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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-23

| A beautiful Easter lily in full bios
som is source from which Mrs. Nell
| lie Crooker, Is East Crescent street, is
at present deriving much enjoyment
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-23
ADJUSTMENTS
OPERA HOUSE

Last Times Today-Paramount Feat
ure, 1.-THE Moth and the Flame, 5
Reels, also 1.-THE Spy's Fate" Lubin
Three Reels, 1.-THE Tell. Tale Hand"
Essanay Three Reels and 1.-THE Voice
Of Eva" SeIie Ono Reel Drama.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-23

| Gov. Oakley c. Curtis was at the e1-
ecutive offices at the Capito! Wednesday.
He returned to Portland on the 4.o5 P.
NJ. train.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-23
Local Matters

Mrs. Ellsworth Reed of Richmond was
recent visitor in Augusta.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-23

Miss Annie Stinson of Richmond has
recently visited friends in the Capital
City.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-23

Mrs. c. f. Davis of Fairfield was call
ing on friends in the Capital City Tues
day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-23

TGTred Norman.
gertrude Norman:
You will please take notice that there
Room f., the CITY of Aususta on the
eth d:,' Of September A. D. 1915, at 10
0dioc in the forenoon of that day, to
make suitable and proper provision for
The care, custody. support and education
Of your two children. Robert Norman,
age three years and Arthur Norman, age
three years.
Yours. etc.
STEPHEN S. LANCASTER
Judge.
Dated Augusta. September %, 1915.
sept23eod3t
The Twin City star., 1915-01-09
The Naked Truth.

An old fable says that Truth ant
Faisehood went In bathing together
Falsehood came FIRST out Of the wa.
ter and dressed herself In Truths gar
ments. Truth. unwilling to put on
Falsehood's clothes. went naked.
The Twin City star., 1915-01-09
TRIPLE WOE FOR RESORT
KEEPER.

County Attorney John M. Rees, to:
day said action would be started at
once against Lena Smith, colored, un-
der the Wallace-Fosseen abatement
law. She is under sentence of 40 days
in the workhouse for running resort
at I2o Second avenue s., and was to-
day indicted by the Grand Jury under
the state law, charged with maintain
ing resort. Her stay of execution
of sentence, granted by Municipal
Judge c. L. Smith, expires tomorrow
]. M. Dickey, assistant United States
district attorney, through whose let
ter to Mayor w. G. Nye the Smith
woman was arrested, is investigating
to ascertain if the Mann law has been
violated.-Minn. Journal, Jan. 6, 1915.
The Twin City star., 1915-01-09

citizens would be an anomaly in the
eyes of the nations of the earth.
Amid all of the passions and tumult
of the anti-slavery conflict the
Federal statutes were kept free from
the odium of race distinction. The
obiter dictum of Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court which injected race
distinction into the decision of that
tribunal was swiftly repudiated by
the moral indignation of the aroused
conscience of the American people.
For this government, today; to de-
clare that the Negro shall not enjoy
identical rights and privileges with
the rest of his fellow-citizens would
be equivalent to the re-establishment
of the discredited dogma of Judge
fancy. Indeed the principle involved
is just as vital to the ideal of the
nation today as it was sixty years
ago, although the public conscience
my be less keenly alive to it.
The Far-Reaching Significance of
Segregation.
To the casual observer the assigns
ment of space in government build
ing to handful of colored civil sery-
ice employees would seem to be a
matter of trivial importance. But
closer inspection reveals a deeper
significance. 1t is but the thin blade
of the wedge whose entrance threat
ems to split the log asunder. Should
the National Government adopt this
seemingly simple provision it would
thereby sanction all of the discrim-
inatory legislation on the statute
books of the several States and would
suggest and justify all such enact
ments in the future.
The Plight of the Negro.
The present plight sof the Negro
is significant commentary on the
doctrine that the white race is good
enough to become the beneficent. gov
ernor of the Negro without his con-
sent or participation. There are
100000 Negroes in the United
States who are rapidly progressing
III Intelligence and wealth and In re-
sponsible elements of power. He has
no voice in making, administering
or interpreting the laws by which he
is to be governed,
Men in the highest public place,
whose positions rest upon the basis
of Negro constituency, denounce
their black constituents from the seat
of public power in language not to
be found in the lexicon of decency.
There is no voice answering back.
Legislation is proposed to humiliate
and degrade the Negro such as no
officer of the Government would dare
whisper concerning any other ele-
ment of the nation. But the Negroes
tongue is tied and his voice is hushed
because of his political nullity.
Extract Topeka Plaindealer.
The Twin City star., 1915-01-09

ing there was when he received his
appointment from President Taft in
1912.
District Attorney Anderson, speak
ing of Mr.. Mathews retirement, said
he had ample opportunity to watch
Mr.. Mathews at work and he ad-
mired him as a man and as an attor-
ney. Mr.. Mathews was formerly a
Harvard baseball and football player
and has many friends in legal as we'll
as we'll as college circles. His asso-
ciates will give him farewell dinner
at the Harvard Club Saturday even
ing.
The Twin City star., 1915-01-09

SMOKE THE RELIABLE
SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR
The Twin City star., 1915-01-09
DIR. SPINGARN TO SPEAK.

DR.. ]. E. Spingarn, Chairman of the
Board of Directors of the National
Society for the Advancement of Col
ored People, will speak at Jewish Re-
formed Temple, 10th St. and 5th Ave.
So, Minneapolis, Friday evening,
January ~, and on Sunday afternoon,
January "a, at Unitarian Church, 9th
and Mary Pl, Minneapolis. All are
invited to hear him.
The Twin City star., 1915-01-09
NATIONAL DEGENERAcY.
Lincoln Abhorrsd Oppression
and Dsspised Hypocrisy.

~'~ ~~SS'SSS VbyFS~ssSys
The speech of Abraham Lin.
coin In 1856 regarding the polit-
ical situation and the tendency
to disregard the rights Of human
beings to life. liberty and the
pursuit Of happiness IL striking
ly applicable to the condition Of
affairs In this country at the
present time.
Mr.. Lincoln said:
II am not Know Nothing
that IL certain. How could be7
How can any one who abhors
the oppression of the Negroes
: be In favor Of degrading classes
Of white people? Our progress
In degeneracy appears to me to
be pretty rapid. As a nation we
began by declaring that all men
are created equal
I'VE now practically read 1t.
All men are created equal ex-
cept Negroes When the Know
Nothings get control IL will read.
All men are created equal ex-
cspt Negroes and foreigners and
Catholics.'
when IL comes TO that I
should prefer emigrating to some
country where they make no
pretense of loving liberty-to
Russia. for instance. where des-
potism can be taken pure and
without the base alloy Of hypoc.
risy."
The Twin City star., 1915-01-09
ASST. DIST. ATTY. MATHEWS
RETIRED WITH THE OLD
YEAR.

(Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 81,
IoI4.) ~
At the close of business today in
the United States district attorneys
office Assistant United States Dist
Atty, William c. Mathews will re-
tire from active duties. Mr.. Math-
'ews leaves because lis Term has ex-
pired and there is not business pendS
The Twin City star., 1915-01-09
HIa Waa Hiara.

II heard him behind the door plead
ing for Just one. They must be en-
gagged" .... IT,.
Nav. they're married. IL was a
dollar he was pleading for."'-LouIs-
vile Courier-JonrnaI
The Twin City star., 1915-01-09
AmuOtnu.

Hiram Greene-What did your sister
say when you told her I was going to
make q speech in the town hall to-
night3 Willie-She didn't say nothin,.
She Just laughed till she had Mysteries!
-Hxchanga r''
The Twin City star., 1915-01-09

The struggle for today, is not al.
together for today; It II for q vast
future.--Abraham Lincoln.
The Twin City star., 1915-01-09
SEGREGATION.
BY Prof. Kelly Miller.

The eternal Negro question has
been disturbing element in public
and national discussion from the
foundation of the government down
to the present hour. The public mind
may seek temporary relief by focus
ing attention on economic material
issues; the perplexed statesman may
put it aside for some more con-
venient season; yet ever anon it re-
ours with unabated aggrevation.
Even the carnage of the war, of
nations entailing the most awful toll
of death that the world has ever ex-
perienced, and which has for the past
few months shunted from public con-
sideration and discussion every other
issue of national or international in-a
terest. has not been able to relegate
sshe Ncgro question to the back
ground q .'ss.. = sas'-
Mr.. Trotter's Interview.
'The-recent interview of Mr.. VIM.
Trotter, the intrepid agitator for the
rights of his race, with the President
of the United States, has served as
occasion to bring this issue into keen
public consideration and discussion.
For twenty years Mr.. Trotter has
been the most outspoken agitator of
his race, standing out in CONSPICUOUS
and acrid opposition to the more
passive and pacific spirit and doctrine
of Booker T.. Washington. In the in
tensity of his ardor he has been so
violently denunciatory and so bitter
ly intolerant as to ALLEVIATE the SYM
pathy and cooperation even Of the
radical spirits of his own race.
Courtesy of Utterance.
1t is to be deeply deplored if Mr..
Trotter, carried away by zeal for his
cause, indicated any unbecoming
temper or feeling in the presence of
the President of the United States.
The Negro will wisely preserve be-
coming constraint of manner, and
carefulness and caution of utterance,
even though he labors under burdens
which would cause any other element
of our population to violate accepted
ceremonies of procedure in urging
demands. The just claim of the race
will hardly be advanced by spectacu-
lar methods like those of the suffra-
gettes in England. "
Courtesy Does Not Indicate Con-
cession.
On the other hand, the American
people should not be led to suppose
that the race has settled into CON-
placent satisfaction with unjust dis
elimination because it fails to pre-
sent its cause in terms of spectacular
and dramatic appeal. Albeit, the Ne
gro lis long suffering; nevertheless
he suffers long. The temper of the
spokesman bears but incidently upon
the, cause which he represents. Mr..
Trotter headed the delegation to pro-
test to the President against the
growing practice of segregation of
the Negro in the civil service of the
United States.
Federal Statutes Free From Dis
elimination.
The Federal statute books, SO far,
are free from race or class legisla-
ton. At the time of the founding
of the Constitution one-fifth of the
population was of African blood and
servile status. But the far-seeing
wisdom of the founder omitted racial
designation or discrimination in the
organic law. A government boasting
of equality as its basic principle
which should deliberately debase the
weak and helpless among its own
The Twin City star., 1915-01-09

WY DON'T you sit down. wesryr'
Aw' shucks; look at ther trouble
setrn up againr-B Boston Transcript
ADvRRTioU lN TIVE srAa
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09
e. 81 IN@c GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS fr1n1ffk

CINE company. took holiday the past
week and joined the paint-up campaig ign.
Capt. Ernest Howard of No. engine
company has arranged for short
vacation next week. He expects to en-
joy fishing trip to the lower river.
Private Charles Limerick of No. en-
CINE company enjoyed a short vacation
at home last week.
Private Robert Hayes of No. engine
company took day off last week and
went fishing. He enjoyed the sport at
Great Falls and caught several Missis-
sippi catfish.
Capt. J. T. Rossiter OF No. 10 engine
company was off duty part OF last
week. He spent his holiday participat-
ing in the cleanup work at home.
Private Joseph Mayhem of No. 10 en-
CINE company had four days rest last
week.
Floyd Whitlock. member of No. 12 en-
CINE company. visited friends in the
vicinity of Staunton, Va, the past week.
Lieut.. Edward Nohe of No. 10 engine
company has arranged to take four
days holiday next week.
Lieut.. David Zirkle of No. Is engine
company had holiday part of last week.
He worked in his garden.
A fishing trip on the lower Potomac
was enjoyed last week by Lieut.. ]. w.
Myers of No. II engine company. The
lieutenant made the trip aboard his
launch.
The Firefghter has been repaired and
reprinted. The work was done at the
navy yard, but the boat was not out of
commission
Private Charles Marmaduke of the
Firef1ghter has returned from his an
nual vacation of twenty days. He spent
his holiday at home.
Private w. L. Atkyns of No. 20 engine
company has taken eleven days holi-
day and gone to the vicinity Of Rich
mond. Va.
Engineer James Dreamer of No. 81 en-
CINE company has taken a short vaca-
ton and gone to Chesapeake Beach to
look after his bungalow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

A war Of cartoonists Is on in the Of
fee Of the chief clerk of the internal
revenue bureau. Cartoon bombs are
being exchanged at regular and ir-
regular intervals. E. H. Willis, a long
time clerk in the Office. and E. G. Bal
linger, newcomer and private secretary
to Chief Clerk Paul Meyers. are the
friendly belligerents. Mr.. Ballinger.
transferred from the State Department.
discovered his talent as a craftsman,
and made funny pictures of the mes
sengers and others about him. Mr..
Willis had kept his abilities concealed;
but he took a crack at the private
secretary. making him into clever
cartoon, spectacles and all. Comes back
Mr.. Ballinger with the likeness of Mr..
Willis. Now they are making a pic
ture gallery Of the place with draw
ings of their associates. One, by MI
Willis. showing the soles Of pair OF
ample feet, a newspaper held In fin.
rertips. is said to represent DOC"
hockey Of the office in one of his busy
moments.
The coast guard is having a run Of
sickness. DR.. P. v. Dolan is absent on
account of illness. 1t was DR.. Dolan
who, on the outing to Newport News to
witness the launching Of the two new
revenue cutters, forgot to wake up at
Old point and was carried to Norfolk,
returning Just in time to witness the
second half Of the performance. w. B.
Lakewood is detained at home under
medical care. Mr.. Jemison is also at
his home, having been forced to drop
his work on account OF sudden illness.
II. H. GroRan has resumed his duties in
the construction bureau after several
days sick leave.
Mrs. Helen Meg. Sinclair. formerly of
the ONCE Of the supervising architect.
has exchanged desks with Mrs. Eliza
beth W. Collins in the personal income
tax division. Fred e. Pearman has
been transferred to the personal income
tax division from the 1sthmian canal
service. Martin H. Uelsmann has been
transferred from the national bank re-
demption agency to the claims division
Charlotte Marker, Grace NJ Kingston
and Mabel !. Shea and Mrs. Margaret
appointment on the rolls Of the corpo-
ration tax division.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09
WAR DEPARTMENT.

Lieut.. Col. Charles F. Mason Of the
Medical Corps, who has been stationed
on the Panama Canal Zone, 10 in this
city on leave Of absence and 10 visit
ing friends at the Walter Reed Hos
pital.
Mai F. w. Kobbs Of the 18th Infan-
try, stationed at Douglas, Ariz, il at
the Army and Navy Club on leave of
absence.
Mai. B. K. Ashford Of the Medical
Corps, who is stationed at san Juan,
Porto Rico. 10 visiting friends at 1858
p street on leave.
Henry M. State of the supply division
was on leave of absence last week.
Albert Wilcox Of the signal ONCE has
rendered his resignation.
Henry Lehman OF the requisition di-
vision 10 spending 4 weeks vacation
on the lower Potomac.
George W. McEntee Of the telegraph
division was on the sick list last week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE.

Changes of duties and stations of
commissioned and other officers of the
public health service, for the seven
days ended May S. 1918, are as follows:
Assistant Surgeon General Henry X.
Carter, to proceed to various points in
Alabama and South Carolina to con-
tinue investigat lions of the influence OF
impounded waters on the health of the
community.
Surgeon ]. o. Cobb. to proceed or to
detail Junior officer on like duty. to
| various points in Wisconsin, Michigan.
Kentucky, relative to physical exam
nations for the coast guard.
Surgeon r. H. Won Ezdorf. to attend
meeting of the Southern Sociological
Congress at Houston. Tex. May Sill.
Surgeon Nj. HI Foster, to attend meet
ing Of the American Association for
promoting hygiene and public baths in
New York city, May II.
Surgeon J. w. Schereschewsky, to
proceed to Pittsburgh, Pa, for organ.
lzing Investigations of occupational
diseases in that city.
Passed Assistant Surgeon G. l.. Col
| Inns. one days leave en- route to Wash
inSton.
Passed Assistant Surgeon E. H.
Sweet. relieved from the hygienic lab
| oratory. to report at the bureau for
temporary duty.
Passed Assistant Surgeon E. H. Null
Ian, to attend meeting OF the National
Association for the Study of Epilepsy
and the American NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Association at Fort Monroe, Va. May
1914.
Passed Assistant Surgeon Edward r.
Marshall, twenty-one days leave from
May II.
Passed Assistant Surgeon Paul Preble,
to proceed to Trenton, N. j., and such
other places in New Jersey and ad-
joining states as may be necessary to
make a sanitary reconnaissance of the
watershed of rivers flowing through
or bordering on New Jersey.
Assistant Surgeon NJ. Victor Stafford
to proceed to New Bedford, Mass, to
| inspect medical examination of arriy-
| ing aliens at that port.
! Assistant Surgeon E. w. Scott, to
proceed to various points in New York
Connecticut, Rhode Island. Massa-
chusetts, New Hampshire and Maine
| relative to physical examinations for
\ the coast guard.
Assistant Surgeon w. L. Treadway. to
| rejoin station at Ellis Island, N. Y,
stopping en- route to Faribault, Mimi,
visiting the school for the feeble mind
| ed and observing the methods in use
Assistant Surgeon w. M. Jones, to
proceed to various points in California
Oregon and Washington, relative to
| physical examinations for the coast
| guard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09
DEPT. OF COMMERCE.

H. f. Olsen Of the Secretary's ONCE
a trip to Indianapolis and Philadelphia
with Secretary Redfield.
Frank F. Greenawalt of the appoint
ment division was on leave of absence
during the latter part of the week to
take part in a golf tournament.
William F. Brooks of the chief
clerks office has been transferred to
the Naval Academy. Annapolis.
Frank T. Tracy of the chief clerks
ONCE, bureau of census. returned to
work last Monday. He was at Sibley
Hospital where he underwent a minor
operation.
Jacaue j. Elias of New York, who re-
signed his position in the census bu-
reau last fall. was reinstated as clerk
at $1,000 May l and assigned to duty
in the division of statistics of cities.
collecting financial statistics Of cities.
Bowen crandall has completed his
work on statistics of cities at Superior
Wis, and has gone to Duluth, MINI.
John NJ. Brinton recently began. field
work on city finance in South Bend
Ind. after having completed his assign.
The following changes in personnel
were announced: Bureau of foreign and
domestic commerc4-Lew b. Clark
transferred from the Office of the Sec
rotary to clerk at 5000: Louis A. Pol
trine. clerk to the commercial sttache
at Santiago. Chile. at $500. has re.
signed; Harry Custis Vesey has beer
temporarily appointed clerk to the
commercial attache at Petrograd, Rus
STA. at $1,000: Paul La Rose has beer
temporarily appointed as clerk at $50 8
month at Chicago, and the temporary
appointments of Miss Helen Wrenn, al
clerk at $500. and Miss Grace v. Clerkl
and Miss Maidee E. Slifer, as expert.
(clerks) at $3.50 each. have been ex.
] tended. Bureau of standards-Prentis.
| D. Sale, jr., aid. has been promoted tt
| laboratory at $500. and Frank w. Mar.
| tin. aid. has been promoted to 1920
The temporary appointment Of Jere
miah Murphy. as Waterman at $720
] has been terminated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09
southeast. took a weeks vacation and
went to Atlantic City.

southeast. took a weeks vacation and
went to Atlantic City.
Private j. F. Watts of the third pre-
cinct was on the sick list last week
Capt. c. Z. E. Flather of the sixth
precinct took holiday part of the past
week and went to Cumberland. Md, to
participate in Masonic celebration in
that city.
Private J. T. Buckley of the sixth
precinct attended christening in
Baltimore last week
Private S. !. Matthews of Capt
Schneider's command took holiday Sun
day to recuperate from his chilly ex-
perience in the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal Saturday night. when he had the
misfortune to fall overheard while
pursuing an unidentified man. losing
his hat, baton and papers and running
his clothing.
Acting Sergt. McGin Grove of the
seventh precinct took a brief vacation
the past week and did some paint-up
work about his house.
Private John ]. Bourke of the sew
enth precinct took holiday one day last
week and enjoyed trip up the canal
aboard a launch.
E. T. Alexander. private in Capt.
Schneiders command, took holiday last
Sunday.
Mounted Policeman A, c. Belt Of the
seventh precinct had one day off last
week.
Sergt. Theodore Kaucher OF the ninth
precinct was off duty last Sunday. He
spent the holiday at home.
Mounted Policeman S. J. Marks of
the ninth precinct was off duty part of
last week on account of sickness in his
family.
Private C. c. Parker, who fills a post
position at Benning, spent last week at
home.
Private r. B. Mays, who was trans
ferred from the fourth to the ninth
precinct last week, took sick card.
Private W. c. Adcock of the tenth
precinct, in charge of the automobile
service, was on the sick list the past
week. He injured his hand while
alighting from a patrol wagon.
G. S. Lomax, private in the COM
mand of Capt. Judge, enjoyed snort
holiday last week.
Privates c. H. Trammell and F. D.
Hiser of the tenth precinct were on the
sick list last week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09

leave for a few days during the past
week.
Patrick Stanley of the engineering
sno machine division is planning an
extended trip through the western
states.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09

For Other Departmental News Sec
Page 12, Part 3.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09

NJ. Hagan, blacksmith of the forge
shop, who was absent for the past
month. suffering from the grip, has re-
day,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09

George Anholt. ". s Seaton. A. Shultz,
Lee Washburn, R J. Dixon and p. Green
hall, machinists were called to work in
the secondary mount shop during the
past week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09

Howard Wilkins of the linotype sec
ton returned to work last week after
a nine-day vacation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09

Mrs Maggie S. Kerfoot, chief Of the
packing division, has moved to River
dale, Nd. for the summer season.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-02
Maxwell Boosters Meet.

II. [. siever Maxwell agent, New Haven. Conn, has
been elected president Of the Maxwell Dealers Cooperative
CLUB A. Lustbaum, Maxwell agent at Long Branch. is
chairman, and C. F. Sexton Maxwell agent Perth AmbOy
is secretary
Monthly meetings will be held and luneheons served al
the expense Of the Maxwell factory Specially prepared
food will be shipped from the factory. This will be well
seasoned with Maxwell Admiration Salt"
HARRY De Bear New York factory branch manager the
Youngest branch manager in captivity will FLANDERS
SOUP every agentmember Of the club will be per-
ntted TO say anything he thinks it is in the
general interest Of the Maxwell product It's new
idea Watch il grow.