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TAGE TEN THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR TUCSON, ARIZONA, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 14, 1926 Will Rogers Revisits the Old Texas Range Galahad and Treated Guinevere a la Erskine E(tblishad 1877 Mwuwwywui PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING IN THE TEAR BY THE STATE CONSOLIDATED PUBLISHING COMPANY 33 West Congress Tucson, Arizona W. R. VATHEWS, General Manager, and R. E. ELLIN WOOD, Editor name got started.

If he could havej always held tho unbranded ones, boy, he would have had some stock today! Then they after got to call-' in thern "slick and ears" when; they had never been marked. Triers! Is a wonderful Hook they presented i mo with, "The Trail Drivers of Texas," published by the Cokesbury Press of Nashville, Tenn. It was nrss. iiut these men that I have named above handled thousands and thousands of cattle, from one1 State to another before the days of! convenient railroads. Johnny yioek-l er sent thousand Steers up the i trail in one year in 'S5.

He was one! of the greatest Ropers that Texas ever produced, and when I say! Texas ever produced why mean the World for they have turned out BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS MEMBER OF THE AUDIT Subscription Rate, $9.00 a CHARTER MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Tress exclusively entitled to the use fur republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper, and also the local news published therein. All rights of republication of special dispatches are also reserved. Entered as Second Class. Matter at the Tucson Postoffiee SUNDAY M( I NOVEMBER 14.

1926' Brisbane Errs 1 I i rrrn i i i i I talnly hope they get it. There is monuments to pretty near everybody that ever was dratted to kill somebody. Every Governor that was ever paid a big salary by each State for just living in the Mansion. But not a thing has anyone ever done to perpetuate something commemorating what a Ranchman or Cowpuncher has ever done. Texas would be In Mexico today if it wasent for them.

Jtitfht after the war cattle was all they had, and no market or no railroads for them. These old Hoys drove 'em north till they found markets 'and buyers, and It was through their efforts that the whole Northwest was stocked with cattle. The only revenue that come into this whole country for years was just what was brought back by these old "Waddies." Now I don't know what kind of cooperation they are getting from all the rest of the Southwest, but it certainly ought to be plentiful, for Lord help you silk garter boys of today that are setting mighty pretty down here now, if it hadent been for these old Timers. You know sometimes in our satisfied ease" and prosperity why we forget to sorter remember somebody that is going on kinder over the brow of the hiT. We say "Oh, those old timers, let 'em rave!" Well there is one thing about an Old Timers raving, he has gone through something to rave over.

The sad thing is going to be the coming listening to us. We will be raving with nothing to rave over. Our most thrilling experiences will be how we run to catch a street car and missed it, one cold day, or how we lost four good golf halls in one game. Puild this monument now! These old Hoys ain't going to he with you long. Pet tin in see it finished while they are alive.

If it's a bore to you to listen to their old time ways, why you won't have to listen to them long. Make them happy for their last years. They have made it possible to make you happy for many, many years. You can certainly give 'em that much happiness. It will he to the glory of your State forever.

They will live longer in legend and story than the first herd of Fords that was ever, driven North. The Old Trail Drivers Association lias a purpose; they are not just organized lo eat lunch away from home once a week. It's getting kinder late in the afternoon fur a lot of these old P.oys, and they will be a-drifting them in one some nice high, dry. divide, to bed 'em down for Ihe night. They will be a catching their horses for the last time.

They will be rolling their old "tarp out and crawling into their old "Sou-gans" and "Parka's," and when they are waked up with a kick to go on guard by a Ciolden Slipper, instead of a shop-made boot, why they will roll out of there and face their new Range Poss, and when he asks them "Roys are you ready to go with me?" they will look him right in the face and never bat an eye and say, "We tire ready to go with anybody that is right." (Copyright PUB, McNaught Syndicate, Inc.) Arthur Brisbane, brilliant editorial writer that he is, sometimes depends on his masterful rhetoric far mure than on his lo'ic to "put over" an idea. In a recent editorial, he likens all of society to the bee eokny in which all of the other bees are sacrificed to the queen, then lays down the principle that this used to be necessary people, but that now leadership is mi necessary. If Brisbane is riht, then the best thought of the educational world is There never has been a time when leadership was more vital than it is now, and as society becomes more and more complex, the demand will be still greater. kee(t'iiizin; this, the educational woild has taken the attitude that it is not merely educating the youth of the country for its own benefit. Rather does it lake the stand that it is making assets out of liabilities; that is college must be prepared under all ircmnstances social and the margin of distinction is very Society is getting more ami more sociali.ed.

It is taking over more and more of the things that formerly were considered individual. It lends itself therefore to greater divirg-ence of opinion on public affairs. Instead of majorities and minorities, thinking people divide themselves into dozens of jrt.ups on the same subjects. Rut minorities cannot rule successfully however sound their doctrines. They must have the support of the majoiity.

to have support, the minorities must have leaders who can convert the minorities into majorities, or come near enough to it to make minority plans workable. It is a maxim of politics that prejudice, makes more votes than logic. Prejudice is built upon just such metaphors as this used bv Mr. Brisbane. But it is far from sound.

What New Train more Ropers than any state. He: was originator the "Plocker; loop." That's a bis; loop, and you Ka up side of the steer and turn It over as you throw it, and it down osaa the Steer's shoulder and picks up both front feet, lie picken up a rope there the other day and! showed me just how he used to throw it. lie is around and 1 bet he can spread it on one yet. lie was of the first (toping Con-' test 1 ever was in in Texas in San Antonio in I was just an old Cuckoo Kid and had a little Pony; and it jerked down so many! limes they wanted me to tie the! Horse's feet instead of the Steers! He even remembered it the other! day the color of the Pony. Met one i old Fellow there that drove the only herd of Puffalo that ever was trailed from one place to There is a nice job on a dark rainy wlnn they start to run.

one of the The name! on an unbrind'd cow. brute started with that family. They brought a bunch of cattle and dident brand 'em, just turned them; loose and everybody seeing one tin-! branded or unmarked called it; "Mavericks," So that's how Ihe I have run Into a good many pleasant things on my jaunts but the other day I hit San Antonio, what used to be before fortress hit it one of the three unique Cities of' America. It's a great 'd Town, is! Sun Antonio, even if they have got a filling station in connection with' the Alamo. You have to sacrifice something for Progress, hut I never thought It would be the Alamo.

I had tho most wonderful day there I think 1 ever had. There is a bunch of men there called "The Old Trail Drivers Association." Due to the work of a tew like Saunders, Mrs. Russell, widowed wife of a fine Texas Cattleman, and a treat character, and Col. Ike l'ryor and a few others, iliey have formed this bunch together and they are whiit keeps San Antonio of Uie old days alive. They nave me a liarbecue.

One of the finest feeds I ever hail in my They had everything. Son-of-a-Gun made from a stolen beef. Free holys, Dutch oven biscuits, conked by real roundup cooks. They had the chuck Wagon, even made one of the fires out of 'chips." It sho was fine. I am a mighty young man to be allowed to mingle with those old fellows.

every one of them saw ai tual service up the trail to Kansas and from tho sixty's to the early ninety's. It's always been the regret of my life that I dideiit live a few years earlier. I believe I would-a fit in with thai Cans; bet-tor. There is a lot of this so called "Progress" that can't keep step with. An axe handle wrapped with Cowhide I believe would have fit and felt better in my hands than a Niblick.

I wish 1 eould have lived my whole live an.l drank out of a Guard instead of a Paper Envelope. I just looked at those old fellows that dav in wonder. Here they were 70 and VI years old. lots of them straight and fine. They had trailed herds of cattle by the thousands from the Pecos to the They had done it year after, year i with not even a toothbrush in the outfit, six and eight months at a time without a Not even individual soap.

They all had to use the same piece. There was I erizzlod gentlemen come to eat all that P.arbecue that was xr years old and never even had a face mas- sage in their lives. How they ever I lived and existed under such unsanitary conditions 1 will never be able to know. They swam rivers, for -0 years without even a bath towel. Some of them dident even know a "Putter" from tt "brandim, iron." I was raised up in the Cher- okee Nation and the names that I was at that liarbecue used to stock I our country every year, and ship out in the fall to market.

Then names were to me like you would lock on Presidents. I had heard all my life of such families as the Pierces, the lain--h tcrs. the Pryors. Warners, P.urnetts. "Windy" Smtts, Russeils.

a n. Saunders, Blockers, Every business has its aristocracy. If you are in the Automobile business way Ford, Tsrkine, Willys and a few of those are your ideal of that busi- The ANALYSIS of the state voii on the "measures on the ballot vindicates once more the initiative and the referendum, and also demonstrates that the people do somehow to vote intelligently on the much more numerous olliur, propositions which are not initiatives or referendums. rind which ought not to be on the ballot. Only eight of the -S propositions, were initntves.

One was a referendum. The 111 had nothng to do with the initiative or referendum, but were submitted by the legislature under compulsion of the eld constitution. The only surprising thing is that, on these too, the voting was generally intelligent. rpilF. referendum is a conservative measure.

The initiative may be a radical one. Put it, too. is a form of referendum, when 't is an appeal against the inaction of the legislature. The people voted conservative on both. There was only one referendum an appeal against the class-legislation oleomargerine bill.

The people rejected it by a huge majority. They passed only one ini Too Many VASII1XOTON. Nov. 1,1. Three Democratic iiresi.lenti.il possibilities came out of the recent elections in first-class running order.

C.ovirnor Al Smith of New York, if course. Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, also, of course, but not tuite so much so. And Senator Jim Reed of Missouri. One possibility fell by the Atlce Pomercne of Ohio.

He was too thoroughly trounced in his ampaign for the senate to inako any showing tit the next Demo-jrutio national convention. Another possibility has faded ompletely into the backgrouud William (i. McAdoo of California. William was fading anyway. Some spectacular election stunt on lis part was required lo keep him from disappearing utterly.

He did lot perform any. He may he able to hamstring other candidacies, ut as for his own, he no longer has one. Smith. Ritchie and Reed! Or naybe Smith. Reed and Ritchie! This doesn't take dark horses into consideration.

It deais only vith headliners. Jj.MITIl'S figure is in the Kverybody knows why, so why' tell it? Yet the same old prejudices will xist against him in that ex- sted against him In P.14. One may not sympathize with them, but they I have to be recognized. i So, while he's the leading can World As Chester Rowell Sees It By THE NEA BOOK SURVEY QF the new books of the week we particularly recommend: "Galahad: Enough of His Life to Account For His Reputation" (Bobbs-Merrill) by John Erskine We rest our case In behalf thjs defendant upon the title. "The Orphan Angel" (Knopf) Elinor Wylie If witchcraft vvwe still believed in, this amazing writer would have long since been burned at the stake.

"The Fiddler in Barly" (mc. Bride) by Robert Nathan young writer has a finer gift ot lancy nor a more delicate style. They'll shout him fr oni tlle house tops one of these days. JT'S a far cry from Tennyson to John Erskine. And when one has finished Era.

kine's latest, "Galahad: Enough uf His Life to Account for Ills Uepu-ttition," one looks back a bit wryly on Tennyson's Galahad, "wearing the white flour of a blameless life," For Erskine sets out to show "how he got that way." And how? It seems to us that the title of Erskine's new book Is sufficient to tantalize quite us many readers put "The Privute Life of Helen of Troy" into the best seller list. Amj this survey thought it a vastly better volume, though "Helen" was most amusing. The handling Is similar: Erskino presents his people clothed In mod. ern vernacular and chatting in a highly sophisticated and civilized manner. One by one he punctures the legendary illusions and.

seme-how or other, we would not be surprised if things happened some such way. There are variations, of to agree with the time and place and manner of speech. Guinevere, we are shown, was what the speech of today would call "a slick worker." Sho knew her men, how to get them and how to hold them, knights or no knights. She hud a tenaciously feminine desire to build the lives of the men who interested her. She tried it on King Arthur.

But he measured just so far. Lancelot allowed himself to become Arthur's "yes man," and, while fairly satisfactory as a lover, was a disappointment as an achiever of those idealistic goals for which she aimed. It would seem that Guinevere was willing to share her man only with an ideal. Then along came Galahad offspring of an evening be. tween Elaine and Lancelot.

Elaine, we gather, was a very modern young woman, perhaps one of the first of the independent young thinkers. She loved Lancelot, she wanted him, she seduced him, but she couldn't win him. For Guinevere was much shrewder. What worked on Lancelot, worked on Galahad. And King Arthur seized the opportunity to bring the "good old days of quests and tournaments" buck to a realm that was suffering from feminine influence over the males.

Further. Galahad was quite disillusioned al his father's failing to marry Elaine, and the preachments of Guinevere had had their effect. Erskine doubtless is trying to tell the world that it doesn't change: tiiat knights or Trojans had impulses quite the same as our own and differed only in the circumstances of life and conditions. gLINOR WYLIE, whose witchery of words and make her an outstanding figure in American literature, has provided ihe most daring and original idea of a decade in her "The Orphan Angel." Suppose, says she, that Shelley was not drowned a century ago: suppose a passing ship picked him up, carried him to America and the great bard wandered these shores let us sav, under the name of Shiioh. An inspired idea! Quite true and one that only the most skillful would dare attempt.

Yet, after "Jennifer Lorn" and "The Venetian Glass Nephew" who would attempt to argue Miss VVylie's ability. L'nhesilatingly we give this book a place among the two or three finest products of the season. Not the least delightful quality of Miss Wylie is that, like Willa father, she builds her novels completely according to her own lights ami without bowing to anyone's opinions on the matter. There are many pseudo-individualists; a few real ones. The story, briefly, Is of the poet's quest playfully treated for a lovely, unknown girl.

She gives no suggestion of the gaycty, imagination, richness of American background and of viewpoint; nor of an ironic anti-climax at the finish when the poet's spirit is caught and held. This is a book to turn to on many a night. is more difficult than to try and chart the course of a book, the charm of which h8 largely in the telling. To outline its plot seems an ineffectual and futile task. And so it is with most of the writings of rare young Robert Nathan, whose latest effort is 'The Fiddler in Barly." The fiddler symbolizes a frus trated troubador, who is cast in the role of choreman.

There is th child, captured by the fiddler's tunes; the amazed dog, who carries on philosophical conversations with the barnyard animals; there is- the spell of the fiddle, itself, and so many more fanciful and tender touches. 1 Nathan is an American writer, who. bit by bit. builds himself a following of discriminating readers. The parade should be svvelleJ considerably.

other than those of Mile. Eva. in which real laughs came from the audience. And Miss La Gallienne. having spent many years in H's('n worship, is eminently fitted to plaV him.

Miss Le Gallienne Is a brave young woman. She has dared to select some superb artists, seve Of whom frpniipnllu mnke one all oui lorget the star. Which is a should be. 8 1 Elinor Wylie CHASTITY WINS IN GOTHAM PLAY JEW VORK, Nov. 13.

This is a season of great upsets, us everyone knows who follows the sport pages. And Broadway is recording a few of these even as the minor colleges rise to wipe the gridirons with the Vales of yesteryear. Thus, after all the hue and cry concerning syncopation, we have een modern "jazz opera" or "native opera" if you will go off to the storehouse, as "Deep River" closed its brief career: while tho oM Viennese tunes no merrily on. We have seen a ouicl and polite little comedy of the John Drew vintage move into success witli an old-fashioned cast of four towit: Frederick Lonsdale's "On Approval." And now, in the current week, comes tin amazing upset in which Chastity is revealed, not only as to he fought for to the final curtain, but actually emerges triumphant. And this after seasons of plays of modern young ladies to whom the reward of virtue is a front seat in the Old Home for Retired Spinsters! The piece in question is "The Pearl of Great Price" and, to tho everlasting befuddlement of Broadway playgoers, more money here is spent than usually goes into ten depictions of lust.

What we have is a modernization of the old morality play. But, since times have changed, the trials that beset man" those grim." "Everywoman" and "Every-wore trifles as compared to that trip the feet of "Pil-Please recall that there were no allies, night clubs, sheiks, sugar papas and Much in the good old days. At the end. one carries away a great sympathy for the poor girls born into these turgid limes, and a greater realization of why so many playwrights have been unable to bring their heroines unscathed through three acts. QlON TITl IKUADO.E, the young British playwright actor, must have been bothered by these perils quite a bit as he at down to write xnotlier current piece, "Loose Ends." His hero has been in prison for 15 years and is suddenly turned loose in a world inhabited by all the K.wnbols that parade in "The Pearl of Great Price." The gals drink and swear and talk rough and seem to him quite demoralized as the young women of any drama whose setting is Long Island.

To ills further amazement a young woman who ran him down in an auto offers her love without wedlock. But he weds her, only to find that the liquor still flows and she keeps late hours with an Earl or somebody. Still another attractive young woman offers to create a situation that will furnish grounds for divorce. With such conduct on the part of our young womanhood, one can readily see how upsetting must he such a triumph as in "The Pearl of Great Prices." Violet Homing, Molly Kerr and Mr. Titheradge have the leading roles.

again, in "Seed of the Brute," we are led to believe that the domineering boss of an illinois town has taken advantage of half the female population. His offspring is a disappointment, but one of his unauthorized descendants turns out to be owner of a reform newspaper and pursues him to a relentless final curtain. Broadway had heard advance that this would be a' particularly snappy drama and, in i very tense prologue, one may hear lines reminiscent of "Lula Pelle," that dark chapter in the sad 1 decline of M. Belasco. At any rate! it is no credit to the chastity of i mid-Illinois.

i QO many have been the unfulfilled' threats and promises of artistically presented plays of high jalibre at old-scale prices that the ynionl old Manhattan critics gnsp-'d when Eva Le Gallienne actually proceeded to go through with it. I'rue, she had announced her Civic company in a Fourteenth ureet theater which housed everything from "Bertha the Sew ing Ma- hine Girl" hack in the ecru eighties to Italian neighborhood "pera and movies in late days. Thus far Miss I Gallienne's repertoire has included Jacinto "Saturday Tchekov's "Three Sisters" and Ibsen's "Master Builder." Miss Le aallienne is i.Kt at jiJSn she Jne of the few to produce the mel- niiioly Dane or should it be nnJ hu of Ibsen, Year, Delivered Anywhere Schedules Mean not settle anything published under the direction of Georfre "VV. Saunders. President and organizer of the "Old Trull Drivers Association." It's not a story; it's just a collection of, experiences written by the men themselves, over three hundred of them, of their different experiences in prniiiK up the trail, (let it, it's the most unique thine; ever published.

It shows these old timers pictures, Some of them Millionaires today. and own Thousands of acres ami hundreds of oil wells, while others are poorer than when they worked on the trail for wages. Put in that group together they are all the same. Johnny Plocker, who sent up Si thousand in one year, why; "Lady Luck" hasent dealt any too) kind with him. He wasent lucky enough to get in on the oil.

Put when he is with these boys he is just as welcome as Ike Pryor or i Dan Woggonner. They are trying; to raise money to erect a mono- ment in San Antonio, to the (lid Trail Drivers. It's a beautiful; thing. The model is there now. It is being made by (iutzon P.orglum, th iginator of the Stone Moun-; tain one.

It would be a great thing i to have, and San Antonio would be; Ihe logical place to have it. I cer- i wet or dry: whether we wanted Pibles in the schools, or gambling on race tracks, or the water and power bill. We had opinions on the gas rate and reapportionment. Put we took the judicial council, the powers of appellate courts, the school district and stock issue laws mostly on faith. Yet, on each of these, we voted either certainly, or at least dohaiably right.

P.eing technical matters, not arousing feeling or prejudice, we eould get disinterested advice, and we took it. It is an injustice and a nuisance to have such matters on the billot, and it can not be loo often repeated that they tire not put there by the new-fangled devices i invented by the reformers. Put, since they must be there until we simplify our constitution, it is a consolation that the votes on them are more intelligent than they deserve. QN one question, of course, we always vote wrong. That is in-' crease of the higher salaries.

It is always easy to pass a vote to increase the salaries of policemen, or other low-paid employes, even i if they are already getting as much term ns governor of the Buckeye state, says he isn't a presidential candidate, hut, sufficiently urged, they all fall for it. And consider Donahey's performance a Republican ticket elected from top to bottom, by an overwhelming majority, with the single exception of Donahey. A presidential possibility like this is not to be sneezed at in a state that casts as many electoral votes as Ohio. OLD MASTERS Never love unless you can Pear with all the faults of man! Men sometimes will jealous be Though but little cause they see. And hang the head of disconten.

And speak what straight they will repent. Men. that hut one Paint adore. Make show of love to more: Beauty musl he scorned in none. Though but truly served in one; For what is courtship but disguise? True hearts may have dissembling eyes.

Men. when their affairs require; Must awhile themselves retire: Sometimes hunt, and sometimes, hawk. And not ever sit and talk: If these and such-like you can bear. Then like, and love, and never; fear! T. Campion: Advice to a Girl.

i I I I 1 1, The benefits accruing to Tucson, Phoenix and other southern Arizona cities from the opening of the new main line and the new schedule of Southern Pacific trains, effective tonight, has been reiterated so often that it hadly occasions comment now that it has developed an actuality. But there is one point that has not been fully developed, and that is Tucson probably is. the greatest gainer. At the time the campaign was made for putting Phoenix on the mainline, there was some opposition among the old timers in the Old Pueblo mi the ground that in some mysterious way Phoenix would be able to take something from Tucson. But the broader minds saw that whatever profits Phoenix profits the whole state, just as whatever profits Tucson is an asset to all of Arizona.

Now the actual test has come. Phoenix is on a main line with two trains a day. Tucson is on a new schedule that is. from the point of view of the winter visitor, a 100 per cent improvement. The trains that formerly arriver in the middle of the night now get here at a time normal people have not vet retired.

This is more than a mere matter of convenience. Tourists, entitled to a 10-day stop over but vvjth no special reason for taking advantage of it except curiosity, were prone to look at the time table and pass it up. Curiosity must be-strong indeed to tempt a person to arise at 3:55 a. m. Now, however, with the (lolden State coming in at 7:50 a.

m. and 8:30 p. the traveler who has been on the train two days from Chicago welcomes the chance to get off for a few day.s before going on to California. Whatever advantages Phoenix gets from being on the mainline (and we hope they are many indeed) will be compensated to Tucson by the changes in hours. Under such circumstances it is time to quit worrying lest Phoenix progress.

It is for the best interests of our own ctiy that every other city in the state should prosper. Eve Hits Hack usl before fig-leaves became the correct style for autumn wear, one Adam blamed his wife for his troubles. "She temped me and 1 did eat," quoth he. And, from that time down to that of Andy C.ump, the men "folks have been accused of passing the moral buck to the women. But now comes Mrs.

Walter Hill, wife of the son of the late James J. Hill, railroad magnate, who, in her answer to a divorce complaint, asserts that she formed the drink habit after she became Hill's wife "and because of such relationship." "He tempted me and I did drink." says this modern Eve. Mrs. Hill's answer is interesting for two reasons. First it illustrates the perennial tendency of the human mind blame others for one's own shortcomings.

The development of a certain school of psychology, by means of heredity, en tiative, and that the one which jvas really a referendum. The legislature, lor six years, had refused to carry out the constitutional manda'e to, rcdistrirt the state. There was no remedy except to appeal to the people by initiative. The measures were submitted, arid one of them passed. All the otiier Initiatives, being the appeals by various groups on behalf of their own ideas, were defeated, as usual.

The initiative gives the radicals their safety valve. They can propose anything they like. Then, when they are defeated by the direct vote of till the people, thev have no grievance. They can not imagine that somebody set up the game against them. 'J'lIE really interesting thing is the intelligence of the vote on the other 111 propositions, which no petition pur on the ballot and which would still have been there if the initiative and referendum had never been heard of.

On most of ilie.ve, nobody but a specialist tould vote by the exercise of his own unaided intelligence. Oti tbc initiatives, we knew what we Wanted. We knew whether we were 5 firJ I i 1 iit-i Wets May Spoil Broth from the public as they could get from private employers. Put put on a proposal to increase the sal-, nries of officials already getting more than the average voter has. and a negative vote is almost au-i tomatic.

The mere fact that it would not affect our taxes appre- ciably, and that private employers are anxious to hire our public ser-' vants away from us at much higher pay than we give them, have noth-l ing to do with the case. Apparently, it is a certain sclf-protee-; tive pride in the average voter. which prevents him from voting that anybody Is worth more than he is. It is an expensive pride. Ql'' COURSF, there is only one right way out of the whole muddle and we will not do that, That is to get rid of our ancient and out-of-date state constitution and write a new one on a post card.

Then we would have a ballot that we know how to vote, and a gov- eminent that we know how to run. Perhaps a lot of us would still be too lazy to vote, or to euro what our rulers did to us after we elect- ed them. But at least the res', of us would know what we were doing when we did our civic duty. IN OLD TUCSON 20 YEARS AGO TODAY It looks very much as if the issue in our municipal campaigil would be for and against the reduction of gambling and saloon licenses. New booths and a special operator have been added to the telephone headquarters since the installation of long distance service.

C. O. Foltz, who has just returned from Chicago, left this morning to inspect his mining interests at Oro Blanco. Fred Shelly, dkstrict attorney of Cochise county, is in Tucson on business. He is also visiting number of friends here.

Joseph P. Chlado, a civil engineer, and Miss Lids K. Wren wen married at the home of the bride'; mother. Mrs. R.

H. Wren, yesterday by Rev. I'. H. Schafer.

Thomas Chattman and S. H. Drachman will leave Monday fot Phoenix where they are to be or, business for two weeks. Charles M. Shannon came ovei from Clifton yesterday to see about making some mining trades.

The ranges are very dry, and unless we get lots of rain this winter the stockmen will luse many head of rattle. C. Zieruld left yesterday for P.iso where he will work two weekf on the opera house there before completing the stucco work on tin San Augustine cathedral. Jennie Simpson, who has been in Los Angeles studying music for some time, has returned here She expects to begin a school vocal and theory of music. The high school pupils havi elected the following officers: Gladys Martin, president: l.enore Bates, vice president: Harold Hart ley.

secretary. May Johnson, treasurer: and for the board of direct ors, Mabel I'usch, Albert Lando Frank Culin. Fliftop liolfe am. Theodore Parker. vironment, cave-men throw-back and wliat not, would away with personal responsibility altogether.

This tendenc is growing as the years go by. When a man or woman commits a sin or a crime, there are now always pseudo-psv cholo gists readv to say that the commission of that sin or crime due to causes beyond the control of the sinner or the criminal Scientists of this school eliminate "general eusseduess" from their reasoning or, if they admit it. they blame it to out simian ancestry. The second interesting point is that a woman is blaming man for a vice that has usually been regarded as man's spe cialty. When men become the custodians of women's habit standards, the race is in danger.

didate, nevertheless-he's an uncrr- tain quantity. I Ritchie did. relatively, as well in Smith did in New Vork. 'only Maryland isn't on as Pirg" a scale ns New York. Na- initially sneaking, the very -same' tiling that's an explosion, coming from New York, i.s only a loud pop', 1 coming from Maryland.

All Ihe same, if Smith can't coh- I nect, Ritchie's cither second or third in line of succession. Put don't forget Reed. Iteed i cleaned 'up Missouri as effectively as Smith cleaned up New' York or Ritchie Maryland. He himself! wasn't a catnlidate for anything: this year but his support was a big factor in electing Harry Ilawes to; the I'nited States in place, of a Republican. And Reed has Ihe advantage of! being a mid-westerner.

rpiIAT seems to be the line-up Smith. Ritchie and Reed, or. Smith. Reed and Ritchie. i Put can any of "em get it? They're wets, 'faking the dry solid south into consideration, is it possible for any candidate, no mat- tcr how strong otherwise, to over- come that handicap? Say it isn't.

Then wj get down to some dark horse. On dark horses one man's guess is about as good ns Still, to mention a couple of dark; burses exSecj-etary of Agriculture Kdwit T. Meredith of Iowa anil Covernor Vie Din ihcy of Ohio. Meredith is darker than Donahey but he's visible. Konahey, just elected to a third Mexican trains are to be guarded by soldiers because of tin Yaqui uprising.

American trains have been guarded bv marines for the last several weeks and the Vaipiis are not in the United States either. It is Americans the marines an after. A little thing like a federal injunction seems to mean notlr' ing to the United States department of agriculture, which i. going to enforce the l'ostvale cotton quarantine despite tin court. Oueen Marie has discovered that American women art having a wonderful time helping to run the world.

And the haven't been at it as long as Oueen Marie, either. Calling Mussolini names will.