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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-02
WHAT PROHIBITION DOES.

Reports from New York and Chica-
co Indicate that booze" had its in
ming on New Years night. 1t was pri-
waite stock carried to the restaurants
Tor a-last hilarious celebration
Also the press dispatches told of al
most one hundred deaths from the
drinking of alleged whiskey manufac
tured from wood alcohol, a deadly
poison.
The day of the intoXicant in Amer
lea has almost passed. Stored away in
cellars a considerable quantity in the
aggregate exists but it is as nothing
compared with the demand before
wartime prohibition went into effect.
Constitutional prohibition will be
effective on the sixteenth of this
month and the agents of the federal
government, i'll cooperation with the
state authorities, will see to it that
the sale of intoxicating liquors will be
ninimized to a negligible extent.
OF course there will be moonshining
in the mountains of the south for =,
long time, but gradually it will be
oradicated, and then we shall have a
sober nation.
The charge IS made now that labor
unrest is largely due to inability of the
working man to purchase his custom
airy Whiskey, wine or beer. That is a
mere charge, and generally baseless.
On the other hand, if saloons were
open and men We're heated with lin
uor strikes would be a thousand times
more terrible and the high cost of Iiy
1ng accentuated by depletion of money
stocks because of the sale of liquor,
would be constant incentive to riot
and bloodshed.
Because there are no saloons in
which TO spend money people have the
money with which to pay for legiti-
mate living expenses. Never in the
history of the nation was money for
groceries and clothes so plentiful as
now and never was trade so good or
40 much of the purchases paid for in
cash over the counter.
But the greatest effect of prohibit
ton will be experienced when the
children born under prohibition have
grown into manhood and womanhood.
they will be stronger mentally and
physically and better spiritually They
VIII not be subjected to the tempta-
lions ever present where intoxicants
are trafficked in.
The greatest achievement of this CEN
fury is the winning of the fight for con-
shtutonal prohibition. 1t may incon-
Venience many people who were in the
habit of drinking moderately. II may
even check wholesome conyiviaItiy.
But the human race at large viii be
the winner, both in the short run and
in the long run.
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I to the immediate outlook. The recent
partial suspension of operations on
account of the general strike, has
caused depletion of storage stocks.
| which should make good demand
for coal for the coming year unless
temporarily interfered with W the
large oil production in adjoining
/ states. H @
The uncertainty Of the copper mar
ket has curtailed the demand FOR
coke. This demand however, should
quickly revive as soon as peace with
Germany is declared and proper
credit Arrangements with foreign
countries have been made. A large
copper surplus is still in storage and
even at the low ebb of copper produc-
ton, copper stocks on hand are Sap-
parently increasing. At the present
rate of exchange Europe cannot buy
cur copper or other raw mAterial---
and New Mexico mines cannot expect
to find a market for coke which is
practically all used for copper smelt-
ing--until a market has been found
for surplus copper stocks. Coke ovens
in New Mexico are now operating
about 25 per cent of capacity. Coal
mining labor has been granted II
per cent increase in wages; this, es-
tabishes beyond doubt a Giving
wage'-espeeially in New Mexico.
where men engaged in coal mining
can find employment for every day
IN the year. Last years records show
thatathe Ration district mines worked
more days than any other district in
the United States. However. appar-
emily this wage question has not yet
been settled. A commission appoint
ed by the president will investigate al
conditions of the coal mining indus
try and determine upon Wages ana
prices, after all facts have been lre-
scented to it, 1t is to be hoped that
quick. action can be had through this
commission so that the uncertainty
of wages and prices now retardine the
industry will be removed. ~
An encouraging feature of coal
mining in our state is the increased
application for employment by native
New Mexicans, many coming from
the agricultural districts. This Is be-
! ing encouraged by our company, as
we feel that the living and sanitary
conditions IN the coal mining towns,
! the provisions for housing and edu-
cation, and the opportunity for maxi
ing high wages. viii help many people
| heretofore deprived of these advant-
ages. and will greatly assist the in
dustry by providing a supply of labor
from deserving and law-abil!ng peo-
pie living within the state.
| The industry in 1919 has shownta
great falling off over jas. and 1920
viii still show a further decrease an
less it can be impressed upon the men
1 working in the mines that now Is the
4 time when extra efforts are necessary
to increase produetionAmore SO than
during the war More work and thrift
| are the only weapons effective AGAINST
! the high cost OF living. and THIS istno-
where more true than in the coairliR-
ing industry. .,gs 49, is
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-02
RHEIMS AND COLOGNE.

Christmas was celebrated in Rheims
cathedral, or rather in its ruins Once
more the spacious fame, its dignity oil
grandeur marred by the marks of the
vandals touch. resounded with SOL
emn prayer and praise.
Cologne cathedral, too, had its
Christmas services. The worshippers
gathered in one of the worlds most
magnificent temples which bears not
a single scar of the war. The immun-
i.y of the sacred structure is not due
to it's distances from the scene of the
late hostilities. cologne was bombed
repeatedly by French and British ava
tors. Great damage was wrought IN
Cologne and other German cities, but
it was of strictly military nature so
far as it was within the control OF the
assailants. There are two ways OF
waging war: the righteous and the
wicked way. We may be thankful that
those with whom our fortunes were
allied chose the better one.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-02
(Rev. ID. r. Lawton. S. j., Immacu-
late Conception church.)

iatc conception cnhfCn.)
The day that marks the closing OF
one period of time and the ushering in
of another Is wont to awaken some
degree of thoughfuness even in the
minds Of the most frivolous. Retro
spcction and prospcction are season
able sentiments.
The retrospects of most lives are
mainly records of failure and We are
best pleased to Let the dead past
bury its dead"
II is to the future that we fain
would direct our ken 1t is, evident to
every thinking mind today that the
world is being whirled towards a
crisis more terrible for the magnitude
of its conflicting causes, more mo-
| mentous for the gravity of it's deep
issues, and more ap8lling for the
menace of its doom than any that has
ever sullied history with neral turpi-
! tude or paralyzed 1t with nations
agonies. VA vi ( slas
The causes tending to bring about
this crisis are the marvellous discov-
cries of science, the colossal develop
: ment of industry, the changed rela-
tion between workman and master,
the enormous wealth of the few
coupled with the misery Of the asses.
the deficient self-reliance- and soie~4
tific organization of the worker and
finally an almost universal cavity
in moral principle and ruthless vici-
BUSINESS in practice.
These causes may be. sunnla rizei
as follows: Economic changes in the
material order. firiSe philosophy in
the intellectual order and professional
agitators in the social order.
Men or honest minds and upright
hearts are devoting the best energies
of t.leir inteilects to the discovery of
some antidote to the dread epidemics
That threaten society today. know
fun we'll with what sadness they have
/ discarded as ineffective the boosted
papaceas of theorists who have I'M
Willingly overlooked or purposely
ignored the radical cause of human
perversity its primal prevarication.
These well-intentioned men and wo-
men have failed and are falling be-
cause they have looked or are look.
ing to mere natural remedies. Whilst
admiring their honesty of purpose.
we must lament their nisdirected
energy:
The, church with its divine gift of
faith. and it's wealth of experience to
guide it. is fully convinced that if
the ills that loom so menacing on the
social horizon of the world are to be
neutralized and cured IT. must be by
return to those remedies that
proved so effective in the past. We
must look higher and raise the
thought of the world to Him whose
reassuring voice has come. across so
many vicissitudes of the world S
checkered history and was heard at
EVERY crisis of the worlds peril say
ing: Agn st'ps.t1f&' SCR SIS
the world" Steadfasti and abiding
faith in Him must become the nnotivs
power of our activities. implicit trust
in His au-ruling Providence must be-
come the anchor of our hope. our
active nfayerful Christian lives must
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-02
DEATH, TOOK, HEAVY, TOLL
OF PROMINENT CITIZENS
OF LAS VEGAS LAST YEAR

ESPECIAL oossfsronpasea TO soss,sa Iovsa.li
East Las Vegas, N. NJ, Dan. H.
Death took a heavy toll of prufffi-
nent Las Negans in 1919. Follow
ing are some of. the more widely
known who passed to their reward:
II. r.. Fetterman, civil war veteran
and Pioneer; Luis Larrazolo, son of
the governor. Miss Florence Maif.
Normal graduate and teacher; r. o..
Kihlberg, who came here before ths
railroad; Charles A. Spiess, proni-
nent attorney and republican leader:
william a. Vincent. former chief
Justice of New Mexico; who died in
Chicago; Mrs. Charles 'Ilfeld, wife OF
the prominent wholesaler; Mrs, \.
l.. Rosenthal, who had lived here 40
years and founded a prominent fam
lily; A. G. Green, a .pioneer; George
Laemmle, for years connected with
the light and power COMPANY.
Charles r. Downs, a former resident,
and night editor OF the Ell paso
Times; Mrs. Caroline Skinner, mother
of Rev Norman Skinner of the Pres
byterian church; J. b. Washburn.s a
merchant later located at Wagon
Mound; Gustaf A. Larson, pioneer
resident, who later removed to Cal
ranch near here attracted much at
tention; Vim. Malbeouff, an early DAY
saddIer, who died in California; Afns.
Francisco Lucero Y valerio, a. long
time resident; s. NJ. Penny, proihi-
nent auto dealer; Thomas j. Ray
wood, a pioneer builder; j ohm Nv.
Cook. expert drummer. and xylopholie
artist, aged Is; Mrs. Jefferson Ray
nolds. wife of a prominent BANKER
and herself leader In club aud
philanthropic circles: louis + .Reig-
ger, Harvey chef l}crc for nine years;
Mrs. Margaret Slack, who had resided
in Las Vegas for SO years; Mrs
Gecr';e X, Dunlop. widow Of a. Ri
cneer bishop of the Protestant Epis-
copal church; Captains william b.
,Brunton veteran of the civil war
and pioneer stockman; Mrs, Babctte
Danziger, wife of an earfy.day iner-
chant and mother of three, sons now
prominent I'M Las Vegas business af-
fairs. Edward b. Hites leadings.res
taurant man; Mrs. Lizzie " Carpen-
ter, war worker and philanthropist.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-02
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
III. Ii. Watkins. Secretary Albuquer-
QItc Chamber of SNOnmfrctr\ 10

+ We desire to express to our MEM
beFs and the city at large our earnest
desire that the year 1920 will bring
them prosperity beyond measure. 4
The Chamber Of Commerce for the
coming years win function FOR it's
membership and WITH Its member
ship, and will endeavor to ac-
complish during the year a real con-
structive program that .willa insure
prosperity to Albuquerque and New
Mexico. "atIaa, t.&@ -, II
I To enumerate the things that 1t
hopes to accomplish at this time would
be premature A carefully defined
program Will later be decided upon
with the assistance of the members
and then one thing at time will be
taken UP and aauhitedi effort will be
used to successfully conclude the pro-
ject and then the next one will he Civ
en- attention, @.H Tei
The Young Mems chan,bcF Of Com
MERGE win be launctc 81 during Janu4
airy and, will be 4 r0ductive Of much
good in great many ways.
There will batwelve e"get together
meetings" diving the year and these
should be AMENDED as an evidence of
your faith and interest in your city.
An a1tive membership committee
will he appointed and no stranger will
be allowed to linger long within our
safes before he has at least been ac-
corded the courtesy of being invited to
join the Albuquerque Chamber, of
Commerce.
Nineteen Twenty will be a banner
year for this city without doubt and
the little member of the chamber is
going to be asked to show his ability
and asked to demonstrate it In the in.
terests of Albuquerque and New Mex
leo.
You ask me what the old town needs :?
1t needs more men-some men Of
deeds
Not men who talk,
Find fault and balk.
But men who'll give the best they've
got W..
To make the old town what she ought.
You say we need more factories
More stores, more schools and char
tiles:
We grantit, friend,
But in the end s. AZ
It's men whe make them--is that
.g true? ssttssss
The, thing the towns need most is
YOU.
Again We wish you a prosperous and
happy New Year and extend to you at
all times an invitation to participate
in the activities of the Chamber of
Commerce. no matter whether you
wear a white collar or pair OF over
alls. 4s
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-02
NEW MEXICO AND FARMING.

Never has the wonderful climate of
New Mexico been more wonderful
than this year The days are warm
and sunshiny, inviting the automobilist
ana the pedestrian to enjoy the out
doors to the utmost
And there is something in the fun
damental makeup of man that needs
the out-of-doors. Studying the world
through a window is worth much; but
putting ones hands into the soil, gar
deners say, is essential to the real I'M
derstanding of the earth.
But there is vastly more to out of
doors than merely enjoying a ride or
walk through the country. Let them
call it'what they will, there grows up
a tangible companionship between the
soil worker and the soil he works; be-
tween the plant and the planter.
The response of the soil and the
plant to intelligent human care and
honest investigation. is so prompt and
unfailing that it is as though some ex-
traneous power were holding out
hands to the. farmer and saying:
Come on. will show you somethmg,"
New Mexico is behind any other
state, almost, in the development of
agriculture. We may except, perhaps,
only Nevada. Arizona may not have
as much land under cultivation as we,
but the people of that state are getting
better results from their efforts.
Phoenix is a bigger city than Albu-
querque for only one reason It has
developed agriculture about it, while
Albuquerque has allowed agriculture
TO perish-nearly. 1t will perish com
pletely in this vicinity unless the Rio
Grande valley is drained tl @
1t is strange that this condition
should be permitted to exist here in
the face of the crusade conducted by
Dr. Grille of state college, for drain
age. He has preached drainage, he
has conducted experiments so that the
people of the valley would know how
drainage should be brought about and
what it would cost--but even his re-
markable energy was not able to stir
things deeply enough to produce re-
suits.
We are letting our land waste, while
lands throughout the rest of the
United States are commanding far
higher prices than ever before. Else
where men of means are moving to
the country. to get the out-of doors
and have their children get it and be-
cause 1t pays in dollars and cents to
cultivate the soil.
But here ii is different. We are al
lowing the water TO rise higher and
higher from year to year, saturating
more and more of the rich lands of
the valley to a point where they are
useless. Soon they will become a
menace even to the health of the city.
This condition also exists in. the face
of the wonderful strides made through
the Investigations and experiments of
the agricultural colleges. The world
now has cucumbers and onions bet
rtcr than Moses ate in Egypt; better
apples than those Shakespeare roasted
before the log fire: better strawber-
Tiss than our own gardens produced
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twenty-five years ago. We have better
corn, better wheat. better barley, better
oats, better potatoesj better cattle, bet
ter hogs and better sheep--better Of
everything that is raised on the farm
than our ancestors had.
An these and a thousand other bet
terments have come by reason Of
mans getting field dirt on his hands,
field air in his lungs, field forms in
his eyes and a warm physical contact
with the things of the field.
But he doesn't get any of these adj
vantages from swamps, They come
from land adapted to the cultivation
of crops. We have had such lands in
the past, and We may have them in
the future, but we haven't much of
them now.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-02
Crank II. ii. Roberts, President OF the
New Mexico Normal JTniycrStty)

Ruslin has declared that there Is
nothing worth while that has not
come out of war 1t would require
genius to determine the ultimate
truth of this assertion. Yet we all
know much good has come out OF
the world war Even the enemies OF
war admit that The greatest con-
tribution of the war Is the recogni-
ton of the value of education to
community life, both state and ma
tional. Prior to the war. we stressed
the value of an education to the in
dividuai and said scarcely anything
concerning its value to the social
units. Yet, when we saw the soldier
In some critical position meet the
hazards of warfare and realized that
officers took no chances with the
uneducated, il was then seen that the
die of world welfare was cast on ed
ucational qualities and not brute
strength, 1t was not the soldiers
welfare. but the perpetuitY of demo-,
cratic institutions that was at stake.
Some one NAV call attention to the
education of German soldiers and
ask why they did not win. 1t must
be admitted that the education and
training of the German soldier was
the strength of the German army.
II was also the weakness Of the Ger
man army in that the fundamentals
OF her system Of education were
DASeu on IbISe lucas. INJtIilidllN tidtl-
ed for efficiency without initiative.
America trained for individual initi-
atve. not stressng group cooperation
sufficiently. which neglect of the
schools was corrected in the training
camp. Germany will recast her sys-
tenn of education. America will ex--
tend her system. both in Kind and
quality of education. to every one
beneath the flag--as it has stood the
test of battle-that the very existence
of the nation may never again be inn
periled by ignorance.
At this hour. facing presidential
election, when tariffs and foreign
policies would ordinarily hold the
attention of the nation, the most vi
tai question throughout state and ma
ton is public education. sug.a
Since church and state leave the
training of the youth of the land to
the teacher. all discussion starts with
her, preparation, her environment.
and her compensation. In spite OF
the fact that many believe the only
question at stake is the nav of the
teacher. it is the one OF least inter-
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RELIGIOUS
I'll, $. Davidson, Pastor OF the
CONGREGATIONAL Cfuirch.)


Regarding the religious outlook for
the immediate future, | am an OPP
timist. -tt.
1t was thought that the recognition
which the great principles underly-
ing our civilization received during
the war, was TO make inevitable the
emergence of new world order at
however, and the reaction to indi-
vidualism took place, as evidenced
by the spirit of profiteering which
has taken possession of all classes,
many lost their faith We are no
nearer the millennium than. before,
they said, The reaction, however
is not nearly 50 serious as IT seems:
thought We're shaping themselves in
mems minds. Geographically the
world was becoming one, Trade was
celebrating distance and racial an
thpathies Scientifically, the world
was becoming one. No department
isolated from the rest. Religion is
not a matter of viewpoint, men be :
gan to say. 1t is matter of fact.
Let us get at the facts. Let us
throw aside all our prejudices. and
be content with nothing, but the
truth. The great outstanding theo-
logical schools of the world no longer
taught denominationalism. Their
teachers were honest seekers after
truth.
Then came the war. These tend
encies crystallized. The world was
seen to be, indeed, one: humanity
was seen to be, indeed, one; and, in
the agony of the trenches. religion
was seen to be one. The war brought
home TO men as never before the
need of a great unifying principle in
life and the need of movement,
actuated by goodwill and unselfish-
ness, to save the world. This need
christianity fills. Can the reaction to
selfishness, which has followed tenn
porarily the war, checks this great
movement? This, to me, is incred.
ible.
The inter-church world movement
whose object is to visualize the
worlds need, and, with the facts at
hand. to go seriously to work to
make it, in all its manifold life,
what ii is destined to be. seems likely
to do more in the present generation
toward realizing the ideals of Jesus
Christ in the world than has been
effected in all the generations COM
bined which have preceded it.
| am, therefore. regarding the. re-
ligious outlook IN the world in the
immediate future. an optimist. 4,
(Charlcs Oscar Beckman. Pastor
First Methodist Church.)
I am asked To write on the spirit
ual outlook for nineteen hundred and
twenty. ! say that since the evan
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has been donated to our convention,
free of debt. to be used as the nucleus
Tor starting Baptist college. J
We have established our orphans
home at Portales, and now have the
deed to splendid farm. with 345
fruit trees, and the whole farm well
irrigated, which guarantees a crop
every year. -HH- ,t's
The hospital is now under eonstruc-
ton at Clovis. We are using our cam
paign' organization, and adding to 1t,
for an aggressive campaign in Soul
winning. Complete plans were formu-
lated in our ANNUAL board meeting,
and we set our goal for the coming
year 5000 souls won to Christ and
baptized in the churches. We adopted
as our motto: 1.-Two Win one" Each
church was assigned a quota, direc-
tor was appointed for eaoh'community,
and the churches are all accepting
their quotas and making careful plans
for great revival meetings. . .sa
The spiritual uplift of the campaign
has been wonderful blessing to our
people The outlook for the future is
bright for every department
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NJ ~ ~ $500
LAS VEGAS WOMAN DIES
IN M0NROvlA, CALF.

ESPECIAL cosrEssoApsscs TO noss,ne jovssatl
+, East Las Vegas, N. NJ, Jan. H.
Mrs. Lizzie V. Carpenter, who resided
in Las Vegas for over thirty-five years,
died in Monrovia. Calf, December 2S,
after a short illness. Mrs. Carpertcr
left for California early in November,
intending to remain. for the greater
part of the. winter During tho war
Mrs Carpenter acted as clerk TO the
registration board for San Miguel
county. She began as volunteer
worker, but her services proved to be
so valuable that she was given exec
utive charge of the office. She also
took great interest in the Las We.
gas hospital. and was, instrumental in
raising much money for the support OF
the institution. Her husband, Peter
Carpenter. died here nine years ago.
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