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GIRAGI BROTHERS, Publishers
Address all communications to The Winslow Daily Mail, Winslow, Ariz.
Published Every Morning Except Monday at Winslow,
Navajo County, Arizona
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paper, and also the local news published herein.
CONGRESS IN SESSION
Congress is again grinding away at Washington with a
few big major problems before it and with thousands of
small matters to command its*attention. There is an earnest
desire on the part of practically every member of the two
great branches of our Congress to serve the Nation and his
particular State or district in a faithful manner. And as
they begin upon their tasks it would be a happy turn in af
fairs if every faultfinder in the country would make a reso
lution to regard his national government as an institution
and a friend rather than something to find fault with.
Among the notable public utterances of President Coolidge,
Vice President Dawes, and Speaker Longworth, have been
gentle admonitions to a large part of the American public
to “stop knocking.” The government may not be perfect but
everyone knows that it is the best one in the world.
RADIO REGULATION
President Coolidge is evincing a New England deter
mination to have Secretary Hoover placed in charge of radio
control. Mr. Hoover doesn’t seem to care for the job but
he is energetically supported for the place by the big broad
casting interests who have developed the are and who know
that Hoover would protect them in what they call their
“rights.” The independents want a commission to work
apart from the department of commerce. Boiled down the
whole fight is between the big interests and the little ones.
In the end congress will likely take care of all of them.
YOUR CREDIT OBLIGATION
When your grocer, butcher, doctor, clothier, anyone
with whom you deal—extend you credit—they give you a
vote of confidence. When you pay promptly—you renew
that confidence—and further your own future convenience
as well.
The man with good credit has a definite asset. He is
recognized as a man who has taken on obligations—and
met them—his word is good—and he can be relied upon.
His trade is welcome anywhere.
THE HIGH COST OF VOTING
Figures recently presented by the Montana Taxpayers’
Association regarding the cost of a state-wide primary, re
vealed that the election held August 3, 1926, cost the tax
payers $128,433 for 109,155 votes, .an average cost of .sl,lß
per vote.
The election cost the smallest county, which had only
770 votes, $4.11 per vote; v r hile in Ravalli county, with
2,100 votes, the cost was 44 cents per vote, the lowest in
the state. This is pretty good evidence of the high cost of
government today.
MORE USES FOR GAS
A company in Baltimore has put on the market a new
gas cutting and welding torch that uses illuminating gas
costing only a fraction as much as the gases usually used.
It is another victory for common gas, that has been the
friend of industry for so many years; a victory that was
bound to come, awaiting only the serious study of an ob
servant scientist. This welding development is one of the
best industrial discoveries in years; It means cheaper build
ing, cheaper machinery, cheaper repairs, and the utilization
of many an old machince in ways that were prohibited by
the present high cost of welding and cutting. More uses are
being found for gas every day, and the future of the indus
try was never before so promising.
Today will-see the publication of Arizona’s eighteenth
daily paper when the Winslow Weekly Mail changes to the
“Daily Mail,” The new Mail will carry full Associated
Press reports and will be the only daily newspaper on the
Santa Fe system between San Bernardino, California, and
Albuquerque, New Mexico. Every publisher in the state
will wish the Giragi Brothers the best of luck in their new
enterprise.—Blade-Tribune, Florence, Arizona.
If you don’t earn your reward you won’t enjoy it.
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
,l The willing horse gets the heaviest load—and the most
oats.
There are cases where a woman’s face is some drug'
gist’s fortune.
What do we live for if not to make the world less diffi
cut for each other?
Telepathy is the science that tells you what the driver
ahead is going to do w T hen he holds out his hand.
The new automobiles are coming in a variety of colors,
but the pedestrians will still have to be content with black
and blue.
The wisest man needs teaching.
You carry your own key to success.
To err is human—to admit it is not.
Hot air never filled a pay envelope.
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Hope is the mainspring of courage.
If you do your best you are a success.
Drones never get the desirable rewards.
The smallest minds harbor the biggest grouches.
Life may be a gamble but you play your own cards.
I he gi eat secret is to do more than is expected of you.
WE THANK YOU
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EDITORIAL AND FEATURE PAGE
About Time to Pary For a Freeze
With Other Editors
L. A
A QUESTION IN RELIGION
(Miami Bulletin)
To remark that religious news is
big news today is merely a bro
mide. Anyone who reads the pap
ers at all knows that. He recalls
the long weeks when the famous
evolution trial of Dayton, Tennes
see, held page one the world over.
The Scopes evolution trial and
every news event of today which
savors at all of the religious are
significant because men and wo
men are thinking more that ever
before on the question: “What’s
it all about?”
Because it believes that religion
is “saleable” to day, the Interna
tional Advertising Association has
established a church advertising
department. Its purpose is, first
of all, to find out what the world
thinks about religion today, any
way.
It has prepared a set of 12
“brief questions” to be sent to men
and women the world over. Very
simple, elemetary questions are
they, such as “Do you believe in
God?” “Do you believe in immor
tality?” “Do you believe in pray
er?”
But simple as the questions are,
they are so complex as to defeat
their purpose. Take that question
—“Do you believe in God?” The
immediate answer of many is
“whose” God? “What kind of a
God?”
Turn to the church section of any
Saturday newspaper and observe
the different kinds of divinities
scheduled to be worshiped at the
Sunday services, before you think
it easy for men and women to an
swer “Do you believe in God?”
REACHING OCT
(Arizona Gazette)
It is reported in Los Angeles
that Sears & Roebuck are planning
to establish another great branch
of their mail order department
store in that city. The purpose of
such a branch is to reach this in
land territory comprised of the
states of Arizona, New Mexico and
Nevada.
In spite of the fact that Phoenix
and the Salt River valley have
stores that are-just as metropoli
tan as those to he found in any
city in the west and that they car
ry stocks that are just as complete
and their goods are priced as low
as good merchandising permits,
the mail order houses continue to
do a big volume of business in
this section.
Persons who send their dollars
that are earned in this community
to buy merchandise from mail or
der houses are doing themselves
and the stores in their home town
an injustice. They are taking the
dollars that should support then
own industries ’and investing them
in businesses, that support other
communities and make it possible
for these great mail order houses
to build stores like the one pro
posed in Los Angeles instead of
promoting the growth of their own
merchants.
Any wise buyer knows that by
the time they have paid postage or
w I N S h 0 W D A I T V :vi A I I
express on (he merchandise pur
chased from a mail onder house
they have not saved a dime ou tho
goods they have received. The wise
buyer knows that the goo:ls got
ten from mail order houses is not
the first class merchandise his
home merchant must carry, where
the buyer inspects the goods' be
fore they are purchased and hot
afterwards. The Wise buyers know
that colored illustrations, that
make the cheapest merchandise al
luring, does not put the wearing
quality in them. The wise buyer
knows that he must pay cash with
his order, that his credit is hot
good with the out of town mer
chant and that no service or ac
commodation is rendered him by
the mail order house.
All these things and dozens of
others are reasons why the home
merchant at all times should be
be supported in preference to send
ing your dollars away to build huge
stores in Kansas City, St, Louis,
Chicago, or Los Angeles.
SHOOTING BANDITS
(Nogales Herald)
“Shoot their heads off! ’ is the
order given to Detroit policemen,
regarding bandits. There is a
new drive against hold-up men.
“The officers who shoot bandits
will be the ones who get promo
tions,” says the police commission-*
er, adding, “providing they do not
endanger the lives of innocent per
sons.”
There’s the rub. It is fomd, in
experience, that it is usually very
hard to shoot at a bandit, even
when you know he’s a landit,
without shooting up a populous
neighborhood. Baiidits insthetive
iy take refuge in crowds or flee
through crowded thoroughfares.
And policemen who are quick and
courageous are not always good
marksmen. They have shot about
as many innocent persons as ban
dits in their war against crime.
It’s a big problem—just how,
when and where to shoot. And
the bandits take full advantage of
the policeman’s difficulty.
Vaudeville is 100 years old, says a
headline. Well, well! God bles the
mothers-in-law, after all, God bless
them!
A Roman theater in a cellar has
been discovered in Baalbeck. They
must have had play censors in tlrose
days, too.
A gentleman is a man who agrees
with you. .
Mexicans, before a recent election,
carried banners reading “We Don't
Want American Assistance.” We
wish sortie other countries w« know
would follow that example.
A prohibition agent shot a roan
sitting on a keg-.
Judges.should take warning and
not sit on too many cases.
(Copyright, 1926, NBA Service, Inc.)
PUBLIC OPINION
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
TUCSON MAN RAPS
ULAN TO TAKE ART
FROM OLD NAVAJOS
Tucson, Arizona,
December 13, 192 G.
Editor, The Winslow Mail.
There lias come to my hands an
article from the Winslow Mail of
December 3rd, wherein an inven
tive genius sets forth a plan for
the un-Indianization of the Navajo
rug industry. The author propos
es to speed up the industry, with
the help of machines,' and save 75
per cent of the cost of production.
His plan seems to he fairly well
thought out, and perhaps, mechan
ically possible; however, his help
ful process seems to me an insult
to a picturesque tribe, and an af
front to art.
In this mechanical age, when
everyone is trying to lighten the
burdens of mankind, and increase
its wealth, we are apt to neglect
its welfare. In the mad scramble
for industrial supremacy, and for
building fortunes, it is easy to lose
sight of beauty. It is thus that old
traditions are beseiged by the
greater power of industrial ece
nomy, and the barbarous Genius
would prey upon a defenseless art.
While the Artist looks with rap
ture upon a work of beauty, the
Genius picks it apart; examines
the warp, and the woof, and the
object d’art is lost!
This particular Genius would
not, however, destroy the pictur
esque beauty of the Navajo rug.
Oh my, no! His method would re
duce the cost, but still retain the
“essentials.” The rugs would still
be produced “by hand weave, by
Navajo operatives and thus retain
every element of being Navajo
rugs.” This reminds me of the
man who, standing before a fam
ous portrait in a European art
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TODAY’S CONFESSION
(Continued from Yesterday)
(Tessie Gullet today continues
her spectacular admissions. While
calling no names, she has left lit
tle doubt in the minds of her read
ers (such as they are) as to whom
she refers in most instances. Re
ports that further chapters will
contain more localized data lias
brought Miss Gullet much atten
tion. She was shot at twice last
night as she was on her way home
and today received three boxes of
candy, all of which were found to
contain rough-on-rats).
“After the rest of the party had
sobered up, my child-husband
came and jumped up on my knee,
and tried to show me a toy pistol
he had found in my hand-hag. What
was my surprise when the gun
went off, and my husband dropped
off my knee, neatly shot through
his lodge emblem. I was still fur
ther surprised to learn that he
only had SIO,OOO life insurance, and
it is just another example of what
we girls are up against, with these
brutes of men lieing to us on every
matter. Nevertheless, I took the
SIO,OOO, and after seeing my hus
band "buried in the „potter’s field
(he hadn’t a thing besides his in
surance, and of course, all that
went to me) I started on a tour of
the world that was to take me to
many strange places.”
( To he continued)
gallery, dryly remarked, “Share,
’an he could ’ave got a better pic
ture with a camera.” The Genius
proposes to put the Indian a mod
ern, industrial environment, and
expects him, or rather her, to go
on making genuie Navajo rugs
(more or leSs'ihdhst'riaMed) but
nevertheless, GENUINE. Surely,
the Genius has not stopped to con
sider the great part tradition and
superstition play in the making of
Navajo rugs.
The significance of symbols and
prayers, the fears of superstition;
these create the inspiration for the
Indian. Without his quaint cus
toms of life the Indian can never
weave the GENUINE Navajo rug.
Under the modern system of Indus
try, the Indian would cease to he
picturesque. Civilization would
mean destruction. Hence the pic
turesque customs, and the heath
enish religion of the Navajo, seem
doomed to be preserved in the
form of rugs for a fortunate few.
The Navajo has a complete mono
poly on Arizona’s most picturesque
industry, and the industry which
is most truly Arizona’s. Why should
our GENIUS wish to bring the Na
vajo rug industry under the laws
of modern business? The rugs
are not beautiful, except to the in
itiated. That is, they are of great
value only to the person who ap
preciates the story told by the
symbols, and who wants the rug
for it spicturesque charm. I, for
one, would rather pay the extra 75
per cent, and keep the industry
free from the taint of civilization.
I wish to congratulate the own
ers of the Daily Winslow Mail, and
I feel that the new daily will sat
isfy a long-felt want of Northern
Arizona.
Yours sincerely,
CHESTER W. SMITH.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER IS, 192 s
THINGS I WISH MY HUSBAND
WOULDN’T DO.
Insist Ihal lie is a self-made man.
(As if anybody would fry to beat
him out of file responsibility for
tlie job).
M. J. B.
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Continued story running • in a
state paper boasts the euphonius
title of “A Wife’s Transformation.”
—o —
And of course, the first question
in one’s mind is, “What color is
it?” And the next is “Is it curly
or straight?”
—o —
Scanning the boxing results, one
sees such names as Rosenbloom,
Kaplan, Herman, Mancini, and oth
ers with a similar flavor of the
near-east and the Mediterranean.
—o —
The ancient and honest Irish,
whose patronymics of Celtic flavor
were not synthetic, would sigh if
they could see it.
—a —
Even the Sullivans of today were
horn trailing* a “ski” or “witz” on
their handle.
—o—
Winter sports are being revived.
Difference between a winter sport
and a summer sport is one suit of
heavy underwear.
—o —
Even down south they change
over a little for winter sports. They
stop shooting dice in the alleys
and move into the back bedroom.
—o —
Vv’inter sports are a good tiling,
though. For doctors.
—o —
JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE
Governor Hunt, don’t you think
Gifts of Distinction
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Indians, offer suggestions entirely new, carrying the
triple attraction of novelty, beauty and utility. Navajo
Rugs and silver jewelry, Hopi baskets and pottery and
many other gifts await your selection. As an added
service, we will pack, wrap and mail your gifts free of
charge. Just send complete shipping instructions with
your order and we do the rest.
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WINSLOW, ARIZONA
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LETTEI?J|
BY RODNEY DUTCHER
\EA Service Writer
WASHINGTON Department
store clerks grimly bearing
i the horrors of Christmas shop,
ping jams can sympathize with,
clerks of the congressional post,
offices, whose big rush starts at the
same time and endures until March
There are postoffices in both tha
House and Senate office buildings
with branches In the capitol and
they are larger than the postoffices
of many good-sized cities. The vol
ume of congressional mail which
they handle sometimes reaches tre
mendous proportions.
Fred A. Eckstein, postmaster of
the Senate, who has seen senatorial
mail come and go these last 30 years,
says the volume of incoming mall
jumps at ieast 500 per cent as spon
as the people learn that their elected
servants are back in Washington.
The 21 workers in his office are al
ways busy during sessions and often
they are swamped.
, “When propaganda gets in its
work, the mail is especially heavy.“
Eckstein explained. “We can con
firm effectiveness of these wrlte-tu
your-senator’ campaigns. One day
during consideration of the japanyxek
immigration bill, the California senu
tors got 40,000 letters in one day '
Your guess is as good as the next
fellow’s as to who read all those
letters. Eckstein doesn't know,
either.
Senator Swing Is a great fellow?”
—o —
Tell him to come back pay-day.