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Arizona republican., 1921-01-08
Roosevelt House

The laying of the stone of Roosevelt House" Thursday the second anniversary of the death of Colonel Roosevelt, is the end of the first phase of movement for the establishment of a shrine of Americansm. where the people may renew their confidence in the strength and perpetuity of American institutions. where the weak and timorous oppressed by fears that the country may go may have their doubts removed and where the rest Of us may become better Americans from contem- platIoR of the birthplace of that great American.
 Soon after the death of Colonel Roosevelt the women's Roosevelt Memorial association formed and it acquired the ownership of the birthsite of Theodore Roosevelt If their design had been merely to create a memorial to him their task would have been short and easy one. Within very brief time money could have been raised that purpose, for the restoration of the house he had known it, place where his admirers of his own time and future ages could gather to do him honor.
 But that was but a small part of their purpose. As he himself had served his country through his active life. 1t proposed to make the memory of him serve it through the ages to It was there fore desired that as many citizens of the United states as possible should have personal touch with the movement.
 Having secured option the birthsite. the association set about the collection of small sums preferably one dollar. Thus the site was paid for ind preparations the laying of the cornerstone was begun.
 The association then sent out card appeal with ten detachable red bricks The recipient asked to sign one brick and return the endorsed envelope with one dollar. The bricks so received were placed in a metal in the cornerstone laid Thursday and the names of the senders all recorded in a Book of Donors to be kept at Roosevelt House
Arizona republican., 1921-01-08

The Distribution of Coal

In purchasing coal at S7 ton while it was being sold to other purchasers $2. 30 less, govern nent was following practice which had been forced In some parts the country at least the coal deal- CTS could not buy directly the producers, that is, from member of the association, but they obliged to buy it directly through each of which assigned certain territory, embracing times radius of thirty miles,
 We have in mind especially broker in a small mid western city through whom all coal in load lots had to be bought by the dealers only that city but those of the smaller towns for miles around. His commission we recall dollar ton. He had other part in the coal producing tribution of coal He had nothing to do with seeing that the coal delivered He was not interested in securing when there was shortage. He performed act that could have been performed by any coal mine owner company engaged in the production of coal. He was not agent-just middleman who performed service whatever.
 He had office which was maintained for other purposes for his private activities were numerous. Not invested in it account of his necton with the coal business. It was as pure graft upon the public as could be conceived. What dollar ton on dealers, who no doubt recovered it with usurious interest from the public, is known but was supposed that divided his with the association.
 We were informed that that was the way coal generally distributed in the and the middle west.
Arizona republican., 1921-01-08
Blue Law Enforcement

We do not know who set in motion the particular Blue Law" under which a sculptor at Boston was fined Thursday. for work a statue 'unneces- sary work on the Lords Day." but we may suspect that back of the proceedings there influ- designed bring reasonable laws for the enforcement of morals and good conduct into tempt.
 We conceive that any sensible person would fail see that the spirit intolerance which gave birth the Blue could be revived in this country without provoking reaction against the moderate laws which later age have found effec- tive in curbing immortality.
 People now regard the enforcement of Blue become general it would cease be joke and there moderate laws aside.
 We may consider prohibition We all agree that prohibition is good thing. Yet suppose prohfbi- ton has gone much farther than very large major ity of the people expected desired. But the bene fits from have been so numerous and pronounced. that those who do quite the rgidity of it are content to accept it.
 They do not, however. endorse with enthusiasm all that prohibition does They do not hold offenders against the law in that contempt with which we accustomed to regard offenders against laws gen. orally. Many feel their freedom has been some what restricted restriction their which is not needed, but they submit it for the general good. But we can sec that sumptuary legislation might be carried to the breaking point that the whole structure of sumptuary legislation might be affected. If a pendulum swings too far in one direction inevitably the backward swing will be too far.
Arizona republican., 1921-01-08
A woMAN,s PLACE

The war brought a large number of per- nanently into business. Figures recently compiled show that there 35 per cent women in in- dustries than there before the As they have proved efficient and in most willing work for less than men, their place in industry seems a permanent one.
 There is woman to every nine ployed in the industries which formerly employed chiefly or exclusively
 There 69, 900 women in such industries Iron, steel lumber leather, stone clay, chemical nanu- facture the manufacture of automobiles electrical apparatus, agricultural implements. mechanical plements, optical, rubber shipbulding, railroad ing. All these who have gone into industry have gone out of the home.
 The old cry of the anti suffrage "woman's place in the homep is being taken up by the suf- fragists who begin to feel that, perhaps women have fewer homes than they used have and that woman's place really is in the home.
 woman cannot be in an iron foundry all day and in the home, tool
Arizona republican., 1921-01-08

Never mind" we assure her. "It will have lots of company" It proves to be so good that the authoress is submitted to a cross examination to prove authorship. (The story is printed in an adjoining column)
 There follows a long and compli- cated bartering, fretted with explana- tions of policy, and we conclude by buying" the story for a quarter, just to pay for the paper and ink, my dear. And then we look over Emily Welty's fairy story which is good. but too long ''and not exactly suited to our pur- poses" as the editors explain. We take our interesting little visitors for tour of the composing room at their sug- gestion, and there we meet Mr. Frederick, and MT. Moorehead who kindly sets up the visitors names on his linotype machine and presents each with same. And we show them all through the plant. And when we get back to the editorial rooms they promise to write exclusively for the 1 Camel's Back and will draw their owr portraits which will appear exclusively in our issue next week. And the editor of the Republican may be terribly dis appointed, but we pay more for sucf exclusive features as these. Watch fol next weeks issue of the CamePs Back
Arizona republican., 1921-01-08

to arrive in this country. The ceme terial branch is notified of all such departures by cable.
 O. Can a man destroy or dsfie- ure his own noney7 w. H. w.
 A. The treasury department says that a person may do anything he likes to his own money, but after it has been punctured or defaced in any way it cannot be placed in circulation again. This is, the hole cannot be filled in and the coin again used as lawful money.
 c. Who were the Bashi Bazouks? D. s. s.
 A. The Bashi Bazouks are Turkish irregular troops, natives of the pashalics of Asiatic Turkey, and pos sessing the worst reputation of any class of fighting men in the world. They are wild and turbulent and ready to plunder and kill at any time
 c. Why IS one of the New England States called Rhode Island, when most of 1t is part of the mainland? R. C. A. "Roode Eylandt'' was the name given by the Dutch to the large island on the east side of Narragansett Bay. The colony established on it was united with other settlements under the lead l ership of Roger Williams and char I ter obtained for administration of af- fairs under the name Rhode Island 1 and Providence Plantations" This is still the official name of the state. | c. What Is the longest river Tn the world, and what Is the widest? M. | R. R.
 A. The longest river in the world | is the Mississippi- Missouri, 4,194 miles. 1 The widest river is probably the Anna zon. its width being 50 miles at its | mouth.
 o. What is the derivation of the name Rotten Row" in Hyde Park, London? A. w.
 A. The name Rotten Row is ! supposed to be derived from Route de Roi' or Kings Drive" The king is the only person who may drive i down it in a carriage.
 O. Who said "5e good and let whc will be cIever"? s. s. J. A. The quotation is from a poem "A Farewell by Charles Kingsley tho verse from which the words are tal1er
 being:
 "Be good, my dear. and let who will b' clever;
Arizona republican., 1921-01-08
Return to Safe Practice

It is cheering to learn that there is to be no more juggling with state funds. By juggling do not mean any criminal handling of them but the exercise of discretion which legislature only did not confer but which it contemplated provision against. The diversion of money from fund to the purposes for which another intended. is a Violation of the law making the appropriation It begets slipshod methods in the states financial af- fairs and sipshod methods in any business, public OF private. is an invitation to something worse.- criminal methods. The practice. moreover. begets extravaganza.
 We are aware that this Is done frequently and generally. with good intentions-for the best imme diate interests of the pubic service and repair some mistake or oversight the part of the legis lature But 1t cannot be for the ultimate. best in terests of the state depart from what experience has shown to the best methods however great the apparent need of resorting to such expedient may be-
 The legislature should make itself still more clear on this point and definitely forbid this prac tce that no officer in the future would in any circumstances offend.
 With a budget system working smoothly there can be no excuse for a depleted state fund. If the management of a department institution knows at the outset that 1t will be held certain and that there win be in no circumstances. available cent beyond that the of that department will be kept within it's appropriation
Arizona republican., 1921-01-08
AERoNAurIcs AND RELIGION

No tolling church bells announce 10
 the little communities scattered through one section of America's great
 northwest the periodic Sunday morn-
 ing arrival of the regions most enter
 prising itinerant evangelist. Instead,
 they hear the coughing exhaust of an engine, as his airplane spirals down
 upon the village. Drawn irresisunlY
 by the novelty of the visit, they flock
 to the airpIane. now at rest in a nearoY field or meadow They find ths preacher on his feet in the pilots cock pit of the plane "Sky Pilot ready to begin his discourse. Explanation or this strangest of all the airplane's uses is found in the evangelist's decision. some months ago, that the time and energy required for constant travel i among distant parishes was seriously lcurtailing his effectiveness. He de Icided to defy all precedent by allyinS Iaeronautics and religion. He first sub iected himself to a rigorous course of 1 draining, and became an accomplished airrnan. He then purchased his plane. IseIecting a three scatter of sporting Itvpe. The rear cockpit seats the pilot land serves as his pulpit when the meet Itngs are held in the open; the forward cockpit accommodates his two assist ants, one of them 8 song leader ' Omaha Bee.
Arizona republican., 1921-01-08
chanas. ln NsturaIIzatIon Lsw.

Two of the changes proposed to be made in the naturalization laws arc not unreasonable ones-that married woman may not become citizen by the naturalization of her husband and that Ameri- an woman does her citizenship by marriage to an alien unless she expatrates herself by non residence-that is. by a residence of two in her husbands country by residence of five years in some other country than her own.
 The position women, native born naturalized now occupy has been changed by equal suffrage and greater care should be exercised in seeing that they possess the meager qualifications which had been required of male voters.
 The lax divorce laws of most of our states would make it possible bring in large number of alien women voters fitted by neither intelligence nor patriotism to exercise that privilege.
 A demand for the protection of American women who have married foreigners chiefly for the protec ton of their property rights has long been made and if should be accorded them long as they may properly claim such protection.
 That an American women should have the privi- 1sge of marrying outside her nationality is not + be denied; that she should be accorded protection SD long as sho remains in the country long as if ma, be presumed that she regards herself a resident of the country is just. But when she has withdrawn herself for period of years it may be ,-esurnod that sho has accepted residence in another country and has become accepted by that country as a citizen or subject and should Doe gov crn,a and protec sa SSiely By ats laws
Arizona republican., 1921-01-08
c. G. IL. EDITOR
THE LITTLE VISITORS
(With Extreme Apologies to Daisy
 Ashfordl

Just when the editor of the Cancels Back was about to give up the ghost on the probability of scraping together a suitable cargo for the faithful camel this week, into the office trip two wide-eyed, pretty little girls.
 They are looking for the editor of the Republican. The formidable rep resentative of the cold Associated Press swnigs around on his chair and thaws considerably, discreetly cache ing the remains of a desacrating ciga- rette. They confide to him that they are bringing to Mir. Spear a story of their own fabrication upon hsi re- quest. Bro. Hunter explains that the editor is out and will not be back until late. and that they had better put their story in an envelope (which he proHers) and slip 1t under the door to the editors office. They retire few paces and hold a prolonged whispered consultation. As they waver between indecision and desire, we beckon them over.
 "So you have brought Mir. Spear the rest of that story?"
 ''Yes, sir"
 He was telling me about you. Don't you want to write a story or a poem for me?''
 Do you publish stories and poems ?' Now and then, yes"
 Tn the Republican ?"
 Tn the Camers Back"
 They turn and look blankly at one another. A momentary hesitation, and then
 Whats the Camers Back?"
 Our turn to claw at the air for an answer, but make satisfactory, seem- ingly, explanation.
 'Well-do you pay for stories and poems2 You see, we two are in part nership and we write little stories and things" There was a most fetching dropping of eyes and shy peepings from under dark lashes.
 P-p- -pay!' we stammered. Well sometimes We well we can't pay anything just now. You see, we are 2 democrat. And we have lost our job.
 Big eyes of surprise, and, Why Because you work on the Republi. can?"
 No, ladies, because we are a demo. crat. Are you a democrat?"
 No, I'm a republican," with a tanJ of disdain in the information.
 Why are you republican,"
 Gracious, because I was born a re publican, guess"
 We will let that matter drop righ here. Have you any other of you work here beside what you are bring ing to MT. Spear? ?''
 Let's see, said the one who prove, to be Alice. Here is a little ghos story that I wrote," and after som searching through her school boo brought forth a single sheet of paper adding, But it's a crazy story"
Arizona republican., 1921-01-08
LAST pEsPoT

Amir Amanullah Khan is the surviving oriental despot No other monarch has such absolute authority. His whim is law in Afghanistan where he rules a population of more than 6,000,000
 There is no written law and court. The power of life and death is in the hands of the Amir.
 Because he fears foreign influence would weaken his authority he admits few foreigners and permits neither telegraph lines railroads
 But he keeps informed of the outside world and imports typewriters sewing machines, fountain pens, pianos and other goods from America His auto mobiles number 5S.
 To safeguard his authority he delegates power only relatives and close friends. Sometimes he presents them with extra wives. But this is more as a practical joke than a reward. His officials have found that polygamy is more expensive than diverting. The presentation of extra wives seldom makes them grateful
 The Amir himself is not troubled by lack of money He might have many wives as he wishes He has only one. So modern ideas well as modern inventions penetrate the most isolated coun- tries of the world His predecessor Amr Habi- nullah Khan, assassinated in 1s1s had harem of 10O
Arizona republican., 1921-01-08
QUESTIONS AND
 ANSWERS

(Any reader can get the answer to any question by writing The Repup- lican information bureau. Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C.. This offer applies strictly to informa- tion. The bureau cannot give advice on legal, medical and financial mat ters. It does not attempt to settle do- mestic troubles, nor to undertake ex- haustive research on any subject. Write your question plainly and brief ly. Give full name and address and enclose two cents in stamps for return postage All replies are sent direct to the inquirerl
 O. How is President elect Harding's middle name pronounced, and what does it mean? V. M. T.
 A. Gamaliel is pronounced ga- may lee-el. and is a Hebrew word meaning my rewarder is God"
 o. Is it possible to obtain pass port to the United States from Ger many and Austria Hungary O. s.
 A There are now semi official American Commissioners in Berlin Vienna and Budapest, who can wise passports given by these foreign gov ernments, provided such aliens present satisfactory credentials.
 o. What was the earliest known adding machine? R. A. R.
 A. The earliest known adding ma chine or instrument of calculation of any importance is said to be the abacus. The Chinese lay claim to its invention. Herodotus stated that this machine was used by the Egyptians as early as 460 B. c. Through tAe Greeks and Romans the use of the machine spread over all Europe.
 0. When the government send; home from France the remains of . soldier, when are the relatives noti fled? J. w. Q.
 A. The war department says tha the relatives of a deceased soldie whose remains are to be brought ovel from France are notified by the ceme terial branch of the war depaTtmen at the time. the body leaves France as to the date when it may be expected
Arizona republican., 1921-01-08
They Left This On our pesk

Away down in Missouri a woman advertises her missing husband as follows: My husband, William Stikes, left my bed and board, just before election day, without just cause or provocation. All women are warned against boarding or trusting him on my account, as I will not be respon- sible for the results. as he is a loafer, a drunkard, a thief, a liar and Bull Moose ,,
Arizona republican., 1921-01-08
BIG BARGAIN

and Sunday, for S650 This offer. made only once a year by Arizona's Great est Newspaper, closes tonight. SAVE 30 per cent! Pay NOW, and then for a whole year forget payments on your big, favorite Arizona newspaper. Less than cents per day! What greater value for cents daily?
 Mail your check today because you are entitled to the Best.
 THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN,.
Arizona republican., 1921-01-08

We are glad to learn of the announcement of County Attorney Shepard of his plan of campaign against speeders and other volators of the states traffic laws We trust that he will be given the fullest support by the courts for without that the efforts of the earnest and energetic prosecuting officer are in vain.
Arizona republican., 1921-01-08
ThE HAUNTED HOUR


 The large nurserey of the Norris family so cheerful and sunny in the daytime with the sun shining on lho white walls and ceiling presented a very queer aspect now. It was about half past ten at night. The warm vel low colour of the moon was shining through the large south windows and made the white walls fairly gleaIn.
 Snug in the corner was a large cup board It was provided for the use of the children's toys.
 This cupboard so comparatively harmless in the day time was now source of commotion. From it's dark depths there issued a series of squeaks. dropping of things pushing, rolling. scratching, and every imaginable kind of noise.
 Mir. Norris (whose room was next to the nurserey) was attracted by these unearthly noises. Forewith he ap- peared at tho door, sending the search 1 ing rays of a powerful flash-nght into the corners of the room. Advancing toward the cupboard he cautiously opened the door. Such a sight as he saw! The family cat or rather its un- fortunate claws were entangled In the remnants of a poor cot.cn stuffed dolly and the poor cat was trying vainly to scratch at the door. At one side lay little mouse now dead. Who had evidently been the cause of the squeaks.
 Having extracted the cat. Mir. Nor ris set it gently on the floor. He then went back to bed and was re- warded by having greatefui puss for his bedfellow.
 Eds Note: The entire spelling. punctuation and paragraphing is the work of the young authoress, who lives at 1117 Brill street and is pupil of the Monroe school
Arizona republican., 1921-01-08
STAGE WHISPERS

Glendale Lowbrow: If we printed your contribution the poor teacher would be kidded out of town. But it has a kick, hasn't 1t?
 Burdette Kinney Somewhere in Cal.) Phoenix is on the road home to Madi- son--you know the word on the door mat.
Arizona republican., 1921-01-08
Yeah, Probably.

From the GadSden CIarlon)
 The main question at issue, that ths authorities would like to know who the first man was that informed George Hodges that Stewart had been run over by an automobile? and how much money the murdered man had in his purse when he was killed3 and what became of the weapon that killed the man on last Friday night2 These questions would probably lead to the murderer if they could be answered.
Arizona republican., 1921-01-08

Do noble things. not dream them all
 day long; And so make life. death and the vast
 forever, One grand, sweet song"
Arizona republican., 1921-01-08
Fair Warninq

(From the Clarion's Church News)
 Everybody that wants the com munity a better community begin by cleaning up and mending their own ways. The first step, find your way to church and Sunday school.
Arizona republican., 1921-01-08
He Pauses For Reply

The governor asked the teachers convention why it is that the Tucson high school with an attendance of AIS has per capita cost of SIPS. 80, whereas the Phoenix high school with an attendance of S33 has a per capita cost of $177.7s.
Arizona republican., 1921-01-08
SUCCESSFUL QUEST

There is this to be said the who hunts gas leak with candle: He usually finds what he is looking for-Sioux City Tribune.
Arizona republican., 1921-01-08
SUGGESTIVE WEATHER

This is the season of the year when young men begin to think about getting married they will not have to wait for the owl carAIilwaukee Journal
Arizona republican., 1921-01-08
s6.5o SUBSCRIPTION BARGAIN

Of ' EIN NLO0E4o IUUAI Today is the last day of this years Annual Bargain Offer. Don't close your eyes in sleep tonight until your check is ready to mail to
 THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN,.
Arizona republican., 1921-01-08

Some of the busy paroled prisoners should realize that their cutting up is making it tough for their comrades inside to get pardon petitions O. KID.
Arizona republican., 1921-01-08
SATURDAY MORNING. JANUARY g. 1921

He that cannot forgive others Ibreaks the bridge over aUhich he must pass himself; for every man hos need Eo be forgiUen. Lord Herbert.
Arizona republican., 1921-01-08

Exports Of feathers from Africa bring about S20,001000 each vaar