Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1915-08-04
DOWN In MAINE.
SOME THINGS HOME FOLKS
OWE THE STATE.
LET OTHERS KNOW WHAT A BEArTI-
Full STATE you LIVE IN-BooM
MAINE.

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| The people OF Maine live ID q beautiful
| State. They ought to be aware OF the fact,
| for every board OF trade hshituAliy passes
annual resolutions to that effect, and adds
| that sonnet hing ought to be done aoout IL.
| And there is no denying either statement.
| The people OF Maine do live in q heauti-
ful state. They are conscious OF it in =
general way, and they appreciate the
charms that nature has lavishcd upon
their land. bat their interest In Maine
scenery, Maine air, Maine water, and ell
OF Names other attractive assets is pas
sive and familiar in its attitude. They
were born in the scenery. They have
! hresthed the air aud drank the water all
l their lives and, therefore. SEE nothing
surprising in it, They refuse to become
excited when they hear the beauties Of the
/ State extoiled by the secretary of the
commercial club or even the passing
orator who tells how charmed he is to be
"vithin tho borders Of your lovely COM
monweslth the vacation land OF It's ma
tion."
when stranger happens this way, we
extol Maine scenery, Maine air, Maine
water. and give him our best example Of
Maine hospitality. That is all well
enough. II the stranger likes what we
have to offer very probably he will come
again and bring his family. But II he is
| looking Tor attractions that we do not
possess, and has blundered in haphsxsrd
and unin.ormed, be Is grsveiy disappoint-
/ ed and goes away, never to return.
| When man advertises the wares be has
I for sale he tries to place his snnounc. snents
where they viii reach the sort of people
who arc most likely to buy.
| With q state IL should be the same. The
] trout bic Is that ne have advertised Maine
/ too much to Maine people and not enough
outside. We praise our hills, oar lakes snd
1 rivers snd our rock bound coast 20 each
other, and " hen we 90 abroad we come
home and tell cur folks that the Bay u
4 Naples isn't in for a minute with French
mans bay, and that the Rhine is river of
pea soup. and not to be compared WITH
the weak-tca limpidity of the Penobscoi.
The attractions OF which ~e rightly
beast should be told to people outside OF
Maine, NOT to people within the State, to
| be productive OF the desired results.
We have a great state, and II IL isn't vet
the playground of the nation. it ought
to be, and some day will be. Blu; the pro-
icess of evolution ~ q slow one, and some
times it pays TO assist.
NAMES GREAT NEED.
What Maine needs in order to possess
itself OF large and permanent summer
| population is the right kind OF advertise
| ing. Now the best possible advertising
/ medium that the world has ever discov-
cred, other than newspapers, is the spoken
or written word. Taking or writing TO
individuals is q much slower method OF
/ telling your story to the world than put
| ting the same story in the metropolitan
papers, having calculations OF several
hundred thousand each. To tell the story
OF Maine in the metropolitan newspapers,
however, would cost = large amount OF
ready cash, which neither the individual
Mantle, the Maine town nor the State OF
Maine has available at present for adyer-
tising purposes
The people will believe what OF her people
tell them quite - readily a. IL told in the
newspaper. But we can't all throw up
our jobs and altruistically set out on Q
journey through the country talking up
our State, and, therefore, advertising BY
word OF mouth Is necessarily limited to
those who do travel and are just nostalgic
enough to want 10 talk . bout home to the
people they meet.
So, casting around for the next best
way, our eye lights on the head OF the
Father OF His Country done in rose color
on two-cent stamp. There are 100, 900
OF as in the State OF Maine, and in all
proba biiity . roodiy proportion have
friends and acquaintAnces, both business
and personal, in other states. Suppos.
every one OF these people sat down and
wrote q letter to friend or relative, or
maybe only an acquaintance, and told
him or her some OF the things we have TO
ofier down this way.
WHAT MAINE HAS TO OFFER
There is our coast. q thousand miles OF
1t, dotted with islands, indented with
countless bays, coves and estuaries, q
vsriegated stretch Of beauty such as occurs
now here else in all the world. There are
our lakes, hundreds of them, green
bordered by field and forest. There are
great areas Of rolling, cultivated country
side, with villages scattered among the
hills. as picturesque and as Characteristic
as anything this country has to orer the
dwelier in smoky cities
There is Homsthing for every fancy;
solitude OF forest for the lover OF solitude,
sea coast for the lover Of the see, rural
beauty for the soul that longs for sim
plicity Is an antidote for the rush OF
metropolitan life; fish for the fisherman,
game for the hunter. And IL is all easily
sccessibie. Train. steamer. automobile,
as the traveller may choose, brings him in
few hours to whatever part of our land he
may desire-snd tskes him hons again rs
quickly heu he il ready to 60.