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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 1, 1914
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exclusive; it comes easy. It takes a
large nature to be universal, to be
inclusive. Ralph Waldo Trine.
A Manufactured Sandstorm
It looks very much as if Mr. Bryan was making
the execution of Vergara hy the Mexican federals an
excuse for throwing sand into the air to obscure the
Benton episode. Yergara, of Mexican extraction, was
an American citizen, or, at any rate, is said to have
been an American citizen. He was murdered, pre
sumably, while in the custody of the federals, for
what reason has not been clearly explained. Nor, so
far as we have been informed, has anyone in author
ity been responsible for his murder. Vergara was
not a man of sufficient importance to arouse the
enmity or even attract the attention of those high
in authority. It is improbable that Huerta ever
heard of him until the news of his murder was
seized upon by our government as an occasion to
assert its protectorship of American citizens in Mex
ico and instantly demand reparation.
Scores of American-born citizens have been
murdered or maltreated in Mexico within the last
year without exciting the administration to such a
show of resentment. When su,ch incidents have
been brought to the attention of Washington, official
regret has been expressed, but it has only recom
mended to surviving Americans to get out of that
trouble-ridden country.
But now, in the case of Yergara, who is not an
American by blood, the administration, before the
facts of his murder are known, before it has been
ascertained by whom he was murdered or on what
pretext, sternly holds the federal government re
sponsible and demands that it produce and punish
the murderers.
No one can believe but that for the killing of
Benton, a British subject, presumably by the hand
of Yilla, the responsible head of the revolution, and
the consequent demand of Great Britain for an in
quiry into the circumstances of the killing, we
should have heard of the Vergara afafir. Consid
ering the friendly attitude we have taken toward the
constitutionalist cause and the responsibility we
bear to foreign nations for the safety of their citi
zens in Mexico, we have proceeded with great dila
toriness in the Benton inquiry; as if we feared it
would disclose beyond question the guilt of Villa. In
the opinion of the world, that crime is already fast
ened upon him, and our administration appears to
have found an offsetting crime necessary and has
seized avidly upon the Vergara incident.
Mosquitoei and Grafters
Craft and inefficiency go together. Rather, in
efficiency goes before; graft follows immediately
after. By inefficiency we do not mean inefficiency
of men, but methods. Grafters are apt to be very
efficient. Some of them would be good public ser
vants if the opportunity to be dishonest public ser
vants were not left lying around Tor them to stumble
over. For that obstruction the people are to blame.
We have at hand a little leaflet, issued by the
Bureau of Municipal Research of New York, dealing
with the subjects of mosquitoes and grafters which
are more nearly related than we would at first sus
pect. Both pests may be easily controlled if we ,
go about it in the right way. Both have breeding
places which are easily discoverable, and when we
have cleansed those places we have destroyed the
larvae of the mosquitoes and the grafters. Mos
quitoes breed only in stagnant water. Grafters
breed in stagnant public opinion, called apathy. One
way of exterminating mosquitoes is to apply scien
tific methods to their breeding places, and one way,
and the best, to exterminate grafters is to install
scientific methods which will abolish their breed
ing places.
The illustration is carried further: for instance,
mosquito bars do not exterminate mosquitoes. They
merely show that mosquitoes are at large and are
multiplying. Grafters seen through jail bars only
show that they have lately been at large. Both bars
are symptoms of the existence of the pests. We
can get rid of neither of them by means of bars.
As long as we stay behind the mosquito bars, the'
mosquitoes cannot hurt us, and the grafters which
we have behind the Jail bars can do us no harm, but
they are few compared with the great number of
grafters who are not behind jail bars and who iare
coming to life in the breeding places of inefficiency.
A Tucson woman, with a nose for crime, the
other night called the police to head off a burglary
which was being planned in front of her house.
When the police arrived, they found two prominent
citizens who had happened to meet at that point
and engaged in a discussion of a mining deal. Such
a crime as was being planned is not burglary. It
comes under the head of grand larceny, more spe
cifically described as "robbery from the person."
But we are speaking only of some, not all, mining
deals.
Th Jury
Again we wonder why are juries. Last week
a woman was acquitted at Clifton of the murder
of her father. The circumstances as related were
briefly these: This woman, who was married or
had been married, was visiting at the home of her
father. He had remonstrated with her upon her
practice of remaining out on the street at late
hours, such a remonstrance as any father who cared
for the good name of a daughter might offer. One
night she returned late with another woman, the
companion of previous nightly excursions, and again
the father chided her. The shooting followed.
At the trial the plea of self-defense was offered,
and a stick was introduced as a weapon which
the father was holding in his hand at the time of
the shooting. This stick had not figured in the
story of the crime at all, though it had been told
in the minutest detail. But the stick so impressed
the jury that it disregarded the fact that the man
had been shot in the back; and returned a verdict
of not guilty.
One juryman, with either more sense than the
other eleven or with a greater regard for his oath,
believed that a crime had been committed and voted
for a verdict of murder in the first degree. Unwill
ing to put the county to the expense of a new trial,
he yielded at last and joined in the verdict.
It will perhaps be a long time before we abolish
the jury system in this country, where there was
never really any reason for introducing it. it hud
its place in the early days of English freedom.' We
are getting rid, hqwever, of the grand jury which we
once held to be a sacred institution, and in time we
may progress so far as to discard the trial jury.
The Clifton case is not an isolated one. It is
one of many, of so many, in fact, that the entire
system has been brought into disrepute. It is doubt
ful whether in any case a judge trained in the
weighing of evidence and with responsibility fully
centered upon him would not in all cases better
measure justice than any twelve men untrained and
with their responsibility so divided that it sits
lightly upon each.
LITTLE JAMES
(What, With Insurrectionary Movements at Horns
and Abroad, th Government ic About o Have
Its Hands Full)
Presdent Wilson sez to Willyum J. O'Brien, his
F'urrin Minister of th- Gospel of Peece, "You got
to git this here Messican Wor off our Hans pretty
.soon now. We can't have it draggin' along til
Crissmus agin. I don't care how you do it, just
so's it's done, fer we got to have our Hans left Free
to deel with th' Democrat Insurreckshun which is
Doo in Arizony about now.
"I Understand 'at they's to be a Uprisin' agin
Guvner Hunt at a meetin' at Tooksoon on March
th' 25 to see who'll be his Suxesser as Guvner. Guv
ner Hunt is to be th- Wherty of th' Arizony Wor.
In th' Meentime they's severle Pervishnle Guvners
like Guvner Hughes, Guvner Worsley, Guvner Woods
an' a Hole Lot more which I have fergot, fer I
ain't got no memry fer long lists of Names an' Fig
gers. "They's a lmpreshun among these here Per
vishnle Guvners 'at they got to Co-operate some If
they make any Hedway with th' Revolushun I
understand 'at th' Revolushunists has got a Lot
of Ammynishun stored in th' Vicinity of them three
Strongholds of Guvner Hunt, th' State Prison, th'
Reform Skool an' th' Pie Neer Home. After th'
Fall of these here Strongholds, the Movement agin
th' Capitle is to be Undertook.
"We got to git reddy to handle this here Sit -uashun
with our Ushle Skill an' Diplomassy an'
Pertect th' Intrusts of Furriners an' Innercent
Bystanders. I want to git John Lind back here
from Very Crooz as soon as I can to send him to
Arizony to Passify th' Fackshuns out there some
how." "You ain't a-goin' to Reconnize this here
Wherty I meen Guvner Hunt?" sez Mister O'Brien.
"No,'' sez th' Presdent, "I ain't a-goin" to Rec
onnize nobody in Arizony. I can't refoos to Recon
nize 'em on th' Ground 'at they's Assassins, but I
think 'at all of 'em 'd like to be if they got a good
Chanst an' could ketch wun anuther when they
wasn't Lookin'."
' I'm glad to know it," sez Mister O'Brien, "but
if you was a-goin' to Reconnize anybody, Per
vishnle Guvner Hughes 'd be my Choice, fer I've
always et at his house when I was in Feenix."
"No," sez th' Presdent, "we can't Reconnize no
body but them Dellycates to th' Baltimore Conven
shun which voted fer Chump Clark an' I'm Recon
nizin' 'em as fast as I git a Chanst, whenever they
come up neer th' Pie Counter. But nobody else can
Reconnize 'em when I git through with 'em.
"We got to be a Little More Strick with Ari-'
zony'n we been with Messico. We can't lift th'
Umbrago on Orms like we done in Messico. It
didn't make no Diffrunce how many Messicans kill
ed wun anuther, but we can't Spare no Democrats
In Arizony 'cept Chump Clark Democrats. We
want to avoid as fer as Possible Permiskis shootin'
In Arizony." . .
"I gottcha," sez Mister O'Brien. "We'll Watch
an' Wait in Arizony, too. I'm th' most Expert
Watcher an' Waiter 'at's ever filled th' Secretary
of State's Portfolio. I b'long to th' Watcher an'
Waiters' Union. I ain't got nothin' to do but
Watch an' Walt till th' Show Talkwa seeson opens
next Summer an' then I gotto git Bizzy."
LITTLE JAMES.
WHAT IS AN INCH OF RAIN
The weekly news letter of the department of
agriculture states that on every daily weather bul
letin or chart the amount of rainfall at various
places during the preceding 24 hours is printed in
inches and hundredths of inches. In a general way
the public understands that a rainfall of two inches
in one day is heavy, and that one-tenth of an inch
is light, but no attempt is made to associate the
linear measurement of the w-ater with its equivalent
in weight or bulk. This is necessary for a proper
understanding of the actual quantitative of value
of the rain, and the few figures following may
prove of assistance in making calculations: An
acre of ground contains 43,560 square feet. Conse
quently a rainfall of , one inch over one acre of
ground would mean a total of 43,560x144, or 6,272.
640 cubic inches of water. This is equivalent to
3,630 cubic feet. As a cubic foot of pure water
weighs about 62.4 pounds, the exact amount varying
slightly with the density, it follows that the weight
of a uniform coating of one inch of rain over one
inch of surface' would be 3,630x62.4, 226,512 pounds,
or 113 1-4 short tons. The weight of one United
States gallon of pure water is 8.345 pounds. Con
sequently a rainfall of one inch over one acre of
ground would mean 27,143 gallons of water on the
acre. Riverside Press. y
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Lady Shackleton.
This is the latest photograph of the charming Lady Shackleton. wife
of the polar explorer, Lieutenant Ernest Shackleton, attached to the British
.navy. Lieutenant Shackleton is preparing for another dash to the south
pole and is much interested in the contemplated round the world flight in
an aeroplane. . ...
INTERESTING FACTS
Lucien Jones, son of Sir Arthur Jones, the dis
tinguished British dramatist, is a reporter on a
Chicago newspaper.
Dean C. Worcester,, for tjvelve years secretary
for the interior of the Philippines, says that base
ball will do more to civilize savages than the
Krag.
George Rozet, a French author, commenting on
his country's rapidly growing taste for athletics
and the new literature which it has inspired, says
there is "a veritable Homeric dawn of sporting
poetry."
Governor Glynn of New York will recommend
in a special message to the legislature that it es
tablish an agricultural credit system as a means
of reducing the cost of living.
Don Alfonso Washington Pezet, son of the
Peruvian ambassador and an attache of the lega
tion at Washington, has written an American com
edy entitled "Marrying Money."
Colonel Clement A. Lounsbury has had a bullet
extracted from his leg. It has been lodged there
for fifty years without his knowing it. Washington
physicians performed the operation.
Andrew Carnegie has accepted the invitation
to attend the Star Spangled Banner Exposition
in Baltimore next September, and has promised to
call a special meeting of the international peace
advocates for the occasion.
W. L. Bullard of Danielson, Conn., has present
ed to each of the 162 children in the primary
grades of the public school of his town a tooth
brush, a tube of tooth paste and a can of tooth
powder.
George W. Evans of the interior department at
Washington has had the handling of $350,000,000 in
thirty-five years without making a mistake of so
much as a cent in his bookkeeping and disburse
ments. Jean de Reszke Is to open a branch school of
music in America because he is convinced that
"the greatest singers of the future will come from
the United States."
Caruso prides himself on his ability as a cari
caturist, and does not hesitate to make merry with
pen and pencil at his own expense. His latest
sketch shows him as Riccardo with a face like the
rising sun.
PLUCK IN DEFEAT
A recent Socialist candidate said of his defeat:
"At any rate we put up, we Socialists, a brave,
if hopeless fight. And how, in our defeat, we are
as cheery as the traveler. He bought a ticket and
then, going out on the platform, said:
'"How soon does the train start?'
"'Why there she goes now,' said a station
hand. 'You've just missed her.'
"The traveler leaped onto the line and set out
in pursuit of the train with all his might. But in
two or three minutes he came trudging back over
the ties.
"A laughing crowd had gathered, and the sta
tion hand said:
" 'Well, did you catch her?'
"'No,' said the traveler, 'but by jingo, I made
her puff.' "
THE OTHER CAR
Some salesmen are eqval to almost any emer
gency, and do not spare the "ether car" when occa
sion requires.
"But the Blank enr is guaranteed for life,"
protested the prospective purchaser to a salesman
of the sort.
"Yes, I know it is," retorted the quick-witted
salesman, "but our car is guaranteed for a whole
year."
It required several moments for the prospective
purchaser to see the point.
JUDE JOHNSON'S JOKE
Jude Johnson repaired a broken window pane
in his house today, and then came downtown and
told the reporters he had remodeled his house.
Atchison Globe.
A BRITISH FARM LABORER'S WIFE
My visit in this place was to Mrs. Radford.
Her husband was working two miles away. He
is a farm laborer, earning in the ordinary way 13
shillings a week more, of course, in harvest, less
in bail weather; sometimes, says his wife, it has
been only 4 or 5 shillings. He is a man over 50
and a steady fellow.
Their home is one of the small, partially wood
en houses common in this district. The ceiling of
the one living room Is the floor of the upper rooms,
with the underbeams exposed, minus plaster. Mrs.
Radford appears to do the best that is possible
with her limited space for the work-a-day pur
poses of life. Now her children are grown up it is
easier. She has no scullery or "back place," no
copper or washhouse; she shares one water tap
(outside) with seven other houses. Up-stairs are
two small bedrooms, one of which is used by the
son who still lives with them; the other she and
her husband now have to themselves. The only
garden is the pocket handkerchief-like portion in
' the front. The rent is 2s 6d a week. Her husband
rents an allotment at 4s 4d a year.
As I talked with Mrs. Radford I thought she
had been lucky in having had only five children.
If that shocks any reader, let her try to imagine
herself Mrs. Radford and she will understand.
The Radfords married 33 years ago, when his wage
was 11 shillings, and they then paid a rent of GO
shillings a year. "Things were cheaper then," she
remarked, when I expressed the thought, "How
had you the courage to do it?" She had had no
holiday all those years, though once she went to
Southend for the day, and there have been occa
sional festivities such as Sunday school treats and
flower shows.
In her early married life Mrs. Radford said she
used occasionally to earn four or five shillings a
week in the summer by fruit picking, but the farm
where the work was obtainable is not now run
ning. That was "a great help." Her children got
very little besides bread and the skim milk that
was cheap. She usually went from Monday morn
ing to Suturday night without anything but bread
and butter to eat. "If I had any of the very little
meat I could get I could not give him (her hus
band) so much.
"Often I used to say to myself," she continued
in reminiscence, "on a Monday morning, 'the Lord
only knows how I'm going to keep on till Saturday
night.' But you must keep on it your home is to
keep on. My husband often says he does not
know how I do with the money." Gwen Leslie in
London Chronicle.
Secretary Bryan'scompleted arbitration treaties
with Switzerland, Denmark, and Uruguay take a
great load off our minds. The thought of war
with them was terrible. Memphis Commercial
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A TIP FOR YOUNG HUSBANDS
The younger man had been complaining that he
could not get his wife to mend his clothes
"I asked her to sew a button on this vest last
night and she hasn't touched it," he said. At this
the older man assumed the air of a patriarch.
"Never ask a woman to mend anything," he
said. "You haven't been married very long, and I
think I can give you some serviceable suggestions.
When I want a shirt mended I take it to my wife
and flourish it around a little and say, 'Where's
that rag-oag?'
'"What do youi want of the rag-bag?' asks the
w ife. Her suspicions are aroused at once.
" 'I want to throw this shirt away. It's worn
out.' I say, with a few more flourishes.
"'Let me see that shirt my wife says, then.
Now John, hand it to me at once.'
"Of course, I pass it over and she examines it.
"'Why, it only needs'; and then she mends
It." Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
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