Arizona republican., 1914-02-15

her face looked like S5 per cent ad valorem" tt
 Industry; What happened to her?'
 Trust: The democratic acid throWers got her.
 Industry: Did they get you, too?'
 Trust: No, but they're after me with a poisoned needle. The word trust is no longer respected except on a twenty dollar gold piece, and Roosevelt tried to take it off of that
 Enter McReynolds, who makes ad vances to Industry, saying:
 T will clothe you in silks and deck you in diamonds" to which the girl replied:
 Never. I know your ideas of clothes. You want every one to dress like the lind-folded lady in the scales
 Then McReynolds tempts the fath CT. urging him to dissolve the trusts; keep part of what you have, and draw dividends without voting privileges from the rest" Tsiz
 Trust: What good will that doUi
 McReynolds: All the trust-bust- CTS in congress will be put out of business. They will have nothing left to bust"
 Finally, under the fear of the mob, Trusts throws himself upon the mercy of the new Interstate Com merce commission, otherwise the "brothers Cheeryble" of the govern ment, and subscribes to their con stitution of peace" under which the trusts come to our commission when they feel naughty, and we tell them how to be good
 On board the Battleship Friendship was held an examination of a class of blue jackets by one of Secretary Daniels young welfare workers, . and here were some of the questions and answers:
 What is the chief aim of the navy?"
 ITO knock out the kindergartens. .
 What is naval strategy?"
 Carrying John Lind from Vera Cruz to Pass Christian without let ting anybody know it."
 Following in the wake of the ship came an ancient, giving his name as Apt Alliteration." which was no odder than Woodrow Wilson, or Champ Clark, or Luke Lea, or Knute Nelson, or Tom Taggart, or Bill Barnes, or Swager Sherley" He was f afraid his baby, "Watchful Waiting, ' had been killed as the other poor Dollar Diplomacy"
 In d colorful picture illustrative of his ancestry, Ernest G. Walker, cor respondent of the Boston Herald and the Springfield Republican, was initiated into the office of president of the Gridiron club as a prelimin- ary to much merrymaking. Broad brimmed Puritans. whose cognornens savored of Pilgrims Progress" " marched with plumed cavaliers Of the southland to do honor to the new president. who was significantly warned upon taking up his office that "the Gridiron club stands foi only one term It was in tropical Santo Domingo that the Gridiron initiated it's most recent acceSSlOnS to membership Tn the persons of Ben F. Allen of the | Cleveland Plain Dealer and Sumner M. Curtis of the Chicago Record Herald. A change of scene effected 1 while the lights were lowered. dis closed a group of Dominican gener- l als arranging for a presidential eec- | tion, such as were usually held or 1 Mondays and Thursdays For this occasion an extra election was helj on Saturday and the generals were playing "freeZe-out'' for the nomin- ation. To this the observers" sent | by the Washington state department strongly objected and demanded tho substitution of the presidential pri- mary system, but before their vii could be enforced they were discov. cred to be two ''molders of public opinion,' so of course Washington newspaper men, and thus eligible tt membership in the club, whicl promptly adopted them.
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