davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Arizona republican., 1922-05-26
Once Liability, Now Asset

What Chemical and Metallurgcal Engineering"
in the May number, describes as smoke farming"
form of graft driven chemical plants and
snelters to reduction of atmospheric pollution from
sulphur fumes and their conversion by recovery into
suphuric acid. Recovery is not yet complete, but
chemical engineers are engaged in experiments which
they hopeful will lead them to a total elimination
of sulphur fumes. This number of the magazine
contains extensive report of the work of the
atmospheric pollution committee of the Institute of
Chemical Engineers included in an article by James
Withrow professor of industrial chemistry in Ohio
state University, on atmospheric Pollution from
Sulphuric Acid Plant Fumes"
The many lawsuits instituted by farmers in the
vicinity of chemical plants and smelters first turned
attention to some way to eliminate the fumes Many
actions for damages to plant and animal life had
gone against the companies which set about search
for some way of removing liability which is now
being turned into an asset
Most of these suits took place in the East though
there have been several in the West, though they
been fewer because the smelters are generally
remote from agricultural regions, and no account
has been taken of the deleterious effect of their
fumes. if any upon cactus. sagebrush, greasewood
We have. though, one such suit now pending
believe in the supreme court of Arizona, brought
by some farmers of the Upper Verde against one of
the mining companies of Jerome
Chemical and Metallngical Engineering be-
neves that not all such actions brought in good
faith for it says:
Fumes from chemical plants have been one
source of many damage suits and legal expense
sulphur fumes from smelters familiar example
Arizona republican., 1922-05-26

And it was upon these fumes that the West not so
far behind the effete East built its unique graft of
smoke farming Many honest dollar turned
by farmers in the neighborhood of the smelters
They found it easy collect from the smelling
pany after the death of horse from the effects of
the fumes
"But this source of revenue dried up at the source
when one enterprising smelter manager able to
prove in court that bought the fume poisoned
horse nearly two dozen times and each time from
different farmer upon whose premises it alleged
to have died from the effects of fumes"
Arizona republican., 1922-05-26
THE ONCE OVER
J. By Fl. /. PHILLIPS = y

Dear Sir:
Can you tell me what are the three
most powerful broadcasting stations?
MIKE g.
f. o. B.. r. S. V. p: C. o. d. and
p. d. @. are about as good as any.
b. V. d. will. however, be the most
popular this summer.
Sir:
have been reading all the instruc-
tons on building a home radio set as
given by the newspaper experts.
have followed directions to the letter
and the result of my efforts is a very
handsome mouse trap. What shall !
do next? IGNATZ.
A.-Put the receiver on the floor.
insert an ounce of cheese in the car
piece and trap some mice.
Kindly explain these terms: rheo-
stat, ainpere, detector. amplifier, carl
ocouplers. hetrodyne. WILLIE NJ.
A.-Rheostat An ointmene
Ampere .............A A tropical 1lsn
Detector ...A woman detective
Amplifier-A part OF player-piano
Variocouplers ....... swollen VEINS
HeTodyne ...............
The Greek goddess of dandruff
ss
Dear Radio:
After buying an elaborate radio set,
buying all the special radio nlaga-
zines, and working for two months. to
be able to hear something by radio
phone | am now suffering from q
nervous break down and haven't
caught single word out OF the air
Arizona republican., 1922-05-26
RADIO QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS

Dear Ed:
I have invested over $500 in radio
equipment, knocked hole in the side
of the house. and contracted pneu-
monia through putting an aerial on
my roof on cold night in my shirt
sleeves. Yet. after all this expense
and trouble l am unable to hear the
daily weather report from Arlington
What should do?
DAPPER DICK.
A.-To deprive you OF the daily
weather forecastsis shameful and in
excusable. But. on the other hand.
are you quite sure you are the sort
Of person. temperamentally, that can
stand the strain of this exciting feat
ure of the radio program? Why not
take bedtime story instead and have
no regrets?
Sir:
Last Tuesday night I stayed home
to hear Nine. Louise Coloratura Ma
dero give a concert over the radio.
spent a horrible evening. Somebody
must have been walking around the
sending instrument with squeaky
heels. PROF. SNUDGL Y NJ.
A.-No. you are mistaken. There
were no squeaky heels there. That
was Nine. Madero singing.
Dear Editor:
What is the best hook up for trans
hitting. ARTHUR =.
A.-Do you want one that hooks up
the back or the front?
Arizona republican., 1922-05-26
THE SQUIRE OF DANES

and respect, inquiries if she desires in
struction. Generally she does. If her
reward is liberal the lessons usually
continue and eventually end In the
acquisition of an escort.
1t is not at all a bad arrangemnt
from the woman's point of the view.
She has learned to dance with the
man.: to follow his leads and steps
perfectly. He is all that propriety
could require in dress, manner and
department. And the whole thing is
on business basis She is under
no obligations. She pays for what
she gets-an escort-and having paid
she doesn't have to be at all en-
tertaining or winsome or seductive or
any of the things she has to be to
the men who take her about at home.
They go to a hotel dinner dance. She
pays for dinner Later. they go to
on OF the theater roofs. where there
is dancing and food. Again she pays
the bill
The Vocation Pays
AS a means of earning a fairly
easy living. the arrangement is also
highly satisfactory to the Squire of
Danes. He is not. as might be ex-
pected very brilliant or ambitious
fellow. Before the comparatively re-
cent dance craze in this country, he
was probably a clerk, but since the
entrance of the fox trot he has APP
piled himself with painstaking dill
gence to being courtier In this he
has to a large extent succeeded. He
cannot spout epigrams. but he knows
New York and its ways, particularly
in dancing and theatrical circles, and
"a ~ ivai. ,egis a
reads a newspaper thoroughly every
morning in order to keep up with
the topics of the day. In short. he
has acquired all the technique for
making an agreeable companion.
Furthermore, he has been able to
make it pay. His afternoons which
are usually spent in giving dancing
instruction to few clients whom
he has carefully selected as liberal
tippers. yeild from s5 to $40 each.
For his escort duty in the evening
he receives another $40 or $15. If he
is up to the average in escorting eff
ficiency, there is scarcely ever an
evening when he does not have some
such engagement. Luncheons also
are usually paid for by his clients.
If he has to buy more than his break
fast on any one day he begins to
worry about the increase in his over
head.
Through it all he manages to keep
intact his self-respect. Il don't sup
pose / cut a particularly admirable
figure in society,"" remarked one
Squire recently, "but am I not en-
titled to as much respect as any
other popular entertainer? Through
my efforts. many women derive a
pleasure they would not otherwise
get. ] do not make as much as many
theatrical performers who deal in
questionable jokes and suggestive
situations, / merely try to give some
unattached danes their shares of
clean. healthy, enjoyment. After all,
is that work to ashamed Off"
------0-------
Anesthetics were known and used
by the Chinese thousands of years
ago.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-26

Bill" Stewart is the owner of the Prescott
Courier. He has been as good as its owner ever
since he took charge of it couple of years ago and
made a sparkling, spicy newspaper OF it. Therefore
do not suppose its readers will notice any change
in it and there is none would suggest except
we suppose the owner wf scoff at change OF
politics Our only criticism of it Is its notceably
strong tendency toward Democracy. That is bad
fault in any and very difficult of correction
But the millennium is coming when there will be
more Democrats and then Mr. Stewart will make the
Courier Republican.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-26
SCOTTSDALE CROP
Of APR|COTS AGAIN
EARLY ON MARKET

SCOTTS ALE, May 23-The
Scottsdale crop of apricots have be-
gun to ripen and, as usual, are the
first in the valley to the market. Mr..
wickware and Mr. Sandige sent sew
eral carloads to market this week and
will be harvesting the early crop on
a large scale next week. The pros
pect for a good price for cots this
year is good, as the frost damaged
the fruit in many sections of the VAL
ley, so that a big crop will not be
harvested.
One of the most important meetings
of the local farm bureau will be held
at the school house Saturday night.
One of the important items of the
evening viii be to nominate candi-
dates for election as a director TO
the Arizona Pima Cotton Growers
association. Mr.. B. J. Showers, who
is now the director, has served very
satisfactorily in that capacity, and the
indications are that he will be re-
elected for that position. May mar
keting. milk marketing and other OF
the marketing problems will be dis
cussed and many interesting features
in connection with these new organ
1ZaLlOnS Will De oubs
| With the closing of the public
schools in this district Friday, a feel
ing of satisfaction has been expressed
by those having children in school
this season the way the work was
conducted With very crowded rooms
and lack of equipment, due to insult
| ficient room for il, the efficiency or
the school has been maintained to
high standard by Principal L. ..
DuRoss. This entire district is look
ing forward to the building of the
new school buildings, for it will not
only aid the high school students, but
the grade students as we'll, for 1t win
give them more ROOM
Judge Kimsey has requested every
Ivoter in the district to register as
soon as possible at his office in the
bank building IT will help lot, for
it will cost the county nothing to
register voters through him. while Is
Arizona republican., 1922-05-26
TIME, THE WASP

Summer is lady, with poppies in her hat;
She's just little blowzy and she's just a trifle
bold;
She laughs at sylphs and silver beeches moonlight
and all that;
She has no foolish reticence plays at being
cold
Summers laugh is mellow with little edge of scorn,
She's like luscious pear that's known the Wasps
malicious sting.
o. Summer, all your opulence still leaves half
forlorn--
To think that you we're once the fairy maid we
knew Spring!
Arthur Powell, in Lese's Weekly
Arizona republican., 1922-05-26

they have to be registered by solic-
itors the expense is great.
William Sample, who has been as
sisting Mr.. Heron in managing his
business, left yesterday for the oor-
der and will remain some time.
The community picnic given by the
church and other civic organizations
at the Ingleside club grounds Satur-
day was great success. The peo-
pie gathered early and stayed late
and general good time was had by
all.
The body Of B. "Curley'' Lewlellen,
the Scottsdale youth who was
drowned in the Arizona canal Thurs
day night, was shipped home to his
relatives Monday, in Holton, Texas.
Mrs. Mu.dSow. teacher of the fourth
and fifth grades, ana her husband ana
family. viii leave soon in car for
an extended tour throughout Kansas
and Missouri to visit friends in many
towns in those two states.
Wallace Miller, who has been liv-
ing in Tempe, moved, to his ranch IN
this district the past week.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-26
WHENCE THE "kEE-WEE"

During the late war; officers in the army air
service classified flying officers ground
officers the latter being used for administrative work
and for all other duties not actually requiring flight
Much jealousy existed at some fields between the
flyers and the non flyers.
1t was naturalist among the flyers who aptly
expressed for his fellows title fitting their mortal
enemies. He dubbed the ground officers as 'Kee-
Wees" The name spread, yet few know the reason
for the title 1t was while looking up the word "apt-
tude' in the dictionary that air service officer
stumbled the right dope: "Apteryx'--a bird native
OF New Zealand without wings tail. Cannot fly
called by natives "Kee-Wee"-Airco News
Arizona republican., 1922-05-26
LOCAL BOY SCOUTS
PREPARE FOR CAMP
At GILLESPIE DAM

Troop No. Z is now getting ready to
spend one week at their camp at
Gillespie dam where they will take
up the study of Camp craft. Equip
ped with "pup-tents.' bed rolls and
mess-zits they will leave Saturday
morning,
The boys are studying hard to
finish their work so that upon their
return they will be ready to take
their first class Scout test before the
court Of honor of the local council.
The remainder of the troop ex
poets to be full fledged second class
scouts before their return.
Patrol leaders Walter Thornton.
of the Owls; Luie Roberts of the
Eagles, and Harold vickery of the
Black Bears, are contesting for hon
ors in having the best patrol. Each
| leader is also patrol yell leader and
the patrol yells are being practiced
three evenings a week. Troop songs
have been learned so that each Fri
day night, after short practice drill.
good turns are reported. stories are
| told and the songs are sung around
the camp fire.
George Boner and Donald Souther-
| land are the standard bearers. Lloyd
| Sheets, Harvey Bales and Howard
Erb are the color bearers. Kenith
| Vickery is the Scout scribe, Godfrey
Atwater is the drummer and Eugene
| Prochasl1a. and Raymond Clark are
| the troop buglers.
The Black Bear patrol is made up
| of the following boys: Harold Wick
cry. patrol leader; Wayne Branch,
Godfrey Atwater, Ross Cheever. Car
son Minter, Stirling Price, Frank
Chaptc md Innk Will
| liams.
The Eagle patrol as follows: Luie
Roberts. patrol leader; George Boner,
Jim Bryant, Albert Clark, Howard
Erb, Bob Hunsick, Eugene Ingle, Or
vile Pickering and Eugene Pro-
chaska
The Owl patrol as follows: wal
ter Thornton, patrol leader; Harvey
Bales, Howard Clark, Raymond
Clark, Tom Shaughnessy. yinton
Smith, Donald Switzerland and
Kenith Vickery.
There is still one vacancy in the
Gorsuch moving to California to
live.
Last week the Girl Scouts of
| Washington school district were ac-
corded the courtesy of Capitol Troop
| No. Z, Boy Scouts of Americas sum-
mer camp at Gillespie dam. where
| they enjoyed their weekend camp.
| Fishing, bathing. hikes and camp
| cooking were enjoyed by all.
---O----
! Coal tar possibilities are far from
| exhausted according to experts. New
remedies, new colors and new per-
| fumes are awaiting release and in the
| next few years many new products
arc predicted
Arizona republican., 1922-05-26

Phoenix, Arizona,
RI Ed. No. z
May "a. 1922.
Editor; Arizona Republican.
Phoenix, Arizona.
Dear Sir:
viii you kindly permit me to sus
gest a correction TO an error that oc-
ours in your issue of Sunday, May
81 1922. In the Questions and
Answers by Mr.. Haskin it is stated
that the velocity Of electricity is
1S6. 600 miles per second or 300,ooo
meters per second. The unit OF the
last quantity should be "kilometers
instead OF meters.
Very truly yours.
JAX y. &TAfsNAEsR
Arizona republican., 1922-05-26

We could have shown visitors yesterday
of the beauties of the valley If had had
time. But we'l bet that many of them much
that they will come back to the rest.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-26

What Democratic newspaper is going to hurl the
first brick labeled "bolter' at G. W. P. Hunt?
Arizona republican., 1922-05-26
FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 2s, 1922

Refuse to be III. Never tell people
you are Ill; neuer oaU7o 1T to yoatrself.
Illness IS one of those things which
q man should resist ON principle.
-Lytton.
Arizona republican., 1922-05-26

Coal tar possibilities are far from
exhausted according to experts. New
remedies, new colors and new per-
fumes are awaiting release and in the
next few years many new products
are predicted
Arizona republican., 1922-05-26

Anesthetics We're known and used
by the Chinese thousands of years
ago
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-12-20

and copied it into her album. Then,
just before Christmas of 1923, she
sent a copy to the editor of the Troy
Sentinel. And that's how the verses
came to be printed in the first place.
Clement Moore, like many n mar
with a serious purpose in life, had
a hobby which he did not ride in pub
lie. His vocation was the teaching
of Biblical learning to theological stu
dents. His avocatlon was writing po-
etry for the edification and pleasure
of his children. AS for the children.
they thought their fathers verses were
the best fun In all the world. He I'M
derstood so well their likes and dis
likes and sym%pathlzed so keenly with
their Joys and griefs. Sometimes the
poems contained a moral that could
be applied right at home. But In gen.
eral the verses were just sheer, clear
rollicking fun.
Clement Moore, as he related In lat
er years, first heard the story of st.
Nicholas as told In the poem from II
Jolly fat Dutchman who lived ear
his boyhood home. The Dutchman had
heard the story when a boy in Hol-
land.
Well, when the Christmas of 1922
drew near Clement Moore thought he
would write Il Christmas poem as a
present for his children. And he
picked out the Dutchman's story of
st. Nick as the subject. The Moores
ta.oI L.. It~ ho,,.O op hin that
sloped to the Hudson. The ground
was all covered with snow There was
a great fireplace where the Christmas
stockings were hung. The setting was
lust right. SO one evening Clement
Moore sat down in front of a cheerful
blaze in the big fireplace and began
the verses that will Keep his fame
immortal as long as there are chill
dren and Christmas Is celebrated.
Clement Moore was a very modest
man and his personal feeling about
the verses he wrote for his children
was that they had little merit except
as verses for c~hildren-and for his
own children. And for that reason
he was reluctant to disclose his au-
thorship. Finally, in 1874, he did pub
lish a collection of Poems," which
included "a Visit From st. Nicholas"
In the records of the General Theo-
logical seminary Is the following testi-
monial from its faculty to the sterling
worth of their associate:
"We recognize in him one whom God
has blessed with selected gifts warm
hearted in friendship, genial In society.
kindly and considerable to all; pos
sessed of fine literary tastes, poetic
instincts and expressiveness, and Of
cheerful humor withal at the same
time well accomplished In severer stud
les and resolute for more laborious
undertakings, as his. learned works in
Hebrew grammar and le~xlcography dis
tinctly testify"
"a Visit From st. Nicholas is here
with reprinted in full. And no apology
Is made for reproducing a poem that
millions of children-and grownups.
too-know by heart. It's not hard
work at Christmas time to run over
the old, familiar li~nes-they're good
reading yet for the oldest and crusti-
est of us.
The few lines of verse below, print
ed Just for the contrast, are the be-
ginning of a clever Twentieth century
version from the Philadelphia Public
Ledger in which an up-to-date st. Nick
travels by alrplane.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-12-20

cey adopted the doll as eagerly as
though lie had been n girl. He took 1t
to bed with him at night and talked
over the events of the day with 1t be-
fore he went to sleep. He always used
n toothpick after his drink OF milk, but
never without offering It first to his
doll Billy. AS time passed on and
Chauncey grew bigger he did not seem
to outgrow the doll. When he ap-
peared ut Sunday school with his be-
loved companion there were smiles,
but he didn't see anything to laugh at.
II wasn't until the boys began TO call
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-12-20

ways being put away, neither to be
cen or heard until another Christmas
has come.
Yet l am losing my prime and my
youthful freshness in spite of them.
Five years ago l was sent away as a
Christmas gift. And once a year l
start off or n journey.
There's a little handkerchief, mo-
very pretty, which l can save to give
to some m for next Christmas" is
what is said when / appear.
Yet 1 look a bit drab now. Sooner
OF later l may be kept, though for the
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-12-20

good cheer and gift-giying. From
another viewpoint there Is an encour-
aging growth of the spirit of the ut
terance Of Elizabeth Phillips.
Eighteen years ago Elizabeth Phil
lips had ar inspiration to make the
anniversary of Our Lords birth not
so much an anniversary of happiness
for he few as an anniversary of hap
piness for the many. She had a vision
Of those who have giving to those
who have not. And from her humble
beginning with a few hundred poor
children have come the thousand and
one Christmas givlngs the country
over that are making the holiday year
by year n of happiness to increas-
ing numbers of the poor, the friend
less and the hopeless.
Elizabeth Philllps-she has been
dead these thirteen years-had her
inspiration in 1904 in Philadelphia.
She was a teacher In the public
schools. She lay III in a boarding
house. She saw the cold rain Of au-
tuihh pcutiub uRuihst HcI NhluoN.
She thought of the Christmas that
was coming.
christmas will not mean very
much to me-" she thought. "But 1t
will mean far less-maybe nothing ut
ALTO many. If / could only make
1t a better Christmas for some If
those l can; l know | can. | will
try
AS soon as she got well she began
to work out her plan. Through the
cooperation of President Roosevelt
she was enabled to secure hundreds
of letters to Santa Claus-every
Christmas season these letters come
In n flood to every blg-city post office.
Then she made 1t her business to
visit her friends, to call upon a host
of new ones, to solicit help from
everybody, everywhere. collecting two
cents in n place, five cents II an
other place, a dollar somewhere else,
and by the time Christmas eve arrived
she had filled several hundred stock
lngs.
The fame of Elizabeth Phillips
spread widely. And she had visions
of a nationwide movement along the
line of her successful experiment.
"A Christmas stocking for every
childl' she said. "The Christmas
day Is coming when Santa Claus shall
visit every child In the land and cone
shall he forpotfen.
at is my purpose to make Santa
Claus a reality, whose home will be
In every home and who Will be the
friend Of children everywhere. The
most important thing is a permanent
headquarters-the House of Santa
Claus. And over the door there VIII
be a statue of the old fellow with n
pack Of toys IN his back. When the
children pass by they can say, There's
where Santa Claus liyes-he sees that
every boy and girl gets a stocking
filled with Christmas things at Christ
mas time
"There Santa's work will be carried
on-not only during the week before
Christmas but all through the year.
And besides, 1t will be a home for as