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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-22
KENTUCKY IS GOING DRY.
Louisville Courier Journal.

@ there's brick dust in the cellar
Where the Bourbon used to stay;
And the Colonies lips are parching
For q drink to start the day:
And the birds have ceased their sing
ing.
For the clouds blot out the sky:
And there's mourning in the morning
Old Kentucky is going dry!
o the weeds have climbed the mint
bed,
And the julep is a Jest:
And there's nothing left but water
They may offer to a guest;
Where the Major meets the Colonel
And in silence passes by,
With a grief too great to comfort
Old Kentucky is going dry
vEza
O the Judge is staid and sober,
For there's nothing left to drink;
Even crafty politicians
Do not give their friends the wink,
In the still there's naught but still
ness,
For the Bourbon and the rye
Are two things the natives dream Of
Old Kentucky is going dry
o the pleasant clink of glasses
Is a sound of by-gone days:
For the barkeeps job had vanished
He has gone the unknown ways;
And there's dust upon the counter
Where the highballs used to fly.
When they took 'em stiff and steady
Old Kentucky Is going dry!
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-22

tial to civilization as we know it. in
Ciceros day educated men no longer
had faith in the gods TO which their
forebears had given allegiance Their
country was doomed, not because Jup-
liter was ignored, but because the
Romans recognized no intelligence, no
goodness greater than nature had
planted in man himself.
Men obey the statutes and carry
themselves decently because there is
ingrained in/them a belief in immor-
tally and a longing to measure up to
the standards religion has set. When
these standards are no longer sought
and life is viewed as merely a period
between birth and death, chaos be-
gins to engulf the race and submerge
it,
Christianity is worth a real trial
We have talked it too much and prac-
ticed is too little. We cannot reach
any objective unless we travel on the
road leading to it. We can ascertain
whether or not Christianity is a fail
ure after we have tried it.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-22

1t is Il good part Of reconstruction
this absorbing into your makeup
some of the finer instincts to which
all humans are heir. After all, 1t is
Il very large sky, and no one has q
mortgage on it. 1t belongs to the
poor man as we'll as the rich.
1t is a work of art. The only adj
mission fee is to look Perhaps you
will think it is a waste of time. this
searching for pretty scenes. 1t is not.
If the records of everyday life could
but be disclosed you would realize
how big n part it has played in the
accomplishment and adjustment of
thing.
! know people who have had great
troubles, They have taken walk in
the park. They have looked up at
the sky or the trees, or a bit of wa
ter Sometimes in the very serious
ness of their suffering they have idly
paused to gaze, and out of the very
air n bright thought came, very often
a solution to the difficulties.
A girl once told me she was about
to take her life at the river. She
paused n moment by a small boat.
The lapping of the incoming waves on
the boat caused her to listen to the
soothing, musical sound.
She began to reason that there
might still be something in life in
store for her, and thus saved herself.
A walk in the air and the sunlight
away from a cramped ROOM where
the imagination has been narrowed,
has changed viewpoint times with
out number. 1t is good beyond meas
ure To make it a habit to take no.
tice of the beautiful world as we'll as
the workaday one. You don't realize
it yourself, but the spirit of it or in
spiration enters into your being and
gives you renewed hope, renewed
vision.
Mothers should begin with little
children to point out these natural
beauties
Even in the congested areas in the
early evening children may he taught
to look for the new moon, for eX-
ample. Let them learn to loye trees
in the park and to guard them as old
friends.
Yes, it is a beautiful world, even
I'm great congested city like this.
Why then let it waste its sweet
ness on the desert air?'
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-22
Do You See Our Beautiful World?
BY SOPHIE IRENE LOEB

Copyright, 1918, by The Press Pub
fishing Co.
tThe New York Evening World and
me Albuquerque Morning JournaD
The other day a friend from the
west came here to visit We were
riding on a northbound surface car.
AS we passed the various intersec-
tons of the streets she said. Have
you noticed what beautiful views you
set of the sky toward the river?
As you pass the >east and west
streets the tall buildings make a reg
ular frame, as in pictures. You get
fine bit of scenery.
And in the west at sunset these
glimpses of nature are most charm
ing. / pointed this out to several
friends while visiting here" she said
but no one had noticed it.
Everybody seems so busy, yet
they will look at little etching of
Venice or Rome which has no more
than bit Of sky and earth, and they
will say. ooh, how wonderful
But they never see the beauties
of their own city, surrounded as it is
by majestic harbors, as scenically
picturesque as anything in the world.
You New Workers usually go out
side your own city to see lovely scenes
when they are. at your very doors.
No view on the Thames was ever
more dreamlike or artistic than your
old ferries coming through in the fog.
"Or is it that in your great metrop-
oils you are so busy making millions
and rushing for the subway trains that
you do not care TO commune with
nature in her visible forms?'
II wonder if you all realize how
much you lose at the end of the
year,"
| could not hut reflect on my
friends analysis. How many of us
really do lose the lovely things just
for lack Of interest to look for them
Isn't it time TO turn over n new leaf ;"
For -four miserable years no one
with any heart could enjoy anything.
The beautiful side of life was largely
lost in the bombs of battlefield and
the smoke Of shrapnel
All personal enjoyment seemed al
most mockery as comared to the bus
iness Of winning the war. But now
is a good time for every human be-
ing to get somethingi of the artistic
element of existence.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-22
WE MUST GIVE OR THEY MUST
STAIsNE.

The KiWanis club heard a dreadful
story, at it's luncheon last Wednesday
of the famine and death in various
parts of what was the Turkish en-
pire. The peoples who are starving
are Armenians, Syrians and Greeks
all Christians who were despoiled by
the Mohammcdan Turks.
a long period of starvation is yet to
be endured before harvest. All the
aid that can be given by well-fed
Christian lands will be needed to tide
over the hungry victims of the war in
the. countries where the Turk commit
ted the unspeakable atrocities
From authoritative data we know
there are approximately four million
people, in what was Turkey, who are
and weakened by suffering. OF this
number. one million. including four
hundred thousand children, are where
charity can reach them. These child
rem must have bread to keep soul and
body together during the early
months OF 1919.
The American people are called on
for aims from almost every quarter
of the earth; but this is not a hard
ship. 1t is an honor and an opportun-
ity. America today is counted to be
far richer than when the war began.
Every other belligerent nation is
poorer; and some are so impoverished
that patched clothes and pinched fare
will be their lot through whole gem
GRAFTON.
1t is up to America the rich coun-
try, the easy victor in war, to dis
charge her obligation to the unfortu-
nate, the impoverished, the famine
strieken-thosc who have been made
to suffer terribly through no fault of
their own.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-22

Germany now is looking backward
and fixing the blame for the world
war. And she finds no other source
than that which originated within
herself and which she has SO care
fully nurtured for so many years.
The German people were proud of
their military system, which they be-
lieved invincible. This feeling was not
UNIVERSAL of course, but the major
thought of a country is always re-
Elected pretty clearly in it's newspa-
pers. The newspaper attitude in Ger
many before the war and now Is an
interesting study in contrasts Then
virtually every paper except a few So
cialist organs supported the kaiser
and the spirit of which he was the
visible manifestation A few seec-
tions from papers in widely separat-
ed sections of Germany show the view
generally held by the press of the
country today.
ut becomes our imperative duty to
remove from German politics the in
fluence of all those who are guilty
of spreading in Germany the super
stltion that might and force are the
only things that matter" says the
Volkstimme of Chemnitz, in Saxony.
1t is only by insisting on this ruth
less expurgation that we can Justify
our own claims on the adversary to
deal with us justly
A 30-Year Failure.
Wilhelm II had thirty wears Of on
portunity to make himself popular in
Germany, but he failed to do so. His
disappearance, of course. does not
mean the end of all our internal and
external troubles, but the regime in
Germany has been radically changed
and it is imperative that the family
flag of the Hohenzollcrns be flung in
to the lumber room.
The most fearful tragedy in the
worlds history has been enacted. Mil
lions Of people have suffered the dir
est distress for years. Hundreds of
thousands have lost their limbs or
their lives for a bloodthirsty mania.
Such things must never happen again
through German guilt. Formerly it
might have been said that he who UNI
chained world war did not know
what he was doing. Today he does
know"
The Elherfeld (Prussia) Ireie
presse says:
1--WE all know but too we'll how Will
tltiiil IL mas SlnHeu, anu now ne mas
caused the belief to he spread through
out the world that the German peo-
pie were n people of robbers madden
ed with the lust for power. We shall
never forget how he constantly went
out of his way to threaten all ma
tons.
Certainly during the war he has
learnt something. He has restrained
himself somewhat in his outrageous
passions. This, however, does not
wipe out the old transgressions. A
mere confession of sorrow in words
does not suffice to undo the wrong
that has been perpetrated. Besides
we have had more than enough eX-
perience of the conversion of VIII
helm III.
Bar TO Lasting Peace.
How do we know if one day he
may not succeed in persuading his
followers to restore. if they can, the
old intolerable system? No; there can
be no such thing as peace with the
Hohenzollerns, either for Wilson or
for the German people. 1t is sad
enough that it should be left to an
enemy power to become mighty ally
in our cause before we could be in
duced to thing of sett ling accounts
with this man.
"Yet this account has not been set
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-22
oPPoRTuNE FOR ROAD WORK.

1t is now known that many re-
! turned soldiers and war workers will
! not he able to secure immediate en-
1 ployment. The process of reabsorp-
! ton into the industries and business
of the country will be SLOW If re-
| turning soldiers are preferred, others
will have to lose the means of sup
port for themselves and those depend
ent oVTheir employment. This con-
tinues the unemployment problem.
! If the railroads were free from the
grip of government control and oper-
alton and were also freed from the
| ruinous laws imposed upon them by
domagoguos, they could give employ
ment to hundreds of thousands of
laborers. The demand for improve
ments are imperative. But Uncle
Sam will not commence such work
and he will not permit the railroad
companies to use either their cash or
their credit for such work.
But the American government now
has in France a large number of ex-
pert road-makers and hridge-bu
They are equipped with tractors and
all manner of machinery for the best
road construction.
These men have acquired much val
liable experience in building and in
maintaining military roads behind the!
lines. They have amazed French ex-
perts by the CELEBRITY and efficiency of
their work
Everybody Vac has had experience
with the department of agriculture
in its administration of the federal
road construction work, know that
department is so wound about with
red tape that nothing worth while can
he expected from it,
But it so happens that just now the
plan for national highways under con-
troll of congress acting through a.
commission is now to the front. The
public is aroused as never before TO
the need for hard surfaced roads and |
to the necessity for giving employ
ment to the millions of men who will !
soon be returning to their homes.
1t would be highly practicable for
the government to bring these effi-
cient engineering units home and put
them to work, not compulsorally, on
the highways Many of the members
Of the bodybuilding units have no
special jobs waiting for them here.
The road machinery used in France
will have to be junked unless it can
be employed in tie United States.
The government is now we'll equip
ped to tackle the bodybuilding job
that is required for the employment
of the returning soldiers and for as
surance that we shall have an era of
prosperity ahead of us. 1t is a moral
duty as well as good business
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-22
MIR. BuRLESON AS a SPOIL SMAN

II Postmaster General Burleson has
q reply to make to the charge of the
CIVIL Service Reform league to the eff
feet that, in conjunction with the fed
eral civil service commission he has
perverted the rural free delivery serv-
ice to partisan enda, he should lose
no time about it. The statement of the
league is specific, and reveals pecul-
iarly shameless procedure. Old routes
We're abolished and new ones estab-
lished, because the law inconveniently
stood in the way of throwing out re-
publicans and appointing democrats
directly If this is not an open viola
ton of the spirit Of the law. Mr., Bur
lesson owes ii to himself to explain
how
1t is bad enough for member OF
the cabinet to evert to what we
had hoped was an obsolete use of the
appointing power at Washington
at least, although Mr. Bryan showed
the country that it was not so far
along In this respect as it had believed.
But the discouraging and alarming ele-
lnent in the situation is the pliability
of the commission. We are accus-
toned in this city to seeing men who
were appointed to protect the merit
system lending themselves to schemes
to break 1t down, but we were hardly
prepared for such spectacle in the
national capital
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-22
THE ORIGIN OF YANKEE, f"

It IS singular there Should be any
question concerning the origin of the
we'll known sobriquet of yankee"
Nearly all the old writer's who spoke
of the Indians first known to the
colonists make them pronounce the
word English instead of "Inglish,'
and there is a close conformity of
sound between the English" and
''Yengeese," more especially if the
latter word, as was probably the case
be pronounced short.
The transition from "Yengeese,"
thus pronounced, to Yankees" is
quite easy. If the former is pro-
nounced "Yangis," it is almost dent-
cal with Yankees" and Indian words
have seldom been spelt, as they are
pronounced. The liquids of the indian
would easily convert "lnp into yen"
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-22

cred only the deepest mistrust of the
Caucasian peoples.
I'VE conquered Russia and paved
the way for the fall of Russian alb
solutism and turned the revolutionary
Russian people into our enemies.
The Wrong system.
why? Because wherever we went
/ we brought with us the system of
/ government that Expresses ourselves.
/ Everywhere We acted as despots, and
| everywhere we supported the oppres-
sors against the oppressed masses.
The German people will now have
I to pass through distressful times. En-
| ergetic and ruthless action is impera-
! tive. The Augean stable must be
| thoroughly cleansed. open wide the
| doors and windows that the new
/ spirit may enter We need light, air,
freedom. and, above all truthful
ness"
From tho Strassburg (Alsace) Freie
Presse is taken the following:
Ought it ever to have been neces-
sary that the power of all the free
peoples of the earth should have been
concentrated against Germany?
Let us glance back al the follow
ing factors:
i. The invasion of Belgium. BY
solemn treaties Germany was bound
to refrain from violating Belgian soil.
| The government however, to which
the German people had entrusted
their destiny violated those treaties
on that sinister August day. The Ger
man lordly caste saw only the STRAIT
egic advantages of the march through
Belgium, its moral effects were never
taken into account. Today the Ger
atonement for the tragic guilt of hav-
ing placed material power above NOR
al right
housing America.
%. The U-boat war. Germany's
best men. Bethmann- Hollweg and the
social democrats, solemnly warned us
against flinging the challenge in the
face of the last neutral great power.
America.
Experts of the stamp of Grand Adj
miral TirpitZ, statesmen of the type
Of Herr Helfferich, decided otherwise.
Within a few months time, the SUBJ
marine blockade will place England
in the bitterest predicament, and she
will he forced by famine in her cities,
by lack of ore for her furnaces TO
lay down her arms they said.
What about America?
BAH What can she do to us?
Never will she be able, owing to the
lack of tonnage, to send great army.
man, horse and car across the ocean
In this way, America, the giant
land of a hundred million citizens:
America with the greatest industry,
and the greatest stores of raw mater
ials in the world, was brought into
the arena
g The peace of BrcSt -Titoysk Rus
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-22
A Good Word for Chamberlain's
Tablets

81 am very much pleased to have
the opportunity to say n good word
for Chamberlain's Tablets" writes
Mrs. Mamie Bartel. Moberly, Mo. II
think it is the best thing for stomach
troubles and constipation that have
ever used" The above shows the high
esteem in which Chamberlain's Tab
let's are held by those who have used
them. Give them a trial. They will
do you good.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-22

If he doesn't get the next bond is
sue over subscribed, Carter Glass will
merely add more luster to the repu-
tation of william G. McAdoo.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-22

There is reason to suspect that
Holland sincerely hopes there will
never be another war, or even ru-
NOR of war.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-22

Austria. never will be able to figure
out the price she will have to pay
for sending a brutal ultimatum to
Serbia.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-22
German Editors NoW See Where
Blame For Disastrous War Lies
Kaiser and MiLit0rist are Criminals

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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-22

Journal Want Aas bring results.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-22
Copyright, 1918.

u ITIt ITtNS 7 UUI5TNTIN 10
CThe New York Evening World).
New-York tribune., 1918-01-18

Percy Ames, down on the programme al
Lord Arthur Pendennis, wove the WOO,
of beguiling comedy. 1t. is a capita
idea, by the way, for a dramatist te
name some of his characters after
famous personages of fiction, thus
greatly diminishing the strain on the
spectators menory. Lord Arthur was
quite an amusing "old thing" to use
one OF his own expressions, and was
unhampered by any responsibility for
forwarding the plot.
The last scene Of the play offered an
effective contrast to the deeds of dar-
ing. The setting was an English
churchyard. A surpliced choir of sixty
voices sang hymns at the dedication of
SHRINE to the young men of the town
who had volunteered, while a hundred
American soldiers and sailors and a
group of British officers stood at attcn
ton before marching away to embark
for the front .
In the orchestra chairs were real
American generals, admirals, command
ers and lesser lights of the War De-
partment and of the army and navy,
giving semi official sanction to the play
which has run for more than year at
the Lyceum Theatre in London. The
entertainment was revamped for Ameri-
can wear by that renowned play cob
bier, Max MARGIN, and had been on tour
long enough to shake down into smooth
running order, which is an achievement
in itself for such voluminous pro-
duction
Seven Days Leave" has all the pop.
ular stuffings of really truly melodrama.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-18
Music
Beethovens Ninth Sym
phony Played at Carnegie
Hall Under Stransky

The greatest Of all the symphonies.
beethoven's Ninth, was played last
night at Carnegie Hall, under Mr..
Stransky's direction, at Philharmonic
performance that at times came close
to being inspired. The assisting chorus
was the "New Choral Society of New
York" which Louis Koemmenich
formed after leaving the Oratorio
Society last spring.
After the first movement of tho
Beethoven work, a performance which
was lacking in clearness, fnesse and
the larger structural feeling, Mr..
Stransky launched into reading of
the scherzo which stirred the blood.
he staccati bit, the inner voices, all
told their tale of music; the wind in
struments hymned their strange dithy-
rambic p@an. 1t was a performance of
which Mr.. Stransky and the orchestra
may we'll be proud. The adagio was
scarcely less telling. For once the
Philharmonic strings played in COM
plete accord, with the purest toae, and
with wellnigh perfect phrasing.
Kerns, Arthur Hackett, Alma Beck and
Arthur Middleton, did It's best with its
two forid passages, which Beethoven
wrote with such cruel disregard of the
capacities of the human voice But its
best was hardly satisfying at Mr..
Stransky's rapid and inf1exible tempo
Except for this and few other pas
sages, the tempt and the rhythms were
admirable. Mr.. Middleton sang his
m rtial solo with fine dignity. An Eng
llsh text was used, poetic enough in
/ - /, vet scarcely satisfying to anv
who are familiar with Schiller's fine
original Is it really necessary to ban
the German of Schiller, the rebel.
Schiller. the hymner of revolutions.
AS for the chorus which Mr. Koem-
menich has trained, it sang it's difficult
music with admirable volume. balance
and precision. But it was best to b.
Judged in the Brahms "Schicksalliedv
which preceded the symphony. Here
1t displayed notable smoothness of
tone and accuracy in the finer shadings.
MI. Koemmenich obtained a thoroughly
fine effect from his orchestra. The
Brahms Tragic Overture" opened the
programme.
In the afternoon the four talented
young ladies who compose The Ameri-
can String Quartet" gave a recital at
the Princess Theatre, assisted by Helm
rich Gebhard, pianist Their ensemble
is solid and vigorous. Though thev are
notlceably lacking in the art of nuance
and IN the sense of style, they possess
the reliable foundation upon which all
the rarer musical virtues are based.
Miss Marshall, the first violinist. and
Mr.. Gebhard played the new Debussy
sonata for violin and piano which
seems to have become popular this sea-
son quite beyond its deserts