Illinois News Index

Highland Park Press, 15 Sep 1927, p. 28

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â€" MOTOR OWNERS IN HJJNOS FAVORED ed States is placed at 22,001,393 reâ€" turning a revenue of $475,885,583 in registration fees, drivers‘ licenses and Although exceeded by but four states in the union in the number of motor vehicles registered, lllinois stands thirteen in the amount of revâ€" enue collected. Figures for the leadâ€" ing states are: Pennsylvania ....______ $35,827,135 New :Nork ................... $5,790,491 Michigan _...__....... 27,035,461 California |..._._______ 24.979,356 Iilinois .........._.._....... 14,047,208 With the estimate of $13,000,000 to be derived annually from the two cent tax on gasoline Illinois will still ocâ€" MOST CONCRETE HIGHWAY states of New York, California, Michâ€" igan and Wisconsin, the revenue asâ€" sessed in Illinois against motor vehiâ€" cles is but 47 per cent of the average of the other states of the union. In Tllinois this annual cost is $10.20, as compared to an average of $21.60 for the nation at large. Fifth in Number of Cars Illinois stands fifth in the number of vehicles registered. Seven states each report a registration of more than one million, as follows: New York woo..~.........1,815,634 California . ..__.____.__._....1.600.475 of concrete highways, crossing and recrossing the state in all directions, double the mileage of Pennsylvania, its nearest rival, and practically equalâ€" And Also Revenue Assessed Is Less Than In Other States Texas. ..__.__._ «Florida ... North Carolina Towa ,.._.._. Minnesota _._.. The total registration for the Unitâ€" Pennsylvania Michigan ... Iilinois In addition to enjoying 6,000 miles required an average invpestment higher than fog those inâ€" stalled ten years ago. apply to each teleâ€" phone added for many years, if presâ€" ent price levels hold. The company is powerless to control ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY BELL SYSTEM EVERY telephone added to this system during the "Therefore When We Build, Let Us Think that We Buifld Forever‘ $35,827,135 â€"28,786,421 27,035,461 24,979,356 23,076,139 19,589,769 18,195,954 17,136,473 15,050,843 14,781,249 4,064,017â€" 1,815,434 1,600,475 1,480,246 1,455,184 1,370,503 1,118,785 1,049,869 If a man wants to be in a position made up by the larger to lecture his wife about household tables and other produ economy and give her a masterful|with dieting, lighter e hint now and then on how to bring up { the increase in the nunm the children, he will have to study | tary workers, the total these subjects, Oklahoma educators |individual averages less have decided. As a result, young men[ It is explained that in the Oklahoma Agricultural and Meâ€"| for heavy diets is dec chanical college are as busy budgetâ€"|by the constant inven ringâ€"as are theâ€"giWler _ â€"â€"â€"_._.___.â€". . saving machipety, the cupy a low place among the states of tion, <olor and desiga,â€"efobmng selecâ€" | requirements. â€" The amount of ‘labor tion and the art of hospitality were { saving is reflected directly in the deâ€" thrown open to boys with the suggesâ€" | crease of foodstuffs used. There is not a single state in thei‘ the college men‘s new homes. union but collects practically double{ ~â€" , that of Illinois for registration, drivâ€"| AMERICANS EATING ers‘ licenses and other fees, with DJiâ€"| AND WORKING LESS nois having oneâ€"sixth of the concrete â€"â€"â€"â€" highways in the United States. |\ _ People are eating less and working â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" + |less in America than ever before, deâ€" HOUSEBOLD ECONOMY _ c Em md Proite Joerine reviewing statistics upon the alarmâ€" STUDY FOR HUSBANDS ixt «> is the Consumption of |home grown products furnished by OKLAHOMA PLANS COURSE In Agricultural and Mechanical College In Which Men May * Learn About Keeping . W m%fia&m which_takes the place of hard manâ€" In’omim. the u:dnmen ils of nnm’l%'mm“ revenue greater than 60 per cent of that received in this state. Missouri with less than oneâ€"half as many motor vehicles registered, colâ€" lects practically as great a revenue. Texas with 300,000 less motor vehiâ€" cles than Illinois, collects a revenue of more than $5,000,000 greater than that in Ilinois, while Ohio with but 110,000.more cars than this state, colâ€" lects annually $10,000,000 more than _ Kentucky with less than oneâ€"fiftl the number of registered motor vehi four times that of I}inois. § States bordering on Illinois all colâ€" lect annual revenues double that of this state. lowa, with less than oneâ€" rives a revenue of practically one milâ€" Wisconsin with but 662,282 motor vehicles compared with 1,370,503 in Tilinois, collects a revenue $136,987 North Carolina High North Carolina is the most WHEN Alexander Graham Bell spoke the first intelâ€" ligible sentence over the teleâ€" phone fiftyâ€"one years ago he laid the foundation of a monâ€" ument that will stand forever. Since then countless improveâ€" ments have been made in the original instrument and Bell engineers and scientists are still engaged in studying, imâ€" proving, and exterding the range of communication, anâ€" ticipating future demandsâ€" rounding out and perfecting the structure of a great public in the union for the owner at â€"JOHN RUSKIN i It is explained that the necessity |for heavy diets is decreased largely |by the constant invention of labot about how to care for an infant and then be obliged to listen to the theâ€" ories of her husband. ‘lthumj:-““h dressed appropriately as it is to a woman," says Miss Talbot, dean of the school, in the Woman‘s Home Companion. _ "An appreciation . of color combinations in the home and landscape brings joy to both men and women. A man should derive as much Cns , Lastly, he is surrounded by the exâ€" AMERICANS EATING panding power of faith. In sermon and AND WORKING LESS} prayer daily he hears: "If ye have Moobbeds faith and doubt not; if ye shall say to People are eating less and working this mountain, Be thou removed and less in America than ever before, deâ€"!cast into the sea; it shall de done.‘ clares Farm and Fireside Magazine,| That is the faith that has built railâ€" reviewing statistics upon the alarmâ€"|roads and cities." ing decrease in the consumption of | Great Examples home grown products furnished by| The author cites as great examples government experts. !flf preachers‘ sons who have "moved "Americans in 1907," says the arâ€" | mountains"; Grover Cleveland, Woodâ€" ticle, "ate an average of 159 pounds |row Wilson, James Buchanan, Chester of meat apiece; in 1916 the average, A. Arthur, Charies Evans Hughes, was 16 pounds less. Wheat consumpâ€"| Henry Clay and Jonathan P. Dolliver tion per capital in 1925 was 47 pounds | among politicians and statesmen; the less than in 1910, falling from 302 to|great railroad king, Harriman, and 255 pounds. Cecil Rhodes among financiers; Agasâ€" "Part of the decrease in wheat is | iz, Jeaner, Linnaeus and Morse among made up by the larger use of vegeâ€"|scientists; Parkman, Hellam, Hobbes, tables and other products. But what| Froude and Sloane, historians; Sir with dieting, lighter eating, due to|Joshua Reynolds among artists, and the increase in the number of sedenâ€"|Sir Christopher Wren among archiâ€" tary workers, the total food eaten per|tects. Tennyson, Coleridge, Addison, individual averages less." Cowper, Goldsmith and Emerson are It is explained that the necessity| among the writers who were preachâ€" for heavy diets is decreased largely | ers‘ sons. + "Part of the decrease in wheat is made up by the larger use of vegeâ€" tables and other products. But what with dieting, lighter eating, due to the increase in the number of sedenâ€" tary workers, the total food eaten per individual averages less." t;-iuchdiéfl’hm parents, and the wife should not be placed in the position of studying all Granting that the man‘s income is around $2,500 a year, he soon spends, mentally, more than he earns, The class discussions usually result in a more sympathetic attitude born of understanding, which is carried into the college men‘s new homes. be needed to replace the wife. either to do it or hire it done. Thus he finds that a cook â€"who may leave At any time or cook improperly, a maid or nurse for the children, a laundress, seamstress and perhaps, in case of illness, a trained nurse, may supposed that the wife goes away for a six months‘ vacation and the man keeps the family of three or four chilâ€" dren at home. The student is asked to fix a price on each task the mother and wife does, for the husband has mmu&mmmm of | onE try of the ability with which the preâ€" vailing oneâ€"third of preachers‘ sons are endowed. "Furthermore, he is brought up in an atmosphere of good books and fine conversation. He learns the use of words, the magic tools by which men‘s minds and actions are influenced. Advantage of Poverty "The preacher‘s son has, first of all", says the writer, "what S. S. Mcâ€" Clure once said he hoped to bequeath to his childrenâ€"the aUvantiges of poverty.. Very early in life he makes the acquaintance of hard work. He must save money and he has very litâ€" tle of it to save. He knows he must hustle and leses no time in the deluâ€" sion that somebody is going to ‘make‘ him. Mr. Barton adds to the group Merâ€" lin H. Aylesworth, president of the National Broadcasting company, as an So m Bruce m'r’;â€" Si Gathered; ‘Third Doomed to Obscuticy; achieve mediccre success and the reâ€" maining oneâ€"third rule the world." These are the statistics compiled by Bruce Barton for the American Magâ€" azine and included in an article which declares that the preacher‘s sqn has a distinct advantage over the average youth. He attributes their success to the favorable environment they have during their boyhood. "Oneâ€"third of the sons of preachers O V k LE L T LC A cthe world‘s newest indusâ€" +595 Only Chevrolet offers Bodies by Fisher at such low prices 120 North Eirst StÂ¥ikt Phone 1110 fur Econamical Transportstion the complete modern appointments. Go for a drive WM. 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