Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1915-11-04
''|SNT T ABOUT TIME ID AMEND
 ORDINANCE NJ. 4 ASKS FLY
CBy B. F. Fly)

1 IL OIlSludlly pdbSSu liS Clty COuuCll, and, from all appearances, will remain a city law as long as the present "wise
 city dads" hold office, and this, too,
 in view of the fact that it is the most
 outrageous piece of city legislation that exists throughout the United States.
 had sincerely hoped, along with the hundreds of others, that by let ting up" on the publicity of that mea, sure, that the aldermen would be fair enough to themselves to remedy some of its outrageous provisions, but they seem to have gone to sleep at the switch" permitting Ordinance No. 4" to run pell-mell, helter-skelter, until | it is a stench in the nostrils of every man, woman and child in Yuma.
 Yesterday, very decent, reputable looking young man, s. P. Daniel ar rived from Phoenix, where he spent several weeks, canvassing that city and vicinity soliciting subscriptions for the Oklahoma Farmer and Stock man, known throughout the South and Vest as one of the best journals of that kind on the market. With the periodical he agreed to present the subscriber with 6 up to date maps, three feet square, that would be an ornament in any office or home-the
 maps and the journal all for $1.
 Collector Dick Stanton jumped hlm for license fee! Mr. McDaniels was amazed He has canvassed every town from Oklahoma to Yuma, and his is the only place that has ever demanded a license. He left Yuma in utter disgust, but the Yuma Daily Ex- aminer put his paper on it's exchange
 ist and 1 am anxious to see what he's going to say about Yuma He also
 eft a set of maps that now grace the walls of this office.
 Travelling salesmen, however, who should pay tax of $10 per day under his law, go free, thus making fish put of one and fry out of another, and
 eaving it entirely up to City Tax Col
 ector as to who should and who should not pay tax. v
 A big circus will be here next Wed 1esday, November 10. If it parades the streets it must pay $25. If bitches its tents in the city limits il must pay $100 more. If it has any side shows it must pay $15 for each.
 Grounds have been rented just be- yond the city limits, so the city will get what the little boy shot at.
 Two poor washerwomen, each with a house full of hungry children, have been threatened with arrest if they do not pay the hand laundry license One offered to pay SIPS, all the money in the world she had; the other had $2.50 and offered that in order to keep from going to jail. Neither sum was accepted; but they are daily expect ing to be sent to jail.
 In these cases Collector Stanton is simply performing his sworn duty, act ing under the advice of the city at torney, and am sure he wishes Or dinance Mo- 4" was at the bottom of the sea, or some hotter place.
 Very recently, one of the "chippy birds" took the shortest way to keep from paying the shameful tax levied on her, and committed suicide. This will rob the city treasury of $15 per month. That amount, however, can easily be deducted from salaries"
 In addition to Ordinance No. 4, an other law of the city has been brough, to my attention, and that is that | can't be mayor, or alderman, or tax collector, or city attorney or city phy- sician until 1 shall have resided here for three years! But my dear city officials, don't want any of your jobs. I wouldn't hold one of them for | he combined salary that all of you l get, especially if had to enforce "Or- | dinance Mo- f." l merely stated the | case as above to call your attention l to the fact that your city physician l now resides in Fl Centro and that Of l all the doctors in Yuma you have but | one who is eligible under the law tc | hold the job, though for the past | month or more 1 am informed that Dr. | Jacobs, of the Indian Reservation | agency, has ben performing Dr. Cly- mer's duties.
 Whats the matter with our city council on this matter? Are they all asleep at the switch" again? If they are, it is high time some of our pro- gressive women's clubs should prod them up and make them realize that this is Yuma City of 1915, and not the rough and ready border town of forty years ago.
 1 would like to hear from the "City Club of Yuma," on these important