Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-11-25

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Mayor Sellers, in vigorous well
come address that was interrupted
frequently by applause or laughter,
said.
Mr.. Chairman, ladies' ana gentle
men, members Of the State Educa-
tional association.
II the orchestra will repeat the two
step. I will possibly talk faster and
hence consume less time. am not
going to enter into any formal ad-
dress, but just be natural In fact J
believe we very often take life too
serious and really don't realize Il until
our teeth begin to fall out and our
hair turn gray. In my opinion, It's
wrong TO try and make young folks
old because life is short at the best
and after all our happiness is during
our youth.
/ don't believe I ever attended q
gathering in my life where there were
so many handsome ladies' and so few
homely men applause by the menl.
Ry that, | don't mean pretty curls,
blue eyes or dimple on the chin but
do mean real broad. intelligent fea-
lures, Characteristic of that kind Of
womanhood and manhood that al
ways more largely appeals to us.
Without question. education is the
foundation for all the good things
that are in store, only short time
ago ! was over in Los Angeles and in
cidentally stepped into one Of the
fine restaurants for dinner A waiter
stepped up and handed me a menu.
After looking it over, / asked him
what a certain entree mentioned con-
sisted of, and after glancing at the card
in my hand said: Excuse me, boss,
but I amt educated either"
We heartily welcome you to this,
our proud city, and ] assure you that
Iamong our many attractions nothing
has added as much to our charms as
your presence.
have just wired the Exclusive
Film COMPANY. Denver, 10 II possible
have a Kalem or Lubin operator here
by Wednesday, as we have a state
teachers convention in progress, with
l,500 handsome school marms and
1000 school children. with which TO
make up an additional film that would
be invaluable to them and OF much
interest to you, and that our city
would stand the entire expense. pro-
yiding they gave us the use Of the
films for the 1914 convention, that
you might see yourself as others see
you right here in this opera house at
that time.
Albuquerque is proud TO have YOU
here and anything that you want that
you do not see, ask me for it and 1
will promise to get it for you if 1t
takes the whole police force and the
entire fire department
Mr. Hickey made an apology for the
weather, when as a matter of fact, we
especially ordered this weather to
make our friends from Las Vegas and
Santa Fe feel more at home. other
wise we would have had the beautiful
sunshine all other portions of the state
always enjoy,
Seeing so many handsome school
marms reminds me of one / had in
my school days. She, to my mind,
was a perfect queen, and ] made up
my mind the proper thing to do would
be to give her a present. / priced
numerous pieces of jewelry and things
Of that character, but found my sup
ply of money was too limited to reach
anything Of that kind. so 1 finally CON
cluded to treat her TO ice cream. How
ever, to be sure of my position, con-
Guided to consult my Rays arthme-
tic, with which | admit ] was more
familiar than Mr. Hickey is with the
Bible, and when I turned to page 81
and found under the item of multi
pllcation,' where it said, four quarts
for one gall" l concluded instead TO
send my card with five cent bag of
peanuts.
supt. White Responds.
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Alvan ~ White in responding to the
hearty welcome, was both witty and
eloquent and was repeatedly applaud
ed He spoke as follows
Mr. President Mayor Sellers, Presi-
dent Hickey Ladies and Gentlemen:-
Standing in this splendid presence
this afternoon, | esteem it a high
honor to respond to the eloquent ad
dresses of welcome extended and to
assure these gentlemen that / appre-
ciate their welcome addresses the
more fully because they have the true
Western ring and l really believe
that you mean it.
Personally it might be said that /
represent the State Department of
Education, but officially l speak in the
name of more than one hundred
thousand school children in New
Mexico and almost two thousand
teachers, the most Of whom, ! may
say are here present. ! speak, also,
in the name of a noble body of pub
lie school teachers in this state who
receive annually more than six hun
dred thousand dollars in salary; and,
also, in the name Of over three thous
and school directors and boards Of
education. in the name Of our state
educational institutions which ex-
pended the past year for higher edu-
cation, nearly four hundred thousand
dollars. ] may pause mere 70 say that
the average annual salary for the
women teachers in our public schools
the past two years was larger than
the average salary paid to the men
teachers by the sum of $29.56, the
hfty-six cents being, perhaps given
our fair teachers to be expended on
some bargain day sale. In other
words, we here in New Mexico be-
lieve in the concluding portion of the