Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-08

when the Turks asserts there is
no God but Allah, and Mahomet Is
his prophet" you may well return
the Rotarian reply that there Is no
State like Maine, and Augusta is Its
capital"
And I mean it. OF all the forty
state capital cities l have visited let
me tell you at once that not one OF
them can hold candle to this Queen
of the realm. for strategy of location
and sheer beauty Of environment.
not to mention the superb and match
less features of the city itself. Rome
boosted Of her seven hills--Augusta
has seventy times seven if my Bur-
roughs Adding machine has not
broken down on the cunt.
Take your inventory. Here you
are IL hours from the Hub OF
the universe, Boston, by the Pine
Tree Limited, $50 miles nearer than
Bar Harbor; and two hours spin
from Old Orchard and the finest
bathing beaches on the Atlantic
coast-anywhere. Here you are,
eleven hours from New York City,
and solid Pullman nonstop trains to
your front door. Here you are with
in a few hours of one-third Of the
population of the United States and
two thirds of its wealth, in the heart
of the lake region of the most beau
tiful lake in America, mountains,
forests, the ocean, lakes and rivers,
railroads and highways,-this is Au-
gustas stage setting-and peculiarly
Augustus own-the finest set-up on
thefac of the earth. What are you
doing about it? What are you COINS
to do to cash it for your city and
your citizens?
Your splendid efficient state Pub
licity Bureau will bring two million
tourists and visitors here next sum-
mer at the very minimum. These
millions. with their $50 million vaca-
ton dollars are headed for Maine"
which covers a multitudinous destin-
alton. Why not herald Augusta anc
bring them here? Why isn't Au-
gusta entitled to her quota of this
great hegira? Why noto 1t was
Washburn of Maine who made fam
Gus the classic phrase Eventually,
why not Now'-and l commend it to
sideration.
Augustus Heritage
IF you want copy to tell the
story Of Augusta you'll find plenty
In the debates of a century ago when
Augusta Won out after five year
pow-wow in 1927 as 'the most CEN
trail. the most stable. 1.-THE most ac-
commodating." the most beautiful.
the most commanding, the most
site and scene in the Pine Tree
state And-the most dramatic.
romantic and picturesque. Your In
dams around Augusta had it right
800 years ago. 1t was foremost
tenet of their faith that this was the
the region and that they were the
people first created by the Great
Spirit and that everything else and
everything since has been in the ma
ture of an insignificant ante-clmax.
This. right here at Augusta. was
the bargain center in the days of the
Plymouth Colony. | can prove il.
1t wasn't Boston either-for when
Priscilla the Puritan maiden married
John Alden and the family budget
called for support she sent him pack
ing to visit one place from which
she knew he would and could bring
home the bacon. and that was old
Fort Western trading post at what
is now Augusta. Put that in the
Saturday Evening Post and bring
these summer tourists here. as well
as up the coast, Old Orchard and old
Kathadin.
Maine has the greatest a,Ivertis-
ing and publicity case of any state in
the Union. Florida and California
are glorious. but Maine is the resi-
quarry legatee of the nation as re-
sort state, as the next and inevitably
greatest development on record
These lake fronts and shore lines,
promontories and headlines will make
you millions before you know it. Talk
about Montreal and st. Moritz-
right here In Maine-at and around
Augusta-should be and will be the
Winter Playground of Uncle Sam as
we'll as the grandest summer and au-
tumn vocational paradise of our
country. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ten can
afford to go to California and a hum
dred to Florida. thousands and mil
lions can come to Maine. and will
come. The tide is on. The next, the
last. the greatest regional rush in
the history of America is headed for
Maine. Maine may profit by the ex-
periences. successes and mistakes of
other states. And she will. Maine
will come clean. 1t is her character
and reputation. She will keep to the
right. She will put is over. And the
investors who liant their summer
homes and cottages here will return
to them year after year and bring
others. Your splendid newspapers of
this state know this. They are fight
ing for it now. and have been
"Listen-this Augusta region was
the summer resort of the Indians Of
Maine. Why? Elevation, fishing
everything.
Washington Came Here to Fish
Il have found an old document
that proves that when George Wash
ington wanted to go fishing and get
regular sure enough Isaac Walton
results he left Virginia and headed
for Maine, Tell that to the listening
world. Captain John Smith gave the
name of New England not to Massa-
chusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire
and Connecticut but to Maine. Maine
was New England--the rest are
second fiddles in the Maine orchestra.
Tell the world these stories.
Tell the children Of our whole
land that the first Christmas din
ner ever celebrated on this CONT
nent was the festivity Of Cham
plain and his merry gentlemen in
the st. Croix three centuries ago
in Maine. T am syndicating that
story myself, with a master draw
ing.
Tell the West that It was Maine