Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 18, Number 74, Decatur, Adams County, 27 March 1920 — Page 3

N SONNY : CAUFDRKM « • o <o Sign of Hard Times is 1 Shown in the Menus Furnished by Harvey —a DIDN’T LIKE SCENERY ’ Smporia, Kansas, Home of Walt Mason, One of Interesting Points I At Topeka, Kansas (Topeka being ' to Omaha Indian word, signifying ;10 . ’ Bio), we had dinner from 12:45 to 1:15. The dining car was taken off t Kansas (’lay and from there on re depended upon Fred Harvey's eat pg houses, along the Santa Fe, foi tor "eats", and I can say that his iystem is ‘•some” system, “believe feu me.” The conductor telegraphs ifread number of dinners or lunch gnu and everythng is ready when he passengers arrive. A bevy of waitfesses, silently and swiftly moving, be last word in efficiency, pass devious viands, in great plenty with Nates properly warmed or dishes ooled, as the viands demanded, th< ervice and “appointments” being tin x elied. Service in the dining roon s “a la carte”, which has a specially kyous significance to one who has. ii Ipars gone by had dinners at restati ants where choice lay between roast kef" or “BORLED beef.” The vaiiresses of the Harvey House wear bniforms— with white collars flack skirts with white waists, and bisp white caps or head-frills—-If 1 This was holiday week nd every dining room was specially prorated in red and green, the Oliday colors. Being in the business o long, of observing “decorations” to leport, my eye swept in these details h the short time allotted for eating Ipal poinsettia California peppers wit heir grey feathery foliage and red jerries, with great wreaths of hollv. Bpes of holiday green adorned the s. Each eating house is artistical r built, tht» design and style of archpcture being harmonious and approbate to the setting. For instance, at Jutchinson, Kansas, where we had jnch at 7 o'clock Tuesday evening, ic Bisonte, is in Fudor style of archpi ture; the Castaneda, at Los Vegas. Itew Mexico, where we had dinner at ;20 o’clock Wednesday afternoon i panish; The Alvarado, at Albuqilv - le, K. M., where we had • o’clock that night: +>ronkfasf :>r hnslow, Arizona. Christmas day. at e tharacteristic Harvey House: and Htiristmas dinner. Thursday 1:30 to 2|oo. enjoyed at Ashtock, Arizona, in Escalante, named after Padre Kancisco Silvestre Velez Escalaute. pjoneer Franciscan priest who journe' id through Arizona in 1776. were enMiyable because of their interesting ■ei tings. Christmas night we had suppfe- at “The Needles" California . where U. arrived at 8 o'clock, the Harvey Bouse here being El Garces hotel, sifter Francisco Garces, a Spanish >pp<lre. Hl know the women especially will be interested in the various menu items, and wonder how so sumptuah' a dinner can be served for $1.00; and breakfast and supper for 85 cents. The Chritmas dinner consisted of: chicken consomme, olives, celery, let See with French dressing, turkey. Kauberries, roast ham, raisin dress-

I PATIENCE AND VISION Link Patience with Vision, work the two in double harness g R and they will in the end emerge triumphant from the crash of systems and the wreck of worlds. I Vision and Patience stand as a constant rebuke to those who are in much too great a hurry Haste makes for waste R That is exoeciallv true, as far as the problems arising out of I oi siial Sons are concerned. And, in this connection. it wouldl probably be found that social problems never preS sent a national crisis unless there are a great many people I S ie n in U a n v'ry great hurry so ■ Patipnrp and vision are wise, they know tnat it is not so g S mTch by reason of being served as it is by serving that human | ■ creatures are brought into normal community relations with | R SfeHows Therein lies the secret oi Community Service as it f R thoir ieliows.. . tqo much that through Community g I j" Sered to as 11 is (hat through : SSmurnty tovicc the individual hamsters to the com- | i| munity. nrranized bv Patience and Vision, | II Community ‘ P p hroug h that door the individual f R constitutes a . n and for the community. In | r can pass and be sepa rated by prejudice, by | R order to unite those vho may be sepa tQ unite j 9 passion, by misund^£ tivc who are working for the g them in a common object • wor kj n g against each other. r same end cannot forever . Community .Sendee has in As an or(!anization . R both an Organization and r principle; Community I Community Service has bai the residents o f a comR Service is the medium J g become members of it, with a munity get together andJ-ruL well . beingt pros . 5 consequent real interest m

Ing. candied sweet potatoes, cauli-' llower, tee cronm, assorted cakes. Plum puddin,-, mince pie and coffee, 1 > i I raid, this wa ,n In carte. WniTcn, tavo yon a serving, and often two. of everything, except of course, desert, ■ tn which you choose. The Christmas dinner was not a bit better than others, ns evidence the following “ox-' hiblts.” Dinner nt Los Vegas: Puree or split pen, radishes, onions, roast lamb, mashed turnips, string beans, i mashed potatoes, stewed chicken,! lumpllngs, mince pie, ice cream, cake,* PPle fritters, fruit. Jellies. Dinner i Baklesfield, Calif,, Friday noon. ‘!:40: clam chowder, baked fish, potno frills, roast vynl, mashed potatoes, noodles, roast pork, brtissels sprouts, ■ttuce salad, radishes, onions,, ice ream. cake, raisin pie. Breakfast at larstow, Cal., Friday morning 8:15: trape fruit and assorted fruits, fried 'mm. fried mush, rolls, shirred eggs, hicken ba h. coffee, toast, hot cakes, ereal, cream. As meal time was about he only time the train stopped, the meals asumed greate importance boause they broke the monotony. The vero also Irregular, and unless one -ad a lunch basket along, one often lecame ravenously hungry between he long periods. As I said before, the scenery was ot as interesting as I expected and 1 nust say 1 am disappointed in the Vest—or rather that Ido not like it ny more than 1 enjoyed reading wesern books and seeing western plays, which 1 did NOT. I was interested in Emporia, Kas., -s the home of Walt Mason. The ’ heat fields of Kansas are enormous: nd Kansas mules many. At Dodge City, Kansas, which we passed in the 'ight. central time changed to moun*ain time—an hour later. We awaken’d Wednesday morning at La Junta, 'olorado, and that day saw novel scenery, if one can,call it that. As far as I am concerned I do not like *he barreness. rockiness, brownness, bareness and dryness of the parts of ’olorado, New Mexico. Arizona and Southern California that 1 saw. However, with La Junta, Colo., our sight of the mountains began, including, of course, snow-capped Pike’s Peak 100 miles west. With the altitude at La Junta. at 4,045 feet, we gradually as-, cended through Frinideal. Starkrille and Morley, to Wooten, Colo., the height of 7,526. The train had divided and several engines furnished power for each division through Raton, just beyond the New Mexico state lines. Here are twin tunnels, the old 2,638 and the now 2.678 feet long. The highest point on the Santa Fe (7.608) feet between Chicago and California, is , near the center of this tunnel. Before the tunnels were built, the summit

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I was surmounted by a "switchback. ’ United States military forces in the .forties suffered terrible hardships crossing the mountains here. The climb up North Raton creek begins two miles from Trindad line and in 15 miles the train ascends 1,636 feet, maximum grade being three and onehalf per cent. A "pusher" engine is !Ued to the summit of the pass, a

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powerful machine of new balanced jt compound type, built low, with 5 driv- i t ing wheels on each aide. Standard en 1 gine assists the “road” engine In front, I , making three locomotives In all. The I mining villages were Interesting; and 11 the irrigation systems novel to one 1 who has lived in a natural garden i ' spot. Abode houses set down in the i barren places; equally significant of j I

the nature of the soil; although irrign-. tion and intensive farming have don<much for fruit growing, stock raising.' farming in general. leaving Albuquerque, New Mexico, ] late at night, we palled over much of New Mexico and Arizona at night, for which I wus glad. St. Joseph, Ariz., a prosperous Mormon settlement, with large Irrigation territory, greeted us

lIM l»«W»<B — » l • w— •>« 'I i ~MW* early In the morning and soon after we stopped nt Winslow, for breakfast. From this place departure is made for !t he Hope Indian villages, slxty-five miles north, the Hopi buttes being ! plainly discernible. , in Indian festivnlvwns on about this time and one car attached to our train was reserved for Indians in festive attire enroute to the "doings." Canyon Diablo (Dev-

il's canyon", Is a notable feature along the way. the train passing over a deep gash In the plaetau 225 feet deep, 550 feet wide and many miles long, on a high bridge. We arrived at Flagstaff, Ariz,, near noon Christmas and very appropriately saw snow—the first since leaving home. The altitude here (Continued on Page Four)