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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-19
A Brighter Side.

OF course we have presented the
darker side of the possibility. Isn't 1t
necessary for Americas future that we
consider the very worst in order to
guard against it? Can we arouse the
owners of all the needed hands in this
country in any other way? Dare we
forego any effort or sacrifice when we
bravely face the terrible thing that may
come in spite Of all we can do?
The biggest job this country can do
in the next eight months is to raise and
harvest food. food. food.
Second in importance is the building
of ships in numbers to overbalance the
percentage Of destruction and get our
surplus food to our allies.
Next comes the importance of an
equipped army with food and clothing
guaranteed for 1t, at home and lover
there"
Germany and Austria will pledge
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-19
"Better Than
Worm Tablets"

Some people who are troubled with
worms or whose children sometimes
suffer that way. try to get rid of the
trouble by using worm tablets, worm
lozengers or worm candy. They fail to
get the quick results that can be OBJ
tanned with DR. True's Elixir, the family
laxative and worm expeller.
In fact Dr. True's Elixir. liquid medt-
cine. is positively better than any worm
tablets worm lozengers. or worm
candy. There is no remedy that can COM
pare with DR.. True's Elixir for quickly
expelling worms, whether they are stom-
ach worms or pin worms.
Besides that, your stomach is toned up
and normal action of the bowels is re-
stored when you take Dr. TrueS Elixir.
1t is a doctors preparation. originated by
DR.. True and on the market more than 80
years.
Dr. Trues Elixir the Family Laxative
and Worm Expeller. pleasantly. easily
and quickly expels worms and makes you
feel much better. Remember this when
YOU or your children are troubled with
worms Don't take those worm loZengers,
tablets or candy that may upset you. but
nee Or. True's Elixir that tones and
soothes stomach and bowels and expels
worms.
lots of people have worms and don't
know it! Most all children have worms
Write us for symptoms.-Adv.
Or. j. r. True 4 Co., Auburn, Nc.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-19
Young Women in Washington.

A letter from L. s Senator FernaId
says: Members of the Congressional
Club of Washington. d. c.. consisting
of wives of Cabinet members and mem
bers of the Senate and House, realiz-
ing the loneliness of young women who
come to Washington in these war days
TO work in the various government Of
fees and at their trades, wish to take
steps to make the lives of these young
women more enjoyable while in Wash
ington, Having this object in view the
club desires to secure names and ad-
dresses of all such girls. They request
relatives and friends Of any young
woman who has come to Washington or
may come in the future to send her ad-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-19
MARKET WHEAT NOW
URGES Mr., HOOVER

Orono. Me-, March lS.-Federal Food
Administrator Herbert c. Hoover has
issued an appeal to Maine farmers that
they shall bring all of their wheat eX-
cept their necessary reserve for seed
to market before May /. The appeal
was received in a telegram to the food
administrator for Maine. Mr.. Hoover
says that this is war call and ser
vice for Uncle Sam, who is fighting
for his life. The appeal follows:
In order that we may comply with
the urgent demands Of the Allies for
wheat and at the same time take care
Of our own domestic supplies we ur-
gently need this year an earlier and
more complete marketing of the wheat
in the farmers hands than usual. The
Allies are taking from us so per cent
of other cereals than wheat to mix IN
their bread. Inasmuch as the people OF
the Allied countries and soldiers must
be fed with bread baked in bakeries it
is impossible for them to prepare bread
made wholly out of other cereals ana
we must furnish them with Suf11clent
wheat to maintain their baker loaves'
I further appeal to all of the farmers
Of the State Of Maine that they shall
bring all Of their wheat except their
necessary reserve for seed to market
before May l. This is war call and a
service for Uncle Sam who is fighting
for his life If your local miller is I'M
able to buy ali the wheat that is OF
fered market it in the other custom
,rv trade channels through which 1t
will reach the Food Administration
Grain Corporation
(Signed) HERBERT HOOVER.
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Editors Letter Box
Democrat,
Editor kennebec Journal:

Editor kennebec Journal
If we are to advance democracy
throughout the earth we must first ex-
emplify it here.
1t must not be denied either in in
dUstry or government.
1t must be remembered even in the
strain Of war, that the abuse OF free
speech is not so dangerous as it's sup
preston and that nothing can be per-
nlitted to destroy conscience"
Macaulay in his essay on History
says Of the ancient democracies tia,
its champions constantly urging its ex-
cellencies over other systems OF gov
eminent never took the trouble of de-
filming it, but on the contrary were con-
tipually directing measures against
liberty and all that made it valuable.
1t appears that a similar disposition
exists with us to content ourselves with
generalities while the residue Of liberty
left in the hands Of the people is a Ji-
minishing quantity.
Democracy in its method is govern
ment ~ public opinion measured by
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-19
|0LD FOLKS NEED
"CASCARETS" FOR
LIVER, BOWELS
Salts, calomel, pills act on bow.
els like pepper acts in
Enjoy life! Don't stay bilious,
sick, headachy and
constipated.

Get a 1o-cent box now.
Most old people must give to the
bowels some regular help, else they
suffer from constipation. The condi-
ton is perfectly natural. 1t is just as
natural as it is for old people to walk
slowly. For age Is never so active as
youth. The muscles are less elastic.
And the bowels are muscles.
So all old people need Cascarets.
One might as well refuse to aid weak
eyes with glasses as to neglect this
gentle aid to weak bowels. The bow
els must be kept active. This is i'm
portant at all ages, but never so much
as at fifty.
Age is not time for harsh physics.
Youth may occasionally whip the bow
els into activity. But lash can't be
used every day. What the bowels of
the old need is gentle and natural
tonic. One that can be constantly
used without harm. The only sucf,
tonic is Cascarets, and they cost only
lc cents per box at any drug store.
They work while you sieep.--Adv.
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Mothers! Don't Give Children
NauSe0uS Medicine for Colds

and lungs. In addition. the prepara-
ton is absorbed through and stimu-
lates the skin, taking out that tight
ness and soreness in the chest.
Today this treatment, known as
Vick's VapoRub. is universally used
throughout the south in preference to
internal dosing. BY arrangement with
the manufacturers the local druggists
are offering CSC jars on 80 days trial,
the purchase price to be refunded if
you are not delighted with the results.
You have to try VapoRub to realize
its remarkable effect, not only for deep
chest colds. sore throat. bronchitis or
incipient pneumonia. but for head
colds. asthmatic or catarrhal troubles.
Group is usually relieved within If
teen minutes and an application at
bedtime prevents night attack.
VapoRub Is particularly recon-
mended to mothers with small chill
dren as it is externally applied and
can therefore be used freely and often
with perfect safety on the smallest
member Of the family.-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-19

legislature extending or limiting sn0
public authority in terms Of the sea-
eral welfare.
1T is no BETTER says Lowell. "than
any other form of government except
as the intelligence and virtue OK the
people make it so.''
How shall public opinion be formed
and properly exerted If the agencies Tor
it's formation and expression are de-
MED?
In criticizing the German govern
ment for precipitating the war without
the consent of the German people.
President Wilson states as one of our
war aims that we shall fight for de-
mocracy-for the right of those VINO
submit to authority to have voice IN
their own governments statement
that gives the source and sanction OIL
public authority under democracy.
And yet there are supporters OF tne
administration who bark backward
over a stretch Of 100 years and more
to the proscriptive laws of Federalism
which would rule without the consent
Of the people and penalize persons Wht
express opinions in opposition to the
government Of the day. Premier George
challenges the opponents Of govern
ment measures to change the govern
ment if they are not satisfied.
Are we less democratic? Or does the
prevalence Of party over public spirit
cut off such a challenge to direct ac-
countability?
Under the true theory of democracy
as stated by the President. we still hole
the rights Of citizenship in free exercise
as a prior condition to the preform
ance Of our obedience as subjects. Ana
notwithstanding the advance of au'
tocracy in form and substance, we are
still a democracy able and willing d:
such to put forth our full moral ant
military strength in any war Of self
defense in which we may be engaged
J. /. WOODBURY..
Augusta. March II.
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K. H. JUNIOR
READING MONDAY

Kent's Hill, Me, March 1S.-A large and
appreciative audience gathered Monday
evening to enjoy the annual junior exhi-
hilton of the class, of 1919 in DeerinS
chapel.
The program was as follows: Inc
Meaning Of the Flag" president WILSON,,
Elwood Bean: The story of the Other
Wise Man. (Van Dyke. Alice Manter;
piano solo, THE Fantasia of D-Minor
(MozarD, Phyllis Megquier: John Mich
olas Of Spartenburg' (Anon). Wesley Nor
ris; 1.-THE Destiny OF Dan VIZ Samuel
Derieux), Evelyn Peacock: THE Ballad
of Clampherdown" 0ipling) Paul Tay-
lor; intermission: mixed quartet, 1.-The
Midshipmite" (Steyen Adams). Maud
Bryant. William Pound. Caroline Hous-
ton, Richard Hersom; The Rider Of the
Black Horse George Tippard). Marga-
tom (Anon). Merle Jones; violin duo
"The Hope March (Giudo PapinD, Alice
Manter, Merle Jones; Jean Desprez"
(Robert Service), Marion Chase; "Our
Travelled Parson' (Will Carleton). Nal.
colin Severson. The ushers We're Hazel
Tibbetts, Heloise Lovejoy. Wilbur Maxim
| Joseph Keith. The junior class officers
are: President, Marion Chase: vice pres
ident, Merle Jones; secretary. Phyllis
Megquier; treasurer. Joseph Keith
The speakers did full justice to their
selections and reflected credit upon the
efficient teacher of oratory, Miss Storms.
The musical numbers showed pansta king
practice and careful training by the
teachers in the school of music
School for the winter term closes this
week on Friday.
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undreamed- of wealth to the iumanian
and Russian peasants for bumper
crops this year-what are we going to
do to meet it?
people of Germany and Austria have
been previously deceived in the i'm
mediate results Of the. present cam
paign OF the war masters. The people
have been told that they were to have
abundance of food out Of Russia when
peace should be made with the
provinces that Germany wants. The
food is not forthcoming and the dis
content is yelling up again. Strikes
are spreading again and labor driven
back into the shops by the military,
refuse to work until they are fed.
OF course that is encouraging for US.
If the prevailing hunger in the central
nations would bring about crisis be-
fore this years crops can be raised.
then we'll and good, but we must not
expect it.
And again, the Teuton forces are
meeting unexpected resistance in Fin
land and in some Russian provinces.
More troops are called for to the east
and north. That is favorable for us,
for all the forces needed in Russia or
elsewhere in the present campaign will
draw from the western front.
Geneva dispatches also tell us that
entent air raids, giving the German
people some of their own medicine. is
terrorizing them, and that they are in
fight from the Rhine cities to central
Germany or into Switzerland.
All these things are encouraging but
they should not lead US to forget the
one big bet of America-unparalle
crops this year. TO do that every
farmer must exert every effort. and
possible source.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-19
OUR BOYS
= Write from %
OVER THERE

The following letter recently received
will interest the friends of Mr.. and Mrs
Damren of Belgrade.
My dear Mrs. Damren:-
While in France I had the pleasure Of
meeting and talking with your son
Clyde, who gave me your address that
1 might be able to send you this shori
message.
He was nicely located and in fine health
and spirits. He with other soldier boys
has plenty to wear and to eat and Is
safely sheltered. Our government is do
ing everything possible to safeguard the
health and morals OF our boys in France
and they are the best-cared for soldiers
in the world. / shall return to them the
first OF March.
His message to you is: Am we'll and
am keeping all OF my promises to you
Cordially yours.
GEORGE WOOD ANDERSON.
Permanent address, Rellefontaine, o.
Clyde L. Damren's home was in Bel
grade until four years ago when the fam
fly moved to North Fairfield. He enlisted
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dress-Washington address-to The
Congressional Club, 20o1 New Hamp-
shire Avenue, Washington, D. c."
Much already has been accomplished
to make life more liveables for young
women called to the national capital in
large numbers. but this movement gives
promise of better results, in that it will
open many desirable homes to the
young women and at the same time
vii! serve to acquaint the families of
the law makers with the problems of a.
highly intelligent but moderately paid
class of government service.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-19
ROBERT A. CONY
Ambition
Pills
For PeOpl

The great nerve tonic-the famos
Wendelps Ambition Pills-that will y
vigor. vim and vitality into neTo'
tired out, all in, Respondent people ID
few days in many instances.
Anyone can buy box for only
cents. and Bowditch- Webster CO.
authorized by the maker to refund y
purchase price IL anyone is dissaush''
with the first box purchased.
Thousands praise them for gepel
debility, nervous prostration, menu
depression and unstrung nerves cau'',
by over-indulgence in alcohol, tobac0
or overwork of any kind.
For any afiiiction of the nervous es'
tenn Wendel's Ambition Pills are "
surpassed. while for hysteria, trembna
and neuralgia they are simply splenoIs.
Fifty cents at Bowditch-Webste
and dealers everywhere.-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-19
Favorable Replies Coming In.

Dear Kay Jay:
| note the wall from pats &
Knocks" and your desire to assuago
his grief and alleviate his seedless con-
dition. Let him cheer up. He should
use his damaged peas for soup, his
beans for swagin, feed the balance to
the hens, to the end that nothing may
be wasted, and await action on this
end, which, through your earnest en-
treaty, will take the form of another
assortment Of Uncle Sans seeds
which will be sent in due time and
which hope will multiply enormously
But please tell your friends Pats" that
to do so they should be put in the
ground and not left on his desk.
The above letter needs no explana
ton other than to say that Congress is
beginning to respond to the critical
need at Portland.
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Maine GOSSIP
Tho jolly Old World

The stars are out and the night is here,
The moon is up and the sky is clear,
The glass goes round and the chant Of
cheer.
and We heed not dark nor dawn.
There's comrades hand and COM
rades song,
And there is no woe and there is no
wrong,
We laugh and we love the whole night
long
And the jolly old world rolls on,
But the day may dawn with leaden sky,
The lips that sing may learn to sign.
The moon may fade and the stars may
die
And the laugh and the glass be gone.
We may walk our way with an aching
heart
With the scars that scar and the wounds
that smart,
The love and the laugh from our lives
depart
But the jolly old world rolls on.
Douglas Malloch, in the American
Lumberman.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-19
. HEAD STUFFED FROM
CATARRH OR A COLD
Says Cream Applied in Nostrils
Opens Air Passages Right Up.

instant ielitA--nO waiting. Your
clogged nostrils open right up; the air
passages of your head clear and you
can breathe freely. No more hawking
snuffiing, blowing, headache, dryness
No struggling for breath at night;
your cold or catarrh disappears.
Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream
Balm from your druggist now. Apply
little of this fragrant, antiseptic
healing cream in your nostrils. 1t pen
etrates through every air passage of
the head, soothes the indamed or swol-
len mucous membrane and relief comes
instantly.
It's just fine. Don't stay stuffed up
with a cold or nasty catarrh.-Adv.
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Railroads and Steamboats,
MAINE CENTRAL R. R.
In Effect January 20, 1918.
TRAINS LEAVE AUGl
-

TRAINS LEAVE AUGUSTA
.-..::.,...,., GOING WEST-3.05 A. M,
IvHT2I Portland and Boston; n
AtsllA36 .18 A. NJ, Pennington.
IkW3skd:(N Bath, Rockland, Portland,
:2{fI!:t.1 Boston. Montreal and Que
sse.e.e.e.9 bee; 9.36 A. NJ, Bruins wick,
Portland, Boston; $40 z. NJ. local; 4.05 p.
NJ, (express) Brunswick, Lewiston, Port
land, Boston; SIS p. NJ, Hallowell, Gar
diner and So. Gardiner; 1852 p. NJ, Lewis
ton, Bath. Portland, Boston. Sundays
3.O5 and l015 A. M, $40 and 1852 p. NJ,
Portland and Boston.
GOING castillo A. NJ, Bangor. 81.
John, Halifax. Sunday morning at 1.lo
A. NJ, does not connect beyond Bangor:
225 A. NJ, for Waterville. Bangor, Bar
Harbor, Calais and Aroostook Co.; $50 A.
NJ, local TO Belfast. Bangor and Skowhe-
gan; K 1.O2 noon, Waterville; 2E P. M
express to Waterville; thence local to Bel,
fast, Harmony, Dover and Foxcroft and
Bangor and Mattawamkeag; 7.3l +: M
Waterville and Bangor. Sundays LIS A.
NJ; $3.50 A. NJ. $40 T. NJ. for Watervilie,
Pittsfield and Bangor.
Trains leave Augusta for HalloweI.
Gardiner and South Gardiner at 6.1S, 9.35
A. NJ, $40, SIS, 1852 Z. NJ, Hallowell an
Gardiner only 405 P. NJ. Gardiner only
3.O5 A. NJ daily except Monday.
* viii not run Mondays. February 4th
to March 25th inclusive.
NJ. l.. HARRIS, Gen'l Passenger Agt.
D. c. Douglass. Genl Mgr. Portland. Me.
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An Appeal to the People Of Augusta.

| Naked children, shivering women
and decrepit men by the thousands are
being turned away from the empty
storehouses Of Belgium and Northern
France. The rich and the poor alike
are in dire need of all kinds Of wearing
apparel Money would avail them
nothing. for there are no raw materials
| to be purchased. To meet the present
need. not less than 5000 tons Of cloth
ing must be collected and sent on its
way to those empty storehouses during
the week of March 1925. Augustus
share is seven tons.
| People Of Augusta, there is room for
all the clothing you can give. On your
generosity alone rests the responsibility
for thousands of lives. More than half
the children in these destitute districts
were born in caves and dugouts IN vii
lagos that had been shot to pieces and
were continually under fire. Neither
doctors nor midwives had survived, but
other mothers had assisted at the
births, while the ground rocked with
the shock of cannon and the air was
filled with the Shrek Of shells.
People of Augusta. give Of your
wealth or Of your poverty-but give!
| Don't forget that in some places
whole families sleep together to share a
single blanket.
Don't forget that thousands Of new
born babes are swaddled in rags--or in
nothing at all.
! Don't forget that many of these babes
are motherless.
! Don't forget that the majority of
these babes are fatherless.
A great opportunity and great re-
sponsibility confronts the people OF
! Augusta. The imperative needs Of the
defenceless and the helpless of two
stricken nations have been placed be-
fore us by those who have made per
sonal investigation. The facts are be-
yond question. Our responsibility is
measured by our ability to relieve. To
withhold boots and shoes and clothing
when men. women and children are
dying for want of them, would be to
place ourselves as Indifferent to suffer-
ing in class with the invaders and
murderers Of the helpless. | am sure
that none of these conditions will OBJ
tain in Augusta-rather will we go to
our traders and buy new clothing-and
am equally sure that the measure of
our giving will be limited only by
what we have.
Read the appeal for the relief of
these people in the Kennebec Journal
of Saturday morning. Find out what is
wanted. what is worthless, and then let
us begin at the farthest room in the
highest attic and go through every room
in Augusta and take every article for
which we have no immediate use to
J our tSTS VI W tllc TOOul
in the Purinton Block Every minister
in Augusta has received a letter ask
ing him to appoint committee to act
for this relief in his parish and they
will be glad to furnish you any in
structionS or suggestions.
There is no doubt in my mind that
the response of the citizens of Augusta
will be so generous and prompt that
the committee at the Red Cros head
quarters will secure every pound of the
seven tons required from this division.
| HENRY z. DUNNACK.
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from Gardiner in Co. G where he was
work at the time the call came for
unteers. His mother and other menoe
OF the family circle have received sevs'
letters from him since he has been o
there. 4
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Fifteen years ago a North Carolina
Druggist discovered a process of com
bining the old-fashioned remedies,
Camphor. Turpentine and Menthol,
form, so that when applied over the
throat and chest the body heat would
release these ingredients in the form
Of vapors. These vapors, breathed in
all night long. carry the medication,
with each breath, to the air passages
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-19
Local Druggists Are Offering an
Outside" Treatment on
80 Days Trial

Children's Stomachs Are Delicate
Easily Upset by Constant Internal
Dosing.-The Best Way to Prevent
Colds is to Allow the Children Reg
ular Out Door Exercise-keep PIen
ty Of Fresh Air in the Bedroom at
Night. and, at the First Sign OF
Trouble, Apply the Southern Ex-
ternaI Vapor Treatment.
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Mr. and Mrs Henry Palmer of Corn
VILE celebrated their 5Oth wedding ami
versary Sunday with a happy family
gathering at their home in the Revere
section. Mr.. Palmer is a well-known and
successful farmer now nearing the sos.
They have six children and II grand
bert and J. y. Smith of Skowhegan and
Daniel Smith Of Boston. Mass.
That the war will last two years and
possibly more was the opinion which
Representative Julius Kahn of California
and United States Commissioner Richard
w. Hale of Boston shared in their ad-
dressse before the members of the Port
land Economic Club at a dinner Satur-
day night.
George Barbour. who was believed to
be the second oldest man in Cumberland
county died Saturday night at the home
of his daughter, opposite the house he
was born in, on Bridgton road, West
brook at the age Of 81. Mr.. Barbour was
born Oct. 4, 1923, the youngest son Of
David and Mary (BracketD Barbour, be-
ing a descendant on his mothers side of
the Brac ketts who were among the early
settlers of Portland He was one of five
children, all of whom are now dead He
married Thlena Leighton of Highland
Lake on Dec. 10, 1859. and she died Jan.
he
only child, Mrs. Willis Sawyer. Mr.. Bar
bour early learned the trade of stone
mason and for years carried on an ex-