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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-25

Daniel Farley and family is occu-
plying the J. A. Ferguson house on
Middle street.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-25

Miss Marie Patterson will attend
the Division Fair at Brunswick to-
Q2y.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-25

Mr.. A. A. Savage has moved his
family from No. 5 Second street to
Randolph.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-25
HALLOWELL

Miss Clara Simonson Il out again
after several days illness.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-25

A. Is. Smithers. and Harry Thorn
ton, both Of Saco were among the
business callers in the city yesterday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-25

Chester Rand Of Sherman Mills Is
visiting In Haliowell
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-25
Saved FROM
AN OPERATION
Mrs. Shaw Calls Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound a
Cod-Send to Sick Women

Cambridge, Me- suffered ter.
fibly with pains and soreness in nv
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-25

DR.. A. S. Bisbee of Portland will
preach at the Cniversalist church
Sunday at l0:3 80 A. NJ.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-25

Food sale at Gardiner Girls Club
rooms In Depot Square Saturday.
OCT. 2S. 1850 y. NJ. to 5 l.. NJ.
Cct2i and %
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-25

F. L. Robinson of Lowell was In
town Friday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-25
LOCAL NOTICE

Harveat supper at the universalist
20. Oct25s
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-25

William Ware. former Gardiner
business man was calling on friends
In the city. Friday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-25

, Dance at French's Corner. West
sGardincr. every Saturday night.
1sSssneiSfrilSsat.tf CO.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-25

To let--Storc on Water street
Apply Baitlcr's fruit store.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-25
NOTICE

An perscns Who have bills against
The estate of William X. Meserve are
requested To send them before Nov
.salp To =. J. McServe. 90 Windsor St.
lM6oiph, Maine,
oetss-novi-;5
Evening star., 1924-11-18
The Cool Snap.

Winter made a sudden attack on
Washington. While most persons were
talking of the golden days of Autumn,
the mellow rays OF the. sun and the
soft haze that wrapped the hills Win
ter blew in upon us with little warn
ing. Many automobiles refused to
move, men turned up their coat col.
lars and women took of their Sum.
mer furs. In thousands of homes
there are sounds Of shaking, furnaces
and shoveling coal. The Weather Bu-
reau in its message today says:."'Rain
or snow today, slightly warmer: to-
morrow clearing: moderate easterly
winds Weather statisticians turned
to the records and told us that this
is the fourth time in the annals of. the
local Weather Bureau that the mer.
curry has dropped to "a degrees before
November 20, and that yesterday was
the coolest November morn since
1920. ..--
We are loath to part with the
weather that has been with us since
the end of Summer. The warm days
have been delightful. and the Autumn
leaves, asters and the goidenrods have
been worthy Of high praise. The
Washington climate this. Fall has
Evening star., 1924-11-18

pear in the Washington uniform, in
national game for nearly score of
years, feel that he has earned this
reward by his faithful services and his
maintenance of The high standard Of
the sport
The regret at the passing Of Walter
Johnson from the home ranks .is the
keener because Of the wonderful shew
ing he made during the season just
closed. which witnessed the final ar
rival of the Washington team at the
the game in the world series. 1t was
one Of his best years, certainly the
most valuable one to the home team.
His winning Of % games during the
season was. all will admit, the par
ticular factor that gave Washington
the championship, and no one who
witnessed that contest will ever for.
get the wonderful, thrill of Walter
Johnson's arrival in the seventh and
deciding game of the world series In
relief role with all the speed and
cunning Of delivery OF his. best days,
to check the enemy and lead the way
to the supreme victory. ...
1t will seem strange to see the
Washington team. line up without
Barney" but the day must come in
any case when his familiar form will
be absent, and : 1t Is better that he
should pass into other ranks where
he can make his own winning than
that he should fade, as pitchers must
fade, into incompetence and be out.
classed. Such wizardry as remains in
his arm will be invoked for his own
team, according to his own judgment,
and doubtless reports will come next
season Of typical johnson games"
out on the coast, which will gladden.
the hearts of all of Walters friends
back East.
Evening star., 1924-11-18

alumni offering endewments Witi a
string, or shall we have professors
with a fuller appf eciation of big
buildings ard big salaries? viii the
rest Of the country. like driving,
thrIvihg Pittsburgh, abandon charm.
Intimacy, restfulness, dignity and
eoziness:' will IL desert taste Sad
discrimination. spiritual and inN
lectual capacity? Is the day OF Bah
bitry only at sunrise?"
Noting in the skyscraper unfver- :
sity the spirit of the times, at least
one spirit. the modern spirit of man.
moth size and mammoth production,
the Springfield Union refers to our
Oldest universities rich in traditions
of the past. and asks. will they
too. be invaded. by the skyscraper
spirit? Shall we hear now of dear
old forty-ninth story of w. and j.,
tales of fair Harvard when her high
est building was no more than 76
floors: and shall we be told of the
mad antics that were cut in Prof
how the boys at Tappa Keg threat
ened to drop neophyte 10000 feet
to the pavement below? Most of us
are old-fashioned enough to hope
that we shall not. But If we do what
Of it? Sentiment calls for colleges
to remain as they are. calm. unassum-
ing. unostentatious. But supposing
that practicalities dictate that senti-
mont take a back seat? Is there not
as much glamour, of beauty and of
compelling charm in the average Of
flee district as in the average English
countryside?
The Albany News asks: But
why not? The work of the world
isn't done in scholarly atmos-
phere. This is the age of efficiency
and there can be efficiency in the
college plant as there can be in all
plants" From utilitarian point of
view the Pittsburgh plan seems ex-
cellent. agrees the Reading Tribune
which thinks "one who has struggled
to make classroom in the allotted
ten minutes between periods over
four city blocks will be lost in ad-
miration of the transportation Of
fered by the 16 high speed elevators
Should the elevator operators strike
as once happened in New York, the
outlook would be appalling"
Evening star., 1924-11-18
Catch the Death Speeders!

Inspector Grant, in his Instructions
to the detective force regarding the
capture Of the drivers of motor cars
that have killed pedestrians in this
city during the past few days. says
that as much effort must be made to
catch them as IL they had gone out
on the street armed with axes and de-
liberately murdered innocent men
and women This is not strained
or exaggerated comparison. These
motor drivers have literally run
amuck through the streets Of Wash
ington, like the Asiatic maniac who,
perhaps under the influence of drugs.
starts out on promiscuous slaughter
But these people are presumably sane
and have no excuse for their conduct
They are simply cruelty Indifferent
to human suffering. They are prob
ably wanton in their will to frighten
il not actually to injure those they
hit.
A veritable epidemic Of this fiendish
recklessness has developed within
week. In addition to the killing of
four persons by motorists who have
fled without checking their cars. or
sought to escape, several people have
been hurt more or less severely Sure
ly some Of these drivers can be found,
il not all of them. Two were, by the
Dublic's good fortune. captured short
ly after the death of their victim
Others are still at large. Public senti-
ment is aroused to the last degree in
this matter. and the utmost punish
ment is demanded for any Inotorist
who strikes a person and runs away
If he should later be caught.
Only by giving the limit of the law
on every possible charge-and in prac-
tically every case of this kind there is
more than one offense-can this prac-
tice be broken up. So long as drivers
who break the rules can get away
with simple fines. with no cymulation
for repeated offenses, they will con-
tinue to 1out the law, depending upon
their speed to escape detection and
capture.
Suggestion is made that the auto
tags be increased in size so that
Identification of license numbers can
be more readily made. Anything that
will lessen the chances of these death
speeders escaping should be tried
Evening star., 1924-11-18
The Farm Commission.

The Presidents Farm Commission,
at it's first meeting here yesterday. de-
cided to proceed along three general
lines: First, the study of pending farm
legislation; second, the administration
of present laws relating to agricul-
ture, and third, and finally, the forma-
tion of plans for intoxicating into the
farmer an appreciation of the value
Of cooperation.
1t Is essential that a survey be
made first of the proposals now pend
ing in Congress fer farm relief There
are several of them. differing in prin-
ciple and detail. They are mainly de-
signed to stimulate prices. One of
them Is a proposition for the Govern
ment to control in a way the exports
OF wheat SO as to insure the best pos
sible price for the American grower
For each Of these projects there is
specific argument. Each has it's own
strong advocates, who believe that
their particular plans are the best. 1t
is the task Of the Presidents commits.
sion, composed, as 1t is, of growers
and marketers as well as scientific
students Of agriculture. to find which,
If any. Of these plans is practical and
calculated to advance the welfare of
agriculture without imposing an un-
just burden upon the consumer
Perhaps none Of the present pro-
posals is the right one. Possibly the
plan most surely effective is still to
be evolved. A study Of the pending
propositions, however, is essential to
ascertain whether any promises most
surely the relief which the farmers
require.
President Coolidge recently in a
speech before teachers of agriculture
IN this city stressed the point of co.
operation by the farmers. Evidently
that IL his main remedy for the evils
from which American agriculture is
suffering. But ne is leaving the com.
mission free to survey the whole field.
although 1t is plain from the an.
nounced program of procedure that
1t will consider cooperation thorough
", in fact that it will stress to the
farmer in its report the need Of that
regardlsAs of whatever legislative
measure nay be devised and adopted
Evening star., 1924-11-18
Walter johnson a "Magnate. ,

Announcement that Walter John
son has completed deal which makes
him a maj gnate', at Oakland, Calf,
in the Pacific Coast League. causes
mingled feelings here In Washington,
which has been the scene OF practi-
cally his entire base ball career for
1s seasons. There is sorrow that he is
leaving this city, and gladness that he
has achieved the object of his ambi-
ton, which is the ambition of every
professional ball player, that of own.
ing and managing his own team. For
If ever a base hail player deserved
such o success it is Walter johnson,
and. his friends at the Capital, despite
their regret that he will no longer ap-
Evening star., 1924-11-18
For All Washington's Welfare.

The Instructive Visiting Nurse So
ciety is a public health agency which
each year becomes better known
throughout the District of Columbia.
and which. in ratio with that en-
fanced reputation, seeks constantly
to enlarge and expand its field Of
work. 1t has. started a short cam
paign to raise $4,000 for a two-year
budget. In spite Of this considerable
task which the managers and friends
of the organization have set them
selves, they are confident that. at the
end CT ten days. they will have
thoroughly sold the visiting nurse
idea to the local public. This means
that the needed funds will be in hand
or pledged and, Furthermore, that the
public will be so familiar with and
appreciative Of this nursing service
that future campaigns will be shorter
and easier on all concerned.
The !. Y. ". 8 as it is often called,
is not charity. 1t is an agency
whose opportunities for the conserva-
ton Of the public health are partly
dependent on and proportionate to
outside support. 1t maintains a staff
Of 81 graduate trained nurses, who
visit and who instruct. Through snow
their appointed task by giving expert
bedside care free to those who can
not afford to pay, and at cost to
those who can pay that small sam.
These nurses, through sanitary edu-
cation. help to safeguard the city from
epidemics. They stay the progress Of
incipient tuberculosis and cancer
They render special service at the
periious time Of birth. They give pre-
natal and post natal care to mothers
They relieve and comfort the aged
and incurable. They swing the bal
ance from death to life for the acutely
i'll. They save from future handicaps
little children born under the curse
of social disease. They benefit employ
ers of labor by making employees
healthier and more efficient. BY COM
batting disease and ignorance they re-
duce poverty. Greed. color or f1nan-
cial standing mean absolutely moth.
ing to them. They are thoroughly or
ganized and ready for any emergency.
And yet. notwithstanding their
steady growth in numbers during the
past quarter-century. they, have fallen
behind the growth of the city. On the
basis of the number Of nurses main.
tanned per 100000 Of population their
standing is below that of nearly a
dozen big cities. =
The society needs more nurses: it
wants to bring its pay scales up to
the standard Of that enjoyed by other
local public health nurses; It needs to
establish a new nursing center, to ex-
pand in Office room and equipment.
1t can do all these things If the public,
which benefits both directly and indi.
rectly by its endeavors, will Co
operate. The way to cooperate is by
means Of contributions ranging from
the payment of a nurses full salary
for a year or more. down through
smaller amounts. The visiting nurses
cover every house on every street. To
do that expeditiously and successfully
they themselves should be put. on
Easy street. -
Evening star., 1924-11-18
Questions Scientific
Claims of Evolution

To the Editor Of The Star:
If man originated from monkeys. as
Or. Ales Hrdlicka says they did, why
Is it that the monkey is the only animal
that has evolved or developed into
something so much more intelligent
than himself? Why have no other ami
mails evolved or developed into some
thing higher? Why has not the elephant,
the most intelligent Of ali animals,
evolved or developed into something
higher than himself? Isn't It just pos
sibie that because monkeys act and
look SO much more like men than any
other animal some men have believed
man originated from monkeys, have
tried hard to and did prove to their
own satisfaction that man did originate
from monkeys, when, il they had tried
just as hard to, prove that man. orig
mated from elephants they might have
come to the conclusion that man orig
mated from elephants?
JOHN ANSCHUTZ.
Evening star., 1924-11-18
SHOOTING STARS.
NJ PHII.ASDER JOHNSON.

Unexplained.
wonder why like to see
Upon the mimic stage
A villain. with insidious glee
Set out to disengage
Two trusting hearts that ought to
blend
Ins happiness complete
wonder why folks go and spend
Two dollars for seat.
| wonder why so enjoy
A crooked comic" face
And drums and horns which would
annoy ..
In any other place.
wonder why often view
With pleasure more or less --
So many things which if quite true
Would cause me much distress.
Evening star., 1924-11-18
Skyscraper for University
Arouses Divergent Views

The announcement by the Uni
versity of Pittsburgh that it will
build next year a 52-story. 10000
900 cathedral of learning" to house
a great part OF the activities. OF the
institution is accepted by the press rs
another innovation abreast the mod
ern spirit. For economic and utili-
tartan reasons in some quarters the
plan is commended. however. editors
are inclined to hope this will not start
a movement for skyscraper colleges
throughout the country.
"A memorial to the Pittsburgh of
the past. a proclamation of the spirit
of the Pittsburgh OF today. vision
of the Pittsburgh of tomorrow" Is
the way the Pittsburgh Sun describes
the new and greater University of
Pittsburgh after the structural plans
had been made public by Chancellor
John Gabbert' Bowman. The Sun de-
clares: NO more daring concept has
flashed across the vision of any city.
Lifting 90 stories toward the stars,
the new cathedral of learning Will
stand as the exemplication of all that
Pittsburgh means, believes, is.
What DIR. Bowmans project means is
that Pittsburgh-long first in in
dustry, lately first in arts at one
daring stride to become first in archl-
lecture and first in education"
pittsburgh has material reasons
for the skyscraper, but it's artistic
success will be worth watching. in
the opinion of the New York Herald :
Tribune, which says: people d1scoV-
cred the skyscraper as a new FORM OF
construction long before they discov-
cred It as new form OF artrana the
gentlemen who make woodcuts Tor
-
unaccountably late. Bot the dfscov-
ery has been made, and those VINO
maintain that great art can only
grow out of a natural necessity nave
powerful argument on their sloe'
There are moments when there seem
to be only two genuine American ar
tistic straditions-the beautiful houses
Of the colonial period and the mag
nifieent skyscrapers of the present.
Whatever may be said OF the beauty
Of the modern American skyscraper.
product wholly American, the Louis
Vile Courier journal believes the
construction of a university building,
In fact a whole university IN one
building, is an innovation that can
not fail to cause shock. Some Wag
has suggested it symbolizes higher
education, but it is difficult to smile
at the pun because of the reaction
to the radical novelty itself. Learn
ing Is essentially connected with an
tiauity. The atmosphere of colleges
is expected to remind one OF the
past - Perhaps this cathedral
of learning can turn out efficiency
experts and technicians. Neverthe
less h seems like jazz applied TO col
leee architecture 1t seems to have
left behind it the beauty Of the fields
and 6loisferal silence"
x y x X
| And in these temples. or 'cathe'
| drals', of erudition what shall the stu
dents learn, and who shall teach
| them?' asks the st. Louis Pest-Dis.
patch. "The answer to the second
| question will answer the first. Shall
we have the recognized scholars OF
| the world In science, economics. poll
tics. history and literature, who will
impart their methods and conclusion.
untrammelsd by corporation Officers
! on the boards Of trustees and rich
Evening star., 1924-11-18
Grade Crossing Tragedies.

Four men were killed Sunday at a
railroad grade crossing in Illinois
Scarcely day passes, perhaps not a
day. that city. dailies do not contain
news of grade-orossing fatalities. Next
to deaths in automobile accidents the
srade.crossing tragedy figures mos,
prominently in the news Of casualties
Not all the fatal accidents are re
corded In any newspaper, but those
that do get into print show that the
total loss Of life at railroad and high
way crossings is extremely serious
and that these accidents are becom
ing more. frequent with the increase
Of traffic on the automobile roads.
Evening star., 1924-11-18
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

Washington newSpapermen read
tribute TO their own, particular set. as
we'll as TO the memory Of Gus Mar
eer. in the presence of the President
and the Chief Justice of the United
States at the widely beloved Cincinni ii
correspondents funeral services. kar-
ger was the imagination of the news
paperman to whom American public
men tell their innermost secrets and
in the assured confidence they will not
be betrayed. President Taft offered
kareer high place In the Government
service. but the Times-Star man would
not forsake his first love. BY COM
mon consent Karger was the spokes-
man of the Capital newspaper fra
August. M gus 1873. that President Coolidge
conducted his first confab with the
press. Rabbi Simon's tribute at kar-
gers bier was one of the most elo-
auent and touching eulogies ever de-
livered in Washington.
y + i: X
The La Follette-Wheeler campaign
has had one result that is intended to
be lasting-a national liberal club
In Washington. 1t is the outgrowth
Of at.little luncheon: club hitherto
known as the Penguins and frequent
ed. IOT the TlcSI pol 4. oy SSi aOSo ~
both sexes, who don't mind being called
radicals. The Penguins met daily on
the upper floor. of a downtown res
taurant Now they have taken'a large
and dignified house on street. ellison
Gardner, chairman OF the PengulnS'
I'm announcing the new project, says
that the club will be headquarters s
"for all liberals. local and out-of-town,
and that membership dues will be kept
small, as most liberals are not rich.
X u II X
At length there's an authoritative
definition of "propag ganda." word
that has not smelled sweetly since the
World War brought II into bad odor.
Ivy l.. Lee of New York. king OF press
AGENTS, who directs publicity for the
Morgans. the Rockefellers, the Harri'
mans and other billion-dollar clients,
has issued brochure on the "funda-
mental aspects" Of propaganda. He
boils them down. into two simple
statements:
l.. The >propriety OF propaganda de-
pends upon the honesty OF purpose
and method by which 1t is carried on
g The effectiveness of propaganda
depends upon the skill with which this
honesty of purpose, together with the
| wisdom behind It, is made apparent"
Now. we know.
X y i. &
when Lewis Einstein. American
minister to Czechoslovs kis. was re-
Gently a guest at the White House
lie disclosed to President Coolidge &
scheme for an American institute te
| be established at Prague. DR.. Stepher
p: Duggan. professor political science
| in the College of the City of New
York, lis. Ia charge of the: organiza'
| tion det8iTs The institute IL intended
| TO be a center of Slav culture and tc
Evening star., 1924-11-18

justified the claim that, take II all in
all, 1t is one Of the fairest climates in
tho country. 1t is a climate of variety
rather than of monotony. The weather
change, though long delayed and sud-
den. should not be thought of as dis.
agreeable. Late Autumn and Winter
have their charps,. and a cold "spell"
that would lock the earth into a good
rest would help to give us brighter
foliage and flowers in the Spring.
Evening star., 1924-11-18

getic mind, is willing to add to his ef
forts in the line Of Spanish fiction by
helping to make Spanish history
Authorship and politics do not always
combine for comfort. The career OF
D'Annunzio has been a brilliant bu,
not a personally happy one.
Evening star., 1924-11-18

Reports that Senator La Toilette
immediately excite the sympathy
proper under such circumstances
They may create an impression that
exceptional activities are to be ex
the Wisconsin Senator fights hardest
and with the keenest enjoyment just
after a convalescence,