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Arizona republican., 1921-04-21
Prohibition and JaiIs

Prohibition has been great thing for the coun- try. But sometimes we do not offer the best proof of its benefits. We told by thoughtless thusiasts that prohibition has emptied the jails. While that is not quite fact by means fact. there still doubt whether that is really good thing prohibition do. There not enough people in jail. We there people of jail who ought be in them.
 Anyway prohibition ought to empty" jais though of functions properly keep peo- pie from doing the things which land them in jail. functioned minor offenders. There not many people being locked up for drunk and disturbance of the peace There per- haps people of jail who but for prohibition. would now be in jail charged with murder, for doubtedly when alcoholic liquors accessible many homicides directly and solely to drunkenness.
 Yet there have been murders committed since prohibition than in any period of the been swept by such crime has passed it within the last year.
 We think there any. relation between drink has in all times melted some people to crime but it may be that there are other people gone crime would have done so if they could satisfied thirst for liquor
 The benefits of prohibition have not been visible believe in the criminal element persons with criminal tendencies It has not been manifest reasonably expected it would be in producing greater efficiency of labor But it has beneficial in bringing comfort and happiness to thousands of homes. in providing opportunities for education in supplying better food and better clothing But the greatest prohibition be reaped by fu- ture generations.
Arizona republican., 1921-04-21

Kalends came on the first of the month. In March. May, July and Oc- tober, the Nones fell on the 7th and the Ides on the 18th. In the remain ing months the Nones came on the 5th, and the Ides on the 18th. The Ides of March therefore was the period from the 18th to the lst of the following month.
 O. In a machine gun shooting 500 times minute, what will be the dis tance between the bullets? G. G. L.
 A. The war department says that a machine gun shooting 500 times per minute would have a distance be- tween the bullets of approximately 250 to 27O feet.
 O. Why do clerks put the box of cigars on the counter for a man 10 select his own cigars? G. L. 8.
 A. The bureau of internal revenue says that the law states that after cigar has been removed from the box it may not be returned. It is GUS tomary for the dealer to allow the customer to help himself to the mum Der of cigars desired. rather than to insist upon decision first
 O. Will you please tell me whether there is fluid that iubricates and does not heat. under continuous pres- sure? L. F. H.
 A. The bureau of standards says that there is no fluid that lubricates without heating under continuous pressure
 O. How many Americans are go- ing to Mexico at present? Y. L. s.
 A. The passport division says that between 250 and 300 Americans cross the Mexican border every month
 O. What is meant by the express sion Drunk as Chioe?" M. H. G.
 A. This saying probably refers to the lady of that name, notorious for her drinking habits. so often men toned by Matthew Prior in his poems
 O. What are the rules for opening and closing a third class postoffice? !? A. The postoffice department says that the opening and closing of a third class postoffice is generally reg ulated by the train schedule and the regular business hours of the com munity.
Arizona republican., 1921-04-21
FROG MUSIC Rx Alfred Arnold

Talk your robins and your bckbirds, and your wrens Jest listen to the music gobblers the hens, And the guneas and the ducks! There's voice, too, from the bogs, That makes right good tootle; it's the hollering' of the frogs! They along in early spring, about horse-radish time They sing a song of bees and flowers, plead for cline; But anyways, they've got the bulge all the birds that sing; And there's so darned many of them that they make the whole air ring! You walk along at evening. when the ground has thawed out warm; There's n early a-fiirtin' with the stars in proper form; And you hear orchestry tune up in some still roadside pool With treble bass. tenor beat any music school Some folks say it's creepy-like. and solemn. when frogs sing We all hear what listenin for, sad sweet
 By jing! hear a whoop- good things yet be-
 for me! Talk your thrushes and your martins and your
 jays: That sing or squawk their hearts out in hundred
 different ways I hear the sweetest music, and it helps my trials
 clogs. When Nature whispers Letter go" to half a million
 frogs!
 Mystery of EIwen bridge whist expert, seems about hard to fathom the game he wrote about.
Arizona republican., 1921-04-21
ABOUT THE STATE

the Arizona delegation to secure an appropriation for the construction of the San Carlos dam. the San Carlos association has filed a formal appli- cation with State Water Commission CT Norveil. calling for commencement of operations within the year.-Blade- Tribune.
 Gets Familiar Brands; 60 Days
 PRESCOTT-Charg with robbing F. s. Dickerson's Eeligman warehouse of several bottles of Haig & Haig. Black and White, Old Gordon and Monogram, John Bletz. Bob Marshall and c. c. Cairn pleaded guilty before Judge Chas. H. Mclane late Saturday afternoon.
 At the request of MT. Dickerson. who feels that there is a great diff ference between an ordinary thief and the man who can't resist the tempta- tion to abduct a bottle of good whisky, the prisoners were sentenced to 60 days imprisonment beginning with the day of their arrest.-Courier
 Highway Nearing Completion
 TUCSON-The section of the Casa Grande highway lying in Pima coun- ty will be completed, approved and thrown open to public traffic on May l. according to engineers of the Pima county highway commission. The road, which starts at a point on the Oracle road south of the cemetery. is an improved, graded and surfaced class "A" road and will be on thai date completed with the exception ol the Rillito bridge, the wash being passable in dry weather-Citizen. Will Probe Gas Prices TUCSON-A committee of three members appointed today by tn, Tucson chamber of commerce will in vestigate both the wholesale and re tail prices of gasoline in this cit, with a view to bringing about such |; reduction as was accomplished by th' Douglas commercial organization Members of this committee are H Langers, John Etchells and A. Rosen l feld.-Citizen.
Arizona republican., 1921-04-21
Women Getting Taller

American young women average more than an ,,cb taller than women of the age 30 years apo This is discovered by Dr. Celia Duel Mosher, medical adviser Leland Stanford University who has checked up measurements of girl students for three decades back
 Women also getting heavier, Dr. Mosher. She attributes the change in feminine physique to more sensible clothing and exercise particularly ticipation in sports
 London scientists say that English women in the last half century increased their height average of three inches and that their shoulders have begun b-oaden.
 on the other hand say the scientists, Engshmen of the next few generations will decline in stature aS result heavy losses among the best physi- ,l types Napoleon's said to have re-
 .9 the stature of the French people by inch.
Arizona republican., 1921-04-21
BOOKS FOR GIRLS
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1921, by Frank Crane)

Since publishing my list of books for boy of fif- teen have received many letters asking for sm- liar list for girls. ~~
 Having never been girl, feel entirely inconl- petent to answer this question: so put It up to MISS Ethel M Kelley, who is not only successful writer but woman of sound and judgment, and asked her if she would prepare list for
 So here is Miss Kellys list. How good it is leave it for my women readers to decide. But have deal of confidence in Miss Keleys judgment
 Shakespeare-Romeo and Juliet. As You Like asA Winters Tale.
 Anthoogy-Oxford Book of Verse
 Macauay-Lays of Ancient Rome.
 Omar Khayyam-The Rubaiyat.
 Tennyson-Idyls of the King. The Princess.
 Howard Pyle-Robn Hood.
 Jane Austen-Northanger Abbey.
 Sir Walter Scott-The Lady of the Lake. Ivanhoe. The Talisman.
 Lord Byron-Chde Harolds Pilgrimage. -Endymion. Charlotte Bronte-Jane Eyre. Bulwer Lytton-Last Days of Pompeii.
 Charles Dickens David Copperfield. Our Mutual Friend. Pickwick Papers Tale of Two Cities
 George Elot-The Mill on the Floss
 Thackeray-The Rose and the Ring. Vanity Fair.
 Ruskin-Sesame and Lilies Ethics of the Dust.
 Mark Twain-Tom Sawyer Joan of Arc. R. D. Blackmore-Lorna Doone.
 Hans Christian Andersen-Fary Tales Charles Reade-The Cloister and the Hearth. Anthology-Lyra Celtica
 Weir Mitchell-Hugh Wynn 1 James M. Barrie-A Window in Thrms. Senti- mental Tommy. l Mary Johnstone-Prisoners of Hope I Lewis Canoll-Alice In Wonderland.
 s. R. Crockett-The Raiders. l Kenneth Grahame-Dream Days. The Golden Age
 Rudyard Kipling-The Light That Failed. Plain Tales from the Hills Puck of Pooks Hill Seven Seas I Charles Kingsey-Water Babies. w. s. Gilbert-Bab Ballads.
 Robert Louis Stevenson-Kidnapped. T H. G. Wells-The History of MT. Polly. :; Booth Tarkington- Monsieur Beaucaire. Seven Il teen. . Stanley Weyman-A Gentleman of France. q w. J. Locke-The Beloved Vagabond. sI Richard Harding Davis-Soldiers of Fortune e Conan Doyle-Adventures of Sherlock Holmes O. Henry-Cabbages and Kings. The Four Million. Charles Anesley-The Standard Opera Glass.
Arizona republican., 1921-04-21
NEW BOOKS RECEIVED
 AT PUBLIC LIBRARY
he following books have been add

The following books have been add ed to the Phoenix public library:
 Seven O'Clock Stories, Robert G. Anderson; Our Unseen Guest, An onymous; Armenia an dthe Armeni- ans, Kevork Asian: Young Man and the Law. Simon E. Baldwin; Build ing of the Kosmos, Annie Besant; In the Outer Court, Mrs. Annie W. Be- sant; Man and His Bodies, Annie w. Besant: Path of Discipleship, Mrs. Annie w. Besant; How to Teach Re
 ligion, George H. Betts; Czechs in America. Thomas CapeK: Social The ory, George D. H. Cole; James B. Baronet, Henry St. J. Cooper; Cot ton Year Book and Diary; Rick and Buddy, Howard R. Garis; Principles of Agriculture for High Schools, John H. Gehrs: Studies in Spanish Amer lean Literature, Isaac Goldberg; Oh. Virginia, Helen s. Griffith; Higher Aspect of Nursing, Gertrude Hard ing: Unlighted House, James Hay Jr.,
 Mainwaring, Maurice Hewlett; Steam craft, George P Holden; Fishes of a
 Calico Clown, Laura L. Hope; Be-
 douins, James G. Huneker; About
 Harriet. Clara w. Hunt; Nut Crack CT, Frederick $. Isham; Girl in Fancy Dress. Annie E.. F. Jameson; Handy
 Guide for Beggars. Nicholas V. Lind
 say; Gingerbread House, Ruth B.
 Macarthur; Homes and Haunts of
 the Pilgrim Fathers. Alexander Mac
 kennal; Ring Kicked Grizzly, War
 ren H. Miller; Heroes of Progress in
 America, Charles Morris; Girls of
 Central High on Lake Luna, Ger trude W. Morrison; Thousand Mile
 Walk to the Gulf, John Muir; Arkan- sas Bear, Albert B. Paine; Little Friend Lydia, Ethel c. Phillips; Nir- gin in Judgment, Eden Phillpotts; New Frontiers of Freedom, E. Alex ander Powell; Val of Paradise, Vim gie F. Roe; Memories of Musical Career, Mrs. Clara K. Rogers; Auto
 mobile Owners Guide, Frank B. Scholl; Miscellany of British Poetry, William K. Seymour; Smiling Hill Top Julia NJ. Sloane; Pork Produc- tion, William Wesley Smith; Cornell | Johanna Spyri; Cities and Sea Coasts and Islands, Arthur Symons; Pro 1 files from China, Mrs. Eunice Tiet- | jens; Scouts of the Desert, John F. 1 Wilson; Mrs Wilson's Cook Book, | Mrs. Mary A. Wilson.
Arizona republican., 1921-04-21
JAPAN'S BIG NAVY PROGRAM HELD FOR OVERSEAS ATTACK
 IN EXPANSION PLAN

1000 miles long would have to be maintained, requiring a considerable number of the available ships and any deviation from the direct routes across the Pacific would not only lengthen this line but expose a long flank to the enemy.
 The waters of the Philippines, at best, would be teeming with enemy submarines. making them extremely hazardous for any ships using those ports, while at worst the islands might be cut off entirely by hostile fleets. leaving the Hawaiian Islands as the nearest possible base.
 Knocked Out
 An American vessel receiving what would otherwise amount to a small injury, would be out of commission for the duration of the war; for it would have to crawl at least 5000 miles, if not 5000 miles across the Pacific to ge into dry dock for re- pairs.
 Only a few seaplanes could be flown, as even when the new Ameri- can seaplane carrying vessels are commissi ioned their capacity will be very limited when compared to the number which any nation, operating from shore, could use against them And launching a plane from the deck of a ship is always a precarious undertaking, even in the best of weather. not to speak of returning to the ship when anything like a sea is running.
 These are only a few of the items considered by experts when they esti- mate a fleet is up to only approxi- mately 50 per cent of its real eff ciency when forced to meet an enemy in its own waters 5000 to 1000 miles distant.
 Japan's Defense Plan | Everyone out here insists that if Japan must fight the United States | she will fight a defensive war i waiting for the United States to come | to her-the logical thing, seemingly | for Japan to do.
 | Another thing that one hears out | here is, that if there is to be a clash with America it must come over con i flicting policies in the Far East. for appearances to the contrary, Japan ] has no intention of attacking tn
Arizona republican., 1921-04-21
THURSDAY MORNING. APRIL 21. 1921.
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be pre- served only by the most delicate hdndling. -IhoreGu.
Post Office Robberies

It probably isn't true that Postmaster Gen. eral Hays moved to offer a reward for the capture and conviction of every mail roober' by the circumstance that mail robbery was com nitted in his of Sullivan. Indiana We do think that detached incident like that would become responsible what may be regarded as policy of the postal department But the policy IS a good anyhow for mail robberies within the last year have become alarmingly frequent. Within the last ten months dozen robberies more than s7.ooo was stolen That enough to warrant such a policy without waiting for the Sullivan rob- bery.
 Beside the reward post office workers who handle valuable mail to be armed-a return to old sawed-off shotgun precaution of the Wells Fargo days.
 The biggest job recent robberies the theft ss5oOooO train between Omaha and Council Bluffs last November
 big sum-that ss,5oo,Ooo. Jesse James was a pker. In the popular imagination he looms the greatest robber. Yet his lootings small enough that the Ford brothers. members of his band him 1882 get the s1o,ooo reward offered by Governor Crittenden of Missouri for Jesse James capture dead alive"
 Another piker. compared with modern road agents the Dalton gang. This the last sgreat" gang of train robbers the old style that worked in the open and holding up whole train, gambled their lives. The Dalton trying to pull off double-header robbery of two banks the same time. was surrounded by of 300 citizens at Coffeyville. Kan. When the smoke cleared away. Emmett Dalton the only gangster left alive. After his prison days. in discussing "bg jobs" he said that the gang "once got nearly $5o.O00."
 There were, however master crooks in the old days For instance the gang that stole $700.0o0 New York New Haven & Hartford train in 1866. They were captured by Allan Pinkerton, probably the greatest detective in American history.
 To arm postal employees Is sound horse -sense. It may lead to the big mail getting lead in stead of what their perverted brains consider fame The country hopes
Arizona republican., 1921-04-21
Questions And AnsUers

o. Who appoints the chief justice of the supreme court, and is it neces- sary for him to be selected from among the associate justices? D. L.
 A. The president of the United States appoints all justices of the su- preme court of the United States. It is not necessary that the chief justice be selected from the number of associate justices. in fact. Chief Justice White is the only chief justice who was an associate justice before his appointment as chief justice
 o. What are the Ides of March? B. R.
 A The 'Ides of March" has refer ence to the Roman system of reckon ing time. They divided their month into Kalends, Nones and Ides. The
Arizona republican., 1921-04-21
TON EY!

Were you invited out to swell dinner and then got stumped which start eating with? Did you pick up your water glass and sip and sip until someone took the lead in picking up a fork? Or did you ever show at party in street clothes and be mortified because all the others satin lapel undertakers' coats?
 If so, salvation is at hand. for a flood of books etiquet is appearing in our midst It seems that of is to be spared. for the flood includes "Encyclopedia Good Form for Little Ones"
 These books how to be polite prove that everything travels in circle. They resurrection of that swept the country half century
 Joe Millers joke-book had nothing the eti- quet guides of by-gone days. In them you could find everything from "how to set the table for six fork dinner" to model for letter from young man at preparatory school requesting funds from his father" My Esteemed Parent" the letter, ct cetera, ct cetera cetera
 Never false teeth at the table without holding a napkin over the mouth'' one of the printed rules
 It further appears perusing the old volumes in the attic. that it bad form for gentleman pick his teeth with quill when riding in hack. It was height of impolteness for young folks in the twentes lead Che conversation when old folks present To be in good form ones calling cards penned with great fourishes that looked like an x-ray picture of the bones of black bass
 Politness is most mmendable-partcularly in adjuring not to eat pie with sharp knife. In a jostling. selfish city good manners would make this happier world
 But let's hope the etiquet-book craze won't whip us back the suited days of hoopskirts and side whiskers when the code demanded that the polite person like trained monkey.
Arizona republican., 1921-04-21
capspre Murderers of Jailer

GaptpFe muFdeFeFS or JdttcF
 CLIFTON-Followin the brutal murder of Jailer Ventura Bencomo by Rumaldo Lozano and Eleuteric Corral and their escape from the Grant county jail the night of April ?. the slayers were run down by sheriff's possess and recaptured.
 The capture of Lozano last Monday night near Hanover, was followed by the capture about l o'clock last Tues day afternoon of Corral within three quarters of a mile from the place where Lozano was overtaken. Lozano gave up without any show of resist ance.
 In affecting the capture of Corral. however, an exchange of shots oc- cured between a member of the posse and the fugitive murderer. Neither the officer whom Corral fired at, nor the slayer, was hit, the latter being arrested a short time after ward by Sheriff John E. Casey-Era
 Highwayman Gets Life
 TUCSON-Charles Fletcher alias Oklahoma Charlie, was sentenced to life imprisonment by Judge Pattee of the superior court this morning on the charge of highway robbery with fire arms.-Citizen
 To Form Water Users Association
 FLORENCE-Last Saturday after noon the land owners of Florence and of the valley met at the court house and selected the following del egates chosen in the Casa Grande end of the valley in organizing a water users association to operate under the diversion dam system: O. J Baughn. chairman; O. R. Hansen. secretary: M. T. Clemans. Geo. Smith H. NJ. Fennemore, D O. Martin. Du- gald Stewart. A. W. Heath and w. l Davidson-Blade-T Tribune.
 Anticipate San Carlos Money
 FLORENCE - Anticipating favor able action by congress as the resul of the efforts of Senator Ralph Cam eron and the two other members O
Arizona republican., 1921-04-21
By WILLIAM PHILIP SiMMS Written Expressly for The Newspaper
 Enterprise Association


 TOKYO, April 20.-If the United States stops building war vessels at the end of her present program-that is, in 1923-and Japan continues with her eight eight and eight" schedule until 1927-as Premier Takashi Hara and Admiral Baron Kato, minister of the navy, insists she must do-then the United States, in the event of war with Japan, would be caught at ap- proximately two-Jo-one disad- vantage.
 That is to say if Japan fights the kind of war she seems to be building fora "defensive'' war or more prop erly speaking a war to be fought out in her own yard, so to speak-a Japanese navy equal in size to the American navy would be tantamount to a Japanese navy of twice the size of the American navy under actual fighting conditions Nor does 1t take an expert to see this.
 Personally, since my arrival in Japan. 1 have become convinced that war between the United States and Japan is entirely unnecessary. If President Harding and Secretary of State Hughes blend justice, strength and publicity in their dealings with Japan, there will be no war.
 But should the worst come to the worst the chances of Japan attack ing continental United States, or striking the American fleet in Ameri- can waters, are so remote as to be negligible. The attitude of Japan towards the United States would rather be, in a given emergency:
 Come on over and help yourself!' '
 Now suppOsing something like that happened. Look at your map. San Francisco to Yokohama, via Homo lulu, is 5655 miles-two weeks sailing across the Pacific ocean.
 Would Arrive Tired
 From Honolulu, in the Hawaiian Islands Ghe last point at which American ships could with certainty stock-up with fueD, to Yokohama is more than 5000 miles. so a tired fleet, for from home, would have tC meet a fresh fleet in it's own waters
 A line of communication nearly
Arizona republican., 1921-04-21
B A 8 E R UT Il

BABE RUTH
 By Berton BraIey If the Ahkoondt of Swat
 Were not In terribly distant spot Where he probably never heard Of this marvellous homing bird,
 This youth.
 Babe Ruth: If the Ahkoondt of Swat
 Were shot To the Land of the Free, and got
 To spot Where he could Babe perform I reckon you'd hear him storm With anger extremely hot. "Oh rot! I'm out of job, that's what For he's the Ahkoondt of Swat!
 Call that guy Ruth?
 Gadzooks. forsooth, He's perfectly ruthless sort of youth
 Outa the lot
 Now him trot Around the circuit! It's plot To make me a dub in the land of Swat!s But since the Ahoondt of Swat
 Is not Aware of the record Babe has got. He doesn't know that the pitchers mound Trembles fearfully on Ahkoondt Of Ruth the Ruthless. the much renowned,
 Who loves to trot
 The bases round After smashing the sphere with a crashing sound He doesn't know. in fact, wot Of this American King Of Swat
 That's what Our undeniable Ahkoondt
 Of Swati
Arizona republican., 1921-04-21

The world has gone wheels. This, in the long run is bound to weaken and probably shorten the human legs. Our whole mode of life is changing so radically that the being 100 years hence may be startngly different.
 changes all living things as changing environments require it. The giraffe got it's long neck by constantly stretching up to munch tender tree-top leaves The rhinoce-os given tough hide when necessary protect him against
 sudden period of poisonous insect life The fish In Mammoth Cave no longer needing sight, have lost their power to
 Nature is economical She never carries spare tires She gives us what we need-and, when it Is no longer needed takes it
Arizona republican., 1921-04-21

Records excavated in Mesopotamia show the peo- pie had land mortgages 41Oo years ago the same as now. Probably they had much trouble in paying them off.
Arizona republican., 1921-04-21
THAT INDEPENDENT FEELING

'Td like to be a millionaire just once" admitted Jones.
 "Righto, I'm with you!" exclaimed Harrison It'd be great dope to spend all the money you wanted to and all that sort of"
 You've got it wrong. I'd like to be a millionaire just long enough to wear out some of my old clothes and not care a darn what anybody said about it.''-Richmond Times Dis patch
Arizona republican., 1921-04-21

An observation by ex-servce man: Heroic deeds good warranty deeds when 1t comes borrowing money them.