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Southwest from Washington traveled Vice President Charles Gates Dawes. He departed for Cimarron, N. Mex., where Waite Phillips, Tulsa, (Okla.) oilman has a 150,000-acre ranch. Vacationing later than the President, the Vice President had opportunity to acquaint himself with the beauties of many western portions of the U. S. as evidenced by the various resolutions which state legislatures passed when the site of the President's summer capital was still under debate. Possibly the Vice President's eyes chanced to focus themselves on the resolution passed by the New Mexican legislators-a powerful presentation...
Easterners in (say) Santa Fe, N. Mex., putting down a five-dollar bill for a pack of cigarets are likely to receive four large round silver dollars in their change. No animus is intended-Southwesterners are used to the silver dollars-solid, tangible, clanking evidence of wealth. A man with ten silver dollars weighting down his pockets may always be pleasantly conscious of his solvency. But Easterners and the U. S. public in general have not taken kindly to the silver dollars which are deemed cumbersome, termed "cartwheels,"' given with apology, received with reluctance...
WILLIAM F. DARMITZEL Albuquerque, New Mex...
Hagan, New Mex...
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