Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-23
AIT Of sphza To Be Advanced Chief Of Clan Calls Convention To Organize
Talented Story TeHen- Plain Words Good Liars
BY Ernest Douglas

CPIZZIFIERS of the West are organizing. The
- noble art of Specification, distinguishedfrom
yarn spinning mendacity, exaggerat1on, roman
cling and just plain lying, is to be encouraged, eX-
pounded, analyzed, pubcized Not standardized,
though-shades of Jim Brldger and captain Bass
forbid!
A call for members of the clan to meet In Phoe-
nix, Arizona April and plan for advancement of
the sport has been sounded by their leader, Ray
Rowland of Mesa, Arizona, and the Superstition
Range.
Everybody that wants to join up will have to
spizzify real spizzer to qualify. Then, to stay in,
he'll have to produce at least one more Class A
spizzer at every annual convention. Oh, we'll have
society that'll make the world take notice and get
it across to the public that spzzer amt to be
compared to lie" says Rowland
"a lie is just lie, something that usually amt
got much sense to it and mighty little point. Take
that Burlington Liars Club up in Wisconsin, for in
stance It makes plumb weary to read the feeble
bs that are entered in the contests No, liar amt
got no imagination 1t just amt in him to give his
story the little artistic touches"
CHALLENGED to give an example, the self
- acknowledged chieftan of the spizzifiers rose
like trout to fly.
"All right, I'll tell you about Arizona Slim. He
was the first to find gold in Granite Creek, up in
Yavapai County. Staked himself string of claims
and did mighty well with a rocker outfit.
Zone day he was eating his lunch right by the
creek and happened to throw rind of yellow
cheese into the water. Right away it was sur
rounded by tadpoles. Now Slim was awful fond of
animals SO he cut up of his cheese into little
bits and throwed it to the tadpoes just for the fun
of seeing em root around the creek bottom. He
noticed one pick up shiny yellow nugget among
the crumbs of cheese and spit it out disgustedke.
THAT gave him an idea. 1t took him week or
more to train the tadpoles, but finally he made em
savy that for every nugget they brought out into
shallow water he'd feed EN- smdgin' of cheese!
pretty soon he used up all his cheese and went
into Prescott for more but all the stores happened
to be out and there wouldn't be another freight
wagon in for month. Slim was young and i'm
patient so, instead of cheese, he bought yellow
soap.
did that fool the tadpoles? Not for two Sec
onds! AS as the water got little soapsudsy
they called off the trade and stopped bringing in
the nuggets.
$50 Slim went back to shoveing sand and run
ming it through his rocker Right there the tad
poles showed him what they thought of him. They
just naturally scooped up every speck of gold in
that part of the creek carried it off and hid it.
"Sm roamed up and down Granite three-four
days before he located where they'd cached the
stuff But hardly had he dived in and pulled out
handful of nuggets and gold flakes than here
come the tadpoles, million of en- Quickern you
could count the hairs Chihuahua dog they'd
toted the gold off to a new hiding place.
"Slim never could find it again. He took to
prowling through the pines and chaparral, back
from the creek ways so the tadpoles couldn't
see him. Then he'd rush all of sudden down to