Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-04-19

dom he resents emphatically. He feels
freest in Germany just as an English
man does in England. because the kind
Of liberty he enjoys there Is the kind
Of liberty to which he is accustomed.
To a savage clothing is torture; the
civilized man is net conscious of his
clothes. What kind Of liberty is best
is a question about which philosophers
and scientists can dispute endlessly but
when any people has the kind it wants,
or (as in Germany has reconciled it
self to the. kind it has, outsiders have
no reason to NEEDLE.
AS a matter Of fact we are free rela-
lively and so are the people of other
nations. Undoubtedly Germany would
be better off in this generation and i'm
measureably so in the next, II she
would halt her beer traffic; as We
would be better off in this and coming
generations if we would adopt some OF
the German regulations which we. as
a people, scott at. If you should ask
Why" we would suggest that you
read Mabel Potter Daggett's article in
Pictorial Review for May. Here is an
excerpt:
Do you know why, o my countrywo-
man, the dust is deep on your mahog-
ri inc
won't keep clean? A little while ago
an uncovered ash-cart came down
West Twenty first Street here outside
my windows. In almost any city OF
the United States. you may see one,
too. coming down your street. The
contents of the ash-can that has been
standing for two hours uncovered be-
fore this apartment house, were
dumped onto the cart. The cloud of
ashes that arose, settled in thick
clouds, some if it on pedestrians unable
to escape it as they scuttled by. Some
of it floated into this room. Some of
it lodged on the roof and cornices of
the building, later to be deposited in
here on my desk, on my blouse, on me,
as soon as the next passing breeze can
bring it. There are miles of uncovered
ash-cans like that in the dusty streets
of the city this morning, waiting to be
dumped onto uncovered carts, later to
be dumped onto uncovered scows
which will finally be dumped at the
Island where the metropolis deposits
such of its ashes as have not been
scattered to the four winds of Man
haitian on the way there. The Declare :
ton of Independence ought to have
had q clause against such an infringe
ment of the rights of housewives in a
land SO conspicuously devoted to lib
erty. But it was omitted.
And following the ash-cart out here
in my street, there is worse. After a
while comes along the uncovered gar
bage cart and collects the contents of
:. waiting garbage can. How long 1t
waits, depends somewhat on the To-
cality in which you live and the rent
you pay. 1t waits even if you live on
Riverside Drive. Here on the lower
west side. it waits, say, two or three
hours. But on the east side, the gar
bage cans wait twelve hours, fourteen,
eighteen hours. And even if the covers
weren't lost. they couldn't be crowded
on TO those overlooking receptac.cs,
the contents Of which topple off and
ooZe out onto the sidewalks and pave
ments in slime that the innumerahle
babies of the quarter play in and the
sun shines on in a truly sickening heat,
that has started more than one cpl
demic of disease. This, of course, ism t
in our best districts. But nevertheless
the epidemIcs that start on the east
Side never stop there. Neither do the
flies. They are breeding by the billions
in the garbage that's waiting along
the curb and in the garbage that 5
waited by my windows.
Why, the housewives in Berlin where
Rosika Won Hoffman, lives, would
rise in riot at any thing approximating
such a menace to their peace of mind.
And the reserves in the shining he'll
NETS would be rushed from the near
est police station to their aid. Listen.
1t sounds so much like fairytale that
l hesitate to tell it. But truly: last
Summer, when l was Frau Won Hoff-
mann's guest, as we were drinking af-
ternOon coffee in her imma culate
Wohnzimmer. or living room, there
aighted on the sill of the window by
which 1 sat, one small winged insect
In the greatest excitement, Frau Won
Hoffman, drew closer to examine it
more critically. 1T is, it is she ex-
claimed, "a fly. Ludwig. Ludwig" size
called to her little son. come and see
And Ludwig gazed gravely as at d
strange animal.
1 think it must have been the only
fly out of captivity in all Germany. 1t
certainly was the only one l saw dur
ing sojourn of several weeks. Hagen
beck's wonderful zoo up there at Ham
burg might have had a few. But most
of the rest, it would seem, were over
here in the United States. The NUM-
cipal fly catcher in a certain Califor-
mia city, you remember, made bril-
liant record in our swat he-fiy" cam
paign with a catch Of seven hundred
and fifty thousand in six weeks.