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Milford chronicle., 1926-06-18

The softest cushion in the church
attracts the most worshippers.
He is fool who wastes his nerve
force in one vast wave of anger.
Every man journeys TOWARD a
kingdom where he is to be king or
vassal.
Most any man is pious enough to
be a professor of religion.
Do your duty-and little more.
That's a sure passport.
The majesty of a man cannot be
measured until he is seen standing
in magnificent minority.
The rare ability to keep your
mouth shut makes you at once the
worlds benefactor.
If some people would cling to the
cross just like they cling to their
opinions they would never lose their
grip on the Lord.
When men and women learn that
love, rightly understood, is of the
spirit and not of the flesh, there will
be no divorce problem.
The den, the roof garden theatre,
the caves, the studios, and the hab-
itats of the depraved rich-luxurious,
brilliant and wild IN their beauty
are not the lairs of the ignorant mob
fresh from the underwood. They be-
long oftentimes to those influential
enough to forbid the court to publish
names. These perfumed and sweetly-
scented harems belong to the elect
and the chosen. And that reminds
us that birds of prey build their
nests up high.
Milford chronicle., 1926-06-18
EoG

IT is believed that the work of
any man or woman in public or in
private affairs, can be taken over by
another and the regular routine of
the business will continue to func-
ton efficiently. In theory that may
be true, but it is an impossibility for
the new occupant of a position to
get the same results until expert
ence has made clear the way, or op-
ened another method, which will
bring better results, This is un-
doubtedly true of mechanical, or
methodical work Of record, yet the
working of the human brain can
never be duplicated to function in
the same lines of another which has
had life times training. For that
reason the passing Of an unusual
mind with it's aptitude for financial
affairs, gained from practical ex-
perience in wide fields of experience,
causes a gap which time and expert
ence can only bridge. For that rea-
son every successful business should
have in training an understudy to
take over the work and responsible
tiles, who has absorbed information
as well as training, to step into the
seat of a predecessor. Yet, with
health and strength unimpaired, the
trained business man or woman, sell
dom considers this very important
duty they owe to themselves and the
interests they control or serve. 1t
requires years of experience to climb
to the pinnacle of success in all bus
mess affairs, and to train those who
must take over the work where it is
laid down, is one of the responsible
tiles the successful leader of any
business must consider well. Such
wisdom saves through the financial
returns of a business flowing on un-
disturbed through changes that are
EoS
WHEAT HARVEST will start in
next week and since the
rains and cool weather came in June,
the condition of the wheat in Della !
ware is favorable to a satisfactory
yield, if appearance is a criterion by !
Milford chronicle., 1926-06-18

The softest cushion in the church
the most worshippers.
Milford chronicle., 1926-06-18

He is a fool who wastes his nerve
force in one vast wave of anger.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24
OUR DEIFIED SENATORS

The general public probably do not know that
a United States senator can get all shet up, Jump
into the arena on the floor of the senate, crack
his heels together and accuse and charge every
one from the president of the United States, the
supreme court of the United States to the lowest
king in the deck, of any old thing which seems to
please the distinguished colleague
And, my fellow countrymen, you can't reach
him except through some sort OF revolution.
No sir He's only amenable to his distinguished
colleagues" When once elected the common peo-
pie have deified him and raised him into class
all his own.
If any common ordinary citizen of the United
States dared make such speeches as this misfit
Heflin of Alabama or Pat Harrison have made
against the president, federal courts judges,
the United States navy, army, marines, coast
guards and the prohibition department would have
all been turned out to apprehend the offender.
The people have the idea these yellow blatant
lnguists are brave men to thus shout their defl-
ance at the opposition party. The people do not
know they are protected from all harm by NUM-
ficent laws they have formulated to protect them
selves when they slop over and spread themselves
Not one of this bunch of misfits in the United
States senate would dare make such speeches OF
the stump, but they do it under senatorial pro-
lection and the taxpayers have to pay for having
their yellow bunk printed in the Congressional
Record and scattered over the country free.
The newspapers of the country are held strictly
accountable for what they print, but senator
can say what he pleases and have it printed and
circulated free. Either the United States will
soon abolish the United States senate or the Unit
ed States senate will abolish the United States
Vice-PreSident Dawes seems to realize that the
senate is headed for the rocks and we are con-
strained to believe if the u. S. senate could see it
as clearly as Dawes and the people do, there would
be an abrupt change in their Royal Purple" at
titude toward US folks-just the common herd.
If us common herd of voters knew as thoroughly
as Gen. Charlie Dawes vice-president of the
United States, does about the methods Of proceed
ure and the legal protection the senate members
have built up about their sacred persons, what
cleaning there would be-
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24
STERILE STRATEGY
Journal Miner


Although the congressional session
is over a week old the democratic
congressional strategy has already
been evident. Democratic activities in
the house and senate are based first,
last and always on the theory that
whatever the president suggests is
wrong, and whatever they think is
right The curious distinction of
course, is that what the president
thinks he says in plain black and
white, but what the democrats think
continues to reverberate within their
brain cells and is never a matter of
public record.
When President Coolidge suggest
ed a return of surplus taxes to the
people the democrats at once began
to fill and are filling the air with,
assertions that his suggestion is all
wrong. They charge he want to pay
money to people who never pay tax
es, that the individual returns will
be very small, and, that the major
amount of the refund will go to the
great business corporations. But
while disagreeing with every line
and phrase of the presidents sug-
gestions they have yet to make a
concrete suggestion of their own.
If the democrats want to know how
it happens that the people of the
country in the main support the re-
publican party, and the administra-
tion of Calvin Coolidge they can find
the explanation in their own activi-
ties. A party that exhausts itself in
aimless criticisms, and has no con-
structive record can never, expect to
achieve success. Democratic, national
victories will continue to be sporadic
incidents in our national life when
the people who have been temporar-
lily carried off their feet by some hys-
terical issue
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24
REFUSE TO READ THEIR MAIL

The Acme Orange and Hen Farms company of
terprising outfits We note they are doing a large
amount of advertising around the state. The Sun
addressed letter to each Of the Acme addresses,
each of which was returned unopened and marked
refused" Now our letter to these Acme folks
might have been an order for several hundred
boxes of oranges or hen fruit which the com
pany'' Just refused to even open to find out. Our
letter, however, was request for little financial
information, but we doubt very much whether
they could have read it through the envelope.
Wonder if the IT, S. postoffice department would
Mt be interested in these mail order" firms?
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24
BOSTON AND TOMBSTONE AKIN
(Tucson Starr

What a 'kick" quaint old Boston
must be getting out of the Crabtree
case, in which lurid tales of Tomb
stones early life are introduced as
evidence.
We can imagine with what raising
of eyebrows and with exclamations of
''my, N.Y." the sons and daughters of
Puritan ancestors read the accounts
in the Globe and Transcript. They
forget the shades of those poor human
beings who suffered untold torture
when burned at the stake-those
called witches.
Of course Boston is not as dull aus
tere and ignorant as provincial Amer
lea believes it is. Once the cradle Of
the nation as Philadelphia was the
cradle Of liberty, Boston has been
outstripped by it's western brothers
and sisters in many ways, but still it
has gone forward and become one Of
the principal ports of the Atlantic
seaboard. Why then should it be look
ed upon as such q prosaic old place?
Because it has never outgrown its
ancestors or the stamp of its ances-
tors ideas. History has done much
10 brand Boston as a prim old lady
w men we Gail DD5LOu OuetllAb We
refer to its conception Of itself and
it's opinion Of the remainder of the
country, including, of course, Tomb
stone.
Tombstone hasa much in common
with Boston. (Raising of eyebrows.)
Poth were pioneered by hardy race,
both struggled against great odds.
In both liquor was freely used. And
both are misunderstood today.
Tombstone has much in common
cowboys and gamblers; Boston by
group of men seeking religious free
dom; both fought Indians and their
inhabitants quarreled among them
selves; one shot men down IN cold
blood, the other one burned funny old
women at the stake. Boston took on
airs and developed the tea drinking
habit; Tombstone was proud Of its
gang leaders and its hard-drink par
lors. Both are faced with a past that
is hard to live down.
The Boston chamber of commerce
probably, and rightly so, believes that
Boston is the hub Of wide and pros
porous district; Tombstone feels it is
now the seat OF respectabihty, al
though it has lost in population what
it has gained in quietness.
So, when Boston gets 9 kick" out
of Tombstone's past and thinks OF the
little western place as wild and
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24
WHIsKEY AND BAD APPLES
(Winslow Mail)

NW1uSlOW udll)
President Grady Gammage of the
Northern Arizona Teachers College
has taken the first important decis-
i've step of his regime which began
short time ago when he was eleva-
ted to the presidency of the college
at Flagstaff. He has, with the con-
sent and counsel of other members
of the faculty, caused the expulsion
of two students and the suspension
under q temporary order of six others
after the students are said to have
been the principals in drinking par
ty in their rooms on the campus.
0tl er conditions entered into the
affair, according to President Gam
mage's letter to parents which will
be found elsewhere in todav's Daily
Mail Just what these "other con-
ditions" may have been is largely a
matter of conjecture, since no hint be-
yond the fact that the young men
became involved with the police, has
been given.
The young men so disciplined will
resent the cction, Of course. They
will perhaps be able to convince dot
ing parents that they were made 'tthe
fall guys for cleanup campaign.
1t is regrettable thing that there
are always examples" to be made in
every forward movement against
misconduct. The young men struck
by the sudden axe of the faculty,
everyone knows, are not the only vio-
lators at the college. But others may
bo hoI4a1 hxy tho That fc +ho
general reason for every such dras-
tic move for the epidemic or a bat
tie against widespread gambling.
Someone stakes the falP' and others
so precedent shows, straighten up
and choose another path. The facul-
ty in this instance knows that the
young men ousted are not alone gull
ty of drinking in their rooms. But
they hope that the action will either
halt the practice entirely or bring it
down to minimum.
There is an excuse for the old
drunkard, his body racked from
years and years of alcoholism. He is
suffering from disease just as
surely as though his body was load
ed with germs of any other malignant
malady.
But there is no excuse for young
men who have grown to manhood
since prohibition became effective
young men who were mere children
in the days of open saloons.
We hear much nowadays about
liquor in our high schools and liquor
in our colleges. That is a deplorable
situation. But there ARE various
remedies. President Gammage dis
covered one of them AND ACTED.
In cases of high school students 1T
simply requires parents with brawny
arms and intelligence enough to
know that whiskey appetite KILL
ED NOW will spare the child life
time of suffering.
High school students and college
youth, girls and boys alike, now
consider drinking Smart" That's
what the fellow who rolled out of
the box car the other day thought
twenty years ago.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24
GIVE OUR OFFICIAL TUTORS MORE ROOM

The state of Arizona should furnish ample room
for the new commissions, bureaus and depart
ments created for the benefit and comfort of
those appointed or elected to office to supervise
the citizens in the legal and moral way they should
go according to the laws made and provided for
them The original capitol building cost 100000
An addition only cost $150,O00 or so. Just as a
suggestion, why not put tent over the state fair
grounds and let our political nature take its
course? We detest bureaucracy in the federal
government, but we just dote on it in our state
government.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24
THE HUMAN SIDE
OF LIFE
A Delivery Problem
: !. + + #* = + + r.

A sportsman who was going to the
Rockies to shoot went into a gun
makers shop in London and ordered
large quantity of cartridges. Il
usually deal with your head office"
he said, ''but daresay you can send
these for me all right"
"Oh, yes, sir, certainly" came the
reply.
Well" proceeded the sportsman,
II shall want them sent out to AL
berta."
The assistant looked blank.
"Oh, look here" said the purchaser
irritably, perhaps I'd better give the
order to the head office after all"
Eyes, sir" agreed the statesmen,
perhaps it would be better. You see,
we've only got boy with a bicycle
here"
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24
Some Nimrod

A resident of Takoma Park, Md,
wrote the clerk of the circuit court
for hunting license, saying:
"F'or and in consideration of the in
closed check for $50, please send me
q state hunting license. / am forty
seven years old and poor shot; have
brown eyes, but am near-sighted; and
brown hair, but it is now gray; am
S feet 101a inches high if | stand mp
straight, but don't; weigh IT'S pounds
when fat, and am living in Takoma
Park, but am trying to sell out; am
of good moral character, but was in
jail once for contempt of court and
have the same opinion of that just
ass of the peace which expressed to
him; was born in New Orleans, raised
on cotton plantation near Montgom-
cry, Ala, and swallow the democratic
ticket whole, but no longer look at it
for fear some rotten spot will choke
me; am of the so-ealled white race
hunting, mostly in St Mary's county,
and male sex; expect to do much
but don't expect to kill much for they
fly so fast and sudden; use a Llewel-
lyn setter and twenty gauge gun"
The license was forwarded.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24
REMARKS OF THE GANG

He was TOO smart" The college
"cut-up" perhaps. But down in the
jungles where life's derelicts mingle
over a pot of "mulligan' made from
castoff meat, they say: Hes booze
fighter"-a word of tragedy in a few
words.
President Gammage moves in the
right direction. If group of young
men form the nucleus of the drinking
party element it behooves him as
head of the institution to remove the
nucleus.
Anyone knows that bad apples will
spoil good ones if lett together. What
other action is possible than to re-
move the bad ones and save those still
untainted?
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24

woolly, ride 'em-high-and- hard town,
it is being just as unjust to the west
as westerners are when they think
that Boston is prim and proper.
If towns and cities have personali-
ties then here are two that ought TO
get acquainted. A little rubbing Of
elbows might make both more cosmo-
politan.
As between the two, We'll wager
that in comparison, more Tombston-
ians have travelled further. and know
more Of Boston thar vice versa.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24
Why Worrv2

A young husband was anxiously
awaiting news Of the birth Of his
first child. He was pacing up and
down the hospital corridor when the
doctor came out and told him to con-
troll himself or else take walk
around the block.
"But ] tell you I'm scared to
DEATH" protested the young man.
"You needn't be-" replied the doc
tor. "I've brought more than 1900
babies into the world and | haven't
lost a father yet"
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24
Radiafe Success

The village was held fast in the
grip of a revival. The preacher had
been extolling the beauties of heaven
and painting in lurid lines the terrors
of souls in torment
Now" he thundered, "all you who
would take the heavenly journey
stand up"
The congregation rose as one-at
least it SO seemed. But the preacher
from the eminence of the pulpit es-
pied one who remained seated. Feel
ing that much was amiss, he descend
ed and spoke to the wretched man.
"My poor friend" he began, 'would
you not like to go to heaven, too?"
ooh, I'd like to go well enough, the
man replied, "but / amt goin' with
any excursion"
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24
BECAUSE IT DOES

Somebody once asked Cyrus Curtis why news
paper advertising paid and he replied: Because
it does"
Who can give truer or better answer? If
newspaper advertising did not pay, there would
not be much of it. The test of all things is what
they do.
Why is so much more money spent in news
paper advertising than in other forms? Because
it pays better Why does it pay better? Because
it does-and that's enough reason to hold any
body for quite a SPELL
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24

The old fashioned man who used to drive to
the county seat on Saturday night and tie his
horse to the courthouse hitchrack has a son who
can leave home at dark and go to the city in time
for the opening of the regular program at the
Purple Cat.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24
Not That Ear

"Well, Johnnie" said the minister,
as he beamed on the son of a parish
oner, "you are now going to school
so 1 suppose you can spell cat"
Cat" replied Johnnie.
every good, now spell dog"
Dog"
Wonderful Now spell hen"
cav, l amt got that far yet"
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24
Letting Her Down

General Sir Frederick Maurice told
at Williamstown story about snob-
when Mrs. Langtry," he said,
twas in the full flower of her beauty
and popularity, she found the noble
ma at her side ore evening at a din
mel party.
Why, Lord Dash!' she said. This
is the third time we've met today!'
"'Yaas, drawled the nobleman.
This seems -aw-to be your lucky
day."
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24
It All Depends

The doctors little daughter, though
not very well, was quite as cheerful
as usual
I'm hundred today she told her
visitor.
But you told me yesterday that
you were only four"
''0h, yes" replied the child, "but
that was birthdays. This is tempera-
choors."
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24
or Wooden Nutmegs

SALESMAN Wanted, two exper-
fenced statesmen who are worth, and
willing to earn 500 per week. Must
have sufficient sales ability to be able
to sell a five-dollar bill for $3.50 cash.
Apply, 1905 Mutual building The
News-Leader, Richmond, Va.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24

We believe if the u. S. postoffice department
would invest more money in extra help instead of
so much into publicity advising the public how
best to help out the postoffice department, the
holiday Tushes would not be so bad and the people
served much better.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24

Senator Ashurst Of Arizona has been selected
as the goat by his democratic colleagues to fling
the first stone at senator-elect Smith of Illinois.
Henry may gain little notoriety by his action,
but also few interested enemies who may wish
to switch the old flashlight around. Henry comes
up for election in 1928.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24

We are pleased to note by the Congressional
Record, these famous words sprinkled through it
as freely as fly specks on print shop window:
Does the senator yield?" Il yield to my. dstin-
guished colleague But, no one knows what they
will eventually yield the public.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24

Manager Bucky Harris of the Washington
American league baseball team has been admit
ted to the Washington social register But it is to
be doubted whether this will help much in getting
Washington another pennant.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24

An Illinois candidate states that his campaign
expenditures were a can Of pumpkin and two kegs
of barn nails. We thought the days were over
when you could "open a keg of nails" as part of
your campaign propaganda.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24
WELL, OUR SOCK is UP. IS YOURS?

Merry Christmas, folks. This is most propi-
tious time to forgive, forget and forge forward.
memories and be ready to start off the new year
in a happier and more contented frame of mind.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24

The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph
Co. have our thanks for beautiful calendar, also
the sentiment which came with it: May you en-
Joy Bigger, Better and Buster year than ever
before"
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24

Wall street is going to pay bonuses to the ann
noted that this bonus does not go to the specula-
tors who take long shot on margins but to the
boys and girls who actually work in the street
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24

The new Greater New York telephone books
for this winter contain nearly eleven hundred
thousand names. Just think how much fun the
telephone girls must have with that many wrong
numbers to pick from
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24

1t is said that dying Russians change their
names in order to fool st. Peter in his check up
on them. Lots of people in this country try out
the same idea only in different way But they
are lust as successful in their efforts.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24

One correspondent says that since the states
attorney was democrat and the defense attorney
a republican, the result of the Hall-llils case was
a New Jersey republican victory, and if this is
true there will doubtless be senate investigation
shortly
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24

The New York Times says members of the next
Senate will spend most of their time "expelling
one another" Which goes to show how satisfac-
tory are the statewide primary and direct cleo
ton of senator's
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24
Accommodating

Maid: Il rented that room to a
fellow while you was out, ma He's
a movie actor"
Landlady: "Good-looking
Maid Eyes, ma ann, very"
Landlady: "Well, put an extra Dit
of carpet on the floor in front Of his
mirror"
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24

Flagstaff-the Christmas tree town. The down
town district streets are all decorated with
Christmas trees giving the city real holiday ap-
pearance along with the many fine window dis
plays.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24

A seventeen year old Texas girl recently held
up bank with gun. The present day girl is
very energetic and rapidly developing from the
face to the gun powder stage Of vivaciousness.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24

Governor Elect Dillon of New Mexico intmates
that it will be necessary for the inaugural COM
mittee to rope and hog-tie him if he wears full
dress suit at the inaugural ball.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24

Fall and Doheny were acquitted by the jury,
but think what fun the government attorneys
had in trying the case.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24

Wonder what some Of those ''hoer than thou"
senators would do if the senate voted enough of
the taxpayers money to investigate their sacred
careers back for fifteen or twenty years?
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24

In New York City they are trying to get an or
dinance closing the cafes at am. Back in Gods
country that's just about the time they open up
for the early customers.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24

= 1t seems that Kenny O1miston, the radiant
radio Mcpherson expert, has arrested himself and
reported for duty in Los Angeles. Sorter kid
mapped himself, as it were.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-24

The best place to put the liquor which the boot
logger brings you these days is in the radiator.