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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-01-18
GETTING OUT THE FACTS

The attack made by the agricultur-
nj bloc of the Federal Reserve invited
retaliation. Such Democrats as may
be wishing to make political capital
out OF the controversy got no en-
couragement from the speech of Sem
ator Glass. lie knows the farmers
who grow cotton were favored and
said so. He stated that one bank,
that In Atlanta, had in 1920 redis-
counts amounting to eighty eight
millions and n year later those
amounted to one hundred and sixty
six millions. lie further stated that
while rediscounts of agricultural pa
per had increased in every Reserve
bank there had not been correspond
ing credit increases in manufacturing
Centcrs.
Il am amazed" he said, "at the
generosity of the banks. Some went
20 far as 10 imperil their gold re-
serves And in all this fanfare of
prejudice and vituperation against
the banks, there has not been one
single fact given to show that they
were delinquent or oppressive in any
particular,
To the charge that the Reserve cut
the farmers credit in 1920 the record
of loans makes conclusive reply that
the loans reached their highest point
IN November OF that year, and re-
serve banks in industrial districts
were lending banks in agricultural
districts $4,000, 900: and it is fur
thermore stated that the New York
banks have reduced their reserve
borrowings seventy per cent more
than any other part of the country.
In all this there cannot he found
sound reason for attempting to make
the Federal Reserve system a thing
OF contempt.
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MADISON

The third entertainment of the
series under the direction of the
White Entertainment Bureau and
under the auspices of Margaret Goffe
Moore Chapter of D. A. r., was a
lecture Monday evening in the We'll
fare Theater byD NJ. II. Lichliter of
Newton, Mass. DIR. Lichliter took
for his subject 1.-THE Vaudeville
Mind" The burden of DIR. Lichliter's
lecture was a plea for the American
people to think things through in
educational. religious, and political
lines and not be told what to think.
In international, DR.. Lichliter urged
absolute square deal on the part of
America. using the utmost frankness
in the explanation of our motives and
the confession of our national sins.
Dr. /. b. Mower, secretary of the
Maine Baptist Association, filed the
pulpit of the Madison Free Baptist
church Sunday morning.
Miss Evelyn Flanders, who has had
charge of the Office of the Madison
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-01-18
PUT STOMACH IN
fine CONDITION
Says Indigestion Results from An
Excess Of ,Hydrochloric Acid


Undigested food delayed in the
stomach decays, or rather, ferments
the same as food left in the open air.
says a noted authority. He also tells
us that Indigestion is caused by Hy-
er-acidity, meaning, there is an ex-
cess of hydro chloric acid in the
stomach which prevents complete di-
gestion and starts food fermentation.
Thus everything eaten sours in the
stomach much like garbage sours in
a can, forming acid fluids and gases
which initiate the stomach like a toy
balloon. Then we feel a heavy, lum-
py misery in the chest, we belch up
gas, we eructate sour food or have
heartburn, flatulence. water-b rash or
nausea.
He tells us to lay aside all diges-
tive aids and instead, get from any
pharmacy four ounces of Jad Salts
and take a tablespoonful in a glass of
water before breakfast and drink
while it is effervescing and further
more, to continue this for a week.
While relief follows the first dose, it
is important to neutralize the acidity,
remove the gas making mass, start
the liver, stimulate the kidneys and
thus promote free flow of pure di-
gestive juices.
Jad Salts is inexpensive and is
made from the acid of grapes and
lemon juice, combined with lithia and
sodium phosphate. This harmless
salts is used by thousands of people
for stomach trouble with excellent
results.-Adv.
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THE COST OF LIVING

Taking the retail food price index
numbers of the U. S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics and collecting additional
data throughout the country the Ma
tional Industrial Conference Board
reports as follows: :.
1.-THE total increase in the cost of
living from the beginning of the war
to November, 1921, the investigation
shows, was $500. The rise in cost of
the major items in the wage earner's
family budget during this period is
estimated to have been as follows:
Food, SEQ; shelter 500; clothing,
Sic; fuel and light, 1896; sundries,
1870.
The report shows that the peak
of the cost of living in the United
States was reached in July, 1920.
Since then, the total cost of living
has decreased 203cc. Food has de-
creased $40; clothing, 1890; and SUM-
dries, AGO; while shelter has increased
71e, and fuel and light, &c."
1t was found the average rents the
country over did not change mate
rally the last half of 1921, and while
the costs of fuel and light did not in
crease during that period, it did ap-
pear they had increased eight per
cent since July, 1920 and are 70 per
cent higher than in 1914, before the
Uor
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Methodists Helping
Their EX-Service Men

Chicago. Jan. 17-CBy MaiD war
scholarships amounting 70 Sj0o,oW
have been invested In 279s louni
Methodist eX-scrvice men through t'
Board of Home Missions and Churl
Extension of the Methodist EpiscoTa
Church, according to an announce
ment made by DR.. David ID. ForsriN
Corresponding Secretary. Philadel.
phia. The cX-scrvice men are In -''
schools, colleges and theological sem
inaries. and have received and are ~
ceiving from $50 10 $3.50 a year as
Gift of the church from the CcntcnsH
fund to enable them TO finish tm
course of study begun when they len
the college to enter the war. II Is es'
timated that 23.36s Young men len
the Methodist secondary schools. m
iversities and colleges and profess
sional schools at the call Of Their
country.
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HOW PROVIDE FOR THE BONUS?

The line taken by Democratic pub
licity of late has been that the Re-
publicans would favor a bonus to be
paid out of the foreign loans when, if
ever, those might be paid; in other
words would endeavor to bamboozle
the veteran until after the election.
This view is not fattering to the
intelligence either of the Republican
leaders or of the veterans. Nor did it
take into account the Presidents
habit Of exercising good common
sense in such matters. Of course he,
like all the human kinds, occasionally
makes mistakes, and perhaps it was
thought best to gamble that this
would be one of the times.
Accordingly it is gratifying to
learn that he has let it be known
that he is much opposed to any such
a plan; that he would be willing to
consider a sales tax as a method of
providing the money but will approve
no scheme for offering a stone in
place of bread
The undertaking which confronts
Congress of finding the money to pay
the bonus, the cost of which is vari-
ously estimated from one and a half
to three and a half billion dollars, is
no mean sized one. Had that body
arranged a suitable refunding scheme
for adjustment of those foreign loans
it might have had some tangible COL
lateral for securing part of the enor-
| nous sum of money which undoubt-
eddy will be required to meet the de-
mands of bonus. Securities based
on the refunded loans might have
| been issued and sold to raise part of
the money. But Congress has not ac-
| complished that undertaking and it
now looks doubtful whether it will do
so in time to be of avail in this emer-
| gency. Whatever is to be done it
should be straightforward deal with
the veteran, pay him what is agreed
upon and in no way complicate the
delicate foreign loan situation, which
must be considered on its merits free
| from any prejudice, in which linking
it up with the bonus might result.
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AGE DISTRIBUTION
OF POPULATION
CENSUS OF 1920

Washington, ID. c., Jan. 1.-THE
Department of Commerce, through
the Bureau of the Census, has today
issued a statement giving the dis
tribution of the population of the
United States by age periods, as
shown by the returns of the Four
teenth Decennial Census. taken as of
January /, 1920, with comparative
figures for earlier census years.
The total population according to
the last census, 105,710,62o, included
11,573,230 children under years OF
age, of whom 2,257,255 were infants
under /. The children under formed
1913 per cent of the total population,
as against 11.6 per cent. in 1910, 12.1
per cent. in 1900, 1872 per cent. in
1890, and 1873 per cent. in 1880. The
percentage for infants under l was
81 in 1920, as against "a IN 1910. The
decrease in the proportions of young
children and infants between 1910
and 1920 is doubtless due. in whole or
in large part, to the decline in the
birth rate.
The proportion of persons at and
above the age of % has become larger
from census to census since 1880. the
increase between 1910 and 1920 hav-
ing been especially noteworthy in the
case of persons aged 45 and over.
The number of centenarians re-
ported in 1920 was 1867, as against
1855 in 1910. OF the persons reported
as centenarians in 1920, 1861 were
men and 2706 were women. The
greater longevity of women is also
shown by the fact that. although the
males outnumbered the females in
the population as whole, the women
predominated in each of the 5-year
age periods above rs, in both 1920 and
1910. The census takers had no
meaDs of verifying the ages of the
persons enumerated by them, and
consequently the age returns, especi-
ally for ccntenarians, are not abso-
lutely accurate. It is probable that
the number of centenarians has been
somewhat overstatcd at every GEN.
SuS.
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NOT A GOOD POLICY

The attitude of the agricultural
bloc toward the Federal Reserve sys-
TEN savors of the might makes
right policy and is discreditable to
its supporters. Nor does it aplc
that they have a fancied excuse In
tho treatment which the board has
accorded the agricultural interests.
And while all must admit that those
interests are suffering just now an
undue share of the present defiation
this nowise alters the fact that the
Federal Reserve II 1t IS to continue to
be successful must not be made
amendable to the dictates of partisan,
sectional or other demand than that
of the general welfare of the country,
and the insistence that the Presi-
dents first appointee to membership
shall be "a dirt" farmer is preposter-
Gus. as it is mischievous.
II has been thought well to amend
ING DltStHl 81 tildt tii- iSSiNNAN
shall be directed, in ndming the
board. to "have a due regard to a fair
representation of the commercial, in
dustrial, agricultural and geographic
cal decisions of the country" But the
agricultural bloc would have the
first vacancy existing filled by one
whose business and occupation is
farming" Nothing is required in the
way OF knowledge Of banking. Sure
L. experience with ensilage and rota-
ton Of crops does not necessarily i'm
ply'ability TO render even the agricul-
tLr1l interests good service as
member of the Federal Reserve
Board.
We have sympathy with farmers
objection To AGRICULTURAL farmers of
farncrs, but surely the way to get re-
lief, from this is not by declaring to
tho, country that it proposes to use
Its political power TO make the Fed
Graf Reserve the creature of any in
torcst which may chance to find itself
possessed OF the power to do so. That
Is sowing tares 4 not the whirlwind.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-01-18

Electric Works for the past few
years, has resigned her position ana
left town Saturday afternoon to ac-
cept n position in the office or The
Central Maine Power company o.
Waterville.
A change was made Monday IN
the management of the Madison o.
flee of the American Express com
pany. Mr.. Spillcr taking the place o.
S. Il. Tinkham, who has had charge
of the office for the past six years
Mr. Spiller will act as manager for
only a few weeks until the arrival 81
MIR. page of Bangor. who Is 10 he the
permanent manager under salary.
Mrs. Minnie Taylor Of Fairfield
was the weekend guest Of relatives
In Madison.
Rev. William Wood went 20 FAR
field Tuesday to attend n group meet
ing of Methodist ministers.
George Watson left Monday on
short business trip to Lewiston and
vicinity.
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MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD
Eastern Standard Time
TRAINS LEAVE AOuuSrA goa

Bangor. il.24 a m. Sl.40A m. t2J7.-,
$500 a m. +933 a m. y IS y IN. 81 l2pm
f.40p III
B. & A Pts. II 24a. m. " 81 am '93Am.
Bar Harbor Asl tos m. - 81 m. 70 31An
Bath, ~ lja m. 10 3Sa m, 81. 5oa m. '3 5Op N
t7.25 p m. Tlo4S p m
Belfast B5.O0 a. m. - 80 a m. ~ iSp m
Boston % II an. III Is a m. ~ Ssa m. EaN
a. m. 1870 m. s33ip NJ 80 Is p IN.
Calais II 33 a m. 70 81 m.
Dover Foxcroft. B50O a M Y IS Q. IN
Gardiner. 90 II a IN. ti Is a RI. 20 3sam
1850 a m. u 30 p m, 1874 p. m. - Is D m
t7.25 D. m. Hl0.4S p. m.
Hallowell t6 Is a. m. a. IS a m. 50 Pan
1880 p m. 1874 p. m. SIS p m. z rs a,
SO As p. m.
Harmony. B5O0a m. e 5sp m.
Lewiston ISIS m. 70 IS a m. g. 50 q n
t3 30 p m. 40 iS p m
New York t33Op III. 1894 p
Portland.s3 liam. rs l5s m. t9.5Ss m " 81
am i3 80 D m. 81 80 q IN. u - y m 40 ispn
Rockland t6 Is m. ta.3s a. m.
Skowhcgan B5OOa M - 81 a m. - iSpu
So. Gardiner t6l m. 70 Is a IN g. 5aan
1880 p m. 1884 p m. Is IL p m. rs n.
~l0.4S p m.
st. John. II - IN.
Wateryillc. II - a m. 81 40 a. m. - 1lan
$500 a m. 1888 a m. - - y m, ~ u ON
i740p m sDaiiv except MONDAY
sDaily tDaily. except Sunday sSunday csl,
A Discontinued after October 2lrd
B Except Sunday and Monday
ID. C. DOUGLASS. NJ. l.. HARRIS,
9-25.2l V.P. & Gen1 Mgr. Gen'l Passenger AZ,
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HOW TO BE A PUBLIC
" SPEAKER
(No. IS, Vocational Guidance
Series)

A public speaker is one who
says things in public which no.
body cares to listen to in private.
A speech is a one-sided conversa-
tion spoken in a loud voice with
gestures.
Practically all you need to be a
public speaker is a public and YOU
can always get that. You may
not get the same one twice, but
natural curiosity will insure you
a hearing every time. This ques-
ton comes into the minds of
every one about to hear a speech,
rs 1T possible this speech will be
as deadly as the other onc?" The
answer is invariably. Yes"
There are but three standard
gestures. With the one in which
IS shaken vigorously at the audi
alarm. The second stand
ard gesture is the one in which the
watch chain is firmly grasped in
the left hand while the right hand
is extended to the stars. This
illustrates the dramatic phrase.
We are trembling on the
brink. - For the third ges-
step. with his right foot and
trating the impassioned declama-
ton. But the ~principals for
which l stand are known TO you
ALL"
The above is practically all there
is to a public speech. In case you
might have a particular audience.
you might drop into the spaces
between these a few sterling
phrases like:
THE vision of our forefathers."
"Our sacred heritage"
I'VE, the people"
"All for one-one for ALL"
Life. liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.
Washington. Lincoln. Eoose-
welt. Harding-those roses in the
garland of immortality. linking
our magnificent past with our
glorious future"
Gentlemen, l thank you
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Trotsky's Damnation

(Chicago Journal of COmmerce)
A picture of Jewish discipline in its
severest form comes over the cables
ent rulers have cursed God and seek
to perpetuate an internal system of
oppression, immortality, injustice and
CALLING tyranny. 1t is the story of
the expulsion of Leon Trotsky, the
Russian war minister, from the ew-
ish church and congregation. His own
father preferred the charge, which
was as follows: Leon has foresworn
his forefathers' creed, has proved to
be an enemy to JUDAISM, and has be-
come curse to humanity"
Asked for proof by the rabbi, the
stern father responded that every
member of the community and every
Russian throughout the world stood
as witnesses to the accepted fact as
charged. and added:
want him damned, cursed with
the curse of damnation which since
the beginning of the world has been
spoken only against the enemies of
God, the curse from which there is no
redemption on earth, in Heaven or
He'll.
Thereupon the chief rabbi read
seven prayers, seven curses and blew
out seven candles. damning the ac-
cused for all eternity, and Trotsky's
venerable mother, who was present.
uttered a piercing cry of woe, tainted
and fell to the floor.
This incident brings to us the
knowledge that church discipline, so
weak and ineffective in many quart
ers, may be effectively invoked where
the world is raw and human emotions
have been stirred to their utmost. The
world. at large regardless of differ
ences in religious belief, has not given
expression to it's Judgment of the
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Rev. FIR. c. J. Enright will succeed FIR.


Brown.
1t is said that Friday coming on the
18th of the month will occur again in
October of this year. 1t occurred but
once in 1921, in May: twice in 1920,
in February and August; and in 1928
will occur in April and August.
Mr.. and Mrs. Waldo Pettengill have
returned to their Rumford home
from Philadelphia. where Mr.. Petten-
gill recently underwent surgical
treatment. His recovery has been so
speedy and satisfactory that his
friends are much pleased with his
condition and early return home.
Portland is nursing the hope that
the rumor of a water freight service
to New York may materialize. Lat
est reports say that terminal facili-
ties have been secured in New York
and that lake-type oil burning
steamer of good carrying capacity
has been secured-so that the new
line is practically assured.
The Bowdoin alumni of Boston and
vicinity will this "wednesday eve
ming hold their saith annual banquet
at Young's, Boston. The association
now has about 500 members. The
| president is Albert B. White. '9S, IS
Devonshire street: secretary. Stephen
E. Pinl1ham, '05, 500 High street. The
speakers will include: President
Stills; Prof. Hormell, department of
history; Austin H. MacCormick,
| alumni secretary; Judge John A. Pc
| tiers; and Albert r. Thayer, repre-
senting the undergraduate body.
Caribou is pretty high" up in more
than one way in Maine, so when word
comes that it's High school has the
largest registration in its history,
| things look we'll for Caribou. The
school now has 2S5 students. The
main room seats 219, so some of them
have to use class rooms. Oscar c..
Smith is principal.
Capt. Charles Wooster of Rockport
locked at marine headquarters in this
| city long enough yesterday to tell mis-
old cronics that he has never seen the
barometer lower hereabouts than it
was on the night of the last storm,
when it read 2S6 says the Courier
| Gazette. Capt. Wooster has cruised
pretty much all over the world and
has seen barometer register 2S.3, but
never anything like ESQ around his
own home before.
DR.. John l.. Pepper of Madison has
been appointed county health director
for Cumberland and York counties,
succeeding DR.. Clarence w. Kendall
of Biddeford, who was recently named
State Health Director. DR.. PEPPER
has entered upon his duties ard has
taken up his residence in Portland
DR.. Pepper is service man ard one
of the best known physicians of Som
erset county. During the war he was
post surgeon at Toledo, Ohio He
was severely injured some months ago
by the explosion of an internal ma
chine, which was sent to him through
the mails, but is now fully recovered
from the effects of his injuries. The
perpetrator of the outrage has never
been discovered
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-01-18

Physicians Of thirty-three states
are nearly equally divided on the
question whether whisky is a neces-
sary therapeutic agent.-Kennebec
Journal.
SO much for its curative qualities.
Now how about its standing as a
prophylactic agent?-Biddeford Jour-
nal.
Il that an invitation for all we'll
preserved editors to stand up and be
counted?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-01-18

The philosophical statistician who
announced that there are more auto
mobiles than bathrooms in this coun-
try, seems to overlook the fact that
during six months of the year own
for bath
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Wednesday, January 10, 1922.

at 10 vital to every workman in the
United States that Europe shall re-
cover her exchange, her production,
and her standard Of living. Otherwise
we shall be dragged down to Europe
an sta ards."-Herbert Hoover.
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RiRht, but Wrong

S1"V -"
Smith has been picnicking and, I'M
fortunately, during ramble after
ward he had strayed away from the
remainder of the party.
Not being able to find them after =
thorough search, he set out to walk to
the nearest village, about three or
four miles away.
After walking good four miles IN
the direction he had imagined the VII
lage lay, he CHANGED to meet hand
from a neighboring farm.
Am I on the right road for Hay
field?" he inquired.
"Ay, sure, zur!" was the reply. But
we be goin' the wrong way.'-New
York Globe.
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"Clonorchiasis," battling. mysterl-
Gus and Oriental, is a new disease,
caused by a worm in the liver's bile
passages and for which no cure is
known. Those who would Danish all
disease never seem to catch up with
their job.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-01-18

Mr.. Hoover is said to have received
an offer of 100000 a year to promote
Philadelphia sesqui- centennial. AS
Hoover doesn't need the money and
the country's business does need
Hoover we are pleased to believe that
he will not yield to temptation.
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Proud To Wear 1t

(BOStOn Transcript
The Maine Sheep and Wool Grow
ers' Association has the right sort of
enthusiasm. At the annual meeting
enc of the members said that if a
man wearing Maine grown wool
suit were to meet another similarly
clad it was as good as an Introduction
and that he and many others were
proud to wear a suit of that kind.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-01-18

Thieves are defacing for purposes
of pillage the statues of Frederick the.
Great and Bismarck in Berlin. Chance
to find a moral lying around here
somewhere; but, after all, thieves
never had much respect for anything
save their own cleverness.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-01-18

The Union Pacific Railroad is
planning to expend ten million dollars
Tor new equipment, believing it will
soon be needed. The managers of
that road get paid quite literally for
use Of their Judgment.
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Claiming a secret way to what the
races Ponzi financier is said to have
gotten some fifteen millions of the
Welshmen's money. "Taffy was
Welshman, Taffy was thieH and
now his sins are being visited on his
children unto the umpty- ump gener-
atom
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Windsor Granue

The installation of officers 81
Windsor Grange will he held FRI
day evening. Jan. ~. weather per.
hitting. A baked bean supper will
be served. All members are re;
quested to be present. Thuse not so
licited, please bring pie or cake.
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There'd be a fortune for a wizard
who could guarantee snow for a ski
tournament. They have a tourna-
ment billed in Illinois and are howl
ing for ten thousand loads of snow
and the railroads are responding to
the call. Then, if it should rain!