Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-15

followed by the organization and
business, and a historical address by
w. H. Eastman of East Sumner. In
the afternoon. Rev. r. Z. Gilkey led
the devotional service after which,
reports from the several churches
were heard. In the evening, Rev.
DIN B. Tracy was ordained.
DR.. ]. Theodore Mariner, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. James E. Mariner of
Cottage Farms, Cape Elizabeth, ar
rived in New York last week from
Bucharest Rumania, where for the
past two years he has been second
secretary to the American legation
there. DR.. Mariner is to remain in
this Country and will be connected
with the State Department of For
cign Relations in Washington, D. G..
A graduate of Portland High School
in the class of 1910. he attended
Dartmouth. being elected to Phi
Beta Kappa in his senior year. and
was identified with college activities
throughout his course. He was
editor in chief of The Dartmouth
and on the editorial staff of the
Bema. the college literary magazine,
and was a member of several of the
college clubs. He received his a.
F., degree at Dartmouth in 1914, A.
NJ, at Harvard, 1915. and his Phi.
D., at Harvard in 1918.
Opposition to the present form of
government in Auburn is beginning
to muster its forces preparatory to
launching campaign to get enough
support to warrant taking the mat
hpfnrn tho 1aoiclo
the Lewiston SUN. There has been
considerable comment relative to the
expenditures of the present Citys
management. Another apparent pig
in the poke" that is causing the
sponsors of the movement to be ac-
tive is the item marked. "All Others
$500" at the bottom of the list
telling what is done with every hun
drcd dollars of the taxpayers
money, and which has been en-
closed in each tax statement. They
are wondering why every other item
is labeled. telling where a certain
sum goes. There is wonderment as
to just what that "All Others"
means, and questioning as to why
it isn't told in detail. I'VE have six
Mayors berth" said a friends of this
movement Friday.
Thousands of school children in
Maine will be entertained for a
month beginning October s, by the
jolly Jester, dramatic health charac-
ter of the American Child Health
Association. of which Herbert Hoover
is president. The Jolly Jester is a
musical clown who advises air,
broadcasts beauty. cultivates color,
eats eggs and feels fine. He is ac-
companied by Minnie Spinach and
Charlie Carrot, ventriloquial dolls,
through whom, because of his
powers as 4 Ventiloquist, he urges
the children to eat green vegetables
and other health producing foods.
He is also a polyphonist, initiating
sounds from many musical instru-
ments, and he has been known to
hold children spellbound while he
appears TO make the sounds of a
violin come from small boys head
simply by running a violin bow over
it. The jolly Jester will be sent to
many of the schools in Maine under
the auspices of Maine educational
groups and will appear before chill
dren of between the ages of to IL,
in most cases.. General supervision
of the Maine engagement is under
the control of the Maine Public
Health Association, w. D. Thurber,
executive secretary, Augusta. I'm
portant as the work of the Jolly
Jester is in the work of the Amer
lean Child Health Association, it rep
resents only one phase of what is
being done by the Association for
children of the country through
parents, teachers and doctors.
Among other services are efforts to
bring about extension of birth regis
tr2tion. system of accurate statistics
regarding infant welfare and dis
tribution of health information for
children in general. The admins
trative Offices of the Association are
at 532 Seventeenth Street, Wash
ington and the executive offices at
$40 Seventh Avenue, New York City.