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Arizona republican., 1921-12-10
Senator Pat

It Is the unexpected that makes life worth living If we knew every morning what the day would bring forth; if we could foresee all the humdrum things that would happen to human existence would become dull that would want to end 1t Most of would not have patience to await the tural intervention of death. Life would be a game with all the cards exposed.
 If in our intercourse with neighbors should know in advance just what they were going to do would to hate the sight of them. There some such individuals. When we see them coming we know what they going to talk about. We know just what language they going to use, we know their mannersms. We promised surprise, pleasing thrilling; going to learn nothing new. So we know that going be bored.
 No doubt when old Cato used to get up every day and write the wall. Carthage delenda estp his associates though at first interested lapsed first state of amusement whence they passed into ore of tolerance toward nut" A little later we SUD- pose some of the senators wearied that they absented themselves from the forum until Cato had subsided.
 Now there Is Senator Pat Harrison of Mississip- p who immediately after the presidential election of 1920 declared his unalterabe hostility to the Repub- hcan administration and announced an unswerying policy of obstruction as the best service he could render-not to the country but to his party
 Inere1n Of course Senator Pat in error, aa error. though common to small politicians and small newspapers. the continual nagging of the opposition
 Senator Pat stands almost alone in the senate in the pursuit of this policy. While perhaps other democratic senators may averse to seeing the administration in a hole they not conspicuousy trying to put it in And the of the large majority of the opposition the senators are trying to help the administration. indulging criticism if at al only when they believe criticism to be warranted and constructive.
 But when Senator Pat opens his mouth he un- corks criticism which he intends to be obstructive though so far he has in obstructng noth- 1ng Naturally he embraced the opportunity afforded by the presidents message which was as clear and impartial an exposition of the State of the Unon as could have been expressed. to assaI the admins- tration. not hesitating indulge in gross and r- relevant misrepresentation statement that the president had previously attacked the soldiers bonus Senator Pat has become a bore and a nuisance alike to the two sides of the chamber
Arizona republican., 1921-12-10
The League of the Southwest

Riverside. California; appears not to have been best location the holding of the conference of The League of the Southwest the subject of the hzading of the Boulder Canyon dam and the dispo- stscn of the waters and the power of the Colorado rsver.
 Though the conference settle nothing, and' pe-haps cannot greatly influence final settlement sAere is possibility that such influence might be <xerted Outside of the Californians we suppose the Eeaeraxes who assembled at Riverside took with them a purpose to mould influence which would rc beneficial, if at all, to all states alike.
 They expected the states would have equal rrrresen.atson in the convention It occurred to them that they might be voting in the conference sxxsrst the entire population of southern California et which Riverside is rather central point conven- sct of access In such circumstances the delegates srora other states might well have remained Ut home and permitted the Californans to change the xsxss and title of the organization the League of Southern California"
 The needs of southern California may be greater rt ones rights are not to determined by his needs
 Such a league that of the southwest is indis- rrnsabre. The states composing it are all concerned sn sHe disposition of the waters of the Colorado As r-o other part of country is concerned doubt The government will be guided by any agreement which these states may make. If they should hope se<sax divide they would all be powerless. We think .nas the southern Californans will recede rather than rroroSe a division.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-10
SATURDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 10. 1921
First find the man in yourself if gOH scW inspire mdnliness ia others.
 Bronson Alcott.
An Expres.ion of Confidence

The credit of Maricopa county disclosed by she avty with which the brokers syndicates of country sought s4so0.eoo bond issue is much lsrher than supposed. Of we had the full confidence county and in resources. but may well have doubted whether the great out sl6e bankers in time when the financial sky is so sVercast would entertain the confidence in us
 The heavy premium of more than sSoo,ooO. being about is is due in large part to the rate of inter est per cent. borne by these non-taxable bonds. allurement of interest taxation would have brought out this spirited bidding if the broker age houses had not been informed of the marvellous resources Of the county.
 1T any citizen is disposed to be dsprited because Ae Is not just making much money as he has made the past, let him consider what the bidders k- these bonds think of his county-the confidence sAacA they have so substantially expressed In It's tascre-
Arizona republican., 1921-12-10

is arrested for boot logging and they send him to jail for mos. or a yr- and when he comes out he can live in the lapse of luxury on what he saved up before they got him. The right way to deal with this bird would be to lock him up with a bbl. of his own hootch and not leave him out till he drunk it.
 Or suppose they's a gal murders her husband or some other lady's husband. Under the present system they print her picture , and 6 times a day for couple months and give her columns every edition to talk about herself and the only real draw back Is when the jury lets her go and she has to kiss 12 good men and true that ain't washed their face for a wk. and chews tobacco.
 Well, friends, you won't never stop the wholesale murder of gents by the opp. sex with no such methods as that.
 The way to stop 1t is for the news papers and police to work together. Let the last named arrest the murder ess if they wish. but whether they arrest her or don't arrest her. let the papers treat her the same as if she was a good woman and had did nothing all her life but good deeds; l. e, don't mention her name
 RING ". LARDNER-
 Great Neck. Dec. 9.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-10
By RING w. LARDNER
policeman

then see which could push the other one off the track.
 If a man come along at night with out no tail light I would make him back up miles on the right side of the road or if his head lights was too bright I would wait till 1t was time for the theaters to let out and then make him drive up and down Broad way between 10th and 50th st. blind folded.
 Once Tn a while you read about a motorist disobeying or laws at once like for inst. they was a prom inent New Yorker got him name in the papers a vile ago for speeding, driveing on the left side of the street and driveing vile intoxicated all at the same time. I never seen it print ed what they done to him. but I sup pose he got fined s50.00 or a $1O0.00 which was just chicken food to him you might say: What they ought to done would be to first make him sober up and then lock him in a room for a wk. with nobody to talk to but traffic policeman.
 Fit the Crime
 Penalties like the above would soon put a end to violations Of the motor laws and in the same way crimes of all kinds could be did away with if the punishments fitted them like for inst. the way it is now days Q. man
Arizona republican., 1921-12-10
<mBerton Braleys fE1\ \Ddily Poem
 AISMMhN

Where is the old dime novel And where is the nickel sheet. With all their glories of breathless
 stories
 That once we would fairly eat? Where is the Old Sleuth Series, Nick Carter and Dead Eye Dick, With their bales and barrels of sud-
 den perils
 And villainies clustered thick? Where are the ruthless scoundrels With not a redeeming trait? Where is the girl with the vagrant
 curl
 And the hero so tall and straight? Where is the constant shooting, Related with cunning skill, To hold us tense with q joy immense By piling. up thrill on thrill? Where is the old dime novel?
 Well, look in your magazine In a dressed-up guise it will meet
 your eyes And later. upon the screeni For the old dime novels prospered And you'll find it is still alive And is sold each day in the usual way For a dollar and seventy-five.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-10
Fire Truck as xma. Gift

PRESCOTT-A Christmas present for Prescott in the form of nice new fire truck is the aim of Fire Chief Robert Connell, Jr.. who is getting his blaze fighting organiZa- ton in shape to handle anything the city is likely to have in the way of conflagrations.
 A Veile chassis for the new truck was purchased some time ago, and the Northern Fire Apparatus body which arrived here recently is being assembled at the shop of William Byers, where spare equipment left from the old truck also is being added to the machine. Courier.
 Interest Tn oil Lands NOGALES-A Approximately 2o.0o0 acres of oil lands near Elgin. have been leased in Santa Cruz county, from the state land department, by parties who contemplate drilling for oil.
 The above information was given to the Herald Thursday by State Land Commissioner Rudolph Kuch- Ter, who, with Mrs. Kuchler. and T. L. Macleod, chief engineer for the state land department, are here today from Phoenix. Herald.
 Plan Miami Scout Council MIAMI-Boy Scouts, the benefits l derived by youngsters from that or l ganization, and the need for busi- ness men of Miami to back the Boy | Scout movement in forming a loca | Scout council, were laid before Miam | Rotarians at their regular Thursday | luncheon today by number of resi- | dents of the district who have beer | active in the formation and activi- | ties of the Miami Globe scouting | Silver Belt.
 SPortsmen To Organize | BISBEE A permanent organiza l tion for the protection and propaga 1 ton of game and fish in Arizona vii
 be perfected at a meeting to be hel, on the premises of the Request Shooting association, near Florence Arizona, on December 17. Invita- | tious have been sent out by the asso ciation to sportsmen and sportsmen' organizations throughout the state in
 viting them to attend the conference
 and, at the same time. to enjoy
 duck shoot. Sportsnen from man
 parts of Southern Arizona have al
 ready signified their intention of at
 tending ng.-Review.
 Ask Morning Train Service MIAMI-For some time part, mem
 bers of the Miami Boosters club hay
 felt that steps should be taken | bring about the reinstatement of tn early morning Arizona Eastern trai
 to and from Miami and Globe an } the situation has been surveyed care ; fully with a view to securing tn : necessary evidence.
 ' With these thoughts in mind special meeting of the directors ( the club was held today under th !. chairmanship of President J. To-
Arizona republican., 1921-12-10
As A euaran.or of France

The Literary Digest has sent questonnaire to newspapers throughout the country to ascertain the attitude of the American people toward proposl- son to go to defense of France in of foreign -rrexsaou: and in the case of their willingness, to determine whether the attitude of the country should ee expressed in a treaty We assume that by ag- xresssor.- German aggression" is meant by the Dagezs-
 we believe that the sentiment over the country woulc favor a guaranty of France against retalia- so<y attack by Germany. for two reasons One ot them is the ancient obligation which is popularly un e-xtood this country to France whether such m obligation actually exists has existed The other is that the integrity of France against aggression by Germany was one or the is- sues of the World War, though 1t was not stated to be an issue. Nor it even remotely hinted that the United States into the to save France. We do not think though that the people of the r-rted States would enter treaty with France or any other power, which might become an "en- sarslsng alliance" Any treaty to which we should become a part would have to be framed for a sin ese definite purpose-not to assist France in any war in which France might engage; war even ,rs.h Germany the enforcement of the provisions d. the Versailles treaty, but only war for the pre-
 ovation of the territorial integrity of Trance against unp-ovoked German aggression
 One thing that might the more readily induce us s-4o such an arrangement is the apprehension or France to which The Republican many weeks ago
 
 s Germany Since then the subject has been laid by r--.,rs before the conference limitation of arna- ,,.,t That Frances apprehension is not ground less is apparent and that France should oppose any
 rsion of its land forces in the face of this danger ss only natural
 Ii would. therefore we believe, be proper for not , tbe United States but the other parties to the se~s,ce to reassure France against such a danger, -. .,.oSa of the parties which parties 70 the ,-=,,es treaty are already bound D rance in such = .r,errency and also bound to it in case of any -,nf7,ct between France and Germany growing out s ,. violation by Germany of the Versailles treaty
 V. .,a serrres agreement With this treaty and ,s. ---raenoent we have concern
 while the Versailles treaty was in process or
 ..,,, C-Iemenceau's dstrusted the League Of - t,s.,-e 10 which reported he had re-
 - e, sfvs his assent without some further guar - .. bis country. He proposed two treaties-one -.-..- France and the United States and the other -- 1--,,,re and Great Britain. The treaties were
 ,s..,s and constituted in effect military al
 -s rather vague and dangerous one. The
Arizona republican., 1921-12-10
KILLERS AT LARGE

could not control himself. In one of these outbursts he almost killed a boy with hammer.
 Yet this man Spencer was recog- nized by ordinary laymen as a dan gerous man and could have been identified by scientists at any time after his seventh year as a potential murderer, was not only allowed to run at large but to marry and prop agate the taint which had come on down through the generations. Had he not been convicted of the mur- der which ended his career he would almost certainly have been set free again and to continue propagating his kind. And the United States of America is full of men like Spen- cer.
 Having demonstrated what man. ner of man 1t Is who kills and how easy it generally is to identify the murderer before he murders, Dr. Briggs proceed. to give some in- formation as to what our system of l leaving defectives at large costs the taxpayer. He shows that in Mass achusetts s16.000.000, or 40 per cent of the state budget in 1921, was spent for the care of defective, de- pendent and delinquent classes Courts for Madmen In addition to this, it must be re- membered that the criminal courts | are engaged almost wholly in the | business of trying detectives, putting l them in Jail and turning them loose ! again. The trial of Spencer cost the state of Massachusetts between s25.- | 900 and s30,o00, according to Dr, Briggs.
 Remember, too, that our expensive police forces are engaged chiefly in | keeping track of these defectives | capturing them only to be released again, playing an endless and futile game of hide and seek with madmen This enormous burden which the | taxpayer carries and which is com 1 parable only with the burden of in- | ternational armament. is in a sense ! the least of the evils of our system of handling crime. The worst evi of it is that we are breeding de- i fectives steadily so that the prob lem grows all the time and the blood of the nation is vitiated by defective strains everywhere, as the exam ination of men for the draft con. vincingly showed.
 What is needed to remedy the sit. uation is well known to students O the situation and has been carried
 
 states and it's practicability proved Each state should have an institu ton which would not be known eth CT as a hospital or as a prison, bu as a school to which all defective would be sent. They would ther
 be studied by the most competen specialists and every effort woul be made to fit each of these defec
 lives for a useful life in society. Som graduate from the school and mos of them presumably would not be al
Arizona republican., 1921-12-10

lowed to propagate, but each of them would be given as large a show in the normal life of the world as he was capable of bearing.
 To this institution would be sent, not only the defectives caught in the net of the courts, but who are now either legally killed or else turned loose to do their worst but also the children identified as defectives in the schools. This indeed is the most important part of the plan. For the defective or psychopathic child, taken in hand early and rescued from unfavorable environmental in- fluences, may be converted into g normal citizen.
 One thing which stands in the way of establishing such institutions is the lack of competent specialists
 lack which will doubtless gradually be met by education. But the great need is for a public opinion that re-
 alizes the need for such institutions
Arizona republican., 1921-12-10
ABOUT THE STATE

Lewis and a request calling on the Arizona corporation commission to order the Arizona Eastern railroad to reinstate the morning train was unanimously decided upon.-Bul- letin.
 Ship Cattle To Coast
 TOMBSTONE-H. D. Cummins. c. E. Gingince and A. R. Vandy, cat tie buyers, are shipping this week from Cocfise county about Is car loads of cattle. including calves, cows and steers, totalling over 75o head The cattle will go to Winters. Calif-, for fattening for the California mar ket- It Is reported the cattle brought a good figure, considering the pres ent market.-Prospector.
 Dedicated Book By Father
 FLAGSTAFF-Georg H. Hamil- ton, of the astronomical staff at Low ell observatory. is just in receipt of a very handsome book from London in which he takes especial pride. For one thing. the book is dedicated | to him. The author is his father J. 1 Mcclure Hamilton. the celebrated
 American portrait painter. who takes this way of showing his love for the son whose brilliant work he so care | fully followed in the great English | universities and whose brilliant
 scientific career he has since kept
 closely in touch with-Coconino Sun. Three Hurt In Accident l DOUGLAS-Three men were in 1 jured. and a large ice truck smashed
 switch engine bumped into truck which was loading at the ice plant. Peter Ross and G. McGee were busy loading the trucks at the storage | buildings G. w. Glasgow. who was | standing near the truck saw the engine just as it turned the curve. He made every effort to attract the | attention of the engine crew but failed to do so. When the engine struck the ice truck Glasgow was caught by the truck and dragged sev- eral feet and badly cut and bruised.
 Ross and McGee who were on the
 truck were thrown off and McGee's s } leg broken. and Ross severely injured. l-International.
 Experts To Testify GLOBEIThe great importance oi the suit of Iron Cap Copper company
 versus the Ariona Commercial Min-
 ing company and the probable far Preaching result of the courts decision
 was accentuated by the arrival ir Globe within the last few days oi } five eminent geologists who are tC ) appear at the trial of the case as ex- ? pert witnesses for the respective hu' l gants.
 l The case is what ia known as CT . apex suit to decide the extra-latera 3 rights of the contesting companies t
 the mineral vein which extends a through or into the ground held b. f both companies and claimed undel g the right of discovery and subseQuen n purchase.-Record.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-10
SPRING LAMENT

tBy DeSert CrlckHrA You'd come down my child, And see my garden fair; Sweet lilies. gentle poppies Beautiful roses, shy violets, Now, are all blowing! Choose the fairest in my garden, And transplant it to your garden,
 child:
 And if it troubles you to transplant I do not care what happens next, For you, I'll pluck it from the stem! But remember this. my child. When the petals begin to fall, I am going to hide under the grass, And sing, as a cricket, the ditteies of
 sorrow;
 And some one'H hear and sigh,
 Beautiful song."
 (''Desert Cricket" is the pen name chosen by a young Japanese school boy of Phoenix, the author of many poems which display as much imas cry as is found in the free verse which dorns the pages of those peri odicals such as the Dial and the Forum in which the versifiers of that school find eXpression.l
Arizona republican., 1921-12-10

treaty with Great Britain ratified but the one with America not presented for ratification as It's rejection foregone conclusion in the temper the senate manifesting toward the Versailles treaty
 A definite understanding though to facilitate the success of the conference limitation of armament, clearly setting out what would have to do In a just and righteous cause would be very different thing.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-10

Mustard gas. furnished by the department of agriculture, routed 53 rattlesnakes from den near Husum. Washington party of orchardists freed the gas in the porous formation of large pile of lava rock with a long garden hose. Within 30 minutes rattlesnakes of all ages and sizes began wiggling themselves out of the den. Blinded and half dead, the snakes clubbed by members of the party.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-10

The study of newspapers is Tn the curriculum of West Point military academy. The cadets are required to read two dailes part of their class work, and pass examinations deductions from inn portant editorials and stories. The papers read after breakfast and the cadets quizzed orally the days news. Then they summarize the important happenings. domestic and foreign and explain their significance.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-10
Treaty Making

The Prescott Courier contraverts statement by The Republican. that president cannot make a treaty. We will stick to it. Now let us see. There IS Versailles treaty and it was made, but where? Not in the Hall of Mirrors by President Wilson Lloyd George Clemenceau, Orlando and the rest of them It was only negotiated there there eyery- thing that President Wilson did with reference to treaty was ended. He had only power to negotiate and never before had president United States exercised that power in person.
 The treaty was not treaty when the power of the president was exhausted It was made elsewhere in various places, 1t made in Germany" in part but the United States had nothing to do with its making. And it not made until three powers had collaborated.
 So if President Wilson made" a treaty we should like to know where in America 1t is now.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-10

The best mile of road in the world will be con- structed on the Lincoln Highway between Dyer and Schererville in Lake County, Indiana. believed that this mile of perfect road will stimulate interest in highway improvement especially in the promotion of an roadway, embodying the highest ideals of American highway construction
Arizona republican., 1921-12-10

What is believed be the largest volcanic crater in the world recently discovered in Iceland by two Swedish scientists, who exploring there. This tremendous crater contained hot water and was less than eight kometers long and five kilometers wide. It was surrounded by hot springs
Arizona republican., 1921-12-10

Within two miles of the worlds highest peak Mt. Everest, explorers halted. They now have to find other who stand the terrific blizzards and the frightful cold encountered the last two miles of the knifeedge ridge Six will needed for the climbing party
Arizona republican., 1921-12-10

The tax law will save the gum chewers million dollars year. If this isn't normalcy what is it?
Arizona republican., 1921-12-10

The blue tinge of the paper on which the Morn ing Sun of Yuma was printed last Wednesday is not to be understood be indicative the state of mind in that vicinity.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-10

We suppose you are aware of the approach day by day of Christmas Also aware that you have not done your buying yet.
Arizona republican., 1921-12-10

Tucson is going to build high school as soon as it agree upon a site.