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Arizona republican., 1919-03-05
OPPOSES PUBLISHING
 OF INTENT ID MARRY

Firm in the belief that marriage should be encouraged Claud Berry man. clerk of the court is opposed to the proposed law being advocated in California requiring ten days notice of approaching nuptials.
 While many Arizona laws are copied from the California statutes, the court clerk would not be in favor Of the bill which has been presented to the Cali fornia legislature now in session.
 The bill which has been introduced has a number of interesting features. chief of which is to require applicants to apply first to the county recorder, who will publish the notice of the issu- ance of the proposed license for ten days. The applicants then may obtain a receipt from the recorder showing that the notice has been published, whereupon they may obtain the permit to wed
 The father of the bill on the coast believes that it's passage will result in lessening the divorce evil by preventing elopements and nasty marriages.
 Clerk Berryman believes the plan is all wrong. He says the state should encourage marriage and not seek meth ods whereby it will make it more diff cult to wed. He denounces the publi- cation plan. declaring that most people object to having such an intimate rela- ton as marriage published beforehand.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-05
WATER USERS OBJECT
 TREMENDOUSLY ID THE PROPOSED WATER CODE

Discussion of the water code bill now before the legislature occupied large part of the time of the meeting Monday of the board of governors of the Wat CT Users association.
 The board objects to one feature or the bill giving the state water commis- sioner authority over the distribution of water. It does not object, it is sad to the features that provide for super vision over appropriations. George P Brown, president of the Buckeye cana company, was present and added tn objections of the company.
 A committee of five from the board consisting of Fred C. Weekes, Rudolp. Johnson. l.. I.assen. II. I. Hanson and F. W. Avery. accompanied by r. NJ. Will lduson. president; John l.. Gust. legal adviser, and W. R. Elliott general sup erintendent. went 10 the state house in the afternoon and attended d meeting Of a committee of the whole senate to present their objections to the water code
 The board of governors also heard a verbal report from President Wilkinson and Legal Adviser Gust as to the result of the trip to Washington 10 interview the secretary of the interior concerning the building Of Horseshoe dam on the Verde river.
 As a result of that hearing, Homer Hamlin of Los Angeles is now on the project making an investigation of the whole subject. His report will go through the director Of the reclamation service to the secretary of interior. The progress of the work on the pumping plants now being installed was reported by Superintendent Elliott and he announced that 13 wells have been completed and the equipment moved to other sites. Work on the ! Chandler power plant is going forward rapidly, the superintendent reported Excavations have been finished and the cement foundations for the machin- { cry are well under way. It is expected ] that the plant will be ready to run within 30 day
 Moving of the city canal one quar- ! ter mile north of it's present site be- tween laterals 13 and If will be done by 1 the Water Users and not by contract. A large tractor dragline dredger will be
 used on this work. and after that is done, it will be permanently employed
 in cleaning canals and laterals.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-05
axes

It has often been warningly stated by the legisa- tors among themselves that the burden of taxation will fall heavily upon the people in the next two years at a time when they will be less prepared to bear it. than before. will also fall upon those who have less ready money for taxes. The great mining companes which for the past four years have borne much of this weight will be largely freed from it. Their share has been regulated by their output and the prices they have received it. The output all of them for many months has been greatly reduced and in some instances has ceased alto gether. t is the common impression that the situation will be worse before it gets better
 We may look at the situation in great mining camp in this way: day after day when in operation it is laying up money for taxes. The more it accumu- the less there will be 10 be paid other classes of property Thus. taxpayers generally have deep interest in the activity of the mining camps. At Jerome, which has always in recent years been trihutins millions annually to state and county taxes at the present time has quit accommodating taxes and will probably not resume for six months Globe, Miami, Clifton and Bisbee are each accumu- latins less than formerly
 The general appropriations bill for the next two years, it will finally appear. will carry something than $5.Oo0,0OO. To that will be added the state school fund of s75OOoO and whatever may appropr ated for road construction, to say nothing of berless small appropriations for great variety of purposes.
 Then, there must be considered the amounts that authorized to be appropriated county purposes increasing seriously the burden upon taxpayers in the great mining counties
 If there is any place the legislature can find to Top off appropriations. is the time it. There was in Arizona great need of doing without things that not imperatively and mminently necessary.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-05
AGAIN FAIL TO AGREE
 IN bIG DAMAGE SUIT

For a second time jury failed to reach Q verdict in the S21, 200 action for damages brought by Frank Whitten against the Abe Lincoln Copper com- pany. The case was set for its third learlng on April 30.
 when court convened yesterday Ed. Euppert foreman of the jury, informed Judge Stanford that an agreement had not been reached and that the jury wished the instructions read. a request made on the preceding day which could not be compiled with owing to the ab- sence from the city of the court report Henry Larsen. After the instructions
 ere read, the twelve men returned to le jury room for further deliberations nly to fail to arrive at a verdict and
 ere discharged by the court. It is uh ierstood that the final ballot, like the lrst, stood six to six. the opinion being '4ually divided as to whether or not Nhitten was entitled to damages for a Tall down a well which is alleged to nave been caused by his own negligence m leaving the door open.
 The trial in both instances lasted three days, the jury fees for the six days amounting to $2l6.
 Walton and Bailey represented the plaintiff in the personal injury action and George Purdy Bullard the defend ant.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-05
PHOENIX MAN ID GO TO. INDIA ID REPRESENT
 AMERICAN COMP ANY

Captain and Mrs. A. R. Cater are to sail from San Francisco for Calcutta on March 23 This was the word re- ceived by Phoenix friends of the couple yesterday. who had previously been ad- vised that Captain Cater had intended going to India for the British branch of the American Linotype company. He will have charge of the business III India. Ceylon. Madras, Straights Set dement's, China and Japan, making his headGuarters in Calcutta.
 According to a report from the east his war experience has not affected the spirits of genial Arch Cater. who. in his brief interview to the New York Herald on landing recently. was typical of the man who counted his friends in Phoenix by the hundreds.
 Here is what the Herald says.
 Among the 131 passengers on board the Royal George. in addition 10 1,466 officers and enlisted men of the Cana dian overseas forces landed at Hali- fax last Friday morning, was Captain A. R. Cater Of the American Red Cross. Captain Cater was in uniform with his right arm in a sling. Asked about his injury. he said:
 Tt was this way. It was at the bat tie of the Somme-at any rate 1t was some battle, when. seeing there were nc officers around, leaped to the para pet and shouted, hoarsely of course: Come on. meni Do your damndest, And then. well, the ship was rolling pretty badly last Wednesday and l slipped on the deck. breaking my arm
 "Thc Red Cross captains home is in Phoenix. Ariz. His wife came on to meet her husband. but. notwithstand- ing his injury. the customs officer would not allow her to pass the GUS toms gate to be near her husband. Cap tain Cater has spent a year with the American aero squadrons men in the twenty odd camps in England and also with American forces in France"
Arizona republican., 1919-03-05

Despite predictions of some fash lon experts sweater coats are still popular according to the reports from southern climes. Here Mrs. B. c. Earle of New York, champion woman trapshooter. is shown wear ing white satin sports skirt with sweater coat of black silk. Her blouse is slip-over model of white georgette.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-05
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH ,, 1919

The danger lies not in the military government alone. but in the very soul of the German people. It is the whole of Germany that has said to the world:-" Might before Right"
 Leon Bourgeois.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-05
COTTON RIDER SIGNED

WASHINGTON, March 4.-The cot ton futures rider to the guarantee wheat bill signed today by President Wilson, becomes effective tonight at midnight Under it, only thirteen grades of cotton-from low middling up-can be delivered on future con- tracts and all cotton so delivered mus be classified by government graders.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-05
VILLA TO AMBUSH CASTRO

Fl, PASO, Texas, March 4.-Couriers returning from scouting expeditions south of Juarez reported Villa forces on both sides of the railroad between Moctezuma and Valla Ahumada, 100 miles south of here, with flanking lines out from Villa Ahujmada to prevent General Castro's train from going south on the Mexican Central. Reports were received here and in Juarez late today that Villas force attacked small federal garrison at Sauz. 8 miles north of Chihuahua City, burn ing the station and killing the sQldicrs.i All train service twaS Nly<5(l5 2 kee Ss1lA i1I Of the border todd 4 ss':l''
Arizona republican., 1919-03-05
WANTS DIVORCE AND !. CUSTODY IF CHILDREN

Charging failure to provide, Mrs. Vivian Anderson yesterday instituted divorce action against her husband Robert Anderson, whom she married in this city in April, 1914. Mrs. An derson asks the court to award her the custody of the two children of the couple, Beulah, aged 1, and Edna. two years old.
 The plaintiff alleges that the de- fendant is not fit to have the custody off his daughters, but asks that he contribute toward their support.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-05
The A,titud. of th. Senate

The resolution prepared by Senator Lodge and subscribed to by thiry-five republican senators will probably have the effect Of serving notice upon the Paris conference as to the kind of League Of Nations into which the country will enter No doubt the action taken by the republicans is humating to the presi- dent but in tho circumstances humiliation seems to nave been unavoidable. It necessary, and cer- ainy better, that the conference should be apprised before it had finally agreed upon covenant which tho senate could not accept
 If the president had discussed this matter with the senators before sailing Europe and had taken Inc pains 10 ascertain the views Of branch of tho government whose power is coequal with his own this course of the senators would have been unneces ssfy The president would have been apprised Of the length to which he could so as necotator and those with whom he about negotiate would also have been appraised and guided by what the president proposed, but by knowledge of the definite atltpde of the senators, who would have the last word The French and British until now. had only reports Of interviews with certain senators; they had read speeches by few Of them, but they might reasonably have believed from their conversations with the pres which could be easily adjusted the presidents view Now they have been definitely informed.
 The resolution of the republican senators contem- plates league of nations to he formed after treaty of peace has been effected rather than league which should prcccdc the treaty attend it. That too. ra'. ,hc general understanding as late as thc time Si'rn ,bs .llzf 9fp' saed oway y~ls Eas anlerstood 4.I4 ..L a j n. .I&r r...
Arizona republican., 1919-03-05

participate in the peace conference after which the of a family of nations would be considered It was not contemplated that the peace with Germany to be a worldwide and perpetual peace.
 The resolution makes it very clear that the consu tuition of the league and the peace treaty to be separate documents.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-05
WHEN HE GETS BACK HOME

If they's anything the lad wants when he gifts back home-from the land that live the honey in the comb every single blessn' in the country that they is-let him look like he em an they'll all be his, That's the way we're feen', We're here to make fuss with the hig hest halleuahs bout the boys that fought fer us,-Auanta Constitution.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-05
ADMIRED HIS PLUCK

Well" said Uncle Si Bruggns after a solo by fashionable church choir tenor If that ant the rudest thing ever saw. Just soon that young man began to sing, every other member of the choir stopped. But he went through with it, and I must say I admire his spunk. ."-Boston Transcript.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-05
REGARDING THE TRUTH

De truth ain't allus easy to git at" said Uncle Eben. Aman kin sometimes say sumpin in half a minute dat he can't explain in five years"-Washing- ton Star.
Arizona republican., 1919-03-05
FIXING THE BLAME

Gan you keep a secret, Peggy?"
 T can;- but it's just my luck to tell things tC other girls who can't."-Boston Transcript
Arizona republican., 1919-03-05
HE PASSED

Medical Offcer-"Have you any organic trou ble?"
 Recruit-@No. sir I ain't bit musical"- Tt-Bts.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-01-07

Attorney.
Diagram Showing Term Of Directors
and When They Expire
All five Directors elected at organi-
zation Of District and classified by lot.
(see minutes first meeting, July rs,
191D.
Dist. Year. Term.
!. 1911-KIoke (short term).
2. 1011-Hamilton (long term)
g.. 1011-H J.. Peck (short term)
4. 1011-Pound Cong term).
3. 1911-Fefguson (short term).
Dist. Year. Term.
/. -Brockman (See Vol.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-01-07
WHERE ARE WE AT?

In the last two national elections neither of
the two great political parties mentioned gov
ernment ownership in its platform.
Yet it is fact that there has been strong
trend towards government ownership policies il
affairs at Washington of late
We do not seem to know precisely where
we are going to head in at, but the people will
want to know before they go much further
The political situation reminds US of the
popular ragtime: eve don't know where we're
goin but we're on our way.
1t is time Tom, Dick and Harry and Mary
Ellen Jane were asking themselves shall we
capitulate to the socialistic germ of government
ownership? ea asss IN
The Socialist tells US property is theft and
big business is a srime, but all the big criminals
had to be drafted to help save the war situa-
tion
program. as when pink whiskered Senator Jim
Ham Lewis was left at home by the old flash
ioned people of Illinois.
We had taste of government management
of railroads where cost of al kinds of service
have doubled and deficits for operation are in
creasing.
Compare government telephone management
in any community with private management
and, beyond inborn American courtesy, what
has remained
But the courtesy that has ben drilled into
the telephone service under years of efficient
management is vanishing under paternaism.
The time has come to sit down on the usurpa-
tons OF collectivism and return to the good old
fundamentals of Jefferson and Madison.
The saying that the people are governed the
best when they are governed the least still has
elements of truth.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-01-07
MOBILIUING THE LADYBUG.

1t is annually ANNOUNCED that the ladybugs
are to help save the farmers crops in California
and other states.
The ladyb1g, high-coored agriculturist has
modified this insect to save the crops now for
years.
There are nearly as. many ladybug professors
as there are bugs, and the ladybug has been
highly capitalized.
The ladybug has big load to carry but will
do her part if the ladybug professors and poiti-
clans give her chance.
An abundance of good able-bodied farm la
borers would help the ladybugs a whole lot in
making and saving crops.
The potato crops in many sections of the west
are not harvested and Chinese field laborers de-
mand So day and transportation.
The potatoes are worth S1.50 bushel but
they cannot be harvested by the ladybugs or by
the ladybug professors or politicians.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-01-07
THE BEST GOVERNMENT.
(San Bernardino Index


Now that the war has been won and the re-
construction period is upon us. the paramount
question of all American is, what is the best
government Some 2,400 years ago Peri
ander, the tyrant who ruled Cornth in the sixth
century before Christ gave dinner party and
to this dinner party he invited the seven wiseSt
men of Greece who actually lived and dealt in
this question; what is your idea of good gov
ornment?'
The first to respond was Solon who said that
IN which an injury done to the least of its cit-
zens is an injury done to all
The second was Thales, whom it was said the
scientists looked upon as the wisest of all the
ancients He said: "The best government is
that in which the rich are neither too rich nor
he Door too poor.
The next was Bias, who said: "The best
government is one where the law has no SUI
perior' II est ER
The next was Anarcharsis, who answered :
where virtue is honored and vice detested.'
The fifth was Pittacus, who said: where
dignity is always conferred on the good, never
On the bad
The sixth was Cleobulus, who said: "Whers
the citizens fear blame more than punishment" !"
The seventh was Chilo the Spartan, who
said: "Where the laws are more regarded and
have more authority than the orators"
This was some 2,400 years ago. and we Amer
'cans after all these years want the best possible
definition of good government If we were called
upon to give ad efinition, we would say the best
government is the one that produces minimum
amount of poverty and maximum amount Of
education. or perchance, the great tidings an
nounced by the angel, peace on earth, good will
toward men," We predict that not until law
is written that will cause men to realize the law
of compensation and retribution" with the act
will the Golden Rule be ushered into the affairs
IF men, including business and good government
In our experience in dealing with the so-called
''mob," or illierate, we find nothing that quiets
and brings order so quickly as to place response
bility upon such individuals, ignorance is of
itself conservative and the moment that the re-
sponsibility of making law is placed on the illit-
crate and they begin to feel the fp effect, just
so soon will we have the best guaranty against
"mob' rule" F-
The initiative and referendum are principles
which operate in this direction. Many people
seem to fail to appreciate these reforms at their
full value, but the fact is they are working Won
ders and will continue to do so as the years go by
being the means, as we verify believe, of accom-
plishing Unprecedented good in this great gov
ernment of Democracy.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-01-07
COMPETITION IN SHIPPING

Chairman Hurley of the Shipping Board has
gone to Europe to procure an agreement of
other nations to adopt the shipping laws of our
country and adopt the American scale of wages.
In 1914 figures were compiled by our gov
ernlnent showing the cost of operating three
ships of about the same horsepower and ton
mage, to ascertain the lative expense at sea.
The American vessel under our laws was
compelled to carry AT men with a payroll of
S372O month the English ship carried 36 men
and paid 81, 1,308 a month, the Japanese ship &c
men and paid S777 a month
The requirements of the LaFoette Seaman s
Act reduced American tonnage on the Pacific
Ocean to less than l per cent in 1914, and in
creased the tonnage of Japan from 26 to over so
per cent.
Before that law went into effect we had the
same tonnage on the Pacific as Japan, but the
LaFollette bill reduced ships carrying our flag
to cipher and increased Japan 100 per cent.
The La Toilette law provides the men shall
have half their pay on reaching any port, and
the effect has been to increase desertion and
drunkenness and to leave American ships in
foreign ports unnamed. -
Another provision Of the law is that Is per
cent Of the crew must be able to speak the Ian
guage Of the officers, and this works to favor
foreigners for officers as Americans will not
work in the engine rooms or the stewards de-
partment especially in the tropics.
Under the operations Of this law the United
States will not be able to man or operate it's
great fleet Of vessels built during the war nor
the other fleet of interned vessels taken from the
Central Powers. E~
The law requires that SIS per cent of the
crew must be certified able seamen and belong
to the Seamen's union and to enforce that pro
vision would leave three fourths Of our shipping
idle as painted ship on painted ocean, to quote
the Ancient Mariner"
The LaFollette act instead Of being called a
measure to protect American seamen, should be
termed an act to encourage shipping under for
eign flags
Imperial Valley press., 1919-01-07
RUSSIAN SITUATION

Toxic, Jan. Correspondence of
The Associated Press)-The end OF
the war does not mean peace for Rus
sin. saws DR.. Vaclav Girsa of the
Czecho-Slovak National Council, who
is now in Toxic. S"Peace conferences
will not be able to prevent the IN
ternal struggles in that 6isorganlzed
state; that can only be accomplished
bv military decision, and can only be
the task of the Allies" added DIR.
Girsa.
Many divisions of Allied troops now
are needed to help Russia emerge
from it's chaos because, said DR.. Glrsa,
more thar half Of the Czacho-Slovak
TROOPS who were in Russia whsn the
Brest-Litovsk peace treaty was
signed now are in hospitals or IN
their graves.
Dr.. Girsa SAID the situation of his
TROOPS in Siberia has been well-nigh
insupportable. One division had been
forced to hold for a long time an
immense front. 1t had been obliged
TO guard the railroad, the important
nlace7 in Siberia. to organize the mu-
milton factories and maintain order IN
alI the towns. He quoted a Russian
officer from the front as describing
tbe situation thus: 81 am an old SOL
der and have seen many military
troubles. but the efforts shown by the
Czecho-Slovak soldiers in Siberia sur
mass all human forces, and | can
onlv saw that the men seem to have
been carried above their normal con-
dition" ;,
DR.. Girsa said that his people feel
that thew must perish, but they wish
to fulfill their duty to the last. Iney
have quite given up hope of effective
military aid. but they are determined
to fight to the last breath. he ex-
presseS the opinion that the Russian
nation would surprise the world by
its powerful development IN the fu-
ture. He added:
owe Czecho- -Slovaks understand the
Russian people. We have lived among
them during all TIE great changes
of the war and we feel sympathy for
them. We can never forget the i'm
mense sea of Russian blood which was
shed durirq the first three wears or
the war. We must not forget that
q GREAT majority of the Russian peo-
nle have not said their last word.
"In giving to the Russian army
protection we have absolutely no
aspiration for political power in Rus Rus:
sia, but such misunderstanding
seems to have been our fate from
the very beginnina of the war. Even
now we are called by the Russians
'ths mysterious Czecho-Slovaks: ;"
DR.. Girsa said it was fatal mis-
take to suppose Bolshevikism to be a
democratic movement. Democracy
endeavors to organize and to rule
the people according to human con-
science: but the Bolsheviki stamp ont
the principles of morality and cul-
ture. Bolshevism was collective
title used for different political and
ocial phenomena; from the idealistic
Utopia to the criminal and German
propaganda forces.