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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-05-09
EAST Sk0WHEGAN

Bernard Rancourt is moving his
family from the George Steward farm
to Wateryille where he will make it
his home.
Mrs. Fred Nye is spending a few
days with her mother Mrs. S. L. Pooler
Henry Oaks has bought work
horse of Skowhegan parties
A few farmers Of this place turned
their cattle out for the first time last
Sunday morning.
A box social will be held at the
Richardson schoolhouse Saturday
evening, May Is. We want every
body to come and bring a box
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-05-09

started on a quilt which the ladies
are planning to finish at an all day
meeting at Mrs Charles Tuttles later
on. They worked until late in the
afternoon and some over twenty
SQUARES were completed for the quilt.
Miss Ara Pike came from Waterville
to Lydia Curriers' April q, to ac
company her mother home, who has
been visiting With Miss Currier thru
the winter months. George Bates
carried them to Skowhegan Wednes
day the Sth.
Mrs. Austin Collins is staying at
Frank l.. Nights where her husband
is working.
Miss Lenora Bates who holds a po-
sition as stenographer in Bath. arriv
ed home last Sunday morning to make
a short visit with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Bates.
Supt. Carl Rhoades was in town last
week looking after school interests
Mrs. Gurdy completed her services
at Nelson Towle's and left there last
week
MIR. and Mrs Harlow Rowell and
family made trip to Madison by auto
last Sunday to visit their son Howard
who has employment there
Fred Libby is saving the wood
piles in the neighborhood with his gas
oline engine.
Allan Dysart. a student of Somer-
set Academy is staying with Mrs Mary
Davis for a while helping her about
the garden.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Chase, who have
been in town on a brief visit went to
New Hampshire last week, where they
have employment.
Elmer Worthen was the guest of
his sister Mrs. F. NJ Tufts last Mon
day.
Newley Hayden carried part of the
Somerset Academy ball team to North
Arson in his auto last Friday to play
with the high school team there. The
game resulted with a score of Is to s
in favor of the Athens team
Earl Fowler returned from Cam
den last Monday, where he has been
on a few days visit with his parents, !
Mr.. and Mrs Ernest Fowler.
Mrs. Annie McIntire received word !
from Portland. Monday. that her faith
err was seriously i'll with pneumonia |
and for her to go to Portland at once. (.
Forrest Bosworth has just recover
ed from the German measles.
Ora Harville finished saving shing-
les at his mill last week.
Mrs. Forrest Bosworth received !
word Monday of the death of her
brothers wife, Mrs. Lemuel Bowden
Corporal Lester E Walker of the
Expeditionary Force, Somewhere in
France. writes Clarence Tufts that he
is feeling we'll and healthy after be-
ing in the trenches and giving whack
or two at Fritz He also states that
his company is being filled up with
another division of men
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-05-09
OAK NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

Friends of Mrs Ann TAYLOR will be
pleased to learn that she is very much
improved In health since coming to
the home of Mrs. e. II. Bates Last
Sunday she was able to ride out with
Mrs Bates. making dooryard calls on
Mrs Ira Taylor and Mrs. w c. Fletch-
er. Mrs. Taylor has also taken a few
steps alone and uses her right hand
now quite easily when eating or writ
ing. She will be SO years old the
10Th of August but has very good
courage and is trying hard to regain
her health and strength and we sin
ccrely hope she may.
Mrs. O. G. Taylor returned to her
home Wednesday of last week from
Mercer, where she has been assisting
in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Wells
for three weeks past during the ill
ness and death of Mr. Wells.
w. c Fletcher and Mrs Fannie A.
Cleveland were in Skowhegan on bust
ness Thursday of last week
George Grant returned home last
Saturday from Lewiston, where he has
been employed during the winter in a
bobbin mill
Mrs o. c. Taylor attended the COM
mittee meeting held in Norridgewock
last Saturday for the Red Cross.
Mrs Ed. Holway is slowly recover
ing from her serious illness of a few
weeks ago. We understand that Mr..
and Mrs. Holway have sold their
home and will shortly move into the
village.
A. n Whitehouse did some carpen-
ter work last week for Chas. Corson
in Mercer.
for George Harlow in NorridgeWock.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-09-15

measures Halfway measures won't push our bovs across the Nne up to us buy bonds with every uninvestcd dollar we oWn plus every dollar by careful frugal living tor SIX months come.
 con nave to pay all cash for your bonds You make you nrse payment from cash the bank and take of the oaAnee out Of your daily weekly monthly savings. ne forced saving you do now will mean nice nest egg l e you buy now and pay for you 70 along, WIZ every SIX months After the war; the bonds will be worth mes
 you paia TOT them Don't hesitate do yohr duty and d0 U qu'eA'y' Don't let the SON % down j.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-09-15

Believing that it is the duty of every person who enjoys the freedom and privileges of citi- zenship in our great Country to do his utmost to help win the war, the following firms and in dividuals have patriotically con tributed the money to pay for this and other advertisements of tue Fourth Liberty Loan:
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-09-15

On these days everyone will be given opportunity step up and buy bonds without being solicited Places will be designated where volunteer subscriptions will be received These places will be announced'n the papers and signs Your card will be on file there Cards of those who do volunteer will be used for active solicitation which will begin Monday sr tcmber 3Oth No one will be overlooked
 10 not watt tor some one to after subscription Show that yo too, volunteer for your Countrys service just as our boys Cover there' did.
 rgure out now the very maximum you subscribe ready when Volunteer Days come. This is no lime far b a
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-11
CREEL, THE PHARISEE

characteristic OF American thought.
IF they were America would not he
worth q drop of good red blood.
American common sense can take no
satisfaction in the fact that we did
not Judge the course of future events
and prepare against storm whose
black clouds were covering the
heavens. That virtue. that peaceful
intentions require refusal to pre-
pare against aggression Is = part OF
the sentimental twaddle OF pacinsts.
But American common sense repudl-
ates the moral cowardice and mawk-
ish altruism which fear to possess
power lest 1t be abused.
'"To have been prepared would
have given the lie to everything we
ourselves believed in and to our sell.
ayowed position before the world
Thus speaks Mr.. George Creel. For
whom? Since when has the Ameri-
can republic approved this folly OF
neurotic pacifism? 1t is true we
have neglected to foresee our re-
sponsibilities and to prepare for
them. But from ignorance and pre-
occupation, not from the blunder
headed perversion Of duty set forth
by the non-resistants and by Mr..
George Creel.
AS for Mr.. CreePs moral glorifca-
ton over our unpreparedness, the
American sense of decency, OF
loyalty, of duty can only be nause-
ated by it-and especially at such
time as this. No sane and honorable
American can feel anything but grief
and bitter regret that the vast power
of America is not today a mighty
bulwark of our cause In the great
battle in France Tens of thousands
Of good men and true lie dead on
that field. In tens of thousands OF
homes in friendly lands there Is
anguish today for that great sacrifice.
In every responsible mind there Is
anxiety lest this sacrifice should not
avail our common cause. And this
loss in life and military position,
with it's grave Impairment OF our
allies resistance. is possible because
America is not yet ready to do her
share.
Against the thunder of the guns.
the cries of those who fight and suf-
fer and die for our cause, Mr.. George
Creel. snug and safe in Washington,
speaks his pride that America is not
ready! Noble is altruism at some
one else's expense.
This is pacifist logic and morality
But 1t does not express the common
sense and conscience of America. II
that common sense and conscience
could be concentrated in one rough
shod boot. It would kick this preten-
tious pharisee across the Atlantic
into No Mans land
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-11
WHERE'S THE STEEL?

It is disturbing to read in Washington des-
patch that lack of steel plates is holding up inc
s. IF building program If tits statement be
true, the fact disclosed wiki occasion surprise as
we'll as disappointment. While no official as
suranoe has been given, it was believed that the
supply of ship steel was ample, and this belief
was strengthened by the announcement that the
government was about to consent to the ship
ment of plates to Japan. While no direct state
ment can be obtained from Washington, it has
been learned that the shortage of steel at the
yards is due at least in measure to the fact
that the war department and the navy depart
ment have representatives at the steel plants OF
the country having ship plate contracts. The
obvious inference is that these departments got
the steel they have ordered, while the shipping
board is less fortunate It is said in fact, that
neither the ordnance bureau nor the navy de
partment has suffered delay The shipping
board s recent forecast is worthless if the board
cannot get the steel needed to carry out its pro-
gram. It is time for clear statement from the
government about the outlook for ships. The
country is optimistic, but it wants the facts.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-11
ARE REALLY ONE PEOPLE.

Never before, says Professor Brander Mat
thews. of Princeton university, was our Ian
guage the native speech of two great nations
politically distinct and more than once political
]y hostile to each other He refers of course to
the vast British empire and the mighty repub-
lie which has sprung from its loins. 1t is a
unique phenomenon new to history; and yet
when we look more closely into the matter do
we not find that community of ideals and in
terests and a substantial identity in language
and much else make the two peoples practical
ly one family?
1t is true that they live some distance apart
on their continental estates and manage these
according to their own ideas. But this con-
duces to their harmonious relations. They are
too far away for friction over petty matters
besides which they come of tolerant racial
strain. There is nothing that is narrow or hide
bound about them. Each comedies to the other
and to everyone for that matter-the right
he claims for himself of thinking and acting as
he sees fit They are in fact adult sons and
daughters of the same stock who have outgrown
the childishness which would impose a practice
or a system of thought on the other or on anv-
BODY else But in the fundamentals of right
living they are in accord. Both of them abol-
ished human slavery and then joined hands to
stamp it out in the rest of the world On the
whole therefore they seem to be rather one peo-
pie than two. Each is proud of the other and
will fight for him whenever that seems the
needfu thing to do. One would not see the
other crushed and could not afford to- for the
enemy of one would naturally be the enemy of
both 1t seems probable that their common
language has contributed more than anything
else to this excellent understanding; for see
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-11
SECRETARY OF. STATE ALLEN.

Burlington Hawk-Eye: The press of
the state is saying many commenda-
tory things of Secretary of State AL
lens candidacy for the republican
nomination for that Office. No one
challenges his efficiency and the Chart
ton Herald-Patriot reminds the voters
OF Iowa Of reasons incident to the war
and the vastly increased business of
the Office why the present incumbent
should be reelected
THE only opposition to Secre
tary Allen" says the Herald
Patriot, comes from the fact that
he has had the office three terms,
a fact which should strengthen
him at a time when state and ma
ton need the best service to be
had in positions of trust and re-
sponsibility. 1t IS conceded freely
: that Secretary Allen has conduct
ed the Office over which he pre-
sides with the utmost fairness and
courtesy to all, that as a business
institution it is the biggest and
best. managed in the state, that
the present incumbent has organ
lied 1t successfully and aided ma
terially in its great growth until
today the Office Is in close touch
with every county and every school
district in the state. There is abb
solutely no fault found or limited
at concerning the conduct of the
office; there can be none. The
sole COMPLAINT lodged against Sec
rotary Allen is that he has held
the office long enough and this
complaint is lodged by men who
are ambitious to gain the nomina-
ton and serve in his stead With
out criticising any of these men in
the slightest way We can say with
truth that they could never excel
the record made by Secretary AL
len And we can also truthfully say
that it is our firm belief that W. S.
Allen will receive the nomina-
ton in the June primary He has
many, many friends in every
county and these friends helped
to give him the biggest vote ever
cast for any candidate for office
in Iowa at the election two years
ago. They have not forgotten
him since that time and will be
On hand June Sd TO see that he is
once more the successful man
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-11
The Newspaper Reporter.

Grass Valley, Calf, Union: The
newspaper reporter performs a valu-
able service that is not always ap-
preciated by the public so highly as
it should be. The typical American
reporter is keenly intelligent. tire
lessly energetic. unfailingly depend
able and remarkably resourceful. He
does a big work well in circun-
stances that oftentimes try his soul.
The faithful reporter has no easy
task. The intelligence and accuracy
with which his work is done, often
under high pressure and in the face
of great difficulties. entitle his func-
tioning to the respect OF the public
and the appreciation of the millions
of American newspaper readers who
have the benefit of the excellent out
put Of the reporters assiduous brain.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-11

Chicago Tribune: At this moment
when the cause to which America is
pledged is sustained alone by. the
bloody sacrifice of our allies, Mr..
George Creel rises to remark that:
Il will be proud to my dying day
that my country was inadeQuately
prepared when it entered the con-
fiict"
This ineffable declaration is an
echo of Mr.. Bakers admission OF
some months ago to the effect that
there had been confusion in our
military affairs at the outset of the
war, but that it was "a happy con-
FUSION" proving we were not plan
ming war.
We do not think so i'll of Mr..
Baker as to believe he is in the
same pharisaical frame of mind to-
day. He has had the privilege OF
looking into the tragic countenance
of France. He knows now in some
degree at least what she has paid
during the years she and her allies
have defended the cause alone.
But il Mr.. Baker is not still happy
in that, Mr.. George Creel is.
Mr.. George Creel is able to be
happy because he Is occupying
situation 5000 miles from the front.
Mr.. George Creel is able to be happy
because he has job which is as
safe as it Is conspicuous, and, as we
are told, influential.
If Mr. George Creel were at this
moment in front line trench we
are certain that Mr.. George Creers
dying day" might be nearer, but his
pride in the unpreparedness Of his
country for war would be proportion
ately farther OF.
What Mr.. Creel is proud of would
in normal circumstances be of quite
negligible importance. But his re-
puted intimate access to the presi-
offensive and to self-respecting Amer
leans most humiliating signifi-
canoe. We would not otherwise take
the trouble to repudiate anything he
chooses to say.
But there has been too much Of
the spirit expressed by Mr.. Creel in,
this war government. 1t is at the
source Of the worst blunders of the
administration. Mr.. Baker lived for
months in an atmosphere of moral
self-satisfaction which was an OBJ
struction to swift and energetic prac-
teal action. The confusion he saw
about him pleased his moralistic
pacifism. Garfield, In another field,
was so pleased to win an Imaginary
moral victory over coal profteers
that he gave little attention to the
danger that coal would not be pro-
duced While he and his like were
applauding themselves for their
moral superiority, America was fall
ing behind in her duty. And now
we have Creels utterance at mo-
ment when the cost of Americas
backwardness is burning into the
consciousness Of every decent Ameri-
can from the blood drenched, flame
lit battlefield in France.
Mr. George Creers notions are not
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-11
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
A PASSE R-BY.

WHITTIER o splendid ship, thy white sails crowdng
Leaning the bosom of the urgent west,
That fearest not rising, crowding,
Whittier away, fair rover, and what thy quest?
All. when winter has all wales oppressed.
When skies cold and misty and hah is hurting,
Wilt thou glide on the blue Pacific, rest
In summer haven asleep thy white sails turling
thee the country that well thou
Already arrived, inhalng the odorous air;
watch thee enter unerrngy where thou goest,
And anchor, queen of the strange shipping there,
Thy sails for awnings spread, thy rnasts bare;
Nor aught from the foaming in the snowcapped
grandest
Peak that is the feathery palms, more fair
Than thou upright stately and still thou standest
And yet o splendid ship. INHALED and nameless,
know not If, aiming at fancy, l rightly divine
That thou hast purpose joyful blauleless,
Thy port assured in happier land than mine
But for all have given thee, beauty enough is thine,
AS thou aslant with trim tackle and shrouding-
From proud nostr a prows line
In offng forth thy white sails crowdfng
Robert Bridges.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-11
SUFFER-, ILL.
, . >>>~>>>~>>>~A

Chief Gunner Waite mazda -.
speech at the Suffer hall Fr,a.s
evening. A large crowd attended a'
A dance was given at the Su,,..
hall Tuesday evening.
The Liberty measles are Aroma,
now.
Mrs. Edward aIutchison and Nh
Ralph Jones were West Point calla,.
Wednesday.
Hermon Whiuedge was among ON,
boys who left for military training
Joe Fry is i'll with the measles
A service flag will be placed !.
the Suffer school In memory for an.
boys who have left
"a We had q nice rain SATURDAY
Caples jenkins and lady friend
spent Sunday evening with RAIN
Jones and family.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-11
The Farmhand's Pay.

Hampton Chronicle: When 1t
comes to being able to save and lay
up money the farm employee is going
to have 1t all over the average city
clerk this year. The farm labor ad-
ministrator OF Illinois has compiled
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-11

how soon a group within our country which
clings to an alien tongue comes to be out OF
touch and inimical to the rest. In any event.
we never had more reason than now to be proud
of our kinsmen. They have staked all they
have for human freedom; nor did they ever
have better reason to be proud OF US.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-11

job on the farm ID equal to ona !.
ing STA month In the CITY ~ ~
$55 Job on the farm is as good u :.
one paying 1924 month in the ~
and there are quite numbe, !.
farmhands getting $50 and 4.
month in this state this year wv
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-11

In the belief that q thief will b.
less likely to steal hand baggage that
has no handle upon 1t, an inyento,
has patented detachable handle 70,
suit cases.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-11
Teachers Job.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Why M.
make q drill sergeant out Of tina
great American schoolma'am? Isn't
1t her business to teach the youur
idea how to shoot?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-11

Des Moines Register: The fellow
who finds no better use for his extra
hour of daylight than the discussion of
politics isn't doing much to help wal
lop the Hun.
White Lake Standard: There is an
agitation in some quarters for letting
down the bars to hunting and fishing
during bigger portions of the year I'M
der the argument that thereby the
available food supply. so essential at
this time, would be greatly increased.
1t would be about as sensible to argue
that we should increase the food sup
ply by using up all the seed wheat for
food instead Of sowing it. No. we
don't believe that any friends Of food
conservation are back Of the move
ment to kill of the fish and game.
Marshalltown Times-Republican
The democratic vets went back on
Ed Meredith to man; how are they
that bone dry candidate, Claude
Porter?
Sioux City Journal: The success of
the Overman bill cannot be said to be
assured. however. until the Cummins
amendment is introduced.
Perry Chief: There are still few
farmers who insist upon trying to
raise chickens on the highways. The
fowls run over by autos would more
than pay for fence.
Mason City Times: The Germans
may be able to shoot seventy miles,
but they might fight seventy years and
still fail to secure the world-domina-
ton they are so eager for.
Waterloo Courier: Censorship of
news from the front is proving not
the bugaboo that was feared. True,
in newspaper offices, in the rush of the
day where every minutes is worth an
hour. absence of complete informa-
ton all from one source is the cause
of considerable fret and profanity, but
in the end the people are finding out
Just what they want to know, and all
they want to know.
Mason City Globe-Gazette: Add
Lenroot's vote and the democratic
vote at the primaries and deduct the
Thompson vote and the Berger vote
and you will have about the percent
age Of American and pro-German
sentiment in Wisconsin. OF course.
personality entered in the contest
somewhat
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-11

When say woman's unsocabe, it's just
conceit, il you understnd me, and more
than they're tnsociabie to ourselves But party here
and there finds something interesting than and
better company and uplifting the mind and sooth
ing to the why shouldn't he seek t?-Eden Phil
potts.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-11

When Switzerland gets her new canal built,
she will be more vitality interested in the free
dom Of the seas than ever.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-11

Unquestonably Bolo Pasha would now like
to appeal to The Hague tribunal, if only his
Teutonic friends had not so completely caused
a cessation in its activities.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-11

It will never be said of the kaiser that he is
loved for the enemies he has made.