Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-20

company are being arranged so that
they can be here for the demonstra-
ton.
Uncle Joe" Cannon, Saturday aft
ernoon, sang "A little swan song to
the House during the discussion of
the army appropriation bill He was
eheered greatly and visibly affected
when he finished He took a stand
against issues. He said he was for a
greater army, a greater navy and II
greater nation, He concluded with the
declaration that, since he had been
given "a leave of absence for which
he did not ask, he was going home to
live among the people who had sent
him to Congress for 40 years.
The newly created Children's Bu-
reau in the department of commerce
and labor at Washington, of which
Miss Julia c. Lathrop is chief. has
just issued its first monograph plea
for the complete registration of all
births. The pamphlet points out that
not single state in the Union has Z
thoroughly effective registration sys.
tenn, and that in 1910 the New Eng
land states, Michigan and Pennsyl-
vania, were the only states whers
laws We're sufficiently good and suffl-
GENTLY we'll enforced to register nine
births out of ten, and nine out of ten
is poor registration.
Coal smoke prevention is a subject
the bureau of mines at Washington
announced, Saturday, ii would take up
at once with view to making Amer
lean municipalities more cleanly places
in which to reside. The bureau al
ready has undertaken to discover some
method of eliminating the smoke that
forms in the combustion of practically
all Goals. Its testing plant at Pitts
burg has been ordered to make a
thorough microscopical examination
and chemical analysis of all Goals. II
is the plan of the bureau to find some
chemical method that will be effective
as well as cheap in overcoming smoke
and SCOT, thus doing away with the
present mechanical methods Of pre-
vention.
The progress of aviation in the United
States received added impetus. Saturday,
when the Senate passed a bill indorsing
President Tafts appointment of COM
mission to consider the establishment OF
a National -Dynamical Laboratory
and appropriatlng 5000 for the work OF
the commission. The bill has still to pass
the House. President Taft appointed a
commission, including DR.. r. S. Wood
ward. president of the Carnegie Institute
Charles ID. Walcott. secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution: Gen James AL
len, chief signal officer of the army, and
a number of other scientists to determine
by March 4 whether it would be worth
while for the United States to establish
such laboratory. s
Details We're completed, Saturday, by
department of agriculture officials for
the entertainment of the "All-Star'
crop growing boys from the North and
South who will spend all next week at
Washington. Their program includes
a visit to President Taft and the re-
eeipt of diplomas from the secretary
of agriculture. Nineteen boys will
come from the South and % from the
northern States. Practically all of
them grew more than 100 bushels of
corn to the acre this year. Those from
the North in charge of Professor o.
II. Benson, assistant in the office of
farm management, will include Ernest
Russell, South Hadley, Mass, and
Thornton Sherman, Newport, r. l.
The navy department has asked the
Washington police to locate III. NJ
Crawford, navy paymaster's clerk.
missing since Jan. 4. Crawford
boarded steamer at Norfolk, the
night of Jan. 4, to pass few days
with his wife. He did not show up
at his home on the morning of Jan.
5, the day the boat locked here. 1t is
not known whether he was aboard
the vessel when it tied up. Navy of
ficers and Mrs. Crawford are unable
to account for the disappearance His
accounts have been found to be reg
ular and his superior officers say his
conduct was as regular as his ac-
counts. Crawford is described as 80
years old, 14S pounds, 5 feet inches
tall. He has a florid complexion, blue
eyes, light brown hair and is smooth
shaven. 1t is thought he wore the reg
ulation overcoat and brown soft hat.