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T1IE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, TUESDAY MORNIXO, MAY 18, 1015
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HKSOAY MORNING, MAY 18, 1915
Tin' best that we find in our tra
wls is an honest friend. Fie is a
fortunate voyager who finds many.
Roliert Louis Stevenson.
Not the Business Wsy
The senate consideration of the house appro-1-ii.Ttion
bill in the committee of the whole, indi-
;iii-s a purpose to make cuts in the appropriations
w herex er possible. It is the expression of a belief
that loo nitii'h money has been spent in the tran
:..iioii of the pulilie imsiness. The fixing of the
salaries of c!er!:s anil stenographers is found to
! :t difficult business and it is made more and
moie plain that our wnole system of providing
help for the public offices is wrong and in contra
lictinn to the practice employed in private busi
ness, a practice whiih is the outgrowth of experi-
m -. It is absurd, oi course, ti" try to establish
a siiisle standard of salary (jvr stenographers, that
i. lo sav (hat all stenographers should receive the
(ami salary, regardless ot differences of iiialif'.-
ai.on. Kiially absurd is the view that steno
graphers and other attaches who work only a pait
.! the time should tie paid the same salary as those
win. are employ-d all tin time.
We think that a better aud easier way could
1 found by the legislature for dealing wiln this
oiestioii and that would be to m.ike a careful sur-
t-y of the work and needs tif the various offices
i'iii b -partmeuts and on the lasb- rf efficient ser-
ice, make a lump appropriation to cover those
in eds and no more. That world place the respon
sibility for the business-like expenditure of ill;;
iifiiev on the heads of the departments or ofiiccs
w her- it should be. They would then employ sucl;
lu lp as would enable t'uem. lo make the lust show
ing. If there should be work for a ?75 stenographer
a .-tenogruphcr would bt employed and if a
S I '.ii -demographer or clerk were needed one of that
? .ii.lf would be ei.ipioyed.
There are in many of the offices, v.e under
M.r..l. iMisilions for which first class clerks or
stenographers are not required and in which one
an not be profitably employed just as there art
sin b positions ill private business houses.
A legislature may ascertain what assistance
is necessary lo the conduct of the business of an
i.: I i.e. but it cannot tell how many assistants will
be n.. ltd unless it knows something of their capa
bilities and that the legislature cannot know for a
liiod of two years in advance.
Worse Than Useless
Following our remarks yesterday on the? subject
of the senate Frank memorial we would again
trti- the house of the legislature not to complicate
it by such an amendment as has be n proposed,
l-v in let ting the capital punishment question, ad
dressing the memorial also to the Arizona board
." : .anions and puroles in the Interest of the men
at Florence who are sentenced to be handed.
smu an amendment would leave the memorial
without force to accomplish the puriose intended.
H would convey to the governor of Georgia not
the impression that the Arizona legislature believes
Frank to le innocent but that whether guilty or
innocent, he nor any other n.an ought to be hanged.
We -ould not expect the governor of Georgia to
revei- sii h a communication at this time, with
patience.
But tbere is another reason why the memorial
should not be so amended. However ell dis
H.sed the Arizona liouru of pardons might Lie to
ward the wish of the legislature in this respect,
the liuard would find itself disinclined lo act for
a teuson which has been overli-oked. Of all the
votes cast for and against the proposed law tor
the aliolition of capital punishment not oiit was
in the interest of the men now at Florence.
Even if the initiated law promising the aboli
tion of capital punishment had lieen adopted by
the iK-ople the very terms of it would incline the
Uuird not to interfere in these cases for there was
in the .imposed law no prayer for he men already
under sentence.
Section 1 of the proosed law provided:
"That the penalty of death fhall never be
assessed. ImiMised or inflicted for any crime
-ereafter committeed in this stale.
"Section 2. That all acts or parts of acts in
-.inflict herewith are hereby repealed; existing laws
however being continued in force as to all crimes
committed before this act takes effect."
The main reason why this amendment to the
Frank memorial should not be. adopted :s that it
would render that memorial utterly futile at a time
when from all over the country appeals are being
I -ou ted in i!in the governor of Georgia to save
that unfortunate young man.
It is worse than useless, therefore, to embar
rass the board by requesting it to do a thing which
even those who favored in principle the abolition
of capital punishment reframed from asking it
lo do.
The Belligerents' Points of View
There is a danger of even a great nation losing
the perspective or failing to outain the perspective
at a time like this. Lather, we should say we are
likely not to get the true proportions. We have a
grievance against two great nations encased in
the Kuropean war uiKin -which may hang the ver
existence of the one or the other. To them, there
fore agreements among nations are of small im
portance in comparison with what is at stake. A
few months ago the phrase a "scrap of paper' as
applied to a solemn international agreement
seemed a scandalous thing. Today we are inclined
to look upon it as a very natural thing.
Both of these great nations have lately bri ken
faith with us. Great Ju-itain was the fiiwt ol
lciuler by interfering with our commerce. It de
clared a blockade shutting off our commercial in
tercourse with Germany though it w.is not pre
tended that the blockade was effective. We pro
tested as loudly as the sucking dove but Great
Britain stood firm. She lurther restricted our for
eign commerce by piohibning our dealings with
neutral nations through which articles not hitherto
defined as contraband might reach Germany, a
matter in which we could have no concern. The
business of Great Britain in such a case wan t.
see that it should not be transshipped to Herniary
Again we protested mildly and agSin Groat Britain
stood firm. Our rights were subordinated to Great
Britain's need and we cannot greatly bline Great
liritain from the point of view of a belligerent
for employing every instrument for the crippling
of the eneniV,
Nor yet can wc from Germany's point of iew
greatly blame that enemy for trying desperately
lo free heiself from the coil:, of tVe "Serpent of
the Sea," ei or. though she too infringed upon rights
which we had not guarded very zcalt usly, by
establishing a war zi.ne a'.iout Great Britain and
warning our commerce to remain outside of it
Again we protested with a little more vigor, be
cause Germany's plan of making her blockade cf
lettive necessarily menaced human life. But the
German plan was pursued until at last many
Americans lost their lives.
So far, our rights have been infringed upon
only in equal measure by the two belligerents, but
in different ways. Horrible as the death of our
Countrymen and countrywomen way, the loss of
hundreds of lives of non-combatants though neu-
ral. is a small matter to Germany and Great Bri
tain in comparison wilh ihe result of the war
which iMith Iwlieve will bos affected to their advan
tages by their various violations of cur v rights.
In reply to our note to Germany it is exp"cU!
that she will propose that she will abandon her
plan of blockade if we can induce Great Britain
lo abandon her plan of blockade. Loth being in
violation of the agreement among nations. Ger
many may not go so lar: .r raihcr, she may not
come so far, but if she should do so, it would be
rather put up to us to demand as insistently, ot
Great Britain as we have demanded of Germany,
that all our rights must be respected.
It is intimated that such a proHsilion fror.
Germany Mould likely be met merely !v a pro
mise of a representation on the subject to Great
liritain. We can hardly txeci Germany to be sat
isfied with a mere promise, even with repre
sentations which we are not piepared to nack.
It is now evident that we should long ago have
demanded with insistence, and with a plain inten
tion to back our demand, of both Great Britain
and Germany that all the right which have been
guaranteed neutrals should be respected.
NATIONALISM CAUSE OF WAR
This war has been called a conflict of races
Pan-Germanism versus Pan-Slavism. ' The funda
mental cause of the antagonism between these two
peoples is neither racial nor economic; it is psycho
logical. We call it nationalism.
Nationalism is the struggle of a group to pre
serve its own individuality. It is even more ele
ihental than religion 'itself, and, as in the case of
the early Christian church, its growth to gigantic
proportions has been fostered by the blind stupid
ity of rulers who could not see that the way to
make it grow was to try to crush it. It is akin
to patriotism, but draws its lines according to the
rroup consciousness for a common language ami
traditions.
About fifty years ago several Bohemian writers
were bold enough to write in their own language
instead of German; from that time the Bohemian
spirit has grown until now hostility to the .Ger
man language has become a passim.. In many o"
the restaurants throughout Bohemia, the held waiter
passes a collection box regularly for "the Mother of
Schools," which supports public schools in the Bo
hemian language in all parts of the country where
there is a majority of Germans only German
schools being provided by the government in such
communities. The result of this national spirit is
the gradual elimination of the German language.
Poland, perhaps offers the most highly devel
oped example of nationalism. It was never a con
spicuous country, but over a hundred years ago it
was free. Germany, Austria and Russia divided it
and, completely ignoring sociological laws, have
tried to absorb it. Never was there another so
persistent and deliberate effort to wipe out na-
lional individuality, but if there ever was a case
of imperial Indigestion, Poland has caused three
chronic attacks. Bismarck's foolish policy of forbidding-
the Polish language and forcing German in
its place, and Russia's similar policy with Russian
can be called a basic cause for the present Eu
ropean turmoil, because it has made the preserva
tion of language a religion, and martyrdom for it c
glorification. North American Review.
DELICATE JOB
"I understand that you republicans are busy
mending fences."
"Yes, and it's a delicate job. We've got to keep
'em high enough for protection and yet low enough
to permit a Bull Moose to jump info the corral."
Washington Star.
CONSTANTINOPLE THEATERS CLOSED
All the theaters in Constantinople have been
closed for some time, for the reason that Italian
and French actors, who are practically the only
ones who perform there, refuse to go to Turkey
now, for fear of risking their lives.
SIGHTSEERS CLIMB FIGHTING MASTS
OF UNCLE SAM'S BIG BATTLESHIPS
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HOBOES DIE; WRECK .
BURNS AND MOLTEN
SILVER ELOWS ODT
associated press dispatch
NEBRASKA CITY, May 17 A Mis
souri Pacific freight train was
wreclud two miles south of here. At
i least live tramps riding in a lumber
j car, were burned to death.
I Ten cars of oil, including five of
! ffa s-i t. i r.e. ex-nlnded.
Two cars of silver bullion for an
Omaha smelter melted and ran like
water into a pasture.
The screams of the imprisoned men
were heard above the roar of the
flames, but owing , to the intense 'heat
nothing could be done to save them.
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siness, but alo will result in a clearly
defined jobbing territory in Arizunn.
I);'ta compiled by the corporation
commission as to existing rates on less
than carload lots from Missouri wiver
and other points as compared with the
rates unlT the new order show the
following reductions on dry goodti, in
cluding cotton piece goods:
Kxisting New
Frim Rates Rates
Kansas City $2. Till $1.72
Chicago ..." 2.!u Sl.flf
Pittsburg $3.U0 $2.12
New York City t?,J,n $2.27
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ABNORMAL COLD WAVE
SWEEPS THE COUNTRY
WASHINGTON. May 17. Abnor
mally cold weather prevailed tonight
throughout the entire country except
the gulf states, with temperatures
twenty degrees below the seasonal
average in the Upper Lake region and
the Dakotas.
Report I : the weather, bureau f
two disturbances, one accompanfed by
heavy frosts in Nebraska, Minnesota,
parts of Iowa and Wilson, and the
other attended by rains over the
northern states east of the Missis
sippi river, which is said to be re
sponsible for the unsettled condition,
and low temperatures.
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COLLINS STILL IN
zona in fic ears will amount to mfl- j mt nt. It is known that he discussed
lions of dollars. The commission's ; informally the situation producwd by
order not only allows points in the! the sinking of the Busitania. and the
backhaul territory to do a jobbing hu- j sending of the American note, and it
.s understood also that Secretaiy
Bryan apprised President Wilson in
New York of the substance of the
conversation. 1-ater Dumba confer
red with Count von Bernst rff.
1'oth Austrian and German ambas
sadors are understood to have tele
graphed their governments urging a
suspension of submarine attacks on ;
passenger ships while the diplomotic
discussions Are in progress because
of the serious situation that has
I'lisen in the United States from the
sinking of the Lusitania. They cau- I
lioned extreme care lest the sinking I
of mother ship with American lives j
aboard may ,Had to pn immediate;
:reak in the relations of the United t
States with Germany.
Various suggestions have been dis- j
cussed bv the German and Austrian I
imbassadors and it is understood
that r.iany of them have been cabled I
to their" home governments. i
The general expectation here is .
that Grmany will reiterate her will-
ingncss to abandon her present sub
marine warfare xin merchant ships'
Hid follow the maritime prize laws
k neutrals will influence the allies
to permit shipments of foodstuffs to
civilians in belligerent territory. in
this connection there has been some
consideration given in official quar
ters here to the advisability of sen
ding a note of protest lc Great Brit
ain against actual operations of its
fleet .in enforcing the blockade of
ciur.merce with Germany. v
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STORM'S HEAVY DAMAGE
In spite of the neutrality of the
Salt River Yailey, the warring na
tions of Europe have called tor a
quota of horses to fil! out the fast
diminishing ranks of the eouine
heroes in Belgium.
The Arizona Live Stock Commis
sion Co. have receive'! An order for
a numoer of cavalry and light ar
tillery horses. An inspector, repre
senting the allies will be in Piioenix
May i.'.th to look over the assemblage
that the company will huve gathered.
The animals mast bp sound and ot
a certain height and weight for both
branches of the service.
Gray horses will not be taken by
the inspector. All animals must be
broken enough to be ridden p:st liio
inspector. Farther than that, ho
will not be particular, leaving the
further management and education
of the animal to some "Tommy" win
has nothing else to .lo.
Whenever for family or
syndicate reasons it is de
sired to have title to a
piece of real estate in the
name of an impersonal,
.non-individual holder, se
cure the services of the
trust department of the
PHOENIX TITLE AND
TRUST CO This is a
safe and certain method,
this company beinp: ex
perienced in all legal
phases of transfer and
title work.
"It is the Safe Wav"
WILLIAMS IS ATTACKED
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torney declared, was brought about
through the influence of Messrs. Mc
Adoo and Williams. 1
"Together," he said, "these men
took away from the Riggs bank more
than $2,000,000 in deposits, yet they
say the bank might not be as solvent
as it is today if they had not helped
it."
The attorney dwelt at length upon
demands for information made upon
the bank by Comptroller Williams.
He said the directors of the bank
held a meeting last summer and
asked the comptroller just what he
desired the bank to do, but no ad
vices or suggestions were received.
In demanding a penalty of $.",,111111
from the bank for failure to submit
a report of the loans of the insti
tution for eighteen years, Mr. lb man
declared that Williams made an er
roneous calculation in order to stipu
late that amount, which was due in
interest to the bank, and notified
he bank that it would be subject to
a "further and continuing penalty."
"We thought he meant what he
said," continued the attorney. "It
now appears from Williams' affidavit
that he 'was merely attempting to
bully the officers of the bank. He
now says he had no intention of ex
acting a further penalty and he
makes no attempt to calculate the
amount that has been incurred."
Touching upon the statement in
Mr. McAdoo's affidavit that the sec
ietary did not know but two officers
of the National City Bank of New
York, and that he had no dealings
with that institution to arouse hos
tility, Mr. Hogan said the National
City bank was in no way connected
with the case, and did not own a
dollarfs worth of stock in tne Riggs
bank, and that the plaintiff had made
no accusations in connection with
Mr. McAdoo's relations with the Na
tional City bank.
It was believed tonight that prob
ably two more days would be oc
cupied by the arguments on legal
phases of the proceedings. If the
court should overrule the motions to
dismiss, the defendant officials then
would have to show cause why they
should not be permanently enjoined
from comitting alleged unlawful in
terference with the bank.
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CRUISER COMES BACK
L ASSOCIATED PKESS DISPATCH
SAX DIEGO, May 17 The cruiser
Colorado, which abandoned the run
to Tabari bay with marines to rescue
Americans in Yacjui valley when it
was learned that they were in no
immediate danger, arrived at San
Diego tonight. A radio from the
cruiser Raleigh said 100 rifles and a
quantity of ammunition have been
loaned to the American colony near
Cajtme, who are threatened wilh attack.
T ASSOCIATED PRESS mSPATCHl
WASHINGTON. May 17. The sup
reme court dismissed the appeal of
George D. Collins, the San Francisco
attorney, from the refusal of the
federal district court of California
to release him on habeas corpus
proceedings from the penitentiary
where he is serving a term of four
teen years for perjury in connection
with his marriage. He was origin
ally artsted in 1H05 for bigamy and
extradited from Canada on a charge
of perjury, denying that he had mar-
T ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH I
SACRAMENTO, May 17. An un-
precedent May storm has broken, but ,
fri'it shippers hold the storm has dam-
aged the Sacramento valley crops to
the extent of approximately $fi0Q,000. ,
Practically all the first crop of.
strawberries is destroyed, and three-'
oi.arterji r the cherry crop wh'pv3
off the trees or badly split.
THE LAST WAD
The hells were ringing S o'clock,
when to the store came Kate.
She should have come at 7, but the
ried Agnes Newman. He fought j girl did sleep too late:
conviction three years from his cell She was a weary salesgirl,
before being taken to San Quentin. I she seemed real glum.
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Get the Gas Range
You Want for Less
oney Than Ever
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A similar attempt at habeas cor
pus failed in 1909.
THAW BALKED AGAIN
She felt beneath the counter for her
working wad of gum.
The gum was gone. "Great hevings!"
cried the girl. "Oh, Mag! Oh,
Maud! '
Some of youse girls came early and
has beat me to my wad."
The girls denied that they had took
the gum and walked away.
But they did hang their heads in
shame when Kate she then did
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ADVANTAGES OF WAR
ASSOCIATED I'KKSB 1HSPATCH
NEW YORK, Mav 17. An order
issued late today by Presiding Jus
tice Ingraham in the appellate divi
sion of the supreme court staying all
proceedings in the habeas corpus pe
tition of Harry K. Thaw, in which
Thaw seeks to iiave a jury in the
supreme court pass upon his sanity,
brought another delay in the long
drawn out prweccdings against the 'Please, muvver's sent word to say
slayer of Stanford White. The jus- j if yon don't mean to send the frying
tice at the time stated that unless ' pan back as you horrered a month
some action is taken meantime bv ago. she'd have to send farver
the appellate division he wili begin 'round."
the hearing tomorrow. j "And you can tell yer mother that
The stay granted is part of an ac-'vhe ain't forced to git it hack while
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