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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-30
who Invented the Typewriter?

(Spillane i'll Public Ledger
About $4,000 typewriters will be
manufactured tfis year. That means
approximately $500 day. or nearly
LAO an hour for every hour night and
day the year round. OF the world
output the United States produces
nearly so per cent.
There probably is not more than one
writer who knows the name of the
humble genius who was the inventor
of that marvellous time-saving ma
chine.
Do you? Of course not.
1t was Christopher Latham Sholes
who devised it in 1861 He was collec-
tor Of customs at Milwaukee at the
time. Not until March. 1868. did he
take out a patent. The first type
writer was a rather crude affair but
the fundamental principles of the first
machine remain in every type-bar ma
chine today.
Sholes died in 1890. He was con-
sumptive and shared the fate of many
of those with a spark of genius. for
when he was buried not even head
stone marked his. grave. Now it is
proposed-30 years after his death. to
do honor to him. A monument is to
be placed over his grave when the
$4,000 which it will~>cost is collected.
About $500 has been subscribed in
sums of 81 or less.
Sholes got scant recognition while
he lived. He gets little more today.
Yet he was one of the great labor saw
ers Of the world.
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eminent is pursuing. Perhaps 1t
would be too much to expect him to
nx the blame for beginning the pol
icy Of assassination. for that is what
it has been. notwithstanding Sim
Fein terms it warfare. Sauce for the
goose isn't sauce for the gander from
their standpoint.
It is not the part of the United
States to interfere in the broil. but 1t
lis the part Of all to sympathise with
the large majority Of the Irish peo-
pie who appear to be the victims Of
this anarchy. though not directly re-
sponsible for it. Such suffer terribly
under organized warfare and this il
far worse. 1t is Great Britian's man
ifest duty, as Lord Grey says, to gov
ern Ireland or to give her chance to
govern herself, and how England may
be able to do the latter without grave
danger to herself, is, to some of US,
not vet clear.
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With Regard to Prices

IL seventy-five eggs will buy a
good pair of shoes at present prices
how many eggs will be required to
buy hen?
II bread were to drop one cent a
pound how much difference would
this make to the ordinary family?
One Of those government experts
not engaged in estimating sugar pro-
duction-tells US this saving in the
average family would amount for the
year to sZ.25.
The same authority informs US
that cent less per quart for milk
would amount to 1885 under like con-
ditions; the drop of cent per pound
in the price of -four would amount
to $4.5i: cent off sirloin steak
would save 20 cents in the average
workingmap's family. whereas on
pork chops there would be a saving
OF $114; chuck steak isn't mentioned.
From the above it would appear
that the average family isn't relieved
OF the need of economy by any drop
in prices yet announced. But do not
despair. Last January the quotation
on No. Sinshiu grade of japanese
silk was $l7.40 and now it is down
around IS. Dun's review announces
that for the past twenty nine weeks
more prices have receded than have
advanced, and during the past week
1873 commodities were. reduced and
only ten advanced. Bradstreet's' av-
erage of wholesale prices show a de-
cline from Feb. to Nov. l of $3.50,
and the weekly food index based or
81 articles used for food is $3.50 as
compared with $40 for the. week
ending Nov. 81. 1919
All this is encouraging The con-
sumner isn't warranted in disregard
ing thrift and circumspection in buy
ing and the seller. who saved the
money he made on the rising market
is having ample time to adjust him.
self to the decline.
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pany evidently possesses. Of how to
serve a full course dinner for 60 cents
and clear more than 5000 week profit
serving 500 meals a day.
This big financial institution provides
a noon meal for all it's employees.
The menu is not skinny as can be
seen from the following sample dinner:
Bowl >of Milk with Crackers
Roast Leg of Mutton
Baked Hash with Green Peppers
Mashed Potatoes Esca1loped Tomatoes
Romano Salad. French Dressing
Preserved Prunes
Coffee Tea Milk
Nor are the dinners limited to this
combination. One may have a choice
of roast ham,, beef. veal. several
kinds of fish. four salad combinations.
at least dozen varieties of dessert to
make up other combinations. -
These meals cost the trust COM
pany a trifie less than SO cents each
and that cost includes all overhead
expense besides the food. And the ov-
erhead is not small since walters tips
are barred and chef and cooks are well
paid. Heat. light and refrigeration
are at least as expensive as in other
restaurants. And the item OF rent is
quite staggering, amounting to 5000 a
month.
Were the company to charge 90
cents. a. meal the, gross profit would
amount to practically $4,000. a year,
quite tidy profit for any restaurant.
This big financial institution has evil
IDENTIFY beaten the restaurants at their
own game and beaten them badly.
Perhaps they would be willing to show
interested parties in Boston how to do
1t. - s. .sS
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What About Mandates and
Good Faith?

To the unthinking it may seem
plausible to protest. as do some of
the British newspapers, that if the
United States wishes to say anything
respecting the Mesopotamian mand-
ate it should assume some of the re-
sponsibilities. The Standard takes
occasion to remark that the conquest
OF Mesopotamia did not cost a single
American life or a single American
dollar.
20 the thinking person this will
seem insolent. But for the raising Of
four million American men and bill
lions of money. interest on loans of
which Great Britain has rot yet paid,
Great Britian's mandate on Mesopo-
tomia wouldn't be worti, groat.
The United States has not attempt
ed 10 bottle up the petroleum sup
ply in its Own country and is permit
ting it to be rapidly exhausted for
the worlds users: it cannot be ex-
rccted to sit idly by and permit Eng
land to bottle it elsewhere. The need
o: this commodity is increasing be-
,ond present power of production and
the prospect of limited supply in the
world is cause for concern.
England and France in arranging
the matter Of mandates in what is
known as the San Reno agreement
specified that the Mesopotamian oil
fields should be open to the world on
equal terms but followed that up
with an arrangement whereby they
should cooperate and eliminate COM
petition. Under the plea of military
exigency they have barred individual
prospectors out of that country and
military experts are developing the
properties.
The United States took part in the
settlement of the war and asked no
favors in consequence. Those re-
ceEing the favors are not to make a
club Of them for our future punish
ment. We have right to inquire re-
specting the policy behind those
mandates indeed would be woefully
negligent did we not do SO. Secre-
tary Colby but did his manifest duty
when he called attention Of the inter-
ested powers to "the utmost import
ance to the future peace Of the world
that alien territory transferred as a
result of the war with the central
powers should be administered in
such way as to assure equal treat
ment to the commerce and to the cit
liens Of. all nations" 1t is further
moro proper that England should
make prompt answer and afford
good assurance that the mandate
principles are to be employed in good
faith.
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A CLEAR COMPLEXION
Ruddy Cheeks SPARKLING Eyes
Most Women Can Have
SAYS Dr.. Edwards, a Well Known
Ohio Physician

Dr.F.M.Edwards for II years treated
scores of women for liver and bowel all
ments. During these years he gave to
his patients prescription made OF a
few well-known vegetable ingredients
mixed with olive oil. naming them
Dr.. Edwards Olive Tablets. You will
know them by their olive color.
These tablets are underwriters on
the liver and bowels, which cause a
normal action, carrying off the waste
md poisonous matter in ones system.
If you have a pale face, sallow look,
dull eyes, pimples. coated tongue, head
aches. a listless, no-good feeling. all out
of sorts, inactive bowels, you take one
Of DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets nightly
for a time and note the pleasing results.
Thousands of women and men take
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets-the sue
cessful substitute for. calomel-now and
then Just to keep them fit. 15c and 30c.
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Would Eat the Cake and Have
II

/ Greece is much in the attitude of
the boy who wanted to eat his cake
and have it. Because Venizelos was
able to lead her into utilization with
the allies when her king, Constantine.
was betraying her to the central
powers she comes out of the war with
brighter prospects than she could
have dreamed of having. 1t irked her.
however, to find that the allies were
, having something to say about
Grecian affairs. Accordingly she de-
feats Venizelos and is in way to re-
call Constantine He and the Greek
people are very prompt to declare
that they approve thoroughly of the
foreign policy of Venizelos. Well
they might. considering what he got
for her. But Will she be able to en-
joy the cake and yet keep the larder
full? Already it is being proposed to
take Smyrna from Greece and place it
under international control.
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Does Anyone Know?

(Dr. Charles Aubrey Eaton, in Leslie 81
Here is letter from a gentleman in
Weedsport. New York:
Il have problem. Have just visited
my mother an aged widow. eighty
four years. whom I found wrapped in
shawls. suffering from cold and abso-
iutely unable to buy either wood or
coal. She lives at Lounsberry. New
York, a small hamlet on the main line
of the D. L. & w. railroad.
The agent of the railroad. who rs
the company's coal agent. tells me he
has been sent only one car of coal
since last winter, although he has or
dered repeatedly. Thousands of tons of
d. L. & ". coal pass through this
village en- route to Buffalo.
"Of course the longer the haul the
greater the profit made by the railroad
company.
'Is there anything that can be done
to curb the soulless greed of such COR
porations?
Must humanity suffer that a melon
may be cut?
Matters like this are what is max
ing socialists out Of the common peo-
! pie.
II surely don't know what to do"
Does any one know what to do? Is
the coal shortage due to the soulless
greed of corporations? Is the cutting
of melons the cause of humanity's
suffering?
j Why cannot the hamlet OF Louns-
berry get coal?
Oh Lord, what mess We are in. Is
there any way of curing the disease
without killing the PATIENT
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Govern or Get Out

England boasts that she protects
her citizens in every part of the world
and makes the boast good so regu-
larry that the world has come to be-
Iieve it,, This prestige she cannot ex-
pect to keep il present conditions in
Ireland are permitted to continue.
Making demands on Mexico for al
legged ili-treatment of an Englishman
would serve to call attention to the
fact that Mexico is a peaceful law
abiding country as compared. with
ireland. 9
The magnitude of England's task,
however, is Indeed a formidable one.
The logic of the situation would seem
TO be either to enforce her rule or get
out. To get out would be surrender
ing a most important outpost of
Great Bdtain't defenses. On the
other hand with British labor hostile
it is difficult matter to carry on a
campaign OF subjugation.
In this. dilemma it appears that
methots. dangerous and reprehensi-
lie. have been rcsorted to. for it is
incredible that the .reprisals OF the
BLACK and Tans" would have been
made without confidence these would
he winked at. Cardinal Logue. the
primatc of ireland. while warning
the people against association that
would lead them into crime. "scath-
ingly arraigns" the methods the gov
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The Splendid isolation Myth
(yNnrI5'S Work

The wars effect upon the distri-
button of our cotton crop was a
dramatic illustration of the impor-
lance of foreign trade in our eco
nomic scheme of things. Before the
war, Europe took S1-2 million bales
OF our less than IA million bales of
production. During the war. Europe
took 1-2 million bales of our Il mil
lion bales. Imagine our problem if
we had not had the extraordinary
home demand during the war. to take
care of this unbought surplus. To
the extent that international relation
ships are economic relationships, We
are certainly far from any splendid
isolation" and are on the contrary
deeply concerned in the international
affairs of Europe.
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MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tuesday, November 80, 1920.

Lot every man remember that to
violate the law 10 to trample on the
blood Of his father, and to tear the
charter of his own and his children's
liberty. Let reverence for the laws bs
breathed by every American mother
to the Iisping babe that prattles on
her lap. Let it be taught in schools.
in seminaries and in colleges. Let il
be written in primers, spelling books
and in aImanacs. Let It be preached
from the pulpit. proclaimed in lesis.
lative halls and enforced in courts Of
justice. And, YIN short, let it become
the political slogan of the nation
Abraham Lincoln.
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Editors Table
Editors Tabla

ASK and Receive" by Aaron Mar
tin Grace. published by Lothrop, Lee
& Shepard Co.. Boston. The con-
stantly increasing recognition given
the late Mr.. Cranes works, Fright
and Wrong Thinking and Their Re-
Suits" and "A Search after Ultimate
Truth" the former being known
wherever the English language is
read. makes it imperative that his
unpublished writings be now given to
the world. ASK and Receive" is first
of all a thoughtful study of the
teachings of Jesus on the universal
human needs of prayer In simple
forceful words and with reasoning so
clear that 1t is q pleasure to follow
1t, the author develops the sure pos
sibilities of prayer and it's necessary
attendant. faith, including the vital
subject of healing. This book can
not fail to be helpful in the highest
sense.
Song Devices and Jingles," by
Eleanor Smith; with music by the
author and illustrations by F. Liley
Young. Published by Lothrop, Lee
& Shepard Co., Boston. 1t is a book
for children, designed for the young
but will be interesting to the older
children" and to the teachers, kin
Edergartners and mothers. The words
are bright and jingling. the music
pleasing and jingling and the illus
trations are rhythmic and jingling.
The exercises should aid in the prop
err singing of all songs in home and
school and are not intended to dis
place any now in use. They have
been composed by one who is pre-
eminent in ability to make the sim
plest songs musical and attractive.
The elements of music are presented
to the child in a manner to stimulate
unusual attention, and time and tune
will be learned with comparative
ease.
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Detroit High School
Aids Starving Children

The cry Of three and a half millions
of starving children in, Central and
Southeastern Europe for food to keep
them alive this winter is finding warm
hearted response among the schools of
of America. The teachers and stu
dents Of Detroit Junior College and
Central High school have just sent to
The Literary Digest Child-Feeding
Fund a contribution of $114S.13.
Many other schools are preparing to
boost the fund. which has already
passed the first million mark.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-30

Nov. 2e. Soma G.. wife OF Nathan, az
So years.
RICE-Old Town. Nov. 20. MIS-
L.. aged IS years, 10 months
wRIGHT-Caribou Nov. 70 'V'
aged IA years. ,,,lI
EATON-Calais. Nov. 2s, Mar! -
wife of Louis W.. aged 80 years #,
BRAGG+Old Town. Nov. ., -"
A. wife of Samuel. aged a. years
FULLER-old Town. Nov. .. h'']
widow of Charles. aged 81 yeSf. Mad
TERRIO-Old Town, Nov, Nrs
j.. infant daughter of Mr.. anu
Joseph. u-I
BENNER--Palermo Nov
Annie. aged 4S years. .- d
aged a years. :. Ms
Nov %
Saran. widow of John.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-30

The assumption of civic RESPONSE
bilities and duties by women may
happily cause them to come down off
their high heels and walk more like
human beings.-Somerswor Free
Press.
But what if they should come down
off their high heels only to get up on
a high horse? Wouldn't the last state
be then worse than the first ?-Bidde-
ford Journal.
Yes. but is there any danger of
it,; We'd like to see woman get on
a high horse with one of the prevail
ing narrow skirts on.-Somersworth
Free Press.
Whad-ya- mean. see" Wouldn't
you be helping the lady instead of
gawping?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-30

It is said the New York club, which
was mobbed the other day, still dis
plays the British flag among the 9TH
iers. This it has right to do and is
no more than standing on its rights
Honor to the Irish policeman called
to quell the rioters. who said the
heads of all those breaking the law
looked alike to him.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-30

1t is said that Denmark has accept
ed a mandate for Armenia. Armenia
needs II without doubt but if she is
to derive any appreciate benefit
from it there must be money and men
to go with it. Doubtless Uncle Sam
wfll be asked to contribute some of
the money.
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DIED.

LYoN-Bangor Nov. %. Afneda c.,
wife of Edward E., aged 65 years.
SWAN-Bangor. Nov. 81, Fred. aged
60 years. months. 20 days.
LYNCH-Bangor. Nov. "a. Michael
in his S7th year.
WARD-Bangor. Nov. 81. John NJ,
age "a years. months. IS days
HOPKINS-Brewer. Nov 90. Reuben
S.. aged ~ years
FORD--East Eddington. Nov. IS,
Charles H.. aged as years.
Z AvERILL-old Town (Stiilwater).
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possible that the rum was not actu-
ally carried into the church. but the
men with the rum Were right there
near the church SO as to waylay some
of the attendants Immediately upon
their coming out and to get them good
and drunk before they reached their
homes. Eft. Fairfield Re-
view. ~.
1t does seem that efforts to make
church going popular may be carried
too far!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-30

Boston and New York CONNECTION
ers and wholesalers are said to lose
a million dollars on a sugar shipment
from Java just arrived. So that's
what keeps up the price Of candy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-30

Now fifteen of those nom Partisan
League banks established for the pur-
pose of loaning the farmer what he
wishes to borrow have failed. We
don't know how many banks in that
state are run on that policy, but one
is one too many.
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coMMANpERY, NO. 2, K.

MIMI S0""N'SSeN', ;.
T. Special conclave called for work IN
the Order of the Red Cross and Knights
of Malta on Friday evening. Dec. 50,
1920, at 7.30 o'clock. Masonic Temple.
Water st. Sojourning frater cordially
invited.
GEORGE II. BANGS. Recorder.
ALPHA COUNCIL. NO. 8, r. & s. NJ,
Halloweil, Maine Stated assembly
Wednesday,, Dec 1, at 7.30 p. M. Petit
lions will be received. referred. and
ballotted on. Work in all the degrees.
Refreshments. Sojourning compan-
ions cordially invited.
GEORGE z. JONES Z, /. NJ
ERNEST S. CURRIER. Rec.
nov27d4t
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Maine GOSSIP
We who Loved

We who loved.
Was there ought we did not hold
Springs embryo. autumns gold,
Summer lilacS with us moved
Palms were for us we who loved!
We who loved,
Was there ought we could not take?
Creels of moonlight from the lake,
Rods of sunlight at wish.
Lines of joy wherewith to fish.
Landing prizes. Still we proved
Victor most i. because we loved.
M. Forrest in Cartoons Magazine.
Eli w. Hall, who died Sunday at
Lynn, Mass. and whose funeral will
be held there on Tuesday. was born
in Bangor Me. He entered the Signal
Service Corp. after being twice re-
fused for the army at the outbreak of
the Civil War and served throughout
the war. He then settled in Albany.
n. Y. moving 60 Bridgewater, CT. and
later living for 90 years IN Lowell,
Mass. He moved in 1884 to Lynn and
engaged in the millinery business. He
was prominent in Grand Army affairs
and held many high positions. He was
IN 1892 elected trustee of the Chel-
sea Soldiers Home. being president of
tIIc DodIu utdlh. n Sctr w olt-t
g. Hall of Chicago. survives He was
member Of the Lynn Lodge of Elks.
The first locomotive to chug its way
into Maine was the Pioneer and the
second was the Lion. The Pioneer
hauled trains for half century be-
tween Bangor and Old Town on what
was known as the Milford road. The
Lion came along shortly after for the
Machiasport and Whitneyville road.
which some assert was even earlier
than the Bangor road. However. that
may be. the Lion was one of the first
locomotives for the Washington county
road.
The Tiger was another locomotive
that ran about the same tipe, and
since reading the story about these
two engines in a Boston newspaper
have learned. says the Express Stroll
er, that the engineer of the Lion Is
still living. He is E. j. Smith. of Lew
iston, and in an interview he describes
the old Lion. which. by the way, you
may see in the museum of the Uni
versity of Maine
The Lion" says Mr.. Smith, was
a wee bit of machine and one would
hardly know for what purpose it was
intended. 1t had four wheels. all oi
which We're drivers. These wheels
; were placed inside the frame. instead
of outside as is done nowadays. The
cylinders, too. are outside of the frame
! and are connected to the smokestack
, on an incline. The fire-box overhuns
the wheels. The weight of the little
! locomotive was nine tons.
THE road over which 1 drove the
Lion was designed to haul lumber
from Whitneyville. which is above the
road of navigation on the Machias
river. to where it was loaded on YES
sells to be sent to Boston, New York
! and other eastern ports. 1t operated
| from 1S45 to 1890 when it was aban-
doned. The Lion had a mate called
the Tiger, but it was bought for old
=, iron by a Portland man.
81 used to alternate on the two To-
comotives. but the Lion was the better
of the two. I could strike a fast gait
shall always remember it. Someday
am going up to Orono just to see the
old Lion
Mr. Smith said that the engineer
who ran on the Lion just before he did
was John Corbett, father of James J.
Corbett, the pugilist and former heavy.
weight champion of the world.
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No Excuse

Don't let your grocer or anybody
else sell you an inferior quality OF
vinegar on the excuse that good vine
gar is impossible now under Pro-
hibition.
Some vinegar manufacturers are
saying that because of the preserva-
tives used in cider they are unable to
furnish a standard grade of vinegar.
This is not true. The VOlstead Code
does not require preservatives for
cider furnished vinegar manufac-
turers.
These manufacturers are able to Sc
cure pure unadulterated cider as in
the days before the Volstead Code be-
came operative. If they are pro-
ducing adulterated vinegar which is
below standard they are violating the
law