Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-03-05
MAJOR MORGAN
MAKES A PLEA
FOR THE ALIEN
BY KoRA INSTRUMENTATION.

From laughter to tears and back
again to smiles and glistenins eyes
was the gamut that Major Morgan
Iran his hearers at the Woman's clut
on Friday afternoon. While giving
what some might call pessimistic
talk on American Problems;" the
major declared that, being an Irish
man, he couldn't be a pessimist as
one could not make a pessimist out
of an lrishman.
Americans are like ostriches, he
said, they hide their heads in the
sand, because afraid TO face things
as they are. He quoted some one
as saying that an American would
rather die than think. If women
would face our pr0mlems, they
might all be solved, almost without
the aid of the men, such is the
majors confidence in the strength
land rightness Of woman's character
GO down town and slap the police
, man on the back and tell him
you're with him in law enforce
ment" he advised. He someWay
Illudt IL CGNul DuNll Il illNlAl a. tbb
proper thing to do, that you almost
decided you would-Maybe -not al
Second and Central on busy day,
perhaps, but, well, sometime you d
do it figuratiVely.
We have been centuries arriving
at the place where we may make
| our own statutes and we seem to
have cared nothing for the privi-
/ lege, he thinks, judging from the
way we more them. We have the
record of being the most law
breaking country in the world. AS
flor democracy, five millions of us
can not even spell it, let alone
/ know what it means. Our best
eitizens came over in the Storage
| he insists. the Mayflowcr being
imuch too limited to hold them all
THE problem of our own illiteracy
lis a bigger one than that of the So
called foreigner who knows that
he does not know and came eX'
lpecting us to help and teach nm
The major painted such VlVld
land emotional word picture or oul
lheartlessness toward the stranger
lin our land, as to bring tears OF
sudden dismay to many eyes ana a
retaliation of how our neglect tc
show them our best in citizenry
throws them directly into the path
iof the corrupt politician. the ex'
ploiter and the anarchist. Inc
lmajor felt our illiteracy problems
would not be solved until we re.
laIized what we owe to the faithful
ischool teacher who has stood by
1.-THE ship at a cooks wages and Win
livery little to make her feel that
civilization was relying on her to
keep it from going back to barbar-
ism. Most Of the men teachers
have long ago left the field foL
more Lucrative work and only 10
iper cent of our teachers are men,
Mrs. ]. G. Gould, president OF the
club, made very graceful, i'm
Ipromptu speech at the close or the
lecture in which she told the MAJOR
| of a few of the things that Alpu-
querque and New Mexico in gen
eral had to be proud about ana as
sured him that we had no foreign
problems here and our illiteracy
was probably no greater than many
other states.
A business meeting and a board
meeting preceded the address, al
which the entertainment of the OF
lficers of the state federation ana
delegates to the district meeting 10
be held here in April was arranged
for. The charity ball will be given
in the Masonic club on April IT, the
proceeds to go to pay off the mort
gage on the lay Nursery building
Next Friday is domestic science
day with Mrs. B. H. Porter as lead