Weekly journal-miner., 1922-01-11
Arms Treaty Leaks Out Pact Obtain for Fifteen Years
PRESIDENT BOCE IF STATE
 CATTLE ASSOCIATION IN H|S
 FRANK TALK ON|LLSOF RANCH

taken with 2 grain of the mineral it was about, but that nevertheless it was true.
 The cattleman, he summed up, is a consumer out of luck and producer on the same footing.
 He did not believe that any indus try could live on 10 per cent money. The way out of that, however, he thought, might be to try to get along on little less of that borrowed money.
 In l47 years, the federal constitu- ton which contains 300 code lines, has been amended l9 times. The Arizona constitution, written by a marvellous constitutional convention at a period when Arizona knew even less than it does today about gov ernment and constitutions and busi- ness and the like, contains 1900 code lines and has been amended l9 times in 10 years.
 Lawyers assure him, MT. Boice said, that the constitution of Arizona is as delft to handle as log of wood, is full of mass of matter that by all good sense should be contained in statutory provisions, and is about the sorriest piece of fundamental law in the land. Therefore, the state indus trial conference, at an extremely businesslike meeting at Tucson last week, decided to put out shortly some announcement about its inten- tions with respect 'thereunto. A con stitutional convention in which some economy might be written into the constitution, was what industry had decided was imperatively needed. The industries pay the taxes and Aow, by gosh, they are going to see about the matter before it is too late.
 The fellow who complains to the assessor, is just lot too late to do my good for himself. He ought to take his foot in his hand and go and
 ce about these expenditures before they are made. Work through legis-
 tors and boards of supervisors IS what will count in curtailing ex- -enses, Boice declared
 The industrial conference, he indi- cated, would puusue refreshingly novel course. Instead of crying over what abuses had been in the past and Q hat they had led to, would turn its attention strictly to the future.
 The entire discussion of the con stitution came up as an after-thought to the speaker who had been devot- ing himself to the subject of over head expenses of the cattlemen.
 Overhead, he said. included virtual ly only taxes and interest. He had analysed the figures in his own busi- ness and had been astonished to learn that last year 10 cents out of every dollar paid out in expenses, had been to state and county gov ernment. Analysed in another way, he said, it figured $l.l5 for every calf produced And said calf finger ed along a couple of years and then sold for SIS.
 Tony's Lambs
 Senator Johns was called upon by Harry Knight to present the famous freight rate anamoly of the New Zealand lambs. He told the assem- bly, about the importation of the young animals from the antipodes. He had sold 5O,OOO or so of lambs in his own brief but sensational ca reer but had never sold lambs tail in Arizona. Yet he bought a large percentage of his supplies here.
 But his wool story was an example of bookkeeping that elicited amazed -ipples from the audience. He said Australia and New Zealand shipped wool to Pacific coast ports and thence by rail to Boston. The freight from the western ports to Boston was S1.35 a hundred. An Arizona wool grower might load a ear at Ash Fork and attach it to the Australian train bound for the same