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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-11-09

Total number of examinations los
Following is the list of dealers whose
milk or cream has been below standard
but once during month:
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-05-03

DR.. Milburn NJ Fowler has recently
purchased a new Overland touring
car.
Five lots of liquors were seized by
Sheriff Goodrich last Thursday and
the hearings are scheduled for Mon
day, May seventh. The liquors were
addressed to William H. Dennis Jr.,
J. A. Hill, Thomas Mullaney, w. S.
Cronkite and Fred Thibodeau.
The sum total of voters in the town
of Skowhegan is about 1889 There
are about 1870 paying voters; A 9th
ers who have gone to war and are not
included in the list of those who pay
and rs more who are not paying either
by reason of being old soldiers or be-
cause they are unable to pay.
The last of the series of high school
entertainments will take place to-
morrow evening, the program being
given by Mr.. and Mrs. Phidelah Rice
of Boston Mrs Rice Is niece of
Mrs. Clara B. Leavitt and Manley T.
Pooer of Skowhegan, and the enter
tainment is therefore of special in
terest here.
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tOnononononOaOnOasnsnononl
/ SKOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS 3,

| Carl Tantish went to Boston Tues
day to purchase new automobile.
John II. Lancaster was in Portland
Tuesday and Wednesday to attend the
sessions of the grand lodge of Ma
sons
DR.. W. L. Cousins of Portland has
recently appointed DR.. l.. A Das-
rcombe to serve as recruiting surgeon
! for Somerset County.
Miss Dorothy Potts will leave to-
day for Orono where she is to repre-
sent the local high school in the prize
speaking contest open to Glass A high
schools, held at the University of
Maine tomorrow.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. L, Walton left Tues
day morning for Massachusetts. Law
yer Walton is spending IA few days In
Lowell on business and will later join
his Wife who is visiting their daugh-
ter, Mrs. b. G. ingalls, at her home in
Foxboro.
Lawrence e. Durant of Skowhegan
agent for the Singer Sewing Machine
Company, appeared before Judge
Brazzell last Thursday, charged with
ENLIGHTENMENT of 5000 belonging to the
company, upon complaint of Riley
Davis of Waterville. Mr.. Durant was
bound over to the September term of
supreme court.
The three act farce Picking a
Winner" by Macpherson Janney, will
be produced in Grange Hall, May Is,
under the auspices of the Grange
committee of Ten, and the proceeds
will be used for the Grange debt,
Miss Gertrude Carter has been engag-
ed as director The play will be fol-
lowed by a dance.
J. A. Chabot of Skowhegan, local
representative for the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company of New York
City, has recently received gold
Iueudl lOi teh ySdio VI faithful oCi
vice with that company The medal
contains the words faithful service
and the date, 1907, when Mr.. Chabot
assumed the local agency.
Last Thursday evening at the meet
ing of the trustees of the Woman's
Reformatory at Hotel Coburn, plans
were discussed for the purchasing OF
furniture for the buildingsf Mrs
Effie Lawrence of Lubec, Father Carey
of Hallowell and Rev. Clifford Snow
den of Portland were present at the
meeting besides Clyde H. Smith
chairman of the board. Mrs. Frances
Damon of Pittsfeld has been nomi-
mated to fill the vacancy on the board
of trustees, probably taking the
place of Mrs Clara Cleaves of Bar
Harbor whose term has expired.
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r. SkOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS =.

Last evening at the meeting OF
Carrabassett Lodge, the second degree
was conferred on two candidates.
William Pitts has sold his house OPP
posite the Manley Pooler residence to
Herbert Judkins, who will take pos
session in the early Fall
A telephone switchboard has re-
Gently been installed in the office of
the Arms mill by John Brown of
Rumford. Each department and
each room is to be connected
Miss Prudence Wadsworth, a mem
Der of the class of II, Skowhegan
High school, was the guest over the
week END of Miss Priscilla Elliott at
the University of Maine. The visit
provided the opportunity for Miss
Wadsworth to become familiar with
the University surroundings as she
is considering entering the State Col
lege next Fall.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-05-03

At Mt Holyoke College where the
Misses Faith and Freda Harris are
students, an agricultural project is to
be carried ON this spring and sum
mer The work will be done by re-
lays of forty young ladies'. During
the vacation period, the various ones
appointed will return to the college
to carry on the work. This some
what novel idea Is in line with the
Preparedness movement altho the po-
tatoes and vegetables will not be sold
but used at the college in the Fall.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-05-03

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Children's Umbrellas % and "a inch
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Rain Coats $500 each.
Light Weight Single Texture Hall
Silk Rain Coats colors Gray and Tan
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Notice !!

Skowhegan, Me, April 90. 1917.
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NOTICE

The subscriber hereby gives notice
that he has been duly appointed ad-
>nainistrator Of the estate of William
A Folsom late of Harmony In the
County of Somerset, deceased, and
given bonds as the law directs. All
persons having demands against the
estate of said deceased are desired to
present the same for settlement, and
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p. o. Mainstream.
April 10. 1917.
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PASS BOOK LOST

Notice Is hereby given that the Som
arset Loan e. Building Association has
been notified In writing that its pass
book No. 1859 has been lost and that
the owner thereof wishes "a duplicate
al same.
SOMERSET LOAN & BLDG. ASSN.
by Fred +. Lawrence.
Secretary.
6k0whegan, April 90, 1917. 3w17
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Notice. to the Public

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SKOWHEGAN SAVINGS BANK
ANNUAL MEETING

The annual meeting of the corpora
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said bank on
MONDAY. MAY Z. 1917
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ether business that may legally come
before said meeting.
CARLETON p MERRILL.
Clerk of the Corporation.
Skowhegan, Maine, April ~. 1917. 3w16
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-07
u. S. to Prevent Paper Rise
Trade Commission to Prevent
False Shortage Reports

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.-The Federal
Trade Commission took steps to-day
to prevent future news print paper
prise increases on false reports Of
short supplies.
Newspaper publishers throughout the
country were directed to keep the com
mission informed monthly as TO their
rate Of consumption and the amount
OF paper stocks on hand. Already man
ufacturers are required to furnish pro-
duction reports.
The sharp rise in prices last wear
was charged by the commission IN
large measure to the suggestion OF
manufacturers that they could not keep
up with the rate OF consumption.
The commissions investigation showed
there was no actual shortage. The
commission intends that similar sit
uation shall not arise again.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-07

threatened. Under that compelling I'M
pulsion Cahan the philosopher became
Cahan the acrobat. He performed MS
subversive somerssult, and to-day
whatever his inner opinions may sun
be. and though he processes no open
support Of Germany. he has become
par: Of that nationwide Teutonic prop
uganda Of sentiment-perverting' issue
clouding. Ally-hating, war-hamper'ns
effort TO which so much Of the foreign
press. aided by Hearsts mlsnamed
Americans" are lending their support.
To appreciate Editor Cahan's change
OF attitude il is necessary to follow
him back to the troublous times pre-
cedine the outbreak of the conflict Up
TO then he had been radical social
list. out of sympathy, 1t Is true. with
many Of our institutions. but still ap-
preciative of the freedom and liberal
mindedness Of the nation wherein ne
has found a refuge from Russian per
secution: all things considered, by
no-means unpatriotic American citizen
Then came the Serbian crisis and Aus
tria's decision to make it preteXt for
war
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-07
Calls Hvizda Pro- 7 euton
Slovak League Protest De-
nounces Body

PASSAIC. y. j., October Branch
81. Of the Slovak League Of America
protested to-day against permission be
ing granted TO the Slavish Hvizda TO
hold an organization meeting to-mor-
row in Mokrai's Hall.
Its members assert that the Hvizda,
or Star. is "pro-Hun" organization,
and that its organs in Chicago, Brad
dock, Penn. and the "Krajan," in New
York. are pro Hun, pro-Magyar and
prot euton."
I've have been and we are in posi-
ton 10 furnish proofs 10 your honorable
body" writes the league 10 the Mayors
and commissioners, that up TO the time
that the Hungarian Consul General.
Won Nuber. was driven out of New York
City by our government, the 'krajan'
was subsidized by the Magyar govern
ment Of Hungary.
The only true purpose OF this Hun
'Hvizda' is 10 give aid and comfort
TO the enemy"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-07
Who s Who Against America,
Abraham Cahan, of Vorwarts

edi;orially. "is that the American press
is hostile to Germany because the
American capitalists have the same
hatred toward Germany as the hnRish
capitalists; the Germans are too sue
cessful and too strong rivals IN the
world
Not because Of anger at GermanyS
rape of Belgium, not because OF honest
resentment over her forcing war upon
reluctant and peace-loving nations
honorable anger and resentment which
Abraham Cahan himself felt when his
mind was free Of the shackles Of neces-
sity but because Of envy; that was
the inspiring motive of the American
press's criticisms. in the mind Of the
high-souled editor Of Forward" now
al the apex Of his somersaul,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-07
A New and
Cahsnizcd Germany

And Germany is slowly becoming
more liberal. Considerable reforms are
taking place there-not so great re
forms a. We might wish. but still they
are reforms. Germany will become
free and democratic country"
Doubtless. And Abraham CRhsn will
become an honorable American jour
nalist- after the war is over. A. to
the draft. Forward says:
"The men Of America are not rising
at all, but they are being compelled by
the force OF the government TO do what
they would by no means voluntarily
have done, although they were being
asked TO do II of their own will. q.
The young and brave men OF the people
will be sent away to murder and be
murdered"
Again the Forward" snarls edi-
torislly:
And now. when the CONSUMPTION law
has passed, every one is enrsged
against it.. As 10 the Liberty Loan
they don't want to buy the patriotic
bonds, no matter what you do with
them. Does not this prove that
the masses a. whole are not very
much pleased with the war and its new
burdens"
Concerning President Wilson's out
lines of the causes which brought us
into the war, and his subsequent ignor-
ing Of the German propaganda demand
that he specify our peace terms, Ca
hans paper taunts:
"Silence is now the best thing for
the President. Silence is now
golden for him, for he knows not what
10 say"
Along the same line it says sardon-
ically:
If il is necessary TO have an autoc-
racy in time of war, then let US have
il. Let us know, at least, who is the
ruler and what are mis- crazy notions"
In local labor matters Forward" IL
powerful to the verge of autocracy.
When the cloak makers employed on
military rush orders refused TO go on
strike when the Amalgamated called
them, this threat appeared in the ad-
vertising columns Of Forward:
IF you cloak makers want 10 be
patriotic you cannot do so at the ex-
pense of the Amslgamated. II Is
enough that the bosses are patriotic
at your expense"
In proof of its complete submission
20 German influence, Forward" goes
TO the Hearstian lengths of deliberate
y distorting end perverting the news.
OF the great patriotic labor meeting
at Madison Square Garden on Septem-
Der 7. the paper says:
"Gompers Mass Meeting a Complete
Failure. But 400 people were
present. Only the first four rows of
the huge hall were occupied.
The leaders themselves admitted that
their entire conference was a complete
failure
This is whole-hearted, Teutonic ly-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-07
A Cahsn That Was
Anti-German at First

To a man of Abraham Cahan 5 clear
intelligence and knowledge Of the Euro
pean situation there could be no hest
fancy of mind as to the responsibility
for the ensuing outbreak. Cahan at
once ranged himself against the Cen
trail Powers. His view of Austris's
ultimatum TO Serbia is expressed in
these terms: "Such a debssing and in
sulting demand has never been heard
Of in modern times" He held Austria
Individually responsible for the war,
which he prophesied before the actual
outbreak, and pointed out that she
would not have gone so far without as
surance Of German support.
Uncompromising opposition 10 Ger
many rings in the early war editorials
Of Forward" Germany is waging
war against the enlightened part of her
people" The German government was
the first to declare war between itself
and its own people" The English and
French. Mr.. Cahan considered. worked
in favor of peace. Now August 3.
1910 they themselves have finally been
forced into the war" England and
France tried every means 20 avoid a
conflict with Germany" Belgium and
France are TO be crushed By German
militarism." Forward" commented
sympathetically upon the wholehearted
support Of their country offered by the
Belgian socialists. and predicted sim
liar action by the socialists Of England
and France.
In all this speaks the true Cahsn;
the idealist, the sympathizer with the
under dog, the hater Of injustice and
oppression.
Then things began 20 happen. I'm
pleasant things, disturbing things,
alarming things, TO which Editor Cshan
so long the oracle Of his people. was
quite unaccustomed. lie found that
many of his flock were resentful. They
had been brought up to hate Russia
persecutress of their race, as holy
duty. Lacking their leaders intelli-
gence and knowledge Of foreign affairs,
they saw in Germany only the foe Of
the hated Russia; 20 that foe their
sympathy went out. Protests began 10
pour in upon Forward" Worse than
all. its subscribers threatened 20 turn
to a rival daily, the Jewish Daily
News" circulating extensively among
the pro-Austrian Galician Jews, which
was already saddling upon Russia the
guilt for the war, with France and
England guilty only in less degree.
With CONSERVATION Of spirit Cahan
perceived that he had taken the wrong
tack: he had espoused a cause 20 which
he could not swing his hitherto docilc
following. Loss of prestige threat
ened; worse still, loss Of circulation
For space he marked time. The
symptoms became more alarming. And
now we see him leaving his firm founda-
tion Of logic and honest sentiment and
rising into the impalpable air in the
first painful, spasmodic effort Of his
marvellous international somerssult.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-07
The Working OF
The Leaven

Up 70 this time England and France,
according TO Mir. Cahan, were the vic
Tins Of a war against which they had
honorablv but Intellectually striven, and
Germany (even as late as August 2S,
1910 els committing the most horrible
barbarian acts. by means Of her high
civilization" Less than week there
after Cahan began TO see q grim and
necessitous light. throwing before it
the shadow Of the Jewish Daily News"
and to this lauentable recantation it
drove him:
"The truth is that the Germans are
committing the most cruel crimes not
because they, rs Germans, are the
worst barbarians by nature, but be-
cause up 20 the present time they have
been the mightiest in the present war.
Furthermore. none OF the contestants
is better. Wait little. Fortune may
change and the other side may win.
Then il will be seen that not
merely the Germans are capable OF
committing barbarous cruelties.'
Note here that Cahan had no facts TO
20 on. Not one, But such was his
dire necessity TO clear himself Of the
charge of i-Germanism that he
found a perious refuge in prophecy.
For a time he strove TO maintain the
pretence Of impartiality.
"Indirectly culture, progress and lib
erty may win" he observes in tone
Of profound counting room philosophy,
"if one or the other side wins. IL IS
very hard TO guess the truth as to
which side will bring a greater gain or
loss TO human Progress by its victory
And again, on the same theme: "lt is
difficult TO say whether German or
French victory will be the more favor
able for freedom, justice and progress
Dubious though he is on this point
he has suddenly become quite clear on
another. affecting the good faith OF the
American press.
THE real truth" opines Mr.. Cshsn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-07

send her children 10 certain death
and We declare that II Is a
crime TO send our children 10 Ger
tain death. whatever the circumstances
NAV be"
In the next quotation Mr.. Cahan
speaks over his own signature in de
fence of the once hated Germany. writ
ing two weeks after liberal Germany
had finally provoked w 20 declare war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-07
An Intellectual
Joshua


Las, month Forward" and Mr.. "a
han decided TO stop the war before
Friend Germany got any deeper i"'o
tn. mire. Some preliminary blasts
were blown in the form of reference
20 "murder-patriotism" referring oil
course. to America. and nm OPINION
that this is war that the people 90
not want and have no interest IN. Inc
only sense of war Is that the people
shall bleed and also pay the bill' IN
order that the profits OF capital snail
become the richer and greater Ihere-
fore. on September II, the editor OF
Forward after due preamble. passed
a unanimous resolution, all by him
self:
Yves; because of democracy, the war
must not last another day
Conceive the scandaized stupefactlon
Of Mr.. Cahan when, upon awakening
on the morning after his fiat, he found
that the war hadn't stopped Ii IS still
going on. SO is Mr.. Cahan. For pub
LEGATION in English he goes on TO
the following effect, as expressed TO a
Tribune representative:
socialists do right in protecting
their country. ! am a Nationalist. an
American, insthc full sense. Socialism
and patriotism are no longer antag-
onistic"
There is the picture Of SIR. Canaan
as drawn by Mr.. Cahan foi American
inspection. But the Abraham Canaan
who peers and sneers between the lines
of Forward" is very different and
vastly. less patriotic person. He has
not vet performed return somersault
He may. some day, when patriotism is
found to pay on the East Side. Mean
time. he is doing the workings of Ger
many against America and Americas
righteous war. That is why his true
picture appears above. adorned with a
German war helmet.
SO our gallery grows. To the por-
trait of william Randolph Hearst, the
Kaisers turncost. is added this sketch
of Abraham Cahan, the Kaiser's aero
bat.
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