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I thfi WILLIAMS KEWS: THURSDAY, AtlCUSf 7, 1613 THE WILLIAMS NEWS J. V. VAN EATON, Editor and Proprietor. One Year. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: .1200 Six Months.. $ 1.00 Throe Months 50t Eiitered at the Postoffioe at Williams as second class matter WILLIAMS AND COUNTY DIVISION THE News has no desire whatever to enter into any meaningless har rangue with the Coconino Sun. Someone changed the county divi si n bill between its exit from the conference committee and the time of its entrance to the throne of Hun The editor of The Coeonine Sun ad mits the change probably was made. Senator Roberts declares it em phatically. Assemblyman Thomas Maddock, with Senator Roberts, was a member of the conference committee and be leaves no doubt about the ten and seventy-five per cent features being in the bill. Why was it changed by the elimination of the ten and seventy-five per cent features? Who would be the greatest beneficiaries of that change, providing it brought about the defeat of county division? Where did the referendum petition, having for its object the indefinite postponement, and finally, the defeat of bill, have its inception? Who is the man whe went on a junket throughout Southern Arizona, hailed by the Tucson pa pers as assessor of Coconino county, telling his pitiful ti?le of the paucity of population and resources in Coconino as a means of persuading citizens of Ihe Old Pueblq and elawhere to be charitable to the clique which has ruled Oocqnino with an uon hand, grabbing this and exploting that, loaning money at usurious rates to fanners, sheepmen and cattlemen who lud no other choice than to pay the interest and take a desperate chance or refuse to pay and have no chance at all? The conditions in Coconino are not secret. Everyone understands bow at least one great fortune his bn built up in this nr-tb.3rn section of Arizona. Everyone understands just how thai great influence prides itself on its grinding propensity, on its power to dictate this, and domi eate that; to threaten ridicule, ruin, anything and everything to anybody and everybody who dares get in the way of the juggernaut. So the attitude of the Coconino Sun is no mystery. It is just a little remnant away out here on the edge of the west of that spirit which Uncle Joe Cannon epitomized as standing pat. If reports are to believed, the editor of The Coconino Sun had an early and efficient training in the political echo 1 of Dinville. But after a scoro of years of Cmnonism baridden Danville at last rose up and spewed out the most striking descendant of Methuselah the United States ever has known. "To hell with progress; let well enough alone," screamed Uncle Joe, and obedient to its masters, the Uncle Joe organ of Coconino, magpie like, pipes its echo. Well, humanity is moving on apace, and even as Danville rose up at last, took the machine by the throat and choked out its political life by relegating Cannon to defeat and political oblivion' so will Coconino rise up in the year of Our Lord, 1914 and relegate its Cannonism.' ' The time comes in the history of every community when it gets away beyond a one man proposition. The failure of the Cannonism i of Flagstaff, yes, the Cannonism of Coconino, to realize that the new re gime of a real '.community has come and means to stay is the bitterness in the nut. . There are scores of independent citizens in Flagstaff who will read thiB little editorial, understand it thoroughly and sympathize accordingly. The News has been forced into a battle by the institution of the referen ' dum against the county division bill, a measure honestly fought for and honestly won, by the represenatives of the people in the state legislature. The Flagstaff referendum is surety toing to have its Grand Canyon county initiative." The appeal will be made to a jur' of the citizenship of Ari- zona. The issue will be one of selfish, sordid dollars against the desire of a rapidly growing community, one which possesses all the qualifi cations of an independent county government, to gain that independence. Danville was deemed impregnable by Cannon. It proved a house of cards. THEY PROTEST SUFFRAGE WHO? ONE night last week some women in Newport, among whom one Mrs Stuyvesant Fish was the leading spirit, gave what they termed a Mother Goose Spectacle as a protest aiiast woman's suffrage. They gave a display of diamonds, silks, slit skirts, garters and discontent breeding Vulgarity rivalling the scenes which marked the reign of Nero as the darkest, deepest and most dismal pit into which spirituality ever had been cast. ' The press accounts say that when the favored guests passed t he portals of the mansion they forgot the earth and all there was in it for the hight. And for hours and hours those petted darlings of the vulger rich danced beneath the beauty of thousands of subdued multi-colored lights, j layed they were children and so protested woman's suffrage, danced, r.hd ate, and drank, gorged their fleshy cravings as a protest against the cries of a million toiling American women, women who by the brutality of n:eh have been forced into industrial competition with them, and be talise they have been forced into that competition are crying out for the one thfrig whi h will bring them at Last a mite of justice, the ballot. (J d wolks in n'yst. rious ways, His wonders to perform. The grasping tendencies of J Pierpont Morean and John D. Rockefeller have 1 it ri the most powerful educational influences for the emancipation of rnankind this world has ever known. We are not living in the days of Nero, but in the days of the fulfilment of the promise of a risen Christ. Out of the pit of Nero ascended the Truth which for nearly two thousand yrare has betn lighting the way for humanity. Thought is God and only heeds to be ured to bring about its triumph. "Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish's ball has been heralded the world over-to make people think. MISSION OF THE CHAMBER AT its meeting July 30, the Williams Chamber of Commerce elected for its officers men who are represenatives of the best in the business life of the city. The new president, Robert Wente, is assistant general manager and one of the largest stockholders in the Saginaw and Manistee Lumber Co., the largest institution of its in the southwest; Judge Holub, the vice president, is cashier for the big Babbitt-Poison general merchan dise, bouse, and the treasurer is Manus Duffy, head of the big general merchandise house of Duffy Pro. The' officers are represenative of the best civic spirit of the city. They realize the city of Williams has a splendid future before it, and the part the Chamber of Commerce must play in the development of that fu ture. First of all the citv ought to be. cleaned up. Unsightly tumble down fences, garbage piles, weeds, rubbish scattered here and there throughout the city are not attractive to summer visitors. The Chamber ghculy take in hand at once the matter of a general cleaning up. Flies are not only a nuisance but a menance. They may le largely eradicated by concerted effert, and this movement should be directed by the Williams Chamber of Commerce. The water company has promised that, in the coming six motnhs bonds the extent of $150,000 will have been sold and the proceeds ap plied to the ietteiment of tht water supply. It should be the business in r in as Hi Ui Carload of those FORDS Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi hi I Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi $625-Passenger Touring Car 525-Dandy Runabouts F. O. B. WILLIAMS The cars for this country They go where the big fellows stall Tires cast less than half and then wear because the car is light But it is substantial, durable Twentyfive miles on a gallon of gas. g Hi g Hi Hi 1 Hi I TO) 1 O Hi B ffi B 31 Carload Just Received afofoitt-Polson Go Bill Williams Avenue and Third Street WILLIAMS - - - ARIZONA of the Chamber of Commerce to assist, morally, at least, the efforts of the company to dispose of its bonds and in the application of the proceeds to the betterment of water conditions. That the conditions are better this year than last, or the year oefore, or even five years past, does not justify any request that the people of Williams be satisfied with conditions as they are. The water frDin the city reservoir should be filtered and puri fied. No doubt it is healthy as it is, but the "pine cone" odor claimed for it by the company is not a magnet for summer tourists by any means. The Chamber of Commerce should take up the matter of publicty of the city's claims as a summer jesort for all Arizona. Tell the world of this wonderful climate and scenery. Thousands will come next year it the world is told. Now is the time Ladies We are giving you a 15 per cent, discount on all our women's and children's Muslin Under wear. Our stock is complete. We are now showing our fall stock of ladies' and children's Dresses. SEE US FOR GOOD VALUES. BLUMBERG'S Bobby Burns' Blink. Never run after a woman or a street car; there will be another one along in a few minutes. But the Bobby Burns' Transfer Co., is always on the job. They have buggies, surreys and saddle horses for the trip up Bill Williams moan tain. Phone 61 day or night. MISS ATKINS WILL TAKE IIP HER MUSIC WORK HERE BEFORE SEPTEMBER The News is pleased to announce it has received a communication from Miss Jessie Atkins, of Spirit Lake, Iowa announcing definitely she will be here not later than Aug ust 19 to make her permanent home and immediately begin the organiza tion of her music classes. As stated in a recent issue of The News, Miss Atkins is not only a very talented musician, and a very successful teacher, hut a young wo man of attractive personality and the highest social standing. Mb Atkins work as a concert pianiste has attracted the most favorable no tice from eastern musical critics. She is said to be an accompanist of un usual ability, a gift in itself of rare value to the piano teacher. -Cool Weather at California Beaches Why not spend August and September where cool sea breezes blow. The sun and sand baths and the daily plunge in the Pacific will do wonders for You The expense is not great Summer excursion fares via Santa Fe to rao.t all California Beaches. We would suggest: Near Lo Angeles Santa Monica Ocean Park Venice San Pedro Redondo Beach Long Beach Newport Bal boa Catalina Between Log Angeles and San Diego Laguna Beach Del Mar - Oceanside Near San Diego Coronado Tent City and La Jolla Let us help plan your Trip E. J. NORDYKE, Agent. 3d a2 WILLIAMS STATE BANK WILLIAMS, ARIZONA CAPITAL $50,000.00 Transacts a General Banking Business, Sells Domestic and Foreign Drafts, travelers checks, letters of credit and steamship tickets; pays five per cent, intesest on term deposits; writes fire, automobile, casual ty and plate glass i nsurance: rents safe deposit boxes at MODERATE RATES McDonald Robinson, Pres. J. W. Lee, Cashier. Wm. F. Dermont, V. Pres. T. E. Pollock, Vice Pres. 4