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Arizona republican., 1921-12-16
EDUCATION WEEK

dren can reach school only by long hard walks.
 Far more important is the question of what kind of an education the child gets when and if he succeeds in getting to school. The most striking fact in this connection is that our school teachers are among the most poorly paid of all workers. Plumb CTS and bricklayers are plutocrats by comparison. Even in the great ci- ties. teachers are only fairly well paid. They never earn al much as a bright man or woman can make in business, nor as much as a gifted person can make in journalism or the arts.
 When you come to the country districts and the small towns, school teachers are paid barely a living wage. Hence the education of the great mass of American children is entrusted for the most part to young girls who want a way of earning pin money until husband can be found.
 To realize the seriousness of the condition of education in America you must get an adequate conception of what education might be, and of how rluch depends upon it. For literally everything depends upon it. The
 
 Consider any of the major problems which confront the country with care and it will lead you to the schools.
 Take the problem of the national health, for instance. The draft re- vealed the fact that about a third of the men Of military age in this coun- try were physically unfit. In many cases this physical unfitness was re- ported to be due to a lack of knowl- edge of the simple facts of hygiene In a word many of these men arc physically impaired for life because they had not been taught in school rooms those facts about the human body and its care which are neces- sary to the health and well being sof every civilized individual.
 Underfed Children
 Most of the rest of the unfitness was due to undernourishment. Many of these young men had not attained to proper physical development be- cause as children they had never had enough to eat. This is at the bottom an educational problem. too. For it is impossible to teach anything to a starved or hungry child. If the child comes to school in that condition it is the duty of the state to feed it. In deed, it is necessary for the state to feed it if the education which the state proposes to give it is not to be a total waste. It may be right. un- der an indiVidualistic regime. to let the adult starve if he is not efficient enough to feed himself. but to let the 1 children starve or half starve is sure ly imbecile. For that underfed child will in a majority of cases fail to attain a healthy efficient adulthood. and will therefore be unable properly to feed his children in turn.
 Take. again. the problem of crime.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-16
THE ONCE OVER
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By H. {. PHILLIPS

operators. Ask him which of the AS states impressed him most and he will tell you chronic indigestion. obe- sity, gout, and general lassitude.
 He will admit that 10 the victors belong the spells. but he will ques- ton the theory of the entertainment committees that the spells should be made into a sort of Soulash and served him at every train stop.
 Just what he did to deserve all the punishment is a mystery. He had supposed America felt a sense of gratitude toward him. Yet he no sooner set foot on American soil than Broadway offices emptied their wastepaper baskets upon him. In- deed, his memory must be a night mare of handshakers, walters, chefs, motorcycle cops. chauffeurs, college professors and camera men. all at tacking him without mercy.
 One can almost hear him para phrasing his famous message: My left arm is broken, my right arm is bent, my stomach is ruined, my pa tience is exhausted l am attacking the ship office with a view to getting back to France, where a marshal can have quiet smoke, eat when he dam pleases, and tell the movie picture operators to chase themselves"
Arizona republican., 1921-12-16
About The Sfote
Five Injured

yIrNA-Five persons are lying in tbe yuma hospital suffering from in iuries from which physicians say thev may die IS the result Of an acci- dent Sunday afternoon when an auto mobile in which they were rldlng was struck by a Southern Paclllc passenger train at Glsmis. Callior- mia. about 70 miles west or una Fidencio Barboa and Alejandro Ay- ala sustained fractured skulls Mrs Marearita Barboa has broken ankle and Miss Alicia Barboa has broken bip. A baby was badly cut and bruised. Physicians fear that the two women may have suffered lntefhal in iniuries.-Suu-
 Holsteins Average
 TUCSON-If the auction sale or dairy COWS held by r. A. Reid or the Salt River valley is any criterion as to the interest in dairy cows in that district. says R. V. Davis. extension dairvnau of the University of Ari- zona, the future for breeders of good dairy cows in the state would seem bright. A total of S6 grade Holstein cows were sold which brought an aV- craze of s146.43 per head. The max mum price was s2OO. while four cows were sold as low as $105 each.-Star.
 Discuss Pest House
 DOTGLAS-The principal topic Of discussion at a meeting of the city council last night was a communica- ton from the Bisbee council relative to the use of the pest house near Bisbee by patients from Douglas as well as from over the county.
 The plan proposed is that Bisbee, Douglas and the county each bear one third Of the expense and have
Arizona republican., 1921-12-16
HER MASTERS VOICE

Mrs Twadde was in state of excitement when the new music box arrived She had the instrument placed in the with her pet parrot.
 The bird a particularly sagacious specimen of it's kind and to test it placed on the machine a record that she had had especially made-"Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep sung by MT. TwaddIe in his approved drawing room manner.
 At the very first note Polly opened her eyes in surprise and then flew her perch where rocked herself to and in speechless deep astonish- ment while the machine ground out the rest of the tune.
 There, Polly asked Mrs. TwaddIe, when the song had end, what do you think of that?"
 Holy smolzes!" shrieked the bird with her head side, and wnlling wickedly We've got the old boxed up this time, all right."-Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-16
IS MAN A GAME ROOSTER?
BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1921, by Frank Crane)

A recent editorial in the Chicago Tribune says:
 Illusions regarding universal peace begin with the conviction that human beings have affection or each other and that the plain people of one nation would love the plain people of another if mischevous governments would stop making trouble artifically
 The editorial then goes on to say that the common people begerent, preudiced proud and ntolerant. The of the people instinctively have con- tempt dislike to the of people composing an other nation. They enemies of anything alien and ScOrnful of other customs and habits.
 The editorial indicates that mankind naturally to war; that it is their governments and statesmen that hold them back.
 statement even of the most abominable nonsense.
 It does us good hear the infidel clearly express his ideas And this sort of talk which the Tribune gives is the only real and dangerous kind of infidety
 It is the credo of unfaith in the people. And it is simply because the world has gone believing that so long that it has widowed long in the slough of con- tention.
 He that Believeth not shall be damned This does not refer to unbelief in theological credo, but actly to the kind of misunderstanding unbeef expressed in the article quoted That is to say Unbellef Tn Hu- man Nature.
 It is this Unbelief that as the individual, the tion, and the world at large.
 It is this Unbeef that has made penitentlarles schools of crime instead of reformatory institutions
 There never has been advance made Tn human welfare that has not been due to Faith Tn the people And there never has been slump into perverslon vo lence foul living and twisted thinking that has not been due to Unfath in the people.
 There are two persistent deusons Tn the world One is that mankind is essentially bad And the other is that he can be cured by force.
 Neither of these delusions has ever worked. And yet the people who call themselves shrewd and sophs ticated go on believing them.
 The queer part of it is that the pessimist perks himself up as being practical He is the most imprac- tca of mischief makers. If you would read history and consult facts you would that men, neither ndl vidualy nor in groups have been helped by doubt mo them. cursing them or hurting them. But that they have always been helped by believing in them and helping them.
 After all the eternal war Is between the believer and the nfde if we strip these words of their heelog cal connotations.
 For it is a war between those who believe in the human race and its incurabe goodness and who are willing to trust men and who ready to base their business and their politics upon such belief and
 trust and on the other hand those who consider every man rascal, every nation enemy, and the men of the world nothing but lustfu goats, VICIOUS serpents and contentious game roosters.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-16

The United States produces more of
 it than any other civilized country in the world. Yet scientists have proved beyond question that more than 90 Fer cent of all crime is committed by persons of impaired mentality who could easily have been identified as such in childhood. In other words. if a proper scientific study was made of the school child, the greater part of crime would be prevented by isolat- ing the criminal when young. Fur thermore. in this way many of these psychopaths could be cured and made into useful citizens.
 In fact, the scientific study of the child in school is the thing above all needed Not only the child below normal, but also the child above nor nal in gift and intelligence suffer by the present system Our schools beyond that they do little more than stuff him with a lot of fixed beliefs about government and society, which
 inhibit thought rather than encour- age it. Their whole tendency is not to develop individuality, but to ham,
 mer every one into the same shape. and this restrictive tendency is found not only in the graded schools but in high schools and in most colleges.
 When America shall have become truly civilized, the child instead of being entrusted for the most forma .
 tive years of his life to an ignorant girl of 20. will pass that period under the supervision of men and women of the best brains and scientific training. His capacities will be studied with the utmost care. He will
 be examined as carefully and scien- tifically as an oil well or radium deposit is examined. He will be rec
 ognized and treated as what he is the most important of all natural re- sources. He will then be trained and developed so as to attain the highest possible usefulness to himself and to l the state.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-16
The Railroad War Asain.. the eovernmen.

Here are some conspicuously high points in the campaign of the transcontinental railways to lower through rates leaving the already high interior rates unchangedIt is the contention of the that the to the interior not unreasonable; that is, if they lower they would be unprofitable. And the roads actually contend that their rates whole unprofitable .
 Now if they permitted to violate the fourth section and lower the through rates will they tain further loss of revenue? And how do<they pose make good if the rate adjustment they seek should be allowed, unless by further penalizing of the interior?
 Why they seeking this rate adjustment? They us. to meet water competition. But they do want to stop at meeting water competition, but actually destroy 1t and they want to levy tribute upon the intermediate territory to finance its war against the steamships; and not only against the in termediate territory but against the people of the whole country those at favored points who being mulcted for higher rates than have ever before been paid in all the history of railroading
 We of the intermediate territory would be sessed for the railroads war chest, not only the usurious freight rates we are now paying but we would lose practically all of our trade territory.
 As we have often declared there are many modities which will never be shipped by water re- gardess of any difference in rates in favor Of the ships But if the made equal nearly equal all commodities will be shipped by rail. The ships will go out of business.
 And whose property Is this which the railroads asking permission to destroy? The government expended four billions of dollars in the develop ment of merchant marine for which the American people had been camorng for years. Private enter prise has invested hundreds of millions of dol- in ships. The governments enterprise has been conducted at appalling loss, due in the first place to the grossest msmanagement Its shipping busi- has been reduced to solid though not yet 8 paying basis. But hardly onethird of its ships have been engaged in carrying. Most of them have been leased at figure which involves loss to the gov ernment because there is little for them to If the railroads should be allowed to wage full upon them carried on at the expense of the American people, the country's shipping from coast to coast would be wiped out.
 If the rate adjustment sought involving the ad- vantage Chicago for which provision Is there would go by the board the vast sums the government has appropriated for the improvement Of Missis sippi the millions the department has spent its government barge system.
 Is the government going to permit this against itself the destruction of its property? Is it going to allow citizens be taxed to support such unholy war?
Arizona republican., 1921-12-16
BrdleyS NE1\Ddily Poem \A A&.A0NTlNuOuS NY" PERFOR ORMANCE

C"You keep on going-maybe yot can't go much, but you do go little e-"-From Booth Tarkington's
 Alice Adams.'D It isn't fun when your hopes seem finished And all your visions have come to
 naught, When your youth is gone and your
 strength diminished And broken all of the dreams you've
 sought. It isn't fun when your projects splen- Your castles in Spain all glad and Crash down to ruin that can't be Yet, somehow or other, you keep on going. It isn't fun when you know the
 glamor Is gone from life, and little remains But dull reality, dust and clamor. And puny triumphs and plodding When life is a muddle of sad con- A purposeless puzzle beyond all
 knowing. A mess of tarnished and cheap n-
 lusions- Yet, somehow or other. you keen 7os
 going. It seems no use, but you just keep
 plodding Through force of habit; and then.
 and then You suddenly notice the flowers nod
 ding Along fine side of the road again. Though nevermore shall the hours be
 giving The thrill you knew the past's be-
 slowing, You'll come again to a zest of Hyina If, somehow or other, you keep on
 going.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-16
FRANCE MAY NEED FUND TO RESTORE DEVASTATED
 MARSHALS
American Reception Committees Movie Men, Wildcat Distributors, Cooks. Etc, Giving Foch the
 Battle of His Career

Ferdinand Foch, marshal of France. has returned to his county with sev- eral dozen college degrees, one wild eat, numerous souvenirs from the Blackfeet Indians, an ample supply of bruises and abrasions received at the hands of American movie picture men and reception committees, and a severe case of indigestion at the hands of American chefs.
 His chief source of relief is that nobody tried to make him eat the degrees or the wildcat.
 American hospitality is a splendid thing in many ways. the marshal will testify, but you can get IS badly in- jured at it as you can at the battle front. The only difference is that it takes the Red Cross longer to realize that you are suffering.
 
 Marshal Foch's impression Of America is that it is a country entire ly surrounded by fifteen course din ners and obstreperous movie picture
Arizona republican., 1921-12-16

the use of the house. A competent nurse would be engaged and the place equipped to care for patients with smallpox or other contagious diseases. The first patient entered would cost S a day and others s2-50 per day. Tn plan will be submitted to the city health department, which will report at the next meeting of the council.-Internation
Arizona republican., 1921-12-16
COSTLY KISSES

And why did you put dollar marks at the end of your love letters the plantif?' asked the lawyer. They kiss marks said the unhappy de- fendant
 "But why use dollar marks to denote kisses?' You wouldn't ask me that if you knew how much they cost me.''-BirninshaIu Age Herald.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-16
BEAVERS DIG TO FREEDOM

The colony of beavers at the geological park in New have tunneled under the foundation wall escaped the upper reaches of the Bronx river One was ignominiousy captured under wash boil- Many keepers camped the trail of the others the the wild" proved to be civilized and beavers returned to their home in captivity they seemed glad to be home.-Scentific Amer
Arizona republican., 1921-12-16

An expert advises us that until the nations stack heir arms, we shall not be able to stack dollars
Arizona republican., 1921-12-16
FRIDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 1s. 1921

T'he increase of c great number Of citizens in prosperity IS necessary element to the security, and eve, to the existence of ciUilized people.
 -Buret.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-16
time

We'll what do you think Of Verde water by this time?
Arizona republican., 1921-12-16
De Mortuis Nil Nisi Ronum

We have spoken as slightly dfsparagingly as possible of the old Phoenix water which has now passed. gone through the faucets and the hydrants and is In fact have said no i'll of it at all except such may have been inferred from an inevitable comparison drawn from such eulogies we have offered Verde water.
 There is much good that may say of the old water, at least bouquet and big which believe offered 1t when living may, with proprety be laid upon it's tomb.
 Some physicians attribute the remarkable health of Phoenix children generation half to the qualities of the water, with which of have been inclined find fault-those mineral ingredients which encrust boiler tubes and pipes which cause the early disintegration plumbing fixtures. These same solids we told entered into the teeth and bones of adolescence and otherwise penetrated and strengthened it's system that we have such youth found in no other town whose water lacks these ingredients
 A boys stomach is not metal container in which water is to be boiled. his intestines of material iron tubes and pipes. We have often thought from experience observation that the digestive machinery of youth is more durable than anything the artifcers metals have wrought from the time Tubal-Cain to the present day.
 When the solids of the old Phoenix water which caused the ultimate collapse of plumbing and iron work encountered the internal machinery the boys
 
 of disintegrating the apparatus absorbed into the system before it had time itself and made to contribute to the bony structure and also to the striated muscle, well the and connective tissues. Instead being destructive agent it is captured by the boy and made con- structive servant.
 We will miss for time, that taste so disagree able at first but to which have become educated and which has made less potent water seem disagree ably insipd and though shall become used to its absence, will perhaps remember it sort of longing.
 Thus we need not speak III of the dead but we may say something good of it
 We hope some vaudeville promoter will offer Senator Tom Watson sufficient inducement to aban- don his place in the senate for which he seems to be eminentIy fitted.
 That must be peculiarly aggravated homicide to lead to the arrest Of a white woman for killing negro in Texas.
 An expert advises that until the nations stack their arms we shall not be able stack dollars
 We'll what do you think Of Verde water by this time?
Arizona republican., 1921-12-16

That must be peculiarly aggravated homicide to lead to the arrest of white woman for killing a negro in Texas.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-16

We hope some vaudeville promoter will offer Senator Tom Watson sufficient inducement to aban- don his place in the senate for for which he seems to be emnentIy fitted.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1921-06-21
"What'S in a Name?"
By MILDRED MARSHALL
Facts about your name; It's history; mean
ing; whence it was derived; significance;
your lucky day and lucky jewel.
SOPHIA.

o.
THE wisest of feminine names is
L SOphy, or Sophia, as she should
be called properly. 1t is perhaps the
only name which is closely associated
with Divine attributes, since its origin
dates back to the dedication of that
most gorgeous of Christian temples by
which Justinian declared that he had
surpassed Solomon. 1t was called
st. Sophia (the holy wisdom of Cod.
According to the preacher" in the
Book of Ecclesiasticus, Wisdom is the
mother of fair Love, Hope and holy
Fear, and this idea is said to have
suggested the allegory of the holy
woman with three daughters so called,
and In compliment to the newly built
church, the niece Of Justinian's en-
press, afterward wife Of his nephew
and successor, was called Sophia. The
name straightway became fashionable
among the daughters Of the nobility
Of Greece and was carried, through
SlavOnians, to Germany.
History records a Hungarian prin-
NCSo VI JIdI III du-
other, daughter Of King Geysa, mar
ried Magnus of SaxOny and spread the
use Of the name throughout Saxony.
Denmark is said to have received 1t
through this latter princess and has
since made 1t almost a national name.
Its vogue with the royalty of Den
mark Is unmistakable and its use
spread through all classes.
England barely escaped having a
Queen Sophia and even though Sophia
DOrOthea of Yette never actually as
cended the throne Of England, her
granddaughters gave it vogue in the
British isles in the reign of the House
of Hanover.
England claimed both Sophia and
SOphy. France makes her Sophie;
Italy Sofia, Germany Sophia and
Fieka, and Russia Sofia.
Sophia has an old taliSmanic stone
malachite. 1t protects its wearer from
danger, if it is engraved with an i'm
age of the sun. 1t is particularly
potent for children and is said to ward
off disease and promote peaceful slum-
Der if attached to a child's cradle.
Saturday is SOphia's lucky day and
her lucky number.
(Copyrght)
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1921-06-21
Floods and Disasters.

The loss. of five hundred lives
and the destruction of ten mil
lion dollars worth of property in
Colorado by floods the past week
recall former disasters which
shocked the world in the num-
Der of lives lost. The Johns
town flood in Pennsylvania cost
about $500 lives in 1889. Gal
weston lost 5000 citizens and
suffered damage Of $4,000, 900
by a hurricane and tidal food in
1900. The Iroquois Theatre fire
at Chicago in 1903 cost 575 lives.
Fourteen hundred persons lost
their lives in the burning of the
East River, New York, in 1904
Three hundred and fifty million
dollars damage was done and
452 lives lost in the San Francis
co earthquake of 1906. The
sinking of the Titanic on her
maiden trip in mid-ocean in 1912
cost 1,517 lives. In 1914 the
Empress of Ireland sank in the
St. Lawrence river and carried
with her to watery grave 1,024
men, women and children. In
the torpedoing of the Lusitania
by the Germans in 1915. among
the 1888 who drowned were
many American women and
children and when, in the same
year, the steamer Eastland over
turned at her pier in Chicago
812 were drowned
These disasters, serious as
they were, were comparatively
trifing beside the eruption of
Mt. Pelee in 1902, in which 30,
900 persons were killed; the
earthquake in Sicily and Gala
bria, Italy, in 1908, when 76,-
483 persons lost their lives, and
the earthquakes in Central Italy
in 1915, when 29,978 men, wo-
men and children, were unsc-
counted for when the searchers
and rescuers had finished their
work.