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The Washington times., 1924-01-09
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
By DIR. FRANK CRANE.
The Mellon Plan.


YyHE other day Mr. Mellon, Secretary of the Treas
ury, proposed plan by which the Federal taxes
proposed to distribute the burden Of taxation more
equally and to put it sounder basis. This pro-
posal set forth in the ablest financial document
issued by any Secretary of the Treasury since the
days of Alexander Hamilton.
It is quite important that the people Of the
country understand the gst Of this matter and it will
help them to do so if they keep in mind the follow
It is always easy and usually popular to increase
taxes because that is tantamount to many saying what
few people shall pay For this reason those legisla-
tors who are anxious to get votes and hold their
jobs than they to the people by tax reduc
ton, vote for it.
An election is coming on now and it is peculiarly
difficult to get the offce-hoder and the offceseeker
to do what is right in preference to doing what Will
bring him the most votes.
Every year the people of the United States produce
q surplus their expenditures.
This surplus ought to go into saving and furnishing
the new capital which growing business needs for its
development.
without this new capital we cannot engage in new
enterprises, produce goods pay more wages and
have higher standard of living.
The present system of taxation in the Government
with its misunderstanding income tax and surtax, has
constant effect to drive capital of business and
make rich men invest in non-taxable securities
In other words it makes us use more and more
money for Government and less and less for business
What the people need to know is that Secretary
Melons plan means that the poor will be bene-
fitted rather than the rich.
'"The man of small means" says DIR. Klein, cert-
fled public accountant, that is, the who earns
from two to six thousand dollars year, and who
makes up the preponderatng bulk of Income Tax
payers, will have his taxes cut 4161 per cent; the
proportion of the entire tax cut saved to those who
have incomes of million dollars or over is only
2.59 per cent"
Those who charge that the Mellon plan favors the
rich at the expense of the induging in plain
misstatement
Roger W. Babson, an acknowledged authority on
finance, estimates the indirect gain to all taxpayers
with this plan, at $50 per head.
The plan will work out for the small business man
and the farmer much more advantageously than for
Ford Rockefeller
At present system of taxation is fearful brake
upon business prosperity.
1t penalties success and impedes industry
1t tends to make crook out of every business man.
President Lewis E. Pierson of the Merchants Asso
citation justly says
"The effect of the adoption of the Mellon Plan
would be to release millions of dollars for the develop
ment of private enterprises with all that this means
in the way of general employment and mounting
prosperity"
The Mellon Plan will decrease rents, increase en-
poyment encourage enterprise raise the standard of
wages and be of untold benefit to the country.
fact it is sensible that have great fears that
it will not be adopted.
by the Newsp
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compound called protoplaam,
which has ever since continued
to reproduce itself in the living
state and whose presence is abso-
lutely essential to the existenCe of
any kind Of living creature. To-
day the constituents of proto-
plasm are known, but the cata-
lyzer, or life-primer, is missing.
But, while entirely new, fresh
life seems not now to make its
appearance, the life that II al
ready here undergoes develop
ment in many lines. This 10
evolution. Science does not find
1t at all necessary to assume that
every form that life at present
assumes first appeared upon the
earth in that same shape. In
fact It knows that such was not
the case.
Although the life principle an
parently can no longer be pro-
duced anew, 1t can-and during
long ages has-spread through
an immense variety Of gradually
changing forms, and manifested
itself In multiplied numbers OF
individual living creatures.
Those who allow themselves to
be convinced Of spontaneous gen.
Grafton" by such things as the
unexplained appearance Of little
fish In pools of water, or by
stories Of tho transformation Of
horsehairs thrown into water into
''hair worms" have no cOncep-
ton of the methods required for
a scientific investigation Of any
problem.
IL people who wish to wet the
most out of life would occasion
ally stop reading psychological
and erotio novels and ''shOrt
stories" and take up for 4 while
such books as Valery~Radot'
"Life Of Pasteur," Faraday's i'm
perishable little book on ''The
Chemical History of a Candle"
Tyndall's classic "Heat q Mode
of Motions or, to take two or
three up-to-date examples, John
Mills's Realities Of Modern
Science" Comstock and Troland's
Mature of Matter and Electricl-
ty" and Millikan's ''The Elec-
tron," they would begin to find
out how the real intelligence of
the human race manages to ad.
vance. Even more important than
the question of the beginning Of
life 10 the problem of the best
way to use It now that we have
II.
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GARRETT P. SERVISS ON ORIGIN
OF FISH
By Garrett p. Serviss,
= = NWy-sA~.. -. cnS~,AksRe. R~-s~. - n

please explain" says Chi
cago correspondent, where the
minnows, sunfish, turtles, etc..
that are found In surface water
pools come from. Do they come
down in rain, or 10 there more
in the water that seeps into
these pools than simple HOP"
no, we are brought back again
- to the question that will
never down. Of the origin OF
life ON the earth. It must be con-
fessed that the pronouncement OF
sc,ence on this subject is far from
complete. Yet, as far as 1t goes
It seems conclusive. Without ex-
ceution every investigation by
competent scientific methods OF
alleged spontaneous origination OF
life has resulted in proving that
the supposed cases were decep-
tive.
with ali OF its advantages for
observation and experiment,
science has never been able either
to produce by Its own efforts, or
to witness the production by ma
ture. Of any living thing that was
not demonstrably In some way the
offspring Of another living thing
that preceded 1t.
Pastour laid the foundation of
his immense reputation In the
world Of science by proving the
entire absence of any formation
of life where already existing
life was absolutely excluded. So,
as far as science yet knows, life
upon the earth is an unbroken
chain which we cannot sever and
then start anew, Also, as far as
science yet knows, new life never
springs up now on this planets
though, of course there must have
been a time when life had to make
its first appearance.
About that first appearance
only more or less probable con-
lectures are possible. Direct evil
dlence is absent, or not yet dis
covered. One may suppose that
at an early period in it's develop
ment the earth possessed some
kind OF catalyEer (producer Of
chemical action which set up life
processes in the puzzling chemica
The Washington times., 1924-01-09
WORDS FROM THE LIPS OF WISE MEN

4 lection of servitude ~ ~ ~
The mind more easily impressed by what is seen than
by what is heard " T ''
1t is said that real poet exist without the sprt
oelng on nre and without as it were spice of madness
Everyone Is least known to himself and the most diff
cult task to get acquainted with ones own character
Second thoughts, they say, generally best.
The wise say that ne to whose care the safety of MANY
is entrusted must first show that he can take care of him
self.
he to conquer but ought by no means Ia trim IN or
The Washington times., 1924-01-09

throw down the with whom he is contendnp So in
life there s nothing wrong in trying to obtain what
may be to his advantage, yet roguery is unlawful
Nature without education has oftener raised man to
glory and virtue than education without natural abilities
The masses are so constituted that they measure but
few things by the standard of fate most by the standard
of conjectures.
No one Of suddenly assume character or in
stanty change his mode Of life or alter his nature
To slander is thing to another Accusation
implies definition Of the charge Identification of the per-
sons proof by argument, confirmation by witnesses
Sander has no other object than the injury Of reputation
Mental diseases take their rise from the corrupt state
of the sentiments.
The Washington times., 1924-01-09
Poor General Wood
But Perhaps One Son Will Settle for the Other

General Wood, governor Of the Philippines finds
trouble in his morning paper Another Of his has been
terested in stocks Not successfully the first
heard of.
Ingenious promoters Of worthless oil stocks persuaded
Lieut. Leonard Wood Jr to sign his letters urging
the buying Of shares that represented share nothing
at ALL Many veterans of the late said to have lost
their savings in this investment" All must sympatze with
General Wood and the veterans.
But perhaps General Wood will ask successful Leuten
ant Wood specuator to use his profit to from loss the
soldiers and others that invested their money with the other
Lieutenant Wood That would be happy solution.
The Washington times., 1924-01-09

given away some years before. There was abundant
evidence to prove that the foster mother had avised all
and love upon the baby In fact the real mother did
not attempt to deny this. She simply peeved" and
demanded her baby back in retaliation.
The argument which arose over the case revealed
strange and revolutionary theories at work in our social
attitude toward the family Hitherto the mere fact Of
the birth bond established mothers rights The law
might disregard these rights in favor of the husband but
they were rarely questioned any other ground The
invioabty of motherhood rested on the physical rea
tonshp OF the child to the parent 1t wasn't question
OF wnether the parent had made good with the child or
The Washington times., 1924-01-09
He Was Never Wrong

whether a miracle of love had taken place
in the parents spirit simultaneously with
the miracle of creation in the body. IF the
woman had given life to the child, it was
hers.
We're beginning to question that atti-
tude. Does a woman deserve respect and
consideration, merely because she has given
birth, if after that birth she shows no real
regard for the child or an intelligent appre-
citation of its needs3 Isn't the woman who
loves and serves truer mother than the
one who only gives birth?
That's the new line Of thought, and if
you're here hundred years from now you
may find that that new thought has born
amazing fruit. Already the State is taking
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The Washington times., 1924-01-09

belonged to the mothers We have compulsory education
compulsory medical inspection. a child is unclean
neglected abused obviously subjected to demorazng
influences that State takes steps to mend matters.
It is still possible, however for the careless or vicious
mother to wreck her chds lfe But will long be pos
sbe Will the State gradually force its way into EVERY
home and all the conditions which influence the
growth of the child? Will it demand affection and nte
gent of the child, well as food and shelter Will
it take the children away from the mothers to whom
mothering means no more than it would to Mrs Frog
and give them to those to whom mothering is
consecrated, lifelong service?
viii it? Should it? Think it over
ing Feature
The Washington times., 1924-01-09
WORLD!

A JUDGE faced peculiar problem the
~ other day. Two women and baby
were involved. The baby was the
child of one of the women. BY parental
compact she had given the baby to the
other woman, and on it's birth the child
had been registered under the name of his
foster mother All went well for few
months, then the real mother became ag-
grieved because she felt that she had not
received enough money for the transfer.
Whereupon she and her husband refused to
agree to the adoption proceedings and ap-
pealed in court for the return of the child.
It developed that the woman had had five
children-the baby involved in the contro-
versy, three others who were living with
her, and another child whom she had
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-21
$4,000 Damage in
Sunday Morning Fire

Sunday morning Skowhcgan suffered
Its fourth fire in four days. At $50
the alarm was rung in for fire in the
block on the north side of Water street
east OF the railroad crossing. now own
ed by John Little of New York. The
fire started in the basement near the
sidewalk under the store occupied by
the American, Clothing Co. The fire
seemed to follow the electric wiring
and seemed to burn mp through the
roof. Tho estimated damage to the
building was $4,000 and to the American
Clothing Co. $4,000. The stock of +. S.
Furbush. made up of automobile Access
sories, was damaged to the extent of
$1,000. this damage being all from wa
ter which came down from overhead
when the hose was applied on the sec
ord story.
The upper story was occupied by the
families of Winslow Wilson. Augustus
Roulette and Mrs. Andrew Peters. The
Wilson family suffered the greatest
damage OF the three. their apartment
being directly over the store where
the fire started. The loss is partly
covered by insurance.
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PERSONAL MENTION

Mrs. Mary Maxwell has rented the
north apartment in her house on
Baptist Hill to Mr.. Googan who is
employed by Nahum Steward.
Kenneth r. Copp. a student at Col
by college was in town Saturday TO
visit his father, Ruel l.. Copp, of
West Front street, and to give cor
net lessons as he has a class here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Lewis re-
turned to Lewiston Saturday after
being called here by the serious ILL.,
ness of Mr.. Lewis grandmother, Mrs.
Amelia Begin.
Frank Laney, who has been en-
ployed in Lynn, Mass, has complet-
ed his work there and returned to
Skowhegan Saturday He is the guest
OF his mother. Mrs. Frank Laney of
Lawton street.
Rev. George Merriam, pastor of
the Bethany church and Rev. Her
bert l.. Nichols. pastor of the Cen
tenary Methodist church. exchanged
pulpits Sunday at the morning SER
vice.
Mrs. Walter E. Palmer of Hinck-
ley. who is convaIescing from an ILL
ness, is in town passing some time
at the home of her brother and wife.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Carl Dunbar of
Mount Pleasant avenue.
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The Nature Study Class will en-
Joy day at Augusta Tuesday.
Ladies' take the Q o'clock car.
The /. ID. X. Club enjoyed a din
ner Saturday at the Interlaken Cafe.
after which they returned to the
home of Mrs. Margaret Foster where
they enjoyed a Christmas tree, with
Jokes, gifts and decorations suited
to the Christmas season. A pleasant
time is reported.
The Ladies Whist Club enjoyed a
covered dish party Saturday evening
at the home of Mrs. j. IL. Wellman,
followed by auction whist. The sub
stitutes were Mrs. Ethel Towle and
Mrs. Effie French. Mrs. H. w. Ste
vens had the highest scoIe and Mrs.
w. A. Whiting the lowest.
The officers of Arthur Loyejoy Re-
bekah lodge will be installed Tuesday
evening, preceded by a supper at $50.
Dovid Murch was the week end
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Murch
in Augusta.
Mrs. Z. +. York. Mrs. Abbie Ed
wards and daughter Ida were guests
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Murch Sunday.
Lucille Mason. who has been visit
ing Mrs Herbert Bell has returned to
her home in Readfield.
Miss Valentine Caron Is visiting
in Boston.
The Ladies' Aid Of the Methodist
church will meet Thursday afternoon
with Mrs. i. E. Webb.
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BURNnAM

Mrs. Walter Cole, who has been Ill
for several weeks. Is very sick.
L. J. Raynes OF Detroit was a
business visitor In town Thursday.
Among the visitors In waterville
Wednesday from this town were
Mrs. Franz 3. Brown. Mrs. Franz
Miles. Mrs. George Dyer. Mrs. Oral
Perry and Mrs. d. A. Dyer.
Rev. E. E. Longley of Clinton was
o visitor in town Wednesday for the
day.
Mrs. Ernest H. Hunt went Monday
to Auburn where she underwent an
operation for the removal Of tonsils
at hospital. She was accompanied
by Mrs. w. c. HINT, and while
away they will make q brief visit in
Winthrop with Mr.. and Mrs. L. j.
Call. returning home Thursday.
Mrs. Emma Fitzgerald. who was
taken very i'll last Saturday, con-
tinues to be very sick with but lit
tie change in her condition. Her
niece. Mrs. Wallace Edmunds, Is as
sisting in her care.
Mr. Quimby representing The
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Year for Man Who
Gave Friends Ride

Bangor. Nc. Jan. 19.--The first &C.
we're sentence for stealing an automo-
bile passed in local courts has been
imposed by Justice Smith of the supe-
rior court on James Everett. a Glen
burn farmland. who was sent to State
prison for from one to two years.
According to the evidence, a Bangor
man left 5000 car outside n place for
a few minutes when Everett took It
and drove to his home in Glenburn. a
few miles out, where il appears for
several days he entertained his friends
with rides in the neighborhood. He
then started for Canada. but was ar
rested In Aroostook county.
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erset county supreme judicial court
which is to convene on Tuesday
forenoon the prayer will be offered
by the Rev. George Merriam pastor Of
the Bethany Baptist church.
The following are the committees
who have charge of the picnic supper
which is to be held Tuesday evening
at the next regular meeting Of the
Skowhegan Business and Profession
al Women's club: supper committee
Miss Margaret Lessard, chairman,
Marie Goldamma, Miss Virginia
Stinchfield and Miss Doris Eaton; en-
tertainment committee Miss Gladys
Ames, Christine Bison and Doris
Humphrey. The various groups are
planning for their own groups and
coffee. sugar and cream will be fur
nished. A social hour will follow the
supper.
The Federated club meeting Of the
Women's club. Town Improvement
society, and Sorosis will be held In
the Federated church Wednesday
evening of this week. The speaker
will be Hon. Frank M. Harrington
from Augusta. There will also be
delightful musical numbers on the
program.
The ladies Of the American Legion
auxiliary held well patronized food
sale at the new rooms Of the Simon
Peters Post la the First National
Bank building over the store of the
Central Maine Power Company Sat-
urday afternoon.
Claude Bouchard, sophomore at
Colby college passed the week end
with his sisters at the home on the
corner Of North avenue and Cross
street.
Road Commissioner Cowett stated
Saturday morning that thus far the
village streets had not been broken
out at all. That the side walks on
the plains had been broken out three
times and the walks down town and
on the south side Of the river had
been broken out only twice which Is
a most unusual record.
The regular meeting Of the Somer-
set Council Knight of Columbus No.
20S9. will be held Monday evening in
their rooms in the Griffin block on
Madison avenue.
The regular semi-monthly meeting
Of Somerset chapter No. So Eastern
Star was held Friday evening. At the
next meeting to be held on Feb. list.
the officers viii be installed who were
elected recently.
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|Sk WHEGAN LOCAL NEWS
Somerset County Headquarters Phones, t;,a.,. .;s
PERSONAL MENTION

Mrs. Ernest L. Savage visited Sat-
urday in Shawmut.
Mrs Byron Chapman OF Cornville
was In town shopping Saturday.
Noah Lee who is employed in Wa
mfVille passed the weekend with
Dis family here.
Mrs. Julia Goulette went to Port
aad Saturday morning to visit her
aunt, Mrs. Hector Casey.
A number of Skowhegan people
We're In Waterville Saturday attend
ing the Winter Carnival.
Miss Fay Burkhardt went to Port
tand Saturday where she will be the
guest OF her sister and husband. Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Roderick.
Mrs Forest l.. Furbush has been
IN West Athens where she was call
by the illness of her brother. Dom
ala Mclean.
Adolph Provost and George Duanne
were appointed to represent the
skowhegan High school at the Win
day.
Robert and Raymond Parsons went
~ Waterville Saturday to attend the
winter Carnival and visited while
~ the city with their grandmother.
ours. Ellingsworth.
Joseph Granier returned Saturday
10 MS home in Richmond after be-
ing IN town because of the illness OF
,aIs, trainers mother. Mrs. Amelia
oegih of North avenue.
MRS. Lewis Flagg and little daugh-
er' Annie. left Saturday for Port
n ano where they will be guests OF
airs. Flagfi's father. o, F, Edge.
don.
John L. Fish. editor of the Inde-
peneent-Reporter. who has let his
residence on Middle street. has taken
,oons at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
n 1, Il. Jewett on the corner Of
Fieasant and Middle streets.
=, Sounty Agent Gerald c. Dunn, and
Mss Marion G. Hare, Home Demon
%. Agent of the Somerset coun-
~ Farm Bureau, were at Hartland
NJ surday attending an all day plan
"'ng meeting.
Mrs. Flora McPheters. who has
, zen IN Portland where she went at
da s holiday season to visit her
,taashters and brother, will return
quay Mrs. McPheters return has
''en delayed, because of illness.
asSkowhegan High school hockey
nm h made up of Provost. rw: G.
E Eqt"nne. iw: Carter. c; e. Dionne, re-;
Wet Ign Appleby. Ct, were IN
, Mha.erviile Saturday afternoon where
~ osey played the Notre Dame team
Ma, sae city at Community Park.
baanss Carolyn Crocker, who has
er n passing n few days in town q
c cas-. at the home of Mf. and Mrs.
tnrnsse Shase of North avenue. re-
G 1Srned Saturday to her. home in
ley. SUING ny the way Oh f1incA-
waa u,ord Tibbetts of Norridgewock
wea,. IN town the latter part Of the
coI ak 10 visit his wife. who is q medi-
Hn,apau ent at the Kennebec Valley
wss p ... While in town Mr.. Tibbetts
hana 'ne guest of his sister and hus-
Of C, ar. and Mrs. Frank G. Brown
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Aged Witness Helps
Free Man in Court

Portland, Me-, Jan. 10-An 81
year-old witness. Winfield s. Cord,
well. of Norway, gave testimony that
aided In acquittal of Nathan ID.
Merrill In superior court today.
where he was on trial on q charge
or driving q motor car while in
toxicated. Mr.. Cordweil said he saw
Merrill an hour before arrest, anC
declared that although his sense OF
odor was acute, he noticed no trace
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WINTHROP
"TeII Me Club Meeta

The Tell Me Club" held their
monthly meeting Friday night at the
home of Miss Gertrude Longfellow
with Mrs. Herbert Bell. Miss At
talie Gale, Mrs. Merton Hodges and
Miss Longfellow as hostesses. A
delicious dinner was served and the
dining room was beautifully decorat-
ed in red and green. Mrs. Helen Max
well acted as a substitute and Mrs.
Bell had the highest score.
Miss Bertha Wentworth of SIAM
ford, Conn, was the weekend guest
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Z. w.
Wentworth.
Mrs. Alice Wentworth Lee and her
son, Garry, who have been guests of
Mrs. Lees parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Wentworth, leave today for their
home in Mortified, Mimi.
The Standard Bearers of the Me-
thodist church and their teacher, Mrs.
c. Z. Rowell, were entertained Fri
day night at the home of Miss Doris
Clifford. A delicious supper was
served at o'clock, and a pleasant
evening was enjoyed. Mr.. and Mrs.
H. E. Foster Mr.. c. P. Rowell,
Charles Pinkham and Donald Roll
Inns were guests.
Chapter. Order of Eastern Star, was
held Friday evening, when four can
didateS were initiated. Refreshments
were served
J. H. Bates of Augusta called on
friends in town Friday.
There will be special meeting Of
Winthrop Grange Tuesday evening
to confer the third and fourth de-
grees on a large class Of candidates.
Manchester Grange will be guests
Of Winthrop Grange and will fur
nish the literary program. Meetini
to beiin at 100.
Miss Dorothy Marble is visiting in
Portland.