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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-06-04
RURAL COMMUNITIES

None will question the need of bet
ter police supervision in the rural
communities in these days when law
breakers in possession of the auto
mobile possess a great advantage.
The Portland Press thinks Maine
might well follow Massachusetts in
establishing state constabulary.
Perhaps the desired result may only
so be obtained. Yet in view of the
great expense--this is a large state
with extensive rural regions-which
necessarily would have to be in
CURED, also that it is unlikely this
can be done in the immediate future,
is there no way by which the present
unfavorable situation may be i'm
proved?
The local authorities in the smaller
communities have neither the facil
tiles nor the experience for effectively
prompt action often required. 1t is
not to be expected under present con-
ditions. They cannot be so well &C
quainted with the methods of the
criminals as those having frequent
occasion to deal with them. On the
other hand, if the State should take
over this work the inevitable attitude
Of the local authorities would be to
let the State look after it. The ex-
pense would be very large and taxes
are high as it is.
In New York state it has been
found necessary for the police of the
cities to get together, compare notes
and arrange to cooperate. Informa-
ton respecting the criminals is made
common to them all and good results
are being obtained. In some degree
such cooperation might be estab-
lished between the city and town au-
thorities. Success attended the bring
ing of the town assessors into con-
vention with the State' officials.
Methods were discussed, better I'M
derstanding was obtained respecting
the difficulties arising in the per-
Torrance of duties and solution Of
problems has been made less trou-
blesome. Cooperative effort in the
work of State charities has been
proved effectual. All this suggests
would inspire the local police authori-
ties and the public, would reveal ways
in which Improvement could be Sc
cured. The expense would not be
large, the need is undoubted.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-06-04

The State Chamber of Commerce, the
Agricultural League, the eight Rotary
Clubs, the State Grange, local cnam-
beers of commerce, women's CLUBS ana
other organizations are cooperating
in these meetings, where live speak
ers are making plain Maine problems
and offering definite suggestions TOT
the framing of policy for developing
the resources of the state, and, IN
general, for bringing about better
team work among Maine people and
organizations for the common well
fare.
Maine has contributed nightly to
the boosting of the country as
whole, and especially to the develop
ment of states and localities at a
distance. but it has been peculiarly
backward in waking up to the desira-
bility of booming itself. 1t has been
particularly backward in developing
the spirit of cooperation that frames
state policies and pushes state prod
ucts into the markets of the world.
To be sure, something of that spirit
has helped along the tourist business
lists is one of Names leading indus
tries. But why not real program
for Maine agricultural development?
AS it is now, Maine imports three
fourths or more of all that it eats.
Though one of the best states for ap-
pie growing in the Union, you will
find in all the markets Oregon apples
sent across the continent by cooper
atiVe enterprise of the growers in
that far region. Though one of the
best dairy states, much of its butter
comes from Wisconsin. Beans from
Scotland We're selling in one of it's
purely agricultural communities last
year, though no part of the world Is
better adapted to raising beans thar
Maine. So with many other food
products.
In other lines it is the same story.
Even now the Maine Central railroad
is putting in new ties of Douglas fir
from the state of Washington, though
government experiments have shown
that birch, beech, and maple ties,
which Maine could supply in vast
quantities, are superior to Douglas
fir. 1t does not just happen" that
the fir from Washington has the call.
1t is the result of organized effort
among those who own the Washing
ton forests and run the Washington
mil.s-such an effort as Maine is get
ting around to make. 1t does not
Just happen" that fruit from Flori-
da and California is on Maine tables
or that hardwood flooring comes from
the South to Maine, which has areas
Of splendid hardwood as large as the
whole of Massachusetts. Maine mon
ey, like Maine youth, has gone in a
big and amending stream to other
states 1t will be a great thing for
that state if the new movement
keeps more of both at home and or
ganizes them for concerted, rather
ibap indiyidpa1 effort
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SERMON IN THE NEWS

William E. Leib entered the Eastern
Penitentiary yesterday at IT'D
o'clock to serve a sentence OF from
three to five years.
Until two years ago Leib was one
of the powerful political figures of
the Republican organization in Penn
sylvania. He was the acknowledged
leader of Schuylkill County. was res
ident clerk of the House of Repre-
sentatives and had held various other
political offices.
At what appeared to be the height
of his political career Leib was sud
denly placed under arrest. Uharged
with forgery in connection with du
plicate State tax receipts. He was
convicted, and the Superior and Su-
preme Courts of the State upheld the
lower courts. Finally he sought to
appeal to the Supreme Court of the
United States. That effort was not
abandoned until an hour before he
was turned over to Warden McKenty
at the penitentiary. The last thing
done was to seek a stay.
1t was a vastly different Leib who
entered the prison from the we'll
dressed, debonair figure that for
years was so well known about the
Capitol at Harrisburg. The. former
political chieftain appeared to have
failed in health. He was detected and
apparently was unable to contem-
plate his future with good face. His
clothing vas wrinkled, he was I'M
shaven and the straw hat which he
wore was broken and frayed around
the edges of the brim. In the ride
to the prison he seldom spoke. but
frequently he sighed heavily" News
report
The old, old story. Not all are
found out" but if we believe with
some of the best minds, we must con-
clude the rascal who escapes detec-
ton is more to be pitied than is poor
Leib.
Arise, o Soul and grid thee up anew,
Though the black camel Death kneel
at thy gate"
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Moretown, Vermont, March 9th, 1918.
II am warranted in having the
strongest faith in Fruit "a -tives' after
receiving such wonderful benefits
from them. For years. l was a suf-
ferer with Kidney and Liver Com
plants. My back ached; my liver
was sluggish: and my whole system
seemed out of order.
Fruit-a- tives' was the only RENE
dy to help me. They strengthened
the kidneys, made my bowels move
regularly and freed me of all the dis
tress caused from the kidney trouble
constipation and indigestion.
A few weeks treatment with
-tives' made me feel as if
had a new lease on life, and / am
glad to make known the great value
of these Fruit Liver Tablets"
MOSES MURPHY.
Soc box. 6 for $3.50, trial size Csc
At dealers or from FRUIT-A-T IVES
Limited, OGDENSBURG, N. y
Adv.
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products than were in effect for mills
in other states due to the longer
haul, but they were established in
fair relationship and had SO proved
by many years of successful use.
Industries in Maine had been able to
expand and new industries attracted
to this state in harmony with gen.
eral growth.
Old industries are now experience
ing incalculable hardship in the new
relationship of rates while new in
Gustries find more favorable condi-
tons elsewhere. How can such a
situation possibly be beneficial to the
industrial life and prosperity of
Maine? On the contrary it would
seem harmful results must neces-
sarily follow until this situation is
corrected. The extent and nature of
the harm done is of such Importance
as to command most serious atten-
ton or the theory that freight rates
pletely exploded.
J. This method of increasing indus
trial rates is the free and uninflu-
enced choice of the Maine Central
management, except insofar as they
may have desired to follow the policy
of other railroads. 1t was not i'm
posed by government. either State or
National. In fact, the Interstate
Commerce Commission said all they
could consistently to the carriers
suggesting there should be better
methods to secure needed revenue
increases. See their decision in the
SEQ case back in 1913 found in Vol
81, pages 3S7. 392. 407, 40S, 400. These
decisions are on file at the Public
Library in Portland and probably in
other Libraries throughout the State,
and at the Office of the Public Ttili-
ties Commission in Augusta Had
the Maine Central Traffic mana re-
men taken a stand for more fair
treatment in rate increases as affect
ing Maine industries with proper
presentation of available facts num-
erous and convincing, it does not
overtax ones faith to believe very
considerable encouragement and sup
port would have been received from
me Commission. In former situa-
tions of this nature the previous
management had insisted upon and
won the retention of current rate re-
lationships.
II will therefore be seen that under
the present policy the railroad is get
ting minimum of increa sed revenue
and at the same time inf1icting upon
industry maximum Of hardship.
The established right of Maine in
dustries to fair and equitable rate
relationships in competition with
those in other parts. of the country
is grossly betrayed Both the stock
holders and manufacturers are suf-
fering needlessly and can consistent
~ make common effort for relief. A
most disconcerting fact in the present
unfortunate situation is that nothing
is being done to correct these evils
that offers the slightest promise of
success for the relief of either the
stockholders or industrial interests
TO successfully accomplish such re.
ilef VIII of course take a degree or
skill, knowledge and determination
entirely absent in the policy that so
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-06-04
She SayS:-

A woman tinkering about an auto
mobile on the main highway gener-
ally has aid. The Knights of the
Road new edition) very rarely have
the heart to pass female in distress.
They are not educated up to that
point-yet. But wait! Where are
these new ideas pertaining to the in
dependence of women tried out first :?
Mrs. Wife and Friend Husband start
it. The introduction having been Civ
en- we will now draw back the curtain
and show the scene of the play 1t
was a main highway. A woman was
in the act of changing a tire. She
had the right idea. according to the
little bird in the tree. A man passing
by. stopped and offered his assist
ance. No, thank you" she said,
brushing back the hair from her nose
which was already shiny and looked
as if it might itch. MY husband
says We women can vote. We can
drive car and so We can fix a car"
And she kept on unloosening bolts on
the rim. The man looked up and
there in the back seat of the car, out
VI liit sun llut rays, TAXING all the
the pleasure out of life possible. with
feet on the top of the front seat and
cigar merrily working, sat Friend
Husband.
Associations hover around names
as thickly as anything. Once I knew
a girl named Pearl. Her back yard
Joined ours. She was older than l..
She used to goto dances and the like.
She had only one dress Before sup
per she would wash out her dress.
Then after supper she would come
out and feel it as it hung dripping on
the line. OF course, the dress wasn't
dry. But that didn't daunt Pearl.
She would stand for an hour at a
time and shake the line back and
forth or pulley it from her back porch
to the end of the adjoining house and
back again. And it wouldn't be very
long after that when Pearl went out
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-06-04
Cstours
Portland Pres

(POrtland HreSS)
BY executive order the matter of
detours was taken out of the hands
of the State Highway commission
last February and is now controlled
by the Governor and Council so far
as their maintenance is concerned
SO the Highway commission is not
to be held responsible for them only
so far as the Commission now desig-
mates them or signifies when detours
are necessary.
AS might be expected. the detours
are now entirely neglected. The
Highway Commission's supervision
of them was poor enough and al
ways occasioned criticism, but under
the new plan absolutely nothing is
done. According to the executive or
der the State was TO pay half OF the
expense of maintaining detours and
the towns through which they
passed were to pay the other half
Perhaps the State may tie willing
to pay half the expense involved, but
IL its money is being spent on some
detours today II is being wasted as
the condition of such detours will
prove.
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Harding and Alaska
(The Public Ledger


If he can spare the time from his
duties at Washington, President
Harding will do we'll to make the
Alaskan trip this summer 1t will re-
quire somthing as dramatic as a
presidential visit to focus upon the
Alaskan situation the attention that
it deserves.
Alaskans have pictured Alaska as a
land that is dying under bureaucratic
repression 'and choking of red tape.
They charge that continuation of the
present policy will drive the remain
ing white men from The Great
Land" and leave it in isolation, brok-
en- only by the Oriental and the Indi-
an. President Harding would like to
see for himself.
If President Harding, Secretary
! Fall and Secretary DENLY go to
Alaska. they will be shown something
of the forests that cover 21,000, 900
acres and from which 100000, 900 board
feet can be taken annually for an in
definite time. There are lumber and
wood pulp and the long list OF forest
products there, unmatched anywhere
save in Siberia. Such are the Tongas
and Chugach National Forests.
They will find that under the 10000
900 acres of known coal lands there
is fuel enough to meet the needs of
the United States for about 5000 years.
Coming out of the international snarl
over oil and oil lands, they will hear
much of the great oil fields that I'M
derlie the Copper Rover. country, the
Cook Inlet fields and the area on the
Alaskan Peninsula. There is fuel,
much fuel in Alaska.
Salmon. they will find, is the king
industry of the North. The average
pack of 1850, 900 cases, forty-eight-
pound cases, has a great bearing on
the American food supply. Surely. too
they will catch glimpses of the great
reindeer herds, begun in 1892 and now
numbering about $4,000 animals.
And over in the Pribylofs they will
find the islands of the seal. The seal
census of 1919 showed 542, 269 seals in
these waters.
1t is possible that it will be a sur
prise to learn that the United States
Department of Agriculture believes
that a population between 100000 and
100000 can be supported by agricul-
ture alone on the $4,000, 900 acres of
Alaskas arabic land. The white
population is said to number few
more then 10000 now.
1t will be well for the president and
the members of his Cabinet to see
these things at first hand. Alaska's
situation demands attention. Legis-
lation dealing with it can afford to
wait if this trip is TO be made. Most
important of all, the ,Alaskans will be
given chance to present their own
case at first hand, on their own soil
and with the immense and unques-
toned resources of the country as
background.
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Editors Letter Box
WhOlehearted Endorsement
He Loved Maine
Department of the Interior,
United States Geological Survey,

Department OF the Interior,
United States Geological Survey,
Washington, June 2, 1921.
Office Of the Director
Editor,
kennebec Journal, Augusta, Maine.
Dear Sir:
Last year | received note from
Secretary Lane while he was stay
ing at Bethel. His letter carried such
wholehearted endorsement of our
State that l intended then to send q
copy of the letter to some Oxford
County paper, and received his per-
mission to give this publicity to his
statement. However, l neglected to
send it at that time but now this good
leader of American thought has left
us, | feel his words of appreciation
carry even more weight.
trust YOU can pass these words on
to other of our Maine citizens.
Yours very truly,
GEO. OTIS SMITH.
Dear Geo Otis:
l love this Maine of yours. 1t is
beautiful-and its people are good
stuff-strong, wholesome, intelligent
young men-I like them greatly I'd
be content to sit right down here and
wait for whatever is to come. 1t is Il
place of serenity. There is no rush,
yet people live, and the necessary
things get done. 1t doesn't have any
Ford factories but | rather fancy it
makes the men who go West and
make the factories. The autumn has
been one long procession of gay ban
ners on the hillsides, and now that
the snow has come the pines are blue
and the mountains purple: and
mountains 5000 feet high are just as
good. more comprehensive, than
mountains $4,000 feet high. What is
more lovely, stately and of fine color
than line of these receding hills
which walk away from you as if they
continued clear across the continent
l hope to get back here and enjoy
this air. No wonder this State is for
prohibition-the air itself is an in
toXicant, especially when the snow is
on the ground and it comes to YOU
gently; it is as bracing as a cocktail
not senuous wine like the Santa
barbara air, but | presume more like
the high Sierras where the fishing is
good.
Cordially.
F.. *. LANE.
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Railroads and Steamboats,
MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD
Eastern Standard Time
TEAMS FAVE AtiGfSrA EoR

Bangor, tl24 a. M, s1.50 a. m, t2.35 a. m.
+9.47 a. m. II. SO p. m. So II p. m. t640 p. M
B. & A. Pts. II. 24a m. t2.3 am.
Bath. t6.14 a. m. 1896 a. m. sl0.ls a. IN.
taos p. m, t6.10p. M, *l0.4S p. IN.
Belfast t9.47 a. m, r. SO p m.
Boston. f3. 10 I'M. IT, IA am. TO- SO tn. $40 ~
am. .46 m. 1894 m. IA .05 nj 40. As p M
Calais. t2.35 a. m.
Dover and Foxcroft. t253 D. IN.
Gardiner. 10 l0a. m. t6l4 a. m. 1886 a. IN,
sl0.lS a. IN. t2. Dc p. m. 1894 pm. Los y. H.
Is. L p. m, to. 10 p. m. *10.4S p. m.
Hallowell, to. IA a. m, 1896 a. M. SOL M
z; AZ p. m, s3 "a p m. t4.05 p. m, t5.l5 pm.
1910 p. M. ~lO4 p m.
Harmony, II. So p. m.
lewiston. rs IA a. m, 9.36 a.. m. $40 Is a. Hi''
Y. 46 p. m. "A .05 p. m. *l04S p. IN.
New York, 1874 p. m. $40 p. m.
Portland SO. l0a m. is ii m. 70. 36 m. $40 IL
am. As p. m. "a nj. "a. 05 m. t6.10 pm.'
Tl0.4S p. m.
Rockland t6. IA a. M. 1886 a. m. TAOS pm
Skowhegan, *9.47 am. r. 53 p. m.
So Gardiner, t6. IA am. to. 80 am, $40 lsam''
t2.f6 p. m. 1914 p. m, t5.1 10 p. M. t6.lOp m
*10.4S p. m.
st. John. t1.24a. m.
Waterville, tl.24 a. M. 81 so a. m. y 80 am.
*9.47 a M tl.O6 p. m, Il. So p. M. s3.l2 p H.
$40 p. m.
= Daily. Daily except Sunday.
Sunday only. { Daily. except Monday.
d C. DOUGLASS, NIL. HARRIS,
1921 V.P. & Genl Mgr. GenI Passenger As''
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The report that the German con-
servatives in the ReichstaS laughed
Wirth when he urged the necessity of
meeting the demands of the Entente
lated to confirm the impression that
Germany was not properly whipped.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-06-04

Now the bolsheviki are saying: lie
low and watch for the chance. Con-
ceal the strength of soviet Russia I'M
til the opportune moment. Let our
opponents make fools of themselves.
They are so doing but it also is APP
parent why soviet Russia would not
care to reveal her weakness.
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Maine GOSSIP
Spring Carries On

surely never was such a spring!
Prlmroses under sun of June.
swallows Hash by on cleaning
wing
And life is song to a lifting tune.
Surely never before today
Has nature given world so gay.
Men may labor or men may strike:
The cost of living may rise or fall.
But to Old Dame Nature it's all alike,
And bluebells blossom and, cuck6os
call.
And down by the brook the kingcups
glow
AS bravely bright as month ago.
The orchid gay with his spotted leaf
~ In sovereign purple holds the stage.
mere s spurge to add to the cleaners
And golden-yellow of saxifrage.
Buttercups. millimaids, stitchwort's
star
All of the sweet spring flowers there
by meadow and copse is peace and Joy.
. REST Tor the weary and yet, most
strange,
Nature working at full employ
ana her Wondf'ous pageant of cease.
less change.
Sad 10 return TO that other land
VI the angry heart and the idle hand,
Touchstonc, in London Daily Mail.
vice President and General Man.
ager Charles p. Wetherbee of the
Bath Iron Works was recently at
North East Carry on a fishing trip.
His guide has by common consent
been allowed to hold the uncontes,ed
position of president of the Ananias
Club. The guide, in furtherance of
his duties in that position, told sew
erald good uns." including the state
ment that he had guided a man who
had a 100000 collection of butter
flies, 1t apparently did not phase
Mr.. Wetherbee, for he quietly asked:
Remember Admiral Peary?"
The guide admitted that he did
and Mr.. w. casually remarked that
the admiral had given him his entire
valuable collection of butterflies COL
lected on his famous trip to the
North Pole. The informant of the
Times says: And the more the guide
thinks of it. since Mr.. Wetherbee
left. he is inclined to think perhaps
the genial manager of the b. /. w.
was not telling the truth"
Saco, which once had six hotels,
back in the old stage coach days,
now has none. with the demolishing
of the Thornton Inn. The old Saco
House was once called one of the
finest hotels in the State, built over
100 years ago. Later came the Tufts
Tavern, American House, York
Hotel, the Thorndike Inn and Saw
yers hotel.
Biddeford is watching the progress
of a proposed real estate deal with
considerable interest. 1t involves
the Washington block. corner OF
Maine and Washington streets.
owned by the Sweetser estate and
estate of the late James G. Garland
1t is said that Samuel Osher wants
it for the site of modern building
and that James Rumble would like it
for modern moving picture house,
with stores 1t is said to be valued
at about $4,000.
The farmers of East Bowdoinham
recently had a good roads day. They
graveled 200 feet of road and filled
in a low place about 200 feet in
length. Improvement 400 feet in
all. Those giving their days work
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EASTERN STEAMSHIP lINEIC,
Boston and
| Ortland Line

E4FRESS, PASSENGER AND
FREIGHT SERVICE
STEAMSHIP RANSOM q. FULLER
SIAAME6S LEAVE BY DAYLIGHT
SAVING TIME
FARE sails - sTATEROOMS sl.e2,
WAR TAX INCLUDED
leave portland, FRANKLIN Wharf,
tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
at p. M. fof Boston
nETURM:--Lsav Boston, Central
"nal1, mondays. Wednesdays aud
Az Boston connection In made with the
freight steamers for New York VII
Cape Cod Canal.
H A CLAY, SUPERINTENDENT
Franklin Wharf.
EeL 5000 aprl3dt
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Indications are that Names sum
mer resorts will be well populated
this season. People who have been
living in cramped conditions in the
cities the past winter seemingly know
where to go for relief
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With Boston wholesale prices on
potatoes May 31st, 1921, IS to 81 cents
per bushel as compared with $3.50 to
$4.65 a year ago, Aroostook potato
growers are increasing their acreage
There's grit for you.
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Another House Mystery

We'll, [ succeeded i'll leasing a
house.
What on earth is the matter with
it?"
Dunno. but it must be something
terrible. The landlord voluntarily Of
fered to paper it throughout. "-Louis-
Vile Courier-Journal.