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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-28
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.
The constitutionality of the New
Federal Law Regulating Journalism

NV oninion has been asked as TO the
constit,ltionality of that portion OF
AN Act making appropriations TOT
the service of Post Office Department
approyed August "a, 1912, which unoer
the guise of regulating the carriase o.
the mails seeks to regulate Journaiislii'
The section referred to Is novel; lai
reaching and whether intentlonal III
unintentional, will be, If sustained 40
a valid law. the entering wedge Tor
federal censorship of the press. Win
ont ouoting the section in full IL Is
enough to say that the Act, unoer tiie
pretence of making appropriations Ior
the Post Office Department, makes y
the duty of the editor, publisher, Dust
ness manager or owner of every news
paper, magazine, periodical or olner
publication to file with the PostlnaS
ter-General twice a year
"a sworn statement setting forth
the names and post-otfice address
es of the editor and managing eul-
tor, publisher, business manaseIa
stockholders, if the publication
be owned by corporation; ara
also the names of known BOND
holders, mortgages or other Sc
case of daily newspapers, there
shall be included in such statement
the average of the numbers OIL
copies of each issue OF sucn P La
LEGATION sold or distributed to pau
subscribers during the preceoiils
six months.
1t is further provided:
'grhat all editorial or other read
ing matter published in any such
newspaper, magazine, or perioai,
cal for the publication OF VIII
money or other valuable consluet,
alton is paid, accepted or promlseu
shall be plainly marked aoNel
tisement. Any editor or, publishsr
printing editorial or other feau-
ing matter for which compensation
is paid, accepted or promised VIII,
out so marking the same Snan
upon conviction in any court n ,as
ing jurisdiction be fined not less
than fifty dollars nor more thah
five hundred dollars"
| These two sections have dlileren
purposes. The one seeks to estap
| lish an inquisitorial examination mt
| the ownership of newspapers ana TN
amount of their circulation, not To-
| the purpose of regulating the carriag'
| of the mails but in order to determih'
| who is the responsible owner of tn
| organs of public opinion and the eX
! tent of the influence of such organs a.
measured by circulation. AS TN
| newspaper press is today the mos
| usual and efficient method for pupl
discussion and the dissemination
| political news and views, it is opviou
| that this inquiry by the Post ono
| Department into the ownership
newspapers and the extent OF tnel
| influence is an attempt to ascertai'
| through the Post Office Department
| how influential a given medium
public opinion may be.
The second provision confirms tn
! conclusion that the purpose OF tn
section is not to regulate the carriag
of the mails but to regulate the bust
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-28
We Can't Help Saying II
Brother William.

You are smiling, Brother William,
And shaking at your sides.
What is ii in your memory
So pleasantly abides2
We'll" up spoke Brother William,
Its just like this SEE he:
I'm friend of Woodrow's
And Woodrow friends'th me.
He knows ] am a hummer
And / guess he's scared to death;
He's hiking round upon the jump
And runnin' short of breath.
And when ] met i'm t'other night
He then complained to me,
L amt enioyin' this a mite;
I'm imposed upon, seq he,
My pajamas are quite wrinkled,
And dusty are my clothes.
Ny pocket moneys runnin short
4 buyin' of silk hose.
Oh. yes, | am uncomfortable,
He told me with a tear;
Every body's set against me.
I'm misunderstood, l feari
I'm startin now To gravely doubt
That | shall reach my goal
But shades of Nero, don't care;
I'm captain of my soul,'"
You are smiling. Brother William,
And shaking at the sides
What is it in your memory
So pleasantly abides?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-28
Children Cry
FOR FLETcHER'S
Q ASTO FRI a
Diarrhoea Quickly Cured.

81 was taken with diarrhoea and Mr.
Yorks the merchant here, persuaded me
to try a bottle of Chamberlains Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. After
taking one dose of 1t | was cured. 1t
also cured others that | gave it to-
writes M f.. Gebhart Oriole, Pa. That
is not at all unusual. An ordinary at
tack of diarrhoea can almost invariably
be cured by one or two doses of this
remedy. For sale by all dealers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-28
WOODY or Thomas Woodrow

What do you suppose would have
happened if somebody had called
Professor Wilson Woody when he
was at the head of a great univer-
sity? Verify politics plays fantastic
tricks with a mans ideas of dignity.
Kansas City Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-28
Every Knock a Boost.

The Kennebec Journal calls atten-
ton TO the fact that the whiskey trust
appropriated 100000 for paid edi-
torial comment, in an editorial reek-
ing with exclamation points and
black type. No one will charge the
Journal with having gotten any part
of it.-Portland Press.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-28

Charley's aren't" with the clever
comedian supported brought back the
good old days to the Can't Help Say
ing 1t Teller, Thursday night, when
he took his wife and seven kids ito
the show"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-28

Maiden is getting to be quite a
pleasure resort with a black man do
ing the artful dodger act and a 60-foot
diver exhibiting daily In the principal
square.-Boston Globe.
That's quite lot of diver.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-28
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY

cuSHNOc CHAPTER, r. A. M.
No. ~ Annual convention AT Masonic
Temple, Thursday evening, Oct. 3. Re-
port of Treas and sec. riecti"n of oti' :.
GERS All sojourning companions are
cordially invited TO attend
W1NFRED A. JACKSON, II. r.
THOS Ill EOIJ(tt.. Sci.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-28
ESTABLISHED 1875

No notice whatever will be taken OF
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held RESPONSE
BILE for the preservation or return of
rejected communications.
Address all communications relating
to subscriptions and advertisements
to BURLEIGH & FYLNT. Publish
ers, Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-28
Youres for a square deel--
II. ]. X,
Readfield, Nj

Friend Henry: Having known Gre
mo since a colt We agree with you
from the bottom of our heart. 1t was
the rawest deal in track history since
Martin Kagoo's sulky collapsed in
1883. Martin chung to the seat which
stuck to the shafts, and finished
but Martins trousers stayed. for the
most part, with the wheels. His
horse was played heavily for show,
and, after seeing Martin shoot by, the
judges allowed his hackers to collect.
Think of it, Hen. You'll see that if
any of us honest folks attempted a
word in protest against such "infamy"
they'd spring National Association
rule book, or some cheap trick like
that, ON us. These race track touts
are clever guys, Hen, and it makes no
difference if this decision did make III
for the ensuing day a former owner
of Creme; we've got to let 'em get
away with any scheme they try to
pull. We can only wait until Creme
appears in Grand Circuit and then
ignore this magnificent animals de-
tractors. We repeat and riterate'
your question: Why didn't Cremo
VIM" and the answer thunders back
from the impregnable walls of truth:
only because he didn't start"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-28
The Rockland opinion is responsible

The Rockland Opinion is responsible
for the following paragraph: IN
dressing a chicken in the kitchen OF
tie Shamrock restaurant, on spring
street. last Saturday. dime and two
cent pieces were found in the crop OF
the bird The coins had evidently been
subjected the digestive process Oh the
chicken for a considerable time, as
they were worn so that the figures ana
letters on them had almost disappear
ed. The dime was no thicker than d
sheet of writing paper. The cents Were
worn SO bright that the COOK thousht
they were gold pieces when she hrst
saw them. The possession OF SO mucli
wealth does not appear TO nave hao
any effect on the natural olsl'osl'Ioii
of the chicken, as its flesh was tehdef
and iuicy in a salad, as the writer can
TESTIFY, and it was certainly nnspolled
nv riches"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-28

WANTED-A four room tenement cen
modern improvements. Best OF refer
ences furnished. Address -, -Adyer-
tisement in the Waterville Sentinel
A Winsow friend sends us the above.
expressing a desire to be informed as to
the latest improvements for man and
wife" We can only pass 1t along Tor
discussion among our readers-though IN
fear that the Bddefofd Journal Will in
sist they're merely Progressiyes. --kenne-,
bee Journal .a.#f5 af.i
And the Biddeford Journal hastens to
assure its Kennebec county contemporary
that it does not desire to stand in the
way of free and full discussion of this
momentous question What constitutes
the modern improvements" referred to
would seem to be a question for prottt-
able discussion. That these seekers for
a local habitation would be satisfied with
four rooms suggests, perhaps, that
small family may. in certain quarters,
be regarded as one of these improve
ments." Anyway, don't mind us; let the
discussion proceed.-Biddeford journal.
And we can only thank Parson
Wormwood for his broadmindedness,
ard call his attention to fact we had
not before noticed: A family accom-
modated in four rooms could scarcely
be termed Rooseveltian, could it?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-28

Generally debilitated for years Had
sick headache, lacked ambition, was
worn out and all run down. Burdock
Blood Bitters made me well woman
Mrs. Chas. FreitoY, Moosup, Conn.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-28

The Bath Times with the following
supports an idea steadily gaining
strength throughout the country.
IA Bath gentleman declares E that
some one of the city's wealthy friends
could do us no better turn than to
leave a fine golf course as legacy.
At first thought the idea seems
frivolous. Nevertheless, no greater
public benefit could be conferred than
to get the young men out Of the easy
chairs of the clubs to spend few
hours each day or on occasional days
in healthful out of door exercise.
Golf has the peculiar merit that 1t can
be enjoyed by both sexes and all ages,
and that the initiates almost without
exception become enthusiastic devo-
tees"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-28

Saturday, September 2s, 1912.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-28

THE REGULAR MEETING OF SETH
williams Relief Corps. No. 49, second
and fourth Friday evenings at 7.30 at q.
A. r. hall
CLARE n. HARVEY, President.
CARRIE ALLEN, Corps Secretary
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-28

Bilious? Feel heavy after dinner?
Bitter taste? Complexion sallow? Liver
perhaps needs waking up. DoanS Reg
ulets for bilious attacks. 25c. at all
stores.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-28

Readfeld, Me, Sept. p.
Dear Mr.. can't help saying it writer.-l
believe when man has any superior
facultysit should be put wherever posi-
BILE to good usage in that case of which
we speak such as impapabel chucking of
slurs upon humanity in general or rank
this letter trustingly over to your care
to use as you see fit only put my re-
initials on and l want you to turn your
biting sarcasm and intelleck to proper
channels of civic ritiousness and |
asked you man to man why didn't Cremo
win at Readfield Fair? tpleas put that
in big letters if You use this answer
BECAUSE THERE, ARE A COMBINE
AGAINST HIM! J! His army of own
ers and handlers and trainers was wish
iously tricked without excuse and |
think 1t is only fair that they are give
satisfaction before your 5000 readers for
simply because | leave ii to you is it any
reason horse which is a world beater
should be turned down for that? Mebbe
he was resently bought solly to parrish
pate in this race, What then? Just be-
cause a few farmers new they was beat
is no reason for his owner being demand
ed to take him out Mint as well tell
him to kill him outright by chloroform
because he looks like kamil Why not?
repeat and riterate because a horse is
corker and some feilers is afraid of
him is no reason on earth. Such nfamy
should meet with its just reward at your
hands.
Vourae fnr So1Iara JaaI---
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-28
ODD FELLOWS HALL.
l SWIM LODGE NO. 20 REGULAR

meeting Friday evening at 40 o'clock
o. T.. FARNHAM. N. u.
E. F. WESTON. Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-28
Maine Gossip
The Critic.

l know a man who thinks it wise
TO go about and criticize;
III Jones is putting up a fence
He'll view the work and then commence
TIE tell the neighbors, far and near
That Jones is way beyond his sphere.
He couldn't pound sand with club,
At building fences he's a dub,
That thing he's building is fright.
He hasn't done the first thing right;
It's just as crooked as can be,
As any 10-year-old can see,
And so he CABS upon his way
While Jones puts up his fence by day.
If Brown starts in to paint a shed,
And colors il a splendid red,
This fellow goes about the town
Declaring he should paint ii brown.
If Green puts up a window screen,
He then begins to scoff at Green,
And criticize the way he tries
To build barrier for flies
He cares not that his patient wife
With flies must wage a constant strife,
And has to swat, both day and night;
And high and low and left and right,
And here and there and near ana Tar,
Because unscreened his windows are.
If Smith is shnglng his own roof,
This wise old critic stands aloof,
And VOWS it almost makes him SOD
To gaze at such bungling Job;
In all his life he's neer met with
So poor carpenter as Smith.
If he were shingling that old shack
He'd do it right or break his back.
Instead of so, he'd place them thus,
And wouldn't make SO great fuss
As Smith is making, and 'twould be
a job for any man to see;
But while he talks, his wife complains
That their roof leaks, when er 1t rams.
Detroit Free Press.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-28

one of the Presque Isles housewives
experienced the surprise of her life,
according to the Fort Fairfield Review
last Wednesday, when she threw Il
small bag of gunpowder into the stove,
thinking that the bag contained powd-
cred charcoal. When the fire burned
through the lag the inevitable hap
pencd The force of the explosion threw
the covers from the stove and "busted
the stove itself, besides blowing the
contens of the stove ali over the room
The woman though quite severely
burned, was lucky to escape without
more serious injuries.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-28

The name-Doan's inspires confidence
Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney ills
Doan's Ointment for skin itching.
Doan's Regulets for a mild laxative.
Sold at all drug stores.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-28

Meetings at 7.39 o'clock every second and
fourth Tuesday:
c. f. STEWART. Scribe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-28

Farmers mechanics, railroaders, la
borers, rely on DIR. Thomas Eclectic OIL.
Fine for cuts, burns. bruises. Should be
kept in every home. 25c. and Soc
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-28

CANTON AUGUSTA, NO. 9, p. N.
Regular meeting every third Tuesday ~
o'clock. 49,
u C. HUGHES. Clerk.
Evening star., 1912-09-15

been found for this appalling state of af-
fairs. DIR. Allen j.. Mclaughlin of the
United States health service was put to
work to find cause and a remedy. From
his knowledge of foods and their effects
on the human system he was at last able
to discover that owing to the lack of nj
trogenous food eaten by the mothers the
babies got almost no nitrogen and Were
simply dying for lack of il.
The remedy was simple. The mothers
had been eating their rice after the husks
had been polished off. The discarded husk
contains most of the nitrogen found in
rice. AS this was almost their sole arti-
Gle of diet the women got scarcely enough
nitrogen for their own systems and prac-
tically none went into their babies food
Dr. Mclaughlin suggested that they eat
the unhusked rice and feed it to their sick
babies. The result was immediate and
marvellous. In a short time the awful
death rate had been reduced to a normal
one, science had stepped in and worked
another modern miracle. Thousands Of
Filipino children had been saved by the
sacrihce OF few white mice in the hy-
gienc laboratory.
DR.. c.. Wardell Stiles has supervision
OF the hookworm investigation in con-
nection with his other work in the labora-
tory. Here We're conducted his expert
ments with this now famous disease In
this department is one of the most in
teresting rooms in the building. the art
gallery. Here may be seen artistic draw
ings and paintings of every disease that
affects the body. picture of the normal
condition of the various organs and their
appearance when diseased There are pic
lures of every animal or insect that is a
carrier of deadly germs. Here is the
tick that causes the spotted fever, the
rat with bubonic plague. the washwom-
ans hand of cholera, and micro-photo-
graphic enlargements of all discovered
germs, so that physicians may he able by
comparison to diagnose doubtful diseases.
Evening star., 1912-09-15

dangerous. Inside this building are dead
~ diseases. which if loosed would
sweep over the land from ocean to ocean
and make of the country almost a desert
ed waste. Buhonic plague. Asiatic chol-
era, leprosy. hydrophobia these are but
few of the terrors to humanity that are
Gagged up within its walls. They are but
a few of the enemies that these guardians
of the nations health are fighting TO
conquer and stamp out of existence.
The hygienic laboratory is a branch of
the public health service and is Ire-
sided over by DR.. John r Anderson. 1t
is divided into four sections. the depart
ment of chemistry, the department OF
zoology. the department of pharmacology
and the department of bacteriology. The
archaeological department is under the
personal supervision OF the director
X
This last department is devoted to the
study of germs and germ diseases. There
is time and attention TO bestow upon
everything that concerns the public
health If some country school board
thinks the water in the school yard well
is impure it can send a sample to the
hygienc laboratory. 1t will receive as
careful and accurate atteStion as the
most interesting case of a newly discover
ed disease The water will be tested and
analyZed and a report which can be abso-
lutely depended on will be returned. Many
a case of typhoid fever has been prevent
ed by the timely closing of some infected
this department.
One of the first things that strikes the
attention of tho visitor is the rabies de-
partment. for the treatment of those who
Evening star., 1912-09-15

This work is done SO accurately that even
the slightest color shades are made.
Mention should be made OF the recent
investigation of measles by Drs Anderson
and Go1dberger Their work will probably
result In a great reduction Of the num-
Der of cases as well as of the mortality
OF this disease.
No paper on bacteriology would be com
plete without special mention of the serv
ice rendered by DIR. p. Ehrlich in his re-
cent Investigations Mention should also
be made of DR.. Rupert Blue, surgeon gen.
eral of the public health service. since
it was through that service that the spread
of epdemics of cholera and bubonic
plague in the United States was recently
prevented The eastern coast was threat
ened by infection of cholera from Italy
and the western coast by plague from
the orient. In both cases the prompt
and efficient action Of the service succeed
ed in stamping OFT these perils from our
shores. The anti-plague measures in the
field were personally directed by DIR. Blue.
In an interview regarding the bearing
of the use of the various serums and
toxine on the public health DIR. Blue
said:
They have furnished one of the most
fruitful fields for investigators in pre-
ventive medicine and the possibilities Of
its further development are enormous 1t
is the public health that supervises the
manufacture and sale of all anutoXins
and vaccines sold in the interstate traffic
and no contaminated impotent product
can be sold to the detriment of life and
the health of individuals.
DR.. John w. Kerr. assistant surgeon
general, has rendered invaluable service
to the cause of bacteriology, both in the
field and in executive office.
An interesting portion Of bacteriology is
the development of immunizaton against
and prevention of parasitic diseases by
the use of vaccines and antitoXins Bac-
teriology dates from Pasteur. Medicine
owes It's greatest advancement of the
century to him. He began life as a horse
Evening star., 1912-09-15
Not Bigoted.

G ENATOR la TOILETTE was taking
~ about a political boss who seemed.
for all his boasts of clean -handedness, TO
be a little soiled and spotted.
He says he's an anti-corruptionst
remarked Senator La Toilette. smiling.
but | suppose he means that he's not
a bigoted anti-corruptionist.
Not .bigoted?'" :" said the puzzled cor
respondent.
its a little story" was the reply. "A
drummer heard an eloquent temperance
lecture one night i'm the town hall OF
Nola Chucky, and an hour later at the
Nola Cipucky hotel. the drummer say
this same identical temperance lecturer
drinking, one after another, whiskies
with beer chasers at the bar.
Why, how's this?' the drummer ex-
claimed. L thought you were total alb
stainer.
so I am. the lecturer replied: so I
am, my young friend. but ! ain [
bigoted. +"
Evening star., 1912-09-15

be added to fifteen barrels of water and
a teaspoonful of the mixture be given to
a guinea pig it will kill the pig.
There is an incubator. very similar to
those used for Matching chickens. but
the progeny Of these mechanical mothers
are far diffeAnt One produces poultry
and the other brings forth germs of the
deadly bubonic plague.
II is a matter of common belief that
children who have not during their
earlier years received proper nouriSh-
ment. as rule. do not reach the physical
development they would have attained
under more fortunate circumstances:
Scientists realize that there are actual
diseases as well as arrested development
resulting from improper food. In the
laboratory this matter is delved into. The
smiling scientist remarked: We cannot
experiment on human beings. SO we have
to take rats
Numbers of rats and other small ami
mails are kept confined in small cases
and are fed on certain specific diets. The
effects upon, the rats are observed, and
from these are reasoned out the eHects
of these various foods upon the human
system For instance, there is at present
one poor little white rat which in Its
earliest days was not given proper ana
sufficient food. Later 1t was gwen an
abundance Of wholesome food, but 1t
has never yet caught up with others OF
the same age and species that have re-
ceived the proper nourishment from the
beginning.
In. order to determine the effects that
various food substances have upon the
human system they take series of rats
of the same age and species One is led
upon a normal ration, another upon diet
absolutely lacking in nitrogen, a third
upon one lacking in some other essential
The animals are carefully examined in
every particular and compared. The ef-
feet of the various diets upon their loco
motion. heart action, temperature and
other physical conditions is carefully not
ed and is used as something to reason
from in case similar symptoms are found
in human beings.
There are some diseases that this de-
partment has discovered to he due to the
lack of certain elements in the food. Per