Arizona republican., 1919-12-14
TheSquareDeal
(From the Lawyers Review)

(From the Lawyers Review)
 The typesetter in moment oi reverie, set this heading, "The Square Meal" That was an excusable error for in our neck of the woods. typeset- ters have been on voluntary vacation for long time. At that the error was not illog cal for there Is very direct relationship between square deal and square meal. The more one has of square deals, the less is his worry about square meals; and, conversely, the more one has of square meals the less is his worry about square deals. In the face of present difficulties we can always find guidance from the past. Even Solomon vouched for the fact that in his advanced era there was nothing new under the sun" Ii he could gain wisdom from looking | back upon the past, we, who are three thousand years richer, should not find retrospection fruitless.
 We are living fin days of conflicting interests and contradictory obJectives. | Our camp is divided into anti-capital ti-labor anti -bourgeoise, anti-bol- shevik, anti i-union, anti-scab, anti-this and anti-that. If one is not an anti | he Is not in keeping with the spirit Of l the times. We have modernized an l old maxim so that 1t now reads, Con slider the anti, thou sluggard."
 We considered the anti We con- cluded that his formula was Ant-I. | The ant has always been the symbol of industry. the I has always been the symbol of self. The anti must there fore be the symbol of selfish industry. Then we considered the past, search
 ing for something that would take the I out of anti; and we discovered the doctrine of the Square Deal. ..... =.
 There was a time when the Square Deal was popular. But its popularity
 was like tmat of bicycles, bustles and Bryan. It was a fad but it did not make deep impression upon our na-
 lures so it vanished from the popular mind and ceased to be remembered
 But from the mass of theories, phil
 cosophies, schemes and fixits that are
 thrust upon a long suffering public as a cure-all for the mix-up of con- 1 flicting, constitution guaranteed rights in which it is mired the Square Deal
 stands forth as the One Best Bet.
 What is the Square Deal. We have a hay, uniformed notion that it is any
 thing from positive crookedness up | But to apply it we must know it, not l III d StileIdl way DuI III SpeCldl way.
 We must understand it not as we un-
 derstand the effect of interplanetary
 attraction, but as we understand the
 effect of hitting the thumb with a i hammer Let us then consider the
 Square Deal:
 We will begin by taking it at it's
 word. It is square. A square has four sides. What are the sides?
 To begin with there is Your Side. That is the most vital one to you.
 You can see it so wildly that you can sometimes see no other side. You | conceive a one sided square.
 But, of course, there is always The Other Side. You hesitate to recognize this fact and when you do admit that it possibly exists, you swell up with pride and acclaim your broad minded ness. But the fact remains that there ! is no question to which there is not l The Other Side, no matter how dead right your side is. And when you feel perfectly sure that you are dead right, 1 think of the times when men were | positive that the earth was flat, that l the sun moved round it and that witches rode through the air on l brooms
 l So we have two sides to our square ! We need two more. We might say in- side and outside and let it go at that;
 but we'd miss it by a mile. Let us ! frame a notvery -hypotethical case and see if it won't show us a third
 side. Suppose, for instance, that the
 fire department has d dispute with the 1 city administration. The firemen re-
 fuse to work unless their demands are
 granted. The city maintains that the ! lr fn in ts,
 job and stands pat Fire alarms fall on deaf ears. This building burns and that; perhaps conflagration will wipe out the town. Was there no other side
 to the controversy? Of course there was-The Public's Side.
 II As we think of various situations to which the Square Deal may be applied,
 there is always The Public's Side.
 Sometimes we may call it Humanity's
 Side or Mankinds Side or some other such generic form. Sometimes it is