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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-27

The Murray Alliance of the Univer-
salist church will hold their annual
holiday bazaar Wednesday and Thurs
day, Dec. 6 and Z. Watch for their ad-
yertiSing-AdVt.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-27

Complaint has been made that some
% the boys who frequent Winthrop
court have been breaking windows in a
stable nearby by throwing snoWballs at
them. in consequence CT which the own
er states that while he does not wish
10 he compelled to prosecute the boys he
also does not wish to have his windows
broken.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-27

Fben F. Littleheld, chairman of the
Industrial Accident Commission, pass
ed Sunday at his home at Belfast. Mr.
Littlefield and family will move with
in q few days into the house at III
State street. where they have taken
rooms for the winter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-27

Mrs. George Mckinney, wife of officer
McKenney of the police force, who has
been quite i'll at their home on Capitol
street, threatened with pneumonia, was
reported Sunday to be improving.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-27

At the next regular meeting of Jephtha
Encampment No. 3, l. Q. o. F., on Tues
day evening, Nov. 2S, there will be re
hearsal Of the Patriarchal degree and
nomination OF officers for the next term
The degree master would like to have a
full attendance of the team as several
candidates are waiting.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-27

The D. w. Adams Co. say suits this
morning. Suits must go-the ad on the
last page this morning tells the facts
and figureS.--Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-27

Edward Barrett returned Sunday aft
ernoon to Freeport, after having en-
joyed a short stay at his home in this
city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-27
Local Matters

G. G. Abbott Of Portland was a call
er Saturday upon friends in the city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-27

Edward J. Conner, official reporter Of
the Public Utilities Commission, pass
ed Sunday at his home in Portland.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-27

Eat and be thankful" says e.
Locke-and the ad. this morning
makes abundant Thanksgiving offer
ingS.-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-27

Miss Myra B. Rowell, stenographer
in the office of the secretary of State,
passed Sunday at her home at Skowhe-
gan.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-27

Allen Quimby of Portland returned
Saturday afternoon to his home after
a short visit with relatives in the city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-27

w. H. Gleason Of Bangor was in the
city Saturday on matters OF business.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-27

The Farmers Union of Maine will
hold special meeting at Vassalboro
tonight. See advt. on last page.-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-27

Hon. and Mrs. Leslie NJ. Boynton of
Jefferson were visitors Sunday in the
city, stopping at the Augusta House.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-27

The Conklin fountain pen--must
satisfy the user or money back ohm
Coughlin.-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-27

N. A. Davis Of Portland was arcaller
Saturday in the city on matters Of a
business nature.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-27

The Drexels are contemplating their
annual sale at st. Mary's hall. Decem-
Der Z.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-27
MUNICIPAL COURT
ACTS IN CASE OF
A WATERV|LLE BOY

Isaac Staples, Aged 10 Years, Is
Placed in Temporary Care Of
Mrs. Ada F. Hunt, State
Agent for Prevention of Cru
city to Children, to Remain
Until Arrangements Can Be
Made for His Proper Care
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-27
LOCAL NOTICE

Masquerade ball, Sidney Grange hall,
Wednesday night, Nov %. nov27d1t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-27

The Republican city committee will hol /
a meeting at s O'Clock Tuesday evening at
Republican headquarters.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-27
Everything in Rubber Goods
JOHN COUGHLIN ::::::

We warrant every piece In these
two and three piece sets. Wide
range Of prices-one standard Of
quality. Sec Window Display.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-05-24

WuOlu are SdldIl6u pGOplC dlIu d 4C"
even wage eanePs, but the holdings
of the majority are relatively insig-
nificant. The real ownership and
absolute control is concentrated in
the hands of a few thousand multi
millionaires, fully one-half of whom
live on that little nub of rock known
as Manhattan island.
There is a fiction industTiOusly cir
culated by the capitaEstic press that
the stocks, particularly of the great
corporations, are very widely distrib-
uted The Z. S. Steel corporation,
with more than 100, 900 stockholders,
is always cited as the supreme exam
pie Of this democratic" ownership.
Very well! Let us look at the steel
trust. You don't have to take my
word, for in 1911 the steel trust filed
as an exhibit in the. dissolution suit
a table showing exactly how it's stock
was distributed At that time the
corporation claimed 1OO,343 stock
holders, 1920 owning common
stock and IS, lib preferred stock.
Take, the common stock first
there were Just l,Ob6 stockholders
with 1000 shares and over, but they
owner 1888, 946, 900, or 70 per cent
of the common stock, while the o.
799 holders of less than 25 shares
owned only 4 per cent.
Similarly, only 482 holders Of more
than 100 shares Of preferred stock
held 38 per cent, while the 1876
holders of less than 25 shares owned
only II per cent. Taking all the steel
trust stock, common and preferred
together, less than ~ per cent Of
the 100000 stockholders owned 81
per cent of all the stock.
I have examined for this investi-
cation every stockholders list made
public for three years, and have
found that, taking them all together
big companies and little compa-
MES, banks, railroads and industries
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-05-24
WHO GETS THE 46 BILLIONS U. s. EARNS EVERY
YEAR?-25 PERCENT TO LESS THAN PERCENT
b. BASIL III. MANLY

BY BASIL N. MANLY
Noted Economic Investigator
In a previous article I showed you
where the national income Of $46,-
0OOOOO,OOO comes from. An even
more important question is, who
gets it?
The first big question is:
What do the wage and salary earn
ers .get-the millions Of workers who
primarily produce the nations
wealth? Phere are 24,OOO,OOO of
them, and with their families they
constitute two-thirds of the total
population, yet their aggregate in
comes are only S15,OOOOO0, 900
less than one-third of the national
income.
The farmers. including owners and
tenants, get about S4,O0O0O0,00O-
less than one-ninth of the total, after
dedUcting interest and taxes.
The lawyers, doctors and other
professional men, who derive their
incomes from fees, receive about
Sg0O,00QO0O.
Teh other $26, 700, 100000 Of ma
tional income-more than Sc per
cent 49, goes to the bankers, mer-
chants. manufacturers and property
owners. We lack the necessary data
upon which to base even an approx
innate division among these various
classes, but we know that the bulk
of it goes to stock and bondhOlders, /
and that only a comparatively small
part to the individuals who conduct
their own private businesses. Except |
in a few lines, the Independent small |
business man is practically extinct. !
Look, for example, at manufactur- !
ing, where as long ago at 1909 80 per
cent of all products was made by |
corporations! Even in retail trade, !
the last stronghold of the small bust
ness man, enormous inroads have |
already been made by the depart
ment store and the "chain store"
New-York tribune., 1916-07-09

of Transforming the purely political al
lance founded by Prince Bismarck and
of making it an alliance at once political
and economic, which would maintain the
open door to an entente of all Central
Europe" into which "all friendly nations
would be welcome, would atone, Julius
Won Eckert believed, for the burden OF
mlitarism laid by Germany on all Europe
("Berliu- Uien-ROm, Betrdchtungen uber
den neuen Kurs ind die EWOpdlschc
Lagc.") The Triple Alliance, created
to prevent war, would become an lnstru-
ment in the service Of peaceful interests.
Won Eckert, who long directed the Press
Bureau of the German Foreign Office, dis
creetly avoided the question of military
and political control of the countries en-
tering the projected economic system; but
less restrained writer's frankly avowed
that this great edifice of Central Europe
could be cemented only with human blood.
Thus Fritz Bley, in his Alldeutsche Bere-
anna md die Niederldnde (l89O, pointed
out not merely Germany's economic re-
ouirement of the Netherlands, but the fact
that the Low Countries were "Glreddy fer
tilted with German blood
German manufacturers would naturally
profit enormously by an arrangement
New-York tribune., 1916-07-09

but a list of anxieties-but though | stud.
led it ever so hard, | couldn't make out
which were the warning calls and which
were the times when | was supposed to
get in line. Many a time did | grab my
gun and rush madly out of the tent, only
to find that nothing whatever was going
on. At other times, hearing what | be-
lieved to be only the preliminary signal,
waited patiently inside, with the virtuous
feeling that | would be ready when the
hour of duty should arrive-only to dis
cover 10 my CONSERVATION that it had al
ready arrived. At last, however, by con-
tinued comparison with the list, got the
bugles straight in my mind. but the whls-
ties baffled me to the end. They were
the signal for falling into line and they
blew before the bugles, at times that
seemed purely arbitrary, and they were
not on the list at all. To make matters
worse, each company had its own whistle
and they all sounded exactly alike, so that
was continually darting out in response
to the wrong one. 1t seemed as though
every time | lathered my face to shave or
was about to start for the shower bath
that camp suddenly became as alive with
whistles as is the North River in fog.
The officers fascinated me. Their cleft
palate enunciation, which, it seems, is the
only correct method of uttering commands
was to me an unfailing source of delight
When drill was over | used to practise
this queer articulation in my tent" 'Cm
'nhy ahention hoard arch. hun. hoo,
hree! hore" Company attention. For
ward march, One. two, three! fourD
| was anxious to salute according to mil
itary etiquette; but the trouble was, it was
hard to tell an officer when you saw one
They dressed exactly like everyone else, ex'
cept for little insignia on their collars
and little knobs on the front Of their an
tenna-like hat cords; so that by the time
I discovered that man was an officer II
was generally too late to salute him. Also
the inferior must salute first. Nearly
every time, the officer would look at me
suddenly and then turn away before
could bring my hand up. If only he had
1aited a moment, Often, discovering that
the man approaching was an officer,
would stand in my best military attitude
and salute him, only to be baffled by his
rot happening to see me at all And then
Just as dropped my hand, he would look
my way.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-09

situation, Germany is called upon to take
the directing role" The Netherlands, in
cluding poor overrun Luxembourg, must
then follow Schleswig- -Holstein into the
great German maw and be absorbed for
their oUn sake as well as for Germany's.
AS soon as possible Hollands army navy
and rich colonies must be pooled with the
more powerful army and navy of Ger
many and her much inferior colonies. In
view of the present Allied occupation of
Germany's former colonial possessions,
one reads with ironic pleasure in Fritz
Bley's book about Germany and Holland,
that made a great stir in 1897, how valu-
able to Holland would be the safeguard
ing of her colonies by the great German
navy against the pirate empires, Britain
and Japan, In the sos and '90s the
projected "Mittel-Europa" was to in
clude, besides all the Low Countries, Den
mark, Switzerland, Poland, Lithuania,
Austria AMI probably Serbia; Germany
must have outlets upon the Black Sea
and the North Sea as well as on the Baltic /;
the raising of the German flag in South
America could wait upon the development
of this middle European empire destined
to compete triumphantly with the British
and American systems and the Franco
New-York tribune., 1916-07-09

Russian alliance. "The future territory
of German expansion, situated between
the territories of the eastern and western
powers, ought to absorb all the middle
countries-ought to stretch from the
North Sea and the Baltic to the Balkan
Peninsula-and will embrace Asia Minor
as far as the Persian Gulf" So wrote
Ernest Hasse, concluding: From all tbs
great territory all foreign influence must
be eliminated" DR.. Paul Rohrbach has
in the last few months renewed these pro-
posals in his OStereichische Ruadschau
articles (Vienna). Only Dr.. Rohrbach
frankly includes Bulgaria by name.
In the early nineties the politically
minded Holander thought it likely that
Austria would be the first country to be
absorbed by this new system" Already
Austria was politically identified with
Germany, and Austria's Kaiser was an old
man, half-crushed by calamlties private
and public. The German element in
Austria was undeniably puissant. Its
domination was fortified by the power of
the secret police. Moreover, Friedrich
List had written: Commercial and poll
tical union are twins" and zone can't be
born without the other Austria abb
sorbed. would the rest follow? The plan
New-York tribune., 1916-07-09
By LAWTON MACKALL.

Changing ones clothes is never so re-
yealing an experience as when one shuffles
Of civilian attire and dons a uniform.
From the moment first looked my legg
ings in the eyelets-eyelets congested IL
bewi.derng groups, concentration cumps
Of them. five on one flap as against two
and a protruding stud on the other-I re
allied that soldiers had little in common
with the rest Of humanity. They are no.
as o.her men.
In nv civilian obtuseness l had suppose
that uniforms we're merely martial editions
OF rordinary clothing. But no: in solderdom
there are neither coats, waistcoats nor
trousers. In place Of a coat is worn
tght-ftting thing called a blouse, which
buttoned and hooked all the way up TO the
Adams apple, feels more snug than com
Portable. Breeches, the warriors substi-
tute for trousers, rise from small begin
nlngs being laced up corset-wise along the
shin bone but above the knees they BIOS
som out into full boomers.
had not been long at Plattsburg before
! learned that everything | was used to,
that came natural to me, was most un-
military" For example, had been in the
habit Of eating meals-a thing no true SOL
der would do. At least, he would never
admit he did it. breakfast" lunch" and
dinner" have passed out Of his life: ne
merely messes. For him eating is just one
mess" after another. But in calling az
three repasts by the one name he has some
Justification. because the food is so much
the same that unless you happen to be
thinking what time of day it is you can'c
tell which of the three you are eating.
II took me quite while TO get on TO the
tactics Of messing. For example, was at
loss at first as TO how to make the same
teaspoon DO service as oatmeal-conveyer
coffee stirrer, egg-opener and sugar helper
irom the communal dish. But gradually /
'earned that correct sequence in the use OF
mess implement was the secret of the art.
AS soon as you sit down take quick ac-
count Of all the food in sight and imme-
uately map out your plan accordingly, IN
.uch way that the progress Of your knife
'ork and spoon shall be free from the less
'uheSive substances 10 the stickier ones,
'sner than vice versa. A little extra ac-
N'i'y on the part of the lips should precede
'en transition Of the implement TO new
AA Above al, you must avoid the error
New-York tribune., 1916-07-09
Bv Warren Barton Blake.

VOW comes It that the best cartoons
II drawn against the Germans are
u - the work of "neutral"-L Louis
p.emaekers. the Netherlander? Perhaps
geography enters into the answer Of this
',restion. Holland borders both on Ger
MANY and Belgium. Hollanders and
Be,rans have sometimes disliked one an
other in the past. and even fought one
another. yet they are. after all, alike in a
good many respects. and Holland has
ministercd 20 many suffering Belgians,
and there Is no way Of transmitting dis
trust into sympathy like doing ones one
time enemy a considerable service.
Obviously. what Germany did to Bel
rum she might still do TO Holland, even
though the likelihood Of that catastrophe
diminishes as German strength is gradu-
ally ditFused. The possibility of a clash
between Holland and Germany seemed
greater in the spring of 1916, and especi-
slly in the second month of the great
verdun attack, than at any earlier stage
Of the war, and the Netherlanders
CmobiIized from the outset) suddenly
adopted extra precautions on the coast
and, more especially. on the Schleswig-
Holstein frontier. Hollands reasoning
ran as follows: Germany seemingly be-
lieved that the late war council of her
enemies at Paris had voted to counter
through Holland at the unprotected Ger
man flank Essen and Aix). If Germany
saw any such attack really coming, or
even saw it as mirage, her policy would
be 10 strike first. de Toekomst," a
newspaper Of The Hague subsidized by
Germany, went so far as to print an ac-
count Of an English landing in iceland,
near the Belgian frontier. Actual clashes
between the Allies and the Germans were
said TO have occurred on Dutch soil. No
one but the coolest-headed doubted any
longer that Holland was now "in the
war" People bought up supplies of pro-
visions TO avoid a further rise in prices;
tears were she'd and belts frightened; it
vas all a smaller replica of Paris in
those early days Of August, 1914.
One may regard the Teuton notion Of
an Entente attack upon Germany through
violation Of Hollands territory at the
mouth Of the Scheldt as quite absurd
without in any way disparaging Dutch
logic. The Hollander's problem was
never so much What do the French and
British plan?" as What do the Ger
mans think the French and British plan;
and how will Germany forestall this plan?"
It's fourteen years since German writer
declared that: "a Holland too weak on
New-York tribune., 1916-07-09
Photo by Underwood K Underwood

bringing within their tariff walls so large
a section of agricultural Europe. With
characteristic contempt for nOn-Teutonic
intelligence, the German writers who
make this point protest almost in the
same breath against the suppression OF
Flemish nationalsm and the shameless
rapine" of Frances great seventeenth
century general, Marshal Turenne, in the
Low Countries: these, including Northern
France (possbly it is an accident that
Northern France is industrially rlch)
were "colonized by Saxons' in the era of
German Charlemagne; their restoration
to Germany would therefore be an act of
Justice. (The same coincidence occurred
in 1871. when Asace-Lorraine, so rich II
iron ore, was discovered to belong to Ger
many.) "A Central Europe must be
created" wrote one German patriot with
a French name, Paul de Lagarde (l88D /;
1--WE cannot abruptly enter upon the war
which is to constitute this Central Europe.
All ne can do is to dccustom or people TO
the thought that this Cdr lcW come. -
This has, indeed, been the labor of Ger
man statecraft since the early eighties;
since when neither German trade, the
colonialists nor the governing classes gen
orally have been any more peaceful at
New-York tribune., 1916-07-09

Once, when | was returning alone from
the rife range, saw approaching no less
parsonage than Major Murray, the COM
mander of the whole camp. Here was my
chance TO distinguish myself. Quickly
shifting my gun (Which was carrying by
the sling) to my left hand, so as to leave
my right arm free, drew myself up and
raised the tips Of my fingers to my hat
brim in the most punctilious salute Of
which / was capable. He returned il; but
there was a twinkle in his eye. Then, after
he had passed, | remembered that the only
allowable way of saluting an officer when
you are carrying a gun is to bring the la
ter to a right shoulder position and then
touch the cooking piece with the middle
finger of your iett hand Waterloo.
The truth is never really understood the
gun and its functions to quite the extent |
was expected to. There were certain inner
chambers and springs that always re.
mained sacred from my cleaning rag.
Some men, admit, had ventured TO lay
hands upon the innost oily of oilies; but
such practices were contrary to my sense
of decency. could appreciate, from daily
experiences, the indeicacy of being pri-
yate in name only. So confined my in
trusions TO the barrel and nearby appur-
tenances.
felt as though were a throat special
ist treating a case Of chronic tonsillitis.
Every time | peered into its mouth there
were fresh spots for me to swab out.
Dampness always affected it badly.
In the course of time this feeling Of
difidence toward my piece" Ito call
it a gun" is most unmilitary), occa-
stoned mainly by the prickly scratchi-
ness of its sights with which l
kept coming in sudden contact while
learning the drill), and by the prediction
it mad for landing upon my little toe at the
command order arms this diflidence
gradually wore off till | really grew quite
fond of il. II was great sport firing it with
ball cartridges, for then il reared and
kicked much more than it did with blanks
though the record of my hits was much
the same.
One thing that never grew fond Of was
my mummy-shaped pack. Indeed, | was
glad when the time came for me 20 hand
it back TO Uncle Sam and receive my five.
dollar deposit in return. think | would
have paid him the five 70 take it off my
! back.