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The Republican journal., 1920-07-29
THEN AND NOW.

On July 80, 1919, exactly 3O1 years ago
tomorrow friday the first legislature
assembly in the new world convened. 1t
was held in Jamestown, and the event
was the first meeting of the House of
Burgesses of Virginia. Thereafter, the
desire for popular government spread
throughout the scattered colonies as they
were formed by immigrants from the
Old World, who came hither to escape
the expressions of autocratic Europe In
1920 the Mayflower compact was made
as the governing pact for the Plymouth
colony in Massachusetts,. In 1858 Con-
necticut adopted its first constitution
which is strikingly similar to the funda-
mentals of our Federal Constitution. In
1643 the first successful effort was made
to form a union, when the four colonies,
then operating under separate charter
governments, combined into what was
known as the "Unicn of the New Eng
land Colonies" In 1854 Benjamin Frank
lin proposed what was known as the AL
colonies, then 10 in number. England
rejected this plan because it was too
democratic. and the colonies themselves
rel ected it because it was too aristocratic.
In 1776 the idea of a government indie
pendent of English control was embodied
in the Declaration of independence by
Thomas Jefferson. The year 1881 wit
messed the unsuccessful experiment of
the ARTICLES of Confederation but it
was not until 1887 that the Constitution
was drafted and adopted. From that
day to this it has remained the funda-
mental law of the land with amendments
from time to time as the people wiled.
Under its wise provisions the United
States has grown from nation of less
that 1900, 900 inhabitants, having little
wealth and primitive surroundings, to a
world power with more than los, 100000
people and double the wealth of any
other country on the globe. This is a
record the equal of which cannot be
found elsewhere in the history of human
progress and national development From
the earliest times our people have been
imbued with the fundamental idea that
our national safety could be best safe
guarded by maintaining our inuepend-
ence from the influence or control of
Old World autocracies.
The PRONUNCIATION of the Covenant of
the League of Nations disclosed the first
studied and determined plan to take from
us the independence under which we have
so wonderfully prospered. This great
American Republic is asked to surrender
its independence to the dictation Of a
Supreme Council" composed of six
empires and kingdoms and three repub-
lies, and in this Council the United States
IS to have one vote and foreign govern
ments are to have eight votes. The pro-
ponents of this scheme for putting the
United States under guardianship have
presented it SO artfully and persstently
that 1t has become one of the princi-
pal issues in the presidential campaign.
Next November the people of the United
States will decide by ballot whether or
not they will surrender to England the
independence which was won, from her
IN the war of the Revolution, the indie
pendence which has inspired and made
possible the pre-eminent position which
we have reached among the nations of
the EARTH
The Republican journal., 1920-07-29
NEWS OF THE ORANGES.

Silver Harvest Grange, No. 66 of WAL
do, after having held 10 meetings with
an average attendance of Is members
besides visiting members at nearly every
meeting, voted to have recess until Au-
gust 9Th, when they will have ice cream
and cake and each one is expected to be
prepared to help on the program.
The Republican journal., 1920-07-29

1t will surely kill them-prevent odors.
Cats or dogs won't touch it. Comes in
cakes. Three sizes, Csc, SOC, S1.OO. Sold
and guaranteed by A. A. Howes & Co.,
Hall Hardware Co. and City Drug Store.
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QUOTATION.

."When the scarlet cardinal tells
Her dreams to the dragon fly,
And the lazy breeze
Makes a nest in the trees
And murmurs a lullaby,
1t is July"
The Republican journal., 1920-07-29
JACKSON.

Daniel Mason is cutting the hay on the
W. E. Gould farm.
Mrs. Blna Dode has been visiting her
sister, Mrs. Media Chase, in Brooks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Cook spent
week end at K ndel Pond, recently
F. B. Taylor has been helping Bryant
Reed in Dlxmont through haying season.
Reuben Morton and Elmer Merrick
were business visitors in Bangor recently.
DR.. and Mrs. N. R. Cook of Newport
were in town few days ago calling on
relatives.
L. P. Twicker of Thorndike has been in
town helping E. E. Morton and son H. S.
Morton in haying.
Miss Hattie Mckinley has been guest
for week of Misses Eva and Ruth Tiba-
do at the Head of the Tide
Misses Inez, Caroline and Pauline Kel-
sey of Knox have been visiting their
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Chase.
Jackson people were very sorry to hear
of the death of Frank Curtis in the w aldo
County Hospital. He was fine young
man and had many friends in his home
town.
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You Guard Against Burglars, but What
About RATS?

Rats stealImillions of dollars worth of
grain, chickens, eggs, etc. Destroy prop
erty and are menace to health. If you
are troubled with rats, try RAT-SNAP.
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meet any circumstances that might
develop
Her qualifications for the screen,
as she listed them herself, included
stcnography, shorthand, working
knowledge in French, elementary
Latin, medieval history and plane
geometry. But not many motion
picture people were interested until
they began to hear that she could
ride the worst tempered horse in the
paddock, do a double somersault off
the top rung Of the ladder on the
diving float, swim any distance cas-
lily, turn. a cartwheel, play any game
a boy could play, and never refuse
a dare.
Her first regular position gave her
the unusual opportunity Of playing
one Of the thirteen brides in a
Turkish harem. She was a little
vague as to what it was all about
the main idea seemed to be fighting
half-naked negroes, a nice, gentle
pastime for little lady who should
have been spending her afternoons
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Game in Africa

TNHAT part of East Africa
which Is traversed by the
Uganda Railway has long
been noted as a big game country.
but few stayat-home Britons realize
now plentiful the wild animals are
there. A government official. whose
work has taken him into one of the
game preserves, writes as follows in
The London Post from a camp
pitched only four miles from the
railway and within twenty mile.
of Nairobi:
"As l sit writing in my tent
can see through the door at lea..
four thousand head of game feeding
on the plains. There is one group
not four hundred yards away. They
consist of wildebeest, hartebeest.
Grants gazelle, Thomson's gazelIe.
lmpals, ostriches, waterbuck. eland
and hundreds OF zebra. | have never
seen anything like it in any other
part Of Africa, and, as you know.
know something of the game dis
trlcts of southern Rhodesia. the
Belgian Congo, the Tanganvika
territory and the Portuguese terri.
tory near the Fovus,, ( u-s..ssssssss =
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Farmers Almanac
A NME was when the farmer car
q ried his almanac along with
p hlc t.-,,ctr. ..e o.1-;. - x,l..c.,, n "A

ENME was when the farmer car
4 ried his almanac along with
his trusty "chewin' plug" and
Icemijohn of cold water when he set
'ut IN the early morning hours to till
+ .he folds.
But science In recent years has
40 lot to do with eliminating the
almanac from the farmers equip
nlenI. instead Of looking up the pos
AShle weather conditions for the day
ts ne did so assiduously in former
years, the agriculturist now calls up
|she nearest station of the Department
|oi Agriculture's field service and
iearns first hand the official forecast,
and The Washington Evening Star
0elis US the farmers find it more re-
liable than the old system and a
great deal more convenient.
\ Hundreds of calls are received
eY'iy by the University of Maryland,
81 College Park, which works in con-
junction with the Department of
agriculture. The forecasts are tele-
sfsphed each morning to tho uni
yersity.
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thing-if-if only you're sure you're
going to be happy with Royce. You
said you'd tell me about that
"Not yet" she said. Then,
thoughtfully, after a minute Of si-
lence "There's more about you. I
know how you felt about wanting to
save = when | went away. Be-
cause that's how feel about you
now. I'm frightened for you. I've
learned a good deal in six months
I've seen a lot Of people who were
dolng III one way or another what
you've come here to do. It's a won
derful life in some ways. It's free
and exciting and full of--of in
spiration. But people get hurt,
They get so terribly hurt. Some
times they burn out to nothing but
just shells-empty shells, Herbert,
with nothing inside to come out
when something splits them open.
And YOU In some ways
you aren't changed. You Will al
ways be high minded. You will
always want the best It's only
your notion of what the best is that S
changed. And for people like that
there are so many disappointments
-hardships--
"Oh, l don't know what l want
for you. l don't want you to go
back to that old cramped, dead life
at the high school. And yet L.
If there were just some way so that
you could live all this have your
freedom and not be hurt like that.
If there could be just-just some
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I sort Of harbor for you to come
back to-
He smiled. $50 that I could have
all the excitement and none of the
danger, like the roller-coaster out
here? Dorothy, dear, it can't be
done. It's the consequences of our
adventures that we grow on. The
man who ventures out and runs
away-back to a harbor as you say
hasn't really ventured at all. He's
only deluding himself with an imi-
tation. He may delude himself that
way for while-think he's living.
But he can't fool Life. And some
time or other Life will come up with
him.
No, I've got to take what's COM
ing to me and one thing l pray for
is for courage to live wide open-to
take what comes to me and live it
up, bitter and sweet together. But
but it's wonderful to think that
you could spare me a wish like that,
Just now-to-night-the-the day
before tomorrow"
He hadn't been looking at her as
ne spoke, but had been gazing out
over the lights instead. But now an
audible catch in her breathing
brought his eyes around to her face.
Her lips were parted, her eyes
wide and wet with tears. To his
CONSERVATION, she uttered a little
laugh-half choked, to be sure, but
an unmistakable laugh.
"Oh, what an idiot I've been not
to see that for myself.' she said.
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The Harb0r----By Henry KucheH Wbser

| began trying to write myself. I
must have been astonishingly lucky,
because the first story l wrote was
the one Ernestrne told you about,
that they're making moving pic
ture of. That's about all, l guess. y
But before she could speak, he
caught himself up and went on.
"No, that's not true. That's leav-
ing something out, There was a
wild sort of dream went with it
that perhaps I could succeed quickly
enough in making myself into a new
man and growing up, so that l could
come back to you before it was too
late. And-and begin again.
hadn't quite given up that dream
when found you here<-unbelieva-
bly--to-night. And when you told
me you were to be married.
his voice had been getting more
and more ragged and uneven and
there it fairly broke. But with a
gesture of impatience, he got him.
self together again and went on.
You're not to feel unhappy about
it. don't myself, really. You did
the greatest thing that's ever hap
pened to me-the greatest service
it's possible for me to imagine, when
you-splt open the shell and let
me out. I'm glad you went away. I'd
rather be the man I am, with the
capacity for loving you the way
do, than have stayed the man I was,
and married you. There's nothing
for you to feel sorry about-not q
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(Contiuated from preceding poge)

Continued from preceding poge)
that waiting until you can make 2
perfectly cool decision doesn't al
ways lead you right"
There was another little silence,
then he said:
ut happened when you went
away-by yourself-to Chicago. |
knew was in love with you, as the
man I had been could not have
loved anybody And l was desper-
ate about you. I wanted 10 save
you. All / could think about was
ways Of saving you. But none cf
them ! could see would work. You
had offered me my chance ard 1
hadn't taken it.
"Out Of that got to hating
everything I'd been, and everything
I'd done-going about correcting
little mistakes--patronizing things
I'd always been told were good, and
refusing to try to see anything good
in what didn't understand. Every
thing I'd made of myself, or meant
to make Of myself, went to-dust
and ashes.
Il began reading ell the things
that I'd despised-new poetry and
fiction--the humbcst kind of fiction
detective stories-everything.
saw how ingenious and skillful it
was; how hard it must be to write,
and what good workmen the people
were who were writing it. So then
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Good for Many Fights

But Peggy was game to the core.
She lasted through fight after fight
and never whimpered Nor did she
Intimate in any way that the old
folks might have been wrong in
spreading all that abolition doctrine
AS long as it was her Job to fight
negroes she intended to make sue
cess Of it without any mental reser-
vations.
One day an enthusiastic director
staged a fight scene that became too
realistic to be entirely discreet. The
camera man saw Peggy knocked
down, lying unconscious and
trampled on by the mob. He sug-
gested that proceedings be inter
rupted long enough TO drag her out
to safety.
Great stuff" yelled the director.
Keep cranking!"
When it was all over, Peggy
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she said it cheerfully enough
Bob and l." said Enid, "have
been looking everywhere for you. We
spent two hours here at the park.
"Oh, I'm sorry you missed me-
said Dorothy with transparent in
sincerity.
Dorothy" said Enid, and then
looked rather helplessly around at
Bob.
Here" said Bob. Leave it to
me-" Whereupon he came over, to
Dorothy, mind you, reached for her
hand, bent over and kissed her.
Thanks very much" he said. "You
brought her around. | don't know
what it was you said to her this
afternoon. 1t did the business.
She's going to marry me-straight
eff; tomorrow, if we can get hold of
her father"
Dorothy flew at Enid Of course
and embraced her with the utmost
enthusiasm.
But Enid still had something on
her mind, and as soon as she could
get Dorothy off at arms length
where she could look at her, she said
That argument of yours is no good
now, anyhow, Dorothy. Now won't
you wait week and think it over?'
NO." Dorothy said, cts all set
tied. To-morrow's the day. We're
poing down on the morning train te
Centropolis. But Pm not going te
marry Fenton Royce. Herbert anc
| decided that would be a mistake
So ( - going to marry him instead
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man wonder why his wife cannot do
hers IN the same way Not to be
accused of raving, one must stop
somewhere.
When the great ambition struck
in Miss Bcecher had finished the
last of a series Of fashionable girls
boarding schools. There was moth
ing very thrilling in a boarding
school for girl who had spent her
summers in a boys camp in Cam
ada, where she played shortstop on
the baseball nine and substitute left
tackle cn the football team. A few
years before, up at Lake Placid,
she had been the leader of a gang
Of "mountaineers' who prowled the
highways and lived by stealth
(strict]y between family meal
hours>.
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lime to Change Directors

Now, any reasonable director
glancing casually at Margaret
Beecher would know by instinct that
he couldn't call her "yellow" twice
in the same day. She could stand
up under the strain of battle and
minor injuries and half-naked ne
groes, but being called "yellow" by
q man was another thing. On the
spot, as it were, she decided that It
was time to change directors.
AS matter of fact, the change
developed automatically. A pro-
ducer had seen Miss Beecher work
SO had director. That same night
Miss Beecher went home to tell her
family that she was to be starred in
a new company.
Meteoric. Nothing short OF it.
But being Beecher, the young lady
chiefly concerned was not at all
startled. 1t was just Fame anc
Fate working things out according
to custom. OF course, she realized
that a little cooperation might be
expected from her and she was more
than ready to help things along.
When she first went on in the new
company, they told her not to worry
about histrionic ability. 1t really
didn't count for much in the pic
lures. All they wanted her to dc
was ito act natural" And the next
day she discovered that through the
majority Of the scenes she was
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scheduled to take the part of a Grip
Natural as a Cripple

All her life she had romped.
danced and capered. She had played
leap-frog with her brothers while
her girl friends were nursing doll
babies. She had always rebelled at
having to wear skirts. She couldn't
move fast enough in them. And now
they wanted her "to act natural" by
appearing as cripple.
But she buckled down to the Job
and learned how invalids behave.
how to sit quietly in a wheel chair
and let some one else do the moving.
There was great rejoicing when the
script permitted "cure" and she
could burst into activity again with
the use of both legs.
The next picture, the one which
at present fills Miss Beecher days
with thrill, excitement and plenty
Of hard work, has series Of scenes
in which the heroine is totally blind
More of this "acting natural" stuff
Scenario writer's have fertile brains
when it comes to evolving tortures
for innocent victims of the sc-called
silver screen.
But Peggy doesn't mind n-hae
they ask her to do now-it's all part
Of the game. Yesterday she may
have been a 'sweet young thing,
the sheltered granddaughter Of
celebrated preacher. To-day Size is
moving picture star, serious II her
art, eager for work and contilent
of accomplishment.
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her of any notion she might have
that acting before the camera was
all life Of glory and glamour. They
weren't exactly pessin7istic, but fam
lily pride seldom extends to the point
of placing much faith in untried
genius; though they did have to ad-
NIT that when it came to looks
Peggy would do.
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All Right as to Looks


Standing on her tiptoes, She
reaches up to five feet nothing at all.
To look at her, you would be sure
that if she stepped on the scales
pounds wouldn't enter the discus
sion. Dainty, graceful and very
much alive, she has more than her
share of feminine attractions.
Her face glows with animation,
sometimes wistfully, sometimes
worldly wise. Her large, wide-open
blue eyes, her resolute chin and her
pert nose all count, too. Her hair
is the kind that makes the average
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Knows All the Lingo

She rattles off the professional
lingo as naturally as if she had
grown up in a studio; talks about
'footage" and "stills" and "domineer
ing a scene and looks puzzled when
you don't understand. Her idea of
a grand and glorious afternoon is to
invite some staid and respectable
elderly aunt up to the studio and
introduce her to the mysteries of
the makeup box-"just to see how
you'll look, auntie."
A private showing of the first
pictures was given for the bereft
CT the Beecher family. The were
delighted. All the worries about
what the Rev. Henry Ward 3ee.her
would think faded out in a twlrkling.
Peggy had scored big with the most
important and most critical audience
which will ever gather to watch her
perform. Her triumph was supreme,
And when the biography Of Mar
garet Beecher is written-for all
he Beechers svoid biographers about
as easily as they 90 1ame-a SPECIAL
chapter should be reserved for the
director who called her "yellow."
That and her eighteenth birthday
are rather momentous dates
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summed up her injuries briefly out
in the dressing room. Except for
some bruises and few flesh wounds
she seemed to be perfectly fit. Daub
ing iodine over the bleeding places,
she ran back for more fight.
The director saw the iodine marks
and became visibly annoyed. He in
dulged in one of those flights Of tenn
permanent, without which no self
respecting motion picture director
can complete a perfect. Among
several other things, he made the re-
mark that Miss Beecher was "yel-
low"
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write; it gets my fingers all inky
And, please, how else can a girl be-
come farhous?"
The family, assembled in solemn
conclave, we're tolerant enough, but
not very encouraging 1t came as &
shock to them, this idea of a po-
tential moving picture actress de-
veloping right in their midst, fol-
lowing so closely in the lineage Of
the Rev. Henry Ward. Of course, in
time they might get used to it, but
it hardly seemed necessary. They
tried to intimate to the daughter
in subtle language that, after all,
she really didn't have to become ia
nous.
"Oh, but 7 dol"
And that was that, if you get the
idea.
Determination and Patience
Miss Beecher had determination
and patience Cheerfully she as
sumed the enormous task Of trying
to convince an incrcdulous family
that ever so many girls went into
the movies and came out alive.
There were Mary Pickford, Blanche
Sweet, Lillian Gish, Gloria Swanson
and lots more. Certainly any father
and mother should be proud to have
one Of those girls for daughter.
Still, the discussion drifted back
again and again to the original
query of how the great Henry Ward
Beecher would take it. Just sup
posing he were gazing down with
some interest on the proceedings,
what would he say to his own grand
daughter becoming a moving pic
ture actress?
Peggy wasn't sure, but she
thought he'd probably say:
GO to it, Peggyw
Perhaps! though a careful search
through the files of his sermons,
his lectures and his biographies
leads one to believe that the Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher studiously
avoided using the phrase "Go to IT,"
However, it came about that Miss
Beecher was to have her try at the
pictures. A few months ought to
be enough, they thought, to cure
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According to Traditions

Then, with school behind her, she
took brief secretarial course
another Beecher tradition, every
member Of the family equipped to
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attending tea dances and her eve
nlngs in some ones box at the opera.