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Daily Kennebec journal., 1919-12-05
Clinton Grange

At the regular meeting Of Clinton
Grange Wednesday night 19 names
were voted on and accepted. The
grange also elected officers for the
ensuing year, IS follows:
Master, Mrs. James Clement; over
seer. Guy Whitten; lecturer, Della
Brown; stewart, James Clement:
assistant stewart. Bliss Watts: chaps
lain, Blanche Watts: treasurer, Geu
Hunter; secretary, Lee Stewart; gate
keeper. Alvin Boothby; Ceres. Ella
Bremner: Pomona, Mrs. Guy Whit
ten; Flora, Mrs. Hattie Boothby;
lady assistant steward, Ethel Willett.
At 10 o'clock coffee, cake, dough-
nuts, pies and sandwiches were
served in the dining room.
The delegate to State Grange to be
held in Bangor is Mrs. James Glenn
ent, master elect.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1919-12-05
PALERMO

EAST-Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Tib-
belts and children of Braintree,
Mass, and Fred A. Tibbetts of Bethel.
who have been visiting their parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Woodbury. Tibbetts, re-
turned to their homes Nov. "a. Their
daughter, Miss Gladys E. Tibbetts,
Daily Kennebec journal., 1919-12-05

A gown Of Irish lace. which is on
exhibition in New York and which
took Miss Mary Hakim seven years
of continuous work to make at her
home in Syria, is valued at $4,000.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1919-12-05

could not eat anything
but what that awful
pain would come and I
would be nauseated
every few minutes day
and night. l was sick
in bed sixteen weeks and
my stomach grew worse
all the time. At times
the pain would be 80
Daily Kennebec journal., 1919-12-05

contains no narcotics and Is pIessane b ths
taste. i may be given to infania Tbosssnds
Of families have been regulated to healthy
maturity with d.. c.ldweIs SympPspsa.
A boule can be bought 1t any drug
store for SOC and 81. Those who already
know rs virtues buy the dollar s;ze and
eoosdz il eeooom;c.l In = large family
there i, always someone who would Ted
better for q dose Of . good medans lie
Dr.. Caldwelrs Syrup Pepsin
Daily Kennebec journal., 1919-12-05
ATTRACTIVE HOLIDAY

where they are to reside. They have
the best wishes of all in their new
home.
Emerson Locke of Portsmouth. n
H., returned home Monday, after
visiting several days at f. r. Doves
Daily Kennebec journal., 1919-12-05
COMPLETELY
DISCOURAGED

Collins.
N.Y.:-''Six
years ago /
was taken
with neural
gia a n d
. terrible
burning and
pain in my
stomach. I
got SO I
Daily Kennebec journal., 1919-12-05

In spite Of the fset
fket Dr.. Ca!dTeUs
Syrst Pebsis IS the
Je,eest selling liquid
loxotivs iw the sro1Id.
there being oreS s
ssiIio~ bottles :oId
each yeeS, n,dsy wko
Heed its benefits ksus
not yet used Il. II
you have sot, send
1oxS name ssd Cd
dress for o free tris!
bottle to Dr.. W. B.
Caldwell. 51l Wssk-
ixoton St.. Aosti.
cello. IIIissis.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-03

and Menin, on both sides Of that long
straight road. am sure I did not see
one square foot Of soil that was not
a part of shell crater. What had
once been the richest soil Of the
world is today but a waste, made SO
by the shells that fell upon it be-
cause Germany sought world domina-
ton. This soil has been destroyed by
countless thousands Of shells falling
actually one upon another, each dig
ging deeper into the earth until the
very subsoil has been turned over and
the land made worthless for cultiva-
ton for years to come, if indeed it can
ever be reclaimed.
Unexploded Shells Buried in Soil.
There lie today on the surface Of
this land many thousands Of unex-
ploded shells, and there are buried In
the soil many, many thousands more,
each one Of them a menace to any
farmer who attempts to put plow
into the soil in an effort to reclaim 1t.
And this land is destroyed, as the
homes were destroyed, because Of Ger
man ambition, Of German cruelty, Of
German lust, Of German wantonness
and German brutality.
Who is to pay for It? Who is to
risk destruction that 1t may again be
put into condition for cultivation, that
it may serve the purposes Of the hu-
man race? Shall the peaceful Belgian
peasants, who had no part in the start
ing Of this conflict, suffer their loss
without compensation? Shall these
peasants who have endured more than
four long years Of homeless agonies.
who have suffered not alone the loss
of homes and land but the loss Of
relatives and friends as well. be the
ones to risk destruction in the effort
to again bring these lands back to a
condition where cultivation is possi-
BILE? Shall they be blown to bits by
the bursting Of these shells, hidden as
they are beneath the surface Of the
ground, when the pillow strikes and ex-
plodes them? If undisturbed. those
shells continue to be menace for
years to come, but who are to risk
their lives in removing them?
Could the American people gener-
ally. and especially the American farm
ers. have seen the sights have seen
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-03

along this long, straight road between
Ypres and Menin, they would say, as
say, it is the German who must pay |;
it is the German who must risk de-
struction in the effort to put this land
again into condition for cultivation.
believe that one condition Of the
peace treaty should be that Germany,
either as one nations or proportionately
from the several small nations that
may be formed out Of the German en-
pire, should call its military classes to
the colors each year as it has done in
the past; but in place Of putting guns
into the hands of these men, and train
ing them for the purposes Of war-a
war of compassionate 1t should put
these men into the territories she has
devastated, to reclaim the soil and to
rebuild the villages, the towns and
cities the Huns have destroyed. Let
these Germans, under guard of Bel
gian troops, take the risk Of destruc-
ton; let them guide the pillow that may
strike the unexploded shell, and let
Germany pay them the meager wagon
of the German soldier while they are
doing this.
Should Pay and Pay and Pay.
That would be the nearest thing to
an accounting that Germany can rem
der to the world, but she should pay
all that it is humanity possible for a
people to pay who have so yuthlessly
despoiled the world. Her people should
pay, and pay, and pay, until they have
learned beyond the shadow of doubt
that war for the purpose OF conquest,
for the purpose of loot. for the graft
fication Of selfish ambitions, is the
most improbable business they could
possibly engage in.
And remember that the devastation
to be seen along the road from Ypres
to Menin is but an example of all the
terrible destruction to be found
throughout Belgium and northern
France and Serbia and other countries
that have been overrun by the con-
quest-seeking armies of the Boche.
And remember. too, that 1t is not alone
the devastation that is to be paid for,
but it is the work and the tears and
the economic loss OF every nation that
was called into the struggle to defeat
the selfish purposes of a selfish peo-
pie, that the world might be decent
place In which free men might live.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-03
THE COUNTRY AT LARGE.

The Jewish Ministers Association of
America, in convention in New York,
Endorsed the British Governments
plan to establish Jewish homeland
IN Palestine.
The Red Cross distributed gifts and
provided entertainment for $4,000 sol
diers and sailors in hospitals and
camps about New York.
Twelve hundred poor orphaned chill
dren Of New York we're guests of the
sailors aboard the big American steam
ehip Leviathan.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-03

Nation win Never Be Able to
Make Amends for Damage.
FERTILE SOIL IS DESTROYED
lnnumerabIe UnexpIoded Shells VIII
Make Cultivation Precaricus--
Doubtful II Land Can Pc
Reclaimed.
by Wright a. PATTERSON.
what must Germany pay for?

What must Germany pay for?
That question can be adequately an
swered only when 1t is remembered
that Germany started the terrible con-
fiict In Europe for no reason other
than that Of conquest and loot; start
ed 1t only to satisfy the selfish ambi-
lions Of a selfish people for world
domination. That is being admitted
today by what is left Of the German
nation; it is admitted by those who
were directly responsible for the war.
And it is because Germany started
this conflict for no reason other than
that Of conquest and loot that Ger
many owes to the world full payment
for all the devastation which the war
has brought, not only in so far as she
can pay now, but in so far as she can
pay for generations yet to come.
Among the many, many sections Of
Belgium and northern France that I
personally covered, following closely
on the heels Of the retreating Hun
army, was that which lies between
what were the cities Of Ypres and
Menin, approximately 20 miles apart.
Here. before the coming Of the invad-
Ing Boche, was what was considered
the most productive soil Of the world,
and the most intensely cultivated.
Here in a number Of farm villages
lived the Belgian peasant families,
happy, thrifty people, each family cul-
tivating the small fields which it
owned. No fences separated these
fields, no hedges cut them of from the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-03
VERSAILLES AS CAPITAL.
France Wants Headquarters OF World
League There.

Paris.-The Foreign Affairs Commit
tee of the Chamber of Deputies is con-
sidering bill which would make Yer
sailles the capital of the proposed
Society Of Nations. The bill is backed
by the deputies from Versailles and
the Department of Seine-et-Oise. It
proposes to put the buildings at Yer
sailles at the disposal Of the states
represented at the Peace Conference,
giving them the privilege Of extra ter
ritorial right and to make Versailles
the permanent center of the proposed
society Of nations.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-03

roadways, and the families that cultf-
waited the fields lived not on the little
farms but in closely built villages of
from 100 to 500 people each.
Devastation 10 Complete.
1t is hard to realize today that these
villages ever existed, that the land
along this long, straight road was ever
cultivated, ever produced foodstuffs
for a people. In fact, it is hard to
realize today that this was ever an in
habited country.
or these peaceful villages, the living
places of these farm people, there is
40 trace left. There are not even piles
of debris, of broken brick and stone
and lumber, to mark the spots where
they stood. There is no single thing
by which the returning peasants, wear
lily dragging themselves back to that
spot which had been home to them and
to their ancestors for almost countless
generations, can mark the place where
not only their home but their village
had stood.
have seen old men and women,
wearied by four long years of exile,
stand beside this road and gaze long
ingly over the devastated landscape,
In an effort to locate some familiar OBJ
ject that would remind them of the
spot they had known all their lives,
and then turn away with tears on their
cheeks because they could not find
even one small object that would tell
them of the homes, the only homes.
they had known.
1t was German ambition, German
cruelty, German lust, German wanton-
ness, German brutality, that were the
cause Of the destruction of these
homes, Of the agonies of peaceful,
thrifty people.
What can possibly compensate these
people for their loss, for the misery
they have suffered and must still suf-
fer, for the homes and the associations
that are gone forever? No, Germany
can never pay in full, but she can con-
tinue to pay and pay and pay until
there has been bred out of the German
people that desire for war, that love
of conquest, that brutality, that it has
taken centuries, almost, to breed into
them. and which has resulted in laying
a whole world waste.
In all that 20 miles between Ypres
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-03
TO TAKE CENS
OF THE FB||N5
All Unused and Unoccupied
Lands Will Be Listed.
FOR DISCHARGED SOLDIERS
Suggestion Also Made That Lumber
And Building Materials At Can
tonmcnts Be Turned Over
For Buildings.

Washington. The Department Of
Labor has instructed Ethelbert Stew
art, director of the Inspection and In
vestigation Service of that department
to prepare as rapidly as possible a
list of all unused and unoccupied farm
lands, by States, counties, townships,
nearest market and post Office, and
general statement of the character OF
soil; also to show separately timber
lands, and such timber lands that con-
tain available fuel in the shape Of
fallen timber which can be removed
without injury to the land involved.
Mr.. Stewart stated:
This is the first clerical step tor
ward the practical opening up OF the
lands in the eastern part of the coun-
try to such of the returning soldiers
as desire to definitely locate and settle
on these lands. 1t is in effect an open
ing of the books. 1t is understood
that the War Department intends
demobilize soldiers from the canton
mcnts from which they were indicted
into service. To certain extent these
returning soldiers will have some
knowledge of the surrounding coun-|
try, but will have no specific informa-
ton as to the exact location of avail
able farms
The United States Employment
Service of the Department OF Labor
will have supervision of So canton
ments to begin with, and it is the
intention of the department to have a
complete list of the available farms
at each of these environments, SO that
those who are interested will have no
trouble in locating them, List also
will be on file at the Department OF
Labor in Washington, and copies may
be obtained by the Agriculture Depart
ment of States and by State officials
The matter of using the building ma
terials that are now tied up in or con-
tracted for by the Cantonment Con-
struction Service Of the War Depart
ment to be used upon these newly set
tied lands by returning soldiers is now
being considered by the War and La
Dor Departments. The President al
ready by Executive order has required
that all Office furniture and supplies
in the District of Columbia be turned
over to the Treasury Department for
use by the Government service as they
are needed. Carrying out this idea, it
is suggested that the lumber and build
ing materials now owned by the War
Department shall be held for use in
building houses, barns, etc. by the
men who elect to return to the farm,
within the State where the canton
ment is located.
1t has been suggested that this
should be handled by the Department
Of Labor in its replacement of men on
farms, through and in connection with
the land lists secured by the Inspec-
lions and Investigation Service. The
value of this lumber is many times
greater than any price the Government
can get for it as secondhand material
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-03
WALTER Il. PAGE, DEAD.
Was Formerly Ambassador To Great
Britain.

Britain.
Pinehurst, N. C.-WaIter Hines
Page, former ambassador to Great
Britain, died here after an illness OF
many weeks. DR.. Pages health began
to fail nearly year ago and he gave
UP his post as American representative
at the Court of St. James late in the
summer
DR.. Page returned to the United
States on October IL and he was
moved directly from the steamer to a
hospital in New York. For a time
his condition showed improvement,
but late In November he suffered a
relapse. Early this month he rallied
and ten days ago was brought to
Pinehurst. For while he seemed to
grow stronger, but suffered second
relapse last Thursday.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-03
FOR STATE CONTROL OF FOOD.
Governor-EIect Smith Wants Staples
Made Public Utilities.

Governor-EIect Smith Wants Staples
Made Public Utilities. -
New York. -Governor-elect Alfred e.
Smith will request at the earliest pos
sible moment of the next Legislature
the drafting and passing of laws max
ing all fundamental foods public utili-
ties and putting control Of them d.
reetly into the hands of the people.
Embraced in the list of fundamental
foods are eggs, milk, butter, bread,
vegetables and meat.
This was learned after a conferences
in District Attorney Swann's office be-
tween the District Attorney, Chief
Magistrate McAdoo, Deputy ColNmis-
sioner of Public Markets Lau A.
Cauble and Assistant District w
ney John T. Dooling.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-03
ex-governor Jones Dead.

Little Rock, Ark-Former Governor
Dale w. Jones died at his home here.
He was born in Bowie county. Texas,
December is, 1889. He served two
terms as governor and one as attorney
general of Arkansas. He was colonel
in the Confederate Army
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-03
Ex-kAlsER REPORTED
Paris Gets Report, Which Lad
firmation.

Paris.-Rumors that the form
peror of Germany has been
mated became current in Paris,
in the Chamber of Deputies.
is not the slightest confirmaI
the report up to the present.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-03
scHwAB FOR PRESIDENT.
Urged At Banquet OF Chicago Ma
chinery Club.

Chicago. - Choice OF Charles NJ.
Schwab for the next President of the
United States was voiced at banquet
given by the Chicago Machinery Club
to $50 plant superintendent and other
representatives of $50 machinery con-
struction and Woodworking concerns.
Partisanship was not mentioned.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-03
American Consul Arrested.

Odessa.-The Bolshevild have ar
rested American Consul Treadwell at
Tashkent. Russian Turkestan. accord
ing to wireless received here.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-03
SETS paIcE ON CHILD
Court Rules $3.50 is Too
Names $500,

New York.-Ruling
award of $3.50 was exc
life of a 6-year-old boy !
eral months ago by a
the appellate division (
Court ordered a new
lads father agreed 4
ment of $500 from
Brewing Company,
truck. The decisiq
argument of the q
that since the ch
school and his fail
cent on medical
verdict was exces
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-04-03
MISSISSIPPI
GLEANINGS
/, oyALTY MAP TO SHOW WORK
lississippians Show Increased Interest
! In Educational Conference.

Agricultural College. Thousands
|pf wideawake Mississippians are show
ing increasing interest in the great
Educational conference to be held in
Meridian May 1, 2 and 3, and in the
Educational campaign to be conducted
throughout the state in July, August
Ind September" said Prof. F. d. Mel
len, enrolment director of the Teach
ers' Association.
President H. B. Heidelberg and the
Executive committee of the associa-
Hon are preparing for the state con-
ference a programme that will pro-
note education for years to come. Now
hat more than 5000 teachers have
3pined the association, Prof. M. l..
Freeman, head of the drawing depart
hen of the A. G. NJ. College, has be-
6un work of the teachers loyalty map,
Which will be displayed at Meridian
Md at other places.
"The loyalty map said Director
Mellen, will be a map of Mississippi
#ith broad vertical margins, altogether
3ght feet square. Every county con-
Eblidated school, high school or col
kge having 100 per cent membership
Il the association will on the map be
represented in gold; every county or
|1khool having SO to 100 per cent men,
3ership will be represented in silver;
bery county or school having from l
so per cent membership will be
&presented in blue. Along with the
bme of the county or school, the
bme of the superintendent or prin-
Xbal will appear"
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-04-03
MANGlN MAY LEAD DRIVE
French General Slated for Recall From
Mayence as Head Of Mission
Owing to Crlsis.

Paris.-Gen. Mangin, one of the
leading officers of the French army,
may be recalled from his command at
Mayence. the newspapers announce, to
undertake mission, the character
and scope Of which is indicated plain
ty by the events in Hungary"
According to the Gaulois, he would
receive very important command In
Eastern Europe. undoubtedly the Bal
kans, with view to possible opera
tions on the Hungarian frontier and
Southwestern Russia
Gen. ]. M. G. Malleterre, the mill
tary critic, In an article In the Matin,
apparently reflecting military opinion,
suggests as means of checking the
Bolsheviki and rendering definite the
victory of the allies, allied armies
should march through Germany and
effect a junction with Poland. Gen
Malleterre adds the allies must finish
The job by thunder stroke and de.
clares that the sword OF Marshal Foch
IS not yet sheathed.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-04-03
HATH FIELD ARTILLERY PARADES
THROUGH STREETS OF
NASHVILLE.
STATE WELCOMES ITS OWN
Boys Get Continuous Ovation-God-
Starred Flag Represents Stricken
"Buddies"-15o,oo Estimated
AS Number of Spectators.

Nashville.-Honored by everything
hat grateful city and the three
yrand divisions of the state could do
% show its heartiest appreciation of
heir achievements on French soil
lgainst the Hun hordes, the returned
heroes of the Hath Field Artillery, of
he fighting Thirtieth Division them
yelves did honor to the few ''buddies"
hat lie sleeping the last long sleep in
Flanders Field in their parade through
he streets of Nashville.
A throng estimated at 100000 per-
IONS had its first wild cheers momen-
:arily hushed when the significance of
huge white flag, with gold star
thereon for every man who made the
supreme sacrifice in the vicious fight
ing for democracy, borne past by four
ytalwart artillerymen, dawned upon
hem.
That honor to their dead, followed
Immediately behind Col. Luke Lea,
commanding officer of the regiment,
and Col. James A. Gleason, who led
the heroic veterans of the Argonne
Forest and in taking the initiative in
plotting out the famous st. Mihiel sa-
dent.
Again as from the dusty slopes of
Chickamauga Ridge and the level
sweeps of Shiloh, the historic old
Nashville streets heard that wild paen
Of battle, "The Rebel Yell" shrilled
lrom the throats of Confederate veter-
ans who formed guard of honor.
Even as that battle cry had carried
CONSERVATION and terror on its wings
in the fateful days of '63, so must the
hated Huns have been awed as the
stout-hearted stalwarts of the Thir-
ieth bayed their will to conquer in
those dark days on the Marne.
This picture here, where marched
and countermarched alternately the
blue and the gray in the days Of that
,ther now forgotten war, was master
piece which moved to tears. A master
piece of history, which showed the
grandeur of the old South, waning in
the grasp of time, only to form an
afterglow about the radiance of the
glorious Thirtieth, in which has lived
and fought, and conquered, the spirit
of the South.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1919-04-03
TO CROSS ATLANTIC
IN TWENTY HOURS
NEWFCUNDLAND-T O-IRELAND AIR
FLIGHT AS FIGURED BY
NOTED EXPERT.

London--From Newfoundland to
Ireland in twenty hours, making use of
the prevailing wind, is now figured as
a very sane problem by Maj. G.. c..
Turner, one of Englands foremost avt
ators.
This is calculated possible with the
R-33, the gigantic new rigid airshtp
which the British government has just
started out under experiments. Maj.
Turner believes that the airship is to
play great part in transatlantic voy-
ages for reasons that have not yet
been fully explained. It is not ques-
ton of rivaling the airplane.
So far as duration of voyage without
refuelling is concerned, the airshfp
threatens to rival the steamship says
Maj Turner.
"The R-33, which is only prelude
to greater vessels, will be able to keep
her engines going for about six days.
But whenever the wind is favorable,
which will usually be the case one way
or the other across the Atlantic, it
can stop some or all of it's engines
and drift toward it's port,
"The fastest steamship is unable to
derive much profit from favorable
wind"