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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-23
BIG EATERS GET
KIDNEY TROUBLE
Take Salts at first sign Of
Bladder irritation or Back
ache

The American men and women
must guard constantly against Kid
ney trouble, because we eat too
much and all our food is rich. Our
blood is filled with uric acid which
the kidneys strive to filter out, they
weaken from overworl1, become
sluggish; the eliminative tissues clog
and the result is kidney trouble,
bladder weakness and a general de-
cline in health.
When your back hurts or the
urine is cloudy, full of sediment or
you are obliged to seek relief two
or three times during the night IL
you suffer with sick headache or
dizzy, nervous spells, acid stomach,
or you have rheumatism when the
weather is bad, get from your phar-
macist about four ounces of Jad
Salts; take a tablespoonful in a glass
of water before breakfast for few
days and your Kidneys will then act
fine. This famous salts is made
from the acid of grapes and lemon
Juice, combined with lithia, and has
been used for generations to flush
and stimulate clogged kidneys; to
neutralize the acids in the urine so
it no longer is a source of irritation,
thus ending bladder disorders.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot
injure. makes "a delightful efferves-
cent lithia- water beverage, and be-
longs in every home, because nobody
can make a mistake by having
good kidney flushing any time.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-23
MARK TWAIN'S FAMOUS TOAST
TO ..BABIES'

Responding to the toast OF Babies
at the memorable Chicago banquet
in honor of General Grant in 1873
Mark Twain concluded with sem
tence that set the gathering in an up
roar. In his mimitable drawing
voice he said;
S.In his cradle somewhere under
the flag, the future illustrious COM
mander-in-chief of the American arm
les is so little burdened with his ap-
preaching grandeurs and responsible
tiles as to be giving his whole STRAIT
egic mind, at this moment, to trying
to find some way 10 get his own big
toe into his mouth, an achievement
which (meaning no disrespecD the
illustrious guest of this evening also
turned his attention to some fifty-s'x
years ago. t.ad IL the child is but
tho father of the man, there are
mighty few who will doubt that he
succeeded" &
At that conclusion the audience
broke into cheers and roads of laugh
ter in which even the reserved Grant
Joined.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-23

selves but for all the world. 1t is
what we have fought for. 1t is the
great object Of the league of nations.
When people really understand
that--when they see that justice as
between the nations is only possible
through league of nations, then
public opinion will be in favor of it
and not merely indifferent. Now sup
pose we have our league. Is it not
clear that if public opinion could al
ways be brought TO bear upon dis
putes before the disputants actually
go to war. then war might often be
avoided? Instead of that what do
we have? Diplomats with secret
agreements and lying intrigue, seek
ing not Justice but national aggran-
disement, anxious not for peace or
war, but for successful war, relying
on national patriotism for the sup
port they need, yet tricking the very
public opinion they rely on--and in
the end declaring war suddenly be-
fore the people know what 1t is all
about-this is ordinarily international
politics.
In order to get away from all that
what must we have? 1t Is the first
of Wilson's fourteen points: open
covenants Of peace. openly arrived at,
after which there shall be no private
international understandings of any
kind but diplomacy shall proceed al
ways frankly and in the public view"
1t looks as though, the people could
be trusted a good deal better than
the average diplomats, At any rate.
they ought to have a good deal, more
to say about foreign policy than they
have ever had before. OF course,
they have not taken much interest in
the matter hitherto. But this war
has verywhere--puch more abroad
than in this country-started people
thinking in international terms Pub
lie opinion will be the decisive force.
1t can make the league inevitable or
it can make it impossible. But once
the league is started it will tend to
exert its power within the league in
favor of law enforcement. Any ma
ton that starts trouble will be at once
in disfavor. In some cases the fear
of unfavorable opinion will be
enough.
But alas! In some cases it will
not be enough, What then? Is the
league to have moral force only?
Let US see..
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-23
GOVERNMENT ROAD CONSTITUTE
TON.

The government manaeement If
railroads for war purposes brought
out strongly the value of the public
road as q supplementary traffic way.
Had it not been for the highways Of
the country there would have been &
collapse of transportation; for the
government found it necessary to turn
to the highways for motor truck
transportation on huge scale.
When the rush for war traffic has
fully subsidized, the normal traffic of
the country is not going to be carried
by the railroads in the proportion 1t
was before the war. The highways
will be something more than spillways
for surplus traffic. They will be some
thing more than a system of feeders
for rail lines They will carry traf-
fic of their own supplementary to, or
perhaps competing with. that of the
railroads.
excessive, as now, or delays become
intolerable, shippers and travellers
will naturally turn to the highways
for relief
A national system Of highways, laid
out. built and supported by the fed
eral government. is project under
serious consideration at Washington.
Such a system would be planned on
continental lines and would link lid
existing or coming state systems of
highways. 1t would not necessarily
interfere with federal aid to state
highway construction; but rather
would unity the freight carrying high
ways.
The plan is to create highway adj
ministration that will be something
more than a minor bureau in the ag-
ricultural department, as at presen..
The work belongs more logically to
the interior department, The post
office department is also vitality inter-
ested, for motor truck mail routes are
likely to be established as fast as the
development of the highways will per-
init.
The highway problem has grown to
such proportions that 1t now demands
The best mana gerial talent tile country
can afford. 1t should all be placed
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-23
Newest Things in Science

BY treating fish oil with hydrogen
a chemist has produced an oil suita-
BILE for food purposes and solid sub
stance closely resembled lard, which
IS tasteless.
Certain scientists claim to have dis
covered that fat resembling cocoa
nut oil can be obtained from plants
that grow abundautly On waste lands,
For the standardization of dyes and
textiles color card has been issued
for general use by New York CON
Germ which shows l2S shades. named
principally from natural objects.
A machine has been invented 10y a
Seotehman that prepares flax for
manufacture within a few hours af-
ter it has been pulled from the ground
instead of taking days or even weeks,
as usual.
A new reel of motion picture films
carries a lebal on one side on which
to write the name of the film and
other information made of a material
from which the writing can be erased
easily
1t is believed the coal obtained in
the operation will pay much of the
cost of building a proposed tunnel
under the Firth of Forth in Scotland
as there are mines at each end of the
projected line.
For workers usually seated at ma
ehinery New York inventor has pat
ented a chair which moves several
inches literally on track or can be
swung entirely out of the way when
its user wishes to stand.
Uniform speed under varying loads
is the idea of Canadian inventors
horizontal fly wheel for engines. in
the center of which are heavy balls
that are whirled to the outer edge as
thu speed increases.
A wire screen that has been invent
ed to shield motorists faces from in
seets while their wind shields are OPP
en- also serves to break the glare of
approaching headlights and makes
the wearing of goggles unnecessary.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-23
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED
PRESS
MONDAY, =. DECEMBER 20. lsls
THE 1915 AND 1919 CONFERENCES

The Journal is mourning heavy ex-
pense in order to have fully reported
for it's readers the proceedings of the
peace conference at Versailles, soon
to begin.
Comparisons are frequently made
between the peace conference held in
Vienna in 1915, when the allies, af-
ter the overthrow OF Napoleon, re-
make the map of Europe and agreed
TO prevent future wars and the cori-
ing conference at Versailles. when
once more the map is to he recon
structed and the fond hope of pre-
venting war is entertained.
The comparison IS hardly q far
one. The Vienna CONGRESS was an as
semblage of more or less absolute
monarchs and thei. representatives,
who assembled to diviee Europe ae-
cording to their good pleasure.
The Versailles congress will be an
assemblage of representatives of the
puppies u dsI 6C WI tHS Hatlollhl liSlhS
of the peoples. The question of pre-
venting future wars seems now to
hinge largely upon the question
whether the decisions made are found
ed on right and justice. If they are,
and that will he no small task, last
ing peace is likely to follow.
But If Justice is not fully done, if
il is denied any nationality, wars and
uprisings will follow as they followed
the congress of Vienna. Before the
settlement of Vienna was six years
old, the people began to change it,
and not single ten years has follow
ed since 1916 without its war or wars.
The Vienna congress was n sad fail
ure, viewed from the clearer light of
one hundred years. What the YER
dict of the next hundred years will
be upon the results of the conference
at Versailles, no man can tell. And
what the conference itself will do cam
not be guessed at at this time. But it
is clear enough that we are seeing
unrolled before us one, of the great
chapters of history.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-23
alaska OFFERS
OPPORTUNITIES To
RETURNED TROOPS
tay MORNING JOURNAL s.se,.. LEASED w,se,


san Francisco, Dec 22.-The vast
undeveloped reaches Of Alaskas 1885,
400 square miles of valleys. streams
and mountains offer a suitable habitat
for Americas returned soldiers. in the
opinion of r. @ Mccormick Of San
Francisco. member of a commission
authorized by Secretary Lane to make
a survey of the northern territory.
The reports of Mccormick, vice
president in charge of traffic for the
Southern Pacific company. and two
others, L. 0. Gabany, chemist and
geologist, and George c. McFaden,
coal mining expert, both of Chicago,
are to be used, Mccormick said, in
connection with Secretary Lane plan
to establish returned soldiers on the
land and to acquaint the American
people with opportunities offered in
the territory.
Alaska is to be the mecca for dis
terminating world travellers. 1t is the
dream land Of artists" he said.
The terrtorys 100000 reindeer, de-
veloped from 1880 imported from the
government between 1892 and 1902,
will figure in the effort to supply the
world with food, Mccormick said. Fox
farms, where animals bearing pelts
worth $4,000 each have been develop
ed. and skunk farms are among the
many unusual pursuits of the region,
he said.
The government railroad, now COM
plete from Seward to Anchorage will
keep the latter city, heretofore ice
hound in winter, open the year round.
Mccormick noted, From Anchorage
north, toward the ultimate terminal
at Fairbapks the railroad now ex-
tends as far as Montana, running sixty
miles through as productive q country
as may be found anywhere.
The building of the government
railroad is being accomplished by
some of the most formidable engi-
neering feats l have ever seen" said
Mccormick IAN example is top
loop where, emerging from a tunnel
the tracks double back five times
withina distance of a mile before they
reach the valley floor"
"On the way to Fairbanks, reached
over a solid automobile road are the
Matanuska coal fields. where coal is
being developed in commercial guam
titles. These and other features of
the vast mining district tapped by
the railroad werc given particular at
tention by other members Of the COM
mission. Forests of spruce, from
which some was taken for America S
newly built planes, fir and other TIM
Der lie along the railroad.
"In this district are produced the
finest of neutrality-suspicious. beets,
carrots 16-pound cabbages, rhubarb
four feet high and fine celery Ma
tive grass in places grows eight feet
high Alaskan berries are already
widely recognized.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-23
THE LIBERTY BONDS.

,+ Northrop Clarey, in Leslie's.
Lists of those who bought govern
ment bonds are easily obtained in ev-
cry community in this country. They
furnish the finest compilation OF
prospect ever made available to Sc
curity statesmen As a result there
are today some thousands of vendors
of more or less, bur mostly more, dub
ious securities, who are working IL
hours a day calling upon people who
subscribed to government bonds.
It has been stated In responsible
quarters that as much as $400,000,00O
of Liberty Bonds placed with inves-
tors have already fallen into the
hands of dishonest brokers in eX-
change for shares of wildcat oil min
ing issues. The estimate is, undoubt-
eddy, much too large, but the lesson
is none the less plain.
If you have a liberty Bond, or are
engaged in buying one on the install
ment plan, do not let go of it except
under he urge OF real need for the
money represented, and then turn II
over to a bank or responsible invest
ment house to be sold. Under no cir
cumstances surrender to- a travelling
salesman who promises you anywhere
from 10 to 40 per cent on some other
certificate which he is peddling.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-23
TWO CLASSES IN WALL STREET.
L Il !. L ...,l L.


Operators in Wall street may be
roughly divided into two classes. One
class is made up of those who take
chances These are always watching
for tips. They are always looking for
leadership They are following stocks
that seem to move upward and shun-
ming those that move downward. The
other class is made up of operators
who study conditions - financial and
commercial. They inquire deeply into
earnings of properties. They keep
close touch of the trend of affairs at
home and abroad They operate like
business men, not on chances and pos
sibiities, but on eventualities.
1t is unnecessary to say that the
former class constitutes largely the
gamblers" who win or lose, but are
mostly on the losing side Tho second
class embraces those who build up
fortunes and who become leaders in
Finance, industry and commerce.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-23
SIMPLE LIFE OF
WILSON PLEASES
FRENCH PEOPLE
BY Lincoln Eyre.
(The New York World and Albu-
5,,roYr,,o NTnr,,ino Io,rnaI


querque Morning Journal)
Paris, France, Dec 21.---President
Wilson's preference for simple living
lie. They like to read of his rigid
adherence to the food restrictions, of
his quiet luncheons and dinners en-
famille, of his drives to Versailles and
in the Bots de Bouloene alone with
Mrs. Wilson They even applaud his
strict observance of the Sabbath, al
though their own ia shion of spending
Sunday is very different.
Presidential simplicity pleases the
Parisians because they deem-A as
convincing evidence of the sincerity
of the presidents democracy. He
is just good bourgeois, who knows
what is in the minds and hearts of
the plain people all over the world"
my concierge says of him
The French are well aware of the
presidents desire to get down to bus
mess and eager as they are to see
him in public they fully appreciate
the necessity Of his los.rg no time
in beginning the conversations for
which he has come here.
The informally that prevails in
and about the Murat residence is a
source of great satisfaction to the
presidents hosts. There is no e'dL-
crate Gordon of soldiers, two dough-
boy sentries being the only guards
at the entrance. In addition to the
presidents household there has never
been more than two or three guests
at the table, and these We're cid
friends.
Meals are prepared by Prince Nd
rats chef. The Sunday luncheon
consisted of hors d'cenvres, eggs.
white sauce. saddle of lamb, celery,
fruit and cheese and for dinner there
We're thick soup, filet of sole, hare
outlets, stewed chicory, ices, fruit
and cheese.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-23
UP AGAINST 1T.

After having burdened the cables
with reports of everything done by
the president and with descriptions of
Mrs. Wilson's various gowns and how
she wears her hair, might not Mr..
Creel give right-of-way once in a
while for news story of real interest
to the American, people?
You know the government now has
full control of the cables and Mr.
Creel feeds out the cable privileges
TO the correspondents, If you are
not getting the sort Of news You like
don't blame it on the news agencies.
They are dong the best they can
against a brace game.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-23
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS---
WHAT 1T REALLY MEANS
BY J0srAn II. REED.

It has sometimes been commended
any such thing as international law,
on the ground that law always pre-
supposes a force TO back ii UP.
Whether we wish to go SO far as this
or not, we can probably agree that
a league of nations without force is
not likely to meet with much success.
The different kinds of force that have
been suggested are public opinion,
economic boycott, non-intercourse.
monopoly of munitions or materials
needed for munitions, and actual mill
itary and naval forces
To some persons the first of these
may not seem a force at ALL But as
a matter of fact there is no force so
powerful and no force to viii n men
in the past have paid greater thihrte.
The attempts Of the nations TO sup
press free speech, to muzzlc the press,
to offer the public only garbled news
and one sided comment, to sustain
organized propaganda not only at
home but in other countries-with re-
sort even to airplanes to- get their
views presented to the enemy-all
these efforts are tribute to the pow
er of opinion. When the United States
first went to war it seemed to many
that our object was merely to protect
our maritime rights. At that time
talk of putting two million men in
Europe il necessary. would have been
scoffed at. But as time went on, the
issue between freedom and autocracy
became more and more clear. Or
president and other leaders of opir-
ion came. out with more and moro
definite suggestions, until In the End
we pledged everythng-force to the
utmost-to attain our end. 1t was the
force of public opinion that made ii
possible. Indeed it may almost be
said that the force behind all force
is the force of public opinion
1t is because public opinion has a.
ways been so easily swayed by talk
of patriotism that war is possible at
all. If public opinion We're as heart
lily in favor of peace as it Is of pat
riotism, we should have had peace
long ago. But peace in itself is
scarcely worthy aim. No American
would purchase peace at the price of
chains and slavery Peace as sole
aim is the aim of mollycoddle.
What we want first OF all as n nation
is justice. justice not only for our
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-23
AME R|CAN| ZAT|ON
Of ALIENS BEING
CLOSELY STUDIED
tsY MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED w,esI


Denver, Colo, Dec. 22.--The Ameri-
canZation of alients of the Rocky
mountain region is the objective of
an undertaking begun short time
ago under the direction of Paul Arm
strong, chief naturalization examiner
of the district.
The work will be carried on in Col
orado, New Mexico. Idaho, Utah and
Wyoming, states in the district, the
examiner and his staff having charge
of the movement IN the five states. 1t
is part of nationwide movement to
bring the subject of Americanism
clearly before resident aliens.
The workers will go to factories
and shops employing aliens and
making arrangements with officials
to have them informed of their desire
that they make application for citi-
zenship. In making application
aliens in the past sometimes had to go
to better educated countrymen for
help. The workers will relieve them
of this necessity.
Another fact that has been deter
rent to many aliens becoming citizens
is that they had TO lose a days wages
to file their first PAPERS" as filing
could be made only in daytime. To
overcome this the clerk of the federal
district court here will open his Of
flee in the evening to receive these
papers.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-23
LET PRICES FAIL FIRST.

We are living on an abnormally
high level The dollar buys probably
no more than half what IT bought a
few years ago. But wages have gone
up 10 an unprecedentedly high level,
so that in the main the proper rela-
tons between wages and prices has
been maintained. However, to this
there have been numerous exceptions,
especially among those earning fixed
salaries.
We are now facing the problem of
readjustment, of transforming indus
try and trade >from u war to a peace
basis, Of restoring to the dollar at
least a part of its former purchasing
power.
It is generally agreed that prices
mus. go down: and for the same rea-
sons wages will tend to keep them
company The difficulty is so to-
manage these declines that they shall
not work undue and unnecessary dis
turbances.
Samuel Gompers. head of the AM
erican Federation of Labo recently
served notice that prices of labor
would remain where they are now.
But there is far greater power than
Mr.. Gompers at work for the solution
of the problem--that is the law of
supply and demand.
However, If capital is wise it will
sec to it that the necessities Of life
even the luxuries-take a tumble be-
fore wages and salaries are reduced.
Prices and wages are different sides
of the same thing. They are interde-
pendent. Their curves are parallel,
except where one is artificially sus-
tanned or boosted while the other isl
not
But wages tend to rise more slowly
and to decline moro quickly than the
prices, and Mr. Gompers is perfectly
justified in demanding a closer paral-
lelism.
Judge Gary, chairman of the board
of directors of the United States Steel
corporation, suggests that the opening
move in the downward trend be by
the steel makers whom he asks tot
agree to moderate reductions in the
price of their products while the scale
of wages is maintained
He says such plan would involve
a temporary loss to the steel makers.
but that somebody must make the
start in getting the country off its
stills, and that the big corporations are
better able to take the loss by selling
below cost for time than labor isl
to bear cut in wages while prices
of necessities are still at their maxi
mum.
Steel is proverdially the barometer
OF trade. 1t is right. therefore, that
it should take the lead in price re-
adjustment, leaving wage adjustment
to take place naturally and slowly.
For Mr.. Gompers to say that wages
shall remain whore they are, particu-
larry in the manufactures and mining.
while everything else goes down, is so
foolish that it is useless to argue it.
We have to sell abroad hundreds of
millions in surplus products in order
that our factories and our mines con-
tinue to run. by a protective tariff
we may save our home market from
competition, but we cannot hold for
eign trade except through successful
competitive selling,
The great element of cost in all
sorts of production is labor. This fact
all must recognize, sooner or later
But let the legitimate living expenses
of labor be cut before the price of
labor is cut. That is but fair.