Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1915 — PRETTIEST GIRL IN AMERICA [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PRETTIEST GIRL IN AMERICA

Hoboken, N. J., has come into its own again, for the prettiest girt in America was once called the “belle of Hoboken.” That was before Miss Justine Johnstone won the $5,000 prize for being the most beautiful girl in America. "If I were not a pretty girl,” says Miss Johnstone, “I might still be living in Hoboken, instead of New York. If J had my choice between being the prettiest girl in America and the most talented girl, I would unhesitatingly choose the. latter.” .

1913 than in 1902. The net indebtedness of national, state, county and municipal governments combined increased by 71 per cent in 11 years. A more significant comparison, however, can be made between the growth of the national wealth and the increase in tax levies. The national wealth, on the assumption that its average annual rate of growth from 1902 to' 1912 was the same as that which prevailed from 1904 to 1912, increased by 101 per cent in 10 years, while the increase in tax levies during the period 1902 to 1912 amounted to 86 per cent. The total revenue receipts of the national government during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1913, aggregated $953,597,000, and the expenditures for governmental costs were $952,601,000. The corresponding figures for 1903 were $657,232,000 and $616,739,000. The percentage of increase in governmental costs between 1903 and 1913 was 54. The nature and amounts of the leading items which made up the total revenue receipts in 1913 were: “Special property - taxes” (principally receipts from customs and from tax on circulation of national banks), $313,953,000; earnings of public-serv-ice enterprises (principally postal receipts), $270,704,000; receipts from internal revenue taxes on njanufacture and sale of liquor, $230,146,000; "business taxes” (internal revenue receipts from all sources except manufacture and sale of liquor, together with receipts from income tax), $113,385,000. Of the expenditures for governmental costs, the leading items were: For protection to person and property (expenses of military, naval, lighthouse, steamboat inspection, revenue cutter, life-saving and immigration and naturalization services), $264,671,000; for expenses of postal service, $264,107,000; for pensions, maintenance of national soldiers’ homes, etc., $182,313,000; for maintenance of legislative, executive and judicial establishments, and administration of executive departments, $61,784,000; for improvement and maintenance of water* ways, $42,652,000; for construction of the Panama canal, $41,741,000; for interest on public Indebtedness, $25,256,000; for outlays on public buildings and grounds, including military poets, and for the bureau of construction and repair, navy department, $22,639,000; for education (principally maintenance of military and naval academies, Indian schools, library of congress, agricultural experiment stations, and study of animal and plant industries), $17,243,000. State revenues in 1913 aggregated $367,585,000; and the expenditures of the states for governmental costs during the same year amounted to $382,551,000, or nearly $15,000,000 more than their revenues. State revenues and governmental cost payments in 1903 were $189,165,000 and $185,764,000, respectively. The percentage of increase in state expenditures for governmental costs between 1903 and 1913 was 105. The revenue receipts of counties In 1913 were $370,043,000, and their payments for governmental costs aggregated $385,182,000, or about $15,000,000 more than their revenue receipts. The governmental cost payments of the counties increased by 95 per cent between 1902 and 1913. The aggregate value of state properties (exclusive of those of Pennsylvania, for which no data were obtained) in 1913 was $695,499,000. The largest two items, $175,954,000 and $136,866,000, represented the value of lands, buildings and equipment of educational institutions and of state houses and departmental libraries, respectively. The value of county properties in 1913 was $576,657,000, of which amount $293,295,000, or more than onehalf, represented the value of courthouses. The value of public properties in 1913 for incorporated places of 2,500 and over was $4,097,806,000. Of this amount. $1,507,133,000, or mpre than one-third, represented the value of lands, buildings and equipment of pub-lic-service enterprises. The remainder covered the value of lands, buildings and equipment of the various municipal departments, of which the leading items were: Property of schools and libraries, $1,018,688,900; parks and other property falling under the general head of “recreation* $967,488,000, ~ ‘ ' ' ‘ ~~ fsXi'f iiWi mßWll