Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-07-04
The Other Side

The late g. TcnnFsm 8id ihai enc
reason things went WRONG at Haiak.
lava was that s0uc one bad hiun-
dCred %
MT Teunyson should hatc Been uu
hand in Albuquerque last wteh tu See
the way hat the Commercial club eu-
teftalned the members of the Nae
tional Editorial association who came
through ia three sections 0n their why
80 the California "Xp0sltfuns The
genial old gentleman would probably
have paraphrused "sgne ONE had
Numbered into "it's the worst ease ot
boncheadedness ! ever saw
How Albuquerque overlooked one
~ The greatest advantages that has
ever come her way, how. 40 The Time
she most needed them, the men upon
whom she relied 10 advance her inter.
ests were somewhere else. aud how
several hundred small town editors
came IN with husky appcuttca and
went out with "a gigantic crouch has
already been told iu The columns &C
the daily news To the credit 90 the
town be i said that Albuquerque
didn't wait 10 be told that she had
messed things up She realized 90 at
once and admitted 10 before anybody
had a chance 10 tell her about 30
But there are two sides Ca every
question, and 10 some questions there
are five or six sides. We have nothing
TO feel proud OF Ia what happened last
Saturday night, but on the other hand
there Is no use 60 pat on an extra
thick coat OF sackcloth and ashes
The editorial speeial--ahout thirty
per cent editors--arrivcd az nn hour
when there was little that we could
DO FOR them. They were travelling ia
three sections. each one of which had
dining facilities Most folks get their
evening meal before Z 40 o'clock. the
time when the first section reached
Albuquerque. and there was reason % !
believe that the editors, who are sup
posed 20 eat every time they Rot q
chance, would be well filled before
they landed 90 our shores. The local
committee could not foregee that the
officials II the association would tell I
the railroad authorities "the noxt eats
are on Albuquerque" and close up the !
diners
OF course, we might have arranged /
20 have some celebrities such as VIII /
Ham Jennings Bryan or Senator Isaac
Bath, TO entertain them. but MIR Bryan
was busy somewhere else and Senator
Rarth. unfortunately. was out OF
town we should have done better
10y them than we did. but eVefyhodysi
business was nobody's business, and
things went the way that they always
40 when that Is the ease
| would feel "A whole lot worse over
the matter II the visitors had acted
differently about H. They didn't
show any delicacXs-any spirit OF con
slderation-~any sort Of good fellow
ship or amiahllity. They camo in,
looked around for something 20 ont
didn't find IL ana az once began 10
tell Us what they We're going 10 do 10
the town when they got bacll 10 their
various editorial mnCtums They said
they didn't mind Il SO much for them
selves. but they were awmly sorry
for u.s. and the way they s4id 20 made
as almost feel sorry Tor ourselves ltl
was Just like when you ask the msu
ager OF the show for pnss nnd he
turns you down ana you tom him what
YOU are going go de to ha old outnt
as soon ns YOU set hncls to tho shop
II was bad enough, Lord knows,
but II might have been worse
George AIDE Be- said 80 have in
trodueed "a speaker az @ banquet {
10y remarking.
two towns Ia Indiana lay
claim TO the hunoi Of Mn Blanks
birthplace Ga pause during
which MI Blank strpyc tu look q
modestly deprccutng1 Warsaw
states that he was born In koko-
mo. and kukomo insists that tic 3
honor belongs 20 Warsaw Ev-
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