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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-09
today EVENTS

Today is the centenary of the birth
of William T. G.. Morton. the Boston
dentist physician, who is generally
credited with having been the dis
coverer of the use of ether as an
anaesthetic in surgery.
Charles Nagel, who was secretary
of commerce and labor in the cab
met of President Taft, will celebrate
his seventeen birthday today.
Joseph McKenna, an associate JUS
tice of the supreme court of the
United States for over tWo-score years
and now the Oldest member in point
of service rs years old today.
Business sessions of the interna-
tional convention of Christian En-
deavor societies, which has held forth
in Buffalo all week. will conclude to-
day, although the convention pro
gram will be continued Sunday with
special programs in the churches.
What Missouri is producing TINS
year in her fields, gardens and
orchards will be illustrated with elab-
crate displays at the nineteenth an
nual Missouri state fair, which is to
have it's formal opening today at
Sedalia
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-09
THE WANDERING RooNr.

With Kentucky won Daniel Boone
found that. by one of the twists of
law, the plot of ground he thought
was his was not his all at. says Boys
Life. Almost like a penniless outcast
he moved to Virginia, but when fresh
tales came to him of land in the west
of the Mississippi, then called Louis
lana his siXty-one years did not deter
him from risking a fresh start. In
1895 he established fresh start In
1895 he establish himself near the
present city of st. Louis and took
what he thought was a deed to land !;
but in 1903, when this territory pass
ed from Spain to the United States,
he found this claim worthless. But
now the American people were awak-
end to a realization of what Boone's
leadership in kentucky had meant to
the nation. Congress granted him
$50 acres of land. There in the west,
free from want, he passed his lase
days. Twenty-Five years after his
death his remains were brought back
to Kentucky. And in the land he
gave to civilization he sleeps. this man
who carried the torch of civilization
among a savage people and barred his
chest to the shock of battle that its
flame might not be eXtinguished.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-09
Copyright, 1919. by Press Publishing {

Copyright, 1919. by Press Publishing
Famous doc says boiling food
makes a beefy feminine figure. Just
another way of saying haste makes
waist.
Average Broadway Jane amt beefy
too much like sausage. Forty per
cent meat. fifteen per cent skin food
and fifteen per cent coloring.
Girl that states her face is her fer
tune says something. Any kind OF u
face costs a fortune these days.
Cover charges at cabaret are
never spent on the girls costumes.
Always called our choicest enemy
q piece OF cheese til we bought a
piece in a restaurant, Now we kno"
it's like calling him string Of pearls.
Paper asks Where does a New
Yorker go after midnight" We know
what he goes after. but we don't
know where.
Prohibition has ruined the taxi bus
! mess. Ought to. Some of the pas
sengers can now read the meter.
Taxi driver used to be a sous4's
| best friend. Waiter'd hold him up til
he got in the taxi. and then the taxi
! man would hold him up for the rest,
Three second is the limit for a kiss
! in the movies. Which destroys our
ambition to be an actor.
Critics always charged that movies
! didn't reflect real life. Three Sc ono
| kisses prove it,
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-09
AIn the DAYS News"

Lord Finlay. who is to visit Win
nipeg this month to speak at the an
nual meeting of the Canadian Bar
association, is one of the eminent lead
ers of the English bench and bar to
whom many honors have fallen. He
is a Scotchman. II years old. the son
of an Edinburgh doctor His educa-
ton was received at the famous uni
versity of the Scottish capital. Medi-
cine was his first choice of a profess
sion, but after graduation he turned
to the law, and was called to the bar
in 1867. A large practice became his:
he was made queens counsel, and
bencher of the Middle Temple in
London, and, finally, when Lord Sails
bury again became premier in 1895.
Mr.. Finlay, as he then was, received
, appointment as solicitor general and
was honored with knighthod. In 1900
| he exchanged the solicitor general
seals for those of the attorney gen
eral, which office he filled for six
| years.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-09
lust A LII AFTERTHOUGHT

Co. (The New York Evening World).
Still. YOU can accomplish a lot IN
three seconds of kissing. Many guy
has missed the last car home N those
final three seconds.
1t takes ten seconds to knock out
a boxer. And a couple of seconds and
bucket of water to bring him to,
In the ring. it's Knockout at the
end of ten seconds. In the movies,
| it's a fade-out.
After a few reels in the ring a prize
| fighter staggers and falls. After few
reels in the movies, Vamp's just get
| ting warmed Up.
Referee counts in a boxing match.
Box office is all that counts in the
filmies.
And a lot of clinches make a bum
! fight but a good film.
Kissing schedule for the Tired
Business Man runs something like
| this:
$50 a. m.-Kisses wife goodby;
two-thirds of second.
1000 a. m.--Kisses stenographeI
good morning; 60 seconds,
1901 a. m.-kisses stenog again.
4:30 p. m.--KisSes stenog goodby
one minute twenty second.
$50 p. m.-Kisses maid in from
Vestibule; 60 seconds.
5:31 p. m.--Kisses wife; one -thir(
of a second.
! No wonder he's a T. B. NJ.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-09
FRENCH HORSE TRADERS,

David Harum wouldn't have a ghost
of a show in a horse trade with a
FrenChman, according to Col. M. Z
Bristol, cavalry, who carried on the
for selling 10000 horses
belonging to the army to the French
government, as an exchange tells it.
Animals that the government
bought for $500 from the French dur
ing the war are now being sold back
for $3.50. Colonel Bristol said, but he
admitted that, of course, the Ameri-
cans had their use during the war.
I'VE went to the French govern
ment with a proposition to sell them
all of our horses said Coltnel Bris-
toll in telling of his experience to
army friends at the western depart
ment. I'VE were told that about 5000
animals were all they could take.
Then we opened negotiations with
German civilians in the occupied areas
and were selling a few when the
French government heard about it.
1t didn't take them long to snap up
the whole lot at higher price than
we would have sold before and higher
than the Germans were paying u.s.
Colonel Bristol said it is now a rec
ognized fact that American cavalry
would have been of inestimable value
during the closing months of the
war
Our cavalry is trained in differ
ent way from the British or French,
he said sour men are really mount
ed infantrymen who use their horses
for transportation only and then dis
mount to fight You can't go gallop'
ing up against machine-gun nes
and get very far, and that's exactly
what some of the allied cavalry triet
! to do with later regrets, 1t is an es'
| tablished fact and recognized II
| Europe that the A .nerican cavalry
| is the best trained in the world. They
don't use the lances and swords OF
the old-time dragon, but the same
rifles as given the infantry"
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-09
OUR FRIEND THE COTTONWOOD.


The nurseryman sells you cotton
wood sapliag with his tongue in his
cheek. The arboriculturist damns it
with the faint praise of quick
growth" implying early decay. The
up-to-date city planner openly scorns
it, Nevertheless, the cottonwood is a
most friendly tree. 1t sings and signs
and murmurs all day long. 1t is full
of weather signs. The suggestion Of
a zephyr will set it all aflutter, while
the elm, maple and ash remain as
rigid as If carved out of jade.
1t flutters because it belongs to
the aspen section of the pOplars, the
leaves hanging from a thin, flattened
stem as elastic as rubber. Hence a
smart breeze will set the leaves to
somersaulting, spinning and pirout-
ting like so many fairies mad with
glee. The clapping of their little
| hands mimics the patter of rain.
But ever and anon during the jubi.
! liant performance a single leaf, even
in June, will lose its grasp and fluttei
! to the ground like a wounded but.
! terfly, showing the hectic, yellow hue
| of death as it turns over and over OF
| its zigzag journey to earth. At this
| a hush seems to fall over its erstwhilt
companions. But in life we are II
death, even in the green kingdom o.
the leaves, and presently the dance il
resumed.
A gale, pursued by thunderstorm
! dashes * A wild commotion in TIT
cottonwood follows. The great. glo
| bular head of the tree rises and fall
| like a billow The multitudinou
! leaves remind one of a great flock o
green butterflies engaged in a MAJ
whirl The pendulous branchlet
| writhe and double upon themselves
striking out like whips, Only tn
great mother branches remain calm
They know. They have lived long
while a few summer months consti
tute the span of life of the frenzie'
leaves.
The day ends. You go to sleep. Blu
the cottonwood. shot through Wit
shafts of moonlight, remains OF
guard. 1t records the passage of tn
night winds, the sudden shower. wax
when you will, it softly whispers
sleep on. Ais we'll" And at daWi
it's vaulted canopy is vocal with Tn
lmatutinal notes of the birds.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-09
"MooT POINT,

A venerable institution of London's
legal quarter-the Moot-whicn dur
ing the war was suffered to fa.l into
allegiance, has now been reinstated at
the Inns of Court. The Moot belongs
to quite another age. but II is still
useful as providing a means of testing
the abilities of candidates to the bar.
Even should it have been suffered TO
disappear definitely from the Inns of
Court institutions, the Moot would
have left a reminder in the Language
of its former presence. says the Chris
tian Science Monitor. The exoressioa
"a moot point" springs from the
practice of holding discussions for
the solution of points which no
amount of discussion can settle: the
very raisOn d 'etre of the moot.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-09

mittee on railway matters that full
power was still in the hands of the
administration, no revocation having
been made, the president will through
Administrator Hines act as fore
Swallowed in advice to the senate that
an increase should be made.
When the president submitted to
congress the suggestion that action
should be taken to comply with the
new demands of railway labor, it was
considered by politicians as an effort
to politically embarrass congress by
placing it in the position of having
to refuse the demands and incur the
wrath OF organizations. or else con-
sent to higher wages and place addi-
tional burdens in rates upon the
public
The president knew his authority
was still in force, but by putting the
matter up to congress virtually
secured an order to go ahead. His
main purpose was probably to silence
criticism from that body, which he
had given opportunity to take over
the responsibility, that he will now
exercise again at the risk of creating
discomfort among the people.
While the demand of the organiza-
tons was alternative, that either i'm
mediate reduction of living cost be
made or wages increased, it was in
effect for the latter, because there
was no possible way to Immediately
lower the scale of costs of commodi-
ties generally. A mere order from
the railway administration will in.
crease wages and another will raise
transportation rates.
There can be no avoidance of such
orders and they must be in effect
until some final system for operat.
ing the lines can be arranged. which
cannot be provided safely in a few
days nor in a few weeks to the salts.
faction of the country
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-09
CLOSING CHURCHES.

Many churches close in different Sec
tions Of the country in summer. while
the ungodly remark that the devil
never takes a vacation. Churches are
usually cool places in hot weather,
suggestive of the rest and quiet that
Sunday was supposed to bring to man.
Yet many peoples theory of rest is to
get out on long automobile runs over
hot and dusty roads. frequently on
crowded thoroughfares.
The fact that churches are not as
largely attended as formerly does not
prove that they are less useful. Years
terest In small towns there was moth
ing else going on. The crowd that
filled the pews might be attracted
quite as much by the gossip around
the horse sheds, as by the eloquence
of the preacher or the fervor of his
spirit.
Today the church completes with all
forms of diversions and sports. Peo-
pie do not go unless they really
want to.
Where a church has TO close In
summer, it indicates some lack OF
community spirit The church Is or
ought to be the leading agent in the
cause of community advance, the
force that makes for the highest
ideals, that shows people that there
are better ends in life than money
and that service brings the best re-
wards. These lessons need to be
taught just as much in July as il
January, and they should have the
support of the whole community.
Church services are not long. min
listers are quick to see signs of sleer
in the pews, and sermons are not the
dry and dusty theological debates
they used to be. Clergymen are pretty
practical fellows nowadays, and they
say things well worth listening to. Tit
man who gives up an hour Sunda
morning to consideration of highe
| themes, returns to work Monda,
physically refreshed by his quie
morning, and mentally uplifted b!
| elevating thoughts.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-09
JAZZ AND TANGO FADE.


Music boOms, although very furious
while they last, are. as a rule short
lived. The cakewalk craze is forgot
ten, ragtime and tango are but
memories, and now the jade is about
to join the great majority. Jazz bands,
which were introduced into the pro-
gram of the music halls and the re-
vues, already have disappeared and
although they are still to be found in
the night clubs and in the West End
bathrooms, it is evident their days are
numbered.
Il think that the next boom will be
an Oriental one" Herman Darewski,
composer and publisher, says.
ALREADY there is brisk demand for
music with haunting, erie and lam
guorous tunes. and there is every sign
that it will succeed the jazz, the pop
ularity of which is waning. Typical
numbers of the Oriental type are In
dianola,' BY the Camp Fire.. and
'Hindustan,' which are already on the
market. These numbers will be hearC
all over the country. played by the
guards band downwards, during The
next few months"
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-09
THE RED FLAG IN HAMBURG.

over the Rathaus in Hamburg you
may see the red flag flying-and can
not help seeing it. for every richer
man among the residents will take an
opportunity awesomely to point 1t out
to you as a sample of how Germany
is going to the dogs, says Samuel
Crowther N the Worlds Work for
July. At the big gateway of the build
ing you VIII find half a dozen soidiers
and sailors standing-or to be more
eXact-leaning guard They have fixed
bayonets and bulging cartridge belts,
and to that extent they are militant.
But also they are democratic in that
they seldom shave never clean or
brush their threadbare uniforms, and
they smoke cigarettes and cigars while
on duty They were none of the smart
ness and pep" that sentry as re-
presenting the army is supposed to
| have. They remind one of the des-
crptions of the Russian soldiers, once
the revolution had gotten under way,
and | think they remind themselves
of the same thing.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-09
TO PROSPECT NEW MEXICO.

The greatest of all factors in oil
enterprises may soon he operating in
New Mexico,
When the Standard Oil company
put 100000, 900 in new stock on the
market recently the securities were
grabbed. Various reasons were an
nounced for the issue. but ostensibly
the purpose was to secure funds for
charging operations Of the company
in Texas and other fields. 1t is rumor-
ed that subsidiary development
company has been allotted $4,000, 000
for prospecting in New Mexico, where
leases and locations are said to have
been made by an agent of the corpora.
ton.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-09
Personal FEATURE OF
COVENANT.

Secretary Lansing, when on the wit
ness stand before a congressional
committee answered scores of ques-
tons without supplying any important
information. When pressed upon sew
eral points he was seemingly an UNI
willing Witness who advised that the
president and Colonel House were the
only American delegates who could
give facts definitely.
Colonel House in in Europe and the
president is not very communicative
when committees ask for documents
and data.
He and his supporters seem to re-
gard inquiries from the senate as
badgering and intended only to har-
rass him and make political capital.
But there are, many. many thou
sands of persons who desire to have
the fullest light upon details and
methods of the conference.
They are not getting it.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-09
pRAYEn Speedy DEATH.

Il don't imagine that there is any
thing in the world worse than severe
case of seasickness. 1t VIII nnmail
even doughboy." recently dectaced
Novelist Sydnor Harrison.
Il remember one doughDoY on the
same ship that took he across, who
was terribly sick. His corporal, mop.
ing to. rouse him to supreme effort
and get him on deck into the fresh
air rushed into his cabin one day
CRYING:
Get up Mike, the ships been tor
pedoed and is going down.
Thank heaven something Is coins
down in stead of up gurgled th'
doughboy, adding, and corp, see 4
you can hurry it UP a Bit
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-09
, o . 9 8 o Q Q o o o Q @ 9 o Q
A YEARNING.
BY Bitle Dudley.

o Backward, turn backward, oh, ..
/" time, in thy flight. .
4. Make me a child again just for Q
g tonight:
9 Show me the jam on the top Q
" pantry shelf,
g Please let me smear it all over 9
g myself. @
9 Lead me once more to the green d.
@ apple tree. .
{. Bring back the pains that in 9
g youth tackled me; .
o Put me again. Mother, over your .
9 lap.
o Give me a rap, Mother-give me .
. a rap! Q
@ No one has whipped me in thirty 9
o odd years 9
o Not a darned soul has been box q:
@ ing my ears;
9 No one has said: Don't you do =.
g that again" :
@ | miss those joys that l knew 9
@ when but ten. g
o | miss old Mothers words Son, .
g l am shocked"
Q l miss the closet in which l was 9
@ locked,
o Backward, turn, backward. oh, 9
o time, in thy flight.
o Wallop me. Mother. dear; wallop
me right!
o o o o o 8 o 8 o o o 8 o o . 9 9
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-09
TWO MINUTES or OPTIMISM.
BY Herman j. Stitch.
THE RAINBOW.
Copyright, 1919, by the Press
Publishing Co.
New York Evening WORLDLY

THE RAINBOW.
Eight million men wounded unto
death sleep for everlasting and hallow
the soil of War-torn Europe.
Twenty million more are disfigured
by the scars of the most titanic
slaughter fest that has ever blacken-
ed the pages of history.
Through the might of right and
resolution the peoples of the earth
have been blessed to begin anew their
lives as God intended they should live
them, in peace and liberty and the
serene pursuit of happiness.
And now mans brains are unlash =
ed from the chariot of Mars and har-
messed to the wheels of industry
The vast, vital, problems of recon
struction and new construction are
being slowly solved.
Military and naval rehabilitation
and industrial rehabilitation are
slowly though imperceptibly giving
impetus to the great work of readl asst
ment and sterilization.
The indomitable triumphant energy
which obliterated the arch scourgc
of civilization is now building high
ways and homes. constructing gig1nti'
bridges and aqueducts, cultivatins
farms and producing the tremendous
stores of raw materials and food ma
terials essential to the revitaizatior
of an impoverished world.
The uncomfortable, seemlngl.
superhuman power that humbled th'
exalted conceit of imperialistic mad
men is conseCrated to tightening thu
load of the overburdened.
The Unsuitable initiative that trans
formed every peaceful hearth INTO
| fountain of faith and a manufactor,
of mercy and death is turning IT.
forces to the betterment of our com
mon veal.
The embattled Hosts of the Lore
have labored and out of their san
| culinary travails has been born
| Mightier America with a more ideal
| istic perspective,
A loftier sentiment has beef
merged into our personal and interna
| tional relations; a finer sympathy AM
understanding has been nodded in GU
crucible of universal, mutual sarrt
| flee; agonizing, common peril ma
4 made all mankind close kin.
d. The most glorious rainbow that eve
Iuplifted mans thoughts and gradden
ed mans heart. a rainbow more golde
of hue and wider of arch than eve
! before swept the heavens. now '"il
pels mans gaze and impels man
aspirations, irresistibly leading MIN
onward and upward By its smile o
I promise.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-09
Today'S Anniversaries.

1631-John Dryden. Poet Laureate of
England, who sold his verses by
wholesale, born. Died in Lon
don. May /. 1900.
1796-James Clinton, a celebrated
general of the American revo-
luton, born in Ulster county,
N. Y. Died Dec. %. 1912.
1S55-Bombardm of Sveaborg by
the allied fleets in the Baltic
1SS7-Creation of the Roman Cath
Ollie diocese of Cheyenne.
1905-Combined French and British
fleets reviewed by King Edward
at Portsmouth.
1914-Serbia made a declaration of
war against Germany.
1915-Austrians crossed the Vistula
and pursued the Russians
northward.
1916-German airships bombed the
east coast of England.
1917-Non Mackensen crossed the
Susitza river on wide front.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-09
HIGHER WAGES AND RATES.

The country can accept as certain
that there will be a quick increase in
railway wages and added freight rates
to provide funds for additional COM
pensation to workers. There may even
be higher passenger charges. The
president has cleared the way for
action. and only insists that unau-
thorized strikes shall be abandoned.
Having ELECTED from the senate com
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-09

The United states now permits
expectation of whiskey, and the Ken
lucky bourbon is flowing in steady
stream frcm warehouses, while the
flowing is good, as expectation VII
cease at the end of the year under
prohibition of all forms CT traffic in
liquor. Kentucky highbal!s in Scot
land, instead of Scotch highballs in
U. S. A., so in the future.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-09
THE ORCHID OF HUMAN ELE-
CANOE.

Frank foreign critics who have told
us that the matter with Americans is
lack of restraint have based their
judgments too much, we think, upon
observation of Manhattan subway
guards. Let them. if they seek in this
land the fine flower of gentle breed
ing, good training, extend their tray
els a bit. We have limited where
this orchid of human elegance-re-
pose-may be found.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-09
THE OFFICE CODE.

whats your push-botton code?"
zone ring-my stenographer breaks
off conversation with the handsome
bookkeeper."
Yes"
1.-TWO rings-she pats her hair into
place"
Go on"
Three rings-she finds her note
book. When | get thoroughly mad
she arrives"
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-09
The Rest pI,vsic.

When you want a pleasant physic
try Chamberlain's Tablets. They sare
easy to take and mild and gentle in
effect. They are highly priced by
people who have become acquainted
with their good qualities. They only
cost a quarter.