Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-12-13

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 thousand other
places 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
admirable motor road from Miami to
the West Coast See Florida.
This is a growing country, and
business grows much faster than the
population In 1900 the population
was 76,OOO,OOO It has grown to no.
100000 in twenty-three years, about
45 per cent; not bad
But consider steel In 1900 this
country produced 100000 tons in a
year Now it produces 40,,O00,O00
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 opmist, Mr.. Up,
percut, expert 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 war
riors out of mischief by looking
after them. There is no greater per,
entail. problem than the management
of 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 gallon of gas for
sixty miles-price $1,190
Farmers, statesmen buy the ma
chimes nv thousands
Ford could sell them for $780,
America needs them. Texas especial
ly. 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, III a
condescendirg way as the fourth
estate"
John Galsworthy, writing for the
international thought, says that the
three estates now ruling mankind are
Science, Finance and the Press
OF the three, science is incompar-
ably 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, ex-
cept 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.
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 min.
ute.
III in separate rooms, neither knew
of the others illness.
Where did those two souls that 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 machin
cry for articulate sound? Are they
united at last, never to be separated
to live through all eternity, never wo1
ried, never i'll, never poor, above all
NEVER JEALOUS?
The postal deficit is cut thirty
millions. And if the post office charg
ed the people one quarter as much as
a private corporation would charge
post office profits would amount tt