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Arizona republican., 1922-01-02
The New Year

The year which ended at midnight of Saturday
was not bad one years have gone for the past
four years 1t not a good financial commercial
industrial year. 1t brought with it no restoration
OF called normal conditions but it brought some
thing which normal conditions and prosperity are
founded-a return of confidence in greater and
greater measure 1t is improbable that the New Year
when it has grown old will have removed all the
scars from industry and commerce-the wounds were
too deep. But it win have carried farther up the
grade 1t is enough if we progress
The prospects for the whole country are brighter
For that we have the word Of the American Bankers
association and officer of the Chicago Live stock
Exchange The greatest drawback is the railroad
situation which think the government will meet if
the railways persist in their professions of inca
pacity The roads must adjust their rates to the
capacity OF the traffic them and .the burden
is at present beyond the capacity Of agricultural
products. Or else prices Of commodities must be
adjusted to the rates that would in justice involve
upward revision of prices which would call for
increases of wages. But the difficulty of such an
adjustment is so apparent that some other will be
sought and the obstacle OF railway rates will be
somehow removed.
The outlook for Arizona is exceptionally bright
An is given of the early resumption of the
copper mining industry giving employment to thous-
ands OF men who are now idle and furnishing an
outlet for the products Of the agricultural districts
of the state.
Agriculture the past year greatly depressed
In this valley 1t in state of paralysis This
valley was especially hard hit. Farmers were dazed
but not discouraged Helping hands were extended
to them to put them upon their feet and they have
been rising some slowly and others more rapidly
A large acreage has been put into crops for the
coming season.
The dairy industry which was the foundation of
so many Salt River valley fortunes. but which had
been unfortunately allowed to sink into decay is
returning rapidly and will be so firmly established
that may predict that it will never again be over
thrown So serious mistake as is now realized is
not likely ever to be repeated
The valley has through fiery test and
there has been disclosed courage and degree Of
endurance-metals for coinage into prosperity.
Arizona republican., 1922-01-02
The Price Of Success.
Edition

We have often taken occasion to warn Young
against entry into politics as a life work with
the expectation of remunerative and honorable en-
ployment with minimum of effort. 1t is a hard
life and few succeed in it that those games such
faro, roulette and lotteries all arranged to the
disadvantage of the outside player, promise and
confer success much more frequently.
Every American boy we told may expect to
become president But of the many millions of
American boys who were of age when the republic
founded and who have been born since. eligible
to the presidency, only twenty have been chosen
by the people to that high office and three have
reached it by succession
There have been of course many more minor
political prizes but they have been strikingy few
compared with the number Of American boys eligible
to them. and they have been ptifury few in COM
parison with the failures and wrecks Of those who
have reached out after them those who have been
lured by little prizes away from useful lives.
In the death of Senator Penrose there passed
from the country the greatest politician Of his age
We not speaking Of him a statesman. for per-
haps craftsmanship may not be claimed for him,
but he politician of the first rank and as a
politician he succeeded to the greatest control
his party held by any American. He might have
become great statesman but it is given to few
to be both great statesmen and great politicians
he chose the latter.
He made it his vocation. Added to his aptness
for it he possessed that wealth which we may mac
curately say gave him leisure for it. But there
no leisure and there can be no leisure for any
who would succeed in any endeavor. He knew
leisure. We hear Of who work themselves to
death There are not really comparatively many
victims Of oyer-work. But Senator Penrose one
Of them and at the age of 81 when he should have
been in the full flower of health he had worked
himself out year ago by his unremtting labor
he had brought himself the edge of the grave
then was withdrawn from it to re-engage in the
strenuous duties which attach to politics
He was successful He won what may be
garded as one of the capital prizes OF politics. But
how many American boys there who capable
of paying the price he paid for his ticket?
We do not mean to say that the life of the dead
senator was a mistake. The life of man who
succeeds can be held to be failure. We only
pointing out the difficult road he took and which
to the ambitious youth easy.
Arizona republican., 1922-01-02
The Eucalyptus Tree Speaks

Some paper we got out this morning" said the
Eucalyptus Tree. took seat opposite and
cut off the end of leftover cigar which in keeping
with resolution should have been consumed before
the midnight previous "Yes." repeated the Eucalyp
tus Tree. sit paper. this Midwinter
Edition II we turn trick like that in mid
winter, what oughtnt we to do in midsummer when
the days longer?
Il overheard figures about Edition this
morning while the trucks were being loaded with
great bundles and the carriers staggering out
Of the pressroom-and by the way. this exercise is
good for boys-t makes muscle and bone and teaches
them how to carry heavy loads which men who are
worth while always have to bear.
said man. I'd like to know how much this
darned edition weighs, anyhow Another says:
got 1t all figured There's $4,000 papers of 120
pages, each-2.76o.oOO pages-6O pages net to the
pound, more than $4,000 pounds of paper, not
counting the ink which must weigh lot. That's
big carload If these little rascals had known that
they carrying $4,000 pound carload OF, paper
out of the basement up these steps they'd have been
tired they wouldn't have felt like starting out on
their routes.
did you notice how the Pepper Trees spruced
up this morning, Its like boughs still dancing?
1t acts If it thought it had something do with
1t. Oh well, suppose that all of us on Our Alley
may claim some part in 1t, but there only
of us that did any real work.
Il never thought year ago when you folks
came here that things like this would happen Our
Alley You awful disturbers at first with your
catter of machinery all night long, language
of the printers up stairs. to say nothing of that
bowling mob Of newsboys and carriers I used to
long for the companonship again of the quiet, re-
served guests of the Old Undertaking Shop. There
was then no noise in Our Alley except that made by
the curious looking taxis that brought them here for
short stay. and the long but still professions that
took them away again somewhere.
"On the other side was the Church. quiet also
except on Sundays but its noise then was soothing
noise. Whatever racket there was was in an under
tone. liked 1t then and I like it yet-once week.
But hear the Church is going away. I'm rather
sorry, but then churches and newspapers, though
both are trying to make folks better, cannot work
well In the block
Anyhow I won't miss 1t so much now since
I'm in the newspaper business which takes ones mind
off Of all his other troubles and pleasures.
But when are we going to get out another Big
Edition?"
Arizona republican., 1922-01-02

cornmeal. Calcium helps to build
bones and teeth.
@. What language is spoken in
Panama2-R. s.
A. Spanish is the official Ian
guage of Panama, but English Is al
most universally spoken in the canal
zone, is the predominant language of
Colon, and is understood and spoken
by most Of the business people Of
Panama.
@. What county in the United
States has the smallest population?
&C. p. q.
A. The census bureau says that
Crane County. Texas, with a popula-
tion of 81, has the smallest popula-
tion Of any county in the United
States.
@. How much will the Great
Lakes st. Lawrence Tidewater prof.
eet cost and when will il be done?-
j. /. 3.
A. 1t is estimated that the project
would cost not far from $350.000,000
and at present no time has been esti-
mated for it's completion.
@. Is milk as heavy as water7--
n. n. p.
A. Milk is slightly heavier than
water, its specific gravity ranging
from 1929 TO 1904 at GO degrees
Fahrenheit.
Arizona republican., 1922-01-02

few years ago the most foresghted states
men regarded preparedness as the most essential
thing for the state. The cost Of it was matter Of
minor consideration Events justified their solicit
tude for the war came and the lack Of preparedness
In this country and Great Britain greatly prolonged
the war; and added to the cost of it in blood and gold
We have come now to another time when the
great nations, those which are powerful enough to
prevent extensive scale find that prepared
ness is folly. If all agree to curtailment of pre-
paredness. They brought to curtailment by
necessity IL not by inclination They are convinced
that essential step to recovery OF normal condi-
tons is the removal of the burdens of expenditures
for war The countries which are wasting their
money and effort on armaments are those whose
markets must absorb the worlds excess of raw
materials and pay for it with manufactures
From data prepared by the federal reserve board
the National Bank Of Commerce, New York, has
prepared statement that in 1920, of a total net
public expenditure by Great Britain of s1145s2s 600
SO.5 per cent for public debt charges and 255
per cent for national defense by France. of a
total Of 521SS,217OOO francs 227 per cent were for
public debt charges, and 5O7 per cent were for
national defense. In 1919 Itays total public expen
ditures s1,15O.1OOoOO lire of which s4 per cent
were for public debt charges and S39 per cent for
national defense. German expenditures in 1920 were
6l470,S70,ooO marks las per being for public
debt charges, and co., per for national defense
Expenditures for the payment Of interest and
principal Of the public debt do not curtail current
purchasing power. They merely transfer it, That
curtailment occurred when in the first place the
debts incurred for military naval purposes
But current expenditures national defense const
tute dierct levy the present purchasing powers
Of people. Labor expended to make guns and sub
marines can not pay for hides from Argentina or
wool from Australia
1t is too much to hope to destroy the anachron-
ism Of armament at blow. but in so far as con-
crete results be attained they offer the first real
hope Of recovery from the economic stagnation Of
the world A combined saving by the United States
the United Kingdom and Japan ornaments OF only
$5O000O0oO in single year is equivalent to the pre-
value Of the exports of wool from both Argentina
and Australia for nearly three years
Thus it is not sentiment hatred of war per Sc
that is bringing the great powers together in peace
but the necessity for a bankrupt world to abandon
preparedness, a very practical and materialistic
motive But may hope that they have by
Eorce been brought to taste peace. they "win not
lGarn war any more"
Arizona republican., 1922-01-02
THE ONCE OVER
By H. /. PHILLIPS

Dodo being very peeved. They reach
a railroad crossing. Mr.. Dodo is al
ways very nervous crossing railroad
tracks. He had a friend killed in a
flivver at one once).
Mrs. Dodo (as Dodo gets his car
squarely in middle of tracks "Oh-h-
ing scream, etc.)"
Dodo frightened to death) "Whaz-
zamatter???"
Mrs. Dodo: Look! There! Stop
It! Oh-h- -h-h!"
Dodo (stalling engine on tracks
and scrambling out of auto) Come
on quick! quick!"
Mrs. Dodo: oh h-h-h-h-h j.
help-p-p-p! y"
Dodo (pulling her out and drag
ging her off the tracks,. stop yell
ingl you're safe!"
Mrs. Dodo falls in a faint. Dodo.
RECEIVERS composure enough to look
up and down the track. Not seeing
any train and observing that his fliv-
yer is still intact, he revives his wife.
Dodo: Say, what was all the ex-
citement about? It's all right
now. You're safe.
What made you think you saw a
train?"
Mrs. Dodo: T didn't see any
train"
Dodo: what was 1t you SAW"
Mrs. Dodo: "A GREAT BIG
SPIDER HANGING DOWN FROM
THE INSIDE OF THE WIND
SHIELDS"
(Dodo collapses).
Arizona republican., 1922-01-02
RAHTON
BY DR.. FRANK CRANE
Copyright 1921. by Frank Crane)

Among the benefactors to the race not the least is
the one who gives us a great idea.
We cannot refrain from thinking that more honor
lis due to the man who wrote Home Sweet Home" than
to some gentleman that has got himself elected as Pres
dent OF the University or has been able to mil
lion dollars.
To give birth to thought that shall express the
hidden impulse OF the times and give uerance to the
dumb conviction OF world, is great achievement
One of the finest products of these DAYS. springing
up like fragrant lily from the muck left by the passing
of filthy war; is the idea of honorng the Unknown Sol
dier
1t is beautiful and symbolic rite that breahes the
very spirit of democracy.
1t gives to the hero of the gray masses something of
that glory and honor which is undoubtedly his above all
generals but which heretofore the world has not much
recognized.
And the credit for having originated this idea seems
to belong to Nathaniel Raton, the of the late Com
missioner George S. Raton, of The Salvation Army in
England.
1t is altogether fitting that from some one in way
connected with The Salvation Army, that modern SUI
preme impulse of the worlds conscience toward the
fortunate, should come this great idea.
Railtons father, the first member of The Salvation
Army to hold the title of Commissioner was found dead
In small railway station IN Germany AT the same
time the young was nearing the end of his educa
tional training The war broke out Immediately there
after and young Raton enlisted and went to the front
with the first British troops Although in many battles
Nathaniel Raiton emerged alive, and later became
clergyman.
In the course of time he wrote an open letter to
London newspaper in which he declared that the COM
mon soldier lost in the great struggle clearly ypi
fled the spirit of sesacrfice and patriotism than any
other manwho FELL and urged that the nation should in
some way express its love and respect for the Unknown
Hero
The suggestion attracted attention. discussion
ensued in the papers The idea was taken up by the
authorities appealed to the imagination Of the world.
And now in Italy, in France, in England, and in the
United States, the Unknown Soldier has been buried
with all the pomp and ceremony of field marshal
One quite concrete benefit may come out of this
thing For the more attention is paid to the common
man and the price he has to pay in war; the likely
the world is to achieve that great disgust of war which
it SO needs and has not even yet attained
Arizona republican., 1922-01-02
THE SUNDAY FLIvvER OUTING

THE SUNDAY FLIVVER OUTING
Mr.. and Mrs. Dodo start on their
Sunday flivver ride.
All goes well for the first mile or
two, although Mrs. Dodo registers in
audible dissatisfaction with her hus-
bands driving.
Mrs. Dodo (as Dodo make a sharp
turn): "Oh, dear! / do wish you'd
be careful"
Dodo; I'm careful. Don't worry
about me-"
Mrs. Dodo:. "You act nervous. Are
your
Dodo: 'Who. me? Certainly not.
don't get nervous less sumpin hap
pens to excite me-"
Mrs. Dodo: II never feel quite
safe with you. oh. You nearly hit
that mans fender!.. Look where
you're going"
Dodo: "Oh, don't talk so much!
Lemme tell you sumpin: most acci-
dents are caused by women talking
too much to the drivers"
Mrs. Dodo: Il can't help II.
You're so careless. Didja read about
that man who drove his car over the
cliff last Sunday and was killed with
his whole family?"
Oouo: NO, and / don't want to
hear about it."
Mrs. .Dodo Gas the car comes close
to an ice wagon: "Oh! You
nearly hit that wagon. Dear
met"
Dodo: IF you wouldn't get so ex-
citable everything'd be all right"
Mrs. Dodo: I'm not excitable.
I'm as self composed as anybody
could be. It's you that's excitable"
Dodo: We'll, please keep quiet
and remember that the worst thing
you can do is to yell when I'm in
tight place
Mrs. Dodo: "All right. I'll not say
another word on this trip. /
won't open my mouth. That's
settled. If anything happens
you can't blame me-
Dodo: IAN right
(They ride along in silence, Mrs.
Arizona republican., 1922-01-02
Planning the City for Families

Ftdnntn9 tNS Ntty Tor dmltbeS
Again the city plan! What a wise
and timely proposal 1t is! That a
city should begin in its plastic youth
to lay itself out with intelligent de-
sign, adjusting its myriad interests
to each other, is an earnest Of Utopia.
The city is a federation Of faml-
lies. 1t should be built for families,
that is, for the people. This sounds
like a platitude, but 1t is, on the con-
trary, the most novel and revolu-
ticnary application of democracy to
life.
Cities in the past have been built
for every conceivable reason, but
they have seldom been built just for
common people. Our names still echo
those undemocratic origins. A VIII
lage was collection of huts about
a villa; burgh was a fort; the Ger
man word hof indicates a court and
suggests royalty; even the word
town comes from the Anglo Saxon
tun, which was originally a stockade.
So In the past kings, barons, bishops
and generals have built to suit their
own ambitions and convenience, CIV
ing the people permission to settle
about the palace, manor, cathedral or
fort as they best could. Now for
the true "city," the home of the citi-
zen, built for the comfort and con-
venience of the common man and for
no other purpose under heaven!
This city of the common man win
be no common city. 1t will be dis
tinctive and distinguished. But to be
splendid like Versailles it must have
architects with plans such as the
king had at Versailles, and COM
mon will to be great and splendid
like the proud. imperial will of Louis
Quatorze This is the significance
of the sketches of the Phoenix OF
Tomorrow now under consideration;
they may be faulty but they are a
plan, and by plan the imperial peo-
pie may have at last city which is
beautiful, clean, convenient and har-
moniZed with all their needs.
In the planned city there is to be
a generous place for business. Our
shops will have their own streets,
but they will not be permitted to
encroach upon our homes and scatter
Arizona republican., 1922-01-02
THE CITY OF TOMORROW
BY G. D. YoAkUM

them at will as they now do. Cen
trail avenue and Washington will be
business streets out just so far: be-
yond that line one may build a beau
tiful home and feel secure.
This is the ideal of the true city.
1t guards, with eternal vigilance. the
relationship of market and home, of
factory and fireside, of work and
worship. Those proud suburban GEN.
ters that boast complete freedom
from commerce are not true cities.
Neither are those overgrown mining
camps whose only concern is copper.
though they dig up a million pounds
of that per month. Those camps
should be cities, and could be, but
often they are not.
A true city is a federation of fam
lilies. There is no legitimate busi-
ness which cannot be made to COM
port with this ideal. Industry must
not blight homes nor poison air, nor
encroach upon the freedom of the
human spirit, for these crimes de-
stroy the family and the race. When
the manager and the board of direct
ors behind him say, But these are
our own workers: if they don't like
the camp, they can get another job"
they betray the social enlightenment
of a Bulu chief. Not even the
worker himself has the moral right
to subordinate his home to his job.
In the decent adjustment OF the
means of life to its ideal ends lies
one of the subtlest yet most authen-
tic tests of civilization.
A city plan is an outward symbol of
what should become an inward fact.
An administration center ought to
suggest to everybody the Importance
and dignity Of municipal govern
ment. The existence OF Civic Cen
ter on the map would start us to
wondering what ought to be there
and why it isn't. A plan set up be-
fore us with splotches of green on
1t might eventually conjure into ex-
istence some much-needed parks.
Best Of all, 1t would promote har-
mony among our civic members. and
give to teamsters and teachers and
tailors a sense of solidarity. 1t would
do much as the years pass to build us
into a true city, the fit habitation of
noble men.
Arizona republican., 1922-01-02
Questions And
AnsLUers

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@. On what book or work did
AnatoIe France win the 1921 Nobel
prize7-C. NJ.
A. The publication which gained
Anatole France the Nobel Prize In
1921 is entitled La Vie en- Fleur." )"
@. How many patents are issued
by the patent office in year. How
many of them are put to practical
use?-A. w. S.
A. The Patent office says that
the number OF patients issued annu-
ally in the United States is variable
as some years a great many more are
granted than in other years. In 1900
26,499 were granted; 1910, $3.50; in
1920, 3S,59S. We find no statistics
to show what percentage OF inven-
tions patented are put to practical
use.
@. In what foods is calcium found
and what is it's function ?-F, r.
A. Calcium is found in the fol-
lowing foods: CauIifloWer, celery
buttermilk, spinach, cheese, milk,
cabbage, string beans, carrots, black
berries, strawberries, onions, figs,
tomatoes, lemon juice, dried beans
eggs, beets. fresh peas, OatnSGal
prunes, raisins, potatoes, whole wheat
read, white bread, lean beef and
Arizona republican., 1922-01-02
MBertOnBraleyS
sJ Daily Poem


Said the old glass eater
TO the tattooed man,
Though my stomach's builded
On a bomb proof plan,
1t would do shimmy
And a hoochie- -cooch
II ever fed il
Any bootleg hooch!
II have eaten bottles
Full of cyanide
And they felt right comfy
AS they went inside;
I have swallowed needles
And an open brooch,
But ! don't take chances
With no bootleg hooch.
There was once I tried 1t
As a man will do,
And it knocked me endwise
For day or two;
can drink blue vitriol
But my old bread -pooch
Turned a dozen flip-flops
On that bootleg hooch.
$50 bring on your hardware
And your sublimate,
And your prussic acid
For they suit me great:
But Id ride feet foremost
In a black barouche
III again | monkeyod
With that bootleg hooch!"
Arizona republican., 1922-01-02
HE is COMING IN PEACE
BY Edgar kennison

HE is COMING IN PEACE
BY Edgar kennison
Deep in the East
There CLEANS a star
A white light breaking
Faint and far.
III
Swiftly the clouds
or hate roll back
Breath Of the War God
Grim and Black.
III
Over the bridge
From heaven let down
Comes King Jesus with
Robe and crown.
Nv
Behold His
Righteousness increase
Bringing the little
Children Peace.
"
They are the blind
Who will not see
A world from war and
Sin made free.
VI
Are you faithful:
Keeping the tryst?
To hail Him coming;
The blessed Christ.
Arizona republican., 1922-01-02

Hawaii has sufficient molasses
available to produce 5000, 900 gallons
of motor alcohol-enough for all au-
tomobiles on the island.
Arizona republican., 1922-01-02

Because Of a shortage Of automo-
biles in Europe, cars are selling at
figures far beyond their actual value
Arizona republican., 1922-01-02
MONDAY MORNING. JANUARY 2. 1922

If this be happy 1oeaU gear, a gear
of usefulness, gear IN Which we
shall live to make the earth better, 1t
is because God aOil direct orr path
aOdy. Bishop Simpson.
Arizona republican., 1922-01-02

The New York Telephone company
operates a fleet Of S35 motor vehicles
for repair work.