The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-15

DEAD TOGETHER-AND HAPPY.
WHICH is GREATEST?
Under Monroe, Florida was added to
United States territory in 1920 by
treaty with Spain. That should be
gratefully remembered by ladies and
gentlemen now buying midsummer
garments to be worn in mid-Winter at
Jacksonville, st. Augustine, Miami,
Palm Beach and a thousand other pla-
ces in wonderful Florida. By the way,
the season there begins earlier every
year; it has begun now.
w. j. Connors, of Buffalo, at his own
expense and risk, has built an admira-
BILE motor road from Miami to the
West Coast. See Florida.
This is a growing country, and bust
ness grows much faster than the pop
ulation. In 1900 the population was
10000, 900. 1t has grown to Ito, 900, 900
In twenty-three years, about As per
cent; not bad.
But consider steel. In 1900 this
country produced 10000, 900 tons in a
year. Now it produces 100000 tons,
an increase of 300 per cent.
If you sell this country Short"
you'll lose. And don't listen to any
talk about "a bad Presidential year"
Prepare for good times, in the words
of the distinguished optimist, Mr..
Uppercut, expect great things"
A boy sixteen marries a widow lady,
fifty years old, who owns a hotel.
The lady puts $4,000 in trust for
the young husband when he reaches
twenty-one.
The boys parents, shocked, would
set aside the marriage.
Yet the widow only carried out
Plato's idea. He thought middle aged
women should keep very young warri-
ors out of mischief by looking after
them. There is no greater parental
problem than the management of a
boy from fifteen to marriage.
Wake up Henry Ford, and get to
work on cheap safe flying machines.
They are selling them in Germany, all
metal, safe, doing sixty miles an hour,
less than a gallon of gas for sixty
miles-price $1,190.
Farmers, statesmen buy the machines
by thousands.
Ford could sell them for $500.
America needs them. Texas especial
". Where is the young Ford to do for
America in the air what Ford has done
on earth?
The three estates of olden time,
a trinity ruling all earth's affairs were
Royalty, Nobility, Clergy.
Journalism was recognized, in a con-
descending way, as "the fourth estate"
John Galsworthy, writing for the
London Times about fair play in
international thought, says that the
three estates now ruling mankind are
Science, Finance and the Press.
OF the three, science is incompara-
bly, greatest. Newspapers come next,
finance third. Newspapers can over
rule all the power of finance if the
newspapers happen to be in the right.
Newspapers and finance combined can
do nothing against science, except
postpone its benefits.
There are nearly seven thousand
million dollars in our savings banks.
Deposits have increased more than
five hundred millions in the last year.
That sounds prosperous. Savings bank
depositors alone, if they drew out their
savings all at once, would call for
nearly all the money in the country
only eight billions is the total.
This will interest millions of hus-
bands and wives more than any other
news of the day:
Jean Francois Pennel and his wife
Marie died at their home near Lille in
France at exactly the same minute.
Ill in separate rooms, neither knew
of the others illness.
Where did those two souls hat had
lived so long together go as they left
the earth simultaneously?
How fast did they travel and in what
direction?
Did the souls recognize each other
as they started off? What are they
doing and saying now?
Can they talk without vocal cords,
tongue, teeth and the other machinery
for articulate sound? Are they united
at last, never to be separated, to live
through all eternity, never worried,
neyer i'll, never poor, above all, NEW
Err JEALOUS?
The postal deficit is cut thirty mill
ions. And If the post Office charged
the people one-quarter as much as a
private corporation would charge, post
office profits would amount to hun