Arizona republican., 1916-01-16

GEORGE U. YOUNG
 if there was not q poppy bed some where close about. and WAS not Adam lulled by the sweet odoIs a'fa opium therein We have also won dered if thes serpent did not have the photographer persuade Adam to have his picture taken in this par ucular seductive spot while he and Eve hung over the fence and dis coursed the current topics of the day.
 Adam looks sleepy and undoubted- ly was asleep. We can forgive him while asleep. but not after he awak- ened Even if Eve did pass nim small package. he should have gone down into the land of Nod and brought back a bunch of wives Had he done so the angel would not have caught him rambling with fear and trying to hide behind forget-me- not, out he would have stood un like a man and cried out. Here am, Angel
 The Lord loves g fighter and as woman is his best and finest handi- work, had Adam done this. Eve would have made a rush at him and when she had finished in the usual Woman's Way Adam would have for gotten the serpent and the other women. the angel would have quietly stolen away. leaving them in posses sion of the garden, and today we would not have any European war. no Mexican revolution. no worry for President Wilson no Clifton strike. no irrigation debt hanging oyer the Salt River Valley, for Eyes kisses
 would have wiped all troubles away, 1 if Adam. the poor fool. could have thought sufficiently fast
 1 However, it may all be for the ! best. as had it not have happened as il did, there would be no mayor to- day issuing proclamations like that 1 Camden mayor.
 An executive issLine a proclama- tion forbidding kissing and calling it statecraft or government-wh even the angels weep in despair. The only kiss of culse is the Kiss of treach- cry. Nc man gives such and es- capes the torments of hell. which await him. That's truer than the kiss of what's purer or. more holr than the kiss -Gf love. Men have performed deeds Of Valor. saved society and made the world better inspired Uply hv the kiss of sweetheart. What has saved the strong and righteous man when grap- bling mighty adVersaries in the bat tie Of life more often than the kiss and loving carcss of a true and faith ful wife When the fever rages and the childs delirum is most alarming. what stills and brings peace the quickest-mOthers angel whisper and devoted kiss-and you ask. would the present mayor of Phoenix issue such a proclamation? Most emphatically mo-
 And you ask me why-because believe q Phoenix kiss k in a class of it's own. eXcelled bV none and eqlalled by few-of propeling force and antiseptic power sufficient to kill the germs of influenza smallpox. cholera or leprosy, and selfish would be the man who officially or other wise would try to forbid the power or beauty of q kiss. for why is d kiss a kiss?
 i'NN''ut'N u lS OlN siS tune, ana new as the first -born-wronglv used the skids to hades. rightly used the golden stairs to heaven-it blights as the scourge or purilies as the ozone-is the sign of the cross and the key to Paradise
 Women have gone mad for the lack of it-emperors. kings and men of might have gone to perdition be- cause of the sweet treachery of it. Empires have fallen because the taint of it and republics have risen because of the purity of it. It's the visible expression of the light of the eye, and the souls desire. Used rightly and combined with the sweet harmony produced by Gene Rede- wells superb orchestra and we have exactly what heaven is All it re- quires is purity of thought to under stand, and to think of the present mayor of Phoenix proclaiming against such.
 No, it would require a more selfish man than the present mayor of Phoe- nix to be guilty of such ignorance, for with all the Phoenix feminine lovli- ness and masculine manliness. if there be two who cannot impart suf- ficient virilitv to their kiss to kill the germ of any influenza, the mayors worst wish is those two die the death of rag babies and be removed from this community
 This is part only as the mayor of Phoenix sees it. and he is for Phoenix first last and all the time, and never bv any intentional act of his will the beautiful women and manly men of Phoenix be placed where the mayor of Camden has. put the grace. beauty and fighting blood of his baliwck"