The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-04-01
WHAT RED|NGTON MAY
SAY At MAGDALENA
ON FRIDAY EVENING
Goes to Inspire Civic Action and
Commercial Initiative; Will
Speak to Mass Meeting in Prin.
cess Theater Much Interest.

city Manager R~cdington will deliver
IN address TO the people OF Magdalcna
next Friday evening. April !. NJ an
open meeting of their chamber of CON.
mcrrc, 10 Ice held in the Princess the.
alter there.
lie goes 90 tell Thorn something uf
how albuquerque did the marvellous
trick ot rr%Nnaucing her chamber Of
commerce In O. couple of hours one day;
and then went ont aud got 500 annual
members for three years ~ $50 per
ycur each, within a very short time.
Mngdul"nu is lust now in an attitude OF
"eccptivity.
kedingtou may tell them that the In.
diVidual - the unit ia human society,
aud In all communities. That duty. like
guilt, IL personal. That what benefits q
community helps EVERY member Of that
community. That the policy of "cyrry
fellow for himself aud tn, devil take
the hiudmOst - never accompli she's any
permanent advance. either for an indi.
vidu0l or a community. but always re-.
pcats ia ~. lack Of results the expert.
incni of the famous general who
marched his army up a hill aud then
marched them down again.
Tie may tell them that cooperative
chort and modern team work cannot
permanently aid any community which
repcls such efforts with Indifference and
preiudicrd %antipathN. The lcovrn Of
progress cuuuot save @ people who per.
sist an living IA the past. has It's back
turned 60 the future ana never secs an
opportunity until " n past.
He may call their attention 10 the
fact that blind dcvc,icn 10 precedent,
and the disposition not 20 attempt any
thing that has not been done before, ~
fatal 90 the idea OF embracing oppor.
tutiiy and taxing the tide ~ its flood
which leads ON 10 fortune.
lie may show them that while every.
day, commonplace duties may seem
m~onotonous, that thoy Wcre the step
ping stones which lifted Abraham Lin.
coin ~ immortality.
That whenever a single individual in
o community fail, 20 10 his ~ her duty
they become ms "a broken cog in a wheel
aud cause the entire machinery of 80.
Nclcty 70 fail 60 function properly az
Mat one point
H. may inspire them 20 unity OF effort
aNN purpose hv citing the facts Ot his
INNNs Wa lNNl NNfU Inv NEW 1NFk
colNuy became q state. August 30, l-1'.
~ b pd only a scnnt 200.0 u population,
had tuo ma ufuctorirs and no internal
Improvements. and was surrounded on
an sitlcs hy d powerful enemy with
y whom Nthc, were then ~ war. But de-.
spite ilhcsc hondi,aps. New York Is 90.
dn, th, riches, and most powerful state
in the iuiou.
ThatN China Was manufacturing Silk
cloth Thousands ot years before the
present Sit" of Paris was cleared Of it,
primcNaA forests. That all great cities
wcr" on3 smaller than Magdnlcua now
~. IhntIl oudou was started by a few
houses l9uilt bv the Romans as a pcr.
muncut lamp on the Thames. that Chi
cage audl pctrogTad were founded To- q
marsh. oil slough. that Liverpool was
once two houses nc the mouth of q little
stream. thiit birmingham, Ala. was, not
long ago. rorndcld; that the writer
talked vitA the man who took the first
census ot chicago. when he had To count
tho soldicrsl in old Fort Dearborn and
the strnggli bg, nomodic rottaw atomic
indians who happened 10 be- temporarily
sojourniug there ~ the time in order
TO exc out tie population of that then
village 10 onS thousand people.
He mnv callttLrir attention tn the fac,
tina, while thy name Mngdalena is Of
lowly origin and stood for an uufor'un
ate class OF society who were bruised
aud monglcd aud horne dow 10y the
struggle. WIRE out OF tuac with the
world and the infinite, yet they were
humble and meek withol, ard Christ,
said: blessed are the meek, for they
shall inherit thu earth
That a rosc liy any other name would
smell as sweet Bud that now II the time
for Mngdalena 10 get out and do "a little
% iuhcriting' OF IT, own.
Al these things he may tell the PEG.
pie Of MugdalcHn, or he may not. He
mny take the shorter cut and show
them in facts and figures how Albu
QucrQuv became great.
Ic may DO like Webster did In one Of
his FIRST cases ip court ,u which Il wagon
wheel figured prominently. Counsel for
plnintin spent much time In explaining
q wagon wheel and t. functions. Web
stcr brought the wheel into the court
room md simply said, Your honor,
here h. the wheel
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