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Arizona republican., 1922-06-24
The Liberty Bond Investment

Most-of US wish had bought more liber-
ally Liberty bonds, when they could be bought
easy instalment payments and could have been paid
for almost without our realizing that pay
ing for them. 1t the greatest opportunity for
saving the people of this country ever had
The bonds offered for sale at time when
the value OF the dollars with which we were to pay
ranged from As cents to 81 cents as compared with
its pre-war value. The dollar now is worth say so
cents in comparison with its purchasing power
1914-15 Here, then is tremendous and unlocked
for profit the investment which we could have
made in 1917 and 1915
Then too. money was plenty. Everybody who
wanted it could get it in greater volume than
before. Most of had more money than we knew
what to do with We spent it in all sorts of ways.
In making purchases measured the quality of the
things bought by the prices asked for them That
was regarded a guaranty of quality. Many
paid SIS for pair of shoes which he would not have
taken if they had been offered him s12. In many
cases merchants forced to ask higher prices
only in order to make sales. We shifted at So and
$40 silk shirts and passed places where had
an opportunity TO pay SIS or $50.
So it went all over the country, paying extraor-
dinary prices swollen by taxes, While we were
niggardly buying Liberty bonds freed of every kind
of tax. We felt when approached to buy
Liberty bonds if the government was expecting
US to pay than share for carrying on the
Our attitude toward the bond drives was very
much the as attitude toward Red Cross
drives-that we were asked to kiss our money good
bye when we were already kissing it goodbye, in
vestng it in unheard of luxuries what we could
get rid of that way we were sloughing off in
oil stock
The trouble was that we were not bond d-buying
people like the French and other European folks. 1t
hoped that would become educated in this
Arizona republican., 1922-06-24
Germany, France, England, Etc.
BY DR.. FRANK CRANE
Copyright, 1921, by Frank Crane)

We often make surprising stop to think
about how thinking
We discover thinking things which do not
exist at all, except as creations of mind.
ror instance, there is such thing Germany there
such thing France there such thing England
no such thing America All these words kons They
little counters that think with They
mud gods the heahen make that they
notion OF God which they
deny personf One the latest things arrived
Is the ability to get abstract idea clearly visoned
We peonify things which of large and complex nature
SIMPLY because our minds are too weak to see them as they
and we must make image OF them.
The first religions idoaes And the trouble with
worlds thinking that still doarous We OF Germany
refusing its debts Germany being the Of France
Germany doing hs wanting to do that And
Germany and Really there Germany There
territory called There France,
language.
they folks And down
they much the kind of folks that Americans
Japanese, Chinese, Australians.
London month recently greatest dappont
that typical Londoner anywhere else
Ensishnan him the in America, with
and peculiar air. exists in London
ever happened to him. People did there are altogether
such
difficulty finding typical American that h anybody that looks
like Uncle Sam che tobacco and talks through his and
wal and all that sort of thing.
What need before have successful League Of
The fundamental necessity in the
world is to clean its thought
Doubtless there national eharaceres and sInat'es as
unquesonably national but all these
face When down to the real people, they
about the everywhere in the world
all eat and drink and love and play They all
They all want to have their fellows think well OF
them They wants to right There is difference
the world needs to overcome that
the peculiar property OF peculiar and
certain belong to other races Inc uth nat an virtues
belong and do all vices Their FORMS their modes
and their degree vary But we are all human
beings.
Some are black some white yellow. Some
more developed other have favorable environ
than others But God mace every human pens OUT OF
the Of mud.
Arizona republican., 1922-06-24

walk in the congested districts they
should ought to be forced TO passed
a examination in walking and carry
certificate that they have learned
to walk signed by competent reg
istered pedestrian.
2. A walker passing another
walker going the same way must
pass him or her on the left side and
must be equipped with a whistle or
bugle which they will half to blow
before attempting the pass. Walkers
walking in opp. directions must pass
each other on the right and slow
walker must stay on the right, close
up to the buildings.
3. Every walker should ought to
be obliged to buy a license number
and wear them front and back so as
a person could find out who it was
that bumped into them and vice
versa.
4. Streets like 5th avenue for inst.
ought to be ] way streets and the
walkers obliged to walk in the same
direction on both sides of the street.
Like for example suppose you was at
46th st. and 5th avenue and wanted
to so to some joint on 5th avenue
between 45th. and 44th. street. Wei
If 5th. avenue was for southbound
traffic only, why you could go direct,
but If it was northbound st. you
Arizona republican., 1922-06-24
A Modern Educational system

Petitions being circulated to place the
ballot for the November elections proposed amend
ment TO the constitution which will permit Arizona
to adopt a modern educational system, something
we have not now, not even system approaching
modern system.
The proposed amendment is brief and
easily understood. 1t provides generally that "the
legislature shall such will provide for
the establishment and maintenance a general and
uniform public school system which shall include
kindergarten schools, schools. high schools,
normal schools normal colleges industrial schools,
a university, and such other schools may be
necessary" etc.
The bill differs only slightly from the Boehringer
amendment which was proposed by the Fifth Legis
lature in its regular session and which repealed
in the late special session that change might be
made to include normal colleges among the schools
of the state which the legislature shall establish and
maintain.
This change, we shall briefly state, is proposed
that the excellent credit which our normal schools
have in neighborng states may be maintained
in the same and other states which have established
normal colleges setting basis of requirement.
The principal feature of the amendment is pro-
posal to take the schools entirely out of politics.
The people themselves have done that far they
can the tendency of the citizen is to consider
the school well the church apart from politics;
but present system holds the schools firmly TO
politics
Under this system the office of superintendent
of public instruction is elective; that every two
years the office is thrown into the political cadron
and the candidate is elected not because of his quail
fication with which comparatively few of the voters
are familiar but because of the party to which he
belongs 1t is proposed to make the office appoint
i've, the appointment to be made by board of edu-
cation of seven members all of whom presumed
to know what qualifications superintendent should
possess and who would have opportunity to know
whether the candidate under consideration possesses
those qualifications There shall be residence
restriction.
This board itself is to be non partisan, consist
ing of seven members to be appointed by the gov
ernor to terms of years each except that the
first appointees should be appointed for terms from
one year to seven years, be succeeded the
expiration of his term by the appointment of mem
ber for seven years. Not than four of the men,
bers shall be of the political party. The gov
ernor exercise control the members of
the board whom he finds in office his accession.
Other provisions of the bill relate the govern
ment of the various educational Institutions direc-
tons concerning the creation of public school fund
all details however, being left to the legislature.
We think the amendment will meet with the
approval of the people, but on of the short
ness of the time, there will be difficulty in
lures will be required The friends of education.
though should volunteer their assistance and to
that the petitions filled and filed.
Arizona republican., 1922-06-24

the whites of their eyes!" etc. Also
The Juteing of Dan McGrew.
Q. What is the difference between
an atom and a molecule?
A. You'd be surprised.
c. OF what use is a swimming
bladder in fishes?
A. 1t makes the fish feel more at
home in the water. increases his
sense of security. and is the one rea
son a fish will swim out over its head
without the slightest nervousness.
Q. If "A" can do certain job in
four days and "B" can do it in three
days, how long will it take "A" and
''R' to do it together?
A. If "A" and "B" are union work
ers and "B" does a job in three days
that "A" took four to do. the chances
are that "A" will knock "B" for
goal and demand that Local No. 456
take his union card away. AS mat
ter of fact. the question is absurd.
Nobody does job in three or four
days these days.
@. Where is Cape Hatteras?
A. For the luvva Mike, Tom, has
that place been lost again?
Q. What is Calliope?
A. A species of melon commonly
used at breakfast.
Q. If you only have $40 in the
world and are playing poker with a
man You have never seen before. On
the first deal he holds a pat hand.
You have three eights before the
draw. There is SO cents in the pot.
He bets a quarter. What are YOU
going to do. and why?
A. That is quite intricate, but we
would act as follows:
l. Hide eight dollars in our shoe
and play the 81.
2. Refuse to play with the per-
feet stranger until properly intro
duced.
3. Give him hard look when hs
says "Tll play these"
4. Say 'All yours!"
5. Take our visible balance of
$3.50 and say. Sorry, sir but prom
ised the wife Id only play one hand.
Arizona republican., 1922-06-24

way of saving but fear the lesson was not
learned, and that most of those who bought Liberty
bonds under greater less pressure released them
as quickly possible, that they have been col
lected into the hands of more far-seeng people.
When these bonds were offered for sale during
the drives The Republican urged investment in them,
first for patriotic reasons and next. because they
offered a good investment. We predicted that 1t
would not be long before they would reach par
That has come about rather earlier than we ex-
pected. There two factors which did not
take into consideration of which naturally tended
to retard their approach to par and the other to
hasten it.
The first was that the millions of small investors
after time would begin feeding their holdings to
the market. something that would tend to depress it.
The other the absorption of the bonds by the
very wealthy because of their tax-exempt feature
These tendencies have perhaps offset each other
Anyway, the bonds now at par some the issues
carrying premiums.
Now, for those who have held their bonds
and for the encouragement of them to hold
longer let Us calculate their profits to date
500 bond of the first second 4s day before yester
day worth in New York s1O1.50. Taking
basis the prewar value of the dollar the value Of
it at the time of the purchase of this was say so
cents. The actual cost Of this 500 bonds was $780,
in terms of of the pre-war valuation the
dollar Supposing now the dollar to have purchas-
ing power of 80 cents, that same bond is worth
$500 Again we have in mind the pre-war dollar
Thus in four years that investment yields 81 25 per
cent, to which is to be added the interest ST. the
holder has received
In this calculation assuming of course,
that if the money had not been invested in the bonds
it would not otherwise have been saved and in the
cases of most persons there would have been no
saving.
And the top has not yet been reached. No doubt
premium of the bonds will continue to increase
and certainly the value of the dollar which has been
increasing steadily, will grow. 1t may not soon or
ever reach the 100cent value of the pre-war period
but for some time it will continue to approach it,
Arizona republican., 1922-06-24
Questions And
AnStUers

@. Who pays for baseball suits,
balls and bats?--D. L. c.
A. In the major league clubs such
expenses are met by the club.
@. What states pay the highest
salaries to members of their legisls-
tures?-A. A.
A. The pay OF state legislators
ranges from 5000 per year in South
Carolina and New Hampshire, to
$4,000 per term in Illinois and 1900
per year in New York.
@. Was it Joe Letter or his father,
Levi, who cornered wheat some years
ago?
A. Joseph Letter. in the fall OF
1897. began buying wheat on the Chi
cago board of trade in an attempt
to corner the market. Within a few
months Letter held the largest pri-
vate ownership of wheat in the his
tory of the grain trade, but concerted
action on the part of his opponents
broke the corner. and Letter is re-
puted to have suffered losses to the
amount of $10.000,000.
@. How long have spectaeles been
used?-F r. c.
A. Spectacle lenses were well
known in the thirteenth century and
their invention is credited to Salvino
dArmato degli Armati, about 1855.
@. How many Iepers are there in
the worid?-A. G.
A. The number OF lepers in the
world is estimated to be about 3,000.-
600, two thirds of them being in
China
@. Are the five vowels, a. ., /, o
and u, used more frequently than any
other letters?-H. G. L.
a. Among printers, experience has
taught the frequency of the use of
letters so that tables have been pre-
pared in which comes first with a
rating of 1000. while the four next
in order are at no. at 72S, at
704. and at $50. The letter is
most frequently used as an initial
letter.
@. What is meant by auto da a-fe?
NJ. T. w.
A. This is the name of the cere-
mony that accompanied the pro-
nouncement of judgment by the In
QUESTION, and was followed by exc
cution. Hence, auto-da -fe came to
mean the burning of a hereto.
@. When was the power loom in
vented?-E. 3. ].
A. 1t was invented In 1854 by the
Rev. E. Cartwright.
Arizona republican., 1922-06-24
LARDNER WEEKLY LETTER
Passengers the Hoof Gum Up Traffic. Says Lardner
Should Flash Lamp When They Stop Windows
He
To the editor:

To the editor:
After yrs. of study the traffic ex-
perts of our large cities has finely
got things worked out so good that a
person can drive their car through
the most congested districts without
no danger except loosing their mind
and it looks like the present system
in towns like n. Y. and Chi and etc.
is libel to fill the bill provided Vol
stead or somebody passes a law pro-
hibiting the manufacture or sale of
any more automobiles.
But they's still a traffic problem
which amt even been touched on yet
and is getting more and more serious
as the population increases pamely
the problem of pedestrian traffic.
Steps should ought to be taken at
once looking towards a solution of
this problem or the next thing you
know the front pages of our news
papers will be filled with grim stories
of fatal collisions amongst people
that is touring the city on the bot
toms of their ft.
Personally | don't never spend
day on the sidewalks of n. Y. with
out / get into or 10 smash ups and
bumped into the gutter a couple of
times and in most cases the winner of
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fair sex though some of my worst
tWinges has been caused by men of
the male gender useing my dogs as
parade grounds.
However. the women folks seem to
be the flivyers of the foot paths as
rule and a specially on streets like
9Th avenue.
Columns has been wrote on how
wonderful the police dept directs the
motor traffic on this old turn pike
but still more columns could be wrote
on what a man is up against that
tries to walk a block on same dure-
ing shopping hrs
One Way Street for Walks
Before conditions becomes any the
worst 1t seems to me like somebody
ought to get together and make up
set of rules to govern passengers on
the hoof and l would suggest a code
something like as follows:
/. Before person is allowed to
Arizona republican., 1922-06-24
The Once Over
CORRECT ANSWERS TO EDl-
SONS LATEST
O. In what state is Pixies Peak
A. Very good, considering the

O. In what state is Pixies Peak
A. Very good, considering the
wear and tear.
@. Who was Commodore Perry?
A. Noted Arctic explorer and gum
drop exposer.
Q. Where are the so-called Band
Lands?"
A. Pennsylvania, Indiana and
Iowa, according to the latest Repub-
lican election returns.
@. What causes the disease known
as beri-beri?
A. Strawberry shortcake.
@. Who was Sergei Witte?
A. Brother of To Wit.
@. What state grows the most
hops?
A. All the states are tied at the
present writing.
@. Bound Persia.
A. You bound it, Tom; you
brought it in
import from Sumatra?
A. Not so good.
@. Who was Samuel Johnson?
A. Ex- heavyweight champion pu-
gilist. Gle was knocked out at Ha-
vana eleven years ago by Jess VIII
lard.-Ed. Note)
@. What is spiegeleisen?
A. A form of German brutality.
@. From what source do we OBJ
tain iodine?
A. From a blue bottle. the words
POISON, FOR EXTERNAL USE
ONLY" being in large, red letters
on the label. If anybody tries to sell
it to you in a pail, do not take it.
@. What is the Alhambra?
A. A musical instrument. resemb-
ling somewhat the either.
@. What did Lewis and Clark do?
A. Starred together on the Keith
circuit for years and have now been
signed up for Irving Berlin's Music
Box Revue.
@. Who was Ferdinando De Soto?
A. Lewis and Clark's property
man.
G. Where do we get most of our
asbestos?
A. We never use it, but il we did,
we'd get ii from an asbestos manu-
facturer.
Q. Where is Terra del Fuego?
A. He has not been located since
the Ward shooting. The police fear
he has fled to Europe.
@. What are menhaden?
A. Question wrongly put. 1t
should be "Why are menhaden?' and
there is no satisfactory answer.
@. What is jute?
A. The act of discharging fire
arms, See famous sayings: Don't
jute, boys, those poor devils are dy-
ing!" Don't jute till you can see
Arizona republican., 1922-06-24
Hospitals and Towns

There are many reasons why the Deaconess
hospital drive should succeed promptly One of them
is because the hospital is sorely needed There is
obvious natural relation between disqualification
and population. The present disqualification is suit
able, physicians claim for town of 5000, with no
thcky settled surrounding community, whereas
Phoenix has population nearly seven times
great with very large surrounding population
Further, as disqualification center, Phoenix is
500 miles from Los Angeles and about equally dis
tant from Ell Paso. 1t should therefore be prepared
to for the intermediate country, and for that
purpose should have addition its present fac-
ties from $50 to 500 BEDS
There is monetary or selfish view of the case
upon which trust it is Unnecessary for US to
dwell-the great number of people who would be
attracted to such disqualification center the patients
and members of their families who would be brought
here. What would result may be gathered from the
experience of Rochester, Minnesota town a few
years ago unheard Of but the Mecca the whole
country. with the result that it is place the
world map The fame of Rochester rests of course,
upon that of the Drs. Mayo, but in degree,
Phoenix with adequate hospital facilities would be-
center for those afflicted and their families.
Also. the better the hospitals of town. the better
its physicians
We feel pride in schools, churches and
roads. and spend vast sums upon them, the
immigration of the right kind But the modern up
to-date hospital has drawing power which physi-
clans understand better than Others and phys-
clans are puzzled to understand why Phoenix pro-
vidng the other attractions has been lax in per-
mitting itself far to ougrow its hospital facilities
Every year we send to the coast and on the long
journey to Rochester, who require surgical
attention. Most of these could be given equally
good attention at home AS rule. these cases
less in need of immediate attention than that of
the man who is seized in the night and must be at
hurried to the hospital for opera
ton when often happens, there is no for
him at once
These matters to which many of us in good
health and outside the medical profession give little
family thinks when he contemplates change of
residence. Frequently, before he asks about the
schools the churches generally about social
ditions he wants to know about the hospitals of the
town to which he is thinking of emgrating the repu-
tation of its physicians, and, generally he wants 20
be informed to what he might expect in Of
the illness of members of his family.
We have opportunity to increase the
hospital facilities of Phoenix by making successful
the drive for funds to complete the Deaconess hos
pital, which is to be thoroughly -sectaran in
nish and attention at cost
Arizona republican., 1922-06-24
Braley Dolly Poem
.SOMEWHERES
BY BERToN BRALEY

l wanna go somewheres, some time,
Away on a train or ship;
| been plannin' all my life to go somewheres,
But never got off for the trip.
For didn't have the cash
Or my health it went to smash
Or / maybe lacked the nerve an pluck,
So never got nowheres, no time,
An l guess I'm kinda out of luck.
| wanna go somewheres, some time,
Some place that Amt bit like home;
l been dreamin all my life how to do it
But never seemed to get to roam;
For the landlord raised the rent
Or my little wad was spent
Or the place | had a job shut down,
So never got nowheres, no time,
But stuck around my own home town.
l wanna so somewheres some time,
Like see lots of people do;
been tryin' all my life TO go scmewheres
An | didn't hardly care where to:
But there's always this an that
Keeps me right where l am at,
So I'm stickin where I've always stuck
An III never get nowheres no time,
Cause l haYeaa SUS raat kind Of luck.
Arizona republican., 1922-06-24
Mormon Flat Dam Is
Studied BY Engineer

Louis C. Hill, of Quinton, Code &
Hill, consulting engineers of Los An
geles, who has been employed by the
mining companies to investigate
proposed plans for power develop
ment of the Water Users association.
has recently made a visit of inspec-
tlon or the dam site above Mormon
Flat, and to reservoir and dam sites
below Mormon Flat on the Salt river.
Mr.. Hill was accompanied by Messrs.
Lynch and O'Hara of the Water
Users association. 1t is expected
that a preliminary report will be sub
mitted to the mining companies by
Mr.. Hill in a short time.
The battle of Waterloo lasted only
eight hours.
Arizona republican., 1922-06-24

More people killed by motor than by
arpanes says technical journal devoted to the air.
plane industry. That is hardly fair comparison,
considering the number Of motor cars in COM
pared with airplanes. Fifty years ago there were
more people killed in drawn vehicles than in
motor cars and airplanes togather. Well admit,
though that there are more motor car than airplane
accidents at railway crossings.
Arizona republican., 1922-06-24

Our Democratic brethren jibing at the "open
meeting of the Republicans Tucson tomorrow
The Democratic meeting at the same place was open
for time but the minority complains of having
been caught in the suddenly closed door.
Arizona republican., 1922-06-24

PUT the responsibility on the flapper,' cries a
reformer. All right says the Washington Post if it
will held to her up
Arizona republican., 1922-06-24

People who trying to sleep outside these
nights appreciate more than ever what is meant by
every dog having his day That is it should be-
for all the cats have the night.
Arizona republican., 1922-06-24

One thing to be said in favor Of aerial weddings
is that they to come off as advertised.
There danger that either party will be thrown
over at the last moment.
Arizona republican., 1922-06-24

What a commentary! "Pussyfoot" Johnson 60
ing abroad to spread the doctrine of prohibition
throughout the world found American ships too wet
for his mental comfort.
Arizona republican., 1922-06-24
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE "a, 1922

Talent is the capacity of doing
anything that depends on application
and industry and 1t is q voluntary
pover, aOhile genius is invoIauatory.
-Hazlitt.