Arizona republican., 1920-01-19
Little Stories
 Of The Town

Is Phoenix q patriotic town. and if so why does it have SO many ragged and dirty flags on display? Everett True, visiting here at a local hotel. says he wants to know why and that he is locking forea ladder so he can tear down the ragged remnant of flag from the city hall and put d new one in it's place. There is a Uunited States law, True says. that provides a punishment for the display of ragged flags and that specifics that such flags must be burned. Another flag that arouses his indignation is not ragged but is exceedingly dirty and fly speeked. He says II is on display over the counter of a local soft drink store. True expresses the belief that the Spanish war veterans ought 10 get busy or else pass up the responsibility that was handed down to them by the G. A. R.. and to give the American Legion a chance.
 Phoenix is getting almost large enough now to rate as a regular city and to have mail collections at mid night, according to Mrs. Everett True. who is visiting here for few days. Mrs. True says there are early trains outbound from Phoenix, and that mail boxes within a block of the postoffice and all through the downtown district have no collections after a working mans bedtime until abaut Il a. m. tomorrow
 T don't think much of the Ameri- can Legion" a former service man told Captain Victor H. Harding, an attor- ney here, one day last week.
 why note" asked the other, sur prised.
 Well, I'll tell you" continued the two-striper. "the whole thing is all right with the exception of article 10. and l can't see that at all. Resides. you want to remember that Germany. France. Bulgaria and all those other birds haven't consented to it yet, I'm going to wait while.''
 MT. x, who has obtained some prom thence among his few friends hy req son of the multieipiioity of faults he can find with all things Pheeniciaa. mas mas fopnd @ new fsat grte1anee. dms,s tnis time Aeciate. A few nights ago he stood on the corner discourSing of it in somewhat the following manner:
 You know, now, when l moved into my apartment out north there it was summer and they were tiekled to death to have ms. Now they don't give a darn whether or not I stay, of course. but, that isn't the story. What I mean to say is that then they talked a lot about how they weren't going to let
 
 in. That naturally pleased me. so I grabbed an apartment quick.
 Well. consideping the number of apartments they had then. the child population of that house has increased remarkably. There were about four kids around then: there must be 15 by now. However, so long as they don't bother us. I don't care.
 At first they were very kind about not putting any families with children into the place next door and the place above me. The one next door doesn't matter. but noise in the apartment upstairs just simply leaks through the ceiling verbatim. as might say. It's that upstairs apartment that has got my goat,
 "A few months ago family moved in that had a baby. l was scared stiff then, but it turned out fairly we'll. The ] baby didn't make much noise. and the l penple were nice and We liked them. But they moved out, dQggane It.
 And now just see what happens, A family has just moved in upstairs