Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-05-09
WORK SCARCITY
WILL CONTINUE
FAR INTO FALL
New York Sees No Relief
From Unemployment forI
Several Months; Suburb
antics Making Gardens.

New York May S.--Predicting
that the present startling scarcity
OF employment will hold here until
FAR into next fail, economic eX-
perts who have just completed a
survey of working conditions
throughout this town. today de-
clared that everyone must allow
for slack work and short wages UNI
III the foreign situation and scores
az other pressing problems have
been Strengthened out down at
washington. Until taxes and
eariff are readjusted and definite
program laid out for the buGlness
men Of this country. no one can
expect that much will be done py
way Of expansion, while more may
be done by way of restriction OF
labor costs, it is pointed out. With
over a quarter of a million Of men
and women in Greater New YORK
now out of employment. it is eX-
pected that living hardship must
increase all over town before an
other cold season brings back nor,
NAL payrolls. ,.a. -,
Remblicans Responsible.
Following the close of the most
-nowerful republican legislative ses-
sion that this state has ever en-
perienced, the people of this city
are lust beginning to realize that
they can now hold one party re-
suonsible for every act of the new
administration Never in me
pAlmy days Of the Platt and OdeA
Tule OF the Empire State was more
absolute power held by &. o. +.
leaders under the autocratic RUE
of Governor who controlled every
wheel Of the state party machine,
Il Is admitted. Though many or
The more independent citizens OF
this town are inclined to forsec
abuses OF this supreme party hold
,tpon the commonwealth. the Or
Plantation upholders declare tnat
great good can not fail to come GU.
Of its fixing responsibility upon a
single set of men who must event
ually be answerable to all the peo-
pie. So
That the days. hours ana MN
utes allowed to elapse between a
declaration of peace with Germany
and the regulation Of her cheml-
al imports provided for in the
nendine emergency tariff bill, may
mean fife or death TO the Yankee
future in the field of chemistry, is
now admitted by chemists VINO are
in touch with the shifting situation
~ the national capitol. Since only
. few shiploads of selected chernl-
cais from the huge drug and dye
trust that aims TO recapture Amer
;ca's chemical science and indusuy
for the Yaterland, would sufflce 10
seriously set back the. progress ol
our chemical independence. II Is
pointed out that every SECOND
counts, That this IS now beginning
m he realized by the statesmen a,
Washington, Is the only hopeIui
feature of this serious situation as
our chemists see it now. ......
Grow Gardens.
Harking back to the days OF the
mar when gardens were grown Tor
food and not for fun, thousands OF
suburban jewellers hereapouts az
now earnestly spadiug every aVail-
able square foot of their lahd III
a race for the first fruits Tor theil
table. With wages more ana ihpie
uncertain, the prospects OF MAKING
some sort of a living from the SOL
throughout the coming open sea
aon is attracting more New YORK
ers than ever before. Before tne
first frosts set in. it seems certain
that considerable crop yield VIII,
have been harvested from ironl
lawns and back yarde all over the
edges of town. .
Bank Robbery.
PLAYING host and highwayman a.
the same time. the men who run
the best restaurants throughou
this town are today holding W
their patrons for as high prices a.
ever during the days OF the war
while almost everything else ha'
sunk in price at least little WIN,
in the lri9t year, the bill-of-fare a
ali gilded joints still stands az rec
ord heights. Until the day comes
when outraged Latrons stage
walk-out on these restaurant roo,
hers there seens Il smai chanre o.
their becoming az all reaSonapie.