Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-03-04
DAY IN
CHICAGO MEANS
RIOT OF PIRACY
Twice a Year the yorktown
Citizen Is Made the Goat by
Van Men and Others Skilled
in Applied Knayery,

MOVING AIlEln
they nov want to sion with NAV
and October MS the dates when
nearly AN lenses terminate the rent
inr AGENTS say thot tononts have come
10 feel almost under obligation to pick
out newer. frcsher quarters. and move.
Result Outlandish charges bv van
men. strikes and rebates ain based on
the emergencies of the moving DAY
spectacle Also a terrific paca in the
supply and demand for apartments I
and flats.
what is eoinp ia hammer to the flats /
that not aott of dnte'i d troubling the /
real estate owners ana agents. one
Of them said Tenants are not in I
territorial parties to the moving day I
dissipation. their position and atti- I
tude IS one Of education and invita-
ton. and many of them probably do
not know what it means when they
refuse to look mt a good flat five or
six years old on the ground that II Is
old fashioned and out of style, as
though buildings could be thrown
away and new ones provided ut will,
like straw hats They seem to hold
both in about the same esteem.
Strange and inconsistent as it may
sound, the renting agents seem to be
most cowardly and most Indifferent.
and because Of that eowardice and in
difference the new plan has made but
little progress and we are still en-
tertaincd or afflicted twice yearly
spring and fall-with what might be
called a carnival, a carnival of piracy
with a program Of strikes of rebates
concessions and other sale and value
destroying acts principally the rob
/ berry Of older buildings by the new,
who, in turn, will be robbed by the
newer"
Flood Prevention Neglected.
Railroads which suffered most from
! 1913 floods in Indiana and Ohio, in
Guiding the Pennsylvania 4 Monon,
have not yet subscribed to flood pre-
vention. as have some roads centering
at Chicago. which are less vitality in
terested. Like some of the communi-
ties devastated by flood last year, the
courage has not come to them TO eX-
pect adequate action by congress upon
The Clark williams bill. At Dayton,
the local flood relief committee has
been perplexed by financial difficult
ties which the enactment of the mea-
sure prepared bv the national drain
age congress would solve There the
subscribers to $4,000, 000 local fund
have misunderstood what was re-
aulred. The financial starvation" Of
the drainage congress, which recently
spent its last dollar on telegram to
the American Red Cross, has render
ed il impossible to hold mass meet
ings in the flood district cities to eX-
plain the direct bearing Of the Clark
Williams bin upon local flood proven
ton problems
The president of a western railroad,
the Rock Island, which does not ira
verse districts subject to floods. urges
2 flood prevention as an emergency
, need In writing to the drainage con-
gress President Nudge, Of that rail-
road said. I'm regard to the Clark
Williams flood protection and drain
age ill, l have to say that l have
examined this bill carefully and II
3 seems to me to be complete and that
it Will furnish the much needed aid
Protection from floods in our larger
river valleys is certainly one Of tht
. most important problems confrontini
e. us. The annual destruction OF prop
erty and the loss of life can be pre-
vented and ought to be prevented
through federal aid in cooperation
with the states
"The Preciplee' a Strong Book.
j The ultra modern woman of toda!
was projected upon the fiction screei
To- in Chicago as deep in economic Ques
10 tions, suffrage, woman's clubs an'
is philantrophic work, by a new move
Z Of Mrs. Ella w. Peattie, THE Preci
, pice." This book throws interesting
r side lights on the city's life from
d more normal feminist point Of viey
G than is usually presented.
e The heroine is shown as the natura
II outgrowth OF the present educationa
and economic conditions. She IS