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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-16
successful second story workers or
blackjack artists.
Pooling the People
(Hartford Courant

The moving picture is wonderful
thing. but it's prime charm is, like that
of the photograph, in its acknowledge
ed reality. You see the people right
there. We question very much If 1t
can maintain its hold on popular fancy
when the idea becomes general that
the pictures are made up. Here is a
story that goes a long and most dis
creditable way to put the movies in
wrong. The New York Times" of
yesterday, in it's account of the wreck
on the New Haven road near Har-
rison, said
Within an hour after the derailment
an enterprising motion picture outfit
was shipped down from New Rochelle.
Actresses with bandages showing
deep-dyed stains were lifted from the
half overturned coaches while the
camera men unwound reels of film.
The women thus represented as pas
sengers were assisted to the waiting
rooms of the nearest telegraph station
where they sent supposed kilograms
of their safety to relatives and friends.
None of these afflicted people were
passengers The whole thing Is a
fraud. If We are not mistaken, the
railroad people would be justified in
suing the show management, If this IL
Illustration of what did not happen is
made a catch-penny scheme.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-16
Thursday, April is, 1914,
CLEANING Up the Rubbish.

Here is an item from an exchange
that will fit any city. town or hamlet IN
the country. 1t is not reprinted 1or
the purpose of knocking anyone,
either official or citizen, but simply as
a splendid reminder of the rapidly APP
preaching Cleaning Up day, with the
assurance felt that everyone will take
the hint. 1t follows:
The board of health officials are ac-
lively enforcing the rules with regard
to cleaning back yards, etc, through
out the city. Many of the worst places
have been visited and owners ana oe-
cupants have been given explicit or
ders to clean up. 1t was stated at the
board of health Office today that Il
places were not cleaned within red
sonable time after notice was gwen
the work would be done by order Oh
the board and the expense charged 70
the owners of the property and me
bills turned over te the city collector,
If not paid the bills will be added 10
the taxes assessed against the owners
and interest charged on the account
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-16

Mr.. Peters finds nothing in Cushing's
Manual or in Kinds Parliamentary prae-
tice that would justify any ruling out
that which Mr. Peters gave-namely
that Mr. Davies rising to eVolute the
nlatforu, was out of touch with the Ark
Of the Parliamentary Covenant. And
after technically invincible Peters mag
unanimously gave Davies chance to put
in a Roosevelt resolution independent OF
the platform, the Yarmouth gentleman
instructed to put in a Teddian resolution
seems to have thought better OF the
whole business or to have got up MS
dander for naught
The incident in any event empoules
astlIte and steam-roler efficiency of a
high order. One can but feel that II sueh
genius for SURPRISING debate and pub
Iicity were embodied in promoting COCA
causes, the present epoch of human Oct,
ternlent already forging ahead a good
deal, would evolve good deal more LOT
the Lord.
There is the disposition and the in
spiration that disintegrates the Bull
Moose party in jealous denunciation OF
each other; and there is the insistent
perversion of well known facts that
disgusts honest men with the hypo-
critical pretenses of wilfully mislead-
ing organs and leaders"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-16
Coming Events

ence. Pine Street Church. Portland: Bish-
op John w. Hamilton presiding
April 15-Sardine packing season opens
April 16-Great sun Council Fire OF
Great Council of Maine, Improved Order
of Red Men.
April 17-Past Poeahontas of Maine, an
nual meeting, Portland, 9 A. Nj.
April 18-Portiand n. f. League opens
season. playing Toronto of International
April 1s-2o-state Post Office Clerks AS
Thomas H. Reilly of Meriden. CT. guest
April % to 27-East Maine Methodist
Conference, Pressure Isle: Bishop John
April 22-Torpedo boat destroyer Nc
Dougal launching, about 11.30 A. NJ,
April 25-Bowdoin- Massachusetts Instl-
tute of Technology dual track meet
April 2s-Coiby College Interclass Meet.
Nav 6-Commandery of the State or
Maine Military Order Loyal Legion or
the United States, annual meeting Port
May 6-1o-Junior week at University of
May s-Bates- Maine dual track meet at
May 11-Launching of racing yacht De-
fiance, candidate to defend America
Nav iGKnights of Columbus State
Convention. Ellsworth
May 16-Maine intercollegiate track
and field meet. Lewiston.
Nav 20-Grand Lodge. Pythian Sisters,
annual meeting, Portland.
May 20-Diocese of Maine, Protestant
Episcopal church, annual convention,
St. Luke's Cathedral, Portland: Rt Rev.
Robert Goldman, Bishop of Maine. pre-
siding.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-16

fore delivery to the consignee. The
St. Louis brewery sued for the return
OF the beer on the ground that it was
a legitimate subject of interstate COM
merce and was in process Of transit,
not having been delivered at the time
of seizure by the State of Kansas. The
States defense was the Webb act, the
title of which is AN Act Divesting
Intoxicating Liquors of their Inter
state Character in Certain Cases. "
The eases" are those where the ship
ment across state lines is into terri
tory where traffic in intoxicating Ii
quor is prohibited by State law
The Kansas Supreme Court unani-
mously supports the validity of the
law. The title of the act states that
it divests these subjects of their in
terstate character, thereby leaving
them wholly within the power of the
State, and the Kansas court holds in
this opinion that Congress has such
complete power over interstate COM
merce that it may delegate its regula-
ton to the States if 1t sees fit to do
so. If the brewery contention were of
any value, that beer is a legitimate
withstanding the purported 'divest-
ing it of this character, nevertheless
Congress having delegated its regu-
lation in certain cases, the State can
control it. THE Constitution gives to
Congress absolute control over inter
state commerce." the decision says
land we believe that Congress can
make any regulations or delegate any
authority to State regulating the
shipments of any particular commod-
ity of commerce, and under this au-
thority Congress enacted the Webb
law, the most important regulation for
the control of the liquor business in
many years"
Liquors shipped into Kansas for sale
or for use contrary to law may ano
will be condemned and seized by the
State. That is the Webb law as in
| terpreted by the Kansas court. And
this will be done while the shipment
is in process of transit, before de-
livery, or after or at any time.
1t used to be held by some consti;
tutional lawyers that while Congress
! has full power to regulate, it has not
the power to destroy interstate oil
| foreign commerce. that this power is
not as comprehensive as the taxing
power. But Congress has destroyed
the liquor traffic by this exercise OF
its power over interstate commerce
sin certain cases." as the title of the
act reads; that is, wherever dry terri
tory is invaded The Kansas Supreme
Court decision is another landmark
in the war on the liquor business.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-16

May 23-Grand Court. Foresters of
America, annual convention, Bath.
May 30-Bowdoin interscholastic track
and field meet, Brunswick.
May 30-Rural Letter Carriers county
convention, Caribou.
June 1-American Dairy, Food and
Drug officials convention Kineo.
June 2, 8, 4-Maine Federation of Labor,
Watervile.
June 2-United States District Court.
Bangor.
June 5-Ivy Day, Bowdoin College.
Brunswick.
June 6-l0-Universty of Maine Com
mencement week, Orono.
June 9-l3-Camp of instruction. Second
Regiment Infantry officers. Augusta.
June 9-Maine Homeopathic Society.
annual meeting. Augusta,
June 10-ThomaS +. Marshall, vice
President of the United States, delivers
address at University of Maine Com
mencement, Orono.
cation of Town of Newport
June 15-Maine Primary Elections to
nominate Republican and Democratic
candidates for congressman, Governor,
State auditor and county officials.
June 17-1S-Mane Department, Grand
Army of the Republic. annual conven-
June 2l-25-Bowdoin Commencement.
Brunswick.
June 2S-24-Maine Board Dental Examf
June 25-26-27-Maine Dental Society, an
nual meeting, Augusta.
July 2, 8. MAINE Sportsmen's Fish
and Game Association. annual meeting,
Mountain View House. Rangeley Lakes.
July 3, 4-Maine Rural Letter Carriers,
annual convention, Houlton.
July sold Orchard Beach Camp Meet
ings open for season. closing Sept I, Old
Orchard.
July 1S-1s-Natonal Association of
American Dairy Food and Drug Officials
Aug educational Unlversalist Sum
mer meetings, Ferry Beach Park. Ferry
| Beach.
July e-10-Annual- Conference of super
intendents of Schools and Secondary
School Principals at Castine.
August l6-ls-Summer school at Pitts
August 2o-2l-22-state Christian En-
| deavor Assembly at Pittsfeld.
states Improyas Order of Red Men, an
nual convention. City Hall. Portland.
Sept. 14-Maine election for four rep
resentatives to congrsssi Governor err t state
dun on Public Utilities Act passed at
| last session of Legislature.
Sept 15-United States District Court
convenes, Portland ,,z,,.s
Oct. 20-Bangor & Aroostook Railroad,
annual meeting, Bangor.
Oct. 2o-Grand Lodge of Rebekahs, an
/ nual meeting. Portland.
Oct. 21-Grand Lodge !. o. Q. F., an
nual meeting, Portland.
Oct 21-Maine Central. Somerset and
annual meetings, Portland.
Oct 21-22-Maine Council, D. A. R.. an
nual meeting. place to be fixed)
Oct. 22-Grant Encampment. Patriarchs
Militant, annual meeting, Portland.
Oct 27-2S-29-Maine State sunday
School, annual convention. Bangor
Oct 29-30-Maine Teachers Associa-
! ton at Portland.
Oct 29-3o-Maine Teachers Association.
annual meeting. Portland.
! Oct 29-30-31-State-wide Community
| Efficiency Conference f-lace of meeting
not fixed.)
| Nov Moose hunting season opens in
| Maine, closing Dec /.
Nov Maine Pathological Society.
annual meeting Bangor date to be
| fxed.@
| Dec Moose hunting season In Maine
| closes.
Dec Portland City election.
| Dec S-Supreme Court law term con-
venes, Augusta.
| Dec S-United States District Court
convenes, Portland.
Dec 14-Westbrook City election.
Dec. 15-Deer hunting season in Maine
Closes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-16
Editorial Comment
True Thrift.
(Pittsburg Dispatch.)

There are two ways of saving money
One is to hold tight to every dollar
that man can get into his hands
The other is to spend some of them
to make more dollars. The business
man does the latter by adding to
equipment, charging his means of
production, advertising his product to
secure a wider and better market. The
mechanic does it by supplying him
self with the best tools. The man on
salary does it by spending money
for books to equip himself mentally
or for the means to improve his ply
steal condition.
A recent traveller in Europe reports
that he saw big financial institutions
there employing clerks to do sums
which a few adding machines would
do more rapidly and better. He also
saw peasants picking up small pieces
of wood for their fires. That sort
of thrift would not equal the value
of the time of an industrious farmer
in this country.
The man who puts away money In
the savings bank is trying to accu-
mulate capital for his own benefit.
That one who puts his money into
new machinery or self-improvement is
trying to increase earning capacity.
Either carried to extremes is ruinous.
One solely pursued produces miser,
the other a spendthrift. True thrift
lies about halfway between them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-16

William A. Brady remarks that
there are not 10 good press agents
in the United States today and the
Portland Express explains the situa-
ton by saying Mr.. Brady should re-
member that the press agent does not
have the bed of roses that was once
his. Not many years ago all that
was necessary to land a column of
cigar, tell him a funny story and give
him a couple of passes to the show.
Today the newspapers are considera-
bly, wiser and the job of the press
agent has become correspondingly
more difficult
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-16
With Apologies to
That Dear Old Hiawatha
Spring housekeeping

OF fellows private quarters
Is the thing that gets my nanny.
Then | miss my sock supporters,
Razors, collars, shirts and dollars,
Meerschaum pipe and necktie holder.
And my angry passions rising,
And my nature getting bolder
/ raise hades with the ladies,
And say to my wife and daughters,
In a voice of steaming thunder,
Keep away from these here quarters.
My entreated, oft repeated
Plea, Don't get my things all twisted,
Is unhee6e ed as they answer,
''We'll do this, pa, Unassisted.
This encrcachmg. lawless poaching
Is lot of doggone bother,
And the man that IS the lemon
Is the party known as father
Oh, We poets, unwise 'sSnow-its,
Who write verses without meaning.
Hearken to unhappy fathers,
Write against the spring housecleaning.
Ray T. Hoppman, in New York Toie-
gram.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-16
No Fit Study for Children.
CBrockton ENTERPRISE.

A man at Providence who is sup
posed to be wise in the matter of edu-
cation desires to see a new branch
taught in the schools. He wants the
pupils to be taught practical poll
tics" The scholars already have trou-
BILE in getting away with the mental
tasks assigned in many schools. And
why add practical politics? It's no
game for children to learn as practiced
in these days. It's no game for good
many who are not children. To teach
ideal politics and politics as they
should be might do If there was OPP
portunity for any more school work
to be done by the average scholar,
but practical politics" as practiced in
large cities and in some small ones
and IN good many towns is not for
young folks. You might as well in
struct them in the fine art of being
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-16

Falls in Paris. Mr. Nudge was a chem
list and inventor, and was reputed to
have invented a process by which the
linen fibre could be obtained from flax
at great saving of time and cost over
the former processes. To exploit his
process, the Linen Manufacturing Co.
was organized and put up the buildings
which are now standing unused at
Shows Falls. The Linen Manufactur-
ing Co. finally game to an inglorious
end. and later Mr.. Nudge appeared as
the chief figure in the oxford Linen
Mills of North Brookfield, Mass. The
Sterling Debenture Corporation was
promoting the sale of the stock of the
Oxford Linen Mills, and sent out hun
dreds of reams of beautifully printed
circulars to possible investors. Judge
Anderson in imposing the sentences
said that though the defendants main
tanned that they were penniless they
had in tact made millions at the ex-
pense of thousands of victims through
out the country.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-16
Can't Trust Each Other.

1t may not be so; it may be exag-
gerated: We don't know-but the
Springfield Republicans special re-
porter in Boston apparently thinks the
Bull Moose party in Massachusetts, did
not winter we'll He paints its condi-
ton and prospects in dull brown. He
wrote his paper the following and 1t
was published Tuesday:
From observations today by several
leading members of the bull moose OF
progressive party. in view of the per-
formances at the meeting of the state
committee on Saturday and also IN
view of the present situation, in gen
eral. it is a safe prediction that the
end of the moose herd as BODY Oh
any political Importance it at hand.
Leaders are disguised and ready 10
quit. One of the elements OF CO.
herence is the debt which must De
paid. Men with some sense of imam
cial obligations say that the party DEBT
ought to be paid. That debt was IN
Cured because the men at the top had
the bad judgment to regard the
pledges of support as the equivalent OF
cash and went ahead on that basis.
But the cash has not been forthcom-
ing and there are debts to be paid IN
consequence. 1t is said by one OF the
insiders to be a fact that there is no
money in the treasury and no prospect
of any. that it is impossible to finance
the campaign this fall and that there
OF ftf before the
PARTY but dissolution and the return OF
the members to their former position
as independents.
What makes the situation particular
" bad is the impractical rule for mem
bership of the state committee. HAN
of the so members from the 40 sena-
torial districts are women. All of the
240 members from the representative
districts are the party nominees to the
House. In consequence, standpat
republican who captured the moose
nomination is a regular member of the
state committee. Another ground OF
complaint is that the state headquar-
tiers have been resting places for men
who had no particular care for pro-
gressive principles, but who were
merely looking for jobs. The party
affairs have thus been in the hands OF
men who have had little personal in
terest in the spread Of party princi-
pies.
Several men who say they know the
facts charge that Saturdays meeting
in Kingsley hall contained some 30 to
40 persons who were employees of the
state committee, or held proxies from
them and were so much in the interest
of Mr. Hale that his critics had not
really a fair chance. The long and the
short of it is that the management OF
the party is not in the hands of able
men, The nominal managers are
split into factions No hope of better
days is in sight and men who have
been ardent workers admit and predict
that the end of the party is at hand
Any one who saw Saturdays meeting
can have no doubt that there is plenty
OF reason for their apprehensions.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-16

Now | wonder, who in thunder
Ever started spring housekeeping?
What's the use of all this fussing?
What's the burned internal meaning
OF this rubbing and this scruhbing,
And the busting and the sweeping!
And TO raise your voice against IL
Starts the ladies all a-weeping.
oh, the heating, carpet beating
Process nearly drives me crazy:
And it leaves me weak and pallid
As the petals of a daisy,
Oh. the wipiig from the piping,
To the side walls and the ceilings
Cleanliness has got the leeway
Long before a fellows feelings.
And the fixing up and painting,
And the polishing and washing -,
"Catch me, fellowmen, I'm faintlng.
NV, The walking and the talking,
And the ferreting and finding;
7 don't think much of divorces,
But housekeeping is unb1nding.
And the raiding and invading
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-16

elapsed since the loss of the Titanic,
on April IA, 1912, when over 100 lives
were sacrificed. An ice patrol has
been established, constant wireless
service maintained, better equipments
for lifesaving placed on all vessels,
better construction insisted upon and
enforced and the International Con-
gress for Safety at Sea has agreed
upon uniform requirements and rules
use
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-16

Even the world-famous surgeons of
the International Surgical Congress
were obliged to applaud, Monday, at
their session at New York, when T. C.
Gates of Kansas City, who had both
arms amputated below the elbow two
years ago. quickly picked up pen
and dashed off his name in a very
legible hand and then proceeded to
show them what he could do to a
steak and potatoes, how to pick up
and fold papers, button his shoes,
shake hands, etc. with his artificial
arms and hands. Men with only one
artificial hand also did wonderful
things and the surgeons agreed that
the invention was all the inventor
claimed for it. The latter, by the way,
was one of the demonstrators with but
one hand.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-16

A small sum was saved by Richard
Terhune of Kearny, N. j., by his ex-
tracing two of his own teeth, but 1t
cost him his life. He had visited a
dentist and had 4 tooth extracted and
a few days later finding two loose ones,
pulled them out with his fingers.
Bloodpoisoning followed and he died.
Mr.. Terhune was a manufacturer He
children. He was a lineal descendant
of Capt. Oscar Sanford. who. settling
in Bergen county in the seventeenth
and at one time owned most of Hud-
son and Bergen counties.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-16

The oxford Democrat thinks that
another chapter may have been I'M
earthed in the case of the man Brown,
alias Edwin Robbins, who with a
young woman few weeks ago was
working that vicinity. as we'll as other
sections of the State. They were
landed in South Paris Jail for a short
sentence and at its expiration were
taken to Vermont, where Robbins was
wanted on the charge of horse steal
ing. Inquiries regarding him were
received by the South Paris officers a
few days since from the warden of the
New Hampshire state prison. The
warden wished to know where he had
been taken and also wished to know
if he could be identified as a former
inmate of the New Hampshire prison.
Enclosed in the letter was a photo
graph of the former inmate referred
to, in his prison clothes, which Jailer
Titus and. others says is a perfect pic
ture of the man who was in jail at
South Paris.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-16

lie but many others will be interested
in and extend congratulations on the
marriage of Miss Billy Burke to Flor
enz Ziegfeld, Jr., which took place
Saturday night in New York City. It
is Miss Burke's first matrimonial ven
ture but Mr.. Ziegfeld is a former hus-
band of Anna Held.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-16
Another Prohibition Landmark.
(Topeka Daily Capital.)

NIOpbKa Daily CHpIldI,1
Kansas is still on the firing line of
the prohibition cause in the decision
by the State Supreme Court yester-
day sustaining the Webb-Kenyon law,
turning over to the States the regula-
ton of commerce in Intoxicating Ii
quor. This is the first decision fully
supporting the validity of the law.
A carload of beer shipped from St.
Louis was seized by the State in Cher
okee county last April, a month after
the enactment of the Webb act, be-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-16

A straw is fioated out on a breeze
from the kittery, Me-, navy yard that
shows how carefully Uncle Sam has
been preparing for trouble with Mex
leo, in the shape of paragraph in the
Portsmouth Chronicle saying that the
rumor that the armored cruiser North
Carolina. now the receiving ship at
the Charlestown navy yard, might be
ordered to Mexican waters was again
general in the yard Tuesday and
cinches it with the statement: "A
couple of months ago some of the Of
ficers on the ship received informal
tips to make any plans necessary be-
fore the ship sailed on such duty, but
nothing more was heard OF the matter
until within the past few days. The
ship is ready for orders for such SER
vice.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-16

Saturdays gale at Bath and on the
lower kennebec was a wild one. Trees
were blown down and damaged, barn
levelled, windows smashed ehimneys
overturned, passengers refused for
some time on the ferryboat Hocko
mock, a rowboat at Popham blown
ashore and landed in field and most
people kept in the house
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-16

The early worm is catching the fish-at
Sebago.-Portland Express.
1t is only metaphorically that this is
true. The fishing at Sebago is not with
worms.-Biddeford Journal
Now we might have made it early fly"
just as we'll but thought it was too cold
for flies.-Portland Express.
Don't get too fly or the worm may
turn.