Arizona republican., 1921-07-25

July 23, 1921.
 Editor, Republican:
 We suppose that if you were to ask everyone that passed you on the street, if they knew Mrs. Maggie Dorn, very few would answer yes" If you were then to ask them if they had ever read the poem, Let Us Smile" they would be unobserving indeed if they did not say yes" For the card containing this poem, which she distributed, is. or has been on the wall or desk of practically every private and public office in the city of Phoenix.
 This little old lady, who is always smiles herself and whose work has Eeen the means of causing thousands to brighten the pathway of others with a smile they otherwise would | not have given, lies in her home with a broken thigh and needs smiles of encouragement herself.
 But she does not need them one | thousandth part as much as does the Salt River valley and Phoenix, to | counteract, the frowns of those from whom they should be least expected. There are quite a few business men l in the city of Phoenix, and members | of the chamber of commerce at that | who should be compelled to attend a protracted meeting of some Billy Sunday business evang elist. For ap- parently there is no future life for | them from a commercial standpoint.
 Last night had named over. to me | several prominent ones that had ad- vised the gentleman that was talking to me, not to buy a house until next winter as he could better bargain 1 then. Because they said that there would be very few tourist come here 1 They based their belief on the grounds that times were so hard
 here" and that cotton has killed the | town"
 We would like to know by what
 stretch of the imagination any one
 can figure out that it makes any diff 1 ference to. a tourist whether cotton is
 selling for S1 or l cent a pound
 They are today, like they have al | ways been, after pleasure and com I fort. We still have the same old sun | and the town was full of tourists last 1 winter who will testify to theii | friends all over the country, that Old 1 Sol was on the job almost every day | of that time.
 l Tourists came to this city when we | had only the Wigwam theater in the
 way of amusement. Now we have fine show houses galore We alsc
 have golf, tennis courts. clubs anc I practically every other kind O | amusement except boating. Automo- l bile riding is the great attraction O.
 the present day and by Christmas WI
 will have large part completed O what will be the finest system O I paved roads in the United States. I Good water and food are essentia to happiness and contentment. Tn, | water we now have is nauseating ts
 a large number of people when the, | first drink it. By fall we will hav'
 as pure water as is to be found il
 any city, and one of our greates
 handicaps will have been removed
 People came here when we didn'
 have an apartment house and yer. few desirable residences for rent
 Now we have numerous up-to dat apartments, and five first clas
 houses where we had one two year ago. They filled everything full las winter and were satisfied to live il shacks to enjoy our climate, why vii 1 they not come here next winter whel l they can get the kind of a place the wish at a reasonable rental? } It is the farmer that should be tn , pessimist, yet are you hearing of an t farms being given away? One woul
 naturally suppose that an auctio 7 would be an every day occurrence . Yet if MT. McMurtry had to depen