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Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-11-01
WOMEN AND WORK

Women were barred from so per cent of the fed
eral government positions for which examinations
held in the first six months of this year ac-
cording to a report submitted to congress
The types of government positions from which
women were excluded were: Clerical service 16 per
cent expert office service Is per cent professional
srvice editorial work, teaching, nursing) 30 per
cent; mechanical and manufacturing 81 per cent:
domestic reformatory and rural service SO per cent
economic and sociological service 100 per cent:
physical science, GA per cent medical science rs per
cent, and engineering 81 per cent
Possibly for some of these jobs women are I'M
fitted. Possibly men do the work better II so
let men do the work. There's plenty Of work for
which women ARE fitted. The point is not that men
were employed. The point is that in all these in
stances women were barred from the examinations
Tor the positions. Women were not permitted to
prove they could do the work well as men do It
This is neither good business nor good policy
The government officials who barred women
probably do not know that 100000 women are en-
ployed in scientific professional pursuits outside
tne government service more than 100000 women
are working in private manufacturing and mechanic
cal establishments, and more than 600 600 are in
clerical occupations in private employ.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-11-01
AN UNFINISHED JOB

In London club lively political argument had
sprung up between widely known Irish Nationalist
and English Unionist who holds a chair at one or
the universities So long the argument remained
purely political the third member of the party, a
clergyman of the Church of Ireland and "a former
chaplain in the Ulster division, remained silent But
the argument drifted such arguments will and
by and by it the nationalist who was silent while
his fellow countryman fiercely contested what he
considered the professors belttling of Ireland
Finally he said: Look at all we've done for We
Why, Christianzed vel"
His momentary dramatic pause enabled the pro-
fessor to interject: What nonsensei You did moth
ing of the kind"
The former chaplain put his hand out as if to
acknowledge defeat, and went on in quieter tone:
That's true! You are quite right-but we did our
Observation-Disclosures Guardian
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-11-01
CORP. COMMISSION
MAKES HISTORY BY
HIGH COURT ACTION

For the first time in history, the
state corporation commission yesteiua'
through the attorney general, ihleI
vened in an action in the supreme
court. 1t was in the case or the fioe
nix Railway Company OF AIIzona
against William B. Lount ana Hatlle
L. Mosher, involving an mportanl
question in which the corporatioh
commission is directly interested tne
commission therefore holding tnat 1t
should be party to the suit.
In the motion filed, it is set forth
that on July II, 1916, the commission
made and entered an order requiring
the Phoenix railway company 10 chanee
the route of its Brill line and permit
ing the street car company TO apandoH
that part of the old line made unnec-
essary by the new route; That no
appeal was ever taken from the Salu
order by the said railway company or
ther party in interest and the same
is now in full force and effect and mas
been since the rendition thereof fol-
lowed and obeyed by the appellant
that, to wit. on the 18th day of Aug
ust, 1916, the appellees filed in the
superior court of Maricopa county
their party in interest and the same
damus directing the company to OPP
crate cars on that portion of its Brill
line about to be abandoned in accord
ance with aforesaid order; that the
decision on said application awarding
peremptory writ of mandamus con-
| travenes and attempts to set aside an
order of this commission duly made
according to law"
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-11-01
BIGGEST SESSION IN
HISTORY Of LOCAL
ELKS NE THURSDAY

The biggest meeting in the history
of the Phoenix lodge of Elks is to be
held next Thursday, November 6.
Definite plans to make that session
the most important as well as the most
enjoyable ever held in the history of
the local antlered herd were made last
Thursday evening by Phoenix lodge
No. 1886, B. P. o. E.
Failing as next Thursday does during
state fair week, elaborate plans have
been set in motion to entertain the
visiting Bills. There will be a royal
entertainment, at which will be offered
everything possible in the way of fun
and amusement. The affair will be
staged at Arcadia hall, according to the
present plans, and the program will
comprise lots of music, lots of talent,
lots of new stunts and lots of eats and
drinks
Cupid Trincano, Little Eddie .O'Mal-
| ley. the noted French member of the
lodge, and Doc. McGrath, who looks
after the destinies of our four footed
| friends, have charge of the affair, and
| they were appointed with full power to
act. To those well versed on the in
side affairs of the local lodge, this
statement carries volumes of import
lance. TO those not quite so well in
formed, it is announced that they will
be shown a time such as they have
never experienced in all their travels.
In addition to this monster entertain
ment, there will be initiated one of
the largest classes ever shown the
mysteries of Elkdom in Arizona. The
lodge is bending every effort to make
this initiation eclipse anything ever
held in the southwest, and indications
point to the realization of that desire.
Another thing that will be taken up
and discussed at length is the new
club. This is a subject dear to the
heart of all the local Bills, and there
will be information of the utmost i'm
portance to all members disclosed at
the next meeting.
The invitation is sent out to every
member of the local lodge urging them
TO be present to make this event the
record breaking time, the committee
is striving to make it, and every visit
ing Elk is hereby summoned to appear
on next Thursday, for to be absent is
to miss one of the real events of state
fair week.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-11-01

for some time. During the summer l
learned that certain mine owners in
the east were working their men only
four days a week rather than lower
the cost of coal as would result by
free mining. Therefore, what you
state the miners are contending is no
doubt true: that while high day wages
have been quoted for the miners, their
actual earnings have not been as we
have been lead to infer. The informal
ton was given by a mine owner in
confidence. Betterment of industrial
conditions was not the consideration
of that mine owner or of those with
whom he was combined. Apparently
their one aim was to fill their own
pocketbooks regardless of the public
welfare The information was passed
on to federal authorities and the mat
ter should have been investigated
thoroughly and at once
The present impending strike is the
result of the policy of just such men.
The strike would be a terrible dis
aster and must be averted. No class
of men can be allowed to bring suf-
fering and misery to the nation at
large. But while we agree that the
strike should be prohibited and, if
necessary the striker punished, why
should not these mine owners be
given their share of responsibility
Their profiteering, whether in times Of
war or of peace, should be investi-
gated. Much of the rancor in the souls
of working men today is there because
they know justice does not prevail
They take hold of some remedy, often
shortsightedly and unwisely; but there
are sincere and serious men in their
midst who know something is rotter
| in Denmark.
With all the talk of reducing the
high cost of living, our investigations
seem to slip over the fact that the
cost of raw materials (coal one o.
them) has scared the most, even pre-
vious to war times. In spite of con.
tinued inventions, increased motive
power, discovery of chemical processes
the most basic element of cost-tha
of raw material-has been canstant
ly on the increase. According to fed
eral census statistics in 1870 dollar
worth of manufactured products wa
| made up of per cent raw materia
cost, AZ per cent capital cost and 5
per cent labor cost. BY 1905 raw ma
Iterial had advanced to Sc per cen
while capital had decreased to pc
cent and labor to 26 per cent. Thi
increase was in normal times and il
spite of all our inventive genius an
researches. A furniture manufac
turer recently stated that oak, whic
enters 50 largely into furniture an
other construction has advanced with
in the last year from forty odd dollar
Ito more than $120 per thousand
Il Other woods, no doubt, have advance
Il as much. This increase of 200 pc
'fcent with the usual 80 per cent adde
to- cover overhead and profits mus
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-11-01
The Comino Crowd

The crowd for the state fair will b,gin pouring
into Phoenix in torrent tomorrow. 1t has been
trucking in for week. increasing in volume from day
to day until already the streets abe thronged p the
early evening.
There will be such crowd here never
before seen in Phoenix. We are promised special
weather for the fair, far the promises of the
There were never before many attractions, or so
long list of exhibits varied a racing program
as have been prepared this year.
Then there fair last year so that we have
an accumulation of interest in the coming one
But the problem is to take care of the people
Public spirited men have been laboring with the
question and provision has been made for the accom-.
mediation of several hundred But there win be thou
sands to be cared for. An appeal has been made
to citizens to throw their homes and this has
been followed by another appeal to some of them
that is, to the avaricious the unscrupulous TO
refrain from punderng and robbing those whom they
may take in.
1t has been made known that some who are ar
ranging to admit visitors to their houses for fair
week have fixed prices which may make the intend
ing guest think that the householder is irving to sell
him his residence and is asking only modest and
reasonable first payment
There will be, of course some hogs of +bis 1ira
in our population but hope that there will mot ba
many ana that their victims will not judge the whole
population of Phoenix by their own experiences.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-11-01

show in the price of all wood products |
We may assume that this increase in |
the price of wood raw materials is in
dicative of a similar increase in the /
cost of all basic materials. Though !
what nature gives she furnishes
gratis, yet few men grow vastly rich
on resources that should benefit all
mankind. 1t is the raw material men,
they who have usurped natures gifts,
who have in large measures forced
labor and capital into an antagonism
that is unjust and uncalled for. Cap
ital has been forced to mark up goods
and mark down wages and labor has
been compelled to ask higher wages
to meet advancing raw material
prices. There should be no antagonism
between labor and capital. The fair
minded can have no quarrel with the
legitimate earnings of capital, since
capital itself often represents the re-
suits of not only labor but very often
of sacrifice and ideals. The possession
of some capital often signifies life of
self denial. But we frequently lose
sight of this and think only of the
men who have grabbed the natural
resources as capitalists. Nor can we
deny that our industrial system has
permitted a few to grow fat on the
efforts of the masses. Lack of prin-
ciples, however, in dealing with his fell
ows is not on the side of those over
ly prosperous. The human family
whatever their class or calling, may
be divided into those who care and
those who don't. There are as many
grafters and profiteers among the So
called laboring classes today as among
the capitalists. The working class as
a whole have ceased to give honest
service or efficiency. Not how well
1 they can work or a desire to earn their
money, but only to get the most for
the least work seems to actuate the
majority of them. The girl who comes
for domestic service wholly unframed
and who will waste your substance
while asking exorbitant wages, is as
the mine owner who denies his men a
full weeks work to keep up the prices
of coal. 1t takes two men now to dc
a piece of work which a decade age
one man would have done and done
| better in lines where wages have in
creased 100 per cent. The Bolsheviks
in our midst, as elsewhere, are those
who would have their chance to plum
der.
That all the anarchistic element
must be stayed by strong hand nont
of us doubt, but why not. with th'
same strong hand prevent graft ant
greed from usurping our natural re
| sources? Let us hold back anarchy
let us deny organized labor when i
goes too far; but let US look the mat
/, ter squarely in the face and place tn
responsibility where it belongs. Onl,
the truth can make US free. We mus
: face conditions Just as they exist. LIE
us face them squarely. Let us be fan
The combined effort Of every SINGER
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-11-01

in the mechanical department of The Republican that
got out Of order. Various persons connected with
that department and from the outside, tinkered
with it without result. AS last resort expert was
called in and he quickly effected satisfactory ad-
justment of the difficulty.
What was the matter with it," We asked.
All 1 could see" the experts reply was
that it hadn't been let alone enough"
We sincerely hope, though, with all the other
people of the country that the president in spite of
whatever handicap there may ae in the minstrations
of DIR. Grayson, will quickly be restored to complete
health.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-11-01
The Human and Other Machinery

1t seems to that Rear Admiral Grayson, that is
TO say DR.. Grayson. is unnecessarily bossy over the
president Mr.. Wilson is doubt, a very sick man,
suffering of most unsettling disorder. Yet
he has been able to attend to urgent public
business and so far as we have learned, there has
been at no time fear of unfortunate termination
Of his illness There many thousands of sick
men in the United States, many of them perhaps as
sick as the president. According to the law of ex-
pectatons very large majority Of them will recover
Most Of them but do not suppose all of them are
under the of physicians. That is physicians
call upon them at stated intervals, say daily or on
alternate days, perhaps. request These physi-
clans as a rule not admrals but are of the
common garden variety of doctors. They pre-
scribe reasonable degree of rest and isolation for
the patient give him such indictments may seem
to be needed and then let nature take it's course as
it undoubtedly would do anyhow. The patient is
allowed to see the members of his family and his
friends and often, to talk about business He is not
kept in a dark cell darkened ROOM
Now Rear Admiral Grayson was not an eminent
physician. He not heard of outside circle
larger than that which surrounds the average young
physician with practice yet to be acquired He
was fortunate at his birth in securing for kns-
woman a lady who was afterward to become the
n
aaton that the professional and nautical reputation
81 Rear Admiral Grayson erected and where it
cannot be disturbed so long as his distinguished
knsman by marriage is president Of the United
States
We sometimes think that DR.. Graysons conduct
Is that Of who delights the exercise of brief
authority. just for the sake of the exercise 1t is
something be able boss president of the United
States and to have that fact chroniced by the news
papers and disseminated throughout the land Thus
Dr. Grayson Friday succeeded in having his per-
sonaty injected into important on event as the
meeting between the president Albert of Belgium
which the admiral permitted with seeming stern
reluctance and then limited to a few brief minutes
We think the president would get along better
I! If he were granted greater freedom from the
admiral. Many man has been doctOred and watched
10 his tomb. Once there piece of machinery
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-11-01
SCOTS CROWNED ON PORT

The nopularity Of claret in Scotland in former
.ioos is Illustrated by the lines written by 1onn
Home (1724-1SOS) and preserved in Lockharts Life
Of scott with reference to increase of the duty on
c1aret which it was alleged had the effect of com
neing scotsmen to drink stronger and more dele
terious wine:
Firm and erect the Caledonian stood;
Sound with his mutton. and his claret good;
az let him drink port" the English statesman cried.
He drank the poison and his spirit died
-Dodd's Epigrammatists 1870 page 42S)-X. Y. 2.
in London Times
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-11-01
a CLOSE SHAVE

Your front door is unlocked, sir"
shouted the policeman when he found
that Mr.. Smith had gone to bed with
out attending to his locks.
.Its all right" replied the burglar
from the bed hoom window a minute
later. MY son will lock it when he
comes home. Here's a dollar for you
An easy piece of change" chuckled
the policeman as he walked away.
"A narrow squeak, said the bur
glar with a sheet round his shoulders
as he turned back into the bed room.
Very" replied his accomplice
whose hands were tightly clasped
over poor Mr.. Smiths mouth.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-11-01

our democratic friends have already begun try
ing to save the face Of the administration by decar
ing that the reservations accompanying the peace
treaty and the covenant will affect no nation mem
per Oh the league of nations except United States
mat Is the only nation that the reservations will be
intended TO affect They will out in full what we
VIII DO IN the league what viii not do and wba.
we VIII stand for under the covenant The effec,
Will De as to us, the only people with whom we are
concerned the same precisely as amendments COW
ering the same points.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-11-01
| do the very best | know how =

I do the very best 1 know how i
the very best l can; and | mean toI
keep doing so until the end. If theI
end brings me out all right, what is
said against me won't amount to any
thing; if the end brings we out
wrong, ten angels swearing | was
right, would make no difference.
Abraham Lincoln.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-11-01

The coal strike does not look now as if It would
take on the proportions Of an industrial revolution
but it will probably be one as any strike in
this country be. It has to be better under
stood Of late by the people who have been talking
about industrial revolutions" that no part of the
people is as big and powerful the whole people
that is the government when It is set in motion
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-11-01
HIS WAY

father should be firm but kind, and began
the presiding elder
That's my motter parson!" ndorsed Gap john
son Of Rumpus Ridge, Ark. After I've knocked one
of my children down. in order to protect myself or
to get something DONE as the may be, most
gener'y give him a chaw of terbacker, something
that away, to sorter saturate his feelings"
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-11-01
THE COAL MINES
BY Grace EYfe Fitzhuqh.

Editor Arizona Republican,
Dear Mr.. Editor: Your editorial on
the Claim Of the Coal Miners few
mornings ago came in the wake of in
formation 1 have been brooding over
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-11-01

Govt tents, Underwear, Cash regis
ters at Fords, 22O East Washington
Phone 1875. Tents SIS. $780, s35. All
sizes. Bought in carload lots l can sell
cheap. What have you to sell? Ford $
Stores.-Adv. &
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-11-01

Ours was not the only naval demonstration on
the Pacific. The Japanese are letting the world know
that they too have a navy
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-11-01

owes seven billion pounds overlooking the fact that
she can offer great part of the earths s4rface
security for j.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-11-01

man and woman is needed to get us
as a nation out of our present difficult
ties.
october 80, 1918. svsx.sss
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1919-02-14

T. F. Edwards and T. J. LaFor-
est left for Boise Monday morning
to boost for the Lewis and Clark
highway.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1919-02-14
NEWS FROM OROFINO'S WAR
HERO. HAROLD MUNCK.

The following clipping was hand
ed the Republican for publication.
1t concerns one of our soldier he
roes. Harold Munck, and we take
great pleasure in publishing it.
Studying a book on scientific ag-
from Idaho. Sergeant Harold Munck
of Orofino. One arm was gone, as
was one leg. but Munck was cour-
ageously digging into soil chemistry
and crop rotations and it is safe to
predict that Clearwater county will
have one more farmer who Will put
brains and character into his work
and raise blue ribbon crops. With
the saith machine gun battery,
company A. 91st division, Munck
left Camp Lewis and crossed last
June. He saw action on the Yer
dun front where he received his
wounds September 20.
Il never was in a trench he
says. Our work was out in the
open and all the rest we got was in
shell holes. The first day in action
we drove the Germans back Is kill
ometers-kept at it all day-and
they certainly went fast until they
met help. Yes. lost my arm and
my leg. but | feel l got even with
them. Lots of us are pretty lucky
not to have gotten off worse. l haC
my helmet shot off my head one
day and my gas mask shot off my
chest l believe the thing that af
fected me most during the whole
experience was when we advanced
so fast we ran into our own artil
lery fire That was awful to SCI
our own boys go down by our owl
guns"
Munck says the frst American
girl he saw bent over him when h
was lying on the floor in q felt
hospital and that she looked lik'
an angel.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1919-02-14

wv. H. Gleason left for Indian
Greek Monday morning to install
the tie and saw mill, being put in
by his son-in-law F. H. Atwood.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1919-02-14
An Appreciated Commentator.

The Moscow Star-Mirror encour-
ages the efforts of the Clearwater
Republican in the following words:
THE Clearwater Republican. pub
lished at Orofino, comes to us this
week with eight pages, four of
which are home print, and filed
with good reading matter and nice
advertisements. The paper shows
marked improvement under the new
management and it is to be hoped
the newspaper war that has kept
Orofino citizens divided and in /;
tumult. is a thing of the past The
Republican is credit to tn, pub
Usher and the town in which 1t is
printed.