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Arizona republican., 1921-05-17
ABOUT THE STATE

and his knowledge of the country and conditions is oritative.-Leader.
 Tramp Killed FTAGSTAFF'-A poorly dressed man, about 35 years of age. evident ly tramp and as yet unidentified, was killed by an eastbound train some time Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning.
 The body was found by Santa Fe employe about o'clock Wednesday morning, a few hundred yards east of the depot The findings of the coroner's jury show tha- apparently the man in attempting to alight from or to board the train. had become caught by the foot and dragged sev eral hundred feet, dropping to the ground when the shoe pulled from his foot.--Leader.
 Ropes and Kills Lion
 PRESCOTT-Ropin and choking to death a wounded mountain lion Is the record made this week by Dave Marvin. rancher living near Juniper mountain. Word of Mal'vin's exploit was brought to Prescott yesterday by Ramsey Patterson, government hunter. who also brought in the lions skin. which he claims measures l; feet ? inches from tip to tip.-Jour- nal Miner.
 Held to Federal Court
 PRESCOTT-Three men, supposed to be the major part of thieves who have been systematically robbine Southern Pacific freight cars-be- tween Fl Paso and Los Angeles. were yesterday bound over to the fedora court at Tucson by H B. Farmer U. $. commissioner.-Jour Miner
 Dry Liquor Gases
 MIAMI-This mornings session oi the U. s. district court was giver over to the trial of D. F. Ison charged with unlawful possession oi liquor. Ison is the proprietor of tho Columbine rooms in Miami. J. F, Wilkie, department of justice agent and Teller Broshears, former liquor enforcement officer. are here as wit. nesses for the government in thi. case. Ison is being defended by Nor. man J. Johnson.-Silveroelt.
Arizona republican., 1921-05-17

tween the English white terrier trough haired animaD and the bull dog. while the Boston terrier is a cross of a smooth coated terrier with the bull dog.
 O. When was it first proved that the earth revoIved on it's axis? C.C.R.
 A. Until the early part of the six teenth century it was common belief that the earth stood still. About that time Nicolaus Copernicus. Polish astronomer. issued various scientific papers explaining his theory which proved that the earth moved in space, and revO1ved on its own axis.
 o. Where is the largest Indian reservation in the United States7 J-k
 A. The Navajo reservation of l2.- 115,2S3 acres in Arizona. is the larg- est Indian reservation in this coun- try.
 o. Is there a crucifix fish? V.R.M
 A The bureau of fisheries saNs that there is hammerhead shark called the crucifiN This is a T. shaped fish, the eyes being at the far corners of the cross bar and the mouth where the stem of the T meets the ton
Arizona republican., 1921-05-17
THE FEMININE STEAM ROLLER

Mrs Smart studied up parliamentary usage before going the regular business meeting of the club laid careful plans that she might be elected president. When the meeting was duly opened and nominations for president in order the business went something like this:
 Madam president, I nominate for president of this club, Smart" stated member according to the previous arrangement.
 T move that the nominations and Mrs Smart be elected by exclamation, put in the second cog of the machine quickly.
 Do I hear second to that motion?' the chair asked
 There a dangerous pause. and no second to the motion. Mrs. Smart glanced hastily about the room The woman who do the seconding nowhere to be seen critical moment. but Mrs Smart to the emergency.
 T second the motion. madam president she stated as modestly might be under the circum
Arizona republican., 1921-05-17
THE ONCE OVER.
By 1T. I. PHILLIPS

form part West Point Cadet, part Western union, part Boy Scout. and part Spanish War Veteran. advanced to the paddock and blew on his bugle. Most of the horses got out at once. but several ignored ir Some held it was too cold a day to race on an un- heated track, anyhow
 to Post Time-General observ- ance of the Whispering Period. In- tense whispering on lawn and in grand stand. All done in groups of four: two people whispering about nothing in particular. and the other two whispering about what they whispered about
 wife and kiddies?" John whispers back: Fine. how's yours?'
 Fred, standing near by and trying to throw his ear into space, grabs Arthur and whispers. "Didja hear what those guys said?''
 No" says Arthur
 They said Naturalist was a sure thing in the fourth race.'' whispers Fred
 And so the news goes from ear to ear. All racegoers play the races by ear.
 2:25-Rush of the ''wise birds to make a killing.
 2:30-"They're off"
 2:40-Blizzard sweeps over track, wrecking horses and ruining specta- tors.
 Tomorrow-Colderw with skating.
Arizona republican., 1921-05-17
Commission Holds Hearinas

DOUGLAS-The Arizona corpora tion commission is holding a session in the city hall here today for the purpose of taking testimony in two hearings previously ani ~" "ced. One of these hearings is ba> on an ap- plication of the Mountain States Tel ephone company which asks for the right to increase it's toll rates to what would amount to about ten per cent. The other hearing concerns the complaint filed by the Southwes- tern Traffic association alleging un- reasonable railroad freight rates on hay and grain hauled from the Gila and Salt river valleys to Douglas and other points in this vicinity.-Interna- tional.
 Questions County Arrests
 MIAMI-The question as to wheth- CT or not certain liquor cases should be held for the federal court or dealt with by the county courts was the subject of a statement made by Judge William H. Sawtelle yesterday His honor said that the fines collect ed for the year 1920 totaled 5000. the majority collected in liquor cases which should. have and could have been enforced by the county authori- ties. Instead of doing that the coun- ty people tried to push their troubles on to the federal court, he stated. He announced he was not going to pay a lot of consideration to cases in which the county officials made the arrests and then handed their charges over to the federal authori- ties to do the rest.-Bulletin.
 Seek Power Plant Site
 FLAG GSTAFF-Cloaked in secrecy party of engineers and officials of the Edison Electric company of Los Angeles, left last week for the coun- try around Lees Ferry to look over the territory and comment on the possibilities of site for dam and power plant. They were accompa- nied by E. l.. Kolb, whose trip a number of years ago down the can yon. from the source to the mouth, made history. Kolb is a universally known explorer and photographer
Arizona republican., 1921-05-17
TUESDAY MORNING, MAY IT. 1921
That state of life IS most hoppy iChere superfluities are not required and accessories are not aUoating.
 -Plutdrch.
A Policy of Economy

A washington dispatch of yesterday morning states that of representatives has decided that no rivers and harbors bill shall be passed in this session of congress and that aurhoriza- ton for river improvements would be voted
 Congress has evidently adopted policy of econ omy which its predecessors for years have ignored Ii is possible many meritorious will be sacrificed this policy. but the people will we think bear that sacrifice heroically
 The keynote of economy was loudly sounded by President Harding in address congress in joint
 -I know of no more pressing problem at home than to restrict national expenditures within the limits of our national income and at the same time measurably lift the burdens of war taxation rom the shoulders of the American people
 .,orfe cannot be unmindfu that economy is a much employed cry frequently stressed in pre- election appeals but it is to make it an out standing ever-impellng purpose in both legis- lation administration. The unrestrained tendency of public indebtedness constitute the most dangerous phase of government today
 Further on the president said:
 ~our current expenditures are running at the rate of approximately five billions a year and the burden is unbearable. There are two agencies to De em- ployed in correction: is rigid resistance to appropriation and the other is utmost economy or administration. Let us have both l have already charged department heads with this necessity. am sure congress agree; and both congress and the people may safely the support of all right minded citizens because the burden is theirs I wish it Ca national policy retrenchmert) might r.S i,. rsf,ex in economy and thrift among the people themselves because therein lies quicker re- covery and added security for the future
 IL the house has set its face against the annual concerted upon the treasury in the shape of the log rolling rivers harbors bill it may be pre- suued that all involving large expenditures will 20 down regardless of individual merit
 The president, though, made specific exception in favor of appropriation highways sting only upon the elimination waste. He would have the federal aid law changed as to condition the granting of federal aid upon policy of maintenance hv the states restricting the federal aid policy of the government, the president would have the law so amended the federal of admin istration should be elevated to the importance ana vested with authority comparable to the work be- fore it."
 The president prefaced that part of his recom- u,endation respect highway legislation with a recognition of of good roads to the people, of part they play in relieving the people Of their burdens by making them easier to be borne.
 He inveighed only against measures however meritorious and however helpful they may be. that do not contribute Tightening of the burden Such measures could await prosperous time.
Arizona republican., 1921-05-17
THE RAGING SEASON OPENS UP

They're off at Jamaica.
 In fact, it is surprising how much they are off, especially the tipsters and the form followers.
 The eastern racing season of 1921 was opened with due ceremony Fri day. Racing fans began arriving shortly after noon. They drew up outside the park. where, with bowed heads, they listened to memorial service to Last Years Bank Roll. chanted 'The Clockers' Barcarolle" and then filed through the ice fields into the park in these groups:
 Division No. 1-Bookmakers, laugh ing up both sleeves.
 Division No. 2-Trainers in good standing.
 Division No. S-Trainer in bad standing.
 Division No. 4-Men who think they have inside information on the horses, but haven't
 Division No 5-Men who haven't any inside information and know it. Division No. e-Men who have no inside information, but think they know some one who has,,
 Division No. 7-Men who think they can make others think they have in-
 
 it or not.
 Millionaires, burglars. society lead CTS. bandits. visiting nobility, visiting yeggmen. etc, etc.
 Promptly at 1:15 the bookies began the distribution of white slips of pa per known as bankruptcy confetti. At 1:151a the mob began grabbing for same and writing feverishly.
 
 At 20 the season was formally opened by the breaking of a clam over a 25-gallon kettle of hot water in the Harry Stevens chowderies. The clam came out of the ordeal well. and, although this is its fifth season, 1t was confident of lasting the meeting out
 1:25-Inspection of the frankfurtrs paddock. All two year olds by All Hot our of Delicatessen. All pro- nounced fit and ready for the barrier. 1:30-Recognition by oookies of plungers who disappeared last Octo- Der without settling accounts. Warm arguments. Third Battle of the Marne.
 ? D. m.-Sergeant Gray in uni
Arizona republican., 1921-05-17
The Aerial Mail Service

When George Stephenson began to build steam railway in England he encountered violent physi- cal opposition. Long afterward. there was strong prejudice against the railroad. There was no sense in tearing through the at rate of ten miles an with the attendant risk of killing maimng those who were foohardy enough ride such contraptions. There time enough in the world for people to enjoy themselves and transact their business as their fathers had done.
 We laugh now at those old objections yet may inquire whether the objections might not be better urged against the aerial mail service. It instituted nearly forty lives of which nineteen lost in the past
 There has little if any improvement in three years. Certainly it has been made any safer for the fatalities in the last have been more numerous than in either of the two preceding years.
 Among the developments of the war better types of airplanes perhaps safer Though fatalities flying year by year take into account that there year by year flying machines and fiers So do know. perhaps the statsticians whether the percentage of fatalities has been reduced.
 No machine a perfect machine. other wise we would have machines which would go wrong Locomotives disclose serious defects, withstanding have been improving them for almost a century But when locomotive goes wrong there the ground nearby that have compara- lively few fatalities No improvement of airplanes will eliminate modify the peril of falling when something goes wrong with the motor.
 And there is the always weak and imperfect human factor to be considered something that seems unsusceptible O improvement. There under investigation by postoffice board charges of in- competence and drunkenness which alleged to have been responsible for more than half dozen fatalities n the air service.
 If the service could be improved that it might made reasonably safe. would the result be worth the expenditure lives and money to make it so? We doubt it. There is pressing necessity for hurrng through the air at the rate of 100 or 15o miles an hour. If time precious in the of
Arizona republican., 1921-05-17
By Frederic J. Haskin

WASHINGTON, May 16-The ill., ness of a gypsy king in Detroit few days ago, which is said to have en- dangered the succession in a famous gypsy dynasty. was widely noticed in the papers and called public attention to that strange race of nomads whD live all over the modern world, and yet are not in the least part of it. In fact their camps, which at this time of the year are beginning to ap- pear along the high roads all over the United States. with their queer tents and paiSted wagons their swarthy women in gaudy silks, seem as out of place among the neat Amer ican farms and homes as would an orchid growing among daisies.
 The gypsies are unique among peoples in having roamed all over five continents without a country of their own or any other unifying in fluence, and yet they have kept intact their language, their customs and ways of living and their racial purity. On the nature of that race science has recently shed a good deal of light. The gypsies are no longer thought to have come from Egypt, as their name would imply, but are known to be de- rived from northern India. Both their language and their racial type are said to relate them unmistaka ply to the Hindoos.
 The mystery about them is what caused a large section of race to suddenly adopt nomadic life and what enables it to continue this life in all parts of the world for centuries without loss of racial identity. For the gypsies began to wander in the tenth century, moving from their home probably in body which broke up into smaller and smaller subdivi- sions and gradually scattered into all parts of the world. They were prob ably driven out of India by the hordes of Genghis Khan. There is nothing remarkable about the start of this migration. History is full of similar ones. But usually the migrants have settled again at the first favorable opportunity and have been largely absorbed by the population about them. Only the gypsies have kept moving and have remained un- changed. The Jews of course offer the nearest thing to a paraller, but the Jews have attached themselves to various countries. adopting their lan- guages and customs, playing an i'm portant part in the making of civili- zation. The gypsy adopts nothing and remains as completely outside of civilization as the ra bbits and birds
 Race of Nomads
 It is plain the secret of gypsy na- ture is in the love of wandering which scientists call the nomadic i'm pulse. This component of human na . ture has been scientifically studied by Davenport He decides that the nomadic impulse is native to all hu- man nature but has been largely inhibited in most individuals because of the necessities of civilized exist ense. Most of us at some time in
Arizona republican., 1921-05-17
Cotton

There will be shortage of cotton of all grades the of the present season. The south has learned its that the there has been greatly reduced. Only third of the usual acreage learn from the dispatches, has been planted in Mexico The low price to which cotton fell since last July down the crop in all cotton growing countries
 We speaking of cotton other than long staple but shortage in those grades of cotton will have its effect the demand for the longer flores There will also be a decidedly smaller that avail able in this country Sea Island formerly the sole contribution from this country the demand for long staple, is practically the market and this will be factor all. Less than half the acreage of long staple ths California last year has been planted this year.
 And all cotton both long and short staple there will be a much greater demand than there year with a surfeted supply
Arizona republican., 1921-05-17
GYPSIES

youth-have dreamed of long and ad-
 venturous journeyings, and a good many of us have yielded to the temptation at some time or other. if the delinquency amounted to no more than playing hockey from school
 Many persons keep this desire all of their lives, even though they never yield to it. Some cannot resist it
 and these become tramps. itinerant peddlers, explorers. globe trotters. or whatever else their abilities and op- portunities enable them to become
 There are few of us, even those most rooted in habit and setted. who can not feel the romantic appeal of free rowing life
 The gypsies, then, are a race of men who embody this characteristic of all men most intensely. Think of gypsy as a personification of your
 own love of change and adventure
 your hatred of routine and monotony the wandering dreams of your youth which you never had the chance or
 the courage to fulfill, and you will
 understand him better
 The gypsies might perhaps be ex- plained by the fact that apart of a
 race or tribe had to migrate in that far away day, and that all of those in whom the nomadic impulse was oNi iohbCSt NOAulllttItu tO SO. Perhaps circumstances made it i'm possible for them to settle anywhere as whole, and so they kept moving the less strong and adventurous drop ping out one by one, until only a band of hardy, born wanderers remained. The fact that the Gypsy person. l flies the vagabond and the nomad l in all of us doubtless explains the 1 different accounts of him that you t.ah lNn l is regarded as a cheat. a thief a kid napper. and a bad fellow generally. 1 On the other hand. many distin- l guished persons. of whom George Borrow. the English author, is the
 most famous, have learned the Gypsy
 language and lived among the Gyp-
 sies, and these without exception | testify to the sincerity, kindness and 1 hospitality of the road people, and | to their great capacity for friend 7 ship.
 Why Gypsies are Not Liked 1 No doubt there is an instinctive l antagonism between respectable folk | and Gypsies. The respectable settled life is achieved only by repressing | and conquering the nomadic impulse | the Gypsy represents. The farmer,
 plodding through his daily routine
 perhaps sees in the Gypsy, without 1 being aware of the fact, his own
 other self. that he has had to fight
 the self that led him to play hockey
 from school and tempted him to go ! to sea. and even now causes him to ! leave blowing for fishing once in a | while His attitude toward this self as incarnate in the Gypsy, is one of
 mingled envy and antagonism. He
 despises the Gypsy and still he hangs
 around the Gypsy tent and has his
Arizona republican., 1921-05-17
The Stacker Lists

exchange rises in defense of the decision of the secretary of to publish list of saekers. The defense criticizes the New York World for de- nouncing the secretary for giving publicity to the of subject to draft who had enlisted had been excused and for saying that the secretary assumed the to be guilty until proved innocent
 Thereupon. says its critic:
 Well. if secretary of is fully justified. If is summoned to jury duty and when his is called not respond judge issues bench warrant for his arrest. His failure to respond is prima facie evidence of guilt and the warrant of arrest will be served and he will be punished unless he show that he was innocent of disobeying the summons.
 these guilty He has expressly declared that there may be in the list but that after making effort humanly possible, and after long delay in endeavor to eliminate any name enormously the list unable to find that any of the named improperly included He asks those named, if improperly listed This is the best he could do. To fail to publish the list as he has done would be dereliction of duty the of the secretarya derelcton that would be very properly censured by the American Legion and by all the who faithfully responded to their try's call
 the list justly complain. He is partly fault, for the department has made every possible effort to locate him. Instead of complaining. he should thank the secretary of war for giving him the final opportunity his off the list of deserters
 Theoretically this sound but since this defense prepared incident has been presented which puts it different light It happened that the first the first list offered the news publication that of lieutenant colonel enlisted previous the selective draft, had risen to commanding position in and important branch of warfare and whose work had been subject of much favorable comment through the His command embraced 1000 men.
 Everybody appears to have been of this mans status except the draft board. and the draft board must time have been of it for he was not summoned his reputation the mercy a lot of mutton headed clerks either in the draft board the department
 Lists so up do not commend themselves newspapers particularly when their publication may be provocative of a libel
Arizona republican., 1921-05-17
NOT ALAR MING

I got on the street and lucky enough to find seat Not having anything better to do, devoted the conversation of two men the seat just front of They were strangers and after passing the usual remarks about the weather and jitneys it seemed the conversation going 0 die of stagnation. One of them revived it for moment, though.
 T heard the other day that Annette Keerman had lost her voice. he informed his companion.
 The second considered this fact for a ment-
 What difference would il make?" he demanded
 Which. after all is about all that could be said!
 Yale juniors propose to perpetuate the life and times undergraduates of Yale by of motion picture films
Arizona republican., 1921-05-17

We by the papers that the Standard Oil company is about it's capital by the sale of $50 900 000 We supposed the Standard making plenty of money. The last time bought gasoline the man who sold it said he was holding out only two cents gallon. The went Rockefeller