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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-09-28
WHAT MAD Los ANeELEs2

Prominent business man objects to
the statement made that the movies
made Los Angeles. He says it can be
proved on paper. and just as accurate
ly, that oil made Los Angeles-or autos
or any one of dozen things.
Climate made Los Angeles" he
concludes. 1.-THE developments giving
it 100000 population were due to the
climate and nothing else In COM
paratively few years, Los Angeles will
be the third largest city in the coun-
try"
The thing that really makes any
town is its people.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-09-28
All politicians are promising men

All politicians are promising men
The best cure for freckles is winter
The best thing about a girl is your
arm.
The best cure for smoking is cheap
cigar.
stingy people readily give you a
piece Of their mind.
the price OF rubber Is SIS and costs
II you rubber too long.
The German mark is low because
Germany aimed too high.
There are only two kinds Of men,
wise men and otherwise.
one thing you have that is hard to
get is the phone number.
corn-On-the-cob or -the-hip.
lts only a matter Of taste.
-
Chicago is planning the biggest zoo
n the world. Chicago needs it.
You can't keep your hands in your
pockets IL you have a family on them.
''weIi-dressed men should have IA
suits News Item. Some lawyers
dress wei on one.
Arbuclxle was once a bar boy and
either way his case Is decided he Will
be a bar boy again.
o.
ia5ioine for headache" says an
adv. Good swap. but what do the
neai eltn the headache?
o.
Black Sox jump to Los Angeles for
the winter. Wed be just as well sat
isfied II they had jumped 500 miles
further west.
Money Is reported easier and worth
while securities are looking up. There
may be sporadic fluctuations, but a
firmer tone prevails generally.
The willingness OF labor, in many
vital callings, to accept decreases, and
occasionally to suggest same, in sal
airy, is going a long ways in helping
things out. The public conscience and
public sentiment viii see to it that
the cost OF living is brought down for
the fellows who show willingness,
through their pay envelopes, to do
their part.
90
We doff our lid
TO OF Cap Kidd,
He ran the world to suit him,
And when some dude
or Cap pursued.
He'd catch the guy and shoot him.
Now then, just lock,
The Giants took
A squirt, and growing irate
Put Glib" to rout
And beat him out,
Amt he q funny Pirate?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-09-28
A. F. of L. Gains in Face
of Open Shop Fight

Is organized labor holding its own
against the open shop movements
This question: is raised by the ac-
ton of the Chicago packers in dec1ar-
ing the open shop and by the reported
threat by the railroads to follow their
example. But unionism's answer Is
YES" according to the following mes
sage received bA the Journal from
Washington.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-09-28
What Should Be Done For
the Unemployed

What should President Harding's
conference on unemployment. conven-
ling in Washington, this week, do to
relieve the situation? One idea of the
action that should be taken for the
jobless is presented herewith by Thos.
L. Chadbourne. New York attorney
and formerly counselor to the War
Trade Board.
BY THOMAS L. cHADBouRNE
Formerly Counselor War Trade Board
IN periods of industrial depression
which come upon us every few years
the attention of public authorities IS
directed toward measures of tempo
rary relief.
Employers are rightly urged at such
times to give part-time employment
to as many as possible; public works
are suddenly encouraged as additional
sources of jobs-''the only real RENEE
dy for unemployment" and human
sympathies are appealed to for the
means of dispensing charity.
This is necessary. We can't let hu-
man beings starve or freeze.
But I am more interested in know
ing whether we are going to face the
issue of unemployment squarely
through permanent measures of pre-
vention.
Public Employment.
Public works, offering immediate
employment should, OF course, be
pushed forward now throughout the
country. But for the future there
should now be developed a program
adjusting employment on public works
to the fluctuating periods of industrial
booms and iepressions.
Expenditures of public funds where
labor cost is an important factor
should be held back or speeded up to
relieve the fluctuations of the private
labor market.
A public employment service, with
sufficient appropriations and courage
to get strong men as administrators,
could, If efficiently managed, reduce
unemployment as much as fifteen per
cent.
Unemployment Insurance.
For those involuntarily unemployed
the reserve army Of industry
should be special insurance funds for
decent maintenance and the system
should be so applied as to encourage
the reduction of unemployment. Better
by far that willing workers be paid
for labor than that any men be kept
in fdleness.
These special insurance funds are
necessary temporary expedients to tide
the unemployment situation over until
employers can be awakened to the
necessity of so managing their enter
prises as to provide employment on
full time or part time, whether the
times be good or bad.
Need of Education.
That an army Of men should be
thrown completely out of work in
depression of the kind we are now
in is sad commentary on our social
structures and Industrial processes.
Both labor and employers must be
educated-labor to the fact that some
thing more is required from it than
the mere insistence upon a maximum
wage and minimum hours in times of 7
and employers to the ne
cessity of SO adjusting their enter
prises that the surplus accumulated
during periods of prosperity will be
available to continue production upon
a reduced scale in periods of adversely.
The PRONUNCIATION of asystem Of ed
ucation of both labor and capital upon
the foregoing basis for national appli-
cation viii be the biggest thing the
present unemployment conference can
do.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-09-28

That perseverance pays to a greater
or less extent would seem to have been
demonstrated by Senator Reed Smoot
OF Utah, who refused to be thrown
down on his program for the enact
ment of a sales tax Of some kind BY
persistence he has now developed a
following which promises to back him
in his fight on the floor for some form
OF sales tax.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-09-28

Interesting demonstrations Of the
use Of gas in warfare. and particular
ly tear gas" are being given by the
chemical Warfare service Of the army
these demonstrations emphasizing the
possibilities Of another war in the way
of horrors made possible by chemistry
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-09-28

General Pershing. who had ample
opportunity to judge, Of roadways in
France, has taken up the cudgel for
farm o-market roads and says that
he thinks local roads which serve the
farmer well are more important than
military or commercial highways.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-09-28

The favorable effect on all sections
of the country of cotton's recovery
furnishes evidence Of the fact the old
United States is pretty closely related,
commercially as well as socially.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-09-28

Around 1000 new members have
been admitted to the Daughters of the
American Revolution in the past four
months, according to officers of the
organization.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-09-28

What should President Harding's
conference on unemployment. conven-
ing in Washington, this week, do to
relieve the situation? One idea of the
action that should be taken for the
jobless is presented herewith by Thos.
L. Chadbourne. New York attorney
and formerly counselor to the War
Trade Board.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1921-05-12
BULL MOOSE VISITS BANGOR.

A large bull moose made a leisurelv
trip across the western outskirts of the
city few days ago, being first noticed
in the vicinity of Bullseye bridge. When
first seen the animal was swimming up
kenduskeag stream, and soon after left
the water opposite the gravel pit Frank
havanaugh was the fir,t one to see the
moose, and shortly afterwards quite a
crowd gathered to watch him. The
moose, not frightened in the least, look
ed the crowd over and walked about he
flelds near the Griffin road, crossed the
lawn in front of the residence of Leroy S.
Roberts, passing within foot of the
front door and disappearing in the Griffin
woods between Ohio and Union streets.
One little boy in the neighborhood
thought it to be donkey.
AT noon the moose was again seen in
the vicinity of the Murtagh Hughes farm
on Hammond street, which he followed
along at slow trot, taking the fences
with easy jumps until he disappeared in
the woods just beyond the Pine Grove
cemetery
just beyond the cemetery he came
down in back of farm house and two
men, who had run up into the field to get
close glimpse, watched him at close
range lope across the field and jump tie
up fences with great ease.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1921-05-12
RAILROAD EXPENDITURES

Savings in ex penditurcs may be group
ed " Ter q very few classifications-5et :
ter MANAGEMENT; reduced expenditures
for wages; lower cost of fuel; reduction
in prices for lumber, ties, steel. etc. From
information received from various sources
students of the subject are of the opinion
that S400, 600, 600 per year could be saved
without any reduction IN the basic pay of
employees if rules and working conditions
were changed SO mat there would be no
pay for work not lone. Under rules put
in force while the ROADS were under Gov
eminent control probably half of the en-
pl0yes of the railroads receive at one time
or another compensation for which they
render no service For instance, the sta
ton agent at a village where trains stop
only three times day. and who perhaps
spends only three or four hours per day
at the station, receives overtime compen.
sation if arrival of his trains is spread
over period of more than ten hours.
Under regulation established by former
Director of Railroads McAdoo, employees
are paid for one hour per week for punch
ing the clock as they enter the shops.
This alone costs the railroads $50, OOO, 600
to w, Oa0, 600 year. So far as service
to the pubic is concerned it seems to be
on par with the ordinary business man
paying his clerk for one hour per week
for hanging up his hat in the morning or
farmer paying his farm hand for one
hour extra per week for washing his face
before breakfast Other regulations which
specify the class of employees who shall
perform particular work and prevent re-
pairs being made by any competent man
who happens to be available, add to need
less expense.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1921-05-12
GERMAN COMPETITION.

Secretary Hoover calls for immediate
action by Congress to che OK the German
inroads into American trade. It is the
old story over again. Before the war the
German government was liberal 10 its
subsidies to German business and it is
now continuing these on larger scale
than ever. In some lines of business the
subsidies paid amount to half the cost of
production, creating a competition that
American concerns are naturally unable
to meet. During the war few thought
that German trade could be so speedily
renewed. Then there were declarations
that German-made goods would not be
bought in Allied countries for many
years after the war, but these have not
proven correct. It is very possible that
the German government in its effort to
rehabilitate German trade is following a
course that will lead to fall. 1t is diff
cult to see how the government can
stand the payment of such large subsid-
les in its present impoverished condition,
but in the meantime German competition
is making itself distinctly felt in this
country. Bangor Commercial.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1921-05-12
Ask Your Jobber About
The Famous M0xie Cundu MAJ,
[ NJ SHAW'S PET JUG

mo" there was Uncle Elnathan Shaw
Most regular man you ever saw!
just half-past four in the afternoon
He'd start and whistle that old jig tune,
Take the big blue Jug from the but'ry
And trot down cellar, to draw himself
Old cider enough to last him through
The winter ev'nin. Two quarts would
Just as regular as half-past four
Come round, he'd tackle that cellar door,
AS he had for thutty years or more.
And as regular, too, as he took that jug
Aunt Shaw would zap through her old
cross mug,
"Now, Nathan. for goodness sake take
care!
You allus trip on the second star;
1t seems as though you were Just pos
sessed
To break that jug. It's the very best
There is N town and you know it, too,
And twas left to me by my great-aunt
Sue.
For goodness sake, why don't we lug
A tin dish down, for yell break that iug!"
Allus the same, sub. for thutty years,
Allus the same old twits and jeers
Slammed for the nineteenth thousand
time;
And still we wonder, my friend, at crime
But Nathan took it meek's pup
And the worst he said was, 'PIease shut
up"
You know what the Good Book says be-
The pitcher that went to the old-time
well:
Wal, whether twas that or his time had
come,
Or his stiff old limbs got weak and numb,
Or whether his nerves at last CIV in
| To Aunt ShaW'S everlasting chm
| One day he slipped on that second stair,
| Whirled round and grabbed at the empty
air
And clean 10 the foot Of them stairs, ker
smack,
| He bumped on the bulge of his bumped
| old back.
And he'd hardly finished the final bump
When old Aunt Shaw she Civ jump,
| And screamed down stairs as MAIDS bug,
''Dod-rot your hide, did you break my
jug2"
Poor Uncle Nathan lay there flat,
| Knocked in the shape of an old cooked
| hat;
But he rubbed his legs, brushed off the
dirt
/ And found after all that he warn't much
| hurt.
And he'd saved the jug, for his last wild
thought
Had been of that; he might have caught
At the cellar shelves and saved his fall,
But he kept his hands on his jug through
ALL
And as he loosened his jealous hug
His wife just screamed, t'Did you break
my iug2
Not single word for his poor old bones
Nor word when she heard his awful
gToans,
But the blamed old hard-shelled turtle
just
Wanted to know if that Jug was bust.
Old Uncle Nathan he let one roar
And he shook his fist a. the cellar door;
Ibid you break my jug3" she was yellin'
| still.
"No, durn your pelt, but l swow will +"
And you'd thought that the house was
a-going to fall
When the old jug SIN 1shed on the cellar
wall.
Holman F. Day
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1921-05-12
SEARSPORT
Mrs. Lester Conary has returned from
VISITS in Brookline. Mass, and Carolina.

Mrs. Lester Conary has returned from
p's,'s In brookline. Mass, and Carolina.
MISS Isabelle Frame is i'll with meas,e,
at the Maine Central Institute. Pittsf;sid
where she is student.
Silas L. Ridley returned last weak fro,,
visits with relatives in Brookline Masa
and Providence, r. [. '''
Mrs. Florence Pendleton has returned
from Eustis, Fla, where she spent the
greater part of the winter
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Duncan, Miss Mar
tina Duncan, and Mrs. C. E. Adams mo-
tored to Bangor recently.
Miss o. j. Lawrence returned to Sears
port recently, after spending the winter
with friends in Everett, Mass.
Mrs. Charles Richards of Bucksport is
the guest of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
James B. Sweetser on Nichols street.
Mrs. Harold Coombs has returned to
her home in Belfast after visit with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred B. Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Clement, who spent
the winter in Daytona, Fla, have return
ed to Searsport and opened their summer
home in Main street.
Capt. and Mrs. Henry G. Curtis enter
tanned April Goth at their attractive home,
the occasion being the birthday anniver-
sary of the host. With but one or two ex-
ceptions, the guests were deep sea cap
tain and the affair was given out as a
stag party, but to the surprise of the men
their better halves appeared at an hour
somewhat later than that mentioned in
the invitations, which read like this:
This birthday celebration is just little
new. It's given for my Captain, and
also given for you. Please take your
pipe and baccy, and HE you down the
street, at the hour of eight, do not be
late, the captains all will meet On the
midship deck of the State of Maine, at
her anchorage by the water, you may
talk or play, or smoke away, how late it
does not matter. The Chinese steward
will not forget you need bit of cheer
ing. On April &C. 1921. By order of the
mate, G. G. Curtis" Cards and smok-
ing were in order, and cake and coffee
were served, each gentleman having at
his place an individual birthday cake,
with a large one in the center of the
table for the host. The event was de-
lightfully informal and was much en-
ioyed. The following statement was
drawn up: "The average age of the
hoboes here assembled is "a years, l
month; average weight, 1872 lbs; aver
age height, fit. 8 1 2 in. All sane and
sound at this writing, lao p. m. April
26th," The following gentlemen ito say
nothing of the wives) were present:
Capt Amos Nichols, Capt Charles Mich
OILS, Capt. Daniel C. Nichols, Capt. B. F.
ColcoTd, Capt. A. B. Pendleton, Capt. A.
G. Closson, Capt. Joseph D. Sweetser,
Capt N F. Gilkey, Capt. C. II. Meyers,
John Frame, William M. Parse.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1921-05-12
WHITES CORNER, Winterport

Mrs G. Fl. York recently spent several
days in Belfast
Irving Moore of Swanville has EN- ploy-
ment at G. H. York's.
Ernest Libby of Melrose, Mass, has
been visiting relatives in this vicinity.
Mrs. LuelIa Nickerson and Miss Cora
Parsons of Swanville were recent guests
of their sister, Mrs. c. H. Libby.
Mr.. and Mrs E. H. Nealey and son AL
ton of Monroe visited at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. C. W. Nealey, Sunday, May 1.
Edmund Richie, student at Winter
port High school, fractured the larger
bone of his wrist recently while engaged
in sport.
Miss Edna Conant and Tyler Conant
were at their home for the weekend
from Colby College and the U. of M,
respectively.
Quite number from this vicinity at
tended the whist party at Union hall
Thursday evening, April 28. for the bene-
fit of the prospective library.
F. P. Clements was in Bangor April 20
to consult specialists concerning his ton
sils and teeth. He is suffering at present
from another severe attack of rheuma-
tism and will 60 to Bangor for treatment
as soon as his condition will permit.
Mr.. and Mrs c. B. JeWett have moved
their household goods from Hampden to
their home here. Mrs Jewett and Bert
rand will Immediately occupy the home
and Kenneth will come at the close of
the school year. Mr.. Jewett will con-
tinue his garage business in Hampden for
! the present.
The annual meeting of the Winterport
Farmers Union was held at Ellingwood's
Corner, Monday, April Is. The following
officers were elected: President, G. A.
Cole; V. P, G. G. Rich; clerk, F. W..
Carleton; treasurer, F. H. Woodman. The
above named with w. E. Clements, Clar-
Colson and Willis Carleton are directors.
i A Southern colonel had coIored valet
by the name of George. George received
nearly all of the colonePs cast-off clo-
thing. He had his eyes on certain pair
of light trousers which were not wearing
out fast enough to suit him, SO he
thought he would hasten matters some
f! what by rubbing grease OF one knee.
| When the colonel saw the spot, he called
George end asked if ne had noticed it..
George said, eyes, sab, ,olonel, noticed
that spot and tried mighty hard to get it
out. but couldn't"
Have you tried gasoline2" the colonel
tasked.
Eyes, sab, Colonel, but it didn't do no
Sgood"
| "Have you tried brown paper and a
jhot iron2"
eyes sab, Colonel, Pse done tried mos
Everything l knows of, but dat spot
wouldn't come out"
F. "Well, George, have you tried ammo
snia?" the colonel asked as last resort.
/ "No sab, Colonel, | amt tried 'em on
yet, but knows dey'll fit"
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1921-05-12
Many Like This in Belfast
Similar Cases Being Published in
Each Issue.

The following case is but one of many
occurring daily in Belfast. 1t is an easy
matter to verify it. You cannot ask for
better proof:
j. W. Sanders, High Street, Belfast,
says: "Some years ago l had bed spell
with my kidneys; they were weak and
unnatural and l had no control over the
passages of the kidney secretions. was
Irving on my farm at the time and had a
lot of heavy work to do. One day while
picking up potatoes, was suddenly seized
with sharp, shooting pain across my
back and it felt as though my back
was broken. l couldn't rise from the
ground and had to crawl around on my
hands and knees for quite time.
had to lay off work fer several days.
had heard about Doan's Kidney Pills be-
ing SO good, and sent to the City Drug
Store and got four boxes. used Doan's
until my troubles left me entirely and
since then have relied on them"
Coo. at all dealers. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1921-05-12
WHY COAL IS HIGH.

1t isn't because of shortage of labor or
lack of cars that it is so difficult for thu
coal retailer to get his supply, that the.
prices he has to pay are so high. There
are more miners than are kept busy and
more freight cars and barges than are be-
ing used; but there are many owners of
homes in this country where the climate
requires heat for several months of the
year, who wish to provide against cold
winter. They are ordering coal against
next winter and the coal powers are in a
position to exact the last pound of flesh
and are taking advantage of their oppor-
tunity. There is some comfort in the be-
lief that there is place in the hereafter
where they will get the heat they have
denied to others at a reasonable price,
get it free and in abundance. -Kennebec
Journal.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1921-05-12
THE THIRTY.EIGHI BOSSES

Ever since the United States paid ST.
2O0,0o0 to Russia in 1867, and took AL
aska, we have been either three jumps
ahead or three jumps behind the demands
OF that territory for attention. At the
date of purchase we thought we had
really made Russia a substantial gift for
very poor return
That belief persisted until the discov-
cry of gold in our new possession. Then,
tor time, we were inclined to believa
we had struck bonanza. But only for
short time And for the past 20 wears
we have been too busy to pay much at
tentlon to the great tract to the north
ward.
Now we have got around to taking an
account OF stock. President Harding, so
to speak, has discovered Alaska. What
he las discovered has quite upset him.
1t seems tat there are no less than 80
Government agencies operating to handle
the administration of the territory.
Further inquiry by the President de-
velops that many of the heads of the SO
agencies have never been in Alaska.
Still further question: elicit the amazing
information that, although these 38 adj
minister the territory through subordi-
mates largely, most of the subordinates
nave never left the fair and comfortable
| climate of Washington, d. C.
A territory with coal deposits which
| compare favorably with any in the Unit
ed States proper, which has the Begin
nlngs, at least, of a Government rail-
| road, and which has no less than 38 bu-
reau chiefs administering it's business,
Certainly needs attention from the Presi-
Mt
So Mr.. Harding plans to spend an in
tenslve vacation there next summer,
studying the situation. For President
Harding knows that England, for in
stance, spends millions of dollars and
goes to no end of trouble to secure con-
cessions in parts of the earth far less
valuable than Alaska. And President
Harding knows as we'll as any business
man that an important job, which has SO
BOSSES needs heroic measures.