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Arizona republican., 1922-05-01
THE CITY OF TOMORROW
BIZ g. D. YoAkUM

s5 per cent of them have. energy,
ambition, brains and personal pride,
but no man has kindled in them an
overwhelming. all-consuming desire
to be or achieve anything in particu
lar. Their feet are winged with the
inventions of the age and their minds
are sinewy with the power OF educa-
ton, but their hearts. in whose light
alone man makes inconsistent noble
ness the journey of life. are devoid OF
flame. To borrow their own phrase,
they are Ill dressed up with no
place to go.
Now religion tells of place. It
talks of ideals and services and salts
factions that shine before the eye OF
youth like towers in an enchanted
land. And youth would often go and
be saved. or could be persuaded 10
go il his home or church or commu-
nifty or some gypsy on the road. be-
lieved in the utility OF these things
and bothered to persuade him. Do
we not rather dissuade him. and then
wonder at his wildness when his
dreams are all dead?
We are afraid our sons will be-
come ministers or missionaries. In
our secret hearts we want them to
have it easier than we have had it,
more money. less labor; more pleas
ure, less self denial. We see fire
beginning to glow on their faces that
may send them to some Africa of
self forgetting service. 20 we set
about TO quench it, and succeed. II
we have selfishIy prevented any
youth from going TO this place re-
ligion tells OF, we have ourselves to
thank II he goes to the devil.
Youth offers the supreme oppor-
tunity of the home: let the home rise
to It. Tear down the little tin Holly
wood gods and erect the worthy
ideals OF the race in their stead. Let
the church improve its opportunity
also: let it forsake Bryan and me-
diaevaiism and come up into the
present where it's young people are.
and go before them with the lamp Of
it's divine revelation. And let the
community realize that here, in the
spiritual illiteracy of the masses, is
her greatest failure as a democracy,
and begin to provide religious edu-
cation for every child. then we shall
see an end of the wearisome and
wastefull waywardness of our young
people. II they are wild. let us not
try to tame them, but let us point
out the paths in which they may
run.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-01
DANCING AND RELIGION
theator, was originally ceremony Of
BY DR.. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1921. by Frank Crane)

The Dance theater, originally of
religion.
William clergyman Of New York introduced
The
Virgin girls the ehanee in the glow Of blue spot
lights balcony which played them they
moved while dmly lighted church fragrant with
incense which burned either side Of the altar
Guthrie that he believes beauty may
pathway God declaring " make the dance
the pathway il will be the pathway to he'll.
performance the church, the sanctuary
unveiled the service proceeded Is usual"
Stripped its traditional and theological eonnoscns dane
is simply primitive method expressing
entirely incapable this
nothing elothinus
nothing religion
Of creed organization custom all
three.
But for those without fearing any
comfort the thought that universal instinct
is uncesn, except in its abuse
thing And life manfests itself in certain old
the human
thought feeling. And
mani themselves
signs gestures; subsequently words. The
oldest expressions Of thought feeling the gesture
sign before they acuate speech
the oldest of grief consists cries
oldest expression of Joy consists in dancing.
child is always dancing He about simply because
he is Iie
method for in expressing JOY
he hears piece OF good to jump
around, prance with his feet and his hands.
And religion, ought to be Joy, 1t ought
joy which the human being capable
That being the the expression Of religious emotion by the dance
S strictly logical.
that Of dancing which is good
other the teachers and preachers Of tbs world will
folly Don't address themselves the
arduous task of telling people what to DO
Arizona republican., 1922-05-01
GIRL AN ARTIST IN WOOD

A young woman who calls Marsh
ali, Texas, her home town, is being
acclaimed as an artist of talent. Her
name is Texie Myers: she is Il years
old.
There has been no artistic talent
among her progenitors; her father is
the engineer of the water works in
Marshall. Her forte is wood carving
lust now. That is tho trend of her
effort, because it was her first ex-
pertinent. She makes statuettes
which are interesting not only be-
cause of their perfection to model
and their character as transmitted
by the artist, but because she cuts
them directly out Of wood.
Two years ago She discovered her
talent. She used herself as model
when she wanted to get an impress
sion. Her first material was an
empty spool and penknife. Then
she tried some match sticks with the
spools. and later blocks OF wood.
She cut with a razor and some tools
which her father. who is the only
one in the large family who shows
much interest in her carving, made
for her.
Brought up in an environment un-
ENCOURAGING to artistic aspiration,
she has wanted to be an artist since
her own first consciousness
Persons who know extraordinary
work say that she is an artist.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-01
The Movies Again

There is an organization called the Society for
Visual Education which to have been formed
for the purpose taking the pep of the movies
assuming that the true function of the movies the
education of the people AS matter of fact that is
not what vast majority of the people want of movies
or the theaer or Of fiction They want entertainment
and amusement and it is to furnish this that the
movie industry is conducted.
People do not pay money to the box office for
education but for relaxation and recreation; they
seek the theater as an asylum from the grind and
not place to learn something useful though they
do learn useful things there in pleasant way;
they secure some sugar coated education
There is stuff though, thrown upon the screen
which ought not to be- some vulgar and indecent
things but that is being mended But we not
hope that all that will be shown will ever come to
be only what is practical and useful any more than
we could reasonably expect that all literature
time would be uplifting.
We should all demand decency in pictures but
go too far when demand that there should be
out all reference to crime Such references may
not do any good but what harm it might do is
offset the close of the picture by portrayal OF
the punishment of the criminal.
Says member of the Society for Visual Edu-
cation: man who in the part of a bank robber
shows just how bank may be broken into is helping
to pervert the minds of tens OF thousands of boys
the country" We do not think We have
witnessed bank breaking on the screen and
sure that nobody watching it could gain any knowl
edge of the technique of safe blowing. No bank
vault entered in the shown in the
pictures. We have also forgeres committed
the screen with incredible swiftness such as
marks actual forgery. And then at the end we have
the bank burglar and the forger get what
coming to them. So if had gone to the movie
house with sub-conscious notion OF becoming
bank burglar or forger we thought better of it
on leaving.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-01

CITY OF MEXICO. April "a. -
Wherever you go in Mexico. there is
the army. No matter how small the
railroad station may be there is an
armed guard drawn up on the plat
form when your train rolls in. An
armed guard is standing at attention
when your train rolls out Walk up
town-any town--and you find in the
heart OF that town a plaza and in
the heart of the plaza a bandstand.
Each evening the military band
plays in that stand. The military
headquarters are located in one of
the fine old pillared buildings which
front on one side of that plaza.
There is always a guard at the door.
There are always soldiers loafing
about inside. There is always an
officer on duty. This holds good for
every town big enough to have a
plaza. Out in the country, where
there are none but Indian villages,
one finds detachments of the army
everywhere. The Mexican army does
not drill very much. It's arms are q
little irregular. Most Of the men
have Mausers. but many a man has
only an old sporting rifle.
But the soldiers are uniformed.
The uniform may be a dirty white
sandals. Some are barefoot. Only
the BETTER regiments in the larger
cities wear shoes. This means noth-
ing in Mexico, where nine men and
women out of ten wear sandals by
preference. 1t is a bit startling TO
the visitor from outside. Some Of the
men wear straw sombreros and some
felt sombreros and some have caps.
All have well-filled cartridge belts.
All seem we'll fed and contented.
The change in the Mexican army in
two years is starting. When Carran-
"a fell the victorious army looked
like a horde OF ragamuffins, though
they had given proof of excellent
fighting qualities. They were organ
lied on the Indian plan. Each man. s
or she--had children the children
went along. The freight cars OF the
republic were chiefly used for soldier
car after boxcaF rammed-jammed
with women and children
Half a dozen families occupied the
car itself. Some slept on the roof.
Others had established their quarters
under the car. Chickens, goats. pigs,
and sometimes cows were carried
along. The cooking fires were built
on mud fireplaces inside the cars and
on the roofs and underneath and
alongside. When an army reached a
new town the women and children
went foraging. They had some por-
ton of the scanty pay of the soldiers.
Somehow they managed the deficit
In those days the army was dis
tinctly cock of the walk. 1t had put
Obregon in power. just as it had put
Carranza in power. 1t felt that it
could tear down as easily as it had
built up. 1t was filled with generals
saturated, soaked clotted with gen.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-01
Mexican Conditions Reviewed
Mexico's GroUest Menace Has Been Its OtU1
Army, But President Oregon Has Rid 1t of
Many Generals, Sent Camp FOLLOWERS
Home, and Made 1T Orderly and Obedient

erals--son1e OF whom had only box
car fun of soldiers under their com
mand. But each general had his
place on the payroll for a larger body
OF soldiers and their pay and allow
ances. An army might start out with
only dozen generals and few sol
diers to do the cooking. But the
fault was easily remedied at the first
stop. The men of the nearest puebla
were seized for military service.
Those who refused to go were shot.
Obregon's best friends said that his
army was his greatest danger. He
said so himself. He used audibly TO
wonder how am going to get rid
OF my generals?" But--somehow--
he has managed 1t. No doubt there
are too many generals even yet in
the Mexican army. No doubt some
generals have more men on the pay
roll than they have in camp. But
the army has been reduced to order
and discipline and obedience. No
one knows just how. for Obregon has
preferred the easy way TO the ruth
less methods of the past. But he
has succeeded.
Not only has the army been uni
formed and armed and fed and very
largely de-generalled. but the women
and children have been gotten rid OF.
They have been sent back home.
The men who preferred to so home
have been permitted TO do so. Many
of them have been given grants OF
land and back pay. Those who re-
main in service are for most part
young men who might as well be in
service as anywhere else. And they
have been made into fairly service
able army.
This is one reason why there is
but little disorder in Mexico There
is banditry, of course. There are
many places where It is unsafe for
the stranger TO 60. There are locali-
ties in which the old feud against
has resulted in bloody outbreaks.
But there is almost no political op-
position to the government that is
worth considering. The army Is for
the most part employed In police
duty only. It is not often that il is
called on TO hunt down an insurrecto.
When ii is called on it does the work
fairly we'll.
Obregon's success has been a puz-
zie TO most onlookerS. II had been
assumed that a decided policy of re-
duction and discipline would unite
the army against him, and that an
united army WOulu overthrow the
government. But he has pruned 1t
little by little, without arousing any
important opposition. and has recon
structed the army. so that it is today
a prop to the administration. rather
than a danger to it. This is most
important factor in the present situa-
tion. Mexico is not and cannot be
a democratic country for another
decade or two. The internal stabil-
ity must depend upon the ariny-and
Obregon seems to have created an
army that is really worth while.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-01
Have You Tried This On Your wild
Young PeopIe?"

Golfers recently devoted a long
editorial to the proposition that reli-
gion is one of the forces that can
tame and control the "wildness" of
youth. Have you tried it? There
are pastors among US whose hearts
must be heavy with anxiety over the
silly wayWardness of sons and
daughters; we would urge the claim
of religion as a controlling influence.
Let US not say that it has been
tried. The average youth gets perc-
ious little instruction in religion, and
that of an inferior quality. Under
the most favorable conditions the
Protestant youth receives only about
four weeks instruction in Sunday
school up to his 21st year. The aver
age American youth comes UP to his
legal maturity with second or third
grade religious education. And the
blame for his ignorance is shared by
his home, his church, and his COM
munity.
Religion is the best combination of
joyful seriousness we know of. Some
one ought to explain TO every boy and
girl that without seriousness there
can be no lasting JOY. Religion stands
for that idea in the home. 1t teaches
that the comic strip in the newspa-
per Is not all there is of art, nor the
sporting page the sum total of read
able literature. 1t teaches us to get
pleasure out of all manner of persons,
whether they belong to our set or not
We have seen young people in the
home whose capacity for social en-
joyment was so narrowed by this
set habit that they were in per-
petual fear of being bored. At every
approach of mature mind, or hint
of a serious idea, they fled in genu-
inc distress of spirit Through re-
ligion they would learn to be in
terested In variety of folks, whose
notions and needs they might con-
template with profit And it teaches
that life's aims and goals are serious,
also: that one cannot regard himself
as having succeeded when he drives
the fastest car. wears the best
clothes, and knows the vulgarest
dances.
Let us all accept this foundation
truth young people are not naturally
bad We see some who are idle. some
who are brainless, some who are
wonderfully like their parents, but
they are by no means devils brood.
Theirs is the moral tragedy of the
Uncertain Goal. They have, at least
Arizona republican., 1922-05-01
The New City Manager

e formal announcement of the appointment of
Foster as city manager has been received with
al satisfaction throughout Phoenix, and with no
tisfaction that he is to be given an absolutely
ard in the discharge of all functions relating to
nagement, and the announcement said to have
pade by him that department heads under him
be made entirely responsible for the conduct of
departments
pm the first, those who were at all familiar
vents assumed that Mr.. Foster would be made
anager in the event of the election of the So
Taxpayers ticket That understanding we are
Contributed largely TO the great majority which
lyen that ticket The long experience he had
public business and his success in the man
nt Of private business for which several years
withdrew from public life. made him an ideal
as the logical city manager.
Is to his record alone that he owes his appoint
1t was backed by party. group or indi-
He comes into the office without any debt
repaid, or any sort of obligation to be met
his obligation to all the people
Arizona republican., 1922-05-01
Mr. wilson OF the Same Mind

Former President Wilson descended from the cloud
land Saturday night TO attend Democratic din
ner in the of which he emphasized "a critical
turning point in the affairs of mankind" and stated
hat it clearly falls to the Democrats of the United
States to lead the the light There have been
many critical turning points affairs of man
kind within the 1900 years and no doubt there
many such critical turning points before
that-only have written records of them. All
Of them to date except the present one, supposing
Of this is critical turning point--have been
safely turned without the aid of the Democratic party
or any other one definite influence The turns seem
TO have been made by some power. perhaps that
zAieh guides the stars in their courses and directs
pccessions of the seasons. We cannot believe
The situation is more serious at present than
in the past have been.
supposng the situation is as bad as Mr.
believes it to be and that it can be saved only
interposton of America, would it not be
that all of should harmoniously enter the
pf salvation than that only minority of US who
qualified by voting the Democratic ticket,
do so?
Wilson has learned nothing from the mis-
Ne made when he started to Europe to readjust
fairs of the world which that time were in
Yer chaotic condtion--really much worse con-
than then seemed. He did not so in the name
people of America, but "in his own proper per-
which he found to be insufficient Six months
ae realized the need of some help and besought
pf Democratic congress, urging the people to
I'm such congressional is Wilson congress
DO not know how much it would have been
BE for thoroughly united America to accom-
plish in that critical period Perhaps no more; we
would probably be witnessing the same Euro
welter only at closer range; we would be in it
instead of the side lines
But we are sure that if Mr.. Wilson had not
then believed himself to be the Democratic party
andhe was-and if he conferred with the leaders
of the Republican party released the leaders of
his own party from their servity to him. friendly
discussion of the part America was to play in the
readiustment would have evolved plan upon which
not only Democrats but all Americans could have
agreed.
we do not think that anything that might
have been decided upon at Versailles would have
averea the present critical turning point in the
affairs of mankind" There is nothing we could
have Zone except to hold ourselves in readiness to
ASST By force in holding down the lids which were
destgd to blow up in Eastern Europe and that would
hay heen a continuation of the war which had left
all Eope thoroughly exhausted of finances and man
pS The holding down of the lids would have
ht temporary and it could not have stayed that
ble aftermath, the famine and the plague
Arizona republican., 1922-05-01
Brdley Dolly Poem
THE GOOD OLD STUFF

nov outlook pessimstic
present, a literary vogue:
always novel full OF action
Where he gets the better Of a
he analytic a soul that's rather muddy
Gives unprecedented reader quite whirl;
III he noveists that is popular forever
/ a Fellow and a Girl!
passion a certain times IN fashion
N socialstic novel often
And holds Of social clinic
/ thing Of reader most adores;
hghbrows to the
nd sets our in a whir
round pair of youthful lovers
Just the story Of a Fellow and a Girl
splendor that's and tender
ache to ma pathway smooth;
when their troubles have waSad them
we'd them and soothe!
tragic this blhe eternal magic
Tha al hidden sentiment Unur
a thrills us
story 0 a Fellow a Girl!
Arizona republican., 1922-05-01
"The First Hundred

fen who have distinguished themselves in the
accommodating now and then take moment off
l US how the thing is done. They agree upon
pint and that is, "the first hundred is the hard
Once young man has saved round hundred
IS he finds it easier to add the second hundred
bot quite generally understood though why the
q hundred comes more easily, and each sue
be- hundred still more easily. We are apt to
and some tell us that is because the money
4 10 working for the accumulators, the more
eds, the more help.
4 hundred dollars cannot in any safe way be
to add much to ones income. The accretion
4 amount to more than $40 year and generally
pmewhat less than that. If one makes his mon
ira much more than that it produces "easy
u" which often goes easy. We are apt not to
"a pure velvet" IL we are mere savers. And
is difference between the born or trained
Rulator and the mere saver for some specific
BE
s. reason why the first hundred is the hardest
Arizona republican., 1922-05-01

We notice that the other day an impatient New
Yorker committed suicide after reading Conan Doye's
description of Heaven. That is the kind of man the
Los Angeles estate agents would like to get hold
Of who would take their the attractions
of suburban property.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-01
More Aliens Detained

GLoBE-The third truckload of
Mexicans, is men and one woman,
was held up and detained by the
sheriff's deputies in this city yester-
day on request of the U. S. immigra-
ton authorities. With the parties
taken Monday and Tuesday, there are
now 81 men, women and children held
in the county Jail and undergoing
examination by r. A. Scott, in charge
of the immigration office at Tucson,
and 2. X Mullan. immigration officer
at Bowie. The party arrested yester-
day was taken in the street before
the county Jail. Like the preceding
contingents, it was on it's way to
Miami.-Record.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-01
child Sleena e Houaa Burns

MAMA two year old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Saldivar mar
rowly escaped death or possible Sc
we're injuries in a blaze which totally
DESTROYED the Saldivar home on Will
low street in Globe last night. The
tot quietly slept while the home
burned about her and was saved by
members of the fire department just
as the room in which she had been
sleeping burst into flames.--BulleLin.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-01

Only 200 of the SAL seniors who will be graduated
from Annapolis Naval Academy this spring viii be
given commissions in the navy The others will
ceive bachelors degrees, three months pay mid
shipmen and tickets home The commissioned gradu-
ates will be selected through combination merit
and their wishes.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-01
Get Hiqh Price for Cattle

PRESCOTT-Dave Ffnnie, cattle
man and fruit grower of Soda Springs
on Beaver Greek, reports sales of
cattle from that district for June de-
livery at Flagstaff at $50 for year
lings, s32 for IS and $42 for IS.
Mr.. Finnie is secretary of the
Beaver Creek Cattle Growers asso-
ciation.-Courier.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-01

by w. S. Stockton. of Wilcox, Ariz.,
had to be shot early Thursday morn
ing when it fell between baggage
car and the platform in the Southern
Pacific yards while employees of the
American Railway Express were
transferring the animal from one car
to another.
The horse, accompanied by its
owner, was being returned to WILCOX
after a three months campaign at
Tijuana. The express car carrying
the Grated racer arrived in Yuma over
the San Diego and Arizona railroad
and it was necessary to make a
transfer to a car in train No. 1l0
early Thursday morning,
The mare became unruly when re-
moved from the crate and in plung-
ing fell between the platform and the
car.-Sun.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-01

That's reciprocal arrangement at Nogales The
delegates after being conventions all week throw
ing the bull" secure break in the rnonotony by
crossing the line and seeing the bull throw the mat
ador the picador and the toreador.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-01
Second Shooting at SeIiqman

Second Shooting at SelIgnan
PRESCOTT-A man said to be
Hugh Kennedy was mortally wounded
at Seligman yesterday morning, and
when taken to Ask Fork en- route TO
Prescott hospital, succumbed to his
wounds, according to a report to the
sheriffs office last night.
An earlier report OF the accident
stated that the man was shot from
train, but until the arrival today of
deputy sheriffs from Seligman it will
not be known how the tragedy oc-
Cured.
This was the second case Of death
from gunshot wounds to occur in
Seligman in "a hours.-Miner.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-01

The winter tourists who are lingering here and
shiYering these mid April mornings may be counted
upon to so back to their homes and give the lie to
those reports about the torrid character of the Salt
River valley.