The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-01-30

atoms Tor the entertainment OF the
people who will gather at the meet.
ing OF the Panhandle Stockmen's
association early in April, and all
OF the indications are that the ses-
sion will be one OF the most note
worthy in the history OF the great
society. Roswell bad the meeting
once before, and the way It enter.
tanned the multitude set a new
mark in the southwestern history.
Ii had nothing 10 do with the facts
OF the case that Roswell had it to
do, for to he real frank about, both
d OF the convention were
as about as graphic illustrations
OF the principle OF patriotic gall as
has ever been set forth. The first
time the association did not have
a halt dozen members in the val
ley. Roswell was not only IN the
Panhandle, but vas across the
state line and In a territory at that.
Only by courtesy could it he in
cluded in the natural zone OF the
association at all. Little things
like that did not worry Roswell,
and that natural politician, George
NJ. Slaughter, the resident repre-
sentative oil the great Texas FAINT
ly. He thought that it would be
a good thing tor the association to
meet in Roswell, good tor Roswell
and good Tor Amarillo, the natural
home, who was apt to take its com.
ing as a matter OF course and pro-
vide skinchily. The people OF
Roswell thought the same thing,
and they got in behind MIR. Slough
ter, and before the plainsmen knew
il the location was placed at Ros-
we'll. That was the session OF two
years ago and the dolngs OF the
time are still talked about in the
businesses OF the great tlatness, Of
the blaze OF electric lights, OF the
great arches, OF the artesian wells,
OF the monster barbecue and the
coffee pot that was as big as a
windmill tank, oil the open homes,
aud the dull minutes that were not.
liIey remembered 1t again last
year when with a nerve that was
wholly undiminished MIR. Slaugh-
ter bObbed up %serenely at Amarillo,
supported by a select bunch OF
boosters, and got away with the
goods again They helped him IN
the stampede or he would never
have gotten away with the goods,
and they will come TO Roswell
again from all over the great pratt
ries. The managers believe that
there will be at least eight thous-
and visitors in the city, and there
are grounds tor the apparently
high estimate. II is found in the
vast increase in population OF the
valley itself, the thick settlement
along the line OF the Belen cutoff,
the people OF whom will welcome
such an opportunity to see Ros-
well and the valley, and OF the
plains itself, which has nearly
doubled in population in tina time.
All OF these newcomers look upon
Roswell as the highest type OF the
desert city, and want to see 1t, and
will see it, given such IN oppor-
tunity as this, when there will be
something dong all OF the time
and the whole valley may be seen
at its best, as II is, the most beau
titul section OF the whole dry coun-
try. incidentally Roswell will
profit and it deserves TO, for its
cheerful impudence, and belief in
its W goods which has prompted
TO twice 20 out and take what real.
ly belonged TO the other fellow,
provided he had the wit and get
up-and-get to annex it.
There is a lesson in the matter
that may we'll be taken TO heart by
the pushers of every town in the
whole Pecos country, and that is
that you will never get anything
unless you ask for it, and that is a
mistake TO hide a good light under
"a bushel. 1t is only a broader APP
plication OF the principle that got
Artesia the Methodist college,
Carlsbad the great government ir-
rigation works, that IS going TO
shortly land Hagerman the Valley
normal, that has brought Tucum-
carl so MANY metropolitan things.
The town that sets down on its
huukers and waits Tor it's natural
advantages to bring the good
things, will come out loser every
time, though those same advan.
tages may have every other con-
testant skinned a mile. Anything
that is worth having must be gone
after, and this applies TO every
thing from getting a wife TO land
ing a great public institution or
event. Modesty is all right and
very praiseworthy as a virtue per-
sonally applied, but it is no good
when IL comes 70 pushing a town,
especially when il has behind il
even a fraction OF the merits OF any
OF the towns | have named. With
confidence in their own goods there
is practically no limit to the ac-
complishment OF any or all OF them.
IL is simply a matter OF uncork.
ing the bari, OF getting Out and
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