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Arizona republican., 1921-06-20
Getting Ready
sY OR. FRANK CRANE Copyright. is,i. by Prank crans,

One way to open locked door is to fall at it and scratch, kick and shovel better way is to get the key
 Tn other words pluck and force and will power arc all right in their place. but they are far from being the only secret of They downright silly 
 Knowing how is half the battle. Practice and study count Skill and efficiency mean long time gettnSs ready. We familiar enough with this truth in. orr dnary matters We send boys to school and prentices to the shop, and would-be stenographers to night school. For We recognize that the untrained man these days has to get off the earth there's no room for him. But we often fail to carry this primitive com mon sense over into the more serious concerns We forget that also has to learn-how to live One cannot go at it tooth and nail It is to be stomed forced, and stampeded It takes science training and practice.
 The learning how is hard always but essential The only things do without practice overeating over-drining aziness, bad temper, selfishness and general meanness also useessness But the good things come hard. Take humility, rarest and noblest of vir tues The only road to humility is by being humiliated which hurts.
 The only way to patience is by selfrestraint under irritation. If there is nothing to gnaw and worry and patience The only path to belief that is to the only kind of belief that of any to character IS through doubt Faith is product that is ground out of the mill of dismay, confusion, despair, and struggle ln tellectual assent is cheap The confidence that IS
 triumph of the soul pessmism and fatuous ings is worth something. bones the bed tastes sweet The soul never enjoy
 letting go that has hung Real placidity IS the product of strenuoslty.
 So also the preparation for knowledge is love Truth si not lump of something man may go and pick up Truth is not anything at all It is relation, quality, 1 shine an odor It is not perceived by the intellect
 Iii is perceived by the heart the intellect merely crt
 cizes and cassifies it The secret of Edsons dscov- cries. and of Kochs and of Marconis, is love Only love can see It has the Xray eye And this IS true m
 business or science literature, art, quite much s as in religion Brains amass truths and pigeon them and arrange them only passion of some sort lean find them out where they are hidden d Some of US have the ignorant notion that could be noble if we cared to make the effort We are like the who, when asked if he could play the violin . said he didn't know-he never tried What deal of getting ready to live is needed!
 man never really learns how to live tiA he's ready tc D die And if with most of all of life is mighty
 getting ready then it is getting ready for-what!
Arizona republican., 1921-06-20

apt be iiterate and deterioration continues to pronounced mental weakness.
 The geographical isolation of the family is not necessary to this result. That kind of family iso lates itself from community and sinks lower and lower in the mental scale. But ilteracy is found frequently in isolated communities.
 Many illiterate young came out of the army ablc read and write, but than that, they out with broadened minds and aspirations. The shells which had enclosed them had been broken by contact No doubt the mental improvement of these contributed in some degree the showing of the 1920 census. disclosing lower percentage of Hitter throughout the country It could not of course. have contributed very much since such compara lively the returned soldiers could have ceased to be illiterate. it will contribute much the favorable showing of the 1880
 The result of the army training camps in raising level iliterate is the strongest argument in favor of the civilian training camps which the war department is now institutng. former the improvement of the who needed improve ment was only incidental to the general and hurried preparation for It not part of the pro- gram. In the civilian camps it will be essential part the program and the who most need mental training will receive 1t and come back more useful citizens
Arizona republican., 1921-06-20

full. Iithuania ought to have had their sympathy. But Poland claimed a large part of the Lithuanian terri tory. and has seized about one-third of It. It. is said a plebiscite would show beyond a doubt that the pop ulation of Lithuznia is overwhelm- ingiy in favor of a Lithuanian re- public and against Polish domina . tion- But France wants . large and strong Polish nation as a buffer be- tween her and Russia and she has been trying to set up such . Poland ever since the war. with somewhat distressing results Hence France iz against the claims of Lsithuania to an independent existence. and in favor of giving most of the Lithuanian ter ritory to Poland
 Enotand's Atfitude
 England. on the other hand. is said 10 be favorable to the IAthuaniar aspirations and this Lithuanian prob lem Is said to be one of the severa which are straining relations between Britain and France
 In this. as in 70 many other Euro pean matters. the United States hold' a sort of balance of power lf thu United states should extend lorna recognition to the Lithuanian repub fic- us case Nouio v < -AS strengthened. probably won
 That is why Lithuania has hired [ press agent and put him here Si' Washington to tell the American peo pie all about Lithuania and her as pirations- If the American people through their newspapera can De | convinced that the Lithuanian repuo | lie should be recognized. it probabi' win be recognized by the Americ2i l government in due course Meantim most of the American public does no | even know that there is a Lithuanial | republic. Its official publicity agent Mir. M F. King. is up against one O | the hardest jobs a press agent eve
 tackled. The methods of putting owe ! a movie star or a candidate for con gress are weIi known and system ! atized. but when it comes to puttin over d new republic the great pro
 fession of publicity has a new prob lem to solve
Arizona republican., 1921-06-20
ABOUT THE STATE

As . result of the fire. operations at the Verde Central will be suspend ed for a period. the length of which the mine authorities were unable to estimate--Journal- Miner
 Arrsst Murder Suspect
 BISBEE-A Mexican. believed by the police to be Juan Nillareal. who has been wanted by the police of Mexico for the last year on a charge of having murdered Francisco Garcia and a manu named Coronado. at Sa- was arrested last night by Chief of Police Kempton and will be held while the Mexican authorities en- deavor to extradite him to Mexico for |trial.-Review-
 Hear from "osad Man" MIAMI-According to letters just received here. w w. Clark. who ac- quired fame in this district during the world war as a result of his writings over the pen name of The Lone Scout" and who disappeared across the Mexican border and was reported to have lost his life. has re- appeared in Mexico City where he is now publishing a magazine entitled The Man in Mexico" Ills present address is Ave IS de Septiembre 4s, |
 Broker Cleared
 NOGALES-Alex Strachan. No | gales broker. who has been on tria in the superior court on a charge | of embezzlement. growing out of ( dispute on commissions over tomato shipments from Mexico. for the Mo chis Agricultural Union. was de. olared not guilty early today Herald
 Colorado River Rising ] YCMA-The long drawn out floos in the Colorado for the spring ans summer of 1921 will reach it's cres on June 2S. according to a telegram received by the Yuma weather bu
 reau from the Denver office yes ferday afternoon. On that date it f
 predicted that the river win reacl
 gauge height of thirty feet an'
 that the discharge win reach tn
 enormous volume of 165.0e0 secon
 feet The river will rise gradual, from day to day eleven more day
 before reaching its extreme neigh for the season--Sun.
Arizona republican., 1921-06-20
ev Frederic j. A.skin

WASHINGTON, D. C., June 1s-A new figure on the trouble scene of international relations Is the pub licity agent who represents a small nation trying to get the recognition of larger ones for it's risht to an in- dependent existence.
 The splintering of national bounda- ries which the war brought about, as we all know. produced a large crop of new nations. It also brought before the whole world two principles, which if not new, were at least for the first time made popular These principles were the right of sek- determination'' and the rights of small nations" or. as one wag puts 1t since the Versailles negotiations, "the small rights of nations"
 It is true that the old-line dip lomats and politicians who made the peace and who have held the reins of power in Europe ever since, made light of these principles The right of a people to determine its own po- litical destiny has scarcely anywhere been made good and the rights of small nations have appeared to be whatever the large nations found II convenient and profitable to allow them.
 Nevertheless. those two principles have become more than mere phrases for the simple reason that they have been grasped by millions of men They have not been put into execution, ou' they have been enormously adVer- tised. The peoples of these small na- tions cling to them with desperate hope, and cry out. above the clash of armies and the sonorous rumble ol diplomacy. to the people of other ma. tions. The whole world has graspet the idea that a small and weak na' tion may have rights. which It Il not strong enough to enforce. bu which. must nevertheless be enforced for the sake of justice: just as small or weak man has rights whicl other men protect for the sake O principle. This principle of 1ustic and co-operation instead of force ant fraud is but imperfectly enforced be tween man and man. and force an' fraud often triumph. As between ma tions force and fraud seem to tri
Arizona republican., 1921-06-20

the rug.
 e. Kindly advise me if Annette ksIIermsn tor any other wonsnl ever s~sn across the English chan nsl- N. O. B.
 A Annette Kellerman did not ac- tualiy succeed in swimming across the English channel. although she made the attempt So far no wo- man has accomplished this feat
 Q. Can you tell me of any tests which will prove whether material is linen or eotton7 T. E. D.
 A. The old fashioned test Is 10 apply a dampened finger to the un- derside of the material. If a wet spot shows through immediately it is linen More scientific tests can be made by washing a piece of the material and soaking it in glycerine- IL will seem transparent if linen. opaque if cotton Or wash thoroughly sample Of the so- called linen material In hot soap suds and rinse In hot sort water 10 re- move the finishing material. Dry thoroughly and place sn hot muriatic acid one minute. Transfer quickly to fresh water. IT fabric is all cotton the sample will drop into minute pieces. while If 1t Is linen the shape win remain unchanged
 Q. What does Tale ouaie rnean7
 i. s. H.
 A. Tale Quale Is a latin term meaning such asf' and is used Co de- note that cargo Is presumed to cor respond with sample and that the buyer takes the risk of deterioration. O. Did Julius Caesar build a road in Enslsnd7 A. L.
 A. There Is a famous Roman road in England now known as Waiting | street which was built by Julius Caesar during the Roman occupation.
Arizona republican., 1921-06-20
The Civilian Training Camps

man need not able to read write be
 d good soldier and a brave one; to understand dis
 cinline But why he illiterate counts good deal
 was because he lacked the opportunity learn
 though most men worthwhile make the opportunity
 i heed not count seriously against him soldier ,,ateral But If he did not though -,.---bad the opportlcity if he of q family E{]S5a5fch for two or three generations
 to erovel m ignorance. his defect sS itaI and serious.
 7 address peIoTe nauonai guard oliicers isse - 4r,szav General Pershing touched this subject ' a snoke of the disclosures during the war of ' ,o,entable illiteracy among of draft age and , dfficulty 1t brought to the officers in training them the simple put responaiAAe 1ies v soeis The records of the trainins caips ns ~ val < showed surprlsinsy ise ~ U ~
 - turned back because of mental defects though .sathey had been passed oy o'ai. Sse ~Ss-,.., may be said Tn nai'y 1@- -.. ,., the heritage becoming no'. M = = - < asN f average natural intelligence and not E. attle on the. frontier or isolate themselves : ~ ....,,o,,s country and family. They -. the mental training of their children. ihe .neration may not be quite iiterate put they
 avs deteriorated through neglect But tnA1 S6A4 e'
Arizona republican., 1921-06-20
Questions And
 Anstuers

(Any reader can get the answer to any question by writing The Re- publican Information Bureau. Fred erick l. Haskin. Director. waxhing- ton. ID. C. This offer applies strictly 10 information The bureau cannot give advice on legal. medical. and financial matters. IL does not at- nor to undertake exhaustive research on any subject Write your oues- 'tion plainly and briefly Give full name and address and enclose two cents in stamps for return postagel.
 a. Pissss give nsmss sf cur new ambassadors to foreign eeuntries- A. M- Q
 A. Up to June 10. the only am bassadors appointed were Col George Harvey. Ambassador 10 Great Britain: Myron T. Herrick. ambassador to France: Richard washburn Child Schurman. ambassador to China
 O. When was coal first used ir Enoisnd1 ]. E. N.
 A. Coal was used for household consumption in England as carly a. s52 B. C.
 a. Win cut fIewers keep ss wei In boiled water as in fresh watsrl w C. 8.
 A. The department of agricuitur, says that flowers keep almost twice as long in unboiied water as the, win in boiled water.
 O. Which takes up the most ics tin. wood or pspsr-'n the ie' box7 J. H. F.
 A The bureau of standards sayi wood is the best insuiator for ice However. 1t is as impossible ts keep an ice box cold without melt. ing the ice as it would be to keeI a stove hot without burning coal Of course. an ice box should be s' constructed as to prevent the hea from the outside getting into thu interior of the box
 O. What Is the design on the new ten cent piees7 |. H. J. A The design on a ten-cent piec' Is not a square and compass. but tn Roman fasces. which consists of bundle of rods. having among then an axe with the blade projecting borne before Roman magistrates a a badge of authority O. Should Oriental rugs be wash ed in water7 O. H. p.
 A. Genuine Oriental rugs are i'm proved by such washing An ex \ pert says that lack of washin l causes a dry rot which wears ol
Arizona republican., 1921-06-20
PRESS-AGENTINC A NATION

umph almost always Yet IL is by evolving this principle of justice and trying to live up to it that men have been able to emerge from the jungle and live together in larger and larger units-first in families. then in tribes and finally in great and we'll organized states. The ex- tension of this principle to the deal ings of nations. so that the whole world may become the safe home of all men. is surely the next step. It is an ideal. and you may damn it with the adjectice Utopian if you wish. but 1t is the next step on the long road the race has been travel from the trees.
 The Case Of Lithuania
 So. the small nation. addressing its plea to the conscience of the world, deserves attention And where it Is to get that attention unless through the newspapers
 Take the Republic of Lithuania for instance. Tn medieval times 1t was a great nation as nations went In those days. Its kings claimed large territory and controlled it more or less successfully. In the course Of time Lithuania became a province oi Russia but it always remained dis tinctive. The chief reason for this is that its people are not Slavs noI Asiatics of any other kind. but art tall blonde Morales. of the same racs that has given American and Eng. land some of its best stock. Thi. Baltic littoral on which Lithuania i, situated is said by anthropologists t' be the original home of the Nordi' type of man Its cold and cloud, climate evolved his light coloring ans high. thin nose. suited to breathe cold. damp air. From this region tn Nordic type has spread over the whole world, all except the tropica and semi-tropical' parts. which ar not climatically suited to 1t.
 When the crash came in Russia Lithuania seized the opportunity t set up an independent republic. Thi republic was not in the least lik the Russian government. but mod
 etcd after our own. Having thus re ' sisted the Bolshcvik propaganda. O | which the allied nations are so fear
Arizona republican., 1921-06-20
Machine cuns

How the ownership of 100 machine guns found in vessel about to sail for Europe be concealed is not easy to understand. The incident suggests. though, the advisabilty closer inspection by the government of machine gun manufacture and strict government control of the product
 Other firearms made to be used sometimes and frequently for amusement and sport-rines, volvers and shotguns. A machine gun is made for single purpose-to kill in warfare. Only the government could have legitimate for machine guns-assuming that is legitimate
 It is suspected that these guns intended the Irish revoluonists If the chief beneficiaries of the discovery revolutionists. themselves Neither 100 machine guns 10000 would assist them in securing the independence of Ireland They would enable the revolutionists more British but the same time that would provoke determined reprisal.
 The outstanding thing in this incident Is the disclosure of the lack supervision this country machine guns. when complete supervision would be easy. If 1t possible for some person or persons whose identity Is unknown to into pos- session of large number these weapons and load them a steamer much less difficult 1t would be to make secret collection of them and conceal them in garrets to be used in uprising of hare brained bolsheviki disaffected element in conflict with local authorities
Arizona republican., 1921-06-20

Judgments Against County Given
 TUCSON-Although the actions of Agnes M. Riddle. l.. D. Woods and Henry Peterson against Pima county were separately brought. they were argued and heard jointly as the prin- ciples of law involved in each case were the same and the court and att torneys agreed that time and money would be saved by trying the cases terson holds a judgment against the county for $1.3o0- Woods holds a judgment of $66o. and Agnes Riddle holds a judgment for $75o-
 The three cases grew out Of re- fusal of the board of supervisors to allow claims which the claimants had made against thv county because of the road building operations of the county. which all the claimants al- legged injured their property--Star
 Finds Silver and Lead
 TUCSON-George Savers. a pros pector of Gunsight about IT miles from Ajo and about 133 miles from Tucson. came into the city yesterday with some nice samples of ore which he claims he discovered near Gun sight. The ore, according to Mir Say CTS. will average well over S100 tc
 
 he has struck lead ore. He says that the ledges are all very large and that they are running right through tho country where he is prospecting. Mir Savers also says that the ledges art pretty rich in mineraf.-Star.
 Paupers' Oath ReIsase Four
 MIAMI-The United States com missioner announces that four fed eral prisoners will be released toda, via the paupers' oath procedure. The: are Jose Paez. B. D. Bounds and Ho mer Clayton. all having served sen tences for ,iolation of the nationa prohibition act. and Frank Rivera charged with violation or the liar rison narcotic act.-Silver Belt
 Fire CIoses Mine
 PRESCOTT-Fire. the origin O which Is still unknown, yesterda, morning destroyed the house engine room and gallows-frame a the Verde Central mine near Jerome and caused a small explosion in fuel-oil tank on the property
Arizona republican., 1921-06-20
Writs About Pheenix

We have received of our small but sparkling contemporary. The sunspot" the house organ the chamber of commerce We much interested in article letter writing: is on letters by to whom Arizona is stin unknown land
 The sunspot" prescribes letter once a week in which should be enclosed small large folder descriptive of Phoenix the valley. and suggests as subjects concerning which information should diffused:
 Do you know that Phoenix is building a new and larger supply costing s15oo ooooo? It win be ready in November:- or
 Do know that sOo.ooo of srrigated farm land surrounds Phoenix that present plans call for 100000 be rrigated?" or
 Do you know that the Salt River valley grows the worlds best orange-ripens earliest is sweetest and brings highest pricesa Think it over" again
 Do you know that we cut alfalfa six to eight times year in the Salt River valleys Making hay while the sun shines is done perfection here"
 There are almost endless number of. subjects which would be interesting and surprising to outsiders For instance. there county high way program, the biggest in the United States the biggest single program there United States, involving the $s50oooo for the construction of hard surfaced roads. Letter writers should also tell their friends of our schools with pictures of school buildings especially Of the high school group has grown If we should Lombard the whole country letters containing information all these and thousand other things would produce results. What need now more than anything else is advertising. We feel the need than ever of more people of the right kind help develop the Salt River valley, of which have been but little more than scratching the surface.
Arizona republican., 1921-06-20
REALITY BETTER THAN pELusloN

During the fiscal which ends June 30 the federal government will have spent almost five and half billion dollars for operating expenses Washing ton officials, both in the legislative and executive departments. are said to be shocked say ap- palled, at the magnitude of the figures
 Inability to make any appreciable reduction n the governments expenses, notwithstanding the urgent need of doing should be a matter of as grave concern to the public their officials in Washington
 The prospects for the fiscal year are said to be hardly less dscouraging Without taking into account any reduction in the public debt the most conservative financial sharps taking about gov ernment expense of not less than four and a half billions next There is plenty of good authority for the prophecy that it will reach five billions
 This means that there be little any reduc- tion in federal taxation year. has to create floating debt, this year, make the books balance.
 These figures not quoted for the purpose of criticsing those whose duty it is to raise spend government money They probably doing the best they can; well any other group of men could do, considering the adverse circumstances in which the subject of postwar government expenses are involved.
 But it is probably better that the people pay the face the realities, than they themselves into the belief that the period high eral taxation is at end.
Arizona republican., 1921-06-20

there's outsids wiih fac tand Ia ana bound only al the wind md
   s a apanora to outside stir shall pride shall And in read and y and greed cannot join in the of this shall there's a Q a
Arizona republican., 1921-06-20

The first expedition of the United States army going overseas was f-foi. when over 1000 troops sailed for Tripon-
Arizona republican., 1921-06-20

The largest of the United States zrsenals are located nf Rock Island. ILL. and Springfield. Mass
Arizona republican., 1921-06-20

A steeple painter gets in life by starting at the top and working down
Arizona republican., 1921-06-20

shoulder"
 The girl fashion puts off tomorrow what sh has today.
Arizona republican., 1921-06-20

Pessimist and pest sound somewhat alike