Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-02-06
Delay Of Mails

mails are late. The Kennebec Jour
nal suffers with the rest. Not only
are j. +. -. mails delayed by drifts
and well nigh impossible highways,
but trains are all off schedule. For
instance, east bound train l27 supposed
10 reach Augusta at 2.25 A. NJ. had
not reached Portland at noon, Tues
DAY. II was reported somewhere" in
q snow drift out on the e. & NJ.
Train II. cast bound. that should have
reached Augusta at 40 A. NJ. did not
get through until nearly o'clock,
papers didn't arrive here until after )
o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
All trains are delayed by drifts and
cold. and | atience is required every
where. These are abnormal times in
every way All the climatic. indus
trial. commercial. social and political
machines ere out of gear None Of us
is having his oWn way or things just
70 suit. these days.
And that isn't the worst of it-no-
body has yet shown competence to
relieve the situation, 50 what are we
going TO do about 1t? Our personal
solution is: MAKE THE BEST OF
IT.
That il POOR comfort, VIC admit for
the X. ]. reader who wants TO know
what they are doing in Europe and
ton. and mis- daily is somewhere on
the way, from one to umpteen hours
behind time
II is some" discouraging when We
have to wait half a day. and some
times ~ hours to find out what Col.
Condor. Deak Norwood. or Pats and
Knocks owen arc saying about us
hut We have TO make the best of it.
We don't like to buy - lbs. of some
brand OF chicken feed every time we
set "A bag Of flour. because we've eat
en- all the chickens. and have subsisted
on corn meal (about the only substi-
tute for wheat the dealers are sure of
until we are beginning to look for
making Tho best Of it.
We don't like to get up twice every
night and snoop around the house and
down cellar in bath robe and slippers,
to roplcni-h wood fires to keep those
sLudS from freezing but We are MAX
Ing the best OF il.
We don like this war. and We don't
like the way wars are handled, by this
OF any other country. (and this is as
much OUR war as it is anybody's)
but nobody has asked us what we
would do about it--and so we are
making the best of il.
We don't like the entirely credible
stories from the provinces that
Canadians are getting coal enough,
ilodr enough, and sugar enough fright
fiom the States while we are pinched
un all Of them,--but we can't help il,
md are making the best of it.
We dont like the full meaning of
the fact that We can buy flour and
sugar in any quantity in Canadian
cities, but cannot bring them into the
states without permission from Wash
m,gton-so we must make the best of
There's reason for everything
sometimes We approve the reason
and sometimes we dont SO let us
make the best of ALL the disagreeable
things until the war and the bad times
nave PASSED. We can do but little
toward changing things. and if we
could We might change them in the
wrong direction. 50 let us put up with
CIR mail decays. our fuel shortage, our
ipod dIscomforts. our loved ones alb
.tnccs ana make the best of it all, liv-
ing in high hope that ready compliance
With the recommendations and orders
OF those who lead US are all for the
best in the end
That is the only course by which we
shall ever win against a united en-
tmy like Germany--unless they be
come disunited. and We cannot safely
count on that.
So, let is comply. be patient. do our
uimost-and make the best of it.