Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-22
GOTHAM REPORTS
BIC VOLUME OF
XMAS BUSINES S
As Many Presents Are Being
Bought As in the Past,
But a Tendency Is Noted
to Spend Less Money.
Especial Correspondence to The JournaI.)

Especial Correspondence to The Journal
New York, Dec. 2l.-In spite of
economic limitations that will
make this years. Christmas run
more to garlands than to gifts, the
people of this city are today max
ing the celebration as CHEEKY If not
as costly, as any ever launched
here. Throughout town, 1t is re-
ported that New Workers have
bought just as many holiday pres
ents, though their value may be
measured in pennies where once
dollars were lavished about the
yuletide trees. To the many men
and women who have to save and
sSmp this year to spread their hGl-
iday outlay as far as ever, the
present prediction from financial
leaders that another year-end must
bring back renewed conditions Of
plenty and prosperity is being re-
eeived as perhaps the brightest
message as the old year ends.
Tax Trials.
That the back Of the paying
camel is at last breaking under
the increasing load of national,
state and city levies, is just being
pointed out by economic experts,
who are studying the huge default
in income tax payments that is
amounting to millions of dollars
due from thousands Of citizens who
cannot lay hands upon the cash
to meet their last quarters INSTALL
mentS. Unless some halt can be
called in the spendthrift course OF
the legislators in Washington and
Albany. it is predicted that this
wave of tax bankruptcy vii! be
followed soon by a flood of The
same sort of suffering all over the
country Since the one recourse
for forcing the public economy
that the taxpayer possesses IL IN
the ballot, local leaders now de-
clare that few Representatives san
ever be reelected who fail To Try
to plug up the leaks IN government
treasures.
Trust Tusste.
Whatever the senate at Washing
ton may or may not do to regulate
trust evils before the next admin
istration takes hold, 1t is today
faced with the most urgent tusslo
to handle the greatest trust in the
world in the interests of all Amer
leans, it was asserted here today
by local chemical men who are
already being swept toward ruin
by the huge chemical combination
of Germany's most powerful lab
oratory cartel. Unless the leisurely
senators soon place a special tariff
l. and license barrier to prevent FOR
eign drugs and dyes from being
dumped here to destroy the Amer
lean laboratories built ny under
the spur Of war necessity, the
chemical forces that flourish as
never before in Germany are sure
to speedily grasp control of this
nations chemical fortunes for the
future, it is declared by hose most
closely in touch with this alarming
situation. High tariff alone can
never stop those ruthless powers
from wiping out all but a few 81
the richest American chemical in
terests, it is pointed out; so, failure
to add licensing features for SureT
protection against foreign drug
invasion must result in faVorinS
monopolies in the Vaterland.
Blue-Law Buck.
Preparing to buck back at even
the suggestion of extreme blue-laW
Regulation Of sunday liberty, the
hotel men now declare that they
really mean to try to stage blue
Sunday after New Years day that
will furnish a fair sample of life
as proposed by the extremists
| without the aid OF labor in any
form, guests at the hotel here may
be left to shift for themselves from
sunrise to sunset of this sample
Sabbath. III those public hosts
stick to their plan, the Monday
papers promise for once rot to DC
at all dull,
Fight Fever.
Fevered with the prize fight
| craze from one end of this town to
| tho otbar Nav workers are daily