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The Detroit times., 1917-01-25
LIGHTER CARS
MOST POPULAR
Use Is Growing Steadily, Says
Vice-President of BriscOe
Company

Wealthy owners OF more eXpen-
sive heavyweight cars are yearly pc
coming more convinced OF the need
OF lightweight or a car OF the Bris
coe type as an auxiliary TO the big
car in the opinion OF /. r. Wilson.
yice.president OF the Briscoe Motor
corporation
When such men decide TO pur-
chase a light car they do so with
the intention Of having II handy n
the event the big car is being used
by the family" Mr. Wilson con-
tinued "The little car is used FOR
short trips to and from the once
also.
III won't be long before you will
find that the light Car is getting
tho greatest usage. The family
nnds that any one OF them can drive
u without difnculty. The women
folk like II because II is easily
handled in crowded traffc and takes
no effort AT all 10 shift gears or 10
perate the brakes or clutch. while
lad likes tho saving effected by the
greater milage out OF tires. oil and
gasoline
Just look around for yourself
little and you will find that this !
am telling you may be actually YER
ihed, even among your own friends
and acquaintances.
"In other words while the light
car was purchased possibly with IN
idea OF economy and 10 be used only
now and then when occasion de-
manded the use OF two cars. after
ifs family had become acquainted
with its merits IL was getting tne
most usage because a car like the
EriscOe is surprise 10 bo'n the
man Who can afford, the very hfgn-
cst priced car and the man wlo
must confne himself 10 the more
moderate priced equipage. becauso
he finds in It a riding comfort, q
roadahility and an ease OF opera
( ton that he had not even dreamed
af in = car. the weight of the Bris
coo
Tho Briscoe motor was accepted
by The Briscoe corporation only AFT
pr tho greatest amount of study
possible abroad by Benjamin Bris
reo and corps OF assistants
French and German experts wer,
consulted and 10 be assured quiet
place in which TO work. Paris wa
selected "a the most advisable lcca
tion for the experimental work.
NO, until tho designers wer'
positive that they had the best mo-
tor possible go obtain was the al
gine accepted Then q was exhib
ted in large foreign cities and Vi.
'ndied bv more experts The re-
uIt is the perfection now 20 b'
round in the Briscor motor
The Detroit times., 1917-01-25
BAG WILL
CASE GOES OVER

The validity of the Georg,
Klumps paper bag VIII was q
have been argued "Wednesday morn
ing before Judge Command Ia pro
bate court. but the hearine on th'
question was postponed until Apri
25 At the request ~ OF attorneys
Klump, supposed 70 have left .
large estate, was found dead IN hu
home Al Redford year ago. Late
a Will written on a paper bag leav
ins his estate 70 a friend. turne,
W Relatives have questioned tn,
validity OF the will.
The Detroit times., 1917-01-25

Recorder Connolly when his cas-,
was called. Judge Connolly imme
diately declared the bond OF s5O'
forfeited and gave Nederlander. hi
hondsmap, so days to show csus,
Why an execution against him shoult
not be issued A capias for Ruben
rearrest was also ordered
The Detroit times., 1917-01-25

One Of the distinctive features
noted on the new Oakands eNhib.
red in The Radford Block company's
booth is the substitution OF a pilot
light on the dash for the customary
ell gauge 20 provide positive
warning 70 the driver or tne con
dltion of the luhricating system As
oil 10 an automobile Is the same as
blood 20 the human body. his pilot
light is tho pulse OF the car Tho
light is great Improvement on the
gauge which gets greasy and col
lects dirt
The Detroit times., 1917-01-25

the NJ A. oung agency Mr Gmel
IN has organized an aggressive sales
force and plans 10 push the sale OF
Monroe cars ia and around Detrolt
with, great @visor. Ilo has slroadS
taken several orders az ths show
and has secured a list of prospocts
which presages a sales record for
the coming season.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-26
NO END TO THE FIZZlE

Another long drawn out effort to conn
to some terms with Carranza has resulted in
the usual fizzle. The Mexico-American joint
commission has failed of its object, because
.Carranza has refused to ratify the work of
the commission.
1t is the end of the fizzle-that is, of the
present fizzle.
1t is said that General Pershing and his
men are to be withdrawn from Mexico. 1t is
just as we'll. If they are not to be allowed to
take Villa" or protect their countrymen, then
they should not be made ridiculous by COM
pelling them to loaf around and suck their
thumbs.
Taft fizzled when he sent the army
roaring down to the border and then halted
them there. Wilson fizzled when he rushed
them into Vera Cruz and then rushed them
Out again.
And the army is fizzling because it is not
allowed to do anything but fizzle.
With two administrations fizzling, with
two congresses fizzling, and with the army
the American people seem to be in
somewhat of a fizzle all around.
And, from all indications, we will keep
right on fizzling.-Blas Sanchez in Wagon
Mound Paragraph.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-26

1t is estimated that during the last three
sessions of the state senate Senator Barth con-
sumed 1914 hours contending that bills and
resolutions should take their regular course
of being translated, printed and referred" in
which "dilatory tactics" he was frequently op-
posed by the majority, including Senator
Clark. Presto change! Thursday afternoon
Barth consumes 81 of the session arguing to
have a resolution which implies that democrat
ic boards have improperly used permanent
funds considered translated, printed and re-
ferred" and considered read a third time" and
Immediately placed upon its passage"--to all
of which Clark objects and insists on follow
ing the "%rules," and the resolution goes to
committee, and the deserving democrats do not
have to tell what they did with the money-so
soon.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-26
The failure of the Hay plan for the re.

The failure of the Hay plan for the re-
Mobilization and enlargement of the army is
already we'll demonstrated. Since last March
less than ten thousand of the thirty thousand
men required for the first increment have been
secured. There remain eight months more in
which to get the other twenty thousand and
more. The great bulk of Guardsmen return
ing from the Mexican border are refusing to
re-enter the military service as now constitut-
ed. Yet, next July, the law will require the
commissioning of new officers for the thirty
thousand expected men who have not been
Forthcoming.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-26
DEMOCRATIC NEW YEARS GREETING

1.-The Wilson administration New Years
greeting to the nation is a bond issue.
after casting about for weeks to find
some effective manner of making up the huge
deficit which Democratic administration had
brought to the federal treasury, the ruling
party has decided to take a short cut to SOL
vency and it will soon put on the market a
number of millions-in a sum not yet deter
|mined-of Panama Canal bonds.
From the White House comes word that
this course has been adopted to meet an emer-
|gency. By general definition, an emergency
lis something unforeseen; whereas the present
condition of the national stronghold has been
~foreseen and predicted many a time and often
since the passage of the Democratic tariff of
1913, with its reduction of duties ruinous alike
to American manufactures and the American
treasury.
Meantime many expedients have been
resorted to to bolster up the faltering treas
ury balance. Taxes, novel, oppressive and in
equitable, have been devised and applied; the
arts of the bookkeeping have been used in
vain. Failing revenues and rising expenditu-
res have marked the course of Democratic
legislation-and now comes the day of reck-
oning A bond issue-favorite scheme of De-
administrations-is to be thrust upon
lis in time of peace; and for fifty years the
bills of the voters will carry a specific and
costly reminder of Woodrow Wilson's term
Of office.
The day of reckoning now is financial
only. There will be another day of reckon
ing-political in its nature-in 1913. The
party which has shown such ineptitude in
practical management of the country's bust
l'ess will then find that words and phrases and
the plea of false peace will not avail. The
,ountry will have to pay these bonds. The
Democratic party will have to pay for them in
another way.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-26
THE ULTIMATE IN MEXICO

The victories of Villa in Northern Mex
leo may not imperil the protocol of Allan
tic City, which has been signed with Car
I~ranze, but they will seriously diminish the
value Of the policy which seeks to let Car
rama produce the pacification of Mexico by
himself. The truth is that neither Carranza
nor any other Mexican aspirant to power is
competent to restore order to that distracted
country. None of them has the means to do
it: none of them possesses sufficient public
confidence to do it. Mexico can be p%acified
only as Cuba, Hayti and Santo Domingo have
been pacified-by the energetic action of the
United States, employing such armed forces
as are necessary. 1t is not a welcome job,
but our own peace of mind, the security of
our own border. the rights of our own citi-
zens who are down there or who may have
a legitimate reason for going there in the fu-
ture all demand it. In addition, it will be for
the advantage of the Mexicans themselves. All
the dictates of the humanity" which the Pre-
sident processes himself so DESTROYS of serv-
ing demand it. And it cannot long be post
poned.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-26
GOV. BAMBERCER'S
ECONOMICAL SPASM.

The new Democratic governor OF
Utah, Simon Bamberger, in a mes
sage that would fill ten columns of
The Times, outlines a programme of
legislation that would take the Lat
ter Day Saints and Former Day Sim
ners of Salt Lake many months to
enact.
He begins his gubernatorial Grafton
by urging the Democrats to violate
precedent and astonish the country
by fulfilling their platform. promi-
SEES. Then he charges the Repub-
1ican Legislature of 1915 with respon-
sibility for the $4,000 deficit in
the State finances, and intimates
that all the evils under which Utah
suffers are due to Republican domi-
nation.
He suggests, he urgently suggests.
economy. but later recommends the
creation or enlargement of boards
of commissioners to control the
State prison, the State Capitol, the
State School for the Deaf and Dumb.
the State Mental Hospital, the State
Industrial School. the University of
Utah. the Agricultural College. the
health department., the food and
dairy department, the state chemist,
the Bureau of Weights and Mea-
sures and the Inspection of Hotels.
Of barber shops and of theaters. He
recommends the creation of a de-
partment of agriculture and of
committee to draft a new irrigation
law. He asks an increase of the sa-
laries of school teachers, and a bond
issue for increased road construc-
ton and the enactment of a work.
ingmen's compensation law. He de-
mards that the high cost of living
be investigated and that a law be
enacted to punish merchants who
ask high prices for flour, sugar, can
ned goods, vegetables. butter, bacon,
chewing gum or pickles. He wants
the coal shortage situation investi-
gated and asks that he be authorized
to appoint a compilation commits
sion to compile the laws of the state.
A statistician familiar with condi-
tions in Utah estimates that the
programme of Gov. Bam-
if enacted into law, would
double or treble the taxes in Utah
and so fiji, Salt Lake City with de-
Democratic State officials
that one could not discharge . shot
gun in any of the principal streets
between 9 q. m. and 6 p. m. without
half . dozen of them-Los
Times.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-26
BLUSTER BUT NO ARGUMENT


The Cimarron News-C Citizen presents tn,
Record with a stink weed bouquet i'll answer
to our declaration that the governors message
failed ito propose any definite plan for an,
constructive legislation along any line what
ever"
The language of the News-C itizep is as
follows:
"The State Record has opened its filthy
mouth and put its foot into it. S's+
"Woop-ee! Letter ramble. If the repub-
|lican state organization desires defeat at the
next election, let it publish d%efamatory matter
as the above for the next twenty-one months
through its official organ, the Record, and it
will not be necessary to solicit political contri-
buttons from flockmasters to paint the state
black with shame. The republican party has
caused its own defeat in the past by not CEN
soring such rot that emanates from an in
ebriated mind"
Evidently the editor of the Cimarron News
Citizen iInagines that other editors share his
"inebriatcd' condition and his tendency of
combining himself to publishing rot and
"iilth," but the facts are that he is one Of
a very few in this state who imagine that
obscene language and shady stories in a news
paper.
Scores OF editors in this state who sup
ported Gov. f. c. de Baca in the recent cam
paign have passed without I'M the Re-
declaration that the governors mess
age was a discussion of minor and petty cri-
%ticislns, and contained little or nothing in the
way of constructive legislative recommended
tons, because they fully realize that it was a
correct statement and unanswerable.
The poor little pigny Drained accident
who operates that excuse for a newspaper, to
the detriment of the community in which he
ives, was probably told by some charitable
visitor who called in to donate toward keep
ng him out of some home for the feeble mind
that there was no answer possible to our
statement, so he cunningly devised the plan
If pleasing and amusing himself by calling a
:ew names and reproducing an old chestnutty
The Record is still waiting for someone
o discover and point out a Constructive re-
concentration in the governor message. Come
IN, all at once, if you like, gentlemen.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-26

ting Mr.. Barth out, as another Re.
publican would not give the party
a majority in the upper house. On
the liquor matter Mr.. Chrisman is
known to agree with Mr. Barth, that
is to say he is flat against it, SO
there is no agitation for a change
on that account. 1t is very likely
however that Mr.. Barth will re-
turn to private life, and Mr.. Chris
man will fill his seat for the last
half Of the session. The only one
to rejoice from such a change be-
sides presumably Mr.. Chrisman in
the seat itself which has had an I'M
usual physical burden placed upon
it by the Democratic floor leader,
who is up and down and on the
job all the time.
The Democratic attempt to dis
credit the land office has become
the laughing stock of SANE business
men throughout the commonwealth,
who car see SO easily through the
transparent efforts of a feeble wing
of the minority to seize a well-ad-
ministered state department on a
flimsy pretext and make of the land
office, what they pretend it to be,
a great big political plum. The snaf-
{ ing of the travelling auditors Of
flee, and making it an adjunct of
the governors proxy-operated Of
flee, is also one of the legislative
comedy hits of the season. Like
wise the Democratic party desire
to kidnap the travelling auditor and
insurance commissioner positions for
deserving democrats" That the
corporation commission may be re-
duced. two years from now, to one
member, instead of three, is posi-
Bile. The friends of the change claim
it is a measure of pure economy
and that time seems to have
demonstrated that three commits
sioners are moi an absolute neces-
sity.
No Cause for Complaint.
In general il may be said that
this legislature now in its third week
promises to be one of the most not
able in the history of the common
wealth. Provident yet conservative,
of a Republican majority sufficient
W SNNuiS Oil uPtSu Wig
on of n consistent program, of a
reasonable and harmonious minor
ity. and altogether thoughtful.
The various legal reforms being
handed in by members of both par
ties. are inscrutible to a degree to
the faymen, but the lawyers as
sure us that they are along the lines
of simplicity and economy, so the
average man is willing to wait and
how they work out. Incident
ally If may be said that perhaps four
score of the five score bills now in
troduced and in the hopper,
will not pass. and as the fellow
says, half of the worry is about
that never happen" why
should we seriously take exception
to the language and intent of them.
The legislature has its eyes on
the few big things, New Mexico
may hope them to be given. and Of
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-26
STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION

During the week a resolution has beer
introduced in the senate to submit an amend
ment to abolish the state corporation COM
mission by authorizing the governor to ap-
point one commissioner to take over the powers
and duties of all.
We do not believe this is a good move
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-26
LEGISLATION NOW
IN THE HOPPER
Continued from page one)
New Capitol Addition.

No one will doubt that the ex-
pense of 100000 to $l25,0OO recon-
mended in the two Senate bills pend
ing, for the construction of addition
al capitol building, is a necessary
addition to the permanent equip
ment of our rapidly growing state.
There is convict labor to be had, and
material from the state p~enitentiary
on hand, and no more useful outlet
could be devised. There is more
economy in working the convicts on
"a building at one point, and that
near to where they are quartered,
than there is in taking them out on
the roads where the expense of
camps and guards amount to almost
as much as the hiring of independ-
ent labor.
Anyone who has business in the
capitol knows that all the offices
are crowded, that the officers are
compelled to rent extra space in
other buildings, and that the SUI
preme court and it's associated Of
fices, need more room. This need
will be met by new construction,
the simple fact being that our state
is a vast business establishment,
and that under the state form of
government the need of larger quar-
tiers, and more floor space has been
demonstrated.
Other State Needs.
Proposals for a generous allow
ance to the state fair, and sufficient
funds to secure the normal up-build-
ing of our state educational institu-
tions, are supported by the far
seeing members of both houses. The
term "f~ar-seeing" is synonymous
with a Substantial majority The
state museum will receive the addi-
tional support that it has demonstra-
ted il needs. the militia will in all
likelihood get an adequate allow
ance. so that the people of the state
generally will feel that they are
getting their moneys worth out of
their taxes. and this is the best cri-
terion that can he had of the eff
cheney of a legislature.
Partisan Matters.
The Republican majority seems
reluctant to oust genial Senator
from the shoestring district
of Bernali,lo. San Juan, and Sando-
val. Mr.. Barth is making hay
while the sun shines, and is intro
bills of a most advanced ma
ture and which should have the
we'll wishes of the people.
Mr.. Chrisman, his challenger, is
present with an array of legal talent.
and a contest that is more digni-
fled and orderly than any other ever
held in the state is in progress. No
partisan end could be gained by put.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-26

The joke book fails to throw any light
on the solution of the question of why Senator
Barth is in such a hurry to make the democrat
ic boards of control of the public land institu-
tons tell what they did with the funds given
them for permanent investment
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-26
THOUGHT

Back Of the work is the thinker,
Pack Of the deeds that are wrought,
Back Of tie worlds great achievements
Is the wonderful thing called Thought.
A handful of sand for a substance
By Thought was converted to glass;
A telescope then Wa constructed
For reading the stars as they pass.
All of our modern inventions,
The train is trailed in its wake;
We yoke the wind to a piston,
The thirst of the cattle to slake.
We touch a key, and by magic, III.
The currents our message convey;
We turn a switch, and presto. -
Darkness is banished away.
Back Of all of these wonders,
This lesson to. man is taught;
These wonderful wonders are only
The result of wonderful Thought.
Jonas Cook, Chickasa, Okla.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-26

the other matters, a wise pruning
process will probably leave US less
TO complain about when the session
is over than most of us had supposed
Therefore. good luck and more
power to the Third State Legisla-
ture now in the third week of its
beingl
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-01-26

at this time or that the arguments for its
adoption are well founded.
To begin with the commission up to thi:
time has had no adequate authority in law tc
enable it to perform the duties for the public
which the latter has expected from it.
This is no fault of the commission bu,
the fault of perhaps both the constitution and
statutes.
The reduction to one commissions would
not reduce the expense incident to the admins.
tration of the office because the one com.
missioner would require the services of at
least two assistants just as the attorney gen.
Icral and travelling auditor each need and re-
Iqiire two assistants, and the salaries would
not be materially lower. The clerical force
could not be decreased and perform the SER
vice required of the office.
The selection of one commissioner if he
be an able executive, a man well trained IN
the practical operations of corporations and
conversant with the needs Of the state would
OF course make the operations of the office
more efficient, and that is in our view the
most favorable phase Of the proposition pre-
sented. But in case the one commissioner
should not be 50 we'll equipped it would be
far better for the people to continue to select
three commissioners eachof whom may pos
sess part of the qualifications and each be a
check upon and profit by the advise of the
There is nothing either in the quality
OF the appointments which have been made by
the executives in the recent past to recon-
mend that form of selection. or to indicate that
it is better than selection by the people. In
fact the plain truth is that the officers ap-
by the governor during the past five
wears have in no respect been SO well quail
fled as those elected by the people. The ap-
pointments of the executive, on the contrary,
have with few exceptions, been VIGOROUSLY
bad in that the men placed in office were
not qualified for the special work
Of their offices, or more interested in promot-
ing their personal interests, predatory friends
and associates, than they have been in the
public welfare. And at this time, with an in
,apacitated governor, and a biased, selfish
and INSCRIPTIONS barrister as his principal adj
visor, there is nothing to recommend execu-
selection as against the peoples choice
for any office in the state.
One way in which responsibility might be
and efficiency attained would be to
make one member commissioner Of transpor-
alton and transmission within the state; the
econd. commissioner of state corporations
he third. commissioner of insurance; provid-
ng no interference with each other in their
departments and providing for them
0 act Jointly in cases affecting interstate pas
and freight transportation and upon
uch other matters as experience would indi-
ate as advisable.
To abolish the commission without hav-
NJ tried it, is not justice to the trainers OF
he constitution or fair to the commission either
5 individuals, or a system, for no opportuni-
Y has yet been given to demonstrate whether
is useful, or superfluous.