Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-05-21
HALF SOLES FOR
SHOES, CLOTHES
SUIT THESE MEN

An Associated Press dispatch In
the Journal yesterday from Wash
ington said that United States Sem
ator Thomas, of Colorado, speaking
in the senate on extravaganza,
waste and profiteering, and not de-
string talking for the proletariat as
he is not a candidate for re-elec-
ton, said the suit he was wearing
was patched. II was bought before
the war began
He had bought no shoes since
1916 and was going to fight it out
on that line even If he had to go
so CARRIED that the Washington po-
lice would arrest him.
There are New Mexicans, many
men in professional life and bust
ness who have consistently kept out
of the silk shirt show and the proud
parade that has been the propoga-
tor of profiteering.
Holm o. Bursum, New Mexican,
whose enterprises are various,
whose name figures largely In big
oil projects, and other enterprises
besides wool growing and politics,
was in Albuquerque yesterday
somewhat dressed up, but blissfui(y
unconscious that across the front of
dollar shirt of many seasons. was
place as large as a silver peso,
darned and redarned.
Lieutenant Governor Pankey, of
New Mexico, with a quarter of a
million acres of land, herds of cat
tie, several automobiles, an oil
millionaire in prospect, denied to
the Woman's club at Santa Fe that
he was extravagant, but confessed
that he had been wearing shirt
that cost sL25, though the one
worn at the club function cost 81
and looked it.
President Sproule. of the South
ern Pacific railway who was on the
defense council of California during
Lordsburg. N. NJ, while travelling in
private car: This suit was
bought in 1917 and l have not
bought any since. I am not going
to buy as long as darning and
patching will serve. And half sole
shoes or trousers are all right for
me-"
Yet all of the above four gentle
ment could have produced dress
suits in ante-bellum days had a
court of law compelled through
writ of mandamus. Even H. o. B.
for there is in the Journal arch
ives a snap shot of the King IF
Belgium and the greeters which
would convict the sage of Socorro,
There are others by the hundreds,
not usually owners of business, but
many lesser lights have not realized
the truth of the verse, "'Tis not
the apparel that makes a man the
man, nor lack of it the clod:"
A reporter took a look in at n
soda fountain. The dispensers
were wearing silk shirts that Uncle
Sam taxes as luxuries in trying to
make the rich recoup for war. The
owner of the place was wearing q
cotton shirt From soda fountain
the reporter walked into restau-
rant. He lunched and looked 81
the waiter. The waiter had on a
silk shirt. The reporter then went
into several department stores
Many of the clerks wore silk shirts
next in line was a restauranteur-o
wheels. he who sells you hamburg
ers and boiled eggs from the win
dow of his wagon. Another silk
shirt. Evidently, the hamburger
man did not think his attire any.
thing out of the ordinary.
After all about the only explana
ton seems to be that business men
usually do not take to silk shirts
Plain linen or cotton shirts satisfy
them. They have other things to
think about.