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Arizona republican., 1919-06-12
No Substantial Injury

The deprivation of Germany of it's colonies hurts that country nowhere except in it's pride The colo nies have been of any to that country. As feeders of the country they have of little value and could never become, under the right kind of government even. of much value. Germany got into the colonizing game too late. The Germans could probably never have learned the game.
 When the Germart began, England, France Spain Portugal and Holland held practically all the colonies worth holding. All Germany could do to seize un- considered trfles in equatorial and sub tropical Africa and few islands in the Pacific. None of the colonies established by Germany were fit for the habitation of white men, and offered any largo trading possibilities.
 The German colonial management was atrocious, hardly less than that of Belgium whose control of the Belgian Congo sckened the whole world few years ago, and remembered when stories of Ger atrocities in Belgium recited Some even thought that the German invasion a visitation ordered by averaging Providence.
 sHundreds of thousands of. natives have been en- slaved in it's colonies by the Germans and treated with the greatest cruelty. The Germans have had with African rebeons which proved exceedingly troublesome and expensive. From the beginning, the German colonies have been a liability and not an asset And there not the slightest prospect that they would ever become anything else.
 Yet the Germans have clung tenaciousy to these wretched colonial prizes One of the chief complaints of the German socialist government that the allies taking Germanys colonies. It insists that Ger many must retain it's miserable jungles and deserts and coral reefs There is nothing practical in this demand. It is like the child that protests against being deprived of a costly but useless plaything. It is altogether matter of pride.
 Were there any possibility that the German colo nies might become -sef-sustaining, that they might offer field for German emigration that they might strengthen German commerce that they might in any way bring practical benefit to >the German people, this attitude of the socialist government might be applicable Were the old imperial government in the saddle it might be understandable. But why a republican and supposedly progressive govern ment desires to retain useless and costly collection of undeveloped and undevelopabe colonies is less puzzng. It is merely more proof of German inconsistency and nsincerity The Germany of today is still imperialistc.
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12
THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE F. 1

port that that has been effected at the confer ence of Nueva Leon.
 It is evident that the present operation is much important than had been generally supposed It has been difficult task tobring more than a dozen rebel leaders under something like common control and agreement. but it seems in the way Of accomplishment and the departure of the Caanzistas from Juarez. the last stronghold of the north, ndi- eates that Chihuahua longer be het.
 It is not of the first time that Juarez has been taken in the of the kaleidoscopc opera tions during the revolution but there was always some leader to take it back for the government. There is now none in sight. All have been alenated by the folly and selfshness of Carranza
 The who united against him may not be patriots or may not have much regard for the future of Mexico, but they agreed upon thing that is that Carranza must go. After that they will probably settle things among theniselves after the fashion of Mexican revolutionists.
 The Nueva Leon conference was one of the most visible signs of the insecurity of Carranza The that his enemies could advertise the time and the place that gathering is proof of the insubstantay of his authority.
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12
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had perched, and the matches which filtered the floor snapped with a brittle sound under my feet. They had not lain there long enough to soak up the moisture of the cellar
 'Oh, la! la, There's a secret door somewhere around" was my inward comment No gang of conspirators would ever get together in q place with but one exit
 I made a survey of the floor and walls, but I couldn't find a break in them. @Then there's an opening in the ceiling-that's perfectly obvious" :" I thought. And l piled up some boxes and I found neatly hinged above the cross beams, the exit of which I had been so sure.
 But all my strength would not budge the door. However, I didn't wonder at that, when I considered the plan of the garden above me. 1 knew Certeis' famous blue garden very well. Mother Lorimer was fond of it. I reckoned that the door I had discovered would open into the pergola walk.
 Once mother had criticised Certeis' pergola pavement when we were having tea in the garden. She asserted that it should have been of red brick with | grass growing between, and Certeis contended that his white Tagging har- l monized better with his blue flowers Its well laid Tagging and most in :; geniously drained" I thought, "or thi. | secret meeting place would be a pond 1 just now"
 Again I pushed upward with all my strength: l might as well have triet to raise thes lab from my own tomb.
 Thinking thus. of my grave and th'
 Belgian aml who slept there made m,
 heart sink l got down from m,
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12
Wins Prize Essay

The Camels Back herewith an nounces the prize winner in our recent essay contest for school children cn "Why Dairying Is Profitable in the Salt River Valley" The purpose of the contest was open and above board, being one means of arousing interest in this great industry of the valley. and also to attract outsiders and other immigrants to the valley.
 The prize was won by little Midgy Mix of the Buckeye district. Her essay, which even the most severe critic will admit is a wonder for clearness, conciseness and superbity of analysis, showing an unusual grasp of the English language and a keen insight into even the most intricate economic problems of the day, is as follows: "Dairying in the Salt River Valley is so profitable because the dairy man gets so much for his milk. And udder reasons too many to men tion."
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12
A Time Saving Resolution

Badly he may be needed at home. the Knox resolution will probably have the effect of proongng the presidents stay in Paris Any opposition to the contribute the delay finally presenting the peace treaty but would be very foolish besides.
 The resolution is intended only to register the op- position of the senate to the treaty in it's present form and apprise the peace conference that it is unacceptable the In this case "unaccept- able" would have it's simplest meaning mot to be cepted" Both opponents and friends of the resolu- tion in the interest of time-saving should bring the resolution to a vote at the earliest But if there is not sufficient strength behind the resolution effect it's adoption there will be sufficient strength divide the treaty separate the covenant of the league of nations from the treaty. If the resolution should be defeated probably much of the present opposition to the treaty in it's present form would be disspated. that the treaty would secure the necessary thirds vote for it's ratification
 But if there is a majority of senators in favor of the Knox resolution adopt it. that fact should be disclosed as quickly possible. The peace confer ence ought to know it. For, if the resolution has
 majority nothing be more certain than that the treaty will be amended rejected
 To try to prevent the resolution from coming to d vote would be parliamentary strategy compar- able with the tactics of the ostrich, which seeks asylum by hiding it's head in the sand.
 Opposition to a show down the resolution would be confession of the weakness of sentiment in the senate in favor of the peace treaty.
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12
Remaking a World

Of the people who thinking, thinking they thinking, there three classes, the stand paters the liberals and the radicals The first named are not giving utterance to their thoughts .they perhaps not hoping that they may much longer occupy the little ground that remains to them they are hoping against hope that the pendulum may swing backward as undoubtedly it will. though it will not reach that point in it's sweep from which it started.
 The radicals foresee 8 new world, and they think they have been divinely appointed make it; they know just how it is 10 be done They the mis- takes the Almighty has made and they intend to avoid them. They are not the first radicals. The earliest ones of whom have any knowledge were the workers on the Tower of Babel. They had many things concerning which they wished give advice the Lord
 Radicals have arisen in all ages. They are the people who have produced revolutions and changes. They have been the camp followers who
 were going to rearrange the debris lying around by the change. They have always made of H mess of with their theories and have inerfered with true and natural progress. for progress must ,e natural if at all.
 Whether not the world shall be made better depends upon the third class the liberals who stand between the purblind stand patters and the hyserl cal crazy radicals. It is 'the liberals in the past who have raised the world inch by inch to higher levels and if the time has come raise it another notch now, it must be the liberals who will do it after the radicals have been pushed out of the
 We should bear in mind that the things of which our present day radicals dream wilder than those of which the radicals of the French Revolution dreamed There is more reason to believe that the present dreams will be realized than there that the visions of the dreamers of century and a quarter ago would take form and solidarity.
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12
Place Your Order
 Now

The complexities of sleeping in this great valley of the Salt are now upon us
 In the matter of attire and appro- priate protection such as will meet with the vagaries of the mercury as it cavorts in the bulb from bedtime until morn one is put to his wits end to know just what is the thing to do. The situation, we believe. is admirably set forth in the line printed below. We recall the ditty as it was recited to us by the dean of Armour Tech" during our freshman banquet. It is as fol- lows:
 l wear my silk pajamas in the sum
 mer when it's hot;
 wear my woolen nightie in the winter
 when it's not:
 And sometimes in the springtime, And sometimes in the fall.
 I crawl right in between the sheets With nothing on at all.
 Prof. Tinkerous Thingumbob. head of our research department is now working on an invention that will reg ulate the bed covers as the night wears on The covers are rolled up on spring TOlleFS dt lIS lOOL Ol lllt UtO, stlASl lHc fashion of horizontal shades. The mechanism is controlled by a thermo stat. which releases successively the , blankets and then the quilt, which are drawn over the sleeping form little by little as the temperature drops with the progress of the night. Upon walk ing in the morn, one is thus relieved of the necessity of being thawed out before rising.
 At the instigation of many of our most prominent business men, not in 1 cluding the bankers. also the boarding 1 house keepers, Prof. Thingumbob is I devoting his time also to an attach | ment to the present machine. This new feature is in the nature of an aux ] Hilary re-roll. At the instant the alarm clock pops off, a spring on the bed cover roller is released and the bed clothes are whisked off the sleeper thus obviating any debate on the mai- ter of immediate rising.
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12
The Wane of Carranza

It appears that the rule of Carranza in Mexico is nearly He has never possessed any strength of his own. He has been a bundle of weaknesses. mental and moral He held in place only by circumstances and political exigencies. Villa Obre gon and Angeles at one time and another found it their interest to support him. at first he derived great deal of strength from the that he vas regarded as the successor of Madero. as opposed to all that was hated under the old order A rule of justice, fairness, strength and courage would then have established him in power, but he lacked justice fairness strength and courage. He lacked everything that leader should have.
 The movement against him now is the most formidable that has been opposed to him. He now has Undressing strength. Northern Mexico has been practically taken from him, and with the fall of the last stronghold in Chihuahua he will be in ef feet off from Sonora. This against him is not one; it is not of mushroom origin It had it's beginning a year ago. He was warned by Washington at that time that effort would be made to unite all the nsuTectionary bands under the ead eship of Angeles. and dispatches from Mexico re-
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12
Find the Secret Conference Room of
 Conspirators


 Conspirators
 l followed the black passage to my right until my fingertips touched the frame of closed door. I opened it upon darkness. but, as usual there was an electric button at hand in the wall. By the light of several small bulbs, l discovered that l was in an underground room about 30 feet square. It appeared to be only huge store room. Having looked into the many rough boxes it contained and found them all empty, l was about to leave the place, but before I switched off the lights little scattered debris aroused me to a new and acute inter est in my surroundings.
 l investigated my clue and immedi- ately decided that I was standing in a club room or assembly hall. I was pos-- tive that the place was used for hold ing secret meetings, although it con- tained neither desks nor chairs. And Bolshevik meetings they must be; since the cellar was beneath Certeis house. How did 1 know? Because man is ever betrayed by his vices.
 Tobacco ash was my only clue-and I needed no other. Tobacco ashes do not look all alike, and it was clear to me at glance that no one man would have knocked so many varie- ties of ash from his pipe, nor have Uttered the floor with such q large as- soltnent Of cigarette ends and cigar stubs.
 Many men of fnany tastes in nice- tine--and assorted sizes of purses had smoked together in that cellar Moreover. they l;sd been in counci recently. for ihe GUS. il..d neen brushed from the boxes Mnc.e the smokers
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12
Tips That Pass in the
 Night
Phoenix. Arizona,
May 3f. 1917.

May Dl- lJIa
 Dear Mother: I see by our locai paper that Chicago is being swept by an unprecedented crime wave and that the police seem to be helpless in the matter, and that as a result the in surance companies have raised the burglary insurance rates. It also says that there have been a startling num- Der of shootings and that it is hardly safe to go out in the night for fear Of being slugged by thugs and highway men. That's a terrible condition of affairs, and I hope that you will listen to my appeals and move down here in Gods country where all is peace and quiet: where we live in this beautiful valley and have the singing birds for companions and lofty snow capped mountain peaks in the distance for in spiration. But if you insist on staying in that dreadful city of murder and robbery. for heavens sake take care o; yourself and don't go out alone after dark and lock the doors securely every night. Lovingly, your son, etc. etc.
 SONNY.
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12
Reverse" English?

The following communication was received from the Cancels Back cap itol (state) bureau:
 The statement sent out by the na- tional committee on Americanization to the effect that you cannot force foreigners into Americanizing them selves. was well illustrated at the capitol today.
 Tt seems that orders were issued to all of the workmen (Ed's note: Why the plural?) on the new addition to speak English while on the job. Along the middle of the morning the follow = ing monologue was heard to emanate from the bowels of the new structure: Jessie, Oh, Jessie!' No response, and then a compelling. hoarse whisper, Hey. Gott dam you, Hee-zooz!
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12
Peanut Whistle
 Essays
Irrsation-Pro and con-MostIy Con

lrrigation-Pro and Con-Mostly Con
 Irrigation as practiced by the h. dians of Arizona and the pioneers who taught or were taught by the Indians, is said to have been a rather crude proposition. The supply is said to have been unlimited, fact which gave rise to the most extravagant practices in the matter of handling and distribu- tion. Some historians even go so far as to say that the early settlers and pioneers carried the Stuff in jugs and kegs, so plentiful was the supply But these statements appear so cratic in the light of present day conditions that no credence can be given to them as yet.
 Right here it is well to introduce bit of western Indian folklore relative to the incident when irrigation was first tried, either by the white man or the Indian, which ever tried it first According to the yarn the pioneer try ing to grow things on the desert met with no success at all. He was about to give up, when a prospector sug- gested that with q little irrigating of the arid portions he could grow any, l thing. Producing his jug or keg he 1 showed the settler how to irrigate properly. After several unskillful trials, the pioneer was discouraged 1 alleging that he could see none of 1 the wonders to be produced. But at | the jovial invitation of the stranger; the pioneer had few more rounds |" as the process was quaintly termed by l +l,., 1 gan to see startling results. His crops began to grow. Where a few hours before was nothing but aridity, now there stood abundance of vegetation This portion of the story is disputed ty some.
 "Sh' vur' funny" said the surprised dry" farmer. Shay, shtranzher, y shaved m'life. Have anuzher on me!- l And as a token of his gratitude he | plucked a juicy fruit from his wonder ful "anuzher" tree and gave it to the stranger. Incidentally. it might bt said that this "anuzher" tree has beer cultivated all over the United States and the fruit has been widely used by many people. Hence the term, Have AN OTHER on me" being the polit, form of the crude western phrase However, not all authorities agree or this.
 From that time on, irrigation wa
 practiced extensively, first in the ari' west and southwest, and then all owe the country. But with the coming O
 more settlers, the supply began to b exhausted until Arizona, as one of tn
 pioneers. began to regulate the name of distributing irrigation. But in spit
 of even almost prohibitive Legislation
 the supply grew so scarce and tn
 price consequently so high that it ha
 come to be known as desert gold.
 There is not the slightest dispute abou
 this.
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12
Chicago. May 31.

Dear Son: Dear boy, am i'll at ease over your safety, for the papers here say that the Mexican troubles have come up again and that you people down there live in nightly dread of raids from the bandits and revolu- tionists over the border. And just think, it has become so, terrible. the papers say, that the governor of Texas has asked the war department for ad ditional troops to guard the border. They say that Villa is starting in again and will make a raid soon. My good nessi Why don't you do as I say and come home from that dreadful, wild country of Arizona? Come home here and enjoy the peace and comfort of this great city of opportunity. But if you have to stay there, be sure to take care of yourself and don't go out nights and keep your doors locked or those Mexican bandits will get you sure. With lots of love, from
 MAMA
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12
JOSE

Jose is my zanjC%<; I shall not dry up. He maketh me tGaie down in wet pas
 lures; he leadeth to me fast
 waters. Yea, though I walk through the val
 ley of the Salt, I will fear no
 drouth, for Jose is with me; my boots and my shovel they comfort me. Thou preparest job before me in the
 presence of mine milking; thou Anointest my head with sweat; my
 ditch runneth over Surely gopher holes and flooded roads
 shall hound me all the days of
 my life; And I will live in fear of the gaol
 for ever.
 Only limited number of this edition printed. Order your extra copies now before the rush
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12

perch and scattered the boxes as had found them.
 Then I felt my way back through the tunnel toward the fountain. When was within six feet of the alley door, had a sudden urgent need of courage.
 Without a sound and without warn ing the alley door swung open. A
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12
Peepul's Writes
June 5

June ,. Sir:
 Do you ever do anything you say you will? Where is your Spring Poetry Edi- ton? This is the 3rd time I've asked you, & told you I wished to subscribe with that no. but I guess you aren't going to have that Big Number Now. As usual,
 Lizzie Tucker Oliver.
 4. L. Nelson Ranch,
 R. F. D., Buckeye.
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12

With a change of administration fn congress southern hostesses have lost some political prestige in Wash ington, but the southern women have always been socially prominent and are always sought after Mrs. N B. Dial, wife of the new senator from South Carolina. has just reach ed the capital. where she is being received in thecongressions set with much enthusiasm
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12
MAMA.

In this edition we are presenting for consideration one of the greatest fea lures ever attempted by southwestern ournalists-personal drawings by the Hump artist. Look 'em over.
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12
Amt It a Fright?

Being farce in one big brae and complaint, featuring NIT. Arie Zone. prominent merchant from the Baby State on a business trip through the east, and his return to his native haunts.
 Time: Now.
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12

Make arrangements now to have your weekly Cancels Back served to you at your breakfast while on your vacation.
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12
QuALIEIED

Why do you keep this man? He doesn't seem o know anything about the business
 He's our expert witness. Toledo Blade.
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12

It makes no difference what your wants may be, you can have them sup piled by using and reading The Repub- lican Classified Pages.
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12

great flash of sunlight filled the space below the fountain.
 tTo Be Continued0
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12
THE VICE IN ADVICE

Kloseman-'Let me give you a piece of advice Knox-'fWhat's the matter with it?'-Boston Transcript.
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12

Perhaps it hasn't dawned on you, but this is the Booster edition of the Camefs Back.
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12
SOUNDS HuNNISH

Adv-"Wanted, to mangle."-Boston Transcript.
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12

Take a copy of this issue and wrap it up and mail it to some friend who is longing to come out to Arizona and make his home. He won't hesitate much longer.
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12
SCENE I.

SCENE l.
 In the lobby of an eastern hotel. MT. Zone is observed seated in the corner of the lobby with a circle Of hotel loungers. natives. and drum mers gathered around him, taking it all in.
Arizona republican., 1919-06-12

Coming soon-our Small Town edi- ton. Watch for it.