Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-17
CAN'T WE NAVE A BURIAL, TOO!

There seems TO be widening.
deepening impression throughout
Maine that one Of the needs Ct this
good State is an impressive burial OF
Doubt, Uncertainty and Misunder-
standing. To bring this about some
would have a special session OF the
Legislature called to arrange for the
funeral; indeed. from the opinions
expressed in the press. we assume the
number IT those who would do this TO
be q goodly one.
Now. IL may be questioned, wheth-
or, II this proposition meets with ap-
prevail. the public should not let 1t be
known in advance that funeral ora
tions are not its desire. There has
been talk 4 plenty. II talk could pos
nbly clear up matters, Maine people
ty this time should know whether
they wish to have development Of its
splendid water powers placed in the
hands Of manipulators Of politics.
OF whether, under rules and
regulations, they would permit
this to be done, encourage it to be
done, by private capital in the hands
Of managers trained in that sort Of
undertaking. The people. moreover,
without, great difficulty have the pow
er. through petition or otherwise. for
informing the Legislature respecting
. their w!shes.If they are sick and tired
az hiCk
want the doubts and decisions, which
new bar progress in Maine buried as
deeply and as quickly as possible, let
them insist that the Legislature be
called together and get about 1t.
II is 4 depressing. deadening idea
te get abroad among those. who seek
TO develop successful enterprise in
promising fields. that Maine doesn't
ye. know. after all the discussion
there's been. what she wants. Yet
such an impression 10 spreading fast
and IL capable Of almost irreparable
mischief 10 our future welfare. It is
difheult to think Of persons Maine
born ana bred deliberately aggravat-
ing this situation for purposes Of
their own. II they do this thin: the
charitable will try to think of them
doing so because Of lack Of compre-
hension. yet this suppcsition has lit
tie to rest upon. Cannot the matter
be made plain TO any such and their
cooperation be secured?
And this reminds US Of a story-it
may he one Of Joseph Lincoln's, any
how IL is supposed to have come from
down the Cape way in Massachusetts
tho story Of a worthy man who
built boats in the winter and collins
IN the summer and could not he pre-
vailed upon to vary from his rule.
Cne severe winter. however the death
rate had been unusually high. his
stock Of cofins had been exhausted.
the roads to the outside world were
blocked. when another worthy citi-
zen passed away and a burial became
necessary. A committee OF the towns
men waited on the craftsman and be-
seeched him to vary his rule and con-
ptruet q comm. but he was adamant.
s-sRulee was rules; no good unlecl fol-
: lered". Finally a neiehbor with bot
de in his pocket-this may have been
before the Volstead law. anyhow, 1t
vas in Massachusetts-wen down
and after due deliberation and liba-
ton the craftsman consented to vary
from his bodybuilding the extent
Of making one solitary conn. one but
no more. And when they went after
the comm they found that the builder.
in the agony OF his soul at having
compromised. had tackled a keel on
the bottom Of the CONN.
But they had the burial all in due
= time, the keel Observation-Disclosures. and
the worthy crafteman had kept the
faith with his conscience.
IsA't II possible We can do as well
Ao~n hare in Nainee