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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-06
QUIZ

@. How long was Washingtons Farewell
Address? J. H. K.
A 1t occupied in manuscript thirty-two
pages of quarto letter paper sewed together
in a book. The address first published
in the Philadelphia Advertisers September,
1896 The address is dated September 19 of
that year.
@. Why are automobile steering wheels
on the left side? My boy wants to know.
\ A. The early models of automobiles had
their steering wheels either in the center or
on the right but experience soon proved the
driver had better view of the road, especially
of passing traffic, when seated at the left.
In England where the rule Of the road is
contrary to ours and where all traffic, moves
on the left side, the steering wheels a at
the right of the cars.
Q. Were there many negroes in the
United States before the Civil war who were
not slaves? w G. H.
A. At the beginning of the Civil war
there were 4S7,970 free negroes to $685.
760 slaves.
Q. Have birds always gone south in win
ter and north in summer? G. L. B.
A According to the outline of Science"
migration is a. very old habit an Unborn in
stinct which was developed ages ago, and
which manifests itself year after year in a
uniform manner and without any remarkable
close conformity to the immediate condi-
tiOns.
O. What does it cost to maintain a con,
crete road? d. Med.
A. Engineers estimate that in a general
way for a sixteen to twenty-foot weil-built
concrete road it will cost about $50 per mile
annually for filling cracks and joints, with
a total annual slab maintenance of from
500 to $500 per mile, depending upon the
amount Of traffic.
O., Is the Leviathan the fastest passenger
boat in the world? ]. c. T.
A The Leviathan is both the largest and
fastest passenger ship a1oat.
O. What is the difference between Car
rest and prosecuted" w. r. f.
4. A person is placed under ARREST
when he is taken into custody by peace
officer A person is prosecuted" when he is
brought before a court and tried on Grim
inaI charge.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-06
DESTINY'S CHILD
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR

What has gone before.-Courtney
Harrington induces Lorry Grenville to
marry him just after she has discovered
that Tom Ransome, the man she really
loves, is unworthy. Lorry does not love
her husband, and his love for her is so
intense that it frightens her. After her
marriage she still yearns over Tom, and
the knowledge that she is to become
mother fills her with rebellion. AS the
time passes, Courtneys vitality seems to
sap her strength, and the doctor orders
her away to the/sea. She returns after
a long separation from Courtney, and on
the night her baby is born screams out
her fear of her husband in her delirium.
Courtney tramps the streets all night
and returns to the apartment at dawn
Now go on with the story.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-06
Musso1;n; and His Fire Brand
At USSOLINI, they say, thinks he looks
NE like Napoleon. Maybe that eX-

T 4OOAAN
M like Napoleon. Maybe that eN-
" a. plains his rejection of the Greeks
fair answer to his brow-beating ultimatum
maybe that is why he has launched his
country upon course of aggression uneX-
ampled since a Hohenzollern kaiser trampled
Belgium down. The Italian premier and
Fascist leader has a rolling eye, a dropping
foreock and what some of his adorers deem
an ultra-modern mind. His manner may
we'll be Napoleonesque, but his mental twist
is Enthusiastically Medieval. He wants to be
a world conqueror He is certain to be a
world pest, if the responsible powers Of Eu-
rope do not intervene.
His demands upon Greece on the occasion
OF the killing of members of an Italian com7
mission near the Albanian frontier were all
that a high look and proud heart, devoid
Of reason or justice, could we'll contrive.
With no jot of evidence to fasten the crime
upon the HellGnic government people, he
assumed them guilty and called forthwith,
not only for most humiliating acknowledge
ments,> but also for payment of money be-
side which Shylocks bloody bond was mod
! crate and merciful. Greece, lately emerged
/ from Iuckless and weakening with the
Turk, offered full expressions of regret and
! apology and just compensation to the fami-
| lies Of the slain Italian officials. But this
would not do for the mighty Mussoini,
who looks like Napoleon and feels like Will
! helm HOhenZollern nine Septembers ago. In
| sisting upon instant payment OF fifty million
| lire, preposterous, If not impossible, sum,
and brushing aside every suggestion that the
! case be referred to the League of Nations
he FASTENED to seize Corfu, killing in the
| bombardment thereof more civilians than
fell before the assassin bullets on. the AL
bantam border
Evidently. Mussoini's desire is not ap0l-
ogy for d deplorabIe incident, not indemnity
for the dead, but glory for himself and for
brought mankind century upon century OF
woe His present policy is shameless if
not as perlous az Prussanism at its worst
| He is not seeking justice, he is seeking ma
| tiOnal robbery, or a war that will give a
| preteXt to that end. He first insults weak
neighbor, and then without leaving a mo-
ment's interim for attempts peaceful set
! clement. proceeds to lay hold Of his neigh
| bors goods. A deal Of slush may be written
about the ghost OF Caesar bending over this
| adyenturer while the rumble phantom ie-
| gions sends his their music from an imperial
! past. But the fact IS that heady politician
| has lost his senses, at least his sense OF
moral responsibility, and is trying to set the
world Attire. ''-'''.'.'.''
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-06
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

A young Englishman on a vaudeville bill
was asked to introduce a Miss Harris, the
performer who had the It turn. The girl
was very pretty and he wanted to make a
hit with her. Also he thought he saw a
chance to display his familiarity with Amer
can history. She he repeated what he had
been told to say about her act and Ten
added the following on his own account.
"In conclusion, ladies and gempmun
assure you that Miss Harris is both beautiful
and talented. 1t may further interest you
to know that she is a direct descendant Of
our famous President Harris"
A diminutive Cockney was deerstalking in
the highlands, where he had engaged the
services of a tall and powerful gamokccDer.
The day was particularly warm, and the
keeper, irritated at the ways of his little
master, gave vent to his ruffled feelings b.
grooming at regular intervals atsthe mid
ges which swarmed around him.
Il cannot understand" said the Coclney,
Extraordinarily, chow the 'midges' bother you
so much. 1 haven't got so much as a single
bite yet"
'Hoots," replied the, other, contemporary,
"they hivna noticed ye yet"
People who are out of work turn to any
sort of a job nowadays, and are only too
glad to get the opportunity of earning few
pence in any honest way
One man who had lost his recU7ot en-
ployment was engaged in going from door
to door in one suburb trying to sell a labor
saving device for beating batter with little
trouble,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-06
MY FAVORITE STORIES
BY Irwin Cobb

BY Irwin Cobb
I don't know just how old this story is:
probably if the truth were known, it's
great deal older than any of us now alive.
Indeed amateur archeologist who special
ICES in prehistoric humor told me the other
day that, according to his best information
and belief, it dated back to the first century
B. C. and originated in Rome He was quite
certain that it circulated at Newgate prison
in London during the Elizabethan era.
So, what I claim is that, if it has lived
this long and remained so fresh and vigorous
through all the ages, it deserves to go on
living. If printing it here will serve to per-
petuate it I welcome the opportunity.
The modernized version is to this effect:
A visiting clergyman is touring a state peni~
Tertiary When his round is almost COM
pleted, he is joined by one of the keepers.
My friend" says the caller, II am glad
came today to this dismal place and spent
hours wandering through its stone-walled
corridors. For now I more convinced
than ever that in the mind of the lowest and
most depraved creature here there is some
love left. Every heart beats to some tender
throbbing, some lingering sentiment of af-
fection In fact, at this nome. l have be-
fore me proof of it. Look yonder." And
the minister pointed a finger toward the
barred front of a nearby cell.
"They tell me, The went on, that In yon-
der cell is confined a man serving life
sentence for having committed a cold-blood-
ed murder And yet see what he now is do
ing? He has made friend and COM
panion of an ordinary rat At his cell it
comes ON hole in the wall. It plays
about him. He divides his food with it. It
perches on his hand while he strokes its
back. 1t is his friendly and confding COM
panion in the long hours of his solitude TIE
turnkey on duty in this hallway informs me
that the two are inseparable
$50 I ask you, is not this eviGc"ce of
what have been saying? But hold; 1 shall
demonstrate my theory beyond doubt"
The reverend gentleman advances to the
cell door.
"My dear brother" he says, addressing
the inmate, would you mind telling me why
you are so deeply attached to this dumb ami
NAL?
"Sure I'll tell YOU" answers the criminal.
cts because once he bit the warden
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-06
The Legislative De1uge

-HE introduction of many as seven
hundred and forty-fve distinct bills at
the last session of the Georgia Legis-
lataure has hardly ceased to astound t mil
non and "nlsase.t41e judicious grieve'' when zen!
the Honorable Elihu rises to observe that
new laws have been enacted in the United
States and have been followed by sixty-ccur
thousand decisions pertaining to them. At
this rate the lawyers, who already are spe-
cializing to escape the bewildering burdens
of memory and research which general prac-
tice has come to entail, will find Themselves
ere long in as hopeless =. confusion as the
laymen. This indeed may bring the solu-
ton; for when lawyers are drowned in laws,
viii not the deluge then begin to abate?
1t is not alone the multiplicity of statutes
that troubles, but also and even more the
laxness with which many are drawn, so that
keen judicial minds &c ofttimes puzzled to
know precisely what the trainers intended.
A further difficulty, according to Mr. Root
and others we'll qualified to speak, comes
from the tendency of legislatures to leave al
most entirely to the courts the question of
whether an act is constitutional. If pressure
for bill is brought to bear, or if it affords
an easy way out of responsibility, the law
making body is willing too frequently and
too lightly to shift to other shoulders the
duty of preserving those basic principles of
government which are called the constitu-
tions "a result of this practice, long-con-
tiued and now almost accepted on the basis
of CUSTOM" writes one observer, sis til a
lawyer who wishes to know what the law is
on certain point refers to the statutes
: merely to enable him to look up the court
decisions-for they and not the statute will
contain the law, "a most 'cmarkable state
Of affairs! Nor is it to be doubted that
much legislation is enacted nowadays with
the certainty that all or part of it will be
rendered void by court decicions.' >Susl is
the waste of time and such the burden of
cost, borne at last by the people, when the
legislative mind takes the path of least re-
sistance instead Of the highroad of hard
thinking and tested principle.
Who will provide the remedy for these
long manifest ills? TTho will stop the flood
of more than ten thou~and new laws a year?
Who wHl encourage and enforce methods of
workmauly statesl Gship instead Of oppor-
tunt.t politics in legislative halls? There is
but one source whence adequate reform can
come. and that is from Il people them
selves. So long as they are content that
their prejudices, their whims and ~ " self
ish interests rather than their rights and
the common Wea! shah - represented CON
ditions cannot greGt. improve. But when
the people earnestly anG consistently desire
the best in legislation and in government
generally, they will deserve it-and they
will get it. ..---'.'' 81
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a BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry;
for anger resteth in the bosom of FOOLS
EcclesiasteS 10. He that is slow to anger
is better than the mighty; and he that rnE
eth his spirit than he that taketh a city
Proverbs 1852. Let all bitterness, and
wrath, and anger, and Glamour, and epil
speaking be put Away from you, Nth all
malice: and be ye kind one to another,
tender-hearted, forgiping one another, even
as, God for Christ's sake hath forgiven
you.-EphesiahS 4:3f, 81.
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The Coconino sun., 1923-07-27
WHITE HOUSE CAFE CLOSED
BECAUSE UNSANITARY: WILL
BE REOPENED BY ADAMS

The White House restaurant was
closed the first of the week by order
of Mayor Tom Pulliam, on the advice
of DR.. Felix Manning, city and county
health officer, and will be reopened
the first of next week under the pro-
prietorship of Ernest Adams.
DR.. Manning inspected the place
several weeks ago and ordered i'm
provements in sanitary conditions. An
other inspection the other day reveal
ed that his orders had not been heed
ed. The license was at once revok-
ed. Howard L. Hunt had claim on
the place and it passed into his GUS
tody, the doors being locked.
Mr.. Adams has been in the restau-
rant business practically all of his
life. He is a brother of Billy Adams,
barber here For the last few weeks
he had been clerking in the grocery
at Rabbits. He is max
ing many improvements and is giving
the place a thorough cleaning. He
was last in the restaurant business at
Tucumcari, N. M.
The Coconino sun., 1923-07-27
CARNEGIE MEDAL WON
BY COCKR0FT IN SAVING
EIGHT AT LEES FERRY
Continued from Page One.)

sion bridge and up to Bright
Angel trail to the hotel, about fifteen.
miles and then came to Flagstaff, ar
irving Friday morning on No. 8.
But the boys under their charge
beat them in here. The government
party that is to survey the river
through Grand Canyon reached this
side Of the river at Lees Ferry Thurs
dav and Earl Germany, who had ta-
ken part of the government men
there, brought the boys back with
him, arriving shortly after midnight
Friday morning.
On Friday the "shipwrecked" men
appeared before the county board of
supervisors to see if the supervisors
would recompense them for their loss.
They estimated it at between $4,000
and $4,000. The fact that toll is
charged to cross the ferry strength
ened their claim against the county.
County Attorney Frank Harrison
was called in. He says the law does
not hold the county liable in nearly
so many cases as it does incorporated
towns and cities and corporations.
It is peculiar situation. There
The Coconino sun., 1923-07-27

Have your eyes examined at Hotel
Weatherford Wednesday, August /.
Colored Hollywood sandals in the
popular colors, just received at Bah
bits.
Superintendent and Mrs Barnd of
the Indian school at Camp Verde, were
IN town for a few days the past week.
Mary Francis Haggard has accept
ed position at Brooks store. Her
duties will be to help Mrs. Brooks in
the office
Superintendent ]. W. Brown of the
Phoenix Indian school, who had been in
town for the past week, went on Sat
urday to Oak Greek and then, on Sun
day, home.
]. H. Harper & Co., distributors for
new Woodstock typewriters for cash
or installment payments. We carry
ribbons for all popular kinds of type
writers.-7-20-2tp.
David Babbitt, Sr., and Octavius A.
Ude of the accounting department of
the Babbitt store, left the first of the
week for business visit to the Bah
bitt houses in Prescott and Tucson.
Leslie and Forrestor Daugherty and
Leon Halloman are stopping over a
few days this week with the j. G. Till
mans and R. L. Doughertys. The boys
are on their way to their home in
Kansas City.
w. J. Stephens, who with his fam
lily came up few weeks ago from
Kirkland, where they spent the win
ter, went to work on Tuesday for the
city, helping Water Superintendent
John Marshall
Mrs. Omar Hill and daughter, Thes-
ba, who had been visiting Mrs. Elsie
Hungerford at Sunset Lodge, left Sun
day for Prescott where they will visit
relatives before returning to their
home in Santa Ana, Calf.
Walter James of Beloit, Kansas,
arrived in Flagstaff Wednesday
morning for a ten days visit with
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Simpson. He is a
brother-in-law of Mrs. Simpson. From
here he will go on to Phoenix where
he has brother.
Mrs. Fletcher Fairchild of Clark
dale, who had been here for three
weeks VlSltlng ner sister, Mrs. Frltz
T. Schuerman, left yesterday to re-
turn home, accompanied by Mrs.
Schuerman, who will visit in Clark
dale for while. Lloyd Van Deren,
their brother, came up after them
Fletcher, who is trainman at the
smelter in Clarkdale, was here a day
or so this week.
Word has heen received that Mrs
J. d. Francis, Flagstaff, mother Of
Dan w. Francis of this city, was OPP
Grated on at Hays, Kansas, by DR..
Jameson, who is considered one of
the best surgeons in the middle west.
DR.. Jameson and Dir. M. G.. Fronske
were college friends. Mrs. Francis is
improving very rapidly and will soop
be able to go to the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Ralph NJ. Bower, in
Kansas.
The Coconino sun., 1923-07-27

Harvey K. Meyer, hustling superin-
tendent of Indian affairs at Tuba City,
was Flagstaff visitor few days
ago.
John Metz is treating his house to
coat of paint, accustoming II to 1t
by giving it fifteen-minute doses
mornings and nights.
VIM. Griess, rancher at Spring Val
ley, was in town few days ago sort
Of getting ready for the big picnic
they were planning out there.
Wilson & Coffin Motor Co. sold
three Star cars, touring, roadster and
delivery to G. D. Douglas, chief clerk
at Grand Canyon They also sold an
Essex to G. M. Archer.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Amin, who came
here from Fillmore, Calf, several
weeks ago, have decided to locate here
permanently and on Monday Mr. An
min began to work in the grocery de-
partment at Babbitt's.
Oliver B. Raudebaugh came up from
Kingman and spent Sunday here. Hls
wife, who was operated on a few
weeks ago, is steadily improving, and
indications are that she will soon be
completely restored to health. Oliver
is working in the hardware depart
ment at the Arizona stores.
Jim Tillman is lucky rascal, for
here he's gone and got another re-
bate off his income tax. 1t happen
ed last Friday morning, when fine,
fat boy was born at his house. He
has already become James G., Jr., and
Jim's desire for boy to sort of look
out for the two little girls is entirely
satisfied.
The Coconino sun., 1923-07-27
LOCAL BREVITIES
! b%~@A%%% %%%%+%% .

W. H. Morgan was in from Spring
Valley yesterday.
We have Donofrio ice cream for
sale. J. c. Browns News Stand.
: Little Virginia Hungerford is spend
ing the. week in Winslow, visiting
Margaret and Dorothy Flaharty.
Mrs. J. C. Turpin left Monday eve-
ming to visit for week with the C.
p. Richardson's at their home in Wins
low.
Ed Babbitt got home on Saturday
from Los Angeles, where he had
wasted about a week, on business all
right, but in comparatively bum
town.
Roy N. Davidson, secretary of the
state republican central committee.
spent couple of days in Flagstaff
this week cooling off and talking over
the great American game of politics.
q Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Fealey and two
children were here this week visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank M. Gold They
all were once neighbors together in
Stockton, Kansas, where the Fealeys
still live. The latter were on their
way to the coast after which they will
visit the northwest.
Editor Damon of the Kingman
Miner was a visitor in Flagstaff We'd
nesday between trains. Damon AYERS
that the whole of Mohave county is
solidly behind the Colorado river pact
and would be glad to give an express
sion of opinion by any old kind of an
election, including a recall, to show
how they feel about it.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Miller and lit
tie daughter of Taft, California, have
been visiting Mrs. Miller's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Lou Thomas on Oak
Greek the past two weeks, and were
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Carter at Belmont for a few days
this week. Mrs. Miller will be better
remembered here as BESSIE Thomas.
They motored from Taft on a months
vacation and visited Grand Canyon
during their stay.
The Coconino sun., 1923-07-27
Increase in Valuations

The abstract of the assessment roll
of this county shows that the total
assessed valuation of the property in
the county has increased substantially
over last year. Most of the increase
is accounted for in the increase of
lands now devoted to grazing. Many
thousands Of acres have lately come
under this classification and have
thus become taxable. Another in
crease is due to the larger number
of automobiles on the rolls this year.
There also has been a slight increase
in railroad valuations and in improve
ments to city property and stocks OF
merchandise. The supervisors expect
to make the county tax rate lower this
year than it was last, though there
will be an increase in the state tau
rate that likely will offset it.
The Coconino sun., 1923-07-27
Three COntrabanders

Jose Nieto and Julian Montoya, both
of Williams, alleged to be statesmen
of contraband things to drink, were
arrested under the auspices of T. L.
Tolan, federal prohibition agent, and
taken before U. S. Commissioner Tom
L. Rees in Flagstaff. Mr.. Rees held
each in $500 bail for trial in the U.
S. district court at Prescott. Nieto adj
mitted his guilt. Montoya pleaded
not guilty. Jose Sabedra, also of
Williams, was arrested a day or so
later, charged with wholesaling the
booze to the other two. He pleaded
guilty before Mr.. Rees and was re-
leased on his own recognizance Tor
appearance in u. S. court at Prescott.
He is well along in years and is a
consumptive and it is doubted that he
will be able to stand trial.
The Coconino sun., 1923-07-27

seems to be very little, if any au-
thorization in the law for compensa-
ton to the losers. Without such legal
authority the board has no right to
pay the people anything, as corpOr-
alton would have perfect right to do.
Whether it will take a suit to prove
the county's responsibility in the mat
ter is not certain, but it may take one,
that is, if the losers see fit to bring
suit.
All of the party left on Saturday to
return to their homes.