Arizona republican., 1921-05-26

Indian burau had a foolish that the civiliza ton of the would be facilitated by giving them the names of eminent Americans. Thus several of the boys of the Phoenix Indian school their admission to the school became John Greenleaf Whittier. Henry W. Longfellow, Samuel Randall etc, and when they had finished the there they ugged those to the reservations.
 A little later pained find the names of Americans whom we had been taught to revere in the police bloter the district court docket in connection with such offenses drunkenness. horse and cattle stealing greater less crimes We are happy to state that this system of nomen- clature long ago abandoned.
 We read a story recently that parents practcing certain cult did not their children birth until their progeny had evinced certain ndivdu- ality that made the selection of appropriate possible
 That would be better than giving the of Thomas Jefferson a baby which might later out to be thief idiot
 Great men have protection against infringe their by the unworthy. We read of George Washington Somebody .other who is arrested for beating his wife And occasionally hears of boy named after William Mckinley doing something he shouldn't.
 The William Tafts and the Theodore Roosevelts still children the Woodrow Wilson's. And must wait till 1s4o. least, until hear any thing good bad from the Warren G. Hardings of whom there Is now numerous tribe.
 The boys who named after Ulysses s. Grant middle aged by and they must be law abiding quiet citizens for they seldom get their in the papers.
 StilI if Grover Cleveland Bergdoll has sullied great and good name. the has ored by other than Grover Cleveland Alexander who good soldier and is great pitcher.
 Parents who confer upon their children a great mans name under obligations to it that their children live up that
 There a good many cities the United States thousands of them. Phoenix nowhere the top in point of population. There are hundreds of cities ahead of it in that respect. But another it is much the top It stands 10th in the record of building permits for April New York at the with permits aggregating s29,Ooo,OOO Chi second with s15e>oo Thus Phoenixs proposed building operations entirely out of proportion to those of Chicago or New York considering compara- tive populations.
 When the Presbyterian General Assembly gets a good man it keeps him. Rotation in office in that organization is usually effected only by death The election Tuesday of Rev Louis Seymour Nudge to be stated clerk of the assembly. recalls that his predecessor the late Rev. W. H. Roberts. held important office for nearly forty years.
 Don't get excited when you hear of Liberty Bonds selling. down. If cou have money, take them in. Some of these days all these bonds will be in the hands of who want keep them. Then the prices
 Do you remember the old time butcher. with mustache like paint brush who threw in bone and dog meat gave son a nice large wiener?
 The way elevators in some office buildings mi he to keeu inc the ground and raise lower the building.
 Wouldn't the Modern Youth throw fit if he had to do some of the chores that wished father when he a boy.
 In every country town. there is fellow who seems never to do.anything except sharpen
 Sometimes it requires 50 cents worth clerks time to sell woman 20 cents worth of goods.
 Timber supply has decreased in proportion to the increase in blockheads
 find Poles full of splinters
 POPPY DAY
 Everybody a Poppy
 The flower of Flanders Field,
 A symbol of the rich blood
 That flowed our land to shield
 They fought and died in Normandy
 Our boys we loved we'll
 And remember them
 Who suffered death and hell?
 So every heart today
 Let blaze Poppy red A sign unto the living
 And signal of the dead. Blanche NJ. Golightly. The Philadelphia Police department which fur nshed two companies of the military police the Twenty-eighth division overseas, has been asked to permit these veterans the National Guard and form a divisional headquarters company officer and 75 enlisted