Arizona republican., 1921-01-09
Benzi1e BouleUard
 There With Usual
 NelU Year ResoIUes


 The new year opened very auspi- ciously for the baclIbones of Benzine Boulevard, many fl the motor car pur- veyors turning into regular "resolu- ters." Many and dignified were the resolutions made by the gents who con- sider gasoline the sweetest of perfumes, and if these resolutions can only be observed we are sure to find ourselves in the midst of a real, respectable Uto- pia for the next few months, at least,
 There are many, many things that comebefore the motor car dealer on the first of each year, which call for re- vision and revamping. Some of the dealers simply get Mustered, and pass them all up there seeming to be no end to the legion of such matters.
 However, many are the dealers who look the bull in the face, and if they can't throw him by the horns. they at least grab hold of his hindmost ex- tremity and endeavor to bring him to the ground.
 Here. for instance, is Charlie Pott- berg. Charlie distributed about thirty thousand odd balloons to the kids of Phoenix the day before Christmas. The name of Stakeholder was stamped upon the said balloons, and all went well, Charlie has always been a contender 1 AcA Auc pEluIlplo llidl any di llSles HUH a corn razor to an automobile, will demonstrate it's real worth in the hands of the public alone. no matter how much factory testing it has had | Charlie has argued this from time inn memorial, but at last he has changed his tune. The balloons did it.
 With the opening of the StudebakeI establishment Monday morning Charlie was confronted with a vast throng, 99 per cent of which were children. Each one carried a small crumpel piece of rubber, which upor
 investigation proved to have been { balloon, and each was endeavoring ts
 make himself heard through the ter.
 rife din. Charlie at last succeeded fl
 getting a half dozen in his private of
 flee to himself, and there found ou
 the reason for the excitement. "The, all wanted an adjustment on the bal
 looms" he states, land were sure the.
 would get 1t owing to the fact tha
 the name Stakeholder was stamped ol
 the balloon"
 We are still adjusting balloons" h went on to say, "and as soon as we ar through, we will then start in sellin
 automobiles again, which, according { the number of balloons we still hay
 to take in, will be somewhere aroun
 the fourth of July, at which time "
 will start in giving balloons ava again. I told Barret the other day tha II thought we should discontinue tn balloon department and in its steat conduct a multiple wooden egg depart mnet, as the kids at leost can't brea the latter"
 Charlie's suggestion to his partne has become a New Years resolutio now, and so next year the boys an girls of Phoenix will each be the prou possessor of a trick wooden egg. Charities predicament was accom- panied with a somewhat similar situa tion in which Roscoe D. Roper foun himself. Some enthusiastic friend ( R. D. who has bought a renewed roa runner,' made Roper present of a liy roadrunner. The bird was a fine spec men of the genus Roadiferous Sprintel ous, and R. D. too kgreat pleasure l a teaching him the gentle arts and habil of the domestic fowl Soon he brougl k him to his place of business, and as tf fowl seemed to be catching on to civi ized ways rapidly, he was allowed 4 roam the establishment at will.
 Now upon the eve proceeding Chris mas day, a well, known local busine man, who operates a business emplo.
 ing about several hundred me N k divulged the fact to Roper that he il \ tended to make every one of his en \ lployess a Christmas present of g goo I used car. Seeing an excellent chan
 to sell out his entire stock of us'
 cars, R. D. became very enthusiast X He had just succeeded in getting |
 prospect to the point where the dott a line for about three hundred cars w
 to be signed, when in walked the roa runned. Hearing voices, he had i s vestigated. He stalSed around un he had a chance to get a good view the prospects visage, and then amaz ment and white rage came upon I beaky countenace. With a wick H scheech he flew at the potential buye \ bulk and inflicted a deep bite on l \ leg With cries of pain and fear, { man, after one look at the enraged bil s tore through the front doors and doY A the street, being arrested at Adams a \ Central avenue for breaking the spe s limit for pedestrians.
 As soon as he could gain control
 his faculties, R. D. went about to fl
 the reason for the birds attack. finally found it, and it turned out
 7 be that the man had been an old mas of the bird and at one time had giv s the bird a drink of cold tea out of X Canadian club bottel The poor b could never forget the insult and
 ka result r. D. lost the sale of thu \ rundred renewed road runners" ~@ has since disposed of his live stock q