The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-11-25
TODAY
IN THE NEWS
Christmas Buying
Pershing
Food Workers
- ROSNENOR B. CLARkSON
, Secretary of the National
- Ccuppil of Defense urges an

Council of Defense urges AN
immediate return 10 normal Christ
mas buying He says II is necessary
TO maintain trade balances. Prob
ably il is. II is no more necessary
now. however. than II has been all
along. The restriction upon Christ
mas bu$ing was never necessary
II accomplished nothing except to
discourage merchants and disturb
iinaEcial conditions.
With the awakened, militant
patriotism of the American peo-
pie al work there was never amy
danger of extravagant Christmas
buying. even had the war contnn
ucd. Under the continued urging
of government authorities, how
ever, much Christmas buying that
could not have been classcd as cX-
travagani, would have been dis
pcnScd with. The result would
have been heavy losses for dealers
and disturbance ins trade cGndl-
tions, and heavier losses in the
happiness of children TO which
they are entitled and with no real
reason for denying them their hap.
piimss.
The need for personal economy
throughout all America is as i'm
peratiyc now as before the fight
ing ended We have still TO meet
very hcavy calls from our govern.
mcnt not only in taxes but in pop.
ular loans. There will be no escape
from this responsibility. The AN
nounccmcnt of the Council of DE
fcnsc therefore, should not be-
signal for riotouS ChriStma5 cx-
trayagancc. II should. however,
encourage the normal Christmas
buying, which should have bcca
permitted anyway,
II is even more important tha,
Christmas buying and Christmas
mailing be- done early Th'rc is
still a heavy shortage of labor.
There is still a serious congestion
of mail and express The Christ
mas season will be happier for all
If Christmas buying is done as uS-
ual in normal times, and done at
once.
The announcement of the organiza-
ton OF an ONO pcrshing league. Cor
tho purpose OF making General Perish
ING tho republican candidate for prcsi-
dent In 1870 Us not az an surprising
II is. IN fact, surprising that some such
organization has not appcarcd before.
There Is not much doubt that u will
prove popular organization among
republicans and that II Will spread
throughout the country.
Tho result 20 be accomplished u,
tho Porshing league viii depend ycrN
largely upon the attitude of General
pershng toward u rorShinp TO-DAY
rs q populgr hero, ucrtlng his popu-
larit>. His ~ KIND of appeal 10
which tho people of this nation have
never failed to respond IN the past
Moreover. IN addition to hts position
ns a popular hero. ncrshng demon
Wratcd In his work ON the border and
~ the McNiCan expedition. before his
final demonstration of great ability AS
commander of the cNpedtionary
forces In France. that he is a thor
oughiy able. level headed American.
Tho republicans OF ohio are updouht-
cdly wise ~ launching the PcrahinP
presidential boom az this early dny
At this time Pcrshing Is tho strongest
presidential material the republicans
have IN sight, not even cNccptns Col.
NOoscVclS
Probnb, u ia INST az wcI that no
appointment ot % food administrator
for New MeNico Ice made for tho pres
sui. or, as has been Indicated bv an
officer OF the food administration to-
daN. until an nftor-wnr program for
food administration har been dotor-
mined. From another source of avuil-
able information another political ap.
pointment had boon determined upon
for New MoNico This kind at an ap-
poinimcnt would not have added "a
tho efficiency OF the food adm.uistra-
tion in this state. or 10 its popularity
somo kind OF national food admiEis-
tration or regulation viii be nccc sEli w
after pence has been concluded What.
ever form ol administration rs deter
mindc up, partisan political Influence
should be eliminated from us policy
and personnel II that is not accom-.
pushed the administration. whatever