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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1919-10-02
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Arson. Me, October 2, 1919.
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CAUTION NOTICE

This is to notify all persons not to
trust my son, Roland NJ Cleveland, or
my daughter, Ina +. Cleveland, as l
shall claim none of their earnings or
pay any bills contracted by them after
this date.
Athens, Maine. September 25. 1919
3M3gs MOSES S. CLENELAND.
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Scion. Me, Sept. 25, 1919.
3w39" GEORGE L. LAKE.
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Items of Fifty Years Ago

Feb. /, 1SSS-Mr. C. H. Canard OF
New York was the guest of " M
Mickey and family over the Sabbath.
Miss Gertrude Weston of this place
contemplates taking general course
of study at the Portland Business Col
lege soon.--Mrs James Leavitt depart
ed on Tuesday afternoons train for
Deer Lodge, Montana, called there by
the serious illness OF her daughter,
Mrs Reed.-Dr. Sawyer was showed
in at Madison by our recent storm,
but fortunately he Is an expert on
snowshoes and he found ready use for
all his skill in this line before he
reached home.
Feb. 8, 18SS-They do say the Show
hogan passenger station is going to be
q beauty. We hope 1t will strike US
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ANNUAL MEETING

The Annual Meeting of the Stock
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flee of T.. +. Danforth, Monday Sep
TENDER %, 1919 at 100 o'clock p. IN.
CHARLES F. ALLEN
2w3S Secretary.
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After you have read this paper, mai
it to friend.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-27
HEARD AND SEEN

That cat has been found again
This time on a vacant lot on 30
street n. ". between Q and r streets
Thanks for this news to Mr. Matchett
Of the War Department.
CHARLES LOUIS FERBER, the
best maker up that ever wore a
purple shirt in the composing room,
says that Old Irv Belt has paid Sig
Kahn for that set Of Arabian Nights.
Travellers south and north
bound at Chevy Chase circle stop
and gasp with amaZement when
they realize that Maryland has
cut HER part Of the grass on
the circle while the grass on the
d. c. side is long and Straggly.
That's dividing responsibility for
you.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-27
Shall We Fail Our Fighting Men?
A Matter for the Senate to Decide.

since the signing of the armstce, Great Britain has
INCREASED her national employment service THREE
HUNDRED PER CENT in placement faciltie and person
mel assist her soldiers and workers to employment
said representative of the British labor ministry the other
day in this city.
Since the signing of the armstice, the United States
Employment Service with the exception of the first three
months has been DECREASED FIFTY PER CENT, and
machinery for placing our soldiers Sailors and civilian
workers will close down entirely next Monday.
The average citizen understand, though he may
condemn the efforts the part of certain private interests
to force the dscontnuance of the Federal Employment
Service But is ncomprehensbe to the average citizen
why Congress- protesting interest in the returning SOL
der and desire to prevent the growth of radicasm in
America should evince disposition to throw overheard
the organization that will give the soldier the most prac
cal ad-hep to joband is the best weapon against the
conditions that breed Bolshevism.
The chairman of the House Appropriations Committee
recently explained the floor of the lower chamber that
there was need for than clearing house. in the
Department of Labor limited supplying information and
to the boundaries of the District of Columbia
He stated that the War Department had an organza-
place civilian workers
But the War Department, through Col Arthur Woods,
assistant to the Secretary of War; has repeatedly advised
Congress that it has placement machinery and that dis
continuance of the Federal Employment Service will inure
the interests of returning fighters.
Only thirteen States in which of the great agr
cultural States is included have anything that might be
called public employment service.
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To the Editor Of THE TINES:
Do oysters grow in Indiana? II
saw they do. For nearly thirty years
I have made my living mingling with
these Indiana oysters, and 1 know.
Indiana has more politicians pei
given area than any other place on
the Elobe-not the common. or gar
den. variety Of politicians indigenous
TO New York, Chicago, and other
large cities, but past masters IN pro-
ficiency.
Every Indiana male politician is an
OYSTER and every Indiana female poIi
tician is an oysterette. NlVldIy 90
I recall numerous attempts TO oegulle
political secrets from the keeping OF
DR. Amelia Keller, winsOme leaoer VI
the Indiana suffragettes. and nave
no hesitancy in saying that l can 50
more real information by suing
down and talking to a Lynn HaE zen
oyster than by conversing win Ut
~. ,,yben she doesn't care to be
interviewed.
yrbs most distinguished and sue
oossF,I Indiana oyster l ever met was
paDianin Harrison. In one campaign
af,er he had been President there was
r,,,cb sDeculation at Indianapolis as
- whether or not he would support
preston Trusler. Republican candidate
for MAYOR, said speculation oelng
bssed on town talk that when ne ran
for President TrusIer and the latter
cohorts knitted him to a finish. II was
conceded that Trusler's deteat or
election probably turned on Genrea'
TIarrison's attitude toward nm
Hence there was eagerness IN all the
newspaper sanctums to get an eN-
nression from the general.
The city editor passed the PUCK 20
me I was assigned to meet Genera
Harrison at the station on his re-
turn from the AdirOndackS and gel
from him A statement as to the courSt
he intended TO pursue. When the
time came I was there. SO was the
general. We walked together across
the station plaza while ! nerved my
self for the supreme ordeal As he
was about to enter his carriage, l
said:
General. It is rumored you have
returned home to wOr.l for Preston
Trusler.'
In a fash he replied:
lis that So / shall have 10 IN
vestigate that rumor.'
Ten thousand people were packed
around the plaza. Some Uttered. 9TH
srs cheered. Personally l felt good
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-27
Talk and Do
George Washington Couldn't Talk to Congress Well But
He Could Do.
Are you a talker or a doer?

Are you talker or doer?
The other day a member of Washington club was
making speech usual the manner in which his
food was served
He eloquent in his denunciation of the chef the
waiter and the management of the club general His
speech orcble clear and harmonious He was good
talker.
Some the table asked him what he had ever
done to improve the club The Grafton ceased
Men who are good takers often poor doors. The
man who does things doesn't have to talk about them He
lets others do the Grating
History furnishes many examples of men who were
doers but who embarrassed when called upon to talk
George Washington in his first address to Congress
painfully nonpussed
Read what William Macay a Senator from Pennsyl-
vania, says of Washington's first address
This great agtated and embarrassed
more than ever he was by the leveed cannon or
pointed musket. he trembled and several times
could make out to read though it must be
supposed he had often read it before. He made
flourish with his right hand which left rather an
ungalnly impression I sincerely, for my part
wished all set ceremony in the hands of the dane
ing masters and that this first of men had read off
his address in the paineSt manner without ever tax
ing his eyes from the paper for felt hurt that he
was not first In everything He dressed in
deep brown, with metal buttons with an eagle on
them, white stockings, a bag, and sword.
Fisher Ames more of poet than Senator Maclav
wrote, in his Works of Fisher An1eS:
It was touching scene and quite solemn kind
His aspect, grave, almost to sadness; his modesty
actually shaking; his voice, deep, little tremulous
and so low as to call for close attention . . pro-
duced emotions of the most affecting kind
There is solace in the fact that this great man was
agitated and embarrassed before company
But history has great place for George Washington
though he Ill at orator. He doer
If you do things you need not be orator
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-27
Louis Ludlow Says Oysters Grow
In Indiana
In Indiana

deal like the boy who had been kicked
by the mule. 1 didn't see exactly
where the fun came in.
Walter O. Gresham was another
typical Indiana oyster. l have often
had similar success in interviewing
him. It used to be said that, when
asked the time of day. he would lead
the inquirer to a quiet corner and
exhibit the face of his watch rather
than commit himself.
One of the former Indiana Vice
Presidents of the United States tele-
graphed 70 George F. McCulloch 20
come to Washington. McCulloch was
a power in State politics. At one time
he had the honor of being the news
paper boss OF Olin w. Kennedy and
myself. He hurried to this city. For
days he was a guest at the Vice
Presidents home, where he was treat
ed royalty. but not a word OF expla-
nation was forthcoming. Finally his
pressing engagements at home neces-
STATED his departure. The Vice Pres
ident escorted him to the dpot in the
Vice Presidential carriage and, bid
ding him gOod-by. said:
George. one of these days I want
to have a good, long talk with you"
Mr.. MCCullOCh died many years
been called TO Washington.
As a living example OF the best
type Of preSent-day Indiana oyster
permit me TO commend to you Thorn
as Taggart. In 1896, when the silver
question was being debated up one
side and down the other at every
roads in Indiana, l went to Mr..
Taggart to get his views on that
Overshadowing and super-heated is
sue. In those days Tom used to cuss
A little. He looked me straight in
the eye for about a minute and then
said:
Now. what in the HI do you
suppose ! know about the silver
question:"
II an elongated piano reached from
HoosierdOm to the National Capital
Tom could walk all the way from
French Lick to Washington on the
keyboard without striking a note.
If called upon / could cite innum-
cradle other proofs that oysters grow
in Indiana and | am surprised that
as well informed a man as Jerry
Mathews should contend to the con-
trary. I assert without fear OF sue
cessful contradiction that there ara
more oysters per square rod in In
diana than in Chesapeake bay.
LOUIS LUDLOW.
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Beatrice Fairfax Writes Problems Pitfalls Workers
Especially for Washington Women
TODAY'S TOPIC
SHALL MOTHERS SACRIFICE?

Now such a mother as this has
just as much capacity for sacri-
fee as any other. She would die
for Dorothy without an instant's
hesitation. But she doesn't give
up movies or card parties or
whatever it may be, in the interest
of Dorothy's bedtime because she
has never become thoroughly con-
WINGED that bedtime is important.
All American parents believe in
the educational system. And they
will commit slow suicide in order
that their children NAV profit by
it. But most of them have scarce
ly any belief at all in the import
ance of health for their children
or in the means that should be
taken to secure 1t.
Then very many mothers have
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a profound and passionate belief
IN the Importance of parties and
party clothes for girls of sixteen
and over. In order that a pretty
child of seventeen, going to her
first party" might have a conven-
tiOnally complete outfit, including
evening wrap, satin slippers and
all the rest of it, l have known a
mother to go through a cold win
ter without any warm or suitable
clothing for herself and deny her
self every other comfort that she
could possibly eliminate.
Is this heroic, or just a little
foolish?
spoiled Daughters.
have no desire to deprive
youth of its good times" But
good times don't depend on the
costliness of ones equipment. And
a young girl who, knowing that
the family is hard up, hasn't the
Initiative to construct a simple
party frock for herself from a
few yards of cheap material, isn't
likely to develop into a really COM
petent and admirable woman.
While one who wears costly SHIN
mering vanities that her ill-ad-
vised mother has sacrificed and
Shivered to procure is, / think,
actually corrupted by it. If sac
rifce of this sort is good for the
mothers soul, it's distinctly ruin
Gus for the child's.
1t was by no means a selfish
young mother of my acquaintance
who, when her husband had
chance to move his family to the
country, refused it, though her
three children were all under six
years old. To my eyes, they were
all semi-sickly children, not robust
enough to withstand the blight of
city life. But their mother wasn't
wise enough to understand that
the country would have remade
her babies. She couldn't see that
there was any reason for giving
up her pleasant circle of acquaint-
ances and the convenience of liv-
ing near the shopping district.
There, you see, was a sacrifice
without any folly in it-a sacrifice
that it would have done her no
harm to make and that it wouldn't
have been ignoble for her chill
dren, whatever their age might
have been, to accept. But she
hadn't the inspiration to make it!
Opportunities to give our lives
for our children are. after all,
rather rare. Very few of US can
count upon scaling that supreme
peak of grandeur. But chances
to live more sensibly for our chill
dren's sake; to make little adjust
ments in the interest of their we'll
being, are as common as sunshine.
/ wish msthers would convince
themselves that it's these little un-
heroic sacrifices that are worth
making.
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By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.


Most mothers will tell you
WI that they would gladly die
= to benefit their children.
And in many cases, perhaps
most cases, l am quite sure this
is literally true. 1t is no fresh
discovery that mothers, speaking
generally, are capable of immense
sacrifices. Perhaps there is moth
ing more sublime, more heroic, in
the world than the courage with
which a mother will act in her
child's interest at whatever cost
to herself.
That is, if the sacrifice is big
enough.
In my observation. a mother
isn't always as ready to make the
little sacrifices, those that seem to
her scarcely worth making at all.
But l should like to persuade
mothers that it's often what are
seemingly the little sacrifices that
are really the most important. And
that the big sacrifices, that they
make so magniicently, are some
times not at all in the child's best
interest. Let me illustrate.
Mothers Overtime Work.
Ever so many families whose
immediate needs require every
penny that's available have an
ambitious, quick-witted boy or girl
whom they want to send to col
lege. But where's the money COM
ing from? Father already drudges
all day long, in the shop or office.
or on the farm. "IIl manage it."
announces mother. So from that
time on she takes in" sewing, or
washing, or whatever she can get
money for. She puts up jellies for
the market or she cooks for a
woman's exchange. And most of
this at night. after she's done as
long and hard a days work as a
human being ought to.
Well, the boy trips airily through
college. At the end Of four years
he is educated" but he's also con-
firmed in selfishness. At the same
time. mother finds that her health
Is giving out
1t would have been far wiser, far
better for the boys character. If
he hadn't accepted his schooling
at the cost of his mothers life
blood, if he had partially put him
self through college and borrowed
the rest of the money to be paid
from the proceeds Of his first lob"
This is what | consider a mistaken
sacrifice.
On the other hand, / wish that
mothers, young mothers especially,
would take more seriously the
question OF their children's health
and would be willing to give up
small amusements so that the
babies might go to bed on time; or
have supper on time; or conform
generally TO the health RASimOa
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that is so deeply important for the
health of every young child
BedtimeIess Babies.
It's become, for instance, an ex-
tremely common thing for young
mother who likes to go to the
movies" with her husband in the
evening to fall into the habit of
doing so. OF course, there's little
Dorothy. And the doctor did say
that Dorothy was nervous and that
it was really imperative that she
be in bed by 7 o'clock every night.
But there's nobody to stay in the
house with her, and it's manifest
ly unsafe to leave a child alone.
So Dorothy goes to the movies too.
And the result is that she doesn't
get to bed until mother does.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-27
A Public Ferry to Potomac Park
By EARL. GOODWIN.

1t is almost too good to be true-hat public ferry 10
IN operation between lower Seventh and Potomac
Park.
This ferry is the result of recommendations by the
Once OF Public Buildings and Grounds and makes Potomac
Park playground for people without automobiles.
The park has been almost inaccessible to anyone with
oct an automobile or the price of taxicab.
The ferry brings South Washington to the park. For
years South Washington has been unable get the park
just across the harbor without long and expensive street
car ride and long walk.
But now South Washington can step the ferry and
land in Potomac Park in few minutes
That's the sort of thing parks are meant for The
ferry is Godsend to thousands of mothers and children
who will be infinitely better off for the opportunity to spend
hours under the trees and the grass of one of the pleas
ATTEST stretches of open space in all America
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-27

Today.
Lawn Fete-Vanderwerken Chapter. 7.
W. c. A, at 2417 Wisconsin avenue, to
10 .. m.
Meeting Emery Alumni Association.
Emery School. O'Clock
Commencement Nercises- Frelinghuy
sen University. John Wesley A. NJ. f.
Zion Church, Fourteenth and CorCoran
streets northwest, o'clock
Special Meeting BOARD Of Representa-
tives, Federal Employees Union No. =,
Musicians Hall, 1905 Z street northwest.
o'clock.
Meeting-LieUt James Reese Europe
Post No. /, Of the American Legion, Irv-
inE's Hall, Fourth and w streets south
east.
Meeting and DAnce-Washington Camp.
Modern Woodmen OF America. Camp Hall,
Old Masonic Temple, s o'clock
Cabaret-Washington Welfare Associa-
ton, Carroll Institute.
Commencement observation-disclosures High
School. Auditorium, p. m.
Danee-Community Center. Cleveland
School. Eighth and streets northwest.
At O'Clock
illustrated LSoturs-AGJ Bird T. Bald
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What's Doing; Where; When

win. 2O25 C street northwest $3.50 this
afternoon.
Concentrated States SoldierS Home
Band, Soldiers Home. o'clock.
MeetinG-John A. RawIins Post No. 1.
Department Of the Potomac, G. A. r.. G..
4. r. Hall. l4l2 Pennsylvania avenue. to-
night.
Meeting Pennsylvania Society, Thomson
School. Twelfth and l. streets northwest, at
s o'clock.
Lecture Roger W. Babson, Officers
Club. tonight AT $50
Lawn Fete-W. c. T L. Of Petworth. on
school grounds. Eighth and Shepherd
streets, this evening.
Tomorrow.
PicniC-Iowa Society, at Pierces Mill,
Rock Creek Park. at p m
Cor cert--United States Marine Band
the Ellipse. 5 p. m.
EXcursion-Ohio Girls Club. Marshall
Hall. p m.
The Shack" near Cabin John Bridge
afternoon.
Raiiy-GirI GcoutG NatiorII Geological
Park, .. m.
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Once-Overs
Copyright 1918. By International Feature Service.
TURNING THEM DOWN DIPLOMATICALL'

by Service
TURNING THEM DOWN AUTOMATICALLY.
disagrees you n deal, you try
buIdoze him thinking sharp practice
him
possible diplomacy stands
of your highest
you your points through get
concessions after?
If you do, working along the wrong course
When a business to a who has
noyed by his perssency which
know will silence may enemy
How about looking the when that have the
opportunity o p scores?
While be
happen in the future might be well remember that it long,
long lane which has there for making
antagonistc.
Just few diplomatic friendly words the conclusion of the
rundown administer takes the sting
compishes end Remember it.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-27

HOMER DODGE was also dining
at Jim Regan's place.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-27
Tnn MANY StrineSR

Too Many Stripesi
No doubt many former D. c. sol
diers will don their uniforms for the
July Fourth medal presentation cere-
mony. It is to be hoped that those
who saw foreign service will wear
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-27

Coming down with OSCAR RICK
ETTS in his Ambling Apperson. We
both concluded that the one place
where a traffic police was needed at
ten minutes to nine this a. m was
at Pennsylvania ave. and Madison
place.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-27

have a young brother named
Stuart who is 80 far gone that he
is leaving town to see the willard
Dempsey fight, and tells his mother
he is going because one Of the fight
ers may not show up and they will
need him to substitute.
Somehow after reading about the
fight that Sergt- York put up, this
Willard-Dempsey 4-flushing doesn't
appeal to me as a combat at all.
Where were these two beautiful
scrappers when we had a REAL
battle on our hands?
Mine Host Hight at the willard
has a page boy with a voice like a
17-year-locust Go up and hear him;
no extra charge
HARRY PRICE was telling me
about a fellow down in Virginia who
has a lot OF Iikker. A smooth tongued
prohibitionist called there once and
fell to talking with Mr.. Likker's wife
Get rid of all this whiskey," said
the tempter, "and there will be sun
shine in your home"
"You are greatly mistaken" an
swered the wife; there will be some
thing other than sunshine"
WHAT" Queried the Blue Nosed
Stiggins.
"MOONSHINE," answered friend
wife, and the Prohib. melted sadly
away.