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Imperial Valley press., 1916-01-04
CITY AND VALLEY

Born-At Ell Cajon, Cal, Jan. l.,
1916, to Mr.. and Mrs. II. l.. Lydick
of Ell Centre, a son.
< x X
Aged Woman Dies-Mrs. Permelia
Hammond, &c, died at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Berry, at Brawley,
yesterday. The body will be shipped
by C. A. Shafer to Walla Walla,
Wash.
Rosa Shelby Suceumbs-Rosa L.
Shelby died in Ell Centre this morn
ing, aged sc years. Remains will be
shipped to Los Angeles by c. A. Sha-
fer. where the funeral services will
be held.
Fined SIG Each-Abdul Aziz and At
ia Mohammed were fined SO each
by Justice Mayfield for appropriat-
ing sweet potatoes owned by E. NJ
McMullen on the w. E. Cooley ranch
The East Indians had pleaded guilty
at their hearing yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-01-04
Cotton Market.

Cotton Market.
Following is the eastern cotton mar
ket as reported today to DAILY Broth
ers:
New Orleans
Open. Noon. Close
March .......... .12.45 1926 12.3l
Spots, 11.94. Sales, 11.60.
New York
Open. Noon. Close.
March 49,. ..12.54 1851 12.46
May .1275 1912 1868
Spots, 1910. Sales, so.
Local about 11.37.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-14
Beans Is Beans"

Beans Is Beans"
and the cost is soaring
skyward with pork, beef,
eggs and other foods until
the cost of living represents
an increase of from 80 to 50
per cent. While meats and
vegetables are beyond the
reach of many millions of
families, Shredded Wheat
Biscuit continues to sell at
the same old price and re-
tains the same high nutri-
tive quality. Shredded
wheat biscuit contains all
the rich body building nuti-
ment in the whole wheat
grain, including the bran
coat, which is 50 useful in
keeping the bowels healthy
andactive. Eatit forauymeal
with milk or cream or in
combination with fruits.
Made at Niagara Fails, NY.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-14
Who Can Deny Il Now?

One more evidence of the sagacity
and business principles of this "busi-
ness administration" is seen in the ad
vertisement. under date of Dec. II. for
bids on Glass B of the State printing
This class is for miscellaneous job
printing which. has been parceled out
to its friends throughout its entire
term by the present administration
Now it would contract with its friends
binding up this class of work through
out the entire term of the next admin
istration. Bids will be opened Dec. 20
for term beginning Dec Is, 1916, and
lasting till Dec. 26. 1918, too late for
the next administration to make con-
tract.
If this isn't "business" administra-
ton. what is it?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-14
Editorial Comment
Gov. Milliken's Responsibility
Manchester Union)

\AuuhNhSoSCl - hAOh(
The attention of the entire country
has been directed toward the wide
spread sweep Of prohibition by the
outcome on November 7 which in
creased the number of dry states to
25-a majority Of the entire number.
Beginning on January /, the attention
of the east, particularly, will be con-
centrated on single state, that of
Maine, where Governor Carl E. Milli-
ken will assume office pledged to a
rigorous and effective enforcement Of
the Maine prohibition law.
There can be no doubling the effect
upon the whole cause of prohibition in
New England which the consistent
Maine has had. A good many of the
New England states have made a test
of prohibition and discarded it. The
reason for the return to a condition
where the manufacture and sale of
liquor was legalized is the same rea-
son which has made prohibition in
Maine a farce-the impossibility of
effective enforcement in communities
where predominant sentiment in
favor of prohibition does not exist.
Superintendent Robbins of the New
Hampshire Anti-Saloon League and a
good many supporters of the dry"
movement contend that in the past
Is years a new public conscience
touching the enforcement of law has
been evolved, with the consequence
that today prohibition would be eff
fective even in communities where a
majority sentiment was lacking favor
able to the dry" side because a good
many people who would vote wet
would insist upon law observance,
even of law which they regarded as
an invasion of personal liberty of
action.
This a moot question We confess
ourselves skeptical on this point. If
The Union believed that prohibition
could be satisfactorily and effectively
enforced in New Hampshire. it would
instantly ally itself with the dry
forces to aid in bringing it about. No
thoughtful man today regards the sa-
loon other than as a necessary evil
And it's necessity grows solely out of
the belief, engendered of experience
that to try to make community
dry" the majority of whose voting
public is wet" is worse than bootless,
it is positively injurious. because of
the disrespect for all law which open
and unconcealed and UNPUBLISHED de-
fiance Of the prohibitory law breeds.
Governor Milliken, therefore, as
sumes office with very large respon-
sibility resting upon his shoulders. He
is not solely responsible for the sue
cess Of law enforcement against the
illicit liquor-se of Maine, but he
will be largely responsible for the
trend Of public sentiment on this sub
ject all over New England. If he
makes good his pre-primary and pre-
election pledge to make Maine, and
particularly Penobscot. Cumberland
and Kennebec counties dry" really
dry" as the law contemplates he will
do more to promote prohibition in
New England than all of the Billy
Sundays and other temperance
preachers and workers could do in
generation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-14

Did you ever see white rat? asks the
Pennington Journal. White mice used
to be a favorite pet with children, and a
white rat Is probably cousin. Charles
Frederic brought white rat to the viii
lage Saturday afternoon which he had
caught at his home that morning. He
set the trap the night before thinking
that he might rid the place of one of the
common rodents. but was much sur
prised to find a pure white specimen in
the trap. And white it was with pink
eyes and pink nose, and it didn't act
greatly frightened as he was gazed upon
by a crowd Of interested spectators.
Young Frederic says he shall keep him
for while and possibly tame him. Sew
eral works on Natural History fail to
describe this variety Of rat, and it may
be q sport from the regular species.
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Little End Of Horn.
Lewiston SUM

You see what a dear friend of the
working man is President Samuel
Gompers. He wants to add a third
or a quarter to the pay of those thou
sands of government employees in
Washington. Where is the money
coming from? Coming from the pay
of the thousands of workers who do
not work in Washington. Out of the
pay Of you workers in cotton mills
and shoe shops. President Gompers
proposes to take a slice out of your
smaller pay to add that slice to the
bigger pay of the petted Washington
workers. That's the way he earns his
salary standing for Labor with the big
L. You that stay at home and work,
you are the little 1.-The little end of
the horn
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-14
Railroads and Steamboats,
MAINE CENTRAL R, R.
In Effect October I. 1916.
TRAINS LEAVE AUGUSTA:

FO4NG WEaI-o.U4 A. NJ,
lE1YY3EVEy,, except Monday. Portland
,1Vtl&ai ana Boston,, b.oS A. NJ,
ly2IfE3e1TTt Lewiston, Pennington,
k03NlEsial Kockiand. Portland, Bos-
a. i!iisislSsxal ton, Montreal and Que
S-=I bee; $50 A. NJ, Bruins
wlcK. Lewiston, Portland, Boston; H.4S
\. NJ, Iiallowell, Gardner and So.
Gardner; 800 +. M, local; Az T..
M. (eXpress). Brunswick. Rockland,
Portland, Boston and New York; 5.15 p.
M, hallowell. Gardner and So. Gardi-
ner; 6.l2 T. M, not beyond Portlandl !;
lU.40 i. NJ, Lewiston. Bath, Portland,
Boston. Sundays 3.U4 and lU.lo A. NJ, 3.oS
(New York; and 1910 +. M, Portland anu
Boston.
lais, Bar Harbor. st. John, Halifax.
Aroostook Co. Sunday morning at LID
A: M, does not connect beyond Bangor;
Oakland), Belt t. PoXcrort and Bangor;
9.l7 A. NJ, local to Belfast, Bangor and
Skowhegan; 1906 +. NJ, Waterviile, Ban
gor. +. & A. 4. r., Calais, st. John and
Halifax; 1.37 Z. NJ, express 10 Waterville.
thence local to Bangor and Mattawam-
keag; 320 Z. NJ, Waterville and SkoI he
gan; 707 p. M, Waterviile, Skowhegan
and Bangor. Sundays $50 A. NJ, 253 r.
M, for Bangor, $50 a. NJ. and 2.53 p. M.
for Skowhegan.
Trains leave Augusta for Hallowell,
Gardiner and South Gardiner at 6.3S, 9.36
A. NJ, 12.4S, 3.05 o.15, 612, 1910. Hallowell
and Gardiner only 4.O7 p. NJ. Gardiner
only 3.0i A. NJ. except Mondays.
H. D. WALDRON, Genl Passenger Agt.
D. c. Douglass. Gen'l Mgr. Portland. Me.
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and $91, 100000 less than during the 1912
10 period, as appears from the follow
ing tsbuiation:

AS a source Of revenue some Demo-
Gratis think they need no longer rely so
strongly on import duties, and they are
content to substitute internal taxation
as source from which to derive the
expenses necessary to operate the
Government. This was proved during
the last session of Congress when the
taxes on incomes were doubled and
certain industries were subjected to a
tax on war supplies.
This is a decided change from the
attitude taken by the Democratic
party at the time the present tariff law
was being debated. The Democratic ar
gument in 1918 was that lower tariff
rates would encourage importation to
such an extent that the revenues would
rates. Certain basic raw materials
such as sugar and wool were placed on
the free list to reduce the cost Of liv-
ing, and resort was had to an income
tax in order to make up for the loss Of
customs revenues from these sources.
But the ten months operation Of this
policy prior to the outbreak Of the
European war 6isillusioned the Demo-
Gratis. Imports increased, it is true, to
an extent which caused serious in
dustrial depression here, but the rates
of duty had been cut SO low that the
increase in imports failed to produce
the expected increase in customs rev.
enue. and the war gave them an excuse
for plastering a war tax onto the
country. In the meantime the seaboard
sugar trust was pocketing a larger re.
finer's margin. and Australia and other
wool-producing countries were getting
| larger market for their wool, but
keeping UP the price.
| Since the beginning Of the war. prof.
its have been large and many plants
have been working at capacity. The
number Of incomes which have come
within the provisions Of the income tax
law has been wonderfully increased
and the super-tax has found a large
number Of subjects. The Democratic
party has seized every opportunity te
tax incomes and profits, and because
the victims are making good money
they accept the situation good-natured.
ly. But they are not at all likely to
take our present revenue laws so pas
sively when restoration Of peace ends
the war-order prosperity and when free
foreign competition once more puts
American industry to the bad.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-14

Apropos OF current reports Of an un-
usual number Of bobcats in New Hamp,
shire, we deem it proper to inform all
fishermen and near-fishermen in Augusta,
Me-, that, while there Is deal of sport
in bobbing for cells, the best Nimrods do
not bob for Observation-Disclosures Union
No-o-o? Now, up in New Hampshire
do they angle for angleworms? So far
a. Maine is concerned, a Lewiston man
claims to have a dog trained to point
fish. Huh? Oh. nothing much, only we
might suggest that some folks living
in or near Manchester ought to have
dog like that.
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"Competition" Feared7

Monday, at Portland, before the
Public Utilities Commission, the rail-
roads presented arguments against
physical connection between certain
electric lines and steam railroads, for
the transfer and forwarding of freight,
on the ground that it would result in
competition between the steam and
electric railroads.
We may have been misinformed as
to the exact tenor of the opposition's
argument, but, in any event, we had
been brought up in the conviction that
the salvation of the public depends on
healthy competition In all kinds of
business. If the railroads really base
their opposition to public convenience
on the ground that they would have to
meet the competition of those who
want q share of the business developed
by feeders" then the public should
, fight all the harder for the conven-
fence, in self defnse against monopoly
The Public Utilities Commission has
already arranged better time service
for passengers on steam and electric
railroads where accommodating
schedules were stubbornly adhered to,
regardless of public convenience. The
same advantages should grow out of
physical connections of public utilities.
Without question the better rail-
road service pays the public the bet
ter it will pay the road in the end. 1t
has been demonstrated to public salts
faction that cooperation with feeders
Of railroads develops new territory and
makes the feeder a profitable consid-
GRAFTON to the main line. It seems a
| deliberate waste. for a purpose on
somebody's part, for farmer who
lives on an electric car line to be OBJ
liged to haul his marketable product
| 10 or Is miles to ship it on a steam
| railroad. Physical connections between
the competing" services and reason
| able degree of cooperation would serve
| the rural districts better and encourage
them to compete in the markets with
other producers.
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Do You Know Why?
(Biddeford JournaD

Sent into Mexico to get Villa dead
or alive, imagine how Pershing must
feel, under orders first from Mexico
and then from his own government,
forced as he is to remain where he
Is and do nothing while the Mexican
bandit leader and his rag-tag and
bob-tail following cut circles all
around him and thumb their noses at
the authorities of both countries.
The story of this punitive expedition
will make a pitiful chapter in the
history Of the United States as it will
be read by future generations. AS a
matter of fact, in the complete story
of our relations with Mexico there is
very little in which a patriotic citizen
OF big country like this can take
unqualified pride.
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Taxing Americans Instead Of Foreign.
Ar3.

erS.
The failure Of the Democratic tariff
az a revenue producer is shown by the
Department of Commerce which re-
ports that our imports for the IL
months period. November. 1915. to oc-
tober. 1916, inclusive. totaled s2,ss5. ooo.-
ooe, This is an increase of 4s5.ooo'ooo
over a corresponding period. 1sls-l4'
nine months Of which was under peace
conditions and the following three
m.rths Of which trade currents were
h,o,un from their channels by the hrst
Hast 81 the European war. 1t Is also
.r..ter by ,sss. ooo.o 900 than the total Tor
~. ueriod November. 1912, to OCTOBER
,s,, a,even months Of which was onoer
~. Repubncan protective tarin pon's'
On the otAar hand. the customs .ss-
.,,,., for tie 1sl5-ls period were w.
1890 LED, than for the l91s-14 peru,
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= MeAdoo as Wilson's leaatee
Lewiston JournaD

Sec. McAdoo. the Presidents SON.
in-iaw apparently is being groomed
Tor the democratic succession. That
ne may be more in the center Of the
stage he has decided that he will mt
return to big business in New York
Out VIII stay in the federal treasury
where the President may groom him
as the white horse for 1920. The
democrat, however, who leads Tho
next presidential campaign will not
have the many opportunities w,io,,
Wilson has enjoyed to charge oes
everything to the war. The war vii,
os zone with before 1920 or the world
Will be done for. ''o
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-14

Boston's prettiest girl has been Sc
lected, and there were 119 also rams
who wouldn't give pickle for the
Judgment of Judge" Wilcox. For his
sake we hope the Judge" is already
married.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-14

The personal liberty" gang Of Rock
land, who are INDUCING in blackhand
letters and incendiary fires in revenge
for the clean up" movement, deserve
and may get severe handing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-14
SALT RHEUM IN
WATER BL|STERS
On Hands. Red and Rough. Would
Crack Open and Itch and Burn.
Could Not Sleep.
HEALED BY CUT|CURA
SOAP AND OINTMENT
II had salt rheum on my hands. It came
in little water blisters which began to itch
and tester and then was treated hut n

did me no good. Ny hands
were red and rough and would
crack open and bleed and
they would itch and burn 50
that l irritated them by
scratching. causing disfigure-
ment. l could not sleep and
I could not do work Of any
kind.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-14

Photographers are warned that nereai'tt e.
letting George do it, in connection VIA.
the British cabinet crisis will be c onIi
cred strictly de trop.-Biddeford Joui nd
Well. we got under the wire-Fa's "'
Knocks. ,,
We wanted to say something Ike
George let's George do It," but we fe
trained and we are gonna go right on
refraining.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-14

n parallel columns the logic that is go
.agists is striking.
/. WE SAY:
The majority never wants progress.
Official figures show women DO vote
largely wherever they have the
right.
Men who could not fight still vote:
this is the age when RIGHT makes
NIGHT.
A woman will have to be elected to
office by the men and women to-
gether. Do the men all have to hold
Office?
Voting takes but a few minutes and
can be done on the way to market.
Does it interfere with mans business
in factory. store or office?
la more girls than boys attend the
high schools and women will soon be
the more educated class.
There are in the United States over -
as foreign born.
iOnly in 20 of the criminals are
women. 1t would add largely to the
good vote and very slightly to the
bad vote.
The safety of democracy lies in CIV
ing the vote to all classes so that
ALL are fairly represented. and the
result will be a Fair Average opin-
ion. Ought we to cut the present
vote in half to save money?
why be indirect when we can be di-
rect? Why waste time and strength
in beating around the bush?
She leaves it to go to market and why
not to vote-it takes less time.
Would men let women represent them
at the polls?
Does a man with women to represent
have more than one vote or does he
cast his vote according to the ma
jority vote Of those he represents?
No! Then he doesn't represent
them.
Is a mans vote given him to repre-
sent some one else's opinion or his
own?
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lance is the first name Of Thou Sluggard
-Kennebec Journal.
Never heard Of Halifax.-Boston Globe
Is Halifax neutral territory?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-14

me codhsh. from a scientific stand
So.n'' VIII be exhaustively studied by a
A>o'weslan government commission
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Thursday, December IA. 1916.

AL West Point they teach these
two things: One is to love the
flag of our country, and the other
il to speak the truth always. The
word of a cadet is accepted un-
auestionably, but II he is detected
in n falsehood he is dismissed from
the service.-Selected.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-14

AT last sent for a sample Of Cuticura
soap and Ointment. The sample did 80
much good that bought one bar of Cuti.
cura Soap and one box Of Ointment, and in
snort time I was perfectly healed:
lsigned Miss Lena NJ. Goodale. 100 Mt.
vernon Ave. Augusta. Me-. Sept. II, 1915,
sample Each Free by Mail
With 32-p. Skin Book on request. Ad-
dress postcard t'Cuticpfa, Dent. r. r.
tom" Sod 'h~~--~.e.s~ +te world
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Chronology next.
The World War a Year Ago
Today-Oec. II.

The Greek army withdrew
from Saloniki and the strip Of
Greek territory reaching from
the coast to the Bulgarian from
tier, leaving the Anglo-French
army In entire control. Buigars
cut between British and French
armies on tho Greco Servian
frontier.
Germany protested against the
accommodations given to allied
forces by Greece. More allied
troops landed ct 6aloniki.
Two Years Ago Today.
Germans recaptufsd stslnbach.
in Alsace. Turkish cruiser bonn
barded SebaDtopA.
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feet high suitable for a municipa1
Christmas tree. Secretary Wish started
on the trail Of the tree and located one
in Gray. It was shipped Saturday.
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lar. what "People Say-We Say" 1
deadly to arguments of the anti-sunl
PEOPLE SAY:
The majority of women don't want
to vote.
Women will not vote when they are
given the right.
II women vote they ought to fight and
do police duty.
If women vote they must hold office.
Women have enough to do without
voting.
It would interfere with a womaE's
business, the care of the house.
1t would double the ignorant vote.
It would double the foreign vote.
It would double the criminal vote.
| 1t would double the expense and
trouble of election.
Women can change or make laws by
indirect influence.
A woman's place is in the home.
Women are represented by men.
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In the name Of The japanese s;ven
Colo. "Goto' is q surname, not q s'''''
name. Boston Globe. ..cuaint-
The only other Goto Of QUIZ ae01'''-'
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The exhibitors of henware at the Poul-
their expenses, if they can only persuade
the biddies to lay a few-only few eggs,
while there.
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Inc galveston. Tex, Playground A.
ISOLATION has sent to the Portland %.
tafy cioo and asked them to send a big
Christmas tree. The request was mad.
70 secretary O. p. T. Wish by w. A
nise En-. secretary Of the Galveston club
ana calls for tree measuring 40 - ~
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John A. Meserve of Portland, about
20 years of age on Aug. %, 1912, left
his home to search for cattle in the
woods and disappeared. The skeleton
was found Tuesday near the pumping
station by a hunter and two sons made
identification by the boots.
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"People Say = We Say"

effective
In
deadly to arguments the ani-su striking.
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The Richmond Bee mentions Dec. 20, as
a possible date for the closing to naviga-
ton of the Kennebec river above Bath.
The latest forecast from Bath named
Dec. II. A barge with coal arrived Dec.
II at Hallowell
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-14

The plan of painting black stripes or
the white railroad gates will give far bet
ter protection to the public, especially
when snow is on the ground.
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N: E. o. P. kENNEREC LODGE, No.
~ meets in G. A. r. hall the first and
at 7.31 o'clock. O's0'
MARY 7. MURPHY, Warden. "a
Mrs. EMMA +. HOWE. Kec Sec. -
b. L. NICHOLAS. Fin, Sec,
tu-th-sat ~ I