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Arizona republican., 1913-03-12
The Awakening

Whether the inadequate of shop girls and others, in employment rdiculously wages, contrbutory the downfall of any of them is a matter of dispute among the witnesses before the vice Investigating commission now in session in Chicago, though it is generally assumed that there is close relation between starving wages and white slavery
 But the work of the commission has already re- suited in calling attention to the fact that wages low and has brought about promises of an increase of the of the grossly underpaid em- ployes of of the great department stores
 The investigation has developed curious points of view. For instance MT. Thorne, an of ficial of the Montgomery Ward company on Mon day told the investigating commission that a girl. "adrft" could get along very well s8 week. By girl adrft' meant one has no home where the of living would be materially duccd Mir Thorne believed that SIP would be too high a wage a girl firm, he said could not afford to pay such wage though he admitted that it's earnings last year $2.376OO0
 One reason, according to MT Thorne why this concern could not afford higher minimum was that it already spending large nually in charity. Now, charity is creditabe; it is supposed be always creditable but in this it must be regarded as discredtable. If money be tainted it be money withheld from girls, struggling, starving and. perhaps, shining
 
 missions. hospitals and other charities does not remove the taint. Charity be a sub sutute for justice.
 We glad these investigations taking place. The Chicago vice inquiry has inspired an other in Iowa and hope and believe, similar in vestigations will be instituted in all parts of the country They indications of the further awaken ing of the public conscience; of the understanding that we all the keepers sisters and brothers; a quickening of the conception that the public charged with the protection Of tt9 health morals of these helpless members of ciety.
 These investigations mark great change in the attitude of the public toward these wrongs. Working girls have always been under-paid. Their condition has been Iamented since before The Song of the Shirt" But it has been lamented unavod able an irremediabe misfortune. Spasmodic at tempts have been made here and there and now and then to improve it. These efforts have lacked force Now. the governments of states and cities
Arizona republican., 1913-03-12
Our Baby Contemporary

We do to be harshly or un- justly critical of our newest contemporary the Ari- zona Legislative Journal published in Phoenix sub scription and advertising rates, made known on application. We usually welcome arrivals into the circle journalism. not like the style and make up of the Arizona Legislative Jour nal the absence head lines and other features which modern journalism has adopted. We have the fault find with the latest Arizona daily paper that has been found with the dictionary-a frequent and abrupt change of the subject when to hear about the matter in hand.
 No sooner do we become interested in an en- thralled by MT. Speaker, Mr. President) we your committee. etc. beg leave to report that We have examined II. B. No 76 etc." than the thread of discourse is broken and off by MT. Speaker directed by the to inform the house etc"
 Thus we are hurried along first in one direction after another and get nowhere. We are left in doubt to the several of the $. B's and the Ii. B.s which marshaed long array before us and shuffled away before get d good look at them.
 We learn what the committees and sometimes both houses think the bills but informed why, More often than not, the title indicates ing which may construct the most shadovy notion of it's merits.
 There is fault. common to other news papers of which Legislative Journal is free. None of its articles appalIingIy long though it. be said that they are scintating well brief
 From business point of view contemporary is also subject criticism It must be run at d loss. We notice that il carries advertising. That must be because the business department is too negligent to solicit business. It be mer- chants withhold their patronage of the journal be- cause of dissatisfaction with it's policy it has none except to up good book paper and ink. Its news is colorless and tasteless. We would like to see some change. There is lack of ginger in both the business and the editorial departments
 We understand that the Arizona Legislative Journal will shortly suspend publication leaving us to wonder why.
 If is it is so shortly to be done for
 What it begun for
 Arizona journalism will sustain the loss with resignation
Arizona republican., 1913-03-12
True habblnesS Consists nOt m the multitude Of f1ends, But ln the WOrth and choice.
 ---Ben .JOnSOn.
Mir. Sryan's Silence

An exchange which has love for MT. Bryan says rather ilnaturedy: A few months age it would have been thought that William Jennings Bryan could have maintained silence and kept in the comparative obscure shade so long" If Mr. Bryan has talked much in the past it was because the people of this country desirous of hearing him and very large number of his fellow citizens attached great importance what he said As candidate for office he spoke the policies he would pursue if elected. When not a candidate for office MT Bryan has spoken as every American cit- who has a right be heard Mir. Bryan's theme invariably the material and moral good of the nation
 For some weeks. in fact almost since the na- tonal election Mr. Bryan has maintained silence re- garding all future democratic policies He was probably then aware that he would be an essential part of the administration everybody suspected he would be He carefully avoided any utterance that might be construed misconstrued to be > forecast of President Wilson's poIicey
 Attempts made weeks ago to ascertain his views the Mexican situation. not perhaps as those of future secretary of but those of commanding private citizen MT Bryan carefully refraned from expressing any view. He was equally silent regarding Panama canal tolls and all other matters affecting relations with other nations
 MT Bryan has not anytime talked for the sake of talking and he has sought the public d bearer of messages to the people He has talked when he had something to say and whenever he has talked mulutudes have listened with great attention.
Arizona republican., 1913-03-12
Americans the Only Kickers

lMaurice Francls Egan in the Century Magazine)
 There is much more pOliteneSS in Europe between master and servant than there is in America In continental hotels I have never heard anybody but an American or Englishman find fault audiblN with the walters servants Whether the American point of view is changing or not or whether American eNtraNagance in Europe was ever as great as represented not. l cannot say: but l am informed by hotel proprietors who occa- slonaly contlde Tn me. that the parsimOnious and eXacting of persons in European hotels are at present Americans and apparently those of the better class.
 German tourists are proVerbial for their close ness in money matters. but the great of German tourists in Europe is frankly determined to save money. It is different with Americans think that NorWe gians. especially, prefer Ger to us. gather from the opinions of the class who not only stand, but wait that it is hard enough to endure the artess of certain people who abroad complete an education that begun home when this is accompanied by generous tip; but when
 the tip does not appear the criticism, which was formerly amusing witticism, is considered d deadly insult.
Arizona republican., 1913-03-12
Unappreciated Genius

(3 MacheI, in the Theosophicai Path)
 A large number of young people led to the choice of artistic by d O desires and aims of very personal nature, usually hidden from their own sight by the dazzling glory of the ideal of devotion to art. They are willing to make great sacrifices Gin the future) renOunce perhaps fame and wealth, which is not vet theirs, for the immediate delight of self indulgence in of the seductive pleasures the joy Of producing things of beauty. A very large proportion of those who adopt the are of course. not even sincere in their self deception; they fully expect to receive much honor and fame and wealth a reward for their noble devotion to life of self indulgence; and when the wealth and the fame do not come, when the selfishness of their lives brings it's inevitable reward of disappointment, then we hear the lament of unappreciated genius that is pathetic in it's lack of all humor
Arizona republican., 1913-03-12
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are giving them an official character and we hol the time may come when the federal gOVernme will make the plank of the national progressi platform. of which the following is a part, an e fectiVe national policy
 The supreme duty of the nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlarged measure of social and industrial justice We pledge ourselves to work ceasingly in state and nation for.
 Effective legislation looking to the pre- Vention industrial accidents, occupa- tional diseases, OverWork, involuntary employment, and other injurious effects incident to modern industry.
 The fixing of minimum safety, and health standard for the various occupations and the exercise of the public authority of state and nation. including the federal trol interstate commerce and the tax ing power, to maintain such standards.
 The prohibition of child labor.
 Minimum wage standards for working women to provide a living wage in all industrial occupations.
Arizona republican., 1913-03-12
The Hope of Cecil Rhodes

Edgar Ellsworth in the Chicago Record Herdl Admirers of Cecil Rhodes Frequently have as serted that adequate biography him has been written. His remarkable short eleven years before he had attained his fifteth birthday, and since then British inn periafsts have tired singing his praises In his first will made in 1877, find a key to his empire building dreams. lie bequeathed his prospective fortune found d secret society for the extension of British rule throughout the world One of it's many objects was be the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of the British Empire.
 lh his earlier will, dated September 19. 1877, Rhodes provided for the disposal his fortune to
 The establishment. promotion and deve-
 "pment of secret society the aid and
 object whereof shall be the extension of
 British rule throughout the world, the
 perfectng of a system of immigration from
 the United Kingdom and of colonization
 by British subjects of all lands where the
 means of livelihood are atta.nablc by energy.
 labor and enterprise, and especially the
 occupation by British settlers of the entire
 continent of Africa the Holy Land. the
 valley of the Euphrates, the Islands of
 Cyprus and Candia the whole of south
 America, the islands of the Pacific not
 heretofore possessed by Great Britain the
 whole of the Malay Archipeago, the
 board of China and Japan the ultimate
 recovery oI the United States of America
 as nteg1al part of the British Empire.
 the inauguration Of d system of colonial
 representation in an imperial rafament
 which may tend weld together the dis
 JointeG members of the empire, and finally
 the foundation of 50 great power as
 hereafter to render wars impossible and
 promote the best interests humanity.
 In his final will Rhodes founded scholarship system that will keep his name always before the people of many lands; it provides in per petuity the support d oxford, d term of three each, of about 113 selected scholars. Each state and territory United States Is entitled to have two scholars in residence, that election takes place in two years of three. Each scholar has allowance of $l.50o a year.
 in his later wears he may have been convinced that the American people Tit to fake of themselves, possibly he believed this met'4pd would tend to disntegrate the republic and that in tiEl,. through indirect influence, his r1atcEt desire would be realized and that the Stars a ld Stripes would be displaced by the British flag.
Arizona republican., 1913-03-12
Whence Came the Declaration?

(From James A Garfields R sp'y lamar
 Whence came the immortal truth of the Dec1ard- tion? To this for years the riddle of history. l have searched long and patiently through the books of the doctrinaires find the from which the Declaration of Independence sprang I find hints in Locke in Hobbes, in Rousseau. and Fenelon; but they were only the hints of dreamerS and philosophers. The great doctrines of the Declaration germinated in the hearts fathers developed under the influences of this wilderness world, by the same subtle mystery which brings forth the from the germ of the tree. Unconscously 0 themselves, the great truths growing under the conditions, until, like the century plant, they bossomed into the matchless beauty of the Declaration of Independence, whose frultage. h- creased and increasing enjoy today.
Arizona republican., 1913-03-12
Taking Care of Culebra Slides
(W ashington Post

Washington POSt)
 Cuebra still presents engineering prob lem comparable with what when the French were forced abandon it's solution in despair. but nevertheless the stout hearted, re sourccful Goethals and his corps of American en- gneers have misgiVnes to anything thWart- ing their plans for the opening and navigation of the canal time Having demonstrated time and again that the canal prism be cleared fast the dirt slides down into it, they have doubt that the debris be removed swiftly after the water is turned into the canal
 Dredgcs will be substituted for the facilities in for carrying the dirt away, and kept at work until such time the movement of the earth canalWard This plan is possible it is said, without interruption of traffic through the canal wide is the cut where the slides occur. The engineers hold that when the caVing side of the has been eXcaNated for the distance of half a mile the danger will be past
 The seismic nature of the creep of the surface stratum of the earth renders idle any attempt that might made interpose obstacles its approach the canal. The isthmus is volcanic. and manifes tations of that fact pronounced than the shift ing process CuIebra not infrequent Still the memory of man runncth far to the contrary with respect to the date of the last serious upheaVal that that of trouble eXctes little apprchen- sion.
Arizona republican., 1913-03-12
CANNON BORED IN SOLID ROCK


 When the island of Malta under the rule of the Knights of St. John they defended their Qualifications with bored in the living rock. Each of these strange weapons contained an entire barrel of powder and it not possible Q vary the aim of these fifty made ready facing various directions from which the enemy might approach
 When the of these of defense became the world the idea taken of transporting rocks Summits the same purpose but it recognized to be inn practicable and the cannon of Malta, bored in solid rock have passed into history the sole weapons of kind known
Arizona republican., 1913-03-12
resignation,

We have noticed for sometime that hunting licenses under the game law have been advertised by the game warden and hunters have been importuned to hurry and get them fin order that they may not get caught outside the law Tn the meantime. that we have a game law under which licenses be issued; that is law which bound to observe The law itself is trial in the supreme court Hunters therefore, have presumably been shy and diffident in the matter of getting licenses which they may not nsed.
Arizona republican., 1913-03-12
THE BEST ADVICE IN THE WORLD
(The Popular Magazinc)

(The Popular MagazinC)
 He author. but author without au- orltN-Nhich means. using the Vernacular of the street his stuff never If his ability had cqualed his industry. he would have had every nov elist looking like idler
 on this particular morning he walked into the office of a publisher who had rejected three bales of his manuscripeS
 Now look here" said the author, "on the level, how I sell good hook?"
 The publishers advice excellent. He said: Write one
Arizona republican., 1913-03-12

watncs and there are seeds of SWeitzar cheese. and German flied potatoes And I may have an onion bed. in greens I'll take flyer; and I may raise a cab bage head to smoke in my old brim And vet it seems this bunch of seed hopeless grist of bosh is; there are SO many
 things need much more than peas or squashes. Our congress man. who bleeds and dies. to keep the flag a-flaunting, should make an effort to get wise to Wha; we're really wanting I'd
Arizona republican., 1913-03-12

and bunions and Q. it breaks my worIdworn heart. to get a pack If onions! Id like to have wide spread fame. like that of Taft Perkins. and il seems a seedy game load down with gherkina I'd like to see my daughters wear swell lids and silken dresses, and here get, to my des- pair some wilte1 Water-cresses. Our congre ssInan
 who sheds his blood, when perils brood and grumble has got q headpece full of mud-he ought to take a tumble
Arizona republican., 1913-03-12

1t WlthOut USInS HdICHCI DVuSIHUIS usually kept under glass that the flavor will not and creep into the pie. The boarding house doughnut is a deadly missile which is put on the table day after day from force of habit and also o add a touch of lghtness the table decorations. once in a while some new bOarder will approach of these doughnuts in q spirit of reckless daring and hunt around for vulnerable spot. but will finally back off with apologetic cough and tackle the remains of the Sunday roast. The theft of boarding house doughnut for the purpose of relieving hunger strong pTeSumptiVe evidence of hereditary insanity. The hole in the dOughnut is put there that people get a fresh hold when they wish brain enemy. Some women keep doughnuts in he house in lie4 of a shotgun, and by using them iudiciOuSY able to get considerable work of husbands who have been their feet all day, playing pool. An indolent husband will sit around in stocking by the hour and absorb all the reproaches his wife think of. but stirring buke the resilient doughnut will start him
 in the direction of the wood box the dead
Arizona republican., 1913-03-12
SAME THING

Yes had big home weddng.
 You say it passed off Smoothly?'
 Yes; hired Broadway director and he staged it just if it had been musical comedy ('Onrier- Journal
Arizona republican., 1913-03-12

longing life and reducing the per capita death rate. The doughnut is made of a heavy, thick ma toriai. similar to that used in laying a composition roof, and will hold it's shape, color and fla Vor for years. The lifetime of the average doughnut found at railroad eating houses is 2,0G0 years, but as treaveling men usu- ally inquire the age of each dOughnut probably q fair aver age would be three score years and ten No matter how old doughnut is, it never becomes what you would call decrepit. but will resist all efforts to mollify
Arizona republican., 1913-03-12
EVEN

her" gun 5int loaded.
 Don't mention it, old top. That roll save you is stage money"
Arizona republican., 1913-03-12
Free Seeds
By WALT MASON

Our congressman. who dies and bccds, to guard sacred banner. me a bunch gar den seeds all in the odtime manner. oh, there are saad. nf h.ets and neas. and carly .Innc to-
Arizona republican., 1913-03-12
WILLING TO LEARN

"Coa4 you learn to love me-"
 T don't Euo#, replied the girl What is your particular sl-tet of irstruction""
Arizona republican., 1913-03-12
The Doughnut
By HOWARD L. RANN

The doughnut is large hole entirely surrounded bv indigesUn. originally made solid piece but people had attacked it with
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-20

temptible as the jealousy that
makes the average mother in
law and daughter in law hate
each other at sight, because it
is jealousy that has no foun-
dation to stand upon. The love
that a man gives to his wife, his
mate, and that he gives to his
mother are as different as wine
and water.
One does not conflict with the
other, and, as a matter of fact.
a man is tenderer to his wife
the more he loves his mother,
and the more he appreciates his
mother the more he sees what
wifehood and motherhood mean
to hie Oy11 wife
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-20
How the Portola Can Right
A Wrong Done By Keats
The Festival Will Impress Upon Folks That Balboa, Not
Cortez, Discovered the Pacific

One of the important duties the Pooa festival should fulfill
will be % a made by Mr.. John Keats.
neglected the study of history in his youth he had
idea of That time
did devote history he with all the devotion
SOUL poetry The world readily forgive him for
contempt history of his high
poetry 1t oleraby the salient
points history the world but OH few have
tered poetry Keats did.
Yet Keats through the fact that he ignorant of history
poetry grievousy wronged explorer Balboa
gave another explorer stout Corez the fame
for discovering the Pacific ocean
Keats had been ordinary poet would have made
credited Captain John Smith of the first family
Virginia the discovery of the Pacific But since Keats
the extraordinary successive read his
Looking Chapmans Homer and coming the lines
like Cortez when with eagle eyes
He stared at the Pachc-and all his men
Lookd at each other with wild surmise-
Silent, upon peak in Darien
say Good for Cortez; he found the Pacific"
The Poola festival intends impress upon the people the
fact that Balboa discovered the Pacific
California That's enough for
accompishet Balboa have the fame tor his deed
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-20
There Is His Mother, the
Being Most Sacred in
His Ewes
His Eyes

But there is his mother-his
old mother-the being above all
others sacred in his eyes; the
one who went down into the
Valley of the Shadow to bring
him into life; the one who
nursed him through his helpless
infancy; who has cherished his
every step through life, and
whose sacrifices for him have
been uncounted.
He remembers the long nights
she sat patiently by his sick
bed; the times she went shabby
that he might have new clothes
to look as we'll as his school
mates; the striving and self-de-
NAL by which she put him
through college.
All that he is of good, all that
he ever hopes to be, he owes to
his mother, and he never looks
at her work-knotted old hands
without wanting to go down on
his knees and kiss them in graft
tude. And now his wife de-
mands that he shall repay that
debt by turning the old woman
out of his house.
How can he decide against his
mother? Wife and motherl
These are the two women in
the world the man loves best,
the ones to whom he has most
tried to do his duty, and be-
tween them they are crucifying
him. They tear his very soul in
twain. They slay his happiness,
and he is helpless.
1t is a tragic situation, gro
tesquely tragic, because both
women love the man they tor
ture. They would do anything
else on earth for him except TO
sink their petty spite and jeal-
ousy and try to get along to-
gether.
They would make any sacrifice
for him except to give up the
pleasure of nagging at each
other, and so the poor man is
ground between the upper and
neither millstones of his wife and
his mother.
There is no phase of human
weakness so miserable and con-
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-20
They Can Get Along Har-
moniously if They
Wish 1t

But while this is true, it is
also true that any mother-in-
law and daughter-in-law can get
along harmoniously if they want
to do so, and try to make
friends of each other instead of
enemies, and that they can sink
their differences for the sake of
the man they love, if they love
him unselhshly.
For in her heart every wife
knows that her husband can not
be happy if she separates him
from his mother, and every
mother knows that she is wreck
ing her sons life if she parts
him from his wife, or does any
thing to kill his love for hrs
wife.
This is the lesson of this
picture, ladies. Study it well.
Look with seeing eyes at the
tragic figure of the unfortunate
man, forced to choose between
wife and mother, and never give
to your son or husband that
dread alternative.