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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-16
PRODUCERS Get
CENT MORE FOR
BOSTON MILK

Boston, Oct. 15-Producers were grant
ed one cent more a quart for milk and
the retail price in Boston was increased
from IS to Il cents a quart, Under de-
cision reached by Henry B. Endicott,
state food administrator. after a confer
ence with Greater Boston milk dealers and
representatives of the New England Mix
Producers Association tonight The new
rates will be effective until Dec LIST, and
are justified, Mr.. Endicott says. BY the
increased price of labor and grain.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-16

within the system. Since that re-
port was issued. however. nearly 81
500 100000 in resources have been add
ed through the acquisition of new
members.
There are, however between 5000
and 5000 eligible banks and trust COM
panles, with resources estimated at
from - to Is billion dollars. whose
activities are entirely beyond the con-
troll of the federal government. being
governed only by state laws. The
President addressed himself TO these
institutions.
Statement Of President
Ut is manifestly imperative thai
there should be a complete mobiIiza-
ton Of the banking reserves of the
United States. All who are familiar
WIN financial operations must appre-
clate the importance of developing to
me maximum our banking power and
OF providing financial machinery ade-
qudte Tor meeting the very great
hhaAclal requirements imposed upon
cur country by reason of the war.
A vigorous prosecution and salts
factory termination of the war vii, de-
pend IN no small degree upon the
ablhtE of the government not only ~
finance itself. but also to aid tho yo,,
ernments associated with il IN ~.
"hlch must be kept supplied with nu-
n!uons' fuel, food and supplies of all
kinds.
The banking problem involved Is
one winch concerns ali banks alike
US solution does not depend upon the
national banks alone. nor upon the
state banks. The burden and the priv.
llege must be shared by every banking
INSTITUTION in the country. The import
ant functions of the Federal Reserve
Banks in the sale OF the governments
securities, in receiving and transferring
the billions of dollars involved, in sun
plying credit facilities and in protect
Ing the reserves of the country have
become so familiar to all that am sure
It is unnecessary TO dwell upon or to
eXpound them.
me extent to which our country
can Withstand the financial strains for
"hlch we must be prepared will de-
pend very largely upon the strength
and staying power of the Federal Re-
serve banks. The Federal Reserve act
is the only constructive financial leg
islation which we ever have had and
which is broad enough to accommo-
date at the same time banks operat-
ing under powers granted by the gov
eminent and banks whose charters are
granted by the respective states.
The unilcation Of our banking sys-
tenn and the complete mobilization OF
Continued on Page 4-col. 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-16
5000 OF CAMP
DEvENS TROOPS
GOING SOUTH

Aver. Mass, Oct 15.-Departures
from Camp Devens to special assign
ments continued today. The last Of
the $50 men selected for engineering
construction work abroad have left tie
cantonment and it was announced that
probably before Sunday $500 of the 5000
ordered to Camp Gordon, Georgia,
would be on their way
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-16
HOUR DAILY
Every Man and Woman
in New England

1..,.. Same Time 20 Liberty
-.-.s N. 9. Banking institu-
Million Dollars Each-Ber-
NH, GIVES 100000
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-16
Only Half of Resources

At present the board controls the
activities OF institutions representing
only one-half of the country's total
banking resources. The latest report
OF the comptroller Of the currency
places at several millions above s16,-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-16
CONSOLIDATION
Bethlehem Steel Yards
Are Reorganized

's''sNsn' S7ipbulidins Corporation,
10. Capitalized at st2,5oo,ooo-
PI.rss at ssn Francisco, Wilmington,
De- elizabeth. ". j., Quincy, Mass,
arc Srsrrows Point. Nd, Included
Ms-1e-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-16
At End Of u.s. Day Truce

The new rates were fixed at the con-
clusion of a 15-day truce agreed upon by
producers and dealers at meeting with
the food administrator last month. The
retail dealers said if they were obliged
to meet the demands Of the producers it
would be necessary to raise the price of
milk to consumers to Is cents a quart
The statement issued at the conclusion
of tonight's conference said: After an
investigation Of the price Of milk and
hearing the producers, the food admin
istrator has come to the conclusion that
the increased price OF labor and grain
1ustifies the increase In the price Of milk
from the 18th of October. delivered on the
cars In Boston, and in consequence Of this
increase he has authorized an increase
OF ono cent a quart in the price Of milk
in the city until the first of December.
He is studying the possibilities Of
more economical form of delivery which
it Is believed will enable people to pur-
chase good milk at lower rate in the
future, but at the price Of IA cents It has
been clearly demonstrated that milk is
the cheapest form of animal food for the
that a householder can buy"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-16
Preparations on Julian Front

Preparatio apparently are being made
along the Julian front Of the Austro-
italian theatre for another big battle. IN
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-16

si1o. Subscription OF 500. coo. 900
vsw York oct ia single sub
Cert nJ,d on Page f1--Co'. 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-16

You Buy Peace
Happiness, Safety Free
dom with Every Bond
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-20
Defying the Law
u of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The remarks of DR.. +. A. Blossom be.
fore an audience at the Free Synagogue yes
terday ought not to pass by unnoticed. The
doctor, we are told, sent birth control infor-
nation TO a woman in Ohio, defying tho
District Attorney, and thus demonstrating
no small degree of nerve" This defiance
reminds me of the man caught expectorating
on the sidewalk, who was brought before Il
magistrate ard fined one dollar. The man
paid his fine, walked out Of the courtroor2
and repeated the offence by again splitting on
the sidewalk. He, too, cried out. 81 defy the
law"
At convention of the Medco-Pharmaceu
teal League, held at the Hotel Aston, in May,
1916, DR.. Eugcnia K. Eliscu read paper at
lacking birth control, and, instead advocated
self-control. DR.. Blossom made mention of
two hundred prominent physicians who are
opposed to birth control, but who, neverthe-
less, practise it, inasmuch as a poll was
taken, and showed that the average of chill
dren in each family was only l.6 Does not
the learned doctor know that in classifying
liars one kind is statistics? Aside from this,
is there not a ghost of a chance that these
two hundred gentlemen are not at all taking
advantage of their medical knowledge, but, on
the other hand, are following out Dr.
Eliscu's advice and practising self-control?
JOSEPH IRVING HERMANN.
New York, Feb. -, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-20
Movies and Serious Thinkers

There is no rest for the man who merely
knows what he likes. For time the
movies offered a refuge. Walter Prichard
Eaton said that the film plays were SO per
cent negligible, and it seemed as if democ-
racy had at last achieved an art, or what
YOU will, in which each mans opinion was
worth as much as his neighbours. The
early critics merely rec1untrd the fact
that in the third reel tho cDwboy galloped
his horse into the creek ar6 rescued the
leading lady. They did not attempt to
classify the picture as good or bad. That,
they thought, depended entirely on each
spectators personal opinion as to whether
a leading lady with her hair in curls and
her mouth in shipper deserved to be
rescued or left 20 drown.
Munsterberg was the first man to
change all that. He gave the business
purpose and formula, and explained just
what went on in the human mind when
the cowboy galloped into the creek and
rescued the leading lady. Then came
Vachel Lindsay TO identify the movies with
plastic sculpture and give an aesthetic
value TO the cowboy who galloped his
horse into the creek to rescue the leading
lady. In the last issue of "The New Re
public" we find Mr.. Lindsay advising his
readers 10 study Mlnsterberg's book 1.-THE
Photoplay" in order 10 fit themselves for
proper understanding Of David Crit
fth's film play Intolerance" Then, for
all The world like a Drama League lecturer,
he continues: "Find the drift Of the itali-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-20
Who Is Your Neighbor?

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: James o. Spearing, in his letter
which appeared in to-day's Tribune under
the caption, "Who's Who in Christianity"
seems to be puzzled that DR.. Charles A.
Eaton should preach you can't arbi:rate
the Ten Commandments. You keep them or
break them" and at the same time "feel
strongly that the United States has moral
obligation to support the cause of the Allies
against Germany" And Mr.. Spearng, also
pointing out Christ's approval of the great
commandment which says, Thou shalt love
Che Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
with all thy soul, and with all thy mind"
md Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy
elf" asks, "And is DR.. Eaton's attitude in
harmony with the Gospel of Lover
Now, | would like to ask Mr.. Spearing,
through your fair paper, Did Christ APP
prove those great commandments for all his
followers or only certain part of them?
Now, suppose the United States has neigh
Dor which believes Christian doctrine just
as much as the United States does, but, in
stead of having Gods love in their heart
and loving their neighbors as themselves,
they appoint themselves MS Gods chosen ma
ton to Kulturize or civilize this nation, and
for carrying on their purpose they arm
themselves to the teeth, invade and desolate
this country, will it not be other neutral
nations duty as Christian neghbors to love
their neighbors as themselves, to help and
save her? Will not this country expect
such a Christian love from her neighbors?
Did not Christ add to those great com
mandments a great precept of his own, say
ing; Therefore all things whatsoever ye
would that men should do to you do you
even so to them"2 Would this country like
to be in Belgium's, Serbia's and Armenia's
place, and country twenty times bigger
and stronger than her watch her indifer-
entity? S. ASATURIAN.
New York, Feb. 10, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-20
Germany Must Be Crushed
lFron, The Louisville Conrier-Journo

From The LOUiSriuc tOhTifF-JOh'" NUT
We must take her Germany at her WORD.
The chief interest of that notification, in so
far as it concerns US, is not its proof OF the
desperation of Germany's cause. of her de-
spair of winning the war by legitimate war
fare of her last hope against defeat by re-
sort TO the last resort of savagery left her.
II is not even her virtual defiance OF the
civilized world by her open proclamation OF
her recourse to that policy 1t is her hat an
nouncement to US that she does not mean
TO pay any further attention to our warn
ing; her suave invitation to us to go to I've
devil with our pratings about our rights on
the sea. Now, indeed, we shall see just what
manner of American we have in the White
House; just what manner of Americans we
have in Congress. Germany's action is
virtual challenge of war to mankind. IL is
direct challenge of war to the United states
1t is no time for further parleyng. That
challenge should be accepted within twenty
four hours, and the war thus entered on by
America should not end until the imperial
despotsm of Germany, which dares plunge
the world into such war, is completely and
eternally crushed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-20
Losses in Tonnage

Much ingenuity has been expended IN
demonstrating the failure of Germany's
submarine campaign, the usual method
being to point to the decline in the de-
struction of tonnage since the first day OF
the month, to compare the published tig-
ures with German forecasts, and finally to
consider the losses recorded so far in
relation to the supposed total of British
shipping.
Speculations of this kind are interest
ing enough, but not wholly trustworthy.
In the first place no reckoning based on
tonnage alone can serve to give an accu-
rate conception of the progress of the war
on commerce. On one day, for instance,
the loss in tonnage may amount to 10000,
the next day to $4,000, and the day after
to only 10000, yet it would obviously be
imprudent to conclude from these figures
that the efficiency of the U-boats was less
ening. Thus, taking three days from one
of the published lists of the last three
weeks. three days on each of which the
number of ships sunk is given as seven,
we find the tonnage quoted as 22,424,
1901 and II 1876, respectively.
It is clear that lucky encounter with
one great ship may run up the tonnage
out of all proportion to the number OF
vessels destroyed, whereas there may be
an increase in the number of successful at
tacks that is not apparent in the record
of tonnage. Hence it is idle to count on
tonnage alone, for though in the long run
it is the most important factor of all, yet
in considering the results Of only two or
three weeks work we are apt to be mlsled
by figures which must be determined more
or less by accident
Comparisons with German threats are
allowable, but it is doubtful whether it
would be necessary for them to fulfil their
threats to the letter in order to reduce
Great Britain to a desperate state. 1t
may be calculated that it would take them
so many months to wipe out British ship
ping altogether, but there is small comfort
in such calculations, because complete de-
struction would not be necessary.
In fact it is too soon to enter into spec
ulations of this kind, and we cannot yet
say what the submarines are capable OF
doing in the next six months. A few days
of thick or heavy weather might account
sufficiently for falling off in the number
of ships sunk to say nothing of the posi-
bility of considerable reduction in the
traffic in British waters and in all the dan
ger zones. The figures published the other
day by the British Admiralty were encour.
aging, and it is only on such information
that useful opinions can be based.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-20
ARE WE FOOLS TO FIDGET?
An Ordinary Citizen Worries Over the
Presence of Brother Daniels
70 the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | have an idea that | am not alone
among your Constant Readers in wondering
why you and the other newspapers who do
not altogether lie under the spell of the New
Dispensation now doing business in Washing
ton have not made more fuss about that
Daniels Barthelme business. To an ordinary
citizen like myself Secretary Daniels's part in
that performance looks like an amiable but
extremely mischevous variety of treason. Of
course | confess that my mind is old-fash-
toned and runs on two tracks. The gyro-
scopic mental stunts of the present Admin
istration are frankly beyond it. But you,
sir, also run on two tracks And you let
that Daniels affair die as though you were
Wilson's Own and this new evidence of the
Administrations pernicious sentmentalism
were nothing but an American citizen.
Please enlighten me. Am | fidgety old
woman in worrying Gas | admit | do about
the possibilities ahead of us with Brother
Daniels in charge OF our first line of defence
He has communicated secretly with gov
eminent with which the United States is at
odds. He has intimated to that government
that the NOBLE utterances of his President
were bunk, and that America does not really
believe in sticking up for principles when prin-
cipes get in the way of ease and conven-
fence. If that isn't treason to the President,
treason to the country and treason to the
best in the American tradition, | give it up,
swear off my allegiance and take out first
papers in Santo Domigo.
Am all wrong in fidgeting? That isn't a
rhetorical question. | really want an answer.
| really want to know. For | shall be much
happier if you can honestly assure me that
there is trustworthy American citizen at
the head of the American navy. And lot
of other people with a Puritan sense of duty
will, I know, feel sternly less impelled to
take a train to Washington and lead some
body by the ear to the woodshed behind the
Navy Department and apply hazel switch.
Are we fools to fidget?
HERMANN HAGEDORN
of the Viglants.
Fairfield, Conn, Feb. II, 1917
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-20
Reform Begins at Home

One Brooklyn manufacturer has been
sentenced to Jail for having locked door
to a stairway, thereby causing the death
Of several employees when the building
caught fire, but that sentence apparently
hasn't changed the custom. Speaking at
the formation Of the Labor Sanitation
Conference, an official of the Board OF
Sanitary Control of the cloak and suit
trade insisted that Sing Sing wouldn't be
big enough to hold all the factory owners
and manufacturers who lock exits. The
labor law had come to be dead letter, he
declared, and in this he was more or less
backed up by an official of the United
States Labor Department, who said they
handled such matters better in New jersey
New York State spends enough in SUI
pervising factory conditions and has COM
plicated enough machinery, heaven knows,
though there is always the cry that suiii-
cient men and money are not available to
assure the performance of a genuinely
good job. Perhaps thorough enforce
ment of the law is not to be expected from
a state which permits in its own build
ings conditions such as those disclosed by
a recent report after an investigation OF
the old Capitol and the modern and elab-
crate State Education Building. Accord
ing to the investigators, if the Capitol
were factory, 314 remedial orders would
Immediately be lodged against 1t. The
Education Building merely violates the
law on fifty-one counts, including the fail
ure to safeguard belts, pulleys and other
machinery, failure to provide handrails at
dangerous places, failure to inclose in
terror stairways with fre-resisting mate
rial. and failure to have fire alarm sig
nal system and to hold fire drills.
Neither the Capitol nor the Education
Building is factory, of course, yet there
was a fairly disastrous fire in the Capitol
not so many years ago. 1t would be I'M
possible to make the imposing old hulk
sanitary but it should be made reasonably
safe for its occupants, state officers and
employes. So far as the State Education
Building is concerned, the state there is in
the same case as any negligent, law break
ing landlord in failing to protect properly
the people who work in his building. Pos
siblv if the state turns over a new leaf
and applies the spirit and provisions of
the factory law to its own buildings, 1t
may arouse enough interest in the general
problem among its officials so the law may
no longer be termed dead letter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-20
PACIFISTS THE ONLY LIMOGES

40 Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In the Senate on February 10 Senator
Stone, one of our chosen leaders IN Con-
gress. made the following remark: Ihere
is no shadow of doubt in the mind Of any IN
teligent or fair thinking man that there is
a cabal of great newspapers in this country
which is seeking to create a condition TO
coerce the government Of the United States
into an attitude Of hostility to one OF the
beligerent powers
This is the kind of wild statement OF
which the pacifists have of late been prodi-
gal IL is comparable to their assertion
based on not vestige of evidence, that they
represent the feeling OF the majority OF the
country, or 10 that widest of all their out
givings that if a plebiscite could be taken OF
the entire populations of England and France
the result would be verdict Overwhelmingly
in favor of immediate peace. The fact is
that this famous "cabal of great newspapers
has been discovered by none except senator
Stone and those who share his views, ana l
hardly think | shall be making rash asser-
ton in suggesting that the group to when
Senator Stone belongs does not enjoy com
plete monopoly of the intelligence or fair
thinking of the country Never perhaps
Wnen a great ndIlOH mas OScii va ''4N
of war has there been exhibited less OF the
jingoistic spirit; never has country Kept
more calm and temperate or exhibited
greater degree of patience or more adml-
rable desire to leave the Administration 10
make its decisions unembarrassed by crlti-
cism or nagging-and it must be admitted
that the provocation to both has been consid-
cradle.
The present spectacle of the pacifists would
be amusing were it not somewhat humillat-
ing They, in point of fact, are the only
LIMOGES in the country. They alone are max
ing a noise and exhibiting every sign OF vlo-
lent hysteria The efforts of such bodies as
the American Rights League to combat their
propaganda are mild and subdued by COM
parison. At time when almost everybody
else in the country is keeping commercially
calm and making resolute efforts to curb
natural impotence at the continuing state
of suspended animation in which we find our
selves, the pacfsts alone make the welkin
ring with their cries and astound the heavens
with their entreaties TO keep cool" when
nobody is making any noise at all, they
mount their various pinnacles and shrek OBJ
iurgatons at tacturn class of people who,
they declare, "are clamoring for war" The
consolation remains that the pacifsts who
would have the country endure every insult
rather than fight are likely to defeat their
own ends by the very absurdty of the spec
tacle they are making of themselves.
New York Feb IT, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-20
Potsdam Americans

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Why deny the truth any longer y :
not perfectly evident that in Congress =
day we have so-called pacifists VINO are n.~
less than traitors TO their country! A''"'
under the cloak of a peace party 'ne' :.
doing everything they can to em0s''',
President Wilson in maintaining the n'-s
of this nation. Some Of the so-caileo POI
fists are nothing but Potsdam-Amerleshs' -,
in their hatred for England and FRAME
quite willing that this eountryS s"FF"'
should be driven from the seas hi,
These Democrats and Republicans -.
masquerading before our people -,
pacifsts, are traitors sitting IN oone -,
who, to save Germany, are determine "a,
American rights shall be abandoned A.,
that Germany, in defiance OF al is"i q,
decreed war upon the United states SN' -
man submarines have parslyzed Oui ,i.r
merce. these peace hypOcrites are s"I cen
that this nation should back down
manv's dictation. and are shouting -,
should stand for the outrages o.
marine warfare. -, .;,,s tbs
vour splendid paper printed the Hs 'S;,ors
;hoso traitors in Congress on your - =. AZ
nagc 50 that your readers may hO' i
so;ysd os 70 the real situation eA's''"'
Washington to-day. c,rrING.
Now York, Feb. II. 1871