Yours Sincerely

Yours Sincerely FROM THE GOVERNOR OF SOUTH DAKOTA:

I have just finished reading the Christ-mas issue of ARIZONA HIGHWAYS. I could not let this pass without sending you congratula-tions upon a most magnificent job of work. This magazine is a credit to your state and would be a very definite credit to any other state. It is high-class in every respect, and I appre-ciate your courtesy in sending me this copy. I wish you would show your governor this letter to let him know that a few of us outside the state appreciate the work you are doing.

I am taking the liberty of turning this magazine over to the head of our Publicity Depart ment, with the suggestion that he study it very carefully.

I take a particular interest in this issue, because of the article upon Badger Clark, who is our State Poet and who is a resident of our state. We in South Dakota are mighty proud of Badger Clark, and I am pleased to see your great State of Arizona claiming some of the credit for his work.

Harlan J. Bushfield, Governor, State of South Dakota, Pierre, South Dakota.

Greetings to Governor Bushfield of South Dakota and thanks for his comments on our December issue. It has been gratifying to Arizona Highways to note not only Governor Bushfield's mention of our presentation of Badger Clark and his poetry, but similar mention by many other residents of that state. South Dakotans should be right proud of their State Poet, whose songs add so much to the richness of the music that is America.

FROM A LINOTYPE MAN:

Through the courtesy of Mr. Wayne Hancock, manager of our Los Angeles Office, and an enthusiast like myself about Arizona, I have received a copy of ARIZONA HIGHWAYS Christmas edition. This is a most attractive publication, a splendid example of photography and reproduction, and a unique advertising effort among the promotional activities conducted by various states.

Certainly Arizona is to be congratulated on such a progressive activity. The pictures immediately renew the urge to take to the road again and all of us who have made business trips by automobile through Arizona have the most pleasant memories of hospitable cities and gorgeous country. We certainly look forward to the return of such conditions in this country as may make it possible to travel again for pleasure.

You people in Arizona are certainly wise to continue a vigorous advertising activity. Undoubtedly, despite difficult travel conditions, you are getting as many winter tourists as your crowded cities can accommodate. I hope that the many new developments of the war program may have a permanent benefit to the state and that your own special activity may continue to grow and prosper.

Harry L, Gage, Vice-President, Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn, N. Y.

A NOTE FROM MR. CLARK:

In all the reprints of my children which I have seen during the past thirty years, they never appeared in more beautiful garments than they did in your Christmas issue. Any old jingles would have looked like great poems in such typographical dress and illustration.

I have on the table before me some fifty birthday letters from kind people in the South-west a few of them former friends and ac-quaintances whom I hadn't heard from or of for many years, others from very cordial strangers. Those not familiar with the maga-zine seemed dazzled by it. "The most beautiful magazine I ever saw" was the word of two or three. Truly you are to be congratulated on both the exquisite press work and the taste and artistry of the arrangement. It is a great credit to my old state.

Badger Clark, Custer, S. D.

AN EDITORIAL IN THE SEATTLE TIMES

I couldn't pass the enclosed editorial by, being a native daughter and most interested in everything from Arizona. This was in the December 24th Seattle Times.

My mother, Mrs. A. A. Foster of Prescott, sent me your magazine even when we lived in Manila. I have kept all the copies and we never tire of them.

Seattle seems to have Arizona in mind for this morning the Seattle-Post Intelligencer car-ried Damon Runyon's syndicated column "The Brighter Side" all about Phoenix and its flying schools and fields.

Mrs. Edith Foster Scholey 2807 W. Viewmont Way, Seattle, Washington.

The editorial of which Mrs. Scholey speaks is the following:

Not Neglected in War

The Times' recent admonition that the State of Washington and the Pacific Northwest must continue to hold their geographic and economic advantages before the public mind is given emphasis by the State of Arizona.

The constant efforts of the Arizona State Highway Department to present the rare beauties of that state to the American public have been noted in these columns in the past. Those efforts are being continued without cessation during the war.

The Arizona scene lends itself to magnificent photography, and Arizona makes full use of that circumstance. We know that Washington is no less richly endowed. The State Progress Commission should be enabled to continue its work in behalf of our favored region throughout the war. And in doing so, the Commission will do well to note Arizona's effective methods. Knowing Arizona as I do fifteen years-from the air, car, horseback and afoot, I feel qualified to "sell" it to anyone who will listen, and after doing so in Honolulu for over a year, have been at it here for about three months, and now the ARIZONA HIGHWAYS with which to prove my contentions, believe me, it's a "cinch."

greatness of our land. All western states have the same story to tell.

Now, of all times, should we, the American people, relate to ourselves the beauty and magnificence of America and the American way of life. Too often we take these things for granted. If we do not pause occasionally and take stock of the stellar products on our own shelves, those products will gather dust and lose lustre. Let's indeed, talk America. So many of us are fighting and perishing for the Ameri-can cause.

FROM AN ISLAND IN THE PACIFIC 5,000 MILES FROM HOME:

On a special plane from Honolulu, Christmas morning, there arrived, to my great delight, six copies of ARIZONA HIGHWAYS. You can't imagine what that meant to me, 5,000 miles from home, on a very small, desert, coral reef, that is laughingly called an island. (It's not at all what the "movies" show a South Sea island to be no trees, no natives, no towns, no wildlife except birds and rats) (Oh, yes, No women, ha!) Captain Roy C. Wigley, of Chandler, is here with me, and we enjoyed every page of every issue. Almost every item brought memories of happy hours spent in Arizona.

We both thank you and look forward to more copies soon, the latest issue received was that of November, 1942.

Capt, James E, Samuels, A.A.C., c/o Postmaster, San Francisco.

HE KNEW BUCKEY O'NEILL:

Mr. Ralph Keithley's story about Buckey O'Neill brought vividly to life my old friend, and I want to congratulate you on securing this story for publication in your magazine.

In 1897 I spent six weeks at the Grand Can-yon writing stories which Buckey used in pro-moting the railway from Williams to the Canyon. These stories appeared in the Phoe-nix Republican and in the Bond Buyers, an Eastern financial publication. Although I had met Buckey in 1896, and supported him in his campaign for delegate in congress, I came to know him intimately in the railway promotion.

When I returned to Phoenix I was walking to the Palace gambling house with Buckey one evening, and I was telling him of my exper-ience in Mexico seeking a fortune in that country, when he remarked: "The only difference in mining and bucking the tiger is the element of time. You win or lose and you don't have to wait so long to find out if you buck the tiger."

Mr. Keithley quoted this in his story, almost word for word as Buckey uttered this philo-sophy to me before we swung the suspended doors to the Emporium presided over by Gus Herschfeld.

George H. Smalley, Tucson, Arizona.