Arizona republican., 1921-08-06
Let the Dead Be Buried

Let the Dead Be Buried
 article by MT. E. c. Phelps in The Republican yesterday morning is what borrowing language from dietetics, call balanced ration" It con tains all the optimism necessary or warranted and not unpalatable pessmism. We wish that there might be of the latter but some times have to take it for earthly well-beng we'll the good of our souls
 It is foolish for us to kid ourselves into believing that all rosy that there clouds in sky. While nothing be bad 1t seems to be- there always untoward conditions that to be faced, and facing them every day; know we are doing it and everybody else knows doing it.
 It is commendable that should get together and organize to look the brighter side. for there is always brighter side; else this would be hope less world and we should want to leave it as possible. It is proper, too to organize to minimize the bad things and if do that wisely will .duce them their and actual sizes. for have said they always to be bigger than they are. But we wipe out conditions merely by taking thought, though may help when take thought wisely. Mind. know, has great influ- matter. but only the foolish believe that mind entirely displace matter
 What really trying to say is illustrated by the story of the little girl who told
 
 ready blow out the light holler snakes.' and jump in and cover up."
 In almost every community there is of good than of bad. That is especially in the Salt River Valley where the good has been and is abund- ant that it has become We had become used to it that ceased to observe it. We at- tracted to the bad largely because 1t novel and then because it is morbid human tendency template the dsagreeable to the exclusion of every thing else. is against that tendency that Mir. Phelps advises us
 quarter of century ago the state of Kansas in bad way. There had been successive years of drouth. of grass hoppers and then scourge of populism. the last consequence of the dssatisfac- ton engendered by the first two vsitations. The people of Kansas talked of their troubles and at length the whole country began talking about that afflicted commonwealth It's became subject of natien wide discussion. What was the matter with Kansas?
 William Allen White knew more about Kansas than any other in it. not only about Elm pora and eastern Kansas but of the then semi-arid western Kansas When MT. White had finished everybody knew what the matter with Kansas and it much in comparison with the blessings and opportunities the doors of Kansans. He turned the thought of and the whole country from the seamy side of the Sun Flower state which has since had nothing the matter with 1t. If Kan suffering of dyspepsia now and then feels blue and depressed he takes tonic wel-known house. hold remedy copy of William Allen Whites What Is the Matter With Kansas?"
 It was the best the effective boom ntera- ture printed partly because MT. White able that kind of literature; largely because he told truth. whole and merely a part of it. And when the truth made known it was that there much the right side of Kansas account that the other side almost negligible.
 We think that the greatest of the Salt River Valley is in the past. in disappontments. All will agree with that there be nothing more unprofitabe than grieving disappointments and split milk. It is well enough and wise to consider the causes of dsappointments and try locate the l blame in order that may prevent minimize dis appointments the future. But should waste in mourning the death of the king of things as they should have been. Long live the king of things they ought to be.