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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1916-01-13
Statesmen Needed.

II seems to layman that the pre-
sent session Of Congress wonld find
It's hands full in preparing to meet
the coming period Of world recon-
notwithstanding that will have
to be done at the close Of the war,
and in which the United States
should be prepared to take a helpful,
nstruc.iys part. Instead of this,
looks now as if the time and att
sention Of Congress would be occu-
pied mainly with the questions of
politics and preparedness, ''-most-
u politics. The work ahead Of the
world will need the guiding hand Of
great statesmen. We need them,
not only to assist in the general re-
cosVtfuction, but to shape the affairs
Of our own country so that we will
be able to meet the trying times
ahead of us. We need, as we have
seldom needed, men who are big
enough to be called statesmen-men
with vision who can see future
needs and opportunities and prepare
for them SO far they have not APP
= peared Owe the horizon. Party
jed and partisan newspapers
Ito be interested in politics
pcy that will give their
4 e Of Temporary advantage.
WIZ immigration, revenues,
interiises Improvements, foreign
rade, banfsie laws, credit systems,
governmental control and ownship
Of pnblic necessities and score d
things that are before the public
mind, and which viii make for
stability or panicy times in the near
future? 1t is an opportnne time to
study the geography of the world IN
reference TO future trade relations
and to foster the development Of
such understandings as will open
lew fields as well as retain those Of
the past. 1t must not be assumed
for moment that the present in
flated export trade will continue af-
ter the war stops, for large part
Twill cease Immediately at the close
Of the war unless new avenues are
opened Taking 1913 as a normal
gcar, the exports for eleven months
# this year exceeded those Of 1919
BY ~ persent, or alb .9.e billion
dollars and the imp, fell Of con-
giderably. The future dey6p.
vz-rrx bsrfy-bvisls's Va
il mist ~ wise direction
Should not be in a position W
nich we are entirely victims OF CIR
cumstance and there is now splen-
did chance to test the kind of metal
Of which our statesmen are
made. -Penna. Farmer.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1916-01-13

4TT.kI / want ~ bus iwo
WuIlInlI- EARNS IN S. Mary S
IA Ne~N County, ons nrnf Tie
water and the other not more than ase
miles from State road. GIVE fuli a.
scfiption of thu property. address
H., i34Z New York Ave. N w
Washington. p. g i2-ig.im j
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1916-01-13
Hay for AIIIna Horse.

Don't feed large quantity OF hay
70 horse that IL afflicted with heayeF
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1916-01-13
City Hub Store
We are selling our
Ladies Coats, Suits and
Millinery At Half Price.
Buy now and save money.
Entertainment !

There will be Popular Entertain
ment given by the young people Of Sc
Michael's, Ridge, at the Hall on
tuesday January 10
Among other interesting selections
OF the program, VIII he the comedy,
Down Etst. In case 81 stormy
night. win be postponed until Thurs
day, tho 10th. The play will be fol-
lowed BY a dance IL
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1916-01-13
il mist ~ wise direction.

Should not be in position IN
hich we are entirely victims OF cir
oumstance and there is now a SPLEEN
did chance to test the kind Of metal
Of which our statesmen are
made. -Penna. Farmer.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1916-01-13
-- : THts---
Real Estate Broker
Southern Maryland.

200 Farms, $500 to $50.
900. Waterfronts, Inter-
iors. Stores, Timber lands;
Nearly All the Real Is
tate That = FOR Sale In
Southern Maryland
r he only r. ca 4
Es.ste Brokers Licensed
BY the Clerk ofthe Circuit
Court 81 81. Mary'a Co.
Both Farmers and to the
Manor Born.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1916-01-13
bly, YOUR LUMBER FROM
Frank Libbey s Co,
LUMBfSNEess WASHINGTON. u. &.

The most "a % e8amber hrm Come with
next lumber Ml W always d III reasonable figures and
reliable 4-&@11a nili work we have always had the
af tewutrss efiumbe buyers. and going o keep "
in riah PRICES
W1aeaa, ssao Lights, Glazed Y aas) only sloo.
Gtg cMress shiuges from Flosida $500 rcr 1000.
cea nliass psv tair atssNpa pp according tosi1n
Front iaeFs WEB iae else tloasma niaoci Paals $500 81
W. has sey house gIars vita ready prepared 6Y
shg lasAefAt nSi astk freq plans when NO BUY.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-08-16
SOMETHING TO BE THANKFUL
FOR

It may be more or less soothing
to the citizens of New Ulm who have
been groaning under excessive taxes
for some years to learn that there are
large number of cities of the same
class as New Ulm that are even worse
hit than we are. AS a matter-of- fact,
of the cities quoted New Ulm has the
fourth lowest tax rate. This informa-
ton, altho it will have no tendency
to lower the taxes, still it ought to
be source of relief to citizens here to
find out that other tax payers are even
worse off than we are.
The comparative table as to tax rates
from which this information is cleaned
was prepared by H. B. Bacon, chief
clerk of the Minnesota Tax Commission.
This comparative table as far as it
affects the 20 cities in question reads as
follows: Crookston, 56.1 mills; Fairmont,
81 mills; Austin CO.'S mills; Fergus Falls,
55.S mills; Cloquet, 1913; Albert Lea
50; Winona 47.6; St. Cloud At; Virginia
1855; Brainerd 1866; Mankato 46; Roches-
ter 46; Owatonna 46; Faribault 45.7;
Saltwater AZ; New Ulm 41.1; Red
Wing 40; Chisholm ST.; Eveleth 1858.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-08-16
Realty Transfers.


Christoph Sommerfeld to Emil Sommer-
field, los acres of N. w. IA and of
N. IL of S. w. IA of Sec. 16, T. 10
R. 80, $S00.00.
Gregor Pechtel to Albert Pechtel, L z B
ia N. Center st., City, $400.
Johanna Nilsson to Trena Kjestad and
Alice Kjestad S. E. Ia S. w. Ia of
S. rs T. 108 N. Range 80 w. $1.OO
Mary Lehman to Paul Lehman, S. w.
corner of the S. E. IA of the S. W..
Ia of S. 20 T. 10 N. of Range 81 w.
of the Fifth Principal Meridian, thence
running N. 20 chains, thence running
E. 5 chains, thence running S. 20
chains, thence running w. chains t.
the place of beginning containing 10
acres more or less, $250.OO.
Jacob Eischen to Michael Eischen, N.
W. Ia of S. 80 T. 1OS N. of Range 80
w. This deed is intended to convey
164 and 48 acres. $1.00.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-08-16

The finishing touches are being put
to the state road between New Ulm and
St. Peter, via Nicollet. The contractors,
the Tiff Construction company, have
finished their contract between New Ulm
and this village and expect to start today
working on the highway towards St.
Peter. When completed it will be true
and trite saying that all good roads lead
to Nicollet.-Nicol.et Leader.
Two young ladies living near Nicollet
and CORTLAND were using a gasoline iron
at the home of the Nicollet girl when it
exploded and both girls were quite badly
burned.
St. Peter reports fire alarm caused by
the trouble in lighting gasoline stove.
There was no explosion but the flames
caught in some way and badly blacken ed
walls were the result altho no worse
damage was done.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-08-16
LYMAN H. HOWE'S NEW PRO-
DUCTION.

Few Americans know Hawaii as they
should. The beautiful island possession
OF the United States has become more
appreciated since the war in Europe be-
cause OF the turning toward the west of
the annual pilgrimage of tourists. People
who familiarized their minds with the
Pyramids, the Alps and other European
points of interest have begun to realize
that they have new fields for interesting
impressions. With the first of these
seekers for novel sensations were Lyman
H. Howe photographers who spent
several months in Hawaii. The journey
was made on the new palace steamer
"Great Northern which afforded oppor-
tunity for some splendid scenes of the
ship as it approached the beautiful harbor
of Honolulu. From the landing place
the cameras were taken aboard special
trains to the craters of active volcanoes
and to many other interesting points by
the splendid cooperation of enthusiastic
inhabitants of the islands.
Other interesting features of Mr..
Howe's new program will be Spain and
Norway and an unusually fine series
taken at the U. S. Military Academy at
West Point where the motto is "every
cadet proficient in everything
where every man stands solely on his own
merits. It illustrates the strenuous
training and grind, as we'll as the glamour,
of life at what is usually regarded as the
most efficient military training school in
the world. It discloses the diversity of
activity from reveille to taps of the cadets
at work and at play. The vast import
ance of this institution to all Americans,
even as long ago as the Mexican War, is
indicated by this statement made by
General Winfield Scott to the Secretary
of War II give it as my fixed opinion that
but for our graduated cadets the war be-
tween the United States and Mexico
would have lasted four or five years.
Since this institution has performed such
a paramount duty to the nation ever since
it was founded over century ago, and
performs it today more efficiently than
ever, it we'll merits closer acquaintance
through the medium of this admirable
reproduction which will be shown at the
Turner Theatre on Tuesday, Aug. 10Th
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-08-16

bed to be seen in the single room with
a clean white spread on it. On Sundays
the women and children, and even the
men, wear clean clothes. OF course
their homes are humble but suppose
they are SO much better than they have
been accustomed to on the other side that
they seem luxurious to the poor poems.
A Pitiful Sight.
Mexican families seem to be permitted
to come freely into this country. The
other day when I was at Brownsville
saw two families that were evidently
moving into the U. S. from the other side
OF the border. They had crazy old ram
shackle vehicles, drawn by a skinny
little pony. On the vehicles were piled
few small bundles which constituted
all their household effects. These in
cluded no furniture whatever, only
bedding, few rags of clothing and
simple cooking utensil or two. Along
side of the miserable beast trudged the
man of the family, belaboring the poor
creature with stick in an endeavor to
get some motion out of him. Behind
came the woman and the children,
always lot of the latter and unfailing-
ly baby in arms. The humans as
well as the horses appeared to be half
starved.
Sixty To Eighty Cents a Day.
All they ask is spot in security on
this side where they can build rude
shelter from the windings of the forest
and job for the man at any kind of
labor that pays sixty or eighty cents
day. On this slender income they can
live. They sleep cheerfully on the
ground, so beds are not essential. An
open outdoor fire suffices for their simple
cooking so stoves may be discarded.
The free out of doors waters answer for
laundry purposes so nothing is needed
in that line. A single garment of cheap
cotton clothes woman or child and the
man is content with a rough shirt,
trousers and shoes. Life is truly simple
thing with them and they would delight
some of our employers of labor at home
who think working man and his family
should have nothing better.
Mexicans Will Work.
But the great saving grace about
them is the fact that they will work.
A people with this characteristic are
capable of better things. The Mexi-
can has crowded out the negro here be-
cause he is mere Industrious. The
black man likes too well to ape the
luxurious, idle living of the whites, which
is the thing thet is undermining the race
and will eventually, if unchecked, cause
it to give way to the darker skinned
peoples. Fifty years from now, if he
keeps his habits of industry, will see the
Mexican a dominating force on his con-
tinent, probably in the United States.
1t is the same comparison of industry
that constitutes the Japanese menace
also. That sounds like bunch of
Weisenheimer stuff but I believe the
economists and sociologists agree with
the views advanced. A people who
won't work are no good and nature will
push them into the discard and make
way for the hewers of wood and the
drawers of water. Read your history,
my child. Then get busy.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-08-16
Sells More Goods

1t is the same with advertising. There
ARE certain fixed charges that must be
: adeed to the cost of the goods a merchant
sells. He must add enough to pay rent,
heat, light, clerk hire, etc. Out of each
dollar in sales, a certain percentage
must 60 to pay for these things. But
with advertising, he can sell more goods
with the same clerks, in the same store,
etc. His sales increase while his fixed
charges either increase very little or
" stand the same. His advertising makes
Two dollars come in where only one came
before. Without it, his relative cost
for the other items mentioned would
likely make it impossible for. him to do
business at all.
Advertising, therefore, can be said to
pay for itself. 1t is self-supporting.
1t makes it's own way.
If this were not true-if advertising
added to the cost of selling not
great non-advertising stores spring up
and drive the advertising stores out of
business?
The public would learn that the prices
of the advertiser were higher. He could
not sell his goods.
Advertising will bring customer
once. The goods must bring him the
second time.
Advertising has produced quantity
production and more rapid selling
making laborsaving machinery and
other economies possible, SO it has re-
duced the cost of everything that has
ever been judiciously advertised and
properly handled much below what its
cost would otherwise be.
Advertising has placed wide markets
within the easy grasp Of those who have
.kneritorious things for sale, and we know
that many product which requires q
wide market to make it's manufacture
possible would not even exist were it
not for advertising.
Shoddy goods and advertising are
not likely to be bed-fellows for long
Advertising has reduced the waste that
has always occurred through buying
goods that do not serve as they should
for there is constantly diminishing
market for shoddy things.
And one Of the greatest of all benefits
of advertising is that it has brought the
price of almost countless publications
within the reach of the poor as well as
the rich. Thus, indirectly, it has
brought to us all, the writings, the
thoughts, of the brightest minds of the
age 1t has brought to the poor mar
his picture gallery, for in the advertising
spaces and in editorial spaces the greatest
artists enrich our knowledge Of things
beautiful. Advertising has helped te
<tlernocratize aedueatiess-,5..:s fs~~si :
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-08-16
AUCTION
AUCTION

The undersigned will sell at public
auction on his farm one mile South
east of Cambria Station commencing
at l o'clock Tuesday, Aug. 22nd, the
following property:
2 Percheron Mares, Coming 8 years
old, l Grey Mare 8 years old, 1 Bay
Horse S Years old, Bay Horse Is years
old, 10 mich cows, calves, 3 2-year old
steers, 4 1-year old steers, 9 hogs, 10
tons Of hay, Plano Binder, Deering
Mower, Hay Rake, l Rock Island
Sulky Plow, Walking Plow, l Disk
Drill, j Seeder, Corn Planter, / Drag,
La Crosse Cultivator, l Wagon, l
Truck, Double Buggy, Single Buggy,
/ Pair of Bob Sleighs, 2 Sets Double
Harness, Milk Cart, l Grind Stone.
Many other articles too numerous to
mention.
TERMS: $1,000 Cash. Over $1,000
year time on good approved notes at
per cent interest.
| H. r.: HUGHES, Owner.
COL, Jack Martin, Paul Meyer,
-Auctioneer.' So. Clerk.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-08-16
WHO PAYS FOR ADVERTISING?
BY William Woodhead

Former President, Associated Adver-
Using Clubs OF The World.
Business is no longer private. 1t is
public. At his own invitation, we have
come to look upon the modern business
man as a public servant and upon his
place of business as an institution existing
to help us. And the whole impression
is of the modern business mans own
making.
At about the time in the history of
bookkeeping, when one inhexible price
became the rule in all good stores, the
business man awoke to the fact that it
was possible to make people understand
that they could buy with safety without
expert knowledge of the goods they
were buying-that they could be brought
to the thought of relying upon their
confidence in him as their assurance
that the wares he offered were worth
the price he asked.
Interest In Business Growing
About that time business men and
the public began to take more interest
in each other. The business man began
to realize that if the people were to be-
~lieve in him, they would have to know
about him-for we rarely find ourselves
in sympathy with things we see or hear
about for the first time. We are bit
suspicious at first.
This interest in business men, and in
business methods has grown partly be-
cause business has become more and
more public, buiness men becoming
more and more frank the while, and be-
cause the public has come to recognize
business methods as an interesting topic.
So it is natural for us, as buyers of
things, to be interested in advertising
and in every device which the seller uses
in our service, and to inquire into the
effect which advertising has upon the
cost of things we buy.
Who Pays?
Perhaps you ask then, who pays for
advertising? Nobody pays for it if you
mean by the question to infer that it's cost
is added to the price of the goods, for it
is not.
Suppose great store has a depart
ment whose sales are lower than they
should be, so that too much, proper
.nately, has to be charged to the salary
of the head of the department. Too big
a percentage of all the money taken in
has to 60 to pay his salary. The de-
partment is operated at loss, let us
say.
Now, suppose the owners of the store
dismiss this department head and hire a
manager for the department whose
salary is little higher, but whose sales
are very much larger. His salary is a
smaller percentage of his sales than the
former mans salary was of his sales.
He pays his way, and more.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-08-12
CARTHAGE AND JAPAN

1t does not take a great deal of brains nor OF patriot
ism to keep repeating, parrot-ike, that some day we will
have to fight with Japan. And yet there will be no more
sense in fighting with Japan than there is sense in the
fighting that is now devastating Europe. For forty
years or more some of the Cassandras have been repeating
the formula of the inevitable war. They have prepared
themselves for it not merely mentally and psychologist
ally, but physically, and when they were prepared to fight
they began the slaughter. They have devastated each
other, like beasts of the field, and there will be no end of
the matter until they come together and talk it over like
sensible men. And that devastation they call civiiza-
ton.
Certain men and some newspapers are trying to work
up the same state of mind between the United States and
Japan, when, as a matter of fact, there is not a man OF
mind in either country who does not see the unnecessary
both located on the great Pacific ocean where the ships of
commerce ply, it is assumed that we will find something
to fight about-if about nothing else, then about who
shall sell the most prunes in China. But if we used any
good sense at all we would rather be talking about how
we can compete on honorable terms in the Pacific waters
and we would permit the commercial victories to fall to
the men with the most diligence and thrift in trade.
In the days of old, when Rome was great and
Carthage was the chief city of Africa, in Rome and in
Carthage it was whispered and then talked for many
years that one must destroy the other; they could not both
continue to exist. In Rome the youth were taught that
Carthage must be destroyed. And all because the men OF
Carthage had obtained favor in some markets that the men
of Rome thought belonged to them.
Are we going to repeat the folly of Rome and
Carthage, as between ourselves and Japan? Are we going
to repeat the formula OF a war to come until we, too, be
come so obsessed with the madness and the mania that we
can do nothing but fight? Isn't that what we are drifting
toward?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-08-12
AND THIS is CIVILIZATION

"The nations safety calls for work" says a war doc
tor. (which threatens to burst the brain with horrors.
And he saws that the most horrible of all this work is
lringing up and opening up a Melted submarine whose
crew has been asphyxiated in the process. A netted sub
marine is an undersea boat that has been caught in Il Il.
The British claim to have disposed of scores of German
submarines in that way. For the Germans that possibility
is said to hold out MANY horrors. Scores of submarines
have set out and never a word has come from them. The
uncertainty of their fate makes it the more horrible.
In the case of the Deutschland men were reported as
being eager to go on board. But such is not reported to
be the case with submarines that that are sent out to fight
the British fleet. Men must almost be forced into that
service, and at sea they become so rladdened and desperate
that they have to be controlled by a loaded revolver in the
hands of the officer. This is the condition Of submarine
service, according to one writer who claims to know the
facts about it. We would rather guess that he is right.
AT first there may have been a 'hankering after positions
on submarines, but that eagerness must long ago have
passed away, now that most of the submarines have dis
appeared from sight.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-08-12
HOW RECEIVERS FIX THINGS UP

The Western Pacific railroad, which was recently
sold, suffered some severe penalties under a short-time
receivership. These receivership charges, or over-charges
are receiving some of the attention that is due them
When a corporation goes into the hands of a receiver it
seems to be a signal for the robbers to begin their work.
Every one who has anything to do with the services thus
rendered thinks it is an invitation to plumber. Robbing a
dead man is nothing compared with this pastime, es-
pecia1ly on the part of attorneys. In the case of the West
ern Pacific the officer who read the notice of sale aloud
from the court house steps and received the bids and de
clared the sale, put in a bill for $1,000, or at the rate of
$1,000 a minute. Under any other circumstances he
would have sold that much of his time for thirty cents.
One of the lawyers who gave a bit of advice in the matter
brought in a bill for $4,000, which is supposed to be
charging at the rate of about $1,000 an hour, while the
same lawyer. for ordinary clients, would be willing to
work almost a year for the amount he charged for an
hour of his advice.
1t is all due to the fact that a corporation in the hands
of a receiver is considered down and out and everyone is
privileged to pluck it-and the courts often permit j. to
be done. If that LAWYERS claim for $4,000 should be
contested there would be scores of lawyers who would tes-
tifv that it is a reasonable charge for services that were
not rendered. AS it stands, the average corporation
might as we'll scrap its assets as to permit them to pass
through the harpies that constitute the officia1dom of a
so-called receivership.