Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-12-31
ONE SCORE OF EARS.

ONE SCORE OF YEARS.
The twenty-frst century begins the second
score of its years. Today 1t finishes with the
first score. Let us take a look backward. not a
bad thing for mankind to do occasionally. and
take stock of what the century has done.
There is the war, in our eyes, the largest and
most important war ever waged. But the war,
big as 1t was, plays a relatively small part in the
sum total OF all the achievements in that score
Of years. Probably never another score of years
has seen so much attempted, and so much ac-
complished. This is true in practically every
field of human endeavor. 1t is especially true
in the United States. The century began with
America one of the half dozen great powers.
After twenty years have gone by the century
sees the United States prominently the one big
gest.
The country's population in the twenty years
mas increased 10000, 900: its material wealth
has Increased from less than a hundred billion
10 an estimated five hundred billions of dollars.
Twenty years ago the wealth per person was
s1.165; today 1t is s4.7Oo. Never before has it
been so evident that the greatest OF all lands is
the U. s. A. BY way of proving that this is
true:
The United States produces "a per cent. of the
worlds wheat; 60 per cent. of the cotton; rs per
cent. Of the corn; 40 per cent. Of the iron and
steel; 20 per cent. of the gold; So per cent. of
the coal: go per cent. of the copper; IS per cent.
of the oil, and IS per cent. of the automobiles.
This is done by 6 per cent. OF the worlds pop
ulation on 7 per cent. of the worlds land.
Surely the United States is a worth while
place to work in and live in. No thinking pc: sons
believe that this country has reached the peak
of its growth; there are those who believe the
peak will not be reached this century. These are
the most optimistic of Americans-and there
are many of them. They are the men and wo-
men who have placed the nations goal at such
a high point that a century filled with scores as
great as one we just finished cannot bring the
country to its ultimate destination. They be-
.;eve the second score of years will be immense
ly greater and better than the score just passed
by, just as they are firm in the conviction that
1921 will be a year of greater growth for Amer
lea than was 1920.
Than that there could be no better outlook
upon the New Year!
Probably Harding will choose SOM party
wheel horses to hitch to his cab met.
odb may NV hhON II PulS II Y III
fathers new watch: but father knows it's the
Jewelers. longtime credit system.
An apple a day Gin the form of hard cider)
keeps the doctor (and his prescription blanks)
away.
The author of Pollyanna left $500. 600. prov
irg that glad stuff pays in the long run.
Hughes. Hill, Hoover. Harvey and Hays have
been suggested as an h of a good cabinet.
Baltimore physician says pumps in winter
and furs in summer don't endanger women's
health. Now we know what part Of town the
doctors in.
When a woman gets to a certain age she
starts to re-vamp.
When the moonshine's in the cowshed, there's
a weaving path to the k-k-k-kitchen door.
Artistic temperament doesn't always inter-
fere with an appetite for sausage and wheat
cakes.
Nothing left TO New Year eve except the hur-
ray; the hip-hip has been eliminated.
What's in a name? Enright is New York's
police commissioner and he's In wrong.