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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-19
CANCER RESEARCH

Leading scientists of the nation are
gathering their forces for concen-
trated campaign against cancer which
is to occupy the week from October
30 to November inclusive. During
these six days attempts will be made
to bring all known facts concerning
the disease, its inception, progress,
treatment, good and bad, to the
popular attention.
Due to be greatly stressed in the
campaign is the existence of the
"quack' whose methods purporting to
eliminate the disease by original
sure-cure treatments are among the
bitterest weapons which the skilled
scientist has to fight. Quack treat
ments, say the authorities. by their
disregard of the methods which
proffer a recognized possibility of
cure, only serve to hasten the
progress of the disease until it is be-
'yond medical or surgical aid, and the
quack thereupon becomes an active
and virulent destroyer of human
life.
Agelong is the disease, age-long
has been the fight against it. but
never as active as at the present
time. Harvard University has re-
Gently received legacy OF $780, 900,
the income of which is to be spent
for research into the origin of cancer
and the discovery of cure. A
cancer-research society in Brooklyn
has announced the offer OF a prize of
100000 for a remedy. Other in
centives to persistent pursuit of a
cure are continually being offered.
Science has accomplished so many
wonders in the way Of cure for ills
that the flesh is heir to that the goal
towards which the efforts Of 80 many
OF our learned and skilled are set,
seems not impossible OF attainment.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-19
Wednesday, October 10, 1921.
OPINION is UNANIMOUS

It 10 stated in the news dispatches
from Washington, as will be seen by
reference to the Journals columns,
that government officials are paying
close attention to the reactiQn of
public opinion on the threatened
paralysis OF transportation and that
in some quarters the opinion was ex-
pressed that the weight OF public
opinion would be the determining
factor In avertipg the strike" or in
bringing it to a speedy close If other
efforts failed to avert It,
So far as this section Is concerned,
It can be safely stated that public
opinion is practically unanimous on
the subject-solidly in condemnation
OF any strike or action by the rail-
road employees that would lead to dis
ruption OF transportation and through
that absolute Generalization of bust
ness.
The weight of public opinion may
be felt at the coming conference on
Thursday afternoon in Washington
OF the heads OF the Big Five brother
hoods with the Railroad Labor Board.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-19
The Railroad Strike Threat


(From the Springfield Republican,
The general tendency will be not
to take the strike order very serious
ly. In the long history of conflict be
tween the railroad executives and
the brotherhoods there has devel-
oped q well recognized strategy
which might be expressed in form
ula. The rank and file always vote
Overwhelmingly for a strike and then
leave full power with their leaders
who are thus armed to meet the rail-
road executives on equal terms.
The theory of the brothorhoods,
moreover, is that a. bold front in
threatening a strike tends to alarm
the public and to force a mobilization
of public opinion demanding conces-
sions from the companies. During
the coming two weeks there will be
battle for the support of public opin-
ion. Meanwhile, powerful govern
mental agencies will be brought into
play and the strike threat is in for a
hard hammering before it can ma
terialize in the economic catastrophe
which the actualties of a railroad
tie-up would bring upon the country.
This is not to say, however, that pop
ular apprehension may not be felt in
the markets through the tendency Of
housewives to hoard food stuffs and
the disposition of tradesmen and
wholesalers to raise the prices of the
necessaries of life.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-19
THE AMERICAN BOY

Governor Baxter, in letter to
Secretary f. S. Martin Of the edi-
torial board of The Boy Scouts OF
America, answering a request for a
statement Of what every American
boy has to be thankful for, gives six
reasons that should be read by every
boy in Maine and in the country. The
Governor says:
Every American boy should be
thankful:
!. That he Is boy and that his
future is before him.
2. That he is an American boy
with unlimited opportunities for de-
velopment.
8. That he has been given a good
start in the fundamentals through
our public school system.
1. That he has within himself the
power of shaping his own destiny.
5. That others have prepared the
way for him and will help if he
proves deserving.
6. That he can make definite
contribution toward maintaining the
high ideals of American citizenship.
No American boy can read and I'M
derstand these six reasons without
feeling thankful and proud that he is
an American boy. He will better
realize and appreciate his opportuni-
ties and be better able to determine
that he will neglect none of them.
The great privileges that are offered
him without fee or price, his for the
mere taking, will begin to take
definite form and real value in his
eyes. And, with the passing OF his
boyhood days and the coming OF the
sterner realities Of young manhood
and mature age; the pride and thank
fulness of being an American will
continue to grow.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-19
JOBS BEING PROVIDED

The practical benefits resulting
from President Harding's conference
on unemployment are already being
felt The mayors and other officials
OF local communities have taken
steps to coordinate efforts to reduce
the number out of employment: con-
ferences have been held with the
chiefs Of great national industries,
like the railroads. mines and ship
ping, for formulating plans for re-
lief: great commercial and employ
ers' organizations are giving their
assistance in the work; several cities
have taken steps for furthering local
construction projects; a permanent
Office has been opened in Washington
for stimulating and o-ordnating all
agencies working to the common end,
and a large amount Of information
has been collected from all parts of
the country upon which further eff
forts intelligently to reduce unem-
ployment may be based.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-19
JUST A PETITION

ooh, a petition amounts to nothing.
anyone will sign a petition, regard
less what it is for, and many sign
both for and against a question" is
often heard-meaning that petitions
do not have the value they are sup
posed to have. But here Is a case
where one probably saved a mans
life. The item is from a Washington
county paper and proves the case for
the petition:
What might have been very
serious accident on the state road
happened recently to Walter Cole Of
Calais. had it not been for a board
petition intervening q large rock.
He was struck in the side by dyna-
mite. AS 1t was he was severely in
1ured. but we hope for his speedy re-
covery.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-19

The explanation has come. 1t ap-
pears that the American and Ma
tional Leagues have an agreement to
the effect that players participating
in a Worlds Series game shall not
appear as professional ballplayers
from the close of the series until the
opening Of the next league season
Judge Lands says the leagues, not
he. made the rule-his job is to see
that the leagues rules and special
laws are enforced and he adds that ii
is the players own fault that the con-
dition exists. in not having asked for
a modification of the rule. II Babe
Ruth is big enough ballplayer to be
styled King Of the Swats he should
be big enough man to know and obey
the rules Of his employers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-19
REAL APPRECIATION

Forecast OF 323.ooo,0O0 bushels of
spuds in this years crop. and $4,000,
coo bushels of them coming from
Maine. You will be able to recognize
the tubers from Maine easily. They
are the large, smooth skinned, mealy
ones, that melt like cream on the
tongue and give one that comfortable
after dinner feeling which, when
topped off with pipe. carries one to
the zenith of peaceful satisfaction
Boston Globe.
Now, that is real appreciation.
Aroostook spud raisers ought in re-
turn send you a carload Of their best.
Not the 5 pounds, II ounces variety
but the kind you mention.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-19
PURE-eRED HORSES IN MAINE

The horse, one of the most faithful
of mans animal friends, will proba-
bly, never be extinct, even though
automobiles become as common as
grains of sand, but it nevertheless
seems a fact that we have fewer in
Maine than 10 years ago. That leads
to the interesting fact that the entire
State for 1921 had but 299 pure bred
horses on its farms. being third in
that respect of the New England
states, whose total was 2017, dis
tributed as follows: Vermont, 661;
Massachusetts,. $40; Maine. 29s: New
Hampshire, 2S5; Connecticut. 2O7:
Rhode Island, rs. Names pure
breds included II Belgians. % Clydes-
dales, four French draft, five German
coach. 116 Percherons, nine thorough
breds and 116 of all other breeds. It
will be interesting. watching the rise
or fall of the horse in Maine and New
England with the growth OF the
fiiYyer
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-19

the stretches beyond that extend
this highway along coast of delight
until it reaches Frcnchman's Bay.
Obviously the improvement of this
drive, hundreds of miles ir length, is
a matter of more than local concern.
The bridge at Belfast is a memo
rial to the soldiers of Waldo County
who died in the World War 1t is
not the only bridge of the kind de-
signed in memory of New England
lads. There is in process of con-
struction the great bridge at Ports
mouth which will serve to comment
crate the valor OF boys of New
Hampshire and of Maine. It is ap-
propriate that the two states and the
Federal Government should unite in
this undertaking. The great struc-
ture linking New Hampshire and
Maine and the lesser structure at
Belfast will be enduring monuments
1t is fitting that in these sea-board
states there should be such bridges,
standing firmly against the onward
sweep of tide and current. typifying
the strength and nobility of the
young men who met death on foreign
fields. And it is not derogatory to
their purpose as memorials TO point
out the value of these bridges to the
living. That value is enhanced
many fold by the fact that in addi-
ton to promoting transportation for
commercial purposes they add to the
pleasure and inspira ton to be OBJ
tanned from scenic charm and
grandeur. There are other oppor-
tunities for bridge building along
this New England Shore Drive. The
spanning of the Kennebec at Bath
has been seriously proposed, and is
feasible from an engineering stand
point. Whether the time will soon
come when it may be brought about
in view of the great cost it would in
volve Is, of course, another question.
such bridge, presumably to &C
commodate both highway and rail-
road travel. would be a mighty asset
In restoring prosperity to section of
the Pine Tree State which has suf-
fered through the passing of old
time industries. While the Kenne-
bee bridge may be an Improvement
that will not come soon. the Maine
folk should not defer lesser under
takings needed to improve their
share of this drive through three
states. 1t is poor policy to expose
the traveller to the perils of roupb
and rocky roads a few miles from a
bridge costing hundreds of thousands
OF dollars. No reasonable effort
should be spared to make the drive
alongshore from Boston to Bar Har-
Dor OF uniform excellence. Maine
has made a commendable record in
building modern highways. It is to
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-19
(Boston Evening Transcript.

(bOStOH ENcnlUS ITdISCTipIl
Dedication IF a memorial bridge
in the Maine city of Belfast calls at
tention elsewhere to the steps now in
progress and in prospect for the i'm
provement of one of the most re-
markable of drives in all the world. 1t
begins on the North Shore of Massa-
chusetts. with it's myriad beauties.
and thence follows the beaches, with
their unobstructed outlook over the
broad Atlantic, to cross New Hamp-
shire and Southern Maine, sweep by
the placid inner waters Of island
sentinelled Casco Bay and reach the
Kennebec at Bath. From there 1t
extends eastward past inlet and est
uary until it swerves t. the north on
the shore of Penobscot Bay. and
spreads before the eye of the travel
Ter prospect If sea and curving
coast on the one hand and blue
capped hills on the other. a scenic
panorama equalled III beauty by few
It any coastwise regions in our own
country or in lands beyond the seas.
And there are similar attractions in
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-19

Wireless transmission of actual
handwriting is the latest marvel. 1t
has not only been done but for great
distances, messages being received at
the radio station at Otter Cliffs, near
Bar Harbor, from General Pershing
and Premier BRAND. Professor
Edouard Belin, the inventor OF the
machine, personally received the
message. Professor Belin, after the
transmission of photographs by wire
less was an assured fact, went to
France and perfected his apparatus
for sending handwriting. in the same
manner.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-19

The Bluenose is an appropriate
name for the Canadian challenger for
the international fisherman's cup but
Elsie is a favorite name over here
The challenger in the elimination
races off Halifax proved herself a
fine boat-compared with her rivals
but we never did and do not now be-
lieve that she can carry the cup back
home nor do we believe that they
build boats as good and as fast any
where in the world as in New Eng
land.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-19

You never can tell what Chicago
will do next. The story known the
world over about Mrs. O'Leary's COW
and the Chicago fire was, on the very
eve of its semi centennial. ruthlessly
killed. The next skip of Chicago into
the limelight comes in the announce
ment that Knockers for women and
knee breeches for men have arrived
there and to stay. Might be worse,
at that.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-19
The Strike Veto. :
(NeW York Tribune.l

The railroad unions which have
ordered a nationwide strike are try
/ ing to impose veto on economic re-
adjustment They believe that they
hold club over the rest of the COM
! munity through their power 10 tie
UP transportation, wholly or par
TALLY. In support of their own mar
row group interest they are going to
declare war on all other groups of
workers, on farmers and other pro-
ducers, on manufacturers and ship
sumers.
The strike is a piece Of selfish
class aggression. War wage scales
have been abandoned in practically
every other industry. The railroad
unions are bent on maintaining
wage initiation at the war peak In
1916. before President Wilson forced
! through the Adamson law, the an
nual labor bill of the carriers was
increased it to s1,739, 100000. The
Federal railroad administration
pushed it up in 1918 to s2,613.0oO,-
900 and in 1919 to s2.S43,0 100000.
The Railroad Labor Board raised it
again in 1920 to s3,69s,ooo,000. If
the increased scale of 1920 had been
in effect during the whole of that
year the 1920 wage account would
have totaled s3,9S0,0oo,000. Since
1915 the labor cost of railroad oper-
alton has increased ISL per cent.
Since 1917 1t has increased lis per
cent. or, if the last scale had covered
the full year in 1920, 1928 per cent.
The unions are striking against
the recent cut in wages authorized
by the Railroad Labor Board. They
are thus challenging the Esch- Gum
minis law, which gave them a special
protection as to wage status by pro-
viding that all controversies over
wages or working rules should be re-
ferred to a Federal tribunal repre-
senting the roads, the workers and
the public. The Cummins act as the
Senate passed it contained anti
strike provisions. These were elimi-
mated in the conference with the
House.
A strike against decision by the
Labor Board, though not prohibited
by the statute, amounts to a declara-
ton by the unions that they re-
nounce its protection, inasmueh as
they will accept from it no judS-
ments which they consider unfavor-
able
The public has a primary interest
in the operation of the carriers. That
interest has been emphasized again
and again in Federal legislation.
Continuity Of service is essential
under the scheme of government
regulation which has been estab-
lished. 1t must be guaranteed.
Otherwise one of the main objects OF
regulation IS defeated.
The unions stand ready to defy
the law and to infict stupendous
losses on the public. The power they
have to put an embargo on traffic is
thus a menace to public order and
welfare. Their leaders say that the
employee organizations are fighting
for life. They are-but only in the
sense that they are fighting in be-
half of a small minority's claim to
economic priority. They cannot hope
to establish their small group inter-
est at the expense of the COM
munity's vastly greater interests.
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IN MOTHERS MEDICINE CHEST

are standard remedies which have
stood the test of time-remedies
which their mothers and grandmoth-
ers had used before them. Such is
Lydia e. PinkhSm's Vegetable Com
pound, which for nearly fifty years
has been helping the women of this
country to overcome many forms Of
female Ills; merit alone could have
stood such a test Of time and won
such an. enviable record.-Ady.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-19

The demand Of Bank Commissioner
Allen that the stockholders Of the de-
funct Hanover Trust Co. must at
once pay over the full value OF their
stock-at 500 per share-in order to
settle the company's debts, will spell
hardship, perhaps ruin to some. but
the just debts must be paid.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-19

'Never sell stocks on strike news"
Is an old and said to be a WELL
needed saying in Wall Street. 1t has
been used many times in the past
few days and report says that but
very few shares have been offered on
account Of coming strike influence.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-19

May the ties Of friendship between
the United States and Great Britain.
cemented anew on Monday by the
placing Of the Congressional Medal
of Honor upon the tomb Of the lat
ter's unknown warrior" in West
minister Abbey, never be broken.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-19
Maine Gossip
A Mans Prayer


(From the Postoffice Clerk)
Let me live, Oh, Mighty Master,
Such a life as men should know.
Tasting triumph and disaster,
Joy-and not too much of woe;
Let me run the gamut over,
Let me fight and love and laugh,
And when I'm beneath the clover
Let this be my epitaph:
Here lies one who took his chances
In the busy world Of men;
Battled luck and circumstances.
Fought and fell and fought again;
Won sometimes, but did no Growing,
Lost sometimes, but didn't wall.
Took his beating, but kept going,
Never let his courage fail.
He was fallible and human,
Therefore loved and understood
Both his fellow men and women,
Whether good or not so good;
Kept his spirit undiminished.
Never lay down on a friend
Played the game till it was finished
Lived sportsman to the end.
Unknown.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-19
WuliuR to obIiRe

Paw" began the maiden. "Sankey
swank is coming over tonight to ask
you for me-ee-hee hee-hand in mar
riage."
THAT so?" returned the induIgent
father, Zeke Yawkey Of Mount Piggy.
Ark. What do you want me to do
about it-treat him or fight him.
Kansas City star.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-19

Circumstances under which a
woman is willing to talk: Interviews
only get me more in bad than l am
right now, but I'll talk to you because
l am woman's woman" Represen-
tative Alice M. Robertson of Okla
homa to a reporter-Boston Globe.
OF course. then. she can talk.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-19
Symphony Of Street Sounds

How can compose in this racket 2"
snarled the composer. 1.-THE doorbell
is jangling constantly. people are put
ting in coal. automobiles honk. and
here comes fish man with his horn"
Work EN- all into a jazz compost
ton" suggested his wife.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-19

II conditions are such in the Berke-
ley Pre-Vocational School in Boston
as indicated in Director Forbes order
to close it, then the matter should be
probed to the bottom and the diseased
spot removed. The people are not
spending their money by the millions
for the soldiers to have any part OF
it wasted or worse in such a manner
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-19
Worth It

Jud Tunkins says a party wire
ought to be more expensive instead Of
cheaper than a direct connection. The
neighborhood news is worth the diff
ference.-Washington Star.
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Double Bill

Flubb-It cost Jones $50 to have his
family tree looked up.
Dubb-Yes: and another fifty to
keep the information a secret.-New
York Sun.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-19

: 1t is to, the credit Of the Rumf0d
papermill strikers that they drove
from their hall and caused to be
driven from the town a stranger. an
agitator who at one Of their meetings
Monday night advocated and urged
the use q violence toward the strike
breakers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-19
Railroads and Steamboats,
MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD
Eastern Standard Time

MAINE CEN HAI HAtIhOAD
Eastern Standard Time
TRAINS LEAVE AUGUSTA FOR
Bangor. tl.24 a. m. il.40 a. m. 1888 =. m:
$500 a. m. 1888 a. m. IS p. m. 50. 2p. m.
TAO pm.
B. & A. Pts. H. Diam. u SO a m. 70. 33a. m.
Bar Harbor 81 40a m. ~ 80 am. 9.33 a m.
Bath. t6. l5a m. TO- 3Sa m 80 sea. m. BOP m:
t7.25 p. m. s10.4s p. m.
Belfast B5,0o a. m. 1888 a. m. 2. 5sp m
Bostons3 .I7am.. 1915 a m. e3Sa. m. 1859
a. m. 1880 p. m. 50. "a .. m. "lo.4S p m.
Calais II SO a. m. f9. 80 a. N.
Dover Foxcroft. B5.00 a. m. Y. So p. m.
Gardiner. 1917 a. m, 1918 a. M. toss a. m:
1859 m. 1880 p. M. So. "a p M. t5.15 p. m.
t7.25 p. m. *lo.4S p. m.
Haowell. f6. Is a. m. 1888 a. m. 80 50 O. m.
t3.30p. m. 334 p m. t5.15 p. M. t7.25 p. m.
*l0.4S p. m.
Harmony. B5.Oo a. m. t2.5s p. m.
Lewiston. rs. Is a. m, TO- IS O. m, ~. SO q. M.
1880 p. m. slO.4S p. m.
New York. 1880 p. m. 1894 pm.
Portland. s3 IL m. TO. 5a. m t9. 80 m. 80
am. 70 80 m. 50 "a Pm. II 25 pm. AZ m.
Rockland. t6.l5 a m. LBS a. m.
Skowhegan. B500a. m. 20. 80 q. m. ". So p m.
So Gardiner. t6 IS a. m. 10 IS q. -. SO m.
1880 p. M. 3.34 p. m. IS. Is p. m. t7.25 p M.
s10.4s D. m.
St. John. tl24a. m.
Waterville. tl24 a. m. 81 40 a. m. 2.33 am.
1900 a. m. 1888 a. m. Y. So p. m 3.12 p. m.
f140p m. fDaify. except Monday.
+Daily. fDaily. except Sunday sSunday only.
A Discontinued after October 23rd.
b Except Sunday and Monday.
d. C. DOUGLASS, NJ. L. HARRIS.
1851 V.P. & Gen1Mgr. Gen1 Passenger Agt.
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Light and Airy
Test Of Philoaonh,

Il care not for the filings Of fate"
Said one whose name was Jeptha Tat,
But when he to a dentist ran
He was sad and mournful man.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-19

Josiah Cheney of Wells last week
dug 70 bushels Of potatoes, raised
from two, planted on high, dry and
sandy soil. Half of 500 pounds OF
phosphate was used when the seed
was planted and the other half at the
first hoeing. Many bushels of very
small potatoes were not figured into
this amount. 1t took but 70 to make
one Of the bushels.