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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-04

BergdoII Reported In Lower California.
Los Angeles, Cal Reports that
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, sought by
federal authorities for years as a draft
dodger is in the northern part of
Lower California and spends his time
between Enzenada and Tijuana, have
been brought to Los Angeles by pri-
vate individuals
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-04

Hongkong-The fighting for control
Of Canton and domination of the south
between sun Yatsen's constitution,
alists and the factions headed by
Kwanksi leaders, apparently receiving
support from some quarters in Pekin,
still continues along the north and
west rivers. with the issue in doubt,
according to the latest adylces reach
Ing here.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-04
European and American Children,

European and American Children.
Nowhere are children allowed to be
children us long Ms they are In the
United States, Helen Beckett declares
in the New York Sun. The sensible
outfits which mothers and designers
have selected for American children
provide great contrast TO the absurd
styles decreed for the children Of llu-
rope and England. These styles rob
the nations of their children and throw
them into manhood long before nature
meant them to be there, and In Amer
leu alone II seems that boys may be
boys until they are quite through with
their games and their shouting.
In Spain, especially in the inland
elites, the little girls begin to wear
buck ut the age of six. They are
thin and sallow, and their beautiful
dirk eyes look grave and childl!ke
as they walk on their mothers arm
10 church. with their high heels blacl;
frock, long black gloves, black fan
and black mantilu, Il bit Of lace
thrown bewltchIngly over the eyes In
the swelterlng heat Of July.
There are tens of thousands Of chill
dren in Latin countries who look in
appropriately dressed. In the Azores,
for instance, one may see & lad of u
in long trousers, long, blnck frock cont
with buttOnhOle bouquet; he carries Il
cane, his hat and gloves (Which he
must hold just so and never put on
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-04
oM Agreomsnt Is sIaned at Anpora

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Chester agree
ment granting American concessions
in the development Of Anatolian oil
fields was signed at Angora Monday,
In the face of French protests, the
Turkish commissioner Of public works,
Feizi BeN and Colonel Kennedy of
the Ottoman-American Development
company, affixed their signatures to
the final papers, dispatches stated.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-04
U. s. InveotIaatInn KIlIIna Of seaman

Q. s. Investigating Killing OF Seaman,
Washington, D. C.-Frederick NJ,
Ryder, American consul at Vancouver,
B. c., was instructed by Secretary
Hughes to Investigate the firing on
the American schooner Sloan by q
Canadian fisheries patrol, which re-
suited in the death of j. M. Yorke, a
member of the siloam'g crew.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-04
Emerson Houeh, Novelist, pIea.

Chicago. Emerson Hough noted
writer of stories dealing with Amer.
lean frontier and pioneer life, died
at the Evanston hospital here, He was
&C years Of age.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-04

Sponsor of Hiram Johnson Is Dead.
San Francisco. = Charles Stetson
Wheeler, sixty, prominent San Fran
cisco attorney and leader in California
politics, who in 1920 placed Hiram
Johnson in nomination at the Repub-
lican national convention, died sud
denly at his home here.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-04

Turks and Allies Unable to Agree.
Lausanne. - The Turks and allies
were unable to agree on any major
question before the economic commits.
sion at the Lausanne peace coufer.
ence
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-04

The state federation of women's
clubs has suggested that each town
in the state be known for a certain
kind of flower
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-12
BREAD WINNERS OR BREAD.
+ LINERS?

Samuel Gompers is not overlook
ing his obligations-as he compre-
bends them-to his employers. or
ganized labor. One we'll may won
der IL he fully comprehends those
obligations, whether If he does he
has the courage to meet them as they
should be met.
He criticizes the Federal Coal
Commission. Now it is not suppos-
able this Commission is above criti-
cism. indeed it might profit from
merited criticism. which we do not
think that advanced by Gompers is.
He charges the Commission with
aiming to make strikes, begun for
the purpose Of freezing the public
into compliance, impossible. He
would insist on the unalienable right
Of man to strike, whether in the
ranks Of the army in the face of the
enemy, in a police force when threat
ened by lawlessness, stoker Of the
train in rnid-desert, or the workman
who assumes to provide fuel for the
country.
AS an excuse for such attitude he
tells us that the operators have been
robbing the public and that this is an
argument against forcing the miners
to work. But tire Commission has
found that coal is public necessity
and that II the operators do not
handle their responsibilities in a
proper fashion the Government
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-12
IS LITTLE JACK RABBIT
w. : + u s:Sss:sa DAVID cory

close to Little Jack Rabbit, but when
he felt the heat Of the feather he
stepped back for his hair would have
been singed IL he hadn't.
LETS be friends, he said. "You
come back to my Pumpkin house and
tell me a story of your adventures
and | will give you piece OF pump
kin pie".
Little Jack Rabbit followed the tiny
fellow into the Pumpkin house and
sat down on a stool, when, all OF
sudden there came q loud knocking
at the door.
who is that? asked Jack O'Lant-
ern, lifting the latch.
There on the doorstep stood Black
Swan with a necklace Of gold around
his neck.
who are you? asked the Jack
O'Lantern, for he had never seen a
Black Swan before because they are
rare even in Fairy Land.
II am in great trouble, said the
little fowl. II have lost the beautiful
gold locket that hung on the end Of
my necklace and it is so dark that
cannot find TT.
"Nait until the Twinkle, Twinkle
Star comes OUT, replied Jack O'Lant-
ern.
II can't wait another minute,
sighed the Black Swan, dropping his
wings for he was very unhappy over
the loss Of the beautiful locket and
the reason he was so unhappy was
because 1t held the picture OF a
beautiful white swan whom he was
to marry on Easter Day.
ooh well', said Jack O'Lantern,
"Tll come out and help you find it,.
Taking a little pumpkin lantern or
the mantelpiece and telling Little
Jack Rabbit to follow, the three OF
them went out to look for the lost
locket.
1--WE ought to find it easily, said
Jack O'Lantern with a grin, for my
little lantern has two eyes,! And II
he doesn't grin too much maybe he'll
find the little locket by the time l
write the next story.
Copyright 1928. David Cory.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-12
Interest and "interests"

(Boston Transcript
After allowing for all legitimate
diversity in the special missions of
the various magazines and for the
less marked diversity among news
papers, a broad and common ground
of service remains on which all pub
locations stand. In giving news or
in Offering comment, it is true
enough that the supply should spell
something more and something high
er than merely catering to or strain
ing to create demand. The work is
business and it must not lose sight
of the business methods necessary
for success; but it is also much more
than mere business, for it is a serv-
ice involving a large measure OF
trust. Whatever be it's special aims
or policies, a leading magazine or
paper must really lead. Its readers
look to it for matter which they
could not get without its agency, and
they rightly rely on the vision which
the Journals facilities and experience
should give it to furnish them what
they need as we'll as what they di-
rectly crave.
One can but recall the eve of
Americas participation in the late
war, in this connection. One re-
members how long 1t took for the
general public to realize what Prus-
sianism meant to the world in gen.
eral and to us in particular. Had the
press simply confined itself to re-
porting overt and particular acts, in
Guiding even such an eye-opening
act as the sinking of the Lusitania,
1t Is doubtful whether the country
would have become psychically pre-
pared to do its duty in time to do It.
A revelation of the system and ulti-
mate aims of Prussianism and a CO.
ordination of facts, both current and
past, were really called for in order
duly to enlighten the public mind.
Little by little this great duty was
performed by the press as a whole,
and correspondingly the reading
public became as much interested"
in principles as in happenings and
not, as it proved, too late.
And of course the same kind Of
obligation, even If less intense in the
degree of its urge, obtains in time of
peace. Readers have a moral right
to know all that the press can tell
them about vital public Interests"
even If at first they may be Inter
ested" only in facts showing certain
popifS cilcctS VI certain movements.
And so with basic historical matters;
1t is far more important to know
what Washington did for his coun-
try than to know whether he had
false teeth or not. II there be room
for microscopic. biography and his
tory as well as for the telescopic
brand of them. well and GOOD: but
the vital things must not be neg
lected. Taken as a whole, does the
press neglect them?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-12
KEEP 1T IN MIND

Here is something from the report
of the Federal Coal Commission,
which it will be we'll for all parties
interested. and that includes about
everybody, to keep in mind:
Coal is quite as much a public ne
cessity as gas, street railway service,
OF any other service or commodity
that has been brought under public
regulation. There should be no Sc
crets from the public in regard to
mining costs, profits, salaries, wages
or corporate relations. Banks and
insurance companies are privately
managed because we find by expert
ence that they can be managed more
efficiently and economically on the
principle of individual responsibility.
But, like railroads, they are required
to report to a public authority and
they are subject to such regulation in
the public interest as experience may
show to be necessary and public
opinion may from time to time ap-
prove. The guiding principle in such
enterprises is no longer maximum
profit ITO owners, but maximum SER
vice to the public.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-12
WEEKS MILLS
Passes 9oth Birthday

TdSSee SVth 6lrthday :.
Rev. ]. r. Hall passed his 9Cth
birthday June 29th and although be-
ing blind for nearly 80 years is a re-
markably smart old gentleman and
still breaches in the chapel near his
home that he loves and helped to
erect. He received 11S post cards
and "a letters on his birthday, re-
ceiving them from the church at
Bangor and Waterville and from
friends in California, Washington.
Massachusetts,, New Brunswick. No
va Scotia and surrounding towns in
Maine.
Ray Clifford had the misfortune
TO break his arm while painting a
building in Palermo, the grapple CIV
ing away and letting him down. He
is getting along as well as can be ex.
pccted. 80
Mrs. Tilson Of Belgrade preached a
very interesting sermon Sunday
morning at the chapel to an appre-
ciative audience.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Fish and Fred
Fish OF Winslow were Sunday callers
OF Rev. and Mrs. J. r. Hall.
Mrs. Sarah Mclaughlin of Albion
is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Ham
mond on Deer hill
The village school closed June 20
after a Is weeks term taught by Miss
Alta Doe. The entertainment in the
evening was excellent and much en-
Joyed by parents and friends. The
teacher and pupils have worked hard
10 earn money to put water into the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-12
Newer Form of Iron
Quickly Increases Pep
Strength and Energy

You cannot be we'll and strong. ana
full OF vigor, force, and power unless
your blood is rich in iron" says DR.,
James Francis Sullivan, formerly ply
stefan Bellevue Hospital (Out-Door
Department., New York, and the West
chester County Hospital. 1T is your
red blood that enables you to resist and
overcome disease and that nourishes
every organ in your. body Without iron
your blood becomes thin, pale, and
watery. Poor blood cannot nourish
your vital organs and as a result you
may have pains in your heart or Kid
neys, indigestion, headaches, and feel
all rundown and tired-out."
When your blood lacks iron do not
waste your time taking stimulating
medicines or narcotic drugs, but d.
rectly enrich your blood with the new
err form of iron sold by all drugaisfs
under the name OF Nuxated Iron which
Is like the. iron in spinach, lefitils, and
apples and Is in a form easily assifili-
lated into your blood.
Get a bottle of Nuxated Iron today.
Take 1t for two weeks and IL you have
not. like thousands Of others, obtained
most surprising health. strength and
energy, the nAnufacturers.wi1I prompt-
~ refund your money. The follow.
ing local drngsists will sell y6n' Nux-
ated Iron with this ."satisfaction or
money back" guarantee.-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-12

should take it away from them and
run it until the public emergency had
been met. Does Mr.. Gompers object
to that?
He says the Government should
insist on fair play for the miners.
Yes, but no more than for the oper-
ators or for the public; indeed from
a practical standpoint if it success
fully insists on fair play for the pub
lie it will have accomplished about
all to be expected of the Govern
ment
Furthermore Gompers declares
that if the miners be given fair play
"there is no danger of their strik-
ing" Does he expect us in the light
of all that has happened. to believe
that; that the miners are the ones to
determine what is and what is not
fair play? If they should be found
capable of justly determining their
own demands they indeed would be
fitted to take charge of the mil
lenium. Crops are rotting in the
fields because the farmers cannot af-
ford to pay more than six dollars a
day for harvesting them. Well, high
paid labor in the cities won't get the
benefit of those rotting crops any
more than will the farmer. By so
much the food supply of all the peo-
pie is lessened. One day this week
men applied for work in a neighbor-
ing state. They were told that en-
ployment could be had in the hay
fields at six dollars a day. No, they
preferred to loaf unless they might
get seven. They, prefer to let others
who work support them in the bread
! line. Is that spirit Gompers
p: would encourage? That is what he
, is doing. He does not believe in the
methods of the Russian soviet
oligarchy. Yet this is along the line
they attempted, to compel the farmer
to raise their food. They failed
Organized labor, unless it may get
control of the seasons, will also fail
And when Gompers exerts his inf1u-
ence to interfere with the adjustment
! of supply and demand, to raise the
hours of city labor so high and the
work hours so short that labor
leaves the work of producing crops
he is training UP bread lines for the
| future.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-12
"A PERIOD OF UNDERSTAND
lNEO

While President Harding is telling
his hosts in Alaska that he comes
to them as an apostle Of under
standing" that he would like to
have the future refer to his admin
istration as "a period of understand
ing" strenuous efforts are being
made in this country to Great mis-
understanding, as a sort of smoke
screen under which certain am
bilious interests seek advantage.
Samuel Johnson remarked that
having found them an argument Il
am not obliged to find you an under
standing" But johnson had not
! undertaken to establish "a period of
understanding" If so he would
have been compelled to accept the
obligation to find an understanding
| for those who otherwise would not
| have come into possession of 1t. For
understanding is not pebble on the
shore of knowledge to be picked up
/ by anyone, and those who recognize
it must have perception sharpened
by comprehension. And SO, perforce,
President Harding must continue as
an apostle, zealously spreading the
truth as he understands it.
But on President Harding the OBJ
| legation to strive for understanding
does not rest alone. There has been
some improvement since the days of
Lucretius who exclaimed: How
wretched are the minds of men, and
how blind their understandings" but
there is room for more. And it is
! as true as then that much of the
wretchedness of the minds of men is
directly due to lack of understand
/ ing, ignorance or disregard of the
! fundamentals, such as 1.-THE way OF
! the transgressor is hard" even If one
does not know he Is transgressing
look out for the engine when the
i bell rings" caution, dangerous curve
ahead" and so on.
We hope this is as thoroughly ap-
preciated by the residents of Alaska
as 1t should be by all. The President
is there seeking understanding fol
himself as we'll as for them. I'm
doubtedly there are those who viii
reach his ear but not for the pur.
pose of informing him respecting al
the facts. Others should make sure
that these are brought to his atten-
ton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-12

Pretty soon, Little Jack Rabbit
hopped away and by and by, he came
to a great Pumpkin in which lived
Jack O'Lantern. Now Jack O'Lant-
ern was a little fairy who loved to
poke fun at everybody especially aft
err the sun had gone down and the
tall shadows made the forest dark
and gloomy.
He would come out of his Pumpkin
house and make the most dreadful
faces at travellers who were out late,
sending them scurrying home with
frightened tales of little dwarf with
eyes of fire and mouth Of fame.
Just at dusk. as Jack O'Lantern's
fiery face lighted up the darkness,
the bunny boy shouted:
Don't come too near me or l will
burn you up with my flaming gold
feather, and taking off his khaki cap,
he pointed the magic plume at the
naughty fairy.
"IIa, ha"! he laughed, II am not
afraid of a feather. even if it does
Took like a flame. and he walked up
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-12

happened to be in that vicinity and
saw what was going on started after
the stoners but the latter took TO
their heels and disappeared before
their identity could be learned. The
railroad men rescued the dog from
the water but found that his head
had been badly bruised by the rocks
and a cruelty officer was summoned
to put q humane end to the dog S
suffering.
Partridge destroyed thousands of
dollars worth of potential apples
during the past winter in the Maine
apple belt, according to Wilson c.
Conant of Buckfield, one of the lead
| ing Maine authorities on the fruit.
The partridge have found says
Mr.. Conant, that there is much
more sugar in the apple bud
during the winter than there is in the
bud of hornbeam and yellow birch,
their natural winter foods. AS a re-
suit, they will travel miles to locate
in a cover near a large apple orchard
for the winter. Ravages from this
source were excessive during the past
winter because of the unusual
amount of snow which completely
buried all other foods that the birds
would eat, forcing them to depend
entirely upon the buds of trees. Mr..
Conant believes that as a result the
crop which will be harvested in the
orchards of Central Maine the COM
ing fall will be materially decreased
from what the bud indications of the
fall of 1922 gave reason to expect.
Courtesy cards have been printed
in Bath and are being distributed in
order to make the out of town people
feel perfectly at home while there.
These cards will be given out-of-
town people, sometimes by personal
presentation or by tying them on to
the steering wheel of an unoccupied
automobile. Bath is said to be the
first city in the east to adopt a well
come tag of this nature and 1t is be-
| lieved its very novelty will prove Of
great interest to strangers and will
go a long way toward cementing a
friendly interest between the home
people and the visitor. The card or
| tag reads as follows:
Bath, Maine Guest Card .
This card entities you to park
| your car as long as you please
anywhere In Bath, except IN
places marked red which are
reserved for fire protection.
Bath Welcomes You
And hopes you will .return often.
REST ROOM IS FRONT ST.
Approved: ....
Mayor and Chief OF Police
A midget automobile with a 66-inch
wheelbase and SO inches in width has
been constructed by James A. Wild
den of Portland and is commanding
an unusual amount of attention Gid
| ing along the streets of that city.
This snappy little roadster is of the
o-called peanut" type, and is so
small that anyone with good long
| legs can just about step over it with
case. 1t is a unique car, and is COM
plete in every detail. with all of the
equipment that would come with a
standard make of full size car. The
machine stands 3S inches from the
groupd to the top Of the wind shield.
| 1t is mounted on four bronze disk
wheels twenty by four inches with
pneumatic tires. The wheels are
the same as those used on an areo-
! plane, and are demountable. There
has been very little wood used in the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-12

construction of the car, and all that
may be seen is the dash board con-
tanning the instruments which is
complete even to a clock and speed
ometer. The car contains storage
battery and is equipped with electric
lights, the headlights being encased
in nickel finishings. The car has
been installed with the latest Hen
derson motor of the four cylinder
type. 1t is shaft driven and has
regular transmission, that is, three
speeds forward and one in reverse.
And as for speed. Well, the car is
seared for sixty miles an hour. Mr..
Whidden says that q y-mile clip
is too fast for him. Mr.. Whidden, or
Jimmie. as he is more Familiarity
known in automobile circles, is a
native Of Portland and rated as a
first class automobile mechanic.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-12
Reduce Your Fat
Without DIETING

Years ago the formula for fat reduction
was "diet"-"exercise Today it is
Take Marmola Prescription Tablets"
Friends tell friends--these friends tell
others, They eat substantial food. live as
they like and still reduce steadily and
easily. without going through long sieges
of tiresome exercise, starvation diet, and
absurd greases and salves. Marmola Pre-
scripton Tablets are sold by all druggists
the world over at one dollar for case. or
il you prefer you can order direct from
the Marmola Co, 4612 Woodward Ave-,
Detroit Mich.-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-12
ALMA

Horace Hayward and family pass
ca the weekend with Mr.. and Mrs.
j. Hayward.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. B. Hodgdon of
Bath are the guests Of Mrs. Mary Err
skine.
The Baptist society gave Rev. and
Mrs. F. Emerson a farewell reception
az the nome of Mrs. Florence Erskine
Monday evening. A large number
We're present. A lunch was served
Kew. and Mrs. Emerson will leave
THURSDAY for his new field Of labor
ana the best wishes of their many
friends here go with them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-12

Kennebunk, July 11-Nelson Hall,
a University of Maine student, and
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert A. Hall
of Fletcher street was knocked down
and dragged a distance Of Is or more
feet when struck by an automobile
owned and operated by Miss Augusta
English of Kennebunkport about 1916
Tuesday morning. His shoulder was
injured and he was taken to the Web
Der hospital in Biddeford by DR.. A.
]. Simpson. An X-ray will be taken
to ascertain the extent Of his in
iuries.