Arizona republican., 1919-06-12


 hotel loungers. natives. and drum
 mers gathered around him, taking
 it all in.
 MT. Zone-Yeah, as 1 was saying. you fellers don't know what it Is to be pioneer in the great So'west, like We in Arizona. A wild, rugged country where we find natur in her prime and where We are hewing the way for civiliza- tion
 First Listener - Pretty dry down there and lots of deserts. ain't it?
 NIT. Z.-Deserts? We'll, I should say. We got moe deserts there than New Jersey has mosquitoes. And speaking of mosquitos, we got some down there that will eat up your baby if you leave it outside to sleep without protection. And the only thing that saves us from the mosquitos is our sand storms. And, say, boy. but we have some sand storms in Arizona. Why. that stuff you read about sand storms on the Sahara amt a thing compared to our sand storms. They come Tn off the deserts with whoop and a roar that's enough to scare you to death. In a second, the place will be black as night with tons of sand swhishing down the streets and LI6 WHO SflIlehiLS liiiOuSH lfIe e1il oiiO even if you close the doors and win dows the stuff comes right in on you I know a friend of mine who was sit ting down to dinner one evening-they generally come in the evening-and be- fore he could get the winders shet the dishes were piled full of sand and the food was spoiled and everything, and my friend lost a good chance to sell his place because he was just then nav ing a prospective buyer to the house for dinner.
 Second Listener-And they's lots of trantlers and scorpeenS and crUcka- diles and such down there, ain't there? MT. Z.-Well, was just going to say that although these sandstorms are death on the skeeters. you can go out after one of these storms ana take a broom and sweep up peck of trantlers and scorpeens off your front porch. You see, they get blown in on us from the desert during one of these storms, and it rains them on us like it rains worms in Illinois or Missouri. Third Listener-How do yoT get rid of them? They like the heat, don't they?
 l MT. Z.-That's easy. Of course. you've i heard that these reptiles we have down 1 lLcit Int lhS n6ols UUt ltll gOu. .ottAtss when you say heat, you have no idea of heat until you feel it in Arizona | Why, it gets so hot down there that even these reptiles is made half un- l conscious from lying in the sun. They sorta get their brains baked and theT 1 it's easy to pick them up aL,l knocl i them on the head. We have cans or the street corners in which we pu
 those that we pick up and kill AnC | it gets so hot in our valley that tht | river boils and we can't go swimming
 until about midnight, when it begins tt cool off. Well, I gotta be going to bed I see the thermometer says S5 degree. and so I'm beginning to feel frost-bit tenA Ta-ta. Gents.
 SCENE II.
 News room of the Arizona C'ac-
 tus, a daily paper. Mir. Arie Zone
 sitting at the reporters desk dIc- tating a story of his trip through
 the east.
 Il Mir Z.-And you can say for me
 young man. that MT. Zola urges mos
 sincerely again that something be odn
 by the people of our community, an
 the entire state for that matter, to sto, l this slanderous advertising of our erea commonwealth by the novel writers an 1 llION le ptOple III Lue tdSl w ny, l Nea , boiling over with anger in theater i
 the east where they showed film sup } posed to be acted in Arizona. And tn ) only impression you could get vas tb9 this place is nothing put dust, desert! 5 alkali, gila monsters and scorpions. It 7 fright, and our chambers of com , merce and merchants clubs should ge 2 busy right away with the right kin
 of advertising boosting the state an putting the truth before the people
 the east. If we don't, we are lost. To
 can say all that for me. It's a frigf ; the lies they tell about usi -O--
 Perhaps it hasn't dawned on you, bl this is the Booster edition of u e Camels Back.
 T Take a copy of this issue and wra e it up and mail it to some friend who l, longing to come out to Arizona ar e make his home. He won't hesita s much longer.
 t Coming soon--our Small Town" ed
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