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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-14

Il want to turn my coat said
stranger who entered the Office Of
Clerk Of Courts Clark Of Aroostook
county one day LAST week. Thereupon
the genial clerk replied. "Oh, yes, YOU
want to be published" mo, want
TO become an American citizen was
the answer given by the subject of
King George. The first oath then was
administered and the young man went
away happy
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-14

CAN ON AUGUSTA. no. 3. P. NJ
hesltar mesuAs ever UiEa Izestay a,
and election OF o..!cers.
Q. J.. EAREtTAS!. can,
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-14
The Awaiting Masses

BiddetorG. Name.
December u, l.-3.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-14

= party Of Popham Beach hunters on
Dec 5 while OFT after foxes near Morse's
river, found large gray eagle. disabled
ana unable 10 t7y but short distance a.
a time. He was captured after smart
struggle and taken home 10 Pophanl.
where ne is known as Uncle Sam He is
being we'll cared for and viii be iloera1-
ed when able 70 ~ He had evidently
been wounded by sou:a hunter, who has
10 respect for our national bird.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-14

Ideal conditions for numbering are said
70 exist n The Moosehead regions since
the recent fall u STOW. according to
Greenville reports.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-14

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ADELAIDE u. PAGL, y O.: = and
LCCIE 2. LEWIS. VI. 81 2
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-14

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81 meets III G. a. r hail ne :..s; al!
third TuescAy evenings .. ea-a MONT
-, 80 O'clock.
MRS. LCTTIE H. PIERCE. Wagde-
MRS. EMMA F. HOWE. E.sc. Sc.
3. Z. NICHOLAS, Fin. Sec.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-14

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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-14

The directors % TIE Maine Forestry
Association me-, Friday in Bangor =
discuss plans for ) general me@t!ag.
Beyond deciding 10 Hold such Z rreet-
ing nothing definite was 1)ne,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-14

Missionary Of the American Sunday
School Union for Western Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-14

L. J Kcyes, formerly physical G.rec-
tor Of the Bangor i. N. =. \. held a
similar position with the y. u. c. a.
Of Hopewe!l, Va.. which was wiped
out By fire last week. Mr.. keyes'
household goods were shipped last
Thursday from Bangor
The Detroit times., 1915-04-08
Worldwide Prohibition.
~ DR.. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915, by Frank Crane.)

II
When ! was boy, about the only
people who proclaimed prohibition were
cranks, reformers, women and parsons.
and the literary smiled at il. The 400
turned up their noses at It. Politicians
frowned on ii. II seemed to be an out
break OF fanatic. American. ignorant,
puritanical provincialism.
Alcohol had captured the imagination
OF mankind. Literature was soaked with
1t, from Omar to Dickens. All kings and
mobiles guzzled. Not to poison ones self
Tor sociabllity was considered boorish.
Things have surely changed. Prohihi-
ton can hardly be called an American
cranhsm any more, when the czar by
an imperial ukase abolishes vodka,
strong wines and other intoxicating
liquors. first during mobilization, and
then, seeing 1t work so well, permanent
ly. Tbs fact, denied upon its publica-
tion by alcohol sellers, Is now officially
verified by M. Scherbatskoy, chamber
lain TO the emperor.
And now comes England, the strong
hold OF drinking traditions since the be-
ginning Of history, with the licensed
victualler firmly intrenched in business,
politics and society; Lloyd George, her
chancellor Of ,the exchequer, declaring
that IF we are to settle will. German
militarism We first Of all must settle
with the drink problem" and that moth
ing but root and branch method will be
Of the slightest avail in fighting with the
evil" Lord Kitchener concurring, and
banishing alcohol from his own table,
and even the king announcing in an open
letter his willingness to cooperate in the
movement against strong drink.
Surely this tremendous uprising has
gone beyond marrow and contemplate
limits. Especially when the congress of
the United States shows a majority in
favor Of nationwide prohibition, when
President Hayes bans liquor in the
White House, President Taft turns
down his glass upon his entrance into
office, the present secretary Of state
dares ridicule in standing for grape Juice
only, and the secretary of the navy
eliminates intoxicants from the nations
warships.
And when behind all these is the solid
phalanx Of scientists who state that al
coholic beverage is pure poison to the
human body and brain, we are forced TO
the conclusion that a vast conviction is
entering the mind of all mankind, and
that the question is going to be decided
upon other grounds than those Of the
business which makes money by the sale
of alcohol.
The Detroit times., 1915-04-08
Pointed Paragraphs

Ambition without pluck and en-
ergy Is n lot OF bother.
The loss OF friend adds one "a
the list OF your enemies
But an up TO date man has nc
time for ancient history.
The secret OF overcoming ignor
ance Is to know the necessity.
Gossip Is a vulgar habit. and 9th
er people should not indulge In H.
II marriage IA q failure solomon's
wisdom didn't count for very much
II girl with a pretty face Is thin
men call her graceful-and other
girls call her skinny"
Perhaps once in about 1000 years
there IL a woman so much In love
with a man that she never out
grows T.
The Detroit times., 1915-04-08

letin on the Health OF School Chill
dren." Just issued by the bureau
OF education. ie saws:
"If the schools are closed when
an outbreak occurs. the children
are turned loose from supervision:
they minEle freely with one another
In the streets. on Fairgrounds. and
in each others houses.
They are having an extra vaca-
tion and enjoying themselves thor.
oughly and are unwilling to admit
that they feel ill. lest they be kept
at home and prevented from having
good time. For this reason they
will not say they feel Ill until the
disease is well advanced. and they
may be active sources OF infection
for some, time before II is discov.
cred that they are H.
/ III the schools are. kept open and
the children continue In the class
rooms as usual they are under
strict observation and examined
daily by the school physician. sus-
| picious and infected cases beins
sent home for observation or treat
ment
In this way many children are
sent home before they have had
an opportunity 10 infect others. thus
reducing the probability OF spread
ing infection. Further than this. the
attention OF the parents IL called tc
the fact that the child is feeling IL
The Detroit times., 1915-04-08
Our Crisis With Great Britain
What We Should and Should Not Do

tectly innocent commerce. On the
other hand. unless she actually shuts
MP the German ports with her fleets.
she cannot say that .he has them
blockaded. II n passage is left open
for ships. no declaration can close
IT, II she captures as blockade run,
ners our vessels entering ports left
open by her feet. there will be dim.
Guilty between her and us. We have
struggled for hundred years
against the doctrine OF the paper
blockade. and we cannot now give
up what we have accomplished.
The allies have the right in war
to starve the whole German people
n they can: bu: II must be done BY
doing something. not merely saying
something
This does not mean that We are
going to war about Il. as We did in
1872: but IL means that we are stand
ing on our rights In the fun sense
OF the words.
Fortunately, our diplomacy Is in
wise hands. Wilson Is well thought
OF in Europe. and Bryan's honesty
his sense Of justice, and his fine pas
sion for peace are worth much Il
us. II was Bryan who. when the
Japanese minister said In the aller
land controversy. is this the las
word ," replied, There is no las
word between friends"
There will be- no last word ~
I long as we can say we are friends
The Detroit times., 1915-04-08
A Poem a Day.
THE VISION OF BnIsHAxxAR

THE VISION or nEIsHAzxAR
The king was on his throne.
The Satraps thronged the NAIL;
thousand bright lamps shown
Ger that high festival;
thousand cups OF gold.
In Judah deemed divine
JehoVahs vessels hold
The Goddess heathen's wine.
In that same hour and hail.
The ringers OF hand
Came forth against the wall.
And wrote AS ~ on sand.
The nugers OF man
A solitary hand
Along the letters ran
And traced them like wand.
The monarch saw and shook
And hadc no more rejoice.
All eloodlsss waxsd his look
"Lst the men OF lore appear.
The wisest OF the earth,
And expound the words OF fear.
Which mar our royal mirth."
chaldea's seers are good.
But here they have no SKILL;
And the unknown letters stood
Untold and awful stiil.
And Bsbefs men OF age
Are wise and deep In fora
but now they were not sage.
They saw. but knew no moro
A captive In ths land.
A stranger and youth.
lie heard the Kings command
lie saw that writings truth.
The lamps around were bright.
The prophecy In view.
lie read "a on that night
The morrow proved u trusi
''Belshaxzar's grave Is made.
His Kingdom passed away
lie, Tn the balance weighed.
Ii tight and worthless clay;
The shroud. his robe OF state.
His canopy. the stone;
The Mede u at his gate,
The Persian on his throne
Lord Ryron.
The Detroit times., 1915-04-08
Japan's Moves In China-ls
II a Battle of Two Efficiencies!

| Japan has AT last uelnlteiy sIateu -
the American state department that sh'
has no intention whatever, and nc
thought, of interfering with the open
door in China.
Indeed, says the Nipponese govern
ment. one of the chief reasons for the
negotiations with China is to preserve
the open door.
Having given that assurance the Jap
anese diplomats carefully close their
mouths.
No explanation at all.
We would not be surprised il the
stories coming from Shanghai, Manila
and other points in the far east Of Ger
man smartness in China, is the link that
is now missing-the answer TO the ques-
ton:
IF Japan is working for the open door,
why is she forcing that new treaty on
China?"
The japanese demands against which
China most strongly objects are that she
shall take no important commercial, pc-
htical or military steps without the con-
sent of Japan: that she shall not develop
certain large resources without the con-
sent of Japan.
OF course, this latter is to guard
China against heavy financial deals with
such financial deals generally
having political string as thick as
pole tied to them.
In the far east il is well known that
the German embassy in Pekin Is very
efficient-very.
1t is up and doing and on its tiptoes
for Germany's interests.
Moreover. as evidenced by the i'll will
toward Japan when she was fighting the
Germans out of Shangtung, the German
influence is very strong with the Chinese
as strong as the Ger
mans were last fall with the Turkish
highest officials.
What a bombshell il would be after
this war, when peace is settled over the
whole world, if Germany would drag out
4 secret treaty made by the efficient en-
,assy in Pekin this winter, giving back
20 Germany the Shangtung province, CIV
ng Germany CLOSED door rights COM
handing over the colossal
chinese empires natural resources and
-ailroad routes TO German financiers and
placing the Chinese military under Ger
nany's direction!
From Shanghai, Manila and Toxic
come reports that such treaty has al
ready been drawn up and perhaps signed.
Maybe Japan knows this.
Maybe that's what she means when
she says her actions in China are to in
sure the open door,"
Maybe she intends her treaty to su-
persede the German secret treaty if the
after has been signed
After all. perhaps this hullabaloo over
China is only contest between two prom
inent, first-class efficiencies-German eff
cheney and japanese efficiency.
Wouldn't it make our anti-Japanese
jingoes mad if it turned out one Of these
days that the Japs were really working
for Uncle Sans "open door CONNER
cial salvation in China?
The Detroit times., 1915-04-08
BY HERBERT QUICK.

Once we had A war because OF the
treatment given our ships and our
commerce by warning nations. This
was the war OF 1872
Nations at var nor are treating
our ships and our commerce badly.
Our relations with them are
strained. II We are not very wisely
ruled in the matter the calamity OF
1912 may come upon us in form
a hundred fold worse than then
In those days. England claimed
the right TO take sailors from our
ships for service in her navy. She
will not 70 10 any such length now;
but some OF the things she is doing
resemble closely what she and her
enemies did then.
Then she was trying TO starye
the French. Now she IL trying TO
starve the Germans. II was a life
and death struggle between Britain
and Napoleon then. Just as II is a
Iife-and-death struggle between her
and Wilhelm now.
We must bear in mind the crisis
which confronts both those nations
We must try 10 put ourselves in the
place OF both OF them. and say what
We should do. II will help US TO be
patient. At the same time, We must
h arm, true to our own interests.
War is not the normal condition
OF things The neutral nations must
stand for the right OF the world to
go on with peaceful pursuits. Bust
ness Is the work Of God n ~
Christian work. II feeds the hun
cry and clothes the naked. The un-
speakable horrors OF war result
mainly from the stoppage OF the
worlds commerce. which II the
greatest blessing OF civilization II
we can prevent these from being an
INFLATED. We shall be doing great
work as a civilized nation.
In the years prior 70 1912. Ma
poleon declared the British Isles
blockaded. but he had no way OF
really bIockadlng them. Britain de-
clared the coasts OF France blockad-
ed but II was blockade by declar.
alton. and not by ships.
Both Germany and England seem
10 be going back now TO a blockade
BY declaration. instead OF by ship.
This cannot be permitted without
protest.
Great Britain says that all com
merce with Germany must be stop
ped. She does not say that she
has blockaded Germany. Probably
she does not fee. that she can do II
because Of submarines. do not
believe she dares station ships out
side the German passages. Unless
she does this. II will not be a legal
blockade. This is the real matter
al issue.
m she declares all goods destined
directly or indirectly TO Germany
contraband OF war. II Is a paper
blockade. She cannot make dec
i4ration OF contraband take the place
OF blocksding ships. She knows
this. and she does not use the word
-contraband" IN her declaration
Neither does she use the wore
BLOCKADE" Yet she must mean one
or the other.
She has no right TO declare every
thing contraband Of war. Tha
would enable her to connscste per
The Detroit times., 1915-04-08
Tools Of His Trade.

Flimmer-Met Unison downtown
today. He'd Just bought a tin horn
a triangle. some blocks a rattlebox
some sleigh bells and a popgun.
didn't know he had a baby.
Fiamson--He hasn't He's a vau
deviiie trap drummer These things
are part OF his outf't.-I'uck.
The Detroit times., 1915-04-08
n Must Follow:

Committee Chalrman--How does
the organization OF which you are a
director make all its money?
Millionaire witness--I have no
exact knowledge OF the details. but
Il is an altogether different process
from the one they use at the mint
Baltimore American.
The Detroit times., 1915-04-08
From Another
Point of VieU

The account of local wedding reads !:
"Harp. violin and cello waited their
sweet strains from cluster Of tropical
plants Perhaps it was an improvised
stage where the wedding ceremony per-
formed. We presume, too. the cake serv-
ed apiece of it's sweet self TO all those
present.
These squabbles over central and east
ern standard times are bound to cause
should be found more than 60 minutes
apart.
Evelyn McComTs, who owns many
Cripple Greek mines. says: II was born
single and ! intend to remain single. I"
Evelyn looks to US, boys like poor pros
pecting.
Miss Michigan was singing,
Boose had got another slam;
Nobody knows" the strains arose,
Nobody knows how dry am"
And then the Prinz Eitel Friedrich, in
turn, interned.
Do we understand the saloon that kept
open after hours and holidays here is
really closed incident?
Poultry note: William Jennings Bryan
recommends for the party a dry-picked
candidate.
Grove City. Pa. has no jail. no saloon. no
dance hall. no billiard parlor and nevr has had
police officer.--ltem.
Sounds like an itemized report of a
post mortem examination.
Thomas L. Ross, juror in the Becker
case, has strangely disappeared. IL we
are not mistaken. that was also Charles
failing.
The Eitel win have to remain here now
until the war ends. Here's hoping the
Eitels stay win be q short one.
The Detroit times., 1915-04-08
Sfricfer Watch On School Children Needed
During Epidemic of Contagious Disease

and he Is brought Under treatment
earlier.
1T seems. therefore. that keeping
the schools open offers the best
chance OF safety for the pupils, both
collectively and individually.
Instead OF closing the schools
and allowing the children to be
scattered and removed from super
vision. when an outbreak appears
the schools should be kept open as
usual and the children urged TO at.
tend
Tho school physician and nurse
should be detailed 10 the school
where the outbreak has appeared
and instructed TO examine every
child daily. excluding such as ap-
pear III or suspicious. This can be
done with very little disturbance OF
the school work
A note must be sent TO the par
ent stating that the child seems, or
Is. III and must be seen by the fam.
lily physician. Suspicious cases must
be ordered to remain at home until
further notice. and. II necessary,
must be visited In order TO settle
the diagnosis. Absentees must be
rounded up and examined In order
to ind out why they have been kept
at home. II they are I'll, they must
be isolated. and. II we'll. urged to re.
turn TO school"
The health authorities great prob
lem is TO impress upon the people
that human life Is the most valuable
asset we possess and II must be pro
tected at any cost.
The Detroit times., 1915-04-08

epidemic OF con-
tagious disease is
raging. but doubt
as TO the wisdom
OF this Is ex-
pressed by DR..
Francis G.. Cur
tbs OF Newton.
Mass. In a bull
The Detroit times., 1915-04-08
Keep Your Eye on Your Wife
Your wife 10 the Same Girl You Took to the Altar.

your eye on wife
re stealabe.
The Detroit times., 1915-04-08

AT present II Is the practice TO close /
IN schools In communities where an
The Detroit times., 1915-04-08

had voted against the sdiOoh.
On Tuesday afternoon, Police Commis,
missioner Gillespie gave orders to enforce
the liquor laws in Detroit.
Cause and effect?
We leave it to the unprejudiced OBJ
server.
Belshaxzar saw the handwriting on the
wall, and he didn't know what it meant.
So he called in Daniel, who could read
and write, and wasn't afraid of the king,
and Daniel told Belshazzar some whole
some truths.
Gillespie saw the handwriting on the
wall and he, wiser than Belshazzar, was
dead sure of its meaning.
But to help him out. there were the
brewery interests, who had also read and
interpreted the writing; and what the
police commissioner Is doing is being
done with their approval.
For the brewers are canny men tpar-
don the joke), and their legal advisers
: are Solomons Of no mean order.
They realize that with prohibition
sentiment sweeping the state, as Mon
days election shows. there is only ono
\ salvation for their business--to see that
the laws enacted by the people are
obeyed.
And they aren't at all sure that this is
genuine salvation. but they believe that
when the submarine shows her periscope,
It's good scheme to have the boats
swinging freely at the davits, and the
life RATS ready to heave overheard.
II was less than a month ago that Com
missioner Gillespie said to The Times that
he did NOT intend to change his saloon
policy.
And NOW HE'S GONE AND DONE
1T.
He said that his administration of the
LIQUOR laws was better than Commits
sioner Crours in its results.
And NOW HE'S ADOPTED CROUL's
POLICY.
What has happened between the day
Patrolman Otto Monberg was shot and
killed, after he had been drinking in a
saloon that was open after midnight
the day on which the commissioner said
that he was satisfied with his saloon
policy--and Tuesday, when he gave or
ders that the saloons must obey the clos
ing laws?
An election in which four dry counties
decided that they were satisfied to RE
MAIN dry, and 10 wet counties decided
that they were sick and tired of saloon
domination.
Cause and effect, We ask again?
What the killing Of one Of his own men
was not able to do, an election. coupled
with the cogent arguments of the brew.
ing industry. accomplished.
We congratulate Commissioner Giles
pie on his order.
No matter what dictated it, no matter
who dictated II, no matter for what pur.
pose. the order is all right.
II should have been given months
ago; that would have saved great dea
Of trouble.
But II Is welcome, as it is.
And we thank the people of Ii countie,
Of Michigan, who have taught salutar,
lesson TO the Detroit brewers, and mad,
The Detroit police commissioner wake up
Emmett Bishop, 80. Of Scranton pa
The Detroit times., 1915-04-08
Thanks, People Upstate; You
Have Done Us a Good Turn!

On Monday, the people of l6 counties
voted.
On Tuesday, the result of the election
was announced-l4 of the 10 counties
had voted against the saloon.
On Tuesday afternoon, Police Commits
missioner Gillespie gave orders to enforce
the liquor laws in Detroit.
Cause and effect?
We leave it to the unprejudiced OBJ
server.
The Detroit times., 1915-04-08
SEEING AMERICA FIRST.
~ FRED c. KELLY
Copyright. 1915. by Fred c. Keiiy)

From Diary:
For the third time now since left the Allan
tic coast : have set my watch back an hour.
making grand total of three hours gained for
my own use To do as please with. II could
just arrange to stay out here permanently l
would have added three hours TO my life.
The Detroit times., 1915-04-08

Thomas L. Ross, a juror in the Becker
case, has strangely disappeared II we
are not mistaken. that was also Charles
failing.
The Detroit times., 1915-04-08

The Eitel win have to remain here now
until the war ends Here's hoping the
|Eiters stay win be short one.