Arizona republican., 1909-11-19
Be Still, Sad Heart, and Cease
 Repining.

There has been waited to our ear. on the wings of the west wind q
 wall weighted with woe, as are tn,
 ululations of the whang- doodl, which mourneth for her first born
 The late visitors from Los Angeles the autoists and their entourages have returned home and are loudly lamenting the depredations of the innkeepers of this city during fair week. We do not like this noise our late guests, whom we tried to show sounds do not proceed from the true sport
 They complain of having been charged extortionate rates for rooms and board while here as much as s5 day for lodging without board
 That may seem an outrageous rate to the strangers whom We took in, but it all depends upon their previ- Uus experience and education. To Us of Phoenix. who are used to Iiv- ing well at home or abroad and pay ing well for the privilege. & day is more or less of a bagatelle To those who have not been familiar with such luXuries the price may seem high.
 But we had expected no such a wall as this from Los Angeles. where and on whose environs the citizens of Phoenix and the surrounding coun- try every summer dump out a half million dollars in exchange for the much advertised ozone of that re- zion. Not a word of regret passes the lips of our citizens when they come home and grimly set about get ting their cooking stoves and other household goods out of hook. and making peace with the grocer. the baker and the butcher whom they have neglected in order that they might contribute their quota to that half million for Los Angeles They bravely start anew in the world. some almost as naked as at birth, hopeful that by the next summer. by hook or crook. and by withholding from cred itOrs, they may again become con- tributors to that half million dollars which Los Angeles expects.
 This spirit of self-abnegation of our citizens is in beautiful contrast to the repinings of our late guests. who spent as much as from s15 to S30 for rooms while here; who could not get ham and" CT Spokane" with coffee, bread and butter, for less than quarter. But Phoenix is not Los Angeles Our guests need to travel more. for. as my Lord Ve- rulam saith, Travel maketh a man broad and familiarizeth him with different hotel rates.
 But our complaining guests have neglected opportunities at hone Of learning something of hotel prices, information which our Elks readily picked up there during the conven- ton of that order last July The Arizona fair commission has also documentary proof that hostelry of that town for period of several weeks charged it's representative six dollars a day for room without board If the hotel keepers of Los Angeles adjust their prices to the Arizona purse. Los Angeles citizens visiting this territory should adjust themselves to Arizona practices and be blooded for a week.
 We regret exceedingly that our guests have carried away an i'm pression that gambling is still ex- tant in the capital of this territory; that is. that men gamble for money per SC That some of the strangers for whom we tried to make the week pleasant, with touches of high life to which they were not accustomed, may have "set in." We do not doubt. They may have seen their carefully treasured and counted coin cross the green baize under the attractive in nuence of the ''tray-full.-' the ''fours" or the effective bluff.
 If there were such games they were organized for the amusement and entertainment of our guests. and not with view to separating them from their money. We are sure there was no concerted effort on our part to win back that half million or any part of it that we gave to Los An geles last summer. It was given without a murmur. with no intention to make a subsequent squeal.
 Some of our late guests threaten