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Arizona republican., 1919-05-15
WHY THE FLYING "CIRCUS?"

In response to numerous inquiries, our representative made a personal investigation to determine the reason for calling the aggregation of aero- planes that visited here. the flying circus" He concludes that it is be- cause of the mechanics. They are the circus
 Having tuned up their engines and having lined up the ships preparatory to the afternoon exhibition, they lay in the shadow of the planes and pulled much of their comedy. Their repartee is commingled with English and French speech, for their service in France has { limbered up their tongues.
 One begrimed veteran of the monkey wretch climbs on the deck of his ship and summons his co-workers about him in the manner of a barker at a carnival. "Heahi Heahl Zhonti- lommei Le grond awksionl What am l bid for this ship, boys? Bounds on
 the ships wings as a native would beat a tom-tom.) Step up, gents. Aycoo tay! What am 1 bid? Fifty dollars ] am bid Fifty dollars. Do I hear 1 fifty-fifty? Fifty dollars am bid Do hear fifty, six-bits? Think of it gents, this plane was once owned by ] Weary Willie, sometimes known as der Kron Brintz. Fifty dollars. Eff
 "Aw, say" drawls one. who haG looked on from under a nearby ship l I'll give you a dime for it."
 i Sold To that gentleman for . 1 dime!" And the fight was on to gel
 the dime.
 1dt the burlesque on the ceremons 1 of decorating soldiers on the field fol 1 distinguished service was a scream 1 My dear. I whish you could have seer
Arizona republican., 1919-05-15
Don't Fail Next Saturday

# you don't do another thing next Saturday turn out to vote "Yes" on the road bond issue.
 There will be no other business that day half so important There have been few questions ever submitted to the voters of this county important as this one.
 Take your neishbor along with you to the polls. The chances are many to one that he will vote right if he goes.
 We think all voters understand how much good county roads system means to this county system of paved roads penetrating every settlement and on which people may travel every day of the year, rain or shine.
 Such system will the elimination of mud and dust and chuck holes. It will mean the bringing of all the people together
 1t will mean higher farm land values; smaller farms and more people, and greater products.
 These things refectng upon the towns will mean bigger and better and valuable city property.
 Another phase of it that has far received t tie attention is this: It will steady employ nent for hundreds of during the period of road construction.
 It is proposition that is wholly One.sded and bright sided There is no reasonable argument against it.
 It has single drawback
 Vote for the bonds next Saturday.
 See that your neighbor votes.
 And, above all, don't that the bonds will carry anyhow.
Arizona republican., 1919-05-15
Copu54Aed 1OlO ky hhe

pr. Certeis Offers Me Strange
 Temptation of Love
 Tony is accusing you! For the first time in all your silly useless life, Jane Lorimer, he is making you realize that you are quite a bit responsible for his unhappiness. At last he is actually blaming you for most of it,'
 This was the train of thought aroused in me by Tony's stern re- hinder that I knew very well how to change my existence under his roof from grave to gay.
 I accepted his rebuke meekly, for verify, deserved it. In all of my deal ings with Tony, I had always pro- ceeded like any vain coquette. l had taken his homage as my inalienable right; without a particle of conscience. I had let him make love to mo, and then 1 had married Bob. It is not hardness of heart which makes girls act soft is simply a curious feminine egotism which makes them kind to a kitten but cruel to a man, which per- mits them to handle mans love as l if it were no more valuable than the
Arizona republican., 1919-05-15
GRAB THIS PRIZE!
Tell US what you would do if you
 were in the drummer's shoes.

were in Sne CFuHlfiieI , SH0eS.
 During the final days of the Victory Loan campaign q slave in Phoenix financial circles was given, along with other slaves, a list of so-calleG hard nuts" to crack in the matter of ex- tracting bonds from them.
 Calling upon a certain merchant, whom we will designate as MT. B, he says. "Hr E, how about it; aren't you going to take any of these bonds ?"
 Nope says MT. B, I've bought all the bonds 1 can in former issues"
 "Well, you're no worse off than lots of the rest of us. We can't lie down simply because we happened to have bought bonds of the other issues, can we?"
 Perhaps not. But I'll tell you what I'll dc. If you can show me another man that has done as much as I have in buying Liberty bonds. I'll double his purchase in these Victory bonds"
 That seems fair enough. I'll start with myself. Now, outside of a few | personal belongings, all l have in the world is sS,000, and every cent of it is | in these government bonds." (The fig ures We quote are fictitious.) Man. says MT. B., T think I've got ] you beat All 1 had outside of my stock on hand here, was just s3000 and 1 put it into bonds. But I've got those | bonds mortgaged for every cent that I could get on them. What do you think of that?"
 Well" admitted the financial slave ''it looks as though you had me beat" And, true to his word, he made nc further attempt to sell Mir. B a bond sg., Ir4- a travelling salesman dropped into the financial slaves office and says, Say just sold Mir. B. down the street here big bill of goods and he has asked me credit for it. l wired the house anC they wired back to me to get hi. financial standing. Can you look it uI for me?"
 Brother" comes back the f. S., {" don't have to look him up. I tried tc sell B. some Victory bonds the othel day and this is what he told me" AnC slaves experience in trying to sell B the bonds.
 Now, then" concludes the slave you can take that information fc what it is worth. He told it to m,
 himself, and I'm not going to mak, any recommendation either for O against Mr. B."
 , The question before the house is
 Did the drummtr recommend to hi , house to grant Mir. B. the credit? I
 so, why not; and if not, why so? You 1 answers may be based on two assump tions: CD that MT. E. lied abou his bond purchases and the consequen 1 mortgaSing to the limit; @ that Nil } E. told the truth to the financial slave For the best answer to this problem , the Camels Back will give it's chanc
 for ride in the aeroplane when , comes back to Phoenix. Limit you , answer to 150 words and address it f { the editor of the CamePs Back.
Arizona republican., 1919-05-15
The Census In Phoenix

Word comes from Washington that the govern ment is organizing for the 1920 That is hint for Phoenix to be getting ready-sOmething it has never done before. So far as census figures might disclose this town has seemed to how big or how small it might be.
 In other census years a considerable proportion of our citizens have been away during the summer months the period within which the enumeration always takes place The proportion used be great CT than has been of years but nobody seemed to be much concerned about it.
 Some organization should be effected to keep track of our summer absentees so that they may be included in the enumeration An arrangement might be made by which list of them with all the official information required by the might be secured before their departure The organization should also be ready afford the enumerator all possible aid in his work.
 The enumeration in 1910 quite casual. ridicu- lously It found after the report had been sent in that whole addition had been omitted. That Brill which though not nearly as densely populated it is now. contained some 300 or 400 persons. That omission was corrected in supple mental census.
 But no effort was made to include the names of absentees for the summer ascertain what cits- who were here had been overlooked Family aiter 1arnly complained atterWard that 1t had been interviewed by enumerator had never seen one and knew only by remote hearsay that a census being taken
 The average town takes great interest in this matter and and then it's activity in the business of making a showing is little short of criminal Phoenix negligence hitherto has also been almost criminal
 We believe that we have population now of not less than 4oooo. At the of increase of the past we should easily have 50,OOO next year and if should that that figure is officially recorded.
Arizona republican., 1919-05-15
c. G. H.. Editor EDITORIAL
DEFEAT THE ROAD BoNosI

After mature consideration and study, the CameTs Back is unalterablv opposed to and sets itself adamantine- ly against the passage of the proposed road bond issue coming up before the voters of this county on Saturday next
 Our reasons are clear cut, and among them are the following:
 1. In point of view of inhab:tation by human beings, this neck of the desert is probably the oldest in the history of the L s. And seeing as how We have gotten along without cee-ment roads thus far, we guess we can get along without them the rest of our days. It's maybe true that some day we'll have to start toward civilization. but why start until we have to?
 ?. The proposed plans are not fair in the manner of distributing the pro- posed paving. Of course, we will ad- init that it would be physically impos- slble, where We propose to pave only a portion of the highways, to do the job without having opposition from those who live on streets that are not to be paved. So, let's wait until we can overcome all opposition by paving all of the highways at once. 3. A certain clique or gang will benefit by the proposed improvement On this point, we are frank to say that we never saw any public project put across by any city, county state, ol national government, but what some 1 party, gang, or faction got a lot O 1 benefit out of it. We realize that un. der our popular form of government { such result is inevitable But as Ions 1 as We are not in with the gang thi, 1 time, We are going to stave off tn, | improvement until we have a chanc,
 to get our finger in the swag. 1 i. We had a pet scheme about thi road plan but the other fellow beat u
 to it and so the entire proposition ha ] got to die by our vote.
 These arguments, we believe, are un 1 ansWerable.
Arizona republican., 1919-05-15
GOES TO STUDY ECLIPSE

NEW YORK, May 15. - Professor David Todd, director of the Amhersi collee astronomical observatory, sailed today for MontevideO, where he vii
 take observations of a solar eclipse or May 29, from a naval seaplane, at ar altitude of 10000 to 15,00O feet. Pro lessor Todd predicted that his plan would result in obtaining clearer pho tographs of an eclipse. than ever be- fore have been made before. S
Arizona republican., 1919-05-15

went on. T have watched you with great happiness in my heart when you thought me convenk0nally old. have l dreamed. I want to feel the sweetness of your presence in this house always Stay with me, Jeannel Stay like one | of those heroines in our most popular movies. stay as a wife in name only |"
 (T0 Be Continued)
Arizona republican., 1919-05-15
An Evil Situation

There is a. situation in this town that demands attention The police believe are doing all they can toward remedying it but they cannot do much without cooperation. For long time lot of boys from the age of 10 Il up have been drifting criminality. Burglaries have been frequent and Bicycle stealing has taken on the proportions of a Healthy industry. Some of the bovs have become
Arizona republican., 1919-05-15
DOES THIS GETUS
 A RAISE, CHARLEY?

kind lady writes us as follows. and on q post card so the business office can read it:
 Sirs: Please let me know when your Camers Back edition of Poetry for Spring is coming out. Wish to com mence a subscription then, with that number. Yours,
 L. T. O.
 R. F. D., Buckeye, Ariz. Will some constant reader tell the lady when it was that our spring poetry edition appeared? Never mind, my dear, you'll be in time to enjoy our big booster edition, coming out yurra soon. In the meantime, try your skill on the drummer's conun- drum, first floor above.
Arizona republican., 1919-05-15

It makes no difference what your wants may be you can have them sup piled by using and reading The Repub- ncan Classified Pages-Arizona's lead ing advertising medium.
Arizona republican., 1919-05-15
THURSDAY MORNING, MAY E, 1919

What we want is not learning but knowledge; that is the power to make learning answer its true end as a quickener of intelligence.
 Lowell.
Arizona republican., 1919-05-15
THE SCOTCH OF IT
(Punch.)

(Punch.) How was it you never let your mother know you'd won the V. C.?" Tt turn tae write"
Arizona republican., 1919-05-15

MEMORIES, MEMoRIEs9
 (Boston Transcrpt) T see they making shingles out of cement now.' Then recall my wish to be a boy again"
Arizona republican., 1919-05-15

When we've got some big ball club training here every spring, with a raft of sport writers sending daily stories back to their eastern sheets. the folks back home will begin to wake up to the fact that there are some things in Arizona besides copper mines. wobblies. cactus and deserts-the wicked movies
 to the contrary notwithstanding.
Arizona republican., 1919-05-15

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.
Arizona republican., 1919-05-15

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 life job of build ing it). a grand ee-luminated 'lectric clock in a majestic tower, and all that.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

Playmates Of The famous feline fam
ily--Felix Leo and Felix. just plain
pussy Cat. Felix Leo is one
awny Pershing." mannerly lion
cub. and he and his small tiger-pat-
termed friend arc the pets of Mrs.
Herbert Cole. Of Los Angeles.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-27

The only photograph made in this
country showing the mechanism of
the interior of the pilot house of the
R-34. whose recent historic visit
to America kept New York pho
tographers on the job twenty-four
hours a day. This glass fronted
navigating cabin occupies the fore
part of the forward sondola, while
just aft is the radio room. and be-
yond, the engine room. Three
other gondolas house the four other
motors. Ccvrt,v
Right-The famous and beautiful
Russian dancer, Madame Ihamar
karsavina, as the Scheherazade of
the Arabian Nights, in the sea-
son Of the Russian ballet being
held at the Alhambra, Londons
great variety theatre lr
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-06-28
ARE WE GOING TO DRUGS?

A learned commission which has been carrying on investl-
cations reports that we have a million drug-habit men in the
country of opium alone we use enough to give every adult
thirty-six doses a year, and as many of us dO not take the stun
others must take many more. The statute books are already
numbered with laws against the misuse OF drugs and those
who dispense them are under severe regulations, but the
regulations do not seem to be effective.
1t is, perhaps, not something new, although it is believed
by many that the high prices charged for alcoholic liquors, or
the prohibition of them, has stimulated these habits. They
believe that in f%orbidding one thing we are driving the weak
and the depraved into other evils. We may take away from
men what is not good for them, but if we do not remake them
at the same time, we are apt to drive them into other excesses.
And beer is mild compared with opium.
The hope is that in time the alcoholic appettes will be so
obliterated that it will not be necessary to crafty them with
drugs. But that is an ideal. The chances are in favor of the
conclusion that we shall not all become so perfected in
appetites or in morals as to make such a state of existence
possible. The human race is not going to reach perfection by
any such leaps and bounds. Some of the world events rather
convince us that we are not going ahead very fast, if at all.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-06-28
DEpORTING B~OLsHEvIsTs

Aliens of the Bolshevist class who distribute pamphlets in
which the destruction of property is advocated and who hope
10 escape deportation by appealing to the courts, are likely to
be disappointed. Dismissal of seven writs of habeas corpus
by a federal court in New York the other day is another step
toward Kidding the country of undesirable foreigners.
The seven prisoners had been sentenced to deportation
after it had been proved that they had distributed propaganda
on sabotage along the Pacific coast. OF course, they preferred
to STAY i'm this country and continue their un-Amerlcan WORK,
but they lost their case for the simple reason that the law and
the facts were against them.
Judge Hands concise summary is charged with common
sense. He declares that members of the l. w. w. who dis
tribute certain i~ncendiary literature for the purpose OF
familiarizing prospective members with the doctrines and
spirit of those publications, are open to a charge OF advocating
or teaching the destruction of property" He goes on:
"These publications contain limitations that
destructive sabotage may be desirable and useful.
The possession for the purpose of distribution or the
distribution of such literature by an alien is some
evidence of teaching the destruction of property upon
which the commissioner of labor may make a finding
against him which no court has a right to disturb.
This decision simplifies the work of dealing with the
conscientious plotters who make a specially of melting others
to destroy property with fire or dynamite. Dismissal OF the
writs should encourage public officials to round up the an
archists and others not in sympathy with the American form
of government and send them across the Atlantic.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-06-28
STRAW VOTING

Not long ago an Indiana newspaper, the Fort wayne
News, took a straw vote to determine the trend OF sentiment
regarding the presidency. On the republican slde uenerai
Wood polled the largest number of votes, with ex-Justce
Hughes second and a long list of other possibilities, tralihS
off with Mr.. Taft. whose followers were numerlcal! neg
ligible. .
Straw votes are apt to be of little value and after oil Oh
lille interest. but the Indiana result is practically paralleleu
bv a canvas lust made in West Virginia, where twenty-one
of the fifty-five republican county committee chalrmen nave
replied to the following question:
How many voters, to your personal knOWleuSe'
favor Major General Leonard Wood as the repubh-
can candidate for president? How many favor Sena-
tor Warren L. Harding of Ohio? How many FAVOR
Representative Simeon ID. Fess of Ohio? How many
favor Justice Charles f. Hughes of New YORK! are
there others favored in your county? II SO, VINO"
The reports give these results: Wood, 169; Hughes, oo9'
Harding. 225: Tess, q; Pershing, 60; Knox, :; laft, 10
Sutherland, 4.
Obviously the form of the question favored General WOOD.
Obviously. also. if other names had been definitely lncluueu
in the queries a proportionately wider distribution III ue
answers would have been invited. But even so, three facts are
indicated by these Indiana and West Virginia pols-hat
General Wood has many admirers, that Mr.. Hughes sun has
a strong support, and that X-President Taft is distinctly out
Of the running.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-06-28
A BUDGET SYSTEM

The country expects the present congress. before II SETS
10 work on the appropriation bills for the next fiscal year 10
establish a budget system. Thai, it is unnecessary TO say,
would be instantly recognized and applauded as constructive
craftsmanship of practical value. 1t has, indeed, now become
vital to the governments, and the countrys interest that the
budget plan. which has been talked about for seven or eight
years, should be inaugurated.
Congress may take the financial system employed in most
ether countries as a model, and while it cannot follow the
usual method of producing a budget it should not be a matter
OF great difficulty to originate one adapted to our form OF
government.
The British system affords an admirable example OF WHAT
a budget should be. The ordinary British citizen can grasp ms
governments financial situation by a glance at the document
the ministry submits annually to the house of commons. lie
can see where every pound of income is to come from, ana Tor
what purpose it is to be spent. There may be some additions
or subtraction in both accounts before the budget is adopted
by parliament, but>it always goes through substantially as
prepared.
The exemplary smoohness of this procedure is largely
due to the fact that a British ministry is really an executive
committee of the parliamentary majority. Under our system,
the ministry" the administration, is a body wholly distinct
from congress. 1t may submit its needs, but it has no control
over congress for getting them supplied. Congress, indie
pendently of the administration, supplies the treasury, and the
house of representatives initiates all appropriations.
through congress, with the executive authority participating
only i'm a consulant capacity. And q main consideration is
that, after the budget is made up, it shall be safeguarded from
being reduced to a scrap of paper by the log-rolling methods
which, VIGOROUSLY, account for much of the swelling OF eXpen-
ditures after the appropriation committees have performed
their work.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-06-28
A BRISK COMMENCEMENT TALK

In his address at Syracuse university last week, Colonel
George Harvey. editor of the North American Review, made
point after point against the present draft of the league of
nations covenant.
Are we ready as a people to surrender our sovereignty to
foreign control?
Have we any right to do so?
Is there any more hope for world peace i'll "a conglomera-
ton of far flung states, kingdoms, principalities and colonies
such as has been conjured up at Paris than there is in that
great free people united in an imperishable, independent
republic and ready to take its part against an aggressive and
INSCRIPTIONS government. in the future as it has in the war
just closed?
Colonel Harvey denies the right of ANY man, be he pri-
yate Dedagogue or president" to assert, as Mr.. Wilson has
done, that he voices the judgment of the American people.
But does Mr.. Wilson still think himself the one accredited
spokesman for his hundred million feloW-cOuntrymen? Has
he not heard the swelling volume of dissent on this side of
the ocean? Can he not read the handwriting on the wall?