Milford chronicle., 1925-02-13
HOW RICH is AMERICA?
100 LITTLE PIGS.
ALSO VASSAR GIRLS.
WORK AND LIVE.

WORK AND LIVE.
How much do you think tn
United States is worth, all togeth
er, in thousands of millions of dol
lars
According to the Census Bureau
all the property in the United
States three years ago amounted
to about $320,8O3,862,O0O Thai
means 320 times one thousand mil.
lion dollars, with 803 millions II
spare.
It's a great deal of money, but
you may be sure that it's much
less than the United States i.
worth. Properly developed, the
State of Texas will be worth more
than the total "wealth of the Unit,
ed States" as now estimated.
Nobody has the faintest idea
what the real wealth of this coun-
try amounts to. In ten years the
total wealth according to the fig
ures above, has increased moro
than seventy-two per cent. Give
this nation fifty million IRE in
habitants, intelligent, " lg to
work, and they would raise me val
ue of the nations property five
hundred per cent in half a gener-
alton.
A boy sends this information to
the United States Agricultural De-
partment. Five. years ago, when
he was in the public school, he
bought a pure-bred pig, female,
eight weeks old. Since then his
pig has added 100 small pigs to
the earth's porcine population. The
little boy writes: "She paid for
my clothes, three years in high
school and gave me spending mon
ey also. I am now IN my second
year in college and she is still
doing the same"
This boy has Joined the "better
sires-better stock" campaign, and
will work hard to improve the pig
breed.
If it were possible to improve
human breed as easily as we i'm
prove cattle OK swine, civilization
would progress rapidly. Unfortu
nately, eugenists make little prog
ress. But something might bt
done.
That proud mother of 100 LITTLE
.Jigs in five years never smoked |
cigarettes or drank cocktails. And
the father or fathers did not sci
before their sons the example o1
bootleg law breaking and contempt
for the Constitution.
Dear young ladies of Vassa1
College, with beautiful, tall fore
heads, nirnble feet and ninbld
minds, tell what they think of to-
bacco. 433 say they like cigar
cites, 524 never smoke.
No matter what you may think
of women smoking, how would you
answer this question?
Which will be married first, the
433 girls that smoke cigarettes, OF
the 524 that don't smoke cigar
cites? And which will make the
best mothers?
Men have spent most of their
time on earth fighting and muir
dering each other. But the real
job of the human race is to fight
against and conquer Nature.
Every canal dug, desert irrigat-
ed, swamp drained, Is a victory In
the really important war.
Canada is growing rapidly, Up
there they welcome good imni-
grants. Here we discourage i'm
What is more important even
than immigration is human happi-
ness and independence. Canadians
attend to that. In Canada 90 per
cent of farmers own their own
farms. In the United States, only
So per cent own their land, the
others are tenants paying rent.
The nations in which those that
cultivate the land own the land on
which they live grow In strength.
The power Of France is due large
u to the fact that Frenchmen own
their land. That small country has
more than six million land owners,
a great improvement on the days
If monarchy, when a handful of
lobles, ecclesiastics and royal prin-
,es were the land owners.
Lorenz Koenig, aged seventy
,wo, devotes his working hours to
stacking shingles in a lumber yard
It Omaha. He inherits $4,000,
,ut goes on packing shingles. "If
quit, I'd de-" he says, and he'll
i've the money to his children.
Perhaps the habit of hard work
iasn't got az firm q hold ON them
ls It has ON him.
Our life depends on the glands.
)ur happiness depends on habit,
We are more like machines wound
lp and set '7lrning than ezoatwaa
Of free Will