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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN. PHOENIX, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2, 1921.
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FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2, 1921
j A good man doubles the length of
1 his existence; to have lived so as to
look back with pleasure o?i our past
existence is to live twice.
Martial.
Prohibition
Tha most sensible thing -we have seen on national
prohibition is Frazier Hunt's article in the current
Collier's which has printed many other articfes writ
ten to prove that prohibition enforcement was a fail
ore. They describe the adverse public sentiment
against prohibition or the apathetic attitude of the
pople toward It. They point to the fact that In con
sequence of prohibition many are drinking who never
drank before; that drinking has become a fad in cer
tain circles of high society; that prohibition was
surreptitiously thrown over the country while it had
its back turned, watching the war.
Mr. Hunt admits these statements In part, though
he denies that prohibition was brought about sud
denly or by a minority. It had been spreading for
years. At the time the prohibition amendment was
proposed more than two-thirds of the country was
dry by legislation; that the amendment was ratified
by all but three of the forty-eight states.
But, says Mr. Ilunt, the prohibition sentiment,
that is the sentiment against the saloon has grown
stronger than ever. We know there was such a
growth in this state. When Arizona went dry in 1914,
it did so with all but two of the fourteen counties
coing wet but their aggregate majorities were over
come by the huge dry majority of Maricopa, Two years
later a proposition to tighten prohibition carried not
only by a huge majority but a majority in a major
ity of the counties.
In all this discussion though says Mr. Hunt, the ,
real news Is "muffed"' and that is that those whe-wJttit
to get a drink are having a hard time of getting it.
And when they do gct.it at a ridiculously high price,
it is generally poor stuff. When the fad of home
brewing wears away, that source of supply will be
abandoned. The old, seasoned drinkers, those who
furnished the consumption of the supply, disgusted
with the character of potations are becoming tee
totallers. Nor are they content to chase around after
the bootlegger or to steal furtively into forbidden
places. It is easier for them to quit than to undergo
these hardships. .
Prohibition is being enforced not, of course, to
the extent of 100 per cent but for that matter r.o
other law is. But the enforcement becomes more and
more rigid so that Mr. Hunt looks forward to a 90
per cent enforcement which he -regards as a good
percentage ia either clay pigeon shooting or law en
forcement. With whatever glee antl-prohibitionlsts observe
what they call the failure of prohibition, the prohi
bition leaders are by no means discouraged. They
bad discounted all the difficulties in the wajand
they say they had discounted them too heavily. Pro
hibition has made greater -progress than they had
expected. They look to the next generation for 100
per cent prohibition.
"Blocs" of One Kind and Another
The "agricultural bloc" may not be entirely fault
less. No organization within an organization can
avoid log rolling to a certain extent for there must be
compromises and concessions in order to hold its
membership together. Thus we have had in the past
blocs' for distributing the contents of the pork
barrel;' for securing of public buildings, the needed
and the unneeded. There have been "blocs" for the
promotion of the interests of the railroads, of the
manufacturers, and of almost every class of citizens
except the farmer, until now.
Before we condemn the "agricultural bloc" we
must Inspect its accusers.- We find among those who
have been preying upon the farmers in the past, the
packing Interests, the grain exchanges and the large
eastern bankers.
The latter are attacking the "bloc" on the ground
that the legislation it has secured for the farmer, has
been of no benefit to him and they point to the pres
ent eUte of the market for farm products. They neg
lect the fact that the new laws have not had time to
operate; that those whose privileges of plundering the
farmer have been curtailed have not yet bowed to the
laws but are doing what they can to bring it into
disrepute. BSit the critics of the ' bloc'' have put for
ward no reason why the new laws should not be ef
fective. -Blocs" in the past have never been quite so
clearly defir.ed as the "agricultural bloc." They never
cut o sharply across party lines. They never as
sumed such a formidable proportions of a Praetorian
Guard, but they were none the less effective. They
accomplished the purpose of the quiet understandings.
Their success was measured by the results which
gave to the country the impression that powerful and
sometimes predatory interests were especially fav
ored in the national legislature.
Tha Movement of Hobos
A report issued by General Manager Dyer ot the
Southern Pacific states that during the month of
October 20,624 hobos were put off the trains of the
company in the states of California, Arizona, Oregon,
Nevada," New Mexico and Utah. California led with
ll.:i and Arizona came next with 4,856. '
These figures." says the report, "show that Cal
i'orn.a is the Mecca or these persons and this means
that the unemployment problem for the coming win
tor be made worse by the presence in that state
.f such large number of people many of whom
iv e iiO prospect employment and many of whom
-.e r.o ii-.t.r.tion of working."
u.c-- figures do not t-11 the whole story;
j:.cludc the number who Lavi; not been
put off the trains; those who are not discovered and
reported but the probably greater number who are
purposely not disturbed by trainmen. It was given
pretty wide publicity early in the fall that the rail
roads had authorized trainmen to interfere as little as
possible with persons found on freight trains, except
to prevent their congestion at comparatively small
tow-ns where there was nothing for them to do, if they
cared to work, and where the police facilities for
handling them were palpably inadequate.
As. a result of this tacit order there was never
before such a movement of people of this class about
the country, some moving east and others west. The
theory seemed to be that as long as they were mov
ing they were harmless. The order was supposed to
have been issued because of the large number of
former service men who were out of employment and
who might be hunting employment.
General Foch and the Canyon
Our disappointment in being denied the privilege
of entertaining General Foch again reminds us of the
disadvantage of living off a main line railroad.
Though since we come to think of it in this case, a
main line railroad would not have put us on the line
of the Grand Canyon which is the objective in Arizona
of the distinguished soldier.
And that, too, reminds us that there are many
Arlzonians, we suppose many more than half ot them,
including, we further suppose some residents of the
nearby towns who have never visited the Grand Can
yon, though no doubt all of them are holding such a
visit among the intentions with which a certain pav
ing job has been done or is being done.
But here is theareatest of the world's wonders,
the one more than aay other before which men stand
speechless and aghast; the one which makes the in
significance, the littleness of man the more apparent.
General Foch will compare its silent, indescribable
grandeur with the noisy, artificial splendor of the
great war of which he was the foremost figure and
the war will seem to him a smaller thing.
-x He will think of the great chasm lying there
when the armies of Alexander were overrunning the
then known world and he will think of it still lying
there when the world war will constitute but a brief
record long after every possible effect of it shall have
diminished and passed away as the ripples caused by
a falling pebble grow smaller and smaller until they
are merged with the unbroken water beyond. Ko
doubt the general as he looks Into those depths will
think, it he thinks of wars at all, of those struggles
which we often witness between ant colonies, so belit
tling of human activities is tliat monstrous gash.
Women Road Builders
That women are beginning to invade another field
which heretofore has been exclusively man's estate
is shown by the fact that numerous women, actually
engaged in highway construction and in the promo
tion of the good roads movement generally, will par
ticipate In the Twelfth American Good Roads Con
bress and Thirteenth National Good Roads Show to
be held at the Coliseum in Chicago, January 17 to 10,
next.
The American Road Builders' association, under
whose auspices the congress and exposition will be
held, is taking cognizance this year of the feminine
invasion of the road building arena and is extending
special invltatons to women fully realzing that they
are'voters, taxpayers and road users and when once
interested In a patriotic movement are indefatigable
in its behalf.
The surprising extent to which women are in
vading the field of highway construction is shown
by a long list of feminine roadbuliders invited to the
congress. Among these is Dr. Jennie C. Murphy, the
only woman street commissioner in the world. Dr.
Murphy bosses the construction gangs and street
cleaners at Tankton, S. D. and has held the job to
the entire satisfaction of her constituents and tha
credit of her city for several years.
As a "contractor", Mrs. Axel Holm of South
Range, Wis., has just completed four and a half
miles of state highway through Pattison State Park,
near Superior, Wis., doing a job that would do credit
to any man. The road which she has just com
pleted forms a part of the great Mississippi Valley
Scenic highway from New Orleans to Canada. Mrs.
Holm handles the finances of her company, bosses
a gang of fifty-seven workmen, cooks their food and
looks after the welfare of her machinery and twenty
teams of horses. Two daughters, Vivian and Verna,
keep her books and assist her in her work. Another
contractress engaged in road work is Miss Eva
Cressey, president and general manager v of the
Cressey Contracting Co. at Everett, Mass. Road
machines manufactured by Miss Cressey are used in
many states of the union for spraying oil, tar and
asphalt in road work. At the present time Miss Cres
sey has machines working on contracts as far south
as Texas, in addition to many in the east and .middle
west.
It was Miss H. M. Berry of Chapel Hill, N. C, who
as secretary of the North Carolina Good Roads asso
ciation, did more to "put over" the $50,000,000 bond
issue for the splendid new roads now being con
structed in her state. She is expected to attend the
congress. An invitation has also been sent to Char
lotte Rumbold, Cleveland, O., secretary of the Ohio
state conference on city planning, and another has
gone to Katherine F. Butterfield, a high school stud
ent at Weiser, Idaho, who won the Firestone good
roads essay college scholarship contest last year and
received her certificate direct from the hands of
President Harding himself.
Along with Dr. Murphy, the woman street com
missioner, delegates to the congress and visitors to
the exposition will greet Dr. Lou Alta Melton, said
to be the only woman bridge engineer in the coun
try. Dr. Melton graduated in civil engineering last
year at Colorado University and is now connected
with one of the district offices ot the United States
bureau of public roads. She is the only woman en
gineer in the employ of the federal government.
If the writers of sub-titles would use polysyllabic
words, there would not be so much reading of them
aloud in the movies. We have suspected that those
who read them for the distraction of the audience are
mostly people who have recently learned to read and
take this occasion to show off.
There is one extra territorial privilege in China
that this country will not be deprived of in the con
ference that of feeding the famine-stricken inhabitants.
It is not the number of square miles a town con
tains that niftke it great, but the number of "square
shooters."
.. THE TEST
Th-: immigrant isn't tuily Americanized uulil iie
1 learns to cuss the umpire. Baltimore Sun.
Autumn Pastimes
-By Herbert Johnson
SEEING Ttf TARAVZ
I WOULD hY M15S '
skin' it hr
A Million voiles l
Copyright. 19; I, bjf Herbert Johnson.
I Come!
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FAIRIES TO BE FILMED
By Frederic J. Haskin
NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 30. One
of the many, heroic achievements
now expected of the movies is to,
prove the actual existence of fairies
While several enthusiastic persons
in Great Britain, including Sir Conan
Doyle, have produced extraordinary
still photographs of fairies, they
have left the public astonished but
unconvinced. Clearly more emphatic
proof is needed. So now, according
to latest reports, a moving picture
expedition has been sent into York
shire to camp on the fairies' trail and
get close-ups of them if possible.
Yet just how this is to be done
remains a mystery, because it is
well known among the initiated that
only the very old and wise, the very
young and those with clairvoyant
sight can really see fairies. Can it
be possible that the fairy believers
have discovered a clairvoyant movie
camera man? The report does not
say. Like most attempts to bring the
fairies within the mundane sphere
of ordinary folk, it is all very singular
and baffling and much like a fairy
story itself.
The ancient wise men, presumably
even Socrates, believed in fairies,
and many poets and artists through
out the ages have professed com
plete faith in their existence, but
the first, great Believe-in-Fairies
movement originated in this dull and
unromantic twentieth century. When
Peter ran came to the edge of the
footlights and begged us to believe
in fairies, most of us rose gallantly
to the occasion simply to oblige Miss
Maude Adams, little dreaming that in
a few more years people would begin
to take Peter seriously. Even less
did we dream' that the movies would
be trying to get the fairies under
contract.
Fairy films should prove enor
mously popular and make a lot of
money for their producers, since
merely an exhibit of their photo
graphs draws a large and enthus
iastic audience in London. At such
an exhibit, held in the hall of the
Theosophical Society, not long ago,
the photographs were shown with
the appropriate assistance of a magic
lantern, and explained by E. I Gard
ner, the British leader of the Believe-iu-Fairies
movement, who has made
a laborious study of the "little peo
ple'' as they are presented in the
folklore of all nations.
Pictures Already Made.
The first photographs shown were
some made in 1917. The man who
, did the photographing, according to
Mr. Gardner a man named Car
penter did not see the fairies him
self, but simply focused his camera
wherever his young children who
were evidently on familiar terms
with the little creatures told him
to. He regarded the whole thing as
a childish-prank until he c.imu to
develop the- plates when he was so
amazed at what he beheld on them
that he left them in the dark room
for 18 months. !
"A large audience-," remarks a
London writer. waa able to share in
his astonishment. They saw a picture
of a gnome hopping onto the knee
of a young girl who was sitting on
the grass in a Yorkshire dell. The
child told Mr. Gardner that the
gnome wore black tights and a red
jacket; he also had a scarlet cap and
had wings like a moth's. In his left
hand he carried a pair of Patj's pipes.
AH this was shown clearly enough
on the screen, and a photograph of
the winged gnome many times en
larged from the original also was
exhibited. Inquirers had wanted to
know the source and texture of fairy
clothing. Mr. Gardner said it was
of the substance of themselves.
Later one saw a ring of fairies
gamboling on a .grassy bank where
one of the children knelt to watch
them. One incredulous spectator
dug into his memory and recalled
such a band dancing on a poster
round a night light. Another fairy
photographed alone had excellently
bobbed hair and wore a dark gown
of stylish cut.
In a further picture there was
shown a band of "little people"
playing among flowers. This was a
photograph taken last August es
pecially for Mr. Gardner. Ore of
the fairies was half hidden in a
cocoon, which the lecturer explained
was a sort ot health -giving bath
used by them after bad weather.
Witnesses in Scotland and the New
Forest testified to seeing the same
sight. Mr. Gardner declared that
the plates from which the slides were
made had been submitted to every
possible test to detect fraud, and
none had been discovered.
What Fairies are Made Of
Mr. Gardner went on to explain
that fairies could be photographed
only if partially materialized with
clairvoyant aid. "The matter com
posing a fairy's body is plastic to
thought. Currents of human thought
give fairies the form in which they
are seen by the chairvoyant.
"They have a definite task in the
scheme of nature and are subject
to evolution. Their duties are con
cerned with the color, growth and the
shape of flowers. They live on a
very humble level and are about as
intelligent as a Newfoundland dog."
This may sound like sheer non
sense to practical people but it is
interesting to note that the same
kind of nonsense was Indulged in by
THE ONCE OVER
H By H. I. PHILLIPS lL
LEGALIZING BOBBED HAIR
Connecticut has legalized hair bob
bing. Consequently a woman who bobs
her locks in that state may look like
a misdemeanor without being one
within, the meaning of the statutes.
This is as it should be. It Is not
fair that a woman should be con
sidered a criminal offense just be
cause she resembles one.
Connecticut is a great little state.
It derives its name from the Indian
"Connecti," meaning hair, and "cut,"
meaning cut; the two words together
meaning, "shave-thc-neck;" hence
the interest always shown by that
state in matters of hair dressing.
The decision to legalize bobbed hair
however, violates all precedents of
Connecticut custom. It has been
very conservative in this matter in
the past, Connecticut being one of the
last stales to abandon among women
the custom of doing up the hair in
papers. For years no respectable
Connecticut woman went to bed
without wrapping her tresses in
papers.
This was largely responsible for
the circulation vt many Connecticut
newspapers.
Connecticut men, too, wore their
hair long for many years, the prac
tice being typical of New England
thrift in that it made it possible for
a man to wear the same collar a
week or ten days without having it
apparent to people sitting behind.
Even today in Connecticut com
munities one may see many men who
are in greater need of having their
hair bobbed than the women are.
Under the new Connecticut regula
tion the attorney general will desig
nate barbers as regularly licensed
hair bobbers, with authority to make
the ladies look as comical as they
wish.
Other states should follow the ex
ample of the state of steady habits,
wooden nutmegs, and easy marriage
laws. It will never do for the women
of one state to be legally bobbed
while those of a sister state are left
in doubt whether they are within the
law or otherwise.
Laws legalizing the bobbing of
skirts, the rolling down of stockings,
and the cutting of V-backs are ex
pected momentarily.
But be that as it nay. the slogan
of American womanhood may soon
be heard arising from the vicinity of
all barber shops:
i Hew to the ucfk, h-t the ears t-J.l
I where they may.
Ms
erionDraleVvS
Daily Poem
MUOjlrJazr
Mother has had a heap of praise
And she deserves it, goodness
Knows;
But it is seldom that we gaze
On any poetry or prose
That speaks of Dad, so I propose
To make the old man's spirit triad
Ey slipping him his dues; here goes,
I sing a little song to Dad!
Throughout his life he spend his days
In earning cash to pay for hose
And shoes and suits and rent; he
pays
And pays and pays, yet seldom
shows '
Impatience us his burden grows;
He keeps us housed and fed and
clad.
In summer's heat. In winter's snows;
I sitig a little sons to Dad!
Ho understands our little ways.
He sympathizes with our woes,
Our schemes he aids, our games be
plays.
And deep within his heart there
glows
A love he doesn't much disclose.
But which outlasta good times and
bad.
Withstanding all fate's stoutest
blows;
I sing a little song to Dad!
It's seldom anyone bestows
The praiso that father should have
had;
But here's the debt that one man
owes:
I sing a little song to Dad!
BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
- THE RESURRECTION: Jesus said unto her, I
am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in
me, though he ivere dead, yet shall he live; And ivJw
soever liveth and believeth in me shall neverydie.
John 11:25.
WHATS THE DIFFERENCE?
BY DR. FRANK CRANE
(Copyright. 1321. by Frank Crane)
Every man that lives along to middle life has
learned to ask about most things, "What's the dif
ference?"
Most things, as we discover when we reach adult
hood,' do not matter. The problems which we sweated
blood over when we were young we are inclined to
smile at when we have passed through enough ex
perience. The world is still young. It is still childish minded. -For
instance, there is a good deal of hullabaloo
over the division of Silesia. France and England came
near pulling each other's nose over the question. The
matter was referred, to the League of Nations. They
finally give their decision, drew a crooked line down
through the disputed territory, and gave a part, to Ger
many and a part to Poland.
Nobody is entirely satisfied, but Germany is ex
tremely sore. She appointed a national day of mourn
ing for the loss of her Silesian territory.
As a matter of fact, what difference does it make
whether a town belongs to Germany or to Poland in
the long run? The. people of that town all have to
work and earntheir living under one country as under
another. The whole thing is a matter of sentiment,
and of a kind of sentiment that is inclined to be septic
No one disposed to complain at loyalty, to dis
parage the love of country, but often to a philosophic
mind it seems a bit absurd.
. All the nations are so ticklish of their' national
honor, are so afraid that some other nation will get a
little territory away from them, and are so belligerent
in defending their rights, when in actuality the real
people of most territories, outside of the politicians and
professional flag wavers, care very little who is gov
erning them so long as their rights are respected and
their taxes are low.
If Canada were to join .the United States tomor
row ninety-nine hundredths of the Canadians would
not miss a meal nor care a cent.
If Minnesota should take a notion to join Canada
most of the Minnesotans would not mind it inthe least,
although the rest of the country might make quite an
uproar.
The people of the Danish Islands that, were .re
cently transferred to the United States never lost a
minute's sleep.
As a matter of fact, the important things in the
world of the Twentieth Century are commerce, social
life, art, literature, and things of that sort, all of which
have nothing in the world to do with flag waving. ,
More ana more, nations are becoming convenient
pigeonholes whereby the human race is classified. And,
more and more, people are getting to suspect that it
is hardly worth, while making such a row about which
pigeon-hole they happen to be in.
an ancient gentleman whose rcputa
tio for wisdom remains intact even
in this sophisticated and irrever
ent age. Plato, for instance, declares
that Socrates expounded on the in
visible little people ot the elements,
saying:
"What water and the st-a are to us
for our necessities, the air is to them
and what air is to us that ether is
to them. But their seasons are of
such a temperament that they are
free from disease and live for a
much 'ongei time than those here,
and surpass us in sight, hearing and
smelling and everything of this kind,
us much as air excels water, and
ether air, lr purity."
The Abbe de Villars. a slightly less
arrciont sage, who wrote a pamphlet
anticipating Darwin's conclusions
concerning the origin of the species,
gives an entirely different descrip
tion of the, fairies in his remarkable
work, "Comte de Babalis."
"The air Is full of an innumerable
multitude of peoples whose faces ars
human," he says, "seemingly rather
haughty yet in reality tractable, and
great lovers of the sciences, cunning,
obliging to the sages and enemies of
fools and the ignorant. Their wives
and daughters have a masculine
beauty like that ot the Amazons. The
seas and rivers are inhabited as well
as the air. The ancient pages called
this race of people Undines or
Nymphs. There are very few males
among them, but a great number of
females; their beauty is extreme and
the daughters of men are not to be
compared to them
"The earth is filled well nigh to
its center with gnomes, people of
slight stature, who are theguardians
of treasures minerals and precious
stones. They a-e ingenious, friends
of man and easy to govern. They
furnish the children ot the sages
with all the money they require, and
as the price of their service ask
naught save the glo y of being com
manded. The gnomides, their wives,
are small, but very amiable, and their
dress is exceedingly curious. As for
the salamanders, flaming dwellers of
the region of fire, they serve the
philosophers btitdo not seek their
company eagerly.'
Dignity is lent to these strange
views by the fact that the "elements"
referred to are not the usual firewa
ter and earth with which most
of us are familiar, but "four cosmic
rates of vibration which, according
to occult science, constitute the es
sences of those forms of manifesta
tion and the foundation of the uni
verse." All of this is doubtless wholly con
vincing to thoe who believe it. but
most people will probably wish to
reserve judgment until they see the
fairies filmed. Meantime, however,
we feel impelled to .shed a silent tear
for the property man assigned to the
task of building a inov e set for the
four cosmic rates of vibration.
On,, rugim ii-ing work in England
is nun. aged entirely by women.
ABOUT THE STATE
Globe Conference Opens
GLOBE Service .that golden qua
lity of soul, crowned with the loving
ministry of Christ, -was brought home
to hundreds of boys- and men and
women who attended the opening
session of the fifth annual conference
of the Older Boys' of the Y. M. C.
A. in Arizona, yesterday afternoon,
and at a banquet last night, in the
Globe High school.
Rev. Arthur Lee Odell. D. D of
Phoenix, delivered a masterful ad
dress at 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon
on the "Meaning of Service." He
emphasized that with ' the birth of
every boy there arises the question.
"What is he for?" Dr. Odell an
swered the question simply, saying
"He is born -to serve." Arizona Rec
ord. E-Gsvarnor Hunt Writes
S AFFORD The following letter
from Geo. V P. Hunt, until recently
American minister at the court of
Siam, was received in Safford a few
days ago and will be read with in
terest by the many fr.iends of the
former governor in Graham county:
"American Legation, Bangkok, Siam,
Sept. 13-1.
"Dear Friend: The axe has sev
ered me from the pie counter, and in
a few days I will leave for Burma
and India, the department having
graciously given me 60 days" leave.
"Then I will proceed home, via
Egypt, the Holy Land. Rome. Paris,
mavbe Berlin, and then London.
"I hope to see you some time in
the spring. Yours sincerely. Geo. W.
P. Hunt." Gila Valley Farmer.
New Chamber of Commerce
SAFFORD Safford is to have an
active, working chamber of com
merce. This much was decided last
Saturday night at a meeting and
banquet of some forty of the business
and professional men of the city,
when preliminary organization was
effected and plans made and com
mittees appointed for permanent
organization and for work to be done
alonsr special lines. Gila Valley
Farmer.
Want More Time
TOMBSTONE County Attorney
John F. Ross Saturday announced
that he had received a request from
the various bonding companies inter
ested in the bonds through which the
county expects to recover the $35,
7c::. S3 embezzled by W. F. Walker,
for an extension of time up to De
cember i'l, as it is the intention of
the companies to pay up the amount
in full. This will eliminate the suit
already brought by the county attor
ney some time ago to recover the
amount alleged embezzled by Walker.
The extension of time has been
granted and it is expected that the
amount will be paid back to the
country treasury on Dee. -1. on a
pro-rated basis between the several
companies interested in the liability.
Prospector.
On Murder Charge
NOGALKS 1'lacido Silvas, nl'Vgcd
to have been one of the seven Mex
ican bandits who n.urdered i'ost-mastei-
and Mis. Frank J. Pearson
nt Ruby, several we-ks ago. will be
tried in the superior court here en
to ihargcs of murder, one of kill
ing Mr. Pearson and the other of kill
ing Mrs. Pearson, Superior Court
Judge W. A. O'Connor has set the
date of his trial for Dec. 1 Herald.
Makes Escape
NOGALES D. C. Brown, alleged
bootlegger who broke jail at Phoenix
a few days ago after being sentenced
by Superior Court Judge Frank Ly
man of that city to aerve two years
in the state prison, fled across the
international line at .Nogales. into
Sonora, according to Information
given out today by a local official.
He is said to have crossed the line
Wednesday. Herald.
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Q. Were the medals which were
put on the casket of the "Unknown
Soldier" buried, or were they re
moved? A. W. K.
A. The bunting flag which covered
the casket on Its journey from France
was buried with the I jdy ot the Un
known Soldier. The silk flag which
covered the cask.t while the body lay
in state and during the funeral cere
mony, was removed, together with all
medals conferred by foreign govern
ments and our own. The present
plan is to have a case made to hold
flag and medal3, and place it in the
archives of the Amphitheater at Ar
lington, where it may be seen by vis
itors to the tomb ot the Unknown
Dead.
Q. What is an unfrocked minister7
D. E. W.
A. An unfrocked minister is a term
used to denote a, man who. having
accepted the holy orders and been
ordained by the) authorities of the
church with which he is affiliated,
has transgressed the laws of doctrine
or morals and been declared unfit 10
administer the sacraments. Ordi
nances administered by such a man
would not be considered valid by the
governing body of lis church.
Q. What is a Queen's Pipe? G. C.
M.
A. The Q iifii's Tobacco Pipe, nlso
known as King s Tobacco Pipe, is a
nickname popularly given to a kiln
of peculiar f-hape m a corner of the
London dock warehouses. Formerly
contraband j:oo.ls. such as tea, cigars,
and t. . br.ee, v. which had I.. - ;i smug
gled in were P-nrio. Ni.- otj:v
dan.ag'-d or worth' -s a ' e
bunn-d. but l:Pe!iii:.u.d 01 u.tii '4
are seild ptri-jdlea.'..