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, 1924-07-30
BIG CITIES NOW THE LOSERS

A cursory study of the building industry shows to what extent the
cities have been compelled to fight the exodus of city residents to the
suberbs and to the country. New construction started during the
first FIVE months of 1924 for the entire country totalled $2O0OOO0-
600. The activity has been so great that the momentum is bound to
carry the industry through the winter at a high level, though it is
now quite evident that building has been in excess of the demand in
in the large cepters OF population while there has been comparatively
little construction in the smaller cities in the village and on the
farms.
This condition has greatly stabilized values in the country
districts. Indeed, much wisdom has been shown in the careful way
in which this housing problem has been met by the men in the
country. Prior to the great demand for city homes country
real estate was at a low ebb. Then came the great pressure o IN the
city folks due to the enormous increase in rents. The rush for the
opened found the country ready for the absorption without pressing
necessity to increase the number OF homes. The result is that
country properties have been turned for obligation into valuable in
come producing assets. ?The fact that city rents are still abnormaIy
high lnsures the safety of the country districts. In the suburgs OF
the larger centers it is am accepted fact that the advance in values
IS now established on a permanently higher level Once the city
man tastes the glories OF sunshine and gets a Whit of new mown
hay, the call OF the cabaret and the white lights make little or nc
appeal Country life, like country newspapers, need only to be
appreciated,
, 1924-07-30
FIGURES AND FIGURING

Looking to the Government for relief in the cost of government
seems so childish one cannot understand how such reasoning can be
seriously entertained. IL is simply another evidence of the shiftless
apathy of the people.
Running the United States now spells an expense of more than
$SOOOO00O0O a year. In 1918 the total ordinary expenditures of
the Federal Government were ~$724,5l1,o63. In 1928 they were
S3rIfA0uls5. And this expenditure does not include $402 957, 6o1
paid to reduce the public debt is still increasing. For example. in
1912 the public debt was $4S5o4olOoO. In 1922 it was $3OS52-
$4,000.
Figures always prove tiresome reading, but these figures spell
actual cash outlay from the pocketbook of the wage Garner. Taxes
Tor the national government have leaped $50 per cent in ten years.
For state government l3 per cent, county taxes 12 per cent, in
corporated places 80 per cent. Roundly speaking, the increase in
taxation has been 200 per cent, while the wealth of the nation has
increased only 722 per cent There must be a halt, and it is foolish
to look to the government for relief Relief must come from active
insStence on the part of the people. Unless local government
officials hold the pursestrings a little tighter and the people become
SATISFIED with a lower development of their improvements, the
weight OF government cost is going TO cause serious trouble.
, 1924-07-30

Co-o J~:rI =: -
Lnou,s +ha,r a,.;.,e chu nobody
t,,tes Gov tha ~ 10 insti-
h,,t dr;nt aftas-rans -, alcoholism,
Aftor oil :. 81 1ss 'he same.
vuccass - ~. n,a.s. niush OF the
will, nower ~ ~ ehus on the
treatments are merely a;as 'hese
power. We do not enco,r,n wiz
ment for persons who arc feu LAT
their friends or families 70 t.Ia ny
treatment against their our '"e
DR.. Thompson was in+er,ru,
here by one of the patients VIII IT,
arrived that morning and VIII Lou
been listening from the doorun.
much sunburned man who h,d
all the way from the Mex;cor horIao
and who was not vet cold sobor
Excuse me, gents.n said tb;s
tleman, who, turning tn the two e..
sicians. continued .-scYou don,t -,
what you're talkin' about. Nov ~
a practical drinkin' man: I've d,,,ni.
in all parts of the United State.
know conditions. III have to Ieoro.
1 Just can't listen to this. vop don,.
know what you're talkin' about. There
Yves more drinkin before the war, and
/ tell you there has been more drink-
, 1924-07-30
THE VALUE OF THE COUNTRY PRESS

We have read in a number of papers the extract below and are not
qualified to give proper credit to the originator of the comment
which follows:
"Chas. Moreau Harger in April Scribner, discusses the powerful
influence the country press has exerted in the making of a nation
Coming as it does close to the heart of its readers, the old home pap
er-even if its policy be not always commended-commands respect
and confidence.
He shows that to the family in the country town OF n the farm
stead, the weekly visit of the country paper or the small city daily
is an event enjoyed by all.
"Cartoonists in the metropolitan press have visuaEzed for the
public a ridiculous and peculiar type as representing the country
EDITORS personality but the writer shows that his readers know
him and are not disilusioned.
He is close to his constituency. Further, it is a constituency
with more leisure than any other, more time for reading the news
and opinions of the day" This makes the country paper a vehicle
of opinion and a model of political leadership.
The country paper is loyal to the government and continues to
take a large part'in earnest discussion of public affairs from a dis
interested standpoint. 1t is the country weekly and small city daily
that makes the path of radical and demagogue difficult, standing
as 1t generally does for prosperous, independent American homes"
, 1924-07-30
Organized

Sam, the colored driver of a mule
team, saw a little lizard crawling up
a tree. He flourished his long whip
and very deity snapped off the liz
ards head. Further along the road
with skillful precision he picked q
horse fly off the fence with the same
weapon.
A white companion FINALLY said:
"Sam, take a crack at that hornets
nest" Sam grinned and replied "No.
sab, no, sub, boss; them fellahs is
awganized."
, 1924-07-30
Needed Him.

~ say" said the business man to
the detective, "some fellow has been
running around the country represent
ing himself as a collector of ours.
He has been taking in more money
than any two men we have, and !
want him collared as quick as you
can"
"All right. I'll have him in goal in
less than a week." "Great Scott, man!
l don't want to put him in goal. /
want to engage him."
, 1924-07-30
Raised Him One Ton

The scene was a convalescent hos
pital in France. The young English
Tommy looked at the hand that had
just been delt to him, and turning to
the American "smoke," who held a
royal straight he said:
Sammy, I'll just raise you a
pound!"
81 don't know nothin' about
dollars in England, but rs going to
raise you one toni"
, 1924-07-30
Ambition

"You will never get anywhere I'M
less you have higher ideals than this"
preached the woman to whose door
the tramp had applied for assistance.
"Are you really content to spend your
life walking around the country beg
ging?"
mo, lady," answered Weary Willie.
"Many's the time I've wished l had an
auto"
, 1924-07-30
|JAGC CURES THRIVE
DESPITE v0LSTEAD

Graduates of the Kelly Institute
will be pleased to know that their
alma mater is doing as well as could
be expected.
Graduates of the Neal Institute will
but family give their college yell after
hearing the sad news.
Whether prohibition has increased
or decreased the demand for so-called
jag cures is the question before the
house. From local sources it cannot
be answered, and the vets and drys
will have to fight it out on some other
battle ground. But the status of insti-
buttons treating the inebriates, in
plain English called DRINKS, is inter-
esting and curious.
Taking Los Angeles alone, this fact
is clear: Before prohibition there
were two private institutions (that is
not counting Patton) treating the
drink habit, the Kelley n the Neal
Institutes. Today there are precisely
the same. The Kelley Institute pro-
fesses to be doing twice as much BUSH
ness as before the war; the Neal In
s~titute, like most other such in the
country, was put out of business by
prohibition, but its manager, G. u.
Neal, son of the founder of the sys-
tenn, recently has revived the local
branch.
The graduates of these two rival in
stitutions of learning (for one learns
much in a liquor cure) are as jealous
as the graduates of Yale and Harvard
of one another, and the feelings of
neither must be injured by noxious
comparisons.
The local Kelley faculty says that
before the wal there were eighty-odd
Institutes, branches of the fountain
head at Dwight, Ill. Now, they say
there are from forty to fifty branches
but they declare these branches are
doing a greater sum total of business
than the eighty before the war. The
numerical reduction, it is explained,
was due to the economic shake-up
produced by the war and not by
prohibition. The Neal institutes were
sixty-eight in number before the war,
says Mr.. Neal; they were almost all
put out Of business by prohibition.
Those are conflicting facts.
DR.. w. M. Brown sat yesterday in
an arm chair on the steps Of the Keely
Institute at 1906 South Westmoreland
avenue, and allowed that he was tired.
Tired, he said, because he had been
running Kelley institutes for thirty
six years, the oldest man in point of
service in the Kelley system, and one
who probably has treated more alco-
holics than any other man in the
United States.
II am really too tired to talk much"
said DR.. Brown, and he looked tired.
But he sat and listened and now and
then said something while his associ-
ate DR.. ]. B. Thompson, was being
Intercepted.
cit appears to me" said DIR. Thong
son, who speaks very methodfcally,
cit appears to me that statistics on
this Liquor question are mor unreli-
able than reliable. We have no neu-
trail to look into the matter; we have
only the vets and drys who color
their propaganda. Now, in the mat
ter of whether there is more or less
drinking since prohibition, all we
know is that the business of the Kee-
ley institutes is greater, the Los An
geles institute about double. You see
some men just quit drinking of their
own accord; we do not hear of them.
, 1924-07-30
He Knows

After the clock had struck eleven,
the peevish farther strobe to the top
of the stairs and called down:
mabel, doesn't that young man
know how to say good night'"
"Does he?" echoed Mabel from the
darkened hall below, "In say he
does!"
, 1924-07-30
The Honey Moon Is Over

IHt IIUIIcy 1uUOH 10 WI
When she asks about your bank
balance.
When her mother comes to live
with you permanently.
When you question her need of a
fur coat.
When you forget that it is her
birthday of your anniversary.
, 1924-07-30
Ole Was Reasonable

Ole Oleson came into a Minnesota
village one day, and inquired of the
restaurant proprietor: Got any squir-
rel whiskek?"
NO." said the restaurant man,
"But l can slip you a little Old Crow"
aye don't want to fly, yust yump
around a little"
, 1924-07-30
GOT HIS NUMBER

Hollywood Man Visiting in San
Francisco, and waiting for, q phone
call)-"What! Ten cents for = call
from Oakland? Why, in Hollywood
we can phone to Hades for q nickle."
Telephone Operator-"Yes, but this
is long distance"
, 1924-07-30
THOROUGH WORK

How . Cody Citizen Found Freedom
From Kidney Troubles.
If you suffer from backache-from
urinary disorders-Any durable dis
ease Of the kidneys, Use a tested kid
ney remedy.
Doan's PILLS have been tested By
thousands
Cody people testify.
Can you ask more convincing proof
Of merit?
Mrs. Ernest Ebert, Alger Ave-,
Cody, says: Every once in awhile I
get an attack Of kidney trouble. My
back becomes lame and. weak and
knife-like pains cut across the small
eyes and blurred my sight. Ny kid
neys acted too freely but whenever
of it. l suffered with dizziness and
km sIoJsq euvo sYosds YouIq 6uum
i feel one of these attacks coming on
I always resort to Doan's Pills
which l get at the Western Drug
Co. They never fail to cure ne
of the attack"
Price soc, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Pills = the same that
Mrs. Cogswell had. Foster-M ilburr
Co, Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.
, 1924-07-30
U N READY

Did the old fellow get rough with
you when you asked HIM if you
could marry his daughter"
u should say he did. 1 thought he
was going to shake my hand off,"
, 1924-07-30
Easy to Answer (O

Easy 70 ANSWER w
Johnny: Mother do / have to
wash my face?
Mother: Certainly, dear.
Johnny: Aw why can't I just
powder it, like you do yours?
, 1924-07-30

r. !. p.
what became of that hard hand
you got from the city,"
Jaw, he used to be a chauffeur and
the doggoned idiot crawled under a
mule to see why he wouldn't CO."
, 1924-07-30
PARDONs

"You ought to forgive your enem-
ies." ,t
81 do eventually. But / like to give
them a good lesson first SO that they
can appreciate the forgiveness"
, 1924-07-30
Those Whizzing Turtles

"Waiter," said the customer, after
waiting fifteen minutes for his soup,
"have you ever been to the Zoo?"
mo, sir"
"Well, you ought to go, you'd en-
joy watching the turtles whiz past"
, 1924-07-30
This Is a Surface Story

"Did your wife Or her car get in
jured in the accident the other day?"
mot much, just q little paint chip
ped of both"
, 1924-07-30

Teacher:"Giv me an example of q
noun"
Johnny: Garage"
, 1924-07-30
c HOOK SAYS

"Y' don't find success in this world,
y have e aeheive it. An tn sufest
way O. that is't find yer work first,
an then work yer find"
, 1924-07-30
NOTICE TO WATER USERS

Water rents are due and payable
August LIST. at d. E. HOLSTERS office
J. E. FORREST,
, 1924-07-30
Blonde Bess Opines

I call all men woms-because /
know sooner or later some chicken
viii get them.
Optician-No-just your eyes.
, 1924-07-30
In Memory-Paul S. Ache, Jr.

Simple and manly; undehled
AS the mountain streams he loved,
He brought to life the zest Of youth
The spur of hope, the ring of truth
With the friendship of the child.
Good bye, old scout, there's something wrong in this here scheme
of things
That you are took and am left while every morning brings
The memory of what you were to those who knew you well.
Say, kid. it should have been for me, and not for you-the bdli
And yet for you the bell has toed, and you've gone back again
10 wholesome earth and plying dust, the mother of all men,
But Stll-it sorter don't seem right that you have heard the knell
Say, kid, it should have been for me, and not for you-the bell
Manly and truthful; all a boy, O.
With a boys bright heart so full, r
He brought to life the zest of youth,
The spur of hope, the ring of truth
And to know him was a joy.
J. LID
, 1924-07-30
How They Figure

ado you get a vacation?"
"Yep-four weeks. Two while
the boss is ~away-and two of my own
, 1924-07-30
SELFISH

"Can Gertrude keep a secret?"
Eyes, the disagreeable thing"
, 1924-07-30
GUESS WE'LL BORROW ONE

The editor OF a Kansas paper states he borrowed a Winchester
nile recently and started up the street to deliver the weapon to its
owner. The delinquent subscribers got in their minds that he was
on the warpath and everyone that he met insisted on paving him
what they owed him One man wiped out a debt of ten years
standing. non his return to his office he found a load of hay. fifteen
bushels otcorn, ten bushels of apples, twenty bushels of potatoes,
a cord OF. ,wood and a barrel of turnps that had been bought in.
All the conptry editors are now trying to barrow Winchesters.
--
We are9old that a clock that will run 800 wears has recently
been inverted. AS the new clock is equipped with $1,000 worth Of
radrum wsbA5e going TO keep on forgetting to wind our old one.
nlt
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A CREDIT MARK TO HAVANA

How many would expect to find a
feature in the administration Of pub
lie or business affairs in Havana
Cuba, superior to what may be found
in TIE Cni,ed States? Not many.
we assume, yet in the matter of fire
restraint Havana leads us.
T That city with around $4,000 in
habitants suffered. during the year
ending July 1st fire damage amount
ing to $ll2.S90, or 81 cents per cap
ita. In the United States for the year
1898 the per capita loss in 81 of our
large cities ranged from S1.S7 in New
Orleans to Kansas City with s7.s1 per
capita. 49,, b."
Manifestly city in the climate of
Cuba would have fewer fires from
house heating apparatus. defective
flies and all that bat this hardly
seems to account for .Ee great diff
ference Moreover New Orleans is
in warn. climate. though having a
per capita loss more than four times
as large as that Of Havana.
Those INTERESTED in the construc-
ton of Greproof buildires tel, us tie
low property hiss in Havana is due
chiefly to rigid enforcement, of a
building code requiring fireproof con j.
structior. The burder of proof sup
ports their claim. Anyhow the ad
ministrators of Havana's affairs are
entitled to considerable credit on the
score of fire prevention
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l# LITTLE JAck RABp1r
| 81 ' DAVID CORK

right the very first time2" answered
the old gentleman, rabbit. with q
contented laugh. Isl
Apple pie and angel cake"
answered the voice.
MY little housekeeper." murmured
dear Uncle Lucky.
"But you'il put me to sleep again
unless You tickle my right earl"
But I'm not hungry" and lean
ing over he picked up the old carpet
slipper that had fallen of his right
loot.
Gracious me. there's hole in
your sock, exclaimed Little Miss
Mousie Put on new pair and
bring down the worn one abe ad-
,ted a. the old gentleman rabbit hop
ped upstairs to his bedroom.
I'll darn 1t now before 1t grows -
Big enough for all your toes"
and his careful little nousekeeper
ran in for her darning needle.
Well, did you have nice vistt?"
asked Uncle Lucky. again sitting
down In .he hammock as Little Miss
Mousie slipped a china egg into the
sock and commenced to darn the
hole
Lovely time" answered his tiny
housekeeper But 1t took lots OF
time and postage stamps to send so
many postal cards"
"Ybu sent me only two" sighed
Uncle Lucky. Sut before Little Miss
Mousie could answer. Reddy Comb.
the rooster aewsboy, tossed the
Sunnybridge Bugle on the porch.
Hello. what's thts' >" exclaimed
the ole gentleman rabbit glancius at
the headlines:
DANNY FOX HAS LOST HIS
SON"
old MAN WEASEL HAS THE
MEASLES"
"HCNGRY HAWK HAS THE
WHOOPING S2UAWK."
and in the next story YOU shall
hear what happened after that.
! Copyright 1924. David Cory.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-10

When the bonus bill was before
Congress endeavor was made to In.
press the public that some four and
a half million veterans OF the World
War were In urgent need OF adjusted
compensation to keep them from des-
tttution. OF course Il was not made
out to be quite a. bad as that bu,
pretty bad. Now. comes the repor,
that after the months which have
passed since the bin became q law
only 100000 have died application
for 1t. leaving some three mill,os Of
the boys. ~ho have not been heard
from. q it possible they are wa,tins
FOR one Robert ". LaEonette to get
the cash Tor them.
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be satisfied with any amount OF
illustration of the theme"

be satisfied with any amount Of
illustration of the theme"
There are large portions OF any
state that are not particularly
pictorial, Mr.. Nutting asserts. He
has taken pains to select in every
section of the state the places that
offer the greatest attractions and he
has concentrated on the task of re-
producing their beauty and charm.
1t Is the work of real artist and a
lover of the great outdoors. 1t will
particularly appeal to Maine resi-
dents who have visited the places
described: it will hold the interest
OF every lover of real art, and that
includes almost everyone.
The volume is published by the
Old American Company of Framing
ham. Mass. The other books of the
States Beautiful Series are: Yer
mont Beautiful" Massachusetts
Beautiful" Connecticut Beautiful"
and New Hampshire Beautiful
Volumes on Florida. Pennsylvania
and New York arc now being pre-
pared by Mr.. Nutting
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Editors Table

Maine Beautiful by Wallace
Nuttins-new volume OF the State S
Beautiful Series by the same author.
A pictorial record covering all the
counties in Maine. with text be-
tween, and dedicated by Mr.. Nutting
to the memory of his father, Albion
Nutting, a native of Maine and a
lover OF beauty.
1.-THE author spent twelve years
of his childhood in Maine" he states
in the preface. "As the early years
are most formative. especially as re-
lates to the affections. he pleads
guilty to a deeper love for Maine
than he feels for any other state"
Everyone in New England knows
of the famous Nutting pictures and
here is volume containing 304
illustrations of the most picturesque
state in the Tnion-the Pine Tree
State The wealth of Maine scenery
its mountains. forests. farm lands,
lakes, and seacoast--all find express
sion in this intensely interesting
volume.
Mr.. Nutting in the preface asserts
that the book is in no respect a
history and that the text of the book
is merely to assist in pointing out
, the approaches to those beauty
spots in Maine and to indicate their
peculiar features. The illustrations
are more than nine tenths new and
are shown in the volume for the
first time.
A synopsis of the headings of the
book will give an idea of the sub
iect matter of the book. The author
describes in pictures and text: The
approaches of Maine: the coast of
! Maine; Maine from Kittery to Port
| land; Passamaquoddy Bay; the
! lakes and streams: old Maine hills !:
the trees of the state: Maine in
winter: attractive Maine villages !;
some of the cities; Maine as a Ma :
tiOnal asset: canoeing and vacation
ing in Maine: the country parson-
age; old dwellings in Maine: wells
and springs; the superiority of
country 'ifc: what explorers thought
of Maine: the romance Of the Ken
nebec: dwellings at Kittery; the en-
pire of Aroostook: view points in
the state: truth and Beauty.
10 do full Justice to the beauties
OF the St1te Is work that would
require super human endeavor, but
II seems that Mr.. Nutting has come
as close 20 this goal rs is possible.
rs he says. THE State Of Maine
is 60 beautiful and it's wealth of
scenery shows such a variety and
las snch wide appeal that .he
avid American mind will not easily
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GoMPERs ATTACKS DAWES

TIE American Federation of Labor
is sending out Propaganda attacking
General Dawes. One angle Of attach:
Is the accusation that in a speech
in 1923 he declared that "the right
OF man to work Is as sacred as the
right Of a man to stop work"
Well isn't that good old fashioned
American doctrine?
Again they take him to task be-
cause he declared one time that GER
tain labor unions mot only encour-
age lawlessness in action. but threat
en- by concerted action to tie up
transportation and supply production
in order to coerce the public through,
suffering to grant THEN demands"
True. too. wasn't it?
Then without attempting to deny
the truth Of this the p-opaga nda pro-
ceeds to attack the injunctions and
General Dawes because he upheld the
judges who issued the iniunctions.
We have not seen anywhere that
those'who are attacking tLis injunc-
tion because it put stop to terror
ism have uttered any complaint re-
spectine that Injunction granted to
the garment workers in New York
CITY Under that theii rights were
protected UnGer the former the
rights Of the public we're protected
The law should make nc distiEc.
tions over whose OK Is gored bu' put
stop to the goring. The American
Federation of Labor apparently
thinks a distinction should be made
1t proceeds to tell what a wicked
thing those injunctions were, but it
may be biased in opinion. Anyhow
the rioting and destruction of prop
erty were stopped Then it appears
Mr.. Gompers organized campaign
to defeat the judges who granted the
injunction and General Dawes took
another view OF it and championed
them. Now Gompers would have his
revenge. all of which fails to show
whether the issuing of those injunc
tions was a wise or unwise procedure
This much is plain. they served to
put an end to bloodsled and destruc-
ton of property. Furthermore there
Is no evidence that Gompers would
have put stop to it.