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The Coconino sun., 1920-09-24
D'JA EVER MEET

The bird who always interrupts you with: "Yeah, there wuz guy in my company" ct cetera. ct cet- era?
 The pinhead who sports his Victory Medal on the lapel of his coat?
 The boob who says: "Hell, you wasn't in tn Army, you was in the o. M. c. liar, har, harp?
 The ex-loot who can never recall dates of battles in which he claims to have participated.
 The gent who invariably starts a sentence with: "I'll tell tn sweet world I wuz-" likewise, ct cetera, ct cetera?
 The B. Ser who used to invite his captain to make frequent trips to a warmer climate?
 But of course you have!
The Coconino sun., 1920-09-24
IN DAYS OF TORE
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(Taken from The Coconino Sun files
 of September 4, 1886).
 J. N. Berry opened his new saloon at Rogers Lake Monday night. There are about fifty men employed at the sawmill at Rogers lake,.
 A. w. Kinsey has bought half interest in Wan. Woods ranch in Chino valley.
 Lyman T. Drum was in from Stoneman's lake. He has almost re- covered from the wounds inflicted upon him at Camp Verde by the Car rolls, father and son.
 The music at the San Juan saloon the last few nights is being enjoyed by large crowds.
 Deputy Sheriff John w. Francis re- turned home this week from a trip to the northern part of the county.
 R. H. Cameron, one of our prosper ous sheepmen, left this week to visit the old folks in the state of Maine.
 Sandy" Donahue has opened up the Mineral Belt saloon.
The Coconino sun., 1920-09-24
WHENCE THE RATTLE CAME.

A colored truck driver dismounted near cross road, but left his engine running. There was some sort of de- lay in the column and he stood for a few minutes by the side of his ma chine. Presently an M. T. c. officer strode up the road. In the almost total darkness he thought he detected a faulty engine.
 Where's the driver of this truck ?" he demanded.
 "Heah ah is, sur," responded that individual.
 "Isn't that your engine knocking 2" asked the officer.
 "No, sah," came the answer, "dat's nah knees!"
The Coconino sun., 1920-09-24
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A RETURNED COwPUNCHER [
 TO HIS HORSE. {

. Old hoss, since last I rode you through the sand . To Pecos Town and swapped my flappin' chaps
 . For O. D. pants and signed my . self a hand
 + To help roundup those Ger . man yaps, I've rode heap. . A snortin' train, a truck, then on . the sea,
 . A rollin', pitchin', glidin', sea- . sick boat,
 . Till subs corraled our ship and we
 . All rode our rafts and tried to keep af1oat
 * On the roarin' deep.
 . Destroyers salvaged us to France . and then,
 . Packed tight in "40 hommes ct . 8 chevaux"
 . Like crowded cattle in a brand- ing pen,
 . We rode to where the lives of UIdNC HIGH SO
 . To eternal sleep. . And after that I rode on motor . bikes,
 . In Fords and once an amub- . lance. A Tank . Would often drag his dogs on . weary hikes and, later on, . a plane or creepin' tank t Would be his hoss. . On leave, l rode the screechin' . trolley up to Grasse. . The cable car they called "fun- . iculaire," . Climbed mountain steeps to old . La Turbie's pass, . Then down again to Monte Car . To, where Blue sea waves toss. . But now Pm back again I'll say . for mine:> . I've rode from where the smoke . of death up-curled . To where I must admit the rid . in's fine, . But, say! There's no good rid . in in the world . Like ridin' you, old hoss! . -S. OMAR BAKER, in Stars . and Stripes.
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The Coconino sun., 1920-09-24
Ne,us of Soldiers and Sailors
EASY MARKS.

Zeke Geehaw (who has been spend- ing week in the city): "Talk about your easy marks. Us rubes ain't in it with them there teown people,"
 Silas Squashneck: "Did you sell 'em any gold bricks, Zeke 2"
 Zeke: "Naw, I didn't, but 1 seed a feller peddlin' artificial ice-hed the sign right on his wagon-an'blamed if the chumps didn't buy it for the real thing, by grass"
The Coconino sun., 1920-09-24
SCIENTIFIC STUFF.

First Buck: "Wot's the idea of the book on ventriloquism 2"
 Second Buck: q want to stay in bed after the reveille and yell 'here' from my bunk when the sergeant calls my name out in front of the bar racks"
The Coconino sun., 1920-09-24
ALWAYS WITH us.

London.--What is the oldest q. O. U." known to historians? Officials of the Assyrian and Egyption depart ment say slate tablets recording trad ing transactions in their possession go back to 2500 B. c. They have Baby. lonian bills more than 4000 years old.
The Coconino sun., 1920-09-24
AND THEN TT HAPPENED.

The company commander was hav- ing a clothing inspection and Pvt. Bucks had been checked up to the satisfaction of the c. c.
 Are you sure that all these clothes have buttons on them?" asked the c. C.
 "No, sir" said Pvt. Buck, "there ain't none on the socks nor the wrap ieggins."
The Coconino sun., 1920-09-24

glarized the H. E. Wooton hardware
 store. Charles Long, fireman, who accompanied Shepperd, was shot through the left arm. The Mexicans escaped, but dropped sack contain
The Coconino sun., 1920-09-24
THE AMERICAN PLAN

French Waiter: (Which side of the table does Monsieur desire to be seat ed on?"
 American: "If it's all the same to you, Frenchy, I'll take chair"
The Coconino sun., 1920-09-24
WOULD HAVE REUNION
 OF 15Sth REGIMENT


 A movement is being instituted by members of the 16Sth Infantry which is Arizona's own, and which comport- ed itself so laudibly in the Mexican border wars, and later with the Am erican expeditionary forces in France, to have big reunion in Phoenig dur ing fair week, November 8-13. Ex- soldiers believe the occasion to be a most suspicious one for such gath ering, for more ex-seivice men are likely to congregate at that time in one place than on any other occasion during the year.
 Mrs. Wendell Phillips of New York at the fourth inter-allied conference to study questions affecting war-dis- abled which meets in Brussels, Bel gium, on Sept. 19. Mrs. Phillips was wounded while serving with the am- bulance forces in France. She has been decorated by the French govern ment and is the only woman ever rec commended to receive the Congression- al Medal of Honor, the highest re- ward for valor in the gift of the United States.
 The Massachusetts department has taken steps to prosecute imposters who are wearing American Legion emblems to which they have no right. The state legislature has passed law under which such prosecutions may be conducted.
 What has the Legion for the. ex- service man? Strange as it may seem, the question sometimes is still asked. We'll, during the ten months past the Legion, through its service division at national headquarters has obtained for ex-service men more than s1,250,000 due on claims. Ma tional headquarters handles only complicated cases. It is estimated that claims aggregating $7,000,000 have been settled by service officers of the various state departments.
 The Legion in Ohio recently has been requested to nominate three candidates for the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis.
 Francis E. Drake, commander of the department of France, American Legion, has wired national headquar- ters that many Legionnaires, appar- ently deluded through misleading ad- vertisements, are arriving in France from the United States, expecting to find lucrative employment. He re- comments That the Legion advise members of the organization that no construction or other firms in France are in need of additional employees.
 The Concentrated Order of the Wa fampoofah, for Legion members only, has been formed by Phillips, Elliott, and Hodges Post of Saginaw, Mich. The order is to consist of three de- grees of "heartrending initiation" An initiation was staged at the State convention.
 The American Legion welcomes American Indians to full membership in spite of the fact they are not el- igible to the full privileges of citizen ship and efforts are under way to form posts of Indian ex-service men at reservations and schools through out the country. A recent ruling of the legal division of national head quarters of the Legion settled the status of aborigine ex-service men, so far as the veterans organization is concerned.
 Posts of the American Legion formed in this and foreign countries totalled 9709 up to August 27, re- port from national headquarters shows. Fifteen Legion posts and 13 women's auxiliary posts were formed in the week August 20, 27.
 ALWAYS WITH US.
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The Coconino sun., 1920-09-24
THERE'S NO USE.

q wonder if prohibition will drive some of the old topers to despera- tion?"
 Whats the use of desperation :? There's no drink for it to drive lem to!" eU
The Coconino sun., 1920-09-24

Posts of the American Legion formed in this and foreign countries totalled 9709 up to August 27, a re- port from national headquarters shows. Fifteen Legion posts and 13 women's auxiliary posts were formed in the week August 20, 27.
The Coconino sun., 1920-09-24
KILLED AT BIsBEE.

A. E. Shepperd, constable of Bisbee, was shot and killed at Bisbee last week by two Mexicans whom he was attempting to arrest for having bur-
The Coconino sun., 1920-09-24

HAD TO COME TO IT AT LAST.
 Khartoum, an elephant in the Bronx zoo, drinks S6 gallons of water at one time.
The Coconino sun., 1920-09-24

That's where The Sun shines-job printing.
The Coconino sun., 1920-09-24

ing revolvers they had stolen from the store.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-25
Hoover as Vice-President

A number Of our readers are writ
ing to suggest that Mr.. Hoover be
nominated for Vice President on
the Republican ticket with General
Wood. We have much sympathy
with a proposal that would fill the
Vice Presidency with a figure of
Mr.. Hoover's ability. This office
has been too often the resting place
of second-rate men chosen for every
other reason than their fitness to
step into the White House.
But in Mr.. Hoover's case there
are special considerations which we
think should control. We can con-
ceive of no Republican President
not a reactionary or a little Amer
lean who would not be glad to have
Mr.. Hoover in his Cabinet in
post of high responsibility. AS
Secretary of Commerce, for example,
Mr.. Hoover could do work for his
country of the greatest value; work
too, for which his experience pecu-
liarly fits him. 1t is largely because
the Republican party has such men
as Mr.. Hoover available for Cabinet
posts that the country is so plainly
resolved to insist upon change of
party at Washington.
There cannot be too much dis
cussion of the Fice-Presidency. The
Chicago convention owes an obliga-
ton to the whole country to name a
first rate man for the post. We
nope, however, that it will be possible
to keep Mr.. Hoover available for
such Cabinet work as the whole
country would be glad to see him
undertake.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-25

ing the railroads for the benefit Of
the railroad workers. Now he goes
little further. He wants to take
over control of credit capital and
have it administered by a political
commission. That would probably
be the end of credit capital. But
how is Mr.. Gompers going to find
Republican or Democratic candidates
for Congress who will make them
selves eligible for Endorsement by
rejecting their own party platforms
and accepting this credit capital
plank? How many Republican and
Democratic candidates for Congress
will promise to support the Plumb
plan?
Herein lies the logical absurdity
of the Gompers plan of campaign.
He wants to control votes in Con-
gress. But he SHES at trying to
elect candidates who believe enough
in his policies to advocate them
directly and to cut loose from all
other party associations.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-25
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: approve of your platform
plank contest and think you did good
work.
If now you could get the public to
understand how important it is to re-
member to watch and see that the
President and his party carry out, or
at least really try to carry out. the
platform you will do another big thing.
/ ask you, is it not so that the public
pays little attention to platform en-
forcement? Has it not been stated that
platforms are made to be broken"
Has not the present incumbent of the
Office been notorious at this work
And, to be honest, have not Republican
Presidents been anything but careful
IN carrying out the platforms after
they were once safe in the White
House?
The. American people have got in a
very bad habit of electing a man with
out regard to whether he sticks to his
pledge or not, and the same applies
to a party. F.
New York, May 20, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-25
Parks and Fairgrounds
Problems Should be SoIved
AS q Whole
To the Editor of The Tribune.

% the EdltOr OF The Tribune
Sir: The substance of General VIM
gates letter on the proposed Rice Me-
mortal in to-day's Tribune is that play
grounds are good things in themselves,
badly needed in New York City, and
that there is plenty of land in Pelham
Bay Park. AS far as the writer knows
nobody denies these things
But what General Wingate and many
others ignore is that the Rice Memorial
committee is debating the site over the
head and contrary to the judgment of
The Park Commissioner; that the COM
mittee is getting for $1,000 300 surely
a cheap rate for immortality not only
kind to the late Mr.. Rice, but also a
tract of public land to put it on of
which the value cannot be computed,
for the worth of park lands cannot be
computed at mere real estate rates;
that such encouragement of private
enterprise on park property is a most
dangerous precedent (to which peopie
all over the country are beginning to
awake(, menacing the integrity of the
parks and their best uses to the people.
If the Rice Memorial committee
wishes to present a gift to the city it
should include in the gift a place to put
1t. Or, if the Park Board is willing TO
admit it to a public park, the site
should be selected by the Park Board
Fifty acres or so does not seem much
in Pelham Bay Park. but suppose an
other fifty acres is taken for some other
scheme next year, and so on, what be-
comes of the park in fifty or one hum
dred years? Surely we are looking for
ward to the park needs of the future
as well as the present, those of our
children as well as of ourselves.
1t surely ought to be clear that the
way to handle the park and playground
problems of a city is not in spots, but
as a whole, so that all the parts are
correlated for the greatest good of tFe
greatest number. In view of the per-
slstent tendency to make all kinds of
(u5eally well intentioned) inroads Oh
the tark', public {" mon viii, sooner
or later, demand sons. form of legisla-
ton limiting definitely the uses and
msuses Of park lands and the things to
be put in them. This viii be the only
way in which, in the long run, the
people will be able to preserve their
parks. CITIZEN.
New York. Nav 20. 1920
New-York tribune., 1920-05-25
Interest Rate Controls
Builders Cannot Get Money! TO
Finance Mem Worb


10 the Editor of The Tribune
sir: most important item affecting
new apartment building is the MORTGAGE
interest rate. Contrary to general he
lief, there is in the market approxi-
mately all the money which is de-
manded on mortgage, but it demands 6
per cent for such loans as few wears
ago were to be had at a 4 per cent
rate "A proportionate rate for 5 per
cent money Of that time would now be
per cent, which, of course, is barred
by the usury law.
The peculiar character Of a per
cent loan was that it was small as
compared with the value of the propertv
IL IS Tor this reason that the present
3 per cent money cannot be used by the
average builder. The loan is too small
to permit him to operate.
AS rule, the builder is not man
of much capital. He buys lots in dull
times, and when he improves them he
borrows substantially the whole amount
of the cost of the building. Being de-
barred from borrowing at a rate which
would command a sufficient sum to put
up his building, he is necessarily idle.
1t is question whether even 7 per
cent would secure this money. United
States bonds which formerly sold at a
figure which netted less than 3 per cent
are now selling at figures which net
over 6 per cent. 1t would seem, there
fore, that per cent would be a rate
which would bring out the money for
merly available for building operations
Ii 1t is necessary to pay per cent
for the mere use Of the money, no part
of the principal of the loan being in
much danger of being lost, it only
throws into higher relief the absurdity
OF limiting the owner of the building to
a pretended 10 per cent net return.
which, when depreciation was consid
cred, would reduce him to rate of al
legged profit which would be less than
he could obtain on a safe mortgage in
vestment without the labor or risk of
ownership.
The only possible step toward
campaign of rebuilding at the present
time, so far as interest rates are con-
cerned, will be the induccment of cor
porate building assisted by loans bear
ing high interest rate, and in that
connection it must be noted that the
building when complete is empty and
may be rented at sufficiently high rates
to return a satisfactory profit to the
owner above depreciation and high car
rying charges.
CHARLES E. MANIERRE.
New York, May II, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-25
The Gompers Plan

Mr.. Gompers continues to pursue
his ingenious policy of ending either
Republican or Democratic control of
Congress by electing Republican and
Democratic Senators and Repre-
sentatives who will accept, on the
side, Gompers program. This NAV
be a labor-saving method, and in
Mr.. Gompers's eyes it may have the
merit of avoiding direct appeal to
the voters to approve the Gompers
theories.
The chief of the American Feder-
alton Of Labor denounces the two
major parties in Congress for mis-
governing the country and oppress
ing labor. The people who labor are
IN vast majority in the United
States. If they unite they can con-
troll Congress and write their own
ideas into legislation. But Mr..
Gompers knows as we'll as anybody
else that his political conceptions
are not in harmony with those of a
majority of the voters, or even with
those of a plurality. Otherwise he
would organize labor party here.
as the labor leaders in other coun-
tries have done, and accept the re-
sponsibility which goes with organ
lied political activity. His plan in
stead is to conduct a guerrilla war
fare against individual representa-
tlves of other parties, pledging nom
labor party Congressman to make
him this or that concession, while
continuing one or other of the old
parties in control of Congress and
OF the vast powers of the Executive.
Such bushwhacking strategy
does not appeal to all of Mr..
Gompers's followers. The Central
Federation of Labor of this CITY re-
Gently Joined the movement for the
creation of a separate labor party.
1t has now been forced to back track.
But there are many elements in the
American Federation which still be-
lieve in straight-out fight for the
principles for which an independent
labor party would stand
In his platform" for infiltration
into the ranks of the old parties
the Federation chieftain includes
this demand:
Fourth - The Congress of the
United States will do we'll to give
immediate and effective considera-
tion to the proposal of the American
labor movement, that control of
credit capital be taken from private
financiers and placed in the hands
OF public trust, to be administered
upon principles voluntary and CO.
operative in character"
Mr.. Gompers supported the Plumb
plan for taking over and operat-
New-York tribune., 1920-05-25
ness" and was so laxly watched that
he got away with ridiculous ease.

ness" and was so laxly watched that
he got away with ridiculous ease.
That he should never have been
allowed to leave Fort Jay at all is
plain. What influences could have
been brought to bear to grant him
this unusual privilege? Why, in
view of his record as shrewd
and daring adventurer, was he so
carelessly guarded? His purpose in
asking for temporary liberty ought
to have been suspected from the
first. The two sergeants who had
charge of him may have been per-
fectly honest, but their conduct can
be described only as stupid. Even
after he had got away no prompt
alarm was given. The sergeants
were apparently too dazed to act,
and his friends took their time in
notifying the police. His escape
may not have been the result of a
deliberate conspiracy, but it could
hardly have been better managed
had that been the case.
Federal justice thus defed should
be swift in punishment. The war de-
veloped no more fragrant case than
Bergdoll's. Yet from the first the
War Department pursued a half
hearted course. Secretary Baker
has been amazingly lenient to slack
ers, dodgers, conscientious objectors
and pacifsts of every description.
But this Bergdoll scandal is rank
and cries to heaven. Explanations
and excuses are futile. Bergdoll must
be found and sent back to Fort Jay
with an added sentence commen-
surate with his latest offense.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-25
What Germany Agreed to PAY

Popular discussion of the repara-
ton due from Germany is hindered
by vague understanding of the
terms Of the treaty.
What does the treaty, in point of
fact, provide? In Article 231 Ger
many accepts responsibility for
causing all the loss and damage"
to which the Allies were subjected
as a consequence Of the war. Recog-
nzing Germany's inability to make
full payment, the Allies required her
specifically (Article 1922 to make
compensation for all damage done
to the Allied civilian population and
to civilian property by aggression
by land, by sea and from the air,
and for all damages defined in An
mex l to the reparation section. In
addition Germany agreed to REIN.
burse the sums loaned by the other
Allies to Belgium.
Annex l contains ten categories
of damage. Most Of them cover in
identification of civilians. One re-
qulred Germany to pay all pensions
to Allied soldiers and sailors mutt
lated, wounded, sick or invalided.
and to their dependents. Two COW
cred the cost of Allied relief to pris
oners of war and damages to those
Allied prisoners who suffered mis-
treatment.
Estimates naturally differ as to
the total of the claims arising under
these ten categories. 1t may exceed
,000,000,000. 1t can hardly be
less than S3O,o0o,OOo, 900. The treaty
directs the Reparations Commission
to fix the total and communicate it to
Germany on or before May l, 1921.
After the total is determined the
commission may modify the form of
payments, but may not "cancel any
part except with the specific author
ity of the several governments rep
resented" A unanimous vote by the
commission is required on questions
involving "the cancellation of the
whole or any part of the debt or
obligation of Germany"
With regard to the manner of paw
ment, Germany has promised to ten
der during 1919, 1920 and the first
four months of 1921 the equivalent
of 20,OoO,000,000 gold ntarks-s5,-
0oO,000,000. She also has agreed to
issue gold-bearing bonds to the
amount of 40,000,Oo0, 900 marks
S10,o00,000,0o0. In addition, she is
bound to undertake to issue another
4o,ooo,oo0,oo0 in bonds (s1o,ooo,-
ooO,o00) when, but not until, the
commission is satisfied that she can
meet interest and sinking fund obli-
cations on such an issue. This is
the provision, apparently, which has
been relied on by some American
representatives at Paris, who con-