Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-12-31
THE PASSING OF 1919.

: Atmidnight, the old year will pass
into history.
For the American people the year
has been one of joy and uneXampled
prosperity. The war over our soldiers
home from foreign soil, the earth
yielding crops in abundance, demand
for labor even greater than than the
supply, the rewards of effort more
than was ever experienced before in
the annals OF the human race, we may
long love the year 1919.
with Tennysons ode to THE Dying
Year" each of us may well say:
eve did so laugh and cry with you,
I've half a mind TO die with you,
Old year If you must die
"A jollier year we shall not see
For MS the horn of plenty has been
turned upside down, While the prices
of the necessities of life have been
high, we have had the price not only
TO pay for them but for more than the
usual amount Of Injuries.
Now and then we have had labor
troubles, but they have been composed
before any considerable trouble came
to the country. The Mexican situation
has been threatening, but the clouds
which have been hanging over our
border for many years have not yet
broken in the threatened storm of war
During the past year there has been
a great spiritual awakening in the
country. Drifting rapidly toward ma
terialism, the war came in Europe
and revealed the depths into which
the worship of so-called efficiency and
scientific knowledge had plunged Ger
many, the most learned nation Of the
world,
IN order to combat successfully the
rising tide of materialism, h e
churches sent out appeals for vast
funds to be expended in educational
and other work for the promotion OF
religion. The responses have been lit
lie less than phenomenal In every
instance more money than was asked
has been pledged, and this in the face
OF drives for various organizations en-
gagged in uncompleted war work and
for the subscriptions to the Victory
loan and under taxes which only few
years ago would have caused revolu-
ton.
Campaigns for non-religious institu-
tions of higher learning have met with
similar responses. Alumni and others
have subscribed money by the MIL
lions TO Harvard, Yale, Princeton and
practically every other university OF
standing in the country. The small
colleges have received donations IN
excess of all the other donations OF
the past, and the work Is going on
with increasing rather than diminish
ing vigor,
The journal is just closing the most
prosperous year in its history, for
which it has to thank its subscribers
and advertisers. Barring the fact that
great scarcity Of print paper exists, the
outlook for the coming year is better
than il was when this year began.
Prices are going to continue high
for everything the people OF New Mex
leo produce. Money will be plenutul
for the next twelve months and de-
pleted stocks in many lines will have
10 be replenished. Nationally, adVer-
Users will continue to use newspaper
space just as long as he government
maintains the surtax on incomes
caught by it, and as long as the people
have money 10 spend.
What is true of the Journal, is true
in greater degree of practically every
other line Of industry and trade. Inc
wear has been good, and we can hardy
hope for the coming year to be better
But we may all welcome 1.-THE new 1901
on the floor" and "the new face ~
the door" with confidence.
we have a good year ahead OF US
as well as a good year passing out