Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-07
''LURE OF maine"
TEN MILLIONS TOLD
FROM NY. STATION

New York, March 6 - There
was broadcast at o'clock to-
night from station w. n. NJ,
Loew's Theatre tho first in
series Of Friday evening talks
about Maine, reaching ten mill
lion auditors.
This, the first, on "The Lure Of
Maine" by Hon. Raymond Fell
lows, Attorney General Of Maine,
is believed to have created a
most favorable impression:
Tho Lure Of Maine.
Just half way between the equator
and the North Pole is the State of
Maine, the most easterly state Of the
Union, the first to greet the sunrise.
and the last to begin to tell the
world Of her advantages. She is as
large as all the rest of New England
and is bounded by the cool waters
of the Atlantic on the south and the
Dominion Of Canada on the north.
Her hospitality, however, is true and
warm, it knows no bounds. For a
home or for a playground she offers
you opportunities without limit and
beyond compare. She Is beautiful
three hundred three miles long in
Winter and Summer, and delightful
two hundred twelve miles wide.
The nature of the geological forma-
ton Of Maine shows that she belongs
to one of the Oldest parts of the
United States. The marks of the
glacial period may be plainly traced
on every hand. while the indented
coast, and its fringe Of more than a
thousand islands, show everywhere
the prehistoric ages.
Maine has a tidal coastline of two
thousand four hundred and sixty
eight miles. which is more than the
total coast from Massachusetts to
lower Florida. She has thirty three
thousand and forty square miles of
picturesque scenery-one tenth Of
which is made up Of the surfaces of
her two thousand four hundred and
sixty five lakes. Maine has more
than five thousand rivers and
streams. filled with fish that vary in
size and number as the veracity Of
those who catch them.
Maine has fifteen million acres Of
forest, and the length of her high
way system is equal to the circum
ference of the earth. Maine has
sixty thousand farms. covering one
third of the state, and the best soil
and best climate for agricultural de-
velopment along certain lines. She
raises the best potatoes, the best
sweet corn. and the best apples in
all the world.
Maine has large developed water
power. and many industries but she
also has a horse power undeveloped
of untold hundreds of thousands.
She has cheap sites for factories,
and the nearest American port to
Europe, state pier on one of the
finest harbors in the world, and a
citizenship equal to any and excelled
by none for character, habits, indus
try and ability
In 1497 Europe first felt the lure
of the Maine coast. when John
Cabot. the English adventurer. re-
turned from Maine to tell his king
the wonders Of his discoveries. Sir
John Hawkins and Sir Humphrey
Gilbert. friends Of good Queen Eliz-
abeth Of ever blessed memory, and
Capt. John Smith. the hero of the
Pocahontas melodrama, carefully ex-
plored the coast Of Maine and car
ried to England with them the first
details of the largest beach in the
world at Old Orchard. the rocky and
lonely island Of Monhegan. and the
fable Of the golden City of Norum-
bega that Milton sings of in Para
disc Lost. Less than a generation
later the Pilgrim father, Capt. Myles
Standish. spent many a summer va
cation trading with the Indians of
Maine on the Penobscot and Kenne-
bee. The fame of this "Mayn land
OF New England" spread to France,
and King Henry " in 1903 felt the
lure OF her seacoast and through
Sieur de Monts and Samuel de
Champlain gave to you and to the
world Mount Desert, Frenchman's
Bay, and the now Lafayette Nation
al Park near Bar Harbor. Four
hundred years have passed since
Maine was first visited. an age Just
long enough to develop our great
great grandmothers into the flapper
and the bathing girl. as II G. Wells
might say. Her early and perma-
nent settlers were the same as those
in the mother state of Massachu-
sets, for the District Of Maine was
part of the Massachusetts colony