Arizona state miner., 1919-08-01
P|THY POINTERS
Facts and Comment That Puts
the People 'ENext." :"

are like lot of bald-headed poll par
rots-w without brains.
Staid old Tucson was all excited last
week over indications of oilo nearby
ranch. But a news reporter who went
out to see it, went right home and sawed
up good sized wood-pile for his wife.
Hard boiled Smith, the one reputek
so mercilessly guilty of maltreating SOL
diers under him in France, is said to be
graduate of the Phoenix Republican
school of journalism. Maybe that's how
he became so crusty.
The corporation commissioner has re-
turned from personal observation Wis
it to the oil fields of Holbrook, but the
oil he didn't see there would fill lake.
One we'll is down 1900 feet in red sand
stone yielding salty swabbings.
Comes now Homer Hamlln, the Los
Angeles end of the reclamation engin-
eers, and deals a severe blow to plans
of the Verdi scheme to irrigate Deer
and Paradise valleys-and the cake Of
those northern farmers is all dough.
Gov. Campbell has appointed State
Resources Board, but from perusal Of
its personnel, the miners who represent
three four tbs of the taxes paid into
the State treasury, are completely DER
shadowed by litigants, financiers and
irrigationists.
When fully analyzed it will be found
supporters of Mexican Intervention are
due to irresponsible and insistent jun
kers, aided by certain newspapers and
publications heavily patronized by an
inner circle of corporate and financial
interests. - Mining Record.
From the way the big newspapers
are handling the deportations cases. it
is evident the copper press has become
anxious of the results. The Prescott
Courier intimates this black chapter
in the history of Arizona was the re-
suit of the then as now crawl under the
bed governor every time it thunders.
Notice has been served on Col. Harris
who still maintains the Office, records,
and regalia of adjutant general in spite.
of the appointment oil Capt, Ingals by
Gov. Campbell. Like the governor, Col.
Harris intends to stick till the courts
put in his successor, same as Campbell
did. "Sauce fer de goose, gen'lmen.
am sauce fer de gander.
While the government is hustling all
the information on mining the state is
estimating and planning how to collect
and conserve all the water on the state
water sheds; Phoenix has voted mil
lion and quarter for soft water sup
ply, while Mohave county proposes to
aid private enterprise in damming the
Colorado. Funny, isn't it. how the de-
mand for water is increasing?
| Prescott Courier scrihes suggest that
since buttermilk haa been found to con.
tain alcohol we are cut down to sweet
milk and boiled water, an infallible
cure is to take unboiled water in your
mouth. throw away the stove-lid and
sit on the hole till the water boils. i'm
agine ex- President Taft, for instance,
sitting on the hole waiting for the boil
to come.
II am against the proposition to enter
into an alliance with France and Great
Britain and / shall devote all of my
strength to the end that it shall be de-
feated. I am not willing that any other
nation shall say when we shall enter
war and when we shall not Il am
for a league of nations, but this is q
league within league that will tend to
dissolve and destroy the league and
leave the nations of the earth up against
the certainty of future war. WIN. J.
Bryan.
A little research as to who oppose
government ownership has adduced the
following facts which are taken from
reports of congressional investigations:
The records show that during the Pier
pont Morgan administration of the New
Haven railroad there was unwarrarted
expenditure of large amounts in educa-
ting public opinion--the disposition of
hundreds of thousands of dollars for in
fluencing public sentiment-to control
utterances of the press by subsidizing
reporters. The investment of $4O0, 900
in a New England newspaper. The L.
& N. railroad expended $50, ,322 for the
creation of public sentiment-in the en-