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®ooMgcj€^prUMr Published Every Thursday Entered as seccnd-clasa matter March 7, 1930, at the post office at Coolidge, Arizona, under the Act of March 3, 1879. HOOPER 6. RUNBECK Publishers LEE HOOPER - —Editor One Year In Pinal County $1.50 One Year, Outside Pinal County ~...52.00 LET'S STOP AND THINK No one will deny that the United States government is a great institution; that it has done things that no other government in all history has ever accomplished. For instance, during the fiscal year of 1938 it collected in taxes approximately $5,659,000,000, which is the largest sum any government ever collected in any year. That vast sum is just about a fourth of all the world’s monetary gold, but despite this unparalleled “expense ac count” our federal government still operates at a deficit. Any anyone who thinks the end is in sight has only to look about him—at new’ bureau after bureau and at the growing national debt—to realize that the tax burden is going to get heavier. Perhaps this is an optimist’s view, but maybe, after all, that 1938 tax load will be w’orth all it cost. Certain ly it will be if it compels us to re-examine the whole question of the relationship government and the citizen taxpayer, for the world ttfday seems to be moving too rapidly along the road of greater subordination of the individual to the state. In some lands that subordination is complete; the citizen simply exists for the convenience of the state. In America things have not peached that point. That approach will be dangerously near, however, if taxation is allowed to advance to a point so high that it will consti tute virtual slavery to government. A good mental exercise right now would be to re member and analyze the oldest®-uth; ever spoken about our 151-year-old democracy that a democratic govern ment exists to serve the citizen,* and that as a general thing it serves him best by leaving him alone. —l_o LIFE AFTER FORTY A survey has been made among the industries of America on the question of whether older employees are being replaced by younger men. The findings show that a greater proportion of workers over 40 years of age are employed now than in pre-depression days. This should serve to refute the claims of labor agitators that employers have no use for a man after he has passed the 40 mark. Also, it should bolster the self confidence of older men who have the notion they are passing the age of usefulness. Older workers are, of course, recognized as being more experienced and skilled, but there are other factors. Here is how the employers evaluated the “old timers” and the young ones in the survey: A majority thought they were equally efficient, and a large percentage thought the old workers w r ere even more efficient; a majority old w r orkers were more co operative; a majority said both groups were about equal ly vulnerable to illness and accidents; and a majority thought the veterans were as easy to adjust to new condi tions as the younger workers. Some may dispute that life begins at forty, but certain ly life doesn’t end there. o Theoretically the men in every community, with little to do and plenty of time on their hands, should be the ones to attend all of the committee meetings and rustle the local community chests and church budgets, but in actual practice it doesn’t work out. The job doesn’t get done unless some man w’ho already has more to do than he can get done gets out and does it and goes back to his business and works half the night to get his own work done. -o PRACTICE PROVES THEORY What one man can’t do, a thousand men, working together with a common purpose, may be able to do. There in a sentence, is the underlying theory of agri cultural marketing cooperation. No individual farmer can bargain with a powerful middleman to obtain a fair price for what he has to sell. But when an army of farmers band together, form a bargaining agency, adequately finance it, and staff it with first-class executives, they can meet any buyer on an equal footing. And practice has proven that the theory is eminently practical. o GETTING SOMEWHERE “After fifty years of effort farmers are getting somewhere,” observes release of the Dairymen’s League Cooperative Association of New York. The organized dairy farmers of the New York milk shed, led by the League, obtained the passage of state and federal laws encouraging to marketing cooperation in: selling dairy products. The result: Farmers in the shed are receiving $1,500,000 more each month! That’s what marketing organization can do. It’s a* other inspiring chapter to the history of agricultural cooperation in the interest of the producer. Prohibiting Diversion Os Highway Funds Campaigns for constitutional amendments prohibiting the diver ! sion of highway funds to non-high way purposes are under way in ten states, according to a survey made by the Committe on Diver sion of the American Road Build ers’ Association. Anti-diversion amendments were passed by Cali | fornia, Michigan and New Hamp shire on Nov. 8. which brought the total of states with constitutional barriers against this unlawful practice up to seven. A majority of the legislatures in the forty-eight states will meet tht-y year and indications point to con certed efforts by certain groups within these legislatures to cut deep inroads in the highway fund. The ARBA committee, therefore, opened its 19.19 war on the mis appropriation of road money with a meeting in Lansing, Mich., on January 4. A plan of action was; outlined and it was decided to publish a 50-page “bible”, written, in simple language to be easily understood by the man on the street and capable of use a» aj guidebook by good roads advocates in their efforts to bring about passage of anti-diversion amend ments. This publication will undoubted ly comprise the report of the Coin-, mitiee on Diversion to be present ed at the convention sessions of the American Road Builders As-1 aocml ion when it mee ‘ f -r Cs ?“*hi annual Convention and Highway j Exhibit in San Francisco, March j 7-10. The anti-diversion “bible” j will contain a complete statistical summary of all highway funds diverted in the various states to date and the amount of good and safe roads that might have been built with this money. It is estimat ed that new highway construction in states that practiced diversion in 1937 could have been increased 77 per cent. The ARBA committee report will also contain a complete case history of the methods and pro-' cedures used by the states that have been successful in obtaining a constitutional amendment. This will be invaluable to other stater in their work for similar measures. The United States Congress de-| dared the misappropriation of! motor-vehicle transportation reve | nues both unfair and unjust when it passed the Hayden-Cartwright I Road Act of 1934. Congressman Wilburn Cartwright, chairman of the United States House Committee on Roads and co-author of the act, during the session of the last Congress, made the following state ment concerning the misuse of highway-user taxes: “There is strong sentiment in the Roads Committee in Congress for increasing the penalty at this session to two-thirds of the ap- or denying federal aid altogether to states that persist in the indefensible practice of diverting their own gasoline and other motor-vehicle tax revenues to non-highway purposes. In fact, some consideration is being given to discontinuing the policy of 1 An Open Letter To Our Readers I ■ Dear Readers:- U I 9 We would like to call your attention to the fact that it is due H to the advertisers in this paper that we’re able to print for your pleasure* g free of charge outside of your subscription, not only your church Jj^ notices; your school notes; your club notices and activities, your local jjp ||j news, your marriages, and your obituaries; but also to boost every one |,i : of your organizations that has for its purpose the betterment of the v I community. In order to help us reciprocate you owe yourself the duty 1 to read the advertisements as well as the news and you will probably find many things of interest that you have heretofore missed. Some of the best stories, some of the most interesting news, some of your best ££ ideas can be found in ads that you so quickly pass over. When the merchants are convinced that they can speak to your thru their ads because they know that you are waiting to get their message, then the || newspaper will be doing its duty. It takes the co-operation of all three, * the advertiser, the subscriber, and the editor, to make a successful weekly paper so if you don’t feel that you are getting your money’s worth out of your home paper look and see where the fault lies before || you cast your first stone. ,p* We want more subscribers, more advertising, and more news, || so thanking you in advance we remain truly yours, Hg THE COOLIDGE EXAMINER. t THE COQUDGE EXAMINES Undersea Exploration . Coiled up in the geophysical laboratory of the Carnegie Institu tion in Washington, D. C., last week was a steel rope nearly seven miles long. Its completion was announced by Dr. Charley S. Piggot of the Institution. With it, he hoped to conduct exp’orations far below the ocean's surface. More than three-quarters of the ocean floor lies over a mile below ; the surface. In some '6O ocean “deeps,” depths are as great as six miles. Not until 1936, when Dr. | Piggot took an Atlantic trip on ! a Western Union cable repair ship, had anyone more than scratched the ocrean floor. With his on his voyage, Dr. Pig got took a deep-sea gun and several I bits. The gun was a metal cylinder filled with cannon powder; the bits were 10-foot, hollow tubes which could be attached to the gun. At i depths up to three miles, each tube was lowered to the ocean bottom; as it touched, the gun went off, driving the tube into the submarine ooze. When each tube was raised, it contained a sample of the ocrean, bottom. On his trip, Dr. Piggot found beneath the ocean floor traces iof manganese, iron, cooper, tin, gold and other minerals already known to exist in sea water. More, 1 surprisingly, he found that the ocean’s bottom appeared to contain much higher concentrations of redium than corresponding strata ; on dry land. Not concentrated enough to be useful commercially, the radium seemed most prevalent at the great est depths. Since radium is found only in ancient deposits, it may be 1 that ocean deeps are among the oldest unchanged features of the i earth. Chief advantage of his • prodigious new rope wa» that it would allow Dr. Piggot to seek redium deeper than ever before, and incidentally to test the theory of the ocean’s age.—Pathfinder. o Florence Blade- Tribune Celebrates 50th Anniversary The Examiner extends congratula I tions to the Blade-Tribune on passing its 50th anniversary. Thats a long time in a state as young as Arizona, and many storniis and trials have to be weathered before reaching that age. Mr. A. C. Wrenn has been at the helm for the past 25 years, an enviable record of service that can be claimed by few, and from all indications it looks as though he will be there for a long time to come. Congratulations Mr. Wrenn. federal aid for highways, if states, by their diversions, defeat the purpose of Congress to hasten the completion of the state highway system.” Senator CSarl Hayden of the United States Senate Committe on Post Offices and Post Roads, who sponsored the road bill in the j upper house, declared, “The enact ment of state laws diverting 1 Chevrolet Truck Rec ord Demonstration Coincident with its observance of National Truck Week now under way, Chevrolet is launching a far reaching program in the interests of owner satisfaction. W. E. Fish, commercial car and truck sales manager, announced this week. Tne company is using as the focal point in its new program the Long Distance Safety and Dependa !bil.ity Truck in which Harry Hartz, well-known former race driver, and Stanley Reed, official AAA Contest Board observer, covered 53,000 mi'es in the first six months of 1938, and set noteworthy records for economy. Hartz and Reed are taking the truck back into the territory, to contact dealers, sales men, fleet owners, and the | company’s own wholesale organiza tion. Hartz will present to his hearers in each city and story of the i truck’s unusual run, emphasizing the benefits of proper maintenance from the standpoint of car and truck owners. “The campaign is a sort of ‘sugar-coated education effort,” said Mr. Fish. “The remarkable per formance of the truck under all sorts of climatic and highway condi tions, its almost complete freedom from replacement needs, and its : economy record of three-tenths of a cent per ton mile over the entire distance, form an obsorbing story, which Hartz illustrates with photos taken along the way. It’s the sort !of a story that anyone will enjoy | listening to, and no one who hears I ! it can escape the moral, which is I that any operator willing to give his units the same inexpensive routine attention can expect like results.” Since completion of its run which 1 included a dash to the top of Pikes ! Peak with fit’.l load, the truck has been torn down completely, and each moving part measured for wear. This process, performed un der AAA supervision, revealed a need for just two parts replace ments, Mr. Fish pointed out. The parts replaced were shackle spring bushing, costing a negligible sum. Except for these two parts, the unit as it now takes to the high | ways again is excatly the same as ! when it completed its long run last June. The load, consisting of 4,590 I pounds of steel, is also the same. “No especial effort will be made to attain either spped or high mil eage,” said Mr. Fish. “The effort, : rather, i g to interpret to the whole sale and retail organization the re sults of the run itself, and to do this in terms which will be under standable to the car and truck owners with whom Hartz comes in contact. We feel that both Chevro let and the public would be deriving gasoline and other motor-vehicle I taxes from highway purposes to j other uses can only be construed by the national Congress as a clear indication that these states are not interested in the continua tion of a program of highway con struction and consequently do not care to continue to receive the l benefits of federal aid for roads.” , CIVIL 6ERVICE EXAMINATIONS The United States Civil Service Commission has announced open competitive for the positions named below. Applicants will be accepted not later than the closing dates specified in each case. The first date, (a), applies if applications are received from states east of Colorado; the second date (b), applies if applications are re ceived from Colorado and States westward. Topographic draftsman, and chief, principal, senior, and assistant topographic draftsmen, $1,620 to $2,600 a year. For the assistant grade applicants must not have passed their 45th birthday, and forj the other grades they must not have passed their 53rd birthday.! Closing dates: (a) Feb. 21; (b) Feb. 25, 1939. Bio’ogist (wildlife), $3,800, as sociate grade, $3,200, and assistant! grade, $2,600 a year, Bureau of, Biological Survey, Forest Service, and Soil Conservation Service. College education and certain ex perience are required. Applicants 1 for biologist must not have passed i their 53rd, for the associate grade j they must not have possed their 45th, and for the assistant grade they must not have passed their 40th birthday. Closing dates: (a) Feb. 21; (b) Feb. 24, 1939. Closing dates for the next four examinations are: (a) Feb. 20; (b) Feb. 23; 1939. I less than the maximum possible 1 benefit from the run if we failed 1 to make the utmost use of the les- i j son 9 it brought out.” 1 ■ - - ’ - - L BOB’S PLACE Full Line of Fine Beer, 808 FOY, Proprietor MAIN STREET - - - COOLIDGE, ARIZONA II n • i to r? • 1 111 ij bpecial ™ E Dick Eg I!! I REGULAR HEALTH NOW ONLyI slo ' oll EXAMINATION KM I February 6th and 7th, Monday and Tuesday i|P TWO DAYS ONLY Jig C.,i. u ON Tins if Guesswork instrC- Jul Obligation Do for It Jlnnouncement I Dr. H. A. Call of Phoenix is introducing the new Electro- a Chemical Instrument used exclusively in all the “Dr. Niblack gj j Health System Offices’’ throughout the states of California, 9 ■ Colorado, Kansas and Neb. This marvelou* instrument is 1 9 proving to thousands of sick people that it is possible to ■ a locate any weak organ or tissue in the human body which 9 m may be responsible for many ailments, acute or chronic, such 9 as rheumatism, digestive disorders, nervousness, female 9 trouble, headaches etc. Ten dollars is our regular office charge for this examination and only during these special g clinics are patients able to obtain this examination at the HO low price of $2.00, This examination is for men, women and Bfa children and remember it is not necessary to tell the Doctor 9w where or what your allment 9 are. I|| SKEPTICS SPECIALLY INVITED || Please Note The Dates I; J Feb. 6th and 7th. San Carlos Hotel, Coolidge, Arizona Ka Monday & Tuesday I B Dr. C. A. CALL g Druglesa Physician * | -« Hours 9:00 A. M. to 9:00 P. M. M i THURSDAY, FEBRUARY.. 2, 1931? Principal informational repre sentative, $5,600 a year, Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor. Certain education and ex perience are j-equired. Applicants must not have passed their 60th birthday. Link trainer operator-instructor, $2,900 a year, Civil Aeronautics Authority. Applicants must have reached their 25th but must not have passed heir 50th birthday. Associate aircraft Inspector, $2,- 900 a year (for filling positions of associate aircraft inspector and associate air carrier maintenance inspector), Civil Aeronautics Authority. Applicants must have reached their 24th but must not have passed their 50th birthday. Associate aeronautical Inspector, $3,500 a year, assistant aeronauti cal inspector, $3,200 a year, Civil Aeronautics Authority. Applicants i must have reached their 24th birthday; for th© associate grade they must not have passed their 40th, and for the assistant grade they must not have passed the:r 35th birthday. These age limit 3 will not lie waived ina ny case. Unless otherwise stated, . ag* limits are waived for veterans granted preference, up to retire ment age. Full information may be obtained from the Secretary of the United States Civil Service Board of Ex aminer at the post office or customhouse In any city which has a post office of the first or second class, or from the United States Civil Service Commission, Washing ton, 8. C.