The Coconino sun., 1926-05-21
THE HUMAN SIDE !.
OF LIFE
THEY ARE sPOOFING US
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! Relative to the above, this column
! is in receipt of the following COM
munication from Dr.. r. M. Croker,
county health officer, Of Lordsburg,
IN. NJ:
Editor Around Here Column:
Dear Sir--I have known Fred
Breen, of The Coconino Sun, for the
past 40 years. And | have always
/ thought that he was pretty honest
sort Of a fellow. But in The Herald
| of the 18th instant, | see that he Is
/ listed as one of the stockholders of a
new hotel to be started in his home
1 town.
| do not think that it would be any
more than fair for him to tell you
and his many friends how a country
editor can break into $4,000 corpor-
ations.
| I wish you would ask him about it.
We all wish to know.
| Did he make it out Of that bowling
team?
/ That isn't the start of it. Col.
Breen owns half of northern Arizona
and has mortgage on the other half.
| The First National bank owes him
money He takes de luxe trips all
around the world with other million
aires. He does not necessarily time
his departure on these expeditions
with the convening of the grand jury,
! either. And he is usually on good
terms with the sheriff.
The wolf howled at his door one
night and the next day he opened a
/ hot dog stand. And made his wife a
! fur coat out of the pelt besides.
Col. Breen will say this is an out
rageous fabrication. Probably he will
| have the nerve to assert that he has
only $1.24 and Mrs. Breen has a first
! lien on that. But you don't have to
believe all he says. The tax assessor
doesn't. .S.H. in Ell Paso Herald
This only goes to show that a fell
low should choose his friends with
| care when he is young. Just because
DR.. Croker attended the same insane
asylum that we did back at Kankakee,
| Illinois, and demitted few years ear
! lier, is no sign he should not now
know that it pays to advertise, even
! il YOU are a doctor We have egged
these newspaper fellers on until for
| just shot dog" they'll add half a
dozen eggs" to any front figure you
/ suggest. We have all been so used
to cham an" at our banquets that
even small favor will increase the
"eggs." No old time printer is ever
out "oughts" on a friend, as long as
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! out, and, he'll hunt for "sorts" for a
real good friend. To those who do
not know just what "sorts" are in
4 the language of the printing frater-
nifty, we would inform them that the
old time Industrious printer would
hunt the shop over and dig into old
dusty case corners for more "o's,
i then whittle out the extra parts of
as, p's and all other letters that could
4 be made to look like ''o's."
However, being an over-advertised
millionaire has some drawbacks,
| Dock You see, Dock, you can give
EN- bottlefull of physic or a hand
/ full of pills and suggest they come
back tomorrow and tell you how they
| feel You know certain they can't
get hack tomorrow to tell you how
they feel-and if they felt like fight
ing, you know you got 'em weakened
to start with.
Really. you know Dock just as well
as. ] do that the secret of success. as
most delicately proclaimed by DR.. Lv-
dia Pinkham, was: Don't bellyache
/ about being sick until you are. well.
This also has its financial application.
/ If DR.. Croker had landed at Flag
I staff--a very patriotic town instead
Of sacriligious place so irreverently
] called "Lords-burg." he would have
realized that the old G. A. r. veteran
/ Westley Warren was as near right as
was Judge" Star, both of whom were
inadvertent guests Of this institution
for mental detectives and then argu-
ments we're usually as to which was
most afflicted mentally. IF YOU think
you arc rich you are just as well off