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Arizona republican., 1920-06-25
Today In History
 Slightly Jazzed

June D, 1884, is the date commonly given for the crea tion of the order of the Garter by Edward III of England ,. The story is familiar: At a court ball, a lady's garter fell to the floor and the king saw it. The courtiers smiled but Edward drowned, picked 1t up placed it on himself and said: 'I1oni soft aui nal pense," or shame to him who thinks ill of it.
 The scribes present gave it a seven column screamer in the Court Journal the next day and Edward seized upon this publicity to start a new lodge, in which he picked all the charter mem berS.
 British kings since then have kept the lodge alive. but. as it carries nc insurance and no sick benefits. it is falling off in these democratic days.
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25
QUESTIONS AND
 ANSWERS

O. Are foreign ambassadors allowed to bring intoxicating beverages into the country?-E. R. T..
 A. Diplomatic representatives are allowed to bring wines and liquors into the United States as an act of inter national courtesy.
 o. Where is the competition in mine rescue to be held this year?-R. E. w. A. The national championship in mine rescue and first-aid work will be decided in Denver on August 70 and Zl. Meetings of associations of coal and metal miners will be held in connection with the competition and prizes will be awarded the winning teams.
 O. What is the price of platinum! -E. F..
 X. Platinum brings about $115 an olnce The price fluctuates.
 c. Is there a Valley Forge Histor- icaI society?-T. U. E.
 A. There is such society Wl'u headauarters at Valley Forge, Pa.
 O.. Did Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote the Tarzan stories, ever work for Sears, Roebuck & co.?-L. M. Ii.
 A MT. Burroughs was born in Chi cago in 1875, and was a department manager of Sears, Roebuck X Co. from 1906 to 1908.
 O. What will remove marks on 2 varnshed table top, made by hot dishes?- K.
 4. To remove such spots, moisten a soft cloth with camphorated oil and rub brislIy This usually suffices. If not use a few drops of spirits of cam phor being careful not to use enough to hurt the varnish
 O. Will horse hair develop into q snake if put in water?-E. R.
 A. This s a fallacy and probably Is due 10 the fact that there is a horse hair snake or worm which is extremely similar in appearance to a horse hair
 O. Please tell me the way the statS of Illinois is pronounced? Do you sounc the "s" or is is silent?-R. U. Fl.
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25
A 1s-YEAR-oLD ATHEIST

fHy pr. James I. Vance, Founder Of Inter Church
 World Movement and Chairman. Federal Council
 of Churches of AmericaO
 It is so easy to confound adolescent skeptfcism with intellectual Independence and to conclude that what you have taught to believe is for that very eas son to be doubted This the trouble with the ooy and at 19 years of he announced that he was atheist.
 He said wit a sigh, if he was sorry to part with Cod They good friends in earlier bt1t those lnsophisticated days He exercising his mental powers His brain had tackled the abstrfse problems of the world One must be logical so God had to go. Earth to earth ashes to ashes dust. Sic transit deity dead
 The boy lad unusually pious as lad At 14 he was teaching Sunday school class and making prohibition speeches. Some of the elders hoped he might become a preacher. Some of the mothers thought of their mischievous offspring and wished they might be like the little saint
 It is not a good sign be precocously pious A forced plant may winter early if the be dry Give me boy is normal, that is red -hlooded. that finds il hard O good The chances for the making of a real man good for him. He develops slowly. but he gets stay.
 trouble with 19 year-old atheist he went up against a bad made lad infamous thing to do. If you can't build up, don't down. To take God away from boy is nothing a be proud of.
 After d while if things well, the boy will get back faith. A few hard lnocks in the school of experience teach him that atheism does have a monopoly of brains. But meantime. there is tragedy. boy the battle line alone. without and without hope in the world
 The new telescope the Mt. Wilson observatory in California is a quarter of million times more powerful than the human eve.
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25
PUBLIC NOTICE

Beginning with today's issue, the Cancels Back will appear on Fridays instead of on Thursdays. We take 1t that this slight change in time will be perfectly agreeable to our reader. He will probably be just as enthusiastic over swallowing this weekly pill on Fridays as he has been over swallow ing it on Thursdays No change in policy: no cut in size; no deterioration of quality; just the same sack of sor- row to sobeover. Only now on Fridays instead of on-but the reader probably has, by this time. gotten the idea that our publishing date hereafter will be Friday.
 Somehow we can't get away from the foolish notion that by pushing our publishing date off until Friday of each week we will have more time to cook up our deviltry. It's like thinking you make the day longer by setting the clock back.
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25
Berlin's Growth
 House Shortage

BERLIN-The house famine in Ser lin has led to tue erection of "sunmcI quarters" consisting of huts built up temporarily along the lakes in the i'm mediate vicinity of the Grunewald, the vast pine-wood stretching from the western suburbs Of the city to Pots dam. Those families fortunate enough as to have secured a roof over their heads till autumn find some comfort in the thought that increasing coal short age may prevent even the opulent villa owner from heating anything but tho kitchen stove next winter. and thai they, though stoveless, may be allowed to remain in unmolested possession ot something little better than a shed
 While Petrograd and Niennn shrink almost visibly. the population here has increased to the extent of 16,00O fami- lies-all seeking a suitable flat. Fifty five per cent of this number consists of officials transferred to the capital
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25
The Democrats and Prohibition

action which the Democratic national con ivention take the prohibition question, rather, the enforcement question may have much greater effect in the campaign than is nlony supposed But only indulge lecture regarding the effect the weighing of thing against another. But may suppose the convention should adopt a plank proposing material modification rigidty volstead nominate candidate to fit that plank there would be considerable disturbapce of party lines.
 Thousands of prohibitionists would leave the party The anti-saloon element might expected s1eave in a body. the democrats gain in their places not only the solid wet sentiment of the country but the liberal sentiment, thousands of persons who had always voted for prohibition. x We have any ascertaining the strength of the sentiment behind the Volstead We know more, al about the sentiment be- hind the prohibition amendment itself. may said though that the votes which have supported hibition when the question submitted peo- lle in option elections consisted, suppose. for the part people who did sire the abolition of alcohol but other way get rid of the saloons. Many of these would doubt, welcome return of beer light wines liquors which would invite the activities leggers
 There things. though. voters within their party lines. is the blind ad herence party other belief that other issues are more vital that whatever their views be with respect dampness drouth, they will voice their opinions to other issues.
 believe Democrats, though will make a mistake they adopt modifying plank in the personal liberty suggested from Washington. That a threadbare slogan of the liquor interests If is allowed have access beer light ground personal lib should, the grounds, be given access to whisky, absinthe whatever appetite de- lplnds-
 There limitation put upon personal liberty begin recognize The first thing the public good there should personal liberty which should be inmical that. The ques- ton should be, Does the enforcement deprive individual privileges which might enjoy without public good? so act may properly be modified. If, the other hand privileges likely be abused manner as the public good, or if modification should open the the or tlle re-opening of the liquor traffic, no Tightening the restrictions of Volstead ig this the assumption the convention should up the question a we know, there has beene demand it, certainly no concerted formal upon the convention. Only politicians have suggested it for its supposed s.ffect in the campaign. s a demand the subject might properly allowed The proper place question is the congress s,iona district, where likely be compli- by many other issues for it is in that any change in the enforcement be proposed The congressman in whose district this becomes issue will know his constituents At the close of d national campaign in which are
 many issues we will about the senti- 1nent of the people respect the enforcement law than before.
 The republican national convention contented
 self with declaration in favor of enforcing all laws as they stand
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25

number of men whose mere presence is source Of amusement. Such a one supremely is James Hamilton Lewis with his pink whiskers, his queer re galia and his elaborate manners. To hear him deliver a mellifluous and somewhat pathological discourse while cultiVating his beard with folding tortoise-shell pockct-comb is an ar resting spectacle. And he never failed 10 produce mirth when he temporarily took the chair at a Democratic con vention, handling the gavel as daintily quettishly crooked. Hefiin of Ala bama is another eYe-filling spectacle and the late ollie James of Kentucky though not much of a poser, was al ways a striking feature of the scenery by reason of his huge size and rugged contours. At Baltimore he wilted down one collar after another. and some convention wit immediately started a little song.
 Ollie's Collar
 "Ollie. Ollie you're annoyed,
 Your collar itn't celluloid.'' Occasionally the voice of humor really starts something at a conven tion. This happened when Grover Cleveland was nominated for the sec ond time against the opposition of Tammany Hall. Tammany seemed 60 be winning out when General Edward .. Bragg of Wisconsin took the floor and made his famous speech in which he said. of Cleveland:
 we love him not only for the friends. but for the enemies he has made"
 No applause greeted this pointed tribute. until voice fin the audience shouted:
 Let 'em have little more grape. Captain Braggl"
 rbar tga conva,, ti ioy,. l,1rret into a roar of cheering that literally carried Cleve- land into the nomination.
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25

contributor to the Line O Type or Two remarks that it takes re- publican convention to show how much ivory there is in the c. .. r. elephant And the democratic convention next 5y eek will probably demonstrate how much of an ass the mule really is
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25
ADD YARNS OF THE BURG

The intermittent iceman having fallen down on his promise. we drove up to the ice house and called for q block of winter.
 Can you toss it into that box in the back of the car?" we asked the husky on the platform.
 Tn that box? Sure I can he said
 A heaye and a swing. followed by a crash, and the cake of ice came to rest on a pile of splinters that once an-
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25

Says the Ariz. Gazette: Aside from arousing the public to a tremendous wave of dispust and anger. the news of the sneaking effort cverlastingly to harm this community had little or no effect here Wednesday" Just what does our frenzied contemporary mean -"littIe or no effect?"
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25

During a row in the foreign affairs committee Of the French chamber Of deputies over the abandonment Of Frances rights in Mesopotamia, d let ter of CIemenceau's was introduced. which, in part, is as follows: Had ] known the value of Mosul and Meso- potamia l would never have traded them off
 We begin to suspect that what we went to war for was to give certain alleged highly polished European ma I ton traders the upper hand in con- templated trade.
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25
The oId homo town contInues to 2

The old home town continues to be merry little dump. Figures quoted a couple of weeks ago gave the number Of murders and homicides since the first of the year as something more than 200. Yet. ever and anon the mail brings US queries from solicitious friends back home as to why We per sist in risking our hide by living "down in that wild and dangerous country Of Arizona.
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25

swered to the name of Box"
 Gosh" exclaimed the iceman. guess I kinder. missed her. didn't ! 9"
 Hell mol" we assured him. T don't see how you could have made cleaner bulls eye."
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25
SOME NEWS TO GNAW ON lE- aLo G,.naraov Ct,nl

Ran Bone, of the Miami end or inc Superior stae highway. was visitor in Superior last Saturday.
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25
FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE 25. 1920

We seldom find persons whom we acknowledge to be possessed of good sense, except those who agree with us in opinion
 -Rochefoucauld.
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25
pEArH oF WELsH.eoLIArH

BONDON-JOhn George, Liberal reg istration agent for Pembrokeshire. has just died at the age of 70 years.
 He was a man fo great physical proportions and weighed 482 pounds Tn his prime he was known as the Welsh Goliath I'D 10 the time or his death Mir. George had lost little or his physical powers Sc great was his bulk that it required the services of IS mon 10 carry thc coffin from tf~ dCarse to thc graNoaido
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25

It will be pretty hard awaken popular in terest in the League of Nations Elwell mur der mystery has been cleared and the identity the owner of the pink nighte found victims apart ments, has been fixed
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25
HE MUST HAVE HAD 4 DELICATE
 CONSTITUTION
fFrom the Chi. Trlo.) ]

Five men ran out Of the hotel door. Tho first hit Torina on the head. Two offers fired. Torina wes shot three times in the chest, once in the neck, once in the forehead and once .n the abdomen. He died instantly.
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25

We are less concerned in the injunction proceed ings filed in Chicago stop highway improvements Tn Marciopa county than are in the positive iden- tfcation of the local influence the motive which inspired this litigation.
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25

There is a need of steam roller San Fran cisco where the bumps accommodating.
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25

We have reached sad stage when the Demo cratic party cannot make up its between pre- serving the heart the world breaking and the need Of re-introducing the kick beer.
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25

that came handy-and in this instance ke hooked the hospital comment. Anc you see what happens. will the Pros pector let us off with this explanation
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25

Appendicitis operations, are no longer fashionable, they performed now and then in of necessity.
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25

When Pres. Wilson vetoed that biL because of the bad grammar" it con- tained he lost the vote of the class that .'aint got use for grammar"
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25
THE FEMALE HAIo IS
 MORE DEADLY T. T. M.
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Arizona republican., 1920-06-25
EDITORIAL.
NOT MENTIONING ANY NAMES
2. G. H., Editor

Our idea of a wart on the body polite is a so-called citizen who will attempt to bring an injunction looking toward the prevention of much need ed and universally popular public inn provement You11now. Hucll tina's recipe for curing warts is to take your wart out into the graveyard along with dead eat. about the middle of the night When the devil shows up at the grave of somebody wicked you throw the eat at him and say. Devil follow corpse. cat follow devil, warts follow cat, I'm done with vel" Hucb guarantees 1t to fetch any wart.' We have printed the recipe. We will go further, and offer to furnish the dead cat It would seem that the rest is up to wart afflicted body polite.
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25

We trust that the Cub Reporter in his weekly tira de hasn't overlooked the chance to say rooster would be good party emblem for either MacAdoo or Cox. It would be -MacAdooodle-doo or Cox -adoodle- doc.
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25

The society reporter must have hard time gathering her news from her clients early in the a. m.
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25

Sign The State Road Petitions --Adv.--dl
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25

The new telescope of the Mt Wilson observatory in California is quarter Of d million times powerful than the human
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25

As to the rumor that labor will in sert a plank in the party, if they are as slow laying that plank as they are in laying blanks in some Of our local buildings, there's no cause for alarm.
 
 That'n be all for today.
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25

can tell from the way a wom&a comes in the store and does her buy ing just how her kitchenu looks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-29

whose compan ions they are; others located by observation of perturba- tions they cause in the movements of visible heavenly bodies.
 So many Nhaving Been found. it ia reasonable to suppose that there ars multitudes of others. For all we can tell. there may be more dark stars in the Universe than shining ones. All of them are doubtless burned-out suns. Where sources of heat are avail able Gas in the aforementioned in- stances), why should they not be inhabited?
 Astronomers estimate the number of suns in the Universe at somewhere between 500 and 1000 billions. At least a great majority of them prob ably possess families of planets. which. where temperature and other conditions happen to be suitable. must presumably support plant life and animal life.
 The universe-meaning thereby the stellar Cosmos upon which we look out---is not of infinite extent. Space. of course. is infinite. but the. Universe of stars has been approximately meas ured. It has, roughly speaking, the shape of disk. the diameter of which is perhaps Ave times its thickness. The distance across the disk from edge to edge, so to speak. is in the neigh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-29

coming from Mars is based upon ob- served phenomena which might equal ly support theory that Venus is the the latter are pure imagination, but we should remember that Mars is al most certainly uninhabited, owing to lack of atmosphere and intense cold whereas conditions on Venus are knownsto be such that people like our- selves might live, there.
 Eartlfs, Sister Planets
 Mars is always talked about as the planet with which we should get into communication. But is it Inhabited? !? Probabilities seem to be against such an assumption. Apparently there is little water on it: and water is the fundamental necessity for the support of plant and animal life It is about 50.000,000 miles more distant from the sun than we are. and hence must be frightfully cold.
 On the other hand. the planet Mer- cury. which is nearest the sun, is so hot that the temperature on it's surs face must be at any time above the boiling point of water. Surely it can harbor no forms ofalife such as we are acquainted with.
 How about Venus? There is a dif- ferent proposition. Her distance from the sun is one-third less than ours. She receives from that luminary twice as much heat as we do; but the eff feet of this must be agreeably reduced by the dense clouds which at all times 4. | =. .r- this cloud-envelope, our astronomical observers are, never able to see the surface of Venus. and, if she has in habitants. it seems likely that they never get a glimpse of the sky.
 Venus is the Earth's true twin. She is of about the same size as our own
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-29

own solar orb.
 k Conspicuous in the night sky is Sirius. the Dog Star, sun twenty times the size of ours and 100 times as brilliant. It has dark companion. half as big as itself. which it's light renders visible now and then. Un- doubtedly there are in the heavens a great many dark stars" which, be- cause they shed no light, are invisible to the telescope.
 Here is indeed giant world-ten times as large as our sun. In other words. 1t is more than 10 900. 900 times the size of the Earth. There is no good reason for supposing that it is not inhabited. How wonderful it would be to know something about its geography and the people on if. if there are any.
 World With A Revolving Sun
 The bright star Castor Gin Gemini) i, bigger than our sun. revolves around much larger. dark and viewless globe--a most remarkable phenom- enon. inasmuch as it presents the spectacle of sun circling about a world, as the .ancients supposed that ours did,,
 Perhaps a dozen other dark stars. all of them of huge dimensions, have been discovered-some of them seen by the reflected light of the suns
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-29
there any chance of getting into com munication with them?
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there any chance of getting into com munication with them?
 We know what the stars are like because we have one under close-at-. hand observation. We call it the sun! All the stars are blazing suns. But doubtless most, if not all. of these suns have planets of their own. Many of those planets are presumably in- habited by intelligent beings with whom we would nightly like to talk.
 Near, And Yet So Far
 The star nearest the Earth is Alpha Charlottesville only in the skies of the Southern Hemisphere Observed through a pair of good field glasses, it is seen to be in reality a pair of stars. each of which. as a matter of fact, is several times the size of our own sun.
 Alpha Centauri is so far distant from us that ray of light starting from that source today would not reach. us for more than four years. Light travels 1S6.00Q miles a second; radio message goes at the same rate If we had been in regular communi- cation with Alpha Centauri by such means. the folks out there would now be getting news of the first invasion of France,
 Our next nearest celestial neighbor is nearly twice as far away as Alpha Centauri. Astronomers call it "61 Cygni." and it is likewise pair of suns. each of them smaller than our
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-29

terrestrial globe, and. being plentifuily supplied with water. there is no req son that we know of why she should not possess luxuriant vegetation and varied fauna. The latter may even include beings like ourselves.
 If interplanetary communication is ever established. the chances are that the first messages will be exchanged between the Earth and Venus.
 Beyond The Gap Of Space
 Four little planets Mercury. Venus, Earth and Mars-circle about the sun. Four very big ones-Jupiter saturn, Uranus and Neptune-do the same thing. but far distant from the central orb. Between the two groups is an immense gap of space.
 The notion of trying to communi- cate with Jupiter Give times as far from the sun as we are) would be absurd. inasmuch as that mighty planet, 1900 times as big as the Earth. is a burning mass only half extinguished and in a semi gaseous condition. With the other three it is much the same way; they are unfin- ished worlds. That they ever will be inhabited seems more than doubtful. inasmuch as even Jupiter. the nearest of them to the sun. obtains from the latter only one twenty fifth of inc heat we get from that source.
 One of Jupiter's four moons is 3 900 miles in diameter-as large as the planet Mercury. It may conceivably be inhabited. deriving warmth from the hot planet around which it re- wolves.
 Thus far we have been considering only the Solar System. which is a very small affair in the mechanism of the IJniyerse How about the starS9 Is