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PAGE TWO WEEKLY JOURNAL-MINER, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 2, 1918. Oldest Paper in Arizona. Established March 9, 18M Published by THE JOURNAL-MINER PUBLISHING COMPANY. Members Associated Press Published Every Morning Except Monday. J. W. MILNES, Managing Editor. P. R. MILNES, Editor.. TERMS: Daily, per year t $9.00 Daily, per month .75 Weekly, per year 2.50 Weeky, six month -.- 1.50 Weekly, three months .....v 1.00 Payable in Advance. Entered at PostofEce, Prescott, Ariz., as second-class mail Matter. Under the requirements of the new postal law, subscriptions are payable in advance In order that the paper may be permitted to pass through the malls as second-class matter. Accordingly, subscriptions will be stopped at expiration. All reading matter marked with one or more stars () signifies that the same Is adver tising matter, paid for or agreed to be paid for. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of repuolicatlon of special despatches herein are also reserved. tUMmHHMIMHMMMMMHHHMMtMMIM.tU J WE MUST HIT THE BALL J tHMMMHtHMMtHIMHIUMMtiUHIMHtimmt President Wilson has stated the objects of the United States in entering' the war so clearly that history will accept what he lias said as its verdict. Hut now that we have expressed our aims verbally, we must "hit the ball." It was on February 2 that Washington broke diplomatic re lations with Berlin. On April (J, war was declared to exist with the German imperial government. . Xinc months have passed since we formally declared war. For eleven months we have been virtually at war. Most of these vital months have been spent in speech-making by congress and in quarrels in -the departments and commissions. True, we have laid the foundation for much, but we have de livered little in the way of finished products necessary for the con duct of the war. Let us be perfectly frank: We are at the bat, but we have not "hit the ball." Unless we get busy, another winter will pass without adequate preparation having been made to fight the kaiser. We now know that we can do little in the war, bevond loan ing money to our allies, during the first 'fifteen months of our en try into the war. Arc we going to fiddle along until the summer of 11)11) before we do something worthy of the traditions of our army? Unless we speed up we shall not have ships to carry our men and supplies; we shall not have clothing for the men: we shall not have artillery and -machine- guns: it is doulftful if wc even have rifles enough. Of course, explanations in plenty will be made just why it has been impossible for us to do any more and any better. But there never was a man who failed who was not able to explain satisfactorily to himself just whv he failed. If that sort of excuse had been accepted by Abraham Lincoln, George B. McClcllan would have commanded to the end of the war and the south would have won. Either we must hit the ball or we shall lose the game. So far we have been fanning the air. Ill M M t H II M It M M H M M M M M H M I M It M M II M M THE NEW PEACE PROPOSAL. H M It M H I I I 1 1 1 I I I I I I I I I 1 1 H I , , ) I) 1 1 1 1, H 1 1 The Austrian minister of foreign affairs has stated the terms upon which the central powers would make peace. It is to be a return to the status quo ante bellum. In other language, there arc to be no annexations and no indemnities Germany and Austria are to be freed from any sort of reparation for the crimes they have committed and Germany's colonics are to be returned to her. just as all the territory taken from Turkey is to be restored to the sultan. Territorially, the world is to be as though there had been no war. Financially, each nation is to bear its own losses and no more, unless there shall be a fund created by contributions from all the nations to indemnify individual losses. Such is the proposition made by Germany, Austria, Turkey and Bulgaria at the peace conference with the Russians at Brest Litovsk. The terms are not for the Russians alone, but are con ditioned on acceptance by all of the nations now at war with the central powers. Should such peace be made, it is quite true that Germany will have failed of her aims. Her blood will have been shed and her treasure will have been spent in vain. But we must also recognize the fact that such peace would not make the world safe for democracy. On the contrary, the nations would merely enter upon an armed truce during which time every country would be training its young men for slaughter. Its factories would be making new weapons of death and its college laboratories would be devoted to the invention of more deadly gases. 7 Peace on such terms would be merely a postponement of Armageddon. We know now that the war will go on. Restoration of Africa to the German rule never can be thought of by Great Britain. No more would she think of peace without reparation for Belgium and Serbia. Lloyd George said emphatically that- no peace would be considered that did not provide for liberation of Palestine from the blight of Turkish rule. France will not consider peace that docs not restore the provinces torn from her in 1S71. President Wilson has said, and the people of the United States have approved, that no peace would be made with the kaiser, and that America would only treat with a government responsible to the German people. 1 The war may be a long one. but the righteous aims of Great Britain. France and the United States must be achieved. Also Italy must be made safe from the Austrian menace. It required twenty years for Great Britain to make the world safe from Xapolcon. It may require sixteen years more of fight ing for the world to be made safe for democracy. There will be no peace on the kaiser's terms. o J "FOR GOD'S SAKE WAKE UP!" J tttttMttMtttttrtttttMMItttttltHMHHHHMH tl I I I I I IMH ) M Ml I I UltHMIHIH I Mil MHt MMHH HOLDING A JOB J HIMIIIIHIIII.IIHIMIt HltMl Ill That Governor Hunt's idea of happiness is to hold a political job was well demonstrated or. Christmas. l3ay.. Evidently the chief executive wished to be very gracious in taking over an office which the courts but not the people had given him. As he had it sized up, the greatest desire of Tom Campbell's heart, after having lost the governorship fight in the highest court, would be to get his old job of tax commissioner back again. He reckoned Campbell from his own point of view but he mis judged his man. Tom Campbell had sought the office of gov ernor of Arizona because of the opportunity it gave him for serv ice to his native State and not because he wanted a mere job. The former place he had was worth as much in salary and much more considering expense and good for four years more and so Hunt, thinking that the ambition of every man in politics is to hold a seat at the pie counter, thought to make his Christmas a merry one by offering him that 'd job back again. But as it happened, Hunt, according to Campbell's belief did not have title to the Christmas present which he so fondly, tender ed. Hunt may suffer no pangs of c6nscience on' occupying an of fice belonging to another but Campbell would and besi'des he did not want the job anyway. The man who holds it is making good and why should he take it away from him especially since he has no ambitions to become a mere job-holder? Tom Campbell was governor of Arizona for nearly a year. He made a good governor. He did his -best. He gave the people of the State a taste of decent government. He did not draw any salary for his work, it is true but wc bclitve that this fact is not worrying him any and that he takes deep satisfaction in the op portunity thus given him to be some service to his fellow cit izens, to his native State, and to the nation in these troublesome times. MEN ARE LISTED FOR FAILURE 4 ANSWER LOCAL NAMES BOARD POSTS OF THOSE WHO DID NOT GET THEIR QUESTIONNAIRES IN WITHIN SEVEN DAYS. 3 5 1 1 1 1 1 i'i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 h n 1 1 1 1 1 n 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 "NOT ME" 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I M 1 1 1 1 1 I M M I I I I I t (I I II 1 1 I I I I I M I I I I 1 1 MlUmilHIIIIIIHHIHUHHHMtHlltMttHmH' J A STATUE FOR PEARSON J (Verde Copper Xews) All the faithful are being rewarded all but Artje .Pearson. The name of Arthur C. Pearson, that astute politician to whom Governor Hunt owes more than to any one man or group of men. does not appear among the lists of appointees that have poured 'in a steady stream from the' State house in the last few days. Pearson .served as an election officer in Douglas Xo. 1 although not even a resident of that precinct. He spoiled .several bottles of perfectly good bootleg whiskey in the course of the day: he bet money on Hunt and while serving on the board left the room in order to get up more coin on his favorite in the race. All these things are admitted and proved. It was proved to the satisfaction of Judge Stanford, in the lower court, that IVarson as the ballots passed through his hands, kept a stub of a pencil concealed in his palm and crudely, clumsily changed a number of ballots from Campbell to Hunt. These and other irregularities caused Judge Stanford to throw out Douglas Xo. I and seat Camp bell in the governor's chair. Before he took that action Judge Stanford was convinced that Pearson actual! v changed those ballots. Xo one could sav that he had actually .seen Pearson do it, but no doubt was left in the minds of Judge Stanford or anyone who knew Pearson. The supreme court, viewing the matter entirely from a deeply technical legal standpoint, held that the evidence was not sufficient to throw out the precinct. What the judges personally thought of Pear-on, if they knew him. could not be allowed to enter into the matter. Therefore Hunt is governor. X'ow is Pearson to receive no reward? Hunt cannot have forgotten the invaluable Artie. Xot if he sustains his reputation for remembering his friends, it can readily be understood however, that no mere political job could be regard ed as a fitting recognition for his services. It would be a verv pleasing act for the governor to contribute From the blood-stained fields of France to the snow-clad dulls of the Green Mountain State is a far journev. It has just been made by Congressman Porter H. Dale of Vermont, who went over with a small and unoflicial delegation from the House of Representatives to see for himself the war at first hand. From his home in Burlington, whence he arrived to spend Christ mas, he has given out this message to his own people: I wish 1 had' some of those easy-chair "Washington de partment fellows at liny Kidge, men who after eight months of war and not enough guns in Franco 'to equip our men are still telling the newspapers that everything is all right. I did not go into the front line trenches. I don't think it is anv place for a civilian : but I walked among the stark dead bodies oi gallant Englishman and Canadians. Whv unburied? Because men arc so precious and the German aviators so viirilant that even a burying party in the open is immediatelv marked and cut ciown y tneir quicK-iirmg guns. , Congressman Dale declares that our troops lack ordnance and equipment xsf all sorts and are not prepared for the terrific struggle ahead of them our troops who are now in France with in sound of the guns. . He confesses that his one ambition is to force the home folk to face and assume the responsibilitv that should be shouldered. To that end he has begun by' appealing to Ins neighbors: "For God's sake, wa"ke up and realize what this war means." Of course, the cuckoos in the press and public life will tell us that this Vermont Congressman is "talking through his hat." or they will try to drown his voice in a roar of generalities. But the fathers and mothers, the brothers and sisters and the wives and sweethearts whose hearts are "Over There" will, as we think, thank Congressman Dale for telling them the truth, "nothing but the truth." HHHIHIHHIHHHMHHHHHUHItlHMIHHHH HUNT IS GOVERNOR MHHHIHIMHHIHMIHMMIHMIHMIItllllMII the sum he paid for the inspection of the ballots, which the Sn preme Court has decreed Campbell must now repav him, as a start j pettifogging and, at first, they could not understand a m toward an "Artie Pearson Memorial Fund." Let all good Huntwas op-'" and above board. But it did not take most of th lJciuocrats do their bits. hen the fund has grown to sufficient proportions. let a statue of Artie be erected on the capitol grounds. Let Artie be depicted with a bottle of whiskey in his hip pocket, a cigarette hanging from one corner of his mouth, a ballot box at his left hand and a pile of ballots under his right. Peeping through the fingers of his faithful right, of course, must be a stub pencil. As a further mark of respect for Artie, let the Hunt Democrats adopt a stub pencil as their official badge. X'ow that we come to think of it. the old-time motto of the I hmlitcs Pearson in 'Look out for Xo. itself. 1," is something of a tribute to Dr. Cook complains that McMillan never went to the north pole, therefore cannot speak with authority as to whether the doctor got there or not. But McMillan went to the end of the route along which tin cans could be found. The end of the trail was four hundred miles south of the pole. Doc is still a liar and a gentleman. (Globe "'Record) . Tlie people of Arizona have much to be thankful for in spite of the unwelcome Christmas package handed to them bv the su preme court in the form of a return to power of George W. P. Hunt. L nder the able guidance of I homas Campbell the aifairs of State have been taken safely through a year of unprecedented disturbances and unusual general conditions and, because of the fearlessness and honesty of the Prescott man who has held the gubernatorial chair, Arizona is today in a condition that can hard ly be upset even by the folly of so radical a theorist as Hunt. Thanks to Mr. Campbell's energv and disregard of unjust criticism of friend and foe alike the State will probably be safe from any seriously disturbing outbreaks for the next year. All ot Mr. Campbells acts have not been met with approval by his personal friends and the members of his partv but in ev ery instance the retiring governor has pursued the course he be lieved to be right without fear or favor ami, greatest of all, with out regard for political effect. This attitude, his disregard of politics when shaping a course tor the benefit of the State, has been widely misconstrued. The people of Arizona were not ac customed to such open dealing. Thcv had suffered vears of man wlio (til Ifitt to learn the truth and today torn Lanipbcll stands as a bu figure in Arizona affairs. " I 1. It . , uoiiiuiess .ir. aiimucii win welcome a surcease ironi ins labors at the capital. But his retirement must be but temporary There are too few men of Tom Campbell's calibre to be found in the southwest. o I he best evidence that George W. P. Hunt knows in his own heart that lie is not the choice of the people of Arizona .for governor and that if their plain intent 1,a(I "ecu followed in the courts, lie would not today be the chief executive of the State, is found in his answer Tuesday to the challenge bv Tom Campbell to run again next fall anil submit the decision of the supreme court to the people of the State. Hunt, whose command of Eng lish is limited, expressed his true sentiments in those spontaneous out tell-tale words, Xot Me. oeorge v. I. Hunt knows, that although seated by a cwurt made up entirely of men of his own political faith, he is not the choice of the majority of his fellow citizens for governor, that he is a back number in politics, that he is down and out m his own party and that he dare not again either go before his own partisans m a primary or the people of the State in a general election. Wc do not pretend to say that the supreme court was a party to any political agreement with Hunt or any of his followers but it is well konwn that Hunt and his friends gave out that he would not be a candidate again it seated but would make the race next fall if he lost his appeal. Of course the supreme court, which although chosen in a partisan primary, is entirely impartial ami immune to politics, was not influenced by any such consideration but it is evident that Hunt intends to live up to this prediction which he let his friends make lor him. One brief year of iovcr and Hunt will be finally placed upon the shelf of political has-beens. The people of Arizona thought they finished this job last November but the supreme court has said that thcv did not do it according to form. They are ready to render a decisive verdict next November but Hunt foreseeing disaster says: "Not Me." o LEST WE FORGET. IIIIMHIIIHMIHIIMMHUIIMHIHMHIIHMMHI As the people of the United States stand today in the face of the tirst ot the disclosures ot incompetency in the war depart ment which the probe of the Senate Committee on Military Af- latrs has begun to lay bare, they will not forget that they received A warning ot the truth ot all these things from Major General Leonard Wood nearly two years ago. Before the senate and nouse committees on military anairs lie testitieu so trankly m icgard to the department's deficiencies in ordnance and equip ment and supplies of all kinds that he angered evecy bureaucrat responsible for the shortages and became the target for a per sistent persecution by pacifists. pro-Germans, apprehensive poli ticians and purblind bureaucrats that lias continued ever since. But General Wood was not deterred from telling the country the truth, and again last January he told the same committees again all about the mass ot red tape in the war department, the muddle in regard to machine guns, the shortage of rifles and artillcrv of all sorts. Soon thereafter lie lost his job, and since that time be has been shunted about the country ironi pillar to post. Nevertheless and notwithstanding he has persisted m telling the people the truth about the armv in fine disregard of the ef fect upon his own career, lo date he has been denied any part in conduct of the war commensurate with his great abilities, lie is still the victim of petty persecutions and all sorts of slanders. Latterly German propagandists, unable to convince the country that Secretary Tumulty has been shot as a spy, arc diligently circulating the canard that General Wood's health is so impaired that he cannot be chief of staff or accept -command in France. This slander is of a piece with the slander against Secretary Tu multy. The latter is not more loyal and alive than General Wood is well and fit and ready for the heaviest burden that the nation may call him to shoulder. Let us not forget that he told us the truth, and that he is paying the price today for that courageous service. (From Tuesday's Daily.) The local exemption board yester day issued its first list of names of the men who have failed to return their qucstionnairics within the pre scribed seven days, the names having been turned over to the local police officers for arrest. Most of the met. listed arc Mexicans, who apparently did not "sabe" the importance of get ting their question sheets back to the board promptly. It is understood that in event thf. delinquents cither surrender them selves voluntarily or arc captured, they will be taken before the board. If they can produce any legitimate reason why they did not return thcii question blanks, they will be given another questionnaire and allowed to fill it out, but if there appears to be no valid reason for their neglect, they will be shunted out to the train ing camps at once without further ceremony. There seems to be but little doubt that a great deal of confusion will re sult because of the inability of the, registrants to get their question- , naircs back to the board within the seven days. It is especially true thai in the sparsely settled parts of the State it will in many cases be practi cally impossible for the question lists to get to the men in the put-lying parts and back again in one week, and taking this fact into considera tion, it is probable that the board will be somewhat lenient with those who arc reported as being delinquent. The names and addresses of the men reported delinquent ycstcrdjiy arc the following: Francisco V. Zesatti, Jerome, Ariz. Javier Marqucz, Jerome, Ariz. Duro Dozctt, Jerome, Ariz. Francisco Rodriqucz, Humboldt, Ariz. Antonio Fcgucroa, Ash Fork, Ariz. Xikola Buconjic. Jerome, Ariz. Steve J. Dzida, Jerome, Ariz." m Migucl Gonzales, Humboldt, Ariz. Mike Sikora, Clarkdalc, Ariz. Harney Rua, Ocotillo, Ariz. Pierre Landa, 217 Alisco St., Los Angeles. Antonio J. Chavez, Flagstaff, Ariz. Olaf Olson, 22VA S. Main St., Los Angeles. F.lbcrt C Allen, Clarkdalc, Ariz. Thos. McShan, Jerome, Ariz. Francisco Siquciros, Jerome, Ariz. Xcmorio Rodriqucz, Humboldt, Ariz. Eliazar Encinas, Humboldt, Ariz. Florcncio Ramirez, Prescott, Ariz. DICK WICK HALL IS SUED BY PHOENICIAN (From Sunday's Daily.) Dick Wick Hall, the Salome min ... . i-' r ing man, anil riomer u. rung oi Prescott, were yesterday made de fendants in a suit filed in the su perior court by William L Pinnc of Phoenix, the latter making an ef fort to collect the sum of $j,000 from the two defendants. The complaint states than in September. 1913, Fin ney loaned Hall and King the sum of $3,000, the men having given their note as security. The note came due, the interest was defaulted, and, ac cording to the complaint, the defend ants made no effort to settle the ac count. Finney asks for the additional $2,000 to cover the interest and court m( costs. Hall is well known in this sec- I tion. having for a long time been" identified with mining projects in this and Yuma county. His last spectac ular stroke of business was when he opened the famous Glory Hole on one of his properties in tuna county anil took out a large amount of high grade gold ore from a single small pocket or blowout. The .burden of the mail these days is divided between the government's publicity agents and canned stuff put out by the advertisements for oil milling, railroad and other stocks, which it is hoped may be printed as news matter. Of course, it all goes into the waste basket. o Hoover is urging the hotels and restaurants to serve smaller portions to guests in the dining room. He had no trouble in gelling that recommendation followed, but he is meeting with less success in getting the hotels and restaurants to charge less for their homeopathic meals. Siurar Administrator Roloh testifies that probition has driven many men to ice cream sodas and thus helped to produce stisrar shortage. This nation seems to be headed ritrht at raw water. o Tobacco announces the Ohio experimental station, kills pests. We never found it so. Some of them would stay forever if we gave them tobacco. Big Bill Haywood is in control of Russia, except in a few provinces where both principle and common sense seem to have a majority. its West Virginia authorities have seized an automobile, with radiator filled with whiskey. They got a whiff of its breath. u . If the metal shortage is so acute, let the laundries putting one less pin in the fried shirt. o In war many reputations are made. Also manv conserve inflated! BRADSHAW MINE SHAPING UP FOR LARGE OPERATIONS (From Sunday's Daily) In addition to letting a contract last Summer for deep development on the holdings near Crown King, Major J. F. Valdron, president of the Montezuma Mining Co., who is in the city from the camp, stated yesterday the board of directors had authorized additional exploration, and funds were available. This action is due to what has been determined to date in new work performed, and the purpose to explore all claims of the big group at a heavy outlay. The consulting engineer is en route from Colorado, to direct development, which is to begin next week. Major Waldron states capital is beginning to appreciate the possibilities of the P.rad.shaw field, since ore treating has been successfully solved and many old mines are making an .excellent ' showing as depth is given. ROAD FACES SUIT. CHICAGO. Doc. 2S-5A suit against bladders arc punctured. the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company for the collection of $36.- I 450,382 was. 'fifed in the superior court It is impossible to impress the baby with atn of these food,lcrt. today in behalf of the Equitable conservation ideas. I Trust Co. of New York. i