The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-01-25

home at Park. He was the son of the late
Capt. John and Eliza kCousens) Park. and was
born July l. ls49. He began to follow the sea
in early manhood and rose rapidly III his pros
fession. commanding in his day the barks Car
rie E. Long. Addie Morrill,, H. o johnson.
Annie R. Lewis. schooner George V. Jordan.
and his last command was the bark Harvard.
formerly ship Sam SKoIfeld of Brunswick.
sold some ten years ago for q barge. aid he
then retired from the sea and had since lived in
t he home tuilt by his father at PARK in which
he was born and spent his childhood lie
leaves his wife, one son, John F. N. Park Of
New York city. one daughter. Mrs. Harold h.
M anley of Hartford. Ct. Funeral services
were held at his late home Monday. Rev. T.
H. Martin. pastor of the Second Congregation
III church, of which Capt. Park was faithful
att endant, officiating. The bearers were Capt.
D. C. Nichols. Capt. Amos Nichols. Capt. G..
NJ Nichols and F. H. Park.
Monday evening. January 22nd. at the regu-
lar meeting of Anchor Chapter, o. E. S.. the
GLOWING Ulcers were installed by Past Mat
ron Mrs. Johh Frame, assisted by Past Matron
Mrs. William Parse as marshal: Worthy Mat
ron, Miss Florence Colcord; Worthy Patron.
Mr., James Duncan; Associate Matron. Mrs.
Sumner Plttee; Conductress, Mrs. F. K. Saw
yer; Associate Conductress. Mrs. S. L. Fair
J. d. Sweetser; Chaplain, Mrs. B. F. Colcord;
Mar hal, E-rs. W. M Parse; Organist, Miss
Margaret Pendeton; Star Points, Adah, Mrs.
James Duncan; Ruth. Mrs. E. W. Gilkey;
Esther, Mrs. l. H. Havener; Martha, Miss
Lillian Runnels; Electa, Miss Griffin; Warder.
Miss Lucy Sargent; Sentinel, Capt. j. D..
Sweetser. Upon taking her station, Miss Col
cord, Matron- elect, presented retiring Matron,
Miss Harriet Erskine, and Past Patron, MIR.
Duncan. with the emblematic jewels of the
order in appreciation of their years service.
The gratitude of the chapter is extended 70
the installing officers for the impressive man
ner in which the ceremonies were conducted.
Following the ceremonies chating dish sup
per was served, Mrs. C. E. Adams, Mrs. J. d.
Sweeteer, Mrs. S. C. Pattee, Mrs. F. K. Saw
yer and Mrs. j. H. Duncan presiding. assisted
by Mrs Fairchild. Miss Griffin and Miss Gilkey.
THE BUDGET SYsTM. A meeting was held in
the Selectmen's office January 18th for the
purpose of discussing and making arrange
ments for a budget system for the town.
Everything went smoothly and much enthusi-
adopt the system and budget committee of
sew n was appointed to confer with the citizens
at the next town meeting. The committee is
composed of the following; Capt Amos Nichols.
Capt James Parse. A. E. Trundy, Charles o.
Sawyer, Horace Robbins. Fred E Stinson, and
John Innis. 1t is the desire of the committee
and others interested that the citizens become
familiar with the plan before town meeting.
and for the benefit of those not present on
Thursday night, the following statement of the
budget system is made:
1t is the duty of town budget committee to
investigate the entire field of Town expenditures
and needs, to estimate the sums required for
different purposes, and thus to arrive at the
total amount which will be required for town
expenses for the coming year. The tax rate
necessary to raise this sum is then calculated
on the basis of the known valuation of the
town. All this is reported to the voters at the
annual town meeting, with appropriate re-
concentrations by the committee. An import
ant part of the committees duties, In addition
to its purely financial functions, is to investi-
gate the needs of the town in regard to i'm
provements of any kind, determine just what
Is necessary to be done, and recommend the
same at the town meeting. Citizens desiring
such improvements should see the committee
before the warrant is written, and discuss the
matter with them.
If any unusual expenditures are advocated
on the one hand. or any retrenchments on the
other, the budget committee is prepared to
state the amount involved and the effect on the
tax rate. If it is considered necessary to limit
he tax rate to fixed figure, the su. thus
r endered available is computed fir om the known
va luation of the town. and apportioned for the
di fferent purposes required, according to the
best Judgment OF the committee. If a special
town meeting is called for any purpose the
committee is ready to supply information on
the financial spects involved. The functions
of the committee are. of course, purely ad-
visory, the final decision on any question rest
of the plan is simply to place the conduct of
town sffairs on a rational business basis, like
that on which any properly conducted private
bus mess is run, and the budget system seems
to be the best means yet for accomplishing this
end, 1t enables the voters to know what they
are doing when they are doing it. and the
spectacle sometimes presented in the past of
the participants in town meeting appropriate
ing money tor various purposes in a haphazard
man ner, and then being disagreeaby surprised
few weeks later when the tax rate is an
nounced, can not then occur.
The budget system is as applicable to State
and national affairs as to those of the town,
Hearings are now being held at Augusta with
a view to it's introduction in this State. 1t is
the system on which The financial affairs of the
best conducted foreign governments are
managed, and would have ere this been intro
duced at Washington if the average Congress
man were not more affectionately inclined to-
ward his own interests and those of the local
pork barrel than toward those of the nation
at large
TROY.