Arizona republican., 1920-02-29

When it rains or after it has showed the streets downtown are a slippery sea of mud One dreads to cross the streets because the crossings are all most as bad as the streets This IS remedied somewhat by men who stand on these crossings and continually sweep the mud off, only to have it run back again. For days these men are hired to stand out there and sweep; it helps some and costs the city a good deal When the mud does dry up all the streets must be rolled Tney are so rough they are hardly passable- More city money gone.
 The second great loss to both the city and its citizens is the loss of tour ists, especially those who might come here to spend the summer. The fact that summer is our rafnieSt season makes paved streets all the more nec- essary. Most people who would come here to spend the summer have cars, and naturally they wish to use them rain or no rain. But take your car out in the rain in Prescott? Oh, dear, no. it is not done; if you do everything is so mud spattered that you never do it again So these prospective vis- itors choose another summer residence where they can use their cars regard less of weather. Again, it may be the looks of the city. "Oh, yes Prescott ID ictiNf d PAttty iittfC Sity, Dul cious, they have not even paved streets." So once more people go somewhere else for the summer. And who loses? Why, Prescott does, of course. We lose the trade of these people; there would have been more demand for houses to rent, more busi- ness. everything would have been livelier if only these people had not gone where they could have paved streetsi
 Last, but not least, is the loss of money and time to the citizens them selves. Many business men go to their offices in their cars. When it storms and the streets are muddy they prob ably walk This takes longer. perhaps only few minutes more a day. but several few mintes a day soon makes an hour. This time is taken either from their home or office hours and both are valuable to them. If a man does use his car he runs the possibility and often the reality of being stuck in the mud, and also having to lose the tune and pay for it in being pulled out Even 1T he does escape this danger. later he must take the time to clean orr the car or pay some one else to do it.
 The stores also lose by muddy streets. 1t takes their delivery cars much longer to make their trips; this means lost time, and time means money to them.
 I think I have proved that Prescott has lost much by not having paved streets; so it seems as if now we ought to stop losing. by putting in paved streets.
 Last week appeared in this depart rent the first prize essay on the above subject. The Journal Miner" has pub iished the prize composition, "as an incentive for the boys and girls to continue this kind of work" For the same reason the same essays are printed in these columns.
 Young people should be awake to the fact that these days put as high pre- n1ium on thought for the public good as did the early days. Great old speeches should be known not so much as matters of fact but rather as mat ters of power to incite to great new speeches subjects of present con cern.
 The following quotation, taken from the English Journal, is from Leverett L. Lyn, teacher in the University of Chicago. From it. conclusion may be drawn as to what makes speeches of today great.
 Webster's reply to Hayne-is admit ted by all. not to be, but to have been one of the greatest speeches ever made. But it was not great because Webster used a magnificent vocabulary; be- cause he rounded out" graceful pe- riods: or because he flashed wit. sar- casm, and epigram. It was great be- cause then it said the things the North wanted said better than it seemed pos sib1e for anyone to say them.
 If we look back into the history of the academic study of English we dis cover a time when the command of the mother tongue was not separate subject of study. but an aspect of gen eraI culture; and it was supposed to be derived from the agents and the agen- cies of culture-the teachers and the curriculum. It was not only supposed to be thus derived, but it was in very fact so derived, for the teachers in all branches of study made it their con- cern that 1t should be. When English became separated as a subject Tor spe cial study. however. it lost its re1a- tionship to the general domain of ideas and affairs, and concerned itself with itself-as, indeed, sister subjects were doing in a day of intensive specializa- ton. As result, our test of spirit uality in literature is almost wholly that of esthetic quality, and we are today rather curiously deaf to the appeal of substnce. The