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Show 1 PgP j RECKLE8S AUTOMOBILE I DRIVING 1 Somo ono rcmnrka that If pedestri ans showed tis bad manners ns motorists motor-ists do toward ench other, tho public ' highway would bo a sceno of contin uous fisticuffs. ' It docs little good to vent your wrath on tho man In tho other car. 1 You may bo a Sandow and ho may bo I a pygmy. Hut you can't get at him and j he knows It. Life Is too short to hunt J up his number and trail him to the courts. Thero ore great many nutomoblllsts I who on getting homo do not exchongo ylews on tho beauty of tho scenery. The only question that attracts their Interests Is tho, timo taken, nndhow nihny miles It figures out per hour. They uro as proud of a 'sntishistory performance as If ono's boy had taken a prize at college-A poor. showing Is apologized 'for as If It roveftled some startling moral ciofoct. Tho majority of motorists aro not of this type. Tho roads arc full of can-" can-" tlous and conservative people, who display tho stimo good manners In n machine that they do In their ow n homes. But there aro far too many of tho other kind. Thero aro a great many men to whom a .motor means little unless It Is punctifatWTand elevated by refreshment refresh-ment at th'o various Inns along tho ' route. In tho emulation of good follow- j I ship, this tends to produce mental ola- Jv f tlon. A driver becomes confident of jn ' his ability to thko chances that In Mil sober moments would bo passed up. J Hence many wrecks. i The line separating cautious from M reckless driving is a vague and in- ia 1 definite one. It varies with tho hour, 1 the place, an,fl tfto enj.and Is given 1 Identical Interpretation by no two X courts. ... I A law bo Intangible Is almost lm- I poBslble to enforce. The mere Impost- ! tlon of fines amounts to little. Tho (JE sport considers tho fun of Joy rid- 1 lng cheap at tho price. Tho ono thing , he is nfrald of Is the loss of his 11: cense. This Is tho ono effective wehp-on wehp-on to uso against tho reckless driver. I 'V J ! TREE PLANTING I Yenra ago It used to bo qulto cus- toninry for young men to celebrate public holidays and other festivals by planting trees ubout tho public streets p had parks or "commons." The present M generation onjojs tho shtulo. Tho ' W women brewed lemonado nnd root ' jR beer or moro emphatic concotlons for fi theso occasions, which wero mado soc 'M Lilly pleasant 'M Nowadays It Is considered tho bus- 9 tness of park commlsslonorH and high . way superintendents to provldo such shado trees as aro needed. Hut tho V appropriation for trco planting Is un- '. m usually small. City councils and town- 1 ill ship governments Wso to spend 1- If money whero a good showing can bo mado for their own term of office. The tree lover must wait a num-berfftjirs num-berfftjirs betfjfa rifting a partial fruitage' of &! tejtfprii'jThat Is too dls-aaht dls-aaht to'hctojeloct'.ttose' officials when , tielr' hJxtOTnV empires . .JrilffhorVls' too 'inuch' icVdency In community com-munity life to glvo,UD,yoluntary effort aitd" public MiprtfTemcnts on city .officials, Who iiiJiarasscd on every sjde by tho .deraand-f or costly Improve fmcMeCKnitlnK- f this condition, msny'statwwiTo appointed an Arbor, law.'Po4rDor'issu,e ponderous pro-elntnatfbn. pro-elntnatfbn. They call on the cltliens to Suspend their daily tasks, and sally sal-ly forth with spade and watering pot One BUBpecta that but fow places pay mucK'attention. In-'Bome places the, schools aro organising' or-ganising' the children In tree planting movements. 'A boy who 1b old enough to play 'ball Is old enough to plant at least one tree every: year. Instead of taking the youngstors out on moro or Icbs nhture wnlks, why not locallzo ,and concentrate their Interest In tho practical task of setting out a tree? A fow lessonu should make any boy of 10 competent to plant a trco and watch over It through tho first critical criti-cal months. I ! 'h THE PARTY BOSS Representative llullngs of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania has found tho boss of tho dominant dom-inant party In America today, and says thero Is nothing to do other than 'to do and dlo.' I'ollowlng Is taken from his recent address on tho Panama Pan-ama Canal tolls question: Mr. Speaker, this question has nlrcudy been passed upon by the American people as deliberately and as carefully as any other quest tlon ever considered by them. Tho Progressive party platform declared for freo tolls, and 4,200,000 voters indorsed it. The Democratic platform, indorsed indors-ed by 6,300,000 voters, declared for tho same thing. Woodrow Wilson, as tho candidate candi-date of his party, declared repeatedly repeat-edly for freo tolU. A Democratic House, responsive to public Bentlment, enacted tho freo tolls law. A Republican Senate passed tho bill and a liepubltcan president signed It. Tho President and Congressmen elected on tho Democratic platform hnvo loudly boasted that they were commissioned by tho people to enrry out the promises of that platform plat-form as a sacred trust. To the nma7cment of tho country llko n thunderclap out of a clear sky, comes tho declaration of tho President that tho plotform of tho Democratic party, the free tolls promise and his own speeches In favor of It, tho Congress that enacted' en-acted' the law, nnd tho 11,000,000 .voters yho indorsed free tolls In their jarty platform, aro all wrong and that free tolls are a violation of good 4 moral a. Why this remarkable change of heart? President Wilson gives no reason. The Democrats In Congress,, scut-iuctjlng scut-iuctjlng like J2:toiet-awa).fr?mi5 sinking shlprro throwing .aomer-BaulU'tS .aomer-BaulU'tS get away from; thelrjplat- , ,' '. form promises . Do they give any reasons? Verily they do, and a most sufficient (?) reason for Democrats tho party boss has issued his orders. Tho President doubtless has somo reason for this remarkhblo flop, but he has not chosen to say what It Is. Supremo In his primacy as n Democrat nnd confident that ho Is nblo to do nil tho thinking ncces-sary ncces-sary in tho Democratic party, ho simply issues his orders Theirs not to reason why; Tholrs but to do and dlo. Domocrats aro expected to do what they uro told and ask no questions. .J. .J. . Thoro nro no lamp post3 along tho straight and narrow path. I ! ! Friendship goos out tho window when envy enters th locr. I ! ! A wlso man never pretends to know all obout everything. ' , .lforV- - """ ' ' ' """""l ' 'ii iii "i Putt;fng-conndenco in -a cheap-man' la anjexpehBlve experiment. T,he- happiness that comes over a bar is always very brief. m m i 11 CARRANZA REGARDS- it , - ""k 1 ji SITUATION AS ONE OF . -. . - GREATEST GRAVITY ' ' . -,j Confidential Agtnt At El' Paao -Says Hucrta Would Not Htsltat't At War El Paso, Texas, April l6.T-Oenral Villa and his latest victory at San Pedro were practically lost sight of among Mexicans and refugees Hera and In Juarez today In ttfe lwtorise.'la-tercet lwtorise.'la-tercet felt over developments of the Tamplco Incident. General Carrama at Chlhhuhua was kept fully Informed of the' orders to tho fleet nnd tho attitude of Washington, Wash-ington, but no statement of what position po-sition ho would assume should the Americans tako Tamplco and Vera Cruz was forthcoming. Among officials tho word went o not to comment on tho situation, but It was learned from the lips of one of Carranza's closest advisers that Carrana views tho whole situation as ono of tho greatest gravity to Mexico Mex-ico ns a wholo. Robert V. Pcsqulero, confidential agent of tho constitutionalists' In this city, said for publication that all rebel lenders ere convinced that Huorta would not hesitate to plunge the wholo country Into a foreign war when ho feels his power crumbling, thinking to save himself by"unltlng tho country against nn alien enemy. |