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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 25, 1914
111 'll Arizona Republican's Editorial Page f il
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A Damaging Dispatch
The just indignation of the Arizona Star hits been
aroused by tile publication by tile Kl Paso Tillies of
it special dispatch from Tucson describing an anti
Mexican demonstration there last .Monday. Tile
story lost none of its luridness in the flaming head
lines of the Times: "Race War in Tucson,'1 "Police
Reserves Called out," "Situation So ".rave That
City Council Holds Special Night Session and In
creases Police Korce."
The real trouble at Tucson seems to have con
sisted of the discomfiture of a foolish and. perhaps,
drunken lluertista by some Americans who resented
his loud "vivas" for the dictator with whom the
nation hud just engaged in war. There was a co
incident but apparently unrelated strike by some
.Mexican laborers employed in street paving work,
instigated by I. W. W. agitators. There was prob
ably no more disorder in Tucson thru day than might
have been witnessed In any city of similar size in
the United States.
"Race War" lias an ugly sound fur it conveys
the impression that a good many people filled with
racial hatred are engaged in it, armed with weapons
more or less deadly. A correspondent may greatly
damage the town in which he lives by informing
the outside world that there are conditions there out
of which a race war might spring. It was still
less helpful to Tucson to be pictured to the world
as a place likely to be disastrously affected by a
.Mexican war, though, in fact, life and property are
as safe there as if Tucson were north of the Ohio
river.
But the people of the north anil east whom Tuc
son is inviting and for whom it is building hotels
and for whose adniiration it is beautifying itself, do
not known that. Many of them believe that it is a
border town, just as many people believe that all Ari
zona towns are situated on the frontier surrounded
by savage beasts and men.
Tile average correspondent feels that he en
joys a license to embellish facts, but he should re
frain from blackening them and putting them in
fiuoli a form as to make his town a scare crow. The
telegraph editor of the Times should have known
enough of Tucson to warrant his exercise of he
blue pencil if not the waste paper basket on that
misleading and damaging dispatch.
We do not mean that the correspondent should
conceal facts. If Tucson or Phoenix or any other
town becomes a danger point it is proper that the
public should be informed in order that the dan
ger may be avoided-
The Business Methods of Congress
AVhat is needed in congress more than any
thing else seems to be, a business manager somo
liody to direct the expenditure of the funds which
congress appropriates for tile conduct of its own
business. Exceedingly loose methods have been
disclosed by the demand of a young lady clerk of
the committee on expenditures of the house, for pay
for her services.
The debate over tile question of making an
appropriation for her pay at the rate of $l,", a
month brought out several surprising but undis
puted facts. She hart been employed by the chair
man of the committee as acting clerk of the com
mittee at the above named salary, she, hail per
formed all the. clerical services that had been pel
formed liy anybody. The chairman had promised
her that congress would make the appropriation.
Jle had employed her without authority. But with
the authority vested in the chairmen of "11 com
mittees he had previously appointed a regular clerk
who had since drawn his pay month liy month,
out of the contingent fund- That clerk had never
performed any service and none of the members of
the committee who took part in the debate had ever
seen him in the committee room. (July one of
them had any idea as to bis identity. He thought
that the name of the clerk was "Uaker; Joe Baker."
Where .Mr. Raker resided the congressman did not
Know. -j -
It is not certain that the young lady clerk will
get her money though it is unanimously admitted
that she earned it. The chief objection, and, per
haps, the only one is the fear of establishing a
precedent for the unauthorised employment of
clerks. It was suggested that the chairman might
simplify matters by paying her out of his own
pocket, but as the chairman was either absent or
declined to take part in the controversy, that re
mained merely a suggestion
One congressman, Mr. Mann by the way, learn
ing that the. young lady had not received any salary '
at all, at, the end of either the first, the second
or the third month, was of the opinion that she.
was guilty of contributory negligence and could not
be heard to complain if she were never paid. Ho
believed that her failure to receive her salary at
the end of any month was sufficient legal notice
that her services were no longer desired and should
have' been regarded by her as a notice to quit. We
have heard of such a thing in private life as stopping
tlie pay of an employe, leaving him to surmise if
he chose that he had been fired, but his pay was
not stopped while his service was going on. Such
a procedure as is suggested in the remarks of Mi
.Mann would not be regarded as honest outside the
halls of congress.
Talking for Villa
The asperities of the war are smoothed anil
softened by the El Paso correspondents when they
clothe the alleged expressions of General Villa with
flowing and fantastic drapery. Regarding the tele
gram of Wednesday night from Carranza to Presi
dent Wilson, Villa is made to say that it wan
written "with the brain of a Saxon and the soul iff
a l-atin" Many statements, some of them contra
dictory, said to have been made by the rodoiibtahlo
warrior were garbed in high-flown language by the
correspondents, in the dispatches which emanated
from Kl Paso on Thursday.
Probably if General Villa were asked to describe
the distinguishing characteristics of the Saxon, the
Latin and the Frabjious Jiibberuok, he would find
himself confronted by a much more serious task
than the taking of TorreOn. Even his rumored, in
tended capture of Kl Paso would seem easier.
General Villa is a plain soldier, a valiant one
and a self-made one. It is said that he learned to
read in a Mexican jail where, from what we have
heard, we believe there is less attention given to
culture and refinement and the pursuit of the fine
arts than in the state prison of Arizona. The course
bgun by General Villa probably did not extend to a
study of the races, and since his emergence from
jail we have reason to believe that the general lias
been too busy to pursue his educational career along
peaceful lines.
"With the brain of a Saxon and the soul. of a
l-atin'." Mayhe the correspondent knew what he
meant. We don't and we feel sure that General
Villa wouldn't if the expression should ever b
brought to his notice-
The Commission's Forward Movement
The new city government has been in power less
than three weeks, but it has given proof of its pur
pose thoroughly to modernize Phoenix. Phoenix is
already modern so far as the energy and public
spirit of its private citizens could make it. but our
manner of handling public matters had fallen be
hind the times.
Tlie way in which the commission and manager
have set about handling the garbage uestion, by
the installation of an incinerator, must commend
itsi If to all citizens. Phoenix has grown too, large
to maintain a garbage dump any longer. The
garoage question lias grown to such proportions that
it must be met and solved.
In many other ways the commission and man
ager have given an earnest of their purpose to give
the people the kind of a government they had a
right to expect under the new charter- Generally,
the appointments of officials have been wise ones.
We believe that efficiency has been the main con
sideration in making them. We are pleased to ob
serve that the commission has established a rule
for the peremptory removal from office of all who
impair their, efficiency by indulgence in alcoholic
liquors when there is a demand upon them for effi
ciency. The tempered war news of yesterday oilers us
the pleasing prospect that we may remove our
shock-absorbers with safety.
A Globe woman is threatening to organize a
regiment of rifle-women for service in the Mexican
war, (if there should be one). The war department
should be informed of this, as of any other peril.
An American soldier killed by a Mexican foe with
malicious intent would be no deader than one slain
by a misdirected bullet from a rifle in the hands of
a well-meaning and patriotic country-woman.
HOW A BABY LOST $12,000
In the May Woman's Home Companion appears
a very interesting article entitled "The Safeguard
ing of the Child." by Julia C. l.athrop, chief of
the Children's Bureau in the United States depart
ment of labor. Iu the course of the article Miss
l-athrop shows the importance of the registration
of births. She makes the point that thousands of
children's lives could be saved if in the first few
hours of life they could have proper attention. She
also proves that in the United States no proper
records are key.', of births- In the following extract
from her article she tells the story of a case
where the failure to register the birth of a child
cost the mother dearly:
"The importance of a birth record is very
well illustrated by the case, recently brought to the
attention of Children's Bureau, of a young Swiss
immigrant, who. coming to this country and settling
in Indiana, was killed, leaving a widow and infant
child. The mother, in dire poverty, had trouble to
keep herself and her baby alive by scrubbing and
sewing. One day there came to her an official let
ter from the government of Switzerland, staling
that her kite husband's brother had left twelve
thousand dollars to this child. All that was de
manded was proof of Identity, with the customary
birth certificate. Rut there was no such certificate,
and the much-needed money was lost.
"Another instance of the kind, likewise in In
diana, had to do with a farm which was left to a
girl by her grandfather. Being twenty-one years of
age she was entitled to the property. But a dis
pute arose. Her father, who had the use of the
farm during her minority, claimed that she was
only nineteen. Theie was not birth certificate to
prove her age. But, happily, a neighbor remembered
that a valuable cow belonging to the grandfather
had given birth to a calf on the same day that the
girl was born. ' The birth of the calf had been duly
recorded, and, this evidence being accepted by the
court, the young woman obtained possession of
her farm.'
"Did he decide to marry her?"
"Yes: but she reversed his decision." May
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Officers leading Michael P. Mahoney
from courtroom; Frank L. Polk.
That Michael P. Mahoney, the man
who last w-eek attempted to shoot
Mayor Mitchel of New York and
wounded Attorney rrank L. Polk in-j
stead, is insane is the belief of some ;
alienists who have interested them- j
selves in the.ca.se. Mahoney was in j
the habit of attending the daily
meetings of the Industrial Workers '
of the World, and was always great
ly infiamd by the speeches he heard i
at these meetings. He had just at- j
tended at. I. W. W. meeting: before
he attempted to kill Mayor Mitchel. '
Farm Notes
BY H. L. RAN N
We have our own opinion f the tanner who
lakes liis boys out of school just at the age when
they are able to straddle a cultivator or strip a
heifer. If you want your son to grow up with a
noisy vacuum where his head ought to be, take
him off his books and tie him to the plow handle
at fourteen years. You may have a contempt for
book "larnin'," bat it Won't be a snet-r compared
to tlie contempt the lad will have for you if lie tries
to break into one of the professions with the mental
equipment of a spring lamb. You owe it to the boy
to give him the best education your means and his
brains will stand Tor. Deny it to him. keep his nose
to the grindstone, get all you can out of him before
he becomes a village loafer, and when toi-y plant
you on the hillside they will have to hire mourners
from outside the family. The boy may have some
pride, if you haven't, and when he mixes with edu
cated young people, who have learned something be
sides how to splice a whiffletree or set' a disc har
row, he will mnrvel at their acquaintance with
books and men and topics w hich are as' strange
to him as a hobble skirt on a Hottentot. Then,
too, the day has gone by. brother, when a six-pry
ignoramus with a capacity for punishment in th"
hay field makes the best farmer. It isn't going to
feminize your son to know something more than
the three R's. If he is the right sort, h won't look
down on his dad. either. 1ecunse he can untangle a
French quotation or distinguish the style of Thack
eray from that of Bertha M. Clav.
VARIETIES OF HUSBANDS RECOMMENDED
TO YOU
In the April American Magazine James Mont
gomery Flagg contributes a piece in words and pic
tures entitled "The Care and Feeding of Husbands."
Below are reproduced some of his recommendations
as to husbands-
of the traveling-salesman husband he says:
"Here is the ideal pet: That is, or course, if
you can put up with a loud bark and' rather bi
zarre coloring. They should rank high ns popular
pets for the main reason that they :re no care at
all. They attend to feeding themselves ami never
are at home. And yet they belong to you! They
are exceedingly friendly and will answer to a vari.-ty
of names, such as Ho. Kiddo. old Man, Cul, Brother,
Old Pal, and Pard. They are not water-loving ani
mals. We have no hesitation in recommending
theio."
Of the English husband he says:
"The march of the centuiies has made no change
in this sturdy animal. Their love of hunting and
killing is perhaps their most endearing quality.
They will never distress you by coming home
bleeding or mangled as they do not attack animals
of their own size- They will eat anything except
rea! food properly cooked. This is technically known
as patriotism. Fanciers in Kngland claim prepos
terous human qualities Tor them but this may be
laid down to native enthusiasm.
"Applications of arnica are excellent for
bruises."
HAND IN HAND
"I tell you Pat, my boy," the big man of the
town confided, laving a patronizing hand on the
young Irishman's shoulder, "T wish T had your
tongue."
"Sure, sor," grinned Pat, "lint it would do yez
no good without me brains." Jvluy Woman's Flome
f 'ompanion.
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Attorney Polk, who was shot in th
face, is recovering rapidly.
Now man goes forth and makes his garden, a
hard' and painful grind; and then the crime beyond
all pardon destroys his" peace or mind. His neigh
bor keeps a string of chickens, ami they, inflamed
with greed, come o'er and scratch to beat the
uickeiis. and dig up all the seed. And then the
m..n w hose wasted labor has set hiin seeing red,
walks o'er to see that hennish neighbor and mani-
lire:: his head. Thus village feuds are ofien started,
and people raise tile deuce, and men and dames are
broken hearted because soni" hens ran loose. In anv
(own where leggy chickens run loose, in scorn of
law, you may be sure that trouble thickens, ami
hearts are sore and raw. old hens and roosters have
created more trouble, caused more tears, than could
in seven weeks be stated by seven auctioneers If
ou must keep a herd of Dorkings or other brands
ol fowls, oh, take them where their frantic workings
won t stir up grief and howls. To some lone wilder
ness escort them, some desert far away: there yon
may cuddle them and sort them, and watch the
blamed fools lav.
HIGHEST BUILDING WEST OF THE
MISSISSIPPI
The highest building west of the Mississippi, a
page view of which appears in the May Popular
Mechanics Magazine, has just been completed in
Seattle, Wash. The tower rises 4".0 ft. above street
level, and is so conspicuous that it is already being
used as a beacon by mariners in making their vfa,y
on Paget Sound, and it is planned to have it il
luminated at all boms of the night to make it
available for this use night and day. The building
covers a lot that is Pts by V' ft. The main struc
ture is 21 stories high, and to this the tower adds
1- stories. In addition to this there are two stories
below street level. The height to the lantern at
the top of the tower is equivalent to 42 stories.
The foundation rests on 1.278 concrete piles driven
to a depth of ,"i0 ft. below the surface, n building
toe foundation 4,n barrels of cement and more
thai- l.dilii tons of steel were used. On the-foundation
piles a total weight of "li.atio gross tons will
be carried, the steel for the superstructure alone
weighing 4,7:;:: gross tons.
Chickens
By WALT MASON
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UNDER THE SNOW
The snow and the rain
Are falling together.
And there on my window pane
The frost makes pictures out f niy ;ii;hs
As look for those everlasting eyes
That I shall not see again,
April or winter weather.
Yet the snowdrop whispers under the snow:
"I, too, am dwelling beneath the ground.
But in spring you shall se be blow
Like a long-lost jewel found:
And thy two bright sleeping eyes
Shall wake as they were before.
And thy long-lost face shall rise
Through the soft green graveyard floor.
There is much music under the ground,
Said the snowdrop under the snow.
Richard Le.Oallietine in May Smart Set.
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