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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-04
No Property Left
by Pope Benedict

Rome, March 3.-(By A. PO-rb,
late Pope Benedict when he died was
possessed of no property except those
few belongings which before nv a..
sumption of the Roman pontihca,c
were already publicly registered in nv
name and located in the communes q,
Pagli. near Genoa. and Bologna" Thee.
belongings were left by him TO hi.
nephew. the son OF his brother. Clio.
vanni Antonio Della Chiesa. The non.
tiff disposed of all his personal estate
after his elevation.
These facts became known TODAY
when the will Of Benedict was opened
1t was dated February 90. 1916, and
it's contents indicated that it va,
drawn while the pope reflected on The
tcrrors of the war. The opening @,
the document took place in the Offices
of Carlo Patriarch. consulting admin.
istrator of the property OF the How
See. before a notary and the nec.,.
sary witnesses. In part the will saws.
THE thought that my lfe is :,
Gods hands. and that from one mo.
ment to another | might be taken
away. counsels me to make nv last
will and testament principally II do.
clare the nature OF the belongings Of
which now am in possession.
Having invoked the Divine aid, and
putting my trust In the intercessions
Ct the most holy virgin and Of Saints
Joseph. Peter, Paul, James and Benz.
dict, | accept. even to the hour OF NV
death. that moment ordained by God
for the end OF my existence. and FOR
that hour declare that I do not pos.
sess title to any property except those
few belongings which. before my a..
sumption to the Roman pon,ifcals
already were publicly registered IN
my name, located in the communes Of
Pegli. near Genoa, and Bologna.
ION my elevation to the pontiica'.
I voluntarily deprived myself Of pos.
session of all personal goods 7 own
Regarding the above named good. reg.
istered in the public registry unless
otherwise disposed of before my death
I name as my heir my nephew. Civ.
seppe Della Chicsa, son OF my brother
Giovanni Antonio.
"Of other goods which 1Jnow pos.
scss or can assign at the moment ~
my death, / declare that they cannr,
be by me possessed except under he
title OF the Holy See. for which by
longings there is for me no other use.
so that I'm not in position to des-
ignate their disposition after my
death, from which moment they must
be recognized by all ms the exclusive
property of the Holy Sec, to which
they always have belonged. None NJ
my relatives can claim any title TO
them.
81 choose The Vatican basiliCa as NV
burial place. and order that there sha1
he no cmbalming OF my body. decar,
ing in so doing that the ancient Gus
tom of buryIng the praccords of .
defunct pope in place distinct from
the burial of the body is for me ahs1-
lut"ly abolished. I rely upon the SIP.
port Of these persons who were a.
tachcd To me by bends Of charity end
trust that some day We all Will be
rejoincd in God"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-04
Defends Jazz Music

Boston, March 3.-That there is
more danger in the fear of jazz than
in jazz itself was the declaration to-
day of Henry L. Gideon, Boston
musician and lecturer, who is con-
Quoting a course in the appreciation
ct music at the Public library. He
declared there was not so much dam
ger in tie music itself 'as moralists
would Lave us believe"
He urged parents Ito pont out to
children that all they really enjoy
in Jazz is taken. often bodily. from
good music, and to show them in a
simple. plain manner, that they can
get more fun out of worth while
compt stions."
"In my opinion" he added,
many oe the sentimental waltzes of
former generations were far worse
than jazz and it is strange that no
one objects to the extreme serious
ness of certain operate music"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-04
Better Than a Horse Shoe

A farmer I know nailed a horse
shoe over the door to his hen house,
and then went to work to make the
biggest kind of a fizzle of the poul-
try business. That horse shoe never
made single hen lay more eggs:
it had no effect in keeping the hen
house clean; it did not help the man
to make better sale for his eggs.
What is more, it never will. if he
keeps it there till kingdom come, un-
less he backs up his horse shoe with
better service for his hens.
1t is all right to nail old horse
shoes up round the farm. In the
makeup of great many of us
there is something Of superstition,
say what we will; but don't you
think it would be just as well to
put bit more of snap into our bust
ness and use the horseshoes on the
old mare? 1 once heard a man say
he had driven one of his horses over
the country roads hunting for GER
tain office till the shoes on her feet
wore as thin as a knife blade. He
got the Office.
Back up your old horse shoes by
a determination to win. That's what
counts. If you rely on n bit of steel
pounded out round to bring you sue
cess. and lean back in your rocking
chair, it will be many a day before
you will hear the clatter of the feet
of success coming over the hill to
you. 1t will roam: il is always on
the go: but it will hustle right past
your door and 1t won't stop till it
reaches the farm of the man that
says. You may nail up your shoes
over the door. If you want to. I'll
wear mine out racing for good luck."
And he will get it. too; for good luck
never beats the man of grit. grace
and gumption when they set out for
race, no matter how much of a
handicap the man may have in the
beginning.
Neck and neck with luck. That is
the story of every life that wins. A
stout will. faith that holds right
on, a hope that never heard the
word Failure" these are the things
that beat horse shoes all hollow.-E.
L. Vincent in Farm Life.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-04
u. of Maine in
College Conference

Cambridge, Mass, March 3-RtN-
resentativos of Is university unions
will meet here next week TO discuss
their common problems when the As.
sociation of College and University
Unions assemblies for its second
meeting at the Harvard Union. Dele
gates are expected from Ohio State
university, the universities of Hi
nois, Indiana. Maine. Michigan, Chi
cago, Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Toronto, Purdue, Western Reserve.
MoGill, the Case School of Applied
Science and Michigan Agricultural
college.
At a luncheon on Thursday they
will be welcomed by President Low
Gil, George Wigglcsworth. president
of the Harvard Union, and i. Keith
Kane. captain of the football team
A dinner will be held THURSDAY eve
ming and business sessions on Thurs
day. Friday and Saturday.
The association was formed two
years ago at the University Of
Michigan Onion,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-04

THE rise in farm products during
February is of greater signifl-
canoe than any other develop
ment that has occurred since these
prices broke in the fall of 1920. The
deadlock, which has existed as
result of farm products falling
faster and farther than other prod
ucts, has been broken and the
change has frightened the business
situation. AS is usually the case
when a great fall of prices occurs
under conditions which unsettle con-
fldence, farm products fell below the
normal level and in some instances
below the pre-war level.
Survey of Agricultural Staples
Wheat has had a rise of 40 cents
a bushel from the low point, and
should bring a good price as long
as Russia is not an exporter. Hogs
at $40 per hundred weight in Chi
cago are on profitable basis, and
helped corn. Stock cattle are doing
much better. During the boom
period, while prices were rising,
many cattlemen became over-ex-
tended, and in many instances banks
became over-extended in granting
them accommodations. A great
amount of cattle paper was put
aAoat through cattle-loan companies,
and bought by investors who were
under no obligations to renew it,
and who counted upon having their
money when the paper fell due.
The turn Of the times came, prices
fell. bank deposits declined, the
cattle loans fell due, banks needed
their money to meet the calls of
depositors, and cattle had to be sold.
1t was a mistake to create so much
indebtedness. The cattle business
would have had more real prosperity
without borrowing so much. The
borrowing resulted in a competition
for stock cattle that drove prices up
to level that was dangerous for
those who did the finishing and ulti-
mately brought disaster all around
The excessive supplies of cotton
are being steadily reduced, and the
price has advanced two cents from
the low point OF January.
The Business Outlook
1t will be seen from the foregoing
survey of the agricultural staples
that a pronounced improvement has
taken place in the position of the
farming population, which is pre-
cisely where the business situation
has been weak. 1t probably is safe
to say that the worst has been
passed, and that on the whole the
farmer will not lose the ground that
has been gained.
For one thing, rise such as has
occurred does much 10 restore con-
fdence in values. 1t has shown how
easily the situation may right itself
with slight change in conditions,
and that there never was ground for
the extreme pessin1ism that pre-
vailed. Pessimism. like optimism, is
infectious, and when everybody is
thinking the same way either state
OF mind will run to the extreme.
When times were booming, common
opinion was ready TO insist they
would go on that way for a long
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-04
Machine Distributes Hay in the Loft
of Barn.

The hayfork, which lifts hay from
the wagons to the haymow. has been
one Of the greatest labor savers on
the farm and it is now supplemented
by a mower" machine which dis
tributes the hay in the loft and so
eliminates one OF the most Disagree
able parts of the work. The mower
shown in operation in Popular Me-
chanics Magazine for December, con-
slsts OF board platform swung from
the middle of a steel frame in the
loft. Ast the hayfork brings I'D a
load. the mower moves under il, re-
ceives the load and moves along the
barn on a double track to the point
where the hay is to he deposited. II
then Tits. to one side or the other.
and dumps the hay in the desired
spot.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-04
Help Wanted

The domestic help problem is ap-
parently no nearer solution than ever.
1t may never be mastered>1 Nor is It
in any sense a recent development.
1t existed when Helen of Troy was
stolen by Paris. when Moses f1oated
among the bullrushes, when Cleo
patra vamped Anthony. and when
Columbus was deviling Ferdinand
and Isabella to stake him for a voy-
age to the dim and unknown West
The servant girl has been the same
through all the ages-hard to get and
hard to hold, trial and a disappoint-
ment. Those ladies who talk of good
old days when servants were plenti-
full, prompt, obedient and dependable,
wot not whereof they speak. There
never were such days. Always and
ever the domestic has been essen
TALLY the same. with only the super
fetal trimmings of the particular
period in which she happened to live.
An advertisement in a Philadelphia
newspaper published in 1894 is inter-
esting in this connection. 1t runs as
follows:
L want to hire a Servant Girl who
has once condescended to do house.
work. She shall have d Black Woman
to do the drudgery and a White Gill
of fourteen to carry her expresses to
her Lover. My coach shall be at her
call every afternoon at 5 o'clock.
Twice in the week she may attend
the Amphitheatre, vulgarly called the
Circus. She would be more accept
able if she has taste for Novels
can dance we'll and knows the secret
characters of ladies in high life in
town. To such one generous wages
will be given.
n. B.-None need apply that will
not engage for one month, as the
Ladies of the present day (who hire
oct often break their contract, and
slip off. to the great embarrassment
of their employer. Apply at No. s.,
Petticoat Lane.
They had to be courted and coaxed
and mollycoddled and overpaid 127
years ago as now. The servant girl
of today is no novelty in tired
world.-Chicago Journal of Commerce.
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Mrs. Ellen x. Aver, Canton

Canton, Mar. 3.-Mrs. Ellen keene
passed awav Friday morning after a
long period of ill health at the age of
nearly 50 years. Mrs. Aver was born
in Turner, the daughter of Jacob
Keene and Lydia Packard Keehe.
She was twice married, her first hus-
band being John Dresser, now of New
York. For her second husband she
married John Aver, who passed away
years ago when they were residents
OF Minot. She is survived by one
brother, Ronello Keene, who is pass
ing the winter in Miami. Fla, and
several cousins, among them being
Mrs. Henrietta Glover and Mellen 3.
Packard of Canton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-04
Day of Prayer For
Missions Observed

An Inter. denominationaI Prayer Ser
vice Held Friday Afternoon at the
Penney Memorial United Baptist
Church-Inspiring and Well-At-
tended Service
An nterdenominationalp prayer serv-
ice was held Friday afternoon at the
Penney Memorial church, to comment
crate the Day Of Prayer for Missions.
This was a service for the home and
foreign missions of the various
churches Of the city and was we'll at
tended.
Mrs. S. N. Tobey and Mrs. ". r.
Berry. both of this city, rendered
beautiful vocal solos during the serv-
ice. The program was as follows:
Jubilate Dec; The Lords Prayer;
hymn. Mrs. Tobey; prayer; SOLO. "All
Loves Excelling." Mr.. Berry; silent
prayer; hymn: Psalm 96; offering;
prayer Of conservation; hymn and ben
ediction.
The meeting opened at $50 with
Rev. Howard II. Brown of the Pen
ney Memorial church leading.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-04

writes to the Nations Business" as
follows:
In my factory at Moline a ma
chine operator gets from s. cents to
So cents an hour, according to his
efficiency and his length of service.
His next-door neighbor, maybe, is
classed as machine operator in the
railroad shops at Moline, and he re-
ceives for work of the same grade
or lower, whatever his term of serv-
ice and without regard to special
efficiency, II cents an hour.
The poorest workman OF that
class receives from the railroads AZ
cents an hour more than my mex
perienced workman, and l9 cents an
hour more than my best. You may
imagine the consequence of this dis
parity on labor generally.
A common day laborer in the
railroad shop gets 43 cents an hour
whereas my best unskilled workmen
get but 80 cents. The common day
laborer fer the railroad gets more
than my best-paid machinist's help
err, a semi-skilled and ambitious
operator"
1t may be answered that Deere
& Company should raise wages to
conform to the pay of railroad en-
ployees, but Deere & Company lost
about $o,409,733 in their business
last year, of which S6,3l7,059 repre-
scented writing down of inventories
to correspond to the decline in price
OF materials and stock on hand, and
S2,75z,oOl represented loss on goods
sold. This was due to the general
decline of prices and to the inability
OF farmers to buy implements.
O'her manufacturers of implements
Jared likewise. This shows anything
but healthy state of industry. The
wage-earning class will not prosper
when the farmers cannot buy i'm
PIGMENTS, for that means that they
will buy very little of any manu-
featured goods.
The Deere report to stockholders
states that sales in 1921 were only
81 per cent of what they were in
1920. and that it was necessary 10
make radical reductions throughout
the organization. The factories
with one exception were closed in
the late Winter and Spring of 1921
and remained closed throughout the
remainder of the year. That tells
how present conditions affect the
employees of Deere g. Company.
The continuation of this situation
is largely due to railroad charges
that are excessively high in their
relation to the value of the freight
carried, particularly in the case of
farm products and other bulky ma
terials. In the iron and steel in
dustry FIVE tons of incoming mate
rails are required to make a ton of
product, and the increase in freight
charges more than accounts for the
difference between the prices of the
principal products now and before
the war. Railroad charges cannot
be reduced unless operating costs
are reduced, and the wages Of rail-
road employees and cost of coal.are
the principal items in railroad ex-
penditurcs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-04

time, and when they turned bad it
was just as positive that they were
going to stay bad for a very long
time unless something was done
forthwith.
1t would be mistake to think
prices are going back to war figures.
In Europe, outside of Russia, agri-
culture will be back in 1922 almost
to normal productivity, and it will
buy no more outside Of Europe than
it is obliged to. A return to COM
pletely normal conditions is not to
be expected until the finances Of
Europe are in better shape. In the
long run the farmer has one per-
manent influence on his side. The
population is constantly increasing
and the area OF land in farms in
creases now only by a considerable
expenditure of capital, for irriga tion,
drainage or the improvement Of cut
over lands.
The Wage Question
This rally of farm products by no
means restores the balance between
farm products and the goods and
services which the farmer must buy.
1t helps, but the latter must come
down before employment can be full
for the wage earners or business
normal for anybody. Inexorable
Economic Law is exerting steady
pressure upon this side of the equa-
ton as well as upon the other. The
textile strike against lower wages
continues in New England, the OPP
orators having declined to arbitrate
the question, for a reason which
there is every reason to believe is
well-founded, and if so is unanswer-
able. They say that if they Catered
into arbitration they would feel
bound to operate the mills at the
wage fixed by the .arbitrators, but
that any wage-soale above the one
they have offered would place their
costs above present selling values,
and make it impossible for them to
give regular employment. They
urge that a reduction of manufacture
ing costs is necessary to enable the
goods to be marketed.
The situation is the same as to
bituminous coal. The non-union
mines have reduced wage-rates and
are underselling the union mines,
with the result that the former are
running practically full time and the
miners in them are making higher
wages per week than the union
miners. Many union miners who
have nothing to do have gone over
to the non-union districts and &C
cepted work there, thus expanding
the output. The union leaders are
urging the state OF stagnation in the
industry as the chief argument for
maintaining the high wage-rates,
but high wage-rates and high prices
for coal are among the chief causes
of business stagnation.
Railroad employees have taken a
reduction of about II per cent, but
their pay is still out Of reasonable
proportion to that of services in
other occupations. Mr.. William
Butterworth, President of Deere 6.
Company, Moline, Illinois, manu-
facturers of agricultural implements,
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49, AUGUSTA -
%ss.5es>S9

The game with Bates college which
the Augusta Hockey Club has been
endeavoring TO arrange for some time
past, has no prospect of being played
this season. Manager Thompson re-
oeived word Friday from Bates that
as schedule would end Saturday with
a game against Bowdoin. The Bates
players have decided not to play any
more games this season.
Last night the Old Guards won the
Duffcr championship by defeating the
Bull Moosers 6 to 0. 1t was hard
fought fast game and the Old Guard
earned the dinners that the Bull
Moosers are 10 pay for.
II is much regretted that the ice is
going bad and that the hockey sea-
son Us about over. as the buffers are
Just about getting into trim. Some
good team work and individual car
rying Of the puck down the rink was
done by both teams, the outer defense
and checking back OF the Old Guards
made their victory assured. Nate
Weston and Bill Johnson. being es-
pecially active for the Old Guards.
rules OF eligibility to play on duffer
team, these men would be barred as
no regulars are allowed. Nate and
Rill were real buffers when the series
started and have been allowed to
continue without protest. do to the
good craftsmanship Of the Bull Moos-
ers.
The Bull Moosers were without the
services Of Sam Kushner and Perley
Lawrence, two Of their old stand-bys
who might have helped to keep the
score down. Old credit is due the
new champions as they certainly
earned their honors.
Lineup: Old Guards, Martin, wes-
ton. p. v. Hill. Briggs. Smith: Bull
Moosers: warrell Patterson. Noyes,
Linscott. Farnham. Frost. Goals
scored by Martin 1, Weston 2. john
son 1. Briggs 2. p. Jarvis, referee. X.
Jarvis time-keeper. Time -5-min-
ute periods.
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Colder Nearer Sun

You would have thought that the
nearer you get to the sun. the warm
err the temperature becomes. wouldn't
YOU? But this is by no means the
case. as astronomers will assure you
for it is much colder closer to the
sun when the latter is shining its
brightest than it is on the earth.
This is proved by the fact that the
highest mountains. even, in tropical
countries, are perpetually snow
capped. Were the heat there even OF
the same temperature as that Of the
plains beneath. the snow wonlo soon
disappear. You know. too. that the
higher an airman flies the more
warmly clad he must be il he is not
to suffer from cold.
The reason for this strange phe-
nomenon, as scientists explain it. is
that the rays of sunshine pierce
through the upper layers of the at
mosphere. which offer very little re-
sistance to them.
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St. Augustine, Fla, Post
Office Dates Back to 1900

st. Augustine, Fla, is believed to
possess the oldest postoffice building
in the country. Postmaster Charles
F. Hopkins, after a research EXTEND
ing over two years, has received
copies of Official records in the "Ar-
chives OF the Indies" at Seville. Spain,
showing that tho structure he now
occupies was erected sometime be-
tween 1868 and 1903 by one Gonzalo
Mendez. The King OF Spain pur-
chased the building in 1904 as resi-
dence for the Spanish Governors Of
Florida, and it served as such until
States in 1921.
In the archives at Seville were
found official Letters and Dispatch
es Of the Governors of Florida seen in
Council from the years 1868 to 1910"
One referring to the purchase of a
home for the Governor in st. Au-
gustine, indicated that the housing
situation in America more than 300
years ago was little better than it
has been the last few years. 1t
read:
ITO His Majesty from the Governor
Pedro De Ydarra on the Sth day of
January, 1904:
I'm this city they have never had a
house for the Governor. and when /
arrived they lodged me in a house
which was built over the seas, and it
was SO cold and damp that two Gov
ernors died here. These Governors
were Gutierrez de Miranda and
Domingo Martinez de Avendano. Even
the owner himself has never been
we'll in it. nor have I been so since
my arrival.
For this reason, there being no
house to live in here, Gonzalo Mendez
decided to build one and this he did
in a good location.
1T is proposed by the officials of
Your Majesty here that Your Majesty
purchase said house of Gohzalo
Mendez as a dwelling for the Gov
errors. They have these dwellings
everywhere but here"
The records show the petition was
approved and the building was ap-
praised at s10.500 by officials named
for that purpose. After some bar
gaining, however. Mendez agreed to
take $4,000 cash for the structure
and it was purchased for that price.