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The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05
LOOKING THE ENEMY IN THE FACE

Colonel Ned Greene prohibition director for
the suburban district north of Los Angeles, when
includes San Francisco and Nevada, says IN has
report to Assistant Secretary Andrews after a
survey of the prohibition situation in. his dis
trict, that it will take 100000 men and an APP
urooriation of $500, 900 to make the United
States as dry as is contemplated by the Vostead
law for general cleanup and an appropriation OF
fifty million annually to keep the machinery
going.
Col. Greene merely states the case as he sees
It and there is every reason to believe that he has
come nearer looking the problem straight IN the
face with view of getting results than have the
honest drys the paid drys, the bootlegger and
the politician. The churches with the best men
of the nation with billions expended IN an en-
deavor to teach the youth of the land the harm
of alcohol. have not brought about millennium
though they have gained great headway and saved
thousands to better living and better lives.
Colonel Greene sees clearly that it is impossible
to put down rebellion greater than the Civil war
with a mere handful of men and lack or sufTl-
Gent funds It is a guerrilla warfare with neigh
Dor against neighbor. The 'for and against
are as interrnngled as the freckes on a rusty
faced kid. The United States has tackled one OF
the greatest jobs man has ever been called on to
face correcting the moral habits OF men by law
If all were put in jail who have violated the law,
it would take ten times three hundred million
collars merely for providing the jails. The lails
and the courts are running over now with viola
tors.
COL Greene is one of the few who has come to
the realization that the job of handling the ques-
ton is bigger than the League of Nations and
that the World Court is only job for justice of
the peace and one constable in comparison
The World war was quite large affair, but
there were only about six million men mixed up
in it. Some one hundred twenty million people
are mixed I'D in this battle. If there are some
forty million people against the proposition and
about seventy million people for the propositions
one can rather get the idea advanced by Colonel
Greene as to the size and cost of the army needed
to whip the enemy.
AS we view Colonel Greenes statement, he is
not attempting to argue the relative values of the
vets or the drys, he merely is making statement
as to how to whip the enemy"
The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05
COWARDLY SENATORS

If there is one thing more than another that
we like about our United States senators, it is the
way they show the courage of their CONVICTIONS
Under Washington date line of February 25th
sent out by the Associated Press, a non-p partisan
news agency we note that many of them hid out
in the cloakrooms rather than to have their votes
recorded for or against the Lees Ferry bridge APP
preparation Of 100000 which was to be matched
with alike amount from Arizona state funds.
Bound up in this vote was the question of the
fate of the 425,000,000 deficiency appropriation
BILL Those opposing the appropriation for the
bridge were Senators Bratton of New Mexico,
Cameron of Arizona, Lenroot and LaFolette of
Wisconsin. The whole bill had been completed
and agreed to except as to this item, along with
some $4,000 for bridge in New Mexico. This
schoolboy play which delayed the passage of the
bill for whole day, cost the government of the
United States, more than ten bridges Of the kind
they were playing horse with
Can one wonder that the people often think that
the senate of the United States should be abolish
ed? Think Of these great men, wrapped in togas
of a kind that not eyen Caesar could get away
with in his palnly days. telling the people to make
more money that we may spend it by pouring it
down the rat-hole of Senatorial courtesy" Then,
these wise ginks in the senate, after spending
their time in cloakrooms, dodging vote, which
slapped another tax on the public goat--they
agreed to the proposition of letting the measly
100000 ride, but agreed again that it should not
be taken out of the present Navajo Indian fund
no, some future time.
Congressman Hayden suggested that the gov
ernment of the United States had already ad-
vanced some $775,000 to the Navajos from gov
ernment funds to help them along The whites"
paid that and are willing to pay that much more
in taxes to help them along. The movie picture
Indian appeals strongly back east but the reser-
vaton Indian is entirely another type. Our candid
opinion is that the Indians have been robbed and
mistreated more by laws that have come through
the propaganda of politicians who wanted office,
than by people who have lived with them.
Well, the Associated Press report goes on to
say after the senate had spent the cost of several
bridges over Lees Ferry, that the bill was
eventually amended SO that it read: "the amount
of 100000 might be taken out of future funds
of the Indians"
The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05

sixty-ninth congress who fled to the
cloakroom and hid, like a child seek
ing the protection of its mothers
skirt rather than stand on the floor
of the senate and vote aye or may"
and thus reveal the color of their
opinion. Thank God there is no ques-
Ition of great import for these mental
towards to decide.
IF the nation bemoans the fact that
congress is known mainly for its
weakness, these congressman may
look to themselves for the answer.
What could be more shameful than
the picture of senators peeklne.,
through glass panels as the pages
went scnrying about looking for alb
sent members?
Shameful as the story is, it is we'll
it, was broadcast to the world, but
when it was broadcast, it should have
contained the names Of the senator
ial weaklings that their constituents
might return them to private life and
keep them there.
What this nation needs is men, not
towards.
The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05
MEN, NOT COWARDS, NEEDED
(Tucson Starr

The fate of the S425, 100000 def
cheney bill, carrying emergency ap-
prop1iations affecting nearly every
state in the union, is not half as i'm
portant as the pitiful spectacle pre-
sented by the half dozen senators who
barricaded themselves in the senate
cloakroom because they had not the
courage to vote on whether the Ma
vajo Indians should be taxed for the
construction of bridges over the Colo
RADIO river.
Where are the statesmen of yester-
day who framed the declaration of in
dependence? Where are the states
men who drafted the constitution :?
Where are the statesmen who have
guided the nation through its critical
years in wars at home and abroad and
who met the questions of a growing
nation courageously, regardless of
what their constituents might think
or how the next election might go?
If their shades still linger beneath
the dome of the capitol building, how
they must moan with modification
at the action of the members of the
The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05
OH, THE POOR FISH

Senator Capper has a great tendency toward
Details tendency that is rather disconcerting at
times to politicians. Recently he dug up the fact
$50 years ago there was one offieehoder for each
1000 people; that in 1860 the ratio had increased
to one officeholder for each 100 people; in the
80's and COS, the proportion was one officeholder
to every ten persons and these figures have been
greatly reduced in 1925. Probably one office
holder to each five who support him in office We
are not much worried about the present ratio since
the taxpayers are willing to take promises in re-
turn for their tax money but, when officeholders
begin to overlap the population and it becomes a
necessity for some officeholders to hold two of
fices we can see where the big fish are going to
eat up all the little fish, spawn and ALL But be-
fore the big fish drink up all the water that God
has poured into the little streams headed for
southern California, we believe there should be
some sort of compact signed up between them
and the folks who are acting for Mr.. Vostead
and his law which nsinuates that men should ir
rigate lands and not themselves. So long as votes
come in sardine boxes, packed to suit the taste of
purchasers shouldn't the officeholder laugh
and say-"you poor fish,
The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05
STARVING EDITORS?

You may believe the old gag about editors
starving to death if you wish, but it does not ap-
ply to northern Arizona editors. The Holbrook
Tribune is building 30x36 foot addition to it's
home and the Kingman Miner has recently put in
an up-to-the-minute typesetting machine in order
to keep pace with old man prosperity over in Mo-
nave county. The Winsow Mail is taking on fat
and runs up to ten pages or more, just the idea
strikes Editor Giragi-and, he'll soon have to get
a larger shovel to handle his money with Down
at st. Johns, Editor Montross has enlarged the
Observer up to the size of a Navajo rug Grad
ually but firmly the idea is spreading that it pays
to advertise. While The Sun did not originate the
idea, it has often insinuated that there was much
truth in the statement
The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05
HOME OWNERSHIP STRENGTHENS NATION

The homes of the world are what the work of
the world is done for. To build them and keep
them is the first concern of stable civilization.
So essential to happiness are home that many
European countries have made their construction
public utility There is no such need of pater-
nalism here, where hberty-oving people will
provide its own homes without government SUBJ
sidy.
A new spirit is born of ownership. There is
dignity in permanent settlement 1t was the
hand on the plow that made, America great. What
was owned was worth fighting for. In an indus
trial age, with population massed in cities, that
proprietorship which steadied the farmer must be
transferred to ownership of homes.
Home ownership means better citizenship. The
family that the landlord is apt to discriminate
against is encouraged in the home In good home
districts there is dearth of juvenile delinquency.
Anything that enhances the dignity of man en-
hances his character.
The proper time to begin to think about buying
your own home is right now-San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05
CALIFORNIA; TOUCHING SCHEME

Southern CALIFORNIA; latest plan is to have the
government issue 125,0000O0 in bonds in order
that it may secure the building of the Boulder
canyon dam and other incidental improvements
for them without cost to those benefited. If the
thing pays out, the bonds will be paid out Of the
profits, if not the people Of the United States will
be compelled to hold the sack as usual California
still persists that the development of the Colorado
river should be placed in the hands of the politi-
clans, and, politicians who favor California The
bill offered provides that the approval of any Of
the six states of the seven affected may be held
sufficient for the ratification of the Colorado
river compact. This clause, of course, is intended
to eliminate Arizona, since Arizona has already
refused to ratify the treaty. The Sun has always
against the all-absorbng attitude of California in
the final settlement between the lower basin
states.
The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05
SOUNDED THAT WAY

A lanky country youth entered the
crossroads general store to order some
groceries. He was seventeen years
old and was passing through that age
of adolescence during which boy
seems all hands and feet, and his vocal
organs, rapidly developing, are won't
to cause his voice to undergo sudden
and involuntary changes from high
treble to low bass.
In an authoritative rumbling bass
voice he demanded Of the busy clerk:
"Give me can of corn" (then,, his
voice suddenly changing to shrill
falsetto, he continued) land sack of
flour"
"Well, don't be in hurry. / can't
wait on both of you at once" snapped
the clerk.
The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05
OUR GANG ........ i. II. 49,.
PROTECTING THE PRINTER
(Nnv9las Haraldl

While we are getting the govern
ment out Of business it will not do any
harm to follow the band to the extent
at least of stopping the postoffice de-
partment from competing with the
local printer in the matter of printed
addresses on the stamped envelopes.
For all of the careful figuring of the
government efficiency experts which
apparently show that it costs next to
nothing to do this printing, those who
have had experience in watching gov
ernment operations know this is not
the truth. The little fellow has a
hard time anyway, and he should not
be obliged to face his own govern
nlent as a competitor.
The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05
Ell PASO TO GRAND CANYON
(Ei poen Harald1

A good road from Ell Paso to the
Grand Canyon makes its bid for your
summer vacation or your spring out
ing.
Rene mber that bid. It's attractive.
Up to now, if you have wanted to
go to the Grand Canyon you have
had to go by a roundabout route, north
for long ways to San Marcial, still
farther north to Socorro, then west
on the Ocean to Ocean highway to
Springerville, northwest to Flagstaff,
and north to the Grand Canyon.
That's almost a three-conered route.
By the Ell Paso-Grand Canyon road,
you viii go from FL Paso to Deming,
from Deming to Silver City, from Sill
YER City across to Springerville, and
thence to Flagstaff and the Canyon.
This is a direct route, shorter by
far than the other, and a good road.
Most of it is graded, much of it is
surfaced. Almost all of it is fast.
Lots of work has been done on it, and
more is being done now. The Frisco
river is being bridged, although it is
easy to ford except in rainy weather.
This summer and hereafter, we will
have direct, easy road to the Grand
Canyon And not only that, but east
beund tourists on the Ocean to Ocean
highway who want to come to FL
Paso and go east through Texas to
the southern states will turn off at
Springerville and have fine going all
the way to Ell Paso.
Let's boost for this route and popu-
larize tive do for all other good
highways in the southwest. In way
this is our road and we can make as
much of IT as we will.
The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05
NEWSPAPER ETHICS
(DougIas Dispatchl

The members of the Arizona Daily
Newspaper association during their
conference held in Bisbee on Sunday,
discussed at some length the publica-
ton of the names of juvenile Offend
ers against the laws. The association
voted to go on record as opposed to
the publication of the names of
minors in accounts of juvenile delin-
quency, except when the nature of the
news makes use of their names i'm
perative. The idea of the newspaper
publishers, in this resolution, is to
protect the youth of the land. That
is, record kept in any way, either
by the court, or published in the
press, will forever stand against the
name Of person. Thus, child con-
The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05
FAMOUS LAST WORDS

Wonder if that guns loaded!
Wonder if that fuse is still burn
ing?
Wonder if that lions ticlSiish
Wonder if can jump across?
Wonder if that branch would hold
me?
Wonder if that ice is thick enough
to skate on?
Wonder if that mule kicks?
Wonder how deep that well is?
Wonder what's in that bottle? 1t
smells good.
Wonder if that's powder or what?
Wonder how far I can lean out of
this window?
Wonder if that's a live wire?
The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05
TWO KINDS

Little Louis had gone to the kitchen
to observe old Aunt Sarah, the col
ored cook, at work making biscuits.
After he had sampled one, he OBJ
served:
"Aunt Sarah, can spell now.
These are made out of do, do"
"But that doesn't spell dough,
Louis mother corrected, as she en-
tered the kitchen to give the cook
some orders.
Whereupon Aunt Sally thought that
she, too, would enter the discussion.
So she said:
"Dere's two kinds of do, chile, Do
what you shuts, and do what you
eats"
The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05
No CHANCE

The, street car was crowded and an
old gentleman with a kindly twinkle
in his eye took 5-year-old Tommy on
his lap.
"This will be better than standing
won't it, my boy?" he suggested.
eyes, said Tommy, rather reluc-
tantly, for he had enjoyed lurching
about the car.
"But you want to be careful that
| don't pick Your pocket" the old man
said, in a whisper.
Can't" Tom retorted, his voice
somewhat muffled. "As soon as |
saw you lookin' at me put my penny
in my mouth"
The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05

AS the great muddle over the development of
the Colorado river gets thicker and thicker. the
people who have the best interests of the country
at heart, are commencing to realize more anc
more the necessity of engineering brains rather
than political brains in getting proper action.
Politicians have made football of the great prob
lem for past years and will continue to do so If the
people stand for it, There is the great Colorado
river running veritable stream of gold down to
the ocean all vast waste and just because poll
ticians are running off at the head an equal vol
unae Of useless words. We hope the president viii
see fit to call a halt by appointing a commission
OF competent engineers to make a workable re-
port, engineers who can not be tampered with by
local political conditions.
The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05
RIGHT

King Baggot had always figured
that some day or other he would put
Junior into the picture business, but
was not sure which department to try
until the other day.
He was reading a review of one of
his latest pictures and chanced upon
the word hypocrit. What does that
word mean" he asked Junior. Won
dering if the small boy would know
the meaning of so large word.
But Junior was more than equal to
the occasion. "A hypocrit," he said
promptly, is boy who goes to school
with smile on his face"
The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05
roo RTJSY

picked up any clues in that mur-
der case yet 2" asked the reporter.
"Wa-al," tlrawled the chief of po-
lice as he scratched his official head,
"the boys have been so busy lately en-
forcin' the parkin' law, lookin' fer
places where they sell reglar beer,
keepin' an eye on the bathin' suits an
censurin' books an movies, that they
haven't nacherly had time to get
started on that case"
The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05
WHAT HE NEEDED

Say, boss cried dark-skinned
customer, rushing much perturbed
into a store, "a no count boy has
threatened nah life. All Graves pro-
lection
"How about bullet-proofs vest?"
queried the man behind the counter.
"Wutllless, plumb wuthless. Amt
yo' got ma. razzer-proof collahs 2"
The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05
A WISE CRACK

A Scotchman went to the grocer's
for some eggs.
'How much are these eggs" he
asked.
"Twopence, half-penny each," an
swered the boy; "a penny the cracked
one"
"Crack me dozen,n said the
Sc0tchman
The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05

Even vinegar is turncoat Now some chemist
has discovered that it can be made into alcohol
with a handful of chemicals at a cost Of about
thirty cents per gallon. Vinegar was originally
considered just disappointed cider too old to kick
The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05

Secretary Mellon is out to buy $100,O00000
worth of Liberty bonds of the third loan variety.
He proposes to buy them direct without the aid
it on good authority that he is not attempting any
wildcat scheme.
The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05
CANNED

Mary Ann is a constantly active
child who ronlps and chatters and
plays without stopping from morning
until night.
One afternoon Billy came to spend
the afternoon. He was exceedingly
shy and bashful and could not be per-
suaded to join in the play at all, but
sat quietly in his chair despite the
continued overtures OF his little host
ess.
Finally, in disgust, she exclaimed:
az usta have Ill boy like dat, but |
frowed him away!"
The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05
NO TIME TO LOSE

Shopkeeper (to new boy): Don't
hang about wasting time now you've
finished sweeping the shop. You can
be catching flies an showing them into
our new patent fly trap SO that it will
be ready to putin the window
The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05

for the presidency of Mexico at the coming cleo
tion in 1928. A president in Mexico can only hold
the office one term, but it looks as though Obre-
gon and Gales were going to put on ride and
tie" program.
The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05

Conditions are often misrepresented in Mexico,
says an exchange. The same phenomena has been
noticed on this side of the border.
The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05

A bunch of bandits held up Los Angeles hotel
last week in broad daylight Evidently the hold
ups did it in retaliation
The Coconino sun., 1926-03-05

An El Paso man in commenting on prohibition
says he prefers the present prohibition law
rather than to have no liquor at all.
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1926-06-26
DUN'S REPORT.

NEW YORK, June 25.-Dun's tomor-
row will say:
The first half of the year is closing
with conflicting tendencies in business,
yet with not a few encouraging phases
plainly visible. Results in some quar-
ters during the last six months have
been disappointing, but an unusually
backward season mainly accounted for
the lack of a full development of
spring trade. Recently confidence has
strengthened in different directions
and in certain basic lines there is
more activity now than is ordinarily
seen at this period. Progressive inn
provement in the steel industry with
some price advances, has been helpful
to sentiment, whilA current reports
note the largest sales in pig iron since
late in 1924. Despite reduced building
operations in some sections, demand
for structural material remains of sub
stantial volume and buying of railroad
equipment has increased to sizeable
With such factors pres
ent and with most of the principal
crops showing betterment, the general
outlook has more favorable aspect.
Weekly bank clearings, $S,SS2, 144.-
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1926-06-26
NOTICE OF CALL FOR BIDS.

Notice is hereby given that until
five o'clock. p. NJ. on the goth day
of June, sealed bids or proposals Will
be received at the office of the City
Clerk in the City Hall for the clean
ing of all alleys and collection and
hauling of garbage and the collection
and hauling of refuse deposited in the
alleys during the sewi-annual clean
ups to be held in the City of Doug
las, for a period of two years, the
work to be done in accordance with
the specifications therefor on file in
the office of the City Clerk and the
health ordinances of the City and
State.
A certified check for ten per cent
of the amount of each bid must ac-
company each proposal
The City reserves the right to re-
ject any or all bids.
G. w. PRATT. City Clerk.
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1926-06-26
GRAIN MARKET.
(By Dispatch A. P. wirel

CHICAGO June 25.-Sudden expan-
sion of the movement of newly harvest
ed wheat, southwest, combined with
apparent defeat of farm relief legisla-
ton, tumbled down grain values to-
day, especially wheat. Word of Presi-
dent Coolidge's approval of a 500, OOO,-
900 appropriation came long after to-
days trading had ended Closing quo
tations on wheat were heavy, Inc to
3sc net lower, corn Zee to 1c down.
oats &c to 44c off, and provisions
showing sc to soc decline.
Arrivals of wheat today at Wichita,
Kans., alone totaled $50 cars, and
Hutchinson, Kans., expects $50 cars on
Monday. Under such circumstances,
selling pressure in the wheat market
here began to broaden out almost from
the start Offerings from houses with
eastern connections in particular as
sumed large proportions, and a prom
inent New York speculator appeared 10
be notably active on the selling side
of the market The persistent wave of
orders to sell disclosed a correspond
ing dearth of buying power, and with
favorable crop reports. at hand, the
market rapidly receded.
Lowest prices of the day in the
wheat market were current at the fin
ish. This fact was largely due to an
evident general tendency to increase
estimates of yield both in Kansas and
Oklahoma, one authoritative forecast
for Oklahoma being $4,000, 900 to 80, 900
600 bushels. Unexpected higher quo
tations from Liverpool as well as news
of heavy damage by floods in Germany
failed to offset the rush of selling ord
ers except for brief interval.
Owing chiefly to action of the sem
ate regarding the McNary- Haugen bill,
corn fell to new low price records for
the season. Prospects for extreme high
favorable for new crop
to the weakness of corn
values. Oats followed other wheat and
corn down grade.
Despite buying of lard for cotton
seed oil interests, the provisions mar
ket was responsive to grain weakness