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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-31

agricultural college and the school of
mines.
The remaining lands donated to the
state by the federal government can
be sold, says Governor Norbeck. for
approximately $7O,443.5OO. This would
make a grand total of $S4,375.S sos re-
ceived from the federal government
by that state
When Oklahoma became state the
federal government in addition to the
public school and endowment lands,
granted six million dollars in cash.
The total of everything of value re-
eeived by New Mexico from Uncle
Sam would not equal one-tenth of
what was given TO South Dakota
This state now has about thirteen
million acres Of the public domain
still open for homesteading. There
is no enlargement of homesteads that
can make these lands valuable for
that purpose, but # the state had
them and could sell them in large
tracts to cattle and sheep men, a fund
of about forty million dollars could be
created for the endowment of the
schools and roads of the states and the
state would be able to collect taxes
from them. Interest at four per cent
on this fund would amount to $2,000,-
600 annually.
This state needs the money, If the
present policy is continued by the
government, the lands will be gradu-
ally dissipated and the state will get
practically no benefit from them, be-
cause they are not fit for homestead
ing. They do not pay the federal
government for administering them
They are a liability. both to state and
nation now.
New Mexico has little to hope fori
so long as there is 4 democratic ad-
ministration at Washington but the
matter is of such great importance to
the state that the effort to get the
donation of these lands should begin
at once. II might succeed.
But if it should not succeed before !
March 4, 1921. there is every reason
to believe there will then be an ad
more friendly to New
Mexico and a congress that will be
overwhelmingly republican, and not
nd IN :
the United States.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-31
Man S Chance

IF you want the evidence that the
United States is in fact a democracy
in fact a land of opportunity, take a
look at the antecedents of the men
who are directing the war for its de-
fense,' says the Omaha World Herald.
president Wilson was the son of a
country parson. General Pershing was
born on a little Missouri farm. Mr..
Taft, chairman of the Red Cross CEN
trail committee, began his career as q
newspaper reporter; Charles NJ.
Schwab, director general of the Elner-
gency Fleet Corporation, started as a
$l-a-week water boy in a Pennsyl-
vania steel mill John d. Ryan. direc-
tor of aircraft production, was clerk
in small town grocery store: General
Goethals started at the bottom of the
ladder as West Point cadet Hoover
ran laundry agency, worked his way
Through college by waiting on table
and then went to work as a miner at
W a day; Henry p. DAWSON, head of
the Red Cross war council was Il
school teacher and then a bank rum
ner; Edward r. Stettinius, surveyor
general of army supplies, worked in
his fathers steamboat building yard
on the Mississippi; Bernard Baruch,
chairman of the shipping board,
worked on a farm for SIS month,
and later was a Burling, on railway To-
connective fireman: Vance Mccormick,
chairman of the war export board.
was farmer boy; Henry Ford started
as mechanic at $3.50 q week; Paul
Warburg, vice chairman of the fed
eral reserve board. was commission
house clerk: Samuel McRoberts, head
of the procurement division Of the
ordnance bureau. taught school to get
money to study law; Julius Rosenwald
carried salesmen's satchels and clerSed
in a store: William G. Coke, right
hand man to Schwab was a shipyards
apprentice. America is real democ-
racN land of opportunity, not alone
for the native born but for the foreign
born and their sons. We are today atI
war with Germany. Yet of the war
leaders above mentioned - six -
Schwab, Goethals, Stettinius, Baruch, |
Warburg and Rosenwald--bear Ger |
man names-Warburg was born in |
Germany But the blood in their veins
has not counted against them even at /
a time when we are engaged in the /
greatest war of history against the I
land Of their forefathers. Their UNI
livided loyalty to the United States
with their exceptional abil-
ty, has sufficed to give them now
positions at the head Of
our war activities"
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-31
NEW MEXICO TREATED
UNFAIRLY.

The general opinion is that the year
ahead of us is going to be one of un-
paralleled prosperity for the country
at large. We of New Mexico should
sec TO II that we share in this pros
perity.
From the federal government, this
state has received nothing in proper
ton to what has been received by
other states on admission to the
union. Our representatives in con-
gress-two senators and one represen-
tatiye-should undertake to get the
unalloted federal lands turned over
TO the state for utilization.
Here is what South Dakota re-
ceived. as shown by statement of
the governor:
The permanent school fund, derived
from the sale of school lands, now
amounts 70 $1S.ss2,Ses. This does
not take into consideration the en-
dowment lands for the state unver-
sity, for the three normal schools, the
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-31
SPREADING THE NEWS.
kansaslC City Star.

A captain said to a company of ne
groes. Now. l want you fellows to
learn this game thoroughly. Suppose
our company is holding the line here
and the boche makes direct charge
at us ACROSS this field, what would
you boys do?"
We'll, captain came from one
member of the company. I'VE sho
would spread the news over France"
On one transport going over, one
negro trooper said to another. a very
seasick boy, Look out dere and see
that sailboat.'f
Don't you call me for no sailboat.
niger" came from the sick fellow
lying with his head on his arms,
don't YOU gall me at all unless you
see a tree"
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-31
FAMOUS "WAGERS" Or OLDEN
DAYS


To the betting giants of the good
old DAYS" the wagers made by the
"pikers' of today would seem trif-
fling and lacking in ingenuity. In
former times freak wages were much
more frequent than now, and often
exhibited much more originality and
imagination The craze for betting
in England in former centuries was
INDUCED in bv the high and low, and
an account of the famous bets would
fill a volume.
Queen Elizabeth was an inveterate
gambler, and the wagers she made
covered p wide variety of subjects.
On onH ceces'on she made a bet with
Sir Walter Raleigh on the question
IF how much smoke is contained in
a pound If tnhacco A pound of the
weed was burned. ana then the ashes
WEIGHED The matter of the weight
Of the smoke was held 70 be salts
factorily determined BY the test all
though q school bow of today would
laugh at such amethod ann point out
its fullacy.
A classic example of old freak wag-
ers is afforded in the Young man who
bet considerable sum that he could
stand for a whole day on London
bridge, offering sovereigns fresh from
the mint for n penny apiece and find
no buyers He won the wager.
The sack coot worn by men to-
day is said to have resulted from a
WAGER made by Lord Spencer. an
eighteenth century fashian arbiter.
He bet that il he cut off his coat tails
such a mutlated style of garment
would soon attain general popular
ity. and he was right,
In the middle part of the eighteen.
III century King George III of Eng
land had as his master of the revels
one Heidegger, whose ugliness was a
hy-word throughout the Kingdom.
The king himself il is said joined in
n wager that an uglier human being
than Heidegger could not be found
In all Londcn. Several weeks passed
before a candidate was found in the
person of an old hag. and commits
tee of artists were called upon to de-
eide the issue IIeidegger good-nat-
llredlv consented to the test. At first
the judges We're inclined TO award the
palm to the old woman, but one of
them suggested that it was her hid
eous bonnet which gave her the pre-
eminence The bonnet was then
placed on HeideRger's head. and the,
result was so ludicrous that he was
declared to be the ug-
lest person in the Kingdom.
.-A---------s- ------------- s.
~ No - H. A.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-31
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.


S. 1.-The League of Nations idea
may be we'll enough in theory. but it
isn't going to work out in practice.
How Is 1t possible that fifty nations
with fifty different languages can get
together and form a peaceful agree
ment? 1t isn't natural It's contrary
to human nature.
The above view was very common
before the war Almost everybody
then regarded the League of Nations
as mere theory. interesting enough,
but not likely to work out. Now the
war has changed all that. especially
IN Europe. The common people of
Europe, weary Of war, disguised with
the old system of economic rivalries
and competing ornaments that made
war inevitable, eager for some new
way to avoid those things and make
peace and justice possible, are look
ing to tho League of Nations as the
logical solution for their troubles
They look upon President Wilson as
their chief advocate, and their en-
thuSiasm for his views was shown in
the rousing welcome they gave him
in Paris and London.
The people of the United States also
are anxious that there should be no
more war. Only our indifference to
European politics before the war and
our consequent ignorance kept us
from understanding the danger of the
situation; and our small part in the
suffering caused by the war has not
been sufficient to make us see the
urgent necessity for making careful
plans to render future wars unlikely.
II We had gone through the expert
enees that the nations of Europe
have, we'd feel the way they do
There IS real solidarity in the aspir-
ations of people everywhere. 1t is
human nature to be suspicious of
things and people that we do not
know; but 1t is also human nature
to become attached to things and peo-
pie that we do know.
AS time goes on the barriers of
distance and language tend always to
become less important, as we develop
means of intercourse. There is indeed
more difference IN the views of pro-
gressives and conservatives in the
same country than between the pro-
gressives of two neighboring coun-
triesA If Wilson and Senator Lodge
and Lord Miner and Lloyd George
We're to have convention. Wilson
dAti l4ioNd btotSt Noulu as d general
tHng be lined up against Lodge and
Lord Miner. Yet on a dozen prob
lens of the day the alignment might
be different.
In the matter of the League of Ma
tons there IS no sharp division as
between the countries. In every coun-
try there are some who are working
for the League and some who are
working against it. Nor is this divi- |
sion necessarily between the forces of
progressivism and conservatism |
Roosevelt was at the head of the
Progressive party" Yet he IS only |
q luke-warm supporter of the League. |
Taft, on tie other hand whom We
do not consider exactly radical. is |
president of the Leagne to, Enforce
Peace. The vice prcsidentsof the or
ganization is Alton b. Parker, demo- |
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-31
SEVEN THOUSAND
MEN LEAVE FOR
HOME DURING DAY
Three Transports Reported TO
Have Left France Loaded
With Troops Destined for u.
S, to be Discharged.
10y MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wasI

1
| Washington, Dec. 3O-Sailing OF
the three transports and of the three
hattleships serving as transports
bringing back troops from France
! was announced today by the war de.
| partment In all about 200 Officers
| and 1900 men comprise the units OF
the six ships
The transport Koenigen Der Neder-
landen sailed from France December
rs for Newport News with the follow
ing troops:
Headquarters lG3rd field artillery
brigade; 125th field artillery compris-
ing 46 per cent Minnesota troops; 8
per cent Iowa, per cent to Michigan.
! per cent to Montana, 20 per cent to
Camp Cody and 10 per cent to Camp
Travis; casual companies and 1921,
casual companies Of marines Nos. 332
and 1888.
ON the transport Powhatan, which
also sailed December 25 for Newport
News are the following:
Headquarters Fifty-ninth field ar
tillery brigade 127th field artillery
regiment; 115th trench mortar bat
terry; casual company No s, sick and
wounded, 352.
The battleship Georgia sailed De-
cember 26 for Newport News with the
Sixth trench mortar battalion COM
plete, and the 311th trench mortar
battery
The battleship Kansas sailed De-
cember &c for Newport News with the
Seventh trench mortar battalion. Third
anti-aircraft sector and casual COM
panies No. 800, 1928 and 324.
The battleship North Carolina sailed
December &c for New York. She
brings the 18th ammunition train
Headquarters, Companies r and G,
HEADQUARTERS detachment, ordnance
department and medical detachment
49Sth aero squadron and casual COM
NAMES Nos. pol, ZOE, 203 and 204 of
the marine corps.
The transport Pastores sailed De-
cember 26 for Newport News. She
has on board LIS sick and wounded,
accompanied by medical detachment
Of eight officers, forty men and eleven
nurses.
The sa'ling of three other trans
ports with several thousand soldiersi
was announced later The Nieuw AM
s'erdam sailed December 81 with the
301st field artillery. fiftv-four officers
and 1891 men, for demoblization att
Camp Devens, Mass. The ship carries
also casual company No 313. the adj
vance detachment from the Eighth,
Tenth and Eleventh divisions and a !
number Of casuals and sick and
wounded
The Santa Teresa. due at New York. |
January 6. is bringing back the 145th |
field artillery. I 400 men. for dcmo-
h'lzation in California and Utah. The !
ship also has aboard casual company
No. Z, and sick and wounded.
The Sibonev is due January 5 at
New York with the 16tst field a"til- I
lery brigade headquarters and the
3SSr1 field artillery, comprised of six |
D-thrce Officers and 1864 men. for
Generalization at Camp Grant. There
are aboard in addition casual COM
nanies 325th. 326th, 32Sth 329th
@@0th and 391st composed of two Of
ficers and las men each, and a large
number of detached officers and G35
sick and wounded.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-31
OUR FEDERAL LANDS,

An earnest effort in congress to get
the unallotted public lands of New
Mexico for endowment for public
roads might get results now The
eastern statesmen are coming to I'M
derstand that desert lands are not
good even in enlarged homesteads,
for Americans to settle on. Also they
are coming to understand that public
roads through a sparsely settled coun-
try canot be constructed and main
tanned by the people of that section,
and that they are national in character
as well as local
New Mexico still has about thirteen
million acres of unapportioned federal
lands, and the federal government does
not get enough from those lands to
pay for their administration and the
state gets no taxes from them.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-31
lNDEMNITIES AGREED
ON SAYS ERZBERGER

Berlin, Dec. 30 (By The Assocat-
Ell Press 1.-The question of ir,ienbi-
tics has been settled between Ger
many and the United States and the
allies, and German delegates signed
the armistice on condition that there
should be restrictions to indemnities.
according to Matthias Erzberger,
speaking here today.
The war damages and war costs,
he said, must be borne by each ma
ton itself unless expressly mentioned
Ia the rctes which, were exchanged
Germany being Obliged. 20 indemnify
districts she occuS.ed France and
Belgium and to pay all losses blflict-
ed upon the civilian population.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-31
TUESDAY DECEMBER 81. 1918
PASSING OF 1918.


The last day of a momentous year
A great and bloody war has beer
fought to a victorious conclusion ant
the world has been made safe for
democracy
People of America have done much
during the year just ending They
have learned that this is real gov
eminent of the people, by the people
and for the people-a government
worth giving their all for. including
life itself Thus America has found
herself, after much tribulation.
The war has been worth to the
American people all it has cost them
though the cost has been great.
First af all. We have learned the
value Of sacrifice. Before war came
circumstances had been easy for us
and we were living indoently-eat-
ing, drinking and growing fat and
lazy We were intensely selfish, and
not aware Of it, We didn't want con-
ditions disturbed. therefore, in order
leans to murder our citizens who had
committed no wrong; we merely en-
tered protest when the Lusitania
was sunk. We deluded ourselves with
the sophism that we were 100 proud
to fight
We are over all of that now. and
the world knows we arc over it. We
are hard as nails, our muscles are
toughened and spiritually We are no
longer gripped by the flabby pacifism
of Bryan. We have learned to save
and we have learned to give, as We
never imagined we could give or
save.
We have saved ty lending to the
government through the purchase of
Liberty bonds and thrift stamps; and
we have given to the Red Cross, the
Knights of Columbus. the Y. w. c. A.
and the Salvation Army and other
agencies for good Some of us have
saved who never saved before, and
some of us who never gave before
Under the stimulus of war chems-
try and mechanics have made won
derful strides. and mapkind will have
many valuable servants of which he
knew little or nothing prior to 1918.
We shall have better education, be-
cause the strain of war has taught
us that education must be practical,
and that we have no time or money
to waste in our schools On useless
things
Religiously much will be changed
Young men who have chummed with
death will come home with a deeper
reverence for God and good. but they
will have little time for vain forms
and useless regulations imposed by
church organizations. The worthless
will be thrown into the scrap heap,
and only those things of proven value
will be retained.
We shall have new era in our
politics. The demagogue will not
find it SO easy to fool the people
During the time of war stress we have
learned to peer under the surface of
the men who come TO us with political
curealls. They are frauds. and most
Of them know it.
The year passed was one of blood
shed and death. 1t brought grief to
tens of thousands of American homes,
but it also brought victory and prog
ness such as the world never has
known.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-31
BACHELOR GIRL REFLECTIONS
BY HELEN ROWLAND

sometimes woman never realizes
how much she has suffered until she
hears good divorce lawyer tell the
judge about It.
man has such naive, irresponsi
bic nature, that when you say. 1t
takes two to make a happy home"
he thinks You refer to his wife ana
the cock.
The trouble with many d girl who
comes to New York to flight her
way is that she can't find any glitter
ing temptations to struggle against"
It is not the third party" who sep
arates husband and wife half so often
as Il IS the stag party" and the hen
party"
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-31
GEORGE lit. MERELY
ONE OF THE CROWD
Copyright 1918. by the Press Pub
fishing Co.

Copyright 1918, by the Press Pub
fishing Co.
(The New York World
Especial Cable Dispatch to the World
and Albuquerque Journal.)
London, Eng, Dec. 90~-This is the
story of how George H. appeared
today when London. with mighty ac-
cord was cheering ,,self into frenzy
as the nrosident of he llnitnd States
with George V. role IN triumph
through its streets. .
On the bronze horse George III
had as company two nritish soldiers
astride behind him. two oth"rs IN
front and British sailor perched on
top his ungraceful steed's head
Around the horses feet stood dozen
other British soldiers. one with the
Stars AID STRIPES and another with
the Union Jack. From their peTches
these men of British fighting service
We're shouting: 1--WE want wilson,
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-31
Copyright, 1918.
b. the Press Publishing Co.
(New York Evening World.

When q man gets in bad grace with
his wife his first tnought is to relieve
the situation Ivy rushing out and TAX
Ing so many libations that he will get
into Disgrace with her
How did Germany expect to sue
coed at the game of war when she has
no national game, no sense of humor.
and, therefore. no Sporting blood %
oh, yes. Bertram. a girl CAN have
good mind' without having a bad
figure, a strong chin and a number
seven foot--but no one expects a man
to believe it.
To w!dower, getting married. is a
matter of precedent--to a bachelor,
matter of accident
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-31
KAISER'S HOST Is
ANXIOUS FOR CHANGE


Amsterdam. Dec. 30.---It is an open
secret that Count Won Bentinck. at
whose castle in Amerongen former
Emperor William is stopping, would
not be displeased with the departure
Of his guest, according to the Wagon
ingen correspondent of the Nieus Van
Den Dag.
The correspondent adds that it is
believed in the neighborhood that the
Castle De Monte may eventually be
rented to Herr Hohenzollern.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-31
\ Good Word for Chamberlain's
Tablets

II am very much pleased to have
the opportunity to say good word
for Chamberlain's Tablets writes
Mrs Mamie Bartel, Moberly, Mo. 81
think II is the best thing for stomach
ever used. The above shows the high
esteem in which ChaHberlainS Tab
let's are held by those who have used
Them. Give them trial They will
do you good.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-31
WHO NEVER HAS suFrERED.

Rev. j. =. GONIe. II.
Who ne'er has suffered, he has lived
but half
Who never failed. he never stiove
or sought. ef
Who never wept is. stranger to a latgh
And he who neycr doubted ntycr
thought.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-31
ASQUITHlANS MAY
SUPPORT GOVERNMENT

London. Dec. 60, via MONTREAL
Reuters Limited says ii understands
that the Asquith men elected to par
lament and also q number of coali-
ton liberal members Will be invited
to meet the defeated leaders of the
Asquith group before parliament con-
venes. 1t is recalled that former pre-
mier Asauith declared before the cleo
ton that the support of the govern
ment was not inconsistent with liberal
principles. II is persistently rumored
today that Asuuithians may reunite
under Premier Lloyd George.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-31
\ NEW ONE ny NORMAN ANGEIL

I observe that Norman Angel, who
wrote few years ago. THE Great
Illusion" book which proved con-
clusively that world war. was i'm
possible, is now o.1t with a hook prov
ing conclusively that League of Ma
tions is the thing-it is probably a
real illusion this time
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