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PAGE TWO i HE MOHAVE COUNTY MINER AND OUR MINERAL WEALTH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1918. Carry On! and OUR MINERAL WEALTH ' " Official taper of Mohave County Issued Weekly by the ( MOHAVE COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Kingman, Mohave County, Arizona, under Act of Congress of March 1, 1879. W. G. DAMON Editor and Manager ANSON H. SMITH....... ...... Mining Editor Subscription rates $3 per year, payable in advance SENTIMENT AND JUSTICE Lest maudlin sentiment pervert justice the people of the United States should allow their minds to revert to the days i when France was on her knees asking for an armistice and peace from the then victorious German armies. Then did the Germans exact from the defeated aid disorganized French the last pound of flesh and the last drop of blood. The French were given three weeks to set up a stable government with which terms of peace would be made. While the people were electing an assem bly and organizing the new government German armies policed France. From Paris they exacted $40,000,000 from the people and looted millions .from other cities. And the terms of peace were more drastic. The French paid an indemnity of $1,000, I 000,000 to the Germans and had to giv up one-fifth of Lqrraine I and all of Alsace, the richest pqrt of France. And until the I indemnity was paid Germany continued to police France. Not bntil the fall of 1873 did the German army get out of France and ! it was with great reluctance that the army was withdrawn across the line. i The terms laid down by the allies is far less drastic than those l imposed on the French. They simply ask them to give up the loot taken from the invaded territories and to make reparation in part for the foul atrocities committed. And after giving their solemn assurances that the armies would be taken out of Belgium and France these fellows were going home loaded down with plunder of every description.' Every principle of de cency was violated by them, and assurances were ample that v no written agreement would be binding upon these Huns. Every solemn pledge was but a scrap of paper with everyone of them from the kajser to the private 'citizen, and we have no especial reason to believe anything that they promise at this time. The German women have asked the good offices of Mrs. Wil- son and Jane Addams for the return of the stolerMrains and loco motives that Germany may prift thereby, and that the people may be fed at the expense of the allies. If -the German people were other than what they have shown themselves to be they might be entitled to the sympathy. of the world, but any sym pathy shown is wasted upon one of the most damnable peoples this round old world has ever known. When all is known of what the soldiers of Germany have done to the invaded terrP tories and thei rpeople it is impossible that one spark of .sym pathy will enter the bi-easts of a human being in any part of the world, no matter if starvation visits every part of Germany. Just think of the desolated territories, the women and chil dren carried into slavery, the ravished womanhood and the cruci fied babes, the starvation of prisoners and the wanton destruc i tion of the world's cherished works of art, and every base device ( to destroy and wreck and make useless anything of value that could not be looted and carried away from Belgium, France, J.. Jtaly, Serbia, Rumania, Greece, Poland and Russia, , , .,,,, 1"J"' And now when thspector of famine, the wolf at the door, . appears in Germany, how they howl for food that the suffering they imposed on all their enemies may not come to them. . " When all the world is fed and there be enough left over to feed Germany she may be rationed as she deserves, but not till then. -, Ijt Justice be done the German people, but let it be justice, not f sentiment. ! 1 I - a-'"' -' t Remember when our boys were being marched through the towns of Germany as prisoners the women stood at the curb and spat in the facesflof these brave fellows. Yes and even spat in their food before it was given to them. And think of the boys who were so unfortunate as to be taken prisoners by these Huns and who have died by the roadside of starvation after being re leased by the armistice. And those who were able to get back to the lines were almost skeletons, the result of starvation, although the-allies sent plenty of food into Germany to feed all of them well. Even their clothing was taken from them. When these boys come back to America and our people learn from them of all the needless bloodshed, and all the foul things that the Huns have committed, we hope there will be an end to maudlin sentiment. , DIRECT PRIMARY UNPOPULAR ( One of the laws that years of trial has proven to be a farce 'is the Direct Primary. What it sought to rectify it magnified a hundredfold that of purchasing nominations. It is said, that the race for the governorship in the democratic party cost some of the candidates more than $50,000, and we are inclined to be lieve it to be true. Even if a man is careful and frugal in ex penditures, if he visits all parts of the state and uses placards and newspaper space, it will cost him well up in the thousands, and if he is successful he will have to make the round again for the general election and do the business all over. Arizona has in no way benefited by the direct primary in the securing of good men to office and we do not believe any other state has been benefited. Many things can be lodged against the old party con vention system, but we must say that a better class of men were brought out for office. You did not find so many of the other party padding the conventions as in the present condition of our primary law. Few of the men who carried through on both re publican and democratic party tickets at the last election would be considered in a convention of those parties because of the fact that republicans, socialists and democrats register with the dom inant party in every state and vote with it in the primaries for the poorest timber on the ticket in the hope that they will be able to beat them out at the election. This is not true of the con " vention system, where men will have to show honest conviction, at least. If the law was so amended that 'the man receiving the majority of all the votes cast at the primaries would be declared elected, it is possible that it might mitigatehe evils o fthis sys tem. But it is more than probable that many of the states will return to the old convention system, the delegates to be elected by some form of primary. but the big companies have made every effort to keep up a big tonnage, although it has momentarily depleted the reserves. Arizona is now producing practically fifty per cent of the cop per of the United States. ' WINNING (Apologies to Kipling) by Robt. Hon sum. "What makes you save your olive stones?" the Thoughtless Waster cried. "ine government nas asKea tor tnem" the Patriot replied. "I don't see what it wants of them,"the Thoughtless Waster cried. "It wants the carbon that they make," the Patriot replied. "SO we're gathering up the cherry pits, the peach stones and the'shell Of walnuts and Brazil nuts and of Hickory nuts as well. And the youngsters hunt for butternuts in every dale and dell, To furnish the materials for carbon.'' "WHMAT do they want the carbon for?" the Thoughtless Waster cried. "To manufacture gas-masks," the Patriot replied. ''And a carbon respirator in a gas-mask over there Will save our boys from gas attacks. Come 'on and do your sharel "WE dare not waste one single stone let's give them all they ask! it lane two nunarea peacn pits to equip a single mask. And they've given you and me and everybody else the task. Of furnishing materials for carbon." Conserve Your Tires Patriotism demands that you shall save sugar in your home. 300,000 motorists too, are saving their tires for 5,000 to 15,000 more miles of service by using Gates Half-Sole Tires Guaranteed puncture-proof. That means rubber, tire-fabric, shipping space and labor, released for the service of the nation. You get puncture-proof tire serv ice, yet they cost only Y2 . as much! The national demand for conservation has developed no more remarkable ec onomy than this. You owe it to yourself to inves tigate before you buy -another tire. GATE52TIRE5 Registered U. S. Patent Office Authorized Service Station I,' , VULCANIZING GASOLINE USED CARS . OILS SECOND HAND GOODS The H. Y. Basham Co. Beale St., at 5th Kingman, Arjz. Phone Blue 113 COPPER MINES RECORD BREAKERS The mines of Arizona, although handicapped by lack of men and materials, as well as the attacks of influenza among the em ployes of mills, smelteries and mines, will break the record. Other mines of the United States, while not being up to the usual production, will be reinforced by the new properties just coming into production. -The y,ear, as a whole, indicates the production of a record breaking tonnage of copper. Without the immense production ofthis state the government would be in dire distress, What Determines Meat and Live-Stock Prices? Some stock men still think that Swift & Company and other big packers rcan pay as little for live-stock as they wish. Some consumers are still led to believe that the packers can charge as much for dressed meat as they wish. This is not true. These prices are fixed by a law of human nature as old as human nature itself the law of supply and demand. When more people want meat than there is meat to be had, the scramble along the line to get it for them sends prices up. When there is more meat than there are people who want it, the scramble all along the line to get rid of it within a few days, while it is still fresh, sends prices down. When prices of meat go up, Swift & Company not only can pay the producer more, but has to pay him more, or some other packer will. Similarly, when prices recede all down the line Swift & Company cannot continue to pay the producer the same prices as before, and still remain in the packing business. All the packer can do is to keep the expense of turning stock into meat at a minimum, so that the consumer can get as much as possible for his money, and the producer as much as possible for his live-stock. Thanks to its splendid plants, modern methods, branch houses, car routes, fleet of refrigerator cars, experience and organization, Swift & Company is able to pay for live cattle 90 per cent of what it receives for beef and by-products, and to cover expense of production and distribution, as well as its profit (a small fraction of a cent per pound), out of the other 10 per cent. Swift & Company, U. S. A. - "The Highway Garage" (Located where you can't miss us we see you -come and go) As you come to town stopt and sec us we can give you some .pointers r As yoU leave town stop and see that .you,have .not forgotten to get your oil, gasoline, a spare tire or some one of the million and one accessories that we carry to relieve the weary motorist. BEECHER GARAGE Phone Green 19- -Free air and water- -Kingman, Arizona mmmmxmmmmmmmmmmm& Don't iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmiiiiiimimmiiimmi use wastful carbon lamps. USE THE ECO NOMICAL MAZDA LAMPS. Don't iimiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimiiiii light the kitchen fire to broil, fry, or toast -DO IT AT THE TABLE WITH ELEC TRIC GRILL AND TOASTER Don't iimimiimiiiimiiiimiiii worry about wash and ironing days SAVE A DAY A WEEK WITH ELECTRIC WASHER AND IRON. Don't miimmiimimiimmiiii v DELAY BUYING YOUR LD3ERTY BOND Using electricity means real Economy, Effi ciency,. Comfort, and. Convenience and more time for war work V DESERT POWER & WATER CO. Kingman - - Chloride &W4ttrH ni-