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Arizona republican., 1922-03-17
Cost Of our FolIies

some people who look around at the business
and labor situation and see people out of work. and
things not going just right always ready to fall
for revolutionary propaganda. They say the country
should try socialism or bolshevism anarchism or
some other ism. They should reflect carefully on
the cost OF popular follies and that long as
people viii keep doing foolish things there will be
r5any who have to pay the penalty under any eco
nomic system.
Extravagant and Inefficient government is one
Of these follies People long tolerated the use
Of public office for political trading and they put
smart takers and smooth handshakers in office,
Instead Of competent men who could run business
economically. The result is high taxes. This makes
production cost high and many people are unable
to buy products thus throwing producers out Of
work.
Incidence and lack Of Industry is another folly
The man who fools around on his job and refuses to
put his heart and energy into it. makes goods cost
high Again the result is raise prices to the point
where millions Of people can't buy them. This
results in lack OF orders to factories and many
neope are thrown out OF work
Personal extravaganza is another folly. When
money is spent on foolish luxuries It is not deposited
IN banks nor put into sound investments AS
result, the banks and other keepers of money may
not have any to lend when people want to borrow
to improve their property or build houses When
business men and farmers can't borrow money they
can't employ labor This again throws people out
OF work.
And so one could go enumerating popular
foies that cost the country dear. The penalty for
such foes would be still severe under social
,ti svstem since no incentive would be offered
,eonle 10 manifest industry thrift and other
virtues that are essential to human welfare.
Arizona republican., 1922-03-17

saw the unlikelihood of being spe-
cially invited to join the congregation
of the literati So as he says, he broke
in, as one breaks into house.
A Boston newspaper had a page of
literary queries which readers pro-
pounded and other readers answered.
Burgess wrote TO the editor:
"Who IS the author OF the poem
commencing, The dismal day with
dreary pace and can you give the
verses? Il. f. c."
This was printed, and Burgess at
once sent in the answer that the au-
thor of the poem in question was
Frank Gelett Burgess. and that he
was sending the words. Burgess rec
ommends this as one sure way to get
manuscript printed.
Kathleen Norris first story had a
long and honorable career. 1t went
to a few magazines and then into a
trunk Seven years later she had ac-
ouired journalistic husband who un-
derstood the unromantic business OF
marketing manuscripts. He made an
alphabetical list OF 2S fiction maga-
zines and the story began to shuttle
back and forth with monotonous reg
ularity. When the 2S were all tried.
the appointed literary agent did
not give up. He began again with the
first one and drew check.
This tale presents a doubtful moral.
A story ingenuously offered to the
same editor twice might be gratefully
received, and then again it might i'm
press that parsonage so unfavorably
that the sight OF the authors name
would become distasteful to him
/ T. ro-, . 4. 1. fo
NOUS. When an authors existence
once begins to be officially recognized
by the magazines he enters new
caste in society. and editors regard
him with affectionate respect. Bur
ges johnson describes this transfor-
nation interestingly:
Johnsons Curious Experience.
while I was a college student
sent some verses to Life. They were
returned with a pleasantly worded
printed slip from the editor. sent
some more. They were returned with
similar comment. ] did It again and
yet again, always with the same re-
suit.
Then at last came acceptance with
a handwritten note asking for more.
But there was an old flaw in my re-
spect for editors. proceeded to hunt
up All lflOSe rejected HldUhScfiptS ana
sent them in response to the re-
quest. They were all accepted.
TT was then that a great truth
dawned upon me. Editors were hu-
manly fallible. Anyone could be one.
SO, in time. myself became an edi-
tor"
Henry Sydnor Harrison had a sim
ilra experience. Once his name was
! linked with success and popularity,
editors who had steadily refused to
see any good in his stories when he
had swamped their offices with man
uscripts, began to ask politely for just
one story.
The moral OF such careers is OBJ
viously that one way to sell manu-
scripts is to become a famous author.
Taking the book altogether, how
ever, it doesn't seem TO make much
difference which one of the writer's
beginnings the incipient celebrity Sc
lects to copy. He may start out with
heroic couplets or five-act tragedies.
Arizona republican., 1922-03-17

olt pays to advertise" whether the advertiser
sells goods over the counter or sells the charms OF
community to the tourist. And it pays whether the
advertisement is paid for in cash or whether he can
embrace an opportunity to advertise without an
outlay. But there not many such opportunities
for cashless advertising offered
But Phoenix has one now IN the coming OF the
Good Roads convention. All tnat II Is necessary i0i
nhooni 70 do is to assist in telling the world about
.t,or where it is to be held and what the
,,o ~ this region have to show in the way Of
what is desirable.
Tbe purpose OF advertising is to let the human
,oxv where it may go to get what 1t needs or
ds.ires The price OF the thing offered Is not 50
sa.4an+ ss the quality. When both are right
business nourishes. but not unless the public is
,nforoed OF what is going on at the selling end
phosnlr and the salt River valley want tourists
man who knows lot about the tourist business
Arizona republican., 1922-03-17
Ths Weaknes. of the oppositIon

AS was expected, the Four-Power Pact is easily
withstanding the assaults which are made upon it
IN the United States senate by the Cox Tumulty
wing Of Democrats and the fragment of irrecon-
cilables. Republican and Democratic.
No doubt, among the irreconclables are some
who honestly believe they see trouble in the under
standing regarding the Pacific and the Far East; to
whom any agreement with foreign power is an
entanglng alliance But we suspect that among
the irreconcables are some who are slaves to con-
sistency and who think it is necessary to oppose
the pending pact to justify their opposition to the
covenant Of the League of Nations
We can hardly believe that within the opposition
there hope OF mastering sufficient strength to
defeat the treaty so to 1t as to encompass
its defeat by making it unacceptable to the other
parties to the pact.
In the controversy over the covenant there was
party division, though the line was not exactly
drawn The covenant, from the beginning had Re-.
publican advocates and Democratic opponents. The
great mass OF the Democrats however, under the
fuence Mr. wilson, accepted it regardless Of their
private views OF its merits because the president
had ordered it and made its acceptance test Of party
loyalty. Freed OF his influence. they would have
divided, just later the people did when the cove
nant came to be more closely studied
No doubt, too. there were some Republicans
whose opposition had no other basis than that Of
antagonism to the president who had never invited
Cancellation.
There has been none of that. Though the Re-
publicans, excepting the rreconciables are support
ing the treaty so too, appear be the leaders Of
the Democrats. the opponents consisting only Of
obstructonists who would have been obstruction
lists against any arrangement by the four powers
which might have been proposed.
There among the Democratic opponents no
men with capacity for leadership. none to whom
an opposition could be drawn and held together.
And, than all, there Is nothing in the treaty
against which they are not estopped from COM
planning by their advocacy OF the covenant.
Arizona republican., 1922-03-17

others tell Of suffering in verses in
their earliest years. A love lyric or
a. tragic ode written at the age of s
is as good a way as any to burst into
the profession, of being an author
their experience seems to say. We
hasten TO add that few of these in
fantile effusions are reported to be
sold They were merely maiden ef-
forts, but eventually they led to big
ger things.
Some of the celebrities struck gold
the first time they seriously tried TO
dig anything out of an editorial Of
flee. Josephine Daskam Bacon. tells
of selling her first poem TO the At
lantic Monthly while she was still in
school, and her next three attempts
an essay. story and poem, to that
magazine and the Century.
Ellis Parker Butler also describes
early success. His first story, writ
ten when he was small boy he sold
TO q juvenile publication and re-
ceived in payment so 1-cent postal
cards.
Other latent geniuses struggled. In
fact, the majority served a discour-
aging apprenticeship TO art.
For instance, Fanny Hurst de-
scribes how her first short story was
refused by IL publishers and was
finally printed in a. college journal.
Looking back on this first attempt,
Miss Hurst now regards it as "a SUI
preme example of Anfractuosity,
Banality, Compact Incomprehensibil- J.
ity, Descipiency, Effusiveness, Flac-
cidity, Garrulity, Hyperbolism, lmDe-
cility. Juvenescence, and so on 10
Omega"
Fanny Hurst Labels Herself.
Fanny Hursts first published short
story brought in $500 with which she
purchased a morocco bound note book
which she largely and gilty inscribed
Fanny Hurst-Author.' If there is
anything in the power of suggestion,
this note book label might be regard
ed as a determining factor in Miss
Hurst's later success.
Ben Ames williams found the first
hundred stories the hardest to dispose
of. In fact, ne says that he lombard :
ed editors for four. years without
preaching their Notifications. The
hundred and first story sold, and Mr..
Williams has lived, we infer. ia
mously ever after.
Another author who believes in per-
sistence, William Hamilton Osborne,
tells of sending a story TO 125 maga :
zines and newspapers and at last sell
ing it TO Lippincotts Magazine, which
he had somehow previously over
looked.
Gelett Burgess also found that II Is
apt 10 take time to adjust oneself in
tune with editorial minds. He soon
Arizona republican., 1922-03-17
THE ONCE OVER
By H. /. PHILLIPS

in the classic words of General Far
ragut, damn the wood alcohol and so
ahead.
Under the rules adopted at the re-
cent disarmament session no rum
runner may be sunk until all boot
leggers have been removed to place
of safety and the rum analyzed by
a government chemist.
If the liquor is fake stuff the boot
leggers will be forced to drink it
themselves. This win remove them
to a place of safety automatically
and without taking up a lot of the
navy's time unnecessarily.
II the liquor is found to be the real
thing (100 proof and everything) it
will be taken aboard the sub chasers
for the purpose of allowing the crew
to verify the chemical analysis.
The spectacle Of a submarine
chaser spinning round and round and
tail should be fairly common this
spring.
During the above verification OF
the chemical analysis the bootleggers
will be put in irons and forced to sit
around ard see this stuff distributed
free OF charge. II this doesn't break
their hearts nothing will.
Immediately upon seizing hootch-
frigate the commanding officer viii
radio the navy department as fol-
lows:
Navy Department,
Washington, d. c.
We have met the rum runner and
he is ours MUGGINS.
To which the navy department will
radio back:
Muggins:
Good! Save me six cases and III
see that you are made an admiral.
DENBY.
Suggestion. for song for father
with a son in Annapolis: Il didn't
raise my boy to be a prohibition en-
forcement officer"
Arizona republican., 1922-03-17
BY Frederic ]. Aaskin

WASHINGTON, Mar. 16.-How a
successful career of authorship is
begun has at last been divulged au-
thoritatively. One hundred and
twenty five members of the Authors s
League of America, writer's who have
arrived, have immortalized in book
form the story Of MY Maiden Ell
fort"
Here surely is an illuminating doc
ument for the young geniuees who
realize that destiny calls them to
write, but who sit with reluctant pen
wondering how one should begin.
The 125 chapters out of the past his
tory of 125 successful writer's tell just
how it has been done successfully.
The only difficulty in drawing con-
clusions is, that a different conclu-
sion, and moral, may be drawn from
every chapter.
Thus, some writer's began welding
a pen at comparatively mature age
and struggled from there on. Others
many of them-began their careers
young and gathered experience all
through the years of youth.
One of the former type is Ray
Stannard Baker He began to be an
author at % when he sold his first
story to a short story magazine. He
was Informed that the magazine paid
on publication, and therefore he
eagerly watched for his literary debut
which was TO be followed by his en-
trance into the plutocratic class.
Every month for two years and a
half Baker hastened to buy the new
issue Of the magazine and went home
anxiously reading the table of con-
tents. At the end of that long period
the young writer's name appeared on
the cover in the distinguished com
pany Of Anthony Hope and Robert
Louis Stevenson.
The promised remuneration even
tually came. IL was a check for 50
Young Baker dropped to earth and
sat down to calculate his profit. Tn
fortunately, the $5 gain was over
shadowed by the $3.50 spent for
copies of the magazine. But" he
says, 1T was real experience"
Cobb Got Early Start
In the class Of those who heard
the call Of the muse early in life
Irwin s. Cobb is a shining example
He may surely claim the record for
getting the earliest start in the game
He says:
MY earliest known photogra ph
shows me. at the tender age of &c
months, lying flat upon my stomach
Il could lie flat upon my stomach
then-scribbHpg upon sheet oil
paper with a stub oA pencil
Booth Harrington. Arthur Gutter
man, Theodosla Garrison, and many
Arizona republican., 1922-03-17
Questions And
4AnSWers

(Any reader can get the answer TO
any question by writing the Repub-
lican Information bureau. Frederic J.
HasSin, Director, Washington, ID. G,
This offer applies strictly TO inform
alton. The bureau cannot give ad-
vice on legal. medical and financial
matters. 1t does not attempt to set =
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ly and briefly. Give full name and
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plies are sent direct to the inquirer).
Q. What is the easiest way TO re :
move film from old photograph neg
atives7 c. A. G.
A. Usually nitric acid is used for
this purpose. but caustic soda may
also be employed.
@. What does "miehina raIeeho"
mean? =. D.
A.. This is an old English phrase
OF uncertain origin, usually under
stood to mean hiding or skulking,
mischief. Shakespeare uses it in
Hamlet
@. When was lace first made
n. L. 3.
A. Lace. as we know it. was first
made in the sixteenth century. and
lace making reached its height in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
before the introduction of machinery
for that purpose. The word comes
from lacis. which means braid, and
translators of the Bible used the
word lace in this sense. Germany
claims the invention of lace. a tomb
stone in Annaberg bearing this in
scription Here lies Barbara Utt-
mann; died Ia Jan. 1875. whose in
yention of lace in 1861, made her
benefactress Of the Harz Noun
tains."
@. How does the volume of wa
ter of the Amazon compare with 9TH
er rivers of the world? S. B.
A. The Amazon is said to contain
tenth of all the running water
of the globe.
@. What was the origin Of the
word electricity? M. T..
A. The attractive power exhibit
ed by amber when rubbed was the
first electrical phenomenon observ-
ed by man, and the word electricity
was derived from electrum. the
Greek name for amber
@. What is the meaning or sig
nifieance of the word "amen" in
prayers? e. J. n.
A. Amen is word of Hebrew Or
igin. having the sense of firmly. or
Arizona republican., 1922-03-17

surely. certainly, truly, and when
used at the end OF a prayer or creed
II has the meaning. 80 believe
@. What Is the Academy Of Po-
litieal Science? c. e. w.
A. The American Academy of Po-
iitical and Social Science was or
ganized December II. 1889, 10 pro-
vide a national forum for the dis
cussion of political and social ques-
tions, Five scientific meetings are
held each year, with an annual meet
ing in April
@. What is albertits? M. s. r.
A. Albertite is q pitchlike mineral
first discovered in Albert county, New
Brunswick; It is much lighter than
ordinary coal, ignitea freely from
match and burns like a candle 1eay-
ing an almost inpalpable ash.
q. What is or was the "ail foolsy
argument? r.. G. s.
A. In British political controversy
those who favor tariff reform some
times argue that nearly every other
country has adopted protection and
ask. Are they all fools?" hence the
designation "all fools argument.
@. Where was President Chester
A. Arthur buried? A. n. c.
A. President Arthur's tomb Ia In
the Rural cemetery. four miles north
Of the city OF Albany. y. X.
@. Who designed the NC boats7
Are they building this type boat
now7 T. o. w.
A. The NC boat was designed by
draughtsmen In the bureau OF con-
struction and repair OF the navy de-
partment The building OF this type
OF boat has been discontinued.
@. How high should a chimney be
built?
A. A chimney should extend at
least 35 feet above the CRATE. Forty
feet is a more satisfactory height.
since a chimney of this height is not
apt 10 produce an erratic draft. The
top OF the chimney should extend at
least three feet above flat roofs and
two feet above the ridge Of peak
roofs.
q. How did Indians make arrow
heads or spikes out Of flint rocks?
L. &. v.
A. The Indian Office says that
generally arrowheads were made by
the use of a hollow horn. The pieces
of flint was placed in the horn, the
bottom of the horn squeezed to-
gether as tightly as possible and the
lilnt cnlppeu OIL 70 the ueslteu shdPo
with a harder stone.
@. What is the meaning Of "bon-
fire.? X. c.
A. A bonfire was originally bone
fire. literally fires of bones. and was
applied to a funeral pyre.
@. Who played "A Blot in the
'Seuteheon" in America?
A. This tragedy by Robert Brown
ing was played in America by Law
renee Barrett
@. Is trade with the Philippines
called domestic or foreign trade? NJ.
T. w.
A. Our trade with the Philippine
islands is called foreign trade.
Arizona republican., 1922-03-17
HUNTING RUM RUNNERS WITH
THE u. S. NAVY

n ~ - tNfAN
The boy stood on the glass-strewn
deck,
Whence all but him had fled;
In alcohol UP TO his neck
He stood with aching head.
He stood outlined against the sun
A youth who could not lose:
For he had seized the ship and won
The Battle of the Booze.
(Modern Naval Ditty)
"Gridley. you may start sinking
case goods when you are ready"
War on the rum runners has been
declared by the United States navy.
A fleet of submarine chasers has
been sent out TO clear the seas of
bootleggers, and, if the record OF the
navy counts for anything, the Allan
tic ocean should be well Favored with
Scotch, rye. synthetic gin and wood
alcohol for the next few weeks.
All naval men assigned to the work
will be credited with extra hazard
ous' duty. If taking chances with
the kind Of stuff rum runners are
selling today isn't extra hazardous
there is no such thing.
"An eye-opener for an eye opener
and tooth for tooth." is the battle
cry, and the navy is under strict or
ders 20 neither give mar take a
quarter.
This won't annoy the rum runners,
as they won't take a quarter. any
way. Nothing less than so cents a
shot.
The rum runners threaten to fight
it out along this line to the last drink,
approprating Captain Lawrence's s fa-
NOUS slogan: Don't Give Up the
Floor Varnish!"
Some stirring naval bottles should
result. The submarine chasers are
manned by crews with a nose for
booze and every man is expected to,
Arizona republican., 1922-03-17
SAB Berton BraleyS
| k9 Daily Poem
IN Ao Take Yom. Choice
x With APooclES pAuSTN DossM
y hPooslES pAuSTN DosSoI

The ladies of the city,
They're painted to the eyes,
They're highly artificial
And very worldly wise;
But oh, my little country girl
She scorns such false deceit,
For all of her is natural
And innocent and sweet!
The ladies of the city
Go fitting to and fro
With little up above the waist
And even less below,
But oh, my little country girl,
She's modest as can be,
Her gingham gown is amply made
AS all the world can see.
The ladies OF the city
They dance and drink and smoke
They make you take them out t.
shows
And supper-till you're broke;
But oh. my little country girl,
[ never spend a cent,
sit and pet her every night
And she is quite contentl
The ladies of the city
Are very flip and smart,
They're very gay and witty
And haven't any heart.
And yet, and yet-the city girls
l love and / adore
For oh! my little country girl
Is such an awful bore,
Arizona republican., 1922-03-17
THE cYNlc

Don't you get tired of your wife and your moth
er-in-law jumping you all the timer asked the
sympathetic brother.
"Oh, don't know said the henpeckeq II don't
mind it so far it affects me; but when see the
wonderful and continuous motion of their jaws,
do sort O. hate to all that power going to waste
Richmond Times Dispatch
Arizona republican., 1922-03-17

The "featherweight pressure" gate guarding the
turnstIes of the Interborough Rapid Transit COM
pany in New York city collects curious and rare coins
Among lead and metal sugs were found 20 centlme
pieces flattened pennies Turkish coins and welfare
checks from Sing Sing prison.
Arizona republican., 1922-03-17
IDENTICAL IN CALDER

First Clerk-Did the floorwalker really cal you
a scoundrel?
Second cIerl-wer not directly. But he said
that you and were two yards out Of the same cloth
Detroit News.
Arizona republican., 1922-03-17

Sooner or later. il he perIsts, he will
find his medium and an editor who
appreciates hinn--that is. he win If
he is destined TO be famous Amer
lean author.
Arizona republican., 1922-03-17

The University Of Saskatchewan is experiment
ing with a scheme for domesticating the buffalo
Burfaloes in the Canadian parks, increasing so
rapidly that they will be the market for food
Arizona republican., 1922-03-17

One-tweIfth of a second is the minimum time
required for the transmission Of order from the
mind to the muscles, according to a prominent psy
chologist before the Academy OF Sciences in France
Arizona republican., 1922-03-17
FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH II, 1922

Many q genius has been sZoU of
groaOth. Oaks that flourish for a
thousand gears do not spring up into
beauty like reed.
George Henry Lewes.
Arizona republican., 1922-03-17
MOI Utter STRANGERS

"a girl may find a sweetheart in office"
tits good plan too" declared dad
"Uh?"
occasionally somebody knows something about
those chaps."-Lousvile Courier-Journal.
Arizona republican., 1922-03-17

Placing tattoo mark on the body of alien Grim
inas so that when one is deported he return
TO this country under another name is the plan
favored by the district attorney OF Kings county,
New York.
Arizona republican., 1922-03-17

Declining to fly either the black, red and
gold merchant flag of Germany or the old German
flag a boat belonging to the Hugo SHINES interests
left Hamburg displaying a small evergreen tree
where the flag should have been.
Arizona republican., 1922-03-17

German scientists have discovered for
sleeping sickness according to professor of Liver
pool university who related how man with the
disease was cured within month by the new drug
Arizona republican., 1922-03-17
IMPRESSED
Il motto
Scotsman

Il noticed you having heart-to heart talk with
your landlord
Ibid look troubled"
"You looked murderous."
"Ah! That explains it. He agreed to make the
repairs Birmingham Age Herald.
Arizona republican., 1922-03-17
ENROLL YOUR NAME NOW
in PIONEERS ASSOCIATION

Enrolment of Pioneers association
All who the
such for IS eligible membership
The membership fee decided when the association
organized is dollar
Fill in the blank below qualified desire
membership The ledn blank should with the annual
ee Mr. Mel Feas secretary the association II North First
Phoenix.