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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-01
HIS HEART BADLY
AFFECTED +. /.
'Frult.a-tives" Soon Relieved
This Dangerous Condition
$40 GERHARD St. East.

$50 Gerard ST. East, Toronto.
For two years, 1 was a victim of
Acute INDIGESTION and Gas In The
Stomach. 1t afterwards attacked my
Heart and I had pains all over my
body so that 1 could hardly move
around. I tried all kinds of Medicine
but none of them did me any good. At
last 1 decided to try hfruit-a -tives."
l bought the first box last June, and
now I am we'll, after using only three
boxes. 1 recommended. ."Fruit-a- tives"
to anyone suffering from Indigestion"
FRED ]. CAvEEN.
soc. a box. for $3.50, trial size. 25c.
At all dealers or sent postpaid by
Fruit a -tives Limited, Ogdensburg, n.
Y-Ady
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-01
EXIT THE ELUSIVE
BACILLUS OF EPILEPSY

DR.. Charles A. L. Reed Of Cincinnati
who announced last year that he had dis.
covered the bacillus Of epilepsy, now
withdraws that announcement In a lone
letter to the Journal Of the American
Medical Association he apologies for
having been premature and says that
nearly 500 tests Of the blood Of epileptics
made since his announcement and with a
more accurate technique. convince him
that he was mistaken.
But Dr. Reed insists upon his assertion
that constipation is an invariable con.
conitant Of epilepsy. and 1t is his belief
that this disease IL produced by toxins
generated by intestinal fora. Therefore
he pleads for more research, that the
specific organism which causes epilepsy
may be discovered and conquered.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-01

S. M: Wilder has been very i'll for a
few days. t-,rs
DR.. and Mrs. John Wilson have re-
turned home from a three weeks vaca-
ton. -..~ t-
Mrs J. B. Lahree was called to Hart
lard last week by the illness of her
brother, Llewcllyn Spaulding.
Mrs. Sadie Richards returned home
from Guilford, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs Harold Sawyer are re-
ceiving congratulations on the birth Of
a son, born April 27. Mrs. Sawyer is
stopping in the East part of the town
with her mother Mrs. Henry Holt.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-01

to charity. 1t went to Saint Faiths
House, near New York, haven for un-
fortunate girl mothers, and one of tho
most meritorious charities in this country.
The editor has received this letter from
the secretary of Saint Faiths: "Our
work depends upon voluntary contribu-
tons. Until this wonderfully generous
donation came, we had nothing to meet
the bills which will come on May list
and we are now responsible for the care
of % mothers and IS babies
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-01
A Ray Of Sunshine.

Mrs. Larz Anderson. wife Of our ex-
to Belgium and Japan, writes
in Harpers Bazaar this month a charming
description Of a recent voyage aboard
the yacht "Roxana." Like many other
women Of society who write for Harper's
Bazaar. she asked that her check be given
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-01

Mrs. Charles Gambler. of St. Mary's,
Ohio, has been granted United States
license as radio OPERATOR ,,cex..,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-01

Mrs. Stella NJ. Jellica, a COED at The
University Of California, is a mnsician,
singer, housewife, teacher ana junior
student.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-01

diner. where she visited her sister, Mrs.
John Conner.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-01
Dutch Boy
Salem
Whitehead

White lead made by the four
months process means paint that
will last for years on the house.
1t means a tough armor sheath
against the attacks of time and
weather.
1t means an elastic, smooth paint,
impenetrable to moisture. It means
paint which goes long way in
spread and wear.
In either original white or tinted
any color desired, on interiors or
exteriors, it is beautiful paint
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
European Political Debris
Cutters East-Siide Soul
By L. f. Miller
By L. E. Miller

man and merchant with the business
WAYS and methods of the Slav. Tartar
and the Eastern Teuton. The rabbi IN
his dual capacity Of priest and magls-
trate. The "Malamed," honored as
teacher by the parents and despised as
a tyrant by the pupils. The soldier
honorably discharged and the soldier
runaway. The seamstress. the COOK
the musician. the hawker. The boy VINO
was robbed Of higher education be-
cause he was a jew, and the girl run
ming from education because OF yeI-
low ticket. r. .ho
From cities and hamlets, from the
congested pale of Lithuania, from the
serni-cultured centres Of Poland, from
the free steppes of Ukrainia, from the
rich fields Of Rumania, from the disfnal
Iowlands of Galicia, from the plans
and biohlands of Hungara, all the Jews
from the Old World And from every
where they carried along not only their
own Jewish faith and hopes, tie faith
and hopes of their fathers and FORE
fathers, but in many instances also
the preiudices and superstitions Of the
countries. nations and localities Of their
former homes. 3,
While in the Old World they tried
To break away from their pale and
were not allowed by the respective gov
ernments. Here they created voluntary
pales, although the government did GER
tainly nothing TO encourage it.
Why7
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
No Prospect of
German Revolt

What then are the prospects that the
German Socialists will bring about a
revolution in the Fatherland? Thou
sands of experts and authorities might
be cited to show that there is absc-
lutely no prospect Of such a revolt.
There has not been a single infuen-
tial voice raised either inside Germany
or elsewhere to indicate the posi-
bility of revolt before the defeat of
the German armies.
The New York "Volkseitung," the
daily organ of the German Socialists in
America. expressed the belief on
November 9 that the whole Bolshevik
structure is built on a false founda-
ton.
1--WE doubt the possibility of success.
That Trotzky, Lenine and comrades
have never been the tools of the Ger
man war party and capitalists is GER
tain. But it is not so certain that the
present situation on the battlefelds is
not working directly into the hands Of
the German despots and that. therefore,
a peace at the present time would not
be a German peace.
"The proletariat of all countries is
just as much against German as
against an Entente peace"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
How Khaki and Mufti Are Regarded

But all these thoughts are but the
vaporings of woman who is looking
through English made spectacles at this
beautiful, this glorious new world; this
city that surely is beyond equal in any
country! II frightens me, for | fear
its comfort, its magnificence may cause
me to forget and to grow careless and
callous. War WEAKNESS assailed my
soul when left ENGLAND. The fog of
constant anxiety, of seeing the bravery
OF MANNED men constantly before my
eyes, had become almost mechanical in
its constant presence and effect. Now
| am out OF it all and, oddly enough,
miss 1t. Ny eyes search the gay crowds
afoot and awheel for SCARED and
bruised and manned soldiers clad in
their quaint blue Hospital uniforms and
long for the constant jostle of khaki
uniforms and the joyous twinkle in the
eyes OF Tommy" as he lurehes along
the streets with cap at jaunty angle
and maybe dirty pack upon his back
Here | notice people remark upon
man in khaki as he passes. Over in
grimy. murky old London we see a man
in multi and we wonder why. These
are just my impressions, my intro
duction as it were, 20 my wanderings
in this great and beautiful land. Don't
be cross with me, don't take me too
seriously; only remember that I am
looking on" and that | am sure that
the splendid pansche Of tho men and
women Of the United States will wave
fully and freely in this stupendous war
for liberty.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18

turb Tolstoy and the Majority Social
lists fears to disturb Kautsky because
of the exceptional international repu-
tation of these individuals. But when
Kautsky went so far in a recent article
as to pin his faith to the victory OF
the Entente and the defeat of Germany,
it was possible to leave him longer IN
the Office which he had held for more
than three years of the war. This dis
missal of the worlds leading MARKHAM
constitutes one Of the most important
events in the history of international
socialism in the last half century. The
article which brought about this final
stage in the civil war between the
Minority and Majority Socialists was
published in the "Neue Zeit" on Sep
TENDER IA. The first important pas
sage is as follows:
at is an extremely serious error
to concentrate ones attention upoa
imperiulismt as the sole product OF
present day capitalism and to over
look the existence of democracy. This
applies to the present war as well as
to other situations. The war is not
only a struggle between various i'm
perialisms, but also between imperial
ism and democracy, between more or
less democratic and more or less i'm
perialistic governments.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
Demands Russia
Should Be Strengthened

Kautsky points out, for example. that
il Finland and Ukralnla were 10 De
separated from Russia it would be
nothing more or less than sign OF
their lack of confidence" in the future
of the Russian revolution, although
they should understand that their pros,
poets of national independence are tied
with the success of the Russian revo-
luton, which offers the only way by
which their independence may be Sc
cured" Kautsky concludes that all the
nationalities in Russia must show
their solidarity with Russia and not
separate from that country and weaken
it,"
Here we have Kautsky demanding
that one of Germany's enemies, Russia,
should be strengthened and not weak
ened as against German autocracy. We
here have the further demand that the
German Socialists themselves should
see to it that their military enemies are
strengthened and not weakened.
Throughout this whole reasoning
there is no. vestige of any hope that
German democracy can be secured ex-
cept through the victory of her demo-
cratic enemies and the defeat OF Ger
man autocracy-or at least the certain
menace of that defeat-and here Kaut--
sky is in accord with the imprisoned
Liebknecht. He refused few months
ago to take part in the peace agitation
at the present time. Liebknecht pointed
out last spring from his prison that the
German military cause was not yet de-
feated and the time had therefore not
vet come for peace. With the collapse
of Russia and the Italian retreat, the
German military cause is further from
defeat at the present moment than II
was last spring.
II is possible that the Russian Boil
sheviki, supported by the Russian
masses. will make a separate peace or
a separate armistce with Germany, but
they will only do this either by an I'M
mediate sacrifice Of their national in
dependence by surrendering enormous
Russian territories or by so strength
ening the military position OF kaiser
ism as to postpone the possibility OF a
German revolution and the general end.
ing of the war for many months and
perhaps for years. This last result
would mean the surrendering Of two Of
their declared purposes. German
revolution and a German peace; IL
would also mean the utter defeat and
collapse of the Russian revolution as
soon as a general peace is declared =
for then German Kaiserism would De
in a position to dictate its own terms
to Russia even if it were forced TO sur
render all Of its pretensions in other
directions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18

/ Not only is there TO prospect Oh
revolution. but there is little prospect
even of those slight steps in the
direction of democracy for which the
German Socialists have been agitatlpS
the last fifty years. Between the pres
ent Kaiserism and a democracy like
that Of France OF America there are
perhaps a hundred important steps TO
be taken. The German government has
up to the present time refused to take
the first of these steps. And even II
the first step is taken within the next
few weeks or months, ninety-nine steps
will remain before the German people
are able to exercise even the slightest
influence on the German government
Nor would revolution be possible or
thinkable before the country is COM
pletely democratized.
These facts were definitely recog-
rized at the last congress Of the Ger
man Socialist majority at Wurzburg
a few weeks ago. One of the chief
delegations from Bavaria demanded
that the Reichstag Socialists should
be more insistent for the democratic
cation of Germany and that 1.-THE &C
complishment of this minimum de-
mand must take place during the war.
| because we shall certainly not be able
to bring it about after the return of
normal conditions" One Of the Ber-
lin delegations demanded that this
characterization should be extended
not only to Germany. but also to her
allies, Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey
| The Breslau delegation demanded that
the Socialists should become a real
opposition party to seize their
speeches in the Reichstag.
We see hero that the long and
laborious process of characterization
of Germany has not begun and that
the Majority Socialists in the Reichs-
tag are not even putting up a strong
legal and parliamentary fight-to say
nothing of the possibility of the vast
revolutionary upheaval which would
be necessary to overthrow militarism
in the Fatherland.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
Vain Hope Of the Bolsh '
Repoon bv German SociaIists?-By Vim. English dlllng

"Volkszeitung" inserts these words IN
parentheses, as the context gives IL e'
absolute right to do. hautsky con-
cludes that the weakening OF demo-
cratic Russia in the presence OF
strong autocratic Germany would mean
nothing less than defeat of democracy
Democracy would suffer setback. In
ternationai Socialism must take into
account the interests Of democracy as
a whole. in the whole world, and must
Mace this cause above the temporary
interests of separate groups-even
above the temporary democratic inter-
ests of ones own nation"
This remark. of course, is addressed
IN the German socialists, who without
question hope for the gradual If slow
development of democracy in Germany
but are willing to sacrifice all the
other democracies of the world for the
supposed or imaginary benefit Of their
own democracy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18

Minority Leader Looks
For Entente Victory

The leading German Socialist
thinker. the most important Socialist
publisher in the world to-day. Karl
Kautsky. has written at length-only
a few weeks ago-the reasons why the
hope for democracy in Europe and for
an early peace lies not in a German
revolution, but in the defeat Of the
German armies.
Kautsky is the intellectual leader OF
tho Minority Socialists of Germany
Nevertheless his international impor-
lance is so great that the majority left
him in control Of the official party
weekly, the "Neue Zeit," until the first
of this October. His position was like
the position of Tolstoy, under the Rus
sian cars. The cars feared to dis
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18

you eat white bread and have white
sugar, both loaf and powdered! Also
candies that are really sweet. The
wonder of it! And superb motors crowd
your street, and with no ostensible rea.
son for existence except 20 carry beau
tifully dressed women or keen looking
men about from one place TO another
In and about London, mind you, taxi
cabs are so few as to be almost a lux
ury, while private automobiles do not
exist unless they are being used for
definite war work. This, my friends, is
just little shadow Of what is meant
by being "in a state Of war" You
don't know what it means yet. You
women with your silken knitting bags
and your luxurious motors and your
bazaars and your sewing parties, have
not the first glimmer of an idea what
stern, hard, war conditions mean.
Pray God it may not come to you.
Shortage of food. shortage of coal, in
different light-all these things that
mean creature comforts, and always
the gnawing anxiety of not knowing
whether that man who is all that
makes life good to you is dead or alive
"out there" where hell has its lid of
and the devils are let loose.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
Kautsky Leaves
No Doubt Of Meaning

Itisnot difficult for us to decide which
governments engaged in the present
war Kautsky regards as more or less
imperialistic and which he regards as
more or less democratic. The German
censorship will not permit him to name
these countries, but the following lam
guage of Kautsky makes his meaning
absolutely clear and his words consti-
tute by far the most important state
ment issued by any Socialist since the
beginning Of the war. Kautsky con-
tinues as follows:
an the present war the imperialistic
problems are confused lin the minds
of many Socialists) with democratic
problems. and this confusion is chiefly
responsible for the confused thinking
that has crept into the Socialist parties
of nearly all countries. However re-
grettable the damage may be which the
war has inflicted upon international
Socialism, it is nevertheless probable
that the final result will be its triumph
the collapse of imperialism and its
tools and the mighty advance of
democracy-even though it should not
yet come TO the complete victory of the
proletariat."
Kautsky then proceeds to explain
that the breaking up of a great demo-
cratic state like Russia, while a great
autocratic state like Germany remained
as it's powerful and united neighbor,
would imperil the democracy of the
whole world. While he does not specifi-
cally mention Germany or Russia, be-
cause of the censorship, the New York
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18

supplying city, | am searching for
something that will keep me mindful
of those thousands of men who are
doing and daring cover there
must confess ! feel it's reality slipping
rom me. see hundreds of women IN
most lovely clothes tripping along Fifth
Avenue Eight in every ten carry huge
gayly-colored silken or velvet bags.
"What are they for?" | asked.
"War-knitting," ! was told.
Very nice, very pretty. We in Eng
land used TO do that too, but we were
never quite so ornamental about it.,
and nowadays when women are con-
ductors on buses, trains and tram
ears and are ticket takers and window
cleaners and van drivers and chauf-
feurs, they haven't much time for
knitting. Knitting is now a paid-for
industry that is organized and dis
tributed by departments.
notice that great bazaars are beiry
prepared and advertised. In England
there is little time for them and too
the money necessary for their ar
rangement. Bazaars are past and done
for. Public subscriptions that carry
lights of stalls or smiling sellers are
the chief means Of raising the wind"
that helps to blow healing and help
70 the men, English, Colonial, Amer
lean, French, Italian, who are fighting
for US.
went to lecture at Carnegie Hall
the other night given by brave soldier
who told very simply and with a real
"Tommy's" humor some of the expert
ences. | liked the man and his talk.
It was honest and sincere, but | hated
the words with which two or three
people introduced him to the great
audience. They called him "our hero"
and spoke of him as if being a brave
soldier is an unusual thing. | wonder
if any of those several thousand peo-
pie who cheered and applauded that
man realized that what he had done
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
Followers Were
Of Different Clay

And this feature of the old Castle
Garden must always be borne IN mind
when comparing .he characteristics OF
the various periods Of immigration.
The boats that followed the May
flower OF the Ghetto began 70 UNLOAD
immigrants, also prosecuted, also
wretched children Of Israel, but baked
from a different clay.
Much alike 20 those who came in the
trail Of the first settlers Of Plymouth
this second transport Of Jews was OF
the same race and faith, but with diff
ferent ideas and objects IN view.
They did not discuss the PHILOSOPHERS
Of Comte and Kant. They did not dream
the dreams of Vera Pavlovna. They
scanned the horizon and ascertained
RAPIDLY that the American market was
not in need Of philosophers, but OF
tsIlors. They Termed that a basket
flled with matches, collar buttons and
suspenders yielded a better income
than discussion whether in the free
society Of the future suicide will be a
crime or q privilege.
And they established themselves on
East Broadway, on Grand Street, Essex
Street, the Bowery, and they opened
little snops and big factories. Then
came the saloons, followed by the the.
aires, the dancing halls, the unions. the
strikes, the Socialist parties, the anar
chist talks, the red press, the yellow
press, the politician, the patriot, The
poet, the gambler, the reformer, the
gangster, all like 80 many little ants
each working in his own individual
way upon his own individual destiny
and collectively creating a condition
which has nothing in common with the
aim and viii Of the individual.
They were all here in this mass Of
humanity Herding on the American
shores for life, safety and freedom.
Here was before you the old ortho
dox Jew, with al! his worldly interests
IN the Talmudic .ore, and who did no,
want 70 know any other world but the
world as passed unto him IN the book,
Of bis forcfathers
The Jewish artisan from a miller
Of medieval industries. The middle.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
-vHAT is the state of mind OF
w the Bolsheviki and the Rus
STA masses to-day?

w the Bolsheviki and the Rus
" STA masses to-day?
First, they want peace.
Second, they all agree that this
peace must favor democracy through
out all Europe, and must not increase
the power Of the German Kaiser and
Of German militarism.
Third, they hope to bring about this
immediate democratic peace "by per-
suading the German Socialists to carry
out a revolution in Germany" This
last point is the foundation upon
which the whole structure Of an i'm
mediate democratic peace is built.
On October IS, Leo Trotzky, the Bol-
sheviki leader in Petrograd, was asked
the following question: "But what if
the German people do not rise up
against the government and if il pays
no attention to your proposals."
To this question Trotzky replied:
SHOULD Germany actually refuse our
outstretched hand then We will fight
like lions"
This is no new thought to the Boz
sheviki. Before he left America last
spring Trotzky had said that a demo-
cratic peace cannot be obtained eX-
cept with the cooperation of the Ger
man working classes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
Americas Freedom to Germans

And here in hotel dining room to-
day sat and listened to a party Of
four people talking German! Nobody
seemed to mind. Nobody paid any at
tention. 1t was very difficult for me
to keep quite quiet, and l wondered all
the time if something would not be
done to stop the abomination. But
they went on gayly cultural, horribly
healthy. suppose it sounds absurd.
thin-skinEed, foolish, but could not
eat. Ny tongue got dry, my eyes
burned and I thought OF the stories
that all of US throughout the civilized
world know and must believe. An.
well! These people may be all right,
but in England, even where we are lax
enough, it would not have been per-
mitted, and in France they would not
have been given the benefit Of the
doubt.