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Page Four THE COCONINO SUN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1919 K' ., 'r V, ix 'A QUjr (Enrnntno &mt F. S. RREEN, Editor and Publisher Entered at the Poitoflko at FUgtUfT. Ari zona, ai second clu matter. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY. Subscription, per year, in advance $2.60 Official Paper of Coconino County Official Paper of the Coconino Cattle Crowers Aisociation limed to the .mtyKW PreacottTjpo. CoconinoSun by yi'Xi-ul' ttraphlcal Union , No. 375 PROFITEERS JUST SCARED. It is hard to find always just where the trouble is. When the soldier boys were icing drafted and taken away .there was the greatest wail of woe going up because every special indus try was being ruined and their men should not be taken away from them. Now we find that there is a great lack of employment for the same men who went away and did as they were told by the government. Where is the great discrepancy? Most em ployers are willing and glad to get back the boys they were compelled to release. The whole country was going to the bad because of the lack of help and the high wages they were com pelled to pay. There were some two million of our boys, out of over a hundred million people. Now they are out of em ployment. Prices are higher than ever and help is just as scarce. Yet, what is to be done for the "soldier boy" on his return? And the gov ernment is making a great to-do about this. In fact the government wants his uniform back .before he has gone home and visited his best girl and the rest of his friends. There, is room for every soldier boy who comes home". The people will take care of that just as fast as they want to re-adjust themselves. The "splendid movement" for the putting of the returned sqldier boy on a ranch, is not making much more of a hit than the old story of the "rnah who "bet the government of the Unit ed States- ?23 that he could live on 'the 160-acre homestead five years with out starving to death." That sort of stuff may sound good to the people back cast, but when you have to pack water in a canteen for your horses, and mortgage your soul for the hors es; wait two years for a crop and take chances that it will rain, the 'soldier boy feels that the politician is wishing something on him and hoping that he don't find it out until after he votes. It isn't going to take long for the returned soldier to find out who his friends arc and who the bunch is com posed of who arc handing out the po litical stuff for their own benefit. It is a sad reflection on the good people of the United States when it is intimated that they will not take carp of their own soldier boys when they come home. We loved them when they went to the front, or wherever they were sent by competent author ity, and if wc can not love them now and take care of them, we are a sorry race of people. It hurts to think that the people of the United States are now charged with not .being willing to take care of our boys who left their all, went where they were sent, an swered their country's call, regardless of the fact that they may not have reached the goal they aimed for. The government does not charge that the people are not willing to care for returning soldiers, but there is the inference that the whole country is liable to be in a turmoil when they come home. These men went out to fight for America, and, they arc, not coming home with an idea that they will have to fight America for a living. This idea seems to have originated with some of the few "special privileged" political generals, and merchant princes wiiu are airaiu iiiui uiu uia fng man might demand his share of the profiteers' makings during '..the time they were gone. LAWS AND BRAINS. Reading the investigation dope of the packers, now going on in the sen ate, one only wonders why he isn't a bolsheviki when he attempts U'o buy any of their product. Another thing the government control of railroads has reversed many a bolsheviki mind ed person. There you are. The gov ernment lost a few hundred million trying to run the railroads, aside from what the people had to pay extra, yet the packers made a few hundred mil lion on a measley one cent margin rrofit. The railroads made money be fore the government took them over, and, before the freight and passenger rates were raised 40 and 50 per cent, also aside from what the people lost by lack of service. The government talks of taking the packing concerns over. We, tho plain people, are be ginning to wonder where the exact deuce we are at. We lose if we win, and win if we lose. The packers made only 47 per cent on their in vestment, while the railroads raised the rates 40 and 50 per cent nnd still are behind some $250,000,000 and still going. A sirloin "steak" today would have been a good stake for the young man or yesteryear, yet the etiict has gone forth that there are too many cattle, hogs and sheep raised at the present time to make the different in dustries profitable. The whole secret or the game may be that the packers and the railroads paid their high of ficials $50,000 and $65,000 per year to heat the game, while the govern ment paid $12,000 per year for a faw accidental politicians to help out the plain people. The "plain people" is a necessary designation, for if they were not so plain they would use the plane more. It is possible to legis late salaries, laws, provide conditions, etc., but you can't legislate brains; they seem to grow in a different at mosphere. Four per cent of the Washington "war workers" have been released since the armistice was signed. Ths army of job holders Is going to be the hardest one to demobilize. SHERMAN GIVES 'EM WAR. When Senator Sherman speaks, his hearers know full well that they will hear no elusive theories or double meanings. He continues to call an ace an ace, and a spade a spade in un mistakable terms, a characteristic that is sadly lacking in the speech of supporters of administration prin ciples. The Senator's recent speech, in which he opposed the $100,000, 000 food bill, aside from its practical reasons for objection to such a meas ure, points out one extremely import ant thing: That sincere and con structive criticism of present admin istration policies, especially those en dorsed by the president, has not died. Speaking of the appropriation, the senator said "it is not a relief fund for starving nations, but a campaign. fund for the president as a candidate for chairman of the peace league of the world. Strip off this insolent pre tense that covers this appropriation; tell the truth about it once in a while, if you must shame his satanic nfajesty in doing so. I am tired unto death of the sickening pretense with which sen ators condole and satisfy themselves in this chamber. A hundrpd million dollars," continued the Illinois sena tor, "is the first tribute we pay to a departure from the warnings in Wash ington's, farewell address how much more nobody knows. It is one con tinued round of appropriations." And so it is. The Wilson adminis tration has and is spending money like a drunken sailor. They seem to have been talking in billions so long and spending the same way, that they have lost all sight of the value of money. Where will it all terminate? We arc the apostles of" publicity, all right, being the only nation in the world that hid its war casualties from the people so successfully that up to the very moment the total was announced the American public be lieved that the number was only one third of the true total. The German bolsheviki continue to make about 90 per cent of the noise and get about 10 per cent of the votes when elections are held. It is charac teristic of the revolutionary radical that his noise is in adverse ratio to his numbers. , , Some exalted utterances are like a chapter in Revelations to be inter preted according to the reader's view-, and therefore calculated to satisfy everybody, with a baffling mystery at the finish as to what it is all about. The "killing of the fatted calf" is a favorite quotation front -the Great Book of Law, but the application of it by the bolsheviki seems to be, cat the fatted calf and kill the man who killed the calf. Politics may bring a temporary ela tion to the fellow who happened to bet a dollar and win, but it is seldom that the stunt does not produce an ego that makes him sorry he won the bet. The "National Civil Liberties Bu-, reau" calls the "conscientious objec tors" the "lovers of the future." They Erobably love the future a good deal etter than the future will love them. If the present democratic congresJ is not provident, it is certainly not in the least "hind-sighted" as to provid ing for sufficient funds for running the country in 1920, with the nice, pleasant places provided for its hench. men. The democrats go out of power next March but they want to provide funds for the year following for tho appointees of President Wilson. This is a great country. All we need is less people and more money, includ ing Lower California. Many of the ranchers around Flagstaff are now seeding their ranches with $20 Mis in an airplane. They know that the cotton in the bill will be returned unreceipted. Utah wants to trade off all Utah south of the Sun Juan river to Ari zona for all that part of Arizona north of the Colorado river. Some of the prominent people who live north of the Canyon arc not in favor of the trade. This trade would be about as popular in Arizona as the buying of Lower California is with the people of that country. It might be a good stunt to trade Yuma to Mexico and all that part of the Navajo Indian reservation to Utah, or, if necessary, we might sell Santa Cruz county to Mexico and get the $30,000,000 for good roads and have less country to build roads in. What a heap of fun a fellow would have if they would only give him a second trip back to earth, together with all the knowledge he had picked up on the first trip. Wonder what Sherman would have said about war, if he had heard all that is charged to this last one ? The people are awaiting with much interest for the legislative commit tee's report on the Normal school. The educational end of tho big school has settled down to business and is en deavoring to make a success of that and there is little criticism hea,rd along that line. Tho peculiar method of constructing new buildings, how ever, has attracted state-wide atten tion and the people would like to know who threw the bricks and just where they went to. The New York Times, author of the editorial favoring peace without victory on the basis of the Burian, says that before the war the republ' can party was "eaten up with pacif ism. It came nearly being eaten up at the polls in 1916 with the pacifistic "he kept us out of war" slogan, .but that is the only sense in which the statement of the Times has any sig nificance except as a manifestation of partisan bias. Mob law of any kind or character will never gain a point to any class or kind of people. It very often appears as though the man who is in authority should be made the culprit, but if you get back to the real inside of the case the voter is more or less to blame for the condition. It is a good deal like people signing a petition the petition may be to hang the signers, but they want to be a "good fellow." "The status ofSyria7Mesopotamia and Armenia hangs in an uncertain balance," complains Secretary Red field. The gentleman, like some other psychological statesmen, worries a good deal more about what is going to happen to Mesopotamia than what is likely to occur to the United States if it cannot be saved from the theories of the demagogues and the peda gogues. There is one magnificant quality that is often splendidly exhibited by politicians, and that is being gen erous with other people's money. Henry Ford hands it to the pluto- 1 crats in his new weekly, but then it is easy to hate the rich on six or eight million dollars a year. flYo many people seem to think that an editor is like the good old rich soil just there to be worked. We seem to be in about as much doubt as to what is happening in Rus. sia as to what is going on in Paris. Pure Apple Cider New Barrel Just Arrived Fresh Oysters Today BULK DILL PICKLES, PEANUT BUTTER and OLIVES in our DELICATESSEN DEPARTMENT Hardware Going at 'Cost Anyone wishing Farming Implements next season will do well to see us at once as we have bind- ers, plows and mowers that we are going to sell re gardless of price. C. A. BLACK Successor to Flagstaff Mercantile Company NIGGER IN THE WOODPILE? A petition is being circulated by a certain clement of cowmen, addressed to Gov. Campbell, asking him to re instate Tom Eakins, former cattle in spector, and remove Ed. Hamilton. As near as can be ascertained the ma jority of the signers are Colter dem ocrats and there is an intimation that Hamilton can not fill the place to their satisfaction, though he has only been on the job for a few days. It is a peculiar situation, not only that our democratic friends should de mand political patronage after doing their durndest to defeat the present administration, .but also that such n strenuous effort shduld be made to re tain their own man. Many of the small stockmen are becoming curious as to just why all this strife. They might at least give Hamilton a chance on the job before the attempt to job him. It may be that Hamilton failed to get the endorsement of the demo cratic state central committee, any how, it will be interesting to watch proceedings and ascertain in just what portion of the corded fuel pile the son of Ham is secluded. B MfMMMMMtIIIIIIIMII!lllIHIHmMIMMIMHMIMIIIIIItllflM X 1 DEAD MAN'S FLAT NEWS ! I By DOCK SOPER.' X I (Attorney at Law, Justice of 1 the Peace, shoemaker, groceries, i Notary Public, hides bought and sold, hats, caps and boots and shoes, also laundry work when i my wife is able, Friendly un- 1 dertaking a specialty.) If Senator Campbell wants to make a big hit at the present time he should introduce a resolution calling on the state land office to furnish a list-of all lands leased or sold, and to whom sold, during the past few years. Also show just who ultimately secured the use or the iaiwt. The richest. man in the world can be bankrupted and the richest people in the world may be impoverished if you put the right people on the job. Take a booster's hammer away from him Snd you find that he has often spoiled the sharp edge before he be came a booster. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION. An examination for the position of clerk in the postoffice will be held in this city on March 1, 1919. Applicants must be citizens of the United States between the ages of 18 and 45 years on the date of the ex amination. Applicants must be phyically sound and male applicants must not be less than 5 feet 4 inches in height in bare feet and weigh not less than 125 pounds without overcoat or hat. For application blanks and further in formation relative to this exami nation address Local Secretary, Board or u. . uivii Service Examiners, Flagstaff, Arizona. "The Altogether." The girl had been three weeks in the employ of the artistic family, but her time had been by no means wasted. Her mistress was giving her in structions as to dinner. "Don't forget the potatoes, Mary." "No, ma'am. Will you 'ave 'cm in their jackets, or in the nood?" o The Wise Fool. "It is the unexpected that always happens," observed the Sage. I'Well," commenced the Fool, "if this is true, why don't we learn to ex pect it?" 5 - s f7IIIWIHIIIMMIHHIIIIIIHIIIIIHIIHHIIIHIIHl.M,MHMH CT Never slap a neighbor's kid lest you know his paw. Artie Monta-gue says as how this is the worst war he ever had excess to and he regrets he could not go to it on account of his mother, who is dependent on him to ' receive the money she sends him monthly. Jake Wcbbler is a strong adverkatc for the repair of good roads. He says as how the roads and the taxpayers should .both be gone over onst a year. Pete McSwiggen says it BcHoovers this country to BeWare of them Bo shavikers; the can starve to death on more food and freeze quicker within four foot of a woodpile then enny other nationality he has viewed. Indication is that spring is comin'. Wedge Ellis has moved his chair 8 inches back frum the stove. Pondmaster Piggly sez he don't know whether he kin hold Swilly Wiggins accordin' to law or not, but he is goin' to try a dry washer on him ez soon ez he gits his new gas mask. LIVESTOCK AND RANGES IN ARIZONA AND N. M. Clear, balmy weather prevailed the greater part of the week but was fol lowed Saturday by precipitation over the entire district. Moderate to heavy rainfall occurred in the southern por tion of the state and generally heavy snowfall in the northern portion. Feeding became necessary throughout the north except in Mohave county where the snowfall was light. A sharp fall in temperature occurred in the north on the morning of the 3rd instant causing much discomfort. Rainfall over the desert section was particularly favorable for the growth of vegetation and stockmen report conditions there as most encouraging. Snow to a depth of twenty-nine inches fell in the vicinity of Pinedale and nineteen inches' covered the ground at Flagstaff, Prescott and Williams. 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