Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-08

Her gray armada. vast with power,
And grim with purpose for the hour,
Steered by the compass of the right,
Sails on to grip the kings of might.
A million sons, chivalrous, brave
March forth humanity to save:
Not Austrian. Turk nor brutal Hun
Can terrify a single one.
Theirs is the lineage of right.
Theirs is the enterprise to smite--
To crush. TO conquer and to break
The deadly kingdom of the Snake.
Speed on, eagles of the west:
Sail plain and peak and ocean crest
Truth is your mother, God your sire
And liberty your altar fire.
Washington City, Feb. Is, 1918.
The KennebeG Journal is ever ready
and glad to help a brother publisher
out Of a difficulty and many are the
calls upon it, although seldom is it
called upon TO tax its resources to such
an extent as recently occurred. The
incident illustrates the completeness Of
the Journals equipment and its ability
to face and solve with ease and dis
patch the most difficult problem in the
printing line.
An urgent telephone message was
received just before the dinner hour.
saying that a paper of a neighborIng
city was unable in its own office to set
the type and rule work for the official
ballot which must appear in the paper
in the issue of the following day ard
calling on the Journal to come to the
rescue by setting the type, put up the
rule work and ship it to the speaker by
express that afternoon, so that it could
be used as required by law.
II was something of a job, but it was
done and done in time to make the
train connections, SO that the paper
arrived on Thursday at the Jourr-. CT
flee, with the ballot as big as life, and
all correct, in spite of the difficulties OF
taking such long and important list
CT names over the phone.
There is one sorry German in South
Portland, because he couldn't keep his
mouth shut, says the Argus. Until
Wednesday he was an employee Of the
Marine Hardware & Equipment Co.
AS the incident is told he pointed TO
the Service Flag and the Old Glory
which We're proudly floating over the
plant and made the remark that inside
OF a year the German flag would be
waving in their place. The man was
reported to the Federal authorities and
deputy went over to the plant and
took him to headquarters. where he
was severely reprimanded. When he
came back to the plant in the after
room, he was told that he could seek
work elsewhere.
All Of the children of c. d. Morse of
Norway, eight in number, are sick with
the measles. Mr.. Morse has recovered
and is assisting in the care Of the chill
dren,
This surely is a harbinser of spring.
A Broadway woman reports having
tire soil on the south side of her house.
Bangor Commercial.
Thai certainly is going some-toward
spring. The snoWdrop on the south
side of our house absolutely refuses to
leave and it looks like more snow,
thank e.
It doesn't mean that the boss ever
did such thing. although he had
started CHEEKY whistle when the fol-
lowing was writ and passed along
to us on the sly:
My idea of a mean man is the BOSS
who will whistle The Star Spangled
Banner and then make his employees
work extra time to make up for The
lost time While standing.
Brono Kalish. a former mayor Of
Calais Q90D, a retired and wealthy
merchant, died recently in New York
City, after a two-weeks illness with
kidney trouble, aged 70 years He was
a member of the st. CroiX Club and a
trustee OF the Calais Savings Bank. A
brother and sister, DR.. Richard Kalish
and Miss Annie kalish. are now in
Calais to settle the estate.
EMBRYO Mark Twains are forever
springing up in our midst. boyish
geniuses who do much to tighten the
tasks of their teachers. A Bangor
school maam tells me about an ar
gument that took place between two
of her pupils in the seventh grade OF
the Hannibal Hamlin school on Union
street. It was on the last heatless
Monday and the teacher. with no
thought of punning, suggested that
her pupils engage in a debate, and ad-
vised them to make it a hot one.
1--WE can't do that" one little fellow
piped up, we'd be breaking the gov
ernment's fuel order if we had a hot
debate today" mo. we wouldn't"
said another bright boy. wed only be
using natural gas, anyway The
public should worry if the nation calls
its stage comedians into the military
service.
Perry Scope" tells the following in
the Bangor Commercial:
The postmaster in an eastern Maine
town has a son in the service and soon
after the boy sailed for France one of
the citizens of that town who is de-
cidedly pro German in his sympathies
called around and told the postmaster
he hoped Inc transport would be sunk