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Arizona republican., 1915-03-11
- Arizona Republicans Editorial Page

digestcd mass of practically indsestibe legislation may be dumped upon the senate d few hours before final adjournment will not shift the blame for an extraordinary session of the legislature if one should be called There Was no reason why this bill the most important of ali, should been sent to the senate week ago. and this late hour the would be fully warranted in not undertaking it's consideration The members of the house are yet unfamiliar with many of items. Even members of the appropriations committee have the most shadowy notions to the reasons why this that item is thus so
 Generally, informed that so much has been appropriated for such purpose because the official commission upon whom the expenditure is to devolNe said that that much would be needed. Such of information is not satisfy ing to fall that his watchword was economy" and who has heard the loud complaints against public eX- travagance during the two years
 We cannot blame the house wanting to get this bill off it's hands somehow any fashion for it would be unheard-of thing 0 find an appro- praton bill at the statutory end of legislative ses- sion. stranded in the house of it's origin. the same time could not blame the senate if it should decline take in this beIated infant. left on , doorstep just it preparing lock the doors and go home.
Arizona republican., 1915-03-11
Rippling Rhymes By Walt Mason
PLANTING A TREE

To be in line With worthy folk, you soon must plant an elm or oak, a beech or maple fair to see, a single or a dou- bletree. When winters storms no longer roll, go get spade and dig a hole. and bring d saplinS from the woods. and show your neighbors you're the goods. What though with years you're bowed and bent. and feel your life is nearly spent? The tree you plant will rear it's limbs. and there the birds will sing their hymns, ana in it's cool and grateful shade the girls will sip their lemonade: and lovers there on moonlight nights will get Dan Cupid dead to rights; and fervid oaths and tender vows will go-a-zippng through It's boushs. And folks will say, with gentle sigh. Long years ago an ancient guy. whose whiskers brushed against his knee, inserted in the ground this tree. Twas hut a little sapling then and he. the kindeSt of old men, was well aware that he'd he dead. long ere its branches grew and spread, but still he stuck it in the mould, and never did his feet grow cold. oh. he was wise and kind and hrave--lets place nose gay on his gravel" We don't forget such men as he. Go. then. and plant a beerbonm tree.
Arizona republican., 1915-03-11

The rigid regulations in Texas are expected shortly to create state wiQe demand that the bars be lower cd between states imposing the same sweeping quarantine.
 Now that Arizona is to be put on the same basis I think that Texas will favor the Proposed agreement said Secretary sam E. Bradner of the live stock sanitary board ycster day. and that farmers in the Gila valley will be able to ship their hay to Texas in the near future. They have been greatly handicapped by the new quarantine"
 Under the new regulations any shipments of cattle across Arizona can be unloaded only in special pens and all cars will have to be disin- fected in accordance with the speci- fications of the bureau of animal husbandry. But as the Southern Pacific has already announced that no interstate shipments will be re- ceived, this clause will probably have little effect at present
Arizona republican., 1915-03-11
Where the People
 May Have Hearing
USING THE WASTE PLACES

 | The one big lesson that we should | learn from the war is the elimination 1 of waste America has ever been pro- i digal of her resources, and Americans l have almost sneered at the frugality of I other nations. Everywhere is seen this | eXaravagance from the law making | system of the country to the housewife | in her kitchen. A few wise beyond i their generation have talked conserva- 1 tion, but the great mass will have none | Of it.
 ] President Wilson in 2 recent speech | advocates a more careful cultivation of 1 the soil Not a blow or a spade should be idle" he says nor an inch of ground untitled.
 | Ours must be the granary and the 1 !arder of the world And it would seem as if old Mother Nature had this in ! view from the way she has watered | with copiotIS rains almost every part of 1 the country. Everything is in prime l condition for man to take hold and do ] his part and nowhere will he find q
 more inviting field or more willing soil i than in this valley. On every street l y | as any in the world Why not farm
 them out this year. Are there not men, who would gladly do this? One plot
 could be devoted to beans or many for
 that matter. Another to peas. or pota
 toes or onions anything rather than the unsightly and useless weeds that on" sees on every side
 l have an impression that this would be the right way to meet your out of work" problem. Put men to farming that vacant lot of yours. Beans and peas are both good crops. We are pay ing on m average ten cents per pound
 for them. or having thought of the idea there may be something else more ! worth while. rather than have the land
 idle group of young boys under a
 teacher or q man who understands,
 could be trained in habits of industry
 and make a profit besides
 This would be practical conservation Cannot some one make a beeinnne.
 BY A MERE WOMAN.''
Arizona republican., 1915-03-11
OUR DEFENSELEsS DEFENSES
Chicago Evening Post


 The Post does not believe in the necessity of a great army or of greater navy than is required adequate defense purposes but it does believe that our armed forces should be maintained at the high est point of efficiency
 Does the public know how brainlesslv congress has allotted appropriations for army?
 We have our forts and We have guns, but cannot garrison the former shoot the latter because we lack men for the service.
 Millions have been spent for coast defenses that are worthless because congress in it's haphazard of doing things has refused to sanction legislation to provide gunners for the batteries
 Does anybody think that the condition which at present exists is new? In the Post years this month editorial attention was called to the fact that the chief of the coast artillery in his nua report had said that the country needed 15.5g more regulars for the artillery and 26.1O6 aa- ditional National Guardsnen trained for the big gun service to give us coast defenses with ming detail"
 This the condition three years ago and it is the condition today. The country had gone ahead putting up Notifications along the for defense purposes, mounting guns to keer the enemy at distance. and vet it has been enough to make use of the forts ard the guns if occasion shall de- mand.
 Unless there is insisence the country there is chance that the present democratic congress will legisate to provide the artiIlerynen needed. From the attitude of the administration and the democratic leaders generally the country probably can count itself lucky if it is allowed maintain its artillery force at it's present strength. The democratic leaders apparently regard mpert- hence the natural question: Why supply and big guns and quantities of ammunition if there no chance that they be used in time of need?"
 For years it has been the custom of the war department to concentrate it's artillerymen q few posts for purposes of instruction and for big practice We have forts the today which manned only by caretakers. Do Ameri- cans believe that if and the enemy were to appear off Fort Monroe artillerymen from Massachusetts and from Florida could be hur- ricd through in time to make proper defense?
 The situation in regard to the amy and cally in regard to the coast artillery. is that of railroad which locomotives but has fuel to run them engineers to control them For some reason other the admnistration o think that to allow the people know the condi- ton of our coast defenses and of other of services would be unneutral act. England France Germany Russia. Austria and all the other pig tOns earth know exactly what condition is
 We regret to see the president tell Congressman Gardner that he is opposed to his plan of nvcsti- gating the present condition of national defenses which have "on paper. We only hope bat his hint to the willingness of the executive departments to with congressional conl- mittees along tEis line may ,nere, that he objects to the manner of the proposed nVestga ation rather than to the itself.
Arizona republican., 1915-03-11
TERRE AAUTE VOTE
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well organized there Roberts. he said. told him to go to Holler and get something to put in their the republican's) pockets and have them arrested for carrying concealed weapons. He said HOler gave him three reVolvcrs. one of which was exhibited in court, but the scheme failed. as Jas. Kennedy. the election sheriff, refused to handle the Weap- ons. He said Roberts told him the bunch in your precinct are qutters." ."
 Under cross-eXa minatiOn Patton said he did not know the names he wrote on the application blanks were fictitious. Asked about the expendi- ture of the S100 the witness said he could not remember just how much he had paid for carria ge hire or how much nc had expended un men to whom he had suggested that they vote for certain conditions.
Arizona republican., 1915-03-11
Vest Pocket Essays
THE ROCK ISLAND
By George Fitch

The Rock Island Railroad is trans portation pea between two shell games. It was built to haul passengers and freight. but it has been used in the past ten years as a dam. If the water which the Rock Island holds could be used for irrigation purposes, it would make flower garden out of purgatory.
 The great financial problem of today
 is to discover under which shell game the Rock Island is located If is a fine railroad property with over 5000 miles of track. IL is capitalized for about S750oo0 00O and owes about 2S0O00, 900 in bonds. Its real name is the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway, and It is owned. as completely as Uncle Tom Was owned by the wicked Simon Legree. by the Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific Railroad company. which is owned by the Rock Island company, which is owned by eminent financiers
 who have improvbed the original rail road until it doesn't pay dividends any more. and is too poor to cut the weeds on it's branch lines.
 As soon as the court has decided under which shell the pea is located. it will either take the C. R. l. X P Ky. away from the Rock Island company and give it to the bond holders of the C. R. I. X P. Ry.. which consists of S7S.000. 900 worth of debts. or it will take the C. R. I. X P. Ky. away from the Rock Island company. or it will abolish the latter. which has S150, 0,o00.- 000 in stock and a handsome office desk
 and sell the C. R. l. .& P Ky to the [ highest bidder or il will retire from the whole business with an awful head 1 ache. Railroad finance is too deep for i anyone but an expert in hydrostatics 1 The Rock Island System owns d mag i nificent station in Chicago and runs ! more through trains west out of the city than any other railroad. It was | named after Rock Island. H., where il
 crosses the Mississippi river on a tWo- 1 story bridge. and eXplodes into q large number of lines which penetrate Iowa | South Dakota. Kansas Oklahoma, Tex
 aS. Ark;asas. Missouri and Colorado. II
 earned 71,0o0000 in 1913 which was more than il ever earned before, but
 not near enough because of the higf cost of living in New York and London
 The Rock Island once owned the ! Frisco and C. X E. l. systems. but has almost recovered from this. and if il i can get out of the laps of it's holding companies. will become a great ant prosperous line again.
Arizona republican., 1915-03-11
School Systems Of Two States

printed yesterday morning communication from Superintendent Case of the state ational department the subject of the per capita cost of our schools in which he defends this state against unfavorabe comparison with Flew Mexico whose per capita cost is much lower about S22. believe We do not think that any Arizonan ever consid- cred this comparison seriously. We were not wor- ried because our own per capita was very much higher than New Mexico's. We should have had cause for regret if it had been low. If it were mcritorious to have the least per capita cost. should go farther and have per capita cost at all
 But the most mcritorious condition is that of having sufficient per capita, spending every dollar uf it. to the best advantage. If New Mexico has q no business-ke school system than ours. it small per capita
 The chiefs treuble has been that the manage Incnt of our school finances has not been placed in the hands of business Moreover, we have taken d pride in this state in spending money schools without caring much how it was spent We only wanted to know that it had vanished but whether in giving the best educational facilities to cur children or whether disappearing into thin air was largely immaterial.
 We have kicked about taxes without realizing that the grea part of the went to maintain the schools. We have taken out our spite upon the Erte officeholders and clerks and unnecessary though cheap attaches of the counties and state. and have shut our eyes to the great outlet of the public money.
 Per capita little in itself. It should he high enough, however high that may be, to give the fullest efficiency. But it should never be high enough so that a dollar of it might be squandered.
Arizona republican., 1915-03-11
COWED THE BAD MEN

General Franks. leader of many q dashng charge in India, held unique position among his soldiers They loved him for his coudage. but were sometimes irritated by his strictness.
 Yet in spite of this exacting severity he was unexpectedly lenient when a large occasion demanded it. F One day when the regiment was
 firing blank bullet whistled by
 him. He did not stop the firing. but
 when the number Of rounds ordered
 had been completed, he rode up to the
 line and said:
 Boys, there's a bad shot in the
 Tenth. He nearly shot my trumpeter,
 and what should I have said to the boys mother don't want to know the blackguard's name. The officers will not examine the mems pouches. '' This was on the eve of a campaign. and before action the senior ma ior came to him and said: Don't put yourself in front of the regiment to- | morrow. sir You know there are al- ways one or two bad men in a regi- | ment'
 Thank you. major was the reply It's very kind of you. l might have given you step'
 When the Tenth was drawn up for
 the final advance he put himself at
 it's head and called:
 | "Rovs. I'm tould ye mane to shoot 1 me today. Take my advice and don't 1 shoot Tom Franks until the fighting's done for ye won't find a better man ! to Jade ye.'
 The regiment answered with a cheer and carried the Sikh batteries with the bayonet rather than runsthe ris, of shooting the beloved old fire eater 1 at their Washington Star.
Arizona republican., 1915-03-11
Only the Worst Survives

What easily foreseen month ago, many important measures are dying with the legislature while many useless or almost useless bill have been successfully passed. The state would not have sui fered either in economy efficiency, if they had not been conceived In most they have been proposed to further some local or selfish interest and were the slightest the people at large.
 Among the measures which likely expire with the legislature the educational survey bill and other bills providing for closer accounting and a systematic expenditure of the public school fund Here the lost opportunity of the esis laturc redeem party pledge ir favor of greater economy in the handling of the states money Here mere of the public funds could saved than by a blind trimming of the departments, ting off a clerk here and stenosrapher there for the whole amount paid in salaries of elective and appontvc officials is small in comparison with the money expended schools.
 No doubt a great deal Of money is unnecessarily spent in almost every department the state. and steps should have been taken to reduce the waste there. But that became hopeless the leg stature permitted itself be divided into adminis- tration and anti-adnlinstration factions when the iormcr adopted d state of mind in which it was sur missed that any move disturb the existing order somehow reflection upon the administration.
 But this division the legislature should have prevented q reform of Wasteful and not\ completely efficient public school system which has not undergone any improvement within the years.
 We do not know how the members will square themselves with their constituents for their neglect uf the more important business before them ami the ransaction only of business not at all important We do rot think artesian well here and there. regardless of the improbability of aresan water in the locality, will be entirely satisfactory to any constituents except those who may be so fortunate to secure contracts for sinking these wells
Arizona republican., 1915-03-11
ORIGINAL PATHOLOGY

In her language Nancy Allison inclined to be what her brother called gushing one she took automobile trip through New England On her return she giving enthusiastic de scriptOn of fine old town to her family.
 Tt was perfectly charming Such wonderful old doorWays and the quaintest old inn She paused. searching for word ''Tt was-unique.'
 Brother Ned had been listening gravely to the rhapsody.
 Unique he said quietly. That's q fine word Let's Tnus. one: 'equus horse One horse toUn. Good,'-Youths Companion
Arizona republican., 1915-03-11
The Mays of the Ostrich

Observers of the closing hours of the legislature must be impressed by the ostrich tactics of the house in handling of the general appropriat ton bill It is foolish suppose that the people may be fooled in this it is in the ostrich to imagine that by the burial If his head in the sand he is concealed from view.
 The suspension of all other business that a half
Arizona republican., 1915-03-11
THEN QUIT THAT!

"You' have to quit smoking said the pfy scian.
 'T don't smoke.
 Then you1l have to quit drinking "I don't drink
 Haven't you any habits?" None at al except taking medicine. Wash : ington Star.
Arizona republican., 1915-03-11
HIS ADDITION POOR

Fortune Teller-The lines your hand. madam. indicate your future clearly: You will marry a ond time.
 Woman-That proves you fraud. If marry again it will be for the fourth time-Boston Transcript.
Arizona republican., 1915-03-11
BID FOR FAME

I think I'll fell some cherry trees
 And build a cabin with the logs. Fame can't ignore such points these As on her restless way she jogs. Within this little cabin home
 My early years may well be spent. And honors then. perhaps, will come. And maybe I'll he president
Arizona republican., 1915-03-11
BUYER OF SOCIAL WORKER

Lady Bountiful (to dry goods Clerk-Have you any nice warm underclothing?
 New Assistant-Oh. yes. Miss. thank you.-London Opinion.
Arizona republican., 1915-03-11
NEED THE WEED

Hodse-It's funny all autos have tle tobacco habit. isn't it?
 DOd,a-'rhe tobacco habit?
 Hodge-Yes: understand the gasoline smoke. while electric won't start without plug. Brooklyn Citizen.
Arizona republican., 1915-03-11

Miss Josephine Moore, daughter of President Charles c. Moore of the Panama exposition, played an inn portant part in the ceremoies when the Japanese pavilions and gardens were opened at the exposition few days ago. . To her was given the honor of drawing the long silken cord which sent the water purling over the falls and into the lakes of the \ quaint retreat from far-away Japan,
Arizona republican., 1915-03-11
NO LIVE STOCK

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Arizona republican., 1915-03-11

War will pass when intellectual culture and activity have made pos slbl} tp.thc female an rQnal share i'll the control and govcrnancc ot mod cln life 1t will probably not pass away m1ch sooner; its extinction. will not be delayed much longer.
 Olive Schrcincr.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-09-30
fEM0CRAT5 HAVE NAMED
S0ME. Of THEIR TICKET
Three Vacancies Still Exist. Which
May Not Be Filled.

Tuesday meeting of the Democratic
State Central Committee for Garrett
county, which is composed of Messrs.
Thomas j. Browning, S. K. Schlos-
snagle and Thomas J. johnson, was held
in Oakland, when ticket to be voted
for this fall was named and the certif-
cate hled with the Supervisors of
Elections.
The certificate filed leaves three
vacancies, which may not be filed,
namely, candidates for the offices of
County Treasurer, Clerk to the Board
of County Commissioners and County
Surveyor.
The nominations made by the Com
mittee are as follows:
For members of the House of Dele
gates. Asa 7. Matthews, of Oakland,
George W. Broadwater, of District No.
8, and Peter F. Michael, of District No.
II.
For Sheriff, Luther ]. Brown, Of
Oakland.
For States Attorney. Stuart F
Hamill, of Oakland.
For Judges of the Orphans Court,
Henry a. Shaffer, of District No. s.
William F. King, of Oakland, anc
Goodhatt ,Durr, of District No 9.
For County Commissioner, Amos M
Umbel, of District No 2.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-09-30
OUT OF TOWN HAPPENINGS
A Variety of Interesting Paragraphs
for Republican Readers.

Henry Black, of Friendsville, was a
visitor at Meyersdale, last week.
DR.. G. C. Keller is spending several
weeks professionally, in Accident and
Friendsville.
The Arion band, of Frostburg, the
past month has lost. by removal, nine
of Its best musicians.
o. Z. Bittinger, of near Loeb Lynn,
last week thrashed his buckwheat crop.
He had Ills bushel from So acres.
The automobile is responsible for
many delightful social events. Last
Sunday Mr.. and Mrs Charles Edwards,
Mrs. LESSEE Ashby and Cecil Elliott, of
Crellin, drove to Terra Alta, and spent
the day with friends.
For the first time in the history OF
the country MARYLAND has been listed
by the Bureau of the Mint and the
Geological Survey as a gold and silver
producing section in the joint calcula-
tons of the production of gold and sill
yer. This gold 5000 worth, and silver,
500, was produced as a by-product in
the New London mines of the United
Milling and Smelling Copper Company,
| Inc.
Strawberries in September may be
considered an unusual luxury, and GER
tainly are rare in Garrett county, but
the guests at the National Hotel,
Grantsville, are regaled with this deli
cacy fresh from the stalks each week,
Mrs. Bender's garden having about a
dozen rows of an ever-bearing variety
of fruit that yields many quarts of
berries each week from early spring un-
til snow flies, the stalks being strong
and vigorous, and the uines green and
we'll laden with the luscious fruit.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-09-30
MRS. REBECCA ENGLEHART.
Speak Up.

What can we do to improve condi-
tons in this town and in. the adjacent
farming community?
Have you a solution, a practical sug-
gestion?
While we probably have no more
cause for complaint than other parts of
the country, yet it is always possible to
get together and accomplish better re-
suits.
II you have good idea, spring it.
We can stand more than our present
allotment of prosperity, and if we put
our heads together and each one con-
tributes freely of his intelligence and
thought it should not be a difficult mat
ter to eventually strike the right chord.
What is your suggestion?