Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-08-01
ARTHUR BRISBANE THINKS new
new MEXICO SHOULD Be SCENE OF
CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT
Full Column Editorial By Highest SaIaried
Newspaper Man in World Extols Virtues Of
State; Advertising of Finest Type is Spread
Over Nation By His Comment.

Arthur Brisbane, known as the
highest salaried newspaper man
in the world, editor of the New
York Evening Journal and associ-
ate editor of the entire Hearst
string of newspapers, has written
glowing appreciation of New
Mexico which appeared on the
front page of a long string of
newspapers in all parts of the ma
ton. His editorial column, ITO
day." for last Thursday, told only
Of New Mexico, and the advertising
he has given the state is notable.
In his article, Brisbane suggests
that the disarmament conference
called by President Harding be
held at a camp set up at the foot
Of these great mountains" and he
also advises that ito live, to know
that the spirit is more important
than the body, come to this coun-
try, New Mexico"
Following IL the editorial as
printed in the Los Angeles Exam
liner:
To realize the beauty and gran
deur of this earth see New Mexi-
co. Under your eyes, beside the
railroad track are huddled the
adobe huts Of half a dozen In
dian families, living as they lived
q thousand years ago, scraping
from the earth q thin living. Their
home is a square box Of mud, be-
fore it rounded mud structure
like a beaver hut In which bread
is baked. Beyond are magnificent
table lands, five thousand feet
above the sea, now given over to
feeble grass, sage brush, goats and
sheep.
On these broad lands will live,
one day, nobler race than any
this earth has known. at hath not
been shown what we shall be-" At
intervals on all sides rise majestic
dark blue mountains, each ruler in
its domain, so magnificently beau
tiful as it rises toward the brilliant
blue sky and light, travelling clouds
that your heart feels pain in look
ing at It, You wonder that mans
conceit can persuade him that he
is important in the Mind that rules
this planet and a billion others.
Wide stretches of these lands
are called desert lands. They are
lands of infinitely varying form,
color and beauty, magnificent des-
erts, one day to blossom. Here you
see a big Indian village. Two
buildings are bigger than the 9TH
ers, one, the Indian school that
comes from Washington, the other
the church that comes from Rome,
the power that reached out here
before any other.
There are patches of color on
every washed hillside, and patches
Of color on every Indian man who
follows Nature, imagining that he
leads
These Indians are poor, and ig-
norance, worst of all poverties.
curses them. Their village is by
the edge of a muddy stream, so or
ten dry. They can live there safe
ly now. Beyond their houses OF
mud, they see the old trail that
leads up to the cliff where once
they dwelt, watching for maraud-
ers that ate any meat, human meat
preferred. Some wrinkled old In
dian may know vaguely of that
ancient life. The young Indian
knows of it as little as the London
taxi driver knows of days when
his ancestors lived hiding in
swamps, afraid of strange men
from the North that came killing
in their Viking ships.
But ignorant as they are, and
poor as they are, when you see the
Indian face close by, eyes that look
over you, not at you, you remem-
Der Plato's line, "haughtiness lives
under the same roof with solitude"
Even crouching at the railroad
stations, selling "Indian wares''
that may be made In Birmingham
these Indians have not entirely
lost the dignity born OF ten thou
sand years in this glorious land
And dignity that can resist the hu.
initiating effects of retail com.
merce, and contact with unspeaka-
bly, ignorant, travelling superior
writes, is deeply planted indeed.
On these lands, half barren, OF
all barren, now. the soil lies ovel
vast stretches, twenty feet deer