Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-01-12
NE W YORK TAKES
AN OP I'M |ST|C
VIEW Of FUTURE
Labor and Costs of Mate
rails Are Adjusting Them
selves; Carnival of Crime
Continues Unabated.
Especial Correspondence to The JOurnaI)

New Yor, Jan. 11.-That both
labor and costs of materials are
now slowly but surely adjusting
themselves to a scale sufficiently
low to pave the way for profitable
resumption of business on a big
scale, was today reported to indus
trial and financial leaders here,
who are surveying the immediate
prospects for renewed activities
through this country. In spite of
the stagnation that at present
holds up many manufacturing and
commercial lines, more business
will be done during the next six
months than was done in the last
six, these men predict. With la
boring men able to live nearer nor
NAL than at any time within the
last few years and with supplies
selling closer to pre-war prices
than ever before, the leaders in
trade circles throughout this town
declare that the business of the
nation is now lar up the grade be
yond the slump of hard times.
Crime Carnival.
Since no abatement has yet been
recorded in the constant crop of
criminal outrages that is regularly
reaped by this metropolis, it is adj
mitted by expert criminologlsts
that things will grow much worse
before they are better. Highway
hold-ups that rival any ever at
tempted in the history here are
now nightly occurrences that eX-
cite no comment, while bold bur
glaries that once would have taxi
en- front page space are not even
reported. Before Gotham ever re-
covers from this extraordinary car
niyal of crime, it seems certain
that lawlessness will run rampant
more than has ever been recorded
on this city's tablets.
Tariff Talk.
Though talk for and against tar
iff change has run riot for weeks
and weeks hereabouts, the national
politicians have managed to keep
very quiet concerning the most in
ternational barrier of all, it has
just been discovered. Few of the
business men who have been in
terested in talk of tariff in their
line have been told by the politi-
clans that the pending dye bill
spells victory or defeat to Ameri-
can chemical independence for all
time, it has been pointed out this
week. Though the dye industry is
only an ordinary member of this
country's industrial array, it's sur
render means the retention or ruin
of all scientific achievement in the
United States, that must be made
or broken as its natural industrial
foundation, the leading chemical
scientists of this town declare.
Trim Traffic.
Cutting clear away from the old
lines of traffic regulation, the po-
lice have just put into force the
latest and most revolutionary rules
for coming theater traffic that this
city ever experienced. One way
streets are made of the oldest ave-
nue. thoroughfares, while parking
is prohibited throughout whole
zones of blocks along the Great
White Way. Though no one can
yet tell just how well these new
regulations will work out in sim
plifying evening transit about the
theaters, the result cannot be worse
than before, it is agreed.
Weather Wonder.
Based on a few days of warmth,
rain and even thundershowers, the
widest prophesies of mild winter
to come are now let loose around
this town. To every talker who
has seen wild geese, violets or buds,
eager ear is lent If optimistic
could curb a winter,
the coming cold season would
prove tropical, it is admitted.