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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17
Whitlock Depicts Fight for Prohibition

between the stern Puritanical
character of the father and the
tolerant. easier living son. Then
came the war. The rumble Of ar
tillery, the hustle of troop trains
and the outcome of battles took
his mind away from the realms Of
fancy. After the war the, story
that was telling itself to him once
again became the important thing.
He revived the partially completed
manuscript to make it and the
characters he had created live in
the pages of 81. Hardin & Son"
Mr.. Whitlock's latest novel pub
lished by D. Appleton and Com.
pcny.
Although it details the fight
for prohibition in its pages ~.
Hardin & Son" is something big.
ger than the mere battle waged BY
the drys- 1t is not a preachment
for or against the movement-it
is the reaction of certain charact-,
ers to this problem and to the
problems Of life. In it are love
and hate. weakness and strength,
charity and the hateful gossip Of
the small community. In fact it
has all of life in it and the
problems of the characters are not
settled, for they are never settled
in life itself.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17
Seek Legal Word
on BluenOse Win
Over Columbia

Halifax, N. s., Nov. 16-Trustees
OF the ! international fiShermens
trophy were requested today by w.
r. Potter, attorney for the owners of
the Lunenburg schooner Bluenose. to
submit either to arbitration or the
supreme court the question Of the
legality Of the international race
committee rules under which the
Bluenose was disqualified in the sec
ond race with the Gloucester schoon-
er Columbia.
Mr.. Potter's request follows:
II am authorized by my clients to
suggest that if you, as trustees of
the trophy, after careful considera-
tion of the foregoing do not fell jus-
titled in awarding the trophy to the
master of the Bluenose, that the
whole matter of the legality of the
new rules made by the sailing COM
mittee, and the question whether or
not the BluenoSe violated them. he
submitted either to arbitration or a
judge of the supreme court"
Asserting that the owners of the
Bluenose diSliked the idea of set
Ting the outcome by resort to legal
technicalities Mr.. Potter said that in
asmuch as the Columbia won a tech
meal victory and then refused the
trophy on a technjcality, his clients
could not tolerate such Inconsistency
without making counter move.
IF Captain Pine was too much of
sport" to claim the trophy on a
technicality why did he claim the
race on one?" Mr.. Potter asked. He
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17
national, HOME:

Officer of the day. Captain John ],
Mooney.
John Condor as returned from an
extended fur,ough passed with rela-
tives in Augusta and WATERFOWL
Patrick w. Powers reported Fri
day from a furlough passed with rel
atiVeS in Boston.
The returns from passes Friday
We're Franklin p. Gray from Augusta.
George Decker from WinslGW and
George Methot from Gardiner.
Daniel F. Ivory and Leonard Mall
lett motored Friday evening to Lew
iston to attend the Elks ball
Dennis Keegan, late Co. K. Sth L.
S. Inf, reported Friday from the
Southern Branch for admission.
John II. Burns of Manchester, late
Co. d, 1st n. II. Inf, has neported
for admission.
Elmer Greenwood of Bennington.
late Co. c. Goth L. S. Eng, and
Matthew J. Phelan of Rumford. late
Co. +. 1st L. S. Eng, have been ad-
mitted to the home.
Furloughs have been granted to
Robert Zines, John f. O'Flaherty
and Albert f. Norton, who have gone
to the Southern Branch for admis-
sion to<that home for the winter.
jeremiah DAILY of Hallowell, late
Co. +, LIST Me. Inf. and Renhen r.
Hurd of Lynn, late L. s. Marine
Corps, have been re-admitted.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17
English. Speaking Dominance

That the possibility of TRIPPING the
worlds population in a century is no
mere mathematical conjecture is an
pasent from what has already been
accomplished. If we accept the best
reliable estimate of the worlds popu-
lation at the opening of the last CEN
fury, viz, 640,00O.000, and that of
today as 1,700,0O000 we see that the
WORLDS numbers have been nearly
tripled III Il century and a fifth The
population OF England and Wales at
the opening of the nineteenth cen
fury, 100000. had increased to 3d.
100000 by the opening of the twen-
tieth century, or had multiplied three
and one-half times in 100 years.
Moreover the volume of increase per
annum in England and Wales in the
twentieth century, as indicated by
the first decade, was more than ten
times the corresponding factor in the
eighteenth. In spite of the Sec
ordary influence of European civili-
cation on other peoples, the white
race throughout the world. as the
analysis of rates of natural increase
would clearly indicate. is increasing
much more rapidly than either the
yellow or the black. With the ex-
ception Of the French and the Irish,
practically no white peoples today are
increasing at less rate than 10 to
the thousand. The Chinese increase
slowly if at all. The natives of India
reveal relatively low current rates.
The Japanese are not increasing fas-
ter than the white races, although
the Japanese rate of natural increase
is advancing. The black race is in
creasing rapidly only in this country
and in the West Indies, not in it's ma
tive Africa as a whole. 1t is thus ev-
ident that the whiteN race is on the
road to numerical domination. Fur
thermore, since the population
achievements of the British and AM
erican peoples far transcend those of
the rest of the white race. the re-
sponsibility of leadership and con-
troll of world affairs rests with the
English speaking peoples.-(W. Rus
sell Tylor, in The North American
Review.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17

Life according TO one observer,
is made up largely of gossip. The
smaller the community the more
intensive the gossip. The varied
interests of city take the minds
of it's citizens away from the acts
of their neighbors and small hap
penings are not magnified into
big events.
Brand Whitlock, author, diplo-
mat, student and observer. knew
life in small Ohio town in all it's
intimacies. He observed in his
early youth and indexed a mass
of events to make into. a tale of a
small town. He saw the fight for
prohibition beginning with all its
intensity and the estrangement it
worked in some families. He saw
how the people Of a small town
and the surrounding farming land
lived, knew their temptations,
their failings and their human
ity.
Before the World War Mr..
Whitlock when American minister
to Belgium began putting down on
paper the thoughts and the me-
mories of other days in Ohio. He
selected for his chief character
Paul Hardin. son Of ]. Hardin,
carriage maker of an Ohio town,
and was detailing the conflict
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17
Jujutsu in Hi~'l School

The Japanese A4sh school at
Honolulu has opened class in jul
jutsu for girls. This step was taken
because of the many recent reports
of assaults upon women and girls in
Honolulu. and from the results that
are being obtained from the instruc-
ton in the Nipronese art of personal
protection it is believed that the next
person who attempts to modest a
japanese girl will meet with a sur
prise.
Graduates from the course are ex-
pected to be able TO defend them
selves against the attacks of much
larger persons and to inflict swift
unter-punishment.
The small stature of the Japanese
girls is expected to be no handicap.
More than forty girls are enrolled in
the classes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17

titled SaDili Pickle III wh.Sh a,,s
peared four girls, Frances pn,,an
Hazel Best. Ecna Gagne ana Kath :
ieen Dyer; and a comic recita tion Nv
Miss Hill. entitled 1.-THE Advanta e w
OF Cony Hirh Education
Inc hall was decorated Ia red and
white crepe paper in a very artistic
way and upon the wall behind the
stage were hung several Of the new
blankets which have been pIrchas ed
for the boys of the football and hoe
key teams. These blankets are rcd
with q large white &C" and added a
very pretty touch to the decora tions.
This work was under the airetoion of
Manson Gordon
:, The patronesses of the SOCIAL were
Mrs. Perkins and Mrs. Burrill. They,
with a. number of parents of the
pupils were seated upon the stage.
The committee in charge of the So
cial consisted of Lawrence Stiles,
business manager OF the Cue; Char
les Nelson. Editor in chief and the
other members of the staff.
The campaign for a bigger and
better Cony Cue which was carried
on Il short time ago was primarily
q campaign for a larger subscription
list among the students. Formerly
ABOUT 10 students hac taken the pa
per and this year it was the desire
OF the staff to make this 400 stud
ents. If this was done the paper
could be improved and gi'ef to the
students at lower. Price.
The drive went way beyond expec-
tattfons and AIS students wera enrol
led. The juniors and seniors were
solidlX subscribed and the sopho-
mores came next with 95 per cent
while the Freshmen were close be-
hind with SO per cent
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17
Dress Accessories

Pearls are worn in double or null
tipl, strands OF rather large pearls.
Bracelets are narrow and are set
with diamonds, onyx or emeralds or
are of cut jet or crystal. There is no
limit 10 the number one may wear,
but they should all be on one arm.
Handkerchief bracelets are made of
silver edged ribbon. of pink ribbon
set with tiny rosebuds, of jade green
suede sewn with steel beads, of black
gros gram ribbon with an ornament
Of brilliants or marcasite.
Handkerchicfs are squares of pico-
oted georgette in prints OF brilliant
colors ana are worn tied around the
wrist or slipped through handker-
chief bracelet
For evening small oval or ob.ong
vanity cases covered with black
MORE OF gros- grain and with a
monogram in brilliants arc new
Young girls carry bags of colored
shells get one over another to form a
large rose. or tiny finger bags in the
shape oi small dolls in rufflcd skirts
or Pierrots.
Earrings are long and picturesque
and are made of crystal, jade, mar
castle. emeralds or sapphircs, pearls
or diamonds.
Fans are very large and usually of
ostrich feathers in charming colors.-
Fro Il Delineator.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17

commended that under the regulations
entsrtain q protest and that 1t could
governing the race, the international
committee alone had the power to
entertain q protest and that 1t could
not delegate this authority OF the
sailing committee
He asserted that the lighthouse
bany buoy, which the BIuenose pass
ed to landward instead of seward,
thereby causing the Columbia's pro-
test, was more than a half mile from
the lighthouse bank shoal. having
been moved from its original posi-
ton during the war, nd that. there
fore, a ruling by the sailing COM
mittee that vessels should pass to
seaward was not necessary. Both
the Bluenose and the Columbia on
the homeward leg of the race, he
said, tackled we'll in behind this buoy
both on It's seward and landward
sides, EA
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17

OF the United States. l.S30.O00. 900
persons. we get for the average
consumptiop i2Sl0O00O00 matches
per day. or a grand aggregate OF
4y67S650. 00000 as the authoritative
estimate Of the worlds annual
consumption Equally high a, hor-
titles familiar with the factory cost
and the wholesale and retail sell
ing price Of this AZ trillion match
es consumed estimate the sums
paid by the final consumer at APP
proximately $200OO0.OO0 per annum.
Most OF the AZ trillion matches
manufactured for the world mar
kets are the products OF a half
dozen countries having special
facilities for the production Of this
article Of world requirement. The
three requisites for successful
manufacture Of matches are. first.
a plentiful supply Of the kinds of
wood suited for their manufac-
tire: second. plentiful capital for
the purchase of the ingenious and
expensive machinery by which
they are turned out: and. third.
plentiful supplies OF labor Aspen
and white pine are the timber
chiefly used. AS consequence.
the biggest match manufacture.
countries of the world are the
United States. Sweden and Japan.
though Great Britain and Ger
many are also considerable pro-
ducers. drawing their material
from the Scandinavian forests
where large supplies of the aspen
wood are available. Japan draws
the aspen used in her factories in
part from her own forests and in
part from those of Manchuria and
eSiberia. In the United States the
wood used in manufacturing
matches is the white pine. Russia
with its plentiful supply of timber
and large population was prior to
the war large manufacturer.
1t is not to be supposed from the
above statements that all of the
worlds matches are produced in
the six countries named. the
United States. Sweden. Japan.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17

up an everythin' an then at the last
minute Old Bill gets sick and can't go.
AS l could not find any one to go
along CHI such short notice I went
alonc.
when l hit Montreal I was the
loneliest guy in all the world.
couldn't seem to get acquainted nor
find my way about, you know. An
then the second morning / was there
along comes car with q New Jersey
license and a little Short Hills plate.
You bet your life stopped that car
cops an every one thought I was
mad-the chap I'D never seen before.
but we shook hands and became ac-
quainted on the spot. Ee knew the
re pes. Yes-"Nwith a rcminisvea&
twinkle in his eyes. We became ver-
IA wen acquainted."-New York Sun
and Globe a go
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17
World consumption Of matches
estimated at W. trilIions per
annum. Experts estimate an
average Of ! matches pet day
for each individual the world over.


4,675.650OO0.OoO. No. gentle reader,
this long line of figures does not
as might be supposed represent
the paper money Of the European
countries in which currency inf1a-
tion is the order of the day. On
the contrary. they are the plain
uninfatcd statistics of the world
consumption Of that article of
daily and hourly use, the match.
A recent Aotation in the United
States Of large loan for the pur-
pose of charging the activities of
the world match manufacturing
industry has led the Tfade Record
of The National City Bank Of New
York to study of the worlds out
turn and consumption OF matches
and it estimates that the people of
the world used last year 4.675.650,-
O0.000 matches for which they
paid approximately S20o.O00.0o0.
This estimate of the number oil
matches used and their cost to the
"6nal consumer" is based upon
data supplied by high authorities
in the match industry of the
world. Figures recently published
by high authority in London put
the average per capita consump-
tion OF matches by the people OF
Europe at from 6 to 10 matches
per day, and estimates by an
equally high authority in the
match industry of the United
States put the average per capita
consumption OF the whole world a,
about ? matches per day. Apply
ing this estimate of world aver
age OF J matches per day to the
figures Of world population as re-
corded by the Statistical Abstrac,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17
The First LADY OF The Land

She was born of sturdy, hard
working Vermont country folk
She went to college in her native
State.
/ She became a teacher to support
herself. She chose the hardest work
in her misunderstanding the deaf
She fell in love with Calvin Cool
idge, young lawyer OF Northamp-
ton, Massachusetts.
When che married, she knew his
tory well enough TO realize that no
public servant can make money and
that some of Our best national lead
ers had been forced to, retire to
private life. in order to pay their
debts.
She has lived within the small in
come of a public servant. She has
proved that life can be enjoyed and
adorned without eXtravagance.
She mas never owned a ear and
never wasted an hour envying people
who do.
She has always had to live on
limited purse-and she has done it
well.
She has done her own housework
most OF her life.
She is good cookosand is proud
She is one of the best dressed wo-
men in Washington. And her hus-
band helps her buy her hats.
She is the mother of two sons,
fifteen and seventeen years old.
She knits their socks.
She is a good dancer, a regular
churchmember and leads in the COM
munity songs.
She can talk politics or history or
baby care in two languages.
Men like her Women love her.
Men say: "She has head on her
and she knows how to use it,"
Women say: "She rs a wonderful
mother. And she has no affecta-
TONS
She is the sort of woman who has
old friends.
She has much charm, and .beauti-
ful eyes that soften with sympathy
at the suffering of man or beast.
She has sat in high places for
fifteen years and it has not dizzied
her head.
She meets life with the same en-
thusiasm, the same kindliness and
pure unaffected manner that made
the young teacher Of the sdeaf be-
loved at, Northampton nearly twenty
years ago.
She believes fervently in her God.
her country and her family.-lF'rom
Delineator.
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MATCHES BY THE TRILLIONS

Russia. Great britain and Ger. /.
many. Limited quantities are pro-
duced IN other countries. and in
France the industry is a govern
r1eni monopoly. and those ac-
quaintedt with the subject assert
that the cost OF matches used in
France is much greater than in
other countries where competition
holds down the price and at the
same time results in the produc-
ton Of a higher quality Of match
than those. turned out under the
government monopoly in France,
About $3.50 OF the ~ trillion
matches consumed in the world (
are produced in the United States,
200 in Sweden, 20To in Japan, 1916
in Great Britain. and the bulk Of
the remainder in Poland, Norway,
Germany and limited quantities IN
China. The United States, while
the biggest producer of the world,
exports but a limited quantity
Japan and Sweden are the worlds
chief exporters of matches. Japan
supplies large part of the match
es used in the Orient. especially
India. China. and the Dutch East
Indies. while Sweden exports
largely to adjacent European
countries. and also to Africa,
South America and Australia. A
large share of the matches made
in Sweden and Japan are Of the
"safety" type, while not more than
one-third of the l.50OO00.O 00,O 700
made in the United States are of
this type. I
While the match is looked upon
as an inexpensive article its manu-
facture requires a larger amount
OF capital in proportion to outturn
than that of many other important
articles. The 1920 reports of.the
United States Census of Manufac-
lures puts the capitalization of the
match factories of the United
States at nearly 100000, sug-
costing that the capital invested
in the match industry of the world
approximates' $l00O00.O00.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-17
u. S. Would Favor
Allied Move to
Halt EX-CrOwn Prince

Washington, Nov. 16-President
Coolidge believes that the American
people will sympathize with any
move to be taken by the allied gov
efnments to prevent restoration of
the Hohenzolierns to power in Ger
many, although the American gov
eminent -lnnot in accordance with
log established policy take definite
actlon IN the matter which has been
brought up by the return to Ger
many or the crown prince Frederick
William
Inc presidents views were made
h"own today in some detail in order
TO correct an impression gained in
some quarters from Il recent " hite
House statement to the effect that
the United States would afford no
moral support to the allies in steps
which they might undertake to pre-
vent the return of the Hohenzollern
family to power.
The long expressed policy of the
American government is interpreted
by Mr.. Coolidge as favoring in every
way the establishment and mainten-
ancc of republican forms of govern
ment. Mr.. Coolidge, N-cver, doesn't
interpret this as meaning that the
United States always can or should
interfere in governmental changes in
other countries.
With respect to the return of the
German crown prince to Germany
and reports of irrespective return
OF the former Emperor, it was said
that Mr.. Coolidge considers that one
of the things for which the United
States went to war was to drive the
Hohenzollerns from ,he throne and
prevent such autocrc tic rule as had
been established in Germany.
Guarantees to make this sure were
placed in the treat of Versailles and
the expectation here is that the ma
tons party to that treaty will en-
deavor to enforce provisions con-
tanning such guarantees. In the work
of enforcement the president believes
the allied governments should have
the sympathy of the American people.
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"All Bootleg Liquor Is Poison" Says Garfield

Unless you have steel stom-
aen duly guaranteed to withstand
eating liquids, and iron kidneys
properly certified to resist burn
ing liquors, and a metallic heart
assured to absorb abnormal action
ana unusual reaction, and an as
oestos covered liver attested to be
immune from alcoholic diseases,
ana other super-organs, DON'T
Drink the fraudulent and poison
Gus intoxicating liquors being ped
G G, and sold by bootleggers."
r linus admonishes Palmer Garfield,
ireoeral Prohibition Director of
new York State, in a statement
pun in the October issue of
Physical Culture"
'out Of every one hundred bot
!les OF liquor sold as real whisky
VI GIN, only one has any legitimate
Tne;lationship to real liquor" states
uEector Garfield, "The other
anety'nine are noxious, unwhole-
some, poisonous, synthetic
s WHISKY or gin. These figures are
~. .Os fantastic or guess-work, but
ARE: oased upon the chemical ana
t OF thousands Of samples taken
rum rum seized liquors sold illegally.
t Suflng the first year of Prohibi-
t sHa, , ABOUT sixty percent of dis
n ,i,eI spirits sold was straight
"aisky, and during the second
war y the proportion had decreased
1--WE. twenty-five percent, and at the
r1ssent time, as the Government
u Unsmlst CULLEN reports. only one
psfeens is straight whisky.
Denatured Alcohol
,... The other ninty-nine per cent"
s ;;lirms Director Garfield, "is re-
distilled U;.a denatured alcohol colored
. WIN caramel and favored with
ssa esters and fusel-oil and
~ Tyap Dark added to give it a bead.
!; lug present so-called rye whisky
s,a n,ade from redistilled denatured
fIs sunol colored with caramel and
. s;a with synthetic ester to
e S|e 1t the rye flavor. Nearly all
u sI,o me so-called Scotch whisky is
Ss su Alcohol, artificially colored and
flavor. N sshlhetic ocotcn
Specially denatured alcohol is
me-, ,sgltlmate commercial product
h bs;a IN making toilet waters and
pra st ;tonics and in other trades. In
sIeohnts are added to render the
An, Ouol unfit for use as a beverage.
bro;ag them are sulphuric acid,
DIM nine, Iodine, wood alcohol, pyri-
tane e' OeGn,zol, carbolic acid and ace
svn., The manufacturers of these
tilIa '.;etic liquors attempt by redis-
en,a i1h to remove these ingredi-
ola,s,,o Out it cannot be done COM
o,,, Real, pure, straight whisky can
thy is oe made in a proper scien-
pros. manner by those having had
mses; training and with proper
De- hnefy and apparatus and I'M
ths aygienic conditions and with
the rneseessary number Of years for
elim!pnr proper aging process and the
dienta Of, of the poisonous ingre-
possaa. The bootlegger does not
ss the powers Of liquor ma