The Arizona copper camp., 1915-10-29
CLAIMING TELLS OF
PREPAREDNESS AND
MODERN EFF|CIEN

MIAMI, Ariz, Oct 26.-Taking as
his theme Preparedness and Eff
cheney" j. Parke Charming, vice
president and consulting engineer of
the Miami Copper company, delivered
mastery address before a large au-
dience at the local Y. M. C. A. last
evening.
. Mr.. Claiming opened his lecture by
referring to the great war now raging
in Europe, and said that whether or
not we agreed with the Germans as
| to the merits of their cause. we could
| not help but admire their prepared
ness and their efficiency. With the
skill of veteran on the lecture plat
form he referred to the contending
| governments and the characteristics
of the different nationalities without
really indicating whether he was pro-
German or pro-English. He related
incidents which had come under his
personal observation during his trav-
els, among other things mentioning
how efficiency and preparedness had
resulted in the Teutons securing con-
tracts for the machinery and the rails
for street car lines in far-off Turke-
STAN He also told how some of the
most complicated machinery for the
great mines opening up in Chile had
been furnished by the Teutons. He
eontrasted the efficiency and the pre-
paredness of monarchial form of
| government like that possessed by
the land of the Kaiser with methods
Of the more democratic lands like
England and the United States. His
philosophical theory appeared to be
that there existed no real reason why
lands like the United States and
Great Britain might not have the
large measure of Individual freedom
which they possessed today with all
the efficiency and the preparedness of
Germany
Coming to the question of prohibit
tion, like the war, a subject difficult
of discussion without taking Sides
Mr.. Claiming once again made some
interesting points without really in
dicating whether his personal views
were those of a wet or a sdry"
He said that when the community or
the state after "a careful consideration
of the problems involved had decided
in favor of prohibition it became the
duty of all good citizens to accept
the results, no matter what their
personal views might be. He also
gave statistics furnished him by a
Russian banker interested in coal
mines showing how the Russian peas
creased their efficiency and more
than doubled the output at the mines
since the vodka had been eliminated
as result of the great war going
on in Europe
| Continuing his theme of efficiency
and preparedness and applying it to
local conditions, Mr. Charming men
toned how the. management of the
| Old Dominion, among the other mines
Of the country. had rejoiced over
| the invention which had allowed the
granulation of the waste products
allowing them to float down Pinal
creek only to discover later on that
gthe Stag contained four per cent cop
per and that they in common with
others had allowed hundreds of
thousands of dollars worth of cop
per to go to waste. Modern inven-
tions. he explained, had made possi-
BILE mines like the Miami, which only
a few years ago would have been re-
garded as among the impossibilities
He urged his hearers to study local
conditions here, telling them that it
was not impossible that ore bodies
now regarded as useless might be
would mean more mills and more
smelters and greater growth
and a longer life for the community.
He concluded his remarks by stating
that at least 1O0,OOO,OOO tons of the
properties of the Miami Copper COM
pany, now supposed to be useless.
might yet be found to be of value to
the world because of the march of
science and the development Of
modern inventions.