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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-03
Editorial Comment.

Lewiston Journal)


The Biddeford Record asks Rev. Mr..
Dunnack of Augusta wherein the re-
publican party of Maine represents any
advanced position on the temperance
question, as compared with the demo-
cratic party.
Permit us TO "butt in" For decade
before Plaistedism- Pattangallism. we
had enforcement in Androscoggin coun-
ty We had no major crimes. We had
peaceful city. When men sold liquor
they were apprehended' and they were
brought into court and there tried and
sentenced
Today we have absolute anarchy"
in Lewiston. as regards the enforce
nent of the liquor laws. The city mar
shall and the mayor of Lewiston Uhe
latter of whom is speaker Of the Maine
House of Representatives. have recent
ly addressed the Lewiston police and
INCREASINGLY ordered them to CLOSE
the rumshops at 10 +. NJ. Qi p. NJ. SAT-
urdays)." The city marshal Informed
the Board of Aldermen Monday night
that certain petitioner for a vietual-
| lers license sold booze" and when
| asked why he didn't raid him said he
would do so if an order to that effect
should be passed by the Board of Al
| dermen. The sheriff does nothing to
enforce the law. He decorates his Of
| flee with a few imitation enforcement
| officials but never a raid. The rum
shops run the city The rum monopoly
| controls us exactly as it controls the
| Plaisted administration. Vice is ram
pant. We have had an orgie of crime.
| The streets are not safe at night.
| Deeds of violence are on every side.
| Nobody fears the authorities There is
TO restraint in the law. Rumselers are
| not brought before the Supreme Court
| but are permitted to default; settle
with the sheriff in vacation at trivial
| fines determined by the county attor-
new and thus escape all fear of Jail. In
short the democracy has deliberately
| put into force a reactionary and retro
gressiVe policy of its own. 1t has deib
| erately nulliied law. 1t has bowed the
| knee to the rumshop. The saloon domi-
mates it, The party as a whole has
| expended its greatest effort in 'legaIiz-
| ing the saloon. In short, it has deliv-
! cred itself hand and foot to the Ma
| tional Liquor Interests. 1t has been
their slave. 1t called a special session
| of the legislature to placate them II
has made fool of itself in its eager
ness TO serve this imperious master
and the farther it goes the deeper it
grovels. in the slime and the sin of the
unholy business.
Maine should be ashamed of such
| dominancy. 1t should be ashamed of
leaders who go about with glib tongue
and cheap wit TO deride decency and
| self-respect And we believe Maine
win show it's sentiments in September
by sinking all other issues and placing
herself once again where she belongs
outside the sphere of influence of the
saloon and the monopoly that controls
II; outside the rule of these bosses who
| make a mock Of all law and deride all
things save the legalized saloon.
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OIL ON TROUBLED WATERS.
Automatic Apparatus In Bow OF
Steamer Discharges Calming Fluid.

A special automatic apparatus for
discharging oil on the sea in stormy
weather as a means of subduing the
waves is being manufactured by a
British concern. The apparatus consists
of a castiron oil reservoir above ver-
teal cylinder heavy piston work
ing in the cylinder, attached to tubu-
lar rod and provided with spring
elects the oil onto the water. hand
wheel on the spindle rod is used to
raise the piston when the cylinder Is
being filled with oil from the reservoir
The apparatus is mounted in the bow,
as shown in the accompanying draw
ing Two small delivery pipes protrude
through the bow, one on each side OF
the STEM The discharge of each pipe
is about half a gallon per hour, but
this may be varied according to re-
quirements, density of oil. &C.
Oil has been utilized for many years
as a means of subduing the waves, and
in many instances has saved vessels
from disaster-Popular Mechanics.
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common deoency,'' there would be much
less crime in Maine cities. In Lewiston
where the Democratic ideal first reach
/ ed perfection 90. some new thuggery
startles the public every day. There,
not only are laws unreeognized, and
enforcement sneered at, but neither
| eommonsense nor common decency
have any place in the political pro-
scription.
OR Buffalo exchange, however, was
| dealing with great calamities that
! come in bunch and shock the world
| into attention. 1t says:
Calamity always finds the weak point
Every catastrophe reveals some viola
ton Of law-either written law or tho
law OF common sometimes both.
1t was so with the burning of the
General Sloeum. 1t was so with the
Newark holocaust. 1t was so with the
Titanic. Call the roll of memorable
sacrifices of human life in recent times
and every one will show that at least
much of the sacrifice was unnecessary.
All that was needed to have saved
many if not all was intelligent law. en-
fUrcement of law, or employment of
reason without law.
Wherefore a very plain lesson APP
pears. 1T is-make laws, but, outside
of that, apply common sense.
The makers of laws and enforcers of
laws who interfere with demonstrating
are generally regarded as common
nuisances. All compulsions to safety
are resented The public, itself. gives
no encouragement to efforts for its own
security IT tolerates careleSsness. 1t
insists on recklessness which makes the
moment more comfortable. The faith
full inspector incurs enmity from own
ers Of boats and buildings and wins no
backing from the people.
How many will wait for the next
boat willingly rather than overcrowd
the going boat?
How many will support an officer who
shuts off the crowd when boat has
been loaded to its capacity instead of
eondemning him?
How many will turn away from
crowded place of entertainment rather
than fill the aisles?
How many owners of factories. halls.
liDiGiS duu SlettAHilfitS VI iiOlti1tS SNi'N-
lures generally welcome the Inspector
and heed his directions9
Yet, all. when something happens,
are bowed with the surprise and grief
which weigh down J. Bruce Isnaay.
Everybody who has sailed the lakes
has seen lifeboats secured beyond the
possibility of ready release, unswung
from the decks from seasons end to
seasons end, ropes rotten or paint-stif
fened crews unfamiliar with fire or
wreck drill.
Everybody knows buildings of which
the chief protection is ever unreliable
good luck.
Yet owners will do nothing without
compulsion The officer who applies
compulsion soon finds that is not the
way to comfort, popularity and long
service. The public, gamblers with
their own lives. think of everything
else before safety.
Slaughters are not surprising. They
are invited. Now and then they accept
the long standing invitations. Croakers
are ridieuIed. Correctors are intimi
dated Chaneetakers are tolerated.
And the worst of it is. we like it,
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has an importance that well might di-
vert attention from the opening scenes
of the drama at Chicago. The news
! from Lincoln is no matter of surprise
/ in Washington, as seems to be the
case in New York Two months ago Mr.
| Bryan was undecided whether to try
for tine nomination this year or wait
until 1916, and so advised his trusted
lieutenants and advisers-the same
who now are in receipt of letters from
their chief breaking the news to the
party that his final decision is to seek
the nomination at Baltimore. Judging
from the tenor of his letters. Mr.. Bry-
| an will enter the lists along with the
other Democratic aspirants whose
candidates. have been outright. To
the charge of bad faith that is certain
to be lodged against him. Mr.. Bryan
could give precedent for talying such
step as the only man capable of saw
ing the country from the demnition
bowwoWs.
That MIR. Bryan's confidence in DEM
ocratic success in November is built
upon the prospect for a bolt at Chica-
go is more than "A surmise. In fact.
he was the first man of prominence to
predict such an outcome of the G.. o.
i. quarrel. which he did on the ocea-
sion of the birthday dinner given in
his honor in March. Too much lies in
the future to lay a hazard at the
present time as to the ultimate effect
of the Bryan candidacy. His coming
out at this junction implies his be-
lief that as against united Republican
ranks, no Democrat could hope to
win; and also. that feeling absolutely
certain of a bolt, he plumes himself
as the one man among all who could
prevent the progressive element in
his party from being stampeded and
the victory lost in that way.
But, of course, Mr. Bryans reading
of the signs is not conclusive. The
laundering in the index at Chicago is
deafening and confusing, to be sure
but can Mr.. Bryan and others have
forgotten already what resulted under
similar circumstances at Saratoga
less than two short years ago? And
is it by any means certain that the
boiling will be confined to the Repub-
lican party?
Mr. Bryan's candidacy may travel
over fearfully rough and rugged
road.
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Planting Bio Tree Seeds.

1t is gratifying to Americans every
where, to know that there is a possi-
bility of saving to generations to come
such remarkable botanical specimens
as the Big Trees of California. The
U. s. Department of Agriculture is
sending out press notices telling the
country that there is good reason to
believe the Big Trees are not to dis
appear from the earth, as has been
the general belief IN recent years. The
accepted understanding that these
giant sequoias are survivals from a
past age and that their practical
wiping out by forest fires means that
within a generation or two of human
ity the Big Trees will become a thing
of the past. 1t seems is wrong. Al
ready seedlings give good reason to
expect a future growth of Big Trees
on moist nat not far from Nevada
City and about 200 feet above sea
level. The first seeding was done in
1910 with very successful results and
last year an addition area was seeded.
But If the seedlings are to be pre-
served to coming generations they
will have to be protected better than
have the giants which ages have been
growing.
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Monday, June 3, 1912
Are Women "citizens,?

A correspondent writes to criticize an
editorial in the Kennebec Journal
notifying that we are wrong in assum-
ing that women are citizens" although
not voters This writer claims that
women are not citizens only mem
Der of the social body; that they are
not specifically recognized as "citi-
zens' by any law of the land Our
friend has probably forgotten that ali
en- women are made citizens by nat
uralization. Let us ask him if natural
lied women are citizens and native
women are not.
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a bonus for so doing.

~ DutluS loI 80 utlflS.
The demand for better roads is not
local. II is nation wide, nay, eonti-
nent wide, for the Province of Quebec
has recently voted $l0,00o000 for road
Improvement 1t is one of the great
conservation ideas of the times fully
as important as the conservation of
the forests or the impounding of the
waters for irrigation in the arid west.
The good roads propaganda has come
to stay for it meets a long felt want,
and ii takes no one with prophetic
vision to see that the State will be
Obliged to appropriate IN some form
or other larger amount than it has
in the past. The only question is
how can the most be obtained from
the larger expenditure.
The law must be changed as here
indicated, and the State highway de-
partment given greater power, espec-
tally over methods of maintenance, for
under the present law it has absolute
ly none. Some adequate and uniform
system of maintenance is needed and
this can best be accomplished By the
State bearing a part of the expense,
and the work being done under the
instruction of the highway depart
ment. No more money to be expended
under the present law.
If the proposed constitutional amend
mont is adopted. as it should and prob
ably will be, before the Legislature
authorizes the issue of the bonds, 1t
must enact a new highway law, one
which will meet the requirements. for
it would be the height of folly to at
tempt to do ANYTHING with such "a
large amount of money under the pres
ent one. II the constitutional amend
ment is adopted the Legislature VIII
undoubtedly enact such a law.
With 100000 expended under law
as suggested. the benefits would be so
apparent inside of three years that the
people would not return to the old
conditions fer five times the amount.
AS the automobilists are willing to
provide the money by the payment OF
. special road tax from which all 9TH
er vehicles are exempt, provided the
money is properly expended and the
roads maintained once they are con-
strtcted, one can but assume that the
proposed amendment authorizing the
use of s., 900, 600 of bonds, will be adopt
ed and the state enter upon new era
of prosperity.
John C. SCATES.
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a Remarkable Machine.

The largest eXcavating machine ever
built is capable of digging mile OIL
ditch six feet deep and twelve ieet Wlde
every day. 1t is employed in the con-
struction of canals and laterals COM
prising an irrigation system to water
the 16. 900 acres which compose the
cudahy ranch, situated in the imperial
valley of Mexico. The conditions are
identical with those of the valley of the
Nile. for this ranch is of silt Lands
built up by the ages of overflow of the
Rio Grande. The machine weighs lo0,-
900 pounds and covers an area OF % oy
GO feet. 1t is entirely of steel con-
struction and is propelled by two 30
horse power oil engines. The fore part
OF the machine carries the engines
which drive a shaft wheel, which IN
turn, by series of cogs and chains,
propels the machine over the ground
land at the same time operates the mn
mense circular digger carried at the
rear This digger is equipped with
scoops bearing sharpened BLADES OF
steel 1t first picks up the dirt, and re-
volving upward, drops its burden on
to conveyors which carry it to both
sides, depositing it upon the banks OF
the excavation. The machine is so
nicely adjusted that it can dig ditch
from two inches up to eight feet in
depth and from four to twelve feet
wide, shaping and finishing the exca-
vation as it proceeds. With this ma
chine seven men do the work of fifty
scraper shovels hauled by 100 mules.
with driver for each team.-Chicago
Tribune.
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100 Teachers for the Philippines

The Y. S. Bureau of Insular Affairs
has just completed the selection of
more than 100 American teachers for
service in the Philippine Islands
These young men and women come
from the best universities, colleges and
normal schools in almost every section
of the United States and were selected
from 4 larger eligible list of candi-
dates than ever before applied for po-
sitions with the Insular branch of the
Government service.
More than eleven years of our edu-
cationai experiment there has demon
stratcd TO those who have investigated
the subject that, as a noted educator
on his return from the Orient said,
'iie achieveinehts Oh .ie bureau OF
rouca'lon ~ the fhiilpplhes make as
p'ist' anu iispiiiiis d chapter Vi ms
tory as was ever written ana that
our ihsuiat service oilers an eAceilent
opportunity tor nonese' energetic ana
Wen educated young men TO renaer a
most conspicuous service Tor the Gov
eminent ana Tor themselves.
IL is very gratifying 10 the ofiiciais
10 Know fthat there rs sueh an IN
efeasing interest III It's insuiar posses
sions ana tnat y can depend upon
a Ii
young ciear-prained ana ciear-minded
men OF good education 70 enter It's ser
vice ana ASSIST IN the solution Oh some
OF the problems whieh daliy confront
students ana travellers III the orien'
In recent Years have returned to the
United States with the report that the
East is to be the center OF the great
est governmental activities OF the
twentieth century and our position IN
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Water in Canned Goods.


Overmuch water in canned goods
has been banned by the pure food
board, a ruling that removes one of
the most prolific causes of heartburn
ing in the ultimate consumer and at
the same time has a special signifi-
canoe for the housewife as showing
that all was not lost when DIR. Wiley
ceased his vigilance. A quarter of a
pound of water, say. at 10 to 10 cents
a pound has been one of the items of
toll the public has been paying the
packers for To- these many years, and,
as the light is now borne in on us, it
seems inexplcable that the public has
been preyed on so long unmolested.
Hereafter an excess of water in the
canned contents viii be deemed an
adulteration and subject the goods to
seizure and condemnation.
Accompanying the decision, the pure
food board makes announcement that
It's action inaugurates new policy,
one that looks TO the adoption of a
standard for foods generally. This
probably is the most important and
comprehensive work ever undertaken
by the government in the solution of
the pure lood piopieii' ieii
in some particulars the installation OF
the meat inspection service. once the
system is got in good working order
however, its enforcement should be-
come practically automatic and there
fore. less expensive. The standardiza-
ton of foods has been effected IN
European countries under government
Supervision. hut not until now has the
work been taken. up in an authorize
tive and systematic way in this coun-
try.
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Lessons of Calamity.

There's whole volume of truth in "A
little preaehment by an editorial writer
OF the Buffalo Enquirer, ON why We
Die in catches" one epigram reads;
make laws, enforce laws, but, outside
OF that, apply common sense"
The logic is applicable even where We
do net die in patches" but one by one
TO add q few dollars TO the pocket Of a
political boss and a few more TO the
profits of the booze trust.
II. in our case. controlling influences
would emily enforce laws" or apply
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Making of Butter.

Butter making from a single herd of
cows in a small dairy locatedion the
farm should command the highest
price of any butter on the market,
saws a bulletin of the Washington EN-
pertinent station. Where one man has
control of all the process through
which the milk goes from the time It
is MIXED until the time il is printed as
butter. the product should be the best
obtainable. If this one man under
stands the principle and the ART OF
buttermaking.
The first essential in making gooa
butter is good cream. To get TINS SIM
ply means to take. ordinary precau-
lions regarding clean cows ana Darn
clean attendants and clean utensiis'
and then cooling the cream at once al
ter separating, either by running II
over a cooler, or by setting in running
cold water and stirring. Cream
should not be stored with any sub
stance having an aroma.
sweet cream churns hard and gives
a butter having fiat taste TO sour
or ripen the cream, first neat IL 10
about 70 degrees F. tuse thermome-
teri and let it stand until 1t mas a
mild but distinctly acid taste; or sec
ond. add some sour milk or butteriniik
a(starter) to start ripening, at the same
time holding it at 10 degrees me
best cream for churning is that when
tests about 30 per cent fat after the
starter has been added.
The Temperature at which the
cream should be churned depends on
M
amount of cream, kind of feed the
COW is getting, and this cannot De de-
tcrmined except by trial. Thirty-nVe
degrees may be proper on one iarHi
and 60 degrees on the one adjoining.
a good rule to follow is to nave the
butter come about the size OF wheat
kernels in about 80 to 40 minutes IL
If takes longer the cream is either
foo sweet or at too low temperature,
mr. the churn is too full, IT 1t comes
sooner than 80 minutes, the tempera-
ture is too high
While the granules are about the
size of wheat, the buttermilk should
he drained. the granules washed ana
the salt added. Then they are worked
together. only enough to distribute the
salt evenly. When the cllurn is not
stopped until the granules become
large. some of the buttermilk is en-
cased and it makes butter OF poor
keeping quality.
Notifies in butter are caused by an
uneven distribution OF salt In the
presence of buttermilk.
1911 Apple Buds.
TO the Editor:
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The requirements imposed by one OF
the Colby sororities initiating neophy-
ties, Friday, making 1t compulsory for
the girls to wear their hair in the pig
tail style of little girls reveals the Tact
that quite few Colby girls look eX-
tremely winsome with their hair thus
arranged This is not of course, saying
that they do not, otherwise, but merely
remarking that where the sororlties
tried to make the young ladies appear
odd, they merely enhanced. the attrac-
tiveness of the misses. 1t was case
of eheauty unadorned adorned the
more"
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knowing that with the methods of hand
ling that have been practieed by the
Maine Agricultural Experiment station
at Highmoor Farm even with the large
crop of $500 barrels of merchantabIe APP
plies harvested In 1911 the trees were able
to set even more fruit buds in 1911 than
in 1910. The orchards will be in full
bloom the week beginning June 2 WISH
tors are always welcome at the Farm.
The condition of the trees at the present
time in their freeness from disease and
insect enemies. and the large bloom are
worthy of study and note. They are in
dicative of what may be done in many
neglected orchards of the State by proper
care.
CHAS. y. WOODS. Director.
Orono, Maine, May %, 1912.
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Maine Gossip
The Climber.


He, of his Dreams, a ladder made
That reached unto the sky;
And all the people laughed at him
AS he went passing by.
But what cared he for laughing fools
Who never saw Star,
He left them standing where they Were
While he climbed high and far
With every round he gained new views,
A larger look at God and man,
a breadth of Judgment that was rare
"A brain to understand and plan.
SO on and on he bravely went
And swerved not from the right
The fools who laughed were left behind
And he passed from their sight.
And still he climbs and never rests
The ladder stretches on,
And he only can see the Stars
Ills journey Just begun
For to Gods ladder is no end
For man no shining goal
It's on and on and ever on,
When God has touched the soul.
Elizabeth Merrill.
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Literature and Literary.

Eyes, sir" said the shabby in
divfdual seated in an arm chair of
the Mills hotel, I've followed litera-
ture for a living all my life. and
can't read line"
Followed literature for living,
repeated the stranger in the next arm
chair "and can't read line! Quit
your kidding"
mo kid about it. : / peddlesa sec
ondhand books from push cart
N. Y Times.
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In a Word.

Miss Jane Adams was talking at
tea at Hull house in Chicago about
woman suffrage.
woman deserves the vote she
said. woman is abandoning her
brief role of parasite. She is re-
turning to her age-long role of part
ner-partner in mans labor and
thought, no less than in his pleas
res.'
Miss Adams smiled.
I'm a word" she ended, every
mans wife should be assister to
him."
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Editor S Letter Box

The publication of letter In this
department is not to be taken as an
endorsement OF its views by the
kennebec Journal This column Is
maintained for the discussion of
matters of general public interest
when kept within bounds of reason
and not of a libelous or abusive
nature.