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I Pago Four THE COCONINO SUN FRIDAY, MAY 1C, 1919. - 4 The Coconino Sun Established 1882. F. S. BKEEN, Editor and Publisher " Entered at the Postoffice at Flagstaff, Arizona, as second class matter. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY. Subscription, per year, in advance ' ?2.50 Official Paper of the Coconino Cattle Growers Association Snail Flagstaff improve and be more paved? Make it so. If you can't tell the truth, lie about it and gum the game. Flagstaff is the biggest little city in the Southwest. Let's helpcut out the "little." A subscriber wants a short definition of bol shevism. It's "going crazy and biting yourself." It is not only "Welcome home," to the boys, but "Well, come home," to those who are yet over there. Never shoot when your gun isn't loaded. Loan the unloaded gun to your enemies. (Poli tics I one; I won.) America convinced Germany and has almost convinced Mexico that the "gringo" will fight. All he wants is a just cause. Flagstaff offers wonderful opportunities for every one except the fellow who feels that "hook worms" should be the main crop. Carranza has declared war on Villa, says a headline. Many people along the border have been afraid of this for several years. One thing proves the country is getting bet ter and better is that you can't always tell a man's politics from the state he hails from. Germany bet all she had on the high card and only raised the deuce. They lost a lot of lit tle kinks, and the joker got in Dutch in Holland. Director Hines says that the government only lost $226,000,000 last year on the railroads. Won der what the people lost on top of this amount because of lack of service? A bolshevik orator at Petrograd declares: "We have abolished God." Quite believable, but ' Satan is evidently still on the job in Russia, and working three full shifts a day. t Senator Ashurst thinks we should stand be hind the president. How can a fellow when he is running around so much?' Also, who would poy our carfare, boatage, and porterage? President Wilson has called Congress to con vene on May 19, and advises the boys that he would not be here to mark out their lessons for them, but would be home in time to mark their final papers. ( , One of, the amusing things about Flagstaff is that it outgrows itself every year. In other words the fellow who "out-prepares" the other fellow is always that much ahead of the "other fellow." The pioneer rancher in this country is en titled to just as much credit as any other pioneer, and sometimes we believe a heap more, for he has made a garden of the "parks" and is still on the job. It is a wonder the I. W. W. did not select July 4 as the date to send out their bombs through the mails to kill women and children. It would be so much more in keeping with their idea of patriotism. The war department has sold twenty-four vbig army camps for $548,000, The people are in luck that they did not have to pay that much to have them turned over to private parties. They only cost about $548,000,000.00. All that Flagstaff needs is more places to put more people so that more people will have places to work for more people who want to come to Flagstaff. We have the goods all we need is brains to develop some of the vacant territory. The first item in any sane labor program is to make it possible for productive enterprises to go aKead and do business so that there may be no unemployment, but this is the item that most of the big talkers about labor choose to overlook entirely. About the only thing that the Salvation Army workers have ever asked is: "What can we do for you." They took what you gave them and gave it away to the next fellow who needed the money, and, they never thought of asking you what church you belonged to or whether you would ever give it back. DEPEW SEES GOOD TIMES "The next ten years in America, after the Republican party returns to power, will bring a condition which will cause Bolsheviki and trouble makers to commit suicide," said former Senator Chauncey M. Depew, of New York, acquaintance of Lincoln, and candidate for the nomination for the presidency thirty years ago, on his eighty fifth anniversary. He still goes to business with great regularity every day. "One of the advantages of being my age," he went on, "is that you need have no fear that any of your indiscretions of speech will ruin your political prospects. However, while on the sub ject of politics I might mention that the Repub licans are going to win the next chance they gel. And then we shall see the greatest growth in America not only material growth, but in the humanities. We shall see a return to that con dition which made the United States a better place to live in than any other country in the world. Eighty-five is a jolly time. As long as you can laugh laugh with others, and not at them you can be happy. I was never in better shape, mentally, physically, morally." RETURN OF THE SAINTS "Viva America! Down with Wilson," is the slogan of the Italian people. No doubt the photos of the modem messiah, distributed so industri ously by the foreign branch of the publicity com mittee among the Italians, have been chucked into the Italian ash-cans, and the pictures of the saints have been returned to their niches. In this respect the Italians are something less than six months behin'd the American majority; but they discovered in five months what it required us six years to find out for ourselves. "You can fool some of the people," etc., quoting Lincoln. One of the amusin' things of the present "war times" to the people of the great state of Ari zona is, whether Adj Gen. Harris is commander-in-chief of all our armies, or whether Gov. Camp bell is entitled to that honor. The legislature gave Col, Harris leave of absence to whip the huns; but in the meantime Hunt got back into office and he was so busy looking after the legis lature that some fellow named Foch out-fussed them. Harris dug deep trenches around his sal ary and expenses, out-flanked Campbell and then gassed the associate governor Sims with a bar rage of bills. It would be really cute and funny if it wasn't for the salary involved. The nub of the whole thing seems to be that Gov. Campbell does not know who elected him ; but Harris does, and he and Atty. Gen. Wiley Jones are going to prove it if it costs the state every dollar it can rake and scrape. There is a lot of pleasure in taking your hat off to a man of the calibre of R. H. Tuttle, divi sion 'superintendent of the Santa Fe. While he lives at Winslow there are mighty few sore spots within his jurisdiction, which extends from Al buquerque to Needles. His Victory Loan train will be remembered a long time as will his many other good qualities. While it appeared at times in years past that the average official in authori ty was doing his best to make bolshevikis, his efforts have always tended toward un-making them and helping to build up the sort of men who believe in building up. And Italy seems to have discovered where the dotted line was. The hull world was awfully surprised when it learned that Germany was now willing to sign up. Now we hope that Mexico won't ever whip Texas "again," and that the old Monroe doctrine will cure fluey ideas among the Japs and keep Cuba cool. When the Allies cleaned up Europe, it was cleaned and all the petty dope as to what the rest of the small na tions would oi" would not do was merely a bluff. There is only one way that America can possibly be flim-flammed, and that is by electing crooks to office; otherwise they will play the game and play it square until the last sinking of the sun on earth. TOO MANY SERVICES HUNG OUT FOR HIM In spite of the fact that he is to receive his discharge from the army and return to civilian life in the course of a day or two, the war has just commenced for one Jerome lad. The youngster, -ho has served with distinction in France and Belgium, is torn with a fierce desiic to visit his home which is counterbalanced by an even greater desire to avoid the con sequences of rash promises which the members of the military service aie apt to make when exhilirated by the imminence of conflict combined with moonlight nights and adorable femin inity. His dilemma is best explained by the appended extract from a letter to a friend, a former bunkie heie, who has basely betrayed his' trust. The perplexed soldier naively comments upon the years of friendship, good times and escapades he has enjoyed with his friend, and then asks: and one thing more im portant I wish you would do for me; if you see cither , or , (both exceptionally charming young ladies), I wish you would talk to them about me. As you know I was going with for a long time before I left. Well, the night I left I met the other and she bid me goodbye and cried a little and the first thing I knew I kissed her and she grabbed me and held me tight and I said a lot of things I don't just remember. You know the band was playing and every thing. "Anyway she piomised to wait for me, and, of course, is waiting, too. Mother wrote me both were now wearing service pins, and had both hung out service flags. Gee, I'm sure in a of a fix, 111 say. Wish you would see them and find out if cither has changed her mind. If not, I suppose I'll have to re-enlist." Jerome News. LUCK PREDICTED FOR THE BOWLEGGED BOY What a Memorial Day May 30, 1919, should be!v There will be only a few of the old boys of '63, a fair representation of the boys of '98, but think of the squads and squads of boys of '17 there will be to take part and stand uncov ered while he thinks of "Bunkie" who never came home! Some of us may have grinned a little at times at the old fellows of 63 in blue, but there 11 be tears in their eyes when they see the khaki boys go on parade May 30. Flagstaff has so many to be proud of that Memorial Day this year should be the greatest ever held here. Make it so. The American Legion, the new organization recently brought into being at St. Louis, and composed of returned soldiers and sailors, passed a resolution at their convention the other day, demanding that an investigation be made of the kindly manner all "conscientious objectors" were treated by the war department. The consensus of opinion seemed to be that it was not in good taste to treat them better than they did the boys who did the fighting and they want to know about it. After two years, during which Flagstaff did not celebrate on account of the war, the Elks will proceed to dig up a record-breaking jollification to celebrate the ending of the war as well as our national holiday. The Elks always did love to prepare programs for the entertainment of their friends, and because they put joy in their work, are always successful. Already word is coming in from all over the north as well as a part of the south, that "we'll be there." The responsibility for war rests upon two classes : The bully who thinks he can scare other people into sacrificing their own rights and in terests, and the pacifists whose pusillanimous conduct when threatened gives the bully the best basis for his belief. The man who will not stand up for his own rights is just as contemptible as the bully who tramples on other people. ' The treaty prepared for Germany to sign only contains some 80,000 words. Can you blame the American people for at least wanting to read it over before the senate approves it? The boys who put up the right didn't expect that America would have to "sign on thfc dotted line"; they thought the fight was to make Germany do that. If you don't believe all the pulpiteers who say the world is ready for internationalism, just start a movement for the federation of the Christian, Mohammedan, Zoroastrian, Confucian, and Budd hist religions, with fixed provisions against the invasion of any one of them by any other faith, and watch the enthusiasm. There is an old saying that a bandy legged boy will never lack for warm stockings, meaning that ho will never be in want of money, so that folk whose friends aie apt to be rude about their manner of walking may find con solation therein. On the other hand, persons who walk in a fashion which quickly wears down their heels are likely one day to be in need of cash, while knoc kneed folk, though they have the abil ity to get wealth, have not the power to attract love so it is said! A long stride and a swinging walk are good thoy imply that there may be ups and downs, but good fortune will never get far away, and will come out on top eventually. Bad luck follows in the train of those who habitually turn in their toes, however, and an ancient adage has it that yie manwho always walks on the tips of his toes is likely to end his days in prison. So, watch your step! o GETTING IT RIGHT GLASSES UNNECESSARY They were on their honeymoon, and were spending it amidst the moun tains of Colorado. Nearly every davi they attempted to climb to a fresh height. "There!" exclaimed the wife, when she had finished panting, "we have tramped ail the distance to 'admire this beautiful view, and we have for gotten the glasses!" 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