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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-12
Now York Money Market

New York, March H.
Mercantile paper 5ad6.
Sterling 60-day hills 4 72e.
Commercial 6o-day bills on banks 4.'2s;
Commercial 60-day bills 4.1ls demand
475a, cables 4.76 TIC.
Francs. demand 573s, cables 5.72s.
Gulders, demand, 40. cables ao3
Lire demand SO. cables SbS5.
Rubles. demand 10, cables 13a
Bar silver Sc.
Mexican dollars 60.
Government bonds heavy.
Railroad bonds irregular
Time loans strong; 60 days. 90 days and
six months, 6 bid.
Call money firm: high 3. low a, ruling
rate 5. closing bid A. offered at Il, last
loan A.
L. S. reg. IS AZ
90. coup. -...'.....-',......' -''''--'-.' US
L. S. IS reg. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. -
do. coup. Isl
u. S. As reg. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1915
do. coup. Observation-Disclosures. ....... 1912
Panama Canal IS coup. ,.............. 81
Baltimore & Ohio As ................... ia
c., b. & @. joint As neutrality-suspicious.. 32i
Missouri, Kansas G. Texas As ........ 81
Union Pacific As NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. s.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-12

When the ice leaves the Bangor sal
mon pool and the veteran anglers
launch their boats and try for the frs;
salmon, one of the old timers will be
missed as J, Henry Peavey has just
died. Mr. Peavey worked hard when
at his business and his one diversion
was with rod and gun. He treasured
his tackle, which was the best pro-
durable and no one knew every cur
rent and cross-rip at the pool or the
habits Of the salmon better.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-12
Poultry, Eggs, Etc.

EGGS FOR HATCHiNG: BARRED
Plymouth Rock. We have one pen mat
inRs Of the DeCoSter and Stewart strains,
wei! known as among the best laying
Barred Rocks IN Maine. Price. s135 per
setting OF Is by parcel post; Sl25 by cX-
press: S. 90 per hundred. Guaranteed $50
fertile or replaced tree. Our Method OF
Caring and Feeding for egg production
FREQ 70 everySpurchaser. James II. Ames
& Son. Bowdoinham Maine. mch5 !2w
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-12
WALL STREET
Reported by HAYDEN, Stone & CO.

Members New York tx Exc. Boston
cago Board of Trade. Portland Branch
office, $50 Middle St, New England Tele-
phone 1862. 1863.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-12
Classified
Ad Rates

word for time.
Il ,.o,d for 8 times consecutive
80 for s times consecutive
%, insertions, pro rata.
,avertiserer taken tor less
| ' at,.,,hed advertisements must
70 prepaid L.;,,,v
Tss Journal does not knowingly
w, any fraudulent advertising
/ NV Ind. The Journal VIII m
L.. .y promptly and vigorously
' ~. LAIN from any person VINO
4. b..n in any way deceived or
lated through answering an
'...'se1ent. The Journal VII
~ 4. readers 10 bring to IT'S
..,,,or any failure on the Part
/ - ssvertIser to make good his
ga, /, IS the belief OF TINS
E.., hat an advertiser serves ms
,,erest best only when ne
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.,,,,fIed tell the Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-12
IT PAYS TO
ADvER'! |SE
RISING COSTS OF LIVING
MAKE ADVERTISING MORE
USEFUL TO THE PEOPLE.

Prices of commodities are In q
state Of nuctuation-mostly up
ward. Househoiders are compelled
to give more consideration to the
problem Of buying to best advan-
taee than in a period when prices
are on q moro stable basis.
OF course, many people are earn.
ing moro roney-but not ali. To
q great number Of housewives, the
increase in cost Of some necessity
presents a puzzle, but one which
must be solved at once. Thus il
happens that readers Of advertise.
ments multiply in periods like the
present-for in tho ads It 10 al.
ways possible to find clues a. to
better buying opportunities. hints
as to savings.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-12
Rubber Stamps, Etc.

RUBBER HAND STAMPS MADE IN
by Tap Stamp Co. IS Capitol
ST Tel 25S-W. Inks. Pads, Daters. etc.
Circulars free. mchl23lmo
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-22

world task. The sanity Of the large look
prevailed then, as it always must prevail
in governing the conduct of this govern
ment in its international relations. All
the course of President Wilson has com
mitted us to the larger, finer conception
of national duty that serves us now and
will insure the future
1t was a good thing that, on that mis-
sion of helpfulness into Mexico, there
went at the head of the American troops
Gen. Pershing Thereby the country came
to know the commander who has been
exercising with patient wisdom thus far
his large powers in the great European
field. So far popular faith in him has
deepened and not declined The testimony
of all those who have been brought in
contact with Gen Pershing seems to
agree in making favorable report on his
personality, breadth OF character and his
ability. He has managed to make him
self seem the embodiment of the strong,
unboastful purpose Of his country and
the men he leads. So may it continue to
be until the greater task to which Gen.
Pershing has been ordered shall have
been amply accomplished - Springfield
Republican.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-22
Government Action as to Labor.

Through the United States employ
ment service, effort will be made to keep
manufacturing establishments engaged
on war orders supplied with common la
Dor. Workers were found rushing from
one industry to another, and from one
section to another, Tin response to exag-
gerated private advertising and to allur
ing tales of labor scouts" In order to
remedy this state of things-we are told
that the problem of skilled labor can be
directed where the government needs it
most. This first step is important, but
like precaution as to skilled workers
may become still more so.
In the early push of our war prepare
tions representatives of the army and
navy bid against each other for workers
on their rush contracts, so that wages
were lifted at the expense of both de-
partments. The ill.judged precipitancy
has been mitigated somewhat, but the
need for more definite cooperation and
regulation remains, England has gone
much further in handling the problem
that is becoming pressing in this country.
There wages and profits are absolutely
fixed by law, the state making awards
to the workers in case of increases in the
cost of living. This provision, together
with the requirement for compulsory ar
bitration, has done away with strikes
"and has successfully laid down the man
date that no one shall make a profit at
the expense of the country" Such was
the testimony borne by the commission
representing the British ministry of mu-
nitions and voiced by Sir Stephenson Kent
at a meeting in Boston last year under
the auspices of the chamber of commerce
and the associated industries of Massa-
chusetts.
Now for the effort that is being made
to allot unskilled workers in our war
work 1t is required by the United
States employment service of the depart
ment of labor that the new community
labor boards, which are to assist in re-
cruiting and distributing war labor, be
ready to function tomorrow. The build
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-22
THE DISCIPLINE ABOARD THE SAN
DIEGO

One of the features of the destruction
of the United States armored cruiser
San Diego off the Atlantic coast last
Friday which serves to bring comfort
and assurance to the American people
was the display of discipline shown by
the complement Of the ship numbering
well toward loo men. The reports
which have been received concerning the
affair state that the men responded with
alacrity to the call for submarine de-
tense, taking their places by the guns
and giving place only when the listing
of the ship following the explosion
caused the guns to be useless and then
entering the boats, RATS and other means
of safety in the most orderly fashion.
Such discipline speaks well for the train
ing which is given to the men OF the
United States navy and it speaks well
also for the calibre of the men who com
pose the ships crews. 1t is probable
that a considerable number Of the men
were unaccustomed to such crisis as
that and so suddenly thrust upon Them
and it is likely that many Of them were
new to naval service of any sort, the
compliments of the ships being composed
largely of new recruits who have entered
the service within the last year. So
rapid has been the growth Of the navy
that the ships must necessarily be
manned in part by green men. So it is
reasonable to assume that the crew Of
the San Diego was made up in consider
able part Of new men in the service.
Nevertheless, in spite of their newness
to the service and their limited acquain.
tanee with crises of such tragic nature,
they responded to the training in re-
markably good manner; and it was
largely due to that discipline that the
loss of life on the San Diego was so
small as to number less than 100 out of
approximately 1900 THE American
navy has a splendid reputation, and the
individual members of it are upholding
that reputation well.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-22
Pershing Then and Now.

In his discourse to the Mexican editors,
President Wilson told why Gen. Pershing,
now commanding the army in France,
was sent into Chihuahua, and the refer
ence is worth preserving, as follows;
when we sent troops into Mexico, our
sincere desire was nothing else than to
assist you to get rid OF man who was
making the settlement of your affairs for
the time being impossible. We had no
desire to use our troops for any other
purpose, and ] was in hopes that by as
sisting in that way and thereupon imme-
diately withdrawing | might give sub
stantial truth of the assurance that had
given your government through President
Carranza.h
1t was fine little army which thus
endeayored TO assist in composing the
Mexican situation The pursuit Of the
man Villa, who had raided United States
territory and had been a thorn in the
flesh of the Carranza government, did
not avail for his capture, and those who
know the physical character of northern
Mexico will understand why. But the
episode did much more than uphold the
honor and establish the good faith Of our
government 1t gave Gen. Pershing and
his men an experience of the highest val
ne, as is seen in the light of after events
II helped largely to contribute 20 the fine
work which our army, and especially
those parts Of it which saw service on the
Mexican border and beyond, has been do.
ing in France. 1t gave this country a
contingent Of seasoned troops when the
greater need arrived.
No one should need to be told that if
the United States had made war on Mex
leo things would be vastly different now
If any doubt that let them contemplate
what this country has since done to meet
the German menace. Had the hot headed
counsels of some impatient and not al
ways disnterested critics prevailed over
the settled wilson policy, we might have
"waded into Mexico" and so have been
enmired there at this time when all the
power of this nation is needed for its
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-22
How This Cashier Works.

In the August American Magazine,
there is a short articles about cashier
who makes courtesy pay. He often cashes
checks for people who cannot realize how
he knows them. The author says:
"Avon Nevius is an assistant cashier
in one of the leading banks in the city Of
Washington, and is probably the most
accommodating citizen in the nations
capital. If you don't believe this, tho
next time you're in Washington just ask
anybody.
CAS- rapidly as a new edition of the
Congressional Directory comes out, Ne
vius studies the biographies in it as he
would study textbook. His reason ia
that a great many members of Congress
deal at his bank, and he finds it advan.
tageous to know all about them, so that
when one comes up and introduces him
self as Congressman Jabez Hicks, he can
inquire: Are you the same Jabez Hicks
who used to be president of the Iowa
state Senate the year of the big wind Y
The member of Congress is, of course,
hattered TO find young man who is SO
familiar with the high spots in his great
legislative career"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-22
Var chest Method Yindicated.

The war chest campaign in Syracuse
and Onondaga county, N. y, places again
the seal Of approval on this method of
consolidating war appeals so as to elm
mate many drives by concentrating eff.
fort in one big drive, The sum aimed
for was 100000, and the outcome ex-
ceeds S2,400000. The total number of
subscribers was in excess of 100000 the
subscribers from the factories alone ag-
gregating $4,000, or as many as the total
subscribers to the war chest there
year ago. This is significant of some
thing that was made manifest in the
drive in Springfield aud neighboring
communities-thst the workers in the
manufacturing establishments, public
service corporations, stores and offices
are backing the nation in a most heart
ening way.
The moral gain of the Syracuse CAM
paign is seen to have been great, as was
the case here, in demonstrating the 10y
atty and unity of the people. Such com.
mon effort has high value in bringing
men and women together and binding
them in new fellowship ANY com.
munity is better for touching elbows in
this way, fact which is realized and
dwelt upon wherever war chest cam
paign has been conducted. In this re-
spect the second Syracuse campaign was
an improvement upon the first. There,
as here, the home canvass made by WON
en-, the most difficult end of the under
taking, was faithfully carried through
and productive of surprising results. All
the workers ended their labors in a glow
Of patriotic enthusiasm that is good for
the soul and full of promise for future
community work.-Springfeld Republi-
can
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-22

ing of this war labor placing machinery
has been an undertaking without preee.
dent in our history. That which might
have encountered objections under other
conditions moves now by common con-
sent and through the cooperation of
employers and employed.
The centralized labor supply program
reaches into all parts of the country.
Each state director of the public service
reserve of the United States employ
ment service is made responsible for or
ganlzing labor community boards within
MS jurisdiction. Each of these boards is
composed of three members, one repre-
senting the government, one the employ
or, ana one the workers. Each communi-
W board will have general jurisdiction
over the recruiting and distributing of
labor IN its locality, subject to the state
director. In all distribution Of labor the
particular needs of an establishment en-.
gagged in priority work are 10 be consid-
cred as well as the priority of the indus
try. Chambers of commerce are lending
their aid to this recruiting and allotment
of war workers,
These arrangements have been made
under the authorization given by Presi-
dent Wilson to the United States EN-.
ployment service. 1t Ia expected to pre-
vent activity on the part Of labor scouts
representing private interests, and to as
slst manufacturers engaged on war con
tracts and having over 100 employees. In
other words, non-war industries must not
offer superior inducements, prevent the
transfer of workers needed for war pro.
duction, or in any way attempt to com.
pete with the government for labor Such
is the statement of the war service bull.
letin, which further particularizes:
The following five classes of labor need
not at the present time be recruited
through the United States employment
service, although, Of course, the machin-
cry OF the employment service is avail
able to all employers needing these
classes:
!. Labor which is not directly or indi-
rectly solicited.
2. Labor for railroads except in 50 far
as the director general of railroads has
already or may in the future require
that recruiting shall be exclusively
through the United States employment
service.
3. Farm labor-to be recruited in ac.
cordance with existing arrangements
with the department of agriculture.
4. Labor for non-war work
5. Labor for establishments the maxi
mum force of which Including the addi-
tional number recruited) does not exceed
100 employees. Springfield Republican.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-22
Efficiency Recognized.

The appointment of DR.. Ernest Martin
Hopkins, president of Dartmouth college,
to be assistant to the secretary of war in
charge Of industrial relations, Is no sur
prise to those who know of Dr. Hopkins
work. Some months ago, the quarter
masters department, under Major General
Cocktails, in looking about for exactly the
type of man it needed for a certain kind
of highly specialized work, selected this
same President Hopkins, who left his col.
lage tasks in response to his country's
call and FASTENED to Washington He has
proved that no mistake was made in Sc
lecting him for the work in hand He has
made good-completely good. That is a
characteristic of Ernest Martin Hopkins.
Accordingly, when the secretary of war
had need of man for even greater and
more responsible tasks of similar nature,
he turned to the quartermaster's depart
ment and drafted DIR. Hopkins. 1t is a
recognition Of exceptional efficiency and
general merit. Just how enthusiastic Ma
or-General Goethals viii be at the loss
of such man is another question, but
that does not count very much in mat
ters of this kind. The secretary of war
evidently decided that he needed DR.. Hop
kins more than Goethals did, else he
would not have taken him.
Meanwhile, New Hampshire and Dart.
mouth view the appointment with full
confidence in DIR. Hopkins ability to per-
form to the satisfaction of all concerned,
the eyacting duties which viii be his in
the war department. He has had unusual
nv fNys Of I'd -,
private enterprises in connection with
employment and labor adjustments, and
that experience is joined, in his case, to a
tremendous supply of good straight,
Yankee common sense 1t is evident that
he has demonstrated this quality, along
with others of great value in the work
to which he was called, in the quarter.
masters department. 1t was a foregone
conclusion that his capabilities would be
recognized when the secretary of war
came to need an entirely Trustworthy
man for duties requiring infinite tact, as
well as a peculiarly high order of ingenu-
ity and skill in special lines. In serving
the country thus, DR.. Hopkins is serving
Dartmouth better than even he could
have served the college, had he remained
at Hanover; for, besides setting a SPLEEN
did example for Dartmouth men the
world over, he is proving to the govern
ment at Washington, to the country at
large, and to all who may be concerned
outside the country, that man who is
qualified to be president of Dartmouth
college is, by the same token, qualified to
occupy any position into which the gov
eminent, in its need for the best men,
may put him.-Mancheste Union
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-22

If Secretary of the Navy Daniels was
correctly quoted in stating that in ship
ping 100000 American troops to Eu-
rope not man was lost, he did, of
course, forget the torpedoeing of two
transports near the coast of Ireland as
the result of which between 200 and 800
Americans were lost. No American
would try to cover up such loss, Secre-
tary Daniels least of all, because it
would be idle for the head of the navy
department to attempt to distort the
truth. 1t is to be presumed, therefore,
that Secretary Daniels was misquoted
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-22
CURRENT COMMENT
Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt.

Not with evil intention, but doubtless
in accordance with what they regard as
chivalrous, the Germans have dropped
upon our advance lines in France what
is nevertheless poisoned dart, for it Is
the news that Lieutenant Quentin Roose-
welt is indeed dead. This word viii bring
poignant sorrow TO millions of Ameri.
cans. And the sorrow win not be merely
sympathy for the distinguished family
now bereaved of its youngest son, its
Joseph and its Absalom; it Is sorrow OF
the peoples own, who find in this grave
youth the type and representative Of
their own dearest attachments. 1t is the
fortune of Theodore Roosevelt to dram
atize many sentiments and qualities dear
to the peaple--the home spirit and the
home treasure; service and sacrifice for
country and the hopes and aspirations
that are common to US all. The people
therefore feel the death of young Roose.
welt, typical boy Of all our boys, in a
manner tenser than if they were mourn
ing merely with another
Just boy, for he was not yet q
Yeas of age, following or side by side
with his brothers, all of them, young
Quentin Roosevelt went, seeking the
most daring service; and first of them
all he has fallen to his death. The coun-
try simply stands shoulder to shoulder
with the heroic father, who says, "A
great fight and a good death; trust him,
he would not fail" Pride, but tender
pride; a kind of high rejoicing, but with
tears in it, especially for the devoted
mother; for a thousand bereayements
exactly like it march hand in hand with
this bereavement, and it is the forerun.
ner of many more thousands vet to come
All our boyhoods are in Quentin's to-day;
he is the volunteer of all our volunteers;
"He leapt to arms unbidden,
Unneeded, oyer-old;
His face by earth is hidden,
His heart in earth is cold.
Course on the reckless daring
That could not wait the call
The proud fantastic bearing
That would be first to fall"
0 tears Of human passion,
Blur not the image true;
This was not folly's fashion,
This was the man we know.
Boston Transcript.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-22
Belgium.

1t was on July 81, 1881, that Leopold
was inaugurated king of Belgium under
the constitution drafted by the national
assembly, That constitution, under which
Albert now rules a nation ravaged by a
relentless foe, endures practically un-
changed to-day, and the spirit of the
Belgian people, forced though they are,
except for few, 10 exist under an alien
and brutal military despotism, is unim.
paired by the terrible trials that have
been borne by its possessors.
Belgium remains what she has been
from the first, the most damning exam
pie of Prussian aggression and deceit
that four years of war have offered to
the world. She was betrayed by a power
that was bound to respect and defend her
rights, Countless injustices have been
done to her as a nation, and to her peo-
pie as citizens and individuals. No single
right enjoyed by man under the benign
precepts of Christianity or of ciyiliza-
ton has been recognized by her foes A
deliberate campaign of destruction has
been waged against her institutions and
her inhabitants. History contains no
chapter more revolving than that in
which the deeds Of Germany and Ger
mans in the country Of Albert are re.
corded.
But the reign Of terror has failed to
attain its object Belgium crushed to
earth remains more powerful than all
the armies Of the kaiser, more potent
than the most subtle and cunning of
Prussian intriguants. To her cause the
whole world of honorable men has rail-
lied, pledged to see justice done to her,
though the wrongs done to her people
can never be repaired.
On this anniversary Of Leopold rs in
auguration as the king of the Belgians,
though her territory is oyerridden by
her enemy, though her people are in
want, though sorrow dogs the footsteps
Of her faithful citizens, the land of Al.
bert is greater than ever before and rich
with the promised rewards for faithful
ness.-New York Sun.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-22

Major General Omar Bundy is the
American commanding officer who an
nounced that he was going to deliver a
counter attack against the Germans
against the advice of his superior officer,
French general, after which he deliv-
cred the attack and defeated the Ger.
mans. If Major General Bundy is due to
get a reprimand from the war depart
ment he is entitled to credit from the
American people for keenness and deter
mination in an emergency. Therefore,
let the name Of Bundy be heralded from
one end of the land to the other.