerks, attaches, secretaries.
Couriers and guards and flunkies, burly secret hunkies;
And they clutter up the traffic with assistants stenographic,
V.'ith interpreters and aides, butlers, valets, chambermaids,
Experts naval, diplomatic, military, bureaucratic.
Each headquarters fairly swarms with a flock of uniforms,
)t its aide-de-camps and sentries; clerks are busy making entries
111 a lot of bulky books, while in corners and in nooks
Messengers and porters lurk, trying to appear at work. '
Feverish the life that swells round the Washington hotels,
Round the arious legations of the iwacc-conforrhiif nations
F.vcry delegation that gathers here has trailing it
huge- secretariat like the tail behind a cm.-t;
Fir it takes a lot of capers by a bunch of s-eretarie.
And a h t of nous and papers penned by supernumeraries.
And a lot of fuss and feathers of worry nud alarm,
n-uiocs get together to disarm.