Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-01-21

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needed right now
In those days there was no ne
cessity for telegraphing a week II
advance for a room at the Alvaradt
hotel. You could re gister and ge
two rooms if you wanted them. Bu'
now, with other hotels built or en-
larged since then, we can't accom-
modate the transients who come
here, and either we must build
big hotel or hang the sign over
Albuquerques door: standing
Room Only"
Some people say tbs is not a good
time to promote a hotel enterprise
They say money is too close. OF
course 1t is not a good time. But
it was not a good time when the Y
NJ. c. A. drive was made in 1918
yet it went over the top with z
whoop. The sum of $4,000 was
raised in a week. The talk of hare
times - they were hard then -
never discouraged r. f. Putney
George Kaseman, NJ. f. Hickey anC
the rest of the boosters. A lot of u.
knew that to raise Albuquerque
Liberty loan quotas was an ute
impossibility; but Max Nordhau
never was discouraged so that yol
could notice 1t, and we went IA
over the top every time.
Thad Stevens, on great occas
ion in the nations history, exclaim
ed: God himself, can do nothinF
for a coward" When we have thu
will we can do the impossible.
How He Heard of Albuquerque.
You will pardon me II tell yot
how and why I came here. l have
been over a good deal of the world
there is scarcely a city of 25,O0t
population in the United States thai
| have not been in at some time OF
other. For some years my family
spent the winters in Cuba and the
summers in Colorado Springs oil
Denver. We have also put in quite
a bit of time In Ashviile, N. c.
Returning from Cuba, I called
upon DIR. John II. Girdner, one OF
the best known physicians of New
York city. He and l are alumni Of
the same college. He was Presi'
deaf C'eveland's physician. | tolc
rr. Ciirdner that the game of chas
ing climate was becoming tat
strenuous for my pocketbook. HI
said, why don't you go TO the hes
average climate in the world, Al
New Mexico. and oai
such id foolishness?" asNel
him how far Albuquerque was from
Deming; l had heard of Deming
because the Chamber of Commerce
of that little city had spent $4,000
in one year in advertising.
DR.. Girdner handed me World
Work, just out, with an article IN !
hv a mana notwithstanding doctor
I believe-who said place one poin
of a compass at Albuquerque ant
the other point at FL Paso and de-
scribe a circle taking in part o
west Texas, southern C dorado, anc
eastern Arizona. and in that cir
c'e you have the well country
lie called Albuquerque the hear
of the we'll country" He was right
One of Three Dry Spots.
DR.. Girdner said there are three
points in the world where climatic
are most favorable fol
recovery from lung and throat dis
eases: The Sahara desert, the city
of Ouita. high and dry in the Andes
and Albuquerque, five Thousand
feet above sea level where the
rainfall averages only about eight
inches, and where the nights arc
cool and the days never are
hot. God never made a better all
year climate than Albuquerque.
Deeply impressed by DR.. Grid
ner's words and by the article In
Worlds Work, / sent part of my
family to Los Angeles and | started
out to find a climate. l came first
to San Antonio, then to Ell Paso
then to Deming. and finally to AL
l moved to this city
a. year later. and | never have re-
GREETED the choice. Albuquerque
has a superb climate. it is inhabit'
ed by cultured. kindly. energetic
people, and this city has its future
before it. We are betting on thai
future.
OF course. we have some croak'
ers here. They are in all cities
always have been and always viii
be. When the first United States
census was taken, 1872 years ago
Boston had a population of 1S,O38
New Yorks population was 33, l3l
and Philadelphia, the biggest city
on the western hemisphere, boast
ed of 42,520. Chicago did not ap-
near on the map until forty years
later. My grandfather, when that
census was taken In 1888. was
8 years old. and knew him during
the last ten years Of his life. So
YOU see that it was not SO long ago
that Boston was no larger than
Albuquerque is now.
at Can't Be Done"
But there were croakers m those
days. Benjamin Franklin tells us
that men told him not to invest
money in Philadelphia, because
he city was then overbuilt, taxes
we're too high. there could be no
future for the city, and everything
was going to the bow
vows. Men of faith invested and
became rich; the men of no faith
went into the discard.
Los Angeles, thirty-two years
ago, was a little city apparently of
10 resources. A number of bust
hess men came together and as a
.esult of their conference Frank
VI. Virgins. secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce. was COM
/. issioned to make Los Angeles the
most attractive city on the CONT
lent for homes. He advertised,
md people came in droves. Five
years ago Frank M. Virgins start
I'd out to make Los Angeles the
pest Industrial city of the west. He
secured the Goodyear people and
/ lot Of other industrial concerns,
in the aggregate thou
ands of laborers. Now Los Ange-
es is advertising Tor tents to house
is surplus population.
Los Angeles was built by adver-
;sing it's climate; Denver. indus
rally misplaced. was built by ad-
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