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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-31
Chief Justice Cornish
|UphOlds Commissioner
Blue Sky Law Ruling

Chief Justice Leslie c. Cornish of
the supreme judicial court n a deci-
sion rendered Monday affirming the
ruling Of State Bank Commissioner
Fred F. Lawrence of Skowhegan in
refusing TO grant the United Sugar
Corpora ton registration to sell its
shares in the State under the blue
sky law, so called.
From the history and condition Of
the company's property interests IN
Cuba, as we'll as from the financial
statement furnished the department,
the votes and contracts of the COM
pany, the prospectus prepared to in
duce the sale Of the stock, and from
what might be termed the whole at
mosphere Of the somewhat involved
and complicated transactions, the
whole projects seems unsubstantial
and to rest upon hopes rather than
facts. upon estimates rather than
values" says Chief Justice Cornish
in his decision.
1T is unnecessary to go into de-
tails in this decision" continues
Chief Justice Cornish.
at is sufficient to say that after a
full and fair examination of all the
evidence. both oral and documentary,
the proposition does not commend it
self to the court any more than 1t
did to the commissioner as one upon
which to solicit stock investments
from the citizens of Maine.
1T is the opinion of the court that
the stock which the company pro-
poses to sell is such as would work
a fraud upon the purchasers there
Of
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-31
Chicago Produce Market
Chicago, July 81


CnfavorabIc crop reports from Mani
tcba and saskatchewan had much TO do
today with lifting the value of wheat
here. Prices closed unsettled ! to !
cents net higher. September 963 to ?es
and December 1.004 to 1.00s. Corn fin
decline tc SC advance; oats at &c set
back to EG2c gain, and provisions &C
to DC down.
1t was prevalent opinion that with
spring wheat production north and
south of the Canadian boundary likely
to he less than had been looked for. the
selling side had little if any immediate
charm. According to gossip. the total
Weld in Manitoba and southern Sas-
ilatchewan promised to he cut by rust
and blight to hardly more than last
years harvest. Very low temperatures
in parts of Canada were also construed
here as bullish factor. Under such
circumstances big receipts in Chicago,
1871 cars. failed to count as a de-
pressing influence, especially as 1t was
said that a large part Of the arrivals
had been hedged beforehand.
Throughout the day, and in part1u-
lar during the late trading, previous
sellers We're on the buying side. Some
of the buying was due TO unexpected
strength in Liverpool quotations, re-
suit ascribcd mainly to smallness OF
world shipments and to consequent
liberal decrease of wheat on ocean pas
sage. As direct market influence. no
special notice appeared to he taken to-
dav of the possibility of further con-
gressional enactments to regulate deal
ingS in grain:
Corn and oats averaged lower chief
ly owing to month-end adjustment or
accounts and to beneficial showers in
the corn belt.
Provisions were bearishly affected
by u decline in hog values.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-31
VASSALBORO

NoRTH-The DeMoss concert was
given under the auspices of the Ladies'
Aid of the Methodist church, North
Vassalboro. in Citizens hall, Monday
evening, July 80, 1923. An excellent
new program consisting Of classical,
original and popular music, banjo club
introducing marches and plantation
melodies. vocal quartet. etc. The De-
Moss family has Travelled from coast
to coast. as we'll as other countries.
George DeMoss plays two comets, So
prano and alto. ct one time.
Miss Anna Hendee of Augusta Is CIV
ing dancing lessons every Wednesday
evening from 7.30 to $50. General
dancing from 10 to ~.
A great disappointment TO the base
ball fans Saturday on account of the
rain. A large crowd was expected to
see the H. G. w. CT Winslow and North
Vassalboro clash.
The American Legion Of North Vas
>salboro has formed a ball team: they
will be glad to hear from any of the
Posts.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-31
Color for Hosnitai waIls


The modern hospital has been
made about as sanitary, cherries
and uncomfortable looking as it is
possible to make it with the aid of
white calcimined ceilings, enarneled
walls, and white enameled iron fur
niture. In the new Fifth Avenue
Hospital all this is changed. = The
walls ere delicately tinted in French
gray. buff or, tan, and the furniture
Is what We would find in a modern
hotei. A great deal of. the horror of
hospital Is brought about by the
idea of being wheeled into an i'm
mense operating room, with nothing
but operating tables, knives, and
saws, which are not calculated TO
distract attention from their own ills,
and the patient usually remains in
terror until the anesthetic has: done
its work; but at the Fifth Avenue
Hospital the patient is taken into an
anaesthetizing room which resembles
a small parlor. 1t is attractively
furnished and even has a rug on the
floor, and there are curtains at the
windows. This new hospital has
many interesting devices: for ex-
ample. suites of Offices are provided
for physicians at the hospital. so
that they can see their private
patients just 1.-The same as they would
in their own office, thus being able to
keep in touch with the other patients
in the hospital. This ONCE enables
the physicians to take advantage of
the diagnostfe facilities OF the
hospital for their private patients.
Scientific American. -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-31
103rd Will Parade ):
In Lewiston Aug.

Lewiston, Me-, July 30-In recog-
milton of the enterprise and generos-
ity Of the city in the erection of the
new armory on Central Ave, which
is steadily approaching completion,
the 1880 Regiment Of Infantry Of the
National Guard will visit the city next
Friday and Saturday. The officers of
the regiment have secured the con-
sent of the corps area commander,
camp commander, brigade command
err and the Adjutant General of Maine
for the visit to be made.
The regiment which has been at
Camp Devens for the last week, will
leave camp by train Friday morning
and will come direct to Lewiston,
probably the latter part of the after
noon, and will make camp on the
State Fair Grounds.
Saturday forenoon the regiment
will parade the streets, and in the aft
ernoon the companies from other
parts of the State will take their
trains for home.
The regiment will parade with all
its equipment, machine guns, army
wagons, mules and horses and hospi-
tai equipment. and will give Lewiston
people an opportunity for the first
time tor see an infantry regiment on
the march and in camp.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-31
AZ; nearby hennery browns extras

1903; nearby hennery browns extras
3463S.
POTAToEs-steady No. southern
barrel 325@50O: No. 2 125Q2C0: Long
Island No. . 450fD500.
CABBAGES-Not quoted.
The raw sugar market was easier
today with holders showing a little
more disposition to make sales. The
derhand, however, was light and while
it was reported that late last week
some small lots of Cubas had been
sold at sc cost and freight, there We're
offerings today at II cost and freight,
equal 20 6.t5 for centrifugal, without
finding buyers.
Raw sugar futures were unsettled by
the decline in raw and refined and the
continued demand. There was renewed
selling by trade interests and commits
sion houses. with prices at one time
showing declines of two to seven
points. Near months showed the max
i,num declines, but near the close there
was a rally on covering and final prices
were five to 10 points lower on near.
q nd five to seven higher on late
months. Closing: September 4.69, De-
cember 4.2l. March 3.43. May $40.
The market for refined sugar was
easier and prices We're 10 to 40 points
lower, with fine granulated now quoted
from SIS to $50. The demand. how
ever continued light and buyers were
again inclined to limit purchases to
nearby requirements.
Refined sugar futures nominal. y
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-31
FURTHER COMMENT ON LABOR
SITUATION and SHORTAGE OF
APPRENTICES IN THIS CITY

A further investigation Of the
trades industries, particularly those
mentioned in the Journal reporters
report OF earlier date, has divulged
many interesting sidelights on the
situation, which are mentioned here
In for the benefit of those who seek
to discover the reasons for the ire
mendous shortage Of apprenticed and
skilled laborers in the city and who
seek to establish an apportionment
OF factors commensurate with the
urgent need Of skilled laborers in the
building trades.
Much comment was excited. after
the publication of the Journal re-
porter's first investigation. as to che
causes of the present shortage, as 1t
became evident that there is some
underlying cause which aside from
keeping youthful genius out OF the
trades.
1t Is assumed that there are just
as many young men of today who
have a natural aptitude for the differ
ent trades, in proportion to the popu-
lation, as there ever was and that
much of this talent is idle, and fur
Their. that there is for some cause
| lack OF inducement or opportunity to
develop this talent
On being asked by the reporter
what the labor unions are not doing
to increase the supply of skilled
labor and to encourage, through in
centive, the induction of apprentices
a builder explained that solid. con-
scientious workmanship is the first
| requisite of honest, effective labor
The labor unions have not empha-
sized this quality so much as they
have the necessity of securing higher
| wages, shorter hours, and better
| working conditions"
1t appears that the labor unions
have fallen short Of some of the es-
sential things and that IT, they would
! stress some of these, such as dignity
! OF labor and conscientious effort, a!
did the medieval guilds. the presen
situation could be partly remed!ed.
A second canvass among the labor
ers was productive Of much valuable
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-31
No Trace of Boys
RipOgenus Report

Lewiston. Me, July ,so-In a spec
ial dispatch from Ripogenus to the
Sun late tonight. 1t is stated no trace
OF Alfred Merriam. Jr., ana CASTOR
Dallendsch, the young men lost on
Mt. Katahdin, has been found. The
Merriam boys father. Alfred Merriam,
ST.. his uncle, DR.. Thaddeus Hyatt
and his brother, Richard Merriam, are
at Ripogenus working with searching
parties from that point. Other
searching parties are being organized
at Staceyville, Millinocket and Grants
farm to Join the hunt tomorrow
morning. The boys were thinly clad
when they started to climb the
mountain and as they took no provis-
ions must depend upon wild berries
for food.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-31
tribute to the American Girl.

Thirty years ago. Rudyard Kip
ling found the American girl beyond
compare. In American Notes" he
said of her: A-a
Sweet and comely are the maid
ems of Devonshire: delicate and of
gracious seeming those who i've in
the pleasant places OF London: fas-
cinating for all their occurrences the
damsels Of France clinging closely
to their mothers. and with large
eyes wondering at the wicked world:
excellent in her own place and to
those who understand her is the
Anglo-Indian spin in her second
season; but the girls of America are
above and beyond them all. They
are clever: they can talk, Yea, 1t is
said that theys think. They are in
structed in the folly and vanity of
the male mind, for they have asso-
ciated with the boys from ,boyhood.
and can discerninglv,- minister to
both vices, or pleasantly snub the
possessor. AS certain of their own
poets have said.
"'Man is fire and woman Is tcw.
And the devil he comes and begins
to blow
"In America the tow Is soaked in
solution that makes It fireproof.
in absolute liberty and large knowl-
edge; consequently accidents do not
exceed the regular percentage ar
ranged by the devil for each class
and climate under the skies"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-31
Trotzky Never Has
Time to Sleep
Works All the Time

Moscow, July la. p. by mall
Since Premier Lenin became seri'
ously i'll. Lean Trotzky. Soviet Rus
sia's War Commissar, has become
the foremost figure in the Sovie
Government. He has no working
day. Every workman, laborer, OF
employee in Soviet Russia has ar
S-hour working day conspicuously
looked after by the Trade Unior
Council and guarded by the Labor
Code. But Trotzky has none. His
working day Is much over 8 hours
and as regards time, day and night
are treated alike.
Trotzky begins his day with the
newspapers. They serve him as q
means of every day human connec.
ton and business information. He
reads them just as he would listen
to report by one of his officers and
very often the newspaper informa.
ton is followed by quick interpre-
tations and action.
Very often a news telegram, re-
porter's item. or quite uninterest-
ing interview paves the way for an
important decision. Then at various
times during the day or night,
Trotzky reads and dictates.
He always reads with a pencil In
his hand. which he holds like sur.
geon holds his instrument. He I'M
derlines, annotates, numbers the au'
thor's thoughts. associates them
makes polemica1 notes-and the
hook returns from his anatomical
desk like an embalmed corpse.
He dictates queries. resolutions
departmental instructions and ad-
vices, orders, articles. pamphlets
brochures, friendly and sarcastic let
tiers, replies, reminiscences-short
and long ones. dry and fierce, al
ways bright and stylishly polished
Everything clear, exact and bust
ness-like.
A detachment Of cyclists and mo-
tor-cyclists. day and night. carry al
over Moscow with wartime speed
this state business literature Of the
War Commissar.
cabinet is besieged by telephone
calls. In this way which Trotzky
values as an economic means OF
communication, he disposes of hall
his work.
In his work. Trotzky does only
what he himself must and can do
eNStS tAiHS else pciHS CoHnpleteu pS
others-his assistants. He writes ar
article. others-librarians- find
for him the necessary quotations
from Marx or any other writer as
the case may be.
Trotzky's Office Is a combination
of simple but mighty things; stenog.
raphers. telephone switchboards and
a good automobile - everything
which curtails movement and serves
to economic energy. He rests by
passing from one work to another
or INDUCING in sports. when feeling
very tired. His favorite sports are
hunting, fishing. croquet and chess
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-31
New York Produce Market
New York, July 80

New York, july 50.
FLOUR-Unsettled: spring patents
575 QS25; spring clears 500 q SO: SOFT
winter straights ATS 525; hard winter
straights 500IoS5.
WHEAT-Spot irregular; NO. req
winter C track New York domestic
ia; No. 1 dark northern spring I
track New York export 1921; No: hard
winter do. ia; No. Manitoba DO. 1914
and No. mixed durum 1881
CORN--Srot easy: No. yellow !
New York rail LOG: No. 2 white DO
1861 and No. mixed do. 105.
OATS-Easy; No. 2 white 53&.
PORK-Barely steady; mess 25ooq
LARD-Easier: middle west 10000
1890. -rc.
creamery higher than extras 423@ 43;
creamery extras, 80 score. AZ; cream
ery firsts, SO to 81 score. 3S@4l3;
packing stock current make No. 2 81:
EGGS-Firmer; receipts LIB;
fresh gathered extra firsts 2S630; do;
firsts 25@27; do seconds and poorer p
@24a; New jersey hennery whites 10 To-.
cally selected extras 43 q As: nearby
hennery whites locally selected extras
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-31
Chicago Cattle Market
Chica go, July 80.

Chicago, July 30.
CATTLE-Receipts 10000: moderate
1y active: better grades most killing
classes strong to Is higher: top ma
tured steers 1175. weight 1888 pounds:
several loads 112561150: best long
yearlings 1885: lower grade beef steers
and warnings fairly numerous: uneven.
about steady; in-between grades fat
COWS, Gamers and cutters weak to 10
lower; bulls strong: vealers so lower;
stockers and feeders about steaedy;
bulk good desirable bulls 450@525:
bulk vealers to packers around 1000:
bulk stockera and feeders 500G 625;
bulk better grade beef heifers 1900
$50.
HOGs-Receipts $1,000: boog kind
fairly active IS to 25c lower: others
mostly 25c lower: common mixed kind
% to 40c lower at close: bulk $50 to
250-pound average 40 760: top 765;
bulk geo to 325-pound butchers 7;01
1856; packing sows mostly 5S506l0;
strong weight pigs 65o07oo: estimated
ho,dover $4,000.
sHEEP-Receipts 10000; fat lambs
weak 10 ESQ lower: light weight ewes
strong; other grades and classes gen.
orally steady; bulk choice and good
western lambs 12350l2s5: top to city
butchers 1875: bulk native 1l76 q 1928;
top to packers 1925; culls mostly 500
0S50: medium handy weight ewes 500
1850: heavy 350@425: light weight
upward to 765 to city butchers; feeder
lambs 1175@1260.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-31

smooth modern highway of concrete,
brick or some other permanent and
improved road material.
Road improvement tends to de-
crease prices of necessities, especially
food, throughout the United States
1t brings the city consumer closer to
the food supply of the country and
reduces the transportation factor in
price. Furthermore, it makes rural
life more pleasant by smoothing out
the difficulties Of communication. In
very many other ways, road building
tends to solve the problem of the
farmer.
The mileage of new roads to be
built with the aid of the Federal Gov
eminent is distributed among the
states in direct proportion to the
willingness of their legislative bodies
to appropriate the local share of the
funds.
South Dakota now leads with a
| mileage of SOFT; New York has
4.49S; Ohio. 45O6; Georgia, 1862; Ill
inois. 4,9S7; Iowa, 1854; and Califor-
| MIA, 4,467.
The rank of the states changes fire.
! quently in accordance with the action
] of their legislatures.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-31

Norman L. Richie, cartoonist,
and Robert T. Brady. special writer
of the Boston Post. were callers Mon
day in the city. These two men are
making a tour Of the State. inter-
viewing mayors of Maine cities, In
connection with q series Of articles
which is being published daily in the
Boston Post. They have been
through New Hampshire and Ver-
mont and are finding their trip into
Maine very pleasant despite the I'M
favorable weather which they have
encountered in the past few days.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-31
Thrown From Bicycle In Front
Electric Car Boy Slightly Hurt

Due to the quick action of Motor
man A. ]. Dutil on the electric car
due in this city from Gardiner at s
o'clock Monday evening, Ernest
Temple, a lad about IA years of age.
escaped serious injury when he was
thrown from his bicycle directly in
front of the moving electric car, at
the junction of Western Avenue and
State and Grove streets.
The boy had turned around the
silent policeman and in swinging
onto Grove street, the front wheel
of his bicycle damned in the frog
or switch of the car track, cata-
painting young Temple onto the car
tracks in front of the electric.
Motorman Dutil at once did every
thing in his power to halt the car,
and made a remarkably quick stop,
but not before the bicycle had been
struck and badly battered. The Tenn
pie oy had been thrown beyond the
wheel, and the electric car was
brought to standstill some few
feet from him. His only injuries be
sides a general bruising from his
fall were a slight cut on one wrist.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-31

FURNISHED to the Kennebec Journal
through the courtesy Of ]. A. Carnage
& Co.. of Augusta and Waterville).
Washington, July s0-A national
program for 1S7,4o6 miles of new
highways now is projected for the
United States.
The program was made up by road
experts of the Federal Government,
which will carry it through to con-
clusion in financial partnership with
the states. Generally, the Federal
Government will pay about fifty five
percent of the bill
The program is already partially
complete, large part of the mileage
being already in existence. The re-
mainder is authorized or projected,
awaiting only the approva; lin most
cases formal action) by the states.
At $4,000 a mile the program
means the expenditure of nearly S10.-
100000
AS the construction work progress
es, the program will be extended. AS
now projected the work will mean
that ninety percent Of the population
of the United States will live on, or
within, a few minutes travel of a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-31

information from the workmen's point
OF view. It occurred to the reporter
to ask II the union, or any weapons
made use Of by the union. tended, in
their opinion, to operate as a check on
the mobility of labor. The question
was evidently considered inapt, and 1t
was with some difficulty a workman
was found who admitted that our lack
Of apprentice workmen and, consequent
~ Of skilled workmen may be due to
the CLOSED shop"
Probing farther. 1t was learned that
many high school boys who want to
work at skilled trade during their
summer vacation. but do not want to
pay dues. or perhaps object to unions
on principle, are effectively kept from
engaging In these useful empioyments.
A non-union laborer did not hesitate
to declare that the union Is the great
es. check on the versatility of men
with brains Of any organization in sx-
| istence. In explanation he said that
many men who are carpenters, per-
haps, were also good bricklayers, and
owing to lack Of work at carpentering
| a man might seek work at bricklaytng
| but rather than pay the union fees In
| order to get few days work he goes
| idle. thus denying his family of his
wages.
That the labor unions and change
| of attitude toward the quality Of work
| can do much in the way of restoring
! the old-time craftsman's skill among
the trades was conceded by all. How
ever. 1t is only fair to the laborers ant
| builders to place in print their ar
| raignment OF some contractors who, il
| is claimed by some of both builders
| and iaborers, are wheedling the. pub
! lie and calling down upon the head.
| of the laboring men the condemnation
| of the public. These laborers say the!
have found that in certain cases thu
| contractor is securing unskilled labo
| at very low wage-a wage much be
| low the minimum wage set by thu
! union, to which he has subscribed il
good falkland is charging the public
| for a skilled laborer's pay. thereb.
! doubling his money on the duped maj
las we'll as buncoing the public.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-31
Dancers Rhearsine for Health Play

Preparations are we'll under way
for the Playground Fete and health
play to be presented in the early part
of August. under the auspices Of the
Augusta Public Health Association at
the Macomber playground. Rehear-
sails of the so children who will take
part in the dances are being held
daily at the Y. M. C. A. under the di-
rection of Mrs. Adele T. G. Moves.
Miss Jennie Ballantynes, the public
health nurse, has full direction of the
health play and is being very ably
assisted by H. Price Weber. The
Playground Auxiliary and Director
Hyde. The costumes for the dancers
are being made by the young ladies
of the auxiliary. Plans are being
considered for having dance moor
for use on he. afternoon and evening
of the event for social dancing, ana
it'll as already been decided to have
refreshments on sale at the grounds.