Weekly journal-miner., 1917-02-28
STATE RANGERS OBJECTED ID
 BY MINERS
JEROME UNION CLAIMS IT IS SCHEME TO PROVIDE CORPORATIONS WITH HIR ED KILLERS TO COW WORKERS.

PHOENIX, Feb. B. - To both houses of the legislature Secretary C. H. Sullivan of the Jerome Miners Union, has addressed a communica- ton against the State ranger force that is being pushed by the State Temperance Federation to secure better enforcement of the prohibit ton laws. In part, the communica- ton rccitcs that the present state of ineficiency of the national guard, as exemplified by recent events on the Mexican border" is due to the use of State militia in the past ''in breaking strikes, shooting and burning men, women and children, arresting and convicting innocent men under the cloak of marshal law, and other crimes too numerous to mention" '" Now, as soldiers have to be had to fill the army, and as the militia us ually is being exempted from un- popular strike duty, some substitute must be found to provide the corpo- rations with hired killers, to cove and intimidate the workers in case
  little greater share of what they arc producing" This substitute in Ari- zona is believed to be the new force of 5 rangers, against which protest is made and Announcement is made of ''the attempt as a plot to deliver the workers, hog-tied to the corpora tions." This is the first intimation that corporations are behind the plan, which is being pushed at the capitol by several ministers of the gospel
 New State Anthem.
 Another State anthem has appeared in the house, offered by Mir Foster and with authorship by Bertha Bauer Strucker No music accompanied, and there was no appended Sugges ton of an appropriation. It is speci- fled that children in the schools shall be taught the song. Here is the first verse, with appended chorus:
 They sing songs about Kentucky,
 California by the sea,
 They sing songs about Virginia
 And the battles fought by Lee, But the song that sounds the sweetest In all the world to me
 Is, 1 love you, Arizona,
 And your quaint old history ,..r
 Chorus.
 I love you, Arizona,
 Your name sounds sweet to me; You're the land of so much sunshine And all prosperity.
 Where the rose blooms in November, What lovely sight to sec
 l love you, Arizona,
 You're the dearest State to me"
 Investigate Transfer.
 Senatorial investigation is being made of the transfer to Ira Beck, two months ago, by President von Klein Smid or by the agricultural depart ment of the university of the 66-acre school-land tract on Grand avenue formerly occupied by the university agricultural experiment station. It is told that Beck paid about 5000 for transfer to him Of the lease held by the university, this with the assent of the State and department. This included the improvements, which arc not of large value and of bearing date palms and much other valuable or ornamental growths. There is asscr- ton that the university has no power to make any sale of this sort Pos session carries some preferential rights in the event the land is sold by the State land commission. It is con sidered worth about S250 an acre, in cluding old water rights that have been valued at $50 an acre.
 Deputy Sheriff Bill.
 The house has recommended for passage the deputy sheriff bill, de- , signed to keep out any paid corpora ton defenders and to restrict the activities of railroad police The sec ton that made it felony to employ such police or to act as one was stricken out, leaving the main prohi- bition now the employment of any deputies who shall not have been in the State year or in the county six months.
 A Million For Schools.
 To be considered apart from the ordinary items of appropriation is the expressed determination of the house to appropriate Sl,000,000 year for common school purposes, instead of the S5O0.O00 heretofore given by the State. The change is not as revolu- tionary as it first would appear. The half-million has been only a sort of cqualizing fund. distributed back among the counties on the basis of school population. though collected on the basis of taxable wealth. Thus it happens that Cochise county pays much more than her share and Mari copa. Graham, Navajo. and other farming counties get back more than they put in. Now ii is proposed to pave the way toward eventual ccn- tralization of the whole school Sys- tcm of Arizona, for its administration from d central office and for payment of all expenses by the State, which has been paying only about one-third of the cost The increase in the bill will have no effect on the gross amount of taxation. It simply changes the method of distribution. Several of the house members look toward d net cost item of $35 per annum for each common school pupil, on the basis of about 10000 children, though this cs-