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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-13

COAL AND WOOD
HAMILTON & CO.-SO Wa
ter St., Hallowell. Tel. TT
Augusta Tel. ST..
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-13

LAUNDRY (Wet Wash)
MODEL WET WASH
LAUNDRY-18 Beech St.,
Gardiner. Tel. 75-M. Fam
lily wet wash work a spe-
cialty.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-13

DRUGGIST
SPAULDIN PHAR-
MACY-152 Water St., Hal
lowell. Tel. 802-W.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-13
ICHINA AND SILVERWARE
SWIFT & TURNER-193
Water St. Tel. II. Full
line of kitchen furnishings.

CLEANING, PRESSING AND
REPAIRING
FRANK I. FOSTER-263
Water st. Tel. Con. Ladies
tailor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-13
ART EMBROIDERS AND
NOVELTIES
HINCKLEY e. O'CONNELL
-231 Water st. Tel. 225
w. Greeting cards.
ATTORNEY
CONY, ROBERT A.-Opera
House Block, Augusta, Me-
Tel. 400.

ATTORNEY-AT- LAW AND
NOTARY PUBLIC =
FARRIS, RALPH W.-Ma-
sonic Temple, Augusta, Me.
Tel. 11-21-M.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-13

FURRIERS
BARKER, H. G.-207 Water
st. Tel. 491-W. The prov
en- value givers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-13

LAUNDRY (Wet Wash)
CAPITAL WET WASH
LAUNDRY-9O Mt. Vernon
Ave. Tel. 415-M. Wet wash
work a speciality.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-13

CLOTHIERS, MEMS
BEANIE & CROSS-23S
Water St. Tel. 326-M. The
home of Hart Schaffner &
Marx and up to date mems
wear.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-13

GENERAL CONTRACTORS
FROST, o. B. & CO.-Cor.
Grove and Higgins SITS. Tel.
159-W. T
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-13

NOTARY PUBLIC
CONY, ROBERT A.-Opera
House Block, Augusta, Me.
Justice of the peace. Tel.
400.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-13

In case Of Axe call 20
All signals blown 4 times
22-Main Ave.
st.
25-Water st. from Depot Square and
Main Ave. to NJ. c. r. r. Depot
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-13
GARDINER

FURNITURE DEALER
AMESBURY TWOMBLY
CO.-372 Water St. Store
Tel. 79-M; F. L. Amesbury,
Res. 222-W; H. F. Twom-
bly,, Res. 333-W.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-13

AUTOMOBILE REPAIRING
IN ALL ITS BRANCHES
CHASE BROTHERS GA
RAGE-294 State St. Tel.
427. Winter overhauling all
work, rs cents per hour.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-13
CASH MARKET
SMITH & SMITH-3O4 Wa
ter St. Tel. 140. Fish,
meats and groceries.

CHIROPRACTOR
JOSEPH E. HUBERT, D. C.
New Purington Block, Wa
ter st. opp. M. C. r. r. Sta
ton. Hours 1912 A. M;
1.S0-5.30 P. M. Daily. Tues,
Thurs, Sat. evenings, 7-8 P.
NJ.
oct13-o0
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-13

GENERAL TRUCKING
HARRINGTON, w. Dbl
Main Ave. Tel. 73-W.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-13

ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR
WEBER & CHURCH-114
Oak St., Earle Church, Prop.
Tel. 829-M. Agents for cleo
trio farm lighting plants and
water systems.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-13

WALL PAPER AND PAINTS
DUDLEY, F. C.-35 Cony
St. Tel. 1O39-M.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-13
MEATS AND GROCERIES
DOYON, EDWARD-5O Mill
St. Tel. 372-W.

LIGHTING FIXTURES AND
VACUUM CLEANERS
WEBER & CHURCH
Earle Church, Prop. All
kinds of electrical appliances.
See our display of lighting
fixtures before you buy.
III Oak st. Tel. 829-M.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-13

JUNK-JUNK-JUNK
MAX GOLDBERG & SONS
We buy junk, wholesale
and retail, scrap iron, metal,
rags, rubbers and paper.
Office, AL Water st. Tel.
416-R; Res. 416-W, Gardi-
ner.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-13
COAL AND WOOD
HARRINGTON, w. Dill
Main Ave., Gardiner. Tel.
73-W.

DRUGGIST
MANSON E. CHURCH-Cor.
Bridge & Water Sts., Gardi-
ner. Tel. 327-W.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-13

MEATS AND GROCERIES
SCOTT BROTHERS & co.
46 Main Ave., Gardiner. Tel.
379.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-13
PAINTER, PAPER HANGER
AND DECORATOR
DUDLEY, F. C.-35 Cony
st. Tel. 1O39-M.

PLUMBING AND HEATING
COGAN, j. H., CO.-187 Wa
ter St. Tel. 80.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-13

GENERAL CONTRACTORS
HOXIE, C. E.-42 State st.
Tel. 254-R.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11
UP THE WRONG TREE

IF THE radical element in the unions
and the Bolshevists de luxe of journal
ism wanted proof of the general Ameri
can distaste for class laws of any sort
they have had plenty of it in the last
week. Congress was not stampeded bv
the menacing attitudes of Mr.. Stone and
Mr.. Morrison. The President was not
stampeded. The men in the railway shop
unions who broke ranks, defed their
leaders and quit work in true soviet
fashion find themselves now humiIiated
and without the support of any element
of opinion in the United States. There
is an obvious anxiety on the part of the
brotherhood leaders to prove that their
state of mind is far more temperate than
that which Mr.. Stones ultimatum sup-
gested.
Whoever has been advising the rail
way men has been a poor judge of the
American temper. With their earlier
aggressive tactics the brotherhoods won,
hands down. In this instance they have
lost and the apologetic tone of the later
statements from the railway mems lead
ers show that they know it. They lost
not only in Congress and at the White
House, but with the public at large,
which is not eager for muddling expert
ments with a sort of political radicalsm
that has left most of Europe PROSTATE,
hungry and economically helpless.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11
UNASHAMED PROFITEERS

ON THE same day that the President
" was telling Congress that the price
of wheat could be kept down by restrict
ing expectations a delegation of repre-
sentatives from farmers organizations
appeared before the Senate committee on
agriculture demanding that the guar
antee price of 1925 bushel for wheat be
removed.
The farmers are asking that the guar
anteed price be abandoned, not in order
to benefit the public, but to benefit them
selves. They are saying that if left to
itself wheat would sell for 81 or IS a
bushel, and they want that price. Under
present conditions they stand to lose a
billion dollars this year, they say. They
want TO get the billion. And the senators
and representatives from the wheat
growing states are pledging their sup
port to the demand for S5 wheat.
This Is a profteering plea which, if
made by the packers or by the Gamers,
would he met by fierce denunciation and
threats of prosecution. But the farmers
can make it with impunity. The Lever
food-control law exempts them from the
boarding prohibitions. The Kenyon
hackers license bill exempts them from
all restrictions placed upon the handlers
of meat The antitrust laws exempt
them from the prohibitions against COM
binInejg restraint Of trade. The farm
ess ARE . privileged class, and they will
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11
Member of the Associated Press
ANDREW CARNEGIE.

CARNEGIE was one sort of man when
~ he was making his money, engineer
ing mergers and maintaining at Home
stead & theory of industrial operation
which, from the viewpoint of labor, was
pitiless and destructive and, in the end.
enscientifc. He was another sort of
individual later along, when, after his
retirement, he had time to move off from
his completed work and view it whole.
His life, like that of great many other
captains of industry in America, proves
that men of his type learn as they go
along-and that they often learn late.
Carnegie was ruthless at the outset
because he was uniformed. He had
nothing of what we have come to speak
of as the social consciousness. This may
have been because he himself was hard
driven and without the time or the
ability necessary to a complete under
standing of the responsibilities that fall
naturally to leaders of men in world
of new aspirations. Some of the bit
terest strikes ever organized in this state
occurred at Homestead during the Car
negie regime. Industrial combinations
terests were inspired by the Carnegie
example. Yet it was Carnegie who later
sincerely tried to do something practical
in the interest of world peace, and
Carnegie who, in the legal wars waged
among his successors, refused to help
chem in efforts to sustain rules of con-
duct which he himself had taught
When a man acquires great power and
almost limtless money before he &C
luires disciplined mind, great many
things are likely to go awry in his life.
Carnegie was not popular. That, prob
ably, was because he became an old man
before he was able to realize the import
or the consequences of many Of his acts.
The Rockefeller of today is not the
Rockefeller of yesterday There are
great many other seemingly ruthless
men in America who, as they go along,
will become wiser-and sadder-men.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11
A WORLD MELODIST

DUGGIERO LEONCAVALLO'S mon
~ ument was wrought in enduring form
long before he died. Grand opera is a
pretentious art, and Judging from its
costliness in this country it is still an
exotic Occasionally, however, it falls
to the composers lot to fashion a melody,
seldom more than one or two, which cap
lures the globe. Verdi did this with the
Dukes air in "Rigoletto," Gounod with
the "SOdicrs' Chorus" in Faust" and
LeOncavallo with at least two numbers
in the highly colorcd operate meodrama
Il Pagliacci."
The Italian musicians name was rel
atvely unknown, the name of his vivid
score was chronically mispronounced, but
every one of his countrymen is ac-
quainted with the stirring theme of the
eProloguc" and the ringing measures of
the Lament" while to Americans they
are almost as well known as "My Old
Kentucky Home" or the "Suwanee
River" Caruso made the betrayed
clown, central figure of the little opera,
a standard stage figure and the phono
graphs did the rest with his music.
AS an arLlSL LeonCaVallO was perhaps
inferior to many of his contemporaries.
He never Registered" cmphatically with
any other work save his Calabran music
play. His "Zingari," produced in the
Campanini regime was a wretched fail
ure. But in "Pagliacci" he sang with
inspiration and virility, and the whole
world took up the tune. 1t was a per-
For,oopco which No trihuto 70 hic ppm-
ory, however C"andiose, can surpass.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11
BREAKING THE NEWS

THE first few months when John was
l. oversee
1t seemed dream that he had gone from me,
hailed the postman every time in sight
For just little news that all was right.
The next few months while John was "over
there" s
Somehow, don't know why, I didn't care
So much. because I missed his company,
Nor did grieve lest he'd forgotten me.
The last few months, while John was still
in France.
] firted with the boys, yes, every chance
That came my way (and they were not
few y
OF gallant beaux I had a retinue.
But this my shame when John came back
to stay,
Said, Mary, when shall be our wedding
day?'
| blushed to answer him who fought for me.
"Oh, thank you, John, but have promised
thrce"'
Florence Il. Osmun. in N. Y. Herald.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11
Answers to Saturdays Quiz

l. A sternutaton is sneeze.
.. Hagiology is literature treating of lives
and legends of saints.
s. Baltimore is known as the Monumental
City.
T. Paracelsus was the name adopted by
Thcophrastus Bombastus Won Hohen-
helm (1493- -1541), Swiss theoso-
phist, physician and alchcmist.
). Henry Ward Beecher said "A lie al
ways pccds truth for handle
to it,"
6. Voltaire was known as "The Apostle
of Infdelity.'
7. gigue is lively dance which gave
its name to one movement OF tho
suite, and was so called from being
played on the gigue or violin. Forms
OF the gigue or giga or jig are found
among nearly every people.
9 Albert. king Of Belgium, was born
April 8, 1875.
0. The area of Portugal is 36,o3S square
miles.
10. The shepherds sundial is name
given to the scarlet pimpernei, which
opens little after seven every more~
ing and closes at little after Two.
When rain Is at hand or the wesshcs
Is unfayorabie Il does not cpen at AL.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11

of local factions as vivid in their mutual
opposition as are the national parties,
which, apart from all questions ot alb
stract morals, must from sheer necessity
safeguard in general the national inter-
ests.
1t would be stimulating to conceive
Philadelphia, decently governed, efl1-
ciently administered because of the
triumph of virtue. 1t would be agreeable
also to imagine a world so spontaneously
well behaved that no policemen were
needed. But the unsentimental truth IS
that good government under the repre-
sentative system is oftenest the direct
result of a delicate adjustment OF the
party equation and the valid pressure
which the voter can exert in such cir
cumstances.
The very worst thing that could hap
pen to Philadelphia today would be
reconciliation of the factions Contcsting
in the mayoralty campaign. If the two
party system, rightly divorced from
problems of national concern, cndures
here the city is on the road to a healthy
political life, no matter what unholy and
greedy. ambitions move the leaders.
They will be rival chieftains and they
must realize with new intensity what
the price of safety is.
1t is particularly fitting that the ami
mated political shuttle should be evil
denced a time when the government of
Philadelphia under the new charter
renders so important the constant pres
enCe of an alert and watchful opposition
to all acts done under that law. With the
Mayor and the smaller Council elevated
in power the anti-administration party
has the joint opportunity of looking out
both for its own and the public's inter
cstS.
Philosophers and statesmen are an
nouncing change of the old order, the
beginning of new era in world politics.
1t is easier to comprehend the extent of
the revolution when Philadelphia feels
the effects. The charter may be inter-
preted as one reaction. The political con-
vulsion and the prospect of genuine hi
party local tits should assist in making
the intent of the new law operative.
The livclier the struggle for the mayor
atty is the better city executive will the
winner be.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11
What Do You Kno,U?
QUIZ

QUIZ
1. Who was j. Edward Addicks?
.. Who declared that the second marriage
of widower illustrated the triumph
of hope over experience? @
3. Who established the Mason and Dixon
line?
4. On which syllable does the accent fall
in the word gondola?
3. What are alewives?
6. Which is the Diamond State?
I. What is the original meaning of ALI
mony?
s. What is bravura?
0. Who wrote THE Last of the Barons"f
10. When did Karl Marx, the German So
ciaist philosopher, live?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11

A few Camden people enjoyed old
fashioned breakfast food yesterday. Gov
crnment ham was sold by the municipality
for thirty one cents a pound on Saturday
and the stock was bought in an hour and
ten minutes. With ham so cheap ever 50
many people INDUCED in the extravagancs
of eggs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11

destroy any politician who seeks to re-
strict their privileges.
But in these days, when every one is
complaining of the cost of food, we are
likely to discover what the country
thinks of any group of producers which
demands $5 wheat.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11

Louisiana sugar cane crop shy; Ar
gcntina prohibits expectation of sugar
tough times ahead for the man with sweet
tooth.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11
ONE FIFTEEN. The population consists

German marks have dropped to thirty
three centimes in Switzerland. The normal
peace price was 125 centiines. This kind of
Swiss movement has all the discomfort of
tujutsu for the Hun,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11

The German war brides brought home
by American doughboys prove that Cupid
has studied neither geography nor world
nOlitiCR.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11

1t is the general opinion of gentlemen
of the profession now at leisure in New
York that strike breakers are bad actors.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11

The Presidents effort to solve the food
urobIem is another illustration of the fact
that the man who simply does "tbe best he
can" virtually admits failure.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11

Any line the law has on bomb throwers
should have a moose at the end of it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11

"Hc who steaoth from the poor lendeth
to the devil'-and, to give the devil his
due, he repays with interest.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11

Spite of few little incidents like
being choked with food and run over by a
railroad train the peace treaty with some
reservations still faelins tit.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11

pooh :" says Martin. Bah !" says
Lane. This pooh bah business suggests
political comic opera.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11

An anarchist is a guy who put q bomb
In abOminable.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11
A BUBBLlNG POLITICAL POT
is HEALTHY FOR THE CITY
Split in Organization over Mayoralty
Presaees Benefits From Vigorous
Rvs!-ies and Opposition"
Challenges

TNHE Cocksureness of self-appointed po-
litCal fOrecasters concerning the out
come of the mayoraty contest has a deli
ciously hollow sound. 1t falls like an
unintentional benediction upon the ears
of such Philadelphians as pause to con-
slider what the basic principle Of Ameri-
can representative government really is.
In the vehcmcnce of the rival claims
and the obvious uncertainties on which
they are pretentiously based there is the
prospect of the end of unchecked abso-
lutism and rigid and wary policing
of the new civic administration which the
voters will choose in November. The de-
featcd opposition. of whichever faction it
may be composed, will see 20 the safe
guarding.
1t is equally clear that Philadelphia
citizens are in for better times, as they
assurcdly are for lively ones. The
rivalry which has split the once we'll
oiled political machine is, if it be sin
ccrcly maintained, a major antidote
against oligarchy. The city has applied
it much less frequently than most of her
sister towns and yet oftencr than the
pcssimist is inclined to admit
Gang rule is not continuous, even in
Philadelphia. There is an Illuminating
periodcity in the revolutions. When the
shake up comes it is less rarely product
of idealistic reforming zeal than of
season of selfish political mastery too
arrogantly complete, too ambitously
harmonious" to be enduring. CloudIeSs
days are sometimes characterized in this
region as weather breeders"
Even so in the political sense is so
sweeping a municipal victory as was the
forcordained and carefully prearranged
election of Thomas B. Smith nearly four
years ago. The storm signals have been
raised almost ever since.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11
And Butter
Already High

crop is now matched by the news that the
Louisiana sugar r-CanP crop will fall more
than 100 900 tons below the average for the
last ten years. Fate has stacked the cards
against the man who habtually orders a
stack of WhcatS.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11

1t is unnecessary to recount the imme-
date fruits of his administration What
is of prime interest to the electorate now
are the coming consequences arising
from the collapse Of all-embracing highly
oia;anized boasism and the development
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11

Mosquitoes bred on the Shiny pool of
politics are particularly active on its banks.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11

y A square deal Is something easily
pFemlsed aud easily forgotten,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11

Inc history Ol IHIS CITY COIHDlueSJ
rings, gangs and machines is notoriously
unsavory, but it is also clearly indica-
tive of the fact that the life of even the
most powerful of them is beset with
pitfalls into which with striking regu-
larity it is in the end certain to fall.
The supremacy of "Dave" Martin and
his Hog Combine" in 1895 was followed
by an exciting upheaval in the local or
ganization, which expanded until it
nearly resulted in the defeat of Quay for
the Senate and pitted the Philadelphia
boss and his henchmen against the Penn
sylvania leader in a way that brought at
least some of the benefits of a healthy
revolution The public invariably
amounts to something when contesting
factions, however constituencies either of
them may be, are at war.
The Durham organization as cynically
as it was skilfully wrought, followed the
Martin regime, which had dominated the
Warwick administration. The new or
der carried contractor rule under Ash
bridge to fine art, fortified itself with
alliance with the rising McNiChol and
then, in the remarkable melodrama Ell
acted when Mayor Weaver threw over
the traces at the time of the gas-lease
renewal crisis, underwent a temporary
convulsion and on recovery paid marked
recognition to the ambitions of the
Wares in their expansion northward.
There was no mistaking the political au-
thority of the South Philadelphia bosses
when John E. Reyburn was elected
Mayor in 1907.
Four years afterward, however, heart
ening proof was given that the progress
of the cycles in Philadelphia politics is
something to be reCkoned with even by
victorious bossism. Durham was dead
and really able leadership capable of pre-
serving harmony in machinery large
enough to run Philadelphia for the
| benefit of contractors was at a discount.
The Wares and McNichol fell out as def
nitely and as acrimoniously as the Ware
and the Penrose factions have split at
the present time
The public's police power in the face
of disrupted Reorganization" embraced
the opportunity to be assertive. Corrupt
gang rule was emphatcally rebuked in
the election of Rudolph Blankenburg.
The subsequent piecing together of the
machines broken parts was more os-
| tensible than real, even though the ease
with which Thomas B. Smith was made
| Mayor seemed to indicate security for re-
sumption of business at the old stand.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11

No bah baa" can pull the wool over
the eyes of an alert politician.