Arizona republican., 1921-04-13

over that for months. The par ticipants were in deadly earnest, but their seconds saw to it that the piS- tols used were not fitted for deadly work.
 In the newspaper business is a weird fascination, a sort of self- hypnotism that I cannot understand, though I have lived for many years in it's atmosphere. Some there are who break into what they are pleased to call journalism merely through vanity. They like to see their names and their ideas in print. But that doesn't explain it all by any means. I suppose a worker bee in hive cannot help working. He was made that way. And it is possible that Ma ture in her infinite wisdom has pre- vided for the birth of a percentage of men who are destined from the cradle to become missionaries and of others to be the writers of contem- poraneous history. The life of newspaper man is hard one, wheth- CT he be eidtor of the Weekly Ban her of Freedom, published at Zum- walt Switch, or a reporter on the New York Sun. Nowadays he usu- ally makes less than the man at the typesetting machine, in a financial way. ett once GStd dS S0tll, a newspaper man is usually one unto the end of his days, using for the benefit of the public the whole of his mentality and vigor-
 Outside of this sort of psychic fas-, cination, there would appear to be no possible reason accounting for the way in which men have plunged into the deserts and mountains of Arizo-
 na to establish newspapers. Ah,
 There has been pride in many an Arizona hamlet as it's entire popula
 tion gathered around the little hand
 press to welcome the birth of their
 journalistic babe of promise that should carry afar the story of their greatness. The only compositor was the pressman. Across the iron press bed the "devif energetically distrib- uted the ink on a composition roller,
 but none too skillfully. The paper had been wet down. the day before and lay in smooth dampness. The forms being linked, the printer thrust a sheet of paper upon the tympan points, slowly unlocked the swinging frisket and brought it down to protect the margins of the paper, rolled the bed under the platen, heaved away on the monkey tail' lever that gave the pressure and rolled back the bed. Then there was deep sensation among the bespurred spectators. Possibly a few relieved their feelings and spread the glad tidings of joy by shooting their revolvers through l the roof or door. Damp and limp, 1 the first copy was off the press and
 with it's appearance the camp forth
 with stepped full panoplied into met ropolitan place. At least, that is how
 all of them felt about it. and the ed ! itor busily folding and addressing 1 his first edition of a full token" of | copies, would not have changed jobs with Horace Greeley
 The self hypnotism referred to may
 account for the way that newspapers
 were started in the smallest of ham lets where the support was. or is, 1 like that given in many communi- ties to the young preacher whose l chiefest reward is the contemplation l of treasures laid by for him in Heaven Do any of you know any thing about Quijotoa, off in the des- ert, away southwest of Tucson l where coyotes now form the greater
 part of the population? And the place is not especially notable for an
 overplus of coyotes. Yet there used | to be a paper at Quijotoa, created and likewise killed by Harry Brook
 one of the pioneers of Arizona news 1 paperdom, now an editorial writer
 on the Los Angeles Times. l doubt if he ever thrilled over a 300 page
 mid winter number of The Times as
 he did when he took from the press
 the first copy of his little four paged
 apostle of the desert. Galeyville ir
 the~Chiricahua mountains is only .
 memory, for it was gutted and burned
 by the Apaches more than thirty
 years ago. But it had a newspaper
 before that to tell of the minera riches of the district, wherein a week
 ly later did the very same work il the more modern, yet scarcely larE- CT. camp of Paradise. Just think O the tremendous optimism that name: . a mining camp Paradise" But Par
 adise it undoubtedly was to tha newspaper martyr, though he slept or a plank and lived upon beans as { southwestern substitute for ambrosia : There have been papers at Tubac Mineral Park, Congress Junction, Sa
 lome, Parker, San simon, Gila Bend Pinal Arizona and Maxey. Many l places are not on the maps of toda.
 that once had newspapers. And il the settlements that have endured l there have been scores of journalistic wreckS.
 , None of the early newspaper mcl
 made money worth considering. The r were sustained mainly by a sublim , optimism, a gamblers faith that tn l next deal of the cards would brinl wealth. On the whole, they were f very human lot, very far removed Q from angels, yet well representatiV Y of their communities Local patriot e ism was the only cult. Each edito = believed in his heart that his oW t particular village was to become tn r center of the great Southwest. O l that subject he lied to himself and t = the world alike. In the riot of hi Q imagination, every nearby hill Ina E the mineral treasures of Golcond t and in every valley he saw tn | budding promise of a modern Elder i If on the single street there wer
 erected shanty of battened plank: a 1t was celebrated in printers ink a 1T q palatial business edifice. Too fire - quently such a house would hold e comfortless groggery where the, ed e itor would foregather with his towns d men in their pitiful efforts to fin = human sympathy and companionshil d The press of yesterday in Arizo r mas history differs from that of to q day in the same proportion that th l. press of today will be found to dit l. fer from that of tomorrow. The han h presses of yesterday have been suC l. ceeded by cylinder and perfectin er presses. The olden time tramp print le CT has departed and has been sue L cceded by machinist who sits befoi d a wonderful tangle of steel and WI