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The Coconino sun., 1927-04-01
BETTER ENFORCEMENT
OF PROHIBITION LAW

With the announced intention of
better prohibition enforcement in
southern California and Arizona, Ad-
ministrator Frank r. Reynolds Sun
day at Los Angeles announced several
changes in the personnel of his dis
trict.
Summary dismissal of R. w. Col
burn, until recently chief inspector in
the permissive division, and transfer
to San Diego of Capt. Jesse l..
Thompson, former assistant admins
traitor, were new developments.
Thompson will act as inspector of
permits and drug stores.
Transfer Of more than forty en-
ployes of the internal revenue col
lector's department to McReynold's
office win be made this week, it was
said.
The Coconino sun., 1927-04-01
SchOOIna0rnl Is
Real Gold Digger

How petite young school teacher
Of Hayden, Arizona, toiled for four
days with pick and shovel at Weepah
last week was told by T. I. Towns, a
rangy grizzled prospector who mo-
tored down from the Nevada ell do
RADIO.
Towns is the owner of two claims
at Weepah- the "Ellen Terry" and
the Mae Murray" The Terry is about
100 feet north of the Horton discovery
claim. The veteran has already taken
out gold ore assaying 81 ,375 ton.
Yes, sir, she dug away at her trac-
tion Of claim for four days with q
United States army shovel and reg
ular prospector's pick" Towns said.
"She dug up a $35 nugget or bnnch
of wire gold and has already refused
$1,000 cash for her property.
The school teacher worked until
she had dug hole about six feet deep
and then stopped with her hands all
blistered."
The Coconino sun., 1927-04-01
In the neighborhood of $50 local

In the neighborhood of $50 local
people are taking part as supers. Mrs.
Richard Griffith went out Tuesday,
also several other Flagstaff ladies
whose names could not be learned.
Twenty-Five male Teachers college
students are taking part as cowboys,
among whom are Hoddy Stevens and
Howard Denman. Among local folks
who drove cars were Jim Tillman, Joe
Gaddis, Lewis Graham, Hugh Tillman
and Earl Thomas. skinny" Jones
was peeling potatoes for dinner on
Sunday, while other Flagstaff folks
played their inconspicuous parts.
The Coconino sun., 1927-04-01

"A careful study Of the provisions
OF this bill and conditions in the high
way department assures US that the
state can comply with the provisions
Of the senli-monthly pay day laws.
The governor contends that the
imprest fund does not adequately pro-
vide for the immediate payment of
wages to employees of the highway de-
partment who are discharged or quit
their employment.
House bill no. 127 contains nothing
which would prevent the immediate
payment of such wages.
The governor endeav0rs to enlist
the support Of organized labor in his
opposition to this bill by creating the
impression that the legislature is
blocking the enforcement of the pro-
visions of law which protects those
who toll. This is an absolute misrep-
resentation of the facts. On the con-
trary house bill No. 127 assures every
employe of the highway department
that his position depends upon eff
cient services, rather than upon sup
port of, and contribution to a political
machine.
"The governor states that the bill
does not provide for the relief of the
highway creditors. Attention is called
to section 2 Of chapter Nv, which
makes Immediately available $625, 900
for this purpose.
''The governor says that the people
of the state have voted that all work
in the state shall be done by days
labor or may be done by contract.
This is true. Investigation of the
comparative costs of construction by
contract and by days labor has invar-
iably shown that work done by days
labor is less satisfactory and more ex-
pensive On the other hand work by
force account is often necessary to
prevent collusion among contractors.
The legislature, therefore, provided
that construction be by days labor
when contracts are not satisfactory
"The third general objection is be-
cause Of the proposal to create high
way commission The legislature feels
that the conditions now existing in
the highway department are ample
justification for the creation of nom
political, continuing commission, di-
vorced, as far as possible, from ma
chine politics.
s.In closing his arguments the gov
ernor says that this bill does not out
line a program beyond the two-year
period and then it is limited and un-
satisfactory This is not true.
.'The property levy and all other
taxes and fees collected are continu-
ing, being collected each and every
year and the bill does provide for 6
generous highway program, if the
funds which, including federal aid,
amount to more than $4,000,000 each
year, are used for the construction and
maintenance of highways rather than
in the maintenance of political ma
chine"
Then follows an estimate of re-
ceipts and disbursements from house
bill 127, federal aid and special APP
propriations for fiscal years 1929
and 1928-29.
In distributing the pamphlet, w. G.
Rosenbaum, chairman of the commit
tee on printing and clerks, writes o
letter to the taxpayers urging them to
read the pamphlet, adding:
"Do you wish the affairs of state
conducted upon a business basis :?
Please bear in mind it is you who must
pay the bill. so advise your members
in the legislature of your wishes IN
regard to house bill No. 127"
The Coconino sun., 1927-04-01

not reported. e+*Postponed match to
be decided.
The Coconino sun., 1927-04-01
HIGH SCHOOL ORATORICAL
CONTEST NEXT THURSDAY

The district contest for the fourth
annual oratorical contest will be held
in the high school auditorium, Thurs
day, April 7 at s o'clock.
The winner of this contest will rep
resent Apache, Coconino, Mohave,
Navajo and Yavapai counties at Tue
son on May 4.
The one chosen from that contest
goes directly to the Times semi-finais
at Los Angeles.
The contest will be very close, since
only four Flagstaff boys are entering,
and each has an exceptionally good
oration. The boys are working hard
and the public may expect an enter
tanning program on Thursday. The
speakers and their subjects are:
Harold Burman, The Meaning of
the Constitution Today"
Weldon Brinton, "The Constitution.
Bill Harrison, "The Constitution"
Harry Bross, "The Constitution of
the TT. s.
Prizes Of SIS, or the bust of Lin
coin, SIS and $40 are offered for the
district contest, and there will be keen
competition. One Of these four con-
testants will have the honor Of repre-
senting his school at Tucson.
There will be no admission charge
and the public is cordially urged to
take the opportunity Of hearing part
Of this national and worldwide con-
test. 1t will be interesting to all
what our own Flagstaff boys are ca
pable of doing with this rather diff
cult job of writing and delivering an
original oration.
Last year Catherine Miller won
first prize in this district and repre-
sented Flagstaff at Phoenix.
The Coconino sun., 1927-04-01

Next Sundays shoot viii be regis
tered, for 100 birds, jack-rabbit sys-
tenn, with $40 additional put up by the
club. There will also be two prizes,
one for the visiting high-gun man and
the other for the local high-gun man.
Shooting will begin promptly at 10
o'clock and it is likely that lunch will
be served at the clubhouse.
The Coconino sun., 1927-04-01
WHY NOT TRY THIS
AT THE FLORENCE PEN?

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.-Work-
ing on the theory that their lone
prisoner, serving a 60-day sentence
for violation Of the prohibition law,
will not be in mischief while busy, and
to avoid the cost of a jailer, the town
trustees of the little town of Aztec
have entered into an unusual agree
ment with this offender. They have
turned the key of the Jail over to him,
with instructions to sleep in the Jail
nightly and to spend such days there
as he is not working. If he happens
to have day off he spends it in jail,
turning the key and walking out when
he has a days work to do.
Irate Patterson, what's tFlis
story hear about your overdrawing
your bank balance?
Son -oh, | should say it was very
much overdrawn.
The Coconino sun., 1927-04-01

Replying point by point to the gov
ernor's message votoing the highway
department reorganization bill, the
state legislature is taking its case
before the people or Arizona by dis
tributing 10000 copies of "an anal
ysis of the governors veto of house
bill No. 127" in a 95-page pamphlet
containing also a copy of the highway
bill, a synopsis of the bill, the govv
ernor's veto message and the joint
resolution passed by the legislature
calling for publication of the pamph-
let.
The governor has called an extra
ordinary session cf the legislature
Wednesday to consider, among other
things, the highway bill.
The analysis of the governors veto
of house bill 127 follows:
"The governor gave three distinct
reasons for opposing the bill, as fol-
lows:
First, Because, in my judgment,
every tenet of parliamentary proce-
dure was violated in its passage;
"sSecond, Because Of some of its
provisions; and
Third, Because of the creation of
the Highway Commission.
"Let as consider his first objection.
''The measure was passed in the
manner established by law, precedent
and the rules of the two houses. The
The Coconino sun., 1927-04-01

Orders taken at The Sun office
for engraved cards, letter heads and
envelopes.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01
CONSERVING THE H
MILK VS.. BEER


The milk bottle has been substituted
for the beer bottle in the United States.
According to the Department of Agricul-
ture, the quantity of whole milk produced
in the United States in 1926 increased a.
O00,0OO,000 pounds over 1925. Most of
the increase was consumed as fluid milk
in households or in the manufacture of
butter or ice cream. The quantity of milk
used for household purposes is estimated
at 56,417 100000 pounds, compared with
54325,776,00O pounds in 1925. The in
crease has been due entirely to the in
creased use by the city population, the
per capita consumption being 55.3 gallons
as compared with 54.5 gallons in 1925.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01
DoUBLY AUGMENTED BUYING
POWER

Approximately two billion dollars which
was formerly spent for drink every year
is now diverted into genuinely productive
commerce and industry.
The productive capacity of labor is in
creased at least 10 per cent, and thereby
the earning power of labor is increased to
the extent of hundreds of millions of dol
lars annually.
This doubly augmented buying power
that is, the money formerly spent for
liquor plus the increased earnings of So
briefly, is greatly charging the markets
of new and old lines of constructive bus
mess.
Likewise through the larger incomes
and the consequently increased buying
power higher standard of living is es-
tablished. Millions of worlingmen have
become able to establish a credit, and so
to enjoy added purchasing power and
added comforts of living through credit
buying.-Roger w. Babson, internation-
ally known economist, November, 1926.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01

If you think the four dollars is a high
value, remember that the average wage
of skilled men in this country is forty
dollars week, and man losing one day
because of drink loses directly more than
six dollars in wages alone.-Roger w.
Babson.
The Christian Science Monitor in COM.
menting upon this says:
"For the sake of conservatism let $3.50
represent the result in labor waste from
one dollar of drinking, and that will give
$5,000000000 as the estimate of earning
and buying power now conserved"
Add to this $5,00000O,0O0 the $780,
0000 00* withdrawn from the channels of
liquor, and we have total of $6800,000,-
000 which can be claimed as the dry laws
contribution to better business. This fig
ure is sustained by the statement of Prof.
Fishers estimate of benefits of prohibi-
ton as being at least $4,000 100000 year.
*Based on an estimate that $200,000,-
900 of the $2,00O000,00O liquor bill of liz
cense days is spent for bootleg liquor
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01
WHEN A WET Is DRY

The man in the automobile may be op-
posed to the Eighteenth Amendment, but
he will instantly discharge a drinking
chauffeur. The train may be crowded
with delegates to the anti-prohibition con-
vention, but they would mob the engi-
ness who took drink while drawing his
precious freight. The industrial magnate
may talk critically of sumptuary laws,
but he will apply them like despot to the
man who watches over the driving power
of his vast establishment. When safety
is involved we all are dry. Where the
exigency of modern life demands clear
brain and instant decision in order to
save thousands of lives and millions of
property, we are all dry.-United States
Senator Borah, of Idaho.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01
CHRISTMAS MONEY IN DRY
COMMERCE

At this years Christmastide the banks
of the country hold about $5000,000, a
far greater sum than ever before in his
tory. Last June the savings deposits in
all the banks totalled $24,2s00O0 900, and
this is believed to have increased a billion
dollars through additional Christmas ac-
counts. The June 80 figure was higher
by $2,300,o0o than the year previous. Dur
ing the year the people of the country
have drawn about $500 100000 in interest
on savings deposits.-Report from the
Treasury Department at Washington, No
yember 1926.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01
TRANSPORTATION RECORD
BROKEN

The largest volume of traffic in the his
tory of the American transportation sys-
tenn is recorded in 1926. Not only has
the traffic been the largest, but the rail-
roads are spending more on improve
ments than ever before. Nearly $900,OO0,-
600 we're spent for improvements and
equipment to handle the business during
the year, making the total of about $5,-
600, 100000 since 192o-S. E. Gruenstein,
railroad editor Chicago Daily News jan
uary, 1927.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01
LESS DRINKING

Social workers assembled at Des
Moines, Iowa, in May, 1927, for the ma
tional conference of social workers, voted
nine to one in favor of prohibition in an
unofficial ballot taken among 442 men
and women who are actively engaged in
social work in the United States. The poll
showed that 338 workers believed that
drinking has been reduced under prohibit
ton, while only 43 declared that it has
increased. These representatives from
every state in the Union declared that
drinking had been reduced 90 per cent
since the advent of prohibition. Only II
workers favored repeal of the Eighteenth
Amendment. while 355 were against re-
peal
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01
ALCOHOLISM DEATH RATE

The Bureau of Census compiled state
ment made public in July, 1927, of deaths
from alcoholism and cirrhosis of the liver
in registration states covering the period
from 1910 to 1924, which it declares is "of
particular interest in view of the war
time prohibition measures, and later ma
tional prohibition" In the registration
states the bureau declares there was de-
Ginning alcoholism death rate from 6.3
for each 100000 population in 1917 to IL
in 1920, with an increase to 80 in 1924.
The rate for cirrhosis of the liver de-
clined from 12.2 in 1916 to 10 in 1920,
with an increase to 81 in 1924.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01
SIX BILLION DOLLAS ADDED TO
BUSINESS ANNUALLY

Prohibition has added $6000,00o000 an
nually in cash values to the business ac-
tivities and personal wel-being OF the cit
liens of the United States.-Prof. Irving
Fisher of Yale University.
Specific insight into the manner in which
prohibition has accomplished this miracle
in finance is afforded by Mr.. Babson's
estimates of the $2,OOOooOoOO formerly
spent for liquor each year. He estimates
that not more than 10 per cent IS being
spent for illicit liquor and divides the re-
naming 81, 100000 as follows: Is per
cent of this money is now deposited in
banks or other savings agencies; 25 per
cent is going into homes; another Is per
cent into automobiles; and the remain
ing rs per cent into miscellaneous mer-
chandise.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01
SINCE THE SALOON CASH REGIS
TER WAS SILENCED

Savings bank depositors increased by
23,00o000 persons during the period 1920
1925. Amount in savings banks during
this period increased by $8,000,OO0,000.
Increase in life insurance in 1923-24 to-
tailed $37000000,O0O. In 19l9-1925 the
country's wage account increased $8,000,-
00Oo00-Girard Trust Company of Phil
adelphia.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01
MONEY FOR NEW HOMES

In 1921, the year following the going
into eject of the Eighteenth Amendment,
the aggregate assets of all the building
and loan associations in the country were
$2,8o0,764,621 In 1926, these assets ag-
gregated $6,334,1o3,807, an increase of
119.1 per cent. During 1926 these asso-
Citations provided the means for the pur-
chasing or building of over $4,000 homes.
Report of Secretary Cellarius of the
National Building and Loan Association,
at the annual meeting at Ashville, N. c.,
July, 1927.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01
HARMONY PREVAILS

The chronic wife-beater is gone, and
the terrific air-shaft battles are no more.
The number of speakeasies is in no way
commensurate with the number of sa-
looms before prohibition, and the numbes
of people who go to them is much less
Mark McClosley, well known social
worker at Hudson Guild, New York City.
May, 1927.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01

Chicago's construction business aver
aged more than a million dollars a day
during 1926, and the total valuation of
approximately $3720O0,000 for the year
established a new record-Thomas Wren,
financial writer, in the Chicago Daily
News of January q, 1927.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01
OF A NATION
PUBLIC HEALTH IMPROVES

PUBLIC HEALTH IMPROVES
No benefits from prohibition have been
greater and more far-reaching than those
accruing to the public health.-Everet M.
Ellison, MD, in welcoming address at
a mass meeting under the auspices of the
Citizens Service Association, Washington
D. C., June 19
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01
INSANITY DECREASE

1t was shown at hearings of the SUBJ
committee of the. Judiciary committee of
the United States Senate in 1926 that in
the institutions for the insane in the Unit
ed States the percentage of insanity due
to alcohol in 1910 was 10.1 and was re-
duced to 81 in 1922.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01
BANK DEPOSITS GROW

The Chicago Tribune of July 80 quotes
statistics covering the financial status of
90 per cent of all the banks in Chicago,
including all the larger ones. The Trib-
une says:
"The beginning of the second half of
this year 1927) shows the banks of the
city with increases in the principal phases
of their business. 1t also reflects an in
crease in prosperity for the people of Chi
cago as whole. Loans and discounts
gained $8l $4,000 over the figures of the
same banks in the last quarter. Total de-
posts jumped $l17,S95,0OO, while cash re-
sources increased 81. 100000 Savings de-
posts gained $14603,000. The national
banks of which there are IS, registered
jump of $87,075,00O in total deposits. To-
tai deposits in state banks, p of which
reported, gained $30S20000. Savings de-
posts of the national banks declined $4,-
$4,000, while those under state super
vision gained $18,925,000.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01
ONE IN TWO HAVE BANK
ACCOUNTS

In a report of the Savings Bank Asso-
citation of New York State made public
in March, 1927, it is stated that almost
every other person in the state has an ac-
count in the savings bank, with an aver
age saving of 1922 per each inhabitant.
Savings deposits on January l, 1927, in
the states 14o savings banks totalled $8,-
865, 100000, a gain of $258,OOO,0OO, or IL
per cent, during 1926.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01
POISON LIQUOR" DEATHS

Deaths due to drinking so-called poi
sonous liquor or industrial alcohol aver
age less than two each year per million
of population, according to Irving Fish
er, professor of economics at Yale Uni
versity.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01

Chicago building operations for 1926
ran close to $4oOoOOOO0. The twelve
months building program in approximate
ly 500 cities and towns throughout the
nation approximates $1,000, OOO,OO0.-S. w.
Straus and Co., Chicago.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01

Individual deposits in savings banks in
the United States increased 40 per cent
per capita in each decade from 1900 to
1920, and have been growing at tae rate
of IS per cent per decade since 1920
National Industrial Conference Board.
The furniture production OF 1925 show
ed an IL per cent increase over 1928
Government report.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01

Alcohol is a depressant, habit-forming,
narcotic drug.-Dr. Haven Emerson, for
mer health commissioner for New York
City.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01
WHAT ONE DOLLAR SPENT FOR
LIQUOR DOES

When man spends dollar for liquor
he loses also four dollars in efficiency, SO
that the total waste is likely five dollars.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01

Alcohol reduces endurance, accuracy
and rapidity of muscular action of all
kinds even when used IN such small
amounts as to show effects inappreciable
subjectively to the user-Dr. Haven En-
erson, former health commissioner for
New York City.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01

Bank deposits in $4,000 institutions to-
tailed more than $4S,80O,Oo0,o0O, an in
crease of about $2,3OO,OOOooO over the
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01

close of 1925. More business was also ex-
banded and bank conditions were sound.
United States Treasury Department
Bulletin, December 81, 1926.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01

Alcohol reduces resistance to infection.
DIR. Haven Emerson, former health
commissioner for New York City.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01

The sale of small houses has tripled
since 1919. Building and loan associa-
tons assets increased $1,000 100000
Report of Committee on Alcoholic LID
uor Traffic of 68th Congress.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01

New business in industrial insurance in
1917 averaged $61.48400O monthly. In
1926 it averaged $2O5,0o0OOO a month
Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01

Over a billion dollars worth of insur-
ance per month, or about $14,000,000,000
during the II months, was purchased by
the people of the United States in 1926.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1927-12-01

Building permits in Chicago for the
first % days of March, 1927, says the Chi
cago Daily News, totalled SIS, 503,7 an
increase of $13,458000 over the valuation
OF building permits issued for a CORE
spending period in 1926.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-04-21
You have sat in sooe
gum Iauahed the bunny:

now. went on Dum7le as he took
off his head and put it on upside
down, just for joke, ''what | wish
now, is that you would take me ad-
vcnturing with you.
"'That I viii right gladly and
with pleasure, answered Uncle
Wiggily, talking something like Sir
Galahad. "But what about school
for YOU this mornimg!'
Il 90 in the afternoon, like
Baby Bunty,' answered Dumple,
'.Thcrc is no room for me now, the
Lady Mouse Teacher said. SO ! can
very easily 80 iadvcnturing with
you
"Comc along thcn!' invited Tn
clc Wiggily, and soon be and the
red Wogglcjig boy were hopping
toward the woods where most ad-
ventures are to be found. AS Dunn
pic hurried along beside the rabbit
gentleman, the red wooden chap
looked at the bunny uncle and
asked:
lave you bit of spearmint
gum in yoIr pocket,
NO, - answered Mr. LOngcarS,
"ard, what is moro, am glad J
have no spearmint gum in m%
pocket. -
"Why!" asked DampIc.
Because ! might sit on If and