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Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09
Watehful Waiting Again.

"Watchful waiting has once more
proved its utility.
If Grover Cleveland or Theodore
Roosevelt had been handed the labor
ing oar" after refusing to longer row
against the tide Of human welfare,
they would have been confronted with
the alternative Of making good.'
Not so. Woodrow Wilson. After
twelve full months argument of a
principle obviously plain and just in
tho first exchange, he said the last
word" and demanded immediate" re-
ply.
And three weeks later within 4S
hours Of the anniversary of the sink
ing Of the Lusitania, he is invited to
reconsider his rash decision and settle
England's case before breaking with
Germany. Having said the last word
for tho last time (and compliance still
withheld) what is LETT but severance Of
diplomatic relations? Why. "watchful
waiting" Of course.
We are "watchfully waiting" until
another undersea outrage-and then
what?
Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09
EASTERN STEAMSHIP LINES
ALL-THE-W WATER
kENNEBEC LINE.
G . r,&, >G DLlL

kENNEBEc LINE.
S. S. City of RockIand.
| Leave Gardiner Tues, Thurs. and Sat
| at 3.4o T.. NJ, Dresden 4.3O T.. Nj, Rich
mond AS +. NJ. (tide permitting), Bath
$50 p. M. due Boston $50 A. NJ. the fol-
lowing day.
Return-Leave Boston Mon, Wed. and
Fri. at 6. Z. NJ, leave Bath Tues, Thurs
and Sat. at 5.5U A. NJ, Richmond $50 A
NJ Glide permitting), Dresden $50 A. M.
due Gardiner s. A. NJ.
BATH AND BOOTHBAY LINE.
Steamers Nahanada and Wiwurna.
Leave Bath week days at S35 A. NJ and
245 Z. NJ. for Boothbay Harbor and Inter
mediate Landings.
Return-Leave BOothbay Harbor week
days at A. NJ. and l f. NJ. for Bath anc
intermediate Landings.
BOSTON G. PORTLAND LINE.
Steamships Governor Dinsey and Bay
State
Leave Franklin Wharf, Portland, week
days at 7.30 Z. NJ. for Boston
Return-Leave Central Wharf, Boston.
week days at 100 p. NJ.
Day trips leave Portland Thursdays at
600 A. NJ. due Boston 200 P. NJ.
MAINE STEAMSHIP LINE.
Direct Between Portland and New
York.
Steamships NorthIand and North Star.
at 800 P. NJ for New York. A@'
Return-Lsave New York same days at
5:U r NJ. A week day trip in each direc
ton leaves Portland and New York Mon
days at 1890 A. NJ. June 18th to Sept
n. a. HARADEN. supt.. Bath, Me-
ii. A.. CLAY Supt.. Portland Me.
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Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09

suborns witnesses nurses perjury, de-
files the jury box and stains judicial
ermine. It desradss the citizen. de-
bases tho legislator, dishonors the
statesman and disarms the patriot. 1t
brings shame, no horor; danger. not
safety: despair. not hope; misery, not
happiness, and with the malevolence OF
a dend it calmly surveys its fright1ul
desolation and unsatiated havoc. II
poisons felicity, kills peace, ruins
morals, blights confidence, slays rep
utations and wipes out national honor
then curses the world and laughs at
It's ruin. It does all that and more. 1t
murders the soul. It is the sum OF all
villainies, the father Of all crimes the
mother Of all denominations. The devils
own best friend and Gods worst en-
emy.-Robert G. Ingersoll.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09
COMING EVENTS

May 9-Supreme Court, Oxford county,
civil term. Rumford.
| May o Supreme Court, Sagadahoc
county civil and criminal term, Bath.
| May 9-l1-Mane Congregational Confer
ence and Missionary Society. Portland.
May snt,da tl2-3xford eo,Sa, County Teachers
| May ll-l2-Maine Organized Bible Glass
Association Convention. Waterville.
| May 12-Lyford Inter-scholastc prize
speaking contest at Colby College, Wat
erville.
May 12-Arbor Day.
May 16-Supreme Court, Franklin Coun-
| ty, civil term, Pennington.
| May 16-17-Cumberland County w. c. T.
u. Convention, New Gloucester.
May I-Grand Lodge. knights Of Py-
thias, annual convention. Bangor.
| May T-Grand Lodge, knights of Py-
| thias, annual convention, Bangor.
| May 1s-Hague Day.
May 1S-Maine Press Association, Ban
| May 1S-Second Newspaper Institute at
U. of NJ, Orono.
May 1s-Maine Press Association Bus;-
May ls-2o"Maine Newspaper Institute,
University of Maine. Orono.
May 1s-21-York County Boys Confer
ence, kennebunk.
May 2l-Humane Sunday.
| May A-25-W. c. T. U. Kennebec Coun-
ty convention, South China
May A-25-Androscoggin County w. c.
May 25-York County w. C. T. U. enter
| tanned by Eliot Union.
May 26-kennebec County Sunday
School Association, annual convention.
Albion.
May A-Bowdoin prize essays. Bruins.
wick.
May so--Bowdoin College, examinations,
May so-Bowdoin College examinations,
Brunswick
J June SINAI; 11Maine State Federation of La
June 2,-Bowdoin Ivy Day exercises,
Brunswick.
June 5-17-second Maine State Exposi-
ton, Portland Exposition Building.
June 1O-H-U. of M. Commencement
June 10-15-Observance 50th anniversary
of Maine Central Institute. Pittsfield.
June 14-15-Malne Division. Sons OF Vet
Grams. Annual Encampment at Auburn.
June H-15-Department of Maine G. A.
r., annual encampment, Pythian Temple,
Portland
June 17-1S-Guilford Centennial.
June 19-Maine Primary Election.
June N--Bowdoin class OF 1906 reunion.
NV Meadows Inn
June 2s-so-Maine sportsmen's Fish &
Mountain View House. Rangeley.
Political Conventions.
June 7-National Republican Conven-
ton. Chicago.
June National Progressive Conven-
May 10-Bowdoin VS.. Colby at Water
vile.
June 14-National Democratic Conven-
ton. ST. Louis.
Sports
May 10-Bates VS.. Maine at Orono.
May 13-Second Annual kennebec Valley
High School Association. Track Meet,
Watervile.
May l3-Maine Intercollegiate track and
field meet, Brunswick.
May 0-U. of NJ. invitation track and
field meet for preparatory schools, Orono.
May 25-26-Mane intercollegiate Ten
MS Association annual tournament, Orono.
May 3O-Second annual ten-mie road
rc for amateur runners, Lewiston
July 12-15-Portland Power Boat Asso-
ciation annual cruise
July 31-Singles tennis championship of
Maine. Swimming Club. Bar Harbor.
Aug. 7-Doubles tennis championship OF
Maine. Swimming Club, Bar Harbor
Aug. 19-Southern Maine tennis cham
ponship, Squirrel Island Athletic Associa-
ton, Squirrel Island
Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09
Men at Work for the Devil.

The National Wholesale Liquor
Dealers are in annual convention at
Louisville. KY They have forwarded
advance sheets of their addresses, and
we have read some of them-the words
Of men in the service of the devil, of
men who are giving their energies to
defeat the purpose Of God. We shall
not publish this mass of sophistry and
wilful deceit. But we offer the follow
ing words of the late Robert G. Inger-
soil in place of it:
! l am aware that there is q prejudice
against any man who manufactures
alcohol. l believe that from the time
II issues from the coiled and poisonous
worms in the distillery until 1t empties
into the jaws Of death, dishonor and
crime, it demoralizes everybody that
touches it-from its source to where 1t
ends. l do not believe anybody can
contemplate the object without being
prejudiced against tho liquor crime
All we have to do, gentlemen, Is to
think Of the wrecks on either bank Of
the stream-of deaths, Of the suicides,
of the insanity, of the ignorance, Of
the destitution, Of the little children
tugging at the faded and withered
breasts of weeping and despairing
mothers, Of wives asking for bread of
the men of genius it has wrecked-the
men struggling with imaginary SER
pents. produced by this deviish thing;
and when You think Of the jails, Of the
almshouses, Of the asylums, Of the
prisons. or the scaffolds upon either
bank, do not wonder that every
thoughtful man is prejudiced against
this damned stuff called alcohol.
| 1ntemperance cuts down youth in it's
vigor, manhood in it's strength, old age
iE its weakness. 1t b. eaks the fathers
heart. bereaves the doting mother, ex-
tinguishes natural affection. grasses
conjugal love, blots out filial attach
ment, blights parental hopes, brings
down mourning age in sorrow to the
grave. 1t produces weakness, not life.
1t makes wives widows: children. or
phans; fathers, flends-and all Of them
paupers and beggars. 1t feeds rheu-
matism invites cholera, imports pesti-
lence and embraces consumption. It
covers the land with idleness, misery.
crime. 1t fills your jails, supplies your
almshouses and demands your asy-
lums. In engenders controversies, fos-
ters quarrels and cherishes riots. It
crowds your penitentiaries and furn-
ishes victims for your scaffold. 1t is
the life-blood of the gamblers. the ele-
ment of the burglar. the prop Of the
highwayman and support Of the mid
ni1hf wv t. Z.
liar. respects the thief, esteems the
blasphemer. 1t violates obligation,
reverences fraud and honors infamy.
1t defames benevolence, hates love-
scorns virtue and ISLANDERS innocence.
1t incitse the father to butcher his
helpless offspring. kelps the husband
to massacre his wife. and the child to
grind the parricidal ak. It burns up
men. consumes women. detests life.
curses God. despises Heaven. It
Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09
Protsnss and auhterfuae.

In a barbed- wire tangle Of verbiage.
the German government says to u:
You lift the British blockade Of our
commerce and Well stop numbering
your unarmed citizens. We will order
our submarine commanders not to sink
merchant vessels without warning un-
less they attempt to escape or offer re-
sistance-sotto det's see you prove
they were NOT trying to escape or Of
fering resistance. after they are sunk)
and. finally, you can accept these
terms as another diplomatic triumph"
or we will go on with our reprisals.
In other words, Germany fatty de-
clares that she will be as inhuman and
piratical and bloody as ever she wishes
to be. unless we first reform that part
Of the world against which she Is
wreaking vengeance. She chooses to
place blockade as morally on par
with her red-eyed rampage on inno-
cents, from the air and from the deep.
Germany Is still cold -bloodedly. de-
liberately world defiant. She and all
the world knows that she is making no
progress in war by her reprisals. The
number of enemy slain or disabled by
these methods is not worthy a mo-
ment's thought as war measure. For
her enemies, every outrage by Zeppe-
lin or submarine has enlisted thou
sands Of fighters wnere one has been
incapacitated for service. Each and
every air or sea raid has been the as
sault of a butcher upon children, wo-
men, non -combatants.
And yet Germany prefers that out
let for her passions and hatreds to the
friendship Of any or all the neutral
peoples of the globe.
Germany places he. compliance with
humanitarian principles not upon her
own desire but upon the contingency
Of first conformity by her enemies.
Whom the Gods would destroy they
first make mad, and Germany is mad.
She recklessly. blinded by her own
rage, invites every hand against her.
The verdict of the earth is against her
in her savagery, and the inevitable end
must be justified by the methods which
Prussanism and mad monarchy have
builded.
Shall we longer quaver and crouch
before her upraised lash? Shall We
longer acquiesce in her inhuman course
because her government puppets
choose to insult us with palpable pre-
text and veiled threats?
Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09
CLINTON

There was a full attendance OF the
Clinton teachers at the teachers meet
ing on Saturday afternoon. The fol-
lowing program was carried out: Alb
stract and discussion of chapters on
language teaching in Everyday Peda-
gogy," Miss Harvey and Miss Laing;
discussion How Can the Amount of
Talking by the Teacher Be Reduced
and the Amount Done by the Pupil Be
Increased?" led by Principal Holt;
teaching exercise language, Miss Tay-
lor; THE Professional Growth of the
Teacher" Miss Pollard.
| The Grammar school graduation will
occur on Thursday evening, June s.
The Third Annual Exhibition of the
Schools will occur on Friday afternoon
and evening, June 8. The exhibits will
be ready for inspection at one o'clock.
The program by the rural schools will
be at half past two O'Clock, and that
by the village schools will be in the
evening.
The baccalaureate sermon will be at
the Brown Memorial Methodist church
on Sunday, June II, and will be given
by Rev. c. w. Lowell.
The High school graduation will oc-
cur on Monday evening, June II.
George Billings and Supt. Clement
attended the conference for superin
tendents and committeeman at New
port. They report a good attendance
and a very practical discussion Of
school problems.
Mrs. Carrie Jones was called home
Suddenly by the serious illness of her
baby. The baby is now better. Mrs.
Jones was teacher of the Grammar
school at .Brownville Junction.
| A very successful social was given
on Friday evening by the Grammar
school. There was a good attendance
and all seemed to have good time.
The sum of $3.50 was cleared and will
be used for the graduating expenses.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09
Tuesday, May 9. 1916.
Courage is more than a daring Deed
It's the breath Of life and a strong
mans need."-Guest.
Has Germany Met Our Demand?

mas 0OF1uAny Wes OuT Oe"S~'
Sunday. May 7. was tho anniversary
of the sinking Of the Lusitania- After
~ months Of negotiations we have Sc
cured the remarkable diplomatic tri-
umph" Of a concession" to which Is
attached string the size Of a hawser.
And this string is, in substance, that
unless the United States refuses or
fails to first remove the British block
ade for the benefit of Germany "the
German Government would then be
facing q now situation in which it
must rsssrvs to itself complete liberty
Of decision"
Her answer is, then, that unless we
meet the repeated German demand to
deal only with Germany after we have
dealt with her enemies as she dictated,
she reserves to herself complete lib
erty of action" to return to indiscrim-
mate submarine slaughter as suits her
mood, as has suited her inhuman pol
NJ.
demands upon which the Washington
government invokes "watchful wait
ing" once more. and acknowledges to
the world that its bluff is called.
In President Wilson's ultimatum Of
April 10, two demands were made:
First. that the pledges heretofore Civ
en- to respect the lives Of civilians on
liners" to which term no exact def
milton had been given) should be ex-
plicitly construed as applying to freight
as well as passenger vessels; second,
that vessels defensively armed should
not be assumed to have the status Of
war vessels and thus be subject to at
tack without warning.
To these demands the German gov
ernment replies that new instructions
have been given to its submarine COM
manders, both within and without the
war zone about the British islands, to
warn all merchant vessels recognized
as such by international law. Thus
lllcIc ID " UC lPPliCo CNCA WhSAS "AAeAS
is called the Mediterranean rule"
which explicitly protected the lives Of
non-combatants on freight as we'll as
on passenger vessels. AS to the second
point the note is silent.
OF course after year Of backing and
filling, big threats and small perform
ances, the country is muddled and di-
vided as to the proper course for this
country to pursue when it is notified in
more or less sneering and insulting
language, 1T is your move, Uncle
Sam"
1t is only a short while ago, in the
Arabic case, that Germany gave us
pledge every whit as strong and mean
ingful as the one on which our govern
ment crawls out Of it's ultimatum hole.
Here it is:
Liners will not be sunk by our
submarines without warning and
without safety Of the lives Of nom
conbatants, provided the liners do
not try to escape or offer resis-
tance.
The sinking Of the Sussex was in de-
flant violation Of that pledge. yet on
the strength of another off the same
piece. we are watchfully waiting for
the next outrage. If it does not come
many's acts are at last better than her
promises, that she Immediately aban-
doneG" her submarine policy against
which we complained.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09

The indianapolis News. one Of the
great Democratic dailies of the Cen
trail West, publishes cartoon show
ing Uncle Sam with copy of the lat
est German note In his hand, a mental
picture of sinking ship, and he is
saying: What They Said Before"
That graphically tells the whole story.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09
Do You Know That:

Light promotes cleanliness!
A clean mouth is essential to good
health?
Physical training in childhood Is the
foundation Of adult health?
The u. S. Public Health Service IS
sues publications on hygiene and sani-
tation for free distribution?
Isolation is the most efficient means
of controlling leprosy?
Headache Is Natures warning that
the human machine is running badly?
Bullets may kill thousands-f1les
tens Of thousands?
Obesity menaces longevity?
u. S. Public Health Service.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09
The World War a Year AQo
Today-May 8.

An Official Austrian report main :
:: tained that the Austro- German
offensive movement in Galicia had
forced the complete withdrawal
OF Russian forces from Hun
gary. The threatened invasion Of.
the rich plains Of Hungary and
the menace to Vienna ttself had
been averted.
French attacks resulted In. con-
siderable progress north sf AxrAs
and along front Of four miles
south Of Carency.
British first army attacked the
German lines between Bois Gre
nier and Festubert and gained
trenches southeast Of Fromelles.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09

that he or she is bona fide student
in some institution. If the subscriber
would insist on the agent showing a
letter from the president of the insti-
tuition in which the student claims to
be enrolled such fakirs would soon do
no business. Do not be an accessory
to a fraud. If the agent states that he
is a student. in some institution insist
on his showing a statement verifying
that fact.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09
Foresight.

Mother Ito Tommy. who Is fishing in
the rain barreD-Oh. you silly boy! There
aren't any fish in there
Tommy-Oh, yes, there are. 1 emptied
the whole can Of sardnes in there few
minutes ago.-Pathfinder
Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09
Editorial Comment
Bridgton News.)

Bridgton News)
Heartfelt sympathy from innumer-
able friends all over the country for
Senator f. C. Burleigh and family at
announcement Of the critical illness of
his estimable wife, long patient suf-
ferer. The Senator is at her bedside
and the family summoned from Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09

Boston; 12.4s p. NJ, Hallowell, Gardiner
and So. Gardiner; $40 T. M, local; 4.O7
+. NJ. (express). brunswick, Rockland,
Portland, Boston and New York; 5.l5 r.
M, Hallowell, Gardiner and So. Gardi-
ner; 6.L p. NJ (not beyond PortIandN; ;
lO.4O J.. NJ, Lewiston, Bath. Portland.
Boston. sundays SOB and lOlo A. NJ 3 3S
lNew iorl) and lO4O +. NJ. Portland and
boston.
GOING EAST-l.11 A. NJ, Bangor,
Calais. Bar Harbor, st. John, Halifax
Aroostook Co. Sunday morning does not
connect beyond Bangor, except to Bar
heaa Lake ks 4 NJ 9sa to M0oss
FoAeroft and Bangor; s.l7 a. NJ. To-
cal to Belfast, Bangor and Skowhegan;
l2.U0 p. M, Materville, Bangor, b. Il A.
X. r., Calais, St. John and Halifax; 234
+. NJ, express to Waterville, thence local
to Bangor and Mattawamkeag; $40 p. NJ,
Waterville and Skowhegan; 7.0s p. NJ.
Waterville. Skowhegan and Bangor.
Sundays 253 Z. NJ, for Bangor; LII, $3.50
A NJ. and 253 +. NJ, for Skowhegan.
Trains leave Augusta for Haliowell
Gardiner and South Gardiner at 63S. 9.33
A. M, l2.4s. 3lO. 4.W. Gardiner only 5.lo,
6.lz, lU.4U +. NJ.
II. L. WALDRON. Genl Passenger Agt
u. z. DOUGLASS. Genl Mgr. Port
land. Me
Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09
Very Probable.

Very Probable.
Tho depot Of a certain town in Texas Is
about a milo from the business part of
the town. One night a weary heating
supplies salesman said to the dar,--- who
was driving him to the hotel:
"Old man, why in the name of goodness
did they put this depot so far from
town."
The darky scratched his head a mo-
ment before replying. wal, boss" he
said. IT s'pose dey done dat so as to have
de depot as near as possible to de rail-
road"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09
No Efficiency,

Wounded Soldier-Yes, they got "a bull
let's out of me! They ought to have sent
me to the munition depot-not to a 'ospi-
tal.-London Opinion.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09
Outlinino the Plot,

Outlining the Plot.
We seem to miss the old-fashioned style
Of play which always started with a dis
cussion between the housemaid and the
butler.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09

In former days when people be-
lieved in superstitions more generally
an occurrence at the Greenwood ear
protector factory would have been a
dire omen, says the Pennington Jour
nal. For several successive days a
robin has alighted at rear window
and pecked industricusly at the glass.
The bird repeated its visits at short
intervals during each day and no
good explanation for its actions has
been advanced. There was no ref1ec-
ton, neither were there flies, spiders
or other insects on the glass.
Here is an expression from the Fort
Fairfield Review that will fit about
every other section of this or any 9TH
er State:
The automobile business in Aroos-
took county promises to be good this
season-perhaps too good as probably
three fourths of the automobiles pur-
chased are by people who can hardly
afford to own cars for pleasure and
who do not have business enough with
them really to warrant their owner
ship.
Strawberry blossoms on April "a at
Fort Fairfield and crops reported to bo
going into the ground all over Aroos-
took county take away somewhat the
old feeling that 'RoCstook was way
up north, even though Caribou did
have few snow fakes on April 90"
"Brakemen" have disappeared from
the Bangor & Aroostook railroad and
"Trainmen" have taken their places
according to the metal plates which
now adorn the caps of the boys who
announce the stations on that road.
The Canadian sugar makers in the
upper Maine woods, il is estimated by
Deputy United States Revenue Collec-
tor Kelso of Houlton, have made about
so, 900 pounds this season.
Swift River Grange Of Mexico Is to
have a new hall, a new member liking
the order so well that he at once Of
fered 1t lot 100 by 100 feet and other
members who have lumber responding
to his enthusiasm by hauling it to the
the building may be started as soon as
the condition of the ground will per-
NIT.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09
Total Loss.

II can never be yours. Here are your
presents"
'All very fine. But who's going to re-
turn all those cigars l bought your father
and all those quarters l gave your little
brother?"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09
Expensive luxuries.

Mark-"It seems as though women
have a mania for spending money"
Parks-"I know it. Why. whenever my
wife is too sick to go shopping she sends
for the doctor."-Boston Transcript.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09

A man may even be q "standpat."
and a "reactionary' and a 'czar," and
q few other undersirables like that, and
still be honored and loved by honorable
men Of all parties. Here's to brave
old Uncle Joe. 40 years in Congress
and the youngest Of 'em all!
Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09

Sheridan Fox of Porter is the owner
of a curiosity. 1t is a four-legged
chicken. 1t is as lively as any two
legged chicken and seems to be as
healthy. The chicken just walks or
two legs and drags the other two legs
behind him.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09
One Of our Own.

What are you reading about?"
THAT famous Cretan labyrinth"
Merely a fable. There never was a
labyrinth from which a fellow could not
easily find his way"
Think not? Ever been in the old part
of Boston,
Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09

ASYLUM LODGE, NO. 70. REGULAR
meeting Friday evenings at SEQ
L. G: HUGHES, n. G.
p; r. WESTON, Rec. Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09
Augusta Lodge Directory

AUGUSTA LODGE, r. & A II
No. 14l. Special communication Tm,.sr
evening, May Q. at 7.3O O'clock WorI.o Wr.Soay
M. NJ. degree. Refreshments. IiA Al IN IN
Journing brethren cordially invited So
EDWARD l.. RIPLEY, w "
WESTON LEWIS Sec' W. ".
Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09

The word and" occurs 46,527 times
in Holy Scripture, 10.9S4 times in the
Old Testament and 35,543 times in the
New Testament.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09
EntirsIx Different

Entirely Different.
Whats this, daughter? You let Mr.
Flubdub, whom you barely know, kiss
you"
I didn't let him kiss me. l merely let
him try"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-09

The Portland Press IL q good sport
Kennebec Journal.
D'you read it?-Portland Press.
Had to-darn It!