Arizona republican., 1912-03-01
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Their high offices tending to quell any more radical expression of opinion. A. J. Mathews. president of the state normal school at Tempe. and J. D. Loper. city superintendent of schools in Phoenix. stepped from a train yes terday muttering the gems of thought above quoted.
 There's a reason. and the reason is q fine trip to St. Louis which didn't happen.
 The learned gentlemen had been sent by their respective boards to at tend the sessions of the National As sociation of School Superinteadents and the normal department of the Ma tional Educational Association. of which organization Professor Mathews is vice president, having been honor eI by an invitation to preside over one of the sessions at the St Louis con- vention.
 The convention was scheduled for the first four days of this week and the local delegates departed last Fri day evening via the Southern Pacific They were due in St. Louis Monday morning and expected to participate in the opening session on that day
 It was a delightful rip for a day or so. and then the phrases quoted above became apt. Sunday morning the travellers woke up in Texas. but Texas was not all they awoke to. Their train was stuck. Stuck in a snow bank which looked to be as big as the Lone Star s,ate itself
 The conductor consolingiy assured the passengers that Dalhart was but A miles away. and that beyond that place the drifts extended only d couple of hundred miles
 About the time the convention was being called to order in St Louis a big rotary blow reached the stalled train with supplies and a guess on the part or well informed officials that barring any more snow. and if a los of favorable things happened. and a lot Of unfavorable things didn't happen S. Louis might be near enough to speak by wireless sometime Friday or Sat urday
 The convention was scheduled to aJ- journ on Friday.
 Mathews and Eoper. with genuine Arizona initiative. talked Homer to the division officials via telegraph. and to the sturdy Irish floor walker on the rotary blow they conversel like T pair of Dutch uncles.
 There was no chance to go ahead so they were hauled back through the drifts to town from where branch line hit out for the open country and by means of which it was thought a detour might be made Arrived at the junction the hardy explorers were told that the branch line was so complete ly out of business that no attempt was to be made to open it before the blue birds resumed their glad spring lay.
 The rails were open in just one ,li- rection. and that was towards Phoe- nix. Mathews and Loper wanted ac- tion- They wanted to go somewhere. They were tirel of snow. and cold feet and short rations on a discouraged dining car So they about faced and headed for the balmy valley of the salt where the snow flies not and frosted noses are a rarity They ar rived in good order as indicated. They know quite lot about some of the topogra phy of Texas. and they know just how a shipwrecked mariner feels.
 So far as they are informed the con Vention was entirely successful but the schools of Phoenix and the Tempe Normal won't get much benefit from a direct report of their distinguished representatives.
 The returned vOyagers are planning to collaborate on a treatise which may be made part of the curriculums of their respective institutions: Three days on side track or. Why is a blzzard?"