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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-31

for washing hurt her so.
Her head was covered with
great scabs and when we
put on, 1t lifted
the scabs and left her head
all raw where they came
of. 1t also took Off great
patches of hair. She acted
as If 1t sInarted terribly
ol -,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-31
kent's Hill,
Maine

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Thousands of graduates hold lucrative
and important positions in this country
and abroad The School offers equal
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-31

Ing IL only made 1t worse 1t was red and
covered with little spots of blood.
A friend told me how Cuticura Soap
and Ointment had cured her little girl who
suffered agonies with eczema. We got some
and In short time her face, neck and
chest were entirely well Of the eczema
Then her head began to have patches like
dandruff. She had it before she had the
eczema and her hair came out in patches.
1t itched terribly and the dandruff formed
big brown scabs. She would scratch them
off and leave her head all raw underneath
We thought perhaps Cuticura Soap and
Ointment would cure that. too. They soft
ened the scalp and lifted the scabs and at
the same time healed her head underneath.
Her hair stopped coming out and grew fast.
Now sheis completely healed of the trouble"
(SignedD Belmont Ii. Pratt. Jan. %. le14.
Samples Free by Mail
Although Cuticura Soap (25c.) and Cuti-
cura Ointment (5Oc.) are sold throughout
the world, a sample of each with 32-p. Skin
Book will be sent free upon request. Ad-
dress postcard 'Cuticura, Dept. T, Boston.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-31
RASH ON bAbY'S
FACE AND NECK
Also Chest. Then en- Head. Took
Off Great Patches of Hair. Cuti-
cura Soap and Ointment Healed.

Elm St.. Mechanic Falls, Me.-"Our
baby's face, neck and chest first broke out
with kind Of rash and seemed to be sore
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-31

sOdl6t JOHN o. NEWTON, A. H., President.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-19
The Unions Case Not Clear.

1t is a good enough theory that public work
should be carried only by American citizens.
When it comes to digging subways there is a
great practical objection to the carrying out of
that theory. Few American born men are willing
to take to pick and shovel work. Most of the
foreign-born laborers who have been here long
enough to be full-fedged citizens and have been
entcrprisng enough to get their naturalization
papers have found some work easier and more
profitable. Therefore if the labor unions which
are fighting the employment of aliens by subway
contractors choose to exact fufment of the
letter of the law they will certainly hamper and
delay the building Of new rapid transit lines.
Moreover they will cause many men to be thrown
out of work at time when unemployment is
rife without any guarantee that the unions them
selves can produce from among those now idle
men willing and physically able TO take the places
of those 50 discharged.
The public wants its new transit lines built as
promptly as may be. This work now employs
about $4,000 men, with a payroll of about
fortune TO have this work stopped even for a
short time, and these men rendered idle just as
demonstration of labor union strength. The
unions should state their case clearly and COM
pletely. If they are fighting for more money for
laborers, let them say so, and prove that the
prevailing rate of wages has not been paid II
they are fighting to exclude foreign-born workers
from jobs they must prove conclusively that
citizens are waiting to step into the Jobs which
would be vacated. Otherwise they will be harm
ing the community and themselves by the fight
they have stirred up.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-19
Our Guarantee and the Future.

The new Tribune guarantee is pioneer WORK
for a newspaper. 1t is an old story LOT d
majority of the most successful merchants Oh
the country. They live by it and they have buiIt
nm their businesses by it. 1t can be fairly called
the prevailing rule Of retail business to-day 1t
will be the universal rule of retail business TO-
morrow.
Three-ouarters of the retail establishments OF
this city give this broad guarantee. Inc great
mail order houses of the country, Sears Roe
buck & Co.. Montgomery Ward Co. and the
National Cloak and Suit Company, have built
mn q total annual business of over S9O,OOO'OOO
on inst this observation-disclosures Observation-Disclosures
basis. The example has been carried into every
CITY in the country. Wherever you go you VIII
find the successful merchant turning toward
this view of his responsibility.
II is the case of the one-prce-to-all principle
over again. The older generations can remem'
Der when haggling over the price was neces-
sarv incident of purchases. When A. I. Stewart
introduced his one-price idea he was scotfed at
nv rivals. But his idea was right and just and
il gained converts Before many years 1t became
universal To-day it is an accepted common
Mace. You would walk out of a store in amaze
ment where any other pracllce was SusseSVeu'
So it will be with the guaranteed purchase.
The idea has gained steadily and surely in the
last few years 1t is gaining rapidly to-day.
Within few more years it, like the one-prce
idea. will be an accepted commonplace. You
will walk out of a store in amazement that has
any other conception of its duty.
Elsewhere in to-day's paper you will find a
letter from the Rogers Peet Company congratu-
letting us Oh our stand and welcoming this fresh
support of the principle on which they have
fought their way to success That is the spirit in
which our announcement has been received. The
invaluable work that the newspape- can do in
helping on the nationwide movement is warmly
appreciated. We are proud to add our full
strength t, a cause that is essentially the cause
Of honest business America.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-19
A GLOOMY VIEW OF WAR LETTERS
The Correspondence War Experts
Should Be Suppressed.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Much has been written and
said in your columns and in those of
your contemporaries regarding the
causes OF the present war, It's poss. bic
and probable consequences. the re-
sponsibilities of the monarchs OF the
beiligerent nations for the lack OF
avoidance Of the struggle, with rs at
tendant horrors, etc
| have yet 70 read. 7 regret 20 say.
any remarks bordering on the plausi-
BE or even showing the signs of in
telligence in the slightest degree. The
brand Of remark exhibited by the
genus college professor" is distinct
ly discouraging 10 man who antici-
pates sending his sons 20 a university.
while the illusions credited TO normal
ones Of the community are only less
atayistic in their ignoring Of the links
that are supposed to diferentiate man
from the lower animals. Combined
with the failure of these paper ros-
trum orators 70 drop any philosophical
gems worthy Of none but Dulcinea and
her TX is an absolute lack of informa-
tion respecting the resources, strength.
history and details of government Of
any Of the engaged or not engaged
countries, whether these countries
have been responsible locally for
their birth or not.
While this effort seems rather self
contradictory, why not prevail upon
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-19
FOR BRAINS AND Drawn
|. W. W. Stands for Both, but Not for
Bombs, Says Miss Flynn.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Mr. Bouck White, minister OF
the Church of the Social Revolution
is quoted in The Tribune OF November
IG as stating "The |. W. W. excludes
hrainworkers and makes a plea only
10 manual workers" IL he Is correctly
quoted he is entirely mistaken and
should know better, since he himself
was ~ one time member OF the |.
W. ". Fortunately for the average
workingman. the ability to do useful
manual work does not preclude the
possibility of performing mental work,
as many alleged brainworkers assume.
No hard and fast lines can be drawn
in industry between brain and manual
workers. and the l. ". ". constitu-
lion specifically states "The Industrial
Workers Of the World shall be COM
posed Of actual wageworkers,' quite
regardless Of what particular junction
they perform in the complicated mech
anism Of industry.
Mr.. White IN his anxiety to fasten
the responsibility of the bombs re-
Gently thrown in New York City on the
anarchists and the I. W. W. torgets
that not a single iota Of evidence mas
been adduced 20 connect either WIN
the crimes The anarchists ana the
I. ". W. are not one, have entirely DIT
fcrent organizations and conceptions OF
solving the social problem. The |. W..
" never has advocated propaganda
of the deed" but the yellow journals
Of New York City are determined to
drown the real message Of the |. W. W.
to labor industrial unionism-m
food of lies
Permit me to remind Mr.. White that
an the violence attributed to the !.
". Is. m Lawrence, Mass, and Pater-
SON. y. D.. was committed by the detec.
tites. police and law-abiding citizens
committees. The bomb campaign IN
New York City seems to be a dellb
crate attempt TO not only thoroughly
discredit the /. W. W, but to prevent
the unemployed from organizing and
yoicing their demands during the ter
libIe winter that threatens US. While
the /. ". W. does not believe that Kill
inc individual capitalists will end the
prevailing social system, it does not at
tompt TO do the equally stupid thing
convert them a la Church of the So
cial Revolution
ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN.
81 East bath st.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-19
Mr.. Wilson and His Dawn.

All SMILES fail before Mr.. Wilson anu n'9
cheerful pride in the dawn which comes u.
his command. Chantecler at least faced inc cas-,
and did his best He wanted dayhgn' anu
,,orl,od hard for il. Mr.. Wilson has worked MS
hest 70 prolonr the night He has done wonders
with the aid of an obedent Congress, 10 post
pone prosperity. So much so that the voters
finally took charge themselves and INSISTED upon
= change Now. when few faint streaks OF light
are reported, Mr. Wilson suddenly turns ABOUT
and chants rhapsody in praise OF hmseit ana
the marvellous prosperity and content which ne
has conjured up t.
Chantecler could crow beautifully. Ihere MS
resemblance TO our President begins and ends
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-19
THE SINGLE TEACHERS
A Reader Argues That Their Chances
Are Spoiled by the Mother-Teacher.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In regard to the much talked
Of teacher-mother matter it strikes one
as significant that no mention is made
Of the fact that these women have
husbands
Is it not the duty Of these husbands
to support their wives? The normal
colleges are graduating thousands Of
single women every year who have no
one to support them, and in many in
stances are trying TO support members
Of their families who are incapable OF
helping themselves. The positions
which these married women hold are
needed by others.
Viewing the question from another
aspect, it is impossible for a mother TO
give the needed personal attention TO
her children when she il teaching in a
school all day. The leaves of absence
which the mother-teachers ask are for
year only. | suppose after the child
is year old it must shift for itself.
G. VI. S.
New York, Nov. IA. 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-19
THE WHITMAN STOCK
What the Grandfather of a Governor
Elect Did in Williamstown in 1882.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The following. which heard as
long ago as when ! was student az
Williams, have recently had verified
by one personally familiar with the
account
Some eighty years since there were
I'm Williamstown, Mass, two hotels
both of them selling liquor as a matter
of course. and three or four stores that
retailed annually three or four hogs
heads each. No one thought the traiilc
wrong, and for the very good reason
that it was not thought wrong 20
drink. In a general way of speaking,
everybody drank ministers, deacons,
elders. college presidents drank at
weddings. at funerals, at house and
barn raisings and in the harvest teld;
in the home also TO offer liquor beng
held to be a mark of genuine hospl-
tally. $3.50,
So things had been going in Will
JAMESTOWN, until in 1892 or 1888 came
M from Bridgeport, Conn, the Rev.
Or. Hewitt and preached two tire
mendous" sermons on the evils OF IN
temperance. What followed show
the working of a trained conscience
when 10 is once clearly enlightened
The very next day, and from that time
on, both the hotels and all the stores
stopped selling.
But there is one thing more and even
better 10 tell about IL. One of the
stores was kept BY Seymour Whitman,
grandfather o. the Hon. Charles Sey-
mour Whitman. now Governor-elect OF
the State Of New York. He not only
stopped selling, but presumably 70
make himself proof against the posi-
bic opportunities of former customers
bright and early on Monday morning
he brought out his barrels OF rum and
emptied their contents into the street
gutter,
Through an equally right-souled and
wholc-souled father, the Rev John
Seymour Whitman, this upright and
downright integrity of conscience and
OF purpose appears in your District
Attorney and now your Governor-elect.
The people of your state are 70 be
heartily congratulated in that they
may confidently rely upon their having
an administration during which. when
difficult questions are to be decided. the
prime point TO be considered VIII al
ways be, as this thing right?'
ADDISON BALLARD.
Pittsfeld, Mass, Nov. Il, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-19
THE GREATER CALL
Is the Way of Self-Preservat;on tho
Full Measure of Duty?

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Once upon time, a long time
ago, there was a wax. Ii was over three
Thousand years ago. There were two
nations fighting, and there were sol
ders and generals IN this war, and all
those things. and there was treachery;
q captain fleeing from his enemies was
ruthlessly murdered by woman whose
husband had befriended him. But there
was good side to it all, too, for the
people so the story runs, Offered
themselves willingly" and kings came
and fought and took no money" When
IL was over il seemed as if right had
won, and that was the end.
Suddenly on the air there rang out
curse, a bitter curse, on a whole peo-
pie. They were cursed because Of
something that they failed TO do.
Curse ye Meroz, saith the angel of
the Lord, curse ye bitterly the in
habitants thereof, because they came
not to the help of the Lord, TO the help
of the Lord against the mighty"
Oh why did they not come? Was
there a reason? Was there an obliga-
tion? 1t has been left to the world for
ever 70 divine.
Back OF the shifting scenes of his
tory, back Of the rise and fall Of ma
tions, back Of the reaches Of intel
lcctusl greatness, lies ever the one and
the same single issue of life, mans
character; that something which makes
all The difference in the world between
. Victoria Cross and prison van.
In this grave crisis in the worlds
history, when, from Belgium's cause on.
right and wrong and good and evil
seem pitted against each other i'm
sharpest contrast and the waste of
life is so terrific, so pitiless, as 10 move
even heart Of stone, shall we Ameri-
cans follow the counsels of him who
so deludes himself as TO think that
'the way" Of self-preservation is the
way Of the Lord" and adiures Us 10
take no side, in act, or word. or
thought, or shall we answer the greater
call, and remembering that "he who is
not with me is against me-" rise to the
most golden opportunity our nation
has ever yet had. and come to the help
of the Lord against the mighty?
Woodmere, Nov. IL, 1914. AR,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-19
THE UNBIASED MIND
Thoughts of an Anglophobe Upon
Duelling, Zealots and the Press.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Reading the very savage state
ment of Margaret Bradshaw in your
paper recently, | wish to state that
too am an American whose Revolution
airy forefathers, of Welsh and English
extraction, settle1 in old New England
IL 1852. My forefathers not alone
fought in the American Revolution, but
IN the Indian wars, the War OF lol2,
he Mexican War and my TWO grand
fathers were officers in the Union
army; therefore | must CO.. ~ confess
that | am not much Of a foreigners
with this exception, that have stud.
led for several years p GERMANY; ard
l am very much surprised that any
American woman who claims she has
the blood of Revolutionary forefathers
coursing in her veins can be at once
so bloodth rsty and so provincial
minded as 20 state that 4 the anger
of woman could slay there would not
be male German left in the world
The beautiful intellectual culture OF
the German vas versa.ly admitted
by all Intellectual OF whatever nation
until biassed and subsidized Amenesn
press assumed : contrary view, and IN
fortunately the sreat masses Of the
readers OF our daily papers, having
no Imagination OF their own, poll-paf-
rot like, would give uttorance 70 "nss
they read. Even now some Of our more
fair minded biassed american press aa,
NIT that the greater part Of so-eatlel
information from French and Eng.isn
sources is manufactured by their on
Gals as they wish IL 90 be and not IS
IL really is. Her statement that AZ
Heidelberg she saw a lusty student "a
the university paradiug the sIrees
with his face oelecked with STRIPS =.
plaster 20 cover the effects Of a receM
duel can well be- duplicated m th.s
country, where J have seen iootoa.
Players carried of the field unconscious
where the respective teams raw
rough housed 1t up together. su.l
brutality Of play is not permitted I'D
Germany. .,
Vile and contemplate. indeed, mus.
be England's position in this holoca.,'
when she reso- 10 the most dlsreP-,
BILE and filthy newspaper campAlsJJ
that the world has ever known 70 OO,
stcr up her miserable Screenings o. g.
the cant and hypocrisy Of her u.eH
diplomacy. Thank God there are sons
Americans who have not iorsoW'II
the teachings II their forebears, ats'
indeed. would our Revolutionary ~
roes turn in their graves 4 they eo...
to-day realize that our political Sos
mc-cial and historical enemy hng;I1nu,
has induced the unthin6.ng as wen
the Tory element Of our population
in agine that she is our friend IN spp'1
of historical acts OF hostility o.
NJ. [. CHAMBERLAIN
Now York. Nov. -. 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-19
An Open Forum for
Public Debate.

me TO accept the chairmanship, prssi-
dcncy and general managershp Of
league dedicated TO the suppression
and obliteration of the correspon-
Dental war experts, or 20 turn their
efforts in the direction OF the non-
smokers society or some other place
where their intellects will have fl and
proper company.
OSCAR r. HOUSTON.
New York. Nov. 10, 1914
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-19

paper. The Sultan has fought no offensive war
for over half a century, the brief war OF 1897
against Greece excepted And even in that war
the gravest faults in organization were deVe'opeu'
The test made Of Turkeys fighting capacity III
1912 was most disappointing. What she can 10
now is n mystery. But she would amaze the
world if she could accomplish even third OF
fourth Of the huge task assigned her by the
General Stats at Berlin and Vienna
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-19
Private Examples for a Public Board.

Mr.. John Martin, Jealous defender Of the
Board Of Education's teacher-mother policy, re-
Gently declared that no private business would
or could be expected to grant leave Of absence TO
woman employee for bearing and nursing a
child Therefore the city should not be expected
to do SO, he reasoned. He evidently was talking
without having investigated, for it called to
his attention then that "The World" had granted
such leave of absence four times. Now Judge
Gary. of the United States Steel Corporation,
says that such leave of absence is the policy of
his concern-always with an eye to the efficiency
of the employee, which is the sole test.
Conduct of the pubc's business should always
be on a broader, sounder officially more just
basis than it is reasonable to expect to find in
private business conducted for gain. Yet here
is the city, which should be the leader, out
stripped by private concerns in a matter which
is essentially question of social justice. 1t is
fortunate that Mayor Mitchell is alive to the sit
uation in all its bearings, for his is the real
power to change the Conservatism" Of the Board
of Education into something better fitting mod
ern times
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-19
The Teacher-F ather.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Apropos OF mo man can serve
two masters as reason Why teacher
of children may not also be mother
of children, when is the school board
going TO begin suspending the princi-
nails. assistant superintendents, super
intendents. district superintendent and
ether school officials who write and
publish textbooks? These are the chill
dren of their brains, and no baby could
be more absorbing of time and atten-
ton than they when properly cared
for {. G..
Newark. y. j.. Nov. II. 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-19
A Call for a Bylaw.

To The Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Why all OF the criticism of the
Board of Education over the suspen-
sion Of a woman who took Dutch
leave of absence TO bear a child?
When "a woman brings a baby into
the world there is always the assump-
tion that she has a husband. and il
this be true why doesn't that husband
support her and not she him? II a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-19
THE PEOPLES COLUMN

woman's husband is a hopeless invalid
that IS Of course, an exception, and
she should be allowed 20 teach to sup
port him, but even in that case a child
born under those circumstances is GER
tainly a grave occurrence.
If there ia nothing in the bylaws Of
the board to prevent a teacher from
becoming a mother the rules should be
amended without further delay. The
whole controversy is preposterous.
STEPHEN p. HARTLEY.
New York, Nov. IL, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-19
The Necessary Teacher.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Anent the mother-teacher mud
die, perhaps 1T will conduce to fair
dealing 10 all concerned If il be borne
i'm mind that while the school system
is maintained primarily for the child.
yet it cannot exist without the teacher.
JULIUS HYMAN.
New York, Nov. II, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-19

Norember 17-Lay late, having had the best
slumber | have had in many years, until past
ten, and very happy thereat. To the courts, and
PLAYED little with j. Golden, but too cold and
windy for sport. Thence to meet o. Johnson
the tayle-writer for game at pocket-billiards,
and | beat him with great qse, using Jack
Adamss cue but better than he handleth it.
18-Up, and met j. Williams and walked
through the park with him and to luncheon. He
hath come to town to live and likes the town
better than the country, for saith he, it is
qui,ter and cheaper And | had iefer live in
the city, albeit n. Hapgood and Wally Eaton do
tern me cockney therefor. Home TO dinner. and
H Clark the barrister and Mistress Marion are
come. whom ! have not seen ia many months.
and / glad of seeing them. And we had wild
goose for dinner from G.. Rogers the hunter.
very fine, too. And dessert of maple cream
which our Olive did build with great art
Edar's father tells him he should cease lastlining
If he doesn't, he thinks the lad will come to bad
end.