Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-08-24
RISE IN PRICES
DEMONSTRATION
FORP00R PEOPLE

/ s...o,., eossssposesncs 70 MORNING JOURNAL
! New York Aug. 23.--That starva-
ton in the slums and privation III AZ
most every other quarter of this city
are threatened by the prohibitlVe
prices for food with which every one
is now wrestling. was admitted today
/ by the heads of the various bodles
lust set to fight the war scare lit IN
living costs. Already penny rise ID
milk has begun to menace the iiVes
OF thousands Of tenement baDies, IL
has been learned, while the additlon
of few cents more to the price OF
meat and other staples Will force 10
famine hundreds of families In the
poorer sections. Even behind the
brownstone fronts Of the better resi-
dence districts. sharp retrenchment 10
the larder supply has been forced by
the record food prices, that apparent
" defy any force to lower them to
living level.
Politicians Are Active.
Scanning the most hazy horizon
ever bounding opening campaign
in this state, politicians of all parties
declared today that any one OF dozen
candidates might yet gain the guDer-
Material chair with almost any party
or eembinatio of parties behind him.
For the first time i'm history here
party lines will be practically aban-
doned by the voters on election day, II
is predicted and fusions for state ana
local candidates will include factions
from every camp. Whether Theo-
dore Roosevelt can dominate and die
tate the political future of the Empire
state, is agreed to be about the only
broad, general issue before the voters.
Business Is Good.
with one thousand more buyers
than ever assembled In this town now
rushed here from every corner of the
country. the wholesale business sec
tons are buzzing with more activity
than has been seen in a decade War
scare rather than business boom Is
credited with this sudden mobiliza-
ton of the men who must fill up the
stock Of the nations stores and are
alarmed at the chance of suspended
shipping cutting Off goods already or
dcred. In many cases the heads or
great retail houses have hustled on
here this week to spur on their buying
forces to snap up all available stock.
No Summer Vacations.
All-the-year-round schools on ba-
SIS OIL IuuI ltIfllS VI titNtii NN'hr ttf''f
are Just being taken into serious con-
sideraton by the authorities of
Greater New York as an idea as good
as 1t is revolutionary. Following al
special investigation OF the evils sur
rounding the army of public school
children. turned loose in the streets
for three long, idle months, experts
have recommended as almost impera-
tive shorter terms in ell four seasons
with vacations of two weeks sand
WICKED in between. If this novel plan
can be carried out, it is promised that
the youngsters will be kept In better
control and health all through the
year and saved from tic ssagnation of
thet sets in through the
sun-.1er
Actors After Jobs.
Full of more pride than food and
clothed with more majesty than whole |
apparel the hosts of players in search
of stage jobs have Just begun to crowd
the rialto along the Great White Way. |
Lean months on the road or at excur-
sion resorts are reported by the ac-
tors who have not been at leisure. /
while gloomy prophecies Of an inn
pending season Of empty seats are VEN
tured by even the most optimistic.
With the stage set abroad for the |
struggle of all ages, the men and
women of the playhouse boards be-
lieve they can do little as rival attrac- |
tons.