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Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-12-21
WASHINGTON CITY.

/ Decided opposition has developed
/ in congress % continuing the policy
of the federal government by which
Ilt has long paid half Of the expenses
Of administering the District Of Coz
1 lumbia The hostility mostly ls from
now members who are ln Washing
ton with IL mission. They are hunt
ing for something 10 reform. They
want 90 do somcthng without know
mix what.
This ls q great nation and the Dis
.irici OF Columbia ls the seat Of The
national government II ls q federal
district administered under direction
of congress. fta people have no voice
in their own government which is
quite proper The United states owns
more than half Of tho property vaiue
IN tho district and Is acquiring more.
The scheme of the buildings and
the buildings themselves are bofiulnr
the greatness OF the nation with
more than half OF the taxable prop
criy owned hy the federal govern
mcnt and some thirty thousand en-
ployca of the government making their
homes ln Washington, it is no more
than fair that this nation should pay
half Of the taxes of the federal dls-
trict
Washington should be the city heau-
tful Of this great country II should
Doe The pride Of all the people 10 CON
tribute 20 ice upkocp go that !ts dig
niiy may always DE In keeping with
iis position.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-12-21
A Remarkable Railroad
SignGlmdR

In the Interesting People de-
partment Of the January American
/ Magazine appears picture and
sketch Of James o. Pagan, "A railroad
signdman earning no more than
$3.50 day. who Is universally reeog-
nized ass an authority on railroads.
I lie wrote a book entitled THE Con-
fessions OF a Railroad Signalman,'
(which is "a marvel of fact and inter-
probation. Following is an extract
\ from the ariicle
'The telegraph key called this ad-
INenturous literateur Of the tower at
sixteen from his humble Scotland
home His parents had sent him
from Inverness TO Manchester
school and there, with the thorough
ness that stamps all he does, he won
scholarship and studied electricity
and the sciences lie wanted TO lay
sea cable, wanted 70 tramp the world
so he apprcnticed himself to an old
hulk Of a ship setting out on a cable
laying expedition, and went straight
10 the most treaCherOus cable bed in
| the world--along the coast of Portu-
/ gal, thence 10 the Canary Islands and
I on To Rio Janeiro. lie liked South
America and he was tired Of laying
sea cable. SO he remained there for
Hieht three years. Then the lure Of
gold got into his blood SO he shipped
I 10 Africa and here by the by, the lure
/ of battle enticed him with adventurers
from an parts of the world TO war on
/ the knffirs and into the battle of
Majuba hill with some of his Nen-
turesome comrades, he recrossed the
I Atlantic, and IN the spring OF 1891
went to work as q telegrapher for the
Boston q Lowell railroad There he
worked FOR five years, then he went
to the Deerfield station OF the Fitch
/ burg, and eventually 10 the signal
tower In West Cambridge, where. for
I twenty-two years, with single in
termission. when he was chief clerk
III the office of the superintendent Of
the old Fitchburg road, he has been
porched up there in his nest. seven
DAYS week, earning at best $3.50 a
( day. throwing far-away switches, lis
tenng % the clatter of the telegraph
studying economies and sociology
thinking specuhting. and now and
hen writing a story for the Black
Cat or o tale for little children,
1T is a striking fact that after a
youth Of Wild adventure. he should
have been willing 10 stay for twenty
two years ia q humble railroad posi-
ton. The answer is his tremendous
{ intellectual curiosity. curiosity which
drove him 10 a world OF llterature-to
Shakespeare, Bacon. and the Bible
which he had never droamt OF,
"He got days leave one week,
and that day "a busy editor Of the At
lantic Monthly was informed hy the
office boy that man was waiting in
Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-12-21
Cities Seeking Managers

NEM0NSTRATlONS of success Of
the "city manager" plan will Do
confined for some years, poasi'
bly,, 90 minor American citiUs, says
the Los Angeles Examiner.
it is only about two years since the
proposal 60 hire business managers
for American cities was taken serious
y But within the last year the plan
has been adopted By sumter S. g.,
Hickory and Morguutown, n. G.,
Dayton and Springfield, Ohio; Ia
Grando, ores Phoenix, Ari2. Morris
MINI. ana River Forest, I'LL
It is noteworthy that several of ia,
larger American cities are kccnl1
watching for results Of these demon.
strations by minor cities, They are
figuring, on their own account
whether even the commission" form
OF city government may prove lesi
desirable than "a single business man.
.ager
ON this point let us quote from the
Endorsement given the "city manager
plan hy the recent convention of the
National Municipal league, at Toronto
Canada After two years inyestiga-
tion "a special committee of the league
reported that The single manager
plan Is preferable to the ordinary
commission plan. II said'
II creates a single handed admlnis-
tratiye establishment instead OF the
five separate administrative es,ab.
lishmcnts seen In the Des Moines plan.
This administrative unity makes foi
harmony between municipal depart.
menis. since am are subject to com
mon head,
The "city manager plan permits
eNpertness in administration az tht
point whore ID IS most valuable
namely az the head
II permits comparative permanenoe
ln the office Jf the chief executive
whereas n an plans Involving elective
executives long tcnures are rare,
Il permits the chief executive "a
migrate from city 10 City. inasmuch
aH tho city manager Is not 90 be nee
cssarily a resident Of the city at the
time OF his appointment. and thus an
experienced man can be summoned az
advanced salary from a similar post in
another city
Il creates positions memberships
n the commisNonl which should be
attractive To first class citizens since
the service offers opportunities toi
high usefulness without interruption
of their private careers
II an this scents new TO average
students OF government in American
cities, Il might be we'll 20 reflect that
European cities OF the largest class
have been running under exactly
similar conditions for scores Of wears
AS matter OF fact "a highly
trained mayor of German city is
subject 10 pretty much the same rules
OF competitive selection promotion
and salary as the head OF any large
business corporation,
We may be some distance yet from
similar conditions in American cities
but there Is profound significance IN
the prevailing belief that the new
city manager plan has come to stay
and spread,
Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-12-21

does the gorInF President Wilson en-.
joys the GrldiroH club composed oi
nowspaper men. but no disapproyes
The carabaos, made up OF army and
navy Officers
The presidents fine sense of dlsilnc.
ton has lea him right again, though
wo believe that bis wrath at the cara
ha0 need not have lcd him quite so
FAR ON the other hand we see no
Justification fpr tho criticism 81 the
presidents course IN quite number
of the metropolitan newspapers. There
is difference between a lot Of news
paper men composing the GfIdlron
club. who represent every shade Of
public opinion, made and in the MAX.
lng and in that arm ~ the govern
mont which represents lis sovereign
power and has nothing 10 do with
pdblic opinion
Army and navy officers may De
MS they like within their
but they should have no
opinions outside, Thoy are paid SER
wants Of the government, not makers
n the government Tradltlonally. thoy
iro silent On domestic differences on
foreign matters their attitude ia even
more clrcumapect
For a group Of army officers 20
make "a satire on tho administrations
Philippine policy, however mistaken
{ may be- was ln the worst of taste.
md tho wonder IS that Il ever should
iaye occurred
Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-12-21
A GREAT Trust VICTORY.

The greatest victory ever attained
ty any administration Ia the fight for
regulation OF trusts IS In the agree
mcnt by the Bell Telephone company
to rcHnquish its atockholdings Ia the
Western Union Telegraph company
aud to permit long distance messages
by Independent telephone companies
over les lines
The combination of the Bell Tolo-
phone aud the Western Union made
ono Of the most gigantic monopolles
known % history Aside from night
and day letter messages. the combina-
tion had done nothing toward redu-
cling cost of service. Also. il had
failed 90 give better service 20 the
public or 60 pay higher wages TO en-
ployos
The concessions made by the Ron
company were more than the admin
istratiun hoped for or otherwise could
have secured except at the end of a
long lawsuit Doubtless the great con-
sidcrution with the Boli company was
tho proposition of Postmaster General
burleson TO bring about government
ownership OF the telegraph ond tolo-
phone lines
The position Of air BurlesOn WAS
meeting with favor throughout the
country and within a year or two. at
most the companies would have bccn
face TO face with the necessity Of sell
Ing out 20 the government or having
The government as IA competitor The
government would have paid no more
thnn enough TO cover the cost of in-
siallng new lines. probably about
onc-fourth az much as the Bell COM
pany now is capitalized for It was
cheaper TO dissolve the trust, and Il
viii be- cheaper TO reduce charges ana
thereby postpone the monaco Of gov.
ernmont ownership for many years to
come.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-12-21
HOUSE

Met al 10 a. m.
Took up the administration cur
rency bin TO appoint conferees to
work with the senate managers to
compose disputed points
Representative Taylor. Of Colorado,
introduced bin 10 establish ten mine
experiment stations 10 be located in
the discretion Of the secretary Of the
interior.
Secretary Garrison testified before
house appropriations subcommittee
Of Notifications In advocacy Of his es-
Inmates for fortificatlon work.
War department asked for urgent
deficiency appropriation Of s2,2J0,OO0
for unskiled labor on the Panama
canal
Adjourned at ASS y. m, until noon
Monday
Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-12-21

Il think ] have bumped up against
the real thing In Chamberlain's Tab
lets." writes ID. n. Thomas, of Tidioute,
Pa. "They do the work and cause nc
unpleasant reaction" In cases Of con-
stipation when pills and saline cathar-
tics are used. their use is often fol-
lowed by constipation. as they take
so much water out Of the system. ON
the other hand the effect Of Chamber
lain's Tablets is so agreeable and so
natural that yoT do not realize that
IL has been produced by "a medicine
and no reaction follows their use. For
sale by am dealers
Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-12-21
DErENDlNG m clRAnAo Gun

Former President Tart aomes 10 the
defense ~ ihe Carabao society noe
~ Way of qualification of tbe Jour
iesque On administration policies boz
With excuses Tor The soues composed
thirteen years ago and sung now be.
rausc they We're aut then remIuis-
cenaps of the days when the Amcr'
can soldiers were fighting the inaur.
recto tillpInos under Aguinaido.
II not only makes difference
whose * Is gored, but apparently II
makes q difference as 70 whose OK
Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-12-21

The king was i'm his counting house,
counting out his money;
The queen was In the parlor, knitting
something funny
The king collected all his coin to buy
the queen q presents
She made a 10-cent gift for him, ana
everything was pleasant.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-12-21

Really we fan 10 see why any one
should pay q half dollar 20 hear Vice
President Marshall lecture, We never
have heard OF anything said by him
that would not be high priced at
thirty cents.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-12-21
The Day in Congress


Met az noon.
Conferees on the currency bill pre-
pared 10 meet representatives Of the
house.
Senate adjourned at 2:35 p. m, to
noon Monday
Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-12-21

William j. Bryan, Jr, has Just been
admitted to the bar BEING a lawyer
ls harder work than lecturlng because
there usually is am unscrupulous law.
ser who knows the law on the other
side Of each case.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-12-21

The dove Of peace laid an egg In
senator Roots plgoon loft worth forty
thousand dollars in cash and a lot Of
good advertising
Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-12-21

Northwestern University has a stu-
dent waspIng az the higher things Of
Iife from am attitude OF seven feet
and three inches IN his stocking feet,
Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-12-21

General Nilm rs convinced that he
is the little Diaz Of the Mexican situ-
alton.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-12-21
COAL AND WOOD

Lime, kindllng and smithing coal
Large stock Of best fuel carried at
all times. Prompt deliveries. Phone
and 8. S. Beayen.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-12-21
JEwELER & oPTIoIAN

s T. Vann. New Mexicos finest
art ieweler. Jewelry and watch
repairing. Diamond setting. 214
W. Central Avenue.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-08
Sane Words From Texas.

Houston Post: 1t would be folly to
condemn every transaction because it
is big. Bigness is a result Of concen-
tration, and concentration is not going
to give way diffusion. On the con-
trary, in many respects 1t will gather
force and dimensions in the way ma
ture of things.
We are living in an area of big
things. Vast projects of development
and of finance are to become vaster,
and this will logically stimulate con
centration,
When a railroad system projects a
scheme of improvements requiring a
loan of 500, 000, 900 then concentrated
capital must act. Otherwise, progress
must be halted And these ~transac-
tons must multiply with the progress
of the country. 1t is the very nature
of capital to concentrate before it can
be diffused in the process of syste-
matte material development, and it
must alternate between concentration
and diffusion in order to be active ut
all.
The duty confronting the congress
now lis not to destroy capital or to
prevent its legitimate concentration
for legitimate purposes, but to elimi-
nate such abuses in the use of money,
in the processes of speculation, in the
methods of banking and in the issue
of notes, as perpetrate injustice upon
the public.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-08
n. D. A. c. Has Made
More Thorough Study
Than Hills Expert
Prof. J. H. Shepherd Of the A. c. Tells of the Exhaustive Study
That Has Been Made Of the Fertilization Question
on North Dakota Soil

To The Forum: Under the heading,
viii Revolutionize Northwest AgriCul-
Iture, in your number for Monday rel
ing, Jan, s, | note q report from Min
neapolis telling of a greenhouse. ex-
pertinent on James J. Hills premises
in st. Paul.
4 A similar but more extended report
in a Minneapolis paper gives some
what greater detail,
A reporter on a daily newspaper
cannot be expected to be an expert on
agricultural subjects nor to throw out
all Of the cautions that al observation
of the facts require, TO make them en-
tirely safe for the public.
The North Dakota experiment sta
ton has made trials covering a period
of five years in the use Of acid phos-
phate fertilizers for grain production.
These trials have been made with
wheat. In bulletin IS, pages 302-306
will be found the detailed results for
the years 1903, 1904, 1905 and 1906.
The experiment extended beyond that
of the trial of acid phosphate by in
Guiding experiments with potash fer
~tilizerS, complete fertilizers, check
plats with no fertilizers and with rot
ted stable manure, all on ground Of
known cropping history.
Stable manure well rOtted and APP
piled at the rate of ten wagon loads
per acre gave heavier yields Of wheat
than any Of the commercial fertilizers,
including the phosphates.
For the four a the table shows
there was a total gain Of two bushels
of wheat per acre or an increase of a
half bushel per veal per acre from the
use of these commercial fertilizers. over
the plats receiving no fertilizer what
ever and this on land which had been
cropped to grain for twenty years
without the application Of stable
manure or other fertilizer.
During one Of these years the chem
ical department of the experiment sta
ton was at work on fertilizers n as
a part of the trial sent out a num-
Der of different sorts. including a phos-
phoric acid fertilizer, to substantial
farmers in Richland county, LaMoure
county, Trail county, Ransom county
and to Emmons county. In it's report
which appears On pages 20 and 81 of
the fourteenth annual report Of this
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-08
JUDGE POLLOCK
HITS CIGARETTS

Grand Forks, N. D., Jan. S.--The
brotherhood of the Methodist church
enjoyed a s o'clock dinner in the din
ing room of the church last evening.
Judge Chas. "A. Pollock of Fargo, was
guest of honor and the speaker of the
evening. He was introduced by Prof.
II. 10. simpson, president of the broth
erhood.
Judge Pollock's address was prac-
tlcal and full of interest. He drew a
distinction between the fundamental
right and the question of methods
adopted in the effort to realize III
practice the fundamental right held
He. declared that conscience belongs
is a question of individual judgment.
The method should never be confused
with the fundamental.
The speaker drew upon his expert
ence as judge to Illustrate his propo-
%sitions, using many incidents related
to the enforcement of temperance
laws.
He spoke strongly against public
pool rooms and cigarette smoking
and stated that every boy brought
into his court in the past sixteen
years charged with misdemeanor was
Ia cigarette smoker. He called atten-
ton to the state law against high
school boys and those under age fire.
duenting pool rooms, and declared
that these places must be abolished,
together with slot machines and Gig
arctic smoking il the boys are to be
saved from ruins
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-08
few FAILURES
in NORTHWEST

Minneapolis. MINI, Jan. S.-Busi-
ness failures in Minnesota, North and
South Dakota and Montana, decreas-
ed more than 25 per cent in number
and more than so per cent in amounts
involved during 1912, while failures
for the entire country reached the
highest total in nineteen years. with
the single exception of 1908 this re-
markable contrast between business
health of Minneapolis and the immedi-
ate territory and the business health
of the rest OF the country was reveal
ed today when compilations were
made of figures in the annual report
of r. q. Dun g. Co.
All that Minneapolis and the north
west did last year in rolling up big
totals in finance and commerce, indus
try and transportation wa overshad-
owed by the showing made today
when the figures became audible and
it was shown that in 1912, when there
were 15,452 business failures in the
United States as q whole, or 2,011
more than in 1911, with liabilities Of
$20SI17,3 91, or $l2,045,726 greater;
THE states of Minnesota, South Dakota
North Dakota and Montana, all to-
gether had only 1856 business enbar-
easements of every kind, with the re-
markably low total of $3,72O,933 in
1911 and liabilities of $T,79S,
four northwestern states made what
was then considered q remarkably
favorable showing.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-08

station for the ear 1904 l find the
following summarizing statement:
when the crop was harvested and
threshed in the fall the farmers report
ed that they were unable to see that
there was any advantage in favor of
the use of the fertilizers; that possibly
the wheat where the nitrate Of soda
was used was moro stocky and con
tinued its growth somewhat later than
was the case with the other grains"
In 1911 seven separate plats were
treated with commercial fertilizer with
three check plats in]terspersed. Among
this list Of fertilizers three of them
were what are called phosphate COM
mercial fertilizers. The results have
not been published although they have
beer given out to the firm that sup
piled the different sorts of fertilizers
that were used. In this list Of plats
one Of the checks, that is an ]untreatod
plat, made the highest yield of any in
the list.
DIR. Cyril G. Hopkins Of the Illinois
experiment station, one Of the leading
scientists and eXperimenters of Amer
lea said at the Dry Farming congress
meeting at Lethbridge, Canada, last
fall: If an experimenter shows you
co~urteously; If for two years, listen
to him, but If for six, seven or eight
years and his results are consistent,
study his work carefully, ask him
questions get at his conclusions and
see if you can change your farm prac-
tice to correspond with what he has
found. He has enough data to be worth
your consideration.
The people framed a proverb a great
many a ago which says, one
swallow does not make a summer
and it seems to me that the reporter
who wrote the article from Minneap-
oils would do well to c~onjure this old
adage.
As long as our people are allowing
stable manure to leach and the
strength of it drain away into the
streams and find in many cases the
shortage Of help won't permit them
to haul ii to their fields 1t is scarcely
time to "revolutionize' the northwest
with any purchased commercial ferti-
lizer.
In bulletin II of the North Dakota
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-08

experiment station, pages IL to 45 wifi
be found the result of sixteen years
experiment work with farm manure in
wheat production. In this trial the eff
feet of the n on the first crop
following the second crop following
and the third crop following thB
manuring is recorded. Stable manure
was applied once each four years. TIE
added yield of wheat at the average,
farm price Dec. /, for tho five yea
period, 1906 1910, shows an average
value Of $1.52k a load.
/ feel that these facts should Rs
stated to the public as a means of calf
ing their attention to where they can
find data covering six years time and
considerable of territory on this ques-
ton of commercial fertilizers for North
Dakota. The five years experiment
has been made at Fargo on the exper-
iment farm, but the statements of tho
five farmers in as many counties, four
Of which are west Of the Red river 'val-
ley, seem to indicate that there Is to
be expected somewhat the same con-
sistent results at other points In the
state. j. II. Shepperd.
North Dakota experiment station.