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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-08-22
Health Institute
Bangor, Aug. 1929
Attractive Program

You can buy potatoes and sugar,
houses and lots, stocks and bonds
but has ii occurred to you that YOU
can buy health? International au-
thorities on public questions have de-
clared that community can have
Just as much health as it is willing
to pay for. The Maine Public Health
Association believes that while the
health OF community depends in a
marked degree upon the amount of
money that the community is willing
TO spend upon such important things
as pure water and food supplies. ade-
quate disposal of garbage and other
refuse, control of epidemics etc, it is
unquestionably true that the average
individual may have health for him.
self if he will do the simple things
which will keep him from falling
victim to preventable disease. These
things may cost little effort and a
little thought but very little money.
Selling" the idea Of keeping well
and pointing out how to keep well, is
one of the principal functions of the
Maine Public Health Assn and it's
local societies and committees which
will meet in Bangor, August % and
20 for the annual meeting and health
institute
Among the speakers for the insti-
tute Will be Mr.. b. G. Eayes of New
York. national director of the annual
Christmas Seal Sale; Miss IVinnifred
Rand of Boston. Director of the Com
munity Health Association; Miss
Mollie Condor of New York, Field
representative of the Survey: DR..
Augustus o. Thomas, State Superin-
tendent of Education; DR.. c. F. Ken
dali, State Commissioner of Health;
Mr.. Phillip Dana. president of the
Dana Warp Mills; DIR. c. A. Moul-
ton, president of the Maine State
Medical Association; Mrs. j. H. Hud-
diiston, president of the State FEEDER
alton of Clubs; Mrs. Sarah Rideout
Abbott, president of the State Par
ent-Teacher Ass'ns: DR.. B. l.. Bryant,
secretary of the Maine Medical Assn;
Mr.. Ralph Weber, Consultant in
Advertising and Sales Promotion; Mr..
Edwin c. Burliegh, associate editor
of the kennebec Journal and numer-
Gus health workers from every sec
ton of Maine. DR.. f. D. Merrill of
Dover Foxcroft, president of the
Maine Public Health Associa ton, will
preside at the various sessions.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-08-22
AN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE

Early in September there is to be
held in Belgium an interallied
veteran conference in which rep
resentatives of the American Legion
will participate. 1t is fair to assume
this conference will not be actuated
by the commercial jealousies and the
apprehension of home politics as are
the diplomats of their countries
whenever they meet.
As to what may be the subjects
which they will discuss hint may
be had from what was done at the
meeting of the federation in New
Orleans last year in which they de-
clared their support of the world
court project and the settlement of
International disputes by arbitration.
Their manifesto had a clause provid-
ing that in case any nation should
maintain armies for aggression, eff
forts should be made to stop trade
relations with that nation. There al
so was clause seeking suppression
of disloyal persons who seek to over
throw government existing by will OF
the people.
Such conferences may not change
greed to kindly consideration or re-
move diplomacy from the influence
Of commercialism but it should help
the people to a clearer understanding
of the truth and this will help
nightly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-08-22
Railroads and Steamboats,
MAINE GENITAL. RAjLRoAp
Eastern Standard Time 's
TRAINS lEAvE AuoaJETA ve~

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t2.43 pm. 1911 p. m. t6.40 p. m. -
BIZ A.Pts.. t12.4s . m. f2 81 m, tl2.as,
Bar Harbor. " 81 . IN, t12.26p. m.
Bath. 1919 am. "a; 10 ana. tf02is .. u. ,Nn
Belfast. ASS am, 1925 a. M. t2As,n
Boston. S312 q. M. 1919 q. M, n, L..
flo2t .. m. t2.5s p. m, taos p. M, is.Ss 81
Calais. fa.s1 q. m. il2.2s .. m.
Doyer-Fozcroft. C4.55 .. m, f2A3 D. m
Gardiner. s2l2 .. M. 1919 .. d., ts.m
i59 q ann; +; T. PM IL Il o q p m ISIS "a
t2ssss ?. M t !tS5 e 2 n; ISIS p m. $685.,
Harmony. CABS .. M, t243 d. m.
Lewiston. ts.l9 q. m, 1919 .. m, il0.A 4.
i4.05 p. m. 40. lS 2. m.
New York. l5.39 p. m. TAOS p. u.
Portland, 1912 a. m. 1919 a. m. teia%
1925 .. M. t2.5s p. M. taos p.m.. 1870 !.
1898 q. m, sl0.4S p. M.
Rocilsnd, fG 10 i. m, 1919 q. M, Am.
Skoahesln. CAS- an. t9.2s an. is.f2s.
i2.43 pm, 40 p. m.
So. Gardiner. 10. 10 .. ~. te.ia .. m. Tia.
a. m. t2;5s P. ~. t5ls .. m. f6.se p n, ' Kh
p. m, *l04s p. N.
St john. ff2.4s .. m.
Wateryiile. HAS 2. m, gi.i0 a. H., en-
an. t55 m. 1925 am, %. ~ am, ia IA.
t2.43 p. m. ts.1l p. n. fslop. N.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-08-22
The President Has Them
+ (Senator Capper in Capper's
Weekly

.
Weekly
The President is not a man of
wealth. He is not even of 1.-The we'll
to-do." He is a poor man. No rich
men reach the Presidency in this
country. Few of our Chief Execu-
tives have been Comfortably off. -
Neither the lack nor possession of
wealth in themselves, of course,
equip or unfit men for the Presi-
dency, but the lack of wealth can
not but give the Chief Magistrate a
sympathetic understanding of the
everyday problems of the vast ma
jority of American folk-"the COM
mon people" as Lincoln. who was
of them, always described them
Above all things else, a President
should have this sympathy and I'M
derstanding. President Coolidge
gives evidences of this attitude OF
mind.
AS I have observed him during
his two years as presiding officer of
the Senate. an outstanding trait of
the new Chief Executives character
is his eminent sense of fairness. He
early impressed Senators with this
characteristic thru his Impotence at
whatever encroached upon or
preached fair play.
AS governor of Massachusetts. the
President revealed another quality
that promises much. That is de-
cision. Openmindedness. fairness
and decision. These should carry
an executive far. President Cool
idge has them. He is utterly devoid
of the theatric and the spectacular.
With him quiet decisivencss takes
the place of the big stick.
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"Better Late Than Never"

Boston Transcript
The explanatory statement issued
by William c. Prout, Massachusetts
Deputy of the knights of Columbus.
concerning the fake" telegram of
greeting telepraphed far and wide
from the convention of the order in
Montreal. as having been received
from President Coolidge, belongs in
the better late than never" class.
To say this. however, does not ex-
cuse Mr.. Prout or the other high
officials of the order for remaining
silent so long: and we can well be-
lieve that his belated explanation has
not wholly, relieved what must be the
embarrassment and resentment of
the large majority of the Knights
over the occurrence.
1t appears that as governor of
Massachusetts Mr.. Coolidge sent to a
state convention of the knights a
cordial telegram of welcome. At the
time the organization was most
active in welfare work for the bene-
fit of the soldiers. sailors and mar
ines. as was the Y. M. G. A. and
Salvation Army and Young Mems
Hebrew Association. To these and to
many other organizations of similar
purpose Mr. Coolidge sent sub
stantially the same greeting at one
time or another during his governor
ship.
Within a few hours of the time
that he took the oath as the thirtieth
President of the United States, and
before the body of the dead Presi-
dent had been received at Washing
ton, there was sent out from Mont
real to the whole world what pur-
ported to be a long and laudatory
message from the new President of
the United States to the knights of
Columbus Convention meeting on
foreign soil. The fact that Mr. Cool
idge should have seemed to rush into
print with such greeting, the
fact that he had refused in the
meantime to issue any statements on
matters of far greater Importance,
so engrosSed was he in the arrange
ments for the last honors to the dead
President, made his reported message
to Montreal seem all the more sur
prising. Of course he could have is
sued at once an indignant denial and
condemnation of those who had
played such a trick upon him. But
that is not his way; he doubtless
realized that the rank and file of
the knights would, when they knew
the facts, deeply resent the advan-
tage that had been taken of Mr.
Coolidge by certain parties, names
unknown" So he bided his time.
Finally. after criticisms have been
pouring into the White House for a
week or more abusing the President
on many scores, Mr.. Prout comes
forward with the explanation that no
such telegram as that given out at
Montreal was~received by the Con-
vention from President Coolidge.
The telegram which years before he
had sent as governor to a State con-
vention was, however, taken by the
Massachusetts delegation to Mont
real and the press representative of
the Montreal convention says he got
it in that way and supposed" it
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-08-22
Wednesday, August e, 1923.
Where law ends tyranny begins.
Pitt: Speech, January 8,
1770.
A NOTE OF OPTIMISM

A note of optimism dominated the
meeting of two to three thousand
Maine farmers at Highmoor Farm,
yesterday. assembled in observance
of the 50th anniversary of the Maine
Pathological Society. 1t is gratifying
that so large number was present
and shared in this feeling that bet
ter times for agriculture are near at,
hand.
OF the farmers present most I'M
doubtedly are engaged in diversified
farming and have not felt the pinch
of those devoted to but one crop, po-
tatoes or wheat, who are suffering
from overproduction> added to their
troubles. All, however, are exper-
fencing the difficulty of paying
wages adequate to securing the right
kind of help, and in some instances,
though not to the degree of the
farmers in the far West or in Aroos-
took are suffering from the excessive
costs of distribution.
anu NiiiC, ollc SpedhSI CA.
pressed It, the present conditions in
agriculture must improve for there
is nowhere else to go, there was in
evidence no mood of desperation, to
resolve like Hudibras 1.-THE desp'rat'st
is the wisest course" On the con-
trary the note of desperation was
only conspicuous by its absence, and
the speakers who urged that it would
be folly to have the Government in
volved in business. unwise to look to
it for the solution of the problems
which the individual, singly or COL
lectively may better solve for them
selves, were listened to with re-
+ spectful attention.
Indeed it seems but fair to con-
clude that the farmers of Maine, as
Stunning this large meeting to be rep
resentative of them, as we believe it
was, are not being swept off their
feet by the crude notion that the
Government at Washington should
guarantee them prosperity.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-08-22

Gray, one of the prominent and in
fluential citizens of Gardiner, came as
a great shock especially to his fellow
townsmen. Mr.. Gray has been one
of'those in that community to whom
the people looked for counsel and
assistance in promoting the welfare
of the city and had host of warm
friends not only in Gardiner but
throughout Maine where he has been
interested in large business enter
prises. His death is a distinct loss
to Gardiner and to the State.
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ST. ALBANS

Mr.. and Mrs. Dinsmore Emerson
started Saturday in their auto ~.
Amherst, Mass, to attend Wv
Grange n. E. conference of Lectua'
ers which is to be held in that piAes
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Rober.sva
and daughter. Elizabeth, OF Meflos'
Conn.,, are guests of his parents. A
Mr.. and Mrs. F. j. Hersey stai N'i
Sunday for Auburn, Mrs. Hersey VIZ
visit there and Mr.. Hersey will ~ J"
Portland to take the local for boS'v.
then the train to birmingham, "ps''
he will visit friends.
Mrs. Isabelle Carr from Mans.s
visited her sister, Mrs. Anna Vih,ss
over Saturday. returning home euI
day. ~
Edwin Southland is having ex,sA
sive repairs made on his bpildiHs,st
Our town is making a strip a.
permanent gravel road on the Co'"
ma road near Stanley HansonA
The Helpful Workers will nay. .,u.
baked bean supper. and entea r.,.s.
ment at the Opera House next 1u'e
0ay
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-08-22
TROY

Mrs. Percy Mutt and children from
Wakefield. Mass, are visiting at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. w. f. Mutt.
The Ladies Aid will meet with
Mrs. Fannie Bagley next Thursday
afternoon, Aug. %.
Miss Edena Pierce entertained Mrs
Estelle Small from Brooks over the
weekend
Inc entertainment and play given
at Troy grange hall last Friday even
ing, was successful and enjoyed by
all The sum of 1920 was received.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Ienintine and
children, who have been visiting at
the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs: Otis Danforth, have returned
to their home in Monticello.
CENTER-The Ladies' Aid Society
VIII meet with. Mrs. j. l.. Baglev.
Thursday afternoon of this week. and
nave the usual picnic supper.
Victor Hathaway returned last
week from Tenants Harbor where he
passed several days at the home of
his uncle, l.. G. Morton.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. w. Halves and their
guests, +. NJ. HAYES and family of
connecticut, were in Bangor, Satur-
Mrs. Flora Allen of Houiton is the
guest Of her daughter, Mrs. /. G..
Reynolds.
Clarendon West is passing some
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-08-22

"Where shall we go?" asked the
old brown horse as he and the lit
tie bunny left the castle where Lit
tie Jack Rabbit had broken the sleep
spell of the wicked witch, as l men
toned in the last story.
Just keep going" he answered.
"Well most likely meet with an
adventure before long,"
All this turned out to be true, for,
all of a sudden, as they passed a
high stone wall, a golden ball fell at
the feet of the good old horse.
"Whoa!" shouted the little bunny
rabbit. But no sooner had he hoped
down to pick it up than over the top
of a high stone wall appeared the
face of beautiful princess.
please hand me back my golden
plaything," she cried.
Il can't reach so far" replied the
little anxious bunny, and even when
he climbed back on the Old Brown
horse he was still too short.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-08-22
THE THYSSENS

Germany has admitted full liability
for the sinking of the Lusitania. 1t
would have been better for her had
she also admitted her liability for
reparations and gone about the work
of paying rather than avoiding them,
instead of blaming all who seek their
rights.
August Thyssen, the octogenarian
iron king of Germany. is bitter
against this country. In a recent inter-
view with an American correspondent
he is quoted as saying: you Amer
leans, in your hypocrisy, are worse
than the bolsheviks, because they put
their cards on the table and say they
are out to destroy our civilization.
while you prattle peace and univer-
sal brotherhood. You leave us to our
fate, and a lot you care what comes
to us. You are the most selfish peo-
pie in the world. You are out for
our markets. The British are just
as bad. The Germans who go whin-
ing for help from you waste their
time and make me sick. You had
no provocation to come into the war
in the first place"
Much should be overlooked in aged
persons, but Thyssen is capable of
running his tremendous business and
| hardly may be termed senile notwth-
standing his remarks, notwithstand-
| ing he considers all save Germans,
selfish and ruthless. A powerful
factor in German industry, has
Thyssen been, his life spent in build
ing up huge business interests, not
speculatively but costructively, who
though they did him, man whose
waking hours were devoted to the
making of steel, who now sees the
French soldiers patroling in front OF
his factories in the Ruhr, factories
capable of furnishing employment to
$4,000 men. He regrets that Ger
many did not build more submarines
and send every American ship to the
bottom. The French, he declares
are out to smash Germany and are
doing it.
Well, If all Germans view the
situation as does Thyssen, who car
blame France for wishing to smash
Germany? The Nyssens have beer
mighty men, but they have learned
nothing except new ways to increase
their wealth. They would work theil
employees eighteen hours a day ano
themselves longer; they would drive
build expand; useful, extremely use
full men, but incapable of adapting
themselves to the times or of comply.
ing with the requirements of wise
tolerance, seeing only their side will
consciences SO flexible as to ap.
prove swindling with paper money
and resorting to any crooked device
to avoid the obligations incurred b!
their defeat in a war of their owr
beginning. They are not good neigh.
bors and France has reason to bt
we'll aware of the fact.
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SECRET OF HIS SUCCESS

One of the most noted, successful
and richest men of this country in a
recent article said. "Whatever I am
and whatever success 1 have attained
in this world owe it all to my wife.
From the day l first knew her she
has been an inspiration and the
greatest helpmate of my life" Health
is the first essential of every woman
who wants to be a successful wife
and to hold the love and admiration
OF her husband. If woman finds
her energies Tagging and dark circles
appearing under her eyes, she has
backache, headaches, nervousness
and 1.-The blues" she should take
Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, the medicine which holds the
record of helping 90 out of every 100
women who try it. There is nothing
bettcr.-Adv.
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LITTLE J. Lex ss2s R lSA7
DAVID CORY

"Toss II to me- said the princess.
Rut oh dear me! She missed 1t and
II dropped into a sprirt, that dubbed
IN in the castle garden to flow away
in a silver stream through the WOODS.
At this the little princess began to
cry for the golden ball sank deep
down in the cool depths OF the spring
and was lost to sight.
"Now, what shall I do?" she cried.
Pretty soon, she united her silken
cirdle and lowered it over the wall
to Little Jack Rabbit who pulled
himself up hand over hand like lit
tie sailor until he reached the top.
Then, jumping down, he looked into
the spring.
Tf I were only a frog" he sighed,
I'D swim to the bottom and get the
ball"
The next moment. a great frog
jumped out on the bank and said:
"Princess, if you'll grant my wish,
I'll dive deep in the spring.
So. promise me my wish to grant
And l, the ball, will bring
"Pll promise anything" answered
the princess, very miserable at losing
her beautiful golden ball.
At once the frog jumped into the
water and diving deep down below
the surface. in a little while up he
came with the golden ball.
What is your wish?" asked the
princess. reaching out her hand to
take the golden ball, but the frog held
back.
Take me to your palace for a
playmate" he answered, but, oh dear
90
play with a frog and without an
other word she took the golden ball
and ran away to the castle.
stop, stop" cried the frog. Take
me in your arms. l cannot run as
fast as YOU"
But the princess only laughed ard
what she did after that you'll have
to wait to hear in the next story.
Copyright 1928. David Cory.
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for lands taken is the fact that many
more MeXicans than Americans have
been robbed of their lands. Are
Americans to be compensated and
MeXicans left penniless? This ques-
ton is already pressing upon Presi-
dent Obregon, and his statement is
sufficient to show how anxious he is
to convince MeXicans that he is not
giving Americans anything which is
denied to MeXicans Nevertheless,
the American commissioners have
insisted upon full compensation to
Americans for lands confiscated, and
it seems highly improbable that
such clear-thinking men as Messrs
Warren and Payne will recommend
recognition of any Mexican regime
that fails to give satisfactory guar
antees in this respect.
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A Faux Pas

At Southern railway stations it is
the custom of natives to sell chicken
pattieS and other delicacicS to pasSen-
gers. a passenger who had enjoyed
a patty and was leaning out of the
window to buy another, asked the
salesman:
"WhcIe did you get your chickens ."
The man rolled his eyes. You all
from de Moth, amt you, sah?" he
queried
Yes" was the reply. But why
do you ask that?"
Case, sab! No genTm'n from de
South cher asks a native whar he gifts
his chicken."-San Francisco Arso-
naut.
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was a telegram from the President
at Washington.
If Mr.. Prout and the others in any
way connected with this unhappy
incident had issued a statement as
soon as the Montreal fake appeared
in print, they would have saved the
President much unjust criticism.
They would have also saved the
knights of Columbus the criticisms
that will descend upon the order by
reason of the belated explanation.
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Without Hypocrisy

An editor of a Western paper. re-
Gently writing of a local improve
ment society and of the conditions
of individual premises. says of one
citizen: There is no hypocrisy about
Brown. He is not one of those men
who bcautifE their front yards and
leave the back yards filled with ash
cans, rusty tin and disorder. No
hypocrisy. Browns front yard is
just as dirty as the back one"
Saturday Evening Post.
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{ as'eTn Steamship Lines Inc.
ExPRxss. PAssENGE8 Am
YRHIGHT SERVICE
KRRNYRYr rYmw

Leave Gardiner Tuesdays. Thursa,r,
and Sundays at 3.45 2. NJ, Dresden y:
J.. M. Bath $50 +. NJ. STANDARD Tin.s
DUE Boston the following morninr
only at $50 A. II. for Boston dirss,s
due Boston about r. NJ. ~1
Return - Leave Boston Fo,,.y.
Wharf Mondays. Wednesdays and a.,
urdays at p. NJ. daylight sayi,.
Time) for Bath. Dresden and Gardirsss
Leave Boston Fridays at P. N. for
Bath only. >"
Connection at Bath with stoa mer IA,
and from Boothbay Harbor, Christina.
Cove and waylandings.
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1EAINE sTEAGSHYP LINE
PORTLAND. NEW YORK FREIexs

Direct freight service between Port
land and New York is resumed fron
the new State Pier. Portland. Ne
Through rates and direct track can.
nections with Maine Central and Grand
Trunk Railroads.. s"'
u. A. CLAY, Supt.
Franklin Wharf, Portland.
NJ. A. HARADEN, supt
jn5dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-08-22

weeks in Plymouth at the home c'
his aunt, Mrs. 4. z. Hopkins
Mrs. Edna Hathaway and daughtsl
Miss Gladys, were Sojourners ~
NorthpOrt for time this season.
Mr.. and Mrs. Farnham Of Bangor
were week end guests of their slseei'
Mrs. Roy Stone and family. 49,.
Miss Edith Estes is passing .ns
week with friends at North Ne"
Portland.
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Editorial Comment
Alas! Work, Blessed Worl
(Biddeford Journall

(Biddeford Journal)
DIR. Steinmetz, the electrical wiz
ard. predicts the coming of time
when we shall have four-hour
work-day and there will be an end
to all drudgery. However, when
that happy time arrives the four
hour workday will soon become
drudgery.
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BATH AHD BooTHBAY LINE
SEanaard Tina

Leave Bath Tuesdays, Thur,d,v,
Saturdays and Sundays at $40 A. II
for Boothbay Harbor. Christina, Gov,
and waylandings. wv
RetuIn-Leave Christmas Cove Tues.
days Thursdays. Saturdays and Sun.
days at j. NJ, Boothbay Harbor an
p. NJ. fer Bath and all landings sxcsn,
Five Islands. Connection at Bath VITA
steamer for and from Boston.