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Arizona republican., 1919-03-27
SELFlSHNESS IS BoLSHEvIsM

Bolshevism, the party of the maximum demand" rom bolshe more, is rot the government welcomed by all the people but is merely the dictatorship of a class. The Boshevst party originated from the left wing of the Russian democratic party in 1903 and represents only very small minority of the Russian people. Based upon the extremely narrow and scholastic theory of Karl Marx, the mottor of bol shevlsm is Proletarians of all countries unite" The dogma of this party is class struggle and it's sacred ann IS the material and political triumph of the pro- letarlat at the expense of all other classes of the world
 More selhshness than is found in this movement cannot De discovered in any other party and there lore IL certainly cannot be called democratic inc ain, o "ch potlcal principle is the greatest good of inc greatest number It should therefore be classified as aParchsn very similar to that of the Ronanoffs inc aapsourgs and the Hohenzollerns.
 It IS a mistake to think that the peasantrv who constitute 30 per cent of Russis's population favor poisneVlsm In the early days of the revolution of 'li' loHS before the boshevki came into power tba iaHu was promised to the peasants by representa-
 fes ol the rrst Tree Russian government under Pre- hler LVoH This resolution was also passed Inv +bs constituent assemly which the boIsheviki disnersed put the abolition of land ownership is far from, he;ng poper solution of the problem as many of the peasdhts themselves own large tracts of land Rloodv iishtS anu ieuds have therefore been and will con 'ue o De lhe natural consequence So that inc land quesuon IS no nearer solution than it was durinp the opening days of the revolution-Hva ToIsto, in Golfers Weekly ''S'oy Ill
Arizona republican., 1919-03-27

now more alarming thing than it has been anywhere else in the world.
 Boshevism is a proper cure for nothing, yet IL ID not strange that the Hungarians, however hate1ui It might have seemed to them invoked it as the ohiy available force against the entente which had been defied by bolshevism.
 Hungary was hopeless unless the only enemy or the entente could to it something from the "rech Under the guise of scientific readjustment under the beautiful doctrine of self-determination by peoples who had afforded opportunity for self-deter mination partition, which the Hungarans was as outrageous as any three partitions of Poland going
 We see by the dispatches from Washington where opinion regarding world affairs is usually about as reliable official opinion at Produnk that the ques- ton is asked whether the Germans are not at the bottom of bolshevism in Hungary what remains of Hungary Perhaps so, but certainly enough has been going at Paris boshevism without the CO., operation of Germany.
 The matter in which Americans are concerned is the part this country will be called upon play in preserving these ethnoogical lines and bounds of territory obtained by conquest We do not think the American people will allow this country to blindness incompetence and avarice
Arizona republican., 1919-03-27
SPRINGS IN THE CREEKS

The creeks are full of springs. IT ever you go wading you will find them Splashing along in the warm water every little while you will step into a spring of much colder water Any boy can tell you all about it.
 Practically all of the streams around here are fed by springs. That is. if it were not for springs they would 20 dry. But it isn't always the case that you can find springs flowing into the creeks, to feed them. Most of them break out in the gravel at the bottom of the streams.
 The streams, of course, follow the lowest levels of the earth; they trail along between the ridges in the low valleys. So it is natural that there should be more springs breaking out in the bottom of the streams than anywhere else, where they cannot be seen.
 And these unseen springs--thev are worth talking about a little. because they are like some people. That is, they are obscure, but they give to the stream a Wealth of pure, refreshine water. Occasionally spring breaks out on thes4hiliside and goes gurgling to the streafns and people stand about it and talk about it and praise it. Bu; just as likely as not there is richer spring hidden from view in the bot tom of tn creek. serving just as use rul pui' lose. but which nobody ever eavs anything aiout.
 IL is the same way n}tl peot,lf { ftt
Arizona republican., 1919-03-27
Some Bunk

The bunk which is inflicted upon the people in the shape of reading matter is something frghtful and the worst of it is that much evades the discovery that it is pure bunk. We have just read a long and labored article about the victory of MT Samuel Comp ers-the winning of the greatest fight of his life" the commission on International Labor Legislation in the struggle involving the European labor political idea and that American trades union idea
 The European idea contemplated the setting up under the League of Nations of vast international machine for the international regulation of almost everything related to labor The idea contemplated the use of international compusion in labor matters Standards to be fixed an international basis and made the subject of process of international leveling, international mnimums be fixed in- ternationa insurance schemes agreed upon and national tribuals of adjudication set up.
 The article goes on to say that the beginning of this struggle which lasted two months MT Gompers stood alone in opposition this scheme but there is related at great length the manner in which he slc- ceeded in side-t-ackng it.
 Really the whole thing was less interesting than an international game of chss and the result of it could have been of greater consequence The stand taken by Mir. Gompers highly credable to his good sense and his Americanism But suppose he had lost instead of and suppose the commission had adopt ed the scheme What earthly difference could it have made if such agreement had been reached?
 This country would not have accepted it; labor would not have accepted it. It would have meant the throwing down of all national boundaries It would have meant the impossible
 So far as the effect of this discussion on the af- fairs of this country is concerned that fierce struggle occupying two months during which at times Mr Gompers seemed be going down under the weight of numbers but in which he finally trumphed might instead of having for it's subject the nternaonaliza tion of labor, just well have been concerning inc constituency of the moon which some excellent per- sons are said yet to persist in believing to be green cheese.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-27
REINDEER A FOOD FACTOR

There are more than 100000 rein deer in the Alaskan herds. When the ice left Boring Sea this year, the first ship of fleet of cold storage vessels started from Nome for Seattle with q cargo of reindeer meat to be sold in competition with beef and other meats. The average weight of the E. year-old deer, dressed. is 150 pounds. More than 10 per cent of the reindeer in Alaska are surplus males.
 The amount of reindeer to be shipped this year. to be sure, will not be sufficient to make an appreciable dent in the price of other meats, but considering that reindeer double their number every three years, besides leaving 10 per cent of the entire herd for the market, it will be seen that these Northern animals soon will be- come a factor in the economic affairs | of the nation.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-27
COME, ALL VIE PIONEERS!

In order to settle, once and for all, just who is the oldest pioneer in the valley, or in Arizona. for that matter the Cancels Back invites any resident of the above mentioned territories to enter into contest to be conducted by this weekly. to arrive at a worth while conclusion.
 Just send in a line or two. saying how far back you can remember in- cidents or events that you witnessed while in Arizona. No proofs need ac- company your statement; we will take you at your word. You might recall for instance seeing them build the railroad into Phoenix; or the time when there was a good road in the valley; or the first state fair; or when the thermometer went up to so and so, etc, etc. Sit down now and see how far back you can recollect events or things in the Baby State. Your contribution will be published free in our new department: "The Pioneeriest Pioneer"
Arizona republican., 1919-03-27
C. G. H., Editor
EDITORIAL
FEELING THEIR PULSE

Having emerged successfully from verbal duel with the brains of the Republican concerning the degree of interest manifested by the man on the street. in the proposed League of Nations, we took steps to make as- surance doubly sure''
 A dozen reporters were picked at random from the editorial staff Of the Camers Back and sent out on the street with instructions to feel the public pulse on the league. The sym posium pinned below tells, in it's dumb, mute manner just how the average man, woman and child feels toward the l.. of N.
 The afternoons work of eight of the reporters netted the following results:
 Department Store Manager: Per sonaliy, l have not given the matter much Thought. However if the League of Notions means a strength eniny of the sinews of the drygoods Is business and closer application to work on the part of our sales forces, then l am for it. You may quote me as saying that the prospects for in- creased sales in silks and wash goods"
 A Waitress: League. of. Nations? Waitll I see if its on the menu"
 Near Club Woman: Well, now-oh dear me-let's see-My program foI the week is positively so crowded oh, yes. How stupid of mel Here ] have it down here. Why, yes, I'm to speak on it tomorrow afternoon before the Ladies of the Patched Quilt But I fear you must excuse me from ar interview until 1 find out what it's al about. It would be perfectly silly o me otherwise. O it's to go under my picture you say? Well, suppose yot | call me up in about an hour" i Street Car Conductor: "The what ] The League of Nations? 1 dunno i 1 they got a club house in town or not but I'll let you off at Center anC Washington. That's the center 0 1 town and you can find it easy iron | there"
 School Teacher: Well, can hardl, 1 say. You see, the closing of school ol account of the influenza has set u back so far in our work that we hav' not come to the League of Nations yet But it seems to me that it comes il next weeks program-so I'll have t 1 begin to brush up on it."
 One of the Biguns of the Gazette Undoubtedly, next to the building o the proposed hotel, we believe tn League of Nations would be the great est step forward since the advent c Christianity. However, we wish th pie counter gang to understand tha the Gazette is NOT for sale!'
 Old Time Fan: As an ardent fol lower of the game, you can put m down as saying that if the owners ( the League of Nations can sign up
 battery like Grover Alexander on tn mound, with Ray Shalk behind the ba
 they could recruit the rest of the team from the bush leagues and eve
 then cop the pennant in a walk ava,
 Gotta match?"
 The other four reporters were sti
 absorbed in a poker game over at tt
 City Hall when we went to press. an
 so their efforts will probably l
 chronicled on the little yellow sli
 that will be theirs next Saturday nigh
Arizona republican., 1919-03-27
WEST MJLWAukEEsE

Judge Benski speaks Polish, German, English and. French but he cant talk West Milwaukee. He tried to understand it in court and he made bad failure.
 A brakeman was being tried for assault and bat tery switchman. The brakeman the stand and testifying:
 Judge. I high baed the hoghead to slip the ratters the transfer and this pe-eyed geek,
 Hold on." exclaimed the court. What kind of language do you talk?'
 The every person in West Milwaukee, answered the brakeman
 "Is there Interpreter present who can speak West Milwaukee," asked the court
 There and the trial urncoeded The Maize
Arizona republican., 1919-03-27
AY-COO-TAY! (As We Say At Verseilles)

The call of the Camel's Back for poetry to go into our special spring poetry edition has met with an unexpectedly healthy response It begins to look like a whale of an d it i Il unl ess | he m i 1 service breaks down. and NIr Nicholson assures us that it will not.
 The contest is open to all, re- gardless of race, creed, or sex. AL though. contrary to the custom of our hospitable West, preference will be given to local talent-'na- tive sons as it were. You never saw contest that was extended on account of the tidal wave of contestants, and so we will extend the time for getting your poems and jingles in until F midnight, Tuesday, April l. The prizes con- tinue to be s1 for the best poem written by the ladies and one bone for that of the gents. No restric- tions as to how or where you are to spend the dollar. Don't forget to state whether or not you want your name and address to | appear under your work.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-27
The Partition of Hungary

It will be recalled that when President Wilson first set out for France he accompanied by horde of scientists theorists of all descriptions who to be of invaluable assistance to him in the reorganization of the world. Chief among the con tingents that of the ethnologists who be chiefly relied upon process of recasting the fac of the earth along racial lines presumed that these experts would be able to tell to use classical Expression ito a gnats eyebrow just where every citizen of the world belonged to be able to classify and list all the populations the earth and arrange them in their proper order-something that the AL mighty himself had not seen fit to attempt; in fact had appeared to discourage.
 The events of the last four years, however had disclosed the futity of omnipotence the matter of directing the work and things be reduced 10 scientific basis-hence the ethnologists
 To what extent they have been responsible for The classification which has been made in Hungary and The Balkans do not know. That has always been a heterogeneous section of the earth so much so that the peoples have been grouped together in geographical boundaries. It is probable that some millions of them Know less and less than the ethnologsts about their exact place in the classification So hopeless Vas the puzzle that they had given it up They only wanted place the face of the cart and as decent government as possible
 It IS probable that in the encouragement the rules laid down by Mir Wilson's corps of ethnolooists have been modified slightly by other considerations such for instance as the obligations which the entente may feel it owes 10 Serbia and Rumana whose territories have been increased by large tracts of Hungary in habited by people who for racial reason should be attached to those favored countries
 In consequence of this disturbance of old lines and land marks. and of the long delay at Paris where the peace conferees fooling away their time with 9xtraneous subjects, the while the American con ferees were gazing at beautiful ranbows of promise of their creation and the while also France Britain and Italy absorbed in the more material
 usiness of getting while the getting was good the 5pnswisns were inviting in bcshcSsrn. @ndit is ihcfe
Arizona republican., 1919-03-27

casionally person does something wonderful which everybody knows about, and they praise him, and build monuments to him when he is dead as is right and proper. But just as likely as not there is another individ-
 ual doing just as splendid things, but which are not seen. and. like the
 spring in the bottom of the creek, mo-
 body pays any attention to him. We
 owe a lot to the springs in the bot tom of the creeks and we owe lot to people whose works are hidden from l the public's view
Arizona republican., 1919-03-27
Where The People
 May Have a Hearing
A Protest
N TFULeSI
 Maricopa. Arizona,
March 2o, 1yIy. The Chamber of Commerce. Phoenix.

March 25. 1919. The Chamber of Commerce. Phoenix.
 Arizona.
 Gentlemen: To you. as the business head of the metropolis and capital of this state, desire to raise my voice in the interest of the laboring man and in unmeasured terms denounce the effort to saddle upon this nation a measure calling for the turning back or up of the clock at stated seasons of the year in the fancied interests of any small-minded politician or would be fanatical reformer
 We have fought the war against Germany and won. We are paying the bills. We have a God given right to retire at whatever hour we choose and to arise in the morning at a like hour. Should we care to raise d garden it is our individual business, and no con- cern of the long-haired reformer If We care to spend all we earn with the truck man, that is our privelege. We are patriotic people and have accom- plished within a short space what all the world said we could not Now. let us have peace.
 | If it is necessary to fight anew all | the battles of the great war. for Gods sake give us something to rest up on. 1 We have voluntarily. in the greater l interests of the world, given up one | right and privilege after another, may we not, in Gods name, sleep according to the sun, which an infinite God placed in the heaven long before the i hypocritical reformer was spawned? We have business in Phoenix ire | quently and are interested in the goot | of all the human race. We appreciat, the good being done for the yalIe, through your influence. Because tn, trains will run according to the dream CTS system should not be a, sufficien reason to change everything. Nowday, the trains are poor set anyway. If there is anything you can do To- cally, will you do it?
 l R. RANKIN,
Arizona republican., 1919-03-27
The Last Word

Contemplating mundane matters the other morning while awaiting another round of cakes from the griddle, we ob served as follows:
 The unmarried daughter of moneyed parents becomes the center of criti- cism if she fails to "get out in the world and do something-work for her living like thousands of poor girls have to. etc, etc.
 But if she DOES get out and rustic for her own rags, the howl goes up that "she ought to be ashamed of herself The idea of her taking work that by rights belongs to some poor girl that HAS to work for a living, etc, etc.
 But we aint the rag. a bone, and a hank of hair of moneyed parents, so it's no weeds in our garden.
 However life has it's brighter aspect out in this Great and healthful West. For instance. in scanning recent days work on the part of one of blaze country correspondents, the items to- tailed the following score: Deaths l Flu cases ..-.-..-......... Smallpox Some l l Otal Lay new S Whereupon the joyful Glendale cor ! respondent closed up his desk and called it a day.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-27
SAY A PRAYER OVER THERE"

A kind friend relays the following to us, with the note that the Tanks are indulging in it freely while doing the "Wacht Am Rine."
 Our Father, which art in Wash ington, hurried be thy name. Give us this day our delayed pay, and forgive us our AWOLS, as we forgive the bugler and the mess sergeant, and all those who wear bars. Lead us not into the Army of. Occupation, but de liver us from the fatigue squad; for thine is the Army, and the M. P. and the Q. NJ. and the Field Clerks, forever and ever An Oui,'
Arizona republican., 1919-03-27
Literary Journeys
(See American Literature First

Not that we have the least intention of attempting to bust the socalled dental trust" but purely for the edi- fication of our reader. we present the following extract from "A Journey to the Land of Eden.' This is the work of William Byrd, an early American writer of about the year 1725.
 T had an impertinent tooth in my in my upper Jaw, that had been loose for some time, and made me chew with great Caution. Particularly l could not grind a Biscuit but with much deliberation and presence Of wind. Tooth Drawers we had none amongst us, nor any of the instru- ments they make use of. However, Invention supply'd this want very happily, and 1 contriv'd to get rid Of this troublesome Companion by cut ting a Caper. l caused a TWine to be fasten'd round the Root of my Tooth, about a F'athom in Length, and then ty'd the other End to the Snag of a Log that lay upon the ground, in such
 Manner that 1 coud just stand upright
 Having adjusted my String in this
 manner, I bent my Knees enough tC tIldplt lHt tO SpIluS NISOI OuSiN Oll .tlIe
 Ground, as perpendicularly as I cou'd The force of the Leap drew out the
 Tooth with so much ease that I fell l nothing of it, nor should have believ' ( it was come away, unless I had seer it dangling at the End of the String An Under tooth may be fecht out by
 standing off the Ground and fastn g your String at due distance above you And having so fixt your Gear, jump of l your Standing, and the weight of youl Body, added to the force of the 1 Spring, will poiZe out your Tooth witt i less pain than any Operator upor l Earth could draw it. This new way i of Tooth drawing, being so silentl! 1 and deliberately peEform'd, both sur prized and delighted all that wer' present, who cou'd not guess what
 was-going about. I immediately fount i the benefit of getting rid of thi l troublesome Companion, by eating m, Supper with more comfort than I ha'
 done during the whole Expedition.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-27

the DlmikTdllk pll1 pile that Was iele in his back yard the guv'nor has sent his ax down to the village smithy to be re- ground.
 Law me, But did iver a Dimikrat put in sich a long 10 days?
 Monsieur Julien Onfray, Arzony's greatest tree pruner, dropped in at the ranch the other day and assured us that if we don't get another white frost during the present moon, it's go- ing to be one of the greatest fruit years the valley has ever seen.
 The man working on the new wing at the capitol says it's good job but he gets awful lonesome at times.
 Mac" Macatee, the states prize smokes peddler, advises us he will be up from Toosong about the list of the month. Pipe all chips on deck.
 We suspect that the L. $. navy cheated the U-boats out of victory Our worthy brother, who hoodwinked Josephus out of commission and helped lay the big mine-field in the North Sea, sends us an Irish black thorn stick on our recent birthday it was the one he promised us fol last Christmas.
 An imaijitly, upon our showing il to Jesse Boyce, he as has a roit tC know better, he wants us to thrad, the blacktharn fur a "hoot mons shtick. Twas nawthing shoort aN | threason. an may the divil take hin | and floi off wid him, Bad cess tt | him, the shpalpeen.
 For a real, honest to- gee neighbor
 we'll take a deaconess. We lived mex
 door to Miss Clifton for some time ant l the family couldn't have gotten alon: ! without her and her mother.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-27
BoLsHEvIKl ARCHITECTURE?

'In the window of one of the sec ond floors of quaint old house, there was a lone light" From the Republi- cans book review.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-27
BOOTLEG IN BUDAPEST

Word comes that over in Budapest the bolsheviki have decreed that fine of 5000 crowns will be hung on the man who sells booze, with a fine of 10000 crowns for drinking it. No fear. then. of bolshevism getting a foothold in this valley, where the bootlegger gets a suspended sentence, or a turn in the road camp from which he makes his getaway, or, in extreme cases, 100 days or as many dollars.
 Letting the conversation drift to ''soldiering," we saw a returned sol dier back up a Chambers Transfer truck, take off two big office swivel chairs, hang one on each arm. and amble into a building with them. If that's soldering we're for it.
 Hungary Declares War on Entente Headline. As we recall it, that's fifty per cent of the nation that would have declared for peace long ago if Germany would only let her"
Arizona republican., 1919-03-27
'NUTHER GOOSE RIME

There is man in our town
 And he is wondrous* wise.
 He jumped upon our salary bill ' And scratched out all it's ayes.
 @Motion by the Democrats to sub stitute the word .blunderous."
Arizona republican., 1919-03-27
At the TownPump

Having spent strenuous 10 days on the Dimikratik bill pile that was left in his back yard, the guv'nor has sent his ax down to the village smithy to be re- ground.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-27

Law me, But did iver a Dimikrat put in sich long 10 days?