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eeu. i JC :-4ft.-.J.&fe-i,iMffNri PAGE FOUH THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 1, 1914 Arizona Republican's Editorial Page Th ArtaiDH Republican Published by ARIZONA PUBLISHING COMPANY. The Only pup-r In Arizona Published Every Day Id tbe Year. Only Morning Paper In. Phoenix. Dwlght U. Heard President and Manager Charlea A. Stauffei- Business Manager Garth W. Cutu Assistant Businew Manager J W. Spear Alitor Ira H. S. Huggect City Editor Exclusive Morning Associated Press Dispatcher Office, Coiner Second and Adam Streets. Entered at the Postofflee at Phoenix, Arizona, aa Mull Mutter of the Second Class. Address all communications to THE: AK1ZONA HKKL'b L1CAN, Phoenix, Arizona. TELEPHONES: Business Office 422 City Editor 433 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Dally, one month, in advance t .75 Daily, three months. In advance 2.00 Daily, six mouths, in. advance 4.00 Dally, one year, in advance 8.00 Hundays only, by mail 2.50 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 i. WW - lilf - Y t "36, J J i . 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. 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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. .$Tl.tyX10.00