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VOLUME 7. June 11, 1909 NuMBER 24 
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Telephone Versus Travel. 
** Use the wire, don’t travel,’’ says 
Colliers in an editorial on the telephone. 
The article continues: 
‘Tt is an interesting commentary on 
human nature that business men who 
have been used to the telephone all their 
lives will forget its possibilities and make 
long trips to transact business that could 
be done in a few moments over the tele- 
phone. 
“* A trip from Chicago to New York 
and return, allowing for one day’s aver- 
age expense in the city, would cost a 
business man about ninety dollars at a 
conservative estimate, and would require 
at least two days’ time. That expense 
alone would cover the cost of eighteen 
long distance telephone conversations at 
five dollars for three minutes, or for a 
total-of about an hour’s conversation at 
one dollar and a half per minute. In 
addition to this, the man would have his 
two days’ time and his plans would be 
spared the delay and interruption. “The 
proportion is even greater for lesser dis- 
tances and smaller telephone rates. 
““ The time has passed when such a 
statement is to be considered merely as 
an advertisement for the long distance 
telephone business. Such reckonings 
now have a place in the economic phil- 
osophy of the progressive business man, 
and differ in no wise from a_ systematic 
policy in the use of the mails.’’ 
What is true of long distances is so, 
in proportion, when shorter space is in 
consideration. Onthe farm the tele- 
phone has come to be well nigh indis- 
pensable. 
““T would as soon think of mowing 
my hay with an old-fashioned scythe as 
try to conduct my farm successfully with- 
out a telephone,’’, said a Hamilton 
farmer in our office yesterday. In rural 
districts the telephone saves many a long 
trip and performs a thousand and one 
services that, without it, would go un- 
done. ‘Through ita man is in imme- 
diate touch with everyone with whom he 
does business—the general store, the 
farm implement buyers—he can _ talk 
things over with everyone he wishes, no 
matter how far away the people are. 
Then there is the other side,—the side 
of human interest—mother, the boys and 
girls. Perhaps one of the children is 
sick. The telephone is the fleet-footed 
messenger in time of trouble or sickness, 
defying weather and distance alike. It 
is the bearer of news and social messages 
to friends on distant farms. 
Rural telephones are increasing won- 
derfully in numbers. The Western 
Electric Company of New York writes 
us, that, in the last 60 days, it has sold 
over 50,000 telephones for country use. 
Two Flag Days. 
Essex County will have two flag days 
this year. First comes the national Flag 
Day on June 14th; then the day when 
the national and all other colors are flung 
to the breeze in honor of the President’s 
arrival in Essex County. 
As for the national day, it has not been 
celebrated as generally of late years as it 
should have been; or, we hope, as it 
will be in the future. Apparently its 
meaning has not been made clear to the 
rising generations. Few children,—in- 
deed, few adults, know that June 14th 
is the birthday of the Star Spangled Ban- 
ner, that its combination of red, white 
and blue was specially designed to re- 
present the elements of liberty—red for 
valor, white for purity and blue for jus- 
tice, right. 
The decline of public feeling for the 
flag is largely due to the fact that, within 
late years, there has been no military 
movement to arouse the feeling of de- 
votion which should always be associated 
with the flag, but is seldom manifest save 
in times of war. Those venerable men 
who followed the flag up Cemetery 
Ridge retain the true feeling. They 
bare their heads whenever the flag goes 
by. That is because the mere sight of 
it fills them with memories of struggles 
lost and won to maintain that banner in 
the position given it by the Revolution. 
The stagnation in public feeling re- 
garding the flag may, in some measure, 
be overcome by teaching the origin and 
purpose of the emblem in the public 
schools. Young hearts are always pat- 
riotic, because they are not yet filled with 
the mercenary interests of the day, and 
love of flag and country thoroughly in- 
stilled in childhood is rarely forgotten. 
Don’t Knock—Boost! 
If there is one better way than another 
to ruin a town, it is for those who live in 
it to go about apologizing for its exis- 
tence. There are some who are always 
ready to say, by their actions at least, that 
Manchester doesn’t amount to much. 
They will tell you that the town is dead; 
that no one would think of stopping 
here; that some town adjacent is more 
respectable, more enterprising, has better 
people, better enjoyments, is ahead of 
us in everything. 
This is alli wrong. Even if it be true, 
no one should ever admit it when it 
comes to making a comparison. Every 
good citizen of this town, should take a 
special local pride in all that pertaing to 
home. The schools, the churches, the 
amusements, the business, pleasures, the 
picnics, the celebrations, in fact every- 
thing should be looked on by our own 
people as just as good as can be gotten 
up elsewhere. The town that says ‘‘we 
can,’ will always succeed. The town 
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