Arizona republican., 1915-01-03
Three Hundred Citizens Gather About Festive Board to Hear Why and How Good Times Have Come to Arizona
MANY TURNED
 AWAY AT DOOR
Music, Songs and Speaking Furnish Evening of Use ful Entertainment to Be llevers in the Going Up" Slogan

Distlling the essence of optimism and mixing it with the milder and necessary draught of common sense. the banqueters who celebrated the close of Going-Up day at the Adams last night, partook, and dispersed to their homes. hugely cheered and very much encouraged. About three hun dred persons assembled in the din lng-room to hear why they should be cheerful, and to realize through the witty words of d fine list of pub lie speakers that the prosperity that is spreading over the state is a real and stable fact. Yet, in the words of one speaker-Judge R. F.. Sloan it was not only the expression of op- timism that everybody was trying to make, so much as it was the college yell of the hard worker, the courage instilling excitement that makes peo- pie do prosperous things and be pros about it.
 Tall dunce caps, distributed to every man, and to every woman whu would wear one, lent q most gala air to the scene Music by the enter tainers. led by Kellogg and MacFar- land and Stanley Tuck and Miss Mack, kept the gayety at it's proper height until the Military band filed into the balcony, played and then sang the now famous Tipperary song. By this time, the dinner had been disposed of. and Postmaster Eugene Brady O'Neill became a man of mo ment. Mir. O'Neill read through the letter of Vice President Marshall and the telegrams of PhoeniX's good friends throughout Arizona. Then he began calling on the speakers. The letter and wires are to be found in another column of this paper
 J. c. Callaghan, the state auditor, who was introduced as the man who has saved the Valley Bank had to listen to a five minute ovation be- fore he could make himself heard. His remarks are printed herewith practically in full.
 MT. Callaghan touched upon prob lems that have recently been called unpleasant" But, in the light of their successful solution, they are now called splendid, in that they have brought out what Purdy Bullard called the finest qualities to be found in the citizens of any American city
 The so-callad ill-advised labor leg islation was referred to by over half of the speakers That Arizona would be prosperous in spite of the evil eff fects of such legislation was the pre- diction of every speaker.
 ?. F. Moore, the banker, followed Auditor Callaghan. MT. Moore proved that bankers are not all dry as dust chaps. when he launched into a hum orous speech on his own unreadness as an orator. He was given the sub joct, The Wedding of the Gila and the Salt," that belng thought appro- priate in view of the financial union of Gila and Salt River valley bank ing interests I'm strong for the men of Phoenix" he concluded. but stronger for the women, and if | were not already a married man. there might, indeed, be a wedding or the Gila and the Salt"
 There is a practical and ecOnom- ical value in being cheerful" quoth Judge R. r. Sloan. After while being cheerful ceases to be merely psychological expression of prosper ity, and becomes a real and genuine prosperity Judge Sloan touched on many interesting subjects, especially
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