Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1925-12-02

clock turned southwark to California,
and in ten years, while California was
talking to us of it's recreational re-
sources, telling us that it was a
wonderful winter tourist state, it in
creased it's industrial output by over
two billion dollars. And then the clock
hand pointed to the Southwest, and this
decade witnesses Florida still talking
| of being a recreational state and in
| creasing it's agricultural and banking
resources by millions. And both the
| theory and the facts, and the omens as
| well-and we are glad to have the gods
with us to help us out as we shall help
Observation-Disclosures inevitably that the
next great development may reasonably
! be anticipated in this Northeast. And
so we. at least, go forward believing
| that this is the land not of the setting
/ but of the rising sun.
Over two hundred dollars per cata
is spent for every one of our inhabi
, tants in this state and seven hundred
thousand people mean an expenditure
| for necessities and luXuries of over one
| hundred and fifty million dollars.
Many millions of that purchasing
power is directed to the Middle West
!
that commercial enterprise that certain
! great houses in Chicago have shown.
! 1t is not worthy of the Yankee nge-
nuity and thrift which we proudly boast
that the descendants ofthose merchants
who sold ice in Calcutta and Bombay
| should permit themselves to be out
merchandised in order to, pay tribute
to sections so far away.
SO, it is in no provincial spirit but
carrying out the policies which Herbert
| Hoover is intoxicating upon a national
scale to-day that we believe in Maine,
the patronage of home products,-the
transfer of that enormous purchasing
power which we ourselves possess,
following the example that California
and other states have so successfully
followed, will measurably advance the
development of the industries and agri-
culture that have been entrusted to our
care, and that while we render unto the
West the things that are the Vests,
and unto the South the things that are
the Souths, we shall in that same
spirit. worthy of the traditions of our
forefathers, see to it that not only we,
ourselves but the rest of the country
d
the things that properly belong to us
But let us also remember that the
greatest financial leader we have ever
known said that the basis of credit
was not property but character That
has been the leavening element which
New England for centuries has con-
tributed to the national life of our land
To that character founded upon
Plymouth Rock, with those sturdy New
England characteristics exemplihed by
our New England President the
country is turning its face to-day. Let
us cultivate these permanent, enduring
qualities born of our granite his ana
exemplfy in the nation not merely
that commercial enterprise, not merely
that talent for trade which is one OF
the great talents it has been demon
strated we possess, but in addition
preserve for ourselves and our chill
dren the spiritual heritage which is our
most precious possession and our most
essential contribution if our nation is
TO protect the institutions both OF
property and of government in our
land.
So it is that New England has its
mission to-day as never before anna
the economic chaos that seems to
threaten on every hand as we indulge
in a seemingly mad material debauch-
erv preoccupied with the things of
tbe flesh. So it is that New England
stands as a beacon light leading men
back to the things above the Hesh,
and that in the next generation IL
America is to be preserved. 1T Will pc
to a material extent as a result OF the
contribution which New England is
once again privileged to make.
Governor Brewster closed with
reference to the new campaign to be-
gin in January, the slogan or "hlcn
will be, BUY Maine Products or
Maine Merchants and Keep Maine
Money in Maine"
Mr.. Kicker was introduced as
| the father of the Maine Publicity
Bureau" and he gave brief history
| of it's origin, and the things it had
already accomplished, citing facts
and figures showing the remarkable
increase in summer visitors directly
due to it's work in advertising Maine
Last year these visitors left $4,000,
900 in Maine, and 'every man in
business in Maine gets share OF
that money" hp said 1--WE can
trade about among ourselves, ana
be none the richer at the end OF the
year, but the money left by these
visitors is new money, and Maine is
that much richer"
| Mr.. Kicker closed with a little
sermon on "Service"-not a service
| ~ h mo
are paid, but simple courtesy to our
guests. This, he said, was every
| Maine mans job. He told OF the
work already being done in this line
by the police department of Portland
and other cities. He illustrated his
point by little lesson that he says
he impressed upon the employees OF
his hotels. "The cost Of this glass
of water" he said, holding it aloft,
sis infinitesimal-we cannot measure
trrht tiyONn