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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-25
Thinks Mistake Made
in Coal Legislation
by Last Congress

Clinton, Mass, July 24.-"I re-
regretted to hear upon arriving home
aIter three months absence. in
which l have been out of touch with
american affairs, that the anthra cite
coal situation is again a critical one,
that the prospect tat hcoal will be
scarce and high next winter" said
United Senator David I. Walsh, this
morning. The Senator arrivid in
clinton last night from New York
"nere ne landed from the Lusitania.
still feel" said the Senator, con-
tinuing his discussion of the coal
situation, that Congress made a
grave mistake at the last session in
not passing substantial legislation
instead of handing over the coal
question to a commission for investi-
gation. The commission probably
cannot report before the middle of
the winter. and the findings can have
no effect on the situation as it con-
fronts the people at this time.
II believe before Congress adjourn
cd that the President should call an
extra session Immediately to ask up
on the coal question and other mat
ters which are OF vital Importance
to the people. 1t was a great mistake
not tot do So"
while in Europe Senator Walsh
net many men of Importance in an
unofficial way and delved as deeply
as possible into conditions over there,
especially as they affect the Ameri-
can people. He was completely con-
WINGED that the Europe people do not
care a rap for moral assistance from
the United States. More people in
this country are worrying about
Europe than in Europe itself, he said.
1.-THE 'dea that they are whining and
Weeping for moral assistance is
preposterous," he said.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-25
oriain of the FIoppinq ealoshes

Sometimes a buying habit breaks
out almost over night and the de-
mand far outstrips the production of
goods. Take the instance of the low
ly and much Cartooned galosh, for
example. Almost simultaneously re-
tailers in all parts of the country re-
ceived unprecedented calls for these
and manufacturers were instantly
swamped with orders. Here is how
it happened:
In a certain college for young
women most of the girls wore
galoshes simply because conditions
forced them to-not because they
really liked them, not at first. Class
rooms were located in various build
ings and in Winter it was necessary
to wear a warm, dry foot covering In
crossing the campus to the various
classes.
Often only very short time inter
vened between classes, and no time
could be spent in buckling galoshes,
and as result of this, the girls hur-
ried along with the unbuckled
salOshcs Tapping. ABOUT their ankles.
Other girls in the college toWnssaW
this and initiated the custom. And
the craze developed into Nation
wide buying habit which women and
girls adopted at once. Also, a larger
demand became apparent for mems
galoshes. From the standpoint OF
health this buying habit is a very
sane one in spite of the general
masculine dislikes for the Hopping
galosh. This flap is now definitely
eliminated, thanks to the longer
skirts of the present season.-Na-
tons Business,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-25
Prof. PheIps' Father Good Sport

Let me add that 1 never saw a
prize fight, and have no intention of
seeing one. But professional f1sti-
cuffs do not shock me, and I see no
reason for all the hurly- burly against
them. Thousands of good people who
are shocked because two athletes
strike each other with fists uphold
murder between nations as not only
necessary, but holy. If could swal-
low a camel, would not strain at a
gnat.
The l-but-universaI interest in a
priZe-fight is fact that we must
recognize. 1t may be 1amentable, but
there Is no good pretending it isn't so.
1t extends itself into unsupported
localities. Let me repeat here a true
story / told in The Nation years ago.
My father was an orthodox Baptist
minister. He was a good man and is
now with God. He had never men,
toned the subject of prizefighting
and I was not aware that he took
the slightest interest in it. When he
was well over seventy, / was reading
the news to him one day, and l read
the headline "Corbett Whips Sui
livan." 1 was about to pass on to
matters of Importance, when to my
amazement he leaned forward and
said earnestly: Read it by rounds"
From "As I Like It." by William
Lyon Phelps, in Scribner's.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-25
NEWS BRIEFS

/, Chicago, July 24-(By A. P.)-
Criminal action by the federal gov
eminent against San Francisco build
ing material dealers to protect the
right of building workers to organize
is in view. Attorney General Daurh
erty announced here tonight. The
dealers and certain trade associa-
tons are charged with conspiracy to
boycott labor unions by refusing 10
furnish material to contractors en-
plOying organized wrkers.
Norfolk. Va. July 24.-After being
aground for several hours off Cape
Henry. the barlentine Macerata was
floated late today by the coast guard
cutter Apache Undamaged, she pro-
ceeded toward Boston with a cargo of
coal.
Mannheim. July 24.-Seven hundred
and fifty married railroad workers and
more than 1000 members Of their fam
lilies have been evicted from the Pala-
innate by the French in the past three
weeks. They were permitted to take
with them only necessary articles of
apparel.
Berlin. July 24.-The Prussian min
lister of the interior has authorized the
governors of all the provinces to issue
decree prohibiting public meetings
and open-air demonstrations until fur
Their notice. The order is aimed at the
communists. who are planning an anti
Fascist day throughout Germany on
July %.
New York. July 24-Charges that
documents belonging to the knights
of the ku Klux Khan Inc. had been
"wrongfully and unlawfully" bought
fpnrnCpnfaflEn
Hearst's International Magazine
were made and denied in Federal
court today, during argument in the
l<lan's suit to have the magazine
enjoined from publishing them. Judge
WinSl0w reserved decision
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-25
Ask Reserve Officers
Help in Recruiting
Army to Full Strength

Washington, July 24-An appeal to
members Of the officers reserve corps
to help recruit the army to its au-
thorized strength. has been mailed
to each of the seventy seven tious-
and members of the corps by Major
General Davis, adjuant-general of
the army. The reserve officers are
asked to bring in one recruit in order
tffata summer training work for the
national guard, civilian military
training camps and reserve officers
training corps units may go ahead
full speed next year.
During the present fiscal year"
General Davis said In his letter to
the reserve officers. there will be
separated from the army some "a
600 enlisted men mostly on account
of expiration of their terms of SER
vice. or these, about $4,000 will be
separated by January l, 1924. Some
of these men were enlisted throguh
the untiring efforts OF many Of you
now IN the reserve corps who were
then IN active service.
1.-THE authorized strength Of the
army Is $4,000 men, while the &C.
tual strength Is now about 10000.
With the limited funds and facilities
for recruiting and the consequent
lack Of opportunity of presenting the
situation to the patriotic youths of
the country, the problem Of filing
these vacancies is large one"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-25
Trx This SnfnetimA

1t was $50 on the subway express.
The morning papers We're being furi-
ously persued, with much crinkling
and. good natured elbowing. Sudden
ly the severely tailored young woman
discovered something interesting in
her paper. Her excitement was
noticed by her neigTAbor and his
curiosity was so aroused that his
glasses nearly slid off his nose as he
tried to read over her shoulder.
She smiled, drew a hairpin and
proceeded to perforate along the
edges of the article that so inter
ested her. read it again and tucked
it into her bag. Across the aisle
the plumper matron noticed the
empty square and feveri5hly turned
her own to the same page. The
youth next to her also noticed
the empty square, but as he
had a different paper he leaned over
the matrons shoulder in the most ap-
proved subway fashion only to find a
recipe for a complexion cream. The
matron began to tear it out too; by
th"t timo there were about a half
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-25

! Biologists estimate that there are
7.0O0,000,0O0 barrels Of oil left In
American soil. The treasure store
in the soil of the rest Of the world
is estimated at $4,000, 100000 bar
rels.
Over 500,000o0o barrels Of oil
were used by the United States last
year. At that rate Of consumption
Increasing every year-the United
States has IA years supply left.
Elsewhere are Supplies for over a
century.
1t is this supply which England
is out to get-has already succeed
ed in cornering. according to the
triumphant cry OF the London
Times, the powerful organ Of Brit
ish capital, and the unofficial mouth
piece of the British Government
England Wins-to Lose
For four bitter years England
fought to destroy the German navy.
q growing threat against her posi-
ton as mistress Of the seas and of
the commerce of the world. The
conflict raised a new rival, twice
As powerful as Germany-the United
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-25
FIGHT TO DEATH
WITH AXE, GUN
AND STILETTO

New York, July 24-Fighting with
stiletto, axe and revolver by the light
of a Pickering wick in a glass OF
olive oil in tiny room of an East
Side tenement, Anthony Giordano
GO years old, and his wife, Theresa
81 years old today inflicted fatal
wounds on each other. Both We're
dead when found by the police.
Neighbors declared. police said
that the couple frequently quarreled
but that Giordano had been acting
strangely for some time. Police as
serted he probably had attacked his
wife with the axe and had been re-
pulsed by the stiletto. Both bodies
We're pierced by bullets and slaShcd
in several places.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-25
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
RRTsHDUTcH CONTROL

we secure the supplies Of oil now
available in the world we can do
what we like"
E. Mackay Edgar, London banker
and oil man, recently said that in
ten years America will be buying
SOC. 100000 barrels of oil annually
from Great Britain at cost of at
least $1,000, 900, 900. "All the known
oil fields" he added, "all the likely
or probably oil fields outside the
United States itself are under Brit.
ish management or control and
financed by British capital"
How did this astonishing and dan.
gerous condition come to pass? Sim
ply because the United States Gov
eminent, far from encouraging the
development of the American oil in
dustry, has followed a policy direct
ly opposed to that Of the British
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-25

Of tie British Government, which
bought into the Anglo-Persian Oil
Company and now owns the con-
trolling interest; the British Gov
eminent, which took control Of the
British Petroleum Company, the
Homelight Oil Company and the
Petroleum Steamship Company,
owned by the Deutsch Bank, during
the war: the British Government,
financially interested in the new
$35 ,0O0.000 refinery in Wales, to sup
ply 80 per cent Of the country's gas
oline; the British Government,
which sent its military forces. &C.
companied by a complete geological
outfit, into Mesopotamia while Eng.
lands back was ITO the walr' in
France.
In 1915 1T. Hon. Walter Runci.
man, President of the British Board
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-25

During the war, while Haig was
fighting with his back to the wall"
in France and every man and gun
was needed there, some critics won
dered why England was conducting
an Independent little campaign down
in Asia Minor against the compare
lively inoffensive Turks and desert
tribes. Perhaps the statement Of
Sir Charles Greenway, managing d.
rector of the Anglo-Persian Oil Com
pany, reflects some light on the sit
uation. At the first meeting Of his
company following the war he said:
How far the Mesopotamia expe.
dition has tended to bring about the
successful conclusion of the war I
will not venture to express an opin.
ion, but Notwithstanding attacks
which were at one period of the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-25
Far East Eats More Meat

The Far East, especially Japan, is
eating more meat than in former
years. according to d. A. Cameron
and H. f. Powell, representatives of
the Austrian Meat Council, of sgd
ney. who have gone to the Philip
pines to make an investigation with
a view to increasing meat shipments
to the archipelago.
"There is a growing demand for
meat in the Far East" said Mr..
Cameron. The Far East countries
cannot supply this demand and we
believe Australia is the logical source
of supply. We can furnish approx
mately $4,000 tons of meat yearly.
"Lean meats are sent from Aus
tralia to the warmer countries, the
fatter meats going to the colder
ones. Not all countries want to buy
the frozen meats. Java. FOR instance,
likes to do her own killing, and wesr-
ern Australia does a small trade with
that country in live bullocks."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-25
World Battle for Oil Cribs Three Continents

Government. The American oil in.
dustry, which has met every demand
for its product, and consistently
kept the price of gasoline down to
less than half that paid in other
countries, has found it's greatest bar,
rier in the government which 1t
served. Whatever the vices or vir.
tues of the old Standard Oil Com
pany, 1t got oil, and kept the Ameri.
can flag on the high seas when it
was unknown except as flown by q
tanker.
Foreign Loss by Regulation
The United States Government
broke the Standard Oil Company in
to 81 pieces, leaving each Of these
members of the original body to OBJ.
tain for itself sources OF supply,
transportation and refining facilities,
and market outlets if it could. While
the Standard parts were striving to
reconstruct themselves and func-
ton as separate units, as a group
they sank to second place In the
production of American oil, the hum
dreds OF independent companies
gaining leadership. Competition at
home was so keen, and this recon-
struction process so difficult, that
there was no surplus energy in the
American oil industry to carry on
the fight so aggressively begun by
the old Standard Oil Company for
this country's rightful share OF the
oil fields of the world.
And now, with the British Hon
roaring its triumph, government
throttling Of the American oil In
dustry still goes on. A subcommit-
tee of the Senate Committee on
Manufactures, headed by Senator
La Toilette, spent months of the
last session of Congress Investigate
ing the oil companies.
More Government Interferenee
Out of this investigation came q
series of recommendation based on
the amazing statement that two
American companies divide the
world between themselves"-recom-
mendations not to assist the oil COM
panies, as England has done; not
even to let them alone, to develop
and win back some OF the lost
ground il they can; but to regulate
supervise, limit markets, compare
earnings. confiscate pipe lines. fur.
Their investigate, prosecute II pos
sible, and in addition add the bur-
den of more government bureaus.
American oil biologists are sec
ond to none, and the American drill.
er is the best in the world. Her
bert G. Wylie, former oil driller in
the jungles of Mexico, now vice
president of the Mexican Petroleum
Company, recently said:
"All we want to know is that there
is a government at Washington be-
hind us, and we win get all the oil
this country needs" n
There is-a long way behind.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-25
Gets Night in
MOrgue for Attempt
to Take Own Life

Lima, Ohio. July 24-Charles vor-
hees, 60 years old. father Of six
children, decided Monday to kill him
self, by standing in the middle Of the
Pine street car tracks.
Wednesday morning voorhees, will
wake up in cooling morgue.
Police Judge Jackson today fined
him SIS and sentenced him to serve
"a hours in the morgue, and at six
o'clock tonight Voorhees, began his
sentence.
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CUMING EVENTS

June s5-Aug. 50 of NJ. Summer
July lO-Aug. 1o-Batcs Summer
School
July 2l.Aug. 4-103rd Infantry at
Camp DevenS.
July 2C-Piscataquis Democratic wom-
en-, Dover-F'oXcroft.
JAY 2S-Aug. 11munitarian Laymen's
PP eatsmou thst! i. Isle Of Shoals
July sO-Annual meeting State Plumb
ers' Association, Island Park.
July 3O-Aug. 4-3Sth annual reunion
l4th Maine Reginental Association,
Camp Rolan, Long Island, Portland.
Aug. 2-Kennebec Democratic women,
+ Augusta City hall.
Aug S-Third Maine Regiment Asso-
cation 49th reunion. Augusta.
Aug. S-kennebec Pomona, Mt. Vernon.
Aug. S-Monmouth Academy reunion.
/ Girls Clubs tour to University of
Maine.
Aug. 1s-Western and Central Maine
Boys and Girls Clubs tour to Lew
iston and Auburn.
aug. l0.20-Richmond campmeeting.
Augl3-15-Richmond Centennial.
/, Aug. 14-15-Old Home day, Yarmouth.
aug. 15-l6-Fifteenth Maine Regimen
tal reunion, Brunswick and on New
Meadoys river.
Aug 9S. l5.ll!SS-,jEncampment and tour Of
( uonal Guard. Camp Reyes. Augusta.
aug. l5-22-Maine Christian Endeavor
SUMNER school. Y. M. c. A. Camp.
winthrop Center.
Aug l5-16-Annual meeting Of Maine
State UndertakerS' Association,
aug. 16-Hancock County Farmers
field day. Eden.
Aug l5-oliver Hall School Reunion.
Association. Garland.
Aug 16-Field day Of Maine Potato
station Farm. Presque Isle.
/ aug. l7-Somerset County Boys and
!, Girls Agricultural Clubs, field day,
st. Adams.
!. Aug. 1S-l'ield day of Penobscot. Han
Iock and Waldo Pomona Oranges, at
University of Maine campus, Orono.
aug. 21-3O-New England Baptist
summer school, Ocean Park.
aug. 2l-Maine Pathological Society.
MSytn anniversary. Highmoor Farm.
Monmouth.
aug. 22-23-Knox Academy Of Arts
ana ana sciences host to Naturalists and
SCIENTISTS, Rocllland.
aug. I--Pierce Reunion, at home OF
A. ~. s. Pierce. Wade road. Augusta.
"i tHra zss;24 - England Grange Lee
z aug. 22-New England Fat Mems Club.
! Avn annual meeting. Portland.
+ "us 2S.24-Centennial North Arson
aug 2s--knox and Lincoln Boys and
An Mif.s Clubs tour to Augusta.
aug. 2s-ao-Androscoggin Vale y fair,
ssspt' 3--Labor day.
N'pa. o-7-Annual convention, Depart
p pent OF Maine, American Legion.
T RESCUE Isle.
Sep.. s-Westbrook. Portland, Bath.
nsabHnswick. Camden, Eastport, Ken
feeus9nE, Saco. Rockland and Bidde-
SEM ord Daylight Saving ends.
~ ,ro-21-Maine State Federation
f. pMomen's Clubs annual meeting,
o. i9,21-Maine Pharmaceutlca As
sent eaa1iion, Poland Springs.
co,, l4-26-AIaine Universalist State
oc convention, Rockland.
St,s..o -Maine w. c. T. U. annual
o'a1e convention. Pittsfield.
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Hoover Sees Need
Restricting Fishing
In Alaskan Waters

Aboard the U. S. S. Henderson,
July 24.-(By A. PD-Declaring
"pious statements. scientific discus
sion and political oratory will not
spawn salmon" Secretary Hoover,
as head of the governmental de-
partment having to do with Alaskan
fisheries asserted today there must
he temporary reduction in the num-
Der of fish taken from Alaskan wat
crs and at the same time there must
he constructive measures for enlarg-
ing propagation. Otherwise, he said
salmon fishing, now one of the lar
gest of Alaska's industries, will be
lost In a few years.
Mr.. Hoover in statement which
vas based on close range study given
the Alaskan fisheries question while
in the territory as member of
President Hardings party expressed
hope that Congress would act at the
forthcoming session to give federal
administration agencies more con-
Structive powers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-25

ing with one hind claw in the soil
Of Mesopotamia for oil-and struck
it. The Mesopotamian field. one Of
the worlds richest, Is now Eng.
lands.
India is another field-England's.
Egypt is acknowledgements. Trim
idad and British Guiana, England's,
and Venezuela, under British infiu-
ence, are the brightest prospects in
South America. South and East
Africa--England's. Australia-Eng-
lands.
Government Partnership
Most important of all, the British
are in dominating position in the
Royal Dutch Shell group of com.
panies, the most powerful combina-
ton outside the United States, and
Also with extensive holdings in this
country and Mexico. This places the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-25
Sweater Coats
Preferably Sleeveless

All hail the sleeveless golf coatl
There are styles and styles, Of course,
but it does seem as if the golf sweat
err that boasts no sleeves, is carrying
all before it. While coats of this
order were originally intended for
sports occasions solely, their general
wear characteristics were so readily
appreciated that now they may be
seen almost as frequently in town.
When a sweater is advocated both
for town and country wear, and is
accepted by the most fashionable
women as the logical complement for
the knitted, linen, or flannel skirt,
it is the highest praise it can receive,
and is one more triumph for knitted
outerwear.
The knitted coat or sweater which
is illustrated is one of the most pop
ular types, and is serviceable and
smart at the same time, The low
placed closing, achieved by five but
tons in cluster arrangement. is an
outstanding feature, while the low
cut armhole which makes for perfect
comfort and freedom of movement is
another. The pockets with their rack
stitch borders are salient utility notes.
This particular model is presented
with ciel blue background, the plaid
ed design carried out in buff color
fibre silk stripes, and an added note
of color is effected in the tan cubes
which appear at the center of each
square. Other striking color COM
binations are offered in gray, orange
and sky-blue, white, purple and jade,
and tan, jade and royal blue.
ropyrioht by the Fifth Are. Fashion, Service.
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Morgan Dies, Victim
OVerturning Plane

Newport, r. l., July 24.-H. Cary
Morgan of New York. who was in
Jured when the seaplane Fleetwing
overturned in making a landing here
last Friday, died at a hospital here
today. On Sunday 1t was found
necessary to amputate Mr.. Morgan's
injured leg and he did not rally from
the operation.
Mr.. Morgan was the stepson of
Milton :. Barger and made his home
in New York with Mr.. Barger, Miss
Edna Barger, and Mrs. Barger-
Wallach. He graduated from Har-
ward in 1914. was in the service dur
ing the World War.
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Reject Proposal
Ship Association

Washington, July 24-The Ship
ping Board after an all day session
today rejected the proposal submit
ted by the American Steamship Own
ers Association for the operation OF
the government merchant feet with
out supervision of the board.
In announcing this decision, Chair
man Farley said the board hoped
soon to be able to make public plan
for direct government operation, de-
tails of which are now being worked
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United States in Inferior Position in Struggle
for Petroleum Supremacy, With British
Mastering Future Fields
Oddly Contrasting Neus of the World
Oil Situation

The Senate committee in
vestigating the oil indus
try says
The dominating fact in the oil
Industry today is its complete
control by the Standard compa-
MES. :. Not only this, but two
of the leading Standard COM
panies-New Jersey and New
York-divide the world between
themselves in marketing opera
tions, and each carefully alb.
stains from entering the terri
tory of tho other, while both
refrain from competing with
the AnsIo-Ameriean Oil Com.
pany, Ltd. Zone Of the original
Standard group, In the retail
trade In the British Isles.