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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-22
u. S. SEXES
LIQUOR HELD
IN LEWISTON

Lewiston. Me, May c1-Federal au.
thorities today seized the large con-
signment Of liquors recently con-
fiscated by the police. Thomas Nc
Namara. who signed for the shipment
paid $1,000 fine in the superior court,
Monday on liquor charges of Il years
standing. The States process was
stayed in other cases in which fines
approaching $1,000 were imposed. con-
ditional on the respondents good be-
havIor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-22
Every Railroad President in IS.
Relieved From Duty as Executive

Washington. MAY 2l--Every rail
road president in the United States
was relieved from active duty as
executive Manager ~ his road to-
day hy Director General McAdoo.
who Will appoint a federal director
for each road. responsible only to tie
railroad administration. In many
cases the president OF the road may
be named federal director,
stockholders and maintain the indi-
vdualty Of each railway. federal
directors whenever possible will he
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-22
Will Be Re=Sentenced
On May e by Judge Griffin

San Francisco. Cal, May 21.-Thomas
j. Mooney on May 2S will be re-sen-
fenced to hang by Judge Franklin A.
Griffin as a result of his conviction on
a first degree murder charge growing
out OF the preparedness parade bomb
explosion which killed 10 persons and
injured 40 others here in 1916 The mo-
ton asking the removal of the death
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-22

the TeutoniC
Preparation

Answering Each Burst
of German Artillery
With Thunder O.
Cannon Fire and
Maintaining NJ as
terry of the Air in Ev-
cry Sector rom
North Sea to Swiss
Frontier
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-22
ALLIES HARASS THE ENEMY
At VARIOUS POINTS ON LINE
FAMINE MAY SOON
| BE A Big FACTOR

London, May ELL feel con.
fdent the time is at hand when
famine will join the Entente as
political and military ally against
Germany and Austria" a CORE
spondent of the Daily Mail tele.
graphs from Annemasse, in
France, near the Swiss border.
The correspond. mt says he
draws this conclusion from oral
statements by an authentic wit.
ness whose observations extended
up to the end Of April. The great
masses Of the German and Aus
trian peoples, this informant de-
cIares, are more than sick Of the
war. They think and talk Of
nothing but bread. Among the
Incidents given in support Of the
story Of terrible want is the case
Of two prisoners Of war, employ
ed at the gas works in Vienna.
who, the informant declares, we're
murdered by fellow workers, who
ate part Of their bodies. The Ar
better Zeitung Of Vienna demand
ed an investig alton and the main
issue Of the newspaper was con.
fiseated in consequence. The af-
fair was referred to in parliament
but was hushed up in tho Vienna
press.
Tho narrator said he and his
family had lived for weeks almost
entirely on mushrooms gathered in
a forest.
"PeopIe often faint in the streets
from hunger" he continued. 1.-THE
| health Of many is such that they
can hardly stand. Even the sol.
diers do not have sufficient food"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-22

sentence, the setting aside OF ali pre-
vious court proceedings in the case and
the granting of new trial on the
grounds of wilful fraud malenaence no
feasance in the Office of the district at
torney were denied today.
1t has been stated by defense counsel
that an appeal could be carried to the
United States supreme court
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-22

Washington, May 21.-General Pesh-
ngs comnlunique of last night, receiv-
ed here today, besides reporting only
artillery activity adds it has been de-
termined Major Lufbery was shot down
within the American lines in combat
with a German twoseater airplane. The
communique says nothing more.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-22

With the American Army in France.
Monday, May 20.-(By the Associated
Press}.-The following official state
ment was issued at American head
quarters at 9 o clock tonight:
Except for activity by the artillery
on both sides in various sectors. there
is nothing to report"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-22
Dutch Prohibit
Sailings of All
Dutch Steamships

The Hague, May 31-The Dutch gov
eminent has prohibited the sailngs Of
all Dutch steamships from Dutch
rorts. Sailing vessels and coastal fish
ing craft are excepted from the rul-
ing
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-22
OXFORD PAPER co.
GRANT INCREASE
TO EMPLOYEES

Eumford. Ne, May 2l.-Tho 0NfoH1I
Paper Co announced today an increase
Of three cents per hour for 400 en-
ployes on the hourly schedule, effective
June J.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-22

Washington, May 21.-The food
situation in Germany, officials
here believe, is the most critical
il has been at any time. Infor.
nation from many sources indi-
Gates that even with the reduced
ration planned for June Is the
country will not have enough food
to carry the population through to
tho next harvest and that further
reductions viii. have to be made.
Germany began consuming her
1917 wheat crop two months be-
fore it was intended to start on it
and the German potato crop has
not turned out nearly SO we'll az
German agricultural interests had
hoped.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-22
PRESIDENT SENDS
NOMINATIONS
TO THE SENATE

Washington, May DENOMINATION Of
Major General March acting chief of
staff to be full general, and of Cen
eral Bliss, chief Of staff. to be general
by brevet, was sent BY President Wilson
to the Senate.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-22

May 2l.--(By the Associated Press).--
In the course of reconnaissance COM
bats in Lorraine we captured prison
ers," says the official statement issued
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-22
!. 5. Communique Says Artillery
Activity Only, American Sector

, from American headquarters tonight.
Here and in the Woevre artillery of
both sides showed considerable activi-
tV'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-22
|, A. & ". HEARING
$ OPENS IN LEWISTON

Companys Side of Case Is Presented by At
torrcy Nelson in Long and Detailed State
ment to Public Utilities Commission = Au-
gusta's Interests Represented by Mayor
Swift Supt. of Schools Stuart and City So
HcitOr Sawtelle.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-22
Boston Forecast

! Weather forecast for Boston and
vicinity: Probably showers Wednes
day morning. followed by fair;
Thursday fair; moderate variable
winds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-22
THE WEATHER
FAIR

Forecast for northern New Eng
land: Fair Wednesday and probab-
ly Thursday: cooler Thursday on the
coact
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-22
WEDNESDAY,: Fair

PUBLICITY IN THE CLASS.
IFlEc COLUMNS 10 "hrst
aid" 10 . crippled business Of.
fee s.aF-bringins the worker
~ for the emergency.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-22
Thursday: Fair

PUBLICITY IN THE CLASS.
iFlED COLUMNS decides the
"whsre to move" problem for
rent payers every day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-07
KISSED BY HIS NURSE
[From the indianapolis Newsl

[From the Indianapolis Newsl
An Indianapolis officer, writing
from a hospital in France, tells how
French officer pinned a war cross
on his pajamas, and how, without
any warning, one of the nurses hur-
ried to his bedside and planted "a
nice rosy kiss on the ugly mug of
yours truly" There is no reason to
believe that this is a love affair.
Doubtless it was a proxy kiss-it rep
resented the feminine members of
his family.
Fiction nurses have been of one
kind. In the illustrations they were
strangely beautiful. Always their
hands were cool and their uniforms
fresh. Some young millionaire had
been picked up and carried to the
hospital where the nurse fought for
his life-grim death stalking just
behind the door. His identity was
not known, but he was a man, wide
of shoulder and small of girth. He
had a fiat back and his close crop
ped hair was inclined to be curly.
By and by he became rational. The
first thing ne realized was the cool
ing touch of the nurses hand on his
feverish brow. But why continue?
He always married her, and they
lived happily ever after.
Much has been heard about the
splendid service of American nurses
in France. They have worked in
dangerous territory and under con-
ditions that would appall the aver
age man. They have had the cour-
age to do what they went over there
to do and they have made a gratc-
| full country their perpetual debtor.
There was so much discipline and so
| much need for haste about their
work that romance has not had
, much chance. Military etiquette
does not provide that kiss shall be
! given with each hot water bottle.
| Yet there Is nothing so soothing
som etimes and nothing better call
culated to take a patients mind away
| from his aches and pains. Perhaps
| the future will bring forth the story
i from France that some of the nurses
| have been decorated for distinguish
| ed services because they knew when
! II was proper to kiss a patient and
when 1t was needful to give him a
| dose of medicine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-07
The Price of Wheat

The Presidents order hXing the
price of 1919 wheat at $2.2O, the
same as for this years crop, is mod
ified by the promise to appoint a
commission which will examine next
spring whether the increased cost
of labor or other considerations JUS
tify an advance in that figure. This
is a perfectly fair and just PROPOSE
ton which should be acceptable TO
all. 1t protects both producers and
consumers, as we'll as the govern
ment, which, in the event of peace
before the 1919 wheat is marketed,
might stand to lose a half billion
dollars on the guarantee by the
release of the cheaper wheat from
Australia and other points now kept
out of consumption by lack OF
transportation facilities, or. as the
President says, in any event result
in maintaining a high price in our
own country for a long period SUB
seouent to freedom in the worlds
markets.
Nothing will be lost by this ar
rangement, which avoids the risk
of attempting to fix an unchange-
able price a year in advance OF
the crop. Under the same guaran-
tee the producers of America have
raised a crop which has ended the
food anxieties of the world. There
can be no doubt that the same price,
with the assurance of whatever re-
vision upward, If any, may be made
necessary by increased cost of labor
and supplies between now and then,
will be equally stimulative to the
farmers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-07

A MAN doesn't need to carry a
~ long visage in order to do a
strong thing. And young Amer
ica's invincible sense of humor will
tide him over many a rough place
before this war be done. To me his
uncomfortable lightheartedness is a
marvellous possession, just as 1 saw
it on the faces of a regiment of
British Tommies who were return
ing from those terrific shambles in
the Balkans. Their troop trains
stopped beside our own. "some-
where in France" Bronzed and
grinning British veterans, young
sters though they were, tumbled
from their box cars-it's jolly riding
for thousand miles in a box car
and fraternized with their new allies
from America. AS their train pull
ed away they tossed out tins of Eng
lish cigarets. Our boys scrambled
for them beside the railroad track.
My first impulse was to resent things
being tossed to them like that, and
to see American lads picking up
cigarets from the dirt. But
thought again, and the splendid
spirit of it wiped out my cheaper
impression. Here were these Brit
ishers who had been fed up" on
fighting, welcoming new friends and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-07
ROUGE BOUQUET

In a wood they call the Rouge Bou-
quet
There is a new-made grave to-day,
Built by never a spade nor pick
Yet covered with earth ten meters
thick.
There lie many fighting men.
Dead in their youthful prime.
For Death came flying through the
air
And stopped his flight at the dugout
stair.
Touched his prey and left him there
Clay to clay.
He and their bodies stealthily
In the soil of the land they fought
to free
And fled away.
Now over the grave abrupt and clear
Three volleys ring;
And perhaps their brave young
spirits hear
The bugle sing:
go to sleep!
Go to sleep!
Slumber we'll where the shell
screamed and fell,
Let your rifles rest. on the muddy
floor,
You will not need them any more.
Dangers past,
Now at last.
Go to sleep!"
There is on earth no worthier grave
To hold the bodies of the brave
Than this place of pain and pride
Where they nobly fought and nobly
died.
Never fear but in the skies
Saints and angels stand
Smiling with their holy eyes
On this new-come band.
st. Michaers sword darts through
the air
And touches the aureole on his hair
AS he sees them stand saluting there
His stalwart sons;
And Patrick, Brigid, Columkill
Rejoice that in veins of warriors
still
The Gael's blood runs.
And up to Heavens doorway floats
From the wood called Rouge
Bouquet,
A delicate sound of bugle notes
That softly say:
Farewell!
Farewell!
Comrades true, born anew peace tc
you!
Your souls shall be where the heroes
are
And your memory shine like the
morning star,
Brave and dear,
Shield us here.
FAREWELL"
Joyce Kilmer. in scribner'!
Magazine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-07
. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Fred Ikeler, one of the Demo-
cratic candidates for Congress-at-
Large, used to be in the Legislature.
William ]. Noll, the new Leb-
anon county commissioner, has lived
in that county all his life and is well
known to many residents of this city.
Highway Commissioner O'Neil is
on a tour of eastern toll roads, hav-
ing chopped down some bars near
Lancaster.
"A. C. Campbell, the Luzerne
county fuel administrator, is going
after bars which sell to miners and
is having a real interesting time of 1t.
The Rev. Francis Blackman,
Philadelphia minister, leaves his pull
pit to enter the army's fighting ranks.
David H. Lane, the veteran of
Philadelphia politics. is back in Phil
delphia after spending the summer
at the seashore.
Clinton Rogers Woodruff, active
in civic affairs in Philadelphia, has
been touring New York state.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-07
When Yank Met Tommy

dividing their most precious ration.
They had no time to hand around
cigarets on a silver waiter. nor to
order James, will you serve the cof-
fee?" Their train whirled on, they
did what they could and our boys
accepted it with the same generous
frankness.
Tommy went one way and we
went the other. The English speak
ing cousins had met, had grasped
each others sturdy hands, and each
of them recognized a real man when
he saw one. Tommy was going
home. We were headed for the
front. There was no gloomy face,
no sour look, and no solemn re-
sponsibilities.
Journeying with our men by sea
and land, living at their camps in
good weather and bad, seeing them
at the front, sitting with them in
their billets, I came to know these
lads. They are men of fine intelli-
gence, clear in thought and clean of
life. They are bending every fac
ulty of heart and soul and body to
their task. And I haven't the
smallest possible doubt that they
will ultimately
Convince the Hun
With a ten-inch gun
That he'd better not do 1t again.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-07
BERLIN TREMBLES

~ ERLIN under martial law!
X The news has an ominous
- sound.
Berlin, capital of autocracy and
citadel of militarism, so shaken by
the German defeats that its people
are in a panic! 1t seems almost too
good to be true.
But there can be no doubt of the
authenticity of the report, since it
is accompanied by the official order
of the general in command.
German idols are beginning to tot
ter. Germans are becoming doubt
full of the power of their armies.
Hindenburg and Ludendorf are tot
tering on their pedestals. Another
push by Mangin, Haig and Pershing
may send them crumbling to the
earth. When that day dawns Ger
man morale will follow it's false gods
to the dust and the end of the war
will be in sight
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-07

seeking residence here. The conges-
ton about which we hear so much
is largely along the Atlantic sea-
board and what affects, to some ex-
tent, the towns near ports need not
necessarily embarrass this city.
Something must be done and
without unnecessary delay. The
Chamber of Commerce will doubt
less do its part, but the individual
builder would likely get busy in the
event of some relief from the hard
ships and embarrassments of gov
ernmentaI restriction. If Washing
ton cannot help Harrisburg with an
appropriation for houses, as has
been done in some other industrial
cities, the authorities can at least
help to the extent of raising the
embargo on materials and labor in
this district.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-07
OUR HOUSING PROBLEMS

IT has been suggested by one who
is familiar with the building con-
ditions here that local builders
are probably ready to proceed with
the construction of dwellings for
rent or sale should the embargo on
materials and labor be raised to the
extent of giving them encourage
ment in this direction. Within a.
few weeks the large work on the
government building contracts here
will have been finished and this will
release hundreds of mechanics who
will be available for building oper-
ations in Harrisburg.
OF course. this need not interfere
with the plan of the Chamber of
Commerce to procure the services of
a competent housing expert for a
complete survey of the local condi-
tions with a view to providing
homes fot the people who want to
live here. Pending the survey, how
ever, the lifting of the embargo on
materials and labor to the extent of
allowing local builders to go ahead
on their own account would in
large measure relieve the situation.
We must have homes and a way
must be found to provide them,
either through governmental aid di-
rectiy or relief for the building
trades in this community.
Harrisburg is an important indus
trial center and it is obviously nee
essary that homes be provided for
Iour workers and those who ara
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-07

In the matter of ash and garbage
collection there will doubtless be for
some time difficulty in overcoming the
old conditions which prevailed under
a private contract. Tipping of the
collecting crews and otherwise up
setting dicipline, resulting from
desire on the part of housekeepers to
secure regular collections. have been
responsible for a good deal OF the
trouble. Unless there is cooperation
on the part of the people there can
be no efficient system of garbage and
ash collection.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-07
WHAT EXPERTS FOUND

NJ AJOR GRAY told the Rotary
M Club the other day that the
United States Government Sc
lected Harrisburg as the site for its
S25, 100000 warehouse development
because it is the best transportation
center in the entire East. Experts of
the War Department visited every
city from Central Ohio to the sea-
board. Railroad authorities studied
the situation. Engineers deliberated
over the problem of locating the
military depots where they would be
most accessible from all points. And
all of them chose Harrisburg.
This should be a hint to manu-
facturers and distributors. The gov
ernment's survey should be of i'm
mense value to them. 1t was made at
great expense and represents the
concensus of the best expert opin-
ion in the country. What is good
enough to meet the demands of
Uncle Sam in the great emergency
ought to be good enough for the
business man in times of peace.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-07
GOVERNMENT OF MURDER
from the New York Times1

IFrom the New York Times1
Probably nothing calling itself a
government ever received such n dip
lomatic communication as that which
the murderous Bolshevist govern
ment has received from Great Bri-
tain. 1t IS not the language OF one
government addressing another, but
the language of a police officer to a
professional assassin. And it will
strike a responsible chord wherever,
throughout the world, men have
grown tired of keeping up the fic-
ton that this pirate crew are a gov
ernment.
The attack on the British En-
bassy was ordered by the terrorist
clique that rules in Moscow and Pet
rograd. which has been preparing the
Russian mind for it for some time.
All their measures have been tend
ing in that direction, and the latest
dispatches show that they have been
deliberately creating the belief
among their ignorant and brutalized
henchmen that the French and Brit
ish governments melted the assas-
sination of Mirbach and Eichhorn
and the attempted assassination of
Lenine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-07
Worrying Helps the Kaiser
By BRIGGS
(From the Youths Companion)

(From the Youths Companion)
1t seems as If there never was a
time when there was so much to
worry about. Many-alas, how
many--of US have to endure daily
and nightly - the thought of the
vague, enormous peril of those we
love, who are at a distance that
makes it beyond our power to cheer
or soothe or comfort them. Beside
this one great worry all others are
insignificant. Yet there are others,
so many others!
Yes, there never was a time when
worries so descended upon us in
fiocks and swarms.
We ought to stop worrying at
once, to form the habit of stopping
it. Cool provision, wise and proper
forethought for coming duties, is
necessary. But we need to stop
tho panicky imagining of vague peril
and unavoidable distress. All such
loose and misdirected sffort wastes
nerve, wastes brain, wastes energy,
means just so much useful work un-
accomplished.
Worrying helps the kaiser.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-07
Motor Car Accidents

(From the Columbu Dispatch)
The marvel of the ages is that
there are so very few accidents
with motor cars. Every issue of
every newspaper carries accounts
of mishaps; the hospitals know to-
day that they will have just about
so many people tomorrow injured
in motor car wrecks, but the truth
is, considering the great number OF
machines in use, one cannot under
stand the small number OF catastro-
phes that take place.
If every car were driven by a
man skilled in handling such me-
chanisms, the small number of acci-
dents could be accounted for. But,
observe the drivers of the cars.
Girls who are giddy at all times;
women who are nervous wrecks un-
der normal conditions; men of poor
Judgment generally; people who
could not be expected to think for
emselves-cripples and invalids
and half baked people of every va
riety.
See that frail creature driving the
three-ton car down the street at
break-neck speed. She has the
power of seventy five horses in her
hands. She knows nothing about
the laws of momentum. She doesn I
know whether the car weighs hun
dred pounds or a hundred tons. she
is ignorant of all things pertaining
to com bustion. But she threads her
way through the maze of tratic and
goes to sleep at night as If she had
not done anything wonderful.
1t is all a tribute to the perfec-
ton and simplicity of the motor
car-and to human intelligence. For,
however lhoughtless and careless
these drivers. they still have in their
minds the ordinary rules of the road
and the regulations concerning
traffic. Let us not marvel that there
are so many accidents. Let us thanH
God they are so few-under the cir
cumstances.