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Arizona republican., 1919-10-31
(Another Open Letter.

To Some Bird in the Composing Room,
Downstairs, City.
Dear Sir:
Say, listen
When you come to set up copy for
the Camel's Back don't pay any at
tention to our idears as to how the
stuff should read. If you thing your
idear is better, why go ahead and shoot
it your way. Frinstance: Last week
W sent down an exchange item to
the effect that Mr.. and Mrs. So-an-so
went to ST. Johns ito attend the
quartly conference. Your idear was
that it should have read quarterly
conference. And so you set it up
that way. OF course, you took the
giggle out of the wheeze, but that's
all right And when we referred to
a local celebrity as "concertmeister
you corrected the punk spelling and set
it concert master. That too, is all
right. The sheet probably would have
been accused of pro- Germanism if you
had set it up the way we wrote it.
and another thing,
Whenever you get period and q
quote coming together at the end OF
the sentence, always set the period be-
fore the quote. There are two good
examples in the above paragraph IL
Illustrating instances when this rule
doesn't hold, but just go ahead anc
ignore the exceptions, but probably
you have set them your way by the
time you get to this.
Outside of the above little failinss
you're the best compositor in the shop
and if you just practice editing cop!
long enough you'll be nosing some
body on the copydesk out of a job.
Yours truly
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31
COMMENT BY AN AUDITOR
ON AN ENGLISH PSYCHIC

the announcement of one of these high
priests of this strange religion deter
mined to visit the realm Of the super
natural. Accordingly I found myself
together with some rs or a 100 other
guests, assembled in the Administra-
ton building at o'clock last Sunday
night.
The Rev. ]. D. johnson, noted Eng
fish psychic, celebrated occultist, me-
dunn and possessor of the sixth sense,
delivered the opening sermon.
He stated that he was personally ac-
quainted with members of the London
Society For Psychical Research and
that such men as Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir
VIM. Crooke and others had witnessed
his test reading of sealed letters ana
held his work in the highest esteem.
He pointed out that if such men as
these (whom the world knows are
among the leading scientific inyestiga-
tors of the psychical phenomena OF
spiritualism) did not question the
genuineness of his performances was
j the height of bigotry and audacious
impertinence for the ordinary person to
question him.
In connection with thissc56t1feG Mr.
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31
Coal Mininu

The strike of the soft coal miners which It is
definitely announced viii proceed regardless of
the presidents effort to stop it, has basis which
has not been quite fully explained. The miners are
complaining less of their wage than of the lack of
continuous employment, and that has always been a
subject of complaint. At the wage paid bituminous
workers they from SIPS to SITS a month by
working six days week and on such an income one
may live easily at the present cost of living
But it has been stated that the miners work less
than half the time. That is such common condi-
ton IN coal mining, both anthracite and bitumn-
fields that the acting head Of the mine workers
in his statement the other day evidently did not
think It necessary to explain why the miners were
working less than three days week
The reason for their idleness than three
days week is a lack of cars for the transportation
Of the coal. A few hundred miners, to say nothing
Of some thousands of them, employed in the larger.
mines. fnl in short time, the surrounding
country with mined coal that there room to put
any more. And there it lies until it can be moved.
1t is situation that mines were closed
down the greater part of the week with vast sup
plies of surface while the people in the
cities and towns. nearby cities and towns were
shivering for high priced coal Now coal that cost
only few cents ton to mine is selling at from IS
to SIS ton.
There have been enough cars to haul the
coal from the mines, and it used to be charged,
whether it was so or not, that the mine owners did
not want any more cars; that they did not too
much coal on the market at once; that they did
want the price to suffer; that the coal supply
not inexhaustible and that it better to get Sc
ton for certain quantity of coal than SO for twice
as much.
That attitude Of the operators few years ago
was not only suspected and charged but actu-
allv accented as a fact and the bitter feeling that
was then engendered still obtains among all classes
Of citizens throughout the east against the mine
owners.
The calling Of the strike, though, at the begin
ming OF the winter when there is already shortage
of coal on the market in sight is calculated to
stir public sentiment against the miners The strike
will probably not last long. Many of the miners will
be forced back by necessity Others win take the
places of the men who remain out, but very much
doubt whether the coal situation to the consumer
will be greatly relieved. There be pei.
manent relief until the coal transportation system
has been revised.
Pressure should be applied to the operators to
make them revise II. That pressure should take the
form Of a threat with meaning behind it, that il
the operators cannot take out coa~and distrbale
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31

is not as easy for those outside of railway cir
cles to understand why railroad people do certain
things as it is to Understand why outsiders would
have them done differently. 1t may be reasonably
presumed, though that whatever the railroads do
they do the interest economy of operation. 1t
may also be presumed that if the views of the out
slider should prevail railroad schedules would be dis
arranged and things would go awry large re-
gion.
Now comes the Wickenburg Miner with com
plant against the practice of running two trains out
of Phoenix within half hour of each other over
the same track, through Wickenburg where they
separate, one going north and the other west In
the view of the Miner these two trains should be
consolidated as far as wickenburg. thus saving the
expense of running engine and one train crew.
over $50 miles of track.
And this is not all and in the rest the
interest of the Miner the creation of terminal
junction at Wickenburg. That would be effected by
the holding of one crew there for twelve hours.
This train crew, thinks the Miner, would be
financially morally and physically benefited by its
residence in the more economical Puritan and sau-
brious atmosphere of wickenburg whereas 1t is
doomed to Phoenix with its heat, its mosquitoes, its
flies the devil always lying in wait for destruc-
ton.
The Miner sees reason for the present ar
rangement except a mysterious Phoenix pull AS
to this reason we the Miner is in error We
do not suppose Phoenix consulted or even
thought of in connection with the unconsolidated
trains For reasons of its and railroad reasons
are always good from railroad point of view, the
rad administration elected trains instead of
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31
Not So Bad. Eli?

Not many issues ago, this weekly
CHANGED the guess that when Pres
Wilson wished to get back at DR.. Gray
son for his absolute quiet orders,
Woody would tell the Doc. one of his
favorite Oliver Hereford jokes.
That we erred in this guess, it is
true. But you may determine our per-
centage of error from the following
incident related recently in F. P. A. s
Coming Tower:
DR.. Hugh H. Young went to see the
President and cites an example of Mr..
Wilson's alertness. Admiral Gray
son remarked to him. said Dr. Young,
that he needed barber l remarked:
Why not have the doctor shave you,
as they did in olden times when all
surgeons were barbers?' Whereupon
the President quickly remarked: They
are still barbarous.'" 1t is
all our fault. We insisted on examples
of the Presidents jocosity
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31
FRIDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 81. 1919
One thorn of experience is worth
a whole wilderness of warning.
james Russell Lowell.
Fairness n Not Harmony

There was pleasing and, we believe helpful
incident in the session of the Arizona Federation of
Labor convention Wednesday. The first president of
the Federation the father of it, Jack Provost, ap-
peared in the working clothes of plasterer His
presence was observed and he called upon for
speech
Naturally the most addressed in any as
semblage avoids the limelight and it with great
reluctance that Mr. Provost allowed himself to be
dragged to the fore
He depiored whatever Of inharmony had de-
veloped in the ranks of labor in Arizona He be-
eved that the energies of the workers would be bet
ter employed in unfolding another against the
common enemy" AS it afterward appeared there
was no vicious meaning in this expression only
recognition of interests which times brought
into conflict as there must be conflict of interest
between the opposite parties to every transaction.
We speak of the beauty of harmony between
employer and employee, of their community of in
terest. All that belongs to ideal state of society
and there is such state, and there will be
until have attained the millennium. Mr.. Provost
was speaking of things they are and not as they
ought to be. His legs just long Lincoln
said the legs Of every ought to be- to
reach from his body to the ground. That is where
Mr.. Provost kept his feet and his head out of the
clouds.
There thing labor should do, said Mr.
Provost; it should be fair to the enemy" even if
at times it appeared that the enemy" was not fair
10 labor. Labor should not ask much and should
not be disappointed if it did not get all that rightly
belonged to ii. That would come out all right in
the wash.
What Mr.. Provost preaching was as near an
approach as possible to harmonious or rather a
friendly relation between labor and capital; at any
rate, fairness the part of labor was significant
that the words of Mr.. Provost on this point were
more loudly and generally applauded by the dele
gates than any previous uterance in the convention
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31
ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, FRIDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 81 1919

properly and at reasonable price the government
of the United States will take over the coal mining
business.
We do not generally approve of government
ownership and management. But the coal mining
business has been miserably and purposey mis-
managed that any change be for the better. 1t
is, too kind of business in which opportunities
for laundering limited. While the government
has made mess of the railroads and the telegraph
we believe it could handle the coal mines
In the present emergency the government pro-
claims that is ready take prompt action in the
interest of the national welfare The sane practical
action Of the government is to tell the mine
and the mine workers. within a specific and very lin
tied number of hours, adjust their differences
submit them to arbitration and to proceed to speed
up the production of coal basis which shall give
every miner opportunity for steady work. Though
this would afford only temporary relief the of
action to be taken by the government should then be
adopted permanent policy with respect to the
coal mining industry.
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31

Speaking before a New York aud.
fence, Lord Dunsany, the Irish poet
dramatist said, in part 1.-THE first i'm
preston your city made upon me was
of its symmetry and scientific order
illness. 1 saw great buildings with
their windows in regular rows, and
thought they were completely under
the dominance of logic and could en-
ter into the realm of fabrics. But
at sunset time on the first evening |
looked on the Woolworth tower and it
was as if twilight had hidden the base
of great mountain, and only the sum-
nit was revealed, with its incredible
precipices lifting their inscrutable
beacons."
GOSH One is moved to wonder to
what heights his Lordship's fancy
would soar if he could out to our little
Phoenix on one Of these fall evenings
and see the fast lengthening sunset
rays absorbed in the soft warm reds
of the Camers Back hump, or see them,
rebound from Four Peaks contour
across farmland, desert and blue foot
hills.
Honest lord, Woolworth's would
look like a tencent store alongside
either of the above mentioned local
monuments.
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31
The Terrific Traffic Cop
Hail to the traffic cop!

Hail to the traffic cop!
May he establish himself Gas he
did in our home town. as the one
arm of the law you can't fool with and
get away with it.
May he become the type of cop one
likes to behold, with a kindly smile
and a guiding hand to the apprehen-
sive mother steering her family of lit
tie ones across the busy street; but
with a stern look and a heavy hand
for the reckless and irresponsible
driver.
May he so minister his duties that
the walking and driving public will
admire and respect him, yea, even unto
the end that at wave of his hand
we will come forward, go backward,
or climb up the side of the building if
such be his will.
May we have the unwavering, i'm
partial support of the courts, for with
out that he will fail.
May our traffic cop become the pride
of our town.
And may all these things come to
pass for the reason that there is moth
ing so sad as traffic cop who can't
handle the traffic.
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31
Ray For Luxembourg

Not that it is an item in our young
life, but
AS a result of the recent plebiscite.
the little province of Luxembourg has
decided to enter intS an economic al
lance with France, although retain
ing her political independence This
will give France the control Of Lux
emburg's systems, thereby giving the
republic the drop" on Germany in
case another kaiser takes it into his
head to start something.
Lux agin' the Dutch, as it were.
(Think it over.)
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31
Back to the Farm

Every city is damned to the guards.
There is still room in the rural dis
tricts, where many houses and mil
lions of acres are Idle, but everyone
wants running water, electric lights,
vacuum cleaners, picture shows,
shorter hours. higher wages, vege-
tables delivered at the back door, ETC.
Louisville Courier journal
Mebbe, stranger; mebbe. However
all we asked for in order to round
out the comforts of rural life, was a
telephone. And we verify believe that
we would have better luck if we had
requested instead, 80 per cent of the
items listed above.
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31
EDITORIAL
c. G. H., Editor
SLANG

The head of the English department
at the local high school advocates the
use of slang.
And having read the above, in sum
ana substance, as a news story in our
valued contemp, we were seized with
the desire to run up the street and
seek out the learned gentleman. Meet
ing up with him, saturated as we
would have been with his slang doc
trine, we probably would have ex-
tended our hand and said, INIT me,
Old Top; I'm strong for your line of
chatter"
Had the surprised instructor failed
TO comprehend, we wouldn't have
been knocked over if his comeback
would have been, Snow again, kid;
don't get your drift
You can take it from him, if his
views have been reported correctly,
that slang is the expression of the
hour, and there is definite need for
it."
All of which started a train of
thought to rumble through our bean.
If this apostles idea is to take root
in the community's mind, it might
blossom forth here and there some
lIliIl5 not THIS.
In the English class-Student con-
Guides the reading of his essay.
Instructor: Nov, if I may. be per-
mitted to horn in with my little anvil
chorus, let me say that your compo-
sition is all o. K. except that it's dead
from the title down. You really ought
TO try to arouse the interest of your
reader by putting little jazz into
your writing. Do you get me? For
instance-(here the assembly bell
rings) well. we can take this up to-
morrow. I'm going to sentence you
for tomorrow to the next five pages on
Elegance of Expression" And please
see if you can't grab off the authors
idea little better. Now, we'll breeze
into the big tent and see what the
leather lungs are going to spout about
this morning. Glass excused"
And at the table
Ma, please turn the COW down this
way. Willie's SWITCHED all the hens
fruit and l can't beat it to the office
on an empty breadbasket.'
And at church
'For the offertory this morning,
Miss Notes will sing Lead Kindly
Light" and in view of the fact that
part of this offering will be side
tracked for the expenses of the Home
for English Instructors Who Favored
Slang, may I not urge upon you to
kick in with a healthy wad?'
And so on, and SO on.
After this, however, when we hear
a local high school boy phone to the
apple of his eye, Say, kid, what you
got on the slate for tonight" we won't
have to wonder very long how he
got that way"
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31
(Our Ears Are Poised For
the Answer)

The A. P. correspondent at Rome
tells up that Baron Romano Avezzana,
the newly appointed ambassador to the
U. S., has set for himself the task
of bringing friendlier relations be-
tween his and ours. And he is quoted
as saying, fortunately no people
more than the Americans are willing to
be enlightened, none more anxious
to be just in their judgements, wise
in their attitudes"
Sail right, baron. But tell US first
what was the big idear of kicking
up your heels at our attitude on the
Fiume question, and then going home
and changing the name of that street
from Wilson Road to Peanut Whistle
Alley because we wouldn't give in?
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31

Apparently every colyum conduc-
tor and editor who had the matter
called to his attention has printed the
following excerpt from the Laramie
CWyo.) Republican:
1.-THE weather is as near perfect as
one could wish-warm days and cool
nights, when light coloring is good out
doors and plenty of breeding is de-
manded at night
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31

An eastern editorial writer admits
that when he urges his readers to
keep cool over the coal strike he is
pulling something ironical. Go to it,
brother, strike while the ironical
is hot.
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31

Senator Watson's charge that investigators of the
Federal Trade Commission anarchists may
may not be true, but what has that to do with the
advisability of permitting group of business men
to control our fnoa'
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31
A BELATED GAS ATTACK
From The Messenqer.)

I. M. brennan, secretary of the
State Democratic central committee
recently received through the courtesy
of Senator Mark Smith, bound volumes
of the Congressional Record for the
period of the war.
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31

Villa is preparing to start something again, ana
it is only fair him that nothing he can pull
will make an impression sensation-surfeited
world.
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31

Every cloud has its silver lining.
The soft coal strike cloud might make
it necessary for us to burn hard coal.
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31

If these foreigns do not like our form of govern
ment let them hasten back to the cootierdden filth
from which they came
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31

Just Europes before
own, so do observe the threat of radcasm
there and minimize a similar condition here at home
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31

Members Of the Ohio mob that tarred and feath-
cred socialist are doubtless quick to condemn tn.
reds of force without benefit of statute
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31
BUILDING HOMES
Good come out of evil.

With this of high rentals and increased cost
of building being stirred to thought and action
for faster and more economical building
The other day at Union N. J., under the personal
supervision of Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, and
Charles H Ingersoll, the dollar watch man, cement
house was poured and completed just 10 days after
the first material delivered on the ground
While the building industry has made great
strides in the last generation, yet it has not made
that of other industries where parts highly
standardized and made interchangeable and to
economical quantity production.
Buildings are still made" or built" rather than
manufactured constructed as in the of cheap
watches clocks, sewing machines typewriters
low priced automobiles.
Most of the reforms in building methods have
been for the monumental, commercial and industrial
structures rather than the average dwelling house
that most of US can afford to occupy.
And the reason has been good one
Up until about now there has not been the
economic demand.
And with the demand there will be the supply
of reform.
Economic necessity is the mother, father, nurse
and school teacher of accomplishment.
That the building industry has made progress is
indicated by the fact that all building operations
in the nature of assembling the ground rather
than making forming all the parts up from the
material and by hand labor the. ground as in
times past.
Inc steel, stone, terra GOTTA ana WOOD parts OF
a structure formed in well ordered
manufacturing plants, equipped with power machine
tools, they numbered, taken the building
ground and put into place.
But it still requires from 90 to 12O days to build
the average frame dwelling house.
But dwelling houses such proposed by Edison
and Ingersoll, cannot be economically constructed
one or two at time is usually the case.
According to the standardized plan they must be
constructed in large numbers and all at once
Either a large number of individual owners
must agree to build at once, or the project must be
in the hands of real estate promoter who will com
plete the houses and sell to individual owners ac-
cording to demand.
In this way the real estate promoter will per
form function much after the manner of the mer-
chant who assemblies stock of standardized man
ufactured goods for the convenience of the COM
munity.
We never solve problem until it is presented
And no doubt the problem of high rentals and
high building prices will solve itself in more and
$ lower cost home owning and the tendency of which
is indicated by the Edison Ingersor accomplishment
at Union, N. j, the other day.
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31

Govt tents, Underwear, Cash regis
ters at Fords. 220 East Washington.
Phone 1916. Tents SIS, $50, sS5. All
sizes. Bought in carload lots l can sell
cheap. What have you to sell? Ford's
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31

May We not urge fairweek visitors
to lose no time in placing their annual
subscription for the Camers Back
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31

What does the gentleman mean to
convey-@courtesy?
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31
By PEARL S. BULLARD

IF man die, shall he live again."
This question still appeals to the hui.
man heart with the same strength as
it did in the days of old, and because
of this there are mediums still going
all over the country giving public
demonstrations, and tests" usually in
connection with religious service.
These mystic expounders of occult
ism-and these mysterious beings claim
the power to summon from the silent
abyss of the Great Beyond the shadows
of our beloved ones, who have passed
out and vanished, leaving to us but a
memory.
Having noticed in the daily papers
ward the Atlantis" this anti-national
type which always discovers the con-
trarieties of our nation, and the chief
of our race, to shed it's venom.
am an eye witness of the barbara
ties of the Turks, and refugee from
Alateate of Aidenium, Asia Minor in
Chios Island or five months. having
relatives and friends suffering on the
same island or the last five years.
GEORGE THOMAS.
Phoenix, Ariz., October 20.
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31

If the union Of Russian workmen' about Pitts
burg Gary any worry, let him quarrel with
the company that imported them.
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31

Now we know what they mean by
the "Croaf-ish" act.
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31

Watch for our special fair" edition
next week
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31

Seems like we've heard that before.
Arizona republican., 1919-10-31

After this, however, when we hear
a local high school boy phone to the
apple of his eye, Say, kid, what you
got on the slate for tonight" we won't
have to wonder very long how he
got that way