Arizona state miner., 1924-07-26
STATE AND NATION

Cleanliness is the safeguard of the
small town. With bootleggers' germs
all around, the vital safety Of our
youth and grown daughters lies in
destroying them. Then and not till
then will that radiating growth be
revealed.
Science has openly declared that
half our children viii lie and steal
if given the opportunity. This cri-
teriOn is now being used as an ar
gument for teaching religion in our
public schools. But science has not
investigated the simple life of prim-
tive man, where without even the
Bible as guide the Eskimos and peo-
pie of the Far North are naturally
honest until corrupted by contact with
white races and their eXploitive edu-
cation.
T. B. Carter, SO years a cattleman
of Walnut Grove. is reported dying of
old age. He is past 79 years of age.
That ''fat frying" statement by
Samuels at Whipple last week
sounded like a Klu Klux argument
and was proven canard by the gov
ernor's secretary.
Jas. Fuquay was found guilty of
numbering Doctor Jacobs of Yuma and
sentenced to life Imprisonment.
Secretary of State Kerby's motor
vehicle report covering January 1 to
July IA shows 5O,O29 cars registered
in 1924 against 48,741 in 1923. Fees
compared $279, ,532.75 in 1923 to $312,-
10000 in 1924
The first six months registrations
of motor vehicles show 1868 more
cars registered than for the entire
year of 1923. Also shows $41, 1,648.O0
more collected than for the year 1923
in addition to Chauffeur License and
Transfer Fees made at Secretary of
State Office amounting to 1488.0O.
Engineer Bone of Maricopa County
has completed the Maricopa end of
the Black Canyon road to Prescott.
It cost the taxpayers of Maricopa $685.
600, and at the same time gives Yav-
apai county road builders a crack at
something like 100000 voted exclus-
1vely for that roadway, which can
never be a highway because the
money is insufficient, and federal aid
cannot be obtained.
The stupendous work of the State
in its various reclamation projects
is an inspiration to every beholder.
1t is an object lesson, too, that the
Roosevelt, San Carlos and Mormon
Flat enterprises are a success without
the dangerous Colorado River Com
pact. Republicans aided by the great
power interests, Carl Hayden and
Mulford WinsOr, have had their
Smoke screen" lifted from the pact
and there are now fully IS per cent
of Arizona voters against it,
John w. Davis, the Democratic
nominee for president, is universally
praised for his good qualities, even
by those who opposed him.
There are genuine manifestations
of universal coincidence with Presi-
dent Coolidge and his family in the
loss of their son Calvin, Jr
What has so suddenly awakened
the Phoenix and FL Paso Chamber
of Commerce to favor the Southern
Pacific after such recent animosity?
Chas. w. Bryan, who made Neb.
raska democratic is brother of VIM.
Jennings Bryan, able, sincere and the
choice of half the people of the U. S.
Arthur Brisbane.
People Have Got Their Eyes Op-
ened.-In years to come the people
of CocOnino and N0have counties will
resent the pact smoke screen now
being squirted at them by the two
weekly newspapers representing that
part of Arizona. If the pact were to
prevail, which is already IS per cent
showed under, the people of those two
counties would be paying tribute to
the immense western power combine
for hundred years hence. Until Ar
izona refused to ratify, people were
led astray, but if put to a popular vote
now neither California nor Colorado
would ratify the pact