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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1919
Page
4
The Tucson Citizen presents its masthead indicating it is published in Tucson Arizona with Allan B Jaynes as president. It notes second class matter status and AP news republication rights and local news rights.
An editorial urges the governor to call a special election to repeal the direct primary provision. It argues the system has failed to produce strong candidates, remove party bosses, or lower costs, and has harmed the convention process across parties. It cites Arizona as a failed example and advocates restoring the conventional party system via a public vote.
The piece envisions a peaceful postwar era for Arizona with a broad program of reconstruction. It calls for highway bond issuance, state and local construction, readjustment of industries, irrigation development, and a liberal legislature to foster prosperity in 1919. It warns against short sighted, dollar driven policies.
The document urges removing bonded debt limits for state highways and irrigation aid, modernizing schools with a state superintendent under the education board, and repealing compulsory direct primaries to give the legislature free hand. It notes a special election may be needed to enact measures during reconstruction. Tucson seeks a camping ground for auto tourists with facilities, amid local opposition.
A抟old foreign commentary warns that European Russia faces a winter of famine pestilence and economic collapse. It claims vast depopulation and Bolshevik destruction of industry banks and fuel with widespread looting and starvation among the middle class. The piece urges action by the Allies to aid Russians resisting socialist rule.
An LA Times correspondent recounts American troops crossing the Rhine and winning German children with smiles. German mothers invited the doughboys to Christmas meals as the once grim river valley opens to hospitality.
The Detroit Free Press casts doubt on a plan backed by the American delegation at the Peace Conference to sink all captured German vessels. It argues such a move is wasteful and unnecessary for spoils division and questions its link to Wilson’s war aims. The piece suggests tensions within the American delegation may be rising.
A patriotic calendar promoting Liberty Loan drives and bonds for Fourth Liberty Loan. The piece features a Christy original image in six colors, sized slightly under six by nine inches, offered free with a two cent return postage stamp. Send a letter with address to Washington using the attached coupon.
Anecdotes recount Jeff Davis secretary of war appointing Major Wayne and Lt Porter to acquire camels for the Great American Desert. Camel caravans traveled Smyrna to Indianola and San Antonio, with loads up to six hundred pounds. Trials in Arizona and New Mexico ended with camels extinct by 1879, though sightings persist for sensational local scoops.
Twenty years ago in Tucson the kickoff of a new building for the Knights of Tucson began with 100 members in dark suits at the A. O. U. W. hall. They marched to the site on OF and Court streets with band and purple ribbons, led by Judge Parnes. A grand ball, later, and a masquerade both marked this festive period. The era closed with events like a grand masquerade at Grossetta's opera house and the lowering of the Cuban flag at Havana.
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