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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19
The Awesome Facts

Massachusetts is showing one very
disauieting tedency. The report OF
the State commission to investigate
the drink evil, recently submitted TO
the Legislature, shows conclusively
that drunkenness is. rapidly increas-
ing. The present report differs but
slightly in its recommendation, SO far
as remedial principles are concerned
from the special report in 1908 by the
trustees of the Foxboro State Hos
pital; but its statements of fact chal-
lenge attention. For they point
strongly to the conclusion that the
people of this State are growing, not
soberer, but more drunken.
In 1908 there were s6,365 arrests for
drunkenness in the Commonwealth.
In the year ending Sept. 80, 1918, there
were 104, 1886 arrests for drunkenness.
| This number was larger by 5000 than
| the total number of arrests made for
all infractions of the law within the
State only eleven years before. since
1901" says the latest report, the
number of arrests for drunkenness
has increased by 49,272, or 8S per
cent" While the average annual in
crease in that period has been 4l06
arrests, the increase last year was
62S5. An increase of SO per cent. in
arrests for drunkenness since 1901 is
enormously out of proportion to the
increase Of population. For in 1901
| Massachusetts had a population OF
about 100000, in 1910 1t had risen te
but 3,366,416.
The arrests, moreover, do not re-
veal "the gravity of the problem" te
quote from the commission. For now
adays only a small proportion of in
toxicated persons are taken into Gus
tody. Persons who drink intoxi-
eating liquors Unexpectedly within
the home or club, and those also who
are taken home by friends when un-
der the influence of liquor, escape ar
rest. Only 81 per cent. of the in
ebriates received at Foxboro State
Hospital during the year ending Nov
| 80. 1918. have a court history, al
though a majority of these patients
have been frequently intoxicated each
year for ten years or more. The
problem of drunkenness is thus very
much larger than the problem of the
| arrested drunkard.'
There is no escape, apparently from
the fact of an increase in habits OF
inebriety in Massachusetts at rate
that may be called alarming rather
than merely disquieting, without the
slightest exaggeration or the slightest
over-emphasis. For an increase OF 81
per cent. in arrests for drunkenness
since 1901 is not merely an absolute
increase; il is q relative increase
demonstrating q weakening instead Of
a strengthening Of seIf-controi among
our population as whole in the con-
sumption of alcoholic drinks. In 1s0s
| the report Of the trustees Of the Fox
| boro hospital declared that this
| problem sis growing increasingly
serious" In 1913 it has urquestion-
ably become still more serious.
| The section in this latest report or
the cost Of drunkenness" reads like
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19
The Failure of ''Regulation;'
Fruits of personal Liberty
Massachusetts Sees Her Error.

We have several times referred to the report of the
Massachusetts State commission appointed by the legislature
investigate the drink evil in that commonwealth One after
another of the leading responsible newspapers the
recovering from the shock of that report and
ing the facts which exactly contrary that they have been
preaching for years One after another they admitting
and announcing to the world that "REGULATION IS Il
FAILURE.
With apparent reluctance the best papers in Massachu
admitting that instead of solving the drink evil
THE PEOPLE IN THE INTERESTS OF THE MAKERS
md SELLERS OF BOOZE.
Massachusetts, papers choking over the public adms-
sion that twelve years the arrests for drunkenness have in
creased SO per And the Springfield Republican fatty
declares that the ARRESTS barely the surface of in
ebrey when the drunkenness in clubs private amborees and
high social events ARE considered where arrests NOT
made-and say nothing of the rapidly increasing debauch
cry of the homes The Republican says editorialy For
no7udays only small proportion of intoxicated persons
taken into custody.
In the very hours in which Cardinal Gibbonses (and
others quoted by the liquor interests and their toos de-
claring that prohibition will be enforced Name is
realizing such degree of enforcement such reduction OF
drunkenness crime such lowering of population OF al
and saving county expenses to be revelation to
the world And the time Massachusetts,, with her
boosted rum trust awhe law that eliminates all problems
and takes the liquor question out of discussion ETC.
is discovering that she going to the devil at as the Spring
field Republican quotes from the state committee an alarm
ing rate"
We hope every person into whose this copy of the
Kennebec Journal falls will read the following from the
Springfield Republican and reprinted by the Boston Iran
script And when you have read it. hope you will ask
yourself these questions:
WHY do the liquor interests hate prohibtion as we have
it in Maine?
Why do the liquor interests always shout for REGoLA-
TON" such as they have in Massachusetts,
AS demonstrated in these two states which has proven
the failure for homes for Christian citizenship tor moral
for economic purpose for American intelligence
prohibition regulation?
AS proven by every known fact and every logical reason
ing which system prohibition reguaton) has proven OF
most value and satisfaction to the liquor interests
Knowing these things where do your interests he WIN
prohibition and its of per cent reduction IN Andro
coeein county in eight months with regulation that has
doubled the traffic Massachusetts, in twelve years. as nd
Gated in alone to say nothing OF the alarming ae "
which the social fabric has been rottmg!
The following from the Springfield Republican, re-
printed in the Boston Transcript
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19

1.-The Kennebec Journal makes no at
tempt to rebuke its party associates for
the almost unlimited use of booze and
Doodle in the Augusta campaign, re-
marks the Biddeford Record. or course
not To rebuke such use, whether limited
or unlimited in extent, would be to admit
the fact; and that would be embarrassing
to that papers lurid prohipition propa-
Argus
We could hardly expect either OF
the above to tell the truth about either
the reported conditions" or our atti-
tude. OF course the charitable way
to look at it is to suggest that neither
of them noticed our editorial-be
cause of which a Republican In
neighboring town stopped. his paper.
We might also suggest to the above
Democratic organs that it Is useless to
rebuke Peter for what Judas did, and
has always been doing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19

1.-THE way things are now going at
Washington, the people will surely be
well prepared to rise up at the next
election and put an American Admin
istration in Office" says the Philadel-
phia Press. I'VE have no prejudice
against England. but We have always
been accustomed to conducting our
own affairs, and it is not going to be
possible to break us Of the habit per-
manently."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19
A Hint to the Beer Trust.

With a Democratic rumpus in the
Second district, new Democratic
faction in Waldo, and Somerset Demo-
Gratis for prohibition, conditions are
not altogether safe for an investment
by the Beer Trust Cy Davis stump
eloauence for booze plank may not
be wholly needed in the Democratic
convention.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19
Editorial Comment.
Respectfully Submitted.
fPiseataquis Observer.)


The following from the Lewiston
Journal of % years ago is respectfully
submitted to the Lewiston Journal
land its adherentsl of today:
The shadow of ring seems to fall
on the pathway of most of us who dc
not get the Earth. The man whose
criticism is edged with personal dis
appointment, may generally be war
ranted to overdo matters. Candid
criticism of the faults of parties and
of men in parties. all more or less
fallible. will do good; but expietive
Indignation upsets real self-interest
and may smash the wrong ring.
There are rings and rings. Those who
think alike must or ought to act to-
gether, even though the ingrahtude oil
Republics rings in their ears. we
cannot all have our own way, ana
some of us would upset out own plat
ters If we allowed our heads to grow
big with the execution OF all crotch
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY

C U moo CHAPTER, NO. 43,
r.. A. M. Special convocation at Masonic
Temple, Thursday evening, March ID.
Work in Royal Arch Inspection by f. j.
Cole. Grand High Priest of the Grand
Chapter of Maine. Refreshments. So
iourning companions are cordially invited
to attend.
FARNsWoRTH G. MARSHALL, H. P.
CHARLES r. CHASE, Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19

H. w. Coffin of Addison has just
completed his 42Sth boat. a record
which any other Maine boat builder
will find hard to excel. He shipped
enc last week to Ram Island ledge,
Long Island, Casco' bay, and another
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19

Clinton Riggs of Raymond recently
had an experience that will not soon
be forgotten. TIE was near the shore
of Raymond lake and discovered the
tracks of a large otter. He followed
rapidly in the snow. Then Giscarding
the snowshoes Riggs approached the
animal but the latter. instead of re-
treating, turned and snarled his de-
fiance. Then began battle which
lasted over an hour, the otter jump
ing and biting at every opportunity,
until Riggs was a mass of wounds.
He finally managed to strike the ct
ter a blow that knocked it senseless
and he then easily killed it. 1t meas
ured feet, six inches from tip of
nose to tip of tail and weighed 81
pounds. The skin was sold for s25 to
a Lewiston fur buyer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19

An English chemist claims to make
perfectly pure synthetical milk from
a basis OF casein obtained from the
soya bean, but we opine that the dear
old COW will remain the principal
source of supply.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19

Judge Benjamin F. Cleaves of Bid
deferd has been appointed to succeed
George c. Yeaton of South Berwick as
counsel for the Boston & Maine Rail-
road in this State and who served the
road for many years.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19

QUEEN TEMPLE. NO. 70, PYTHIAN
Sisters, meets in X. of p. hall the Sec
ond and fourth Tuesday evenings of each
month, at 730 O'clock.
BERTHA B. STEARNS, NJ. E. C.
ADELAIDE NJ. PAGE, NJ. of r. and c.
LUCIE p. LEWIS, NJ. of F.
tu-th-Sattf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19

the animal. soon overtaking it, as he
was on snowshoes and it is well
known that the otter cannot proceed
other fellow would like to do 10 you,
but do it TO him first"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19

Miss Eleanor v. Barnard, of Eng
land, who came to the United States
to study American types, says that the
American children excel in form and
are a sturdier lot than those of her
country.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19

CANTON AUGUSTA, NO. 9, p. M.
Regular meeting every third Tuesday
at s o'clock.
G. S. PEASLEE, Capt.
RAY NJ. BURNS, Clerk.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19
Maine Gossip
RoundeIIade TO March.

We've had enough of wintry weather,
OF frosts that bite and flaws that blow
The flake that floats as fluffy as feather,
The slush belowi
We weary of the winds wild woe,
The rains so. rude, the roads so roughi
We like a little clustering breeze
but oh,
We've had enoughi
We've had enough of wonderings whether
The rose and lily eer shall grow;
If crimson rambler or the purple heather
Again shall glow
1t seems so long, so long ago,
Since last the bluebells banked the bluff,
Since last the stream unclaimed by
ice could flow
We've had enough!
We've had enough-yea, altogether
Too much of these things, don't you
know
Warm, scratchy woolens. wet and slip
perry leather.
The fur chapeau;
We loathe the sight of ladies so,
In stole and skin and mink and muff-
A little goes a long, long way-and To-
We've had enough,
March, CONTEST thou as friend or foe?
Now, nix upon this lion stuff!
Lamb it q little for us, 30
We've had enough.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19

to Charleston, s. c. Last season Mr..
Coffin built Is boats, varying in length
from Is to 2S feet.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19
ODD FELLOWS HALL.

ASYLUM LODGE, NO. 70, REGULAR
meeting Friday evenings at 7.30 Work
in First degree March Goth.
w. f. CURRIER, N. @.
E. F. WESTON. Sec.
dff
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19

The report that Kentucky has gone pro-
hibition sounds like moonshine.-Boston
Transcript.
The WAY she went prohibition is
moonshine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19

JEPHTHA ENcAMPMENT, NO. 3.
at 7.30 o'clock every second
and fourth Tuesday. Tuesday, March "A,
work in Patriarchal degree
J. r. TOWNSEND, c. p.
c. Z. STEWART, Scribe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19

Here are some yarns from Bath con-
corning some of their smart black
smiths. The party was Ginning" to-
gether and one said that certain
Bath blacksmith had taken bar of
iron, heated it at the forge, took 1t
out, turned horses shoe, toed and
heeled it and punched it, all without
giving the iron a second heat. This
story brought forth from black
smith present the statement that he
had taken off four shoes from one
horse. smoothed each hoof. fitted and
nailed on new shoes and trimmed off
the ends of the nails and had the
horse ready for the road, all in IL
minutes. That's nothing" said
third man, zone Bath blacksmith
naming the horse-shoer in question,
told me he had accomplished that
feat in seven minutes" The second
man who had spoken then related
how in Charles Mason's blacksmith
shop four men in a day had shod "a
horses in a days work OF eight hours.
Emerson F. Bartlett Of East Sum-
ner answering an inquiry What has
the skunk for CALI" says that he
thinks it sounds much like the sig
nal OF sucking colt about, 10 days
old. In addition. and speaking with
the knowledge acquired in many years
hunting and trapping. them, he re-
marks that in dealing with skunks in
general 1t is best to follow David
Harum's rule: DO as You think the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19

In the Hetch Hetchy hitch the
farmers say: Let's irrigate.'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19
TRINITY coMMANpERY, N

TRINITY COMMANDERY, NO. 7,
X. T. Annual conclave at Masonic Tenn
pie Friday evening, March 20. Reports
of treasurer and recorder. Election of
officers. All sojourning fraters are cor
daily invited to attend.
CHAS. II. GETCHELL, e. c.
THOS. II. BODICE, Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19

Bath has just had a case of high
finance of the extreme type. "A work
man In the Iron Works needed a little
extra money and started a rattle"
His friends Clipped literally, for the
prize was a duck and most people are
fond of roast duck, you know. When
the tickets were sold and the drawing
took place the scene is said TO have
been worth seeing. The happy Win
ner opened the bag and drew forth
the duck-a wooden decoy duck OF
uncertain age-and the boys howled.
The high financier escaped with his
life and the money.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19

No notice whatever will be taken OF
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held response
BILE for the preservation or return Oh
rejected communications.
Address all communications relating
to subscriptions and advertisements
to Kennebec Journal Co, Publish
ers, Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19

Has Brer Hanson invited Patt to
jine?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19

Look carefully at your silver half
dollars. for a new counterfeit vintage
of 1908 has been discovered, some of
them having recently been taken in
York stores. They are good imi-
tation, though lighter than the good
coin.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-09-03
PAPER ITSELF WAS EVIDENCE
b This Case Examiner Required Ne
Pledge That Student Had Done
the Work Itself.

AT g certain college custom ordaina
lat at examination time each of the
Endtdates shall write the following
sledge ct the bottom of his papers:
4 hereby declare, on my honor. that
! have neither given nor received as.
distance during the examination"
One student, after handing In one
OF the papers. suddenly remembered
that In his haste he had omitted tc
write the oath. On the following day
he sought cut one Of the examiners
and told him that he had forgotten
TO put the required pledge on his pa,
per.
The examiner looked at him over
the top Of his glasses and dryly re-
marked,
Quite unnecessary. Your paper In
itself u sufficient evidence. I've just
been correcting iti"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-09-03

| rnent-too late. The animals co1lided
not with full force. yet for a moment
1t looked like nothing but death for
riders and mounts. Harry Hampton
| was thrown backward to the level field:
Black Hawk galloped off, frantic and
unhurt, across it; Aquarelle, one saw
lay on the very edge of the drop and
was scrambling to her feet with live
illness enough to assure her safety; OK
Francois there was no sign. In half q
| minute the GREATNESS still crowd was
in an uproar. and 100 men were jost..
ling one another TO reacn tne sceie u
the accident.
1t was two minutes, perhaps, before
| Caperton Baylv. with a negro boy at his
| heels. with Jack Littleton and Harry
| Wise and q dozen other lads racing
back of him, had plunged over the crop
Of land where Francois a. ulsap-
peared. Two minutes are enough some
times for a large event. In that Two
minutes Lucy Hampton, without con
| scious volition, by an instinct as simple
! and imperative as a BIRDS lhstillet ~
| shield her young had slipped from Iei
horse Bluebird n 1lo"n achos1 tiII
level and down over h step bank ia!
she found herself holding FRANCOIS
dark head in her arms and heard her
own voice saying words she had never
said even to herself.
II love you. I love you," she SAID.
ana IL dll lllo "ollo ," 49,
know or care. There was no world TOR
her at that minute but the man lying
with his head against her heart-dead
1t might be, but dead or alive, dearest
"I love you-love you love you,' she
repeated, as If the soul were rushing
out of her In the words.
With that the luminous great eyes
opened, and Francois was looking at
her, and she knew that he had heard.
And Their the training Of a lifetime, OF
centuries, flooded back to her, and
womanly reticence and maidenly shame
and feelings and attitude which are
not primeval, as she a been primeval
for that one mad moment. She drew
back as she felt him trying to lift him.
self, and left him free and was on her
feet, and then with a shock she was
aware Of another presence; turning she
looked up into the angry glow Of her
cousins eyes. He was not looking at
her but at the man who, dazed, hurt,
was trying painfully to pull himself up.
Harry Hampton glared at him..
I'VE will settle this later" he
brought out through his teeth. II hope
I can kill you" And Lucy cried out:
saved your life!"
Damn him!" said Harry Hampton.
IT do not want my life at his hands.
I hate him moro for saving me. Damn
him!"
And Francois, clutching at a bush.
things Keeling about him unsteadily,
looked up, friendly. wistful, at the boy
cursing him.
With that there was an influx of
population: the whole world, apparent
ly, tumbled down the steep bank, every
one far too p~reoccupied with help for
the hero to remark Harry Hampton'a
grim humor.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-09-03

u NATURALIZATION OF
= THE GERMAN ARMY :


From 1.-The German War Machine" by
Dr.Armgaard Karl Graves, in Golfers.
Napoleon's dictum that an army
marches on Its stormach is as true
today as its was then, adequate pro-
visions for man and beast being the
most important factor in military
700 men IN peace is work enough. It
becomes a serious problem ii the event
or war especially to a country like
Germany. which is somewhat depen-
dent on outside sources for the feeding
of her millions. The authorities, quite
~onsequen %stoppage Of imports, have
made preparations with their usual
thorough German completeness. AT
any given time there is sufficient food
stuff for man and beast stored in state
~storehouses and the largest private
army for IL months. This might seem
inadequate, but it is not, the authori-
ties being well aware that war in Eu-
rope at the present time could not and
would not last longer than such q
period.
Once a year these ~storehouses are
overhauled and ~perishable or detefiora-
ting provisions replaced. Tens of
thousands Of tons Of f%oodstuffs, espec-
Tally fodder. are sold far below their
usual market prices to the poorer
classes. notably farmers. Likewise the
material used by the army is as far
as possible supplied by the farmer d.
rect.
The total absence Of bloated, pudgy-
fingered army contractors in Germany
Is pleasant to the eyes Of those who
know the conditions in some other
countries I could mention.
Besides, the whole If the German
inghtlng machine is SO organized that
in all probability decisive battles would
be fought in the enemy's country. in
which case the onus Of feeding the
troops would fall on the enemy, bv the
military devices Of "requisitioning5 and
Communicating"