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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-16

the conference the theme had thus
which had been maintained was
Character" Take any force, he said,
for instance commerce and by deduc-
ton its basis is character, thus:
Commerce rests upon circulating
medium, which rests upon credit. And
credit rests upon confidence. And
confidence rests upon what? Char
acterl
And within that center of character
son, and that is Jesus Christ. Its
a superficial thing" he said, that
challenges Christianity and contin-
ued by saying that the church. which
has been the basis and the capstone
of civilization. is the one enduring
thing; with all her faults she's a
winner"
In conclusion he said, You're in a
great game gentlemen-Im glad to be
with you"
Charles r. Nesbit
Charles F. Nesbit of Washington,
D. c., was the next speaker. Mr.. Nes-
bits experience in the very problem
under discussion at this meeting made
his address intensely interesting.
Mr.. Nesbit unassumingly explained
the accident by which he had hap
pened to be one Of those who share
the credit of cleaning up" the capital
city of the country. 1t started in his
membership with the Monday Eve
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These organizations have, as organi-
cations, held aloof from civic affairs
for fear of friction among their men,
bers because of party affiliations, and
their influence for good in the COM
munity, particularly in this respect,
has been and is thereby greatly re-
duced. Assuming that each organi-
zation sincerely desires that its mem
bers shall be happy, prosperous, con-
tented, and their families have a
chance to live in clean and respecta-
BILE communities. why then should they
not proclaim from the housetops, fig
uratively speaking, that they stand
for good laws and honest officials. re-
CARELESS of party affiliations. and for
everything else that is known to be
for the best interest of the commun
ity?
Work for desirable candidates for
office. Work for their nomination ut
the primaries. Work for their cleo
ton at the polls and then, after they
are elected, take the time to pat them
on the back for everything good they
have accomplished or tried to ac-
compish.
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ture OF the University of Maine Every
delegate here can find out while he is
mere just what this thoroughly organized
and rapidly developing work is, what 1t
Is doing in other communities, and what
1t can do in his community. He can then
when he returns home be the bearer OF
SO much at least of the gospel.
2 The County Young Mems Christian
Associations. Each delegate may we'll
ask himself right now while he is here
whether his community is getting from
this source the help which 1t might to-
wards community efficiency. If not, here
and now is the opportunity to make a
start towards getting such aid.
B. The Schools. What place has the
teaching of agriculture in the school sys-
tenn OF your community? Has it the fore
most place, or the hindmost place. or no
place at all? What ought to be the place
Of agriculture in the schools of a rural
community / would ask each delegate
10 think these questions over and when
he goes home, IL the conclusions to which
he comes are what l think they will be-
then start something with the school
board, selectmen. citizens and boys and
girls, and keep at it until he gets agri-
culture where 1t ought to be in the
schools.
4. The Church. How much are the
churches and their pastors in your COM
munity doing to develop a healthy spirit
and outlook on the kind of life which is
lived in your community, namely farm
life? Are they training young men for
rural leadership?
8. The University of Maine. The Uni
yersity stands ready and equipped to
serve the people of the State in many
ways not now generally or even at all
utilized. Has your community made use
of the University's extension lecture SER
vice. which covers not alone agriculture
but practically all fields of knowledge?
Any community can arrange a winters
course of lectures covering a wide range
of topics and the University will furnish
the lecturers.
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init member banks to deposit all their
reserves with this reserve bank at
once. As the law stands their process
is to be spread over period of 80
months. If it is renewed successfully
next winter it will mean a marked in
crease in the available funds of the
reserve banks. AS it stands the
twelve banks will start out with
total cash reserve of about $4,000, 900.
Another point not forgotten by adj
mirers of the law is the fact that the
different reserve requirements will re-
lease about s464o0o,000 now tied up in
reserves and will afford far greater
hearing and loan.
The reserve banks are not to do a
banking business except with member
banks. They are empowered, however,
to engage in open market transactions
in the buying or selling of cable trans
fers and bankers bills of aeceptances
and bills of exchange. Other trans
actions include buying and selling of
bonds or notes of the United States
paper issued in anticipation of the col
lection of taxes or assured revenues of
any state or political subdivision in the
continental United States. The banks
are to tablish, subject to approval
of the Reserve Board, rates of discount
to be charged for each class of paper.
They may also, with the Boards con-
sent, open and maintain banking ac-
counts in foreign coutries for the pur-
chase or collection of bills of exchange.
In the future, the clearings of the
banks of the dountry are expected to
be made through these regional banks,
which may in time lead to the aboli-
ton of many clearing house assoeia-
lions. Clearings which involve banks
in widely separated parts of the
country probably will be made with
much greater rapidity through new
banks than through ordinary COM
mercial channels. 1t has been esti
mated that through this saving in time
alone, the use of hundreds of millions
of dollars for many days will be saved.
In time, the new system will retire
the two per cent. United States bonds
now used principally as a basis for
national bank notes. There are more
than 500, 100000 of those bonds now
outstanding and their retirement is to
be spread over a period of 20 years.
With their passing the national bank
circulation based upon them and not
upon the life beats of commerce will
disappear and unless by that time,
Congress has enacted new. act, the
nation will have a currency that in
theory at least responds to the growth
of crops, the throb of industrial plants
and the progress of the business world.
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Good Roads and Community Eff
ficiency.


The direct effect of highway inn
provement upon economic efficiency
both national, state, and locals so
fully recognized that we may assume
that it's value is universally admitted
We must teach the people of our
farming communities that, without
good serviceable roads which are
easily passable throughout the year,
their communities are of little value
financially and are unattractive in
every sense. not only to any possible
settler but, to an even greater de-
gree, to their own children, who will
ccertainly seek the cities, provided
they cannot have some at least of the
privileges and comforts that their
city relatives and friends enjoy.
The following concrete recon-
mendations are made.
/. What the Individual Can Do to
Secure Good Roads-LThe best effort
that the individual can possibly make
for securing good roads is to forget
that road passes his own door.
When this is once forgotten, the in
dividual should enter heart and soul
into the united effort on the part of
all good citizens to secure sufficient
money to carry on the work of high
way construction in our State.
II. What Can the Church and the
Grange Do to Accomplish This Re-
sult?-What has been said of the in
dividuai applies equally to the church,
the grange, and the community. Let
us all forget our individual wants, and
unite in a common effort to secure
results. We now have a State High
way Commission. which is as free
from graft or political influence as
any body of State officials ever Civ
en- authority In our State. Our new
highway laws are just, equitable fair.
They will naturally need improving
in small ways, but, in general, they
are good. Let us all forget our sec
tional prejudicces, and stand by the
Commission in their efforts to divide
all funds at their disposal eauitably
and fairly among the various coun-
ties and communities in our State.
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Intemperance, the beverage use of
alcohol, still exists in Maine, not be-
cause of prohibition but in spite of it,
just as sin still exists in Maine, not
because of the Church but in spite of
it. Through inreaching license the
evils of the beverage use of alcohol
are present in some measure in our
State
The intoxicants used in Maine find
their way thither through advertise
ments in out State papers circu-
lated In Maine; through liquor circu-
lars sent through the mails to our
people, even our boys and girls, by the
liquor dealers of license states
through every conceivable smuggling
method that license state dealers can
devise to push intoxicants into our
State; and through illegal selling per-
mitted by State officials who have
been corrupted by the brides of IL
cense state liquor dealers.
A wide-open condition of liquor
selling exists in two counties, Knox
and Penobscot. There the attendant
evils Of license are present.
Concrete Recommendations.
First. We must give more attention
to the work of education. Posters
clearly and briefly stating the facts rs
to the natue and effect of alcohol
should be placed in public places and
in our street cars.
Second. The absolute necessity of
total abstinence as a necessary essen
tial of good citizenship should be
wisely and constantly taught and Gull
tivated.
Third. The hostile attitude towards
the saloon taken by the great indus
trial and transportation corporations
in our nation, and their insistent de-
mand for total abstipence in their
workmen should be vigorously i'm
pressed on our youth
Fourth. The evangelization of the
masses should be increasingly sougii,
by the Church. for the Christ life N
man will solve all problems of vice
and crime and bring all righteousness
Fifth. Our laws against the bever-
age sale of intoxicants need to be
strengthened in some particulars. The
strict enforcement of these laws by
the executive Officials must be insist
ed on by all good citizens.
The imposition by our judicial of
| fieials of penalties upon offenders sue-
ficient for the suppression of the IL
legal sale of intoxicants must be de-
manded by all good citizens.
A method of removing from office
inefficient. incompetent and unfaith
full officials more readily available
than the present process by impeaeh
ment or address must be speedily Sc
cured.
Finally. The successful and speedy
deliverance of our people from the
awful evils of intemperance necessi-
tates not only the individual but, also
the organized activity of all good citi-
Gems in the promotion of total absti-
nence, and state wide, nation wide
prohibition.
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Party Slavery.
Clifford MeGIauf1in


The author assumes that the fol-
lowing statements will be generally
admitted as true,-that politics is the
science Of government, that political
parties justify their existence in SO
far as they tend 10 promote good gov
ornment. that political parties are not
an end to be attained but a means
to an end. and that the purpose for
which a party exists should be greater
than the party itself.
The real problem is to get the in
dependent vote sufficiently large. LIST,
the adoption of the Massachusetts ball
lot law would help some; End, fair
discussion of civic problems in our
newspapers would help more: 3rd.
teaching the children in the home, the
school. the church or the Sunday
School to beware of becoming political
slaves would help in the future; 4th,
and d discussion Of the question of
party slavery by clubs, oranges, de-
batting societies and other organiza-
tons would occasion greater freedom
= of thought and therefore greater free
dom of action. The. independent vote
is growing. 1t should stand for two
things:-righteous principles and men
who will back those principles. A large
ing together on these grounds, would
WELD an influence that no party
could afford to ignore.
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Party Responsibility.

waiter "A. DdnIOTln.
Under our form of government. both
community and state. our servants,
the men elected to the various and
many offices. are in most cases chos-
en- by the people themselves under
what we call popular vote" or N
other words the primaries"
The results of some elections are not
always all that could be desired, par
ticularly in the selection of men whose
duty it Is to enforce some of our
restrictive laws. such as the laws
against the sale of Intoxicating
liquors This is especially true in
connection with the Offices of county
sheriff, county attorney and the
mayors of our cities. who are definite
ly charged with this duty. If any Of
these officers are delinquent in their
duties the voters have no redress un-
til the next election.
Civic righteousness is a very broad
term and is subject to several defini-
tions, but
If it means what most of us think
it means. viz, each organization ana
individual observing the laws of the
community and state--living at peace
would be done by. and
If it is true that the political par
ties of our state are dominant factors
in securing these much to be desired
conditions, and
If it is true that political parties are
no better and have no higher ideals
and purposes than those held by the
average member.
Then the only hope of raising the
through the individual.
How can this be done? No one is
wise enough to more than offer a sug-
gestion or two, and because this arti-
Gle very properly and profitably has it's
limitations, the following only is
modestly submitted:
First The Church of the Living
God should take it's proper place in
the community and from the pulpit
and by printed matter proclaim its
sincere and whole hearted interest in
and responsibility, in part at least, for
the physical as we'll as spiritual wei
fare of every individual, good or bad,
white or black, native or foreign, in
the community served by it.
Second. A large proportion Of
church members as we'll as non
church members are also members of
fraternal orders. business organiza-
tions, cooperative associations, etc.
All of these orders teach in their rit-
ual the value and Importance of right
conduct on the part of each member.
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inter- Relationship of City and coun.
try.
Francis L. LittIefied.

Francis l.. LittIefed.
Does this subject offer any prob
lem? Are not the city and the
cocuntry both parts of one whole, the
body polite? Is there any problem
affecting the one that does not affect
the other also? In fine is there any
essential difference between the two
that calls for any kind of adjust
ment?
What can be done to bridge over
this gulf between the city and the
country and to beak down the wall of
prejudice that exists? What can the
individual do? What can the church.
club or society do? What can the
town or city do? And what can the
country do?
The individual can mix and mingle
with the people of the country. He
can go out among the farms and the
farmers and get acquainted with
them. He can learn of them and can
teach them.
The club or society, the Board of
Trade of the city and the Grange of
the country can make excursions IN
body, the one TO the country, the
other to the city.
The city or the large town can we'll
afford to help out the small place or
the countryside in any way that is
available. Money is not all that is
needed to help people. Kindly words,
friendly support, a genuine concern
for and rejoicing in the well-being
and benefit of another, is as much an
attribute of a city or town as it is
of an individual. There is ample
room and abundant chance for all Of
this and much more too.
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RURAL INSTITUTIONS WORK
Warren n. Wilson

Warren II. Wilson next addressed
the conference upon the subject of
The Work of Various Rural Institu-
lions IN a Community" Warren H
Wilson of New York is superintendent
of the department of country life of
the general board of the Presbyterian
church. His demonstration work, for
his denomination, coupled with his
thorough study of rural church prob
lens, make him rank easily as one
of the foremost authorities on rural
betterment
The speaker stated that no argument
in this conference must be based upon
the inefficiency of the church, for
whatever substituted might be pro-
vided to would deprive the church of
its democracy. Another basis for in
efficiency must be found than the in
efficiency of the church. He stated
that the building of community must
follow the general process of construc-
ton, the founda alton first and the roof
ing subsequent, and in the process
there must be, what was termed,
certain leverage. For Maine, he con-
tinued, great growth in local indus
tries would be a working leverage in
community building. Provision for
faults in the system should be made
in the way of credit and such factors.
There should be one man in each COM
munity who thoroughly understands
the local economy. Other definite steps
were outlined and the speaker closed
his address that a discussion OF the
reports might open.
The Banquet
Nearly all the remainder of the aft
ernoon was devoted to this discussion
and at the conclusion the delegates
thronged the lobby to gather and
march to the Penney Memorial church
where the Deborahs Society. compris-
ing the ladies of the church, had ar
ranged a banquet for them.
1t was indeed feast that they
found awaiting them at the church
and hands and mouths had good ex-
cuse for other use than gesture and
speech for the ensuing hour. AS on
the previous evening, at City hall, mu-
sic was enjoyed by the rendering of
Dennis Orchestra and cheers and
songs from the college and preparatory
schools were enlivening.
The Evening Exercises
little after o'clock President
Milliken. presiding. called for speeches
from various men present. including
MIR. Thornberry of Waterville, Mr..
Goodman of the local Y. NJ. c. A. and
others. Orlando L. Frost of Belfast,
Jeff Smith and Warren H. Wilson.
The brief crisp responses. full of good
stories ana bubbling over with wit,
were a source of contagious laughter
that came in timely aid after such
bountiful repast.
Walter Danforth of Bangor and
Prof. George Stevens of Orono, mem
bers of the Commission on Civic
Righteousness, were not present Sum-
maries &C reports were given by Cliff
ford McGlaufin of Portland and w.
F. Berry of Waterville., The reports
of the members of this commission are
in mart as follows.
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5. Provide good, comfortable. pleas
ant boarding places for your teachers
You cannot get the best service other
wise.
The state can assist in making
this survey. can give money from the
equalization fund when necessary, can
enforce laws regarding certification of
teachers, can enact minimum salary
laws, and should, in some way, pro-
vide further funds for rural schools in
towns where the funds now available
do not make possible efficient school
ing. 1t should provide for STANDARDIZED
ton of rural schools.
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CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

Bricks made of peat are being success
fully used in Sweden for small buildings.
Barcelona, Spain, does a large business
in the manufacture Of paper drinking
cups.
American women yearly buy more
than 100000 worth of millinery sup
plies from France.
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QUICK RELIEF FROM
CONSTIPATION
Get DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets

That is the joyful cry of thousands since
DR.. Edwards produced Olive Tablets. the
substitute for calomel.
DR.. Edwards, a practicing physician fof
IL years and calomefs old-time enemy. dis
covered the formula for Olive Tablets while
treating patients for chronic constipation
and torpid livers.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets do not con
tain calomel. but healing. soothing vege
table laxative.
No gripping is the "keynote" of these lie
tie sugar-coated. olive-colored tablets. They
cause the bowels and liver to act normally.
They never force them to unnatural action,
If you have "dark brown mouth" now
and then-a bad breath-a dull tired feeling
sick headache-torpid liver and are con
stipated. you'll find quick, sure and only
pleasant results from one or two little DR.
Edwards Olive Tablets at bedtime.
Thousands take one or two every nigh;
Just to keep right. Try them. loo and 2ss
per box. All druggists.
The Olive Tablet Company. Columbus, q
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Intemperance.
DR.. Wilbur f. Berry

III. w iIUuI II. bCIiy.
Civic righteousness impels the citl-
zen to cooperate with the other citi
zens for the promotion of the common
good. Under the impulse of civic
righteousness the citizen not only
joins with others to do whatfthe COM
mon good demands, but. also SO far as
possible, to prevent whatever makes
against the common good.
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prevention, destruction and exclusion
of these pests is an important branch
of public health work. The local
board of health should be an educator
and a leader in this.
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Charles r. ToWson

President Milliken then introduced
Charles r. Towson, who, in opening,
followed what Mr.. Berry had said by
stating that the time was coming
when rum would be swept off the
continent. He said that throughout
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1914-06-12
PEMBINA PEMBNA COUNTY, NORTH 10Th,

stand exactly in the place in which the
victim has been standing. but even il it
is the fault of the party, that does not
help matters now. It is not what be
ought to have done but rather, what we
ought to do: It is present facts chat We
must face and not theory that has long
since passed the stage of proof.
There are two kinds of charity and the
greatest Of the two-we would not try te
place, but the charity Of the tongue and
the charity of the purse are q least
equal.
Don't take . birdseye view.
Don't stand on your own pedestal anc
give judgement. You cannot judge cor
rectly when looking downward. Some
time your own pedestal may take Stun
bleand then you may see things at,a diff
ferent angle. Be charitable both ways
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1914-06-12
s. 8. Convention

The annual Convention of the Penn
bina County Sunday School Association
will be held in st. Thomas, Wednesday
and Thursday. June 17-l8.
An excellant program is ready. We
hope to secure the attendance of dele
gates from every Sunday School in the
county.
The purpose of this convention is TO
increase the efficiency of the Sunday
Schools of the county, with a view to
winning boys and girls, men and women
to Jesus Christ through the study of
Gods word. and building them up in
Christian character, thus making bet
ter citizenship for tomorrow.
The convention is fully inter-denomin-
ational. Plans for the meeting are pro.
crossing in splendid fashion, the conven.
tion promising to be both the best and
largest ever held in the county.
All pastors and superintendents are
delegates ex-oficlo. Eachlbchool is On.
titled to send two delegates in addition
The people Of st. Thomas are making
ample arrangements to entertain sil del
egates. Visitors cordially welcouSsd.
MRS. r. MCFADDHN,
Sec.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1914-06-12

Total vote in Pembina County Z
General Election 1919 was 260a.