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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-14
DINSM0RE IMPROVED, ATTENDANTS REPORT

Slight improvement was noted Sat urday by medical attendants of Nor wood hospital in the condition of M. A. Dinsmore, who was injured Fri day morning, when struck by fire truck of Station No. g.
 Dinsmore sustained fractured right arm and left shoulder.
 He was struck by the fire truck en route to the scene of a small fire at the American Cast Iron and Pipe company yards, at Twenty-first ave- nue and Twenty-sixtl street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-14
LARGE REAL ESTATE DEAL CONSUMATED BY GAMBILL REALTY co.

One of the largest real estate deals of the week was consummated Sat- urday when w. H. Irwin of Los An geles, Cal, sold the property at 230S First avenue, north. which has q frontage of 100 by 40 feet, to A. J, Taylor of Hurtsboro, Ala. The deal was closed by A. A. Gambill of the A. A. Gambilr Realty company. The con- sideratlon was not made public but it Is understood to have been close to the $100.000 mark
 The building Is occupied by the Bissell Motor Car company as their salesroom and garage. 2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-14
MANY DEFENDANTS NAMED IN SUIT CLAIMING DAMAGES

Twenty-three corporations. firms and individuals. bottlers Of Coca Cola in Birmingham and Jefferson coun- ty, were named defendants in a suit Saturday iT civil court by Luberta Gray in which she seeks to recover $5,000 damages alleged to have been sustained when she drank bottle of Coca-Cola said to contain decayed matter and became ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-04
10 nte:s,N Mrs, Ou 81

The bunny boy hoped inside the
hollow tree house of the old witch and
a pink and blue bird in cage sang:
TOO wee. too wee, is all l sing,
No more | fly on happy wing, =.
But in this cage l sit all day
And never have a chance to play
You poor bird" whispered the lit
tie rabbit. Then. turning to the old
witch he said: why don't you let the
poor thing Co?"
Because this bird is princess" re-
piled the wicked witch with a dread
full grin, which showed all her gums
and only one long tooth. Il have
changed her into this bird and YOU
had best be careful or l will change
YOU into 4 mouse"
Wasn't that a dreadful thing to
hear, but the bunny boy wasn't afraid
flaming feather with him although,
of course. the wicked old witch didn't
know that. Oh. my no. She thought
after a while she'd change Little Jack
Rabbit into a mouse or maybe a rat
and she chucklcd to herself as she
locked the door. After that she turn
ed with "A horrible grin and said:
"Whiskey. whaskey. whiddle deo,
You ought to @ careful where yolhgo.
Suppose l change YOU into a rat
Tell me. what would you think of
that
And in the next story I'll tell YOU
what happened after that.
Copyright 1928. David Cory.
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any fair degree of approximation how
many Federal detectives we have
Their classified ton on the payrolls of
the several departments and bureaus
precludes their identified ton without
detailed study Of their duties. 1t will
suffice to say that there are thous-
ands OF them: that the task of man.
aging them is one that would have
made the founders Of this Republic
Shudder."
Mark the words: "a bureaucracy at
Washington which in time will know
no master" We have pointed out
that certain OF these commissions,
bureaus or boards have, even now.
mo master" They are answerable to
no one. so far as we can determine.
for their official acts, the only way to
negative which is by an appeal to the
courts. Certain branches of the Fed
eral service are helpless in the grip
of these extra constitutional bodies.
1t is time to call halt and to get
back to first principles.
Mr. Grim has pointed out the dan
ger-who will point out the way for
us to retraCe our steps to safety?
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Who the Enemy Is

tCncle Dudley in Boston GIohe>
twenty odd centuries aeo Greece
was a powerful assemblage of States,
III was the seat of a rich and ancient
culture. To the west of it. across
leagues of salt water, was a Young
Natlon. full of vieor, rather crude
ana untaught. overly given to a life
OF action and underly given to
thought.
The Greek states fell to fighting
fatally amongst themselves. They
wrecked their own power, their own
independence, their own perpetuity,
and their own culture. The Young.
western Nation conquered them. went
to school to them TO be sure, but can
hardly be said to have bettered its in
struction. Greece had set out to be-
come what the whole world goes hum
CRY for: Culture State. 1t failed.
And Rome became what the whole
world goes sick of: a Power state.
The similarity of the ancient and
modern cases is too striking to be
agreeable. 1t has been acutely noted
by no less a person than Professor
Gilbert Murray, the eminent Greek
scholar of Oxford. For ancient Hell
las. the seat of a splendid culture,
rent and wrecked by devastating in
teISldte wars, YOU nave lnOOern f1u-
rope. the seat of several splendid Gull
lures and seemingly on its way to
blunder blindly dowk to a similar
self destruction. And for ancient
Rome, a young and vigorous Nation.
long on ability to do things, but
lamentably short on the willingness
to ask itself questions about the
worth whileness of what it is doing;
a Nation separated from the older
civilization by leagues of salt water
and deriving its culture from the
elder seat, you have well,
guess,
Insofar as anyone has given the
matter serious thought he will easily
have seen that another conflict on
the scale of the last would not de
feat" this country or that, but simply
wipe us all off the zap together. And
Yet we go talking about new scien-
tific weapons and POSSIBLE new wars
just as if life had not already pro-
Eounced the sentence on us:
"Once more and YOU are through"
What is it. some besetting frivolity
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{{;.Lrrr1E JAcK RABBIT Re-
DAVID CORY,

Don't cry, Mrs. Duck because you
have chicks instead Of ducklinGs'
said Little Jack Rabbit, who you re-
member in the last story had met a
poor mother duck who was trying in
vain to get her brood to wade into the
water.
Goodness gracious me-" she ex-
claimed, Il must have Matched Hen
nv Jenny's Nest eggs instead of mine"
and she came out of the water and
took her little ones back to the barn
and maybe she and Henny Jenny ex-
changed children so that she had her
little ducllin2s after all. I'll tell you
some day if the Weathercock on the
Big Red Barn let's me know.
Well, after that, the bunny boy
went on his way and by and by, after
a while, he came to a great hollow
tree, only of course he didn't know II
was hollow. Right there stood an
ugly old witch. Her chin crooked UP
and her nose crooked down until
there was hardly room between for
piece Of bread and butter.
Good morning, little rabbit" said
the ugly old witch.
Good day, my good woman" re-
piled Little Jack Rabbit. rs this your
tree? I see little door just back OF
your skirt"
Eyes, this is my house." she an
swered. would you like to come in?
l have wonderful bird to show YOU"
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safety" Appeal to the Heart

NIne HuDnc Ledger
The citizens safety committee is
very wise in directing its latest APP
peal for caution to the heart rather
than to the head. All the statistics
about accidents that could be packed
into a full-page Id set in agate
would not teach the lesson which can
be read, day after day. upon the
faces of a wife and children weeping
over the man who loved them and
was their breadwinner. 1t is not the
racing moment OF tragedy that
|, c o u IL ts-tiIe looming, numbering
truck that turns the corner, the
Shrek of a locomotive whistle and
the terrifying glare of a headlight.
heard and seen too late. 1t is the
DAYS and years of regret that creep
along behind. 1t is the tears that
women shed in the night watches,
when their children lie asleep behind
them. 1t is the fight for daily bread.
1t Is the little home so proudly
bought. so slowly paid for. so quickly
lost. 1t is a college education trans
muted into the factory bench for the
boy in whom all a dead fathers
hopes we;e conferred; for the girl if
is the sheltered pleasures of Young
womanhood set regretflhly aside for
the fatigues and dangers OF the
business world.
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tons and our form of government,
TINS clamor for Congress to invade
state sovereignty is impairinG the
fundamentals on which American
civilization rests. 1t permits the cit
lZen to avoid community responsible
lty and 1t places Il burden on the Fed
cral Government which it cannot car
ry. In a quiet, creeping and persist
ent way, year by year, it is\creating
bureaucracy at Washington, which
in time will know no master.
The responsibility for he'enforce-
ment of laws pertaining to intoXicat-
ing liquor, larceny in interstate COM
merce. the dissemination of obscene
literature, fraud by stock selling
schemes. the distribution of narcotics,
larceny and embeZZlement from State
banks belonging to the Federal Re-
serve system and many other similar
laws now rests on the Federal Gov
eminent. The Department of Justice
is staggering under the load imposed
by such police laWs-laws that in all
common sense in the broad scope they
now cover invade to an unjustified
extent the natural scope Of State
sovereignty.
Il doubt if anyone knows within
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-04
"BlG BILL" BREEDER OF
TROUBLE

How many recall Big Bill Hay
wood, the communist who went bel
lowing about this country making all
the trouble he possibly could until
Uncle Sam put stop to it and Hay
wood was placed under bail of $50
600, bail which he jumped, sailing
away to Russia where he dreamed of
Communist conquest and doubtless
hoped to return to do in this coun-
try what Lenine was doing in Rus
STA? Then we heard of him as in
viting American men and money to
Russia to join him in a wonderful
scheme, claiming to have vast con-
cessions of coal and iron and Won
derful prospects of untold wealth.
Some responded to the invitation.
Several have been heard from but
not one of the number had anything
but disgust or worse to report. The
latest is Edmund J. Mcguire writing
his experiences for the September
McClure's. He was a former mem
Der of the American army in Siberia
and was lured to Russia by the Hay
wood propaganda. He had suffered
in the army and had witnessed hor-
rible sights but says they were not
as bad as those he found in parts of
Russia.
Hope died there. The factory is
complete. all right-a complete
wreck. Roofs are either missing en-
tirely or so leaky that they are use
less. and the machinery is rusted be
yond repair. BY some miracle one
blast furnace has been kept going
and a part ~ one rolling mill. About
five thousand Russians are doing the
| work of hundred men" The coal
mines at kemoroyO. about thous =
and miles north, We're no better off
he adds. They were flooded and it
would take years of intensive effort
before they could be gotten into pro-
duction.
"The first intimat ton I had that
Haywood had any connection with
the colony was upon the arrival of
our ship in Petrograd, when Hay
wood rushed aboard to greet US. and
at the very first opportunity-within
my hearing-bulied our treasurer
into giving him $3.50 from our emer-
gency fund for personal expenses
Later Mcguire learned he relates,
that Haywood and his associates had
no concession at all. but only the
promise of a concession if they should
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detention quarters but with the
steamship companies and the i'm
migrants themselves. The excluded
are naturally resentful, he says.
Those who have been fattening on
the profits from dumping the immi-
grants into this country, too, are
naturally resentful, but it looks very
much as though they would have to
do their own cooling off
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>Nr ;v1 ~ ans er
c p q - app 4 r e. a.

No sooner had Little Jack Rabbit
| finished speaking than an immense
| layer cake appeared on the magic nap
| kin and close beside it lay striped
! peppermint stick as long as tele-
graph pole, while a little chocolate
coated mouse ran heller SHELTER here
and there. All this happened because,
in the last story, you remember, the
little dwarf had told Little Jack Rab-
| bit how to use the magic napkin.
All of a sudden. a great big giant
ess STROBE through the forest, and,
! sitting down beside the napkin, pick
ed up the peppermint stick and broke
it in two. Then she bit q piece as big
! as a barn door out of the layer cake.
At this the little chocolate mouse be-
came so frightened he ran away.
| Then the giantess walked home,
| leaving the bunny boy and the parrot
| to go their way. BY and by, after a
while, they came to d messy cave
| where a wonderful white flower grew.
do not touch my petals white,
Nor pluck me from my stalk,
Or YOU will rob me of my life
And end my flower talk"
| sang the flower.
II won't harm you" answered the
| little bunny, but tell me- what do YOU
| do here all day in your messy Cave?'
| Il am the queen of the flowers" she
| replied, land all the butterflies are my
winged messengers. l send them
from flower to flower to bring me
news of my flowery kingdom" And
| she opened her beautiful petals wider
| and sang:
Butterflies, hasten upon your
wings,
| over the meadows sparkling grass.
| IN i Oh, ~ lnn.-
| AT her face in the looking glass
| you see" said the wonderful white
| flower queen. Red Rose is very vain
| and instead of giving her perfume to
| the wind she spends much OF her
| time gazing at herself in the mirror.
| lust then the butterflies flew away.
| so Little Jack Rabbit and the parrot
| said eoodby to the flower queen and
! fastened on their journey. BY and by,
| they came to a small cottage in the
doorway Of which a little girl stood
| weeping bitterly. She was crying be-
cause her parrot had flown away
| When the bunny boys little feath-
cred friend heard this. she said: let
me stay with this little girl. 80 me
little rabbit hoped away until he
! came to a pond where mother duck
was scolding her young ones because
they wouldn't go in swimming. she
would swim for little while and then
come up to- the bank and try to coax
them into the water.
AS soon as Little Jack Rabbit saw
them he began TO laugh for the young
ones were not little ducks at all-they
were chickens. only of course the
poor mother duck didn't know that
for nobody had told her. YOU see.
Madam Duck. YOU have brood OF
! chickens" explained the bunny hoy
politely.
When poor Mrs. Duck heard that
she began to CRY. she was so dread
tfully disappointed.
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well. Oh, it is grand thing to have
your health l feel we'll all the time
and can 60 out like other women and
not feel that awful torture. When I
took your medicine first 1 thought it
should cure after the first bottle. but
| am glad my husband kept me at it.
have had nine bottles and now | am
well. Mrs. JENNY EVANS, 1904 La
fayette Blvd, Detroit, Michigan.
If you are suffering from displace-
ments, Irregularities, backache, ner-
vousness or other forms of female
weakness, you should take Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
The reason is given in letters like
these, and we have published thou.
sands of them. You may expect that
medicine that has helped other
women will help you. Try it.
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A WORD FOR ELLIS ISLAND

While it is generally admitted
facilities at Ellis Island are not all
as we would like them to be, that
some attention should be given to
providing these. it does appear that
some of the criticism has been ex-
aggerated. that the fault is largely
that of the steamship companies and
which might be avoided with better
cooperation on their part.
A New York priest. who is a direc-
tor of the Home for Irish Immigrant
Girls, and who has had long ac-
quaintance with conditions at Ellis
Island, comes out squareiy with the
'atement that the chief grievance is
mat the immigrant is detained at
All. The difficulty he finds is not
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-04
The lnsidious Growth of Bureaucracy

NAlleTlcan Ec0nOmlSt)
We have from time to time warned
against the growth of bureaucracy,
the drifting away from the form of
government designed by the Found
ers and prescribed by the Constitu-
ton. The danger of bureaucracy and
its stealthy encroa chmentS are point
ed out in recent speech by Hon.
John H. Grim. Assistant Attorney
General Of the United States in the
following:
Most emphatically it may be said
that the entire structure of the Fed
eral Government has its foundation
on local government For many
years there has been a powerful cur
rent of political opinion flowing
through our society, devitalizing To-
cal government under authority of
the State, and saddling police respon-
sibility on the Federal Government
that is essentially the function of To-
cal government. Illogical and incon-
sistent with our customs, our tladi-
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Accommodating


All out of breath a little Fat ran
clambered aboard an interurban car
which was just pulling out of the sta
ton.
Amt very obliging.," he grumbled'
I'VE saw YOU coming and waited Tor
You nearly a minute" the conductor
replied.
We'll, where I come from the street
car men are more obuging."
DO they wait for you there" d.
Wait for me. Why, man alive II
they have started when they see me
coming, they always back up
Youngstown Telegram
my wife is always borrowing
trouble"
What kind OF trouble is she Dor
rowing now"
shes afraid whiskers will be IN
style when our little boy grows up 50
that he will not have a chance TO sno"
the cunning dimple in his chin.
Jenkins. an Office boy in city once
approached his boss one morning 'ss'
week.
IF YOU please. sir"
well, Jenkins"
"My grandmother. sir
AHA, your grandmother 90 y"
Jenkins :,
My grandmother and my mother.
WHAT And your mother, too! 6o'"
very ill-eh?''
mo, sir. Ny grandmother ana ~.
mother are soin' TO tSe Jockey ma, -
after dinner and thAsyo liant M w
stay at home and rNAd m! INV
brother"
jenkins got the afteEson on.
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Railroads and Steamboafs
MAINE CENTRAL HsiLeo.n
Eastern STANDARD Ti.ne SHu
TRAINS lKAvE Alse,frr


Bangor. t124S q. m. 10. .,.,
s4.55 am. 1925 a. m. ts e.. ,,s Slla
t2.43p.m., i3.li p. m. tS4op' m Pm.
B.&A.Pts.. tI2 4sa.rn.. f23fa ,,o,.
Bar Harbo.. 70 81 no, fi2.2Sp n 'i||0ra
Bath, 1919 am. 10 10 m. tio "a - /. .
p. m. +iO.4s p. nj. = mrt@
Belfast. g 55a.m.. 10 nIa.
Boston. %. IL 2. m. 1919 a. m "a issn
sio9 a m. 2.5s p. m. tfo5 p a., f5sss a.
calais. f2sIa. m. tl2asbm
Dover Foxcroft. C455a 70. ,t2.43en
Gardiner. 70 la. m. ts.i9a. N fe1c
tloN am. rs pm. tf05 o. n, tSisss
1923 P M; 49, p. m. fto4sp. m.
Hsllovell. 1919 a. m. fol9a. "a. gfoA.
tS2sP. N" t95 F. m; t''l5p. N. i5sSe =
Harmony. Cf55a.Jn', t24aau
Lewiston. 1913 a. m. ts.Isa'm t,oo
i4.05 p. m. 40. IS p. m. IN,
New York. 1899 p. m. t4.o5 p. N.
Portland. 1912 a. m. fS.lsa. to,a.
1929 a. m, SO p. m. t4.05 D IA. E;ann
f7,35 p. m. *l0.4s o. m '''spa.
Roc1land. te.19 a. m. telea nm
Skorhegan. Ci.55 am. 70. &c an. tsSS.n
q .43 pm. $40 p. m.
So. Gardiner, 1919 a. m. foloa .,n.,
A. m. So p. m. t5l5 p m. 1888 o. m ".
p. m. +l04S p. m. ~ w. i'@'
s.. John, tl2.ts a.
, "A; ,,as !. an u Is r.fisssa
.paily. I Daily e1eep. Sunday. isu.a., ~.
I Daily. except Mon1ay. n Wy
= Except Sunday and Mc1day.A
DC. DOUGLASS. MI. BApswS
'-2S ~ V. P. & Ge7l M~-. Gen1 Pas. T..
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of mind? Is there any single spot
where the disease can be isolated and
attacked? There is. AS long as men
care more about external possessions
than they care about inner growth
the cultivation of finer values, and a
world organized on a basis of good
will, these nightmares will continue
TO behag us. The impulse to get and
keep as against the impulse to share
and give is the final stronghold of
these dehauches of violence. The
enemy? The enemy is not this coun-
try or that. The enemy is within you
and me.
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Chaplain E. r Lame of the First
Coast Defense Command, Maine Ma
tional Guard had a miraculous escape
from serious injury on the Fort Will
liams parade ground when he was
thrown from his saddle, his foot
caught in the stirrup and he was
dragged for nearly 100 yards before
he could stop his horse. Chaplain
Iaino was with the other officers of
tho National Guard for the morning
riding practice and during a lull in
the movements he and two others
started on a short ride. The chap
lain was travelling at a good rate of
speed when one of the rcins broke off
at tho bit. The sudden break of the
rein threw Chaplain Lame sidewise
and also shifted the saddle. This
combination of circumstances threw
the rider to the ground. his foot
catching in the stirrup. Outside of
being bruised about the shoulders
and body and piece of skin being
rubbed off here and there the chap
lain was uninjured. His glasses
were not broken in the accident In
spite Of the accident and the sore
ness which naturally followed Chap
lain Lame continued about his duties
at the post as though nothing had
happened
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Tuesday, September 4, 1923.

"Constructive criticism is always
helpful. It keeps institutions from
becoming fossiIzed and falling into
does not accomplish it's purpose
merely by pointing out what is evil.
1t must not fail to direct attention,
with more emphasis, to what is good"
president Coolidge.
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BY Ralph +. Couch

Especial to the Kennebec JournaD
Washington. ID. c., Sept. ga fall
ing off in untitled orders of five COM
moditics reflects showing up in gen.
er5l business conditions since April.
This is shown in an index of UNI
filled orders. constructed by the L. S
Department of Commerce. The in
dcN covers untitled orders on the first
day of each month and deals with
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Schedule Effective s.n+ . 49,.

Leave Boston Monday and Tv.,.
day at Z A. NJ. for Bath only.
.Return-Leave Bath same davs \,
$50 7. NJ: STANDARD Timel for Bostcn
Schedule Effective Sept,
Leave Gardiner THURSDAY and su,.
3.45 J.. NJ. Dresden 4.25 Z. NJ Ran
e.20 =. NJ. STANDARD Time) for Bos,on
Return-Leave Boston WednssS.r
Friday and Monday at S. NJ. (Daylisb,
Saving Time) for Bath. Dresden and
Gardiner "@
Connection at Bath next morning IA,
Roothbay Harbor. Christmas Cove ans
waylandings. NA@
Services discontinue for the ses,os
with the sailing from Boston Noniss
September 10th.
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meet set of conditions which
seemed impossible.
And so, Big Bill" who has spent
his life in making trouble for others,
finds that he is making trouble for
himself. And he is one of those who
profess to know just what the world
needs to be happy.
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BOSTON AND PORTLAND LINE
DAYLIGHT SAYING TIM,

Leave Portland. FrankIa Whatt
Estate Pier) week days al ST n
Sundays 8 +. NJ Last Sunday TRIP
Sept. .. leave S P. NJ. (staneard Time
Return-Leave Boston daily ,nciss.
ing Sundays at L. NJ. Last Sunday
trip Sept. ,.
At Boston connection IS made Viz
the Metropolitan Line express freight
and passenger steamers for New Iofk
and points South and West.