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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-26
Legislation to Follow

Much that has been tentatively
creed upon cannot finally be put into
effect until legislation has been pass
M hy Congress. The great benefit of
'hc missions visit however, has been
the decisive advice of men who have
equally been in the fire of this wal
and who have made desirable policies
obvious by merely relating their expo
UIcnCcS.
Great Britain and the United States
undoubtedly have been placed on a
closer basis of friendship than at any
time since the separation OF a century
and quarter ago. The controversies
during two and a half years of neu-
'rality have dissolved in a fuller I'M
lerstaudina. 10y American officials OF
tho difficulties OF helligercncy. Mr.
Balfour. who was in this country long
rr than any previous foreign secretary
had been away from London since the
\apoleonic wars has seen, realized his
lie dream Of n closer sympathy be-
.wcon the two great branches of the
English speaking people. This was
svmholized when he stood overcome
With emotion before the tomb OIL
George Washington, with the Brush
Gag living above it. The British show
ID tact and a consideration OF Am
oriran feeling most gratifying to OH
tails They were scrupulous on all
occasions not to appear TO be inter-
torinr with American affairs. Theli
onstant effort was to describe Eng
'and's experience for whatever suSgcs-
'ion II might give this country. MI
Ralf,n, diffuscd this spirit throughout
Nh, whole mission.
Plan Re construction
The immediate diplomatic result mas
leon ia Icngthen the British view from
tear-,is GIFTED absorption in ehe immediate
Nar needs 10 a broader consideration Oh
World reconstruction afterwards
SIMILARLY the American viewpoint mas
roeu forcshortcned from absorption III INC
future 10 the immediate pressing emer-
rcn.v Both sides feel they have gained
'rucr perspective.
TNc British came virtually Wlthou'
,.ourht 81 an early peace. peace terms
or the world reconstruction TO fo''o"
>u,h subjects had been avoided aoroal
r,-ause Of the greater urgency OF the NH
..ar, orerations and of the desire nov &c
throw tho Allies into discord by diVer-
son, aims Americas interest. however
..Y k,ncd thought upon them. PRESIDENT
Wilson plan for league OF nations mas
rccn discussed informally hut not c"ii'
tusi,elv one member of the mission
ysd m tho French and most of the BRIT
sh would leave tho trenches tomorrow IL
'Nc, did not think this was the last war
Mr. Ralfour during his six weeks stay
studied tho proposed world constitution
snd win discuss it with the cabinet on
As return
Continued on Page 5-column 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-26
THE WEATHER
FAIR

FAIR
Weather forecast: Fair, not much
change in temperature Saturday and
Sunday; moderate variable winds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-26
British Mission Leaves the u. S.
Is CROSS 10 CANADA WITH FRIENDSHIP STRONGER
IAN DURING PAST OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ELININA'

pt W S On Basis Supreme Extend
Immediate
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-26

and tell them what they are
doing for their country.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-07
lust MAKE A FRESH START
1t is Only Way to Remedy Mistakes
One Has Made as Past Cannot
Be Lived over Again.

Now and then q man pauses to take
account of stock, and looks back rue
fully over the course of his life to note
the many places where he made the
wrong turn or was showed off the track
by adverse circumstances. He says to
himself. believing what he says, that if
he could retrace his steps and take q
fresh starr, knowing what he knows
now, he would not make such a mess
Of things again. He can put his finger
down on the very spot in the map of
his life where he wen wrong. There
was n blurred place on the trail, where
there was no trace of the footprint of
any who passed that way and no mark
of the woodlands AK upon a tree. 1t
was for him alone to choose the way
to take, and in his haste and fever to
dered ever since.
A man plays a game, or runs a race,
or conducts u business, or marries a
wife, or chooses a friend, or elects a
calling, or forms n maitland by and
by the conviction is borne in upon him,
like a growth weighing on the brain,
that he was in error. Now it is too late
to retrieve, says the Philadelphia Led
ger. He must wear for the remainder
of his days the milestone due to the
wrong decision. What is he to do? He
strangled his chance newborn. He ex-
changed his birthright for pottage. 1t
is of no avail to plead that he had bad
advisers, that he was misled, that he
was the tool of environment, that a
base heredity rose up to claim him and
a latent faint in the blood broke out
and wrought an irreparable mischief.
The past is there, and its legend is
deeply craven on his brow or scared
by the brand of the iron that has en-
tered into his soul. Can he 90 back?
The years and the closed doors and the
finished chapters tell him no..
But the forward look and the futur-
ity provide him with a better way to
take. When Mrs. P~eterkin, in the story,
had spoiled her cup of coffee by put
ting salt in it and was trying to re-
deem the error by the neutralizing ac-
ton of all sorts of chemicals, the lady
from Philadelphia suggested that she
make n fresh cup. Seeing hat you
can't go back, why not make a fresh
start exactly where you are? Decision
has a miraculous way of finding a
standpoint of rock in the middle of O
quicksand.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-07
His Way of Application.

The colored laborers who were
patching the street for the street car
company, were discussing the fate of
II Henry they had known.
"Yes, sir" said one, Henry was
found with two bottles of whisky on
him last Sunday, and was taken to
court"
The crowd stopped work to listen to
the tale. The foreman was not in
sight.
"Well, when he was taken up in
court" the speaker continued, Judge
Deery fined him $40 and sent him off
to the w~Orkhouse."
All the men glanced hastily around.
sand Henry was there only two
days and someone lit is always some
one') up and made him a guard. Now
Henry is working as a guard over the
other prisoners and is getting good
pay besides"
But" mourned the youngest one of
the crew., "if 1 had done that they
would have kept me there all year."
ITS all in the way you apply for
the job" said the narrator of the
story.-Indlanapolis News.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-07
Three AGENCIES USED
Uncle Sam Has Big Organization
in Foreign Trade Work.
Collects Information Through Several
Hundred Consuls, Commercial At.
taches and Special Agents.

The foreign trade work of Uncle
Sans department of commerce is CEN
tered in the bureau of foreign and do
nestle commerce, which is organized
to collect commercial information in
foreign countries and to distribute it
to American manufacturers and ex-
p%orterS. Its work partakes of the ma
ture of a commercial reconnaissance.
For collecting information, it now re-
lies mainly upon three agencies-com-
mercial attache, special ;gent and the
consul.
The ten commercial attaches were
sent to their posts about two and q
half years ago, when the var started,
these posts being at London, Paris,
Berlin, ~Petrograd, Buenos Aires, Rio
de Janeiro, Santiago (Chile), Lima
(Peru.), Picking and Melbourne. These
men are highly qualified business
diplomats, who are expected to be
capable not only of reporting the
minor incidents of commercial impor-
lance, but of following up the bigger
developments, and of detecting and I'M
Outstanding the Inducements of the
business and commercial life of the
districts to which they are assigned.
The special agent is a specialist in
some n line, and if he proves to be
the right man he may be sent to every
corner of the earth to study the mar
kets for his line of goods.
The consular service of the state de-
partment has long been one of the
chief %reliances of the bureau, and in
this branch of the acknowledgements
ing service there are some go con-
suls. These consuls give part of their
time to reporting on commercial con-
ditions for the bureau, and In years
past the publications of the bureau
were based entirely upon the work of
the cOnSulS,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-07
INDIAN is HEALTHIER
Uncle Sans Fight to Save Race
Is Bearing Fruit.
Trachoma Largely Subdued in Schools
and infant Mortality, Once APP
pallina, Reduced.

Those who think of the Indians as
members of a dying race are not ac-
qualnted with the progress of the work
carried on in their behalf by. Uncle
Sans department of the interior.
To struggle against tuberculosis and
trachoma, and the fight to lower Il high
infant mortality rate, are generally
conceded to be the greatest problems
confronting medical men Of the Indi-
an office. Supplementing the work of
regular agency doctors, special ply
sicians at intervals visit the various
reservations, performing eye opera
lions, caring for defective teeth and
spreading information.
Already trachoma has been very
largely subdued in the schools, and
such new cases as appear generally
come from outside. Acute cases are
segregated and treated with regularity,
and at present a large majority of the
cases known are among the old and
feeble. The unhealthy manner of liv-
ing that marks the period of transition
between the old life and the new Is
fast passing.
The building Of sanitary homes is
urged and the value of clean food and
cooking utensils emphasized. As a re-
suit of the campaign, there has been
within the last three years a very no
ticeable falling off in the number of
illnesses and deaths from tuberculo-
sis.
Last year structures valued at $775,-
1857 were built on Indian reserva-
lions, and included practically every
thing from frame cottages and office
buildings to heating plants and flour
mills and %laundries.
The younger generation now knows
that a sturdy child grows into a sturdy
man, and great care is taken of the
young mother in childbirth. Before
the present administration assumed
control, three-fifths of the little Indi-
ans died before they were five years
old. The Introduction and enforce
ment of modern methods has reduced
this appalling percentage, and the
health of the Indian is now, as a whole,
far better than it has been at any other
time since he came under the influence
of the white man.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-07
WOULD USE MEXICAN GOATS
Head Of Breeders Association Tells
Uncle Sans Experts They viii
Help Solve Food Problem.

Civilize the Mexican goat and solve
the problem Of the poor, was the mes
sage carried to Uncle Sans agricul-
tural experts by S. Douglas Demmon,
president of the American Goat Breed
ers' association.
"Since the time of the Aryan race
along the Euphrates the goat has
supported the poor" said Mr.. Dem
mon. Turn him loose on the noun
famous lands of the eastern states
and he'll sweep through them like
the German army, turning s~hrubbery
into meat and milk.
"Goat kid flesh is a dellcacy,"
Demmon said. "The average fe-
male goat will produce six kids a
year-two or three at a time-and
until these kids are six months old
the meat is fine If they are fed as
lambs are fed"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-07
Crow Is Omniverous.

In order to get a living in New
England during the winter the crow
has developed a catholic appetite, and
persons who have made a study of the
bird and its bill of fare say that the
crow is omniverous in the broadcast
sense of the word. In a pinch he will
eat anything. The principal items on
his bill Of fare are beetles, spiders,
weevils, grasshoppers, moths, butter
flies, c~aterpillars, bees, ants, wasps,
files, crabs, shrimps, snails, fish, toads,
frogs, young chickens, wild birds and
their eggs, carrion and all sorts of
plants and grains, both wild and cult
waited. Corn constitutes a large pro-
portion of the grain eaten, and this
is one of the principal grievances of
the farmer against the crow. A bird
with such a catholic taste in food is
obviously well prepared to meet hard
times and the high cost Of living. The
crow will kill and eat small snakes.
He will eat small mammals up to the
size of a %cottontail rabbit.-Hartford
COurant.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-07

Reginald bought an evening tie, and,
wishing to be immaculate, asked the
shop assistant to tell him the correct
way to tie a bow.
well sir" said the obliging assist
ant, you hold the tie in your left hand
and your collar in the other. Slip your
neck in the collar and cross the left
hand end of the tie over the right with
the left hand, steadying the right end
with the other hand. Then drop both
ends, catching the left with the right
and the other with the other. Reverse
hands and pick up the loose end with
the nearest hand. Pull this end through
the loop with your unengaged hand
and squeeze. You will find the bow
tied, and all you have to do is to dis
entangle your hands."-Rehoboth Sun
aay Herald.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-07
Elva'
Profession
*
By John Elkins
Copyright, 1917. by w. G. ChapmanJ

f ~ W. SAldpAldusJ
Cedric Shaw was intently watching
the girl across the room. Sometimes
the swaying dancers in the hotel ball
room came between him and her; but
always his gaze went back persistently
to the bright animated face of a young
woman who stood talking with an elder
ly lady. The first thing that had at
tracted him was the absence of the
painted lips and cheeks, which he saw
on almost all Of the young girls pres
ent. Next to take his attention was
the pretty dancing gown, which unlike
the others covered her back, and came
above the shoulders all around in a be-
coming line.
The young mar could not have been
called Old-fashioned or straight laced"
but a certain fine respect for woman
hood which had been carefully instilled
in him by his mother, felt a kind of re-
pulSion at the artifcially covered faces.
and the too ~scantily covered forms of
the girls he met in society everywhere.
He felt that this girl must be differ
emit and as he watched her face his
conviction grew. He determined to
know her, and started out to see if he
could find someone to introduce him.
Finally he accomplished his object,
and o found himself guiding Miss
Burt through the mazes of the dancers.
Yes. decidedly Miss Burt was differ
emit" 1t was not long before Shaw's
heart began to give curious but I'M
mistakable evidences of being consid-
erably off its normal condition.
He managed to get an invitation to
Eall, which was not exactly difficult
hinge Miss Burt was quite as anxious
that he should ask as he was to get the
permission. If the truth must be told
she was at the same time experiencing
something like the same alarming
symptoms the young man was suffer-
ing. She had not analysed her reasons
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-07
CARE OF DIVERS PERSONNEL
Uncle SANS Doctors Find That Duty
on Undersea Craft Has Effect on
Health of Men.

Uncle Sans medical officers are
keeping the closest watch on the
health of the personnel on duty in sub
marines, in order hat every manifes-
tation of bodily and mental disorder
may be noted quickly. Assistant Sur
geon Walter w. Cross of the navy, has
compiled some interesting facts as a
result of his observations of the per-
Ionnel attached TO submarines. He
believes that long continued duty on
sue craft is conducive to high blood
pressure. He says:
whether this is due to mental
strain, loss of sleep, overeating with
lack of exercise, excessive use of to-
bacco, coffee and tea, or some toxic
agent peculiar to submarines, l am I'M
able to say. 1t is noted that a slight
fall occurred after a 47-hour surface
run and a three-hour dive. Undoubt-
eddy this could be accounted for by IA
tigue or lack of all physical exercise
during the preceding 4S hours"
One effect, natural under the cir
cumstances, was lack of weight, and
it is observable that there is probably
no occupation, except that Of a boiler
maker, giving rise TO so many cases Of
partial deafness as submarine duty. It
is not uncommon for men to report to
the medical officer that they have in
creasing difficulty In hearing the COM
mands. This is attributed to the con-
slant vibratory movement of the sub
marine, the straining Of the ears to
hear above the noise of the engines,
the presence of cold drafts of air down
the matches while operating on the
surface, excessive temperature while
running submerged, and the inhala-
ton of gases given off by the bat
teries and fumes from oil tanks.
However, 1t is believed that the
number of bacteria and molds present
In the air OF submarines while run
ming awash and submerged probably is
less than In dwellings and battleships.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-07

for being attracted; she simply knew
that she was. AS these things are hap
pening every second among mortals on
this, globe it seems a waste of time to
inq1ire why.
Elya Burt lived alone in a Furnished
room" in the big city. The bed mas
Queraded as a couch during the day,
and a screen covered the stationary
washstand. She made it look like a
sitting room, and the house was clean
and respectable, if not fashionable.
Still she felt a slight qualm at receiv-
Ing the stranger in her humble quar-
terSR. He seemed to her like a man
used to good society, one used to
mingling with cultured people in re-
fined surroundings. In this supposition
she IA right. The mother of Cedric
Shaw had belonged to a family of high
social standing, and his father had
been president of a college. When a
I lad of twelve, his father had died,
I leaving a moderate fortune to the wife
and son, and at eighteen, Cedric had
started In to earn his own living. He
lad done so well that at twenty-five he
was now a junior partner In the con-
Germ.
Elva, on the evening Shaw was to
call, put on her most becoming frock
and sat down to wait for him.
"Oh, lear ~ she said to herself, at
isn't very scrumptuOus," surveying the
room. but If he's what L think he Is,
ne won't mind. If he does-well-"
The sentence ended in n sigh.
1t did moi appear. from the animated
conversation and the length of Shaw's
call that he did 'mind." The next day
ne wrote a note of apology for having
stayed so late, and asked when he
might come again.
Il Even after Shaw had become a fire.
@4uent visitor and had several times
ltaken Elva to dine and to places of
lolnusement he knew little or nothing
lie her circumstances. She had told
HIM her parents lived in q small village
Northe states, and with the exception of
: ehitew friends, she was alone In the city,
: rel was earning her own living. AS to
: sfug she was earning 1t she had not ln-
Or med him, and had evasiyely put him
u n 1when he had asked. He concluded
ulaerhaps she might have a little
PISS la
urance,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-07
MexIeans Turn to Business.

To the chamber of commerce at Tor
reOn falls the distinction of being the
first chamber to be organized in
COahuila since the beginning of the
Mexican revolution, Uncle Sans con
sui at Piedras Negras reports. 1t is
actively proceeding with the work of
restoring commercial relations with
other sections of the state and with the
United States and regularly issues an
interesting bulletin. There is a great
deal of talk among the merchants of
other towns relative to the formation
of these business clubs.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-07

visitors Is m itself a reason for breakfasts, dinners and receptions such as
are rarely seen In Washington except in the height OF the official season.
Ihe prince of Udne the head of the Italian "a mission, scored pr-
sonal success ony. second % that of the great Marshal Jofre. Not onv has
tIsc cousin IF a king and a klnsman of that famous Italian visitor of nta
years ago, the duke of AbruZz, dned and breakfasted with the entire official
circle, but he has danced with a number of maids and matrons of washing.
mothers and grandmothers remember the visit of the prince of Wales and the
PAIL at the White House in the closing days of President Buchanans admin
istradon.
The entertaining of a prince of such social temperament naturally has
brought ut Ill that is best in personal adornment from the orders ~ to
ambassadors, and uniforms Of the officers Of all nations, to the latest tbino
in ball gowns.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-07

embassy which will be kept open all summer, the ambassador Joining his
family IS often as he AN leave his duties. The nearest neighbors at Monterev
to the ambassador and Contesa di Celere will be Mr.. and Mrs. Paul F.
Johnson of Washington. The two places adjoin and occupy the center of
Monterey circle.
The diplomatic colony there this summer will include the minister of
Norway n me Bryn, thu minister of Uruguay, Nine. de Pena and the
de Pena. Miss Ethel Hundey, daughter of DR.. and Mrs. John Mason
Hundley OF Baltimore, whose engagement to Mr. Hugo de Pena. first ecre-
tay II the legation If Uruguay and son of the minister. recently vas an
nounced has passed her summers at Monterey since she wa a small girl. and
it was there that she met her fance.
The minister of Salvador and Sonora de zahvar already have taken
possession of the cottage near the Monterey circle they have leased for the
season, and Mrs. w. S. Carroll, accompanied by Miss Grace Carroll, have
moved to their cottage,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-07
Joy In ONES Work.

The idea Of joy in ones work has
been often %ridIculed, but nevertheless
it Is fast taking root In the minds Of
many and proving its value and merit.
To perform the days work joyfully
and joyOusly may not be possible, In
cases, without effort. but the fact is
being realized more and more that !. Is
very much worth while to develop the
habit.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-07

UIHHer, OmcIaI society IS making It's
plans to remain if not in town so
close as to reach the executive offices,
the capitol, or the White House by a
short motor run.
Scores of homes usually showing
boarded front doors and drawn shades
at this date are not only open, but in
their summer furnishings are the
scene of delightful Inequalities, even
though everyone recognizes that a
state of war exists.
The succession of distinguished
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-07

Monterey and Buena Vista Springs
have each a little colony of diplo-
matists and official folk. The Argen-
tine ambassador and Nine. Eduardo
Naon and the secretary of the treas
ury and Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo
will be neighbors at Buena Vista.
The Italian ambassador and Con-
tessa oil Cellere, have leased the house
of Mr.. and Mrs. Caldwell Hardy of
Norfolk, at Monterey, for the ummer.
So long as the Italian mission stays in
b nntAn thnu will rnnnnin nt a..
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-07

Derts he said Is tbott o 49,. lin, - -, IN general opinion among u
planes VIII re lighting In brigades of from 500 to 1000 Aiers 'on a-
Lieut. Col l. w. b. Rees of the British ROYAL FlUno 49,.
machines used by the British flyers have always been snner9or I -. Su the
by IN Germans and now the personnel of the former oIsoI ovoo,s ' W USED use
that the British casualties have also beer lesss since thor Ills Ills ,he dded
their new machines. Senator Brady asked IL " tba mss 10 'e Introduced
landing of a hostile army could be prevented. w :" "p'ane IN
ut could" Admiral Peary replied, "but II wonId ua.,
sands instead Of hundreds of planes" " "e use ot thou
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-07

would do more to curb the submarine
menace than anything else that could
De done. with the same ~concentra-
ZION OF effort as Won Tirpitz exerted
to develop the submarine in Germany.
i think we will have an answer to
the submarine and a quick decision
or the war;" he declared.
Admiral Peary appeared In SUD-
port OF a pending bill to establish a
department of ~aeronautics, with a
place In the cabinet.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-07
Well Provided.

"How was the camping party1"
Enjoyable"
II presume You ate fish every day?"
"Yes. We were thoughtful enough
60 bring some sardlnes, canned her
ring and SALMON from town."