Arizona republican., 1919-05-15
The Last Word
The Bio Crabi


 Ever and anon we are accused of being a grabbed knocker of our home community and our fellow natives Our only defense is that we are cruelty misunderstood. And you know, of course, what Emerson said about be- ing misunderstood. i5ut in order to avoid this misunderstanding becoming local Plume, with us doing the Or lando act, we will point to Q recent local accomplishment that approaches our standard in the matter of how a community ought to do things
 We refer to the barbecue for the war vets on last Saturday That was what we call doing the job right. Everybody out and pushing; no small town grand stand playing, and things done in man-sized manner. Cheap self-adver- Using and personal aggrandizement showed into the discard. Everything and everybody merged into a single big purpose-that of getting out and celebrating with the returned soldiers.
 A days united action like that will boost a community higher than a years boost the hometown advertising will.
 Now. if we can get that same com munity spirit out and on the job next Saturday the vote for the road bonds will be overwhelming.
 And when that job is put across, we'll all get together-young and old hold a big mass meeting at the ''Y' stadium and start to build a he-man's community baseball park. We'll lo- cate it where every TomdickenharIy can get 10 it by street car, auto, rig or on foot. It'll be a whale Of a ball park with a fast green diamond, train ing quarters with showers and all. And then we'll send out our invitations to the eastern clubs asking them to look us over when they're casting around for 1 spring training quarters next year. And 1 they'll be apt to listen, because we'll | have something to offer them besides i a grand climate. Can it be done2 Why, sure it can! All you have to do is ! to get the community behind you not few individuals who have an ax to grind and who will crab the act t they think it won't be ground-but you must have the entire community back of the proposition like Saturday s barbecue.
 Then
 When we've got some big ball clut training here every spring, with a raf1 of sport writers sending daily stories back to their eastern sheets, the folks back home" will begin to wake up tC the fact that there are some things ir Arizona besides copper mines. wobblies cactus and deserts-the wicked movies to the contrary notwithstanding.
 And then
 With a lot of traffic coming into the old burg, a swell union depot will be inevitable. Arizona marble Cor tufa if we want to make a life job of build ing it), a grand ee-luminated 'lectriC clock in a majestic tower, and all that
 And then
 With the combined new courthouse and cityhall (called a courthalD and a raft of people resulting from natural increase and immigration, Sam Mitch ell will have to double track his car . lines. and that will solve the car tracl , paving question.
 : Oh, we're some little communit, ] planner and builder. But-the fin l ished product must get it's momentum
 from the success of the road bon, l election next Saturday. And year! } hence we can take our gran childreI
 out for a walk around town and say Son, all this really started with [ corking barbecue for the soldiers wh, 2 had just come back from the war, T
 year ago." etc. etc.