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PACE FOUR THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN. TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27, 1918 THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN PHOENIX, ARIZONA Published Every. Morning by the ARIZONA PUBLISHING COMPANY All communications to be addressed to the Company; Office, Corner of Second and Adams Streets. Entered at the Postoffice at Phoenix, Arizona, as Mail Matter of the Second Class. President and General Manager . ...Dwight B. Heard Business Manager Charles A. Stauffer Ass t. Business Manager W. W. Knorpp Editor J- W. Spaar. Kwn Editor H. W. Hall SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN ADVANCE Daily and Sunday, one year - 18.00 Dally and Sunday, six months 4.00 Daily and Sunday, three months 2 00 Dally and Sunday, one month 75 MEMBER OK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Receiving 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 also reserved. TELEPHONES Business. Advertising or Circulation 4421 Want Ad Department .... 1S81 Editorial or News 4433 Job Printing 4499 General Advertising Representative, Robert E. Ward: New York Office. Brunswick Building; Chicago Office, Mailers Building. TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27, 1518 When a. resolve or a fine glow of feeling is allowed to evaporate with out bearing practical fruit, is is a chance lost. "William James. Horses and Men Another bloody argument in favor of the restora tion of capital punishment has been offered. Another addition has been made to the long list of homicides in this county since the people voted a year and a half ' ago, by way of experiment, to abolish the gallows. The unly result of the experiment has been to cheapen human life. The value of a human life in America, Htatistieians have figured is something more than 4.0"0, higher than anywhere else in the world except Kngland. The price of a horse in Arizona may be roughly and liberally placed at $200. Yet, horses would not be so recklessly killed as men have been since capital punishment has been abolished, so that we may conclude that the value of the human life in this county is something less than 200. The slayer in this case admits the killing and offers in extenuation, not self-defense, but that his victim applied an insulting epithet to him. That has been recognized as a fighting expression but not a killing expression. Reverting to the comparative val ues of men and horses in Maricopa county, the slayer ivould probably not have killed a $200 horse if it had bitten him or kicked him. If we had capital punishment now, perhaps it could not be justly and lawfully inflicted in this case. It may be that the killing was done in the heat of passion and that there was lacking that degree of pre meditation that would warrant the infliction of capi tal punishment. But when one carries a so-called pen-knife of such size and keenness as to cut a man into ribbons, as was done on Sunday afternoon, there may be a presumption of premeditation. However that may be, the freedom which has been given men with a tendency to homicide has cheapened human life, an inevitable result. Though the aboli tion of the gallows did not legally affect homicide of degrees below that of premeditated murder, it did affect them in fact, If the punishment for the crime of murder in cold blood were reduced, would-be slay ers of all degrees not Unnaturally felt that homicide, in law, was much less serious than it had formerly been. There will probably be no propaganda for the restoration of capital punishment, none is needed. The riot of murder and lesser degrees of homicide within the last eighteen months has convinced the people of the failure of the experiment we entered upon two years ago. The Only Issue We have hitherto observed that this scramble among the candidates for the democratic nomination for governor is not our fight. But having a seat at the ringside for which we have paid our good money, we are entitled to take an interest in the struggle without contributing in any way to the result of it. That would be improper. The spectator who interferes with the fighters deserves ejection. As we sometime ago perceived the fight among the democrats was centering about the I. W. W. That was inevitable. There was no other issue to com pare with it. The talk about economy and honesty in . which candidates invariably indulge is hoary-headed bunk. We are all, candidates, and the rest of us, hon- est men and thieves, professedly in favor of honesty and economy. That constitutes no issue at all. No one candidate has any advantage over any other can didate in that vague field. Nor is the abstract question of loyalty and pa triotism an issue among the candidates for the gover norship. All Americans, especially all candidates for office arc professedly loyalists and patriots. If they should make any other profession they would not gel very far. The candidate who relies solely upon hi.i general pledge of loyalty and patriotism in the abstract is merely punching a windbag. He need not say any. thing about loyalty and patriotism. The voters will take it for granted that he is sound there; otherwise he would not be a candidate. It is worse than useless for a candidate to de nounce disloyalty and treason in the abstract. That is no issue at all. We arc all agreed upon that. But there is a different thing: there Is disloyalty and trea son in the concrete the I. W. W. a proved traitorous organization with a large membership in Arizona. It has been proved at Chicago that it was a traitorous organization; that its hand was raised .against the government before we went to war and after we went to war; that it was active in Arizona. The names and acts of its members resident In Arizona are known. Some of its Arizona members are among those con victed at Chicago. It is to be presumed that every member of a trai torous organization in Arizona is either a traitor or a dupe: it may be further presumed that after the char acter of the organization has been exposed no member of it can be a dupe and must therefore be a traitor. That he is now held in check by fear is not to his credit and does not remove the stigma of the traitor. The sympathy of these men andthe sympathies of their sympathizers is just as strong now as it ever was and all the members of the I. WW. and those who sympathize with them have votes. The candidate who appeals to the loyal, patriotic people of Arizona cannot appeal to the I. W. W. and their sympathizers. He must denounce them openly and renounce their support. He must be for the I, W. W. or against it and all its works and affiliations. 11c cannot put himself into a receptive attitude to wel come the votes of the I. W. W. along with those of the business man and the farmer and the honest laborer. The votes of the latter will not mingle with those of the I. W. W. Here is the only question of loyalty there is and the candidates must get on one side of it or the other. It cannot be straddled. It cannot be camouflaged by general professions, however veherrlent, of loyalty. Legislative Districts Several candidates for the legislature have come forward to be voted for or against by the people in all parts of the county. We may assume that all whom we do not know are good, capable men but the fact that we do not know them stands out. We have a fairly wide acquaintance throughout the county, much wider and more Intimate than that of the average citizen. But we shall have to vote for or against these candidates without the slightest idea whether we are doing the right thing. Four-fifths of the electorate are in the same boat with us. These men, good and bad, are known only in their own neihgborhood, within a radius of a few miles. There the voters can act intelligently and pass upon their merits. The rest of us can vote only blindly, hoping that we are making no mistake. This brings us to the subject of amending the con stitution so that members of the legislature may be elected by districts, by the people who know them and know what they are likely to do if elected. There will be such a proposed amendment before the people on election day. It is a notorious and painful fact that our legis latures, since the adoption of the primary system, have been of a much lower grade than the old terri torial legislatures. Then men of ability did not hesitate to go before conventions, but now men of known ability will not take the trouble and undertake the expense of a nominating campaign through a large county. In the old convention days, an effort was made by delegates to nominate strong men. There was a party reason for doing that and these stronger men were usually men a,bove the average and were known beyond their immediate neighborhoods. There are many good and capable men, who would make good legislative material, who are not men of prominence. Their neighbors know them, though, and know them to be good men. Their neighbors and they alone should be the judges of their merits. Such an arrangement as is proposed in this ' amendment would tend to popularize the primary system which is far less popular now than it was when we adopted it. Its success must depend upon an intelligent electorate and no electorate can act in telligently upon the candidacy of a man whom it does not know. "THE MEN WHO FOUGHT AT WATERLOO." The men who fought at Waterloo were togged out fit to kill With plumes and gilded shakoes, and every sort of frill Was on their gaudy tunics, and up and down their pants Ran gaudy stripes but that is not the way We look in France! The men who fought at Waterloo wore gilded high heeled shoes; They'd had a dance the night before, and had no time to lose In getting out of Brussels, so they didn't stop to change Some chance we'd stand dressed up like that, if Fritzy got the range! The men who fought at Waterloo had pipe-clay on their belts. And, if they didn't clean 'em, they got cat.o'-nine-tails' welts Upon their blooming' carcasses we suffer no such ' thing; Our belts are drab, our welts are all from vaccine or from blng! The men who fought at Waterloo had not a single Ford. ' Nor yet a single airplane; they just trusted in the Lord And blazed away with open sights, and used the bayonet At that, they did some fighting we're not likely to forget ! The men who fought at Waterloo were mighty men and bold, We marvel at their bravery whene'er the story's told. For gosh! the things they didn't have, in camouflage and guns, . Would make 'em, if they scrapped today, just mince meat for the Huns! The Stars and Stripes, Fiance. SOMEBODY HAS TO PAY Mrs. Smith "Really, Mr. Giles, your prices are getting exorbitant." Farmer Giles "Well, mum, it's this way: When a chap 'as to know the botanical name of wot 'e grows, an' the zoological name of the insect wot eats it, an' the chemical name of wot kills the hinsect, sdlneone's got to pay for it!" From the Passing Show. HEADS REBUILDING OF FRENCH ROADS cv? is Samuel M. Felton. Samuel M. Felton, president of the Chicago Great Western, is the man who has rehabilitated the rail roads of France. He has recruited seven construction regiments and their work has been one of the won ders of the war. He mobilized the country's railroad facilities for the invasion of Mexico, had that step been necessary. That work put him in touch with the railroad man frwer of the country for service in 'ranee. " "The Martial Adventures of Henry And Me" A Serial by William Allen 1 White A Close-up of the Great War by Mr. White and his Companion, Henry J. Allen, Students of Carnage and Con ditions in Battle-Tom Europe. THIRD INSTALLMENT . CHAPTER II In Which We Observe the "Rocket's ' Red Glare." Bordeaux is the "Somewhere in France" from which cablegrams from passengers on the French liners usual ly are sent. This will be no news to the Germans, nor to Americans who read the advertisements of the French liners, but it may be news to Ameri cans who receive the mysterious cable grams "from a French port," after their friends have landed. It is a dear old town, mouldy and weatherbeaten, and mediaeval, this Bordeaux, with high, mysterious wall along the streets over which hang dusty branches of trees or vines sneaking mischievously out of bounds. A woe-begone trolley creaks through the narrow streets and heart-broken cabmen mourning over the mistakes of misspent lives, larrup disconsolate- horses over stony streets as they creak and jog and wheeze ahead of the invisible crows that seem always to be hovering above ready to batten upon their rightful provender. For an hour in the morning before our train left for Paris we chartered one of the ramshackle cabs of the town and took in Bordeaux. It was vastly un like either Emporia or Wichita, or anything in Kansas, or anything in America; or so far as that goes, to Henry and me, it was unlike anything else in the wide and beautiful world. "All this needs," said Henry, as he lolled back upon the moth-eaten cush ions of the hack that banged its iron rims on the cobbles beneath us, and sent the thrill of it into our teeth, "all this needs is Mary. Pickford and a player organ to be a good film!" The Original Bull Moosers The only thing we saw that made us -j : : Gilded Youth and the Young Doctor, and a sporting interest which centered in trie daily score. And we gathered this: That it was the Young Doctor's day. For he was in France to help the greatest cause in the world; and the Gilded Youth affected to be in France to enjoy the greatest outdoor game in the world. But he had made it plain that day to the Eager Sonl that working eighteen hours a day un der shell fire, driving an ambulance. was growing tame. He was going back, of course, but he was thinking seriously of the air service. The Doctor wanted no thrills. He Was willing to boil surgical instruments or squirt dis infectant around kitchens to serve. And the Eager Soul liked that attitude, though it was obvious to us, that she was in the war game as a bit of a sport and because it was too dull in her Old Home Town, "somewhere in the United States." And we knew also what she did not admit, even if she recognised it, that in the Old Home Town, men of the sort to attract women of her spirit and intelligence were scarce and she was out looking for her own Sir Galahad, as he went up and down the earth searching for the Holy Grail. The war to her, we knew, was a great opportunity to en joy the new freedom of her sex, to lose her harem veil, to breathe free air as an achieving human creature but, alas! one's forties are too wise. Pretty as she was, innocent as she was, and eager as her soul was In high emprise of the conflict of world ideals into which she was plunging, we felt that. after all, hidden away deeply in the secret places of her heart, were a man and a home and children. Approaching Paris We whizzed through the dusk in the suburbs of Paris that night, seeing the gathering implements of war coining into the landscape for the first time the army trucks, the horizon blue of the French uniform, the great train ing camps, the Red Cross store houses. the scores and scores of hospitals that might be seen in the public buildings fancying the gentry saying, "Ah, yes Henry J. Allen, of Wichita the next governor of Kansas, I understand!" Henry indicated his feeling about the Ritz thus: The night we arrived he failed, for the first time in two weeks, to demand a dress rehearsal in our $17.93 uniforms from 43rd street in New York. The gold-braided uniforms that we saw in the corridors of the Ritz that night made us pause and consider many things. When we un packed our valises, there were the little bundles just as they had come from 43rd street. Henry tucked his away with a sigh, and just before he went to sleep he called across the widening spaces between sleep and wakening: "I suppose we might have bought that $23.78 outfit, easy enough!" Where the Ritz Fell down It was in the morning that the veneer of the Ritz began to wear off for Henry. He had pulled a bath and found it cold; they were conserving fuel and no hot water was allowed in the hotels of Paris excepting Friday and Saturday nights. The English, blood V I know it would seem like gross and criminal flattery if Auer baugh really called Rogers the words indicated in the morning paper, s-ut men are not usually slain for flattery, and the victim is not here to tell his version of the murder. EDGAR KENNISON, IS G1ESEKE WEDS OF FRANCE Word has been received here of the marriage in El Paso. Texas, of Mrs. Clara E. Gieseke to J. ('. Dolley. The ceremony was performed by Judge W D. Howe, of the 34th Judicial District cf Texas on August 22. Mrs. Gieseke will be remembered nr the daughter of Mrs. B. H. Ponder, who are naturally mean, declare that I 1 W. Adams street. the French save seventy-five per cent of the use of their hot water by put tingr the two hot-water nights to Mr. Dolley is the son of H. C. Dolley automobile manufacturer and wine producer of Paris, France. Owing to gether, as no living Frenchman ever i wounds he received on the Marne and took a bath two consecutive days. But it did not seem that way to Henry and me. And anyway' we beard these stoics later. But that morning Henry, who doesn t really mind a cold bath, was ready for it when he happened to look around the bathroom and found there wasn't a scrap of soap. There he was, as one might say, au natural, or perhaps better if one should in clude the dripping from his first plunge one might say he was au jus! And what is more, he was au mad. He jabbed the bell button that summoned the valet, and when the bay appeared Henry had his speech ready for him. "Donnez-moi some soap here and be mighty blame toot sweet about it!" The valet explained that soap was not furnished with the room. It took some time to get that across in broken French and English; then Henry, talk ing very slowly and in his best orator ial voice, with his foot on th.e fortis simo, cried: "Say! We ace paying," at the dazed look in the valet's face Henry repeated slower and .louder. "We are paying. I say. fifteen-dollars fif-teen dollars a day for these rooms. You go ask Mrs. Ritz if she will furnish soap for twenty?" And he waved the valet grandly out. (To Be Continued Tomorrow) o i Where the People May Have Hearing at Verdun, he is a temporarily dis charged soldier of the French army. After an extended tour of the cast. Mr. and -Mrs. Dolley will return to Arizona. RIFLE RANGE OPEN WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. In a letter sent to the governors of all states. Secretary Daniels today called atten tion to the fact that all naval rifle ranges, except when within the limits of a station, are open to state troops and civilians for purposes of practice and expresses the hope that as many citizens as possible will avail them selves of the opportunity. n - "Donncz mo.i some soap here and be mighty blame toot sweet about it!" Sunday's Murder Editor Republican: Once more the public is affront-'d and the law of Arizona outraged by a peculiarly savage and vindictive i murder, according to the statement of the man who committed the deed. The time is ripe for taking some action toward the suppression of crimes of violence. We have societies showing 57 ways of winning the war by talking about it; brotherhoods, lunch clubs, ad in finitum, from the Silent Sons of Sor row to the Royal Roosters of the Kis InK Sun. Can we not have a WolfkiHers' un ion for the speedy detection, arrest and extermination of wanton shedders of Thicken Your Hair With Cuticura If you have dandruff vour hair will become dry and thin. ' Cuticura Oint ment gently rubbed on spots of itch ing, scaling and dandruff and'followed by a hot shampoo of Cuticura Soap will usually remove the worst cases. Nothing better than Cuticura for all skin and scalp troubles. Ideal for every-day toilet uses. SmboU EkI Trm Vt Kill k&Arvm wt-cw4 "Cittctra, Dpt Bmioh " Sold eTrywtaw. Soap 2oc. Otntmont Zs and We. Talcum ZDC homesick was the group of firemen in front of the engine house playing checkers or chess or something. But the town had an historic Interest for us as the home of the Girondists of the rrench Revolution: so we looked up their monument and did proper rever ence to them. They were moderate idealists who rose during the first year of the revolution; we thought them much like the Bull Moosers. So we did what homage we could to the Giron dists who were run over by the revolu tionary band wagon and sent to the guillotine during the Terror. For we knew; indeed into the rolly-polv necks of Henry and me, in our politics, the knife had bitten many tunes. So we stood before what seemed to be the proper monument with sympathetic eyes and uncovered heads for a sec ond before we took the train for Paris. All day long we rode through the only peaceful part of France we were to see in our martial adventures. It was fair and fat and smiling that France that lay between the river Gironde and Paris, and all day we rode through its beauty and its rich ness. The thing whidh we missed most from the landscape, being used to the American landscape, was the automo bile. We did not see one in the day's journey. In Kansas alone there arc 190,000 continually, pervading the land scape. We had yet to learn that there are no private automobiles in France, that the government had commandeer ed all automobiles and that even the taxis of Paris have but ten gallons of gasoline a day allotted to each of them. So we gazed at the two-wheeled carts, the high, bony, strong white oxen, the ribbons of roads, hard -surfaced and beautiful, wreathing the gentle hills, and longed for a car to make the journey past the fine old chateaux that flashed in and out of our vision behind the hills. War was a million miles away from the pastoral France that we saw coming up from Bordeaux. But in Paris war met us far out In the, suburbs, where at dusk a great flock of airplanes from a training camp buzzed over us and sailed along with the train, distancing us and re turning to play with us like big spor tive birds. The train was filled with our shipmates from the boat and we all craned our necks from the windows to look at the wonderful sight of the air covey that fluttered above us. Even the Eager Soul, our delicious young person with her crinkly red hair and serious eyes, disconnected herself long enough from the Gilded Youth and the Young Doctor "for to admire and for to see." the airplanes. The Progressing Lov Story But the airplanes gave us the day's first opportunity to talk to the Eager Soul. Until dusk the Gilded Youth had kept her in his donjon a first-class compartment jammed with hand-baggage, and where she had Insisted that the Young Doctor should come also. We knew that without being told; also it was evident as we passed up and down the car aisle during the dav that she was acting as a sort of human Baedeker to the Young Doctor, while the Gilded Youth, to whom chateaux and French countryside were an old, old story, satby and hooted. But the airplanes pulled him out of his donjon keep and the Young Doctor with him. He wasn't above showing the Young Doctor how much a Gilded Youth real ly knows about mechanics and air planes, and we slipped in and chatted with the Eager Soul. We had a human interest in the contest between the with Red Cross flags on them, the munition plants pouring out their streams of women workers in their jumpers and overalls. The girl porters came through and turned on the lights in the train. No lights outside told us that we were hurrying through a great city. Paris was dark. We went through the under ground where there was more light than there was above ground. The streets seemed like tunnels and the tunnels like streets. We came into the dingy station and a score of women porters and red-capped girls came for our baggage. They ran the trucks, they moved the express; they took care ot the mail, and through them we edged up the stairway into the half lighted station and looked out into the night black. Iamoless. enculfine and Pit was Paris! It was 9 o'clock as we stood on the threshold of the station peering into the murk. Not a taxi was in the stand waiting; but from afar we could hear a great honking of auto-horns, that sounded like the night calls of mon ster birds flitting over the city. The air was vibrant with these wild calls. We were an hour waiting there in the gloom for a conveyance. But when we left the wide square about the station and came into the streets of Paris, we understood why the auto horns were bellowing so. For the automobiles were running lickety-split through the darkness without lights and the howls of their horns pierced the night. The few street lights turning a low candle power at the intersections of the great boulevards were hooded and cast but a pale glow on the pavements. And as we rode from our station and passed the Tuileries and the Rue de Rivoli. save for the dim outline of the iron railings of the Gardens ten feet from our cab window, wo had no sign to mark our way. Yet our cab whizzed along at a twenty-five-mile gait, and every few seconds a great blatting devil would honk out of the darkness and whirl past us, and sometimes we would be abreast of another anr1. the f endish horns of us would eo scream ing in chorus as we raced and passed and repassed one another on the broul street. The fin was; nerve racking but highlv p&risian. One fancied that Paris, being denied its lights, made up its quota of sensation by multiplying us sound: A Background of Nobility We went to the Ritz now smile the others did! Not that the Ritz is an inferior hotel. We went there be cause it was really the grandee among Paris hotels. Yet every day we were in Paris when we told people we were at the Ritz. they smiled. The human mind doesn't seem to be able to asso ciate Henry and me with the Ritz without the sense of the eternal fitness of things going wapper- jawed and catawampus. We are that kind of men. ichita and Emporia are writ ten large and indelibly upon us: and the Ritz, which is the rendez-vous of the nobility, merely becomes a back ground for our rusticity the spotlight which reveals the everlasting Jay in ua: vie weni 10 me tixix largely be cause it seemed to me that as a lead ing American orator, Henry should have proper European terminal facili ties. And the Ritz looked to me like the 'proper setting for an international figure. There, it seemed to me. the rich and the great would congregate to invite him to dinners, and to me. at least, who had imagination, there seemed something rather splendid in MOTOR CARS Beautiful in Design Thoroughly Modem Mechanically Right TO MAKE SURE of the quality of its material, Studebaker operates one of the most complete laboratories in tbe automobile industry. To make sure of its manufacture, it employs men sufficiently expe rienced and capable to know what real quality means. 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