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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-11

else of this right for the reason that it
would manifestly not be fair to require
steam railroad to short haul itself or
into full and unlimited competition while
at the same time using the equipment of
the steam railroad to carry on such COM
petition.
Along with the last mentioned goes an
act authorizing the commission to require
the building of branch or spur tracks
where necessary and the use of existing
spur tracks by more than one concern
where practical.
Protection Water Supply
Another very important act passed by
the last legislature which will become
operative early next month relates to the
protection from pollution of the sources
of supply used by water companies.
There are very many small water com
panies in the State which are struggling
for bare existence. While such COM
pany has the right of eminent domain
to condemn land along its source of sup
ply, it has not the money to pay and if
1t had. its customers would be unable to
pay the increased rates necessary to fin
. diitt SutH purchase. Along the streams
and ponds which constitute source of
supply of these small water companies.
very many landowners are misusing
their property and depositing or per-
uniting to accumulate many things which
are dangerous or injurious to the health
of water users. 1t is the purpose of the
law to authorize the Public Utilities
Commission to regulate the use Of land
along the water sheds of these small
companies to the end that no injurious
pollution shall be possible and at the
, same time permit the owner of the land
to decently and fully use his own land
Other Laws
The last Legislature also gave the Pub
lie Utilities Commission new authority in
reparation matters authority to acquire
through routes and joint rates Common
in nearly every state but inadvertently
omitted from the Maine utility law);
power to suspend increases in the rates
of all public utilities except freight rates
tand with reference to these to make in
Nestigation and If an increase is found
not to have been justified, to order re-
| fund.-; and authority to refuse to per-
init. unless absolutely necessary, any new
| highway to be built across steam rail-
road at grade.
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Moral Protection of
Maine Sailors and Soldiers

Names young men in khaki are GO
ing to be protected from every evil in
fluence and Governor Milliken has de-
termined that all protective measures
that can be put into force to eradicate
vice shall be brought into play at the
place where these young men are sta
toned
Secretary of War Newton D. Baker
has asked Governor Milliken to CO.
operate in a campaign for strictly NOR
al conditions around the camps of the
soldiers and Governor Milliken has Civ
en- his assurance that everything that
can be done will be done, An anti
vice campaign will be conducted that
has never before been equalled in the
State.
In a letter to Governor Milliken, Sec
rotary Baker calls attention to the fact
that too often temptations are thrown
in the way Of the young men and even
with the most careful precautions they
continue to flourish. about the concen-
tration camps. Just at present there
is no place that may be called a con-
traction camp in Maine in the strictest
sense of the word. 1t is probable, how
ever. that there may soon be one. AT
present there are large bodies of SOL
diers in and about Portland and. Naval
Reserves at Rockland. Members of the
End Maine regiment are stationed in
other places, but not in SO large num-
bers. In every section where there are
soldiers, it is the Intention OF Governor
Milliken. with the Cooperation OF the
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The order made Friday by State
Horticulturist Frank II. Dudley of Au-
burn for the burning of a condemned
lot of nursery stock whic h had been
sold from freight car in the Maine
Central yard by concern advertising
as the Horticultural Muir cries of Dan
vile. \. Y, was Saturday morning
rescinded upon the condition that what
was remaining OF the trees should at
once be shipped lack to New York.
This condition was agreed to by a
representative of the nurseries and
Mr.. Dudley promptly notified the hor-
ticultural departments of New sYork
and Massachusetts that the trees
would pass through their states
The representative of the company
also gave assurances to Mr.. Dudley
that those in this vicinity who had
purchased the trees would be rem-
bursed either by money or other trees
upon giving their name and address
to the Horticultural Nurseries of Dan.
vile, \. Y.
Mr.. Dudley stated that fully one
third of the stock was afflicted with
either wiry root or crown gall or both
and that ther2 was strong proba bility
that with the trees packed together in
the car as they probably had been for
several weeks there was little doubt
but that the entire stock had been
contaminated. The nursery represent
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CONDEMNED NURSERY STOCK NOT
TOBE BURNED IN THIS STATE

tative asked for a license to sell the
stock in the state but this Mr.. Dudley
denied on account ofsthe condition OF
the trees.
Referring to the statement that the
trees had been passed b. an inspec-
tor in New York state Mr.. Dudley said
that if they had it must have. been
when they were in the ground.
Neither crown gall or hairy root is
prevalent among fruit trees in this
state but has been SO prevalent in New
Jersey that the agricultural expert
ment stations of that state issued
bulletin upon the disease.
The disease is due to a bacterial or
gansm living in the cells of the host
plant and stimulating them to excess
sive activity which results in the for
nation of cancerous and hairy
growths occurring at the crown, on
the roots, trunks and branches of the
affected plants. The disease takes
somewhat different forms on differ
and cane fruits it usually causes the
soft gals which originate in the
spring. and are irregular in size. more
or less spherical in shape. whitish and
slightly roughened. They usually oc-
cur at the crown or on the roots but
frequently occur on the stems. Il or
IS inches above the ground. During
the latter part of the season they
usually decay and slough off. The
plant may survive the attack but some
of the roots will he killc and under
go decay. permitting the entrance Of
other organisms of disease. On hard,
woody plants the disease may take
the form Of hard gall which does not
decay so readily but continues to grow
and increase in size from year to year
The injurioU effects of this form will
vary greatly with the species or va
riety of the tree and with the locatiO1
Of the gall. On apple and some other
plants it may take the hairy root
form. in which it produces a fat gall
or Callous, covered with a great mass
Of hair-roots arising at right angles
to the surface
Mr.. Dudley stated that in the trees
offered for sale in Augusta the growth
was to be found on both the apple
and cherry trees and also on the pears
both the standard and dwarf varieties,
although it was represented to him bv
the nursery that it was only to be
found on the apple trees
The fact that the lot Of trees from
which sales were made here were Of
fered at 10 cents each v lie the price
of such trees of standard varieties and
free from disease would be at least
81 %.
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NEW INDUSTRIAL
ACCIDENT HEARINGS

The Industrial Accident Commission
Saturday assigned the following hear
ings:
Ronald |. Butler, injured Nov. IS,
1916 VS.. Hyde Windlass Co., Bath,
hearing to be held at the home of Rom
ale |. Butler, Jefferson, Wednesday.
June 90 at 10 A. NJ. The questions of
whether injury arose out of and in
the course of his employment ami
whether notice was properly given or
not are involved
Helen Mailman, dependent widow of
william Mailman, injured April IS. 1917,
VS., Record Foundry e. Machine Co. of
Livermore Falls, hearing to be held at
selectmens office, Livermore Falls,
Thursday, June Ia, at 11.3O A. M. The
question Involved is whether the death
or the petitioners husband was the
result of an injury that arose out Of
and in the course Of his employment.
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Other Appointments

The term of Roscoe A. Eddy of Bar
Harhor, commissioner of labor and in
dustry, will expire the first of July and
he is candidate for disappointment.
He was appointed by Governor William
I. Haines for a term of three years
Among those mentioned for this posi-
ton are Justus B. Cobb. city marshall
Of Saco. misrepresentation Kenneth
w. sutherland of Biddeford and Rep
resentative Charles H. Hanson of Saco.
1t is three cornered contest evident
ly for the position of chairman of the
commission on inland fisheries and
game. the candidates bling Harry B.
Austin of Phillips, who is serving his
first term of three Years, Ex-State SEN
ator Joseph w. Allen of Mount Vernon
and DR.. George A. Phillips of Bar Har-
Dor
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made known his wishes to the sheriffs
and police authorities in the counties
OF sthe' State, so that the responsibility
of keeping the centers morally clean
will not only be upon Governor MIL
l. ken but upon the local officials as
we'll ....... F"
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Warning Signs

Along with this form of protection goes
another act OF the legislature requiring
tie public utilities commission. in con-
junction with the state highway COM
mission, to locate warning signs so
called at every crossing requiring such
protection. these signs to consist of a disc
giving notice of the nearness of grade
crossing and to he placed about 800 feet
rom the crossing. These signs are in
tended particularly for warning after
dark when the automobilst may not be
bile TO see n sufficient distance ahead to
notice the crossing, but the lights OF
whose automobile would pick up this
warning sign and cause the motcrst to
know that he was within a danger zone.
II is proposed that the warning signs
shall he Of a standard pattern to be
adopted by all the states so that a mo-
torist from California will have become
SO familiar WITH this kind of sign that
when In Maine II will mean to him
grade crossing" the same as 1t does IN
California. II Is hoped that these signs
will cause motorists to slow down imme-
dately after passing one. In fact, the
law provides somewhat severe penalty
for a person who does not slow down to
10 miles an hour Immediately upon pass
ing such sign.
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AUTOMOBILE


The automobile department SatufaT
issued the following comparable state
ment in regard to registrations and U
censes:
| Total registrations and licenses 70
June 10. 1917:
| registrations Observation-Disclosures. ~"
ms ''''''''. ............. -
IVdiSis .'.'..'... ..s................'' -
| Motorcycles lN)l
Motorcycle Dealers ............ !"
Total registrations and licenses 10
June 10. 1916:
Neslstfd'lcns ..................... ~.
Trucks ... 1906
Dealers 81
SNiSiS 1890. ................... >,
Motorcycles ~
Motorcycle Dealers ........
Total receipts to June 10. 1917. $50
5D.25; total receipts to June 10. lsl'
1868. 720.50
Additional State House news will b
found on Page Eight.
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Headlights on Automobiles

Another law relates to headlights on
automobiles and electric cars. AS soon
as the law becomes effective the public
utilities commission will submit, to the
governor and council for approval regula-
tons which will thereafter prevent the
Elaring headlights from either automo-
biles or electric cars.
In addition the legislature has given the
public utilities commission new authori-
ty'in reparation matters, authority to ac-
quire through routes and Joint rates
power to suspend increases in the rates
of all public utilities except freight rates
and with reference to these to make in.
vestigation and II an increase is found
not to have been justified. to order re-
fund: and authority to refuse to permit.
unless absolutely necessary. any new
highway to be built across steam rail-
road at grade.
Steam and Trolley Connection
Another law which ought to be very
much appreciated by the farming COM
munities permits the public utilities COM
mission to require physical connection at
convenient points between steam rail-
roads and electric railroads for the inter
change of freight in carload lots. This
will give opportunity for at least some
Of the Maine citizens to have carload lots
OF phosphate. farm machinery and other
commodities hauled to convenient
steam railroad point and from there
"carted" by an electric locomotive prac-
tically to his own door 1t will also. give
the same people an opportunity to load
their lumber. wood. potatoes. hay or
other commodities at their own door ship
n by electric road to a convenient steam
railroad point and there continue its
tourney. The legislature very naturally
placed some restriction upon the exer-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-11

Among the more important acts passed
BY the last Legislature affecting public
utilities which will become operative
early in July were two relating to grade
crossings Of highway and steam rail-
roads. The alarming increase Of the
number OF accidents at grade crossings
TO persons riding in automobiles has
caused operating railroad officials and
public service commissions all over the
country TO give the matter very careful
consideration.
The American Railway Association, the
National Association of Railroad Com
missioners and the American Automobile
Association have held several joint con
fcrences in an effort to devise some rea-
scnable way OF protecting careless auto
nobilsts from the results of their own
folly For it is we'll known that nearly
all the accidents at grade crossings could
be avoided If the driver of the automobile
would exercise ordinary care. There are
but few crossings in the State of the abb
soiutely blind variety and most of them
can be seen by the approaching automo-
chine under control That which ordi-
narily causes the accident is the failure
Of the automobiles to know where at the
particular moment A train may be with
reference to that crossing
II the crossing is somewhat obstructed
by buildings or other objects, he guesses
that the train is not near proceeds to-
ward the crossing and is killed. Any
such accident not only destroys one or
more human lives, but involves the rail-
road in a somewhat expensive legal con-
troversy and what is of more Importance
20 the railroad. such an accident may
throw some part of the demolished auto
mobile under the wheels of the train and
ditch the latter to the injury of nobody
knows how many passengers.
II was therefore concluded that each
state and each railroad owed duty to
itself 10 fully protect these crossings, and
the legislature passed law requiring the
public utilities commission to make a de-
tailed study Of the various crossings in
the State and TO require the towns to re-
move from all crossings, where four an
giles could be cleared up. all bushes, trim
trees remove sign boards and other
easily movable encroachments. Ther-
are 5si such crossings concerning which
an order has already gone out.
The legislature also authorized the pub
lie utilities commission to require the
railroads to protect all other crossings
where such protection was necessary. by
the installation of gates fagman or au-
tomato signals unless such crossings
could. at the expense of the railroad. be
cleaned up on two or three angles to such
an extent that the INSTRUCTED angle did
not render the crossing especially danger
Gus. OF these crossings % per cent. are
20 he protected each year beginning this
year Hearings have been held or are
about to be held and as soon as possible
trc commission will designate those
ssings which are to be protected this
year.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-12-06
MOB STONES CARMEN
five Thousand Engage in Riot il
ST. Paul Streets.
Fifty Carmen Are Injured and Many
Cars pi. observation-disclosures Of
ficers Warned by Governor.

St. Paul. Dec. 3.-Nearly SO train.
raen were injured in rioting involv.
ing 5000 persons in the loop district
Of st. Paul growing out Of the agita.
ton for a Garments union.
Other regU.ts were the wrecking
IF more than a seer - cars, cutting
Of trolley wires, oom3late suspension
for the niglt at least, ST street car
service in that city, calling out Of
the st. Paul home guards and 1900
uniformed slerilf's deputies in Min
neapoiis, and steps toward the mobil-
ization OF tie ourth Minnesota in
fant.y.
Police Froteetion Inadequate.
The same situation laid before the
governor, in addition to the question
already before him of state contact
with appeals for federal action, the
necessity OF dealing with the problem
of adequate policing of st. Paul for
preservation of peace and mainten-
ance of the transportation facilities.
1t was Immediately after the close
Of a widely advertised meeting in
Rice park, in the heart of st. Paul,
that the dense crowd charged on
street cars converting chiefly at Sew
enth and Wabasha streets, the princi.
pal junction point of the downtown
street railway loop.
Agitators Address Meeting.
The mass meeting had been ad-
dressed, not only by agitators of a
Garments union and 9th r sympathiz-
ers, but also by leaders of the Non
partisan league. Joseph Gilbert, man
ager Of the league, besides urging all
labor to help the carmen, attacked,
Otto Kahn, New York, banker, who
spoke at the recent loyalty demon
STATIONS in Minneapolis and st. Paul.
James Manahan, counsel for the
league, criticized the Public Safety
commission, and openly pledged the
assistance of the Nonpartisan league
in Entertainments fight.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-12-06
SHOW HOPE FOR RUSSIA
Tolerance to Be Policy Of U. S,
in Dealing With Problem.
America Expected TO Oppose Threat
Against %BoIsheyiki at Paris
Conference.

Washington, Dec. $50 as to show
= ope for the ultimate triumph of a
ane democracy the American v
nlent is shaping what is described as
. tolerant policy in dealing with Rus
eiA in her present straits.
1t is declared that even should the
~3oisheviki conclude an armistice with
Germany, there is no present inten-
tio2 to broadly list Russia as an en-,
envy, and that the American govern.
mont is at pains to have all the peo-
Pic of Russia know its attitude.
Supplies to Go Forward.
Contracts for supplies of materials
for Russia, it was said, would go for
ward as usual, in the hope that they
would be applied to the cause of world
democracy. 1t was pointed out again,
however, that these are under control
at all times and can be prevented
from falling into hostile hands.
In view of the attitude expressed
here, it appears that should the inter
Allied war council at Paris decide to
send what has been described as a
threatening communication to Russia,
the American delegates might not sub.
scribe to it.
Officials here base their position on
the premise that while the Bolsheviki
faction is working for a separate
peace without regard of the opinion
OF the remainder of Russia, "a great
part of the country is not in accord
with their aims sand the success Of
the Bolsheviki is by no means wholly
assured.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-12-06
PEACE LETTER
Meets REbUKEE
English Unionists Go on Record
Against LansdoWne Plea
in Great Meeting.
INDORSE BRITISH AIM
6onar Law, in Speech, Says Now ta
Time to Prosecute war
to Permanent
Peace.

London, Dec. 3.-Resolutions deplor-
ing the publication of the letter Of
the Marquist of L%ansdowne have been
unanimously adopted by the Union
list party meeting, attended by
l,5Oo delegates, representing Union
ist bodies throughout the coun-
try. Declaring firm adherence
Declaring firm adherence to the war
aims of the Allies, as defined by the
premier, Mr.. Bonar Law and Mr.. AS
quith, it was decided that the resolu-
tons should be wired to the premier
and Mr.. Balfour at Paris.
Great Enthusiasm.
A scene of great enthusiasm ensued,
the delegates rising and singing the
national anthem. Bonar Law deliv-
cred a speech in which he admitted
that he had never met anyone more
patriotic or disinterested than the
Marquis of L~ansdowne. Nevertheless,
Mr. Bonar Law said: 81 disagree abso-
lutely, not with the arguments, but
with the whole tone of the letter. 1t
is not that we do not desire peace.
IL 10 LO1l1OlG W LUX lOl Hdiu W ii
continuance of the war, but it is a
strange assumption that because the
Germans declare their readiness for a
pact of nations and talk of disarma-
ment that peace therefore is possible
Before the war our government
did not dare suggest disarmament to
Germany. They often went near it,
but the Germans regarded it almost as
a casus belli, and before the war
books recommending disarmament
were prohibited in Germany and l be-
lieve they are prohibited+to this day.
Letter Denounced.
"How can they be bound by a pact
Of nations? Nobody will pretend that
they will be bound because they sign a
treaty, and what force is to bind them?
The whole world is against them to-
day, armed and organized in a way
that it is not likely again will be; and
If we cannot insist upon our rights
now, how will we fight against them
in new conditions hereafter?"
The letter of the Marquist Of Lans.
downe continues to be deprecated or
frankly denounced in all governmental
| quarters.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-12-06
PROTEST MADE
TO RUSS PACT
American Ambassador Enters Of
fetal Objection to Pro-
posed Armistice.
GERMANS MADE OFFER
incomplete Returns Show that Boil.
sheviki Have Carried Election
in Petrograd-Russian Of
ficiaIs Go on Strike.

Petrograd, Dec. 4.-Maior Kerth,
American military attache, has been
Instructed by Ambassador F,ancis to
make a protest on the part of the
United States, similar TO that entered
1by heads of entente embassies here, to
negotiations for ar armistice between
Russia and Germany. Omission to join
sfhe protest entered by other allied
ministers was due . the fact that it
was based on the London agreement
sagainst a separate peace, to which
America is not signatory.
Ambassador Francis. however, has
assumed the attitude that all aid
America has extended 70 Russia, and
all recommendations to that end by
him were made with the express I'M
aderstanding. Therefore, he believed
himself justified, in the absence of in
sstructions from the state department
'at Washington, to enter a protest
against Independent action of Russia
I'm the matter of an armistice.
Bolsheviki Carries Election.
Incomplete returns from the election
for the constituent assembly indicate
the Bolsheviki have carried Petrograd,
receiving 272,000 votes against 211.0O0
for Constitutional Democrats and 49,
[000 for-Social Revolutionaries.
The report of Representatives sent
Through the German lines by Ensign
Krylenko, Bolsheviki commander-in-
chief, to begin negotiations for an
a11nistice have been given out here. 1t
shows that the agreement to take up
negotiations were made in behalf of
Germans by their commander-in-chief
1t was agreed that the conference
should be held at German h%eadquar,
tiers at Brestlicovsk .
Government Employees Strike.
Petrograd, Dec. 3.-Employes of tho
ministries of finance, agriculture and
communications have refused to recog-
5nize the authority of the Bolsheviki
and have begun a strike of two days.
The revolutionary committee sent a
sailor to the ministry of supplies to
ascertain the amount of meat and
,other food in P~etrograd. The official
in charge declined to deal with an
agent of the revolutionists and refused
the information.