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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-19
Voting from the Field.

France will have no elections while
the war is on, because most of the
voters are otherwise occupied. But
half a century ago we demonstrated
that the polls could go to the men VINO
could not go TO the polls. We provid-
ed the soldiers with the means OF vot-
ing wherever they were, ana on the
issue whether the war was failure or
not, they very generally voted that II
was not. France could easily give
it's soldiers an opportunity to vote IN
favor of sustaining the ministry
Philadelphia Record.
America HAS provided a way Tor
soldiers TO vote. wherever they are,
but we have never provided means
for civilians to vote in their homes
the town or city where their closest
interests are, without the expense OF
lost time, car fare, a tax on their EN-
ployers and many other outsets ana
Inconvenience. Maine undoubtedly IN
a measure forces many young men
who would remain voting citizens OF
their native State to become interest
ed in the political affairs of cities
where they are temporarily employed
because they find it impossible to take
part in home politics. Even if fares
are paid from a campaign fund there
is loss of time and interruption OF
business. And the money required 20
transport a voter across Maine would
bring a score of apathetic local voters
to the polls
If we can SO easily provide means
for the voting of absent soldiers, why
does not some clever statesman in
vent system for absent voters to
take part in home elections without
the waste now necessitated? Is there
anything in the Constitution to pre-
clude it?
We should like to hear from others
on this subject.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-19
STATE Stats, Trust Company aa!1s
j. Pres George C Treas T.
e. Vice III BODICE Treas
w.
AUGUSTA
People get as good government as

People get as good government as
they want"
''Demoeracies must be inefficient"
You can't apply scientific manage
ment to government"
Americas most conspicuous failure
is its city government"
None of these, DIR. Allen said, was
true. He criticised two statements in
President Wilson's message to Con-
gress, which he said were dangerous
epigrams. They were:
1T is not expenditure, but extrava-
gance, that we should fear being criti-
cised for
With the mere growth OF the coun-
try itself there must come, of course,
the inevitable increase of expense"
These statements would have been
more welcome, DR.. Allen said, if they
had read:
1T is expenditure as well as extrava.-
gance that we shall be criticised for.
Increase of expense is not inevitable
where we know there are millions of
waste"
DR.. Allen, continuing his speech, at
tackled national extravaganza.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-19
Fresh Air for Colds.

ITO cure a cold take a bottle OF
cough medicine, set it on a table in the
patients room, open all the windows
and throw the bottle through one OF
them. DIR. Harvey w. Wiley, former
chief OF the Bureau of Chemistry.
The forceful doctor did not say il
but it is undoubtedly true that the
same remedy is the best cure known
for many other ills. But he did say
in condemning "coddling," Three
quarters of the children who die are
killed by love- Love is the greatest
assassin. If great holocaust should
burn down every home we would get
rid of tuberculosis. If farmers would
burn all barns there would be ne
tuberculosis among cows. Fresh air
not cough medicine, is needed for
colds"
If all "the folks" were suddenly con-
verted to fresh air and temperate eat
ing and drinking, -fifths of the
doctors would be as suddenly out d
business.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-19

that subordinate oranges stand out
eourageously for steady and con-
sistent opposition to, and pursuit of,
the foe that is now in retreat,
The man who today wants to halt
while the enemy escapes and reforms
it's lines of defense and assault, is
worse than the political traitor he
denounces, for he knows better. and
he gets nothing out of it--unless he is
secretly nourishing political ambitions
Politicians have been made the scape
goat of the liquor traffic for many
years. 1t has usually sufficed for some
men claiming not to be politicians to
jump up and lambaste the politicians
as making use of the rum issue to
gain political advantage, and those
who have been doing service begin
to lag in distrust of the honesty of
their cause.
But those days have passed; the
American people. are thoroughly in
earnest in their determination to ham
mer steadily away at this evil until ii
is overthrow. Ten times more rep
resentatives Of the. press are. today
honestly and oatspokenly fighting the
liquor interests. than ever before. It
Is useless for bad men OF good men
to slur or sheer at all efforts for moral
progress through suppression of the
liquor traffic as the inspiration of
politicians; the work will go on with
increasing fervency and power.
And last but not least, men of INTEL
lect equal to that of Mr.. Howes are
convinced that the greatest economic
problem of the age is the liquor prob
lem. and with it is intimately associat-
ed our Industrial superiority.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-19

Following the voters. choice of 4
public prosecutor to fill the guber-
Material chair at Albany, many mem
bers of the bar and of various civic
organizations of New York are now
urging Governor Glynn to recognize in
his appointments to the supreme court
bench Frank Caravan, who was the
backbone of the district attorney
forces even before the days of Jerome
Always the brains behind the eonvic-
ton of the most notorious murderers,
swindlers and other public enemies,
Caravan is credited by those who know
with just as much service to. the peo-
pie of the state as was rendered by
Whitman, Jerome or Philbin. For all
his later years of telling law WORK
in the highest courts, New Workers
recognize that this representative OF
the young, clean element at the bar
has not lost his close and intimate
touch with the great body Of the peo-
pie 1E1e
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-19
ITCHED FOR 70
YEARS. RESIN0L ~
CURED IN 10 DAYS

Baltimore, Md.-"About twenty years
ago both my legs began to itch from
ankle to knee. Little pimples came out.
The itching and burning was something
terrible. would start to scratch and
could not stop. I would even scratch
through the skin and that of course
would leave a sore which I was COM
PEELED to bandage.
Il tried several prescriptions and
treatments, but received not q particle
of beneit-no more than if the treat
ments were cold water. I then began
to have very little faith in anything
and of course could do nothing but
scratch away.
AFTER suffering constantly for twen-
ty years, friend recommended Res
inol Soap and Resinol Ointment. From
the very first application, 1 found re-
lief, and was entirely cured in ten
days. The itching and singing sensa-
tions have ceased and my skin is as
smooth as child's." fSigned) Charles
Warner, 1923 N. Stricken st.
Every druggist sells Resinol Soap
(25c.), and Ointment (50c. and 81.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-19

Two hundred years ago today the
man who laid the foundation stones
in the science of seismology (the
study of earthquakes) was born I'm
colonial Boston. Known by the
name of John Winthrop. he became
the foremost student OF his day in
America in astronomical and earth
ly phenomena. Ever since mankind
believed in God, popular opinion
was that an earthquake was di-
rect manifestation of Divine wrath.
Mythology attributes earthquakes
to underground monsters. The Jap
anese believed that a monster cat
fish lay beneath their country,
where disturbances are frequent,
and often became restless and
shook the earth. When the earth
quake OF November IS, 1755.
gently shook the hills of New Enrg-
land, the superstitious citizens be-
came terrified and Boston minis
ter laid the blame at the door of
Benjamin Franklin, suggesting that
his newly-invented lightning-rod
might have caused the tremor by
drawing the electric fluid from the
clouds and concentrating 1t upon
New England. 1t was then that
Winthrop, a professor in Harvard
College, read public lecture upon
the recent earthquake TO calm the
terrified population. Earthquakes"
he declared to a partly skeptical
audience, ARE neither objections
against the order of Providence nor
tokens of Gods disp1easure, accord
ing to the view of superstitious
minds, but they are the necessary
consequences of general laws"
More specifically. he accounted for
them as being produced by the ex-
pansiVe action of heat upon vapors
contained in underground cavities,
and pointed out that earthquakes
had occurred at intervals in New
England ever since the first settlers
landed, but that not a single life
had been lost nor had any great
damage been done by them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-19

Today the seismologist sits with
his finger literally on the pulse OF
the earth. With his acutely at.
tuned seismograph at hand. he can
feel the slightest tremor of the
restless world, which scientists
claim passes through contortions of
more or less violence at the rate of
one every half hour. During seven
recent years Japan alone recorded
S.331 quakes, an average of more
than 1000 year. Basing their ex-
periments upon the crude contriv-
ances of Winthrop, who. during a
disturbance, observing bricks fly
ing from the 32-foot chimney of his
house to a distance of 80 feet, cal
culated the speed of their motion at
20 feet per second, seismologists
today are able with their delicate
instruments to calculate the force
and distance of origin to a fraction.
The great Japanese earthquake of
1891 was recorded in neighboring
Shanghai; today such tremor
would be recorded accurately all
over the civilized world. The Mex
lean earthquake of 1911 was re-
corded as far away as Tifiis in the
Caucasus Mountains. Seismologists
do not yet hope to be able to con-
troll an earthquake, but they have
rapidly advanced in the knowledge
of where they may reasonably be
expected to occur, of the nature of
the rocks in which they arise, of
the. causes that produce them and
of the best methods of avoiding
their terrors. The ambition of the
earthquake student is now to be
able to predict an upheaval as GER
tainly as weather is prephesied. so
as to. give inhabitants an oppor-
tunity to fee the doomed spot be-
fore disaster overtakes them. Seis-
mologists have discovered that an
earthquake never originates at a
distance of more than 20 miles be-
low the earth's surface.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-19
World eeaters in Humor.

The most delightful bits of humor
brought to the attention of the Airy
editor this week are located in Life.
Progressive news dispatches, and the
Congressional Record. If the Con-
gressional Record continues to i'm
prove it's humor as much in the next
two years as it has In the past two
years. 1t will be entitled to classified
ton with the Yale Record, Cornell
Widow, and Harvard Lampoon-jour
mails for beginners In wit.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-19
The Wrong Time to Halt.

Even patrons of good standing some
times make extravagant statements
under the psychology Of tense mo-
rnents, and sometimes they advocate
the very opposite of that for which
their order is pledged by tradition and
practice. We think our friend from
Palmyra, the Hon. A. P. Howes, when
he reads from cold type the transla-
ton of his utterances and the mean
ing quickly applied to them by some
who are not even friendly to the order
will feel as others do. that he
stopped
Mr.. Howes evidently intended to
impress upon his brothers of the
Grange, his entire contempt for any
newspaper in Maine as 1t is run today;
he would have a new one that would
be run exactly according to the no.
lions of A. P H. 1t would promptly
settle all INDUSTRIAL and economic"
problems, but it would let rum ana
prohibition alone, because prohibition
is the settled policy Of our State etc.
Ever since prohibition became the
settled policy Of the State" good
men have been getting tired OF the
sound of 1t and demanding that it be
allowed to go to sleep--a policy and
nothing more--and 1t has notoriously
done so for long periods. But within
the last three years, with daily
newspaper hurting firebrands of
truth" into the ranks Of the rum
crowd as well as the worse, the ones
who do not want any thing done with
the policy for which they pretend to
stand, the sentiment of this State ane
the nation has rapidly changed. The
temperance cause as beneficiary Of
prohibition, has never gained force and
recognition and respect as in the last
Two years. The men and women of
courage and convictions who are work.
ing unselhshly for moral progress are
constantly meeting those who want
to stand still, and who prefer going
back TO going ahead. 1t is about time
for a wave of I'm tired of this eter-
nal rum question"
Previous to the last two years the
liquor interests have always safely
counted upon the END of the spasm"
of temperance movements. Some lead
er of public opinion or spokesman of
church or other Organization was bob
bing TO move do-nothing, st-on- our
laurels, or iet-weli- enough-alone pol
ley. Then it is so easy to fall in be-
hind the chap that doesn't want to do
anything and doesn't wish to have
anybody else get the credit for doing
things. that we have had long periods
of don't give rap" prohibition that
disgraced the State and made laugh
ing stock of the law.
The Grange has long stood with other
Christian organizations for temperance
and for prohibition of the liquor traf-
uC. II WOuio DS Juot as PioEfSSslVt
and sensible for the church to dror
the open and frank advocacy OF mora,
subjects as for the Grange to do so, ii
this enlightened and approved status
of It's existence. We know that prom
inent patrons not only disapprove O
such a negative policy as urged b,
Mr.. Howes, but that thsy viii insis
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-19
Public Christmas Celebration.

Trimming trees of light" in fifty
neighborhoods about New York city,
countless committees are now hustling
to make such a success of the public
Christmas celebration as for the last
two years has characterized the big
evergreen display on Madison Square.
While the illumination of Gotham's
great tree will scatter its spirit and
song to half a million of the people,
hardly a suburb will fail to carry on
the same plan of passing the Joy of
the season on to everyone. With
war making mockery of life every
where, the people behind this move
ment declare that this year should see
the greatest burst of Christmas cheer
in all American history.
Good old, conservative old. slow old,
loved old Augusta should get the
spirit Of the hour into her blood. Why
not make 1t the grandest, most heart
felt observance Of the hour OF broth
erly love and cheer in nineteen hun
dred years? The people Of the world
have never 80 fully realized as today
the fickle thread upon which the tate
OF nations hang. A kingdom may b<
! obliterated in day but good deeds
never die. We are in the days o!
revelation. The things we cherish
most are torn from us In an hour, but
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-19
BOWDOIN

Albert Curtis Of Lisbon Falls has
sold his timber lot to parties out of
town.
Mrs. Maria Grady and Miss Corris
Gray called on Mrs. J. o. Roberts
Wednesday.
Miss Alice Curtis passed the day
Wednesday with her parents Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Curtis at Lisbon Falls.
Mrs. Marietta Decovin will visit
friends at Lisbon Falls this week AMI
from there will go to Lewiston to visit
relatives.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-19

DR.. william H. Allen, FORMER head Of
the bureau of municipal research in
New York, speaking last night at the
Commercial Clubs dinner. said that
epigrams had done representative gov
eminent in the United States more
harm than political corruption. They
had Influenced officeholders. he said, to
become extravagant and careless with
public funds, and had resulted in a
waste Of untold millions Of dollars
Some OF these epigrams were:
"fo the victors belong the sp01ls."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-19
Fifteen Cents Worth.

After one has eagerly devoured with
.voracious eyes the advertisements in
his monthly magazine-price fifteen
cents-and has glanced perfunctorily
through the magazines commentator
OF itself and warnings Of the next
months literary outrages to be con-
tanned within its pages, one may then
search about until he finds. hidden in
some obscure corner Of the advertis'
ing section. the literature for which
the fifteen cents was rendered.
An Author Of Promise.
A New York monthly magazine an
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-19
One Dollar VIII Start You
On the Road to Success

The habit of saving fine habit to cultivate 1t de-
notes thrift but considerably There's great
deal of difference where you keep savings For alb
soute security convenience and largest dividends this bank
offers good opportunity One dollar will open
count Start account for yourself children today
Take the road to and prosperity Let you
more information.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-19

the gratitude of a human heart is Il
treasure to the end.
Much or little to give, let's enter the
spirit of the hour.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-19

In the course of an editorial on "Ac-
cording to Robert Thomas" the editor
Maine Farmers Almanac, which was
printed right over here in Augusta,
Maine" Why this Bangor editor should
speak of the Augusta publication In the
past tense is not clear. The Maine
Farmers Almanac is, not was, and 1t
was never livelier or never more enter
tanning than 1t is in the present year Of
grace.-Biddeford Journal.
And still published right over here
In Augusty, Maine"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-19

nounces that an author by the name
of Theodore Roosevelt is to contribute
to its columns and asks not to be held
responsible for anything he may say.
The magazine has strong Socialistic
tendencies and may--ah, we are in an
attitude Of watchful waiting.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-19

"A tragic misery, the like of which the
world has never seem" says Theodore
Watts, secretary of the Christian Herald.
on his return from Belgium, where he
supervised the distribution of a cargo OF
food And this most tragic misery is the
product of German 'Kultur. Portland
Argus
The same that bombards unfortiffed
cities without a moment't warning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-19
The Proper Pronunciation.

The Globe wants to know if you
prouonce Naco like Saco. Well some
people say Say-co.-Portland Press.
No matter how Portland editors may
direct, in Kennebec county Saco is
pronounced ridiculous.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-19

| A Bath man received $1,000 shock one
| day last week. but 1t Is not known
whether he will recover or not. A
Portland lawyer appeared to the fire.
man of a steamboat alongside her pier
and finding him at work over his
furnace, requested him to desist in his
iabors long enough to be shocked. The
lawyer then informed him that an
| uncle had recently died leaving to the
| fireman and his sister, also resident
| of Bath, $1,000 each. The fireman
| quickly recovered from the shock of
his uncle's death, for so far as he knew
! no uncle Of his had recently died, but
whether he will recover $1,000 from the
financial shock or not he does not yet
know.
Bar Harbor people and admirers Of
the country about there are much
disturbed over recent numbering oper-
atoms Whereabouts. 1t appears that
some areas of spruce have already
been devastated by the commercial
axe and saw and other spruce sections
are in danger. 1t would be possible to
rob the Bar Harbor region of one-third
OF Its beauty and grandeur with axes
ana portable mills. People of Maine
In particular and lovers Of this beau
tiful Bar Harbor coast scenery the
country over will protest loudly any
extensive numbering operations in that
region.
A pob-cat is accused of living in the
woors down Bath way. The Bath
Times says:
Miles s. Purington of West Bath,
while coming into this city Tuesday
| morning. when near Blind Crossing
saw that bob-cat, or as some woods
men call it, Canadian lynx,
making off swiftly over the hillside
to the south of the road heading for
the Brook. AS it will be recalled, when
first seen in this neighborhood last
week, the cat was in the Blind Cross
ing woods and. startled by the woods
| men cutting down a tree gave a yell
and jumped out of the top of tree.
He was tracked to the neighborhood
of the standpipe only a half mile south.
He seems, therefore, to have estab-
lished himself in the vicinity Of the
Crossing"
If the beast has been reading the
Maine dailies of late, 1t Is no. to be
| wondered at that he is choosing the
sleepy quiet of the backwoods of Bath
rather than the trcacherous forests
| of West Enfield or Bradley where I'M
scrupulous hunters arc prone to slay
| game with a pen-knife or blow out
their brains during their afternoon
siesta without so much as awakening
them to give them a sporting chance
of dying brayely. Down Bath way
Brer Bob-Cat will find rest and con-
tentment. possibly some fairly good
mutton. and without doubt will pass
the Christmas holidays pleasantly.
Gurnet bridge at Brunswick is to be
raised four feet. Last May a hear
ing was held on the complaint by the
New Meadows Boat Club and the
Portland and Bath Rapid Transit
Company that the bridge was an OBJ
struction to navigation. After much
consideration and planning 1t has
finally been agreed that the bridge
may be raised four feet. The war de-
partment approves this adjustment.
The selectmen will soon secure plans
and estimates for the work and will
present them to the March meeting.
asking for an appropriation to cover
the cost. ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-19
Oh Such Uninformedness!

Ohio wants to know what Quincy.
Mass, means by calling itself the
mother of Presidents. boston Adver-
tiser.
But Quincy is the only place to have a
President named after it.-Portland
Press.
Now see herei Look here. too! Have
you never heard of Lincoln, Maine? Said
place dates back to 1926 and Lincoln was
named President after that date. Also
there is Lincoln, Neb.-but just delete
that: w. ]. B. might change the name to
Wilson, Neb. For authoritative infor-
nation bearing upon such important dis
cussions as the above. always ask the
Airy editor. Just to show his prepared
ness for action in this matter, said Airy
editor knows two fellers that used to
live in Lincoln, Maine, and just yester-
day got picture post card from another
Teller that is living right now in Lincoln.
Neb. Final afterthought: Other presi-
dents have been named-since Lincoln,
Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-19

The liquor interests have scored one
triumph that means millions to them.
The stringent Allison liquor law pro-
hibiting shipment of liquor into dry
territory in Texas has been practically
invalidated by a decision of the Court
of Criminal Appeals, which Judge
Prendergast, who presided, said
wiped it off the statute books" The
decision declares any person or agent
may carry or ship liquor into dry ter
ritory provided it is not the intention
to use the liquor for unlawful pur-
poses or for resale In dry areas. The
Allison law forbade newspapers 70
carry liquor advertisements in dry
territory.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-19

~watchful waiting" dealt with Col
Goethal's request.