The Coconino sun., November 19, 1926, Section Two, Page Page Three, Image 9

About The Coconino sun. (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1898-1978

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1925.
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I CHEERFUL CHIRPS |
(By “DEL.”)
= Mostly nonsense, except in those rare intervals when a real idea comes I
along and is grabbed off. J
V. 0. Wallingford, the Phoenix
architect by vocation and artist and
poet by (or for) avocation says “the
season has arrived at that meteoro
logical state -wherein the following
atrocity is apropos —whatever that
means,” and wonders if it’ll go
through the Linotype.
“Dunno, but if it does it’H, prove
itself mislabeled “atrocity,” and will
appear just below this line.
Autumn Musings
• The autumn days have come again,
Os all the year the best;
And we who bear the form of men
May wear a coat, and vest.
No more the fountain pen will deck
The ample manly bosom;
To bring our usefulness to wreck
Each time we chance to lose ’em.
Oh! Happy days, with clothing blest
With pockets four and twenty!
Filled with the things we like the
best; ‘
Sweet sense of peace and plenty!
—V. 0. W.
We see in The Sun that many
Flagstaff folks visited the fair last
week.
Apropos George Mason’s not be- j
ing able to wade out of Lake Mary
last summer because the water was
over his head, and being unable to
swim nut because his tummy dragged <
on the bottom, H. S. Hunter of the
El Paso Times, says:
“They need that bird on the Colo
rado river. Lay him down. Put a j
rock or. top of him. And they’ll have i
a dam.”
Harry (Indian) Miller, sometimes 1
known as Chici Two-Guns Crazy
Thunder, writes from his Canyon
Diablo lodge, in a philosopho-reflect
tive mood, and being willing to let :
others do this column this week, we
append a few of his random or whil
om thoughts:
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The baby porcupine is sitting on j
top of my right foot as I write this, :
trying to learn the mysteries of writ- ]
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ing. She is a cute baby, though as
| homely as the very Devil. Her breath
1 smells like that of a bootlegger.
There may be more kick in pine bark
| than we have ever imagined.
I love the little porcupine in spite
of her strong breath, homely face,
and sharp quills; and I am,sure the
j Above One has blessed her.
*
After a strenuous tourist season,
I am sitting back and enjoying the
beautiful autumn days, and having
quite a chuckle as I think of the
Eastern tourists who ply me with
questions about our formidable (?)
“GUYLAH” monsters, inquiring if
they will jump at them out of trees
if they camp along our highways.,
and if our sidewinders will chase
them, etc., etc.
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Chee, the mountain coyote, kick
ed dirt in my wife’s face yesterday
while he was trying to do the Charles
i ton.
I believe that all animals dance,
j All those I have observed most close
ly certainly dance. I judge, there
| fore, that it is a natural inclination
i and thus harmless.
I I believe the burrowing owl is the
j greatest, of all dancers.
I am having one of the main
| rooms in Apache Cave transformed
! into a dance hall, where men and
women may shake their feet.
Immorality does not necessarily
go with dancing.
J Many a Christian has knelt down
to pray with a whiskey flask in his
hip packet.
We shall endeavor to keep our
! dances always clean and decent.
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Let us not forget the dead. For a ,
few minutes each day I try to en
tertain the skull of an ancient Cliff
Dweller by playing the phonograph
to it. So far it has shown very little
appreciation of modern music. This
!is perhaps the fault of the music.
We have become used to all sorts of
foolish noises and fads in these mod
, ern times. I would not guarantee
j them.
i This gentleman probably lived
j several hundred years ago; and had
: probably been resting quietly for
some time before the coming of
■ Columbus.
Many remarkable changes have no
doubt taken place since he lived; and
he seems very much unconcerned
! about them all. When he lived men
were not able, for instance, to twist
'the side of a box and get much music
out of it. This skull is stoical and '
sheds no tears at The Prisoner’s
Song, by Dalhart.
Politics and religion go clear over
j his head'; and he snaps his fingers, '
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|"so to speak, at doctors and lawyers. :
A wild gentleman from Texas !
asked today if the Cliff Dwellers !
were not a white people; and I an-I
swered that I thought they might j
have been Texans. I just could not j
disappoint him. It is better to lie 1
j than to commit a crime.
Some time ago a tourist lady saw j
the skull of a mountain lion on ex-1
hibit here, and asked my wife if it j
was the skull of a Cliff Dweller. Not i
wishing to disappoint the lady, my !
wife admitted that it was. The lady i
then examined its mouth very care- |
fully, and remarked: “They sure had!
good teeth in them days.”
I have been told several times re
cently that our Government is about
to make war on the porcupines, be
cause they eat the bark of pine trees, j
How treacherous this would be in I
the eyes of the Above One!
I suspicion very much that the j
white men want to use the trees
themselves. It is for this reason
that they wish to make war on the
poor porcupines; and not because the
porcupines are wicked. The Creator
gave the porcupine his appetite for j
bark, and made it all right for it to J
eat the bark.
The white man is not content, like '
the red man, to pick up the dead
wood for his uses; but cuts down
and saws up living trees and puts
them to many unsanitary and devil- j
ish uses.
The porcupine eats only what it j
requires for its food. The Above One !
intended that every animal should
eat; and not man alone.
Experiments show, so it is claimed,
that porcupines placed in fenced areas
have been found to be very destruc
tive to trees. And so would man be,
under the same circumstances. Chaiif
a man to a tree and keep all food
from him; and you will soon find him
a brother of the porcupine after all.
Man is by far the most destructive
of all animals; in fact, he is THE
DESTROYER.
THE WHITE MAN’S WAY
AND THE NAVAJO WAY
A story of the experience of a Na
vajo Indian who experimented with
the white man’s system of wife man
agement has come out of northern
Arizona. It is related by a man who
has had long and intimate associa
tion with the Indians us trader and
agency official.
An old chief came to him and
asked that Red Shirt, a fello v tribes
man, be punished. When asked his
reasons for desiring the disciplining
of Red Shirt, he told tne following
story to, the official.
“Red Shirt tried to take my squaw |
away from me. I have tried a long j
time and I have watched the white !
man’s ways. Many of them are good j
and we have adopted them. I have ;
seen the manner in which the white t
men treat their women. So a few
months ago I decided I would use
my squaw as you whites use your
women.
“My squaw was a good squaw. She
was obedient. I was fond of her. So
when I decided to change our way of
living I stayed at home and took
care of the children while she went
into town to wash for the white
women. I cut wood and packed the
water. I allowed my squaw to ride
the pony. I walked and carried the
rifle.
“She began to get unruly. One
day I missed her. I followed her up
and found her in Red Shirt’s tepee.
He is much younger than I.
“I took her back to my tepee. I
beat her thre times that day, and on
every day following for many days.
I still beat her once a month wheth
er she has done anything or not.
“She is a good squaw now. I wish
ed to follow the white man’s ways.
But it is of no use. It don’t work to
treat an Indian squaw like the
white men treat their women. I can
take care of the squaw. But I want
Red Shirt punished.”—Miami Silver
Belt.
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Give the Sun you job printing.
VIL
" OWING TO A LACK OF SPACE, SEVERAL
Births amp peatws will Be post-
PObJBP UWTU. NEXT WEEK - FROM
A VERMONT RAPER, “THAT ONE y v
THE COCONINO SUN
! LOSS OK TREES KILLED
OFF ANCIENT PEOPLE
I “Committed community suicide by
j deforestation” is the verdict passed
j upon the Indian population which
j lived a thousand years ago at Pueblo
| Bonito, northwestern New Mexico,
| by Neil M. Judd, archaeologist of the
; Smithsonian institution. He had just
| completed the sixth season of work
! at the ancient Pueblo ruin for the
I National Geographic society.
| Although a barren stretch today,
| Pueblo Bonito, Mr. Judd says, was
j once well wooded. The Bonitians,
| armed with stone axes, cut pine logs
from the one-time fertile fields to
roof the 800 rooms of their Pueblo
city, but evidently wasted their for
ests.
The soil thus bared to the elements
and with no trees to store the mois
j ture, gullies formed, Mr. Judd re
j ports. Within a relatively few years,
! the fields which had been cultivated
j for many previous generations were
abandoned as they could not produce
sufficient food for the populace which
gradually migrated to more fertile
districts.
However, a few were loath to leave
the home* of their forefathers, and
I the archaelogist' declares that each
succeeding period of construction
j shows that new means of defensive
I devices were adopted by those re
maining, some indicating that marau
ders also helped drive the Bonitians
from their community home.
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I FEDERATED CHURCH X
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The meetings of the past two weeks
have been faithfully attended by
many people who believe ip God and
His church. The noticeable absence
of others indicates clearly the divid
ing line between the world and the
church. We wish to thank the clergy
men of the other churches in the city
who have all cooperated and assist
ed loyally in the services. The meet
ings will* have accomplished the
purposes which gave rest to them.
The final meeting of the series will
be next Sunday night when a definite
lining up of those on the Lord’s side
will be made and the names of those
so lining up will be written in the
private register of the church.
We urge everyone of our church
people to attend the inaugural cere
monies of President Gammage next
Sunday afternoon. The fine spirit
of cooperation shown by the college
faculty toward our meetings in this
regard calls for our best support of
the college at this time.
We wish also to extend to the sev
eral lodges and clubs and churches of
the city who attended the meetings
officially our most cordial thanks for
their presence and interest in the re
i ligious side of our civic life.
| The Thanksgiving union service for
| all churches will be held in the new
| Disciples of Christ church Thursday
j at 10 a. m. All are urged to attend.
A plea is made for a civic com
mittee of five to act as a clearing
house regarding the many functions
and activities promulgated by the
various societies, that arrangements
be made through this committee to
eliminate the frequent conflict of
events all planned for the same time
and night. This matter was referred
by the pastor to the Chamber of Com
merce, together with a request re
garding Sabbath observance, a week
ly half holiday for store employes
and others and the inclusioh of a bible
feature in the opening, ceremonies for
the new hotel. This latter is the re
sult of the visit this past week of
Mr. Leonard, the inter-state secre
tary of the Gideons. Bibles will be
placed soon in all the hotels of the
city, 218 in all.
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BOSTON WOOL MARKET
Business has been spotty in the
Boston wool trade, but prices remain
firm, and very few concessions have
been made on finer grades of Ohio
or territory wools. Dealers report
continued inquiry from worsted and
woolen mills, but these have appar
ently taken care of immediate re
quirements, and await the arrival of
new foreign and domestic clips before
again placing orders of any amount.
By Osborne
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By Charles Sughroe
<D Western Newspaper Union
HE£e'.T ANOTHER-= ” JAMES <jormany,
WHO WAS ELECTER PR-ESIPENT OF THE
company vesTEßmy, began life as a
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Is Your Last Chance to See and Enjoy
FLAGSTAFF’S
FIRST ANNUAL
EXPOSITION
Today (Friday) is “School and City Day” and is the Final
Wind-up of the Exposition with a Big Time for Everybody
AWARDING OF CHOOSING LADY WITH~
BOOTH PRIZES MOST PERFECT FOOT
Dancing All Evening
* Phil Halls Orchestra
This Exposition has been one of Flagstaff’s most success
ful civic functions and the Chamber of Commerce thanks
you for your fine spirit of cooperation.
CHAMBER of COMMERCE
Proceeds to Winter Sport Activities
There is no question but that a con
siderable quantity of wool is moving
to the mills, but in comparison with
the volume of a month ago, it would
appear that business had slowed down
to some extent. The present attitude
of the trade is one of awaiting de
velopments. The strike in the New
York cutting-up trade and the con
tinuation of the British coal strike are
factors reputed to have considerable
bearing on the future of good busi
ness in this line. Topmakers have
been quiet, and have not been able to
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| secure their wants at their own pri
. ces.
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[ , They Did Not Fit
{ i New Swede clerk in shoe store
| threw a pair of shoes in the waste
! j basket.
'j Astonished Manager—What is the
j matter with those shoes ?
| I “Dey no good. I ban try ’em on
, half a dozen fallers and dey vould
’ n’t fit none of dem.”
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i Give the Sun you job printing.
Courage, Felix!
Tricks of the Types
AND A HEADIJME = " PRISONER- WIU. 8E
FRIED ON 'TWURSDAY £ AUD AWOTHEfU
"DOES PR.lNk.iklG HOOCH MAKE A MAN
AWP ONE MORE,
U FLY TO WED ON FASS'EMGER. -SHIP. v
4UST IMAGINE».
“That florist surely keeps in touch
with his slogan, ‘Say it with flow
ers.’ ”
“What’s his method?”
“Well, I know., he has sent me a
bunch of forget-me-nots with each
bill.”
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Teacher: “What is guerilla war
fare?”
Johnny: “War in which the men
ride gorillas.”
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Give the Sun you job printing.
Pinewood Dairy
Prompt Service and
THE HIGHEST GRADE OF MILK
We invite the public to visit our
Dairy at All Times
Andy Matson
Proprietor
Phone 382R4
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