Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-07-17
FACTORIES HUM
SUPPLYING HOME
REQUIREMENTS
War Orders for Munitions
Have Practically Ceased
but Our Own Demands
Keep Plants Busy

SPECIAL eosssssororres TO MORNING IoueHAu

,ssri.l coaassroHorHcs 70 MORNING JOURNAL
New York, July 14-With war or
der activities no longer holding up
the manufacturing prosperity of this
country. the wheels of industry every
where are now turning steadily in re-
sponse TO healthy, normal business
demands. if was declared today by in
dustrial leaders. who have just COM
pIeted census Of present mamutac-
turing conditions all over the country
from Headquarters in this city. No
new orders for foreign munitions are
now being placed generally about the
United states since the nations abroad
have built up adequate plants Of their
own. these investigators report while
IN the place of the lavish war orders
that have kept American factories
working overtime a flood of resular
requirements for the COuntry's COM
mercal needs has sWamped even the
expanded manufacturing facilities.
Now that the crops loom large and
business booms brisker than at any
time since the war abroad began, the
trade experts here predict a return
iH ~ l'l az ~ lIl IT, 0NfN II tN NlliT l''AlAl
has not seen for many years
Cooling Costs.
That ice may cost almost a cent
a pound before the hot spells of this
summer season are over, is feared by
the leaders of local housewives
leagues, who are organizing today TO
protest against any rise in price of
this staple which means life and
health In the homes all over town.
Already the iCemen are taxing the
sweltering housekcepers fully 80 cents
q hundred pounds in this city and its
suburbs, although it is declared that
the continued cold Of last winter has
packed their stOIehOuScs more fully
IMAM in many years. With war prices
on all food and clothing supplies soar
ing to record heights here any increase
IN the cost of keeping cool through
me deadly days Of July and August
Will work real hardship on hundreds
Of thousands of New Workers, 1t 10
pointed out
summer Suffering.
booming many thousands of the
children of the tenements to spend
ms summer shut up at home instead
OF enjoying fresh air excursions into
Inc country, the precautions made
necessary by the infantile paralysis
Epidemic have practically shut down
dlI activities along these lines Not
onIy mas it proved imperative to stop
utmost all Of the excursions that usu-
any free from the fetid, city air ar
mes of Youngsters, but it is even be
ing considered advisable to suspend
1u'h Of the recreation work for the
lows and girls who throng the public
Fairgrounds all about town. Since
quarantine demands must result in
ulprisoning the children of the slums
~ me hldeous heat of their homes
1H summer it is expected that death
ana disease from such suffering may
utmost equal the effects of Of the
p'"Sue mat is Indirectly their cause.
school Straddlc.
owing that straddling an issue
an be- comprised by school-teachers
as wen as by statesmen, the dele
7'l,S 10 the National Educational as
solIdllon have just left town with no
ii.CoIu OF approving or rejecting the
','lduon of military school drills
INA, ,ll"' was the bone of contention at
,n'Ir gathering Piled high with
, IuIyocal words and phrases, sets Of
solutions supposed to hear on this
, ","'l polnt We're formally passed by
oag pedagogues: but these are now
to o.,s.Iued by both pacifists and mill
V ,t,S'S as endorsing the ideas of each.
ti,I no decisive word from the ma
,'o'1I organizations Of instructors, it
1,.tY o"Sldered probable that school
". "s VIII be encouraged or banned by
on teachers Of the land lust about
nr. me ,n' local sentiment and personal
= '''Iehee happens to indicate.