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Show THE CITIZEN r share 5 g industry is being greatly hampered in its formal which is 97 per cent improved ; and another route from Atlantic im- ment by repeated interferences from the Meican gov- - City, New Jersey, to Astoria, Oregon, which is seven-tenth- s proved. Still another highway is from Boston to Seattle, sociation e app jaiprtunately for petroleum production in general, and par-il- s through the northern tier of states and it is 72 per cent improvand y for the petroleum industry of the United States, the ed and 69 per cent surfaced. aent of that country has left the industry a large amount FAME CONTINUES s robliinjlom, with the result that the worlds requirements of. ant som0?611111 rt shoulam products have been amply covered by production, noticing the extraordinary increase in the demand in recent . Official reports received in Washington state positively that the famous rum row off the Atlantic coast no longer exists. . destroyers and cutters constitute the patrol boats, and Rear Adiniral Frederick C. Billard, Commander of the Coast Guard, says that photographs of ships containing liquor supposed to be on rum row, are fakes. Admiral Billard displays charts prepared from reports of the Coast Guard which show juipment the effective patroling of the Atlantic from Maine to Chesapeake ft a town vessels d There have been practically no Bay. both rur, harboring anywhere near the North Atlantic Coast, says, Bilcal deah the best posted men of all officials in the capitol lard, although occasionally a liquor ship has been located a leries, ore r serving at Washington commented upon the report flying about long distance at sea. A few of the wet Congressmen who have just been wetting the oitvridors to the effect that there would be no action upon up at home during the holidays, are insisting on trying to break lollar lie Shoals at this session of Congress. In the meantime, At the same on wooleed the Alabama Power company has got about all there down the prohibition law because it is a failure. ?al dolla had at Muscle Shoals, and those people who say that the time the reports by government agents in every part of the counfa-- t try, including cities like Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisco, business, aa company cant have it must be reminded of the as wepld story about the lawyer who went to see a client in jail, indicate that the liquor traffic is gradually declining. Every one fcter strefaearn his story the lawyer said, Why they cant put you of the best men in the federal service emphatically insists that he adventures of a government into the method of con-a- n industry is usually more or less disastrous, because added r to lift the industry out of the economic into the political 2 Rescan where purely economic considerations become second- - Twenty-fiv- e liquor-ladene- 4 . m. bandfr fhat. town temperance is increasing in all parts of the country. To refute all such official reports the political wets rise up on their hind legs and cry out taint so, taint so! And that is their argument as one hears it in Washington. But I am in jail, replied the prisoner. an MINING ational prosperity is reflected in the mining industry, be mines of the country have more than a million em-ir- e read' he payroll of the mines is a big part in industrial prosand their huge supply bill is the backbone of hundreds of and i g communities. ne of r large percentage of American prosperity rests with its Those who think they have no say r)hial Pr0(lucing industries. own no mihlic 8 n ie welfare of mining, simply because they stck are sadly mistaken. ,Vie the )P RELIGIOUS CENSUS A recent religious census of the nation has been taken with the help of the newspapers. It shows that in 1800 the Protestant church members numbered seven per cent of the population; in 1850, fifteen per cent; in 1870, seventeen per cent; in 1880, twenty per cent ; in 1900, twenty-fou- r per cent ; in 1910, twenty-fou- r per cent ; in 1925, approximately twenty-si- x per cent. Statistics for the Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic and Jewish churches are re even not so definite, but they indicate that the total church memberDout hr ship in the United States numbers about forty-thre-e per cent ritv of is ,t only a few years ago that the United States govern- - of the entire population. Counting out the children who are 0llV. embarked upon a genuine program of helping to build below the age of church membership the churches actually conresu it And was not many years before that the States came tain about fifty-tw- o per cent of the available population in their , ! aid of the counties, and the counties to the aid of the membership. ai !f the roaring nineties when horses and buggies held RED TAPE the responsible citizens whose prominence extended their own township limits, boasted about the county tigiitiri A gun collector recently sought to buy some obsolete war This road usually was an arterial highway of dirt con-noand sometimes it was wide enough for two fiery steeds material, for museum purposes. Some of it dated back to the 5 iJ3S n PP0Slte directions without getting ditched, or lost in Civil War; all of it is old and as little usable as witch charms. It siiOid.00ds. And all editors who ran newspapers in those days was for sale. But it took days of time of officials to whom the lien ur;ake pieasure jn reminiscences regarding the way in which government pays thousands of dollars a year, to negotiate the marI:ai)i1(jvocate(i sale of three dollars worth of stuff. A private company would good roads for the benefit of the farmers. ?he farmer gets his setting in the present picture because have handled such an order between mails. This incident has a eeds have been made incidental to automobiles that scoot lesson for those who wish to learn. leasure. The revolution of highway building has become a m, and all within the life time of present day flappers REGULATION gov neiks. The Federal-ai- d roads have an aggregate length of i) (vncli than 182,00 miles. Hills, mountains and seemingly impas-- t An outstanding feature in the annual report of the Indusan of harriers have yielded to the force of explosives, and the trial Accident Commission in California, is the recommendation act ry men have laid hard surfaced roads everywhere. Road build-iitu- n by the Conunisison (the public servant of the people) that the ionias so rapidly that it is difficult to keep track state compensation insurance fund be given a monopoly in writprogressed icric m fe methods employed in construction. The United States ing workingmens compensation insurance in California. he h a$tau 0f PuMc Roads and the State Here we have a perfect illustration of the evolution of enhighway officials have ed in on a well developed plan to cut out the useless waste larged government functions and the growth of officialism: be First, a state law lays down a new rule for a man ; second, the crept in on the new industrial undertaking, nnansphe growth of transcontinental road building is shown by state goes into competition with private business, thus limiting mpl tact that there is now a route extending from the National the field of private opportunity; third, the state creates a mon;al through St. Louis. Texarkania and El Paso to San Diego, opoly of a cerain line of business to the exclusion of all private o be-a.?.- Pli n, f eer-ha-s i |