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Bisbee daily review., 1914-10-25
STUDY THE slTuArloNl

The assertion that only small percentage of voters have clear idea of the many concerned in the forthcoming election would be well within the truth It follows that the votes cast in November will be snap-judgement verdict on many important matters The blame rests upcn those responsible for cuttering the ballot with than the people could properly digest The initiative has been shamefully abused and because this abuse has been exposed to ridicule Men utterly unqualified draft laws have gratuitously pushed themselves forward lawmakers and the result has hodgepodge of initiated meas ures which if adapted would palsy the hands that drew them This is especially true of the blacklist measure the 80 percent bill and che Australian bill Concern ing these however the need not trouble himself He can make no mistake by voting mo"
 It is perhaps unfortunate that the prohibition question has filled the public mind to an extent which deprives the other issues of the amount of attention which they deserve While it's importance must not be minimized it does not consideration the excusion of all else There positive danger that because of the dust kicked up by prohibition the other measures will suffer dire neglect Another contributory of the ab- sence of wedstribued enlighment is the agitation oc- casioned by antipathy toward Governor Hunt If the wellmeaning voter would give five minutes thought to the Hunt bugaboo he would be prepared to make de cision whether the student of the situa- ton be Democrat Republican or Progressive Each and every one knows that Alaona must have economy in administration, proper law enforcement and sane plans for Slate development Governor Hunts record open book and its pages filled with records of extravagance of evasion of the laws and of proposals untenabe innovations It is difficult to assign any other than inexcusaDle parsanship to the votes which will be cast for Hunt The man who endorses Hunt declares himself hostile to the best interests of Arizona and willing to sacrifice himself for the sake of perpeuating political fetish. There is no moral or practical necessity for such sacrifice The Democratic party doing splendid work in the national field. It's representatives in Arizona doing execrabe work in the State field Democratic prestige suffers inestimaby in consequence. The GOOD Arizona Democrat is the man who gives Mr Hunt the rebuke he deserves or November 3.
Bisbee daily review., 1914-10-25
| GERMAN GUN BASES
 BUILT NEAR PARIS

LONDON. Oct. 24.-Aocording to several wounded British soldiers in the American Womens Hospital at PaieLton the discovery was made of concrete gun bases nearer Paris than the German army got fin Gen. von kluoks advance.
 They explain this in the same way as inc finding of concrete bases be- fore Namur and Maubeuge and near So.rsons. saying it is believed that the Germans bought or rented certain stretches of land years before the war anl then got exact measurements of the ranges. which is the reason their at tillery fire was SO accurate
 Ono soldier who believes the Ger. mans Systematically did this is Seth Will'sms of the Royal Field Artillery, who has served in the army at differ- ent times for a period of sixteen years. tie vas in the South African war and ir recent years was at work on the Hudson river tunnels. He said:
 "It is possible to dodge German Jack Johnsons' when in the open and it is sometimes possible to dodge seventeen inch shells. A good many seconds elapse between the discharge Of a Jack Johnson shell and it's ar- rival. Anyway, the Germans use them only when they want to knock down a house or obstruction. It is the small CT shells that are harder to dodge.
 'I was a driver in the first line of supply wagons at Hoissons and we dodged about twenty shells, until fin- ally we were ordered too near a bat tery. Then two big shells burst among us killing all but four of hfty-four men and only one horse was saved out of more than one hundred. I think we ] could have lodged those shells by ! staying where we were, for the Ger man system of firing seems to be to drop a shell first in one place, then a second to the right, third to the ! left and a fourth to the rear, descr1b. ing a half circle, and if you keep track of the way they have been hitting you
 can often avoid them. But of course , you can't always tell.'
Bisbee daily review., 1914-10-25
FRAMED 10 pEcEIvE7
November 9

If it the deliberate intention of the framers of several of the initiated deceive the object could not have been advanced more effectively than has accomplished by inubductory passages these measures In an able editorial, The Arizona calls attention the matter states that the voter if asked if he favored "us and equal system or taxation" would unhesitatingly answer the affirmative we believe that the average voter should inquire and ascertain to his satisfaction that the end could be attained by the proposed a mat of fact this cannot be obtained through the pro posed taxation system.
 On the ballot the question of restricting the governors power grant pardons repreyes will appear thus:
 An act to establish penal code tiue-Pardons and Repreves Section l2sO 12Sl l282 12S3 12s4 12s5 12s6 12S7. 12ss, 12s9 129O
 Could anyone pass the merits of this question on
 reading that? We do not think so but that is all that will appear the ballot state has gone to great expense sending pamphlets containing the questions to be voted in the form in which they will appear Che ballot together with the bills, referred laws amendments themselves. and arguments on them both pro and Those who have not studied these measures in these pamphlets have informed them selves other authoritative source should vote "No" them.
 It is important that voters should know how they in tend vote the initiated and referred measures be fore they go to tbe polls The assumption by the peopl, Of he right of the initiative and referred carries with the weighy responsibility of conscientious study of tn, initiated referred measures, the sentiment of ;h minority may be enacted through the unwilling aid Of the majority That the real danger of the ni uatiye and the referendum. They are mobile processe
Bisbee daily review., 1914-10-25

and may be used in an uprgheous cause aa well aa n righteous cause, s being Illustrated n the present campaign in the attempt by small majority of the peo pie of Ga county to divide that county and the attempt by vegy small portion Of the people of cochlse county defeat the will of the majority in that county to have their county in central and accessible location
 More dangerous than any Of the other captions that win appear the ballot because deceptive is that proposed by initiative petition as follows:
 An act to promote the welfare of the people of the State of Arizona and to provide for the development of the resources the State, and to abolish the contract system all construction and to establish state printing plant and to establish State banking system and to make appropriation therefore"
 There are but who will agree that it would be
 fine thing for to be developed for there not chamber of commerce in the state that is not working with might main to that end, but do not believe that the people of Arizona are ready to adopt cardinal principle of the Socialist party for that what is If you favor state ownership of industries you should for the bill if you oppose Socialism and state ownership of industries, you should vote NO.
 On its face the following caption looks reasonable, too:
 An act regulating the placing erection, and maintenance of electric poles wires cables and app- anoes and providing the punishment for the violation thereof"
 Here is the truth: The initiated bill is exact copy of the California law which has suspended by the California Railroad Commission because it found to be ineffective and now California has adopted the safety rules which already in force in this sate which prepared by joint committee of engineers of nat ional reputation
 Shall profit by California's experience or shall we repeat her mistake? Ten states including Arizona and California have adopted these specifications One might think from reading the caption that no such regulations existed This again Illustrates the necessity of the voter informing himself these before going to the polling place.
 The same is true in varying degree of all the other initiated and referred masures and proposed amend ments to the constitution the initiative and the ref erendum are to be effective in registering will of the majority of the people the individual voter must assume the responsibility of separating the wheat from the chan
 and great deal of chaf has been heaped into the al rect legislation hopper
Bisbee daily review., 1914-10-25
BIRD CONSERVATION
speed laws.

The Rockefeller Foundation has accomplished fine piece of conservation strategy in buying tract of s5Ooo Louisiana, with frontage of 75 miles the Gulf coast for winter refuge for migratory birds The birds will presumably find out after season two that these 500 miles of land and water constitute safe haven, just the animals have found it out in Yellowstone Park And they will doubtless appreciate the benefsction.
 There is plenty of economic well sentimental Justification for the venture The safeguarding of game birds the preservation of valuable part of the nations food supply More important than that however is the fact that anything which reserves that however is the fact that anything which preserves against destructive insects and the safeguarding of the countrys crops.
 In that respect alone the investment of the Rooke- ieller Foundations s225OOO in Louisiana may bear fruit thousand fold n-
Bisbee daily review., 1914-10-25
 Eza22a stale2a-41a gs Y7

he appears this time in the role of a detective. His redemption seems to stir the incredulity and supicion of all of the detectives and officers in the book, as we'll as that of the reader lt is hard to believe that Arsent is really sincere. Especially as he is busy throughout the story in staying the hand that would shower wealth upon him. He is the last heir to a large fortune, which he will inherit upon the demise of all other heirs And from the first chapter all the oth- CT heirs begin to die mysteriously, some shot, others poisoned, while Ar sent Lupin bends every effort to search out the. mtTderers and bring them to justice. He is finally success ful in bringing an end to the crimes and discovering their perperator. And of course in this way he spells every chance Of his own inheritance. In spite of this sudden change of behavior he is much the same Arsene Lupn as be- fore. His many readers will find as great an interest ID his dectective role ss they did in his earlier actiy- ities The plot often impinges upon Che dotted lines Of probability and it is quite long. but it will find many eager readers none the less. Double. day Page and Co.,
Bisbee daily review., 1914-10-25

Florence l.. Barclays "The Wall of Partition" like every one Of the au- thor's other books. Is a very pleasant love story. At no time in all it's pages is any enduring sadness permitted to creep into the book and if there are tears they are few and Hitting After a separation of ten years the man and woman in "The Wall of Partition" are brought together And they meet one anothar at the end of the decade in a most interesting fashion. They have adjacent apartments in the same Lon don dwelling and it is a wrong phone number that discovers them to one another When they meet she finds that he has become an author of emineuce and he finds that she is a widow and willing to admit her error in permitting the parting those many years ago The thing comes to hap py conclusion, as indeed do all of Mrs. Barclays books, and it has every one Q fthe properties ia thoroughly satisfactory love story co F. Put nams Sons.
Bisbee daily review., 1914-10-25

"Monsignor Villarosa," by Pompeo, Duke of Litta, is the story of a Cath ollie priest, who had his see in Varese, Italy, where he was loved by all his practitioners. Before ickning the priesthood he had been a follower of Garrabaldi, and continued to wear "The Star of the Thousand beneath his vestments. Two great ideals ruled Villarosa's life-the moral and ma terial redemption of peasants and the diYulgation of the true meaning of Christs message to humanity. He Is suspended from the Catholic church for publicly blessing his nephew, who married @ divorced woman, contrary to Che rules of the church The book ends with the death of Villarosa, ono time soldier and bishop of Varese The bock shquld be read if only to make the acquaintance of the beautiful truly Christian character of the saint ly priest (G. P Putnan's sons)
Bisbee daily review., 1914-10-25

Mary Roberts Rheinhardt's "The Street Of the Seven Stars" is real romance and 8 cheery and delightful one It is the story of two very agree able young lovers, suffering privations in ambiton's name in the Vienna stud ent quarters There is sentiment, but it never clogs, and the occasional sad. ness is put to rout every time by the ebulliencc of sunshine and cheer The characters and their environs are mu- sical, all of the young people with careers to consider and all of them throwing aside discourage ment with a most refreshing vigor. The love story of Harmony Wells and the light
 hearted and gifted Peter makes up the thread of plot in the story. On 1 course it might be disputed whether the buck really has plot, but he is a captious reader who will quarrel with the author on this point The ! innumerable pleasant scenes and ac tiyities of the story might be here disclosed. but it is earnestly recon. mended that the reader have them
 first hand Here is a second book that
 will offer much delight (Houghtor
 Mifnin Co.
Bisbee daily review., 1914-10-25

More of Maurice Leblanc's Arsene Lupin is Co be had in his recent The Teeth of the Tiger" and instead of a diabolloally clever and ingenious thief
Bisbee daily review., 1914-10-25

Mir Brandes forced the admission that if the increase in rates asked for granted, t would increase like wise the price of railroad securities held abroad ard would result in dumping these securities the Amert public.
Bisbee daily review., 1914-10-25

 "The Younger Generation" By FL len Key, translated from the Swedish by Arthur C. Chatter, is a series of essays on present world generation that the author looks for a solution to these problems. The peace problem, anti-m.htarism socialism, the eradica- ton or class distinctions. the culture of the people as shown by the recrea- lions they choose the educative value of moving pictures an dof plays for the young these are the subjects treated with such keen insight and understanding by the Swedish writer "The problem of peace is now one of the serious subjects of legal and so- cial science, one of the great Ques- tions of practical politics; the cause has passed through the phase of Uto plan proposals and is now definitely within the sphere of the attainable." says Ellen Key in her handling of the peace problem She takes a strong stand for anti-militarism and looks to the mothers to instill the principles of peace in the hearts of the younger i generation. Ellen Key has been de- scribcd as among the first and great est of modern women In her writings she brings to her aid psychology, his tory, science. inspiration and hope ! To one familiar with her works the book needs no recommendation To 1 the unfamiliar 1t cannot be too highly recommended. (G. P. Putman's sons)
 Eleanor Hallowell Abbott the au- thor of Molly Make Believe" Little Eve Edgerton" and other popular stories, i sthe daughter of Edwar Alb bolt minister and writer, the grand daughter of Jacob Abbott minister and writer, and the niece of Lyman Abbott
 Kathleen Norris, the author of Saturdays Child, wrote the 1S0OO0 words fthe book in ninety-eight days, Years ago while a reporter on San Francisco paper she made a record by writing in one evening a story of 5000 words after having spent the day in gatherin the material.
Bisbee daily review., 1914-10-25

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-12
HEARD HIM THE FIRST TIME

From the Youths Companion.
 Many a sly and crafty foreigner has shielded himself from trouble by. affect iLg not to understand the language spoken to him. Tagliche Rundschau tells an amusing story of an oriental who pre- tended not to understand English, but forgot himself at the moment
 A Chinaman was brought before a mag istrate in court of Canadian city and received fine for slight misdemeanor. The judge had great difficulty in making the oriental understand, for he pretended not to know word of English.
 Look here. man. he said. disgustedly, that Is $1. Do you see? Pay it; other wise, in jaill Understand?" The China man slgnified that he did not understand. and the magistrate repeated it.
 Let me talk with him, your honor, !" said the portly officer who had arrested the man. "I'll make him understand"
 When the judge had given him leave, the officer approached the Chinaman, and shouted in his ear:
 Say, you with the teakettle face, can't you hear anything. You've got to pay a $2 finel
 You're a liar! cried the Chinaman, forgetting himself in his rage. It's only SIP
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-12

From the Preface to s"The Nigger of the
 Narcissus," by Joseph Conrad.
 The artist descends within himself. and In that lonely region of stress and strife, II he be deserving and fortunate, he finds the terms of his appeal His appeal is made to our less obvious capacities: To that part of our nature, which, because or the warlike conditions of existence, Is necessarily kept out of sight within the more resisting and hard qualities-like the vulnerable body within a steel armour. His appeal is less loud, more profound, less distinct, more stirring-and sooner forgotten. Yet it's effect endures forever. The changing wisdom of successive gen erations discards ideas, questions facts, peals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition and therefore, more permanently endur- ing. He speaks to our capacity for de- light and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation ana to the subtle but invincible, convic- tion of solidarity that knits together the loneliness of innumerable hearts to the solidarity in dreams, in joy. in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions in hope, in fear, which binds men to each other, which binds together all humanity-the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-12
DIR. EpMoNps, PRAYER

From the Huntsville Times, June s.
 Rev. H. M. Edmonds in his Beginning the Day. prayer in The Birmingham Age-H Herald this morning very beautifully says: Teach me, o God, to honor my body! It is Thy gift, the temple of Thy spirit and the instrument of my soul. Preserve me from staining it with sin. Let me not weaken it with luxury or neglect. May I keep it pure for Thee. and train it to health and power for my souls great purposes. Amen.'' The senti- ment and every word of which we com mend to our readers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-12
Steel Trade Activity

The Iron Age this week reflects a decided improvement in industrial bus mess. There had been a steady decline in the Steel corporations thrilled or ders for several months up to the first of June, but a marked change for the better has come, and it is believed that improvement will continue until all the iron and steel works are operating at full capacity.
 The pig iron market has walked up at last, and large sales are being made. The prices have not yet advanced, but they will move upward in the near future.
 There is an especially active demand for wire products. The prosperous south has come to be an immense con- sumer of wire. More wire fencing will be built in the south this year than in any previous year, and other sections are ready to increase their wire pur- chases on large scale.
 The cast pipe industry is very ac- tive, and as the railroads have an- nounced a policy of extensive better ments it may be assumed that the steel rail business will soon receive a new impetus. There was never time in the history of this country, perhaps, when metal stocks were so depleted and the railroads in spite of rigid re- trenchment cannot hold out any long, CT. The bumper crops alone would have forced the transportation lines to purchase much new equipment, but the business situation is all the bright CT when it is remembered that every consuming interest needs the output of mines and mills.
 The brisk trade that has come with June is part of a mighty prosperity wave which was forecast by optimists a few months ago, and which is now admitted by former calamity howlers to be in sight. By July business throughout the country will be so buoyant as to affect large capital favorably and cause millions of dol lars to be invested in new develop ment undertakings. The Birmingham district, of course, will share largely in the coming prosperity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-12
The willard-Roosevelt Wedding

The marriage of Miss Belle Wyatt Willard, daughter of the United States ambassador to Spain, to Kermit Roose- veit' was notable event in Madrid,' re- marked a member of Birmingham's Vir- ginia colony.
 NO other American girl, so far as I can recall, has gone through two mar riage ceremonies-one civil and one re- hgious, the latter according to the ritual of the Anglican church. The civil mar riage is required by Spanish law in the case of foreigners
 T knew the Willards well in Virginia remember the bride when she was a little girl about 10 or Il years old. She old fair then to make the charming woman she is today. Her father, Joe Willard, is one of the most popular of Virginians. He was born in Washington. D. C., but adopted Virginia as his home. and ever since attaining his majority has been prominent in public and social life. Notwithstanding his great wealth, he is modest, unpretentious gentleman-the very reverse of self seeking. He was captain in a Virginia regiment in the - on Gen Fitzhugh Lees staff. Willard served several years as a member of the Virginia legislature, and was lieutenant governor, 1902-6. He aspired to the gov ernorship, but his home being in Rich mond, made gubernatorial honors racti- cally impossible. It is singular fact that no one living in Richmond can ever be governor or United States senator In the long line of governors not one came from Richmond. I never could &C., count for the unwritten law. but some people have said that it was jealousy on the part of the country vote. That seems strange, because all virginians are fond of visiting Richmond and seem proud of the city. If Joe Willard had lived in any other part of the state he would doubt less have reached the governors chair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-12

any other thing orystaiiized the north into thinking the slaves could be freed and the country still live
 Captains of industry had better learn to esteem the value of phrases. Van derbilt's the public be d." made more enemies for his railroad than book full of logic eon1d convert into friends.
 "All the traffic will bear" was the most deadly boomerang for the rail- roads, for while 1t lays down per fectly sound principle. it makes people believe they are being swindled.
 That was genius among railroad workmen, who thought of calling it the full crew" law It gave the impression that the crews on trains were incom- plete, and so carried conviction among folks who do not stop to reason.
 Lawson's system was a powerful argufier, and Colonel Roosevelts phrases about the "privileged'' classes and "predatory wealth" swung more people to his way of thinking than a volume of sound arguments.
 A foolish phrase beat Blanc for Presi- dent Hancock's blunder in saying the tariff was local issue" probably cost him the same high office.
 George F. Bear never said he had a divine right" to operate the coal mines, but lots of people thought he did, which had the same effect
 It would pay big business to hire some happy phrase makers.