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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 26, 1914
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 26, 1914
Ez fer war, I call it murder
There you hev it plain an' flat;
I don't want to go no furder
Than my Testament fer that.
James Russell Lowell.
Mr. Smith's Fences
Such weak places as may be found in his fences
will be industriously repaired by Honorable Marcus
A. Smith within the next two weeks, "and if he so
strengthens and buttresses them against the en
croachments of Honorable Reese M. Ling as to secure
renominatlon for United States senator, still the
fences will need attention for the ensuing two
months. Mr. Smith's course in the Panama tolls
legislation seemed to leave a pretty large breach in
his enclosure, and Mr. Ling was disposed, at first,
to take advantage of the opening, but of late he has
not apparently tried to enter by that aperture. While
Mr. Smith did not vote on the tolls question as a
majority of his fellow citizens would have voted, he
voted as President Wilson desired him to vote, and
the name of the president is yet one to conjure with
in Arizona. Mr. Smith learned the art of conjuring
some years ago.
Mr. Ling's advocacy of the 80 per cent, law and .
his declamation against corporations on principle
have been of some advantage to Mr. Smith. There
were some voters who rather resented what seemed
to be the new alignment of Mr. Smith, who had
always been a conservative, with the extreme rad
ical element of his party. Mr. Ling had been fairly
conservative and might easily have counted upon the
strength which seemed about to be detached from
Mr. Smith. That strength, though, has been deprived
of the inducement to change sides; it will make little
choice between an avowed and a suspected extremist.
Mr. Smith is supposed to have the support of
the state administration, and that support ought to
be able to hold all the more radical voters In line.
Two Styles of War News
Two distinct and different styles of war news
are laid before the public. Typical instances of them
appeared in The Republican yesterday morning." One
Story was from London and the other from Paris.
The story, brief as it was, was the same, but was
differently told the plan of the allies had failed.
The trap they had set, if any was set, didn't work.
.The game -they expected to take was too big for the
trap. It was a story of defeat and disaster, but how
extensive was yet unknown.
. In the French story there was a characteristic
effort at smothering the news With optimistic com
ment. The French had "assumed the offensive."
The African brigade had "been carried away by its
own eagerness," with evil result. (And, by the way,
that Is the second time within a week, according to
the" French dispatches, that the Turcos have yielded
to their impulsiveness to the detriment of the armies
of the allies).
The story runs on with "enormous Prussian
losses," and it is only incidentally and inconspic
uously mentioned that the allies had "retired," but
for which "the war would have been shortened, but
-our defenses remain intact in the presence of an
already weakened enemy." It was continually dwelt
upon that the attacks by the allies had been deliv
ered with' the "greatest courage," and there was the
comforting assurance that "the ordeal was inevitable,
but temporary." All this is interesting, but it is
not news; rather, an effort to conceal the news. We
are reminded of the story of the young physician
who rather regretfully admitted the death of the
mother and babe, but took to himself credit for hav.
ing "saved the old man."
... . The English story was a quite different relation
of the same facts. It had been, a dies irae.: How
disastrous was not yet known in London. There was
not. a word Of the courage of the English troops. It
' was unnecessary. It would have', been superfluous.
The English people would assume, in : fact, would
know, that they had fought with courage. No word
was wasted In speaking of incidental and unimportant
advantages that might have been briefly with the
allies in the two days of fighting If there had been
any, they had been submerged, swallowed up in the
totality of the disaster. It was no use to. speak of
them now; and It was no use .to speak, of things that
would have happened if certain 'other things had not
happened.. It was equally useless to speak of the
future.' None of these things iff news.
On Sunday morning London gave an Intimation
of the unreliability "of Paris news, much of which
had gone through London, where the news agencies,
were careful to fix the French authority. .; The. great
battle, London said, had begtfn. There had been no
earlier one. -All the numerous; "victories" reported
were only, the result of skirmishes and meetings in
reconnaisances. '..'." '
i The world had been excVted by ' the battle of
Liege, in which it appears no-nr only a few thousand
men were engaged. Until Saturday, It now seems,
there .had been comparatively little bloodshed. All
that, went before it was preparation for battle, the
next stage after mobilization, y , ...
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Tucson's Building' Activities
Our approved contemporary, the Tucson Citizen,
in its issue of last Saturday, presented a four-page
section descriptive of the building activity of Tuc
son at this time a most 'excellent showing. It con
tained pictures of several buildings either in process
of construction or . contemplated. Among them is
Grace Episcopal church, the Tucson Women's Club,
the new Country Club,' the Agricultural building of
the university, Tucson's new armory building, and
other structures being," or about to be, erected by
private enterprise.
But The Republican Is especially interested in -the
picture of the Citizen's new home, which is print
ed in the building section. This paper feels a per
sonal interest in that handsome structure which, we
believe, will be one of the most complete newspaper
buildings in, Arizona, and the handsomest. The in
terest and pride of The Republican is second only
to that of the architect. Though we were not con
sulted in the preparation of the original plans, this
paper figured in their revision, effecting the re
moval of a very noticeable defect which appeared in
the "approach" of one of the fronts a small dog
towing a lady along. t
When the picture was first printed, some weeks
ago The Republican, always sympathetic with the
efforts of its contemporaries to improve, pointed out
that the beauty of the building would be greatly
enhanced by the removal of the diminutive dpg. This
suggestion has been acted upon, for in the second
publication of the picture, the little dog does not
appear. He has been eliminated from the scenery,
perhaps enticed around the corner, out of sight, or
perhaps he has succumbed to the ravages of the dog
catcher. At any rate, he has been removed, effaced,
rubbed out, or "routed" out. But the lady is still
there and so ts a section of the string which for
merly allied her with the dog, but which in the pic
ture now might be mistaken for a tightly rolled
parasol. The figure of the lady is so small that
we cannot detect in her features any record of her
grief at her separation from her little pet. But
whatever may be her loss, it is the Citizen's gain.
Germany must have had innumerable Zeppelins.
Since the beginning of the war It has been a dull
day when at least one of them was not brought
down by French or Belgian artillery fire.
The agricultural department denies the report
that it advised cotton growers and other producers
to hold their products for a rise. That seemed to
us, when we first heard it, a silly lie. Even though
that might be good advice, the government could not
afford to give it, and at the same time talk of prose
cuting men who were supposed to be gathering and
holding products for a rise.
WAR
The bugles are ringing, and mad with the sound
The nations, uprising, are shaking the ground.
How fair are the victims in garlands arrayed.
The Moloch of battles is whetting his blade.
Tr.e Austrian eagle has struck down a hare,
But waken'd in fury a slumbering bear.
The czar is commanding his Cossacks go forth;
The Germans are watching the cloud in the north.
And bidding defiance with sword and with lance
They fiercely would plunge in the bosom of France, .
While England, reluctant, from out of her lair
Is growling low thunder and bids them beware.
She ranges her dreadnaughts In battle array, ;
The smoke of their cannon will darken the day;
Yet still doth the war lord in folly disdain
To call off his war dogs that tug at the chain.
At' last, through the dust of the conflict we'll see
What then will the verdict of history be?
That murder is murder like killilng my Cain
When thousands have poured out their life blood
' ' like rain. '
That nations, forgetting Jehovah, misled.
Have worshipped the Moloch of battles instead.
That widows and orphans have suffered all things
That glory might come to a handful of kings.
Francis M. Hayward.
THE SITE OF WATERLOO
Forbear! This plain is still too deaf with cries,
This soil too sanguine for thy stucco lies.
Shall Earth where reeled The Guard thy villa pen.
Where nations groaned be heard the cackling hen?
A mansion mark where in the gathering murk
Those terrible gray horsemen so did work?
Here wilt thou dare to live where such men died
And on that memorable dust reside! ,
Here only ever let a solemn moon
Uninterrupted weave a spirit-noon;
Here only falter down a pensive dew
From skies too wistful to be purely blue.
But shouldst thou build on consecrated ground,
: Then be those houses filled with spectral sound
! Of clashing battle and. the . ghostly war . -Of
charging hosts against the battered door!
Let solemn bellow of hollow cannon boom
A dreadful cavalry invade the gloom!
Until, In . awe of those who fell or fled,
The living flee from the more living dead! '
That silence now too conscious is for sound, ''
It broods upon itself and Is self-bound. ',
Then' let no builder of this field have lease, ' I
'Tis let to Time, the property of peace! .!.--
Stephen Phillips in Poetry Review-
"'.' LESSER EVIL
... The man from Glasgow had suffered grievously
in crossing the channel, and when he next had. oc-
ca'sloh to repeat the Journey he did not intend that J
there should he so much acute physical discomfort
attached to it. So he inarched into a chemist's
shop.
"Have ye anything to stay the pangs of sea
sickness?" he asked In his winning Glasgow accent.
"Certainly, sir; jwe have the very thing," said the
obliging druggist: .': , ' ' '
:. "Hoo much is It?" :
'"Half a cjown, sir." ' ' ," ' '
The Glasgow man staggered b.ack a pace, visibly
shaken. "Losh," he gasped when he recovered him- .
self, "I would sooner be seasick." London Mirror.
1; MILWAUKEE'S INCINERATOR V
i " Milwaukee" has a refuse Incinerator with a total
capacity'of three hundred tons a day. A 600-kilo-watt-hour
turbo-generator is driven by the steam
raised In a 200-horsepower boiler. , The current
from the generator is to be transmitted to a flush
ing tunnel pumping station some two miles dis
tant, for pumping water into the north end of the
Milwaukee river for flushing and cleaning purposes.
MAY NAME AMERICAN CARDINAL POPE
Vrf WIS
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Cardinals Farley (left), Gibbons (seated) and O'Connell. - " -
An American may possibly be chosen as the successor to Pope Pius by
t e college of cardinals which will meet soon in Rome. There are now three
American cardinals, any one of whom would be eligible. These three are
GiLLons, Farley and O'Connell.
Charge It
I By WALT MASON ,
"Just chalk it down," the poor man said, when
he had bought some boneless bread, and many cost
ly things, his wife and brood of bairns to feed the
most of which they didn't need as much as you
need wings. He buys the richest things in town,
and always says, "Just chalk it down, I'll pay you
soon, you bet," and payday evening finds him broke,
his hard earned plunks gone up in ."moke, and still
he Is in debt. The man who doesn't buy for cash
lays In all kinds of- costly trash, that he could do
Without; he spends his coin before, it's- earned, and
roars about it when : it's burned is that your war,
old scout? When comes the day of evil luck the
war bag doesn't hold a buck to keep the wolf
away; the "charge it" plan will work no more at
any market, shop or store; no goods unless you
pay. The poor man for his money sweats, and he
should pay for what he gets, Just when he gets the
same; then, when he goes his prunes to buy, and
sees how fast the nickels fly, he'll dodge the
spendthrift game. If you begin to save your stamps,
some day, with teardrops in your lamps, this writer
you will thank; when man in grief and sickness
groans there's naught like having fifteen bones in
some good savings bank.
A LEGEND , OF PEACE QUOTED BY JEAN
JUAREZ
And if you press me to risk a prophecy on my
own account, I can only answer you by a para
ble, which seems a little strange, still and obscure.
I gleaned It by fragments from the legends of
Merlin, the magician, from the Arabian Nights and
from a book that is still unread.
Once upon a time there was an enchanted forest.
It had been stripped of all verdure, it was wild and
forbidding. The trees, tossed by the bitter winter
wind that never ceased, struck, one another with
a sound as of breaking swords. When at last, after
a long series of freezing nights and sunless days
that seemed like nights, all living things trembled
with the first call of spring; the trees became
afraid of the sap that began to move within them.
.And the solitary and bitter spirit that had its
dwelling within the hard bark of each of them said
very low, with a shudder that came up from the
deepest roots: '
"Have a care! If thou are the first to risk yield
ing to the wooing of the season, if thou are the
first to turn thy lancelike buds into blossoms and
leaves, their delicate raiment will be torn by the
rough blows of the trees that have been slower to
put forth leaves and flowers." ,
; And the proud and melancholy spiiit that! was
shut up within the great Druidical oak spoke to Us
tree with peculiar insistence:
"And wilt thou, too, seek to join the universal
lovefeast, thou whose noble branches have been
broken by the storm?"
Thus, in the enchanted forest, mutual distrust
drove back the sap and prolonged the fleathlike
winter, even after the call of spring. .
What happened at last? By what mt.sterious
influence was the grim charm broken? Did some
tree find the courage to act alone, like those April
poplars that break, into a shower of Verdure and
give from , afar the ,-ignat for the renewal -of all
life? Or did a warmer and more lifeglving beam
start the sap moving in all the trees at or.ce? For,
lo! in a single. day. the whole forest burst forth
into a magnificent flowering of joy and peace.
Gentlemen, if you will allow me to fit my toast
to this old allegory and to give it' before you and
with you the form of an invocation to Nature, I
will drink to the sunbeam that charmed the whole,
forest into bloom.
$ c. s.Av.
Harvest Hands
By GEORGE FITCH
Author of "At Good Old Siwash"
The harvest hand is a man whose duty it is to
pile up prosperity with a pitch-fork.
He can generally be distinguished by his deep
scarlet neck. Most of the world's sunshine is con
centrated in the harvest field and after a harvest
hand has toiled for two weeks with nothing between
him and the sun but a half-acre straw hat he looks
like a lobster who has just had a hot bath.
"The second pair of bundles weigh more than the
first.?
The harvest hand follows the binder and piles
the bundles of wheat and oats into neat little, piles.
Later on he pitches these piles onto a wagon. Al
most anybody ' can stick a fork into a couple of
wheat bundh-s and hoist them gaily aloft. But the
second pair of bundles weigh -more than the first
and the 100th pair weigh twice as much. By. after
noon the green young harvest hand is pitching
haystacks instead of bundles and by night he Is
pitching pyramids.
About all the work in: the wheat field comes at
harvest time. This makes the harvest hand a
scarce and valuable institution. He gets from
$-.io to $4.00 a day in Kansas with board and a
bed in the hay loft thrown in. Thousands of placid
gentlemen who lead lives of leisure far from the
reach of a bath tub stroll out into Kansas during
the harvest to work a little at these figures. But
very fw of them set rich at it. After a man has
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rented doggedly for twenty years he is not of much
account in a wheat field where "rest" is the rarest
and most unfrequent word in the dictionary.
Many a college boy takes off his dinky hat and
pretty frat pin in the summer and goes out to Kan
sas where he tackles a wheat-pitching job and
sticks to it until he looks like the wreck of a
scarecrow. We can forgive a college boy anything
he does in winter for the feats he performs in
summer, when the rest of the world is hunting a
cool spot near the lemonade bucket.
NERVOUS IMPULSE
Despite the progress of science and the expan
sion and more precise definition of knowledge from
generation to generation, we still adhere to modes
of expression which had their origin in the cruder
conceptions of earlier days. Few persons ever stop
to consider when they speak of "a man of spirit"
that they are unwittingly employing the language
of the days of Galen. Yet this is evidently the sur
vival of the old doctrine of spirits. We may be
lieve that Galen had a conception of the nerve
trunks as conductors of something he called it
spirits to and from the brain and spinal cord. The
natural spirits were that undefined property which
gave to blood the capacity of nourishing the tissues
of the body. The vital spirits were acquired in
the heart, and when at last the blood with its vital
spirits went to the brain and experienced a sort ot
refinement for the last time, the animal spirits
were separated from it and carried to the body of
the nerve-trunks. Here, then, is the beginning of
the modern idea of innervation. The animal spirits
of Galen have become the nervous impulses of to
day. The ancient "spirits" in the nerves were con
verted into the succus nerveus of later eras, when
the rising school of physicians began to center
their interest in the properties of fluids which can
conduct disturbances without themselves traveling.
Subsequently it was the vis nervosa of Albrecht
Haller that furnished the stimulus to the muscle.
For & time this was identified with animal elec
tricity. In the present day we express the same
underlying conception by the term "nervous im
pulses." These are not electricity, but they produce
it and can be manifested by it. ' Each generation
must think and express itself in language of its
own time. Journal of American Medical Associa
tion. --.
INCOME FROM INCOME TAX
Revenue derived from the income tax in the
United Kingdom for the financial year .1913-14,
which ended March 31, is estimated at J230.000,000,
of which amount more than $130,000,000 has been
paid into the treasury.
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It has been determined by experiment that the feed
ing of silage increases the nnlk flow from 10 to 30
per cent. Think what even a 10 per cent, increase
from all the cows of the Salt River Valley would
mean. It's worth knowing about, and we have a
-by Cobuiji of Kansas which we will gladly loan
National Bank