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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-18
Time to Take Action.

Augusta citizens in general will ap-
prove the action of the city govern
ment looking TO regulation Of street
traffic 1t is matter that has been
neglected far too long. We have
complained so much in recent years
that other administrations have felt
that we were attempting to make
political capital out of their liberation
Of the conduct of many prominent
undertaking. one bound to cause bit
terness toward those with backbone
sufficient to attempt restrictions. We
could not much blame city officials
who hesitated to interfere with the
practices Of their friends. We have
not criticized them, but we have
strongly urged owners and drivers of
automobiles to hold their driving
within the bounds of reason and with
due regard to the rights and safety of
others.
Now that our Mayor and his asso-
ciates have taken action. we wish to
express on behalf of a great majority
of citizens our entire approval. and to
offer the assurance of our support in
rigidly enforcing any ordinance they
may pass making for public safety
and convenience.
Because man owns an automobile
does not make his time so valuable
that he must travel at a high rate of
speed to meet his engagements, or to
crafty his desire to show what his
car can do. Pedestrians and team
owners have rights that must be re-
spected. and no man has moral right
to gamble on his life or that of his
neighbor.
We have frequently called attention
to the careless Indifference of a per-
centage of automobile drivers that
frequent the streets Of this city. We
nave ueplOlSu the ptdC-
tees of some Of these autoists, in fast
driving on crowded streets, passing
standing electric cars at fast clip,
and shooting past street functions at
at high rate of speed. We have ex-
pected a sad accident and only a
miracle seems many times to have
prevented 1t. We have all the pre-
paredness'' for a disaster on Water
Street, to say nothing of other Sec
tions, particularly the Western ave-
nue. speedway. Many automobile
drivers seem to have the conviction
that they must gather speed all the
way from Bridge street, going south,
in order to negotiate Rines Hill. And
some of these add to their folly open
violation of city ordinance by cut
ting out the muffler apA tearing over
the rising ground like a Texas tor
nado. These drivers have little or no
regard for the feelings or the rights of
others. 1t phases them to display
their contempt for regulations which
conflict with their personal liberty"
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Editorial Comment
The SuHrase-Why Not?
(Coilier's).

(CCiHerS).
Four of Our Extreme Eastern States
New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania. and Massachusetts-will vote
this fall on proposed constitutional
amendments granting ID women the right
of suffrage. New Jerseys election will
be held in October, the vote in the other
states being cast at the regular Novem.
Der elections. 1t is perhaps too much
to expect that these states will all vote
in favor of suffrage. and yet there seems
not much doubt of the final result. Many
of those opposed to woman suffrage to-
day are of that class which formerly OPP
posed all suffrage except that based on
property qualifications. When men come
to realize that suffrage is not a natural
but an acquired political right, and that
women were formerly considered ineligi
BILE because they were untitled to bear
arms. and because in mental capacity
and equipment women were considered
inferior to men. they cannot longer con-
sistently hesitate to allow them a share
in political privileges. There are too
many physical incompetents who are al
ready voters, and the progress of women
in all departments has long since laid the
ghost of tler intellectual inca pacity
Politics iss becoming more and more A
matter of humanity and of civic and do
mestic economy, and the arguments
against woman suffrage are becoming
leaner and more archaic year by year.
NO reason on EARTH, said the late
Speaker Reed, can be given by those
who claim suffrage as right of man.
hood which does not make it right OF
woma nhood also" Lincoln. Greeley,
Phillips. Curtis, Beecher. and other lead
ers of their time were of like mind. 1t is
merely a case of self preservation when
politicians expert in sordid politics are
against the political activities of women
as they usually are. California was one of
the last states to grant woman suffrage,
and Governor Johnson says that. We're
the question to be again submitted. the
vote in favor would be Overwhelming.
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Senator Weeks Address.

Manchester Union.)
Senator John w. Weeks. in his address
before the Hillsborough County Republic
can club, accurately and tersely reflect
ed the true American spirit when he adj
vocated support of the administration
while it was in the midst of negotiations
with foreign governments. with the res
ervation of the right to unrestricted criti-
cism of the administration after such ne
gotiations had closed. Senator Weeks
conceded the clear title of the President
to uninpeded and unembarrassed free
dom in dealing with diplomatic questions
and the right of the President to expect
the country to stand back of him in any
demands he may have to make, but the
Massa Chusetts senator did not fail to
emphasize the right and duty of Amer-
cans to criticize the conduct of these ne
gotiations when the interchanges were
over. One might. for instance, feel very
strongly that Mr.. Wilson was lamenta-
bly, weak in not exhaustng every re-
source to prevent British interference
with neutral trade when the British Or
der-in-council was first announced, and
vet one must, if he Is a good American,
support tne ITeSlUeHl III HIS controversy
with Germany which was largely the
product Of the British interference with
neutral commerce.
Senator Weeks scored heavily on the
administration when he described the
efforts now in progress to interest Ameri-
can capital in South America and to ex-
tend American trade interests in that
direction. and then contrasted this policy
with the policy still being practced by
the administration of completely aband-
oning in both life and property those
Americans who had pursued exactly that
course by making investments in Mexico
Upon this subject the speaker pertinently
said:
LAS result Of the Pan-American
conference. we find the administra-
ton urging American citizens to I'M
dertake business enterprises in Cen
trail and South American countries
and Mr.. Bryan even suggested an
issue of government bonds to aid
those countries in their internal de-
velopment. all Of which seems ridicu-
lous when We know that for more
than two years the administration has
not only failed to protect America.
owned property in Mexico but it has
told the owners of that property that
their entering foreign countries for
commercial reasons was at their own
risk. that presumably they expected
to make large profits and that they
must not expect the government to
become involved In protecting them
or their property"
The impression which Senator Weeks
made upon his New Hampshire audience
was distinctly favorable. He demon.
strated his capacity for dealing with big
national problems in a statesmanlike
manner. and while New Hampshire Re.
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Dignity Softened by Heat.

Here's to the Vermont judge who
waived court dignity in the face of
heat. On announcing the noon re-
cess. Wednesday at Newfane. Judge
Fish said:
We'll. gentlemen, l think there
will be no dissenting opinion from
any OF you when l say that this
has been an unusually hot forenoon
and that it is likely to be hotter
this afternoon. If any of the gentle
men OF the jury or any others wish to
appear after dinner without your
coats. the court will make no objec-
ton"
AS a result every man in the court
room. in the afternoon was in his
shirtsleeves except Judge Fish, who
wore his thinnest coat.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-18
DAILY KENNEBEC JOURNAL SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 49, 1918

Gaui, cowen. cigar. Bfahms All @HAny
others, including Horatio eRAtker OF
Yale (the winner of two pri1es. abE $4,000
each for operas in competition which
could be studied, performed and, be
household words; but which as far as
Augusta is concerned. are almost entirely
unknown; and the, composers might
never have lived and yet they stand in
music as Aristotle, RGc0n. Shakespeare
Gladstone, the late Pope Leo and others
have stood intellectually.
Opinions are hereby invited regarding
the desire of Augusta musicians for such
an acquisition to the city. Also from
men and women of professional and COM
mercial stability, and those of magnani-
nous views who are rely to help in
such ways as
~ Supplying room of capacity for
| rehearsals, or of bestowing some financial
help possibly.
(2) Those willing to supply piano Cor
small organ) musical accompaniment
during rehearsals.
90 Those prepared to serve and work
on committees. etc.
A comparatively good number have
ter, but a wider scope is here given.
Hallowell would contribute 20 or more
members.
J. the Undersigned. would. at the start,
give my services without any stipulated
salary or remuneration, until such times
as such a society could be viewed as
commercial commodity, and would be
prepared to put some good work and
plenty of it, to thoroughly establish it,
if enough bona fide enthusiasm is given
by Augusta.
Briefly. the plan would be. s1.o0 MEM
bership fee. to cover necessary initial eX-
penses. and each member purchase own
music, and so be able to practise and
sing same atrnome.
Any and all helpers are cordially in
vited to respond in this paper, or send to
Yours truly,
A. S. HOCGHTON.
| =. O. Box 3, Augusta.
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to make a nuisance and menace of
themselves.
At the top Of Rines Hill is a blind
turn, a dangerous spot for fast NOV
ing vehicles Of any sort. in either di-
rection. Going up, drivers hug the
right shoulder of the hill, as they
should, but those coming down Green
or Grove streets are recklessly in
clined to shorten the trip by keeping
close to the left wall. We fear a bad
accident at that point first because
drivers are so often in a tremendous
hurry, next because they are always
usurping the rights of others and TAX
ing the chances; and last because. as
a city. we have mad no regulations or
restrictions for, or apparent interest
in. providing this safety for the public.
On Wednesday an Augusta business
man Of failing eyesight was struck by
car near the Maine Central station.
Fortunately he was not seriously in
jured, but what must have been his
fate il he had been hit by one Of the
many cars that speed from Winthrop
street up the hill at from 80 to 80
miles an hour?
Let us rejoice the we need not await
the inevitable tragedy that we have
so long Providentially escaped, before
any actual measures Of restriction
prove that we have intelligence and
mon safety
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-18

publicans, most wisely we think, are re-
serving their judgment upon the question
of a choice of standard-bearer in the
next campaign, feeling the acute need
of getting the strongest and most avail
able man to lead against an entrenched
enemy, they entertain for the principal
speaker at the Nashua gathering very
real respect and admiration and feel like
their neighhors in Massachu-
sets upon having in the federal senate
so stalwart a champion of sound and
wholesome national doctrines.
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Editors Letter Box
Choral Society Possible for Augusta

Choral Society Possible for Augusta.
Editor kennebec Journal:
| beg to submit. through your paper
to the citizens of Augusta, the question
of Peoples Choral Society. 1t is a
truism that most places with only half
the population of Augusta. and only half
of the vocal ability and musicianship,
very often maintain a good society
which can efficiently render standard mu-
steal compositions.
Augusta should be adequate to supply
from 100 70 $50 adult voices. which could
have weekly rehearsals, and study can
tatas, Oratorio and operate Choruses.
as also vocal works of eminent compos-
ers: and give public concerts at stated
times.
There are loads of musical works by
Handel. Mendelssohn. Haydn. Schubert.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-18

moon Of the 23d is the so-ca!!ed Har-
vest moon, being the full moon near
est to the autumnal equinox. Inc
name is due to the fact that moon
rise occurs soon after sunset at near
ly the same time for several success
sive evenings, instead of about 80
minuets later from night to night.
This gives an UNUSUAL number Of
moonlit evenings. Mercury will be
visible this month for a few evenings
about the 27th in the West just after
sunset. Jupiter is now the most
conspicuous object in the evening
sky where it may be found in the
Southeast. 1t rose at sunset on the
18th. when it was in opposition. 1t
will, therefore, be in good position
for observation this month. On the
22d at SIS T. NJ, the moon will pass
near Jupiter.
Birds are plenty enough, but the ex-
ceedingy hot weather for fall has
made duck hunting down in the bay
rather below the average. The hunt
ers--unlike the most Of us-are hoping
for cold weather.
Some of the handsomest surf seen
for years at Popham and Small Point
has been witnessed during the past
| week by those fortunate to be enjoy
ing the beautiful September weather
at those resorts. 1t is supposed that
a terrific storm far out at sea was the
cause, the gigantic waves apparently
rolling IN from a great distance. They
were so heavy that rough water was
kicked up in places several fathomS
deep. The fishermen at some points
were prevented from going out
The second crop of grass is in some
quantity is said to be good. Some
contrast. TO the conditions in other
! places where the land owner didn't
even get the first crop.
S. r. Penney of Mechanic Falls has
pumpkin vine in his garden which
is quite a curiosity. 1t is like the ordi-
nary pumpkin vine where it comes out
of the ground and some 20 to 80 feet
long. At distance of ten feet or so
from the place where it starts it COM
mencas to widen out and at or near
| the extreme end it is seven inches
wide and a half-inch thick with leaves
and blossoms coming out of it, six to
a dozen in cluster.
Percy & Small and the G.. G. Deer
| ing Co. of Bath are doing their share
toward the prosperity of the Ship
| ping City, by adding two four-masted
| schooners to the local fleet. The keels
are stretched and framing has com
| menced on both craft. At the Kelley
! Spear Co. at the North End two barges
are under construction. The four YES
sells give Bath the record on the At
| lantic coast for wooden craft under
| construction. At the Bath Iron Works
two torpedo boat destroyers and one
! big ocean yacht are well underway.
! The executive board of the Maine Fed,
Grafton of Women's Clubs will meet
Tuesday, Sept. 81. at noon at the Fal.
mouth hotel in Portland. Charmen OF
| the committees have been asked to meet
with the executive board at this time.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-18

II Germany and Austria are holding
1000, 900 Russian soldiers and several
other millions have been killed and
wounded, what in the world is making
the progress of the Teutonic armies
so slow? According to Berlin figures
the Russian army must now be sew
eral hundred thousands less than
nothing
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-18

From the number Of Russian pris-
oners which Germany claims to hold
the Car must be plotting to eat the
Teutons out of house and home
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Not FacialIy.

'How do you preserve the paint SO
wonderfully"
Il put many coats of varnish over it,
explained the artist. But" he added
hastily, Il hardly think that would work
in your case, dear lady"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-18
On the Side.

The big man with the bevel front
paused near the guess within-three-
pounds-of- your weight machine, and the
crowd closed in to see the fun. The weigh
master looked him over. front and back.
then announced solemnly: You'll weigh
10, pounds on the front side and 1o7
po'lnus on the back side, aitogo Their Eli
pounds. Sit down in the chair. please
The pointer flew around to 30 pounds
The crowd laughed, the weighmaster
glowered a bit over the loss of his dime
and the wife of the big man said. with
giggle:
''Fte missed it six pounds on the front
side
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-18
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECT06T
TRINITY COMMAM1cnI-

TRINITY coMMANDERY. No
n. T; Stated conclave at Masonic
PIE FRIDAY evening, Sept. Ii, 1915 An I'm
turning fraters are cordially invita-
LEWIS A. BURLEIGH. Fin o..
GEORGE H. BANGS, Record.,,a "a
AUGUSTA LODGE, NO. 14,, :, AVA
A. NJ. Special communication rr.. "v
sept q. Work in E. A. degree ASaI
Ionrning brethren are cordially inr a ~
M i,ANois ,; n: GALLAGHAN, WV
ODD FELLOWS HALL
AsYLUM.LoDGE, NO. 70. Rec,u.,
meeting Friday evenings at s.on SWAN
E. F. WESTON. s..
JGPHTHA ENCAMPMENT. M
Meetings at 800 O'Clock every second a..
fourth Tuesday. Tuesday evening s hu
Is, rehearsal Of Patriarchal degree wy"
W. II: Johnson, CO
c. E. STEWART. Serb.
CANTON AUGUSTA, NO. g. ~
Regular meeting every third Tuesday 4,
RAY NJ. BURNS. cletE
QUEEN TEMPLE. NO. rs, PYTHIHN
Sisters, meets in K. of P. hall III. ...'
ond and fourth Tuesday evenings Of saI
month, at 7.3G O'clock 'NS4
ETHEL L. SMITH, NJ Z,
ADELAIDE NJ. PAGE. NJ. Of R. and 6
LCCIE P. LEWIS. VI. of F.
tu-th-sat.tf
CAPITAL GRANGE, NO. 24e. p. Of
H. Meetings I'd and 4th Saturday evan.
ings of each month at G. A. R. hall
MRS. EMMA F. HOWE. ". N
MRS. ALICE RIPLEY. Sec.
N. z. Q. p, KENNEHEc LODGE, No
251 meets in G. A. R. hall the first and
third Tuesday evenings of each month
MRS. LoTTIE H. PIERCE, Warden
MRS. EMMA F. HOWE. Rec. Sec.
B. L. NICHOLAS, Fin. Sec.
tuth-sat
G. A. r. THE REGULAR MEETING
of Seth Williams Post No l3, second and
fourth Thursdays of each month.
ARTHUR L. BROWN, Commander.
VIM. McDAVID, Adiutant
Q. O. STETSON. Quartermaster.
tu-thsat.tf
GEN. PHIL SHERIDAN CIRCLE,
No. 5. Ladies of the G. A. R.: Regular
meeting in &. A. r. hall every Tuesday
at 2.30 P. NJ.
MRS. BELL E. SANBORN. Pres
MRS. SARAH l.. GUPTILL, Sec
tu-th. sat.1yr
RETAIL CLERKS UNION, LOCAL
No. SIG. Regular meetings FIRST and thira
Tuesdays of each month in Golden Gross
hall.
A. B. MARI, President.
o. F. DOUGLAS, Rec. Sec'y
| mayl1tues. thur&satlyr
SETH WILLIAMS INDEPENDENT
Relief CORPS. Meetings every Thursday
afternoon at 230 at G. A. R. hall
HATTIE LIPPINCOTT, Prsa
ADDIE w. GAY. Sec.
L. j. McDAV1D. Treas
april tn til sat,lyr
UNIFORM RANK, KNIGHTS Of
Pythias. King Company. No. 4. Regular
meeting first Thursday Of each month
Capt. F. w. PAGE.
Rec. w. FRANK HERRlCA
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-18
Maine Gossip
Abbie Ben Adams,

Abbe Ben Adams. may her life be spared.
Awoke one night and felt triie scared ,
For on her shirt-waist box, closslegged,
safe
A vision writing on little slate
Exceeding nervousness made Abhie
And to the vision timdly she spake.
What writes thou?" The vision looked
At her presumption, and quite coldly
drawled,
The list of our best people who depart
For watering-places sumptuous and
smart
And am l in it," asked Miss Abbie.
The scornful vision said. You're poor
you know"
can't afford mountains or prices steep
But ere you leave, just jot this item
Il never ever leave! !: my cats to starve in
The vision wrote and vanished. Next
night, late.
He came again. and brought his little
And showed the names Of people really
And, 10 Miss Abbie's name led all the
Carolyn Wells, in Life
ter from Mrs. G. w. Cushman of
Winslow, who says
Having just read in todays paper
Of an Easter lily with three blossoms,
wish to say + have one which bios
somed at Easter and after blooming,
set it in the ground with no particu-
lar care. found it in bud. Took it
up and carried it to church last Sab
bath with two blossoms and two buds
Now today (Sept. 16) it has four per-
feet blossoms which are being ex-
hibited to my friends"
Five days only to the beginning of
autumn and the Harvest moon.
One OF the humorous incidents in
the history of Lewiston is marked
by a street sign off Sylvan avenue.
The cross street, laid out not so
many years ago, was first called by
the name Of Parker avenue, after
an early and respected family there,
Isaac n. Parker having been mayor
OF the city in 1868 and Nathaniel
Parker having earned the title OF
captain. In some way, in recent years,
a petition was put through for a
change and the city directory now
indicates that the street bears the
name of Tampa presumably after
a certain well-known city in Florida,
a resident on the street having lived
In that place for a few years. But
the sign, which, under the circum-
stances. is provocative Of some humor.
bears the legend "Tamper street"
Each September has two astro-
nomical events Of interest the arrival
of the sun at the autumnal equinox
and the Harvest moon. This year
the sun crosses the equator going
South on the 23d at 1924 P. NJ, at
which time autumn begins, according
to the almanac. BY the end of the
month the sun will have reached a
point nearly three degrees south of
the equator in the constellation Virgo.
As consequence the days decrease
rapidly in length in northern lati-
tudea, the total decrease for the
month in our latitude being 80 min
utes, OF which the afternoon loses 50
minutes and the morning 80. The full
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Light ana Airy
The Real Ihina.

He is a real finanCier
AS any man must be
VIII earns two thousand plunks year
And squanders three.
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The Dancer,

PA. a mans wife is his better half,
isn't she?"
We are told so. my SON.
Then. if a man marries twice there
isn't anything left of him, is thereH''-
Boston Transcript.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-18

Dress goods lower" says market note
Skirts or shirt waists? We should ask
Pats and Knocks, Portland Press
Safety first precautions-inq be-
fore you look.
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Saturday, September 10, 1918.

Some men live altogether
outside their own souls; some
live altogether within their
own souls; some pass out and
in: these last are the best
men.-Dr. Austin O'Malley.
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Quick Application.

The faith curist told my wife TO Try
the long distance cure"
IBID she?"
Ibid she, She made me buy her ii
automobile Baltimore American
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The World War a Year AGO
T0day-Sept. 10.

Combatants on the Aisne set
tied down to a siege.
King George of England de-
clared before parliament that
Great Britain would not lay down
her arms short Of complete VIC
tory.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-18

publican in the vicinity has been
complaining to the police of the way in
which the Bermondsey. Eng, Borough
Council dispose of bad eggs. They run
over the eggs with roller he says.
and then wash them down a drain.
Think of 400 cases of bad eggs being
smashed outside your house,. 1t does
seem rather a waste when we think of
the unrecprocated chlorine in Flanders.
Is it because Of its traditional assoca-
ton with elections that the bad egg is
one of our national themes of humour?
One might compile quite library of
''bad-egg" humour, which would even in
clude verse. So fastidious scribe as
"Saki'' has not dsdained the theme
Cackle, cacl<le, little hen,
How | wonder if and when
Once Eou laid the egg that |
Met, alas too late. Amen.
the Amen" being explained as giving
an air of forgiveness and chose jugee to
the whole thing.