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Evening star., 1923-09-21
les$RxSNs A Start-Of-the-Season Event
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Fine >velvety pile fabrics-smart
styles, selected pelts, superior tai
loring, fine silk Innings make these
remarkable at this low price. Each
adistinctive style; hardly two alike,
they afford a splendid opportunity
to secure your new fall coat at great
savings.
Some have collars and cuffs, some
collars only. The furs are Black
Fox, Viatka, Squirrel, Platinum
Wolf, Beaver and other fashionable
furs.
Evening star., 1923-09-21
HEAVY. WEEVIL DAMAGE
REPORTED I'M SOUTH
,Br the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Ca, September 21. -
Extremely heavy weevil damage" to
cotton is reported throughout the
southeast during the past fortnight,
according to a bulletin issued here
today by the bureau of agricultural
economics. United States Department
of Agriculture A,t
TN North Carolina, the greatest
destruction has occurred in the past
few weeks that the state has ex-
perienced." the bulletin reads, There
is, no late crop. The boil weevn has
been attacking the grown bolls and.
for this reason the outcome of the
crop is still problematical in the
northern part of the belt"
Cotton picking has progressed rap
idly during the past ten days, 1t is
said. Caterpillar damage is reported
in Alabama and northwest Georgia,
but is not expected to seriously affect
| the size OF the crop. South Carolina
has sent in reports of rust.
The tobacco crop is good, except
| in the eastern wet area of North
Carolina and portions of Tennessee,
according to the bulletin. Late corn
continues to improve. it continues in
| most sections, but lin critical shape"
| in Alabama.
Evening star., 1923-09-21

Just received a new shipments
the frocks that women tell us a
the smartest in style and greatest
value that they ever saw at such
low price. Satins, Brooches, Poir
Twill, Charmeen, Satin-faced Ca
tons, Chiffon Velvets, in all Il
smartest colorings of the seaso
Dresses for street and afternot
Evening star., 1923-09-21
UNDERWOOD NOT NOW
STRONG FOR LEAGUE
Failure to Function in Face of
italian Defiance Cited as
One Reason.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 21.--Senator
Oscar Underwood. Alabamas candi-
date for the democratic presidential
nomination, is no longer a strong ad-
vocate of the league of nations. he
is credited by the Chicago Tribune
today as saying In an interview.
To the senator, once an eloquent
advocate of the league, who was in
Chicago on his way to Washington
from a fishing vacation at Eagle
River. Wis. was attributed the fol-
lowing statement:
IT am no longer a strong advocate
of the league of nations. My original
views are well known. However, on
my trip abroad / saw the league at
work. Developments then and sub-
The failure of the league to function
in the dispute between italy. and
Greece had much to- do with the
change"
The senator also said he did not
think the league would be an issue
In the approaching presidential cam
paign.
/. THE present administrations lack
of a definite foreign policy and its
failure to achieve any notable accom-
plishment at home will furnish the
best democratic campaign material" "
the senator was quoted by the Tribune
as declaring.
The republican party in the coming
session of Congress will do little eX-
cept mark time, I'LL the pork barrel and
study it's various candidates for the
presidential nomination" Senator
Underwood of Alabama declared.
The main objectives of the United
States in Europe. he said, are toward
the restoration of peace, the stabiliz-
ing of government. the re-establish-
ment of finance and the re-establish-
ment of American markets. This. he
said can be done by vigorous diplo-
Evening star., 1923-09-21
FLYERS OFF FOR CUBA.

BY the Associated Press
PORT AU PRINCE. Haiti. Septem-
Der 20.-Two Marine Corps seaplanes
In the flight from Santo Domingo to
st. Louis left Port au Prince at 6:14
o'clock this morning for Guantanamo.
Cuba.
The flight was started yesterday
morning from Santo Domingo. Lieut..
Ford Rogers of Waco, Tex. and Lieut.
Horace Palmer of Athens, Ohio, pilot
ing the machines, hoped off at 9:14
o'clock. Port au Prince was reached
at. 10:45. The airmen remained over
night here and were off under aus
picious conditions bright and early
this morning for Cuba. From Guam
tanamo the planes will fly to Havana
before striking for the mainland at
Miami.
The intention of the pilots is to
reach st. Louis in time to attend the
Pulitzer air races set for October 1-3.
Evening star., 1923-09-21

arrested as an alleged spy and sem
fenced to be shot. Through the quick
of the State Department
his life was spared and he was later
released.
During the world war Col. Ryan
served with the Red Cross overseas.
He returned home in August, 1922,
and later left for Persia. =
Col. Ryan was decorated by many
countries for his gallantry as head of
the Red Cross while working among
stricken people. He was about for
ty-one years old and was a base ball
player and physician here before he
took up Red Cross work. He is sur
waved by one sister, Mrs. Henry "
Lawler Of -Jessup, Pa.
Evening star., 1923-09-21
"RlGOLETTO" IN COURT.

PARIS, September 21.-The original
French manuscript of "Rigoletto"
has been seized by the police. acting
under authority of the French courts,
In the offices of the Opera Theater.
The legal dispute in connection
with which the seizure was made
dates back to 1863, when Victor Hugo,
then in exile in the Jersey islands,
vainly protested against the pro-
duction of "Rigoletto" on the ground
that it had been stolen from his own
play, lie Roi S'Amuse," and then de-
cided to resort to the French tribu-
mails for satisfaction. The heirs of
the poet have kept the case on the.
court calendar.
Evening star., 1923-09-21
Berlin TRANWAy
COMP PAN|ES RUINED
Some Charge Plot by SHINES
to Break and Then Buy
Them Cheap.
BY'HIRAM *. MopERwELL.

ny Cableto The Star and Chicago Daily News.
..tls Copyright. 1928 as, ..5-
BERLIN, September 21.-The mu-
nicipal tramways of Berlin, driven into
bankruptcy by the fall of the mark,
have reorganized as a separation cor
poratiorh under municipal direction, and
will operate in the future on reduced
schedules.
Almost overnight sixty-two of the
city ninety tram lines were suppressed
and the fares were almost triplede The
municipality is making it's last effort
to make the trans pay for themselves.
but the prospects are not bright.
-, Cost of Coal.
This Is one of the most striking evi-
dences OF. the gradual decay of organ
lied life In Germany. The immediate
reason for the collapse of the tram
service is the high price of COAL which
the lines were unable to pass along to
the riding public in Increased fares be-
cause of the poverty OF the car riders.
At d meeting last week of the Ger
man Association of Tram Lines and
charged that the price of coal fixed by
the Central Kartel, or coal association,
dominated by Hugo Stinnes, was ex-
tortionate and was driving German
AlOlilcIpdl uHuerlaKlnSS 10 rum. Men,
oers of the association were indignant
because the ministry, of, national econ
omy, though invited to attend the
meeting, was not represented.
StinneSs Plot Charged. -.
The economic minister, Won Raumer,
who Is a member of the SHINES party,
has been accused in many quarters of
acting as SHINES agent and directing
economic matters in the interest Of the
industrialists. Others go so far as to
assert that SHINES is fixing coal prices
with the deliberate intention of running
municipal Undertakings, so that he can
buy them up at low prices.
In this connection it is recalled that
Stinnes recently gained domination of
the Association of German Municipal
Gas Works through his coal monopoly,
and Is In a position to absorb the gas
industry into his trust. Whether or not
It Is true that he is deliberately seek
Ing to bankrupt municipal undertake
tngs, 1t is certain that his price policy
Is driving them into his power. Before
the war German municipal Undertakings
were generally successful and showed
net profits. ~
Evening star., 1923-09-21

macy" as well as. by a league. The
only thing keeping Europe out of
war today is the fact that she Is
broke, he declared. and added:
full field here for. the old-fashioned
kind of vigorous American diplomacy,
but the publican party has simply
laid down and done nothing since the
day ii came into power" He said he
probably will resume efforts to- repeal
the present Canadian tariff bill, or
commit the democratic platform to
it's repeal in 1924.
Evening star., 1923-09-21
COL. EDWARD RYAN DIES
/ ON RED CROSS MISSION

BY the Associated Press.
SCRANTON, Pa, September H,-
Col. Edward Ryan. internationally
known Red Cross worker and native
OF this city, died at Teheran. Persia,
on September IL, according to advices
received by friends here today.
Col. Ryan, 1t Is said, contracted ma
laria while he was acting as an agent
of mercy.
Col. Ryan was in Mexico in 1912 and
1913 as an American Red Cross work
er and during his stay there he was
Evening star., 1923-09-21
WILL FEED YALE MEN.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, September 21.
Miss Cora c. CoIburn. for Ynany
years director of the commons at the
university of Chicago. is to be placed
in charge of the dining halls at Yale
this year, In an attempt to make the
enterprise self-supporting. She has
been given a years leave of absence
to undertake the work. The dining
rooms have been newly equipped and
will be operated at cost by the uni
versity under supervision of the
university department of health.
Believe 1t or not. the least fatiguing
hing in life is work
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-11
IS IS LITTLE J. A ss2,s r.! R$Rn'r
DAVID CORY

talks, you know. 1--WE met lots OF
ncople in dear Old Mother Goose
Land but never fairy"
IF YOU come into this forest you
will meet many little people like me-
answered the fairy.
Twill you object If travel through
ito" asked the little rabbit anXiously.
you have my permission" an
swered the fairy. I'm Queen OF the
Forest Fays. But | thought you
were looking for the Wishing stone"
"Maybe | was" answered Little
Jack Rabbit. you see, | thought II
could find the Wishing stone I'd wish
| was back in the dear Old Bramblc
Patch with mother"
"Wen. the Wishing Stone is very
far from here" said the little fairy.
Follow this path through the trees
and by and by you'll come to it. But
let me give you some advice. lie
sure before YOU make your wish to
say: d
Rose red. rose white,
will try to do what's right"
Thank you. I'll remember said
Little Jack Rabbit, turning Dapple
Gray down the path to the woody
glen.
Well, by and by. after while, he
saw n big white stone. 1t looked very
much like rude stone chair, only
of course it didn't have any nice soft
cushion in it like the one my grand
mother used.
"Hurrah." he shouted. jumping
from the saddle. "Now I'll make my
wish" and sitting down in the big
stone chair. he closed his eyes and
made his wish. But. oh dear me. He
was in such a hurry that he forgot to
say the little verse and when he OPP
ened his eyes instead Of Dapple Gray,
there stood a little gray squirrel in
the very spot where his little pony
had been. And in the next story you
shall hear what happened after that.
Copyright 1923. David Cory.
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CHANGE IN THE AVIATION
TUNE

Some of those who were admon
fishing us quite recently that this
country is rapidly falling behind all
Others in the development Of avia-
ton. leaving us with the impression
that we should pass the hat and in
some way raise the wind. ere now
eXulting over the remarkable record
made by American machines at the
recent aviation meet at st Louis.
Three hundred registered planes
were there and 100000 registered
miles were flown without anyone be-
ing injured. Lieutenant \. J. Will
liams of the navy. who is said to
have made. in an unofficial speed
test, 266 miles per hour. last Satur-
day flew over a triangular course
with an average speed of startling
dimension, flying in sixty minutes a
distance of 243.67.
Now the enthusiasts have stopped
talking about aviation going to the
dogs in the L. S. 4. and have turned
to discussion Of what speed is posi-
Bile without the aviator losing his
wits or burning up his machine in
air resistance.
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Railroads and Steamboats,
MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD
Eastern Standard Time
TRAINS FAVE AUGUSTA gOR

Bangor. tl2. 30 a. m. 81 10 a. m. t2.35 a. m.
1850 a m. 20 80 a. m. 1898 p. NJ. t2.52 pm.
i3.l 2 p. m. II 40 p. IN.
BIZ APIS. liz 80 m. t. 30 a m. tl2.3sp. m.
Bar Hsrbo~. A g. 10 m, Il. 35 m. tl2.3S I'm.
Bath rs 10 am. TO- - m. 1876 a. m. f40s
o. m. t732 D. m, FlO4S p. III.
Belfast. Ci 80 am. 1879 a M. II .52p. m. -,
Boston. 1921 a. m, t6.1j a. m, 1884 q m.
50 j5 a. m. t2i5 p. m. 1894 p. m, t4.05 ,. NJ,
Calais. f2.35 a. m, fl23s p. m
! Dover -Foxcroft. C4.50 a. m, t2.52 p. m.
Gardiner. 1921 a. m. t6.15 a. m. 1874 a. m,
50 81 a. m. TAO p m. 1874 p. m, t4.05 p m.
Is 5 p. IN, t7.32 p. m. +10.4S p. m. 1
Hallowcll. t6.l a. r1.. 1884 a. m, ~ % .. m,
II. 40 p. M. 1874 p m, t405 p. m. tj.15 p. NJ
t7.32 p. m. sl0.4S p. m.
Harmony C4.j0 a. m, t2.j2 p. m.
Lewiston, t6 - a. m. 1894 a. m. 1855 a. m,
t4.0j q. M. 40. IS p. IN.
New York. s33 p IN, 1905 p. IN. IN
Portland, 1921 a. M. Is. 10 a m, 1894 a. rn.l
1856 a. m. tao p. M. 1894 p. m, TAOS p. M.
f7.32 p. m. *l04s p. IN.
Rockland. t6 10 a m 1874 a. m. ti.0j D. M
Skowhegan. CfJO m. 1893 a. m, 2.j2 pm
So. Gardiner rs ID a m. 1871 am. 50 55 a IN.
1916 p. m. 1894 p. m, t5lj p. n, t7.32 p. m
Fl0.4S p. IN.
St. John. tl2.j0 a. m.
Watervilc. tl2.50 a m. S1l0 a. m, t2.3:
am j0a.m. 70 80 m ,tl23S p. m, Il. 80 p. m.
1912 p. m. fi0p. m.
@Daiiy Daily. except Sunday. sSundsy only
2 Daily. except Monday.
A Discontinued after October 2l.
Except Sunday and Monday.
ID. C. DOUGLASS, NJ. l.. HARRIS,
"-@C-23 V. 2. E. Genl Mar. Gen'l Pass. Agent
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II | had a wishing stone,
know what | would do
I'd wish for lots of lovely things
And give a lot to you:
Eut, OH, my dear. I've never known
Where is this wonder Wishing Stone.
Il know" cried little voice.
Looking around to see who had
spoken, Little Jack Rabbit asked:
"Who arc you?"
Here | am" cried the same little
voice; and quick as wink, a tiny
fairy jumped out from behind a bush.
Don't brighten my pony" cried the
bunny boy as Dapple Gray stood up
on his hind legs. He isn't used to
fairies"
no. indeed" whinnicd the little
pony, for that is the way a horse
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Crime in the Khan

washington PosD
The resignation of a high Of
fetal in ku kluXdOm because of adj
mission OF roWdics to membership in
the Khan is on a ground that could
and should have been foreseen. In
this instance. the admission Of
roWdics is attributed to the klan's
fOndnesS for entrance fees. But
such clements would have found Il
way In. anyhow. for the masked
ordcr offers to tho vicious a safe
opportunity for indulgence in law
lcsSncss and brutality.
There never has been such an
order that mas not soon or late be
come intUlerabIe because of the in
fuX Of the vicious and the criminal
Tie purposes OF the founders may
have been innocent Of criminal in
tent Int tho methods OF the Khan
lend themselves inevitably TO crime.
and therefore they can not survive.
Tho country will soon be saying Of
the Khan. Mend ii or end it,"
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The 4S Hour Law

To the Kennebec journal:
Please say in your paper that | am
in favor of the As hour law, and shall
do all | can to put it over. and should
If it included men as we'll as women
and children.
Justice and fair play call for an S
hour day in mills and factories, as
we'll as on the farms, and at the
present time hours is days work
on the farm unless an extra price IS
paid per day or overtime paid for.
/ settled in the town or Gray m
1865 and took most of my farm out
OF the woods and worked on an aver
age Is hours q day for over forty
years on the farm and other work.
The old saying that the people would
grow weaker and wiser seems TO be
coming true, or has the ear marks in
that direction. Is it any reason be-
cause the men and women of my day
and generation worked Is hours per
day that same clip shall be kept up
for all time regardless of what I'M
proved machinery of all kinds Is
supposed to do and does do. and does
more work in less time than by the
old hand methods?
The most of the power plants and
manufactures of all kinds are run by
water power in Maine. for which the
owners have free u~e and are tax free
up to date. | have no fear OF the
WaterpoWer fellows leaving their
present or prospective waterpower
sites in Maine and going down i'm
the falkland cotton fields of the
South whore there is no watcrpowcr
as compared with Maine. That cry
sounds to me like tin pan music on
Fourth of July. 1t is an old familiar
tune kept up by the associated in
duStrics of Maine, headed by one OF
the ableSt men in Maine. But the
people are looking for more up-to-
date and much needed music.
\ great effort has been made in
the past to carry the waterpower out
of the state into other New England
states. to lessen the cost of manu-
featuring where they have to depend
on steam. Seems odd that our mill
people in Maine want to run off and
leave it, but if such is the case. there
is seldom no great loss without some
small gain. as the same power will
give us electric lights and power all
over h,aine where it is now impossi-
bic to get it.
No need to be frightened about the
4S-hour law driving anybody out or
the state that owns a good water
power or site for one, INTO state
that does business by .oal power.
The difference in hours per week
gained by labor If the 4Shour be-
comes a law, will never drive a
waterpower manufacturer into coal
power state. so don't be frightened
Do the manufacturers who are fav-
ored with free waterpower and no
tax on it sell goods any cheaper than
the steam manufacturers? II not
why not?
Matthew c. Morrill,.
Gray, Me, Oct. 9, 1928.
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OPINION AND FACTS

Mr.. Matthew c. Morrcll of GRAY
has asked for space in the Journal
IN which to express his views on
the S-hour Jaw and inform the pub
TIC ne is in favor of it. a rcuuest
with which we comply. 1t is prob
able that his views would have
more weight with the average person
If he cited more data as the basis
Tor his conclusions. Confidence in
our splendid water powers is one
thing, but getting those possibilities
from them is an altogether different
matter. Most intelligent persons
hercabouts have known for some
time that il would help If we had
facilities for better control Of our
waters. Only last spring our in
dustries were suffering from too
much water and this fall are suffer-
ing from a scarcity of it, The
possibilities have been left dormant
If our mill owners were as con-
fldent of the ADVANTAGES, which-in
the mind of Mr.. Morrell-they arc
enjoying, it seems strange they arc
not enlareing their plants and max
ing more use of these ADVANTAGES.
Mr.. Morrell docs not explain This
indeed he omits mention altogether
of this very important fact. Another
equally important fact. apparently
overlooked by him. is that shown
from the census reports to the effect
that the South has greatly increased
us cotton manufacturing whereas
the North hasn't; that the South
gets about 10 per cent more ont of A
cotton spindle than does the North.
that 1t works its employees from 81 to
40 hours per week; that it hires
southern and docs not want north
ern workers: that these do not en-
counter in their living expenses
hard winters and fuel at $3.50 per
ton. Yet these are worry important
matters to consider when We arc
thinking of ways and means to in
crease cotton manufacturing in New
England
Mr. MorrclI apparently ovcrlooks
the fact that this proposed law
would prevent women working over
eight hours but docs not forbid men
doing SO. OF course the only
excuse for making fish of one and
fowl of the other, for permitting mon
to work as they please and re-
strictine women to eight hours, is
health and the succeeding genera
tions. This being SO, proof should
be adduced to show that present
conditions are unfavorable to the
health and duties of women. If this
has been shown we have overlooked
it.
1t should go without the saving
that we wish industrial enterprises
to flourish in Maine. to bring profit
to those who have the energy to
establish and maintain them, that we
wish our employees to have steady
and lucrative employment, that we
wish our women to have equal rights
in the mater Of obtaining a livelihood
other things being equal. This be-
ing so it would be we'll for us to
consider facts rather than mere
opinions.
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Thursday, October II, 1923.

1t is easy to bring yourself health,
provided you are willing to work,
but 1t you expect to find health in a
medicine shop, or somebody else to
do the work, you might as we'll plan
to pay your funeral expenses.-e,
MaeFa oiden
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The congressman who ordered veal
by mistake for lamb on board the
Lcviathan, because he could not read
the bill of fare printed in French.
clamors for reform. Nothing but
good English to be permitted on
Shipping Board craft is the slogan.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-11

Ma" Bersdoll says her boy Grow
Ell is coming home, adding: There
is no place like the United States"
This buttered compliment is at var
lance with the reported comments
made by Ma" heretofore, but con-
sidering that all the Bergdoll money
which Grover wants to come home
to was made in this country, the
compliment is merited. But to be
sure Grover fully appreciates il, he
should undergo preparation at Lcnv-
enworth prison for a term of wears.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-11

who got them, also about the source
of the German money which has been
spent in this country the past eight
months. seventytwo and a half mill
lions for cotton and over seventeen
millions for copper.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-11

The old saying that lie will run
mile while truth is getting its boots
on. is out OF date, when truth may as
easily be broadcast as a lie. How
ever. this is no attempt to classify
the statement that a radio listener
in Augusta can hear a speaker in
New York before the speakers words
reach the ears of his audience
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-11

Acetaldehyde is the scientific name
of that in moonshine which makes
the hootch drinker mighty poor in
surance risk and cnlarses the under
takers income tax. TO pronounce it
after ono drink often proves fatal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-11

Hon. Obadiah Gardner has some
thing to say in the Journal Letter
Box this morning, something espec-
tally interesting to Maine farmers
and those who are DESTROYS OF their
welfare
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-11

serving poor in Germany, whose life
savings have been swept away in the
flood of paper money. savings which
doubtless knows something about
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-11

1t is said the French are optimistic
stands TO their credit that the Gallo
cock on their emblem has not been
vocifcrously growing about it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-11

The Topsham fair and the World
Series played in good weather luck,
Wednesday; also the crowds listen
ing to the returns did not require
umbrellas
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-11

No doubt where Vermont stands on
the liquor question. Its a small
state but its vote for dry" candi-
date was very pronounced.