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Arizona republican., 1920-12-31

people right between the eyes. It of fends their estimation of the average huma. But the average human IS, after all. nothing more nor less than just the average human He is selfish from his shoes up. And once you give him a nice new concrete highway of his own to rollick around on, he IS prone to forget you. three, five, seven or fifteen miles away, pumping along on the old dirt road that Was left off the paving program until we complete half of the projeot"
 You Can't Get Around
 This fundamental principle of sell fishness that will govern the outcome of an election for additional bonds after half the project is paved is as sound as human nature itself. It is in herent in most of us. It cannot be argued away with words; it cannot be ruled away by courts; it is part of life itself It expresses itself through the individual, the state and the nation. It seizes every advantage it can grasp.
 The only appeal it will listen to is g selfish appeal. And to ask a man to help pay for paving your road when it will not bring any direct beneeSs tE him is to ask him to do an act that is the antistesis of selfishness.
 1 That this argument is sound is dem onstrated by what is going on in one community this very day. The tax 1 payers of this community were rather indifferent to the bonds being voted on l today. The indifference arose from a belief that the particular road they are 1 interested in would not be left off the paving program in the event of the de-
Arizona republican., 1920-12-31
Human Is A Hun1an And His Motives Are Selfish

feat of the new bonds. Upon receiy- ing authoritative assurance that thein road would have obe cut out of the program in the event of defeat of the bonds, these indifferent taxpayers have bestirred themselves to feverish action and are bringing out all the favorable votes in the district
 Experience Teaches
 They know from experience that be- cause of the seIfishness of the average lnKfsKsls $ z'ebf fgyosent (ai-N-. .nnaez human, they could not afford to gamble paved two years hence through the as sistance of those who would by that time have their paved roads.
 And when you get down to real facts in hand. no community knows for sure just what portion of paved roads it will get should the highway commission have to cut the original program by 50 per cent.
 What You Will Do
 You who vote against these bonds today must do so in the fact of the fact that you will be placing a formidable obstacle to further road building in this county for years to come. The tax payers who will be deprived of their road in the retrenching process will be deprived of them not for a year, or two years. or three years-but for more years than even the most bitter oppon- ent to the bonds dares to hope for.
 It is this formidable fact taat makes the situation today so serious. It is for this reason that if you want your road paved you must vote Yes today or lose the chance for years to come.
Arizona republican., 1920-12-31
WHY Nor2

Abolition of the electoral college;" the names of presidential and vice presidential candidates only printed on the ballot where few hundred voters vote for president and vice president abolition of party conventions; chance nominees other than those approved by politicans-such is the proposal for change in the organic law of the nation which will be pressed by Senator George v Norris of Ne braska.
 In all but name-and expense-the electoral college IS dead letter far as its original if tention is concerned The original plan of the fath CTS of the constitution contemplated that the people in each state should choose number of wise and farsighted men who in turn would get together and Tn their wisdom pick out who would make the best president Thes thing didn't work Political parties came along and seized the machinery so eIa- boratey set up and used it for their own purpose Now scarcely voter realizes that he or she is vot- ing for presidential electors"
 But though the machinery is ineffectiv-e i, oar ryng out it's original purpose, it is effective in giv ing political conventions political bosses an op portunity to exclude from possibility of running Tor president anybody the of political convention.
 Norris plan of abolishing the electoral collsge allowing man to for president by petition of reasonable number of voters. and havfne. votere vote directly for their choice president and vice president is worth careful consideration
 The thory that the further removed .aver, ment IS from the people the better it is is n boI shevik theory unfitted for America. Electinr cleo tors who in turn elect, is good democratic Ar,r ican practice.
Arizona republican., 1920-12-31
New York Today
By HERBERT COREY


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Arizona republican., 1920-12-31
c. G. l.. EDITOR

In the getting out of this issue of the Cancels Back the editor is break Ing an iron-clad rule. He is coming out of his shelP' and mixing seriously m local controversy. He is doing 1t because he believes that not nearly enough taxpayers of the county realize the serious situation we face in the matter of the road bond election being held today.
 We Get Together
 Let's get together here for few minutes and have heart to heart talk and see where we stand.
 In the first place. reader, has the real significance of a defeat of this new bond issue dawned upon you? Do you taxpayers who are indifferent or even antagonistic realize that if this bond issue is voted down today that such action will postpone for years and years any further building of paved roads in this county. beyond what can be built with the original bond issue?
 How come?" you ask.
 Just this way 1 have talked to q numbeH of men who have honest req. sons for opposing the bond issue. Yes there are a few among the opponents to the bonds who have really honest motives for their opposition. But they are few, and they are worth reasonine with. l have asked them this question, Suppose we vote this new bond issue down, then would you call for another bond election, and if so, when?"
 Its Rule or Ruin
 The honest ones among them hay. answered in the affirmative The oth.
Arizona republican., 1920-12-31
Friday, Dec. st, 1880

We take pleasure in informing our readers that arrangements have been made commencing with Jan. 1 for the Herald to lay before it's readers every afternoon the complete Associated Press report of 1 200 words. filling near ly two columns of this page. Our re- port in the past has been incomplete. containing only 300 words. For the next two months the report will be un- usually interesting, congress being in session The Herald for the next forty days will contain full telegraphic re- port of the proceedings of the legisla- ture of Arizona.
 Denver, Dec BOA Tribune Santa F'e special says that the situation at So- zorro remains very critical About twenty five men went from Albuquerqe to Socorro last night to aid the citizens party and company Of the Thirteenth infantry in guarding property Last night Anton Baca, one of the prisoners held by the citizens, procured a re- volver and shot one of the guards and was himself killed by another guard. The Americans are determined that the
Arizona republican., 1920-12-31
Days Never Return

sEherc a fall of days there is fall of leaves wrote Remy de Gourmont, French philosopher. What he had to is particularly applicable are at the threshold of s65 days which will fall those of the past
 The Frenchman reasoned in this wise
 The winds of the earth flutter the sere and yell lowed leaves from the trees. Some wind of the in finite tears away the days by
 The leaves to the ground return and Nature takes them to her laboratory and in the winter renovates and renews them and replaces them on the twigs in the spring as fresh and bright
 Not so with the days. day that is dead will never know resurrection. other days will but not the days.
 You may pray for the green leaves of summer and when they come. to your eye to your heart and your brain they win be the same leaves that light green. dark green and brown the before Ia, when new days your soul is deceived.
 Though they be much alike two carefully matched pearls two days are never tho same Each da, tuat rru from your life with its ending carried
Arizona republican., 1920-12-31
By Collier

valley, the great saving in local trans portation of the products of the valley and the supplies, materials and mar chandise between farmers. merchants and consumers. Then add the benefits of the money put in circulation in the construction Of these roads by the sale of the bonds Estimate the increase in the value of the lands of the valley when paved roads are completed. It will not be less than ten millions of dollars.
 In view of the above facts, have not the interest and principal of these bonds faded into. a mere shadow
 Last but not least, every voter should consider the convenience and pleasure of travel on paved roads; it is of priceless value; if you don't think so now, go over to California and spend a summer on the paved roads there.
 My taxes this year are $500, but l shall be glad to pay my share of in crease if these bonds carry, so 1 say, my fellow taxpayers, vote for the bonds today and keep Maricopa county on the front line of progress,
 HERBERT R. PATRICK.
Arizona republican., 1920-12-31

CTS have given such evasive answers as, Well, we'll see about that when we come to itp or there's lots of time to answer that after we beat these bonds" etc, etc. To be sure-with them it's a matter of beating these bonds today at any odds. And, were they truthful tbout it they would add And beat any other road bonds that might come up in the future"
 Those honest ones who answer in the affirmative have stated to me that just as soon as the present contract is completed and all the money of the first issue spent, then they would call for an election authorizing additional bonds. That would be an unanswer- able argument but for one immovable obstacle
 The Real Issue
 And it is this. By the time the present bond money is expended s1 least> half of the original project will have been completed. All right, then, we call for an election to vote addi- tional bonds to complete the project And at that election, practically every mothers son who lives on or near the concrete roads already paved will vote down proposed bonds to pave the rest !! of the project. Their vote will be add ed to the usual per cent of anti votes we could ordinarily figure on.
 l And that will put an end to the building of paved roads in Maricopa county, for years to come.
 l That is the issue in today's election 1 Now, that is an unfortunate observa- tion to be forced to make. It doesn't :! look nice in cold type. It hits some
Arizona republican., 1920-12-31
The Vote in .he naIIot Rox

It is only the vote that is actually deposited in the ballot box that counts be counted. What you may only think about the county bond prop position which win be submitted you today how ever deeply you may interested in good roads will not count in the slightest unless your opinion is recorded by your vote.
 The whole controversy which is to be fought today has been stripped down the question of good roads or bad roads. If you vote against the bonds you will vote for such roads as We now have If you do not vote all you will signify your satis- faction with the kind of roads we now have.
 To sensible thinking voter can it appear that the voting of the bonds will make times any harder than they The addition of tax of sae5 on an assessment of s1OOO is not going to increase the burden perceptibly.
 It has also been made plain and clear that the proceeds of the bonds which may be today are not going to the perpetuation of the present road building contract but that they will be expended contract which, in the nature of things the fall in the prices materials and wages will be much lower than they when the present contract was made.
 It has also been demonstrated that the action of the people in voting the bonds today will not per- petuate the present highway commission which will pass out not later than next August when the two year term for which it was appointed expires and earlier than that if the proceeds of the first bond election should be earlier exhausted
 Every reason that has been urged against the bond issue has been shown to be non-existent dis sfslne that ths esmpaign against the bonds has wholly en nsin s'nation sna uisrep,ssen-
 Az we have sad the only question to be voted ss. today is: Shall we have good roads?
Arizona republican., 1920-12-31
Number of Federal
 Liquor Permits To
 Be Reduced in 1921

WASHINGTON. Dec. S0.-Plans for reducing the number of federal permits for the shandling of liquor in the next F months were announced today by Prohibition Commissioner Kramer. who said the new issue Of licenses would be held to a strict minimum in an effort to check illegal liquor sales.
 The greatest reduction VIII he in wholesale permits, but other dealers entitled to operate under the Nolstead act will also be considerably affected The commissioner said it was his in tention to refuse to reissue -sbetween 50 and 75 per cent" of the wholesale licenses now in effect
 The enforcement staff has been en : gagged for several months in studylns the records of 77.000 odd permit hoia CTS to ascertain who have commHtea overt acts under the prohibition stat utes with the view of eliminating them from the list of those who may handle intoxicants next year.
 The bureau has been aided In this task. MT. Kramer said, by the failure of many to apply for new permits This is especially true of the whole salers. he added. The number who desire renewals of retail licenses, however, has not decreased markedly, according to the commission, although hundreds of them will be refused be- cause of their records during the first year of operation of the Nolstead law
 Atlantic seaboard areas apparently have provided the prohibition enforce ment agents with their greatest prob lems. and it is expected that those districts will lose the largest number of liquor dealers under the plan MT Kramer said the illegal traffic in liauor had been particularly menac- ing in the cities from Boston to the Potomac river. and he indicated that the house cleaning would be thorough in communities of that section.
 Great Lakes cities and border points both Canadian and Mexican. also have given trouble for the enforcement corps, according to the bureaus rec ords. and Mir. Kramer said he planned to see that fewer permits would be granted in those regions hereafter.
 The prohibition bureau was said to be giving some attention also to the sale of liquor by retail druggists. Al though enforcement agents have ex- amined records of druggists in some communities and. for the most part, have found little reason to revoke or cancel permits. it was indicated that in the future the druggist who stray from the regulations prescribed for re : tail sale will find himself unable to handle distilled spirits of any sort. Scrutiny of this class dealers is eN- pected to be conducted more closely { the next year.
Arizona republican., 1920-12-31
A NEW YEAR JUST AHEAD
 By Edmund Vance Cooke

Is your balance turning red? Does your trade look dull-or dead? Has the bright sky turned to lead? Still, there's something in your purse And your credit might be worse. While you still have vim and victual, Take your loss and grin little, Let the dead old year stay deadl There's New Year just ahead Are you slipping in the race? Are you losing power and place? Keek at work behind your face! If you're beaten in the barter, Do not think yourself martyr Never let your smile grow brittle Take your loss and grin a little. Let the dead old year stay dead. @Fheres a New Year just ahead. Trade is trade and life's a scuffle. Some one loses in the shuffle; If it's your turn, do not snuffle. While you still have brain and brawn, Plug ahead and Carry onl'
 If you've saved one jot or tittle Take your loss and grin a little, Let the dead old year stay dead! There's a New Year just ahead.
Arizona republican., 1920-12-31

Opponents of the road bonds tell us that there is already available enough money to construct 150 niles of the 2S3 mile program is only a slight exaggeration-there will be money enough when it becomes available for about 125 miles of roads. And the smaller the mileage the better will be we should fail to vote the bonds today and should have to call election after this 125 miles have been built. People along that 125 miles of com pleted roads will have changed interest the pro- They will not want to vote bonds for the rest of the project
Arizona republican., 1920-12-31
The Abused Appeal

Something ought to be done about if ,va d not quite know how, but our lawyers ought to he ahle to devise a way to prevent appeals taken from municlpal courts to the superior courts The other uay Tn the police court of Phoenix man was con- victed of driving automobile while he was in an intoxicated condition. Another car wac ,vreclxa by his act There was no doubt of his guilt re wa. fined $150 and to the city ja for so days An appeal was taken appeals are usually taken rom the city court when proper penalties are as- sessed. And these appeals are usually not in vain
 y ne tune the cases are heard in the superior court witnesses upon whose testimony the original convic ton was secured have become unavailable ana what ever interest there may have been in the case has subsded with the result either that the eases ara thrown out else the defendants are acouitted- -of either result the public learning by accident if at all In the meantime the culprit has undergone no ~ ishment He has enjoyed his freedom on bail and has paid small sum to lawyer to represent him.
 So common is this practice of appealing that we understand the city court of Phoenix and we suppose other city courts hesitate infct severe sentences for the most serious offenses They usually assess fine small the defendant finds ii more convenient to pay 1t than to take the trouble of appealing This is a rather humiliating confess sion of the inability of municipal governments -to protect their citzens
 Our entire appellate system which was m do,,,4 intended to afford every possible precaution arsivt injustice to the innocent is in need of remodelinp It much more frequently happens that it furnishes loop holes of escape for the guilty
 It is much more likely than not that justce will be accorded to defendant in criminal case in the courtsof original Jurisdiction He has there evar,, oppoFtunity to be heard to adduce all possible evil dencc in his favor. This evidence is weighed b, twelve disnterested and presumably of average intelligence and judgment. There is too the nre sumption of innocence in his favor. There is hardly possible miscarriage of justice his disadvantage
Arizona republican., 1920-12-31
How We Got the Majority

One of our young men who lately compiled a legislative story including. other things, the personnel of the legislature the party affilia- tions of its members, disclosing republicans have majority of in the lower house, accom- plished that showing by the omission of two demo cratic members. That action will hardly be Grmed by the house committee credentials
 However desirable it might be that the republ- cans should have majority in house, is not a fact and notwithstanding the optimism from republican point of view will have to be con- tent with majority one in the senate which will be offset by democratic majority of one in the house
Arizona republican., 1920-12-31
FORTY YEARS AGO TODAY
Phoenix Herald which by publican in 1899, . inc. was published
 evening edition

murderer of Conklin shall not escape and as he belongs to a numerous and powerful Mexican family who are as- sembling to aid him, serious trouble seems imminent.
 Paris, Dec. 30-The first detachment of engineers and worlmen will start Jan. to prepare for the commence ment of the Panama canal. (This was under the De Lesseps regime. The real commencement work was undertaken a little more than twenty years later)
 Local
 The Tombstone Epitaph suggests the name of Harry Woods for the speaker ship.
 Hon. E. B. Clifford and wife, George $. Wilson, H. G. Rollins, J. F. Knapp, J. c. Perry. M. H. Calderwood and NJ. W. kales and wife are registered at the Bank Exchange hotel M w. Kales and wife arrived last night by private conveyance from Maricopa
 Last evening the bands serenated the Yuma delegation who were stopping at the Bank Exchange hotel The hon orable gentlemen. Darlington. Knapp and Norton briefly replied from the balcony, thanking the members.
Arizona republican., 1920-12-31

I@N1 l71L 1At 4z@VFIet lNSIININIINeiIi.
 Will you kindly allow me to fill lit tie space on the road bond question? ] am an old Hassayapper in this val ley, but I hope not to be classed as a mossbaclk or a knoclzer. have bumped over the bad roads of this state for over forty years, in early days driving from 400 to 500 miles per month with my teams of horses or mules. I once bought new spring wagon for $50 on which the repairs during the first three months driving was $25 Later years I have driven an auto and the wear and tear and repairs amouts to
Arizona republican., 1920-12-31

away little of you souvenir and that it win return. You older and the mate to that day will find you and treat you so
 View with carelessness, then, the coming and the vanishing of leaves but guard your days for what they are-bits of twice the gift of time from the endessly varied reservoir of somewhere beyond the farther where the past is present and the present and future are blended
Arizona republican., 1920-12-31
THE CENTER OF THE MAP

fl a11y place a0ould make itself The center of the map, Where folks con come and settle doavn And Hve il1 pIenty's Iap; # dRy pJ0ce its oaOn abode Ot poUerty aoould rid, Let tt 90 out and build GOOD ROADS, Just 0S old Caesar did.
Arizona republican., 1920-12-31
Thread Manufacturing Company Reduce Wage

wILLIMANTIC. Conn. Dec. 90. - Notices were posted in the local mills of the American Thread company to- day announcing a, reduction in wages of 221s per cent, effective next Mon day The cut will affect 5000 persons employed in the company's mills at Fall River and Holyol1e. Mass; Wes- terly, R. l.. and Willimantic and Glas- gow, Conn.
Arizona republican., 1920-12-31

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Arizona republican., 1920-12-31
FRIDAY MORNING. DECEMBER sl, 1920

Many commit the same crimes aVith c different result. One bears c cross tor hls crime, d7oother crooUn.
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The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1920-03-17

Mrs. Herbert johnson left Mondav
for Lakeview where she viii visit
her mother.
Rev. w. III. Hendricks left Monday
for Grand Rapids where he is at work
having q good job with the CONT
mental manufacturing company. He
returns to his home here every Sat-
urday and on Sunday looks after the
Sunday school Of the Church Of Christ
having been elected to the position
OF superintendent after the death Of
J. C. Ballard.