The Coconino sun., 1920-01-02

! Goodbye, 1919. Hello 1920. Did Santa Claus scare your goat out of the f yard New Years eve? We'll, let's forget the things we didn't like Y about last year and start over. Q Tear off the old leaf and write it 1920 and . feel that you are nineteen and twenty
 
 It begins to look as though some one had been monkeying with the law of supply and demand
 Mildewed Mildred says she thinks it is foolish b to save now when wages are so high and money V so inexpensive il Mildewed Mildred says she thinks the proph- : ecy that the world was coming to an end Decem- Q Der 17th, was greatly exaggerated 3 It was the night before Christmas, and all f was still as a mouse-but the U. $. marshal found it on account of the moonshine. f
 -o Attorney General Palmer says the raise n living costs have halted. Hope they mark time until they can be given Gas you were"
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 President Wilson has told the railroad people to take their old railroads back after March 1st Seems as though he should have made the date April 1st.
 There won't be as much swearing this year as there was last year. There will be no use swearing off when Uncle Sam has already done it for you.
 U. s. Marshal Joe Dillon says his office is pick ing up on an average of one "moonshine" still per day. That should be sufficient to keep him in good spirits. e Former Ambassador Girard has kindly con- { sented not to get in Wilson's way if he wants to ! run for the presidency again. Kind as the fly on f the oxs horn.
 Professor Garfield suddenly realized that one !. professor on the administration faculty was en- , tirey sufficient, when they marked his papers ; minus" he dug out Scientists claim that the world will commence , to grow cold twelve million years from now. { Anyhow this is something for Phoenix and 7 Yuma to look forward to next summer. "Legionares never did sound very good when $ members of the American Legion are spoken of t We would suggest "Am Legs"-for they were some legs. They were 'legs" for U S. all.
 We don't care how much money is spent in , deporting this year. It will be cheap at that. | Also it will be mainly taxed against the financial bOSheVlkS who caused most or the breed IO grow. Colonel William Jennings Bryan has come t into his own. At last 16 dollars will buy dol lars worth of food. Aside from that there are sixteen people to one who fail to appreciate the great democratic privilege.
 -O When the railroads are turned back to own CTS the U. s. will have lost close to $700,000,0OO in trying to run them. The people will have lost l a much greater sum by reason of higher rates, luxury taxes and lack of service.
 "The strong boxes of the wise hold the suck CTS bonds," sagely says the Phoenix Messenger. It is true but it was ever thus. Too many peo- ple want theirs right now and others would rather take fifty to one shot than play safe.
 President Wilson should be thankful that Franklin K. Lane did not resign until after Thanksgiving day While Franklin is no long, lean Lane he was secretary of the interior-and all old hands say that the "interior" is what the boys fight on.
 Newspapers always being accused of < "writing up' or "writing down" things-The Suns sole ambition is to "write about" things just as near as possible as they happen. The only things that we like to happen is happy things. News is plucked on the wing, as it were, but many tail-feathers get mixed in.
 
 There were several hundred deaths reported throughout the United States Christmas week all caused by people who endeavored to induce good cheer by selling wood alcohol as bever- o0o Tho condition of mind Of some neOnlp can |