Casco Bay breeze. [volume] (South Harpswell, Me.) 1901-1917, 1907-07-11
THURSDAY. JULY II, 1907.

JULY II, 1907.
The five-cent shows do not need
renovation half as much as some of
the two-dollar swindles, laments the
Birmingham Age-Herald.
Public opinion seems sadly divided.
TO the Detroit News. as to the useful
ness of the man who makes two shares
OF stock grow where one grew be-
fore.-Detroit News.
Ii Is the wireless telephone now. AT
ter little. prophecies the New York
American. all man will have to do
will be to sit in his Office and think.
and his ideas will be taken of a trans
mitter at the other side of the earth.
One OF the first acts of a millionaire
on returning to his old home in Ohio.
according to the Montreal Star, was
TO search for a dime that he lost
when he was five years old. Do you
wonder that he became a millionaire?
Possibly all legislation would be i'm
possible without logrolling. but 1t
would puzzle any casuist. observes the
Chicago Chronicle, to tell the differ
ence between a member of the legis-
lature voting for a bill for money
and voting for 1t to get some other
member to vote for some other bill.
The investigating committee of the
Minnesota state senate finds that rail-
road property in that state which Is
valued at $215. 200. 900 is capitalized to
the extent Of about $500 900 900. Now
IT Is the turn of the railroad presi-
| dents, thinks the New York Herald.
to deplore the popular tendency to at
tack corporations and to appeal to the
White House again to arrest local agi-
tation against railroads in the various
states.
Reports Of the London public libra
ries show that the proportion Of novels
and stories called for has been dimin-
ishing steadily during the last few
years and is lower this year than ever
before, while the Westminster Gazette
Is Informed by publishers that 1.-The
taste for fiction is giving way" On
this side OF the water. notes the New
York Sun. the book season has been
remarkable for the scarcity OF fiction.
Very few stories of note. even for the
moment, have been published
Physical perfection. remarks the Bos-
ton Herald. is becoming a matter OF
more rational consideration by par
ents. educators. physicians and legis-
lators. as the whole drift Of current
happenings shows: and nothing is
more significant than the way in
which theories OF government and of
education that were time honored have
been modified by the increasing real
ization that underneath sound mental
and moral conditions there must bs
the healthy physical human organism
Thesmost effectual anti-suicide work
Is that which the individual can do.
IL he will. II every individual. pleads
the Louisville Courier-Journsl, would
deal less selfishly with his fellows
bringing into his home greater feel
ing OF affection and gentleness and in
to IFS business relations a more pro-
nounced spirit OF live and let live"
and so, little by little. destroy the
harsh. antagonistic grinding and pinch
ing conditions which today beget un.
told misery and entail paralyzing
struggles. there would be fewer sui
cides. IL only each man resolved him
self into an anti-suicide bureau in the
living OF his daily life. what a differ
ent old world this would be!
We are consuming our forests. IL IL
regrettable to the New York CONNER
cial to think that the greatest force OF
civilization. the press, II in so great a
measurae responsible for this condI-
ton. But white paper" must come
from somewhere to supply the tons up
on tons Of newspapers that 20 out
daily from the hundreds OF news estab-
] lishments In the land: more tons still
are required for the innumerable mag
azines and other periodicals. There
fore the forests are felled. Eighty-sev.
en- pulp mills in New York state are
grinding a million tons OF wood into
pulp every year. A part Of this vast
amount must be imported, as the de-
struction has already extended to the
point Of alarm. Carried out to its
logical conclusion, all this would mean.
Of course. the entire denudatiou Of the
forest acreage Of the state.