SOUTHWESTERN BREEZES_ By Romaine Saunders A good combination: An open Bind and mouth shut — A lot of confusion over fabri cating rubber. Have expected some jocular gent to suggest it can be extracted from the rub ber necks. W News and gossip disscimin ators at the nation’s capitol say Mr. Roosevelt would regard the election of a republican governor in New York a ‘national calam ity.” Maybe the country has been misinformed respecting the president’s wishes as to “adjourn ment of politics.” Refreshing showers the past week and warm days have com bined to array the southwest in unsurpassed verdure. Trees in full foilage of shimmering green, grass knee high and the deep blue iris bloom dotting the prai rie. Victory gardens and berry beds are coming into service. Seed buyers are in the commun ity contracting the blue grass seed. Soon ranchers will plan for getting an immense hay yield into the stacks. So many of the youth of the country are on military and naval service that the superanuated old duffers willl have to take their places in the hay meadows. You may not have a trunk full of bonds or other accumulated treasure but the stars and the moonlit heaven are yours, the birds and the flowers, the glow and fragrance of early dawn, the slanting lines of the rain and the smell of wet earth, the gleam of sunlight in shimmering tree top and the rolling waves of the prairie grass spread in endless J miles across the land, the ming ™ led gold and purple tint flashed out of the sky at the close of day; the warm contact in the hand clasp of old friends, daily association with mankind and the heart throbs of loving service and little courtesies in the home —these are yours, and no taxes stand against it all. Respecting man’s relation to man th