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PACE FOUR THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13, 1913 THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN PHOENIX, ARIZONA Published Kvery Morning by the ARIZONA PUBLISHING COMPANY All communications to be addressed to the Company; Office, Comer of Second and Adams Street. Knterod at the I'ostoffice at Phoenix, Arizona, as Mail Matter of the Second Class. President and General Manager TJwight R. Heard J'.iminess Manager Charles A. Stauffer Kditor J. W. Spear .News Kditor H. V. Hall Sl.'PSi'ftlPTlON RATES IN ADVANCE 1 aily and Sunday, one year $8.00 I'aily and Sunday, six months 4.' 1 aily and Sunday, three months 2.00 Daily and Sunday, one month 73 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS P.oceivlng Full Night Report, by Leased Wire. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches cred ited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special despatches herein are aUo reserved. TELEPHONES P.usines. Advertising or Circulation 4422 Want Ad Department 1SSI P'iitoria! or News 4433 .lob printing ' 4499 'General Advertising Representative, Robert K. Ward; New Vurk Office, Brunswick Huilding; Chicago Office, Mailers Building. WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13, 11. It is fear that elogs our feet and holds us hack. Jt is fear that places limitations upon man's accomplish ment, and prevents him from achiev ing all things. Anonvmus. This Is a New Registration Every man who votes at the primary on March I or at the succeeding general election must register for those elections. We are told that there is some nisundorstanding pn that point, as there nearly always is, regarding registration. Some think that a registration for the county election a year ago last Jail or for the city election a year ago, carries with it the privilege of voting at the coming city primary and election. That is not the case. This is an entirely new registration. All previous registrations have ex pired. Those who have not registered since the pres ent registration has begun or do not register before it close next Monday night, cannot vote at the coming elections. We should like to see for once a complete regis tration this time, the registration of every man and yoman in Phoenix otherwise qualified to vote. And 3ien we shouldMike to see every voter at the primary tote, so that when the smoke has blown away we ;hotild know just where we stand. So that we mav I now just what kind of government a clear majority of III the people of Phoenix want. Certainly every voter has some idea regarding Hint very important matter if he can only be brought ':o take the trouble to express his idea. That is the purpose of this campaign and of every political campaign. And right here is where earnest political workers often make a mistake. They think that the work before them is to make opinions or change opinions. That is only a very small part of the work and it is totally ineffective unless that opinion can be trans lated into a vote. It would be far better to leave the opinions of people alone and get them to come out and express them at the polls, whatever they may be. That is a part of the work that can be done only by the "per sonal touch." Political meetings have their places, and no doubt do a great deal of good, but when we consider how comparatively few people always attend these meetings we can see that if all of them were brought into full accord and should vote in accord, they would be but a small part of the whole' number of voters. We have seen such political gatherings of 20,000 and others proportionately as great, though only of 1,000. Yet both numbers were small in com parison with the number of those not present. It is the "personal touch" that counts in politics, tho visit of a neighbor or a friend and his urgent request to qualify and go to the polls. The best application of the "personal touch" is made by organization of those neighbors and friends, of whom there should be enough to go and see every voter on every street. It is not necessary and generally not advisable to advise the voter how to vote, unless he asks for advice. It is enough to get him to vote. We believe that the majority of the people are right and will vote right it they can be brought to vote at all. The Latest Re-Statement The address of President Wilson provoked by the statements of the Gorman and Austrian premiers, von Itertling and Czernin, is an admirable rc-state-nient of the war aims of this country, which by now must be pretty well understood both at home and abroad. The re-statement is a little less specific than that of January S, and is in such general terms that it could be readily accepted as the basis of peace negotiations if Germany wanted peace. But the president must have been aware from von Hertling's Ntatement that that is one of the things Germany does not want now. . Proudly speaking, only two terms are laid down by the president, justice and the principle of self determination. Justice is a condition that no nation ready for peace should balk at, leaving it to a con ference to agree as to what that rather tenuous and elusive thing is. Self-determination is rather more specific as to meaning, but may be found not to be easily and exactly applied. That, however, would -be a problem for a peace conference. Under these two beads come the remarks of the president concern ing the right of small nations to work out their destinies undisturbed by powerful neighbors. Interpretations placed upon the. president's ad dress are that lie is under no illusion as to the atti tude of the German government toward peace, and that he was not addressing thai government, but lie people of Germany and Austria-Hungary. He has shown a persistence in addressing himself to the people. His first message preceding the declaration ora state of war was to them. So has every mes Mgc since been one ignoring the governments of tho Teutonic countries and intended only for the people of those countries. This persistence has been In the face of advice that It can produce no results, and so far there has been no indication that the people so addressed have been even, slightly affected5. We have sometimes thought that Germany, that is the German government with which evidently we 'have to deal, and not with the German people, would Have been moro profoundly impressed if after our .first declaration we had gone about the business of var with a grim silence, signifying determination, tt is possible that our frequent statements and re statements may be mistaken by our enemies for ligns of weariness of wa- The Graham County Affair AVe do not believe that a majority of the people of this state are of the opinion that Arizona, as matters now stand, has any means of punishment adequate for the three men who murdered the three officers in Graham county last Sunday unless the federal government should take jurisdiction after their capture. It was a wanton massacre, added to the crime of evading the draft. We are sure that no considerable part of the right thinking population of this state will be satis fied with the confinement of these men in more or less ease, comfort and distinction in the state prison nominally for life, but really for a few years, until the edge of the horror and resentment of the populace has been dulled by corroding time. . In the case of one of these murderers, Sisson, it has been bloodily demonstrated that the moral and benighn influences of the prison did not benefit him. He was parolee, tho authorities aountless believing that he had been restored and that a good citizen had been made of a man who had shown a tendency toward criminality. Graham county contributed, we believe, to the narrow majority by which the Indifferent voters of Arizona permitted, in the way of an experiment, capital punishment to be abolished a year ago last fall. We cannot escape a feeling of curiosity as to the result of a plebiscite in that county tin that question now. THE LOST EMPIRE OF GENGHIS KHAN There are few regions of the world so little known s Mongolia. Of the great nations that figured as world powers in the Middle Ages "few have been so eclipsed and forgotten in the onward march of civi lization as the country of the Khans wbJfc once ruled the greater part of Asia and half of Europe. In the Thirteenth Ceniur the great Genghis Khan and his successors united the Mongols and changed them from wandering nomads into a great military nation which conquered China, Tibet, Persia, Mesopotamia and Russia. Thoir empire extended from Poland to the Persion Gulf and Hindustan; from Constantinople to the China Sea; from Korea to the Ganges. The great Khans established their capital at Peking, where they reigned in splendor over an empire beside which those of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon seem but petty states. Their power was based on rtilhlessness. For this reason they were never able to conciliate the nations they conquered. The moment their policy of blood and iron weakened they were overthrown and driven out. Finally, the Mongols were forced to return to the prairies of their native Mongolia, where they sank into that stnpor of inactivity from which Genghis Khan had awakened them. The secret of Mongolia's weakness lies in the fact that the warlike ardor of its people has been dampened by Puddhism, a religion more pacific in its doctrines than any other in the world. Under the soporific influence of this religion the Mongols are content to live a nomadic life, wandering from place to place with their herds of sheep, cattle, horses and camels. They have made no progress since the days of the Khans. They live In tents exactly like those described by the earliest travelers who visited them in the Middle Ages. They have no political unity and no real national government. Their only bond of unity is the Buddhist religion. The high priest of this religion is the Hutuktu, who resides at Urga, the religious and secular capital. The Mongols believe that the Hutuktu is the rein carnation of Buddha. They worship him as god and call him the living Buddha. They sacrifice to him with incense and keep tiny lamps burning before his image, which is found in every Mongol tent. Because of his desire to become the emperor as vrcl as the god of the Mongols the Hutuktu allowed himself to be drawn into the meshes of Russian intrigue, thus making his country a second Manchuria wherein Russian and Japanese interests have become para mount in utter disregard of China's soverign rights. Luther Anderson in Asia. THtN AND NOW I called the coal man on the 'phone When summer wheeled her flowery flight, And made my modest wishes known, To-wit: a ton of anthracite. His voice was soft, his voice was kind (Remember, this was last July); And quite, to set at rest my mind ( He made the following reply: "A ton of coal? Sure! Right away. I'm grateful for your order, sir; I'll have it in your bin tqday, And twenty more, if you prefer? You can't afford so much right now? Don't let that trouble you at all: I'll send it up there anyhow, And you can pay some time next fall!" I called the coal man on the 'phono When it was twenty-two below. And all the shivering temperate zone Was buried under ice and snow. His voice was rough, his voice was rude (Remember, this was yesterday), His speech was coarse and crass and rude; And thiols what he had to say: ' "A ton of coal.you bone-roofed simp! A ton of coal? Well, 1 guess not! Somebody ought to put a crimp In such a nerve, as you have got! Say, I've been pestered quite enough By guys like you. It makes me sore! Hang up the 'phone, you dippy stuff, And don't you call me up no more!" Boston Advertiser. 1VE STERNER TIE LPS McADOO RUN RAIL'S R. H. Ashton. Director General of Railroads Mm Adoo has named R. H. Ashton. presi dent of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad, as regional director for ter ritory west of the Mississippi, witk headquarters in Chicago. THIS PICTURE, LINCOLN SAID, MADE II IM PRESIDENT OF UNITED SPATES -r; ecrjr m. f- L f X t illiill no use," said C: "if you will take my advice, you will not waste your time in this city. It is my private opinion, ! if the Lord has been in fipringfielJ ! once, he will never come the second I time!" A telegram from Philadelphia was once received, setting forth that some one had been arrested there for obtain ing SI r,0ll n "Mr. T.ineidn'j name. "What," said Mr. Lincoln, "fifteen j hundred dollars on my name! 1 have given no one authority f"r such a ; draft." and if I had." he added, half i humorously, "it's surprising that any man could get the money." i "Do you remember. Mr. President, a request from a stranger a few days : ago for your autograph, and that you gave it to him on a half sheet of note paper'.'" said Mr. Nicolay. "The scoundrel doubtless forged an order j above your signature and has attempt- ed to swindle somebody." j "Oh, that's the trick, is it?" said j the president. "What shall be done with him?! Have you any orders to give?" in- ; quired the secretary. j "Well," said the president, slowly, ! "I don't see but that he will have to ; sit on the blister bench." ! ! 'T once know," said Lincoln, "a A sound churchman by (he name of i Brown, who was a member of a very j sober and pious committee having in j charge the erection of a bridge over a oangerous ana rapia river, several ar- , chjteets failed, and at last Brown said he had a friend named Jones who built ! several bridges and undobtedly could , build that one. Shi .Mr. Jonts was j called ill. "'Can you build this bridge'." in-! quired the committee. "'Yes.' replied Jones, or any other, i I could build a bridge to the infernal regions, if necessary." j "The committee were shocked, and t Brown felt railed upon to defend his friend. 'I know Jones so well.' said he. j 'and he is so honest a man and so good an architect that it he states soberly and positively that he can build to to j why, I believe it: but I feel bounfl to : say that I have my dotibts about the; abutment on the infernal side." ! "So' said Mr. Lincoln, "when pol- ' itieiaus told me that tho northern and i southern wings of the democracy could be harmonized, why, I believed them . of course; but I always had my doubts'; about the abutment on the other side." j o ! y; hi re f . in i in Abraham Lincoln used to call the above photograph "The Picture That Made Me President." It is one of the less familiar portraits of the martyr president and was taken in 1860. Lincoln had at that time been a national figure for two years, thanks to the reputation the Lincoln-Douglass debates had given him. After his famous Cooper Institute speech in February, 1860, he sat for this photo at Brady's studio. It shows the Lincoln that Illinois knew best. It was used extensively in the campaign which resulted in his election. INTIMATE LINCOLN STORIES SOME OF BEST TOLD OF HIM (The following are some of the besti of the many intimate Lincoln stories. They have been selected from George R. Lamb's Lincolnia.) At the very outset of the war sundry wise men from Now York urged Mr. Lincoln to draw away Confederate ar mies from Washington by naval at tacks upon the southern seaports. It reminded him, he said, of a New Salem, ill. girl who was troubled with a singing in her head. ' for which there seemed to be no remedy, but a neigh bor promised a cure if tiiey would 'make a plaster of psalm tunes and apply to her feet and draw the singing down." At the time when General Hurnside's force was besieged in Knoxville, Tenn., with an apparent danger of being larved into surrender, a telegram came one day trom Cumberland Gap, an nouncing that "Firing is heard in the direction of Knoxville." "Glad of it!" exclaimed Mr. Lincoln. "Why should you be glad of it .'" asked a friend, who was present, in some surprise. Why, you see, he explained, it re minds me of Mrs. Sallie Ward, a neigh bor of mine. !She had a very large family. Occasionally one of her nu merous progeny would be heard crying in some out-of-the-way place, and she would exclaim, 'Theres one ot my children that isn't dead yet!' " o Xo doubt Mr. Lincoln sufficiently appreciated the good qualities of ex President Fillmore, then living, but a mention of him one evening brought out a shot at the vice presidential succession. 'Just after Taylor s death, when Fillmore succeeded him. Fillmore need ed to buy a .carriage. Some gentleman was breaking up housekeeping ana baa one for sale and Fillmore took Edward (the old doorkeeper of the V lute House) with him when he went to look at it. It seemed to be a pretty good turnout, but Fillmore looked it care fully over and then asked Edward: Do you think it will do lor tne presi dent of the United States to ride in a second-hand carriage?' " 'Sure your excellency.' replied Ed ward; 'you're only a second-hand pres ident, you know. " V Among the European soldiers who from time to time came over and of fered to serve in the Union armies was one young man who, on receiving nis commission as lieutenant, assured the president that he belonged to the oldest nobility of Germany. "Oh," replied Mr. Lincoln, "never mind that. You will not find that to be an obstacle to your advancement." Mr. Lincoln was one day asked: How manv men do you suppose the Confederates have now in the field?" 'Twelve hundred thousand, according to the best authority," was the prompt reply. Good heavens! exclaimed tne in quirer. Yes, sir, twelve hundred tnousanu. Xo doubt of it. You see. all our gen erals, when they get whipped, say the enemy outnumbers them three or five to one, and I must believe them. We have four hundred thousand in the field, and three times four makes twelve. Dont you see it." The result of the great conflict seemed to be in more doubt than ever just after the emancipation proclama tion. Mr. Lincoln expressedins own view of the situation with: "We are a good deal like whalers who have been long on a chase. At last we have got our harpoon fairly into the monster; but we must look out how we steer, or with one flop of his tail he will send us all into eternity!" Mr. Lincoln had several reasons for not admiring ex-President Tyler, and a mention of him on one occasion brought out an anecdote. "A year or two after Tyler's acces sion to the presidency." said Mr. Lin coin, "contemplating an execursion ii some direction his son went to order a special train of cars. It so happened that the railroad superintendent was a very strong Whig. On Bob's making known his errand, that official prompt ly informed him that his road did not run special trains for the president. "'What!' said Bob. 'Did you not furnish a special train for the funeral of General Harrison ." " 'Yes,' said the superintendent, stroking his whiskers; 'and if j'ou will only bring your father here in that ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS F.OB.X in Hardin county, Ken tucky, on February VI. 1S0O. MADE CAPTAIX of a company in Richland III., for sen ice in the Black Hawk wur, April 21. E L E C T E I) O iXGRESSMAX from Illinois in 1S41. ACCLAIMED ORATOR in lS.'.S after his famous slavery debates with Senator Douglas. ELECTED PRES1DEXT of the United States November 6, ISfiO. HAILED SLAVES' EMANCI PATOR by virtue of his proclama tion issued January 1, 1803 SHOT AND -KILLED by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's theater, Washington, the night of April H, 1863. shape, yon shall on the iwad.' " . have the best train Once when a deputation visited him and urged emancipation before he was ready, he argued that he could not en force it, and, to illustrate, asked them: "How many legs will a sheep have if you call a tail a leg?" They answered. "five." "You are mistaken." said Lin coln, "for calling a tail a leg don't make it so," and that exhibited the fallacy of their position . more than twenty syllogisms. There was an ignorant man who once applied to Mr. Lincoln for the post of doorkeeper to the house. This man had no right to ask Lincoln for any thing. It was necessary to repulse him. But Lincoln repulsed him gently and whimsically, without hurting his feel ings, in tins way: "So you want to be doorkeeper at the House, eh .' , "Yes, Mr. President." "Well, have you ever been a door keeper? Have you ever had any ex perience In doorkeeping? lmph-no' "Have you ever attended lectures on doorkeeping?" AO sir. Have you ever reatl any texL on tne subject : "No." "Have you ever conversed with any one who lias read such a book? 'Xo, Kir. I'm afraid not. sir." 'Well. then. mv friend, don't von see that you haven't a single qualification for this important post? said Lincoln in a reproachful tone. Yes, I do," said the applicant, and he took leave humbly, almost grate fully. A western senator who had failed of a re-election brought his successor one day and introduced him to the president. Lincoln, in reply, expressed his gratification at making the ac quaintance of a new senator. "Yet,' he added, "I hate to have old friends like Senator W ' go away. And another thing I usually find that senator or representative out of bust ness is a sort of lame duck. He has to be provided for." When the two gen tlemen had withdrawn I took the lib erty of saying that Mr. W did not seem to relish that remark. Weeks after, when I had forgotten the cir cumstances, the president said, "You thought I was rude to Senataor AV- the other day. Well, now he want Commissioner Dole's place!" Mr. Do! was then commissioner of Indian af fairs. ' "Soon after the opening ot congress the Hon. Mr. Shannon made the cus tomnry call," writes Carpenter, the art ist. "at the White House. In the con versation Jhat ensued Air. Shannon said, 'Mr. President, 1 met an old friend of yours in California last summer, Mr. Campbell", who had a good deal sav about vour Springfield life.' 'Ah, returned Mr. Lincoln, 'I am glad to hear of him. Campbell used to be dry fellow in those days,' he continued. 'For a time he was secretary of state. One day during the legislative vacation a meek, cadaverous-looking man, with a white neck cloth, introduced himself to him at his office, and stat , ing that he had been informed that Mr. C. had the letting of the hall of representatives, he wished to secure it, if possible, for a course of lectures he desired to deliver in Springfield. "May 1 ask," said the secretary, '"what is to be the subject of your lecture?" "Certainly," was tho reply, with a very solemn expression of countenance. "The course I wish to deliver is on the second coming of our Lord." "It is of m to POOR TOTS The Childrens' Home at Tucson will be the beneficiary of a card party given by the Harmony club at the oman s club this afternoon. Following its annual custom of re membering the little folk at Easter- lme. the club is preparing to send the boys and girls a bit of cheer for in the case of material gifts will lie a few tofs and bit of candy which are rare re membrances for the state s orphans. Besides attracting a large number of guests for the worthiness of the cause, the pleasure to be derived from the af fair should prove an additional ineent- ve for a large gathering. Mrs. Harry Bennett, president of the club and Mra. August Hegelundj have charge .f the arrangements. -Distinction In Every Line REFINEMENT and character are attributes only of the best clothes made. in Hirsch-Wickwire clothes every man may find entire satisfaction besides the perfect fit llyders clothes are famous for. We also sell the best in furnish ings: Wilson Bros. Shirts Stetson and Mallory Hats Holeproof Hosiery PHOENIX,' ARir. WIRELESS ILL fit THE In an announcement before the stu dent body of the Phoenix high school, Monday, Principal 11. Thane Cook stat ed that an appropriation of $30,000 has been made by the federal government, to be used by the high schools of Ari zona to further the education of young men and young women on vocational lines. Phiwnix High school will come in for a goodly share of this fund, and a number of new vocational subjects will be introduced. Probably the lion's share of the whole thing will go to this school. Among one of the new subjects to be taught in the high school next year will be wireless telegraphy. This subject will fill a long left want in the hearts of the boy pupils. The boys of the school have long wished for a course in wireless telegraphy, but somehow it has never been offered in the course of studies. Studies will be introduced upon other lines, too, agriculture, science, chem istry and physics all coming in for a share. There will be new lines brought in, such as mining, engineering and all branches that can be utilized by the government in time of war. The business department of the school, it is said, will receive no part of the appropriation, as they are al ready well organized and easily able to get along alone. Does Money Wings? 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