Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-08-08
TREND Of TIMES
WILL Be WORSE,
EXPERTS CLAIM
Can Be No Upward Turn
Until Everybody Returns to
Work and Simple Life, Be-
lief in N. Y.
Special Correspondence to The Journal,

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Especial Correspondence to The JournaI.)
New York, Aug. THAT the
trend of the times must turn for
worse before it becomes better, was
declared today by bankers and
business men who have Just con-
Guided a conference here to take
stock of the future. Until every
wartime extravaganza and high
charge has been fully liquldatei
by everyone, who must pay the pen
atty for loose living and laboring,
no relief from the pressure of these
trying times can be expected, these
economic experts assert, and there
can be no upward turn until every
one returns to hard work and SIM
pie life. While a great deal has
been accomplished toward working
out the penance of recent economic
sins, it is pointed out that a long
way must yet be travelled along this
rocky road.
Curran's Chance.
If the forces of anti-Tammany
/ fusion finally decide to place Henry
H. Curran as their standard bearer
in the opening fight for the control
of this city's government for the
next four years, it Is now conceded
that they may at last have a
chance to overthrow the strong ma
chine of Murphy. No candidate to
Gust Tamany mayor from city hall
ever doomed as large as this head Of
the only borough that the Tiger
does not rule, and the district lead
ers of the wigwam admit that he
will be hard man to beat. Since
the women of this town are to be
counted in at the polls for the first,
time in the history of municipal
elections here, the hope of Tam
many defeat seems brighter than
ever.
Doctors Drive.
Enlisting almost every man Of
medicine in their fight to prevent
the German chemists from Selling
the supply Of the drugs upon which
every Americans health must de-
pend, leaders In the world of medi-
cal manufacture are just organiz-
ing for the inclusion in the tariff
bill of an adequate embargo upon
the chemicals that stock our drug
stores. Already the German chem
lGdl IuSl 10 ItdIllliiS OuI " NAitAF
it's drugs at ruinous prices for the
purpose of putting out OF business
the American chemists who pulit
up a supply of homemade drugs
to take the place of those with
drawn by the kaiser as a war threat
against our joining the allies, these
men declare. Unless the Yankee
nation wants to put in the. hands
of the German chemical cartel the
power to supply or Withhold our
drugs, as we'll as the dyes that
enter into all our industries, 1t is
pointed out that some special meas
ure must be adopted to protect Its
scattered competitors here.
Construction Clog.
Though more building OF office |
structures, residences and stores
than has been laid out in years
was scheduled for this summer,
much of this needed activity has
already been abandoned or let lag. !
All over town excavations are gap |
ing without any upbuilding While
skeletons Of big buildings are
standing without a stroke toward
their finishing. Since space here is
much less in demand that it was
before the hardest times set in,
these seems little likelihood OF.
much progress toward upbuilding
the town.
Silent Seats.
Nothing but plush and paint Is
now occupying many of the thea
ter seats in the auditeriums all
over this town. With only few
of the summer amusement, houses
open at all, it is easier to secure
any sort of a chair than 1t Is to
find anyone who is going into the
same theater with you. These are
doleful days for the show people
Gotham, and no one is ready to
predict that they will become any
buster or brighter when the fall