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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-04-30

Of Washington square. New York: q
trap IN a ruadhouse near the city: a
sensational murder trial and a dra-
matte confession The story is an
absorbing one and Colonial patrons
are sure to be fascinated with its ab-
sorhing Development.
Another Ford Educational aim Is
also on the program and this means
that the patrons of the cozy Colonial
will have a rare treat N The views
Shown.-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-04-30

Mayhowers are generally supposed
10 be sufficiently hardy 20 stand
frost, but II IS said that last Fridays
cold wave. when The mercury regis
tered from IS 20 20 OF so above zero.
nipped these flowers and killed
large number Of blossoms that had
opened. and people who Went out
Sunday 10 get hunc: Of May
flowers found Taanr blossoms that
were wilted ana dead where the
freeze had got 70 them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-04-30

On their barn all ready to 30 to board
supervised the work.
Mr.. and NrA Fred Choaee and Xr.
and Ma Clarence Chcass were Sunday
guests at Arthur HalloweIrA
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-04-30

A miscellaneous shower was given
April IS at the y. s. Club. at which
Miss Annie Foulin was the guest of
honor as she is soon TO be married.
Games. music and dancing We're en-
joyed and III girls were present.
Refreshments were served
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-04-30

The Old Town Enterprise says that
Miss Mary Proctor arrived last week
for a visit with Mrs J. Q. McKeen.
Miss Proctor was one her way home
from Augusta where she has been
visiting relatives
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-04-30

Among the Intentions of marriage
which have been recorded this week
at the Office of the city clerk are
those of Joseph Blouein of Augusta
and Aarore Morrest of Salmon Falls.
". H
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-04-30

The women Of Augusta are remind
I'D of the nesting of the National
Civic Federation IN the assembly hal,
Of the 7. II. c. a. a, o'clock this
evening
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-04-30

The regular business meeting Of the
Friendly League will be held a, 80
P N. Thursday. May lst at Odd Fed
lows Hail A large attendance Is
earnestly desired. as there are I'M
por1aot matters to be considered.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-04-30

s. c. C. Ward, accompanied by
Mrs. Ward, left this morning for a
trip TO Jackman. Houlton. Van Blu
rem and Fort Kent on business TIP
which will last about six weeks.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-04-30

Mrs. Joseph Greenwood. who on
Tuesday underwent surgical treat
rnent at the Augusta General hos
pital. is reported 70 be doing az well
as could be expected
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-04-30

lees Of Apostle il also loss OF
vitality. viEcr tone To recover appe-
tile and the rest take Hoods Sarsa.
pArfila--that Ssregtheas the stomach,
pereecfS digestion, makes eating a pleas,
ure- 1t also makes the blood rich and
pure. and steAflies the nefV0a.-AAv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-04-30

s. L Huntington and daughter.
Miss Mary Huntington are in town
for awhile before going TO their sum-
mer home at DAmartscotta
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-04-30

Tuesday was one Of the quiet days
At the municipal court, with nothing
doing outside the line Of civil mat
reyA
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-04-30
Wednesday, April 50. 1919.
AUGUSTA LOCALS

The Mothers Chapter will nee,
Simpson. IA Church street
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-04-30

George ". Field OF Oakland was a
caller Tuesday IN this city on legal
business
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-04-30

Today will be The LAST opportunity
10 see this g-ea, play. The popular
prices are an unusual inducemenL
The matinee performance Will be at
$50 and he evening show al 80
Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-04-30

an artistry which has never been
surpaSSed-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-04-30
FAMOUS WALLED TOWN
IN NAZ!MCVA DRAMA

Only cne Of the Many Marvellous
Settings OF Powerful Drama at the
Opera House To-Day. Russian Ae.
tress Cutshines Herself IN This
Production.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-01-11
RED FLAG MLSREPRESENTS
IDEALS OF FREE AMERICA

We agree with Governor Burnqus one recommendation at
least and that for the enactment of law against ~ Hae
mak little difference that the red flag carried BY the carly
Christian martyrs when they to death pagan Roe
has long since lost its standing with Christian also its
band of maat bearers who deny Go rdcu the church
respect country.
be appropriate for Russian }ohev Hun maderers
tocay the red flag before their blood thirsty bands symbol
Of anarchy and destruction has place America
intelligence to tell that the red flag symbolic Of the
blood of mankind, blended for welfare That sounds
pretty enough but the evidence Of its Is all against It.
In America endeavorne to get away from specie of
ms philosophy brought here from Erope trying since
the be aliens with the spirit Of free institutions We
have American way of doing things which think better
other and to drive oft everything that
consistent Herewith.
The red flag Used Europe today symbolic of the thing
detest here We peacefully solve every social and
rial problem confronting and shalt solve the orderly Aer
opholdng American ideals while we doing it, and
shall endeavor acqu ourselves in the change
becoming Americans. For this against red
flag and everything else Of that may
vision.
Old Glory the first real emblem of hman liberty and
brotherhood may have been Used wfongy selfish
interests bot still the embNm Of free men; still repre-
the highest conception of human liberty good
sed by the scarlet bapne of the ORDER whose
and fol1es woud rob Of priceless heritage.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-01-11
DECLARES HOG ISLAND
IS JUST 4 HOG WllLoW

Dirty, nasty. foul and fearsome,
Hog Island has been whitewashed
until it looks almost s1ean. So now
those eminently respected men who
made millions Of dollars but failed to
make single seaworthy ship before
the war was over are restored to
front pews in their endowed churches.
Hog Island was just a hog wallow.
1t had been for sale for 100000 with
no buyer before. the war. Came then
patriots for profits from New York
and promised boats in countless num-
bers. They just wanted little from
the government for their "know- how
which was much less than nothing: at
all. But the government fell for these
men of high financial standing in
Wall street and gave them the right
of way.
The first thing they did was to hold
the government up for $1,000, 900 on
the hog wallow". Then they esti-
mated they would need 100000
to pave the way to build ships They
spent the twenty-one millions and
forty-one more millions on top of
that. But they did it all under the
advice Of their regularly retained
lawyers and they committed no crime.
They skinned Uncle Sam legally
which you know is perfectly proper
according to the best Christian ethics
of Wall street. And having done it
legally the committee of investigation
has applied the whitewasl and there
you are.-Capital City Times, Madi-
son, Wis.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-01-11
THE MoTHER's.J

1t really isn't hard to be a, mother
There really isn't very much to do:
The days; are just exactly like each
other
You simply shut your eyes and
wander through.
For six o'clock is time enough for
rising,
And getting all the children
washed and dressed,
And breakfast cooked-it really is
surprising,
But mothers never seem to need
a. rest!
The lunches must be packed and
jackets rounded,
And everybody soothed and sent
to school,.
To say that mother rushes is un-
founded
She's nothing more to manage, as
Unless it is to finish piles of sewing,
And cook and wash and iron and
scrub and sweep,
To ofder food and keep the home
going
And then perhaps to hide herself
and weep!
And when at last she's tucked them
under covers,
Ande seen to. doors that dads for
got to lock, -.
Triumphantly, at midnight, she dis
% covers
She's nothing more. to do till six
O'clock
Jane Burr.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-01-11
SCATTERED NEWS AND COMMENT

in the world that has no organized
opposition to alchohol, aid the one
country UP to this time that has not
needed any.
The Chinese are not a liquor using
nation, as compared with the white
races, according to the information
given, but the greatest danger at the
present, time, it is said, lies in the
tendency that is growing In China to
initiate the habits of he western ma
ions. 1t has been the custom of the
American agencies of various kinds
to study the Chinese nature and to
make their products suitable to the
Chinese taste. Undoubtedly the Unit
ed States brewery interests would
make they appeal in the same man.
ner, and it is not hard to get the
Chinese to take up anything that is
American.
The Chinese make heir own vines
which contains but from 1 to per
cent alcohol and are used very
moderately.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-01-11
FOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

M. Leon Bourgeois, the eminent
French statesman, and one of the
delegates to the peace conference, has
come out uncompromingly for I:
League Of Nations. "a Utopia which is
fast becoming a. reality" as he terms
it.
In closing. an eloquent and able
speech in Paris the other day he said
THE League of Nations must come
into existence, and in order that it
may do so; it's foundations must be
laid today. Once the danger of war
is passed, divergent interests may
awaken other desires even amongst
the best of nations, and may revive
certain selfish passions of IT,: past,
Germany is counting precisely on this
and during the peace negotiations
which will be l. ng-she will uu-
.deniably seize every opportunity to try
to divide in order to reign anew.
Wherefore the defenders of the
right sshould take a solemn obligation
to! remain defenders Of the right, and
not to allow a conflict to arise be-
tween them if the peaceful solution of
that conflict be not vigorously insured,
We adjure them, since. they possess
wisdom, to sign contract of mutua!
insurance against the risks of war
which is nothing less than the act o.
mutual League Of Nations"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-01-11
STEEL'S BREAKING POINT
COMPARED WITH LAB0RS

John P. Frey, editor of the Inter-
national Molders Journal, says the
breaking point of steel or other metal
is kept in mind by engineers who
never test this limit. The labor edi-
tor intimates that the laws which ap-
ply to the resistance. of steel may also
apply to the resistance of the work
er's vitality to the strain Of labor.
1.-The breaking point of structural
STEEL" he says. "is a strain Of about
$4,000 pounds to the cubic inch; the
engineer, however, is not governed by
the breaking point. He is particularly
interested in discovering what is
known as elastic limit.
when more than $4,000 pounds
strain is placed upon cubic inch Of
this steel the elastic point is passed
and structural change takes place
in the steel. 1t, no longer has the
power of returning to it's original
shape when the strain OF the testing
machine Is released
THE engineer, however, does not
accept the elastic limit as the factor
Of safety required, but bases his plans
so that strain Of not more than IT,
600 or $4,000 pounds per cubic inch is
to be placed upon the steel. In other
words, roughly. II the breaking point
of a cubic inch Of steel is $4,000
pounds the margin of safety which an
engineer would allow to be placed up
on the steel when used is about one
fourth Of that amount, and very care
full inspection must be made of all the
steel used to see that 1t is Of equally
high grade with the samples tested.
In softer metals those OF less re-
siliency or elasticity. such as copper,
tin or lead. the elastic limit is reached
much sooner"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-01-11
STARTS LABOR PARTY.

The Chicago labor unions have dis
regarded the resolutions. adopted by
the executive council of the American
Federation and have started an in
dependent labor ~ rty. They will put
up a complete ticket. and will enter
the municipal election in April.
John Fitzpatrick, president the
Chicago Federation Of Labor, is slated
for mayor. The labor party start:
out with a new paper called 1.-THE
Majority" 1t presents a platform to
the voters with IA planks. Its view
OF the political situation is SUNNI ID
up In the phrase, big business rule:
Chicago"
Union labor throughout the coun-
try will watch the political scrap in
Chicago with keen interest. The
question is not so much what wilt
become of the political organization"
as it is what will happen to the
labor movement" Time and events
will alone tell
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-01-11
ILLITERACY SHAMES U. S.

! Ten per cent Of the men called
under the draft were unable to read
Letters received from home had t.
be read to them, and orders posted b.,
officials required explanation to 2O0,-
>tD0 of the first 100000 men called
This startling revelation is made ir
the annual rep-rt of Franklin K
declares that the nation spends in 2
year twice as much tor chewing gum
as it does for school books, more for
automobiles than for all primary and
secondary education than it pays the
average day laborer.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-01-11
RESPECT THE FOREIGNERS.

The United States bureau of educa-
ton wants Americans to put the taboo
on the use of nicknames, especially
designation certain class of foreign.
born Americans.
"Dago," "Kike," "Wop,' "Greaser."
Mick" paddy and similar names,
make no hit with the lreau, which
maintains that such distinctions tends
to promote mes of cleavage between
Americana and Americanized for
eign- born persons and groups.
gested form for pledge to refrain from
the use of such names. Schools and
factories will be supplied with the
proposed pledge, so that American
children and adults may stop to thinf
of the undesirability of making sport
Of anyone because he was not borr
in this country
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-01-11
REGULATION A FAILURE.

Public ownership advocates have
always held that the attempt to solve
the public utility problem by regula-
ton AND especially through states and
federal commissions was futile and
the whole scheme a snare and a. de-
fusion. 1T is being repeatedly demon
strated and municiple officials are
coming to realize it. For example, a
conference of city officials represent
ing sixty-one Illinois cities was re-
Gently held in Peoria. After a dis
cussion of the unbearable conditions
resulting from commission rule and
regulation, resolutions were adopted
providing for the appointment Of a
legislative committee to present a de-
mand to the general assembly for the
repeal of the public utility act
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-01-11
AS ENGLAND SAW HIM,

President Wilson's idealism con.
quered England as it did the other
countries in England. The Man
chester Guardian, England's mos
progressive newspaper, sd VS. of his
visit there:
HE represents the worlds greatest
civilized community, He stands fo1
the might Of a gr~ 1T ideal. T.r /;
moral purpose which is stronger thar
armies. His supreme object, his fixed
purpose, is turning the victory to the
best account.
1--WE can make the best return for
his aid to the alliance by helping
He is good fighter and has some Of
the worlds big forces with him.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-01-11
SERVED U. S. 43 YEARS.

Mrs. Amanda Brown, connected
with the United States treasury for 43
years as an expert in the redemption
Of mutilated money, died in Wasting.
ton recently, aged 81 years. hrs
Brown was unknown to the world, but
few individuals have gladdened thu
hearts of poor people as this woman
whose life work was the Identification
of destroyed currency, which was re.
turned to them in the shape of new
treasury notes
At the time Of her death Mrs. Brown
was receiving the muniflcent wage o:
$1,000 a year for expert knowledge
possessed by no other person.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-01-11
A PUSSY.FOOTER.

Little joey Jesse was entertaining
his sisters nervous admirer, and.
after making the usual Juvenile re-
marks on marbles and tops. he sud
denly announced:
ETHEL told ma yesterday you was
born a politician"
The young man was delighted, and
wishing to know more, asked:
THAT SO? Why does she think
that?"
"That's just what ma wanted to
know and Ethel said it's because you
can do so much talking without COM
mitten' yourself"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-01-11
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

The news Of the death OF The0dore
Roosevelt Monday cast a gloom over
the nation. 1t came as a great shock
felt equally by friend and by foe, for
while many loved and admired Col.
Roosevelt, none really hated him. In
deed he possessed qualities of char
acter and courage that. commanded
for him the respect of those who dis
agreed with him most bitterly.
1t was as the President of the
United States he won his way into
the hearts of the people. He became
chief magistrate at time when the
old regime was at the zenith Of its
power. From the close of the Civil
war the seekers of privilege reigned
supreme with little interruption.
They were drunken with authority.
They exploited the human and natu-
raj resources of the country with in
satiable greed. They worked upon
the assumption that all benefits in
government should be showered first
upon the rich, and after they were
we'll provided for the salvage could
drizzle down upon the poor.
Mr.. Roosevelt stemmed the tide Of
greed. His day was too early for the
enactment of constructive legislature
to curtail its power. Congress was
not in sympathy with him, and he
was content to call the peoples atten-
ton to wrong and to the wrong-doers.
He brought skeletons from secret
closets and exposed them to popular
view. The corrupt man in public and
business life was made to feel uncom-
Portable, and not few of them has
tened to set their houses in order,
while those who failed to get right
were caught in the mesh of public re-
buke, many of them sent to untimely
graves Inundated and disgraced.
1t is said of Col. Roosevelt that he
was the John the Baptist" of a new
order in government, an order that
finally rushed beyond him and left
him far in it's wake. His course and
conduct as president paved the way
and made it possible for Woodrow
Wilson with his constructive pro-
gram for social and political reform,
and with which Mr.. Roosevelt was
completely out of tune. The thought
he set in motion merely got away
from him.
In later years series of political
disappointments, seemed to have
clouded his vision and checked the
progressive tendencies which char
acterized his course as president, 50
much so that former reactionary ODD
onents rushed to his support in large
numbers and looked to him as their
spokesman and saviour. Near the
close of the war he cast his lot with
the worlds Tories, opposed the idea
of League of Nations. and urged
with his powerful might the extreme
Of militarism.
In spite of all that may be said in
criticism of him, Theodore Roosevelt
was great American. His frankness
courage and pluck gave inspiration
and spirit to men and women every
where. He served his country fear
lessly, faithfully and honestly, ana
all Americans are proud of his achi-
evements. He left the world better
than he found it, and he played no
little part in bringing sunshine and
happiness in the lives of his country
men.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-01-11
SWEDE SOCIALISTS UNEASY.

The Swedish Socialists are worried
about the spread of Bolshevism.
Hjalmer Branting, Sweden's leading
Socialist, pronounces in his paper.
The Socialist Dem okraten, that in
tervention is indispensable for two
reasons, the first of which is the
almost total stoppage Of industrial
activity, which is condemn1ng the
Russian population to starvation,
While the second is that the revolution
has ceased to exist as a moral factor.
The present regime, the Social DEM
Okraten asserts. no longer represents
any vital revolutionary force and is
now supported, not by public opinion,
but by bayonets.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-01-11
CONGRATULATIONS; "CON' AND

The Minnesota Union Advocate of
st. Paul, official organ Of the Mimi
esota State Federation of Labor, last
week began it's twenty-third year.
The Labor World extends it's most
hearty congratulations and good
wishes to Cornelius Quincy, who has
successfully weathered through a
series of rough experiences during
his more than 20 years ownership of
the Advocate.
We remember the first issue in
1897. 1t was the only labor publica-
ton in the state, and it's coming was
heralded by union labor men in Mimi
esota with great JOY. We have kept
in touch with the Advocate through
the years. 1t has claimed first place
on our exchange table. It has con-
sistently represented the highest
ideals of the trade union movement,
adhered closely to it's principles, ably
and forcibly expounded it's philoso-
ply, apd fearlessly championed it's
policies.
The Union Advocate ranks second
to no labor paper in the United States
and It by far excels the greater num-
Der. 1t is a model in neatness, fault
less in style, choice in news matter
and a literary gem in editorials. 1t
holds tn confidence and enjoys the
support of organized labor through
out the state. 1t has won it's way to
public recognition by merit, and by
merit alone. It's power and influ-
ence was never greater than now. It
richly deserves the splendid success
that has come unto it.
Long may it live and be a power
for human betterment, and may many
moro years of life be spared to Corne-
Illus Quincy, its great-hearted pub
Usher, and to James A. Diffenbaugh.
its kind, able and resourceful editor
is the birthday wish of The Labor
World and it's publisher to the Mime
sofa Union Advocate on the occasion
OF the twenty-second anniversary of
its birth.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-01-11
STATE INSURANCE CHEAPEST

Does state insurance pay? If we
should believe the propaganda being
circulated by the paid agents of the
insurance companies our hopes for
the enactment of a bill on this SUBJ
ject would be shot to smithereens.
But we do not believe them, because
we know better. We know that in
every country in the world having
workingmen's compensation there is
general satisfaction with the law
when the privately owned stock COM
panies are out of the way.
State insurance is in it's infancy
IN the United States. Only a few
states have tried it. but wherever it
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-01-11
FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIP

Frank G. Morrison. secretary of the
American Federation of Labor and
speaking for it at the recent confer
ence called by the United States
Chamber of Commerce, declared that
the country is on the eve of an era of
public ownership and that labor as
represented by the American Fedora
ton of Labor would support it to the
limit.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-01-11
SAVES MONEY.

The municiple electric light plant Of
Pasadena has saved the people of that
city $1,470,0O0 over the rates paid be-
fore the municipal plant was estab-
,lished. It earned a profit of 7.64 per
cent on its investment during 1917
1913, aid now has 10, $40 patrons, an
increase of nearly 100 over last year.
And it did not~aise it's rates.