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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09
Cray Patchwork"
Financially Unsound''
Says Secretary Scates
Portland. Maine, Sept. 8. 1872

Portland. Maine, Sept. 8. 1921.
THE proposed Amendment No. 2,
relative to issuing bonds for State
aid roads should be defeated for it is
financially unsound and economical
ly wrong" declared Hon. John c.
Scates, of Westbrook,, former Secre-
tary of the Maine Automobile Asso-
citation and one of the pioneer good
roads advocates in the State.
Continuing Mr. Scates said in the
statement issued by him: ut is not
of the least assistance to the towns
and cveh if adopted the different
municipalities will have to raise the
same amount for te-aid roads as
at present and will receive the same
proportionate assistance from the
State. The only difference is that
the State, instead of raising it's
money by direct appropriation as al
ways has been done. will raise it by
the sale of bonds. For years Maine
has maintained the sound policy of
building State-aid roads by direct
appropriation. This amendment re-
pcals every law whereby money is
idlStu iOI TIE CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS
by direct appropriation and provides
that they can be constructed wholly
from the proceeds of bonds so far
as the State is concerned Cities and
towns annually appropriate a GER
tain amount of money for the CON
struction of a few hundreds or thou
sand feet of State laid roads and the
state grants "A certain amount of
aid. which money has been properly
raised by direct levy. Think of the
State selling bonds to help build one
thousand feet Of road in Portland or
five hundred in Molunkus. as the
amendment proposes. IT - the
greatest piece OF crazy patchwork
since the days of Joseph.
Again. IL means another bond is
sue in addition to the ten million
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09

The Cigarette League an
nounces that its Investigations by
scientific authorities disclose that in
addition to nicotine cigarette and
tobacco smoke was found to contain
prussic acid, acrolein, and carbon
monoxide, gases which in war were
used in large quantities to kill SOL
diers. One wonders, considering the
number Of cigarettes dispensed to the
soldiers, whether they wore their gas
masks when smoking them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09

The estimates made by the State
Auditor show that the chief reason
assigned for the proposed amendment
in the highway bond law does not
exist; that there will be sufficient
money for maintenance without vot-
ing to use the bond money for that
purpose. This is important Why
complicate highway laws and open
doors to trouble unless there be a
need.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09
Maine Gossip
The Single Track MAN


(By Jane Ratesl
There is man i'll our little town.
So careful Snd thrifty. they say,
lie counts every seed in his garden in
Spring
And dusts all his tools whei. he puts
them away.
This man has job in town miles
away.
But he never misses his train
He's on time in the morning. he's on
time at night,
In sunshiny weather or rain.
He always reads the same news sheet
O. mornings and at night
He buys one like the night before
And reads the ink off quite.
Now recently il happened
once-in-a-life chance came,
And knocked right at his big front
door.
And even called his name.
But this man in our town couldn't
answer.
He hadn't a word to say.
He knew no other way.
And so he gets the seventeen.
And the five-ffteen as well
And he'll soon be wearing binders,
AS near as we can tell.
Forbes Magazine (N.Y)
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09

That proposed highway amendment
means another bond issue. says Sec
Rotary Scates of the Maine Automo-
bile Association. He likewise de-
clares the plan to be economically
wrong and financially unsound" and
the greatest piece of crazy patch
work since the days of Joseph" All
Of which affords cause for considera-
ton,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09
Eastern Steamship Lines, Inc.
Boston and
Portland Line

EXPRESS PASSENGER AND
T6EIGaT SERVICE
STEAME4a1SS RANSOM d. FULLER
AND CITY OF BANGOR
SUMMER SCHEDULE
FARE S2.-1 (war tax included) !;
S1A&EHOOlAS $l.62.
STEAMSHIPS LEAVE BY Day
LIGHT SAVING TIME
Leave Fortlan Franklin Wharf, daily
except Sundays at +. Nj. Leave
Sundays at Z. NJ. (Sunday service
discontinued after September IL.
Return: - Leave boston. Central
Wharf, daily except Sundays at b
+. Nj.
SCHEDULE EFFECTIVE SEPTEM-
Der II.
Leave Portland. Tuesday Thursday
and Saturday at S +. NJ.
Return Leave Is o $ / on NJ o n a y,
Wednesday and Friday at p. NJ.
AT Boston, connection Is made with
the Metropolitan Line, passenger and
freight steamers for New York via
Cape Cod Canal.
Tel e6oo
II. A. CLAY, Superintendent.
Franklin Wharf, Portland.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09
Science and Invention"

Byron Irwin was stopping overnight
in a southern hotel and he asked the
darby attendant to wake him up at Z
A. NJ.
Say boss" replied the darby, II
reckon YOU amt familiar with these
heah modern inventions. When you
wants to be called an you have to do
is to push the button at the end of dc
bed then 1 comes up and calls you"
Lawrence Degraff.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09
THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS

! \ special election will he held
Monday, Sept. l., for the purpose of
getting the voters approval or disap-
proval of three proposed amendments
to the State Constitution.
! Amendment No. ! would change
the Constitution TO permit voters alb
sent from voting districts on the day,
of election to cast their ballots ac-
cording to regulations provided I'M
der Chapter So OF the Public Laws
passed by the last Legislature, and
which goes into effect only on the
! passage of this constitutional amend
ment. The proposed law is lengthy,
adding sixteen sections, 133-l4S inclu-
sive. to Chapter of the Revised
Statutes, and is designed to give
duly qualified registered voter absent
from tha district ON election day an
opportunity to cast a ballot He will
4 be obliged to certify that he is a duly
! registered voter and unable other
wise to cast his ballot; that he has
read the instructions and marked his
ballot in the presence of a person,
named. but has not communicated to
anyone how he intends to vote. The
law will provide for the presiding Of
icer of the polling place receiving the
sealed envelope by mail from
the absent voter to publicly OPP
en- the same, compare the sig
nature of the certificate with the
signature as registered, and if salts
fed it is correct, he is to announce
the name of the voter and deposit the
ballot unopened in the ballot. box, the
name of the voter being checked.
This voting will be subject to chal-
lenge. Maximum punishment of $500
or year in Jail is provided for one
who wilfully or negligently violates
the provisions of this act.
Amendment No 2.-"Shau the Con-
stitution be amended as proposed by
resolution of the Legislature pro-
viding for the issue of highway bonds
for the building Of State-aid high
Ways?" is one respecting which there
is a controversy. Different and con-
ficting opinions are expressed as to
policies involved, and there is doubt
respecting what the effect would act
ually prove to be. Readers of the
journal are aware that it regards the
proposed amendment as unnecessary,
tending to complicate already COM
plicated legislation, sure to retard
the work on the trunk lines, provided
for by vote of the people and issu-
ance of bonds, and would divert a
part of the money so obtained from
the purposes for which it was origin
ally intended If this amendment
shall be adopted Sec. "a, Chap. %, r.
s. would he automatically repealed
and several resolutions appropriating
money for certain specific purposes
would go into effect
| Amendment No. 3-"Resolve propos-
ing an amendment to Article 8 of the
Constitution to provide for a bond is
sue for the purpose of paying a bonus
to Maine soldiers and sailors in the
war with Spain Those who thinA
the State should add it's bonus to
whatever the national government is
doing or may do for the veterans of
square on the ballot.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09

Interesting talk, that of Prof
David Todd and his scientific friend.
who are planning to turn a mine shaft
in Chile into a telescope so feet in
diameter, with a concave mirror of
rotating mercury, which will bring
the planet Mars within a mile and a
half of the earth. How much can YOU
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09

On the N. Y, n. H. & Hartford rail-
road not a singles employee was killed
last month. Once railroading was
thought hazardous occupation but
that was before automobiles and fy-
ing machines.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09

The court has found that an indi-
vidual, who is tarred and feathered,
is entitled to damages 1t ought not
to have required superior wisdom to
arrive at that conclusion, but consid
cradle ingenuity will be needed to
collect the damages.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09
why Professors Go "Rugs,

A student in Zoology pinned together
grasshopper's head. a cricket's body
and a buterfys tail. To fool his pro-
fessor, he asked: What kind of a us
is this?"
Prof: Did 1T make a humming
sound when you picked it up?'
Student: Yes
Prof. Then it must be a humbugr'
Walter II. Schultz.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09
WEEDS Law Librarian

MISS Helen +. Hamilton. daughter
OF Mr. and Mrs. George II. Haml-
ton, and Sumner Y. Wheeler of Rock
port. Mass. were married at West
brook Wednesday evening by Rev.
James A. Nichols of Dover. N II.
MISS Frances Wheeler and Philip
hamilton were their attendants and
a NJ. Tarr of Gloucester, Mass.
played the wedding march The bride
is Westbrook High, 1914, GRADUATE
STUDIED music at Lasell and is we'll
known singer. The groom is Bos-
Ton University and Harvard Law
Sehooi graduate and is librarian of
the Essex County Law Library in
Lynn.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09

The questions asked in the com
munication of Mr.. Granville appear
to be plainly answered in the sup
Elementary statement of the Maine
Automobile Association.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09

THE BIGGEST FAIR of its size
IN THE WORLD" is an advertise
ment. The printers devil says it re-
minds him of a barrel of apples he
bought from farmer-all the little
ones in the middle.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09

Are trench methods to be intro
duced in the warfare with crime ?
Chicago's banks are planning a sys-
tenn of tunnels to communicate with
each other so that their messengers
can escape being held up and robbed
on the streets.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09
Friday, September 9, 1921.
plain SPEAKING VS.. oRAToRY

SLAIN SPEANtN0 No. VIM tSnf
II is. possible that General
pershing. as he listened to Gompers'
eulogy TO organized labor for what it
cid during the war, when speaking at
the Lafayette Marine celebration, was
reminded OF the fact that the country
which drafted men to send over the
seas infested with submarines, to
fight gas and fame as well as lead,
to be crippled, blinded and suffocated
did not draft men to build the ships
which should carry food and am
munition to those soldiers but did pay
what organized labor asked, sum
which permitted organized labor to
wax fat as it never had done before.
Perhaps, too, Pershing thought of the
labor which wasn't organized by any
union, only by the spirit of American
ism burning within the breast, the
labor on the farms. in the homes, in
the thousand and one places where
people toiled diligently and sacrificed
TO buy bonds and thrift stamps and
contribute as best they might to the
sustenance OF the arm which America
stretched forth to the fields OF
France
If such thoughts came to General
pcrshine sitting at that banquet
table-as they have come to the
minds of thousands in this land--and
nettled him he reacted. perhaps not
tactfully. but just as many would
have him react And when he said:
ut seems to be about time for us to
rise up and say that America shall be
ruled and governed by American citi-
zens and not by organizations which
have their own selfish purposes to
serve" he said something which
needed to be said.
Necessity often compels recognition
in government, of the organized
groups but experience has taught
that each and all of them must be
watched lest they arrogate more than
what is due them. This applies to
organized capital and branches of it
as well as tc organized labor. And
when. while seeking the selfish aims
of its particular group organized
cratory is poured forth to smear the
record, little plain ruth-telling
helps nightly.
1t may be admitted as Gompers
claims. that the organized labor
of this country rendered far greater
service than did organized labor
Why not? That was but in accord
withs American traditions. 1t Ger
tainly should do no less and is en-
titled to no high sounding encomiums
in consequence. In fairness it should
be said that Mr.. Gompers and that
part of labor which was imbued with
Americanism are entitled to recogni-
ton for keeping the reasonable ele-
ment under control. But the fact
remains that there was Just as
good reason during the war to draft
men for the war work as to draft
men for the battle lines. 1t was not
done, it may never be done. 1t may
never be expedient to do this. but it
never will be unjust to do it, and
those who escape it and who profit
from it would respect the prophecies
by singing small on occasions when
tributes are being paid to those who
made the great sacrifices.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09
Place Not Worth Fighting For.

Baltimore American.)
The body of war hero, shipped
from France was refused at the town
from which he had enlisted because
there were no friends nor relatives
there to claim it. But if there was
no family affection to meet him.
there might have been some civic
nIidn
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09

already authorized. for bonds will
nave to be issued annually for an
indefinite time to provide for State
aid money if this policy is to be pur-
sued. With world conditions as they
are today, it certainly is unwise for
State. municipality or individual
to run in debt unless absolutely
Obliged TO. Let US maintain in part
at least the good old pay as you go
policy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09
II. n. GRANVILLE
Don't Leave the Cat to Starve

To the Editor of Kennebec Journal:
Will YOU grant me space in your
paper in which to express the hope
that people returning to the city
from their summer homes will not
leave their pets to starve apd freeze
during the winter? 1t is. a brutal
practice and if those persons realiz-
ed how they were criticized by their
humane neighbors there would be
less of it.
NJ. ELIZA BETH BAKER,
$50 Elmwood Ave.
Providence. II. /.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09
A Licensed "Driver"

Biggs: Our carpenter can drive
nails like lightning"
Jiggs: "How's that"
Biggs: Well, you know, lightning
seldom strikes twice in one place. -
Joseph Baenoff
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09

see with the naked eye of an object
mile and half away?-Boston
Globe. Might descry some of those
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09

Rev Francis 3. Allen. a student at
the Bangor Theological Seminary,
and Miss Ethel May Barnes of Ban
gor were married Wednesday after
noon in the Forest Avenue Congrega-
tional Church. Bangor, by the pastor.
Rev. Robert f. Latte. Mr.. Allen has
held pastorates in Cummjneton and
Plainfield Mass. and at Bar Har-
bor, and has recently returned from
North Dakota, where he has been, Il
field worker for the American Home
Missionary Society. The bride is a
graduate of Bangor High School and
of the Moody Bible Institute Of Chi
cago. She is clerk of the Forest
Avenue Church. The couple left on a
wedding trip TO Boston. Chicopee
Falls and New Hampshire.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09
Editorial Comment
Here!
(The No. American)

(The No. American)
The melancholy days are come, the
saddest of the year. of holidays that
are no more and work that answers,
Here"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09

The steamship, American Legion,
has clipped ten hours off the voyage
record, Rio to New York. Rah. for
the American Legion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09

Discovery of "hootch" in a grapho-
phone horn suggests Il medley OF jag
and jazz.-Boston Transcript Har-
mony SO misunderstood!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09
Besides, Pneumonia Costs Less

What's the difference between am
monia and pneumonia?
'One comes in bottles, the other in
chestS."--D. II. BigeloW.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09
Tuesday evening Hancock Count

Tuesday evening Hancock County
Medical Society held one of the
largest and most interesting
meetings in the history Of the
organization at Bluehill Inn, Blue
hill. DR.. Arthur H. Parcher OF Els
worth. president presided. Thirty
one physicians were present includ
ing DR.. John J. Moorhead of New
York, DIR. William C. Peters, and DR..
Allan Woodcock Of Bangor and Or.
Stevens of Belfast, and DIR. James
NJ. Anders. professor of Medicine at
University of Pennsylvania and
author of numerous books on med
zeal matters, was one Of the speakers
Of the evening. The meeting closed
with q banquet.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09
Light and Airv
The Wav With a Worn

What is that squirting, dangling
thing"
Tho fishes joked Lets quizz it,"
Until a member of the school
p Spoke up: III bite-what is il?
-WaVSide rTa1eS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09

Two thousand miles of travel since
their departure from Miami, Florida,
in the month of June, with the tire
trouble confined to two blow -outs is
the boast of Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Wal
lace who have been making brief
stay in Wiscasset They have car
Chandler, camping along the way.
Montreal was the most northern
point attained. with Quebec visited
as a matter of course.
Age is no deterrent to the angling
abilities of an S9-year old fisherman
down at Sabine. Charles H Bates by
name. Monday of this week he was
a membe.' of an all day fishing party
of three hooking the Majority of the
200 pounds reported as the total
catch.
Residents of Bath were treated to
their first sight of a seaplane on the
afternoon of Labor Day. when the
Pelican, manned by Captain Ander
son with four passengers in fight
came over from Christmas Cove via
Wiscasset to Bath. When she had
made landing at the Maine Central
WHAT stopping to take cylinder oil
aboard, there were hundreds Of peo-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09
Every Dog Has His Day.
{ Boston Transcript

The man who yesterday preferred
a savings bank book to silk shirt is
not knocking at the door of the soup
kitchen today.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09

Surely England is showing pa
thence in holding open the door.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09

Those copper-toed boots that the
older generation talk so much about
were originated in Turner not so far
from Lewiston. George A. Mitchell,
farmer living there 60 years ago
had a. family of children who kicked
the toes out of their shoes much,
faster than he could afford to
buy new leather for their feet. So
one day he cut some bits from a
sheet of copper that happened to be
handy and fastened them over the
toes. When he found that thus for
tilted the shoes lasted three times as
long as before he patented the idea.
The proceeding brought him more
money than a lifetime of farm work
would have yielded
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09

The Augusta Journal says the
Portland papers are enthusiastic in
their praises of Francis and Sawyer's
Dramatic Co. which has been here
this week. Someone has told the
Journal a lieH-"Fifty Years Ago"
Portland Express.
The above clipping from that in
tcresting column in the Cumberland
contemporary column is of much
local interest. In those good old days
of fifty years ago, it was a journal
istic characteristic to come right to
the point and call crowbar a crow
bar.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09

A youngster. one of the boy camp
ers at Camp Wildwood. is the irst to
occupy the Camp Wildwood room
just opened at the Memorial Hospital
in Bridgton. The girls of the Camp
are responsible for it's complete
furnishing and equipment.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09
Kennebec Navigation Co.

Effective sept. 10.
STEAMSHIP CITY OF ROCkI.AND
Leaves Gardiner at 4.30. Cedar Grove
(RichmondD at $40, Bath at !, Tuesday
THU sday and Sunday night.
Leaves Boston Mondays. Wednesdays
amt Fridays at r. NJ. for all kennebec
Points.
B0OTHBAY DIVISION
Daily Boats to and from BoothLsy Har-
Dor and the Islands are operated by this
company connecting with steamer to Nnd
from Boston at Bath.
ALL SAIIINGS on DAYLIGHT TIME
Send for time tables and other informa
ton to
KENNEBEC NAVIGATION co.
Publicity Department. Bath. Maine
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09

The unprecedented drought and the
station at Damariscotta Mills has
had a disastrous effect on the sum-
mer business at Christmas Cove.
Holly Inn which has only rs guests
instead of the normal 200 usually, an
nouneed plans to close on September
Is, not running into October. Water
for bathing is brought from the ocean
while thai Ter other purposes has to
be hauled d long distance. Lamps
and candles furnish the artificial
light.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09

Pennington is proud in the
possession of her first real hospital
opened recently by two of the town
physicians. The hospital which was
originally a residence has been
thoroughly renovated and can now
accommodate II patients. Three
were received on the opening day
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09
Music Turp

A Mustard and Turpentine Ointment
for Congestion, Aches. Pains ana In
famriation. At all Druggists. Pric.
csc, to any address.
PRIEST DRUG CO. BANGOR Nes
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09

A veteran teacher of Portland,
Miss Annie NJ. Doughty who has in
structed the youth of the Forest
City for p years has resigned her
position as head Of the girls depart
ment in the city High school and
will go this autumn to Dana hall.
Miss Doughty began her teaching
career in 1895, after graduating from
Cornell and finishing special courses
at Radcliffe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09

The official bugler out at Togus,
Daniel n. Booth by name, has a
working knowledge of 81 regular cafls
and Is or 90 special calls, which he
sounds with as much energy as he did
on the battlefelds. 80 years ago.
Daily he has to employ 26 of these
varieties on the bdgle which came
into his possession back in 1864. He
is a native of Peterboro, n. H, but
ran away from his nome town when
he was only l. years of age,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09

pie down at the water front 10 in
spect the novel craft
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-09
CANTON AUGUSTA. NO. g. o. N

Regular meeting every third Tuesday
at ) O'Clock.
F. NJ. SPEARtN Capt
A. NJ. DRUMMOND Clerk