Arizona republican., 1909-09-22

bass with some sunfish among them,
and their appearance accounted for
the unpleasant taste the water has had
for some time past People enjoyed
the fun more than they did the reflec-
lions to which it gave rise, for on the
whole one prefers, his croton without
fishy additions. IT seems to be UP to
the water department to explain
whether it is running an acqueduct or
an aquarium.
There is always something the trou-
BILE with the police. Just now it is
the discovery that perhaps two thous-
and of them are non-naturalized for
eigners who are said to have obtained
their citizenship papers by fraud-and
fraud SO extensive that it is supposed
TO be the work of a big, Well organized
gang, who have been making a regular
business of forging certificates and
making Americans out of aliens by
scores at a time Firemen and street
cleaners are likewise reported to be In
volved, and besides municipal en-
ployes thousands of foreigners all
over the city are asserted to possess
false. papers. At present nobody
seems to know who is responsible for
all this, though the secret service Off
GERS are thought to have information
that will cause some revelations
whenever 1t is acted upon. II the
proportion of frauds found in the first
hundred names on the police rolls hold
good to the end, at least 20 per cent
of the force will be found disqualified;
but as yet this is not proved. But
certainly after this it viii do no harm
to follow the oldt time war principle
Put none but Americans on guard"
An organization has just been in
corporated here, the laudable purpose
of which is ito make everybody hap
py." And that 1t strives to bring
happiness within the reach of even
the least endowed financially is shown
by the fact that membership costs
only twenty-five cents a year The
objects of the Harmony club, as the
new association is called, are set forth
in its Incorporation papers as being
Ito harmonic people with them
selves, their surroundings and each
other; to prove the value of smile
and song in everyday life. and to estab-
lish the perfect unity of body, mind.
heart and spirit" This seems to be
a very large quarters worth II the
Harmony club can deliver the goods.
Others have sought to show how to
be happy though married, or within
other narrow limitations, but the
Harmony club will dispense happiness
by mail to those of any and all condi-
tons. Already, as il modestly an
nounces, il has started "a great wave
of cheer philosophy sweeping around
the globe" oddly enough the pres
ident of the club is a lawyer, +. II.
Fallows, son of Bishop Fallows. who
has become prominent in connection
with the Emanuel movement. Mr.
Fallows is not to be deferred in his
plan of promoting universal harmony
even though it has been pointed out
to him that to succeed in such an I'M
dertaking would remove the main rea-
son for the existence of his profes-
sion.
According to officials of the leading
passenger lines, the summer season
just drawing to a close has broken
all previous records in the matter of
steamship travel Fully a quarter of
a million Americans have made trips
across the Atlantic and have enriched
the keepers of hotels and tradesmen
of the old world to the extent of $780,
900, 600 or more. Most of the noun
tain resorts and popular shore places
have been thronged from the end of
June to the beginning of September.
Trains leading to the larger resorts
have been run in four or Ne long
sections for a good part of the sum-
mer and accommodations for guests
have been at a premium even in the
smaller and less well known hotels.
Nor has this. prosperity been confined
entirely TO the regular summer re-
sirts, for the big New York hotels. in
stead of being able to close up whole
floors and to shut down some of their
in former seasons, have
been crowded to their capacity
throughout the summer by visitors
from all parts of the country and
from abroad. II is difficult to ac-
count for this great increase in sum-