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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-06-27

Salt Lake City. June 26.-(By A.
P.)-The Mormon Tabernacle which
seats 1900 persons was TANNED to
the doors tonight to hear President
Harding speak on taxation.
Thousands more were gathered
outside on the tabernacle grounds to
hear the address, the sixth prepared
speech of Mr.. Harding's western
trip, by means of voice simplifying
apparatus. The assembly hall near
by in the temple grounds likewise
was filled.
Preceding the Presidents arrival,
an organ recital was given and
strangely considering this western
city and character of the building
where the meeting was held, loud APP
plause was given such tunes as
maryland. my Maryland" and
"Marching Through Georgia.
The President and Mrs. Harding
arrived at $50 O'Clock and the aud
fence cheered them and Governor
Mabey for four minutes, Senator
Smoot, arising to act as the presiding
officer. was greeted with "hurrah for
Smoot." and loud cheers.
The meeting was opened with sing
ing of The Star Spangled Banner"
by the Tabernacle Choir and the aud
fence. Bishop Moulton, of the Pro-
testant Episcopal diocese OF Utah. Of
fered the invocation.
Salt Lake City, Utah. June Go
President Harding outlined here to-
night what the federal government
has accomplished in decreasing
taxes and the public debt and made
a plea for action along similar lines
by the states, municipalities and
counties.
The Executive said the federal
government is "diigently seeking TO
prove itself a helpful example" in
removing what he characterized as
the menace OF mounting taxes and
growing public Indebtedness, but
added that this was not along a
federal problem, that the i'm
proved order must come into the
units of government into which the
federal government never intrudes.'
Mr.. Harding did not take up in
his address any contemplated adj
ministration program for tax revl-
sion in the coming year. lie did
say, however, that the federal gov
eminent was working under pro-
gram which involves eXtingulshing
Il half billion of (public) debt each
year" and asserted that the pay
ments which the British govern
ment will make under the B.Sish-
American debt settlement will cor
respondingly relieve the burden
upon American taxpayers
The President declared no other
country in the world had been able
to make such a record in public
debt reduction rs had the United
States. Pointing to a reduction of
more than one half in federal taxes
during the past two years as COM
pared with the war load peak in
1920, he declared this was the rec
ord of business administration to
which the party now in control of
the administration feels justified in
referring with no small measure of
satisfaction"
The British debt settlement, the
Executive went on, has been "ac-
claimed all over the world as one of
the most notable and successful fis-
cal accomplishments ever recorded"
He added that aside from reducing
the burden of American taxpayers,
the settlement had been one of the
most reasSuring events since the
armistice," coming as it did at a
time of widespread uncertainty and
misgiving throughout the world OF
business everywhere
Continued on Page 16-CeIumn 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-06-27
Two Die When
Train Hits Auto

, auburn, n. Y. June ga man and
: woman believed to be Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles G. Haake Of st. Paul.
, "r.s Killed this afternoon when their
ts.; Uinoblle was struck by freight
,css a on the New York Central rail-
~ az a grade crossing a mile west
auburn. The automobile was
ana esed 100 yards along the track
M mn .ne man and woman were rolled
- IN the wreckare.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-06-27
Broker Alexander
Holds up Expulsion

New York, June &c Benjamin
Alexander, who was recently ex-
PEELED from the New York Curb mar
ket, today obtained temporary in
junction in supreme court restrain
ing the exchange from carrying out
the expulsion. He was expelled for
violating trading rules.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-06-27
Bad Forest Fire
Near Trenton, n. J.

Trenton. y. j.. June o6.-Franklin
Park. village near here, and the sur
rounding countryside are being men
aced by forest fire that started late
this afternoon. State police from Tren-
ton and other parts of the state, to-
gether with fire fighters from many
sections. have been called out.
The Reconstruction people are rush
ing out of the village according to re-
ports reaching the state police head
quarters.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-06-27
Bolt Kills Two
at Long Beach, n. Y.

Long Beach. n. Y, June 26.-Bert
Savoy. of the Vaudeville team of Sa-
voy and Brennan, and Jack c. Gross
man, both of New York, were struck
and killed by bolt of lightning late
this afternoon. Two other men were
injured by the same bolt.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-06-27
Business as Usual
BiddefOrd Phones

Biddeford. Me, June 26.-"Business
as usual" is the word given out in the
local telephone strike. Local operators
are taking no more than a casual inter-
est in the situation. The only inter-
ruptlon of traffic feared is that in long
distance calls between local Offices of
manufacturing plants with the head
offices in Boston. So far little trouble
IS experienced.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-06-27
Killed in Fall
From Load Wood

Lewiston. Me. June 26.-Joseph
Marquis. 30. of Sabattus, fell from
a load of wood here today and sus-
tanned injuries which caused his
death an hour later.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-06-27
Boston Forecast

Forecast for Boston and vicinity:
Wednesday fair and cooler: Thurs
day fair with moderate temperature:
moderate to fresh west and north
west winds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-06-27
Seize Jap Ship
Booze at Honolulu

Honolulu, June 26.-(By A. Ply
United States customs officers here to-
day seized and removed 292 quarts of
liquor Togo kisen Kabushiki liner 10
rea Maru.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-06-27
BADLY GRIP.
PIED IN few OF
LARGER CITIES OF
MASS. AND R. |.

Only Scattering of
Strikers in Maine,
New Hampshire and
Vermont - PrOvi.
dence Worst Hit
Partial Tie-up in Bos-
ton = NOn-Striking
Union Headquarters
in Boston Declares
Strike Will End To.
day, Many of Strik.
ers Returning
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-06-27
HARDING ASKS STATES TO take
LESSON FROM Govt IN MATTER
DECREASED TAXES AND DEBTS

Tabernacle At Salt
Lake City Crowded To Hear
President-Amplifiers Carry
Words To Thousands Out
side - Reduction OF More
Than One Half In Federal
Taxes During Past Two
Years Is Cited-Gives Credit
To Budget
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-06-27

Detailed programs from principal
radiophons broadcasting stations
may be found Ia this Issue.
Evening star., 1923-09-09
Mining for Mushrooms.

.DAMP, smelly places under tumble
down back porches, earth cellars.
discarded mossy ctsterns and other
dark, humid spots have been found
ideal for the cultivation of mush-
rooms. The fungus apparently
thrives in an atmosphere of decadence
and decay
The last word in mushroom farm.
however, is such a garden placed In,
the depths of a deserted coal mine.
hundreds of feet below the ground.
Not far from Morgantown, w. Va,
there is located this old coal mine.
known as the Pittsburgh Coal Seam
in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
The mine was worked for a number
of years, but it's fuel production was
used for domestic purposes only. being
dug and hauled by wagon to consumers
in the neighborhood With the intro
duction of natural gas, the locality
had no further use for the old mine
and some exceedingly interesting ex-
pe-iments have been conducted in its
depths by an assistant in the state
agricultural experiment station.
Obtaining a permit from the own
ers OF the property, he encamped on
the first level and made chemical
analysis Of the rock soil. He found
that 1t was rich in moisture and its
constituents exactly those needed by
edible fungi for their quickest and
most luxuriant growth. He there
fore started a mushroom farm. and
found that the spot was ideal for his
purpose.
Mushrooms are now mined" In
stead Of coal and prove almost as
profitable. The rooms of the mine,
or the open spaces from which the
coal was dug. have been found espe-
cialiy adapted to this kind Of farming.
Such locations have q steady tempera-
ture throughout the year. and often
they are so located as to have natural
drainage. This mushroom mine"
now makes large shipments weekly
to the city markets.
Evening star., 1923-09-09

wants his wife to see me. He has so
often told her about having been
licked by me that she, too, will be de-
lighted.
7 DO not like to think that 1 was
in any way brutal or harsh, be-
yond the practice Of my time, in beat
Ing the boys I taught Looking back
on it, the whole practice of licking
and being licked seems = to me
medieval and out Of date. Yet !
do know that there are, apparently,
boys that I have licked in all quar-
from them. A man says to me: "By
the way, when I was out in Sumatra
there was a man there that said he
knew you. He said you licked him at
Upper Canada College. He said he
often thought of you"
"I have licked, believe, two gen.
erals of the Canadian army, three
cabinet ministers and more colonels
and majors than care to count. In
deed, all the boys that have licked
| seem to be doing well.
But this peculiar delusion of the
''old boy" about his teachers is only
part of his illusionment. The same
peculiar haze Of retrospect hangs
about the size and shape and kind
| of boys who went to school when he
was young as compared with the
| boys of today.
How small they are!" is always
| the exclamation of the "old boy
when he looks over the rows and
rows of boys sitting in the assembly
hall. why, when I went to school
the boys were ever so much bigger
After which he goes on to relate
J that when he, first entered the school
Evening star., 1923-09-09
KNOWN BY HIS LICKlNGS
Stephen Leacock Talks About Pupils Now Famous

in his ink or to place a bent pin upon
his chair.
Yet they say now that ha was the
greatest scholar in the world, and
that IL they'd only listened to him
they would have got more out Of his
lessons than any man that ever
taught. He wasn't and they wouldn't
but it is some small consolation to
those who have been schoolmasters
to know that after 1t is too late this
reward at least is coming to them
Hence 1t comes about that even so
Indifferent a vessel as I should reap
my share OF school boy gratitude.
Again and again 1t happens to me
that some unknown man, we'll on in
the middle life, accosts me with a
beaming face and says: You don't
remember me. You licked me at Up
per Canada College," and we shake
hands with a warmth and heartiness
as If 1 had been his earliest bene-
factor.
Very often II I am at an evening
reception or anything of the sort
my hostess says, "Oh, there is a man
here so anxious to meet YOU" and I
know at once why. Forward he
| comes. eagerly pushing hisN way
among the people to seize my hand.
do you remember me?' he says.
You licked me at Upper Canada
College,"
Sometimes 1 anticipate the greet
ing. AS soon as the stranger grasps
my hand and says. do you remem-
ber me?' 1 break in and say, why.
let me see, surely I licked you at
Upper Canada College" In such a
case the mans delight is beyond all
bounds. Can I lunch with him at his
club? Can I dine at his home? He
Evening star., 1923-09-09

est nicety of treatment; that they
find If he gets in tempers the best
way is to humor him and presently
he'll come around Jimmy. 1t ap-
pears can be led, II led gently, but
never driven. During all OF which
time the schoolmaster, insulted by
being treated as an underling (for
the iron bites deep into the soul of
every one OF them). has already fixed
his eye on the undisoiplined young
pup called Jimmy with a view to try
ing out the problem Of seeing whether
he can't be driven after all.
But the greatest nuisance Of all to
the schoolmaster is the parent who
does his boys home exercises and
works his boys sums. I suppose they
mean we'll by it. But 1t is disastrous
thing to do for any child. Whenever
I found myself correcting exercises
that had obviously been done for the
boys in their homes used to say to
them quite grandly:
Paul, tell your father that he must
use the ablative after pro-"
Yes, sir" says the boy.
And Edward. you tell your grand
mother that her use of the dative case
simply won't do. She's getting along
nicely and I'm well satisfied with the
way she's doing, but I cannot have
her using the datiye right and left
on every occasion. Tell her 1t won't
do"
Yes, sir" says little Edward.
I remember one case in particular
of a parent who did not do the boys
exercise but, after letting the boy
do 1t himself, wrote across the face
of 1t a whitening comment addressed
to me and reading: From this ex-
ercise you can see that my boy, after
six months OF your teaching, is COM
pletely ignorant. How do you ac-
count for it?''
sent the exercise back to him
with the note: II think 1t must be
hereditary"
y \ " "
I'm the whole round of the school
1 year, there was. as 1 remember II
but one bright spot-which in due
time atoned for the gloom of Septem-
berthe arrival of the summer holi-
days. Somehow as the day draws
near for the school to break up for
holidays, a certain touch Of something
human pervades the place. The
masters lounge round in fiannels
smoking cigarettes almost IN the cor
ridors of the school itself. The boys
shout at their play IN the long june
evenings. At the hour when, on the
murky winter nights the bell rang for
night study, the sun is still shining
upon the playground and the great in
terclass match is being played out be-
tween daylight and dark. The mas
ters-good fellows that they are
have Cancelled evening study to watch
the game.
l. The headmaster Is there h.E:Eelf
He is smoking a briar-wood pipe ant
wearing his mortarboard sideways
There is wonderful greenness in the
new grass of the playground and &
| wonderful fragrance in the evening
air. 1t Is the last day Of school bu
one. Life is sweet indeed in the an
lticipation of this summer evening.
If every day in the life of schoo
could be the last day but one, ther,
would be little fault to find with it
copyright, 1921
Evening star., 1923-09-09
A Novel Condenser.

THE superintendent of a mill was
L putting on his rubber. boots to
make an inspection of the water
wheel as the treasurer OF the company
came in to look about.
After standing under large BELT
for a few minutes in conversation
with the visitor, the superintendent
unintentionally touched the treas
urePs shoulder, giving him an cleo
trio shock which nearly overturned
the man Of money. The earth, the
rubber boots and the man inside,
formed Leyden jar, the discharge Of
which was very severe. especially 10
a person expecting nothing of the
kind.
Evening star., 1923-09-09

Shanghai Is an Independent republic
In itself, its international settlement
governed by a municipal council
elected by the taxpayers, but the
Chinese crowd eagerly into the Euro
pean district, partly for the oppor-
tunity to do business, and partly for
the better protection offered by the
international authorities. - e.
We allghted finally at a. Chinese
hotel, a large hotel modeledF after
European hostelries but owned and
operated by Chinese.
To escape from the hospitality of
Chinese friends / had made long
enough to carry out my prime object
in hunting the poet, was forced to
rise before my hosts and wander of
Evening star., 1923-09-09

by myself. There was still no trace
Of his having arrived. but intuition
told me that he would presently re-
turn to his former stamping-ground.
and I hung about the waterfront.
among the bales and the bundles, and
the straining coolies who replaced
horses as beasts of burden.
But the poet never appeared. and
would walk back through the streets
swarming with Chinese humanity,
with ever active humanity that swirl
ed and eddied about the only station
ary persons in sight, which were the
policemen.
Chinese hospitality became more
than I could stand. I had to fee be-
fore my digestion was completely
Evening star., 1923-09-09

I as youngster (the period apparent
| ly of maximum size and growth), the
boys in the sixth form had whiskers!
These whiskers of the sixth form are
| a persistent and perennial school ira
dftion that never dies. I have traced
! them, on personal record from eye
witnesses, all the way from my first
| school days until today. I remember
well during my time as a school
master receiving one day parent,
an "old boy" who came accompanied
| by a bright little son Of twelve whom
The was to enter at the school. The
| boy was sent to play about with some
new acquaintance while I talked
with his father.
"The old school," he said in the
course of our talk. lis greatly
changed, very much altered. For one
thing, the boys are very much young
er than they were in my time. Why,
when 1 entered the school-though
you will hardly believe 1.-THE boys
in the sixth form had whiskers."
had hardly finished expressing
my astonishment and appreciation
when the little son came back and
went up to his fathers side and
| started whispering to him. Say,
, dad" he said, there are some aw-
/ fully big boys in this school. I saw
out there in the hall some boys In
the sixth form with whiskers."
From which deduced that what
/ Is whiskers to the eye Of youth fades
into fluff before the disillusioned eye
of age.
THE parents of the boys at school
| l. naturally fill a broad page in the
schoolmaster's life and are respons-
| ible for many of his sorrows. There
are all kinds and classes of them.
Most acceptable to the schoolmaster
| is the old-fashioned type of British
I.father who enters his boy at the
school and says:
Now want this boy we'll thrashed
| IL he doesn't behave himself. If you
have any trouble. with him let me
know and I'll come and thrash him
| myself. He's to have shilling a
week pocket money and If he spends
more than that let me know and I'll
| stop his money altogether"
| Brutal though this speech sounds
the real effect of it is to create
strong prejudice in the little boys
favor and when his father curtly
| says, "Good-bye. Jack and he an
swers, Goodbye, father" In
| trembling voice, the schoolmase;
would be a hound indeed who could
be unkind to him.
| But very different Is the case OF
\ the up-to-date parent. Now I've JUS
given Jimmy s5os he says to the
schoolmaster with the same tone as
he would to an inferior clerk in his
office, "and I've explained to him thai
when he wants more he's to tell yol
Ito go to the bank and draw for hin
what he needs"
| After which he goes on to explain
that Jimmy is q boy OF very pecu'
Iiiar disposition, requiring the great.
Evening star., 1923-09-09

" HESE are the days, IN early
September, when the Schools
are opening again. The sound
a OF the school bell Is In the air.
and the reluctant scholars trail
past US in the street, their school bags
on the shoulders In their sunburned
faces there fingers still the wistful
regret of the open woods.
For myself. 1 never see this mourn
full little procession without thinking
of the days when I was a school
master
About thirty years ago I was ap-
pointed to the star of a great Cana
dian school. 1t took me ten years to
get off It. Being appointed to the
position of a teacher is just as IL
fate passed a hook through ones
braces and hung one up against the
wall. 1t is hard to get down again.
From those ten years I carried away
nothing in money and little in ex-
perience; indeed, no other asset what
ever, unless IL be, here and there, a
pleasant memory or two and the graf
itude of my former pupils. There was
nothing really in my case for them to
be grateful about. They got nothing
from me in the way of intellectual
food but q lean and perfunctory BAN
quet; and anything that I gave them
in the way of sound moral benefit
gave gladly and never missed.
But the schoolboys have a way OF
being grateful. 1t Is the decent thing
about them. A school boy while he
Is at school regards his masters as a
mixed assortment of tyrants and
freaks. He plans vaguely that al
some future time in life he will "get
even" with them. remember well
for instance, at the school where
used to teach, little Chilean boy who
kept q stiletto in his trunk with
which he intended to kill the second
mathematical master.
y y + y
TUT somehow a school boy is nc
ID sooner done with his school and
| out in the business of life than 9
soft haze of retrospect suffuses a new
color over all that he had left behind
have seen an "old boy" gaze into
the open door of an empty class room
and ask, "And those are the same ole
benchesT' with a depth of meaning
In his voice. He has been out oi
school perhaps five years and the
benches already seem to him infinitely
old.
And most of all, by the queer CON
trariety of things, does this same
kindly retrospect envelop the, person
Of the teachers. They are transported
In the alchemy of time into a grouI
of profound scholars, noble bene'
factors through whose teaching. hat
1t been listened TO, one might hay'
been lifted into higher things. Boy
who never. listened to o Latin lessor
| in their lives look back TO the mem
ory of their Latin teacher az the ont
] great man that they have known. II
/ the days when he taught them tnel
had no other Idea than to put mu'