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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 1, 1914
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FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 1, 1914
Only great sinners can understand
great saints, and only great saints
ran love great sinners.
Dion Clayton Calthrop.
Punish the Speed Violators
Chief of Police Brisbois deserves the thanks of
tho community for his vigilance ami his diligence
in the pursuit of those who violate the traffic or
dinances by over-speeding, or otherwise neglect the
regulations with respect to signals and lights. The
most frequent cause of accidents Is speeding ami
when an accident occurs from that cause It is apt
to be a, serious one. Outside the central business
district, many drivers not only give no heed to
the speed ordinance but manifest a fierce joy in Its
disobedience. Numerous compiaints are made by
residents along Central avenue and those having
business on the avenue, of the recklessness ofmany
drivers of automobiles and motorcyclists, and their
neglect of the most ordinary precautions.
The activity of the police can only assist in
breaking up these dangerous practices. There must
lie the earnest co-operation of the police court which
should in every case impose such weighty punish
ment that the same offender will never appear be
fore the court twice. The second, offense, if there
should be one, should mean a jail Sentence in addi
tion to a heavy fine.
It should be. borne in mind by the court that
traffic ordinances have been enacted for the pro
tection of life and property and that a possible re
sult of their violation is always the destruction of
life or property. That serious results may not al
ways follow violations of the speed ordinances should
not be set down to the credit of the violators. They
have done their part toward it by their thought
lessness and recklessness.
The very excellent rule against riding bicycles
on sidewalks is regularly broken by a large number
of riders, both old and young. They should be
brought promptly before the court and the treat
ment of them there should be mucli more than ad
monitory. ,'o very serious injury is likely to re
sult fom a collision between a bicycle rider ami n
pedestrian but damaged or ruined clothing is a very
likely result. Sidewalks are to he walked on and
not ridden on. No impassable condition of the
street is an excuse for riding on a sidewalk.
A Developing Drama
When we set out to capture Tampico and Vera
Cruz, (the former being still at large) we could not
see whither the expedition might lead us though we
thought we saw through , to the end. But there
have been many unexpected turnings, some of them
seeming to lead us back to the starting point. Nov
elties in the situation are developing every day,
and the president and Mr. Bryan profess to be
pleased with all that turn up.
A week ago when Senor Carranza protested
against our seizure of Vera Cruz, we kindly assured
him that we bore him no ill will; that we were not at
war with him or the Mexican people; it was only
the scalp of Huerta that we were alter. It was no
affair of Carranza's at all and w ith that view , of
the- case he afterward seemed to agree.
..Now, come the Pan-American diplomats and
propose that Carranza be made a party of the third
part, to the peace proceedings. Carranza accepts
with the alacrity of a boy invited to a Sunday school
picnic for which he has been dieting for a week, and
the president and Mr. Bryan express their gratifica
tion at the prospect of settling something, we do
not know what, with Carranza with whom we have
no dispute.
We are led to inquire, if Carranza had nothing
to do with our quarrel with Huerta a week ago,
how he has since become involved in it. lie is not
coming into the negotiations as a mediator and ac
cording to our late contention lie cannot-be a party.
Unless some limitation is placed upon the South
American diplomats and the exercise of their friend
ly offices is restrained, . the first thing we know
they will bring in the SevJs 'Indians, the natives' of
C.allapagos and, perhaps, ultimately the Fiji Island
ers as interested parties of the first, second, third,
etc, parts. - . -. -
We set out to demand reparation for an in
dignity offered to our flag. What we are, now alter,
outside the charmed circle of the South American .
gentlemen, nobody seems to know. But, with a
beautiful faith in providence and in the Brazilians
and the Chileans and the. Argentinians the president
and Mr. Bryan cheerfully go wherever they are led.
Cochise "Justice"
; We are interested in the very pointed remarks
of the Bisbee Review on a gross mls-earriage of
justice at Tombstone the other day, the acquittal of
Haigler, a murderer of whose guilt no doubt was
raised in the course of the trial. A man named
Haigler had slain an unarmed man in a restaurant
at Bisbee. One shot killed a bystander and a third
shot wounded another man. There had been some
trouble between the murderer and the man whom
he intended to kill. The trouble was over a woman
who whs with Haigler at the time of the shooting.
The victim made no demonstration at the time of
entering the restaurant.
Why the murderer was acquitted we have not
been informed. Why the average Jury re-ache am
conclusion is frequently Incomprehensible. In this
case, the jury probably found (-vcu.se in the cir
cumstance that the murderer believed that ids ene
my was going to kill iilm. He did not know that
his enemy was not armed but he himself with greater
foresight and in violation of the law was "heeled."
The Review calls the verdict, "Arizona 'Justice.'"
We do not like that caption. The outrage by the
jury should have been more definitely localized
A better caption would have been "Cochise 'Justice.' "
Such a thing might, of course, happen in any
county In Arizona, but wherever it might happen,
in Cochise or Maricopa, the stigma should attach to
the county and not to the whole state.
But we are especially interested in the follow
ing: "The recent trial at Tombstone assumes un
usual importance because It was staged at a time
when murmuring are heard throughout Arizona
about the suplneness of justice in this state, when
it comes to dealing with murder cases. Whether
these murmurings are justified is beside the mark.
Critics of Governor Hunt voice the charge that his
leniency is responsible for the cheap appraisal on
human life in this state, lli.s failures to carry out
the law relating to capital punishment are bruited
broadcast."
We have, never defended the attitude of (Inv
ernor Hunt toward murderers. We believe thai he
has done himself and the state harm; we do not
believe that his suspension of the law in the in
terest of condemned murderers is best for so
ciety. We think, however, that the Review is in
error in supposing that there is any relation be
tween the attitude of the governor toward con
victed murderers and this verdict of the Cochise
county Jury. Before Governor Hunt's time in Ari
zona, here ami elsewhere, juries committed outrages
of this sort. The low appraisal of human life as a
result of a mistaken leniency may have contribute !
to the Bisbee restaurant scene but it could have
lwen In no way responsible for the finding of the
jury in the Haigler case.
NEWS AND FICTION
(Christian Science Monitor)
The vast majority of people demand their news
and fiction distinctly separate and any confusing of
the two on the part of the newspaper only loses
for it the support of readers' who consider this in
troduction of "fake" news in the light of an insult
to their intelligence. This so-called faking in
newspaper reporting is as morally wrong and harm
ful as the adulteration of food. No thinking man
will bring a newspaper into his home which is in
any way harmful to himself or his family or that
wilfully misinterprets and misrepresents public
opinion.
EUROPE'S NOTED RIVERS ARE ONLY CREEKS
The "eBautiful Blue Danube" is Nothing But a
Sluggish Muddy Creek"
Take Europe's rivers now historic rivers, if
you please. You are traveling heaven help you on
a continental train. Between spells of having your
ticket punched or toin apart, or otherwise mutilated,
and between spells of getting out at the border to
see your trunks ceremoniously and solemnly un
loaded and unlocked, and then as ceremoniously re
locked and reloaded after you have conferred largess
on everybody connected with the train, the. customs
regulations being mainly evised for the purpose of
collecting not tariff but tips between these periods,
which constitute so important a feature of contin
ental travel you come, let us say, to a stream.
. It is a puny stream, tut we are accustomed to
measure streams, boxed in by stone walls and regu
lated by stone dams, and frequently it is mud-colored
and, more frequently still, runs between mud
dy banks. In the West it would probably not even
be dignified with a regular name, and in the Kasl
it would be of so little importance that the local
congressman would not ask an annual appropriation
of more than half a million dollars for the purposes
of dredging, deepening and diking it. But even
as you cross it you learn that it is the Tiber or the
Arno, the Kibe or the Po. and, such is the force o!
precept and example, you immediately get all ex
cited and worked up over It.
English rivers are beautiful enough in a re
strained, well managed, landscape gardened sort o;
way; but we Americans do not enthuse over an
English river because of what it is in itself, but be
cause it happens to be the Thames or the Avon
oecauc.e of tne distinguished characters in history
whose names are associated with it. Hades gets
much of its reputation the same way.
I think of one experience I had while touring
through what we had learned to call the Dachshund
district. Our route led us alongside a most Incon
sequential looking little river. Its contents seemed
a trifle too liquid for mud and a trifle too solid
lor water. On the nearer bank was a small village,
populated by short people and long dogs. Out in
midstream, making poor headway against the semi
gelid current, was a little flutter-tailed steamboat
panting and puffing violently and kicking up a lath
er of lacy spray with its wheelbuckets in a manner
to remind you of a vecy warm small lady fanning
herself with a very large gauze fan, and only getting
hotter at the job.
In America that stream would have been known
as Mink Creek or Cassidy's Run, or by some equally
poetic title; but when I found out it was the Dan
ube no less I had a distinct thrill. On close
examination I discovered it to be a counterfeit thrill;
but, nevertheless, I had it.
By the same token I also found out that day
why they call the Danube the Blue Danube; for
yellow is one of the component pigments in it to
turn a whole ocean blue if properly mixed with
nough green. And the Americans aboard that train
could have supplied the greenness, too, and never
missed it, they would have had plenty left.
POCKETS NEEDED
An Iowa surgeon removed from a four-year-old
boy fourteen carpet tacks, three cartridges three
rivets one nail, a ball of paper, a piece of chalk,
sixteen inches of twine and a small iron bar, from
which one would Judge that It is about t'ru- that
the youngster had pockets In his tr ni-w.-v-Bosion '
Vrf'nwript.
PRESIDENT ASKING CONGRESS
This picture, taken at a few minutes after 3 o'clock on Monday afternoon, shows President Wilson making
his request to congress for authority to use the military forces of the United States to compel respect ior the
nation by the Huerta forces in Mexico. Loth houses of congress were assembled together in special session.
At the right of the picture, pointed out by the arrow, may be'seen Secretary Bryan.
NORTH DAKOTA ON THE WAY TO JOIN BIG FLEET AT TAMPICO
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rtorth Dakota and some
Farm Notes
BY H. L. RANN
If oi buy :i second-hiinil article, make u; your
niinil to he stuns ami look pleasant. T!ie;e is n", th
ing that will hret-1 profanity in th,. pi-, as lire ist
quicker than a second -hanil binder. , hav e in
mind a K""d hrother. an cld.r in the .l .thodisi
church, who bought a iiindi-r which .was in its sec
ond childhood iif a neighbor who iniii.l p.-;.y limner
and louder than anybody in the township, and when
he led it out to the field anil poked its nose in the
ripening f;rain it stuck in over three liio-.red differ
ent places- and fell apart so fast that the premises
looked like the interior of a free clinic The man
whose Miurch vows will prevent him from skinninK
the eye-teeth out o a trustful brother in the sale
of a sell-binder or an old model bay take has real
religion.
one of the worst pests on the farm is th" red
ant. A colony of these ants i. in cause a bonsev. il'c
more trouble than a hired nirl u;th the jenii i y.-.
There is no remedy in science that we know of ex
cept bnrnintr the hor.s. down. Xotliini; is mole un
pleasant thrtn to pick a family of red ants out of the
butter in the presence of invited quests whose sense
of humor was stunted in early life. You can put a
pair of newly wedded ants in a red cedar refrigerator
on Monday, and inside of twenty-four rcuirs thoy
will have the icebox looking like a reunion of the
Jones family. The red ant and the Relsian hare
have made the race suicide theory a tjliastly joke.
The nible tells tile shipyard to go to the ant, but
if you give him an opening the. ant will go to the
sltigsrard in every dish at a seven -corrse dinner. We
consider him a hopeless proposition
THANK YOU, MR. M'CLURE
Afr. Steffens had done some articles suces:
for Ihe magazine and had been nsl'ed to job
staff as desk editor. It seemed to me that he
be better qualified for the position if he be
ully
th'e
imld
amo
familiar with how the magazine staff writers did
their work, so he was given simply a roving com-msslon-
Miss Tnrhell suggested that it might he
worth while to have an article on certain admir
able aspects -of the city government of Cleveland.
Po Mr. Steffens went out there, with no definite
idea in his mind. Tie went as far as Kansas City,
.Mo., and in the office of Th' Star, a newspaper
singularly well conducted by an editor and staff of
unusual quality, he learned of the extraordinary
work of Folk in St. Louis. From ;he Autobiography
of S. S. Mcflure in Mcflure's Magazine.
A REAL TEST
"Before I consent to your enaaeement with my
daughter, I must be sure that yon are a good busi
ness man. Supposing now, a long and hard frost
were to come on and you had a warehouse full of
manufactured ice, what would you do with it?"
Flicgendo matter.
SELF-MADE
He Xohody's groins make a fool of me today.
She Of course not. Anybody can see that you're
a finished job.
FOR AUTHORITY TO FIGHT HUERTA
members of her crew.
Bleak Days
By WALT MASCN
The clouds are gray and grim today, the winds
ate sadly sighing; it seems like fall, and over all a
sheet of gloom is lying. The dreary rain beats on
the pane, and sounds a note of sorrow; but what's
the odds'.' The genial gods will bring us joy tomorrow.-.
We have the mumps, the doctor humps him
self around to cure it; we're on the blink and often
think we simply can't endure it; to all who list w
gtoaa. ! wist, and tell a hard luck story; buy why
be vexed? Week after next we'll all be hunkdory.
Tho neighbor folks are tiresome blokes, they bore
us and annoy us; with such folks near it's amply
dear that no one can be joyous; tilings would im
prove if they would movt we reaily do not need
them: but let's be pay! They'll move away, and
worse ones will succeed them. The world seems sad,
sometimes, my l id, and life is ;i disaster; but do not
roar; for every sore tommrow brings a plaster. The
fool, he kicks against the pricks, all optimism scorn
ing; the wise man goes his way he knows joy corn
et h in the morning.
A LOS ANGELES DIVERSION
I Homer Ooy, in Leslie's)
Tlie principal diversion of Los Angeles people is
eating in cafeterias. I didn't know anything a hour
i'atetet"ia:i until I get to l,os Argc-les and acted as
my own waiter and messenger boy. Vou walk down
the aisle to where there is a Htaek of trays, take one
ami then pick up a napkin. In this are rolled a
knife, a fork and a couple of spo-ins. Vou fall into
line, sliding your tray along the railing and picking
out the things that you yearn for most-
They have the prettiest girls behind the dishes!
The managers seem to have searched everywhere
to get the prettiest thy could find, but I don't see
where they come out ahead on it. I was always
clear past the dishes, away down at the end of the
lir.e, before I would notice what was on the coun
ter, r.ut that is my favorite way of going hungry.
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stale. ' .
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Kven when they have boys, and you look along
the dishes carefully, you always discover when you
get down at the end of the line that there is some
thing that you want back at the beginning and that
there are a dozen people between you and the dish.
You get a plate of soup here, run over to Hol
lywood for asparagus, then trot hack to town for a
plate of prunes. By the time your tray is filled
you are weary and travel-stained. Vou try to hurry
on, but there is always a thick, heavy-set man in
frcnt of you who is trying to buy them out. Afler
the thick, heavy-set man has laid in his summer
stock, you slide your tray alonf? till you come to a
girl sitting behind a pile of chips. She keeps star
ing at your tray till you begin to wonder where she
was raised, when she hands you a slip of what yon
owe. This is to he paid as you go out. It always
ends in odd cents never in five or ten. A person
always thinks that he is getting off more cheaply
when it ends in nine.
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