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Arizona republican., 1919-07-11

commissioned officers quarters, the whole to cost SIP 2.OOO The New State Electric company of which F. H. En- sign is president, will install S12,OOO worth Of electrical works in both new and old buildings at the post, 65 in all.
 Lieutenant Stemmler will leave this morning for Tucson, Nogales, Fort Arrivaca, Naco, Fort Huachuca, Doug las and Columbus, where other work of a similar nature. also under his super vision, is being done.
Arizona republican., 1919-07-11

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Arizona republican., 1919-07-11

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Arizona republican., 1919-07-11
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
Business Men Great Britain Hear Well Formulated
the United States for Period usmen as Americans Are Told @
Programmes but the truth Is That Both
From Absentee Administrations Observes

she has always been strong. Far from
being bled white, she is in many re-
spects stronger to-day then ever be-
fore. Especially is she strong finan-
clally-- aside from the matter of infla-
ton. She has no need of helping
hand and asks for none outside of GER
tain raw materials. But no industrial
and social reconstruction has come
about; there has been no national re-
Vamplng except for war. Those who
were charged with making over the
country spent some months past in
electloneering, and then went to Paris.
England is in like case with the United
States in that she is being governed
IN an absentee sort of way, and no one
IN authority seems to have decided upon
anything. And the business people of
the country are asking that something
be done, and right quickly, to enable a
return to fairly normal conditions. To-
day nothing in England is normal. Some
want to return to the old normal;
others ask for new normal-recon-
struction. And in the reconstruction
sc tar as plans are concerned, free play
has been given to every idea. until to-
day finds England divided between
those who hope for and those who fear
q new era.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16

Inc Whitley committee suggested
that in each industry there should be
set up national council composed of
representatives of trades unions and
CT employer organizations; below the
national council are to be joint district
councils. The first nationally and the
second locally would settle all oues-
tons in the industry. The thought OF
the report seems to be that these
bodies should concern themselves
largely with the labor end, but there
are those who take it that the most
intimate practices of the employers
would also come within the jurisdiction
that is, if the planning Of any GER.
tam employer were bad, then the coun-
ell might step in and change it. And
finally the report though rather
vaguely takes the matter Of self
government right into the shop itself
by the joint workshop committee. This
committee would practically be a new
board of directors, for whatever the
corporation directors decided could
not be carried into effect without the
assent of the shop organization. In
effect the report recommends a kind
OF industrial democracy within each
industry
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
New Supplies Of Labor
Lake New Inventories

'roouction can, then, suffer rela-
very TO population-the per capita in
''ae Diminish and therefore the aver
welfare be icwer-only as popula-
'" tends 10 overcrowd the natural
..'p"rtunities, to subdivide unfayorably
,'e advantages Of the environment.
'N,'ae'ning Of this harm almost inevi-
.s''y goes with immigration-fo those
s'''aay here but it il commonly Of
tns slightest importance.
!, a'f Goes immigrant labor make for
sa proiits. SO long as the employers
equal access TO it they compete
margins out Of 1.-THE wages up
~ 'ne Yelling prices down. New sup
.'SS Oh isbor az 1imilar 10 new inven-
.s's' me large gains 20 only to
.''ss hfst in the field, and come early
~ end. In the long rnu there is no
s - advantage in it. The new
81 gets what IL IL comparatively
"'n' AZ nearly as the old labor gets
" ~ land or machinery or horses
So. get it. II IN only the special
{ ~ 81 labor directly subjected 10
sN competition that can seriously
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
Self-Sumciency Idea
Is Not Yet Realized

The difficulties in the way are MANY
The employers are not we'll organized
and at the same time they see the vast
possibilities for trouble where trades
must work together, as, say, in build
ing where carpenters, iron workers.
orlcklayers and half dozen others
might lind their ideals and principles
connecting upon the same building.
The workers oppose the plan to some
extent as possibly affecting the solidar-
lty of trade unionism and also as post
ponlng the ownership of industry by
the workers, and there are not a few
who want complete ownership. And
finally labor is badly split up on polit
ical lines and has not yet decided what
1T wants-thcre are more kinds of labor
politicians than one can count on his
hands.
In the mean time the organization
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
A Solution Of the
Servant Problem Seen

How, then, shall America set about
it to make room for the new women
immigrants? Even those of our women
that found and accepted work during
the stress of war are now being dis
charged-a personal injustice and an
institutional perversity past all belief
There is, then, in truth, some amel-
ioration in prospect for the dcarth Of
domestic servicc-the housemaid prob
lem. The unduly expensive home may
now absorb on cheaper terms more of
the human labor of which it has al
ready become so prodigally wasteful.
The positions of domestic service that
American bred girls have long dis
daned the immigrant girls will accept.
And this Is so far good-granted that
the home should have their labor-and
granted that there is elsewhere no room
for it. But still the immigrant women
must make more acute a general sit
uation that is already sufficiently grave
The labor union protest against the
labor of women rests on an economic
tallacy. National well-being or the
we'll being of the laboring classes is
not enhanced by the existence of non
producers. Whoever does not live by
title of his own product lives out Of
the product of some one else Para
sites have to be parasites on some
one-have to be maintained at others
cost. Even if there were harm from
the fact that any one works to support
himself, there must be more harm in
living without work, But to imagine
that any individual is the worse off
because others are at work supporting
themselves is about as silly as the con-
trasted error of asserting that the ma
ton as a whole or somebody in partic-
ular is, say, $4,000 the poorer by each
death that befalls from intempcrance
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
Says Government
Must Stop Building Ships

But the people feel somewhat differ
emily about control. have yet 10 hear
a single person not an officeholder
speak we'll of any control They all
pray for the day when the bureaus
which control every conceivable thing
Will be abolished. They do not want
the Minister of Munitions to direct
peace manufacturing-as one of the
numerous incum bents of that office vol
unteered to do-and they DO not want
the minister of anything else to do
more than stick to his war muttons and
HE himself away just as soon as the
war job is done.
There has been already and there
Will be deal more of what might be
called Reconstruction" in England.
but it is of the individual and not of
the collective type, and England prom
lses in many ways to be stronger than
ever before All of this shall go into
in later articles, but I can now say that
there will be no Communication of
British finance or industry The Eng
lishman has not the slightest intention
of letting politicians experiment with
his money or of housekeeping to com
mand.
The exact revamping of industry will
depend largely upon what labor will do
when its members are either demoh-
ilized or return from the vacations
which they are now taking at 25 shill-
ings and upward a week on the employ
ment allowances. In the interim the
business man, having finished his
Christmas holidays, is directing the
energy which he used in Staying Ger
mans toward the Staying of. bureau
Gratis.
1t would make far better story to
tell of a new England working as
vast machine of deadly accuracy for
the peace conquest Of the world-but
that would only be to put on paper the
day dreams of the officehoiders
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16

has enlarged it's sense of what is posi-
Bile, and at the same time ouickened its
sense of what is fair and right. The
choice by the government and Parlia-
ment of the word Reconstruction in
preference to the more colorless terms
adopted elsewhere testifies to the fact
that what the country feels to be need
ed, II we are to learn the full lesson
OF war, is not simply scheme designed
to bring life back into its pre- war chan
nels, but tolicy conceived with q
more permanent object in view and in
harmony with the spirit which the war
has evoked in all sections of the com
munity.
There arc thus two sides to the
work of reconstruction. 1t is con-
cerned both with the questions which
will arise in the natural course in this
and every other country, when the
war ends and the nation is switched
back into the activities of peace time:
and 1t has to give shape and satisfac-
ton to the strong feeling which has
arisen in all sections of the community
among men and women of the most
widely different opinions and outlook,
that there is very much to be ashemed
OF when we look back to the conditions
OF July, 1914, and that, out of justice
to the living and out of reverence for
the dead, we are called to rebuild the
national life on better and more en-
during foundation"
To this end a multitude of commit
tees have been formed to deal with
every possible event; some of them
have reported and some have not, and
there has as yet been no attempt to
coordinate them. The most important
the key committee-is that known as
the Whitley committee on industrial
relations, for it is labor that will make
or break the country, and it is to-day
in chaotic state.
Wages during the war have been
fixed by the government, but the rates
will expire in May, and pledges have
also been given that the numerous
union regulations suspended for the
war will be restored That they can
be so restored is granted to be an i'm
possibility.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16

OF the councils is hanging fire. Whether
the plan will ever be adopted is mat
ter Of great doubt. Until labor is set
tied nothing can be done, but coupled
with the labor arrangement is gigan-
tic scheme of housing. 1t is stated
that there is a shortage of about 400
600 workers houses in England and
Wales and nearly 100000 in Scotland
London, Liverpool, and, in fact, all the
large cities contain many unsaritary
dwellings and considerable slum areas
During the war the government, aiding
the local authorities, has put Up many
substantial dwellings, and it is now
proposed, both in the interest of the
national health and because it is held
to be the duty of the state, to carry
forward the plan until every worker
has decent place in which to live and
all slums are wiped out
Another direction taken by group
Of fifteen committees, and which
aroused some CONSERVATION in other
countries, was the announced intention
to make Great Britain self contained
and to import nothing but foodstuFs
and raw materials. 1t was great
shock to the people here to find that
many of their everyday articles had
come from Germany. For instance, it
was found that most of the iron and
brass ware had come from Germany,
likewise paper making machinery;
that agricultural machinery had come
from the United States, Sweden,
Belgium, and so on. Therefore it was
decided to make these and many other
articles after the war, and bureaus
were set up to give advice and selling
fields in hundreds of articles. Mate
rails were released for experimental
purposes, but, SO far as I can learn,
really very little has been done in the
country as a whole. After | have been
out among the factories I shall know
more on this point, but the hitch now
seems to be to get capital to finance
new and untried lines. Then there are
also many questions about financing
new industries, such as the coal tar
dyes.
Finally England was going to nation
alize its foreign trade, and to that end
the Board of Trade appointed an in
formation department which is expect
ed to examine and report upon all for
eign markets and to keep trade scouts
throughout the world. A further de-
velopment was to market products
through government agents and in vast
cartel fashion.
The point to bear in mind about most
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16

of experts being sent to South Amer
lea, to the British dominicns, to the
European countries, to investigate the
markets and to report back. 1t
should be understood that this is not
haphazard or fragmentary, but is a
movement with the whole commercial
ard financial America behind it,
I have heard that same sort of
speech delivered no end Of times in
America, with the single exception that
there it is the British manufacturers
who are wide awake and stirring!
AS matter of fact England is not
at all prepared for peace; she is no
more and possibly somewhat less pre-
pared than are we and the number of
scarcely as great as the number Of
our own who are ready. And as far as
the two governments are concerned
they are at standoff--neither has
fish have the initial disadvantage of
having through the Ministry of Recon
struction and a dozen other agencies
promised to do something. Those tales
which have come to US of great doings
are tales of hopes and not of facts;
perhaps the hopes are we'll founded
perhaps they are not. We have taken
England at the time when the
successes of the troops abroad inf1amed
the martial spirit of the men of COM
merce, and they, too, thought they
would conquer the world. They have
taken us at our own estimate, when our
troops were fighting so splendidly. Now
both sides are seeing that there are q
number of practical difficulties stand
ing in the way of commercial and in
dustrial perfection, but each considers
for the time being, that these diff
culties are purely personal and that
the other fellow has no difficulties at
all. Unfamiliarity is the enchantress
which has made our commercial people
afraid of England and England afraid
Of us. That is all there is to the actua
readiness. And the larger men on both
sides of the Atlantic know it.
This is not to say that England is
not very strong in the same way that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
Women's Chance Among
Meagre Opportunities

Inevitably, therefore, the war has
added new aspects to the woman prob
lem, not merely because of the men
that are dead, the home fires that will
not be lighted, the children that will
not be born, but also because of the
millions of women that, spnstcr
doomed, must now enter the struggle
for a separate maintenance. But it is
not entirely inevitable-in some part
it is merely stupid and cruel that this
struggle the women now have to face
in world that has never more than
grudgingly and partially STARED it's
opportunities with them. ans that now,
debt ridden, has only medgre oppor-
tunites to share.
(Note-This is the last of series
Of articles By Professor Dducnport--
Financial Editor.)
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
And England Thinks We
Are Prepared for Peace

Now, that story may be true, but it
has since been given to me in the
ssrictest confidence by seven other
men, and each of them has told me that
there is no use trying to get at the
facts, for no one will disclose the state
secrets. | cannot say that the tale is
untrue, but I can say that I have
trailed it up hill ard down dale and
have yet to find anything at all which
even points to confederation. I am
still on the trail, but becoming more
and more convinced that I am follow
ing bag of anise seed and not a fox.
So much for that. But what is the
government doing through its several
departments of reconstruction and en-
tension of foreign trade? Let me here
digress to remark that our iGea that
our own governmental departments had
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
Want to Make New
World a Better Place

The Ministry of Reconstruction. until
the elections presided over by DR.. Addi-
son, but now in the hands of q much
stronger man-Sir Auckland Geddes-
is purely an advisory body, and has
something of the position of our Adj
visory Board Of the Council of Nationa.
Defence. 1t can suggest anything it
likes, but it has not the slightest power
to put any suggestion in force. 1t has
made many recc lamentations, and the
general policy as stated by DR.. Add
son is:
"Thus the idea of reconstruction, OF
a simple return to pre-war conditions
has gradually been supplanted by the
larger and worthier idea of better
world after tie war. The experience
through which the country has passed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
By H. ]. Davenport

Professor Of Economics IN Cornell
University
II He effect Of war-debt taxes will
L be to make living conditions for
the laboring masses of Europe less
'olerable, with the more marked effects
as monetary policies may attach great
er burdens to the debts through the
lowering q general prices. 1t is in
this aspect that the war must tend to
promote emigration from Europe to
the countries of relatively less un-
promising conditions-to the United
States, for example, where the war
Durdens Will be comparatively light; to
south America, where there are none.
Europe, 1t is true. will have plenty Of
york to do Ill poor countries have,
ana 20 81 .e the laborer is to be able
70 1--we a. all but it will not be work
under appreciably better opportunities
- product, and the product will go in
mailer share to the producers of it.
regard it, therefore, as clear that the
aoorers CT Europe will emigratc in
increasing numbers if only they are
permitted to get away at all.
But shall we admit them? Shall we
need them Can we make places for
mem see nc appreciate economic
0arm in their coming, and-for the
population already here-not the
snshtest good. There will, however,
DC great good to those that come. But
our level Of wages? It is an error to rea-
COZ directly from more laborers to lower
RACES Or to higher profits. If there
are more people to produce there are
more people to consume. With larger
Aumbera there is more work to be done.
me human family occupied in pro-
e1e'hg for itself is larger"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
Population Growth
Harmful to No One

In any case, no one who perceives a
financial loss from the deaths of those
that die will easily accept the view that
immigration or higher birth rates can
hide great harm. If, as Artemus Ward
asserted, at would have been $40 in
jeff Davis's pocket if he had never been
born" neither you nor | need thereby
have been any the richer or the poorer
The truth is that there is little in it
either way for those who, having been
born and remaining in life, see one
generation in gradual disappearance
and another slowly moving up to take
its place. nor does a change in po-
litical boundaries make redistribu-
tions of wealth. Each mans earning
power is not the less his own. The
Philippines are not impoverished by
belonging" to America So far as I
can see, the growth of the population
of state benefits NC one but the land
lords-and in no Improbable degree
hurts any one else.
The fundamental principle in the en-
tire case is that wages are derivative
from product. If the women work, their
wages will merely represent the in
creased product that comes from their
work. No family income is greater by
the fact that the daughter-any more
than the son--is not permitted to work.
If women are not herded into a few
industries, congesting them relatively
if all occupations are open to the wom-
en-the wages of men in the large need
not suffer. Society does not prosper
by having little work done. But it is
hard on the out-of-works and hard on
those that furnish the maintenance.
Workers in any particular trade may
prosper by being relatively few
harmed by the few workers in all other
trades-but neither helped nor harmed
by many workers in all trades.
Thus, to prevent women from work
ing can be to the advantage of no one,
but to the direct and cruel loss of the
excluded women-to the aggregate loss
of society also, since, till the women
have starved to death, they must count
as human beings and be kept alive
as n charge on others production.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16

husbands income will in any way per
mt the wife must have help in doing
the little that there is still left in the
home to do. 1t becomes even more rig
orously point of honor with the hus-
band that the wife be little more than
an item of decorative furnishing.
But the children, that require atten-
ton and time and care? They grow
fewer and fewer. The European wom-
en- rear two or threefod as many, with
all their work to do. The most lei
surely of our women are the most in
fertile of our women; the more time
and strength they have to spare the
less they spare for the essential bust
ness of the home-the ultimate bio
logical meaning of marriage The chill
dren are in reverse ratio to the size of
the house. And still the home grows
more and more expensive, is increas-
ingly luxury, as the children are
growing fewer But as a luxury the
home becomes neither an expedient
nor practical thing excepting for
those who are we'll to do enough to
afford Injuries. 1t is the economic
futility of the home that increasingly
explains and imposes the increasing
celibacy in American life. Without
economic functions in the home and
without access TO economic functions
outside the women become fewer and
fewer that can marry into homes.
More and more they must shift for
themselves, by virtue of the very fact
that if they marry some one else must
undertake to shift for them. So far
from longer being helpmates, economic
assets, they have become liabilities. It
is, then, the American home that more
and more is making American men and
women homeless. Our problem of the
economic status of women is funda-
mentally, therefore, the problem of the
non-eCOnOmic home