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Arizona republican., 1922-04-02
NOT THE CLASSIC GREEKS

The Acropohs is exotic in modern Athens
standing frgidly and proudly above the turbulent
and highly coored life that seethes below, the life
Of the twentieth century Balkans.
For it is Baedeker rather than Aristotle who is
land of giants has become quite big band of pyg-
mics. The Venus de Milo has degenerated into
amiable looking woman with untdy hair, whose lack
of figure is partly disguised by her French clothes
And the Hermes of Praxiteles is a weedy young
with black mustache, who lounges under the pepper
trees drinks resinous wines outside the cafes in
Stadium street.
One searches feyerishly for the Greek virtues
One looks in vain for the Greek But centuries
of foreign domination have done their work, and
Greece has freed herself only find there
Greeks to free.
And yet. Is it sentimenta1ism or is
there really tradition? For in spite of everything
feels all the time that round the corner is the
old Greece that day in the you will meet
the ugly face of Socrates.
For these people always conscious, almost
pathetically conscious of their past On the filthy
drachma notes with which YOU pay for your Turkish
coffee the head of Demosthenes stares you COW
cred with Balkan grease, but recognizable all the
same, and in the songs of the killed goatherds on
Mount Hymettus there is something of the heroic
rhythm of Theocritus.
Even the restaurants borrsw the names of
cient heroes, and You may go to a cinema and see
German film with 'subttles' which Plato himself
would have MISUNDERSTANDING Nichols in the
Outlook.
Arizona republican., 1922-04-02

tiptoe and frantically trying 10 catch
the eyes of the passengers. Each
kept one finger pointing impressive
ly at the shiny brass badge which
bore his number.
Cargadores None Too trustworthy
I'VE will pass our bags out of the
window" we said.
But we did not. 1t isn't allowed in
Guadala lara. The Guadalajara car
gadore is an intelligent person--there
is a school of cargadores here in which
the porters are taught a dozen or so
words in as many different languages.
so that they can at least make bluff
of dealing with German or Italian,
or even Chinaman or Jap--but he also
bears the name Of being dishonest
person. People who pass bags out
of the windows to porters are ex-
tremely apt never to see their bags
again. One has to jackass his own
luggage through an aisle filled with
scores Of similarly occupied persons,
and give it over to the cargadore at
the door. The porters are not allowed
inside.
Guadalajara grows on one, though
That first nights ramble through the
picturesque arches-the portales-
which look upon the brightly lighted
central plaza on the other side OF
which the cathedral raises its CEN
turies old spires, was enough to in
fatuate one with the town. 1t is true
that the ladies of the better world no
longer promenade in the plaza while
the band plays, as they did in the
good old days before reform came to
bother this generation. Then the pei
edos-which being literally translated
means 'the skinned ones" and is a
humorous assay of the financial
chances of the average peon-stood
outside the outer row of benches and
watched the beautifully dressed men
and women march and countermarch
inside. Now the pelados have the
plaza The ladies -of the better world
never appear in it.
For all that one sees them. Each
Sunday afternoon, between the hours
of / and ?, they drive up and down
the one narrow main street, from the
cathedral plaza at one end to the lit
tie plaza flanked by little, age-worn
church at the other, bowing and smil-
ing as they recognize their friends.
The drive isn't more than a quarter
of a mile long. The street isn't more
than two automobiles wide. In the
hours drive each person must see
each other person about forty times
Arizona republican., 1922-04-02
MENTAL PHOTOGRAPH
The latest hobby of psychologists
Warren GamalieI Harding

Warren GamalieI Harding
What is your favorite virtue? ?....
Kindness to airedales.
Your favorite quality in man..
An unwavering determination to vote
the straight Republican ticket.
Your fayorite quality in woman? =?
-. Patience while helping her hus-
band get his studs into a stiff shirt.
Your faVorite occupations?. Try
ing to follow the mental processes of
Lodge and Hughes; playing golf; nn-
yelling monuments.
Your idea of happiness?. To be
president of country where there
are no opposition newspapers.
Your idea of unhappiness?. Being
president of a country where there
are opposition newspapers.
Your favorite color 2. ). Ohio blues.
Where would you prefer to live?..
It'll be time enough to think about
that three years from now.
Your pet aversion?. -. Posing with
a twelve-foot tarpon which nobody
will believe l caught, despite the
caption.
Your favorite sport? Househoat-
ing (when the mudflats have been
removed).
Your favorite motor. -. "One good
term deserves another
Henry Cabot Lodge
Your favorite virtue? "A poetic
appreciation of the beauties of the
islands of the Pacific.
Your favorite quality in man..
Love of Goldfish.
Your favorite uality in a woman
"A conviction that her husbands
speeches are always good.
Your favorite occupation. :. Rails
ing the devil with any proposition
advanced by the Democrats.
Your idea of happiness?. .Denounc-
ing a league of nations and then
turning around and putting over a
| league of my own.
Your idea of unhappiness?. Not
being able TO do it.
Where would you refer to live?....
/ do.
Your favorite prose author?-I am.
Your favorite poet?....I admit II.
Your pet aversion Framing up a
| treaty and having to explain it to the
president so he'll misunderstood, it.
Your favorite motto?. The Old
Guard may die, but it never surren-
| ders,"
Lloyd George
F'avorite virtue?. =. Being able 10
Arizona republican., 1922-04-02
One Hundred Per Cen, American

William H. Anderson, state superintendent OF
the New York Anti-SaIo League. week ago re-
ceived an anonymous letter which purported to have
been sent by ex-service threatening him with
assassination unless he abated his activities in sup
port of the prohibition amendment The letter con-
tains among other things This warning comes from
ex-servce men, every of whom 100 cent
American-one hundred per cent American by rea-
son the fact that they volunteered their all when
such sacrifice asked for You know where
yourself and other professional prohibitionists proved
their 100 per cent Americanism during the war"
We do not know who invented the expression
100 per cent American" uttered with much glib
ness during the. war. Anyway, it was only another
of those catch phrases whose meaning was not
weighed and understood by the inventor and its
users One hundred per cent is the symbol of per-
lection, SO that we are to understand, suppose
that a 100 per cent American is perfect Ameri-
can. and we know of no human who ever reached
perfection in any direction How much short of per
lection we must fall when we attain to such COM
plex thing as Americanism. which embraces good
many things such good citizenship loyalty eour-
age sincerity and earnestness of purpose
one important essential quality of American
ism is obedience to the laws, respect for the
majority. That is the basis of all nationalism. If
one lacks that there is nothing which the struc
ture of Americansm may be erected. The who
does not observe the laws of America is not 100
cent American He is not per cent American or
one-tenth of one per cent. He is no more American
than the anarchist who frankly tells us that he is
against law, not merely the laws that personally
distasteful him but all law.
We do not believe that the man who wrote that
letter to Mr.. Anderson ex-servlce man; if
shell shocked hero who should be in sanitarium.
We cannot conceive that any man who fought in
France for his government would threaten with
snation one who is supporting what has become one
of the fundamentals of that government article of
the constitution of that government.
We suppose the letter written by wet
stay-at-home one of the who have elected them
selves to complain in behalf of the boys who were
there that prohibition put over while their
backs we're turned their country, and their faces
toward the enemy
Arizona republican., 1922-04-02
THE ONCE OVER
By H. /. PHILLIPS

contradict ones self consistently.
Favorite quality in MANI. Perfect
control on the sharp turns.
Favorite quality in a woman?....
(You should know better than to ask
a canny diplomat a question Ike
that.)
Favorite occupation?.. Trying to
figure out how / will stand on the
morrow on the question upon which
l announced my position today.
Idea of happiness?. .outwitting the
other fellow.
Idea of unhappiness Not being
able to do it.
Where would you prefer to live p.
Most any place except Ireland.
Your favorite avarsion?. Discuss
ing the soap advertisements with a
knight of the BATH
Your favorite sport?. Playing putt
and-take with the diplomats OF
France and America.
Your hobby. Trying to save the
king as requested by the British ma
tional anthem.
Favorite motto?...."A prime min
lister can fool all of the people some
of the time and some of the people
all of the time, but they'll gN him
in the end"
Ncte
The president of France refused TO
answer the questions on the ground
he feared it would cause another
resignation by the entire French
cabinet.
Congressman VoIstead
Favorite virtue? =. Love of plain
water.
Favorite quality in man? ?... Cons
tempt for corkscreWs.
Favorite occupa tion?. Explaining
why | did it.
Idea of happiness.... Explaining
satisfactorily.
idea of unhappilless ?. Explaining
| unsatisfactory.
Favorite color?.. Pink (as in
| lemonade).
Where would you prefer TO llVe?...
Bimini.
Favorite prose althor?. Writer OF
"The Face on the Barroom Floor"
Favorite poet?.. Author of Little
drops of poison, little grains of wood
make the mighty drinker know he's
dead for good
Favorite aversioll?. Being caught
| in cellar.
| Favorite motto. brew to the line
J let the victims fall where they may,
or Every man his own bootlegger."
Arizona republican., 1922-04-02

ested in this phase of school admins
tration The work being done in
Miami is characterized by him as a
notable example of the sane applica-
ton of efficiency methods. In his
opinion, the project being worked out
has already not only saved several
thousands of dollars, but what is
more important, has saved scores OF
children from forming habits of fail
ure in their school work
1.-THE introduction of the procedure
involved in scientific management IN
school administration necessttates
the employment of specialists to su~
pervise and direct the work This
additional expenditure creates more
or less criticism from taxpayers who
are not posted regarding the facts IN
the case, but the Miami school au-
thorities have demonstrated conclu-
sively to their own community that
the additional expenditure involved
by the newer methods has been re-
turned three times in the form Of
reduction in wasted teaching as
measured by failures among pupils.
II is pointed out that pupil failing
of promotion represents for the com
munitv a wasted investment in teach-
ing as the same teaching must pc
repeated the following year at the
expense of the community. Figuring
on the basis of teaching costs alone
scientific management as applied IN
the Miami schools paid for the ad-
ditional expenditure three times over.
"This viewpoint is further upheld
by the state director of educatlonat
research Of Arizona, Homer Davis,
who has made a study OF snch mat
ters. Referring to the applications
belng made in Miami as related 10
state practices, he remarks, II the
city schools of Arizona will make use
of these scientific methods in the
administration of their systems, we
will be able to go forward much more
rapidly than we have in the past. We
can enhance the service rendered
without increased expenditure
"The experiment going forward IN
Miami affords an interesting idea of
the results made possible even in
smaller school systems through the
consistent application of the modern
scientific methods of school admins
tration being advocated by leading
educators. and in their opinion this
example affords a concrete prophecy
of the methods and practices which
will be demanded in all up-to date
school communities
Seven thousand people were killed
at grade crossings in 1921
Arizona republican., 1922-04-02
SCHOOLS Of MIAMI
WIN HIGH PRAISE

or considerable interest is the in
formation which comes from Miami
concerning the high commendation
won by the public schools of that
city concerning the scientific man
ner in which they have been con-
Quoted. 1t is as follows:
THE practical value of scientific
management when consistently APP
piled in the administration OF public
schools is well illustrated by the re-
suits being secured in the schools OF
Miami Supt. Will c. Wood OF Cali-
fornia. following his visit to that city
in the capacity of institute instructor,
has characterized the project as "a
splendid piece of work stating that
he knows of no city of equal size
where scientific management is so
successfully employed
THE methods used in Miami are
similar to those employed in Los An
geles and Oakland, where children
are grouped and classified according
TO mental development and capacity.
and the results being secured afford
ample evidence of the effectiveness
of the method.
According to statistics compiled
by the superintendent, the percentage
of pupils failing in promotion at the
end of the School term mas Ldllsl u
from 1913 per cent in Miami to 80
per cent of the school enrolment art
er only two semesters operation un-
der the new procedure.
During this same period II per
cent of the pupils have received spe-
cial or extra promotions and are DO
ing good work in their advanced
grade. These results indicate an ap-
proximate increase of 20 per cent in
the efficiency of routing pupils
through the schools, or in other
words, a 20 per cent increase in the
return to the community on the IN
vestment it has made in teachlng
children.
"A measure of the quality of school
work being done throughout this
same period. as found through the
use of standardized pedagogical tests
in reading, writing, arithmetic and
spelling. indicates a general increase
in quality of performance amounting
to 10 per cent.
This admirable record of efficiency
in handling school processes has at,
tracted the favorable attention of
DR. Lewis NJ Terman of Stanford
university, who is especially inter-
Arizona republican., 1922-04-02
Feminine PrettinesS is
Epidemic at GuadaLajara
Tradition Has 1t That All Women of THAI
Mexican West Coast City Are Good
Looking, and Enthusiastic
American Agrees
By HERBERT COREY
Article No. q

GUADALAJARA Jalisco, Mexico
March 31-Away back in Santiago
where the women bare themselves to
the waist as they kneel at their laun-
dry work in the rivers edge, their
brown bodies listening in the sun
/ sat at meat one day with the old
landlady and her pretty daughter.
She had been very complimentary.
You have a good color" said she.
"One can see that YOU like good
wine"
So that it seemed up to me to say
something nice in return. | put one
finger in the phrase book to hold the
place and leaned toward the pretty
daughter and said:
But you are very pretty. senorita.
Your mother must have looked so
when she was of your age"
Pretty Daughter Not Surprised
That should have made a hit, In
fact. it did make a hit But the
young lady did not even pretend to be
surprised
But we-my mother and I've are
from Guadalajara," said she.
Evidently that explained all things.
Inquiry developed that according TO
tradition the women of Guadalajara
are all good looking. A girl of Qua
dalajaTa takes prettiness much as
other girls might freckles-something
not to be.guarded against but possib-
~ to be outgrown. We did not be-
lieve the story until we got there.
Now we are convinced. There may
be as many pretty women in some
other city per thousand of popula-
ton, to drop into a dry statistical
style, but certainly no more pretty
women. Prettiness is endemic here.
Maybe it is epidemic. We may be
on the verge of a great discovery.
Perhaps prettiness is carried by a
germ.
We didn't fall in love with Guada-
lajara at first sight. The day had
been abominably hot and dusty. If
the windows of the car were kept
closed we melted and if they were
open we suffocated in dust The
Mexicans fold their handkerchiefs
over their mouths and noses, much
as do the Arab camel men from
whom their forefathers learned the
trick. but the average American ism I
up to it. When we finally rolled
into GuadaIajara station we are sa-
luted by a roar from outside. Scores
of white jacketed cargadores were
leaping into the air and standing on
Arizona republican., 1922-04-02

and bow and smile each time. But it
is worth it, for all that. At least, 1T
is worth it for the men. The like of
the pretty women of Guadalajara
never was seen.
The first families of Guadalajara
are, for the most part, of unmixed
Spanish blood. 1t is one of the mag
nificently aristocratic cities of Mex
ico. The tide of racial color flows
up from the pure Indian peon, of
course, and no doubt there are first
families here whose forefathers were
killed by Cortez. But the real aris-
tocrats of Guadalajara are as clear
blooded Spanish as one would find in
Seville itself One sees the true
Spanish blond here, and ravishing
creature she is. while the Guadala-
lara foot and ankle deserves all that
has ever been said by poets of aeet
and ankles since the world began.
Some Very Unpleasant Tales
1t has been a centre of unrest late
hold of the church, but during the
revolutionary period the churches
were sacked and closed. There is a
Murillo here OF undoubted authen-
ticity. for which 100000 was once
offered and for which more could be
obtained il the church would sell. IT
formerly hung upon the cathedral
walls, but now it is hidden some
where in town. No one except the
priests know where. The other day
a ceremonial high mass was cele-
brated and for the occasion the
priests of the cathedral brought out
thousands upon thousands OF dollars
worth of tapestries. No one knows
what may have been their value.
Some of them have histories running
back for centuries. But next morn
ing the inner walls of the cathedral
were cold and spotted and bare as
ever. During the night the treasures
had been hidden away.
Little by little, however, the unrest
is dying hereabouts, The people OF
Guadalajara are frank in declaring
that it was occasioned by the laNity
Of the central government strong
hand. they say, would have shut of
all of this murderous nonsense before
il started. But the strong hand was
not shown until lately. Now there is
new chief of military operations
here and odd stories are whispered OF
firing parties in the rosy dawn. al
though the papers have nothing to
say of such things. Maybe the stories
are not true.
Anyhow. what have such unpleas-
ant tales to do with the pretty women
of Guadalajara?
Arizona republican., 1922-04-02
The OLDEST LANGUAGE

It has been maintained that the first spoken
language was Basque. The people of Amorica Ga
province of ancient Gaul now Brittany express
great indignation at this and sure that first
parents, whenever it became necessary to converse
expressed themselves exclusively in the Breton tongue
The dispute remains to be settled 1t appears
however, that Spains representative Peking, the
Marquis of Dosfuentes, recently declared in the
course of meeting in the capital of the Celestial
republic, that Chinese and Basque are sister Ian
guages and the oldest in the world.
IT is to be supposed that the diplomat, desirous
only of flattering the Chinese was by no means
Of his ground, but it appears that he has made
great hit ir Peking.-Le Petit Parisen Paris
Arizona republican., 1922-04-02
SHAMROCK LONG HELD SACRED

For centuries the shamrock together with the
ivy and the laurel, has been in special honor as a
symbol. Various three-lobed leaves have been
known shamrocks, and the belief in its mystic
symbohcal power antedated by centuries the year
when St Patrick is said to have picked it and used
it to Illustrate the doctrine of the Trinity while
preaching TO the Irish people. In the most ancient
times the tifoiate leaf held sacred in Iran.
Many mystic qualities given it before the
Christian era. l. made symbol for truth
Plny records in his Natural History that serpents
win crawl across trefoil, and mentions it as
a cure for the bites of serpents and the stings of
scorpions.-New York Sun.
Arizona republican., 1922-04-02
THE CHRISTIAN
BY Sam Simmons

by sam simmons
Each morn he sees the sun arise,
The bleak night slowly nod
Away in yonder far off skies
Where loved ones dwell with God.
His hopes like wind and wave at sea
Forever rise and fall
In tempest, sunshine, darkness, he
Looks upward through it all.
Each night when the days work is done
Whatever it may be,
He ponders if he's helped some one
Kindly TO victory.
Often ignored, unknown, it's true.
His ideals set on high,
He climbs up DER obstacles through
A faith that will not die.
The world is full of many too,
Like him where'er you roam,
Each with his cross a-seeking new
The way to God and Home.
Arizona republican., 1922-04-02
THREE TIMES AND our

Bobhy's mother was anxious to know whether
he had obeyed her injunctions and behaved like
httle gentleman at the party. He assured her that
he had
When Mrs Brown asked me to take another
piece of cake, said No thanks"
Did she ask you again?'
Yes, and told her 1 had enough But after a
while she handed the cake and asked me once
more"
And what did you answer that timer"
Il said what pa always says | told her TO take
the darned stuff away."-Boston Transcript
Arizona republican., 1922-04-02
A 1922 MODEL

'T want to marry your daughter, sir"
I'm merely her father"
"Of course, and that's why / thought it best to
consult your wishes"
"Thank you for the compliment, young man.
The only time that girl consults my wishes is
when she pauses to ask if Id rather give her check
or cash - Birmingham Age Herald.
Arizona republican., 1922-04-02
A posTPoNEo REpENTANcE

There a in Wisconsin who went to
revival meeting and pressed to repent He
wavered for time and finally arose and said:
Friends, want to repent and tell how bad /
have been but dasn't do it when the grand jury is
in session"
THE Lord will forgive the revivalist shouted.
Probably he will" answered the sinner but
he amt that grand jury."-Boston Transcript
Arizona republican., 1922-04-02
COMPROMIsING

Mr. Goode-My wife prefers tea for breakfast
while I prefer coffee
His friend-Then. l suppose, it is necessary to
have both?
tea-London Answers.
Arizona republican., 1922-04-02
TWAS JusT cE.REMoNY. suT-


When the Archbishop of Cante-.
bury entered Westminster Abbey TO
perform the marriage ceremony for
Princess Mary and Viscount Las
celles, his right OF, entery was form
ally challenged by the Dean of West
minister.
Needless to say. the dean had no
idea of interfering; with the wedding
or of pitching an archbishop I'M
ceremoniuosly in The street He was
merely exercising the ancient prerog
ative of the abbey clergy. who are
entitled to refuse recognition of su-
perior control Formal protest hav-
ing been made arid the rights of the
abbey thus maintained. the arch
bishop proceeded as he wished.
When the ceremonies for the corr
ouation OF King Edward VII were
under discussion. this right of chal-
lenge was brought to the attention OF
Archbishop Temrle, who then occu-
pied the See of Canterbury.
HIM remarked the archbishop,
with the grim smile that was cha
racteristic of him, II am the only
man in England empowered to crown
a sovereign. Suppose I accept the
protest and quit the place. What viii
happen them"
No one has yet solved the arch
bishops puzzle. Probably the deans
protest was correspondingly mild.