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Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13271, 29 August 1916, Page 4

DAY BY DAY.

New York has a paper called the Cheerful Liar. It was established TIM several months ago, but .Xhaerftil not at first issued regular. Liar ly. Now it is coming out on a regular date and seems to nave a peat number of advocates. TJb» Cbeerfal

eight pages of four-column-wide material. It is printed on good paper, and the typographical layout is good. It contains a number of cartoon pictures in each issue, and on the front page is given a notice telling the purpose of the publication. It is claimed that the paper can lie better than any other publication, and it says that if the public is foolish enough to spend its money for unreliable news the Cheerful Liar proposes to get some of the coin also. The point of difference between this paper and the other newspapers, according to. the Cheerful Liar, is that it tells the truth about its policy and thereby does not obtain money under false pretence. Most of the news is written on the war situation. The paper costs fifty cents per year.

Money spent in road improvement of the right kind is makGccd Reads ing a profit of 125

and per cent a year in Land Values. Wayne County, Mich. savs the New York Times. The county spent 2,000,000 dollars on constiucton and maintenance during the eight years from 190(5 to 1914, inclusive, and in this period the assessed valuation of property in the county, outside of the City of Detroit, increased S2. 6per cent. Of this increase 35 pel cent is accredited to road improvement, because the assessed valuation of Detroit increased only 47.7 per cent. The increase in the county valuation altove the rate ol increase in the city was eleven times the cost of the read work, or 1.000 per cent profit in eight years on the total investment in improved roads. More than 1*25 miles of concrete road have Urn put down by the Wayne County Commissioners since the county system was adopted in 100(5, and the roads so built are still in good condition and </;--,■ every promise of outliving the bonds. Every mile of durable loads laid is cutting down the cos* of upkeen, hast year the Commissioners had forty-five miles mere roadway to care for than the vear before, yet they spent £I,OOO less for maintenance. notwithstanding they have l supervision over 1.21-3 miles of other types or road. such as macadamand gravel, outside of incorporated cities and villages.