Show c r g II J it s ff Crit Criticism D Becomes Noble When It Seeks Seek Not to Antagonize but to Poster Foster a Good Work I Learn A Lesson from the Hen I Reasons which seem of real import move us to urge every very reader of this newspaper of voting age ago to cast east a ballot in the Presidential Voting Test being taken to learn so far as possible public sentiment regarding the coming election If every country town in which the vote is now being taken measures up to a proper standard of interest the effect may be far r far aching This newspaper by reason of its exclusive franchise in tho the thoI Publishers Service of New York will record the voice I of small towns and country America when the final figures are announced and it is important that our town should supply a representative expression n of local opinion Quite apart from the interest that all of us take in learning what our people think of the Presidential Contest a very vital interest will vill be bo taken by politicians It is the small towns and country America Americ that finally must decide this Presidential issue The big cities seem wonderfully illy important but only to those who live in them Only third one on third of our population lives in towns 1 towns of over inhabitants The balance is distributed as follows In towns of to 66 in towns of to 47 in towns of 2500 to 43 in villages of less than 2500 85 in other rural territory A really representative vote from small towns and the country country country coun coun- try is likely likey to have a marked influence on the handful of men who as leaders play so 80 important a part in deciding on the future government of America Astute politicians ever have their ears to the ground and they are ae not apt to fly in the face of public opinion if it be definitely and a aggressively asserted Vote for your choice for President regardless of party Keep your identity secret if you wish but cast your vote I Let Our Town Be Heard From I If the great American hen could talk the principles of democracy would soon be spread over the globe for there is scarce a land under the sun where the cackle of our barnyard fowl is not heard Tho The fiscal year of 1923 will show that approximately thirty- thirty nine million dozen American eggs were shipped abroad in that period and if we include those sent to our own colonies and not included in the government figures as exports then the the- number will exceed forty million dozen To this must be added the eggs and yolks frozen dried or canned which brings the sum total up to quite a lu half f billion having a value of In tho the year preceding the war the value of eggs dried and frozen entering the United States chiefly from the Orient advanced advanced ad ad- In 1919 it had risen to 8 Then Uncle Sams Sam's scientific department workers perfected the methods of preserving the product and in two years our importation dropped to These v silent and poorly paid workers in bare looking experimental experimental mental rooms in the national capital every now and then add a million or two of dollars to the tho income of the nation They should a lesson from tho hen and let themselves be heard from |