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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-08

The presence in Springfield at the
same time of two blind evaneelists,
Rev. j. Il. Hall of China, Nc, 80
years of age and blind for over SO
years, and Rev. Mr.. Thomas Houston
Of Elizabeth, n. j.. who lost his sigh
when he was but Is years old. is Caus-
ing comment and interest. Both are
possessed of remarkable memories
and prepare their sermons from mem
orized Bible passages, and at times
Mr. Hall, it is said, quotes whole chap
tcrs from the Bible. Both have good
singing voices. Mr.. Hall, despite his
age, has a loud, clear voice. \ guest
of Rev. DIR. c. o. Farnham, Mr.. Hall
spoke and sang at the Sunday evening
service at Advent Christian church or
Bay street.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-08

Smclts have been running in large
quantities at North Auburn and at
Lapham brook. Several Of the smclt
fishermen of the two cities have
made some big catches in the last
few nights.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-08
Maine Gossip
Tho Goad

I was not meant for clustered walls,
And quiet. uneventful days;
! want the hum of busy streets,
The reckoning Of broad HIGHWAYS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-08
All Who Are Thin and Pale
Need Father Johns Medicine

Strength and weight lost during
the winter should be made up in the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-08
1 must not even pause for rest.
Nor have the time to think. 70

Ny old. old grief that will not die
Would come to haunt me once again
ADELE l.. DE LEEUW, in the Jan
uary Designer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-08
JEPIaThA ENcAMpMENT, NO 3

Meetings at 500 p. NJ. every second
and fourth Tuesday.
JOHN L. HOwES, C. p.
c.. S. PEASLEE, Scribe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-08

The following from the Springfield
(Mass) Republican Of April - is of
Maine interest:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-08
Odd Fellows Hall
ASYLUM LODGE. NO. 70. !. O. q. r.

Regular meeting Friday evening at
8 o'clock. Friday May ., Third degree.
Refreshments
GEORGE r. McCURDY. N. q.
ELLIS E. WALKER. Sec'y.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-08

1 want variety and change
No sameness, no mOnOtony;
l want now faces and new scenes
And new adventures endlCSsly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-08

strength. 1t contains no alcohol or
dangerous drugss-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-08

A Bangor man who recently hired
cottage in Hampden just below the
Riverside park site received a sur
prise "Wednesday afternoon when he
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-08

I'VE have Travelled moro than 5000
miles in three months and yet w,
come back to Maine with the feeling
that after all there is nothing more
beautiful than the White Mountains
and the waters of Casco bay" said
DR.. Charles a. Palmer who, with Mrs.
Palmer and his sister, Miss Annie l..
Palmer of North street, Bath, has
just arrived home from a trip to
Europe and to Egypt. The Bath
people were among the hap
Ply family of $50 passengers
on the fine steamship En-
press of Franco. which sailed from
New York on Feb. IL on a sightseeing
tour, and if weather conditions could
make for a pleasant voyage they GER
tainly came as near having 100 per
cent perfect as falls to the lot of any.
During the nearly three months yoy-
aging they encountered but two half
days when rain fell. and a new UNI
brella, presented DR.. Palmer just be-
fore sailing. was opened just once
during the trip, that being while in
Constantinople.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-08

A two story wooden addition is to
! be built to the stone dwelling at
Stone House farm, Bath, formerly
owned by Names first governor.
William King, by its present ocCu-
pants and owners, Mr. and Mrs. Ar
thur Sewall. 1t Will take the place
OF the present shed on the eastern
end of the house and provide two
spacious rooms. Many extensive al
terations and improvements have
been made to the farm during Mr..
Sewall's ownership. the latest being
the laying of a 2-inch water pipe
from High street, a distance of ap-
proXimately 1000 feet. There is a
I silo of big capacity on the premises
and with the installation of new lab
or saving machinery Stone House
farm is one of the best equipped in
this vicinity. Mr.. Sewall has % head
of cattle and two horses.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-08
CANTON AUGUSTA, NO. 9. p. NJ.

Regular meeting every third Tuesday
at O'Clock.
GEORGE Fl. wADLEIGH. Capt.
A. nj. DRUMMOND. Clerk.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-08

Owners of IS cottages on Peaks
Island have been notified to buy the
land under them or move the cot
tages. Transfer OF three hotels and
100 acres of land from the WEIGH
Land company to syndicate of
capitalists led to discovery that all
these cottages are tenants at will
without lease or other covenant. In
less owners avail themselves of pur-
chase, the alternative of removal
alone remains, according to notices
issued from the Office of Charles 3.
Dalton, managing owners. Annual
rentals have been made in pursuance
of verbal agreements, for years,
many very fine cottages having been
erected by fixing terms OF rentals
with Walter S. Trefethen, agent for
the Welch Land company. About 50
acres are improved and the remand
er runs largely through thickly
wooded pastures. Three streets will
be surveyed in a direct line across
the island from end to end and the
city asked to accept and build them.
A Bangor man who recently hired
a cottage in Hampden just below the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-08
Al. usta Lodge Directory
AUGUSTA LODGE NO. al, r. 4

10. o. E. s. Stated meeting Wednes-
day, May 3, at 100. Business only.
All members sojourning in the city
are invited to be present.
ALICE M. CLARK w. NJ.
ELSIE NJ. PINGREE, Sec.
apr ad3t then -wed-fri,tf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-08

r. 8. CAPEN REsEKAH LODGE,
No. So. l. .. o. f.. meets I'd ond Attn
Wednesday evening at 1880 O'Clock.
EVA LAMSON. n. G..
MARY GRIMES. Rec. Sec.
I, . cv,,
The St. Charles herald., 1922-11-18
FOR DS TAKE A DR. OP

Acccrap 70 statement just issued by Edse rcso
Of the Ford Motor Co. Detroit general reduction " ar
has been made in the prices Of od Mcde Cars sno foo on
Truck. effective October 18th
The revision in prices, said Mr. Ford, is me result o ,
creased volume business which company has
the present year. the fact that we now o" ana ope
rate many of of material whicn enables us
continue increasing the quality of product ano az tne
keep the price low that Ford in reach OF
Our production already in of million which
has been important bringing down costs Our
daily output better than OCO Cars ana Trucks "hc
complete Ford truck II seconds OF eSch
eight hour working 1t is in anticipation OF this continued
mand that price adjustment again being MADE 10
effect the policy of selling Ford products at the lowest pee
consistent with quality
Quality USUAL saidsNr Ford Twill continue be prme
consideration the building Of Fold Cars As business hs
increased constantly increased equipment ard manu-
featuring facilities that this price reduction merely reflects the
progressive neteGs which aesu ofncreased volume
This reduction hh the sixth since March 1920 brings
the of the Ford Touring Car from s the price in effect
early in 1920 to the present low level CT $z8 which
nearly SO less Corresponding reductions have been
made on all otEer types
The St. Charles herald., 1922-11-18
SOCIAL EVENTS

!, Mrs. L. I,abry -vi4tef relatives
:, St Gabriel on RHday and Sat-
.A'day-
:.
Mr.. Lawrence Vitrano has been
a ,pointed Regist ator OF Vital
Statistic for the third ward.
e66 is Prescription for Colds
Fever and LaGrippe. It's the
| most speedy remedy we know.
preventing Pneumonia.
! Mrs. Jos. Haydel spent Sun
day in New Orleans as the guest
of her daughter, Mrs Paul Alicia
tor
!
T. On Sunday MRS Louis Haydel
had as her pleasant guest for
the day, Mrs F. J. Troxler.
| Mr.. Moreland Leblanc spent
tSunday in Taft with wife and
children.
| Mrs. &C. Champagne left for
|Paincourtville Thursday, where
!sl,e will be the guest of Mrs. ?.
lE. GuiIlot for sometime.
500 quickly relieves Colds. La
1Grippe Constipation, Biliousness
and Headaches. Adv
F4A'
t,ss1Miss Annette Hymel who is
teaching school in Garyville spent
! the week END with her mother
Mrs Geo. Hymel.
Miss ,Rena Champagne re-
turned to New Orleans Sunday
Afternoon after visiting relatives
jim Taft.
-:
666 Cures Malaria, Chills' end
Fever, pengue or Bilious Fever
lAdy.
Mr.. Charles Courageous was
visitor Of this parish during the
week.
The St. Charles herald., 1922-11-18

Born to Mr.. and Mrs. T. P.
Keller on Sunday November 18th
1922, baby girl, Dorothy Rose.
Il
The St. Charles herald., 1922-11-18

Mrs. Ia habry visited relatives
:, St Gabriel on Fsday and Sat-
,4'day-
The St. Charles herald., 1922-11-18

Mr.. Lawrence Vitrano has been
a ,pointed Regist' ator of Vital
Statistic for the third ward.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05

of Industrial Relations stands firmly against
any employer who would drive wage levels
down to an indefensible minimum.
lake the case of the railroad repair shops
at Goodland, Kan' said the Governor "For
hfteen years there had been complaint about
shops with open sides, exposing the workmen
10 the rlSors of winter. At one time "a law
was passed declaring that all railroads must
lnclose their repair shops But when the law
was examined it was found that somebody had
substituted may for the woro must and the
open sides to the Goodland shops still per-
sisted. The railroad men brought petition
after the organization of the Court of Indus
trial Relations. The court ordered the shops
inclosed, and set November 1 for the compile
tion of the work. looked the place over lust
before November l, and it seems to me that /
never before had seen so many men in hurry
as those workmen who were putting up the
sides to the shops
The case that has attracted the most atten
tlon is that OF Alexander Howat president of
the United Mine Workers Union of District
Ia. his coal district is said to have been
the most turbulent in the United States,
Howat not only fighting the operators but
hghting the national organization of his own
union and being recognized as a radical of
radicals. Howat refused to give any testi-
mony regarding strikes said to have
been called in defiance of the Industrial
Court, and for this he and his officers were
sent to jail They were released on bond,
pending an appeal to the Kansas Supreme
Court which found against them An appeal
to the United States Supreme Court was
taken and is now pending
when the court was organized" said Gov
ernor Aiken, "the general talk among the
miners was 'Alexll show en,. No Judge will
dare do anything to Alex. When HoWat was
summoned to court for sentence and was given
a year in jail it was said: Well We'll 20
over to the Jail and have Alex make speeches.
The Sheriff was conciatory and permitted
Howat to make a speech from the Jail. This
did not seem to settle matters to their liking,
and then the talk was: We'll have biz
and have him make speech to US there and
then we'll take him back to Jail But before
anything like that could happen there was a
new Sheriff and Howat was in a Jail hundred
miles away. Then, when Howat was to come
up for trial, there was to -7e tremendous
assembling of sympathizers, with tent col
ony to furnish accommodations for the visitors,
and a barbecue and all sorts of games But
outside of the band and some others who had
to come few showed up
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
Employers Find That Lnw
'as impartial Teeth

D, 'one opposition to the Court Of Industrial
Saslons has arisen ir E'nsas from a certain
~ OF employer who would take advantage of
s'eSSed economic conditions" went on Gov
- "l Allen. "At first these employers were
~ Tue law, but when they found that it
~. Aeo both ways-that it had teeth on the
=, .sst Jaw and the lower jaw-they began to
,...s Such persons thought the law was
u ss an anti-strike law. Now, just because
~ Is surplus of labor, as always in times
g. a''ness depression, these employers of the
M mentioned find that they do not need any
sss.'' ton from the state. The Kansas court
80 on payment of fair and just wages and
M p'ovdng of wholesome places in which to
i, IT is the first time any judicial body
er taken any steps toward Standardized
conditions Of labor. The Kansas Court
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
Lav Said to Threaten
Constitutional Rights

1t is facts of this kind which show the IN
sincerity or the dupliety of those who propose
TO remedy Interruptions of industry by enact
ing laws the only purpose OF which is to en-
slave workers and to make it unlawful for
them to exercise. their constitutional right to
cease work.
No amount of special pleading, no amount
of sophistry about the rights of the public
can becloud the issue or conceal what is really
at stake. Those who talk about protecting
the public from interruptions of industry
caused by strikes are the last to have any sins
cere regard for the public. The figures as to
profiteering are sufficient anrwer to that. 1ias
present unemployment Of S,joo,g05 worAei5--s
sufficient answer. The fact is that the indus.
trial autocrats Of the United States have con,
sideration neither for "the public" nor for the
workers They have consideration only for
that which they believe will produce profits,
and they will resort to anything which they
believe will assist in producing and protecting
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
Lo.u Protects Seniority
OF Old Employees

"The fact of the matter is that the rank and
file of labor is satisfied with the way the Court
Of Industrial Relations is working. The radi-
cal leaders are not, but the men are. Take the
case of the middle-aged railroad men in Kan
sas, whose seniority, like that Of others in
similar position elsewhere, was threatened by
the impending general strike. The court pre-
vented general strike of railroad men in
Kansas / had an oldtime conductor come to
me and tell me how worried he and his family
we're over his seniority rights, which he would
have lost had he gone out on strike. His case
was only one of many throughout the state.
During the switchmens strike l was making
speeches in the state and one night, after l
had finished talk in railroad town, went
outside and there was a switchman's wife con-
tinuing my speech, in the course of which
had referred to the vast sums that the leaders
were drawing out of the pockets of labor for
war purposes every year heard this switch
mans wife say:
"'Bill, you know that's true, and if we'd
had the money you've spent in that way
we could have had vacation last year
"Conservative men and women, if it comes
to standing by government or standing by Bill
and his leaders, will stand by government
Everything possible has been tried to de-
feat the aims of the Court of Industrial Rea-
tions. Word came that when the places of
striking miners were filled the miners wives
were throwing red pepper. Here was new
and disagreeable situation Cavalry was sent
and there was no further trouble. The SOL
diers simply requested the women to cease
marching, which was done. There have been
other cases where we have wondered just what
was going to happen, because all this has been
new and untried. But every time the law has
been obeyed. In the packing strike when pick
citing began, the attention of the strike leaders
was called to the anti -picketing provisions Of
the law. AS result the work at the packing
houses went on without cessation The anti
picketing provision says that man may quit
work, but he shall not come back to make
others quit While the packing house situa-
ton in Kansas was quiet there were riots in
st. Paul, Chicago and Sj-nx City, and I believe
you even had some trouble in New York.
"The statement is made occasionally that
conditions in Kansas are not calculated to
give the Court Of Industrial Relations a real
test-that we have only an agricultural state
and the industrial element of the population
is very small. It is not generally known that
the Kansas packing industry is second to that
of Chicago. Also Kansas has large mining
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
President OF the American Federation of Labor
Says Kansas Plan Will Not Prevent Strikes.
and Is an Attempt at Industrial SIaueru
By SAMUEL GOMPERS

ENTRANCE as it may seem, the idea that
involuntary servitude should be main
~ tanned as a permanent institution in
the United States still has it's defenders
and its ardent propagandists.
The State of Kansas by enactment of law
known as the Court of Industrial Relations
Act took the most amazing and far reaching
backward step that has been taken in the
United States since the Dred Scott decision
of the United States Supreme Court The
Dred Scott decision ultimately was reversed
and its effect undone, at what terrible cost
we all know. The Kansas slave law ultimately
will be eliminated and its work will be un-
done, at what cost we do not know
Propagandists, led by Governor Allen, one
of the most ridiculous figures in Anne rican
political life, are actively engaged in an effort
to show that the Kansas Court of Industrial
Relations is justified on the ground that it
prevents strikes, and thus saves the public
from annoyance.
Officials whose political future is bound up
with the continuance Of the Kansas mon
strosity and newspaper reporters who write
but do not report are laying before the public
columns upon columns of words, the sum total
of which is intended to be a benedcton upon
the Kansas slave law and promise that
through the enactment of similar laws else
where the human will enter upon great
era of tranquility and prosperity.
Nothing quite so amazing this recent
Kansas history has happened anywhere in the
world since the tide began to turn toward
freedom and away from tyranny. 1t can be
explained only on the ground that there is
among dogs an occasional reversion to the
wolf type, and among men an occasional
reversion to the half savage. 1t is, perhaps,
logical that there should be among human in
stitutions an occasional reversion to the type
Of earlier centuries
The principal claim in behalf Of the Kansas
law is that it prevents strikes, and thus makes
possible the continued operation of industry.
That claim such as this, even if it were true.
should enlist popular support to any appreci-
able degree is curious, indeed. The fact that
there is not an overwhelming and universal
condemnation of the Kansas experiment can
be due only to the fact that propagandists
have succeeded to certain extent in creating
false impression of what the law purports
to be and of the principle upon which it
operates.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
No LalU Car, Make
Strikes Impossible

In the first place, the law does not prevent
strikes. Neither this law any other law
will ever make strikes impossible. Strikes
will be stopped when the aspirations of the
workers for freedom and justice and better
life have been achieved, and not until then.
All through human history there have been
autocrats who have warned the people not to
oppose their wishes, but all through human
history the people have defied the autocrats,
opposed their wishes and gained victories for
freedom.
In the second place, in the interest of eco
nomic political and social progress, strikes
should not be made unlawful or be prevented
in any way by any means other than volun-
tary action.
The strike is great agency of progress
The justification Of the strike is that it leads
to progress; that it begets justice; that it
makes it possible for workers to oppose the
will Of autocrats, and to compel autocrats to
yield. The most backward spots upon the face
Of the earth are those in which autocrats
still prevent workers from organizing and
from striking.
l make bold to declare that the prime OBJ
ject behind the Kansas law and behind all
efforts to enact similar laws in New York
State and elsewhere is the protection Of en-
ployers in their assumption of autocratic con-
troll, to protect greed, autocracy and tyranny
to protect those manifestations Of economic
and financial power against the just aspra-
tions Of the work kers for fairer treatment
better working conditions and fairer share
Of the product of their industry.
The whole thing is a monumental conspr-
acy to use the great machinery of the state to
suppress and oppress those who do the use
full productive work of our country.
Those who say that the purpose of the Kan
sas law is to prevent the interruption Of in
du1try are talking the sheerest nonsense. II
there be any who are deceived by such shall
lowness they deserve to be deceived. Those
who wish to really make possible the continu-
Gus operation of industry do not make the
strike the first object of their attack.
The strike is but minor cause of industrial
idleness The strike causes but fraction Of
the cessation of industrial operation which
works so much havoc in our country. I ven-
ture to say that if adequate statistics could BE-
secured it wcad be shown that, taking all 90
our industry as a whole and averaging up s-.c
whole equation, it would be found that in no
single year has there been an actual economic
loss because Of strikes. There are many rea-
sons for this which will occur to all who are
familiar with industrial operations and which
there is not time here to enumerate in full.
call attention to the fact that when the
United States government summoned a con-
ference to deal with unemployment, strikes
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05

were not among the
causes of unemploy-
lnent considered by
that conference.
There are in the
United States approxi-
mately five million un-
employed workers.
This enormous number
of workers is unem-
ployed through no
fault of their own.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05

everything I1lUICaCeS
the adoption of the
principles of the court
in a majority Of states,
according to Governor
Henry J. Allen.
The Kansas Governor
was interviewed at
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05

0vernor of Kansas Says Tribunals Decisions
ire Mostly at the Behest of Labor; Predicts
Adoption of Idea in Majority of States
Fnterueo by ARTHUR CHAPMAN
Fnteruie,o by ARTHUR CHAPMAN

f X an S a $
Court Of Indus
IL trial Relations
is a success and
Great Falls tribune., 1922-04-23
Two ACCUSED
OF STEALING
COOK SHANTY
Jack Mohanney and George
Halverson Held at Instiga-
tion of Thomas Hardy.

Charged with the theft of cook car
which Thomas Hardy purchased at a
sheriff's sale several months ago, Jack
Mohanney, aged 40, and George Hal
vorsen, aged Al, threshermen, were ar
rested Saturday afternoon by Deputy
Sheriff C.. S. Dennis at ranch south
Of Great Falls. Complaint charging
the prisoners with grand larceny was
filed in the Wilson justice court last
Thursday
Hardy attached the cook car and
other threshing equipment when Hal
vorsen and Mohanney failed to pay
him for services rendered during the
threshing season last fall. He bought
the car when the sheriff offered it for
sale. Last Monday, it is alleged by
Hardy, the prisoners took the car,
which was left for the winter on va
cant property in Great Falls, and drove
it away in the direction of Sand
Coulee
When Hardy demanded possession of
the car several weeks ago. he was as
saulted by Halvorsen. who was ar
rested and later fined SO and costs in
the Wilson justice court. He appealed
the case but failed to furnish salts
factory bonds and authorities say he
must serve out the fine in Jail
A second assault on Hardy, also an
outgrowth of differences over the cook
car. resulted in a fine of $50 and
costs against Halvorsen when he was
tried before Justice Of the Peace r. J.
Shields. Halvorsen also appealed this
case and it has been set for trial dur
ing this term of district court.