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Arizona republican., 1921-02-18
BACK TO BUFFALO DAYS

Uncle Sam has another bison problem on his
hands Not long he fretting because the
buffalo was sliding out of existence. Now he's
ing with the puzzle from another angle.
Too many buffalo babies
Bison herds heard about the anti-race suicide
stuff somebody preached Result: bison calves
year, and birth rate climbing steadily upward.
The dark day of the bison has passed. says DIR.
f. w. Nelson chief of the United States Biological
Survey.
But the dark days for your Uncle Samuel is
just breaking
"As matter of fact continues Dr. Nelson, with
the present rate of increase it may become problem
in a few years how shall for the buffalo
the national preserves"
Those pre-historians who extinction
of the bison may sit back and let the taxpayers
hustle out and buy pasturage for the buffalo.
This is exactly what DR.. Nelson wants the gov
to do-buy a thousand acres near yell
lowstone Park for the rapidly growing buffalo family
Congressman yelling Utah has introduced a
of a bison stocked island Great Salt Lake. He
the owners hands they'll be auctioned sports
fen for shooting at 5000 a head
And this is what may be coming to-back to
o hunting the bufaflo.
Protest against staging these buffalo hunts has
made the U. S. Department of Agriculture,
which however gives notice that it will take steps
halt the shooting
The buffalo is something of a white elephant
may be that the thing do 5 preserve the
buffalo preserve other prehistoric animals,
stuffed pedestals, in museums There they'll eat
hay.
Arizona republican., 1921-02-18

number on 1t and while he shivver and
ring his hands I shivver and ring up
the number, and the doctor answered
and he wasn't crabid about it. Betwixt
the three of us we learn that Felix's
wife got awful pains around he waist
and she goinga die eef de doktor he no
come mooey pronto.
Well, the doctor said he would come
and it took a half hour to tell him
how to get there because Felix lives
out in the brush. When l goes back to
bed and Felix was gone l couldn't help
but think about the poor devil of a
doctor and who in he'll wants to be
him? Here he has to come out OF
his warm bed into the cold night at 2
O'Clock in the morning and out into
the river bottom to help a poor devil
of a Mexican woman who has pains.
And the Mexicans hasn't no dough to
pay the doctor and he knows it, but
out he comes just the same.
It amt like he could lay a brand
new visit out on the counter, John,
and say forty-nine pesos, fifty CEN
tavos, Felix. What, you no gotta da
money? I no can sella da visit to you.
Gooda-bye, Felix. l sella you visit
when you gotta da money!"
No, sir, John; the doctors gotta hike
out and fix the Mexican wjmmins'
pains so they don't die on their Felixes.
| didn't have to tell him that they
wasn't much chanel OF getting any pay
from Felix He knowed that from expe-
rience. The sawbones has to serve
hundreds of poor devils like Felix and
| his wife every year-and damn little
pay they get for it.
We Illustrate a Point
| will illustrate by what mean. When
| the people in the business world sets a
price on their butter and clocks, and
| suits and dishpans, and shoes and mil
lernary and dimonds, they figger in
what they calls over the-head expenses
and other things that they are out be-
| fore they can start to salt down their
own share. The customer has to pay
| for these over the-head costs because
| the business man amt in the business
| because he fell in love with it. And
amongst the other things that he has
to charge off against the selling price
| of his goods is a important item
| knowed as "uncollectable accounts"
| The business merchant that don't allow
| a certain percent in his margins foi
| profits for uncollectable accounts has
| to close his doors before long, Ell
| John?
| Now, us thrifty and honorable Gus
| toners has to pay our share for these
| uncollectable accounts on everything
that we buy from the merchants. Ions
before l came into your store to buy
| my last suit of clothes you sat dowT
at your desk late one night and from
your experience of many years as 6
gents furnisher you could tell that
was going TO come into your store
and you knowed just what kind of ;
J bird I would be and how much OF {
roll I packed and how much l was go
ing 10 stick you on the bill I would owl
Arizona republican., 1921-02-18
FORTY YEARS AGO TODAY
absorbed by The Arizona Re-
in and . published
edition

ment, etc. to utilize prison labor was
lost.
Council bill providing for the cree
ton of public buildings in Tombstone
was passed
House bill to prohibit hogs running
at large was passed.
Local -
The Phoenix beer saloon wiz
opened tonight in Frank Purcella's old
stand, John Luke. proprietor A call
from the public solicited; an elegant
free lunch will be one of the attrac-
lions.
Mrs. Pickens, NJ. D., has lost hypo-
dermic syringe and will pay suitable
reward for it's return.
Johnny Collins is quite an artist with
the paint brush and don't you forget it.
| Just received at the Pioneer furni-
ture store, opposite the postoffice, the
finest lot of coffins ever offered in
! Pboenfy
Arizona republican., 1921-02-18

MIR. JOhn f1yuer,
Paso Robes Hot Springs,
Cal.
Dear Jno.:
John, guess you don't remember me
as the duck that wrote you that other
omen letter last yr. and on acct. of
which you offered me tie for the
neck if l would call for it. Wasn't 1
the sucker when didn't call round and
get it, but how should / of known II
was going to be such hard time ahead
like we have on our hands by now
/ don't wonder you should have to go
to the hot springs. The rest OF US are
sweating 1t out at home here.
see by the way the local hotel and
doctor wanted to soak you they should
of named the place Peso & Rubbles
Hot Springs, eh, John? Only I have
heerd many and one kicking like you
are the way they was soaked Tor po'
and lodgings at some o. the Phoenix
hotels, so you should feel at home
there, John.
al Read Your Ad"
Well John, | read your advertise
ment word for word and it made me
feel bad the crack you took at the doc
tor because he wanted first that you
should tell him who you are and wnat
is your business and how much or
roll do you pack before he would tell
YOU how much your Dill would De Ior
fixing you up. You see, old sea dog,
1 owe a lot to the doctors around here
and have been owing it to them Tor a
coupla of years now and l just know
how they feel about it and l wanta
say a word or SO in their behaves, AND
know you will agree with me even II
your knee or something does hurt once
in a vile.
1 will now tell you a little story like
1<.ic vflbn
TO illustrate my point.
1t was a awful dark and cold night
about o'clock a. m. in the morning
You know the kind of night wher
YOU wake up in the middle of it an6
shake your wife and say, Honey,
saw a swell warm overcoat in Johr
Hyder's window for forty nine fifty.
wish to hell had it on me now!" Ano
she sits up and says, "Say, Razberry
do I get any of those covers or an
! supposed to keep warm by dreaming
I'm on the Fee Gee islands?" Well
that's the kind of night it was.
Raucous Voice Outside
Well, it was Just about O'CLOCK
when there was a raucous voice outside
in the lane 1t was a Mextcan's, as
could tell in my half frozen state o
mind by the way he spoke his words
And he was calling me, which was
dirty trick on that kind of night
All l could savvy was the word tel
ephone. and so l got out of bed ant
sllated to the door and let him in, be
cause it was Felix. And he said the,
was moocho malo at his house and h
wanta da doktor and he bandit me
piece of greasy paper with doctor
Arizona republican., 1921-02-18
Friday, Feb. 18. 1880

Denver, Colo, Feb. 17.-At Robinson
last evening Deputy Sheriff McIlhany
was shot and fatally wounded by I'M
known parties in ambush who are sup
posed to be miners from the Robinson
mine who vowed vengeance upon Nc
Ilhany for having. as the court de-
cided, justifiably shot miner named
HARDER a short time since. Robinson
is in "a state of great excitement and
it is feared a. general outbreak will oc-
cur between the authorities and the
miners of the Robinson mine.
Legislature
Prescott, Feb. ia bill removing
the capital to Tucson was passed te
take effect March 10. Bolan to the
front with the Phoenix banner.
Council bill concerning the delin
uuent taxes of Pima county wal
passed
A bill providing for buildings, equip
Arizona republican., 1921-02-18
BY JOHN PILGRIM

ago. a
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Arizona republican., 1921-02-18
Community Achievement

When achievement is desired, the strength and
virtue of organization are undsputed That is the
reason for a big modern Chamber of Commerce. A
may numberless-but If its alert and forward
seeing and combined that
their efforts be concentrated and o-ordnated,
little of making itself felt Or reap
ing the benefits it deserves.
There is a civic commercial slogan which as
the energy and intelligence of men, truer
phrase conceived. Francisco Los
Angeles, New York, Chicago, Cleveland did not hap
pen. Nor did they grow. They built. Men
of vision the builders. Not alone, in little
groups, but by combining in the largest way their
munty- building organizations every other citizen
whose outlook into the day ahead, faith
courage in the future
Phoenix has reached point in its where
it decide what it will make its wonderful
material progress of the last few years. Many of
citizens cheerfuly assuming their civic RESPONSE
bilities and finding glory In their achievements
Community achievement is brought about only
in way-through the banding together of the citi-
and united effort. 14e men of Phoenix are
going to give their time next week to build UP a
Measured in dollars, their time is worth a big sum
This is their gift to you. You repay them by
joining them for community achievement
Arizona republican., 1921-02-18
One Hundred and Sixth Trip

has to make up in small way what
the poor ones can't pay. That's one
of the ways the rich people contributes
to charity The doctor is the umpire.
And they don't seem to be hogglng
more than their share in making their
decisions. How many millionaire doc
tors have you heard of, John?
And 1 been thinking along these lines
that you got me started on so that
maybe your ad will do a lot of good
in the community. So / cookt up a
fine scheme that maybe will make 1t
easier on the rich people and the doe
tors It's like this: Every doctor that's
got any practice a-tall has got at least
so little bills of from 5 to 500 that
he has given up all hopes of ever col
Iecting And nearly evry one of the
fifty people figgers that some day they
are going to pay that bill when they get
the money. But they never do it be-
cause they keep waiting until they get
all the money in oneaiump. So the
doctor keeps waiting and waiting.
Still Thinking
SO | been thinking that IL every one
of the fifty would put up his right
hand and promise himself that from
next week on he will make it point
| to run up to the doctors office GER
| tain day each week and leave fifty
| cents with the girl at the desk--why,
you can see what would happen Let's
see, John, so cents a week from fifty
people is $500 per wk- And that's
| a little over 100 iron men month. And
wheer is the doctor in town that would
raise a hell of an objection against a
| little over 100 iron men marching up TO
his office once month and makins,
! them selves sociable with him?
If He Was a Doctor
| Now, if l was a doctor, and to make
| it easy for these birds to get their iron
| I would hang a box on the wall or on
the girls desk with a hole in it and
| they could wrap their four bits up In
piece of paper with their name and
| address on it and at the first of every
month each one would get a statement
! of the credilzs for the month. Before
| long the bills would be knocked into .
| cooked hat and the doctor would be
| getting that 100 per mo. as slick as a
! wisstle. It's the old principal of the
| dripping water wearing the stone ana
| fifty cents week will wear doctor
bill away just the same. And in these
hard times just think how much II
| would mean TO the doctors. And i as
/ anybody who owes a doctor money s
he thinks the doctor would kick about
it coming in dribs and drabs to just
call his doctor up and asst him how
| mad he would get
The same scheme goes for any bill
4 John Am / right So that's how 1
! got to thinking after reading your adj
! and l am much obliged to YOU for the
| kick got out of it and wish you many
happy hours in Peso & Bubbles springs.
Sipc'y.
The Cub Reporter.
Arizona republican., 1921-02-18

you after 1 got out of the store. You
fingered that all out by what the fig
ger jugglers calls the law of averages.
Ard you fingered my deadbeat account
in when you was figgering what per-
cent of profits you would have to have
if you was going to pay the rent and
the light and the grocer and etc. And
1t is only fair that you should of done
it because as the Bible says, the sins
of q community ought to be visiting
the whole community instead of rest
ing on the merchant.
What kind of a sucker would you be
that would say: Here, boys. let me
stand all the losses because of the dead
beats in the community"
Now then, John, the poor devil of
doctor has to have the protection like
you got, only he gets it in the neck
where you got a chanel to cover up.
| When you see a bird in the store that
you can tell from his looks that he
| looks like a deadbeat you ask for spot
cash and you don't have to sell him
| the suit if he don't fork over, or you
| can sell him a twenty-five dollar suit
for cash instead of fifty dollar suit
| on tick. But it amt that way with the
! doctor A busted wing or pain in the
| gizard is just the same If a deadbeat
! is got it or a million air. And it takes
| the same work on the doctors part
!
to fix it, only the million airs requires
/ little more fussing over themselves
and smoothing the pillows than the
others. The doctor can't refuse to
mend the gizard of a deadbeat.
So what's the doctor going to do?
He has learned from experiences that
! it's up to him to make the punishments
! fit the crimes Those who is well able
to pay is gotta pay more than those
who can't. And that's why a strange
doctor asks you to put all your cards
| on the table, John. How should he
know from your looks that you was a
poor devil of a gents furnisher that
Just come through the hard times of
war prices for clothes if he hadn't of
as1t you to put all your cards on the
| table and have a showdown? Other
wise he might have wanted to charge
IWou twicet the bill he fingered on.
He Has Been Thinking
Like you, John, l been idle like all
good Democrats should be now and
thinking on life and it's problems. And
/ been thinking all about the doctors
and how am I going TO get the kale &c
pay off the coupla hundred l owe there
and what a lucky stiff I am that il
wasn't four hundred like it should OF
been and all that. And think of all the
unfortunate folks down here from al
over the country with the I, BIS and
broke, and yet most doctors is taking
care of them the best they can.
And I got to figgering it out and &c
thinking on it like, this: The doctor is
a great humanity and charity worker
in the community. He does just what
you kicked about this one doing
charges what he thinks a patient car
, stand. The rick ones IN a community
Arizona republican., 1921-02-18
WHAT BECOMES OF GERMAN PROSPERITY
BY Gibson Gardner

What to do with the $4,000 900 worth of Ger
owned property seized in this country during
the war, has become a puzzling question.
1t is the theory of international law that
''alien property custodian" holds property in
trust during the war and when peace is restored
is returned to its former owners.
German-American citizens have hoped and ex-
pected to get their property back
The Versailles treaty sets aside the inter
national practice by providing that fund should
be used to partially claims Americans against
Germany for American property seized or destroyed
during the war.
Germany is left the job of compromising her ma
tionals" in the United States the alien property
thus taken.
AS things stand there is redress for either the
Americans with claims Germany or Germans
with claims against America because 1--WE are still
war; with Germany.
Arizona republican., 1921-02-18
A BIRTHDAY GREETING
ELIZA j. McCracken)

ELIZA J. McCracken)
Phoenix, when you were little youngster
Way out in the very Woolly West
You could whoop like the widest Injun
AS your lariat did its best
Talk In blanks as you swallowed a cocktail;
Take aim with a certain eye
Hit a hurnming bird on old Camelback
And make it's feathers fly
But now, you're a fine srown-up lady
And your tastes see have grown up too
You're leaning to "Kulchrr:"-
You eat with fork-you do.
The primary colors seem loud, now
You rub in your rouge with more care:
NO longer you diamonds in the Eitcbe,
Nor wear decollete-most anywhere
90 gently move along most worthy lady
Thefes dignity we like in your SMILE
profanity and Booze are things you no more use.
And-dear evoluted Phoenix,-you're worth while
Arizona republican., 1921-02-18

The surgeon generals report indicates that the
highest physique is found among the native white
populations Native Indians and negroes much
lower because they have come in contact with white
mans diseases without the Inherited ability
resist them.
Arizona republican., 1921-02-18
McAdoo Petition Does
Not Alter Government
Attitude In Lithud7ia
IRepubIlcan A. P. leased WIrel

LRepubIIcan A. p. Leased WIreI
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16-At the
state department today it was said a
petition for American recognition of
Lithuania was filed by w. G. McAdoo.
President Wilson's son-in-law would
not alter the attitude Of the admin
stration that there should be no par
titioning of Russia until the Russian
people had established a permanent
government and decided the question
for themselves.
Arizona republican., 1921-02-18
Japanese Take Step
To Steriiize ShaUing !,
Brushes Sent To u. -.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 16-Agitation
against infected shaving brushes had
resulted in virtually paralyzing the
Japanese bristle industry and that gov
eminent is taking steps to open a ma
tional disinfection office at Kobe to
remedy the situation, the department
of commerce was informed today from
Toxic. Anthrax, a disease usually pc
culiar to cattle, advices to the depart
ment said, has been. widely distributed
through improperly sterilfzed brushes.
Arizona republican., 1921-02-18
Mexican, University
Donates Classics Toy
Neu Mexico College
CRepubIican A. p. Leased Wire]

ALBUQUERQUE, n. NJ, Feb. 16-
The National University of Mexico at
Mexico City has donated to the state
university of New Mexico here sc
volumes of Latin American classics
and Spanish translation. Announce
ment of the gift was made tonight by
Hannibal Ibarra Rojas, OF the Spanish
department of the state university.
Arizona republican., 1921-02-18

Those only aOho knoaU little, can be
said to k,ooaO anything. The greater
the knowledge the greater the doubt.
Goethe.
Arizona republican., 1921-02-18

We do not exactly like the classification of lob
byists with hawkers, peddlers tinerant vendors
1t is an nfiction of unnecessary humiliation upon
the hawkers, etc
Arizona republican., 1921-02-18

in Salem, Ohio, has paid druggists bill
which he owed for more than forty years. People
are making every effort to friends with the drug
gfst a-d days.
Arizona republican., 1921-02-18
DICTIONARIES PROTECT THINNER

PARIS, Feb. ia member of the
Paris post of the American Legion will
leave tonight for Germany to look after
the interests of Carl Neuf and Frank
thinner, Americans held in Jail at Err
bach, Baden, on the charge of having
attempt to kidnap Grover c. Bergdoll,
American draft evader.
Arizona republican., 1921-02-18

1t is proposed to refund the entire national debt
into long term bonds Well that would tend to slim
ulate the interest of descendants in history.
Arizona republican., 1921-02-18

Colonel Watterson thinks that the dry law is
making hypocrites of On the contrary people
who used to drink secretly boasting about it
Arizona republican., 1921-02-18

An Iowa judge has decided that women may wear
their hats In the jury box. Are the Easter juries
selected yet?
Arizona republican., 1921-02-18

We would admonsh the senate of the Arizona
legislature that whatever may be status of any
bill before it the day of judgment it will remain
unchanged.
Arizona republican., 1921-02-18

The average college girl of today is
an inch taller than the college girl Of
1860, say scientists.
Arizona republican., 1921-02-18

The burning of a starch factory first
revealed the adhesive qualities of
scorched starch and introduced cheap,
gum.
Arizona republican., 1921-02-18

FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY IS, 1921
Arizona republican., 1921-02-18
DEAR JoHN:-

Mr.. John Hyder,
Paso Robes Hot Springs.
Col
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WHEN A WOMAN TELLS
BY RUTH AGNES ABELING
CHAPTER X-PHILIP AMEs MAKES AN APOLOGY

IN an instant l had checked the inn
pulse to speak to Mr.. John Ames,
and rushed out into the night.
What right had | to sympathze
with another woman's husband?
Ny sleep that night was troubled
by the sound IF a tired voice and the
vision Of yellow-haire1 woman who
once was there and then suddenly
vanished, leaving behind heE laugh
which tingled amntily.
| awakened almost before it was
light with the sound o. lhot tired
voice in my ears. Just then hated
lila Ames. She was doing just what
| would have done to Tom, | thought
only she was lovelier than ! and had
greater means at her disposal-so |
supposed she was making better
Job of it then Gcould have.
| wondered why the sound of that
tired voice didn't awaken her to her
own loss. Perhaps because her heart
was not turned to catch its tiredness
for 1t seems that unless we love
them beyond expression the people
with whom we live day in and day
out are the ones we know the least
about. Their very nearness prevents
US from taking the trouble to know
why they are getting prematurely
gray, why they are losing their
bouyancy and why their voice sounds
tired
But Of the two Lila Ames was
| losing the most. Her husband was
missing what she should have been
to him. But Lila was feeding upon
an artificial diet and thus robbing
herself Of the ability to appreciate
the genuine.
Jagged about my dressing.
At half past eight, just as | was
going out for breakfast, the tele-
phone rang.
Il didn't want to get you from bed.
but I'd like to see you for minute
to make some explanations and apollo
| gies." Philip Ames' voice was Sc
rious.
SIN afraid | don't wanf to hear
either explanations or apologies this
morning" 7 said.
You're not angry, are you?" with
concern.
81 haven't any reason to be. have
/, Mr.. Ames?" | said.
You're not going to be nasty
about it, are your"
Just what are YOU talkins
about?" I parted.
well, if you don't know, m,
dear" all of his usual suavity ha,
returned, 'let me tell you about it
5 only should have to see you to tel
you; it would be so much more i'm
o pressive, don't you know
81 don't want to be impressed thi