Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-07-25
RELIEF IS SEEN
FROM CRUSHING
WARTIME TAXES
New Workers See Some Hope
of a Revival of Business
Through Action to Be
Taken BY Congress.


New York. July 24.-Assured at
last that the powers at Washington
are to try to readjust the wartime
tax burdens, the business men OF
this town are asserting today that
there may be some hope OF re-
yival of their activities before the
end of this year. II this essential
work is speedily undertaken. For
the first time since the new admin
jstration began, leaders in the in
dustrial world are now predicting
the first break in the present
paralysis, just as soon as the future
taxation scale is determined def
nitely. whether or not some sound
settlement of the taxpayers bur
dens can be arrived at in time to
relieve present serious business
conditions before another winter,
is something that these men do not
vet undertake to forecast.
That Tammany can be beaten OH
from grasping control of this city
for another four years only by the
best candidate ever run and the
most liberal platform ever written
by the anti-Tammany force is con-
ceded by local political wiseacres
who are now calculating chances
in the opening municipal cam
paign, borough president and al
derman, these men declare lies the
only hope of overthrowing the
strongly entrenched Tammany
tribe. Curran is the only man who
can beat Hylan at the polls next
fall, backed by platform based
on his record and broad point of
view, it is admitted not only by the
fusion leaders but by the men OF
Murphy's machine as we'll.
Warning the whole American
people, whose health must depend
upon their drug supply. that Ger
MANY is already driving to sieze
the sources of medicinal manufac-
ture thousands of doctors are now
organizing here a mighty move
ment to resist this patent purpose
of the kaiser's chemical cartel. In
less such selective embargo on
Teuton chemicals as has been
written into the tariff bill is
strengthened and retained in spite
of hostile influence by the friends
and agents of this foreign combine,
IT is declared that very soon we
must look for drugs to Germany's
monopoly, that so seriously GRIP
pled Americas medical supply our
ing the war. With many thousands
of druggists awalSing to the crucial
conditions confronting this country
in their field, it is expected that
the people of every section of the
country will soon make an earnest
protest in this matter to their rep
resentatives at washington.
Predicting a midsummer SLASH
of nrices in almost every essential
An the cost of living, the merchants
Of this town are just preparing 70
offer the best of goods at the low
est figures that buyers have met
since the war. Already the counters
and windows of stores all over
town are poisoning with bargain
sale exhibits and the shoppers are
beginning to sally forth In search
of what they have long been IN
need. Before another year is well
under way. it is asserted by many
experts that the high cost Of living
will have been dealt many BODY
blow.
After six weeks of the most
steady and crushing hot spells that
this city has ever experienced
everyone has adopted habits that
always go with such torrid times
Coats, collars and cuffs are nc
longer regarded as essential In the
most formal occasions, while any
clothing with much wool in 1t has
been laid aside until fall. Only
when these desert days are over
will Gotham sit up and dress up
again.