Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1913-01-14
Here and There.

An act to reopen the streets of Bar
Harbor to the use of automobiles has
been introduced in the legislature as an
emergency measure, and the preamble
states that the passage Of the act Is imme-
diately necessary ''for the preservation
of the public peace, health and safety"
As il is difficult to see how the public
health can be seriously affected by the
exclusion of automobiles, and as far as
safety is concerned, there is more safety
without them, 1t must be that big row
Ia expected to disturb the public peace
II they are not Immediately admitted.
OF course. The first report of the
orange and lemon freeze 10 California
states with great care that the price will
be affected. Wonder what could happen
that wouldn't raise the price Of some
thing.
The Maine legislature will try to find
out 10 there is a coal trust in Maine.
Everybody 10 pretty we'll convinced that
there is one somewhere, and il the NJ line
legislature can discover the black-faced
gentleman in the coal pile, ii will be rem
dering the country a service.
Governor Foss of Massachusetts, pro-
poses TO have congress memorialized to
make the Panama canal free of tolls to all
ships of all nations. Well, that would be
only little higher degree of heart burst
ing generosity than we INDUCED in when
we made the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, in
which We agreed that we wouldn't allow
our own family tn use the canal without
pay unless We treated the neigbbors' fam
lies the same way.
Naturally, the feature OF the parcel
post system which comes In for the most
criticism aud makes the most trouble Is
that which requires the use of distinct
i've stamps. People can't understand
why their packages shouldn't go with
ordinary postage stamps, and there is
strong advocacy Of doing away with the
parcel post stamps. When We had TO
use revenue stamps to pay for the Span
ish war. many people bad the same
trouble, and couldn't understand why il
wasn't just as well to stick postage
stamps on checks, notes and such things
"Why, the government gets the money
just the same" they said. And yet no.
body advocated abolishing the revenue
stamps and substituting postage stamps.
Some OF the newspapers are trying to
explain" why the sheriff of PenobscOt
=, County has been making raids on liquor
yellers in Bangor. How would it do to
explain that there is a law against sell
ing liquor?
A copy Of II not being at hand, II Is
impossible to state exactly the provis-
ions Of the bill introduced In the legis-
lature changing the date of the state
election from September to November
However, 1t is stated by the newspapers
that for one thing II provides for the
election Of United States senators by
direct vote of the people. How 1t can
do that, when the constitution CT the
United States says they shall be elected
by the Legislature, may be squestiOn.
What about this black and silver gray
fox farming. anyway? For the past few
-'opths articles regarding such farms
us~ Vcch frequent W tuo newspapers
They are, however, Of two kinds. One
class Of articles say that the blacks and
silver grays are sports, and that any one
who attempted to breed from pair OF
them would get 900 red foxes to one
black one. The other class Of newspa-
per articles describe some prosperous
fox farm with its iitters OF blacks and
silver grays, and name the prices receiv-
ed for skins OF breeding animsls-sums
beyond the dreams of avarice. There Is
one thing to be noticed about the latter
class of stories. The fox farm which
they describe is generally located some
where In northeastern America, but
when Il comes TO the latitude and longi-
tude, or the nearest post office or rural
route, those details are omitted.