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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-12-21
Santa Claus
Not Such a
Myth In Alaska

Washington, Dec. 20.-Old Saint
Nick, with his packed sled and har-
messed reindeer, prancing over the
country with jingling bells, and dig
ging his way through piled snow
drifts, is not so mythical after all--for
he really does appear to many people
just that way.
1t is in Alaska, where Uncle Sans
mails are delivered in winter by fur
clad carriers riding in reindeer drawn
sleds to the tune of merry chimes
Far away places in Alaska get few
deliveries Of mail, but the schedule is
pioneer camp in out of the way
places where the deep snow prevents
much intercourse with the outer world
gets its Christmas mail near the holi-
days.
out $4,000 first assistants to old Santa
Claus, and although they don't wear
his livery of red and fur and natty
black boots. their gray uniforms are
just as welcome along toward the last
days of December. Every day is
Christmas for the postal workers the
month before December %. 1t is q
hectic season with them to get the
untold quantities Of mail to those to
whom they are intended.
But they do their work with a will
and smile, say Department officials,
who ask your help in their work by
making it easy for them to deliver all
the gifts by Christmas Day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-12-21
Cutting THE GARMENT

A natural and inevitable evil at
tending government management, in
volved as it is in red tape, dependent
for support on lawmakers with one
ear on the ground and the other
functioning like the wires of a radio
to catch the popular waves, is the
tendency on the part of department
heads to ask for appropriations larg-
err than they need or expect to obtain.
Aside from the magnifying of the
needs of his own department, which
is found in all walks of life and is
not confined to the governmental
bureau, the head has learned from
experience that the lawmakers feel
in duty bound to their popularity to
make a show of pairing down esti-
mates. 1t so comes about that in
order to get from Congress or a State
Legislature what is actually needed
the only expedient way has general.
been to make the estimate high
enough to undergo the pairing down
Attention to these conditions was
called by the overhauling Of the
Washington bureaus under General
Dawes. They are again before the
public in Pennsylvania where Gov.
ernor-elect Pinchot proposes to make
a cut Of a hundred and thirty millions
in the budget estimates. Where two
hundred and twenty millions are
asked the Governor elect declares but
ninety millions may be allowed.
1t is not to be expected that he will
be able to prure as closely as this
would indicate but judging from the
well known character Of the man II
does mean there will be ! rustline
among dry bones. . curtapment Of
clerical forces, possibly q higher
working pressure and a pinching IN
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-12-21
Trade Union
Officials Many \
in British Commons

London, Dec. 1.-For the first time
in so years. the legal profession is
not the occupation of a majority of
members OF the House of Commons.
The new Commons will contain SO
members who make their living as
Trade Union officials. while only SO
of the members are lawyers. The
number of lawyers is less than the
average for the last half century. and
represents less than third of the
number Of members of the profession
who were candidates. The Trade
Union officials were more successful
in the last election, electing SO out
of 102 candidates.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-12-21
Railroads and Steamboats,
ss..~s.SE SetaTFsL.L RAILROAD
Eastern Standard Time
TRAINS LEAVE AUGUSTA FOR
AUGUSTA FOR

Bangor. III. 80 a m. 81 10a. m. 23Jsm
A5OO a m. %1.47 m. VIZ 40 p H.. Y 52pn.
1912 M. t7.40p M.
B.& A Pts Up SC m Y rs am: 'l24Opm
Bar Harbor BS1 10 d m. Y 80 a m tl2 40p m
Bath. tolls a. N. 10 36 "a m. $3.50 a. M: a0s
D. m. II 80 p m. *l04Sp. m
Belfast AS 90 IA m. to AZ m: II 50 pr
Boston 1921 m.. ii Is a m. 1886 a. N.
$3.50 a m. II AZ m 1884 o M. "A 05p N,
*1O4S :, m
Ca.ais ~ IS a m. Il2 4Cp m
Dover Foxcroft A5.O0 a m. t2.52 p m.
Gardiner 1921 d m fl Is IA m. to3G m,
1850 m. Y 46 p m 1884 p m. "A 0j n.
1917 p m II 81 D M. +l0 IS ?
Eallowell t6 Is d M, 70. 36 a m. $3.50 m,
r 46 D m. 1874 p m "a o. D m. 15l5 p m.
1882 m %l04Sp IN
Harmony A50O a m. r 50 p m.
Lewiston II Is a. m. t9.36 m. 1880 a. n.
t4O5 D m. $40 As p NJ
New York 1874 o m. "a 05 IN
Portland 1921 a m. tG II a M. t936 a. m,
50 so d. m. II. IS p M. IS "a D M. Il 0j D q.
1882 D ~ *l04S o IN
Rockland to. Is a m. 1896 m. 14.O5 p n
Skowhcgan AS 90 m. 80 AZ a M y 81 pm
So Gardiner TO a m.- 1875 nj. t91
a m. II AS p m. 1884 D M. 10 10 p H.. Y %
o m. 40 As p m
St John tl2 80 a. N
Waterville tl2.50 a M: 81 &c a. m: t?N
p IN. s3.l2p M. "a 40p IN
"Daily daily except Sunday sSunday only
{ Daily except Monday
A Daily. except Sunday and Monday.
Discontinued after October -
ID. C. DOUGLASS, NJ, l.. HtGRIS,
pa % ". 7 & Genl Mgr Ger Pass Agen.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-12-21
Scientist Finds
Rare Bones In
Nebraska Bad Lands

New York, Dec. 20.-Fragmentary
evidence Of unclassified prehistoric
rodents and reptiles has been found
by Albert Thompson, paleontolOgist,
in the ranchlands of Nebraska, where
in former years research workers
have uncovered the remains of mas
todons. rhinoceroses, giant camels,
alligators, dwarf horses and other
queer beasts.
The bones of the strange animals
were uncovered on a ranch in Sioux
ceunty while Mr.. Thompson, who is
member of the archaeological re-
search staff of the American Museum
Of Natural History was searching for
skeletons of three -toed dwarf horses
Mr.. Thompson began the study of
paleontology while employed as a
cowboy in the Dakota Bal Lands
more than thirty years ago. He was
especially int 'ested in the remains
of the three toed horse and other
types of beasts of the same family
In the interest of this work he went
to Nebraska early last summer Aided
10y several students he began digging
in a channel bed that appeared to be
rich in bones of all sorts. He found
bits of the dwarf horse, of the alli-
gator and other animals, and then he
came upon pieces of skulls the char
acter of which was new to him.
He delved further in an effort to
uncover complete skeletons. His
student helpers returned to their
schools and he kept on alone. but had
no further success.
Bad weather finally set in and Mr..
Thompson was compelled to abandon
His work. He had. however, collected
hundreds of bones and skulls of great
research value. He plans to return
t. Sioux county next year and resume
work in the channel bed.
western Nebraska undoubtedly is
the richest field in America for this
sort of work., said Mr.. Thompson re-
Gently, land we hope to make startling
discoveries in the next two or three
years. 1 shall return next summer
and make an effort to find complete
skeletons of the strange type of ro-
dents and reptiles of which we have
Fragments
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-12-21
Old Mine Workings
Discovered in Africa

johannesburg, Nov. 15-A discov-
cry of considerable archaeological in
terest has been made 80 miles north
Of the Leeupoort tin mines in the
Transvaal. near the Bechuanaland
border.
A prospector has unearthed what
is apparently portion of an ancient
smelling plant and quantity of Stag,
which is being submitted to expert
examination. Nearby were old work.
ings and substantial body of ore
containing whitish metal, thought
TO be platinum or molybdenum. Min
ing engineers Lave left for the scene
Of the discovery.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-12-21

lean history. He probably does not
know that Henry J. Allen of Kansas,
while doing Y. NJ. c. A. work in
France during the war, was elected
governor Of his state by the biggest
majority ever given a candidate there.
He doesn't know that, in the days fol-
lowing the war, when radical and un-
thinking laborites in Kansas at
tempted to paralyze industry and en-
danger the lives of the people by q
statewide coal strike, this same
Allen convened a special session of
the Kansas Legislature, framed bill
for an industrial court, saw to it that
this bill became law, appointed the
members Of the court and has now
done away with strikes in Kansas.
And while these little steps We're be-
ing taken, Governor Allen called for
volunteers, got them and started the
coal mines working.
If Governor Allen has a foul
breath" then it would be pretty
nice thing for him to breathe into
every state Of the Union.
Governor Allen has visited Maine.
He was here in 1916 making political
speeches. When he isn't talking to
crowd, he is one Of the most quiet
men ina ginable. He doesn't prate
Of what he is going to do; he just
does it. DR.. Evans shouts that the
western executive has relegated him.
self to political oblivion sin the stand
he has taken to oppose those men Of
votes, their money, their sacred honor
and their lives, if necessary. to main
tain our national honor unimpeached.
unstained, untainted and unsullied by
the foul breath of Allen influence"
And yet these klansmen are so
ashamed of what they do-provided
they really do anything that comes
under the various sub divisions of
duty limned by DR.. Evans-that they
hide their faces in pillow cases. Pub
lie identification of masked faces
might discover many an individual
who has not one Of the qualities the
wizard says SO many have pledged
against the Allen hundred percent
Americanism.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-12-21
READFIEiD
Granqe Meeting

Readfeld Grange met Saturday,
Dec. 16, with good attendance.
Some matters of business were
transacted after which fine dinner
was served under the direction of the
brothers. The lecturer presented an
interesting program: Singing. NEAR
er My God to Thee: poem, Rose 7.
Milliken: singing, Come Thou AL
mighty King; current events. Co.'S
tello Weston: address. Miss Florence
Hale, Augusta. 4 rising vote of
thanks was given Miss Hale.
There will be a community Christ
mas tree at the Grange hall Friday
evening, Dec. % The annual meet
ing of the Farm Bureau will be held
at the Grange hall, Jan. 8.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-12-21
Or. EVANS PULLS A CHOPPER

DR.. II. w. Evans, imperial wizard
OF the ku Klux Khan. has pulled a
cropper. He has committed a faux
pas.
In good. present day slang, he is
missing on all six.
Dr. Evans may be A wizard, but he
will need all his wizardry with a few
Merlin arts thrown in If he thinks he
can shake the white mask of the Khan
In the face Of thinking folk as he has
done in his attack on Governor Allen
Of Kansas.
Here are his quoted words:
Tho spirit of Khan kraft has en-
wrapped the United States in a
nnntle Of love for country which de-
signing and ambitious politicians
cannot break, and in a few brief
years, the influence Of the Khan will
have so engulfed the thought of the
country that we can expect intelli-
gent legislation from the Congress of
the United States, which will drag
down the white flag of supine inertia
from our legislative halls and raise
In its place the militant flag OF red,
white and blue. which means the
thing nearest the heart of every real
American.
ut takes q few men like Mr.. Allen
to prove the Justice of Khan kraft.
We are profoundly grateful to Mr..
Allen for the sacrifice he has made
In RELOCATING himself to political OBJ
livion In the stand he has taken to
oppose those men Of America who
have pledged their votes. their
money. their sacred honor ana their
lives. IL necessary. to maintain our
national honor unimpeached, un-
stained. untainted and unsullied by
the foul breath OF Allen influence"
'Ths foul breath Of Allen influence"
he ssa ses he.
evidently the wizard knows little
lut rseent asvelopinents Ia Amer
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-12-21

nobscot and stevedores are hurryins
work in discharging the last three
cargoes of coal to arrive this year
that the barges Wiconisco. Pottsto"n
and Coansey may be towed out Oh
the morning tide. The United States
guard steamer Ossipee and tug WAL
ter Ross have managed to keep
channel open thus far. and probaoi!
will be able to get the three barses
out. The seamer Belfast may come
to Bangor Wednesday on her regular
trip from Boston. with the assistance
OF the ice breakers. The three
barges that arrived Tuesday brousn'
400 tons of. hard coal, which brins.
Bangor's receipts of that kind u
fuel we'll over $4,000 tons for tns
season.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-12-21

places where pinclring may be adj
visable and in others where i'll
advised. Already it is said the state
police have been reduced by reason
of lack of funds, employment bureaus
have been closed, the, State health
department has been compelled to
close some of it's activities turning
the work over to charity. Being a
lawmaker in the keystone State will
mean subsection to puzzling problems
like those which should confront the
of every State and of the
national Government as we'll.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-12-21
Noted Chinese
HOrticulturist
In Poverty

Deland, Fla, Dec. 90 (By A. P.)
Leu Gin Gong, internationally known
horticulturist, "president" of a "Chi-
nese Republic" and holder of the
Wilder Medal awarded by the U. S.
department of agriculture, is at his
home here dependent upon the gen
crosby of friends, feeble and broken,
with heavy mortgage upon his
home, which for many years has been
one of the show places of central
Florida.
Friends in De Land are supplying
his sustenance and have taken charge
OF his business affairs in the hope Of
clearing up his debts. Leu resides
OH his estate with Fanny" a mare
which for twenty years has been his
pet and sole companion. He lives
virtually the life Of a hermit and
during the last 1G years has visited
De Land, the nearest town, but four
times.
Leu has numerous horticultural &C.
complishments to his credit, but the
best known is the Leu Gin Gong
orange, perfected in 1887 by crossing
the Mediterranean Sweet and Harris
Lane varieties and for which he re-
ceived the Wilder Medal. The tree
c. this variety will thrive in eli
mate too cold for TIL. others while
the fruitp will remain on the tree
several years and maintain it's maxi
mum amount of juice and favor.
In 1890, Leu investigated the
grapefruit and produced cross of
the common Florida grapefruit and
the tri-foliate orange. This fruit is
OF superior quality and the tree can
stand from ten to fifteen degrees
lower temperature than ordinary
varieties, Leu's last citrus, develop
ment resulted in the perfumed
grapefruit, which will permeate a
house with an agreeable odor. 1t is
a cross Of the pomegranate and
grapefruit
Leu also perfected the cherry cur
rant in Massachusetts, a cross of the
ordinary currant and the grape. In
other fields he produced an apple that
ripened in July. q late peach grown
under glass with the fruit ripening
in November, a salmon colored rasp-
berry and tomato plant that grows
to the height of fifteen feet.
Leu was born on a farm near Can
ten. China, in 1859, arrived in San
Francisco in March. 1872, and went
to New England, where he was en-
ployed by Solomon Burlinghame of
North Adams, Mass. He was adop
ted by an unmarried daughter of Mr..
Burlinghame's in 1874. Two years
later Leu was elected first president"
OF the Chinese republic" at meet
ing under a large chestnut tree in Il
cow pasture near North Adams. held
in connection with the Centennial
celebration to commemorate the
Tooth anniversary of the signing of
the Declaration Of Independence. r.
Chung. one Of the members of the
movement who meet with Leu, was
ordered to China with the news and
t. launch the campaign. Chung died
before he reached China and the
movement ended there although some
of the principles laid down by Leu
are now said to be incorporated in
the laws Of the present Chinese gov
eminent.
When Leu's foster mother died
the Burlinghame property near here
was left to him, and five per cent Of
the remainder of the estate.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-12-21
Lodge and Nero
IN. Y. Tribune)


Not even Nathaniel Hawthorne.
who SO ably depicted the completes
of New England Puritanism, ever
gave any indication that New Eng
land would or even could produce a
modern Nero. 1t has. remained for
a group of disgruntied Massachu-
sets politicians to discover that she
now has one, and that he IS none
other than Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge. II they dared they would
like to have him subjected to a vio-
lent death, but, as it is, they merely
ask that he be forever blotted out of
the Senate of the United States.
His enemies at least have the merit
of frankness. They admit that they
are not interested in seeing fair play
done to all the candidates. They are
not even anxious to seat his oppo-
nent. ut is fight" says their ulti-
matum, ito unseat the man who has
accomplished more harm as an OBJ
structOr Of world peace and the
natural expression of liberal thought
than any man since Nero" Massa-
chusetts, they say, has repudiated
Lodge. This is shown by the fact
that he was minority candidate by
$1,000 votes. Would these same gen.
tlemen admit that Woodrow Wilson
was "repudiated" by some two and a
half million votes in 1912 and in 1916
by few hundred thousand?
Mr.. Lodge has capacity for
arousing the bitter hatred of his OPP
ponents; but their hatred can do
nothing to alter the fact that he is
the legally elected Senator from
Massachusetts and that his services
in that capacity during the last
quarter century have been a credit
to his state and to his party.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-12-21
Chrystal Club

The Chrystal Club met on Tuesday
evening with Miss Mildred Russell
The guest of the evening was Miss
Hazel Gibbs, teacher at Cony High
school. Augusta. Current events
were given in response to the roll
call and pianoforte duo rendered by
Mrs. Mural Taylor and Miss Russell.
The ladies voted to send sum of
money from the treasury to the re-
lief fund for the families left in need
by the coasting accident in Augusta
last week.
The hostess served delicious re-
fresf1mcnts. A delightful evening was
passed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-12-21
Knew How to Work judge

A Southern Judge was up against a
tough proposition recently when
Mandy, an old black servitor of the
family, who had retired from active
service, was arraigned for disturbing
the peace.
Good mawin', Jedge." Good
morning. Mandy Mandy, 1 am very
sorry to see you up here and l want
to know If it is true that you hit
Susie Jones with fat iron" "Yessa,
Jcdge, l hit her. Jedge. how is yo?"
Nov. Mandy" "Lordy, that man
sho' do look like his paw" "See
here, Mandy" Honey, yo' sho is
gettin' better lookin' every day."
Order in court" "Jedge, is you
paw still got the rheumatism ?"
Prisoner is discharged Next case"
"Thankec. Judge, thankee. "-Phila-
delphia Inquirer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-12-21
Maine Gossip
Two Kinds of People

There are two kinds of people on
earth today,
Just two kinds Of people; no more, 1
say.
Not the sinner and saint, for it is we'll
understood
The good are half bad and the bad arc
half good.
Not the rich and the poor, for to
count mans wealth
You must first know the state of his
conscience and health.
Not the humble and proud, for in life's
little span
Who>puts on vain airs is not counted
man.
Not the happy and sad, for the swift
flying years
Bring zach man his laughter and each
man his tears.
No. the two kinds Of people on earth
Are the people who lift and the peo-
pie who lean.
Wherever you go. you will find the
worlds masses
Are always divided in just these two
classes
And, oddly enough, you will find. too. l
ween.
There is only one litter to twenty who
lean.
I'm which class are you? Are you
easing the load
OF over-taxed lifterS who toll down the
road!
Or arc YOU a leancr. who lets others
Your portion of labor and worry and
care?"
The death at Flushing. L. I. of DR..
J. Whitney Barstow, aged sc, oldest
Dartmouth graduate, and a member
Of the class of AS now makes
I4eander Monroe Mute, of Portland.
Me-. the oldest graduate, class OF
1854.
The moulders Of the Saco- Lowell
shops who are on strike continue to
hold their meetings daily at their
headquarter in the Savings Bank
building, Saco, but nothing has vet
developed which would indicate any
move on their part to end the strike.
The Trull Hospital has not been
sold, although rumors Of its sale have
been in circulation in the two cities
and Portland. The hospital cannot
be disposed of until after the will of
the owner, the late DR.. j. Frank
Trull, has been probated in January.
A barge, coal laden, came up the
Saco River, Sunday afternoon in the
binding snow storm. and was dis
charged and lowed down river by the
tug A. G. Prentiss. yesterday. This
is near a record for unloading barge
of coal at this port. The cargo OF
500 tons of hard coal was consigned
to the Pepperell Mfg. CO.
County Commissioners Of Somerset
County and Piscataquis County not
being able to agree as to the closing
of a highway leading from Athens to
Wellington, an appeal will be taken
to the Supreme Court to appoint a
commission. Somerset commissioners
voted to close the road. while Piscat-
aauis officials did not favor its being
closed.
Married for IS years. Clarissa NJ.
Hutchins of Kennebunk. IS years old,
recently appeared in the court to ask
separate support from her 7o-year-
old husband George D. Hutchins.
She says she has four children. but