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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02
Favorable Prospects

Belgium and France are seeking
credit. This may account for at
tractive pamphlets sent out, one with
the title "Belgium's Recovery" This
success is attending the efforts to put
that country ID. X on pre- war
footing. The "rit,r presents as the
most striking figures Of the actual
resumption of Belgium industry for
the first ten months of 1919 as COM
pared with those for the correspond
ing period of 1918" the following
Coal mines, 81 per cent: refined SUI
gar. 100 per cent; cotton spindles in
operation IS per cent; cotton looms,
30 per cent; wool products. rs per
cent: shoes, 20 per cent" and while
it is said the steel mills have suffered
most they showed 30 per cent. In
tho matter Of agriculture the whole
country is being put under intensive
CULTIVATION, with the exception Of the
last ditch" that strip Of war SCARED
country. and steps are being taken
TO improve that. Belsium's exports
to the United States were 80 per cent
OF a like period in 1913. Notwith-
standing all this that country faces
4 big deficit owing to the cosf NJ 70.
construction and will be compelled
10 seek loans and is doing so. The
information to date, however, is as
surfing to would be lenders.
The last 'Fortnightly Survey of
French Economic Conditions" COM
ments favorably on conditions in that
country. 1t says that since the re-
cent parliamentary elections several
important companies have placed
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02
COMING EVENTS

Feb. 2-s-Red Men entertain Gres: !
cohonee. James T. Rogers a. F.'
FEB. 81. s. dis,ric, grand jury 70 co.
vene at Federal Building,
Feb. Affecting of Genera, state c.
tennial Committee, Augusta. ,...
convention. Colby College. Wa:e:v@:
Feb. 10-l2-Aroostook Farmers Nei
at Pressure Isle.
Feb. l2-Lincoln Club Banacs' a!
dresses by Senators Harding ~
Frelinghuysen, and Mrs. Me3H, NJ
Cormick. City hall. PORTLAND.
Eco. l2-l3-Chizzle WHILE fair. .tCg';t
Feb: 1sIAndroscoggin Co. TsaGas''
Feb. 17-1S-Maine Fruit Growers A:s9
citation. annual convention. Auburn.
Feb. Silent begins.
Feb. O-2-State convention e Ch-Is'N
Endeavor Societies at Bangor
Feb. . to 2-Maine Checker Asscf )
ton, annual tournament. 49, C1ngt's
street. corner Brown street. ier:l,.~a
March 16-Portland Automot.lo sh'R
March l1-kora Temples anna lag iyss
night IN Exposition building. Por,D
March l3-a-Boston Automoa..e Sh'
March l'-1S-State conference 'algs'n
OF American Revolution i: s'!'
House.
March 2-S-Farmers' Week. College
Agriculture, L. Of Me.
March 23-S-Spring meeting .! MAJ
Federation Of Woman's ClIts a: -
Ne. Orono.
March 2S-kepublican State Convert.
at 10 A. NJ. In Bangor TIE dis,1;
conventions will be held at same ",
March 30-Democratic State Co.,e..:i''
Bangor.
April EEaster Sunday.
April l4-lS-Maine Methods Cc.E,re-'
at Bath.
April 1-S-East Maine Conference
Brewer.
May H-Lyford Interscholast!c n!
speaking. Lobby College
June S-@-Colby Ger tennial
June &-July 5-Maine's Centen;. a. Ce'
grafton Portland.
sept. N-l1-Maine State fair a -SS'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02
Fire in ksnnebunk Parsonau.

fire Friday morning damaged the
first Parish church parsonage, Uni
tarian, at kennebunk to the extent of
about $500. with a personal loss 70
the pastor, Rev. Robert Doremus of
about $4,000. The fire orininnted
through a wood fire in a stove In an
unused room. over-heating the CHIN
ney. T he house was a histor,c an.
having been Jefford's Tavern ~ ~
oioen days: 1t contained IS rooms. II
was occupied as parsonage from
1919 10 1869 by Rev. Joshua A. swan
ana after his death presented by Tho
WIDOW to the parish as a memorial
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02
lineup was as follows:
Egs-laying Contest

A. Z. Googins Of Ellsworth led in
the second month of the winter egg
iaying-contest. conducted under the
supervision of the University of
Maine agricultural extension service.
ms hhode Island Reds averaging
zZ.oo eggs per hen in the 81 days.
T.. A. Bradford of Belfast was a very
close second. his White Wyandottes
averaging 224o eggs per hen. Mrs.
Estelle Stratton. Ellsworth. was third.
lilo; f. :. Boothby. Emery's Mills.
fourth. 1920: +. d. Lord. East Leba
non. NTH. 1879: Mrs. W. I. Hinton.
Newport, sixth. 1924.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02
HAS
RETURNED
TAKE NO CHANG ES

You are in danger of catch
ing the grip if you are weak
and rundown.
The grip germ, finds its
earliest victims among those
whose resisting power is low
est.
When you have a cold and
neglect it you are in great
danger of grip or pneumonia.
The pure food elements in
Father Johns Medicine build
energy to resist cold and grip
germs.
The gentle laxative effect Of Father
Johns Medicine helps to drive out
impurities.
Father Johns Medicine soothes
and heals the lining Of the breath
ing passages.
You are safe when you take
Father Johns Medicine because it
IS guaranteed free from alcohol or
dangerous drugs in any form. Sixty
years in use.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02
DO You Know !?

1. What is meant by federal sys-
tenn of government?
. In general how are the states
related to the Federal government
3. How many classes OF powers
exist under the Constitution?
4. What restrictions are placed on
powers of the states?
). What are some of the most I'M
portant concurrent powers?
S. From what sources is the law
of the states made up:
:. Which of these are Fundamental
and final?
s. From what source do our laws
derive their force?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02
Fat and Lean Years and Wits

Fat and Lean Years and Wits
There have been fat years and lean
years in every cline and with every
people since the days when the Israe-
lites were in bondage in Egypt. It
doesn't require any gift Of prophecy
to foretell that fat years and lean
years win be with the world until the
end Of time.
Whether the people Of the earth
shall suffer therefrom will depend on
the applied wisdom Of the people.
Most of them already have brains
sufficient for the recognition Of this
well demonstrated sequence, but how
many have the courage, the spirit Of
self denial and the intelligence to ap-
ply il?
The answer so far as revealed by
the attitude of very many people to-
day is not encouraging. We refer to
the manner in which many are disre-
sarding or squandering opportunity
for getting ahead in the world, by ne
glecting to buy the attractive securi-
ties offered by the Government or are
disposing at loss of those they have
bought.
When a man will sell his Liberty
bonds for seventy-five to ninety cents
on the dollar and takes the money so
obtained and buys secondhand
Hoodoo gas buggy equipped with an
evil smell. defective ignition and more
quirks than an unbusted bronco and
plastered with a chattel mortgage,
does so without guarantee other than
an unbeaten record in the repair
shop, why that individual should have
his head examined. He just fits into
. bolshevism. Lenine & Trotsky have
+: thousands like him, are marching and
fighting them and doing with them
as they please; but for such fat wits
or lean 'wits-whichever way one
looks at it-bolshevism would be i'm
possible in this country.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02
Answers to Saturdays Questions

Answers to Saturdays Questions
l. The 18th amendment forbids
jurisdiction of the Federal courts IN
suits against the states.
.. This amendment was passed IN
1898 as further safeguard of states
rights extending to judicial affairs.
B. Article II. section l of the Con-
stitution provided that of candidates
voted for President and Vice Presi-
dent. the one having the highest num-
Der of votes should be President: the
one having the second highest num-
Der should be Vice President. The
election contest between jefferson
and Aaron Burr showed the necessity
of naming the office for which each
candidate Is selected. which provision
is incorporated IN the 18th amend
ment.
1. Thee 18th amendment was de-
ciared in effect in 1904 and the 18th
was ra1ified in 1865: sixty years
without a change in the Constitution.
). The three Civil War amend
ments abolish slavery, establish cit
izenship and protection thereof. guar
antee the public debt and proclaim
voting rights of citizens.
6. The Civil War amendments re-
strict the powers of the states. while
the first eleven restrict the powers of
the Federal government. The doc
trine of state sovereignty disappeared
in the War
|, Z. The 18th amendment was de-
clared in effect in 1870 and the 18th
was passed in 1878: forty three years
without change.
s. The 18th relating to the FEEDER
al income. tax and the 18th relating
to natiopal prohibition, deal with
matters not touched by the text of
the original Constitution. BY passage
of such amendments the Constitution
is made adaptable to the growing
needs of the nation.
9. The 18th amendment. relating
to direct election of United States
Senators was passed to make the
members responsible to the people di-
recly instead. of to the state legis-
latures.
10. The amendment extending fed
eral suffrage to women on the same
terms as to men is now before the
states.
II. To date % of the necessary So
states have ratified the amendment
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02
Monday, February 2. 1920.
"1here 10 no true partnership "
either element has an unfair aovan'
taae over the other"
Women and Women.
The gobbluns'll get yer

If yer don't watch out.
So will the upIift. Tho nplift is all
right if handled in the right way.
Same with nitro-glycerino and hi
chloride. They can be MADE to serve
useful and necessary purposes II
used in the proper proportions but it
is easy to overdo them.
The up-lifters have had things
pretty much their own way in the alb
tract. They have been variously re-
.arued with interest. enthusiasm.
pity. scorn. indifference. Many things
have been done because Of their &C
tivity that might not otherwise have
nomc to pass for years. Many of
these things have been wise and
beneficial on the whole. The uplift-
crs deserve a certain measure Of
credit
On the other hand when they get so
sublimated that their feet leave this
common sod and their heads swim in
the ether it is we'll to keep a weather
eye out for consuming deluge Of
uplift. This happened last year when
rhe New York legislature passed the
law which excluded women from
night work and thus lost many of
them their jobs altogether. Other
bills of similar nature are now
pending These bills are designed to
smooth the path of women who work,
but being initiated largely by women
who do not work, they tend to defeat
their purpose by eliminating women
workers and filling their places with
men who are not hedged about with
limitation Of hours, penalties for
overtime, prohibition of rush season
extras and night work.
The Women's Equal Opportunity
League of New York is combating
the welfare legislation" and is trying
to prevent the mischief which they
believe such laws would work il
passed. They put their position and
the principle involved in crisp and
business-lik fashion:
II women are to hold the political
equality granted by the suffrage
amendment, they must insist on hav-
ing industrial equality as well. 1t
must be made clear that women do
not relish, do not need. the so-called
protection" afforded by discrimina :
tive legislation which stunts and
dwarfs woman's progress. regardless
Of her ability and capacity for the
fullest service: and it must be made
clear that women refuse u be handi-
capped by laws which so restrict
hedge in and limit the scope of their
activities as to make Woman'S work
unattractive to employers of labor"
The newly enfranchised women OF
New York, anxious to exercise theiI
privileges and to honestly serve in
terests of women in the state, have
not harmonized idealism and fact
OF course the New York Legislature
IS not composed OF women, but they
are the chief movers of the legisla-
lion at issue. Their over-zealousness
should be a hint to other women
about to assume a share in govern
ment to be on guard against the fas-
cination of passing laws. 1t is a
Dig question whether we suffer more
from lack or surfeit of legislation
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02

ceeds will be used for the. benefit of
the class.
Miss Rhoda Dean and Parker Pat
terson. students at the University Of
Maine. returned Sunday to resume
their studies. after a few days visit
at their homes.
Mrs. p. E. Mathewson and son
Donald on Thursday were visitors in
Augusta.
o. l.. Johnson of waterville is i'll
at the home of his sister, Mrs. W. T.
Reynolds, Bay street.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02
John kendrick Bangs Withdraws

John kendrick Bangs has sent a
letter to Senator Joseph W. Gordon
of Wells announcing his withdrawal
from the contest for the Republican
nomination for congressman firm the
First Maine district. In his statement
the humorist declares that this de-
cision is made necessary by the fact
that his numerous lecture engage
ments would interfere with his max
ing an active campaign in the dis
trict. Mr.. Bangs was the first one
in the district to announce him.
self a candidate in this campaign.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02

1t may be Of interest to you to know
that the National banks Of this coun-
try Nov. II. 1919. had resources of
nearly twenty-five and half billion
dollars, and increase of about 1870
in six years. The increase in deposits
was about a billion dollars more than
the increase in loans for the year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02

Deceived, deserted and ill" means
the Kaiser. At least Holland should
be compelled to put muffaer on him.
The world already has endured over
much of his mouthings.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02
Bound to Get His Share

Little FIVE year-6ld Willie was in
vited to a birthday party. On his
return home his mother was sur
prised TO see him take two big pieces
of cake out of his pocket. When ask
ed for an explanation Willie replied:
Mamma. I could not eat much be-
cause my stomach was full. so I
brought some things home"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02

Now that the New York World
wants Hoover for President, Bryan
sneeringly refers to the World pick
ing Alton B. Parker once on a time.
Well once on a time, Bryan picked
Wilson. Somehow those who select
candidates are rarely pleased with
the summing up of their effort
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02

Never was there so good an oppor-
tunity for buying the best securities
in the world-Governmen securities
and never before did some people
have such an opportunity to get the
money with which to buy them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02

Three men have been in co'F'
Rumford on the charge Of not sem
ing their children to school and fot.
guilty. Emile Lemieux was fined >
and s2o.61 costs. The cases of Char
Auctie and VIM. Richards we-e o.
tinued 80 days for sentence.
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A Bit Crusty.

- 0Te VTUStys
IAN old gentleman in one of the
city parks got SO tired of seeing a
young couple spooning that he got up
and actually swore."
"Atrocious conduct. Didn't he stop
to think that he probably behave the
same way when he was young?"
'Oh. yes. That's what made him
50 mad. He said he hated to be re-
minded that he was once Il bIankety-
BANKED fool himself"
Age Herald
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02

Are you panied to think the Repub-
lican Congress is spending few dol
lars looking into scandals of Demo-
cratic administration or are you ap-
prehensive that they may see some
thing when they look in?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02

Cattle are fattened for slaughter
by being overfed and not allowed to
exercise. Many men and women
prepare themselves for slaughter by
voluntarily adopting the stall fed
life" says the United States Public
Health Service. Don't overeat and
take plenty of healthful. outdoor ex-
erciSe.
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Did She Mean Just That?

Il want you to forget that l told
you didn't mean what said about
not taking back my refusal to change
my mind. I've been thinking it over.
and I've decided that / was wrong
IN the first place" The Man-"You
don't really mean that. do you, Dol
~ london Mail,
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The Weaker Sex

Fate intended me for a leader of
men," remarked Mr.. Peckton. Incl
dentally, he was talking to himself.
What's that" asked Mrs. Peckton,
sharply.
Il said men my dear. Don't jump
to a conclusion that would be a vari-
ance with the course of my life ever
since I married you."-Birmingha
Age-Herald,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02

A process for making water re-
sisting glue out of casein taken from
skinned milk has been discovered
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02

That aft-dodging. cowardly mil
lionaire who was arrested now pleads
insanity and has millions TO prove it
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02

The South is willing to educate and
Americanize anybody but a negro.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02

The federal agents new motto:
Fear God and keep your district dry.
Boston Herald.
And keep your powder dry?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02

So there's to be whiskey for the
flu. Kerchoo.
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Light and Airy
Comebacks

/ No longer need we men feel dull and
! blue
When youth declines.
With monkey glands we can begin anew
Our monkey shines.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02

Decrease in the flu; nipped b,
the cold wave. perhaps.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02

Who killed Cock Robin! Barney
Baruch. Barney must be a bear"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02

Open time on the fellow who
prophesied an open" winter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02
Checkino Up Father.

Teacher-How many dozens of peas
are there in a gross. Johnny Jones?
Observing Pupil don't know.
Miss Pebble, but I can tell you how
many bottles there are in a case
Buffalo Express.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02

signals making it known to the cap
tain of the bark that his vessel was
on fire and the crew desired to be
taken off. The bark proved to be
the Brother of Yarmouth, hailing
from Cape Cod. Capt. Means and
his crew received fine treatment
aboard the bark. and as stated, in
80 days were landed at Gibraltar.
After about a week there, they took
passage in another bark bound for
New York. arriving there in 50 days,
Lewiston was expecting to join Au-
burn in the selection of a municipal
health officer. but Auburn quietly
made a move and engaged DR. Leo i.
Hall for its own officer. Lewiston is
naturally peeved and hasn't decided
what to do. DR.. Hall lives in Lewis
ton but will move to Auburn. His
salary will be 5000. beside the $500
allowed by the State and $50 per
month toward oper ing his automc-
bile. He has also been made a spec
ial police officer, to see that his health
orders are enforced
A recent canvass of the three French
Catholic parishes of Auburn and Lew
iston show that the entire France
American church-going population 81
the two cities was on Jan. just le. ISL
Of whom about 400 are in Auburn and
the remainder in Lewiston.
Of r nf he nl3 Mains
have voted to present to the Thompson
free library of Dover all the silver cups
famous rifle team of that company
Public subscription will raise none,
for suitable case.
The final chapter in the history Of
kennebunkport as 4 port Of entry ha:
been reached, the government having
given permission to sell at auction thu
old customs house. which was for year:
ore of York county's landmarks.
A Biddeford man claims that he ala.
had an offer from Canada to have 100
cases of high-grade Canadian whiske,
shipped to him during the coming year
the shipper assuming all responsible.
, of it's reaching the purchaser. guaran
teeing to deliver a certain amount eacf
month.
Rockland's 1919 building program saw
the expenditure of nearly s1,5o00l0. near
ly three-quarters OF the amount being
represented by the new fishing plants
| The residential section saw but com
paratively little of the greatest build
ing outlay in the history of the city
The outlook for 1890 is said to be ever
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by a man named Butterman. Y
some wonder what's in a name.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02
Maine GOSSIP
The Long Winter Trail

Ho, there's fee on the streams, there s
zest in the air.
There's an undefiled blanket of snow
everywhere:
There's frost on each twig and each
roadside weed
Is burdened with rubies and diamonds
for seed,
And through the long stretches of deep
A tense white crystalline silence reigns.
So come with me now over hill, over
Come away with me now on the lon z
winter trail!
Ho. the storm-clouds are tumbling thick
in the sky,
Flingi1g their pellets of sleet as they
The snowwreaths are slithering swift
in the road.
The hoary old wind from the North IS
abroad,
Out in the arctic waste, barren and
vast,
Rushing with fury-a terrible blast
Come along with me now-push into the
gale!
Come along with me now on the long
winter trail.
Oh, there's beauty to me in the soft.
rounded lines
OF the snow-mounded hills and the
heecy-crowned pines;
There's music to me in the squeak of
the snow,
And the gurgle Of streams as they hur-
~ below
Their blankets OF ice. And there's Joy
in the fight,
In matching my strength with the
storm-monarch's might.
There's health in the open-hearty and
Ho! Come with me now on the long
winter trail!
The Gave Scout in the January Boys
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Hampden Apad. %; win.Iow H;ob p

In a closely played basketball game
. Friday evening at the Town hall, the
Hampden Academy boys defeated the
Winslow High school team sy the
score of % to 81:
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Bright
eyes

Dull eyes and that disagreeable,
listless feeling are usually the first
signs Of q bilious condition. A
tablespoonful Of IL. F." Atwood's
Medicine should be taken promptly
to stimulate the action Of the liver,
bowels and other digestive organs.
This household remedy never fails
to bring quick relief and may ward
off serious attack Of indigestion.
Sufferers from biliousness should
have a bottle always on hand, and
take small doses regularly Is a pre-
caution. This will tone the stomach
and keep the entire system healthy
and normal.
Don't experiment with unknown
widely advertised pills and tablets
that may contain acetanilid or Other
coal-tar derivatives. The true IL.
F." has established q splendid repu-
tation through 60 years of unchang.
ing quality, and is we'll worth the
confidence it enjoys. It has been used
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02
Hoods Sarsapari!Ia
Take this good old family medicine
For Serofula, catarrh, eunatism
Kidney Complaint, Dyspepsia.

Having superlative merit It has
given entire satisfaction TO three
generations. Fine purifier and tonic
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-02

IN IIiGIIy 18lIiIIieS WIFI
unvarying beneficial
results for three gen.
erations. Get q bottle
today. Most druggists
and .storekeepers carry
1t. A large bottle, 80
doses for SOC, or a FREQ
sample from the IL.
F." Medicine Co., Port
land. Mama A..