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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-27
lust FOLKS
Copyright, 1890. by Edgar A. Guest
WITH DOG AND GUN.

out in the woods with a dog an gun
Is my idee of real days fun.
faint the birds that I'm out to kill
That furnish me with the finest thrill,
Coz / never worry fret a lot,
Or curse my luck if l miss shot;
There's many a time, an | don't know why
That l shoot too low or l aim too high.
An all 1 can is the distant whirr
OF bird that's gittin' back home to her
Yep gittin' back home at the end o. day.
An I'm just as glad that he got away
There's a whole lot more in the woods O. fall
Than the birds you bag--if you think at all.
There's colors o. gold an red an brown
AS were known in the busy town;
There's to breathe in the purest air
An something worth looking at everywhere;
There's the dog who's Ieadn' you on an on
To patch o. cover where birds have gone,
An standin' there without move or change
Till you give the sign that you've got the range
That's thrill enough fer my blood, l say,
So why should l care If they get away?
Fact is there are times that I'd ruther miss
Than to bring em down, 1 feel like this
There's heap more joy in a living thing
Than breast crushed in or broken wing,
An can't feel right an / never Will
When l look at a bird that I've dared to kill
oh, I'm jus plumb happy to tramp about
An follow my dog he hunts em out,
JUS watchin' him point in his silent way
Where the Bob Whites an the partridge stay.
For the Joy o. the great outdoors I've had,
SO why should I care If my aim is bad?
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Efficient 49,
%hI I ;,!!!:; I: IKE (7o'H1'8 r
Laura, A. NrKnan

, that that dollar looks twice as big
as a dollar outside of the bank
(perhaps because it Is drawing in
terest). No sooner had l got my
little bank pass book home than /
began to think how many other
dollars I could put. into it! be-
gan to scheme to save five cents
here and ten cents there, and just
the fun of making my schemes
pan out meant equally as much
to me as the knowledge that l was
a little richer because of the few
dollars saved.
Now, 1 suppose there are many
women who will say when they
read this, Her so-called happiness
is lust the avaricious JOY OF the
miser AS he fingers his gold But
this is not true. My new happi-
ness, for which 1 have searched
unconsciously all these years,
springs from a great interest which
is constant and which gives me an
cupation--cutting down my ex-
penses as much as possible in or
der to save.
There are women all over this
country who have never saved a
cent. And many of these women
are unhappy; some of them are
seeking happiness in a round Of
pleasure, some of them are perhaps
waiting for fate to change their
lot. while others dreaming of
achieving a higher social status or
some other longed-for goal. To
such women l say, Just try laying
aside dollar and if you don't
begin at once to feel certain
power that only money in the bank
can give one, and if you don't be-
gin at once to experience the fun
of contriving to cut expenses where
before you never dreamed you
could cut expenses; and If you
don't find the game of saving a
thrilling One-well, I know you
will, for l was just like you and
III did"
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-27
LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE.

NOTICE.
Last Will and Testament of Stella
Pearl Ralston. Deceased.
To Margaret A. Bigelow. 702 East
Central avenue, Albuquerque,
New Mexico. mentioned in the
Will as Exeoutrix; Mrs. Emily
Ralston, Colorado Hospital. Pu-
eblo, Colorado; Mrs. Julia Mans
field, Shelby. Iowa; Mrs. ]. f.
Snively, Tie Locust street, Pasa-
dena, Calf; Mr.. S. S. Brown, 100
Ellis street San Francisco. Calf.
and to All Who These May Con-
Germ. Greeting:
You are hereby notified that the
alleged Last Will and Testament Of
Stella Pearl Ralston, deceased. late
of the County of Bernalillo and
State of New Mexico. was produced
and read in the Probate Court of
the County of Bernalillo, State of
New Mexico, on the 9Th day Of
November, 1920, and the day of
proving of said alleged Last Will
and Testament was thereupon
fixed for Saturday, the 18th day OF
December, A. d. 1920. at 10 o'clock
in the forenoon of said day.
Given under my hand and the
Seal Of this Court, this 9Th day OF
November, A. D. 1920.
tsigned) NESTOR MONToYA.
(Seal) County Clerk.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-27

paw full at the bad Black Bear.
Right on the end of his soft and
tender nose the hard, red berries
hit the bad chap! and he howled
and yowled and scowled and cried:
ooh, don't do it again! Oh, ~
be good! / don't like cranberries!
and away he ran as fast as ne
could go.
'Well, I'm glad he's gone" said
Uncle Wiggily. you were very
brave to throw the cranberries at
him, Susie" And just then the Dell
rang again and the bunny GENTLE
man and little girl thought 1t was
the bad Bear coming back. But
this time it was Grandpa Goosey
Gander and he and Mr.. Longears
danced a Jig while Susie played the
photograph.
So, once again the bunny was
saved, and if the comb doesn't pull
accidentally all the hair out of the
busting brush when they're playing
tag with the rocking horse. I'll tell
YOU next about Uncle Wiggilys
plum pudding.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-27
ABuqaefqus Morning Journal Saturday November a. 1920

some of them become permanently interested in
the country they visit.
1t is interesting to note that one of these big
projects, the Jackson highway from Chicago
to Mobile and New Orleans, owes great dea
to a woman, Miss Alma Rittenbury of Brming-
ham, Ala, who succeeded in inducing many
counties and cities to do their share this
grand avenue of travel.
Promoting main line roads is fine civic en-
terprise, and must tend to bring newcomers into
sections opened up who will develop resources
previously only partly utilized.
There is tendency among people to be in
terested only in that portion of highway which
lies near home but like chain, road is nc
better than it's poorest spot if that spot be i'm
passabe.
Our policy in New Mexico of expanding road
money in the various counties in proportion tC
the assessed valuation of the counties is
mistake. Perhaps fifty per cent of it should be
so spent but the balance should be expended
upon through roads.
Branch roads almost useless without the
main arteries.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-27
"As the People View 1t"

teacher rides his or her bright hob
by from class to class and delivers
the message, and the plan has been
found to enliven the whole school.
And you know that teachers, like
other people, are just bright on one
or two subjects And why not poll
ish up the bright side and keep the
dull side from view? We take ad-
vantage of that fact in all our
higher schools and pupils there
are just grown up children. 1t is
the obvious way of making the
school machine strong at all points.
The successful smith works at but
one iron at time. The successful
drummer has but few side lines.
Why should one teacher be expect
ed to scintillate on many subjects?
Specialization marks the age.
Then folks, your children do not
like some teachers and why not
give each pupil chance at several
each day, and if it, loves but one
and is thus led to emulate the great
and good, that child is redeemed.
If it love but one subject it has
peep-in viewpoint on life and the
teachers are themselves no negligible
study for pupils. And l find that as
stock judge that even the devel-
oped minds judge animals better
when other animals are stood along
side with which the student may
make comparison, In this charac-
ter-judging contest give the student
at least the advantage of the stock
judging contest where there are al
ways four in the ring.
Give us better attendance on
convention occasions-how can we
expect light when the wires to the
central dynamos are half cut? No
school would be regarded as
success with but so per cent attend
ance. Give us more specialists and
brighter teachers, effulgent to the
point that little dullness presents
but a pleasing background. Give
US more enthusiastic assembly
meetings where these teachers may
shine. More heat and more light
for the student plant to grow in!
Hence, parents, talk this Gary
school method over to your
teachers and have them begin now
to adopt it. A few win say it is
bosh and theory. That is the cas-
lest way to sidetrack any needed
reform. Many teachers, like other
people, are seeking the way of
! least resistance, and it is always
easiest to drift in the old chann-
nels. Ask your superintendent to
put this demonstrated improve
ment over and from his answer de-
termine what manner of teacher he
or she is.
Your county agricultural agent
| has kindly shown me about your
town and country and shall have
word to say tomorrow about
lyour vocational problems.
TOM DAVENPORT,
Ration Teacher of Vocational Agri-
culture.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-27
OUR PLATFORM.

4. primary election law which viii re-
store the power to the hands OF the people,
where 1t belongs.
q. A nom partisan commission OF three or
i've TO have charge OF our school and institu-
tional lands, and the permanent trust funds
derived therefrom.
s. A fair, adequate and just tax Law which
will eQuitably distribute the burden OF gov"
eminent. We have especial reference to the
mining tax laws although we will seek to
reach any other evaders, big or little, whom
we find. We favor a mine tax law based
upon an ad valorem property basis, as other
property is taxed.
4. A fuller budget system for the state I'm
an effort to put state expenditures on an eff.
cient, economical and progressive basis.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-27
PEDAGOGIC HARIKARI AM
THE AFTERMATH.


Our state superintendent reports
that there are about three thou
sand teachers in New Mexico. a
few more than half that number
attended the state teachers asso-
citation just closed here in Albu-
querque This means that about
one and half thousand pubic
school teachers either have not
sufficient interest and professional
pride in this great annual event to
attend it, else there is in school
boards over the state lethargic or
antagonistic mental attitude that
keeps the teachers at home. Doubt
less both agencies are guilty in a
degree and, in my opinion, such
teachers and communities are COM
hitting educational suicide by the
somnambulistic route and the af-
fected children suffer and don't
know it.
There is a reason for school board
opposition. Teachers go home from
the meeting and are mum and the
public and the boards reasonably
conclude that it Is a time-klling,
junketing outing at the public ex-
pense and all for nothing. A rem
these Missourians in pulling off a
program now, and in it tell of the
worthwhile lessons learned on this
great professional occasion. If par
ents only see that the trip wakes
the teachers up, a free ride to the
convention will be assured for next
year.
Parents, have weighed the pros
and cons from close viewpoint,
and now wish to show you that
these conventions are worth while.
Common observation shows that a
examining of the pupil with facts
never develops a man or woman,
Facts are Dead sea fruit when not
accompanied with enthusiasm OF
purpose. Only the live wire i'm
parts light and power. And it is
the purpose and achievement of
these professional occasions for
the large magnates to strike fire
and pass the spark through your
teachers to your sons and daugh-
tiers. And there it is transposed
again into manifest light and pow
er, perhaps intensified. This is the
theory and IL we teachers make IL
an obvious fact we may count upon
the patrons supporting our conven-
ton Just as surely as parents love
their children. But we must wake
up. And why shouldn't we, when
the dawn of new world shines al
about US?
Parents, let me tell you of a rev.
olutionary pedagogic doctrine
down here and now in active dem
onstration in Gary. Ind. DR.. Wir'
has charge of Gary schools and has
each teacher specialize in sub
ject and pass along from room te
to room and grade to grade, I'M
parting knowledge of his or hei
subject to several grades. Each
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-27
THE HOUSEKEEPER WHO
SAVES.

have received such an excep-
tional letter this week from one of
my readers and | am going to print
it here without any change, as /
believe my other reader friends
will find it as interesting as have:
Dear Miss Kirkman," it runs,
81 have noticed that you often pub
lish readers discoveries dealing
with the housekeeper's viewpoint
and thought and inward struggles
as we'll as those dealing with her
household problems, and ] am 60
ing to write you this letter in the
hope that you will print 1t for 9TH
er women to read. For it contains
my Secret of Happiness-and 9TH
ers may find happiness, too,
through it, ! believe.
Il once read'in some essay-one
of EmersOn's, l think-that either
consciously or unconsciously every
body is seeking happiness. l have
always been one of the unconscious
seekers. For years I have lived
alone, unmarried, with a small in
come to support me. l am now
81 U can tell my age as l don't in
tend to sign my name to this let
teri. | am not particularly eco
nomical by nature and up until this
year | have sort of logged along,
making my months income stretch
through the month and not at
tempting to save anything out of it,
But a few months ago the idea
came into my head to start a saw
ings bank account. I did it on inn
pulse, never thinking what the step
would mean in my life, never
dreaming that saving would prove
to be q great interest in my life
the thing for which l was uncon-
sCiously seeking.
Everybody who has ever put q
dollar in the savings bank knows
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-27
AFTER TIE FUSS.

The week.-mrs. ceased to rattle, and
calm is everywhere, and now the
smoke of battle no more obscures
the air; spellbinders have depart
ed; the losers, heavy hearted, now
look for holes unchartered, where
each may have his lair And now
let's be forgetting our Woody cam
paign ways, and do some honest
sweating, as in the olden days;
there's wood that calls for hewing,
and hops require our brewing; oh,
let us be pursuing sane tasks, like
useful lays. The statesmen we've
elected, I'm sure, will not be lax,
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-27
UNITED STATES
Total Pro-
duction and


Pro- ducton and
No. of duction. Imports. Imports.
Year. Sheep Pounds Pounds Pounds
1870 5244SOOO 321 100000 1870 900 900 sol 600 600
1911 SO 600 319O00,0O0 1856 600 900 ATS 900 900
I1912 3O4 100000 2SS 900 600 542 600 900
1913 900 296,OO0,O00 1852 coo, 600 44SOO0 600
1914 1919 900 29O 100000 100000 900 $50 600 600
1915 1926 2S6OOO,OO0 Ala 900 699. 900 600
1916 2SSOOO.OOO 449, 900, 900 1877 600 600
1871 600 282 600 421 600 900 1908 600 900
1915 49, 900 299 100000 asa 600 900 1853 900 600
1919 As 600 314OOO,OOO 446 900 900 100 900 600
1920, 4S,615,00O .......... .......... ..,......
Argentina and Australia likewise show a de-
crease in their wool production Part of this slump
of course, be explained by the world war, when
both food and feed scarce, and it was some
times necessary to kill the sheep that bore the
golden fleece.
But recent financial uncertainty throughout the
country is likewise partly responsible. o-grOw-
ers, in common with other stockmen, have waited
for government aid before expanding their business.
Help from the federal reserve board has not come
as readily they expected
Now that real business administration is about
to take charge of the nations affairs may ex-
pect a healthy increase in wool production and a
corresponding decrease in imports.
This return to the old order of things is one
in which New Mexico is vitality interested.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-27

land they may be expected to get
right down to tacks; but they can't
make the nation work out itssown
salvation unless the population will
buckle down like wax. When at
the polls l noted q watched you,
eagle-eyedD how all you fellows
voted with high and wholesome
pride; and now perhaps you figure
that, having thus shown vigor, it's
yours to sit and Singer and let the
whole works slide. This nation
can't be lifted to levels fine and
high by all the statesmen gifted
who eat the public pie, unless Tom,
Dick and Harry their divers loads
will carry, and work, and cease to
tarry where all the loafers sigh.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-27
MILDRED QUESTIONS
CLIFFORD.
CHAPTER CLXVII.

CHAPTER CLXVII,
What had Clifford to do with
Mabel Horizons divorce? Some
thing | was positive, else why
should Mrs. Gardner have been 80
embarrassed when I understood
her? The longer / thought about
about it the more surely was |
convinced that there was vital
| reason for concealing the fact that
Mabel Horton was divorced from
| me.
But-why had Muriel not told
me? As I asked myself the ques-
| ton, the answer came. Her fond
ness for me would not let her make
me unhappy by telling me any
thing she knew that might hurt
me.
Very we'll, I'd find out for my
self -"
Clifford, how long have you
known Mabel Horton?" / asked
at dinner.
Let me see---about ten years;
Why" ''t.".F.
"Was she divorced when YOU
first met herr"
"No-why this sudden interest
in Mrs. Horizons affairs?' he asked
in what I could see was pretended
| indifference. .....-.
The Truth Wanted.
"Where you connected in any
way with her divorce?"
"See here Mildred what in the
devil are you driving at? +
please answer my question
truthfully" / added. fearing that
he might prevaricate about such a
thing although he never had done
so before--hadn't thought it worth
his while, perhaps.
"Why-in way--yes," he stam-
mered,
1t was a new experience for me
to see my self-possessed, we'll
poised husband embarrassed by
anything ! could say; and to be
honest | rather enjoyed his dis
comfiture.
an WHAT way" I queried,
watching him intently.
What's got into you? Why are
you asking me all these fool cues
tions?" he demanded, the telltale
veins standing out on his forehead
and his eyes hard and angry.
Because I want to know-and i
intend to know. If you won't tell
me there are others who Will"
Nice kind of a wife | have; not
above going about quizzing people
about her husband" he sneered.
Your sneers at me-nothing you
can say will alter my determine
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-27
UNCLE WIGGuIY AND THE
CRANBERRIES.

'Well, Uncle Wiggily, I hope
nothing like that happens to you
today" said Nurse Jane Fuzzy
Wuzzy, as she put on her bonnet
and shawl ready to leave the hol-
low stump bungalow. .
Nothing like what happensH'
asked the bunny rabbit gentleman
not knowing just what his muskrat
lady housekeeper meant.
Like yesterday went on Nurse
Jane. I'm going out again and
leave something for you to give
Susie Iittletail when she calls"
well, if it's celery, such as you
left Yesterday and she ties it under
nv chin to make believe l have
whiskers, and it scares the fox, II
will be an adventure, Nurse Jane. y
laughed Uncle Wiggily. He was
thinking of what had happened the
day before.
II am not going to leave celery
for Susie. as l left it for Johnnie
and Billie Bushytail the squirrels
said Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy. II am go
ing out to call on Mrs. Wibblewob-
Ible. the duck lady and | am leav-
ling some cranberries for you to
give Susie. We had more cranber-
ries than we needed for Thanks
giving and Susies mother will
make a pie of them"
"Tll give them to her when she
comes" promised Uncle Wiggily,
as Nurse Jane put a paper bag oil
the red cranberries down on a
chair near where he was sitting in
the hollow stump bungalow. .
"You aren't going out, are your
asked the muskrat lady housekeep--
er. as she pinned her shawl around
her, for it was cold in Woodland
near the orange Ice Mountains
that lnN
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-27

| The munthly reports was given
out in skool yestidday, mine being
so bad it was pritty neer the werst
one ever got, but not quite. And
after suppir | started to get reddy
to give it to pop for him to sine,
thinking, G, / better not be too
suddin about it, its no use making
him feel Verse than necessary.
And / sed, Pop, l bet after this
I'm going to be so wonderful in
skool bet my reports will be the
best in the room.
That's an intristing bet, | hope
you win it, stranger things than
that have happined, tho personally
I never herd of eny, sed pop.
Maybe they'll be the best reports
| in, the hole skool, | sed, and pop
sed, The age of miracles is still
with us. Meening jest because you
Iknow thing amt going to happin
that don't say its impossible, and |
sed, bet Ill get sutch good reports
you'll think it must be somebody
elts. -
| Ill know darn well it is, sed pop.
And he kepp on smoaking and |
Ekepp on wondering wether to hand
him my report yet, thinking, Heck,
| 4 mite as well prepare him for it.
And / sed, As long as / know I'm
going to get sutch CRATE reports
frum now on, it don't make eny
diffrents wat kind l used to get,
does it pop? sr.r .
Have you by eny shadow of a
possibility of d doubt got report
to show me? sed pop.
Sir? Yes sir, sed. And ]
handed it to him, saying. All hah
liz thawt there was an Ethiopium
hin the woodpile. And he looked al
| the report and that's wy I had to
go to bed rite after suppir, and
also wy j dident have eny recess
money today and wy l don't ixpect
eny tomorro.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-27
Upton TIPS

Both Mexico and Senator Fall seem at last
agreed on one thing, that the senator will
not attend the Inauguration in Mexico City.
o o . o
The fact that Mrs Edison was excused
from jury duty to stay home with Thomas A.
who had a cold, will start New Mexico jurors
wives to sneezing.
o o Q Q
Senator Mccormick will present Hardings
views on the league to Europe, according to a
headline. Why not let them be known over
here first?
If length counts for anything that revenue
commission report should cover the subject
thoroughly.
o o o o
And if it is really true that the people
want four counties created that should
show that taxes are not bothering anybody.
@ o Q 8
The blanket ballot should prove popular at
this time of the year.
@ o Q o
person may be very, very good and still
not very nice to know.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-27
NJ HllSRAND AND |
>Jane Phelps

Just what 1 expected, but surely
not this.
. 81 thought correspondents always
married the woman they compro-
missed"
Did you?"
Eyes"
"You see you were mistaken"
"Rut why didn't you? You GER
tainly seem very fond of her"
"Why l didn't is my business as
we'll as what | do now. If you are
through catechising me I'll be ex-
cused; / have an engagement
Tomorrow - Mildred Questions
Muriel.