The Coolidge examiner., 1930-11-07
A RED HOT
NEWSPAPER
ARIZONA DREAMS
ARIZONA DREAMS
Tied Healy)

Lndue MIN sore
Sore ?" we asked
''Yes. the wri er of a story in this
thing puts libel on tequila He
says it burns your throat like fire
and the only way you can drink ii
is by taking a pinch of salt along
like chaser. The fact is, the first
distiilaiion Of the mag lay Liant is
mescal, almost pure aicohol; aged
somewhat ii becomes t3quila, and
when old t is lacanord, golden
mellow wine.
We told the Old Timer that III
our time we had observed gallons
of tequila being drank and very liz
tie salt was used, although some
drinkers put salt into their mouths
and we never knew the reason why
well, it is as good drink as any
when handled right. and | will re-
commend it to anybody who can not
get anything else to satisfy his
thirst However. l believe it excites
the imagination more than any
other drink | know. and | think |
can prove that statement by telling
you what happened down in Aqua
Prieta one time when | was killing
time in a saloon.
al was in a joint run by Chi
nese when a fellow came over to
where | was standing and offered
to sell me the manuscript of a
story he had written for bottle of
tequila | bought the bottle ana
looked his S ory over. While DONG
so helped him finish the bottle and
bought another. Tequila isn't SO
bad as a drink The pure stuff
doesn't give you a headache like
some liquors | know. Anyway
when this new friend of mine and
| had finished drinking he was
asleep and | took a ride in an au. O.
mobile across the line to my hotel
Next morning | found this man
uscript in my pocket. Read it for
it's in your line and gives some
excellent advice about running a
newspaper.
Ol9GSIin9 Literature
"My pal and | were happy print
ers and publishers. We loved TO
roam, and our journey took us to
the borderland of another country.
The angry voice of a brakeman
broke up our game of cards and we
were ordered out of the box car.
Say. what country is this, says
my pal Everybody is t. king a
drink here. let's join them" The
drink signs .said"Tequila Cervaza"
so we took them both and plenty.
In a little while along comes a sport
and he buys us all the drinks we
wanted and gives us job running
a newspaper up in the country. We
found the newspaper office in a
funny little village where all the
men seemed a hundred years old
and the senoritas beautiful flappers.
The paper hadn't been printed for
fifty years There was old-time
printing material but no paper and
no ink. so didn't know how we
were going to get out a paper; but
my pal was full of bacanora (back-
in-Sonora) and ideas. He says we
will have a tortilla maker flap us a
big edition of tortillas to print on,
and for ink LET'S dilute blackberry
jam and raspberry or strawberry
jam. We can print our paper in
black and use red headlines just
like the big city papers. The idea
worked out all right and us two
hoboes became prosperous pub
fishers Every evening we pub
lished small paper and it was cir
culated in this small village. After
the subscribers finished reading
they the paper for supper. 1t
was a sort of literary digest all
right but my pal was the cause oil
il becoming literary Indigestion. He
was monkeying around WI n the
lady tortilla maker and her bona
fide lover was our extra printer
One day when we had run out OF
black ink and had to print in red
this extra hand mixed lot of red
no. chilli in the raspberry ink and
our subscribers chased us all around
the town 1t was a good thing that
an aviator seeing the populace
chase us up hill brought his ma
chine close to The earth so that we
could grab ropes and were saved
When we got back to the border
town we hoped freight into ou1
home land.
After we read the manuscript
that had cost the Old Timer two
bottles of tequila. we offered him
two cigars for it. and he turned il
over.
Nov you can understand why
don't agree with the writer in that
magazine when he says tequila is
such an awful drink The fellow
who wrote that story seemed to like
it and so did l, and his s; ory must
have come out of a bottle of it. Sc
it has the same kick and effect as
any other kind of stuff. and if he
says you can't drink tequila without
salt. I'll say can't read his story
without pinch of salt"