Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-14
MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Getting Ready.
portland AdvertiSer).

tfOrIlanu AuNertlScf).
About this time OF year careful and
prudent people begin to get ready for win
ter. In the country, the farmer. when he
has completed the harvest of his crops,
turns his attention to making necessary
repairs about the buildings to insure the
comfort of the tenants of both barn and
house throughout the rigors of winter.
And then. a little later he cuts the win
ter'S wood. banks his house with brush or
dirt. tides up about the place in many
ways and when the storms come he is
ready In the village or city the house
holder has to think of his wood and coal
for winter and warmer clothes for himself
and family And if he owns his house
the chances are that he too will have re-
pairs to make and tidying up to do, to get
ready for the storms to come.
And when you stop to think of it, how
much better it is to get ready for things
beforehand Even in the ordinary mat
ters of business and social life. the hard
things to do and bear are the ones that
come upon us unexpectedly and when
we are not prepared. And many times it
is easy to lay the blame for this UMPIRE
parcdneSS at our own door Perhaps we
knew that we must meet certain re-
SponSiblity sometime and have put off
getting ready for it. Demonstration has
kept us from getting ready. How much
different and how much easier it is if we
have not neglected our obvious duty. And
in the end we shall be able to give it all
up much more easily and leave behind
far less hcartache and sorrow, if we have
given attention to the many details Of
getting ready which forms so large and
SO serious part of our earthly duties.
Names Fall Weather.
Oath Times).
Maine, after all, has not much to
complain of in a little rainy weather
for the second week in October.
Never was there a finer September.
,;,r1,t inir to-
of Bath got no rain at all from the
fifth of September until the current
month was nearly a week Old. The
sun shone day after day and after
summer was gone, "a month OF the best
summer weather of the year came to
postpone the beginning of fall At
last the rain has come, but it brings
nothing like the discomfort, to say
nothing of the immense loss, that mas
overtaken the central section of the
Atlantic coast.
Football is Here to Stay.
(Waterville Main.
Rail at football as we may, there
are abundant signs that it is every
year growing in popularity among all
classes of people. More teams take
the field every season. A few years
ago there were not more than a score
of football teams in Maine, and now
every high school and academy in the
state supports one and even the gram
mar schools have elevens that fight
valiantly for football honors. on
school holiday. after the season Is
well on, it is possible for resident
of almost any part of the State to see
a football game without having 10
travel far from home. There IS HUE
room for doubt that the game mas
come to stay, and this being the case
the next thing to be ACCOMPLISHED is
to see that it is played only by those
who are physically fit to stand the
strain of it. TO this end it would De
well for school and college aulhoritles
to require that before studeil IL
allowed to play football regularly ne
should receive a physicians certiEcate
declaring him physically SOUND anu
fit for the rough exercise OF the game.
Gradually, the revisers OF tiie
realizing the danger OF hiJuiie9 "
players as it is played now VIII iiia Nc
changes in the regulations governing
the plays until there is less FISK OF
broken heads and limbs. 1t Will never
be a game in which no FISH % nJuiy
will be met, for if it snoulu oco'ie
such, it would lose a good ueai " the
interest that now attaches 70 It, out
this risk will be minimiZed III ''''ie
without DESTROYING those features OF
, the game that give it popularity