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By Arthur BrUbane
Remember the Middleman.
Another Ice Age.
Goodby, Roadside Signs.
No Telepathy.
Foolish Attack on Mellon.
The Senate Interstate Com
merce Committee votes unani
mously to give farm products' the
lowest possible transportation
rate on railroads. It’s a good idea,
for farmers, and good for those
that eat farm products.
But what about the middleman?
Cut the freight rates all you
please, and that won’t help the
farmer if the middleman cuts the
reduction in freight from the price
he pays the farmer.
And it won’t help the consumer
if a middleman adds to the cost of
food what is saved in the freight
rate.
At the little ferry that crosses
the Hudson River opposite Kings
ton, N. Y., farmers were unload
ing magnificent apples in barrels.
The price at which the farmer
sold them was about 3 for a cent.
At a little stand inside the ferry
house a lady with a pleasant face
was selling apples not so good—
price 10 cents apiece.
You can’t do much for that
situation until you do something
about controlling middlemen.
Scientists fear the approach of
another Ice Age. The last one
lasted 1,000 years, long enough to
make human beings forget almost
all they had learned.
It would be hard on business,
real estate and prosperity gener
ally, if we should have two or
three years of Winter, with no
Summer between, and then ice
gradually creeping down from the
Pole, covering the continent, as
?P far South as San Francisco, or
Santa Barbara.
But perhaps it won’t happen, or
science might handle the situation
with artificial heating. Anyhow,
it would not disturb old earth. She
has still several hundred million
‘ years to live. We are only 12,000
years from the Stone Age. It
matters little to Mother Earth
whether we become civilized now
or forget our lore and postpone
civilization 100,000 years more.
Nature is not in a hurry. There
are living animals whose evolu
tion represents ten million years,
the whale, for instance, that used
to live on land and was smaller
than a gray squirrel.
Colonel Bryan need not believe
that, if he doesn’t want to. It’s
only what scientists say.
William Ferree, war veteran,
has had two-thirds of his stomach
removed and has gained thirty
five pounds inweight. He is now
able to work and enjoy life.
Nature and science combined
..work wonders, and will take care
of us, if we give them half a
chance. Many a man with his
stomach whole would be better off
with half of it if he learned to
take care of what he had left. If
men, occasionally, would throw
into a pail what they throw, half
chewed, into their stomachs, and
then look at the pail, they would
know why so many die too soon.
With Standard Oil setting the
example, fifteen great corpora
tions have agreed to discontinue
roadside advertising that dis
figures landscapes. Manufacturers
of tires, automobiles, soap, flour,
motor parts, oil, yeasts and pro
ducts are included among cor
porations that will discontinue dis
figuring the landscape with bill
board advertising.
This is more than a concession
to public opinion and good taste;
it is also good business. Road
side advertising is wasteful adver
tising.
Learned Harvard gentlemen—
who might be more usefully em
ployed—w i 11 undertake thought
transmission, or telepathy, from
Harvard to Paris, across the At
lantic Ocean. It’s a harmless
pastime, and if the gentlemen on
both sides have enough imagina
tion they will believe that they
have accomplished something.
Meanwhile it is fortunate for
the human race that slowly,
through the ages, men have learn
ed with the spoken and printed
word, that they can transfer
thought from one brain to another
satisfactorily. There never will
be any such‘thing as telepathy on
this limited planet.
Most foolish activity is the at
tack made on Mr. Mellon, Secre
tary of the Treasury. Those that
[ attack him should thank him for
j his service to the Government.
No longer a young man, over
worked, with gigantic interests of
I his own that needed his attention
and that nobody else could attend
to, he dropped his own business
and took up the financial affairs of
the United States.
He did this at" a time when, as
everybody knows, the best brain in
the country-was needed to manage
United States finances.
He has managed finances well,
has, made possible reduction in
taxation, has cut down by hun
dreds of millions yearly the na
tional debt.
He is giving to the public, for
the salary of a junior clerk, the
service of one of the ablest busi
ness and financial minds in the
United States. He should be
thanked, not nagged.
Look Oat For Ladders
When you step out these early
spring mornings - with the first
scent of wet paint in the wind,
watch out for the spreading lad
ders. Local painters report un
usual recklessness on the part of
residents who are defying the
ancient superstition and flitting
under ladders without fear of
paint or peril.
ROUND TRIP
Sunday
April 13
PHILADELPHIA
SPECIAL TRAIN
Leaves Atlantic City (South Carolina Avenue) ,...7.20 A. M.
Leaves Absecon ............7.82 A. M.
Leaves Eks? Harbor ..7.47 A. M.
Arrives Philadelphia (Market Street Wharf) .8.50 A.M.
RETURNING, leaves Philadelphia (Market Street Wharf), 8.30 P. M.
SALE OF TICKETS BEGINS TWO DAYS PRECEDING EXCURSION
Pennsylvania Railroad System
Lucrezia Bori Talks
On Success
Prima Donna Gives Valuable Ad
vice to Young Aspirants for
Musical Fame—Says Use
Nature’s Gifts Wisely
By Vincent E. Speciale
A striking personality, viva
cious, witty, brilliant, fascinating
attractive, charming, this is the!
picture of Lucrezia Bori, prima
donna of the Metropolitan Opera
Company* who enthralled her
hearers with her art at the fourth
March Musicale in Vernon Room
of Haddon Hall. Always irradiat
ing a winsome smile that reminds
one of the constant sun and the
blue sky of her Latin country, she
IT
typifies in her conversation the
real artist of the soul; intelligent
and emotionally expressive. Born
in Valencia, Spain, of Italian par
entage, she went to Milan to study
making her debut as Micaela in
“Carmen” at Costanzi, Rome. Her
real name is Lucrezia Borgia, but
she prefers to be called Bori.
“An interview?” she said, smil
ing and good naturedly, when the
writer approached her, “ma si, si,
signore, con piacere” (yes, yes, sir,
with pleasure). “You see,” I said,
“there are so many ambitious stu
dents in the art of singing in this
city who would indeed welcome
your golden advices.”
And here, my dear readers, is
Miss Bori’s message:
“The voice is primarily a gift
of nature. Success can only be
achieved by hard work, constancy,
an iron will to surmount all ob
stacles, and intelligence. To sing
with your mind and brains is a
factor to bear constantly before
you. Keep the body in perfect
condition and do not overwork. Do
not strain your voice in order to
obtain a big volume of tone. If
you do so you are hopelessly ruin
ing the God-given gift.
“Better production of sound is
obtained with the least possible
effort. Select a good teacher.
Shun the charlatans and fakers.
They are preying upon your pock
etbook and ruining your future.
Develop the power of concentra
tion and do not neglect taking
regularly proper breathing exer
cises. Although the jaw needs a
certain relaxation in order to in
sure free emission of sound, avoid
unnecessary contortions of the
face. I know of a famous colora
tura soprano who cannot sing a
note unless she indulges in what
you call ‘making faces.’ It is so
easy to form bad habits, but so
hard to get rid of them. Study
music, it will greatly help you in
your artistic career. Hear the
finest singers and instrumental
ists. You will get more valuable
help from them than from any
other source of instruction. Have
character! And let me repeat
with emphasis the important req
uisites you will need to carry
you on the road of success are:
Study, work, perseverance, will
and intelligence.”
FOR MOIST.ACHING FEET
M-EDWARDS
MEDICATED
FOOT POWDER
An aid to itching toes
An absorbent of acid
pcrapirAt ion
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RAILROAD TIME TABLES AND
REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENTS
Did you ever stop to think of the great effect on the development of land, on its value, on the de
mand for it, caused by the railroad time table?
What would be the immediate effect on Atlantic City values if its train service were reduced to two
trains a day?
Hundreds of business men, now making Atlantic City their year-round home on account of conveni
ent and frequent train service, would be compelled to re-establish their homes within the cities that their
business demands. Hundreds of properties would become vacant with no demand; reduced values would
be sure to follow.
Again, the merchant would lose the patronag e of these commuters and their ability to pay rent or
make their business profitable would be greatly reduced; chaos and reductions in value would be bound
- to follow.
All realty values are, therefore, dependent on the time table of the railroads. We have between
Atlantic City and Cape May many fine beaches but of little value when compared to Atlantic City. Is there
any greater influence than the railroad time table; the frequency of train service, the time or distance
from the great centers of population?
Miles of vacant beachfront are to be found along the Jersey Coast undeveloped; inaccessible to the
masses; almost valueless because the railroad time table does not make these beaches accessible and con
venient. . I
Think what this great and important asset means to Brigantine Beach. Brigantine receives the full
immediate benefit of all the wonderful train service to Atlantic City; more than 100 trains daily, the year
around, enter and leave this resort—the greatest number to any resort in these United States. Brigantine
Beach, connected with Atlantic City by a two-mile Boulevard, will be only 11 to 15 minutes by auto bus
from the railroads of Atlantic City.
Brigantine Beach offers low priced, desirable lots near the Ocean front for the location of moderate
priced homes for out-of-town commuters, for the Atlantic City resident tired of living in apartments, in
small streets, or cramped quarters. Brigantine Beach offers space-protection, bathing beach and locations
near the ocean for little money; land that will surel y double and treble in value rapidly.
Hundreds with foresight and faith in the future of Atlantic City have taken advantage of this great
opportunity.
Are you going to pass up the last chance to buy low priced, high class land located near the ocean
on Brigantine Beach?
Lots, $775 up^. Terms, 10% Cash; 10% every 3 months until Jan. 2,1925, when
50 % is to be paid in. Taxes paid until Jan. 1927. Free Title Policy with every lot.
Streets, Walks and Curbs to be built by the company.
Boulevard to Atlantic City 80 ft. wide to be completed next fall.
Prices of All Unsold Lots to Advance Up to $200 Per Lot April 30th
Free Inspection Trips Daily at 2 P. M. From the Inlet, Weather Permitting.
FOR FREE COPIES OF THE BRIGANTINE BULLETIN, MAPS AND PRICE LIST OF LOTS, CALL ON,
’PHONE OR WRITE YOUR BROKER OR
ISLAND DEVELOPMENT CO.
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MURTLAND, WILLIAM RICHMAN, WILLIAM F. SHAW, JUDGE JOSEPH THOMP
SON, WILBUR ZIMMERMAN
1535 BOARDWALK ATLANTIC CITY
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