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Show t THE WEEKLY" (f2(r liX 1 . i) , ji i- r Both Democratic and Republican parties spent nearly $2,000,000 each for expenses :: No longer Rout It Approximately 4,500 Mileaj Long, Traversing Eight State Work Being Pushed. The Dixie highway ia approximately 4,500 miles long, traversing the eight states of Michigan, Illinois,-Indian- a, Dhlo, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia jnd Florida. Construction work Is now in progress along the entire stretch. rhe route at the present time ia passable over all divisions with the exception of the link between Lexington, Ky and Knoxville, Tenn.; Nashville and Chattunooga, Tenn.; along the western division, through central Florida, Tallahassee to Gainesville, and completely 0 makers of jt&ilry HUO iAij ft ft ft RED CHECKS GENIUS locution. It is several years since John Haw Hammond. Jr, perfected, his trolled torpedo. He submittedradiot, his d vice to the United States government for Investigation and approval Aran sent to inspect the invent experts tion and put it to the test, and one after another they gave their unqtmii, fled Indorsement to It European u, tlons heard of Hammond's iuventloq and offered him fabulous sums for it, Many other Inventors, after a slight experience with the red tape which must be unwound in dealing with their pwn government have sold their in. ventlons to European nations, where a w-e- I 5 U- i - frstr rJ Yl- r-J t V' w 01 H a, 5k 1 1 fs-- t r. V rUV .1 $ 1 v-- T - .t. 'mi! I nr m - w .np&i 0; S) ,h Ut -- . :t f-'4- t;C- - Vry IFl nsaH' x ? a; aste it 5:t Jx hi ssjyfys Sitfl ?r wv K .4' 8?l TAPE uucrrv John Haya Hammond, Jr Hcwev Was Proof Against Circum-- hi iy r BOYD PARK 160 MAIN I ( Qi A f h a r'-.-v- Cx Pretty silver, knivei, forks and a tea set add greatly to the attractivene. of your table. We can satisfy your., silver requifcmnitj-whethethey be large orsmalLQ modest price make buying eav able ; to . gouge corporations, both sides appealed directly to the people for huge funds and succeeded -- Silverware 7 rr OUTLINE OF DIXIE HIGHWAY KAYSVILLEtJT All . 0, -i 0 REFI-EX- if they are tjow being used- - in actual " warfare, and where they would b turned against the United States la the event of conflict. Hammonds patriotism, however, made him reject European offers and wait for his owa government to act Thomas F. Logan writes in Leslies. Congress flnntiy made an appropriation of $750,000 foe the purchase of the device, which is useful mainly for coast defense purposes. Army officers witnessed the Working of the invention and during experiments a small motor boat wu driven in any direction several miles from shore, responding .instantly te the will of the wireless operator on land. A board headed by MaJ. Geo. Leonard Wood Is to pass final upon the invention. Judg-me- F a rV; t V2?: . Sporting Offer. Melbourne Inman, the famous bn- - ' 'O. 5r player, who has recently joined' bhs5 Jz Hard the volunteers, s touring in the AH & ntipodes a little while back, and found himself stranded at Berth, western i with two days to wait for Australia, .n VHira a boat. Strolling up" to the prmeipar hotel' In the place and making first, as wu his wont, for the billiard room, he perative, because by having the citizen wbo loves found it deserted save for the markhis country finance the campaign we are keeping er, a likely looking youth of seventeen the government absolutely uninfluenced "by per- or thereabouts, who promptly Invited sons who have ulterior motives. Through yog him to have a game. and the other party leaders I plan to make a No, thanks!" replied Inman. personol solicitation of everyone who can afford Oh, come now, be a sport ! 111 givs to give and who feels an enthusiastic Interest you 50 la, 100.. In the of President Wilson. This Is a No, thanks!" came the answer ones campnlgn for the people and It must he paid for more, repeated this time with consideby the people. rable emphaslsi Im Inman, the chamEvery patriotic and loyal person ought to pion I" alone when everybody was hard up. Mr. Bliss give to the point where it really .means someraised about half a million. Oh, well, sir, If thats so I can only to sacrifice a one of him. this To thing might were was the quite unlocal committees Bliss Under the give you 80 in 100 .plan mean a thousand dollars or more; to another, it formed in every town In the country. These Juvenile marten of the expected reply might mean $500 or $50 or a dollar. This is the committees did the work of collecting the $10 Pearsons Weekly. To- get these committees spirit of giving which I hope you will inspire. I Mr. subscriptions. want to know the names and amount each gives What Good Housing Entails. seen. ever list made the up Blisq biggest mailing will a and of index record card keep permanent He corresponded with every state chairman and Up to a recent date no case of In will this. I and cities by classify population fantile chairmen paralysis had appeared amon through these officials got the county a make comparative record f the amount given the 3,000 occupants of the 3C5 dweilinj to draw up lists of possible contributors. When by each. I feel certain you will see to It that houses owned by Trinity Church cothe lists were turned in appeals were made direct your city is well up In this roll of honor." Is on the lists. The result that shortly to those rporation In New Tork city, although But the real details of Mr. Marshs lefore election Mr. Bliss was getting frequently the disease has been In the neighbor' scheme were explained In still an- hood. The houses have advantages ia as much as $4,000 In a single days mall. other communication from national headquarters, their freedom from congestion, as ? Of course, under this plan contributions were of them shelter printed on pink paper. It was entitled How to proximately not limited to $10. nor were contributions of a Io It, and is in Mr. Marsh's best style. Here Is only one or two families, and in their smaller amount spurned. All were welcomed, but it required $10 at least to become enrolled as a whnt it said: back yards, generally used as flower with Success team work and upon depends member. upon sustaining gardens, where the children play getting into the game right away. To this end out exposure to other children, Trin Whatever may have been thg success achieved you and each of the other members of your com- Ity Is taking precautions in the way persons around Demoby Mr. Bliss, there mittee are urged to adopt the following plan and of to I New In cratic headquarters York, Just around the Issuing Information on health stick closely to It: corner from the Republican shop, who were willtenants. 1. On the day you receive this letter make a ing to bet that Mr. Marsh would beat Mr. Bliss Her Demeanor. list of every person yon know, be he Democrat, to a frazzle In collecting money from the real faU or several Republican, For In Mr. Out Progressive days Mandy, the Marshs home Independent Iowa, every state, peopul. an aPP In forward-lookinto man nnd woman whom you know fnl cook, failed put he has a record of being one of the greatest or believe to be interested in the of ance. Her mistress made anxious'? money-raiser- s ever seen. Woodrow Wilson and set opposite his name the qulrles and found to her dismay The Marsh plan, soon In full swing, was nothShe amount yon believe he can afford to give. Mandy had ben arrested. ing more than the good old to nave courthouse 2. to committee rethe meet at once, com- tened down scheme which the churches out In Iowa your , pare notes, and together prepare a complete list what could be done. sort to when they are falling behind In current -she of every possible contributor with the amount Mandy! expenses or want to make a bonfire of the mort-gagWhy. yonr committee estimates he shonld give. Marsh and his young men, some of them "what In the world have yon been "3. Transmit Immediately to me church workers, believed that If it could be personally a conservative estimate of the amount your comworked successfully for a church It could be mittee believes we may count upon receiving worked In the country as a whole for the Demo" ' " through your efforts. We need this estimate at cratic pnrtyr once; plense see that It Is mailed within three An essential feature of the day after you receive this letter. plan Is team work. Anyone who has ever 4. Divide your committee Into teams of two been waited upon with a reqaest to subscribe to a church fund to burn the mortgage knows that nnd three to canvass personally and collect this money. You can work more effectively in pairs not one person but two do the visiting. Confrontthan singly, for It is harder for a fellow to say ed thus by superior numbers the prospect generNo to a committee of his neighbors than to one teams such In To every organlxe ally capitulates. person. town and hamlet of the United States the - Apportion your list, of task which- - Marsh and bis Iowa hustlers set prospective contributors among your subcommittees and make It the themselves to do. This Is the" way they did It; The name of a good Democrat In every town business of your committee to call upon each one of these prospects in person. Do not let this was first secured. Then a communication was sent to him asking him to forward at once to head- work, but do It systematically, and do It without delay." quarters the names of six or eight men in the As fast as these committees got. any town who would feel It an honor to he named as money they sent it directly to Treasurer Marsh. No matter an . auxiliary finance committee of the Democratic .feew small his 'ContrtbBtton etrcb' eofitrlbutbr' re-th ks"ok0 eggi' acd'S connulttfce, Qefiin&Gfig " . cetved an engraved receipt and Whame went on Pound of beef,' B&J th td beftPIKlted chnlrman. Mr. Marshs card index, as a result of which Medical Journal. And tnor By return mall each man so named got his hoiior he will prohably get another credential, a little card bearing the pictures of appeal four triple that of beef. Wilson and Marshall, and announcing that the Jfears from now. - ' Democratic- - national- - commute.- lad-- been- - pleased Shorty before election;" Mr; Marsh 'Invited mime I License Gave rrivffeaof hls doubting friends Into his office to see what to appoint him a member of Its finance commit the Angelo walking down these committees were doing. Piled high on his Tony coming the opposite way tee. With this card went a personal letter from a str&l desk was the flay s mall from these finance com- his Treasurer Marsh calculated to make the new dog. Being deathly member of the Democratic finahee committee get mittees. Each letter inclosed either a check or as It was playful, he said to had pinned to It real money. busy, nere, for example, Is one paragraph from TaE? "Say, If your dog bites Mr. Marshs letter, which as s whole sounds like Some chairmen could hardly write "Go on." arrested." him but legibly, the follow-u- p attached to each letter there was the list in each this dog has a license; hes campaign of s man selling patent case of the people who had contributed the to bite anybody." clothespins ; I wish I might visit with you face to face and amounts, running from 25 cents to $500. In one impress you with the tremendous importance of1 days mail the checks and cash contributions. Mr. What Theyre Lika. this' work. To my mind it is far reaching. We Marsh said, amounted to more than Some of the politicians In $20,060. are absolutely dependent uppn It for the money fact, the average days receipts during part of mind c of the dictionary. I to carrv on the campaign;' moreover, it is un- October were about $15,000. Paul , word after snotber.-- SL FtteM. tl i j . ' f . . w-a- . w 1r fe3 Henrytforvcnihsu. Chairman Democratic finance Committee 0V that its all settled for another four years, you may he Interested to know how the money was raised to conduct the worlds greatest political show. Well, here is the whole story secret with everything exposed Inmystery. ghosts, passages, family trigue, lights, shadows, trapdoors and the rest of the stage property from Arcadia to Jupiter across Florida. link is In as told by a writer in the New Tork Sun; The Lcxington-Knoxvlllcourse of construction now and will he Presidential campaigns cost a great deal of passable within six months. The trip money. The Job of getting this money they call from Nashville to Chattanooga cun be raising the wind. When the amount required is made over the mountuln, provided dry between $1,500,000 and $2,CHX,000 one can see weather precedes the trip; otherwise, that the office of treasurer of a national ommit-te- e is no sinecure. the rond by way of Huntsville, 100 miles farther, is best. The counties in It was stated publicly the other day by nenry central Florida are hard at work on Morgenthau, who as chairman of the Democratic the road and hope to provide a good ftuanoe committee, was a sort of financial over-lor- d route in another year. It is the aim of of this end of the game for the Democrats, the Dixie Highway association to pro- - that the Irreducible minimum of Democratic vide a route within two years time that needs this year had been placed at $1,500,000. Four will enable motorists to travel comfortyears ago It was $1,100,000. ably from Chicago to Mlurni in six The Republicans did not make public "their days. own estimate of expenses. When the campaign was in Its infancy they figured It out as about -I n.OOO,OOOL Later the amount was raised to $1,-ROADS AT COST OF GUESSING I And at a still later gathering of Re- 500,000. certain gentle-inNeed of Standard System f Account- - publicans to discuss this question informed young men of experience great political of for Highwaya-DIfflc- ulty would cost of the campaigns Mr. that Hllss high . lows Commission. I to tills It spend year necessary probably make 7. November before to $2,000.000 close so many conflicting state-- 1 -- There-are The reason why it costs more now to run a dents regarding the cost of rood work 1 a of comprehen-campaign is because everything is higher. The that the desirability aive method of high way accounting Is I cost of printing has tripled, for one thing, in order that taxpayers may I palgu buttons cost twice as much, railroad fares not be misled concerning the total ex- - are higher.-- . And so It goes, I When the Republicans were looking around for pense of such work, according to American nighway. The Iowa state someone to raise the wind this year their eyes highway commission has had consid- fell upon young Mr. Bliss, for a good reason. erable difficulty In finding ont what His father was the Republican treasurer In three the counties In that state have been natlonul campaigns. After some hesitation Mr, spending, because of this failure to Hllss took the Job, In which he has ever since have a complete system of accounts. displayed the one quality considered a prerequl One rich county reported collecting bite to a successful Republican treasurer mode g cam-evide- $10,000 for road work, but the commission found $32, esty. after-investigati- Nobody but the campaign managers themselves 500 had been collected. An investiga- eveC heard much of Mr. Bliss around national tion of the accounts of another headquarters. Ills office was on a floor below who got off there by mis wealthy county reporting $3,200 col- the chairmans. People Into the offices wandered had lected revealed a total collection of tafce thought they There mercantile corporation. a of not were big $19,600. The discrepancies jaachifles ftdtUcg 13 fid tl) many typewriters.,..,.,, of the funds but merely to lack-c- f It was from these offices, where scarce a foot- fall was beard, that Treasurer Bliss raked the country for Republican money, not only In the Saving of Concrete Road. he cm!d get A" cqncrete road saves more than" it form of large subscriptions when $10 form of subscriptions also bur them,' traffic roots. It is open to maximum fund. all the year round. It brings greater to what he called his sustaining membership certificate little nice a to this got contributor freedom and ease of movement In trav- The as a sustainshowing that he had been enrolled was el and transportation, and permanentMr. Bliss This O. G. P. ing member of the ly Increases land values. plan. The scheme Mr. Bliss brought out was a deRich in Lime. William velopment of one tried successfully by Green bone Is very rich la committee. state of the head was he when fisrarti of lime. Tills plan was to Invite $10 subscriptions to a out some little special fund and in return hand Poor Fowl for Market in raising succeeded Never send a fowl to market that lonortrlum. this New Tork of state In the 50,000 by plan txs a full crop. 1 F,C.tX7331rZ nt te 'T-- 1 - two-thir- w-e- - g ss e. - w-a-s f hit-or-mi- ss oaft-iaashfi- E0 a .TZI,l!s in--th- e popular-subscriptio- n ' ' Mr.-Barn- es ) ds j - gtrr 'd . |