Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-12-04
non nIAME III

~ HfNeF pays 10 lose your temper,
but there are times whom patience
almost ceuecs to be virtue and
when even the editor of an inland
daily paper focls Ike upsetting the
inkwcl. Ricking the OFFICE cat and
opening az thc entlfe supply ~
Nlrioi.
a Newspaper has becn sent 20 Us
designating itself the san Diego Her.
aid. ana published In San Diego.
California. place that In chiefly Ia
nsIiar 90 M In this section OF the
United States from the free adver-
Using II has been receiving NJ the
hands OF the press 81 New Mexico on
the strength OF Panama canal ex-
position they are going TO pun off
down there.
New Mexico newspapers and New
Mexico editors and New Mexico ci,i-
sens generally are boosters. They
are boosters for home first. last and
all the time because they have No
much 60 boost az home that they
can never catch up with the Job.
But u In singular fact that New
Mexico never boosts her home towns
and her home state at the expense
81 any other community. We speak
IN endcaring terms OF our New Mex
leo because We believe In the great
new state. past. present and future.
We speak of our unrivailcd climate
and health giving sunshine. but never
az the expense Of snowbound. blizzard
swept communities where life Is n
matter of rugged existence.
We boast Of the charms and oppor-
,unitiee ~ life In New Mexico because
they are real. We do not dIsparage
others because New Mexico does not
need 90 do H.
Therefore. Il takes about all our
federation TO be decent when some
half-hakcd enthusiast. IN an effort
10 induce Enumeration o. fand dunes
and tourist hotels finds i necessary
10 take a fllng al New Mexico. IN
order 60 say good word Cor his own
community. Hut TO get back to the
san Diego Herald A copy OF that
paper under date or November 30
contained as dirty and contemplate
an article ON it, front pace az Il has
ever been the lot OF this paper 10
read
No doubt the san Diego Herald In
tends thereby TO induce all Of New
Mexico TO az once make preparations
for attending the san Diego EXPOSE
ton and thereby assist its half
starved hotel keepers and It's weak
knccd newspapers by turning loose a
little real money IN that section Of
the great state OF California. Now
u IL quite likely that a few OF us
might have dropped IN ON that expo.
sition Just TO be- good fellows and
show that there was no hard feeling.
but In view 81 the fact that we are
No Rrcatly beneath tho notice OF the
san diege Herala Il is going to cause
us 10 choke hnrk our pride TO do e.
Then too so Jew of us are whits.
according 10 the san Diego Hcrald.
that ~. fear We may even be refused
the privilege OF paying excessive hotel
saics az the gaudy tourists establish
mcpia out there, We might even
conlaminatc the bathing beaches aud
The great Pacific ocean. despite the
fact that san Diego and most other
California towns along the coast
empty their sewerage into tho ocean,
iiut for fear that We might lose
cur temper and say something actu-
ally mean. we win simply reprlni
from the san Diego Herald what u
thinks about New Mexico and her
people Then, n there are any OF
our citizens whose love for san
Diego aud her underpaid. underfed
iiiitcrate. narrow minded. grating
Fang OF b0odling boosters makes il
incumbent TOR them 70 forsako the
clear sky, brish, sunshine and noble
mountains of New Mexico 90 take a
hath in the big pond that smells Ilk,
n dead catfish twenty miles from
water. Il IL up so them.
Our gentle readers must not take
these few brief comments 20 mean
that we are angry, Far from a. OuI
feelings have been hurt slightly, thai
IL ali Were We really angry We
might SAY something disparaglng Of
San Diego. but a second Glance n
the san Diego Herald leads us TO he-
Hove that II Il not worth while. This
n what the acurriiouE sheet prints.
SIR Frank Rogers and Mr..
Bob. pougherty have returned
from Las Cruces, New Mexico.
tbs place where the government
Is bpllcing maIrOuih dam.
Seven hundred men are On the
JOB. Tho population ~ Las
Cruces h about 90 per cent pure
Mexican The houses are adobe
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