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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-12-23
Riddles Like 1t!

Sweet Nut" Margarine. 7hey-n',
body-can tell it from rich. cream,
butter. Looks and tastes the sam
when served. Very nutritious. o"t
33c a lb-cuts your butter bill mos
IN two. Made from white meat y
coeoanuts ehurned with mix. ~
only at the Direct Importing w.
yellow front store, 1856 Water ST. ~ ".
gusta, where Benefit Brand Teas W.
fees ard Grocery 'Speeia;t'es arc "
tailed at wholesale prices.
Look for our store in your town.
Adv.
Sweet Nut
Margarine
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-12-23
Land locked Salmon.
Number of land-locked salmon

Number Of land-locked salmon
eggs taken at this hatchery fall
of 1917 Observation-Disclosures. 10000
Loss to time OF Matching. ........... 81 Coz
Number Matched ................... 5000
Loss during summer ................ SOol
Number on hand TO be wintered . . CO..
Number planted observation-disclosures. Co,oO1
Land Locked Salmon Wintered
Number of ,and-locked salmon
wintered at this hatchery ls17-!s. T.Go)
Loss during summer ............... $3.50
Number planted ............. 10, 40
These fish were planted IN the follow
ing waters:
Lake Auburn. .Aubur. Androscos-
gin county .......................,.. 1850
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-12-23
new
Haymarket Beef
80 Cony St.

Tel. l039-W Augusta
Meats here wholesale and re-
tail. Come here and save a
dollar for Christmas presents.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-12-23

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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-12-23
For State Offices

Not a contest is In sight. in sharp
contrast to two years ago. for the
state offices. the incumbents Of which
are elected by the Legislature. At
torney General Guy II. Sturgis of
Portland. Secretary OF State Frank
w. Ball OF Milo. State Treasurer Jo-
scph w. Simpson Of York and Com
missioner of Agriculture John A.
Roberts OF Norway will be elected
without a murmur. Two years ago
there was a lively contest for the Of
fice OF Secretary Of State between
Secretary Ball and Joseph E. Alex
ander Of Richmond. who had served
one term an secretary and several
terms as deputy secretary OF State.
While a lively fight took place for
the ONCE Of attorney general which
was not settled until after SO ballots
had been, taken at 2.30 o'clock in the
morning when the present attorney
general. Guy Fl. Sturgis Of Portland.
was the winner over Raymond w.
Fellows Of Bangor. Ransford w.
shaw Of Houlton. Frank L. Dutton of
Augusta and Frederick w. Hinckley
Of South Portland.
President Of the Senate
Five men are in the running so far
for the presidency Of the Senate.
senators Howard Davies Of Cum
berland, Leon +. Higgins of Penob-
scot, william L. Walker Of Somer-
set. Alfred X. Ames Of Washington
The Lamar register., 1918-11-13

Investigation. In short, these LOU
men would receive three years col
lege course on China, 30 that upon
their retirement from the service they
would be at liberty to engage In trade,
missionary. educational or any other
activity they desired in the far Ease.
or II they desired to return home they
would possess information regarding
China that would be Of the highest
value to China. The plan has been ap-
proved by the American chamber OF
commerce and other organizations In
China and has been commended to the
state and war departments at wash
ington. II IL also certain that this
plan of a citizens student army In
China would be welcomed by China.
for It would be of the greatest possible
assistance In bringing about a better
understanding and mutual Interest be-
tween East and West. something very
necessary II the future peace or the
-.-za - 80. - .-.-tatefoad
The Lamar register., 1918-11-13
Long Picnic.

number OF Muncie men attended
II picnic Ia Greenville. o., one Sunday
not long ago at which. according to
reports. more than thousand person,
present had u gay time, with all neces-
sary "trimnings' for such an occasion.
ibid you have u good time at the
Greenville picnic yesterdayT' q young
Muncie business man was asked In his
office the next day. that being blue
Monday.
Il don't know" was the reply; Tn
not home yet."-Indianapolls Star.
The Lamar register., 1918-11-13
NOTICE or ADJUSTMENT DAY.

Estate of Flora T. Martin. Deceased.
The undersigned having been APP
pointed administratrix OF the Estate Of
Flora T. Martin. late Of the County Of
Prowers, in the State OF Colorado. de-
ceased. hereby gives notice that She
will appear before the County Court OF
House in Lamar. In said County. on
Monday, the 9Th day OF December. \.
d. 1918. at the hour OF 1000 o'clock A.
NJ of said day. at which time all per
sons having claims against said estate
are notified and requested to attend for
the purpose OF having the same adjust
ed. Ali persons indebted TO said estate
are requested to make Immediate pay
ment TO the undersigned.
Dated at Lamar. Colorado. this sixth
day OF November. A. ID. 1918.
VIDA NJ. FLETCHER
Administrators of the estate Of
Flora T. Martin. Decess ed.
j. X. Doughty. Attorney.
First Pub. Nov. 6. 1918.
Last Pub. Nov. 81. 1918.
The Lamar register., 1918-11-13
WOULD LINK EAST AND WEST
Proposal to Make the American Esps-
dictionary Force In China Prac-
ueaiiy . Student Army.

Under the agreement entered into
between the powers and China follow
ing the Boxer uprising In 1900 the
United States government was per-
mitted to keep an expedltionary force
Of about 1000 men In China. says MIL
lards Review. This force Is stationed
at Tlentsin and PekIn. about l 800 men
being stationed at the former place
and the rest stationed us a legation
guard In Pekin. Ii has now been pro-
posed to the American government ut
Washington that the regular army
troops stationed at Tientsin be re-
called to America for service In France
and their places taken by a contingent
of the same number of men who are
now In training In America at the vari-
Gus environments under the provisions
of the selectlve draft. The idea orig
mated with Mai. Arthur Bassett. judge
advocate OF the army contingent at
Tientsin, and formerly United States
district attorney of China. Under the
plan suggested by Major Bassett the
contingent Of regular army troops now
in China should be returned to Amert-
sire, and In their place the United
States government should send out
100 men specially selected from the
st ndpoint OF education and training.
who would be available upon their re-
tirement from service In China to en-
gage in trade or other activities In
China and the far East. Major Bas-
sett would select the new men for serv-
ice in China largely from the great
group OF college graduates and stu
dents who have been drafted for serv-
Ice In France. He would bring these
men to China and, In addition to their
regular army drill, he would have them
Instructed In the Chinese language
and In the customs. history and tradi-
lions of the country; and at stated In
tervals he would have them make trips
into all parts of China for study and
The Lamar register., 1918-11-13

loving monarch he had always pro-
fessed to be: second, II was TO demon
nlize the allies by dividing them
against themselves.
This much is certain: The kaiser
never lntended the allies to accept the
proposal he made. He admitted that
much 10 me. as did also the
Prince Won Pless, his most intimate
advisor. IL was termed In such u way
that the allies could not possibly ac-
ccpt II. But IL served one Of the pur-
poses which IL was Intended TO achieve.
and nearly accomplished the other.
(YosM lxoN pspnIouoO % Oh
The Lamar register., 1918-11-13


known before the war.
Such were the people behind the
kaiser when the great war started. l
shall never forget the sentiments ex-
PRESSED to me by private individuals
in every walk of life as the various
phases of the war developed.
No measure that was taken by Ger
many, no matter how atrocious or in
consistent with the worlds Idea OF
what Is permissible in civilized war
fare, ever brought word of condem-
nation from the German public as a
.vhole, although, of course, there were
.o,ne notable exceptions. The great
najority of Germans who discussed
these matters with me, however. not
only defended everything Germany did,
but complained because more rigorous
measures were not taken.
Merely by way of example, and not
because her suggestion was any worse
Than hundreds of others raised by my
German patients. | may mention the
surprising viewpoint expressed by the
Countess Sierstorpff. II relative Of Won
ckei-Donnersmarch. II was nfter
,,"i' 10" 'D ,.i,,, -,
lion ran very high.
What we should do nj the very first
available opportunity" she declared.
-. ~. ,,nIa on.. -, ,h.,,.
lhh"ih"rhs OF nr. TREASURES s"'u'u nc
iett standing. rhen wheh .he war Is
over ana itaiy no 'ohser NERVES 'ne
enormous revenue sue mas peen COZ,
ee'i"f i"' se"'' i'"''
oe sorry i"r """' '"e ""' "'"s "
"erih"ny
DID the German people countenahce
the submarine warfare ana the sluugh-
ter Of Innocent women ana children In
defiance of ali rules OF International
law and the dictates OF common hu-
manityf They had only one criticism
to make OF lit was not comprehen-
siNe enough! u was absolute folly, II
/ not crime. they SAID. Tor Gernnny
3 to prescribe SAFETY lanes Tor hentra,
'esseis 10 use. Inc "ho'e "oriu shou'u
nave Deem ueciare'l WIT zone that
death anu destruction might De ueait
wherever ana whenever me emporium
lily offered. Every snip that sailed
should be SUNK ana every American
who Nentured within range OF Ter
man gun on sea or iahu' shouih De
shot Ihat was the universal seht-
ueht.
The suggestion That continuation
OF the submarine warfare would IN
evitabiy brins America into the war
uid not perturD the people IN tho
slightest.
"How can America do us more harm
than she Is now DOING! they asked
american bullets are shooting down
our men. American 1000 Is sustaining
our enemies. American uo'ars are
""rAhs "s"i"st "s III every P"ss'o'e
way LEI 1a''e' ,ea 'o'ae 'n'o 'ne va.
anu s,'e US NAN. 10 pay ne' oa
ior VIVA. s"e mas """e 10 U.S. 'ne
coniun harn' US an' more II sue "e'o
peii'grren,- why a"ow her 10 re-
MAN heu'ra' anu 20 uhsea.heu
The )uhiiation with when the news
OF the sinking OF the Lusitania was re-
eeis~d by the herman people was gen.
erai. IL was NO sishihcaht that ! pe-
iie'e Ameriea "ouiu nave ueciareu war
lh'tieuihteiy hau II pee" KNOWN. l
nave ihiieu 10 nhd single herman
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-08-23
TRANSPORTING OUR TROOPS

The world has been astonished at
the great number of American SOL
diers transported to Europe in the
last half year. The number now ap-
oroximates 100000, and the loss of
life in transporting them has been
almost infnitesimal.
The success with which we have
moved our troops from the scattered
camps in this country and across
5000 miles of ocean to the battle
front is great evidence Of American
efficiency. We have not only sur
prised our enemies; we have surprised
our friends and ourselves.
The British controller of shipping,
Sir Joseph Maclay, speaks of this
movement across the sea as "a trans
port miracle" We have been inclined
to attribute this achievement solely
to our Navy and our shipping, but the
British controller speaks in high
praise of the share the American rail
roads had in the work. He says:
eff the American railroads had not
been operated with success the whole
transport movement might have
failed, because it was essential to
quick transportation that the troops
should be ready for the ships"
Director General McAdoo seems
justified in his statement that while
the development of the policy of the
Railroad Administration requires
time, progress has been made toward
the goal.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-08-23
PREPARE FOR HARDSHIPS

Washington. - "The United States
must prepare for hardships," is the
warning of Bernard Baruch, chair
man of the war industries board, and
who possibly is better acquainted
with wars effect on industry than any
other man in America.
"Up to this time," he says, "no
man or woman has lacked for any
thing because of war conditions. 1t
will be otherwise in the future. No
one has any idea of the increased de-
mand for military supplies unless he
can check up on the flow of requisi-
tions and estimates from the govern
ment through this department. And
the problem is not alone one of fuel
and steel and ordnance and ships; 1T
includes clothing, shoes, foodstuffs-
everything that man is accustomed to
utilize for his comfort and living.
"Civilian requirements and the nom
essential industries must yield to the
needs of the military establishment.
There is but one important thing be-
fore us-to win the war;"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-08-23
SECRETARY McADOO ON WAR
TAXES

The Ways and Means Committee
of the lower House of Congress is
now considering revenue legislation
Secretary McAdoo favors a fiat war
profits tax of 80 per cent. In tele-
gram to Chairman Kitchin he says:
at is my strong conviction that
the taxation of genuine war profits
is the only way to reach real war
profiteering, and that it is at the
same time a thoroughly justifiable
measure upon economic grounds as
we'll as certain and indispensable
producer of a large part of the re-
quired revenue.
"The patriotic producers of Amer
lea should be content if one-ffth Of
their war profits are secured to them,
especially when we reflect that the
men who are fighting and dying in
France to save the liberties of those
who stay at home and who make it
possible for them to continue in bus
mess are limited by act of Congress
to 1896 per year for their services
and have to give their blood in the
bargain"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-08-23
MOONEY'S RE-TRIAL URGED

San Francisco. = In one OF the
largest mass meetings ever held in
this city, trade unonists urged that a
new trial be given Thomas j. Mooney,
now in San Quentin penitentiary,
under sentence of death. President
Murphy, of the California state fed
GRAFTON of labor, said that the workers
did not require the OXman letters to
prove Oxman liar.
"We knew instinctively the moment
we read his evidence that he was a
rank perjurer," he said. "The glaring
contradictions in the evidence in the
Billings and Mooney cases imposed a
moral obligation upon US both as
citizens of California and as trade
unionists to see that both these de-
PENDANTS got new and impartial trials.
The president has been attacked and
insulted for his action in demanding
a new trial.
"The fair, square American way of
settling the Mooney case is new
trial, and labor is determined that
Mooney shall have that and the whole
Infamous frame-up exposed in open
court"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-08-23
CAR MEN MAY NOW
JOIN UNION

Washington. = Because officers of
the Washington Railway and Electric
company can see condition when it
squarely faces them, they have noti-
fed employees that the company has
abandoned it's individual contracts
"for the duration of the war and until
further notice"
The announcement is simultaneous
with the following declaration by the
national war labor board, and which
these non-union employees were pre-
pairing to take advantage Of:
"Where individual employment con-
tracts have been exacted by employ
ment companies they are ordered
eliminated for the period of the war
on the ground that they constitute
an interference with the free right
of men to organize"
AS a sort of shock absorber for its
changed policy, company officials
chatter about the open CD shop while
protesting loyal adherence to the
collective bargaining position of the
national war labor board.
A strike against this company was
called March II, 1917, when it in
sisted on individual contracts. A
committee appointed by the United
States senate investigated the strike
and blamed the company. In a sup
Elemental report Senators Jones
Washington and Johnson Cali
fornia) said:
"It is unfortunate that the modern
economic trend of dealings between
employers and employees was so little
understood, or, being so understood
so wholly disregarded by this railway
corporation. By Individual agreements
employees are left wholly without pro-
tection."
The full committee made this refer
ence to the company's imported
strikebreakers:
"These strikebreakers, as class,
were brutal, vulgar, dishonest and OF
the lowest possible type of labor.
They appropriated to their own use
cash fares without concealment or
shame. They were dirty and disrepu-
table. They smoked and used violent
and obscene language in the presence
of all passengers, including ladies. In
some cases they were not qualified to
operate cars"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-08-23
SAYS MEAT PACKERS ARE
"CONSPIRATORS"

Washington.-No content with its
recent report on profiteering by
metal, flour, leather, lumber, sulphur
and other interests, the federal trade
commission has fired a broadside at
the five large packing firms-Swift,
Armour, Morris, Cudahy and Wilson
who are termed "conspirators, and
whose business practices reflect on
American claims Of regard for law.
These government officials declare
that their Investigators have met
every obstacle that the packers in
genuity and money could devise to
impede them.
eve had to meet schools for wit
nesses," it is stated, where employees
were coached in anticipation of their
being called to testify; we had to
meet deliberate Justification of re-
turns properly required under legal
authority; we had to meet situation
created by the destruction of letters
and documents vital to this lnVeStl-
cation, and we had to meet a con-
spiracy in the preparation of answers
to the lawful inquiries of this COM
mission"
The report says that "some show
of competition is staged by the five
great packers, but that is superficial
and unreal"
"How sham it is" say the investi-
gators, "will be fully set out in the
accompanying summary and the COM
plete reports. Some independent
packers exist by sufferance, and a few
hardy ones have survived in real COM
petition. Around such few of these
as remain the lines are drawing in"
Because of this law-defying atti-
tude of these business men the COM
mission recommends that all refrig-
orator cars, warehouses and other
equipment be placed under govern
ment supervision.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-08-23
INTERALLIED WORKERS WILL
CONFER IN LONDON

Washington.-A special mission of
the American Federation of Labor,
headed by President Gompers, will
attend the interallied labor conference
to be held in London, Sept. II, 18
and 19.
President Gompers' colleagues are:
C. L. Baine, secretary of the Boot
and Shoe Workers. union; John p.
Frey, editor of the International
Molders' Journal, and Edgar Wallace,
editor of the Mine Workers Journal.
A special labor mission to visit Italy
consists of James Wilson, president
of the Pattern Makers league; F. j.
McNulty, president Of the Interna
tional Brotherhood of ElectricalWork-
ers; John Golden, president of the
United Textile Workers; Michael
Green, president of the United Hat
ters, and Peter Josephine, of the
Granite Cutters association.
Vice President Alpine, of the A. F..
of L., will be acting president during
the absence of President Gompers.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-08-23
LABOR CONDITIONS

Washington.-Labor conditions for
the week ended August 8 is sum-
married as follows by the department
Of labor:
Building trades passing through a
period of depression. Activity at ship
building and manufacturing centers
had previously promised to absorb
the workers, but high cost of material
and difficulty in obtaining it delays
operation. Munition workers are in
demand, as are skilled boiler makers,
machinists and molders. Common la
Dor is short in the east, but in the
south central states the release Of
men from farm work and the drouths
has created surplus The question
of farm laborers is one of distribu-
ton. There is a surplus of these
workers in the southern and south
western states, while a scarcity eX-
lists in other sections. In general fe-
male labor conditions are normal,
with a surplus Of women desiring
clerical work.
1t is felt that a better supply Of
workers would be available for fac
tories and munitions plants if work.
ing conditions were improved.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-08-23
CAN'T MAKE AUTOMOBILES

Washington. = Manufacturers of
passenger automobiles are given an
inkling of what a nation can do when
at war by an order from the war in
dustries board that they must put
their plants on 100 per cent war
work basis not later than January l,
1919. The manufacturers recently
declared in favor of a so per cent out
put of passenger automobiles, but the
war industries board says this is
merely "a step in the right direction"
The board tells the manufacturers
that the material they now use in the
construction Of cars, excepting steel,
will be of little use for war work.
Many of the manufacturers have
reported that they have material to
operate for several months, but the
board indicates that the farsighted
ness of these employers in stocking
up will avail them little, and that
their stocks will be taken from them,
or at least they will be greatly re-
duced.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-08-23
NO GLASS IN BREAD

Washington. - The national food
administration reprints a statement
by the Indiana state council of de-
tense that "almost without exception
the authorities have been unable to
verify the rumors of glass in bread" J"
which were given such wide circula
tion few months ago.
The Indiana state council of defense
gives this reason for the exitement:
"Corn flour under the microscope,
shows many hard, fiinty pieces of en-
dosperm (germ), which have very
CLASSY appearance. When baked in
a quick oven some of these particles
retain their glasslike appearance,
though in the ordinary process Oh
baking the appearance is lost. This
is--the explanation given by experts
employed by the International Union
of Bakers and ConfectioneryWorkers.
"In bran fours a nervous person
might easily fancy that particles of
the hard outer husk were glass. And
dextrine sometimes solidifes into a
hard, transparent mass, which might
be mistaken for glass.
"The natural conclusion is that
most of the people who reported hav-
ing found glass in their bread were
deceived by the appearance of the
new materials"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-08-23
Right to Organize
LABOR BOARD JOLTS PEONAGE
IN ALABAMA

Washington.-Peonage in Alabama
and elsewhere has been given a blow
by the national war labor board, which
orders that employees of the Sloss-
Sheffield Steel and Iron company at
Russelville, Ala, shall be treated as
human beings. Other companies are
included in a denunciation of "per-
NIT system" by which employers in
that district agree with each other
not to hire a man until he can pro-
duce permit from the company which
last employed him.
Other orders to the Sloss- Sheffield
company are:
Accept the principle of collective
bargaining.
Establish the eight-hour day, with
time and one-half for overtime.
Stop deducting 20 per cent for cash
ing advance pay checks for employees.
Stop the insurance system which
provides for deductions from the
workers pay.
Money due workers shall be paid
at face value with no deductions.
Increase wages Of all employees So
a day. (Former rates varied from
$1.85 to $4.25 a day, with the bulk
of the employees receiving from So to
So for 10-hour day.
At the hearings it was shown that
the company operates store from
which the workers purchase virtually
all of the necessities of life, and that
many of the workers receive less
than 81 week in their pay envelopes
every two weeks because of these de-
ductions and other charges, which in
clude hospital service, company ply
sician and for the maintenance of
school.
With the right of organization as
sured, the workers are now in a po-
sition where they can correct other
evils. The national war labor board
will not depend on the company to
enforce this award, but has directed
that an examiner shall be appointed
'to supervise the execution of the
award"