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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-05-17
s. STATES CHOOSE GOVERNORS
AFFECTIONS IN COMING FALL

whose position carries $4,000 salary,
is the only governor in. the country
elected for one year. All other states
have either two or four year terms.
Territorial governors are better paid
than the average state executive and
two of the four are appointed for in
definite terms, with the result that they
remain in Office as long, as rule, as the
president who named them.
Francis Burton Harrison, governor
general Of the Philippines, tops the list
Of territorial executives with an in
definite term and $4,000 yearly salary.
Arthur wager, Governor Of Porto Rico
receives $4,000 and is appointed for an
indefinite term. Governor Thomas
Riggs. Jr. Of Alaska and c. J. McCar-
thy of Hawaii. each received annual sal
aries of 5000 during their four year
terms.
The states which will elect governors
this year. with the incumbent. his poll
tics, salary and term Of office are:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-05-17
BOWDOINHAM

NORTH-In spite of the storm, the
Farm Bureau meeting at the home
of Fl. K. Powers on Saturday even
ing. was well attended. Martha p
York. home demonstration agent, as.
sisted in the making of a fireless
cooker. The next meeting will be
at the home of John Dockendorf.
Marcia Wade of Parsonsfield Semi
nary and Harold Wade of Bruins
wick were weekend visitors at the
home of their parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Marks of Bos
ton were guests at the home Of Cap
tain w. A. Turner for the week end
Mrs. Mary Hatch returned from a
trip to North Carolina last week
She was called to attend the funera
of Mrs. Arson Given on Tuesday oil
this week.
Mrs. Annie Batchelder, who passed
several weeks with her sister, Eller
Hatch, has returned to her home.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-05-17
111.Cent Sugar?

All is not sweet that's sugar, is the
conclusion reached by w. j. Lauck,
consulting economist Of the railroad
brotherhoods and unions, in a report
submitted to the United Railroad
Labor Board at Washington.
He asserts that the sugar specula-
tors and prof1teers will clean up, on
the most conservative estimate, not
less than 100000. 900 this year. which
represents a contribution Of $50 per
family to the greed Of the gougers.
He produced figures giving the aver
ege net income of twelve sugar COM
panies which handle more than half
the sugar used for domestic con-
sumption, for the years 1912-14 and
1868. Comparison Of these fig-
ures shows that the average profits
for the group during the 1868
period were approximately three
times the pre-war rate. When it is
pointed out that the increase is not
due to increased production, be-
cause the amount Of production &C.
tually decreased during the war. it
begins to look as if the explanation
might be embarrassing 20 the sugar
men. Mr.. Lauck's explanation is
artificial stimulation Of prices, UNI
checked speculation and merciless
Iprohteering."
He then proceeds to prove his
theory by showing that the margin
between production cost and retail
price. which in 1918 was one cent q
ponds is now. fl excess Of 10 cents.
Since the labor cost Of producing q
pound Of sugar. according to Mr..
kk1Aek -mcrsl.ed only two cents
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-05-17
MADISON

Deputy Sheriff George Walker
was called to the Maine Central
Railroad passenger station Friday
forenoon to take an intoxicated man
from the train. The man gave his
from Bangor and was going to In
dian Pond but refused to pay his
fare. The lumber company for whom
Koran was going to work was COM
municated with by wire and agreed
to pay his fine. He left town Satur-
day forenoon for his destination.
w. G. Hilton is building small
structure just south of the coal shed
to be used as an Office.
Mrs. Charles Lydic left town Sat-
urday morning for Rumford, Where
she will make her home.
Mrs. Albert Chapman left town
Friday afternoon to pass a few days
with friends in Portland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ingleton Schenck.
Jr.. of Boston are the guests of Mrs.
Schenck's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Lake.
Frank Moore has purchased the
house owned by Mrs. Stella Vose, on
Nichols street, and will soon move
his family to that place.
Mrs. Fred Cookson went Saturday
to Nashua, n. H., to visit her son.
Frank Cookson.
Salvation Army tag day was OBJ
served in Madison Saturday A. num-
Der of young women solicited funds
on the street.
A May party and dance was held
Saturday evening by the Madison
Patriotic and Social Club in its
rooms on Main street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morrill, Walker of
Pittsburgh, Pa, arrived in Madison
this week to pass the summer at
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-05-17
"A Throttle Hold"

An investigation Of entry values of
raw, unrefined sugar at the port of
Boston by the Globe, on Thursday,
showed that the entry value of the
last cargo Of sugar imported was
eighteen and a half cents in the
country from which imported, rise
Of about six cents a pound in the
past fourteen days. When the Gov
eminent was in charge of refiners'
prices they were allowed $1.54 per
hundred pounds but are said now
to get more. The Government has
recently ruled that the wholesalers
may only make a profit Of one cent
per pound and the retailer two cents
In view of these conditions the ma
nipulators appear to have gone out
side this country to perpetrate their
profiteering. With both ends and
the middle they have a throttle hold
and the only way to beat them is to
get along with the minimum of sugar
and cut out all confectionery.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-05-17
E. j. Roberts. d. d. S.
DENTISTRY
TELEPHONE CALL SEW
jan12, mon-wed,t
Railroads and Steamboats,
MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD
TEAMS LEAVE AUGUSTA FOR

Bangor, II "a a. m. r. q am. 81 Al IN, $3.50
am. II. SO p m. So. Us p. m. t6. 40p. m:
B. & A. Pts. II .24a m, IL. 81 a. m, t9.3oan.
Bar Harbor. t2.27 am. 1880 a. m
Bath. t6 % a. m. 1885 a. M. slO'lo a n
TAOS p. m, 1908 pm.
Belfast t.. SO p. m. ,,,,,
Boston. 70. liza m, t6. % a IN. 10 So a, NJ, siob
Am. t. As p m. So. 40p m. IA. 05pm 'lO,55pn'
Calais, Il % a. M, 1880 a. m.
Dover aud Foxcroft, IL So p. m.
Gardiner. T3.ll a m, 1928 a. m. y >! a M
sl016 a. m. IL 46 p. m, So 40 p. m. T4.lj p H.
aailowei Is g a. M. Joss m. ilolsa
i2.46 p M, So. 40 p. m. t4.l 5p. m. FlO,55 H.
Harmony, II. 50 p. m.
Lewiston. 623 am. sl0.l6 q. m, I4.Uo p H.
New York. s3.4o p. m. t613pm. .,.
Portland 49, IL a m. to % a. m. to- m luo
am. t. 46 pm. s3.40p. m. t4.o5p.m. 10 l0pm''
1858 pm.
Rockland. f6. % a. m. t405pm.
Skowhegan. 1890 a. m, 2.53 p. m.
So Gardner. t6. % am. TO- 5 am. $40 10 am
TAG p. m. So. 40p m. "A. Is p. m. *lO,5o p u
St John, II "a a. m. .o.o
Waterville, Il "a In. 81 Al a. m r p m ''5u
am. tlO5 pm, r. SO p M, s3.05p.m m, 70 4Opn'
Daily. DAILY. except Sunday
Sunday only. Daily. except Monday
DC. DOUGLASS. NJ. L. HARRIS.
4-26-2O V.P. & Genl Mgr. Genl Passenger As'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-05-17
GEO. RICHARDS
Gains Fifteen Pounds
Taking Tanlac
Says He Had Suffered With Stomach
Trouble for Twelve Years But Eats
Anything He Wants, Now

while have taken only three bot
ties of Tanlac I have actually gained
fifteen pounds in weight and feel bet
ter than have in years." said George
Richards, 568 Ocean avenue, Port
land, Me, an employee of the Econo-
my Fuel Co.
For about twelve years / had suf
fered more or less from stomach
trouble, which had gradually grown
worse until for three years before
began taking Tanlac 1 had been in
such bad condition that when 1 did
manage to eat little something
would bloat up with gas and have
such intense pains in the pit of my
stomach I could hardly stand them.
At times 1 just had to stop work, go
home and go to bed. l also had
dreadful nightsweats nearly every
night, and would get up in the MORN
ings feeling simply horrible.
Il could see an Improvement in my
condition before l had finished my
first bottle of Tanlac, and in a short
while was feeling like different per-
son. I now have a splendid appetite,
can eat anything I want and all
want without having a particle of
trouble afterward. Those awful
nightsweats have entirely stopped,
and, in fact thanks to Tanlac, I am a
well man in every respect. / believe
Tanlac will help anybody who will
take it, and am always glad to rec
ommend it."
Tanlac is sold in Augusta by Bow
ditch Webster Co. and the leading
/; druggist in every city and town
Adv
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-05-17
BOWDOIN

NORTH-Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Mac
Donald. Miss Anna B. Ready of Man
chester, N. H., are guests at the home
of w. B. Hervey in Bowdoin.
William Coskery, Jr., returned this
week to his farm. having passed the
winter at Newburyport, Mass. Mr.;
Coskery and infant son John William
will arrive later.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. F. Werner from
Lewiston. accompanied by Mr.. AM
Mrs. Waldo Werner of Bath, were sun
day visitors at their homestead in THIS
neighborhood.
Miss Mary Cheloske from Lisbon
Falls recently passed few days at her
home in Bowdoin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Card and daughters
Inez and baby Doris have returned
home after a stay of two weeks win
Mrs. Cards parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Cornish and son
were recently visitors at the home Of
William Cookery.
The new baby born to Mr.. and Mrs
Lloyd Nadeau. has been named jose
phine Clara.
Pamela Card has returned from
two-weeks' visit with her grandmothe''
Mrs. James Card, at the Center.
Mrs. James Wagg, Mrs. Alice Jones
and baby, Mrs. Margaret Small, ana
Miss Vesta Curtis, were callers this
week Of Mrs. Coskery and Mrs. Guy
Card.
The Haines portable sawmill is aoou.
ready to move onto the Cornish wool
lot.
The marriage of Linwood Card Of New
Auburn to Mrs. Della Batchelder Coz
ton. both formerly Of Bowdoin, is re-
ported.
Wallace Rideout has gone to Lewis
ton. where he has secured employnen.'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-05-17

Chicago, May 16.-Thir.y-five 'ates will
elect governors next fall at the time
when the President and xice-president
are chosen. Thirty-two United States
senators, to take office March 4, 1921, al
so are to, be selected.
OF the governors whose terms expire
next years twenty-five are Republicans
and 10 democrats; while II Of the 80 SEN
ators are Democrats and fifteen Repub-
licans.
The IS governorships to be filled offer
a wide range. both in terms and SAL
aries. Among the state executives
whose terms expire are Frank o. Low
den of Illinois. the highest paid COVER
nor in the country; and s. R. McKelvie
of Nebraska, the poorest paid, Mr..
Lowden receives $4,000 yearly for a
four year term and Mr.. McKelvie $500
annually for two years. Only IL of the
35 will receive over 5000 a year; and
five will be paid $1,000 or less.
Governor Coolidge of Massachusetts,,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-05-17
CEDAR GROVE

Mrs. Harry Stilphen returned to
her home in Portland last Saturday
Her visit here was prolonged. owing
to the illness of her little son Paul,
who had pneumonia.
Mrs. o. l.. Ham made n business
trip to Augusta Wednesday,.
F. NJ. Weeks launched his motor
boat Wednesday.
Mrs. F. M. Hall passed the day
Thursday in Gardiner.
Mrs. A. E. Call was the guest of
Mrs. Gus and Mrs. Lizzie Small of
Richmond Wednesday.
Clyde Moody passed Monday and
Tuesday in Gardiner, assisting at the
garage.
The locals played the Bridge Acad-
envy team Wednesday making a
score of 14-7 in favor of the locals.
L. C. Ballard of Gardiner was a
business visitor in town yesterday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-05-17
All tho Wool Is Not in the Ware
houses, at That.

More than one billion pounds Of
virgin wool have accumulated in
storage warehouses since the begin
ming of the world war, according to
statistics of the National Sheep and
Wool Bureau of America, and the
| 1920 clip to be completed within a
| few weeks will enormously increase
this total. The warehouses of Amer
lea alone contained zoe, 900, 900 pounds
of virgin wool last September, more
than 100,000,O00 pounds in excess of
the country's annual consumption,
and yet wool fabrics are abnormally
high in price and hard to get.
| Why is this? The explanation
given by Howard f. Greene, secre-
tary of the bureau is as follows:
THE reason huge stocks of virgin
| wool are now lying in storehouses
manufactured is that the use of
unidentified shoddy enables manu-
facturers to make more money.
Even the most honest retailers
are unable to detect the presence of
| shoddy in all wool goods, because
| shoddy is all wool. The purchaser
buys his all wool clothing without
knowing that he is getting old rags
respun, and pays virgin wool prices"
A vigorous attempt is being made,
in the vicinity of Chicago at least,
to bring about the passage through
Congress Of the so-called truth i'm
| fabric" bill. which will require man.
| ufacturers to stamp what purports to
be wool cloth with the percentage of
cotton or wool shoddy used in, its
manufacture. Obviously the shoddy
which is made from old wooden rags
and which cannot be detected by the
, retailer and consumer, is much less
| expensive than virgin wool, AID of
course gives less wear, making two
suits necessary where one used to
serve for a given length of time.
| The chops and mutton phase of
| sheep growing is also touched upon
by Mr.. Greene:
/ "The world produces scarcely a
third less wool than it needs an
nually. With proper encouragement,
farmers would increase their flocks
OF sheep and that, in the long rum
would mean more and cheaper wool
! and more and cheaper lamb and NUT
ton. Every voter is vitality interested
| in honest cloth, cheaper wool and
cheaper meat, and should write his
| congressman and senator at once and
! urge that the truth in fabric bill be
| reported out of committee and made
! into law"
Is the wool which is being pulled
over the eyes of the public shoddy or
| virgin?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-05-17

moor in a faint. I consulted several
doctors and every one told me the
same but I kept fighting to keep from
having the operation. l had read SO
many times of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and it helped
my sister 50 I began taking it.
have never felt better than I have
since then and keep house and am
able to do all my work. The Vege-
medicine. Mrs. j. r. MATHEWS,
1911 Sycamore Street, Cairo, Ill.
Of course there are many serious
cases that only a surgical operation
will relieve. We freely acknowledge
this but the above letter, and many
others like it, amply prove that many
operations are recommended when
medicine in many cases is all that is
needed
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-05-17
NYE'S CORNER

Skowhegan to work.
Miss Ruth Horn, who has been
working in Waterville for the past
two weeks, has accepted the posi-
ton as teacher at Pishon Ferry.
Mrs. A. A. Horn was in Fairfield
Thursday.
Mrs. Bert Weber and brother,
Charles Crummett of Clinton, visit
ed their sister, Mrs. Fred Lomber
Thursday. Mr.. Crummett is home
on a short stay from Hebron SAM
tarium where he has been last
winter and will return there in a few
days.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-05-17
~. p. e. G. NJ"

The candidacy of one Judge Wade
Cushing of Cincinnati. O.. for vice
president and general manager Of
the United States" has been an
nounced. His candidacy is based
on the belief that the vice presidency
should not continue to be the per-
functory office that custom has made
it appear. He points to the cx-
ample of railway corporations and
large industrial and financial con-
Germs, in which the vice president is
most essential and active charac
ter, and maintains that the business
undertakings of the United States
have become so colossal that they
need the best of business manage
ment. He further claims that if'the
President has the power to divide
the business of the United States
among departments and to appoint
the heads of those departments, he
also has the power to delegate to the
vice president the power to super
wise and coordinate their work.
1t was evidently not the intention
of the trainers of the Constitution to
make the vice presidency a nom
essential office or they would not
have provided as they did for the
choice of men for the offices of
President and vice president. They
must have intended to make the vice
president a real assistant president
rather than an heir apparent.
Certain it is that the several gov
eminent departments of admins
tration need supervision and CO.
ordination, and numerous ex-cabi-
net officers have been free to say
that they need Encouragement, re-
grouping and pruning. Evidences of
overlapping and lack of system are
seen in the frequent clashes of au-
thority between the departments OF
Justice and labor and between the
labor and post office departments. A
general manager" might do good
and worthy service if he were to re-
wise the administrative system and
eliminate the reduplication and waste
| which the present organization
shows.
We have no knowledge of who
Judge Cushing may be or what are
his qualifications for such a big job,
but his idea may be worth thinking
twice about.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-05-17

from 1918 to 1917, the margin of
profit per pound must be quite sat-
isfactory return on the investment
of the sugar manipulators. Mr..
Lauck's final deduction is that il the
producer and retailer were satisfied
with reasonable profits sugar which
Is now selling at 20, 25 and q cents
could be sold for III cents.
The country is still waiting for the
action Of Mitchell Palmer, prof1teer
hunter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-05-17
Monday, May II, 1920.
II is not learning, grace nor gear,
Nor easy meat and drink,
But bitter pinch of pain and fear
That makes creation think.
-kiplins
Cultivate Acquaintance with thu
Orient

Exchange professorships and the
Hague tribunal weren't capable of
preventing the great world war when
Germanys ambitions were ripe for
conquest. Like association of ideas
and men as between America and
Japan may not prove more effective
in maintaining peace but are surely
worth the effort required to bring
them about, as is now being done by
representatives of the San Francisco
chamber of commerce and prominent
men of Japan.
A recent meeting was held at To-
kyo and mutual agreement was had
to work for the solution of the burn
ing question Of immigration and land
ownership: the encouragement of
capital to co operate; for better cable
connections; exchange professor
ships; trade arbitration and the labor
question. Already it is said. plans
have been decided on for the estab
lishment of a huge cannery business
with America Japanese capital.
Inseparable from the relations be-
tween the United States and Japan is
the future of China. There has been
grave cause for suspicion respecting
the attitude of Japan. and of Eng
land as we'll, toward China. The
policy of our diplomats since the day
Of Secretary Hay has been for the
open door and against the division Of
China as spoils of the great powers.
A recent announcement of the COM
pletion of arrangements between this
country, Japan, England and France
whereby loans to China may be
made, not exceeding a quarter of
billion, participated in by banking
concerns of all these powers diplo-
matically supported, augurs we'll and
is of far reaching importance. Japan
naturally was reluctant to relinquish
in some degree the grip she was get
ting on the Orient but finally con-
ceded. The worst use Of this ar
rangement cannot be as bad as was
the old condition of things and in
it is a bright promise for China.
There is every assurance that the
development of business in the Orient
the coming years is to be unpreced-
ented. Whether this may be brought
about without corresponding develop
ment of greed among those who par
ticipate remains to be seen. Our COM
mercial attache at Peking says there
need be no international jealousies
for the trade of China as there will
be enough for all. He predicts that
in place of hundred thousand oper-
atives in factories and four million
children in schools, China, a few
decades hence, will have forty million
factory hands and eighty million
school children. He urges joint
American Chinese enterprise in this
development. 1t will be the part of
wisdom to cultivate acquaintance
with and understanding Of these peo-
pie, whatever the future may have
in store.
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PALERMO

CENTER--TheS Sunday school was
re-organized May Q. Miss Beatrice
Bowler was chosen superintendent
5. f. Bowler assistant superinteH'
dent: Mrs. Wendell w. Turner, sec
rotary; Mrs. William S. Jones treas
urer and crganist: Ralph Worthlns'
collector. A new member committee
was also chosen consisting of thres,
girls. Cora and Estella Foster anu
Evelyn Drawn.
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An Echo OF
the Great " ar

This sturdy youngster was far
too young to take part in the World
War. but he certainly has the max
ings of a good soldier. His mother
is Mrs. J. Rathjen, 355 Prospect Ave-,
Brooklyn, N. Y, and she says that
for over two years she has used
Father Johns Medicine in her fam
lily both for the youngster and the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-05-17

Christine, little daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Maurice D. Emery, is ill with the
grip. On Saturday she was operated on
for abscess in her ear.
Funeral services for the late William
F. Hartman were held Saturday fore
noon at 10 o'clock at the home of his
sister, Mrs. Arthur Getchell of Clinton
avenue. Rev. w. r. Pierce, pastor of
the Methodist church at Waterville, Of
ficiated. There were number of beau
tiful floral tributes. The remains were
taken to Portland on the afternoon train
for interment. Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Getchell accompanying the remains.
The bearers were Fred L. Simpson
Leonard Bowden, Donald Withee and
NJ. S. Fuller.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Totman of Ben
ton avenue were weekend guests of
friends in Gardiner.
Bertram Roberts. who is employed in
town, passed the week end at his home
in Belgrade.
Eugene Whittier. D. B. Mason and
Daniel Piano attended the banquet and
special assembly of Mt. Lebanon Coun-
Gil held at Masonic hall in Oakland on
Friday evening.
Mrs. Charles M. Chapman, after a Sc
we're illness of bronchial pneumonia, IS
able to 60 out.
Willard Patterson. who is employed
at the H. & w. hill, passed the week
end at his home in Gardiner.
Mrs. Harold Gordon and son Richard
have returned TO Benton after visit
with Mrs. Forest McNally.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Picard and
daughter Marguerite and Mrs. Emily
Picard were recent guests of Mrs. Philip
Begin at Augusta.
The young French defeated the Gram
mar school boys Of this town on Friday
at a baseball game by score of to 8.
The batteries were Gabouri and Mar
coux, Taylor and st. Thomas.
One of the largest crowds of the sea-
son attended the dance held Friday eve
ming at the Taconnet Club house. Bar
ney's orchestra furnished music
Irving Tyler has completed his duties
at Bingham. where he has been employ
ed in a saw mill, and has accepted a
position at the United Paperboard mill
at Benton.
Mrs. Lucy Ellis is a guest of Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest J. Whitman at Benton.
BERTHE Dyer left Saturday for Bruns-
wick to join Mrs. Dyer and pass the
week end with Mr.. and Mrs. Azure
Slower.
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A Honorary Degree

A Honorary Degree
A chimney sweep who was complain
ant in a case in Edinburgh gave his
name as Jamie Gregory. LII. D.
Where on earth did you get that dis
tinction?" asked the attorney.
at was a fellow frae an American
university" answered Jamie. Il swept
his chimney three times. L Gamma pay
We cash, Jamie Gregory he says, but
I'll max we LII. D. an we'll ca it
quits. An he did, sir. "-Boston Tran
script.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-05-17

The Socialists having nominated
Debs, ask the government to let
him out of Jail. Perhaps if Mr.. Post
would take the matter, up with Mr..
Tumulty a way could be found.