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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1915-05-05

All the aldermen were present at the
regular meeting Monday evening, aid.
Wescott, president OF the board, presid-
ing in the absence OF { he mayor.
Rolls OF accounts were passed as follows:
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MARINE LIST.
Ellsworth Port

Sid April 20, sch Catherine, Bangor
Ar May s, sch Lulu Eppes, Bangor
Hancock County Porte.
Franklin = Sid April 80, sch Portland
Packet, Boston
West sullivan-Sld April 30. sch Georgietts,
Boston
Sid May 4, sch William Jones, Newport
Southwest Harbor = Sid April q, ga
Actaeon, coAstwise
Sid April %, sim Massasoit. coastwise
In port-May 8. sch Albert Lutz (Br) from
Nova Scotia with cargo halibut and cod fish
May 8, ga Mary G, with cargo live Holsters
from Nova Scotia
May 8, schs American Team, Isaiah K Stet-
son and A Allen, bound east; Jennie 8 Hall
bound west
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1915-05-05
LADIES CAN WEAR SHOES

One size smaller after using Aliens Foot
Ease the Antiseptic powder to be shaken Into
the shoes for tired. swollen, acning, tenoei
Gives rest and comfort. Sold everywhere,
nc Ask for Aliens Foot-Ease. Don't accepf
anp substitufe-
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LOOK up YOUR OLD LETTERS

Cash paid for United States postage
stamps before 1870. Must not be torn or
clipped. Higher prices when left on the
original envelopes. Write to
GEORGE A. HITCHCOCK, Ware, Mass.
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1bbsrttseusents.
Penny Wise and Pound Foolish

Hard times make every woman
look to see where she can save
money, which, Of course, is SEN
stble and proper If not carried
too far.
In the case Of food 1t would be
foolish to attempt to substitute
saudust for breakfast food
because It is cheaper. Everyone
knows saudust has no food value
and its use would be a positive
detrtment to the health.
Royal Baking Powder, which is
made from cream Of tartar, adds
only healthful qualities to the
food.
The difference in cost Of q
pan Of biscuits or Of cake made
with Royal Baking Powder as COM
pared With cheap alum or phos-
plate Of lime powders is about one
cent, which is surely too small an
amount to warrant the risk.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER co.
New York
The Washington times., 1915-12-06
ONE POSSIBLE MISTAKE

There are a few towns in this
country, to either of which a ma
tional political convention might go
with assurance that il would be
well and comfortably handled.
There are very large number to
which such gathering should not
be sent, because they are not To-
Gated or equipped to handle it.
There have been some sorry ex-
periences in the past, incident to
ill-thought efforts at playing a lit
tie politics in placing the convention.
Next year the Democratic conven-
tion is going to draw a very large
attendance, because the Democracy
IN in power, and the party will turn
out to make an occasion of the
quadrennial meeting. There are
especial reasons why a real conven-
tion city should be named; and when
the Democratic national committee
votes tomorrow on the location il
will serve it's party well if it will
subordinate other considerations ia
this one,
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dreds of thousands who had never
known more than their own little
section of this big and varied coun-
try, travelled across the continent
with their eyes open to learn the
things that every American ought
to know.
The glorious record of the San
Francisco exposition may be temp
tation to other ambitious cities to
attempt like efforts. They should
be warned. There are not many
San Franciscos, and there is no other
California; there will not likely be
another combination of such auspi-
cious conditions. The exposition
business has been overdone in this
country, and it would be testimony
to the good sense of aspiring munich
palities if they would permit this
splendid accomplishment of the
Golden Coast to close the record on
worlds fairs for a decade.
The Washington times., 1915-12-06
White PLAGUE FOES
BEGIN GREAT DRIVE
National Association Urges All
to Submit to Medical Exami-
nation as Safeguard.

Every member of the National Asso-
citation for the Study and Prevention Of
tuberculosis today enlisted in the cam
paign to spread knowledge concerning
the way to fight the white plague. This
was the first day OF Tuberculosis Week.
Every day this week some special fea-
ture OF the campaign against the disease
VIII be emphahized. The most import
ant will be Wednesday. which has been
designated as medical examination day.
Appeals have been sent out asking every
one to see doctor. to determine Just
what his state OF health Is. 1t Is urged
that many people suffer from prevent
able diseases. especially tuberculosis.
and many minor defects without know
Ing there is anything the matter with
them. II the trouble be treated at once.
the campaign managers say. much suf-
fering and disease could be prevented.
In the District OF Columbia. according
TO the association. thirteen people die
every week from tuberculosis. 1t is
stated that this death rate Is less tina n
that OF few years ago. the decrease
being due largely to the prevention
propaganda.
Friday has been set aside as children's g
day and lectures. win pe gwen in the
public schools Of the city. A special ef-
fort Will be made also to start the sale
or Red Cross seals on this day.
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PROGRESS FOR THE DISTRICT

In effect, the estimates submitted
to Congress today by the Commits
sioners of the District constitute a
charter revision for this city. Con-
gress is asked to provide $15,473, 900
revenue for the next fiscal year; an
increase of $3,500,000 over the cur
rent year. But it is fair to say that
even more Importance should be at
tached to the Legislative changes
than to the fiscal showing. The
Commissioners ask for new and
greater powers; powers that, in the
effort to centralize responsibility
and authority, ought in most cases
to be given them.
They want to take over control of
the public schools, now vested in a
board named by the District Su-
preme Court. They ask alike COM
plete control of the charities and
eleemosynary establishments. They
want provision made for annual in
stead of triennial assessments OF
real estate, and for the recording of
true considerations in deeds They ask
that that part of the control over the
city water supply system that is now
vested in the War Department be
transferred to the Commissioners
! that important appointments now re,
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siding with the President or the
courts be turned over to the Com
missioners; in short, they reach out
for larger powers in many direc-
tions; for those powers which in
cities under commission govern
ment are commonly reposed in the
executive body, and which, being
centralized there, have seemed to
make for better administration and
more effective responsibility.
A considerable number of salary
increases for employees of the mu-
nicipal government are desired; and
it is particularly to be desired that
Congress should consider these, not
as efforts to grab something, but
on their merits. The difference be.
tween salary and wage scales, fo,
like work, in Federal and municipal
service here, indicate that many Dis.
trict employees are underpaid.
While the estimates as presented
do not include demand for imme.
date development of the Great
Falls power project, the Commits.
sioners will back separate legisla.
tion to that end, and it is believed
that its chance Of passage may be ir
the end improved, strategically, by
reason of separation from the gen.
eral District budget.
1t will hardly be questioned that
the Commissioners have been ampl,
ambitious in their scheme of prof
ects for betterment of the municipa
establishment. They have followed
the lines of what experience has
proved the best municipal practice
If Congress will give District mat
ters the serious attention which they
deserve, the notable series of recon-
mendations now submitted will pro
duce some highly useful results fol
the city.
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TYPO, UNION HOLDS
MEMORIAL SERVICE
Tribute Paid to Forty Departed
Members at Gathering in
Temple.

with impressive services Columbia
typographical Union. No. l01, yes
terday paid tribute to the memory
OF forty Of its members who died
during the year. The exercises were
held at typographical Temple. The
Rev. Earle Whitley. pastor of the
Vermont Avenue Christian Church.
delivered the address.
Robert e. Bragg. chairman OF the
memorial committee. spoke on the
work done by the departed members
in establishing the union. He com
mended them for their true patriot
ism and fraternalism.
George G. Siebold, secretary of the
union. called the roll OF the dead
members, Redfeld's orchestra fur
nished selections of music and a
quartet consisting OF Henry Collision.
Burton Corning. Raymond Moore. and
William Hanft sang Lead, Kindly
Light" l.. A. Shackleford gave a
cornet solo, 1.-The Holy City" and the
meeting ended with those present
singing "Blest Be the Tie That
Binds"
DR.. Whitley in his address eXtolleG
the spirit which impels men to come
together in unified strength. He
lauded the purposes of this cooper
alton, which he said did much in
helping in the uplift of those who
may be temporarily in need.
The Washington times., 1915-12-06
THE PANAMA EXPOSITION

When the world went to war, just
as California was finishing prepara-
tions for its two expositions, there
was profound concern for the eff
feet that the new conditions might
exercise. There were fears that the
big shows, especially the Panama
Pacific exposition at San Francisco,
might fail if they were opened on
schedule time, and it was suggested
that postponement would be the safe
course.
But San Francisco quickly decided
to go ahead, and appealed to the
country to help her by taking a year
for seeing America. The country
responded in a fashion that nobody
could have imagined; and when Sat-
urday the great exposition closed af-
ter 288 days of continuance, it left
the record Of the greatest success
ever registered for like enterprise.
The exposition debts were all paid
months ago; over 100000 admis.
sions were clicked into the record OF
the stiles; and a net profit of $2,000,-
900 Is reported.
However successful the exposition
has been in a business way, it is
entitled to yet more credit for the
service it performed for the Ameri
can nation. 1t did more to make
Americans know their own country
than any other Of the great show.
that have been held here, with pos
sibly the exception of the Centennia
at Philadelphia. 1t came at a timt
when there was willingness to con
slider the West, because West ant
East had been brought closer to
gether than ever by the opening O.
the canal. The imagination of tht
nation had turned toward the Pa
cifc slope; there was a new desir'
- SAs and know: and people by hun
The Washington times., 1915-12-06
MUT|NEERS
PLACED IN IRONS
Attack on Shanghai Arsenal Re-
pulsed and Cruiser Retaken
From Rebels.

PEKING. Dec. 6.-An attempt to
launch a revolutionary movement at
Shanghai has been promptly suppressed
and the rebels imprisoned. according to
official dispatches received here today.
The Chinese cruiser Chao-Ho has been
recaptured from the muuneers. who
have been placed in irons and will be
executed. Land forces easily repulsed
an attempted surprise attack on the
Shanghai arsenal.
The rebels. Shanghai dispatches said.
admitted that their purpose was to start
an anti-monarchial movement. When
they seized the Chaotic they expected
the crews of otner warships In the
harbor to follow them. At the same
time it was planned to capture the gov
ernment arsenal. Both plans mis-
carried.
Al daybreak today the land batteries
and guns of other warships were
trained on the cruiser with threats to
sink her. The mutineers then sur
rendered.
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Tomorrow.

"Zaragueta." a Spanish play. by Spanish
American Atheneun. Rauseher's. y. m.
Meeting. janitors OF the District schools
Typographical Temple. p.
BANQUET and reception. commemorate ting M.
tieth anniversary OF Association OF Oldest
Inhabitants, Ebbltt. 7:3o D. IN.
Dance. Home Club, 8 p. m.
short-form Initiation, Kailipolis Grotto. Ma
tiSnal Rifles hs ArmGsy; . p p m; m. Al. soo,s,v
of the Langdon Methodist Episcopal Church.
new Sunday school room OF church. after
noon and evening.
Christmas bazaar. First Congregat tional
Church. afternoon and evening
Lecture Fright and Left in Usage Rites"
Frances La F1esche, before Anthropolos sical
Society OF Washington. Public Library. s
Election of officers. District of Columbia
New willard, $50 y. m.
Musical for the blind. Library OF Congress. s
p. M
Exhibition. work of the National Association
Meeting. Columbia Heights Citizens Asso-
citation, Wilson Normal School. Eleventh
and Harvard streets northwest, 1880 p. IN.
illustrated lecture, Textiles and Their Sc
lection" II. /. Lang. before meeting Of
Home Economics Associa tion, Woodward &
Lothrop's auditorium, Si5 p. m.
Masonic-National. No. II; Arminus. No. %;
Myron N Parker No. "a; King David.
tsh Rite; Mizpah. No. s; Fidelity. No. -.
Eastern Star.
Odd Fellows-Mount Pleasant, No. 2s; Wash
ington, No. 6; Golden Rule, No. p; Amity.
| No "a; Fidelity. No. 7. RebelSahs.
| Knights OF Pythas-Webster. No. I; Excel
! sior No. IA; Capital. No. "a; Myrtle, No. 25
! National Union-District of Columbia Cabi-
| net. class initiation, Pythisn Temple.
| Jr, o. L. A. M,-Constellation Council. No
SO.
| knights OF Coiumbus-Carroll Council
Daughters OF America-Fidelity Council
u S. w v.-Gen. Nelson A. Miles Camp
| No l. Perpetual Building.
The Washington times., 1915-12-06
THE GOVERNMENT BUDGET

The budget of estimates submit
ted by the Government departments,
through the Secretary of the Treas
ury, to the Congress, calls for
$1,285,000,O0O of appropriations for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1917.
This is an increase of about $780,
100000 over the estimates of the
current year; and however the fig
ures may be adjusted in the legisla-
tive processes, it is very certain that
record appropriations will be the
outcome.
Without any pork barrel authori-
cations included, the new scale of
national living raises US from a bill
'lion-dollar country to a basis of a
billion and quarter. The prepared
ness program is chiefly responsible.
Its needs are indicated in the in
crease from $101, 600, 900 to $780,
100000 for the army; from $149,-
100000 to $217, 100000 for the navy;
in demand for large sums to estab-
lish such military facilities as an ar
NOR plant, projectile factory, sea
coast bases for submarines, a naval
flying corps, a great reserve of mu-
nitions and medical stores, and a lib
cral endowment for the work of the
naval research and invention board.
These are all charges which the
country is on the whole willing to
nay. The money must be spent
wisely and carefully. 1t will not do
to have the effort for preparedness
hinge us into a mere regime of ex-
trf vagance. There must be value re-
csived for the expenditures made. It
~ far more important that the right
p!an be adopted than that for a
single year economy be observed
for the program adopted now will be
projected over a long future; mis-.
takes made now will be costing
money for years to come. The Con.
crosses of other years will be to 9
certain extent bound by the acts oil
this one, because this one is giving
direction and character to policy
that will be the policy of the nation
not of a Congress. Therefore the
need for most earnest, intelligent
bipartisan and statesmanly effort t.
insure that the defense plan shall be
the right plan.
The Washington times., 1915-12-06
WHAT'S ON PROGRAM
IN CAPITAL TODAY
Meetings Of the FraternaI, So
ciaI, and Other 0rganiza.
tions in Washington.

Meeting, Sisterhood OF the Washington He
brew Congregation. vestry rooms Of Eighth
Street Temple. 2:30 y. IN.
Benefit card party. Mary Washington Chap
ter Of the d. A. r.. Washington Club. ?:3t
p. m.
Address. Miss Sallie Hopwood. 81. Johns
parish hall. s p. IN.
Meeting Washington Kennel Club. gro:tt
room. 7I2 Twelfth street northwest. p. IN
Discussion. THE Truth About Preparedness.
at meeting OF Womans Single Tax club
Public Library. y. m.
Address on the Mission to Lepcrs, DR.. J. w
McKean and w. NJ Danner before Pres
byterian ministers, New York Avenue Pres
byterian Church. IL n. IN.
illustrated lecture" Denmark" DR.. II. w
Foght, Home Club. s D. m.
Bazaar and Christmas sale. All Souls
Church. New willard. afternoon and even
Smoker, junior law class. Catholic Univer
sity. p. NJ.
Suffrage. formal opening Of national head
quarters. reception Of enroys from IA
West. and visit TO the White House. dur!ni
Meeting. Guardians OF Liberty Court No.
Perpetual Building. sp. m:
Exhibit, National Association or Porrai
Painters, private view. Corcoran AT Gal
Concert, tinted States Marine Band Or
Chestra, Marine Barracks, 80 y. IN.
Meeting, Baltimore Reunion Association o
Washington Lodge. No. Is. b. p. q. f.
Elks Hall, p. IN.
Song recital. National Library for the Blind
17ss IL street northwest. i:30 D m.
Masonic No. 8: BENJAMIN b
French. No. Is; Anacostia. No. u; Pen
talpha, No. %; Mount Pleasant. No. 80
Orient. No. o. knights Templar: Ruth. No
l. Eastern Star.
Odd Feliows-Union. No. II; Beacon. No. Is
Iangdon, No. Is; Naomi, No. !. Ruth. No
.. Rebekahs.
knights of Pythias-Amaranth. No. IS: Cen
tury. No. 80; Friendship Temple. No.
Pythian Sisters.
Sons of Veterans-Lincoln Camp. No. :. elec
tion.
United Order OF Golden Cross-st. John
Commandery, meets with Mount Vernon
Commandery. 3li Pennsylvania avenu
southeast.
Woman's BENEFIT Association of tho Mac
cabees-Rally. Old Masonic Temple.
knights OF Columbus-W ashington Geners
Assembly. fourth degree.
Address. Vital Issues OF the Hour. Includ
ing the Buenz Case and the Recall G
Capts Boyd and Won Papen." Miss Jane
Richards, auditorium, Woodward & 10th
rops. l0:45 a. IN.
L. s. W. N.-Semper FideliS Camp, No. II
Marine Barracks.
The Washington times., 1915-12-06
THE CONGRESS SESSION


legislatures biennial sitting, the
newspapers of the provincial capital
may safely be relied upon to print
laudatory tributes Of assurance that
the body of Solons constitutes zone
Of the very ablest legislatures that
has ever served our State" In
Washington we are wont at this cor
responding juncture to indulge fore
casts that ian historic session" is
upon US. 1t may be quite impossible
to guess-and generally is-what
business will be transacted and what
will fail. No matter; it is going to
be "historic."
If one were to undertake prophecy
concerning the Congress session that
opens today, there would be tempta-
ton to drag out the trite phrases
and apply them all. 1t is going to
be a history-making Congress-; but
probably not for the reasons that
seem obvious and inevitable.
Somewhat curiously, the Congress
session that met four months after
the European war began, did very
little to crystalline American opinion
concerning the great conflict. There
was general disposition to avoid dis
cussion of this country's relations to
it. Those relations did not indeed
take such a form as to compel recog-
milton of American dangers until
after the beginning Of the submarine
campaign, climaxing in the sinking
Of the Lusitania. BY that time Con-
gress had adjourned.
The new Congress comes from
constituencies that have been dis
cussing the war and our relations to
it for a long time; discussing it, too,
with constantly wider realization of
just what it means and may mean to
us. 1t has needed time for the
American mind to get veered around
to a perception that our concerns
with all the world are very differ
ent now. It is useless to talk OF
splendid isolation when there is no
such thing as isolation. It is futile
to think of our remoteness from con-
flict as guarantee against it, when
we see every continent of the Old
World, the islands of the most dis.
tant seas, involved in this horror.
The new Congress, then, will
mark the enforced recognition, by
the nation, Of our new relationship
to the world. Without diminishing
its consideration Of domestic prob.
lens, this country, must understand
that it has a part in and an intimate
relation to International, affairs
reaching everywhere. The era Of
isolation is indeed ended. Our part
in the world is become a vastly
greater one than the most ambitious
American could have imagined. OF
would have dared to wish, two
years ago. The national mind, the
public thought, have been adjusting
themselves to this fact; to a realiza
tion of the fact that our public dis
cussions and considerations mus
henceforth take on a twofold charac
ter; that domestic policies must b,
adjusted with reference to their re
action upon international relation
ships, and the reverse.
1t is in this regard that the new
Congress will be historic. 1t viii
mark the beginning of definite for
mutation of a new attitude of thi
nation toward the great world out
side. The direction given now ma.
prove fateful for long generations o
rho fItIlre
The Washington times., 1915-12-06
THE MEsopoTAMIA CAMPAIGN

England'S MeSop0tamlan cam
paign was undertaken with variety
of purposes in view, not all Of which
are very we'll understood. It was es-
teemed necessary to keep Turkey oc-
cupied outside of Europe, and an in
cursion into trans -Caucasia by Rus
sia was synchronized with the Brit
ish expedition from the Persian gulf
to the northwest with Bagdad as it's
objective. These two movements
have compelled heavy draft on
the resources of Turkey and her
allies, and without doubt they re-
lieved the pressure on the allies
forces that were attacking Constan-
tinople. But the Constantinople
campaign looks like a failure, never
theless, and the most recent reports
from the Bagdad campaign indicate
that it, too, has collapsed. Turkey
has played a greater part in the
war, it now appears, than could pos
sibly have been expected Of her in
the beginnings.
1t was and it continues to be high
ly important to the British empire to
dominate the Bagdad railroad, which
is one of the most ambitious projects
in empire building that Germany
ever undertook. The Bagdad rail-
road was Germany's answer to Brit
ish control of Suez and the seas. 1t
was the German effort to establish
land power that could reach to
every vantage section of the Old
World, and outflank the naval forces
Of Great Britain. 1t pointed straight
at India; with Constantinople re-
lieved and Turkey brought definitely
under Germanic domination, it be-
comes one of the most important
highways Of empire in all the world.
Russia built the trans-Siberian rail-
way with precisely the same purpose
that moved Germany to construct
the Bagdad line: the purpose of firm
ly consolidating European power in
remote parts of old Asia. Russia
and Britain found themselves under
the necessity of opposing German
aggression in such a quarter, pre-
cisely as Japan and Britain deemed
it necessary to unite against Rus.
sian pretensions in the yet farther
east. 1t is altogether probable that
the Bagdad railroad constituted one
Of the potential reasons that
brought England into the triple en-
tente, along with France and Rus.
sia.
Early in the present year the mys'
terious expedition of the British ant
colonial forces up the Mesopotamiar
valley was started. The world has
not been much taken into the conf
dence of the British authorities re-
garding the organization or force OF
this expedition. For a time it made
rapid progress and at one period the
army was within about ten miles o.
old Bagdad. At that point it seeml
to have touched high water mark; j
suffered check, fell back, and ii
now reported to have met a sever'
defeat 100 miles or so from the an
cient Mesopotamian metropolis. i
is not yet to be concluded that deci
sive defeat has been dealt to it, TO,
this is a sort of warfare in which
England is wise and experienced
The Russian force in Caucasia ma!
yet prove strong enough to turn tn
tide and make an allied success pos
sible; but for the time being a Sc
we're reverse undoubtedly has beel
suffered by the British campaign.