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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-21
MARCH Is BUSY
MONTH FOR THE
BUICK PEOPLE

The Buick Motor company will re-
main at capacity production during
the first three months of 1925 at
least, according TO the production
schedules issued by the management.
In these three months approximate
ly $4,000 cars will he built and ship
ped from the plant at Flint. The
official production figures are: jan
uary, 1886; February, 1866; March,
27,122. Factory heads expect the two
million dollar expansion program now
under way to be far enough COM
pleted to allow the March schedule
to be met. The present capacity Of
the Buick factory is 1000 cars a day.
When the additions in buildings
and equipment are complete a daily
production of 1900 cars a day will
he possible.
The Buick factory has been at ca
pacity ever since the current models
were put into production in July,
1926. From that time until January
/, 1926 111,654 cars were built, an
average of 1860 cars per month. This
unusual activity through the winter
mOnlHSb normally Il SIdck season, Is
considered an indication that 1925
will be the best year ever experienced
by the automobile industry. The av-
erage production of Bucks for the
first three months of 1926 will be
24,791.
The previous high record of $4,000
new cars built and shipped from the
factory was made in the month of
October, 1925.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-21
Citizens Form Group To
Do Police Duty Against
All Crime And Thieyery
(By Dispatch a. P. Wirel

PUEBLO, Colo, March 20.-Resi-
dents of Minnequa Heights, suburb
with a population of 1900, have form
ed an organization of vigilantes, 15e
strong, to blot out a wave of crime
and thievery that descended on their
community several months ago.
Men in pairs and working two hour
shifts each, will patrol the alleyways
and streets during the night hours
to protect the community, which, be-
ing outside the city limits, is with
out police protection. Six years ago
when a similar condition confronted
them, the residents there took mat
tiers into their own hands and form
ing a volunteer police force drove
out thieves and burglars in few
days time.
The action was taken at a mass
meeting last night where the mem
bers all pledged themselves to join
the volunteer police force. Residents
of the district were warned today to
remain out of alleys and not to be
alarmed if approached by one of the
vigilantes.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-21
(By Dispatch A. 2. Wirel

PHOENIX, March 2p.- Virtually
every branch of industry in the
state was represented at the fifth
annual buyers and sellers confer
ence' here Friday a feature of
Trade-at- Home and Use Arizona
Products week, sponsored by the
Arizona industrial congress. A series
of short talks emphasized that a
great Improvement in the standard
ization and distribution of Arizona
products had been made since the
first ade-at-home week four years
ago, resulting from personal con-
tract between buyers and sellers.
Statements showing that during
the past four years from 100 to 500
per cent increase in the use of state
products had been made were pre-
scented by representatives of min
ing companies and large mercan-
tile establishments.
Nearly 100 purchasing agents and
manufacturers, distributors and pro-
ducers' delegates were present at
the conclave.
p G. Salisbury, president of the
congress, said that through a con-
certed effort, some $SO,000,OO9 worth
of business had been diverted to
Arizona channels during the past
four years. He emphasized, too, the
progress made in ALLEGATION of mar
kets, so they might be developed
nearest the point of origin of the
product. D. B. Wiley, manager of
the Maricopa county farm bureau.
stated that Arizona farmers were
working under a handicap in not
keeping pace with outside sections
in putting up the right packs.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-21

lot grape cuttings, one lot onions,
three lots Irish potatoes ana one lot
rose bushes
Pests found on this material were
red and purple scales on citrus fruits,
mealy bugs on citrus fruits and rose.
plants. Black scale on ferns, Par
latoria scale on date palms and San
Jose scale on apples.
Kingman station.
Inspected $40 cars of which 81
were found to be carrying contra
band material as follows:
21 lots citrus fruits.
Pests found on this material were
mealy bugs, red and purple scales.
HOlbrOOk Station.
Inspected ASS cars of which 81
were found to be carrying contra
band material as follows:
Two lots cotton bolls and S5 lots
citrus fruits.
Pests found on this material were
red scale on citrus fruit.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-21
OBREGON DENIES HE
HAS ANNOUNCED FOR
MEXICAN PRESIDENCY
(By Dispatch A. P. Wire

NOGALF2S, March 20.-F'ormer Presi-
dent Aware Oregon refuses to COM
nit himself in a statement to the
press regarding his candidacy for
the presidency of the Mexican re-
public in the 1928 elections.
A letter from General Oregon to
the Nogales Herald under, date of
March Is, written from Cajeme, SO.
nora, states that. he desires Eat pres
ent to continue silent"
The letter follows:
II acknowledge the receipt of your
letter, under date of the 26th of
February, and desire to inform you
/ had not made any declaration for
the press of political character,
and am ignorant, thereof, of the ORR
gin of reports lately published.
'.L desire at present to continue
silent. and this is due to the fact
that date to bring before our coun-
try the problem of a presidential
succession is still distant.
1T will not be- until then that I
will make declaration of a political
character when it will be clearly
made known the stand that 1 will
take.
'AIvaro Oregon"
A recent dispatch to the Herald
said that persistent rumors were to
the effect that General Oregon fa>
vored Francisco serrano, until lately
military attache to the Mexican
embassy at Paris and Obregon's
fright hand man. when he was in
office in fhe event that he hir1sal n
did not become a candidate.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-21
Use OF ARIZONANEW RAILROADS
PRODUCTS SHOWS I'm new MEXICO,
MARVELLOUS GAIN TEXAS, APPROVED

WASHINGTON, March 20. Con-
struction of several hundred miles of
new railroad in Texas, Kansas and
New Mexico was given tentative APP
prevail in four examiners reports
filed Friday with the interstate COM
merce commission. The main appli~
cation given approval was that of
the Texas, Panhandle and Gulf rail-
road to build 3O3 miles of new line
from Seymour Texas, to Tucumcari,
n. M.
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
cific railway also had it's application
favorably reported to the commission
for. construction of 145 miles of rail-
road from Amarillo, Texas, to Lib
eral, Kan.
Several conditions were laid down
in the reports before final commits
sion endorsement would be given. In
the case of the Panhandle approval
was asked in the report only if that
road constructs certain lines of rail-
road or makes arrangements to ex-
tend it's service into Plainview and
Lubbock, Texas, and provided it per-
fects other arrangements to assure a
proper financing and operation of the
roads
Public convenience was said in the
Panhandle report to require the
building of two new lines, one from
Floyada to Lubbock and another from
Floyada to Plainview. The latter
would be built, the report said only
in event trackage rights could not be
obtained on an existing line.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-21
Inspectors Find Many
Persons Carrying Fruit
And Cotton In Arizona

An interesting compilation on the
number of machines passing through
the road inspection stations in the
state, as offered in the monthly re.
port Of the state commission on agri-
culture and horticulture, has been
received at the local chamber of
commerce..
u states that, in general, the num-
Der Of machines passing through the
inspection posts diminished slightly
during the past month but that the
traffic has been more evenly distrib-
uted over the northern and southern
routes than for the past three
months.
/. a summary of the number of cars
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-21
VAN SWERINCENS
PREP AIRING new
MERGER PLAN
(By Dispatch A. p. Wire)


NEW YORK, March 20.-The gem
eral encouragement of the exeeu-
tive staffs of the Nickel Plate,
Chesapeake and Ohio and Hooking
Valley railroads, announced in Cleve-
land Thursday, was Interpreted i'll
banking circles here as another step
in the policy of the Van Sweringen
to remove all possible grounds of tno
criticism preparatory to the formu-
lation of new Nickel Plate merger
plan.
With o. p. Van Sweringen. sever
ing his connection with the Nickel
Plate and M. j. Van Sweringen and
]. J. Bernet withdrawing from the
Chesapeake and Ohio board, it was
asserted that the complaint against
interlocking directorates for COM
panies involved in the merger
would be overcome.
The retirement of two Van
Sweringen representatives from the
Chesapeake and Ohio directorate, 1t
was said, would indicate not the
elimination of this road from flu
ture merger negotiations, but rather
an attempt to meet the wishes of
the interstate commerce commission
in giving other stockholders a more
important voice in the management.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-21
MEXICAN REBs SURRENDER


SAN ANTONIO, Tex, March 20
Rebels operating in the state OF
Vera Cruz under the leadership of
Colonel Victorian Saldana have sur
rendered to the Mexican govern
ment, the war department at Mexico
City Friday advised the Mexican con-
sulate here. These rebels according
to officials at the consulate, were
harassing traffic and looting viii
lagos between Mexico City and Vera
Cruz.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-21
CHANGE IN OFFICIALS
(By Dispatch A. P. Wire)

{ 3y DISpdJCh a T. WlTeJ
CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 90
Announcement was made here late
Friday of the resignation of C. 2,
Sweringen as director of the Nickel
Plate railroad and ]. J. Bernet,
president of the Nickel Plate from
the directorates of the Chesapeake
and Ohio and Hooking Valley rail-
roads
M. ]. Van Sweringen resigned as
director of the Chesapeake and Ohio
and Hooking Valley and succeeds
his brother as chairman of the
Nickel Plate. o. P. Van Sweringen
remains chairman of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio and Hooking Val
ley boards.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-21
OLD FIDDLERs' CONTEST.
AZ Digpatch a. 2. WIG

q
PHOENIX, March 2O.-In an effort
to discover Arizona's Nellie Dun
ham, the Phoenix Y. NJ. c. A. will
hold an old fiddlers' contest with
state wide entry April 20. it was
announced Friday.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-08-30
Editorial Comment
A Job For ScOtchmen
IN. Y. Timcs)


The suggestion Of tho Rev. John McNeill. that
Scotch financicrs should have been called in to as
sist tho Europeans in their debt settlements with
America comes beatedly The intimation is that
if Scotch sagacity had been invoked <hc Americans
would have been "gad for anything they could get"
This was intended not criticism of our claims,
but tribute to the Scotch shrewd sense of basic
right and fair dealing as we'll as Of thrift. prom
inent American of largest business interests, born
in Scotland, is reported to have said that he was
never cheated by Scotchman; but on the other
hand it might truthfully have been added that
no Scotchman could ever be cheated. Such is the
integrity Of the Scotchmen with all their canniness
that they might safely have been entrusted with
the whole debt settlement. There is proverb that
the Scotch always reckon "frae an i'll hour" but
they always prudently and thrftily reckon also for
an i'll hour. They may be "croustest" (keenest)
in their lain cause"-and none can be keener-but
they arc not less keen in any they make their
own. Moreover, their land was the terminus Of the
bridge that united Europe and America, and
no people nearer to both.
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News Of Our
Neigl,bors

VIM;
Mr.. and Mrs. Kapplin, the Grahano
and EdgertonS motored to the rivel
Sunday. They didn't have much sue
cess In berry picking, although tn
day was much enjoyed By oil. @
Mr.. and Mrs.. tohn Mutller droy,
% Goodrich to visit relatives Sun
Mr.. James Ties. accompanied b,
Miss viola Hagen, and James's moth
err and brother. drove to Painte,
Woods to spend Sunday with Viola,
parents, MI. and Mrs. Martin Hagen
A. L. Tourtlotts and Axsl Land
berg. both Of Regain, transactes
business in wing Wednesday.
q. Nth Edith Cambsr anA Alice Boss
e csm Sssr' 4 xsa,I .ii:s N. D.
tasvasiting with he emit. Mrs. Fre<
Cumher. 9 few days. He 10 soon lssv'
Ing to join the navy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Harvey and
family have returned after an. ex'
tended trip through Iowa, South Da.
kota and Nebraska.
Prayer meeting Wednesday night
kas we'll offended. but there 10 still
room for many moro. Everyone II
urged and requested TO coms. Miss
Holstien will BE- absent next week
% she appointed Ella Mueller 70 lead
the fort part Of tie evening, and
Mrs. Wilkinson to lead In the dis.
cussion Of the 1esson.. For the week
after that Clara Mueller was ap,
pointed % lead the singing and Mrs
Harvey, the discussion. ~
The Misses Augusta and Dorothy
IAngsdorf. and Gene. Ed IAngsderi
and Ralph Truax were visitors at the
Mueller home Sunday.
Mrs. Z. H. Stark, sijter-in.law Of
Mrs. Clyde Harvey and Mira. S&ark's
sister and their children Of Montana
have left after Few dsyS' A.visit with
the Harvey family. s...
The farmers are all rejoicing over
the fine rain We had Wednesday
night. They say II win help the
melon patches. eucumbsrs and late
potatoes.
quite . few Of the wing ladies'
notored to Dan McKinnon's Thurs-
day afternoon. where Miss Rae Me-
Kinnon entertained the Catholic
Ladies' Aid. A
4 show troupe have set their tents
up for six-day vaudeville show.
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A Visitor Impressed

SO accustomed have we become to the type o
visiting foreigner who spends three> days in New
York and then writes voluminDus criticism OF
everything American that it is indeed refreshing
experience to read that Viscount Astor, after
thrccmonths tour through the west, stated that he
had enjoyed every minute Of the trip.
"Onc has TO see your country in order to appre-
cate it," he said.
And in that one sent9nce lies the supreme crit.
csm against tho visitors who have columnized the
United States after inadequate and biased obscrva-
tion.
Rome not built in day. Neither Amer.
ica seen in a day, week, month"; year.
One must know America in order to render an hon.
est commentary on the country or It's people. We
have been widely and unanimously slandered. We
have had to suffer ndigntics at the pens and type
writer's of penny alinc pcttifoggcrs who have been
unable to honestly literary living We arc
sick and tired of it.
We welcome Viscount Astor to this country as a
man Of sense and discrimination. Perhaps his
American wife is partly responsible for that But
no mattcr-hc has been kind enough TO be kind to
us and he is welcome. The others arc not.
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lying after double operation he certainly would
have continued to improve if it had not been that
his depressed mental condition did not work toward
recovery.
Plcurisy finally setting in, with his vitality at u
low cbb, Valentino, whose life has been IS much
drama any he has portrayed the moving pic
Perhaps Mr.. Valentino was cffeminatc. He was
accused But his conduct while i'll and while he
knowingly faced death, that of a brave man.
His mannorsms while he movie hero should
be considered as no more than the costumes he wore
in his actual productions They were properties"
designed to please tho public, which expects such
things Of actors.
The moving pictures have lost a distinctive type
and, perhaps, more Of a man than was the general
impression.
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idiot to let Heath get away, il you
had him here. One yell from you
would have brough. at least three
men servants from the house, and
more from the garage and garden.
You muffcd it, Cunny, and that's all
there is about that. Now, don t
whine, and don't apologize. Your
stupidity is beyond all apology and
whining won't do a bit of good. How
did'hc look? Fit, and all that 2"
Il couldn't see very we'll, it was
dark. and, too. l was SO flabber-
gastcd."
"You would BET" and Anderson
still used that tone Of utter exas-
pcration ut his friends stupidity.
well, all we can do now, is to try
our best to set the little girl free and
run 0nMan i'm
Anderson spoke with brisk energy,
as one who sees his plan Of action
made clear.
Easier said than donc," Cunning
ham growlcd. .....sN
"No, not if you tell your story ia
the authorities as convincingly al
you have tpld il. 10. me. l dcploru
your inactivity, E1s,1 am glad "a
have your evidences The Testimony
Of an eye witness. rel Seated at first
hand, must have weight, and even
that dunderhead Mott cant fail ia
recognize it,"
"You know Cunningham said
musingly, that young chap next
door to the Heath's; he believed all
along that Inman was the murderer
But he said that Imam killed
Heath too. and hid his body in the
cellar or pitched it into the sea-"
"How clcvcr!" Anderson said, sar-
castically. But now, We KNOW
or at least, you know. that Heath is
alivc,-I say, Al, it was dark. arc
you sure that was Heath :"
"Oh, yes. know Perry as well
as you do, and could see him clear.
~ enough to recognize him. And
you know that little trick he HAS OF
tossing back that lock of hair that
falls over his forehead, in true artist
fashion. Oh, yes, it Awas Perry all
right" .
"Well. then lnman didn't kill him
in spite Of Abe young mans astutc
Deductions
: mo, Of course not. Back doesn't
know anything Of sleuthing,-any
more than | do" Cunningham added
with wry smile.
'Don't blame yourself too much
darcsay lit into you too roughly,
old chap. If SO, forget II. But
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Things very dry around Louisville, Ky. The
td-timcrs couldn't remember such drouth since
away back yondcr no telling how long ago. Crops
in the surrounding territory were being ruined A
cloud Of dust country road might mean either
pedestrian auto were passing.
With such conditions prevailing, the good people
met and prayed for rain. Farmers, clergymen and
others gathered in many places. "Send rain, >
they asked "The crops are burning up; wells 60
ing dry; homes dusty; it's the worst drouth
in many years"
Shortly after this, the rain started. 1t didn't
rain, but it poured. Old-timers hadn't seen such q
rain since away back yondcr no telling whcn
Many talked Of holding prayer meetings to ask
that the rain be stopped. Perhaps they asked for
too much in their prayers. We often do.
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! Governmental expenses come out of the taxpayers
Naturally they like governmental economy. The
taxpayers have votes Governments depend on
them. Consequently, when government has been
economical and wants popular Endorsement, It
brags to the taxpayinT voters about it's economies
Ats equally natural for tho governmental opposition
to say that this economy talk is all bunk-thcrc
hasn't been any.
II may seem If it ought to be easy question
u settle, but il isn't. Modern government is on
ouch large scale and mixed up and its expenses
arc vast, at BEST and there's much indirect
taxation which cant be definitely accounted for
and clever statisticians can do such queer things
with figures that the whole things puzzle.
Nevertheless to give the devil his due, il he is =
devil, to be fair with an angel, if that's what he
the Coolidge administration does make out a
pretty good case. in behalf Of its contention that its
saved some money.
Budget Director Lords latest report is case in
point. Lord~ and Comptroller General McCarl. be-
tween them, undertook at the presidents behest, Ia
stop every last cent Of waste Every last cent" is
'right-literally.
They figured in pennies. They made government
clerks lead pencils down to mere stubs. They
saved rubber bands and wire clips, and used them
over again. They standardized. They economical
in millions and thousands and hundreds and nckcls
and coppcrs. As might have been expected, the!
were warmly hated. "Penny pinching!' Saving
at the spgot and wasting at the bunghoc!" These
were some of the things said about them.
1t did look like small business. Now, however
Budget Director Lord makes the point that by suci
methods, in four years, the government has man
-aged to $l757, O99, l52 out Of its income. 1
was applied to public debt reduction 1t isn't fo
redistribution among those who paid it in in taxes
hut it's saving in present and future taxes. 1
would have been spent it came in. if those VIII,
accused the administration Of penny pinching hat
had their way. 1t took grit to save it.
Who cares whether it was done on grand scale
q million dollars at clattcr, or dime at time
on rubber bands and lead pencils? It's more thar
n billion and threc-quartcrs.
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DIR. Charles w. Eliot

~ With the death of DR.. Charles w. Eliot president
emeritus Of Harvard university and for forty years
the active head Of that famous institution Of learn
Ing. the world has lost man Of intense enthusiasm
for the cause Of educating the common person. Pos.
scsscd OF the conviction that lack Of knowledge was
1.-The biggest single handicap that man has to face
IN his daily activities. he devoted his life not only
TO the mparting Of knowledge through the Ordnar.
channel OF school and university. but by means OF
what ne termed his 'five-foot shelf Of books"
This was set of books, the reading of which was
designed to supply the deficiencies in the cultural
education of the average man. In these books DR.
Eliot grouped in logical sequence the various classics
OF the cultured world and arranged them for popu-
Jar consumption.
Perhaps Dr. Elot's most notable single contribu.
tim to the various subjects often brought up for
discussion in periodicals, his denial of the SO.
sailed "medting-pot' theory of America He dcniel
that America was such melting pct for the races
and asserted that the actual working of such =
theory would be misfortune and that it was bet
ter for American citizens of all origins tn retain
ncir distinctive racial customs and to eschcw inter.
racial marriages.
Another matter for which Dr. Eliot received wide
publicity was his opposition to the "standardzatio
OF the nation He was violently opposed to this
process, claiming that it having an evil effect
ON the mental powers of the nation. that ndiyidu-
alty, the most precious Of to the world was
being made subservient to the ability to turn out
vast quantity OF automatically performed labor in
"a short time.
Whatever We may think Of DR.. Eliot's personal
opinions we must recognize the great force he has
pcen IN American education and thus mourn his loss
ms the loss ct whole nation and not of an individual
profession.