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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-03
SKOWHECAN NEWS

Canaan Grange Planning for Big Annual Fair;
Officers Chosen Loo al Druggist Is Chosen
President Maine Dru ggists+Union Gospel
Meeting at Weber Pond-June Weddings -
ROYAL Arch Chapter Holds Installation Sc
lected News Notes an Personals p.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-03

Bronze hose in which there is no
rubber, canvas or leather has been in
vented in Great Britain for handling
fuel oil
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-03
Eastern
Yesterdays Games
Springfield 8, Bridgeport 0.
New London 2, New Haven 0.
Eastern League Standing

7oaay's Games
Bridgeport at Lowell.
Hartford at Lawrence.
New London at New Haven.
Lynn at Portland.
Worcester at Springfield.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-03
AUGUSTA DOLLAR DAYS
THURS, FRI, JULY g.
BIGGEST BARGAINS EVER

Factory output four months to May LIST,
upwards of fourteen millions. Increase OF
over two millions in four months Larg-
est selling brand of 1oc. Cigars in the
world. Factory. Manchester. n. H.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-03
National Standing

Today's Games
Philadelphia at Boston.
Brooklyn at New York.
Cincinnati at st. LouiSn
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-03

Clay Stedman Of Hartland and Miss
Eta M. Broderick Of Canaan were mar
ried Thursday afternoon at the Bethany
parsonage by the Rev. George Merriam
the single ring service being used. Mr.
Stedman is the son Of Wall Stedman
Of Hartland. The party came by auto
mobile and were accompanied by sew
eral relatives
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-03

Frank L. Ames, Esq. manager Of the
Farmers Cooperative Telephone Com
pany, was in town Saturday on bust
ness.
The engagement is announced Of Leon
Melzer Cookson, a lineman for the
Maine Telephone Company here, and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-03
National

Yesterdays Games
Cincinnati 8, Pittsburg (first game);
Pittsburg 6, Cincinnati l Second game).
Chicago 5, St. Louis 1.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-03
American Standing

Today's Games
Boston at Philadelphia.
New York at Washington.
Detroit at Cleveland.
St. Louis at Chicago.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-03
American

Yesterdays Games
Chicago 1, Detroit 0.
Cleveland 8, St. Louis 2.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-20

there more in them than met the eye ana
hit the stage at the Metropolitan and Ca
rusos cheek last Wednesday night? Is II
not possible that the realism was meant 10
convey symbolic meaning? Was Carmen
wrestling-match with the lady OF the
chorus in the first act intended TO lore
shadow her treatment of Micaela later on
And was that blow sent after the rose nuhe
in Don Jose's face meant to foreshado" her
coming destruction of him, body and soul
Are subtleties of psychological meaning
to be sought behind the robust technique OIL
the screen? Must we be educated up 10
them? Shall we in time come to see the
value of the strong-arm methods of regis
terinpr in the opera house? Is still another
art 70 contribute its share to the perfection
of the music drama?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-20

who enacted il Immediately violated 1t and
continue to do So All hotel, restaurant,
barber shop and Pullman car patrons treat
il as if il didn't exist. The law provides
that hotels, restaurants, cafes, barber
shops and shoe polishing parlors post pa
cards in public view reading "No tipping
allowed" A dispatch from Des MONIES
says the signs are so scarce they have be-
come valuable as souvenirs.
This law has been just as successful IN
checking the practice Of tipping in Iowa as
Henry Ford has been In hating hostihtles
in Europe. And it has earned for Iowa
law the same portion of disrespect that now
greets the name Of Ford. II is among the
most ridiculously impotent OF all the long
list of impotent state prohbitory measures
which have brought into popular con-
tempt state legislatures and state law, and
to some degree, too, the whole system OF
american representative government. Yet
how many Of us who laughed at the peace
argosv continue TO believe in legislation as
a substitute for moral Development Per-
haps. after all, Mr.. Ford is not bit more
of an ass than tho majority of his fellow
countrymen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-20
The Philippines as an Asset.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The note by Hawkins on the Philip
pine question in your editorial page Of Feb
ruary is immense It's rank treason 10
think Of giving up our foothold in the Far
East | hope you can keep after this vital
question daily.
The present Democratic Administration
will 60 down in perfdy because of this I'M
American idea of giving up the most valua-
bic asset we have that affects our future as
a world nation. The Alaska purchase at the
time was laughing matter. Look at it
now. The Philippines are ten times more
valuable to US as a nation, as well as in re-
sources.
In no way have we given the Philippines
an opportunity to grow and to show what
their real value is and can be made for the
United States. Wilson's weakness in this
connection is ptiable, but it's the old Demo-
cratic story repeated of always doing the
wrong thing. J. J. SULLIVAN.
New York. Feb. u, 1915
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-20
PREPAREDNESS FIRST
When Policemen Become Plough
men We May Dispense with Army.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: "Dr MacCracken said he knew only
two minister's in New York who favored pre-
paredness. One is Canadian by blr'h ana
the otser is an Englishman." This Is from
The Tribune's Washington news oil yesterday
at the hearing before the House Military
Committee.
For the good doctors enlightenment, mere
is one member of the Clerical Conference
not n Canadian nor an Englishman, but an
eighth generation American, who believes IN
national preparedness. And believe III II
not to help the second term propaganda OF u
President "too proud to fight Tor the
American babies and their mothers nj the
bottom Of the seas, but not too proud 10
fight" for his own personal political proilt'
| believe in such programme OF prepareu'
ness as shall restore respect for our govern
nent abroad and unite in enthusiasm all sec
tions and races here at home. If the present
Congress cannot work out such a programme
then the country will surely elect one tha'
will, including a President whose prepared
ness is in something else than the dictionary
Some Of us there are who agree with the
doyecote cooers that war is hell and "ot
the devil. devlish." But we also believe that
lust so long as there is hell and the devil Ia
human hearts there will be war, with the
monstrous "frightfulness" and amazing logic
to Justify It and prosecute it that this present
war has shown When we can leave Jocks
and bolts off our doors and windows, throw
away our keys and our timelocks, turn our
policemen into poughmen and our jails into
silos, then can we cease spending good Amer
lean dollars for military, naval and aerial
preparedness.
And / would like to see 1T begin In our
public schools, with military drill or any
thing else that will teach our boys to live
courageously, with only the fear of God In
their hearts, and die valiantly, II need be-
for God and home and native land
DR.. MacCracken once said 10 me, after hear
ing me preach sermon on Seek ye hrst
His righteousness well, my
brother, you did put in the Methodist
arousements, didn't your"
Perhaps he will think this as devoid OF
sense as that sermon-just noise. ! still be-
lieve, however, in righteousness first, and u
preparedness to maintain il at any cost.
A MEMBER OF THE CLERICAL CONFER
ENCE
New Rochelle, ~ Y, Feb. 10, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-20
Honesty and the Job.

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: As an honest, capable citizen victim
If unemployment for at least two years,
wish, through your valuable columns, to
ask a few questions OF vital importance.
First. Why is it that good positions are
usually found for prisoners and convicts on
their release, while many of those with a
clean record are refused?
Second. Why is il that the more serious a
mans crime the more desirable is his work
while in prison?
Third. Must a man become criminal be-
fore he gets his place in life?
Fourth. Should honest men be encouraged
ir their lifelong fight for clean record, or
must they go to their graves after making a
brave but losing fight?
We occasionally hear OF men getting re-
lease from prison whom the so-caled prison
reformers take in hand and find positions
tor which many an honest man may well
long for Now, this does not mean that
deprecate such noble work, but it does mean
"a strong protest against placing premium
en- crime: provided Of course, the man who
commits il has the money power behind him.
l. this social justice or fayortism?
HENRY CHANCELLOR.
New York, Feb 10, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-20
The Dove.

Once more we have got the goods on
Dame Nature. and she stands convicted
of taking. The Pittsburgh ornithologist,
Norman McClintock, backed up by all the
erudition of the Audubon Society, an
nounces that "the dove is not a bird of
peace. but one of the most pugnacious Of
feathered fighters. In fact, the dove fights
a large part Of his waking hours"
OF course. that might have been said Of
a Manhattan backyard cat, or telephone
subscriber, or a joy-rider on the subway or
elevated. Whether or not deposit Of SCOT
on his snowy plumage has made deep
change in the character of the Pittsburgh
variety, yet there goes another Of our cher
ished emblems Ever since that distant
,ainv day when old Noah few his pet
SQUAD to this year of grace and strife,
when the President sends abroad Colonel
House and Henry Ford his floating dove
cote. the symbol has lulled us as once, in
pre-Victor days, did the cloying strains Of
La Paloma."
1t was Anatole France who cynically re-
marked that war consisted in stealing the
pigs and chickens of peasants; but the war
has stolen on this side the national emblem,
and the eagle is now exhibiting the charac-
teristics we once attributed to the dove.
The aeroplanes from which the Germans
drop their bombs are called Taubes or
doves. while the japanese have pretty
custom of releasing a flock of doves every
time they launch a battleship against
California.
From the dawn Of history the dove has
been a messenger" while our poets, an
Gent and modern, have filled the bowers Of
Venus with his rhythmic cooling. And now
we learn that those languorous sounds hide
a deeper, more ominous note. Added to
Doc Cooks discovery that the wild men Of
Borneo are not really wild at all, we
may soon be nature faxed ourselves, lie
the celebrated lady of Niger, into taking
mayoralty joy-ride on that pedigreed
feline from Fourteenth street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-20
Tips In Iowa.

More than half of as wish that tipping
might 20 out Of fashion-that on the one
hand the vanity which demands obsequi-
Gus service might disappear from human
nature and that on the other hand the
pride Of social independence might assert
itself above the desire for gain. A society
that scorned tippers and tippees would pos
sess moral strength wholly admirable,
whose influence would permeate and i'm.
prove all its organized activities, civic in
dustrial and military.
But tipping has not gone out of fashion,
and the more we prosper as a people the
more firmly rooted the custom becomes,
since money hasn't the happy faculty of
stiffening the moral fibre. But neither has
legislation, the great quack remedy forever
being prescribed by our medicine men Of
politics. Which brings us to the anti-tip-
ping law of Iowa, become famous recently
through illustrious violation.
Since the enactment of this law, last July
after $50 state legislators had quarrelled
over it for half day. there has been just
one arrest under its provisions-that of an
barber VINO accepted a dime
and was fined S. (his corrupter was not
brought TO JUSTICE. And yet probably
every minute of the day somewhere in Iowa
that law is icing violated The legislators
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-20
Hotel Help Needed.
Editor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: note with great Interest the sug-
gestion TO Commissioner John Martin, Of the
Board Of Education, by Copeland Townsend
owner Of the Hotel Majestic, that vocational
training in the public schools be used 70
solve some of the employment problems that
beset hotel managers.
As is pointed out by Mr.. Townsend, who
has had wide experience in this particular
field, there is invested in the City OF New
York 100000 in hotel property, and for
almost every hotel patron there is a hotel
employe in some capacity.
For some reason or other the subject OF
domestic science in the public schools does
not incorporate the preiminaries of the
hotel vocation, and why?
II offers lucrative field. Many Of the
positions offer from $50 20 $3.50 month and
board and in many cases incidentals such
as laundry work, theatre tickets and other
little privileges. The food in the larger
hotels is Of the best, and the environment is
unusual.
Just now many young men who have been
employed in various capacities in hotels
have been called TO Europe by the war. There
is demand for trained hotel help. 1t IS
dignfed and should be placed in the curric
uum Of the public schools, in the humble
opinion Of the writer.
A HOTEL WORKER.
New York, Feb. 16, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-20
Opera and the Movies.

In opera, we know, all the arts must
rect, mingle and work together toward
one supreme impression-th art of the
composer, the conductor and the singer, the
art of the actor, the stage manager,
the mechanician, the scene painter and
!he electrician. Even Of the animal trainer.
Witness the geese in "KoenIgskinder.' To
be sure. as yet it is only Crane thus far
who is "practicable," to employ a term of
the theatre, in Wagner's bewildering ope-
ratio menagerie. His 1Ourm and swans and
the rest Of them continue TO be bald imita-
tions. And after more than a hundred
years the elephant in "The Magic Flute"
continues to sway his canvas head Ga bad
habit in a howdah elephant, by the way
and to beg for peanuts in an effort at real
ism which deceives nobody. Compare his
artifciality with the perfectly natural sto-
lidity of the donkey in "Pagliacci."
But we are progressing. The day may
yet dawn when Caruso will sing 80 Para
disc" in a forest peoplcd with real monkeys
and parrots-at least if a return to Meyer
beer be among the possibilities of operate
management and public taste.
But it is with the wedding of the arts of
the singer and the player that we are con-
cerned here. Shall he-and especially she
contribute nothing further to opera Has
the last word been said, has the apex been
reached in the collaboration of all the arts
on the music stage? Having learned from
Wagner that acting is of equal Importance
with singing and music, must our operate
artists abide by the standard thus set, and
not draw upon experiences gained in new
art form, undreamt of in Wagner's own
day? Shall one who has learned the tech
nique of registering" in the movie studios
not enrich opera with all its resources, all
its possibilities?
Miss Farrar has learned to register
that is ALL Caruso's course in restraining
her merely proves that opera, without our
realizing it, was running in rut.
The days are long past when the prima
donna expressed her emotions by stepping
to the footlights and handing them across
to the audience from her corsage with
either hand or with both. The days are past
when the tenor confessed his love by smil-
ing ecstatically over his high c and indi-
Gated his despair by throwing his head
back, covering his eyes with his hands and
growing weak in the knees as he staggered
off the stage. Wagner changed all that.
But behold What he began has been turned
into rigid conventions again by Frau Cost
ma and Segfred at Beyreuth. And now,
suddenly, new vistas have been opened
before US. The technique Of the movies
may yet come to revolutionlze the Ring, as
last week it gave novelty to Carmen Ii
is so direct, so reaistic-it has a punch"
Realistic, and yet, is there not more in il
than that? Are not Miss Farrar's movie in
noyations perhaps sound art after all? Is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-20
Plans for Water Wagon Week.

At a recent conference Of the Mayor
tho Health Commissioner and the City
Chamberlain it was resolved to modify
the plans made by the Health Depart
mept for what is styled an educational
campaign against alcoholic excess. 1t APP
pears that when this enterprise was hrst
conceived the projectors had thoughts OF
invading cafes, barrooms, and even private
clubs, if possible, in order to distribute
tracts setting forth the dreadful conse-
ouences of overindulgence in strong drink.
Now. on second thoughts, it has been de-
cided TO let the drinking places alone ana
to hand out the warnings in the ferry
houses and in some Of the lodging houses
Nor is this the only change made. Inc
Mavor is determined that the crusade, as
il is called, shall be conducted on plan
strictly in accord with the functions OF the
DEPARTMENT Of Health, and TO this end ne
has undertaken to look over the advertise
ments and tracts designed to promote tenn
perance. Some changes have already been
suggested. A great water wagon which
was TO be driven through the streets bear
ing placards of warning to drunkards' mas
been eliminated, and certain exaggerations
and overstatements in the tracts have been
either cut out or toned down.
These precautions are distinctly COM
mendable. If it is necessary or desirable
for the city to extend its benevolent activi-
ties in this way at all it ought to go about
the business circumspectly. An example
of the sort of folly that the Mayor has
nrovided against is shown in this passage
from one Of the tracts: Nothing is safe
that is short of total abstinence" 1t mas
heen deemed advisable to qualify this by
nrefxipg the words: "For many persons.
The difference is the difference between a
fact nroyed by experience and an obvious
falsehood. That something short OF total
abstinence is safe for very many is mani
fest To any unpreiudiced observer. IL Is bad
orongb that. thanks to the activities OF
fanatical busybodies, preposterous non
sonse about alcohol is taught in schools on
the pretence of instructing children In the
fundamentals of physiology. Were similar
nonsense to be publicly countenanced by
our Health Department it could hardy
hone TO retain the respect and confidence
of the public. The public pays Tor tnese
doubtful experiments and has right to
evnect at least that they be kept within
the region of common sense.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-20
Race Snobbery.
lFron The Boston Hcrdld)


7, making Enthusiastically visits near the
North Ferry an inspector found an elderly
woman living in plain poverty on the second
floor of a built-in tenement house
Changes ?" she said. "Many enough since
came here twenty years ago Then there
were real folks all about. Now not stove
above me but boils macaroni for Eyetaiians
not that would speak to one of that KIND;
but see them on the stairs
1t takes more than bare floors and alley
outlooks TO keep a soul from rating itself
above foreigners.
This ill-fruiting dislike Of the outlander
roots deep; it is a veritable instinct. Let a
French or German boy take his place in an
uptown school; the first recess is not over
before his name is "Frenchy" or "Dutchy
and his chance for comradeship fighting
chance He finds only such welcome as he
is able 20 compel The boys are against him
as hens against the newcomer that they peck
and pluck, or as wolves against the stray
that tries to join the pack.
Until our half-helpless race, parted by the
seas and divided against itself by speech and
folkway and later by clash Of wants, can see
and check its disintegrating instincts, 1t must
expect war after war and then war. The
sooner we all make it matter of principle
to discover the aliens good points and by
and fair play to let him learn
such good points as we ourselves may have,
the sooner we shall be working for peace,
and not where war Graves respite but where
alone world-peace can begin. Not till there 5
a blacker plague than war will there be
snobbishness more the devils own than
snnhhishness OF race
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-20
Mortality of Football Stars

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: As a Yale man. | must take excep-
tior to John McF. Howie's communication to
The Tribune concerning the mortality of
Yale football captains.
Tom Shevlin died OF pneumonia and to
attribute his death in any way to football
Is as logical as il would be 10 say that foot
ball caused the death of Johnny Poe. the
Princeton star, who was killed several
months ago fighting for England.
Mr.. HOWE also shows his complete igno-
rance Of Yale il he thinks that the fear OF
physical injury would prevent any Yale man
from playing on the football team and thus
being Of service to his university.
CHARLES PARSONS.
Rhyolite, New, Feb. Z, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-20

A "bjeh Official" says this governments
stems taken in the Lusitania matter nave
,een comparatively simple" To a mind when
Guild solve iig-saw puzzles. perhaps
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-20
No Francs-Tireurs

There were none lie had found what h.
had been drilled to find, in the years of pre-
paredness. The front lines of the User were
raked clear by shell, rifle and machine gun
IRE The district was IN ruins. | know, be-
cause | worked there with our Red Cross
corps through those three weeks The hU
morous explanation OF this is given by d
Fusilier Marin Lieutenant, K. Kmley. that
the blue cap and the red pompon of the fam
Gus fighting sailors of France looked strange
10 the Germans, who took the wearers for
francs-treurs, terror suggesting the idea.
But this is the kindly humor OF Brittany.
The saucy sailor caps could not have looked
strange TO German eyes, because few weeks
earlier those girls with the red pompon"
had held the German army corps at NELLIE
and not even terror could have made them
look other than terribly familiar. No. The
officers had been faithfully trained 70 find
militant peasants under arms and TO send
back letters and reports of their discovery
which could later be used in official excuses
for frightfulness. This letter is one that
did not get back to Berlin. later to appear
in a White Paper as justification for official
murder of non-combatants.
The picture projected by the Great German
Literary staff is too imaginative. Think OF
that army of the invasion with its eleven
army corps riding down through village
streets-the uhlan cavalry. the innumerab,a
artillery, the dense, endless infantry, the
deadly power and swing of il all-and thea
see the girl-child of Alost, and the white
haired woman, eighty years old, aiming their
rifles az that cavalcade. IL is a literary ere
alton. not a statement of fact. | have beer
in villages when German troops were enter
ing, had entered, and were about to enter. ]
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-20

Those Florida policemen who arrested IN
spector Faurot as a bunco man showed Ia
mentable inability to recognize the stSmata
Of the craft.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-20

You can purchase merchandise advertised
in THE TRIBUNE with absolute safety-tor
if dissatisfaction results in any case THE
TRIBUNE guarantees to pay your money back
upon request. No red tape, no quibbling. We
make good promptly IL the advertiser does not.