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Spear E. O. Harrliuctoa Ganaral Munarer and Secretary Business uiuor Editor Km Editor 1 i aV m-mm- TT, rTr Ill i mmwmm. I NWI RdtfAP FRIDAY MORNING -iCalMJX' FEBRUARY 18. 1927 1 The Sheriff Means Business If a man die shall he live again? All the days of mxj appointed time will I wait, till my change-come.

Job 14:14. TVie sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a fcroAren and contrite heart, 0 God, thou wilt not despise. Bible. "This here coMPfltatf's Contribution Of Maricopa County To Tfie State Highway System The Stenographer And The Cage BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright by Frank Crane) And now appears a Boston lady who proposes that lady stenographers in sffices be put in casres, locked ajrainst susceptible employers.

The proposition is a beautiful example of the hort and simple ways in which reformers and rescuers and savers of the perishing go about to effectuate redemption while you wait. Is there a social evil? Imprison every lady whose deportment marks below 65. Country saved in one day. i. Are there thieves in the investment field and elsewhere? Call the police.

Pass a law. Jerk 'em up and No more trouble. And so onl It is the commonest kind of notion that if anything is wrong all we have to do is to enact a law, send for an officer, slap the cftlpnt a cell, and go home and continue our bridge game. That is our theory of society. It is perfectly logical, perfectly intelligent, and perfectly absurd.

it We go on applying that sort of remedy, and the evils go right on thriving under it. It never bothers us, however. We simply make more laws and hire more policemen. The fact of the matter is that, after several quadrillion words said in argument pro and con, he girl in the office is about as good as the girl anywhere else, and about as bad. If she is going to attend strictly to business she doesn't need a cage.

If she is going to wink her eye at the head bookkeeper or go out to lunch with the boos unbeknownst to Mrs. Boss, there's no use putting her in a cage; you'll have to use the vault with the time lock on it. There may be exceptions, but the very best thing as a rule to do with girls or boys, either, is to let them alone. Some of them will go to the devil, or experiment a bit. Most of them will not.

But the one sure way to make them break loose, rob a hen roost, and burn a hayrick, is to build some kind of a wall about them so they CAN'T do wrong nd HAVE to do Tight. Virtue is the product of intelligence, not of ignorance. It is secreted by freedom, not by restriction. It comes from inside the heart, not from the outside. It is a quality of life, a fiber st soul, a character of personality.

And if it is not in a person you cannot get it by planting a hedge around him. Virtue in a woman is an inward force. It is not an outward restriction. Virtue is self-respect, high ideals, right views of life. If one has not thee things, the only safe place is in the bottom of a well.

Health is everlastingly menaced by billions of (Terms. It is beyond human power to keep one away from these germs. Health is OUR TOWER OF RESISTANCE to all destructive microbes. A perfectly good little woman is absolutely safe among 475 men. A bad little woman the cage that will keep her out of mischief will have to be even better than that of the Arkansaw tight, horse high, and bull strong." It is the theory of the representatives in the legislature from this county, and it is a reasonable theory, that in view of the ffreat contribution Maricopa has made to the state highway system, the division of the gasoline tax proposed in the pendinr highway bill five-eighths to the state and three-eighths to the counties is unjust to Maricopa.

Maricopa county issued bonds in the sum of $8,500,000 for a paved county highway system, which, having been completed, $765,000 was turned over to the state in two lumps $165,000 toward the construction of a road from Hot Springs Junction to Wickenburg. and $600,000 for the construction of the slate projects Phoenix to Yuma, Phoenix to Prescott, and Phoenix to Globe, within this county. In addition there were financed in part from the county bond issue the road from Glendale to Marinette; the road from Hassayampa to Gillespie dam, and from Piedra west to-the county line, altogether, 59 miles. There were beside 44 miles of paved roads of the state system financed entirely by Maricopa county's bond issues Phoenix to Buckeye, Mesa to the Eastern canal, and Glendale to Marinette. Twenty-eight miles of paved road belonging to the state system were partially financed by this county.

Altogether, of the $8,500,000 of the bond issue, more than $2,000,000 went into the state highway system, and thus made available practically an equal amount of federal aid funds, so that the state actually received more than $4,000,000 as a result of Maricopa's contribution. And Maricopa is not yet done giving to the state system and will not be done for many years. The interest charges on the bond issue for last year were $500,000, raised by a total tax rate of the redemption fund for the year was $200,000, entailing a rate of .165. The redemption fund to be raised yearly will be in the same amount for some when it will be' increased. Our charges last year were, as we have shown, $700,000 on a mileage of 272.25.

Nearly one-sixth of that, as we have also shown, consists of paved roads on the state system built entirely from the bond issue, and on this mileage Maricopa paid for interest and redemption more than $116,000, and will keep on paying that, and a little later, more, until the county bonds have been retired. It is, moreover, paying an annual maintenance of $55 a mile on 44 miles of the state highway system in this county. For lack of segregated data, we have not included in this calculation the amount of Maricopa's maintenance, interest and redemption charges on seventy miles of unpaved roads and twenty-eight miles of paved roads in the state highway system, partially financed from the county bond issue. The total mileage of paved roads in the state system throughout the state is 88, of which, as w.e have shown, exactly half, or 44 miles, in this county was paid for by the county. It is on this showing of what Maricopa has done for the state highway system that the county's representatives in the legislature rest their claim to one-half the gasoline tax raised in the county, for the construction and maintenance of a large and necessary system of county roads in a thickly populated region of great area, for the 272.25 miles of paved roads make up but a small part of our county road mileage.

We believe hat when the members of the legislature from the other counties study these undeniable facts, in a spirit of justice they will be inclined to grant Maricopa's claim to one-half of the gasoline tax raised within the county. JSK. sisWWV 7r rat The Once Over H. mip3 ours and A University JT) of the Masses- BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN i 6 James Barton MD.

HEADACHE EVEN WITH GOOD VISION DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN DRUG STORES WERE DRUG STORES? (Copyright, 1927, by The Associated Newspapers) What are our drug stores coming to? Not so many years ago you went into them for drugs. Today you go into them for anything from a half-dozen dahlia bulbs or a club sandwich to a hunting outfit or set of wicker furniture. "I'd like ten cents worth of Dr. Willett's Famous Home Remedy for Sciatica, Warts, Headaches and Lacerations," you say as you walk into the corner apothecary shop in the belief it is mainly an apothecary shop. "We have only combination sandwiches, chicken broth and French pastry," the attendant replies without even sensing that you are a sti anger to the rapid in the drug store'industry.

Letters are going every minute from our free Information bureau in Washington telling readers whatever they want to know. They are in answer to all kinds of queries, on all kinds of subjects, from all kinds of people. Make use of this free service which The Arizona Republican is maintaining for you. Its only purpose is to help you and we want you to benefit from it. Oet the habit of writing to The Arizona Republican Information Bureau, B'rederic J.

Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. It I if I i 1 Is I i i i 1 5 The army test for the eyes at the beginning of the war was that each eye should be able to read clear cut print about of an inch in height at a distance of 20 feet. When it was found that the fighting was really by trench war fare, then the were made less severe. Now lt is possible to be.

able 1o see type of this size at 20 feet with each pye separately, and together, and yet' have eyesight that gives trouble in the form of headache, dyspepsia, Irritability. Dr. Walter Lancaster of Boston tells us that there are individuals with eyesight normal, or better than normal, who suffer from above ailments, and the eyes are the actual cause of these ailments. Why? Because the eyes are far sighted, and sometimes the two eyes are not well matched. In a far-sighted eye the eye- chamber Is so short that the object is not focused on the back part of the eye-bull as it should be, and so certain eye muscles with nerve attachment, are called into play to enable ihe eye to get the object forward on the right spot.

You can thus see'that if this nerve and muscle has to be doing this -work all the time that, the eye is open, that Is, adjust the eye to the objp-t, thn there is going to be a constant nervous strain therefrom. You Cannot Vote Unless Registered Damage, of Course But the Blessings And how can this strain be relieved? By the wearing of properly fitted glasses which do the work of adjusting the object to the eye, Instead of calling upon the nerve and muscle to do it. Dr. Lancaster points out that the fitting of the glasses is as important, as the glasses themselves. (Masses where one lens is too high and the other too low, or where the lenses are too wide apart, or too close together, means that the eyes do not look through the center of the lens as they should.

Sometimes also the glasses are too close to the face, and at other times too far away. A common mistake Is the tilting of the lena too far back at the top, that Is, with nqpe or eye glasses, whereas they should really be vertical or tipped slightly forward. There should not be a apace between the lower edges of the lens and the cheeks wide enough to admit a large finger tip. The danger of looking through "dirty" glasses is pointed out, and there Is nothing more efficient to clean ihem than soap and water followed by a clean handkerchief. These very valuable little hints come from Dr.

Lancaster by means of the Journal of the American Medical association. Tomorrow; Work and Laproty. Some of the drug stores have put. in flowers, millinery, mufflers and radio sets. The time is at hand when you can enter almost any of them and get an overcoat, a moving picture camera, an evening gown, a motor dory, a gas range, a motor plow, a bedroom set, two pecks of potatoes, a dozen eggs, a quart of scollops, or a floor lamp.

Once druggist regarded himself as a disciple of Pasteur and Jenner. Today he regards himself as a rival --of Wanamaker, Marshall Field and Sears-Roebuck and Montgomery Ward. About all that remains to be done is to issue catalogues and arrange for time payments. Q. Has thi number of leaves on an apple tree any effect upon tha qualty of the fruit? R.

K. A. Tests made at the Arlington Farm by government horticulturists showed that at least thirty to forty medium-sized leaves per fruit were necessary to obtain apples of good size and qualities. When a smaller number of. leaves was present, the fruit was not only smaller in 'size, but was low in dry weight, low in sugar content, and of poor dessert quality.

Q. What the Jewish population of Palestine? A. M. A. It i estimated that 158,000 Jews live in Palestine.

Q. Does tha government printing office manufacture its own ink? W. I. 6. A.

During the fiscal year the ink section manufactured pounds of ink. including seventy-five differebt kinds. Q. Should one accompany a guest to the front door when he is leaving? F. B.

Or perhaps, if quite up to the minute but somewhat careless, you walk unsuspectinglyto the first counter and say sweetly, "I'll take a cup of coffee and a piece of pumpkin pie with cheese," only to be met with the reply, "I haven't that, but I can let you have something just as good." "What is it?" you inquire. "Lithicums Antiseptic Lotion, Dr. Jimerack's European Body Builder, a nice $45 camera for $22.50, both volumes of Dreiser's 'American Tragedy' or a banana frappe," is the reply. Whither are we drifting? Originally the American, drug store was primarily a drug store. It was a rather dingy herb-scented hole in the wall to which a man went when somebody was either sick or in need of a postage stamp.

A decade or so ago the proprietors began putting in writing paper, fountain pens, soda water and Christmas gifts. Today a drug store has become a combination quick lunch room, mail order houe, department store, norelty shop, candy kitchen, ice cream parlor, bakery, soup kitchen, hardware storo, camera supply branch, sporting goods storo and saloon. Study of a Florida Type Behold the meanest of the mortals This season of the year brings forth; He sits on southern beach and chortles At news of cold waves gripping North. Cool drinks beside the sea he's swigging And nothing makes his feature glow Quite like the headline, "City Digging Itself Out of Six Feet of Snow." More Truth Than Poetry By James1 J. Montague vsr: -rm It has happened before, but it was an epochal event, that the sky over a large section of the world was overcast and was dripping rain or sending down snow, emptying the cloudy reservoirs.

There was at least one time in Europe recorded in history when for a considerable period there was such general and prolonged precipitation, but we do not recall that there whs ever such a widespread visitation in this country as we have recently had. There has been considerable damage in many parts of the country. Arizona has not escaped, but whateyer losses may have been sustained have been offset thousands of times by the wealth which has been stored in our reser voirs and the soil. The stockmen are assured of a prosperous season and we of the valleys have been lulled by the falling rain into forgetfulness of such a thing as a shortage of water. The floods are still pouring into Roosevelt lake, so that we may hope that the.

enlarged reservoir and the lower lying ones will be filled, storing enough water for several years. The weather bureau has done itself proud. If thera are 'any favors it wants, now is the time for it to ask for them- while the people are feeling grateful. PS? Do You Remember There are only three days more for registration for the city primary election. This, by the way, is a supple- mental registration, the regular registration having taken place a ago for the primary and the general election of a mayor and two commissioners.

At that time the number of registrations was about 7,000. During the' present, registration there have come forward only about 100 voters. There ought to be a good many more. The total number of citizens eligible to registration in Thoenix is not less than to 18,000. In the exciting campaign of 1922 for the election oft a mayor and two commissioners, with two opposing groups well organized and working, the registrations were in the neighborhood of 12,000 and the number of votes cast at the election almost 10,000.

There is the usual misunderstanding and confusion about registration, voters believing that since they registered for the state and county election last fall, they arc qualified to vote at all elections. There is no relation whatever between those elections and the city elections. All who expect to vote at the city primary and who were not registered for the city election a year ago, must register within the next three days. The coming election, though falling in what we are apt to regard as an off year that is, when no mayor is to be elected, will be a very important one. The very rapid growth of Phoenix, which promises to be more rapid, has brought many problems to the city which must be met.

A. If one Is living informally it is hospitable to accompany a guest to the door of the house or apartment when he is leaving. A hostess whose home is conducted upon formal lines bids good bye to her guest at the door of the drawing room. Q. Why does the air grow colder with height? L.

M. A. The earth and the atmosphere are heated by sunshine. A large part of the sunshine comes directly through the atmosphere and Is absorbed by the earth. The surface of the earth thus warmed heats in turn the atmosphere at the surface.

This heated air expands as a result of the heating, thus becomes lighter and is pushed up by the denser air round about it. As it is pushed up the pressure on it gets less and less by the weight of the air left below. It therefore expands pushes out against the diminishing pressure. That is, it does work, but does it at the expense. of its own heat.

In this way the ascending air gets cooler and cooler with Increase of height, Q. What is the last date a person might file a claim against Mexico for losses to mining companies dur 20 Years Ago Feb. 18, 1907 The work of putting up the new court house fence was begun yesterday under a contract between D. H. Burtis and the county.

One section of it along the front entrance to the court house was put in place and a amall section along the street. Even that much added several thousand dollars to the appearance of the grounds which have been handicapped for several years by a rabbit wire fence, separating the public from the posies. Judge Blakely, a member of the legislative council from Mohave county, late on Friday night received a telegram informing him of the death by shooting- of his son, John Blakely, that day. The telegram contained no details of the shooting, which it was later learned was suicidal, taking place while the young man was on a hunting trip. John Blakely was the eldest son of Judge Blakely and was 37 years of age.

George Olney, who came down from Graham county last week primarily to attend the convention of county supervisors, left for home last evening. Mr. Olney is engaged largely in the stock business and during his visit here he took pains to look over the herds in the valley both for beef cattle and dairy stock. H. M.

Lewis is in town from the COMPENSATION Though Fortune may deal you a blow Which your own peace of mind may destroj'. It is always a comfort to know That your grief may bring somabody Joy. Tliniizh yoti almost ar drivan poor devil drink Wy tb wallop which you've been accorded. You mar smile through jour arowlg when you happen to think pu.e is rewarded. To cull an example from lif A iiraiua it tnree broken hearts: An actor falls out with his wife.

And she packs up her trunks and departs. And though she once was so foolishly fond So trusting and loving and lunny. She gets a bright lawyer to put under bond Her husband's five millions of money. The actor you may have deducted lias reason to feel rather sad, But the lady's career gets a boost By the aid of a rattling good ad And the wife before that he was harnessed up twice-Having learned of his marital capers Gets a dollar a word, or some other fair price" For the stories she sells to the papers. 1 The actor may suffer a bit From so great and engrossing a shock.

On cannot be gay, we admit, Whn one's assets are mostly in But although tha future seems barren of fun And his life patterned somewhat on Hades, He ought to rejoice for the good he has done To two very excellent ladies! The Chicago health commissioner says that kissing sometimes kills babies. It has also been known to cause homicide among the adult ing the revolution beginning in I. D. M. A.

The Mexican claims commis sion says that the last date for filing claims for losses to mining com panies during the revolution of 1310 waa August 18, 1926 This may be extended six months if satisfactory evidence of the need of such exten sion is presented to the committee. 40 Years Ago Feb. 18, 1887 PRESCOTT, Feb. 18. Anderson of Yavapai introduced a bill to repeal the payment of bonds on the uncompleted railroad in Yavapai county.

Anderson's motion to reconsider the vote for Min's bill creating the county of Miles was lost, 19 to 9. Anderson gave notice of a regulate the economical use of water. Ming gave notice of a bill to regulate freights and fare3 on mountain roads and to preserve the peace. The council passed a bill re. peeling an act regarding sheep.

This is all that amounts to anything this morning. Local News A large attendance was had at the council chamber last evening of the firemen of the city and events of importance transpired. About thirty of the members of Phoenix Engine Company No. 1 tendered their resignation for the reason that they had organized and became members of the Aztec Hook and Ladder company. Their resignations were accepted.

A pro rata of the funds on hand was voted the Aztecs. Secretary J. W. Wright being among the number who resigned, I. Neltstetter was elected to fill the vacancy, and Lohman as second asxist- ant in the place of Sehwarz, who had also gone with the H.

and L. hoys. Whepley and Spangeburg were placed on the finance committee in the place of McNeil and Coats, who were among the number tendering their resignations. This action makes the organization of an effective fire department complete. Governor Zulick is in a quandary.

He has arrived at a point where he must choose between Mr. Farish and the democratic party. Well, Governor, this is hard lines, truly. But why not chuck 'em both overboard and give the people a chance? J. L.

Fisher, the well known Prescott merchant, has purchased from Roger Cate the latter's fine bunch of dairy cattle, probably the largest and finest band of its kind in Arizona. The price -paid we have not been able to learn, but it is said that Mr. Fisher secured the stock at bargain. East Is Too Effete for Mrs. McPherson Q.

What ia the biggest building ever erected? R. M. K. A. The main building of the Buf falo world's fair of 1902, more strictly known as the building of Manu factures and Liberal Arts, Is the largest building ever reeled by man.

It covered and cost st. Peter's at Rome ranks second to this structure in size. Q. Who was the first of Abra ST? ham Lincoln's children? C. S.

B. Here is one thought about the international agreement to abolish gas in warfare. Such an agreement gives the fellow who doesn't intend to keep it a big edge on the other fellow. there are not much interested in evangels, whatever guises they assume. Terhaps, also, they resent her as an exotic from the Pacific coast in competition with those attractions which are loudly calling for the ministrations of a censor.

If McPherson believed that her adventures, beginning last May 18 and bringing her within the shadow of a criminal prosecution, would draw large and remunerative audiences throughout the country at large, her tour on which she set out so triumphantly must have disillusioned her. Elsewhere she encountered silent disregard. It remained for New York and Boston to register affirmative disapproval. A. The eldest child waa the late Arlington section on the lower Gila.

He brought up fifty head of beef cattle which he disposed of to Tribolet and Hurley at $3.25. Recently he sold Robert Todd Lincoln. He was born August 1. 1843, In Springfield. Illi Mrs.

Ainiee Semple McPherson must think that the people of the East, though capable pf swallowing camels, gag at gnats when they discountenance her lectures to the extent of denying her access to the radio. We can easily see why a well ordered community might frown upon the evangelist, but we would not suspect scruples in cities which throng theaters to see and hear the "Drag" or "Peaches and Daddy." But perhaps they would be more tolerant of her if she would appear in the role which made her known to the country instead of that of an evangelist who owes what country-wide fame she has acquired to an episode which was not at all creditable to her. We should suppose, too, that the folks back for shipment to the coast eleven' cars nois. His death occurred July 26, 1926, just before his 83rd birthday. of beef cattle which brought him $4.

Q. I have an old porcelain olate bearing a coat-of-arm and the mot to: "A Ca-lra." What does this mean? L. J. K. He has several carloads more that are about ready for the market that he expects to get a better price for.

It ia understood that beef cattle are strong at $4.25 and that one lot was sold recently for $4.37 A. We have been Informed bv the French Embassy that the meaning of the inscription to which yon A special train on Saturday brought SHINING MARKS SInclalrLewis has now exposed business men, doctora and clergymen. We are now eagerly awaiting the book which will deal with politicians. DEFINITION A modern playwright Is a man who looks at life through dirty glasses. TIMES HAVE CHANGED Every district is a silk stocking district today.

refer depends largely upon the idea in the mind of the person who con ceived it. Generally speaking it over a large number of people from Tempe to witness "Julius Caesar" at the Dorris as presented by Charles B. Hanford. means "It wilt do," "It goes well or "Everything ia all right,".