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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-08
Is Beautiful Models in the Fashion
Show at the Augusta Opera House
tomorrow and Thursday Even.
inos

"'3 HuISuGy Even.
ings
A quarter of score Of charming
and beautiful models will appear on
the stage of the Augusta Opera
House at the evening performances
tomorrow and Thursday evenings of
this week to display q great variety
of dazzling style creations in both
ladies and gents creations in one of
the most elaborate fashion shows
ever staged in Eastern Maine. The
articles were received in Augusta
yesterday, having been rushed from
designers in Paris, London, New
York and Chicago. They are being
shown by the leading dealers of this
city such as the d. w. Adams Co,
Barker's Clothing Co. Quality Shoe
Store. Freeman's Jewelry Store. etc.
and the display will consist Of the
latest in spring and summer wear
such as suits, coats, top-coats.
traps, millinery. underwear, hosiery
frocks, dresses, slippers, shoes.
pumps, jewelry, etc. The feature
photoplay will be the screen drama
CT youth. love and adventure, Fash
ion Row." starring Mae Murray in
which she alone wears fifty made to
order costumes to the value of over
$4,000. There will be musical ac-
compartment and concert numbers
Dv the orchestra, directed by Ernest
Hill.-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-08

Mr.. and Mrs. A. NJ. Bragdon OF
York Village were callers in the CITY
Monday. MIR. Bragdon Is the treas
urer Of the York County Trust GO.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-08

Mnemstitching now being done by
an. j. b. E. Tartre, 7S State ct.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-08
Miss Brown Talks to Children

Miss Alice K. Brown gave a very
interesting talk to the children and
their elders at the Chapel Sunday
morning, taking for her text, Speak
Lord for Thy Servant Heareth."
Her story of the birth of little Sam
ual and of his conservation by Han
nah to the service of God, was so
tactfully presented that the attention
of the whole congregation was held
to the end of her discourse. Next
Sunday. April 18th. Miss Delora
Smith is expected to speak at 1880,
at the NJ. E. chapel.
Mrs. Sadie D. Spaulding and her
son. William Spaulding left Read
field Sunday in Mrs. Spaulding's au-
tomobile for West Stoughton, Mass,
to visit George Spaulding, Mrs.
Spaulding's son and his family.
Samuel w. Fogg. who has been
confined to his home for ten days
with severe attack of jaundice. is
somewhat better.
RcadGcld Grange
The regular meeting OF Readfield
Grange was held April 9Th. This be-
ing brothers day, the chairs were
occupied by E. f. Peacock, NJ; J.
Colby Cooper. o.; w. A. Nickerson,
L.; Merle Cooper, s.: Howard Harr-
riman, A. s.; c. Weston, Chap; b.
Fl. Winters, T.; G. G.. Freer, Sec; J.
Whitney. G.: f. A. Walker. Ceres;
A. Fl. Winters, F.; c. r. Freer, G.;
George Rowland, L. A. S.
The morning session was devoted
to business, and the comforting of
the third and fourth degrees upon a
class of candidates. The afternoon
program consisted of singing. Battle
Hymn of Republic. Grange; illus
trated address on communicable
diseases by DR.. G. Hutchins of State
Board of Health; VOCAL solo, Monk
of Mountains, George Rowland;
reading, Mr.. George Randlette:
reading. The Road Hog, George
Rowland; presidential address, E. Z.
Peacock
Visitors were present from Cas-
cade and Mt. Vernon oranges.
The next Grange meeting, April
18TH, will be Patriots Day at which
are expected two former residents,
Mr.. and Mrs. William G. Huron,
who though now living In Portland,
are still members of this Grange, to
be present an assist on the program.
Mr.. Hunton to give an address on
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-08
AUGUSTA LOCALS

Remember the Pythian Sisters
Rummage Sale Wednesday at Sal
Walton Army hall.-Adv.
Evening star., 1924-03-23

roau"ays are traversed by rushing
engines, dragging cars crowded with
men who know not for the most mart
what they arc after, do not care. and
whose tempers do not improve by be-
ing uncomfortably packed together
ike sardines in boxes. Factories
nave risen on the corpses of men.
women and children to create what
we call civilization.
When asked for his opinion on tho
action of the Supreme Court in bar
ring Indians from United States CIT
izenship, MIR. Gandhi replied that he
'deplored the decision, and considered
it due to American ignorance of
lndia's civilization and it's possibili
ties"
Finally, when reminded of the fact
that all India worshiped him as a,
saint" that thousands of children
We're being named "Gandhidas," that
wreaths were daily freshened over
his picture in millions of homes
throughout India, Mr.. Gandhi re-
pied simply:
81 think that word saint should
be ruled out of present life 1t is too
sacred word to be lightly applied
to anybody. much less to one like
myself. who claims only to be d
humble searcher after truth
Evening star., 1924-03-23

could land for gas and rest. Coast
guard cutters save ships at sea and
destroy derelicts and swatter into the
breakers to tow out stranded ships.
1t is Il hard service. No weather is
too rough, no wave too high, to hold
them back. No job is too big for
the coast guardsmen to tackle.
But because of the character of the
service the cutters have been round
buttocked. strong. sturdy little ships,
designed to stay at sea in all weather
rather than TO chase speed boats
laden with rum. And their service
to the merchant marine cannot be
discontinued merely because of the
thirst ashore. Under a law now
almost 100 years old. they cruise
the seas from the beginning to the
end of the winter season in search
of mariners needing aid. In one
average year the lives of more than
1000 persons were saved. No evil
dence is recorded under this head
unless the individual would in all
probability have lost his life Mil
lions of dollars in property are saved
each season.
If Congress grants the transfer of
the fast destroyers from the Navy
the coast guard viii be able to con-
tinue its primary duty and still en-
force the customs laws, for il will
then have the tools with which to
work. Only one thing bothers Admiral
Billiard. The doubling of the facili-
ties Of the coast guard will entail
a doubling of the personnel. Officers
and men of the coast guard have
always been and-picked. They must
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Suburban Telephone
Rates Are Criticized
To the Editor of The Star.

To the Editor of The Star.
Can any of your readers write and
publish the reason the telephone
company is allowed to charge from
5 to 25 cents for calls within four
miles, such as Clarendon, Va.
All the large cities ! am acquainted
with include a radias of eight to
twelve miles in the regular service,
without extra charge.
The telephone company, especially
the north exchange, charges up time
from the moment they receive the
call until they happen to come in on
the line, regardless of when the sub
scriber actually gets the party
wanted
Why should Washington people pay
extra for calls on points as near as
Clarendon? New York, ladelphia.
Pittsburgh and many other cities
have much better service in this re-
spect than Washington.
c. H. EDWARDS.
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Corrects Errors.
Correspondent Says Writers Err
on Historical Facts.

To the Editor of The Star;
L recently took occasion to call at
tentlon to errors made by two of
your special writer's in statements of
historical character. Since that
time 1 have been forced to add three
more to the list of the names of
writer's of national repute who handle
some facts in our country's history
carelessly
Referring to the non-election of a
President by the electoral college, and
thus sending the matter to the Con-
gress for determination both Mr..
Vile and Mr.. Lawrence have recently
stated that such a thing had occurred
but once (Mr; Vile twice. over the
RADIO, and Mr.. Lawrence in The
starr. The truth is that twice has
the House Of Representatives been
compelled to elect a President be-
cause of the failure of the electors
to do so.
In the electoral college of 1900,
THOMAS Jefferson and Aaron Burr
tied for the presidency. whereupon
the House elected Mr.. Jefferson.
After the failure in 1924 Of the
electors to settle the free-for-all con-
test engaged in by Jackson. Adams,
again called upon to act, with the
result that the Clay Congressman
voted for Mr.. Adams, who was elect
ed: President Adams then made Mr..
Clay Secretary of State. An appar-
ent bargain -and-sale transaction of
this character would surely call for
congressional investigation in this
year of grace.
A few days ago Mr.. Messenger in
The Star stated. speaking with ref
erence to the likelihood Of the coming
election being sent to the Congress
for settlement, that the republicans con-
trolled a majority of the state dele
cations in Congress. They do not.
Counting Wisconsin, they have but
twenty-three states, while the dem
ocrats have twenty, with five states
tied Thus the republicans are two
states shy of a majority, with the
prospect of this being reduced to one
IL the House unseats Mr.. Bloom of
New York, thereby giving the. re-
publicans contfol Of that delegation.
J. .. JAQUES.
Evening star., 1924-03-23
BY HENRY w. BUM.

The following is a brief summary
of the most important news of the
world for the seven days ended
March %:
The British Commonwealth of Ma
tions-On March IS it was announced
to parliament that the government
had decided to chuck the project of
a naval base at Singapore. The house
of lords at once passed resolution
deploring the decision. The matter
is to be debated at length in the
commons. Defending the decision
Mr.. Macdonald told the commons
that prosecution of the Singapore
project would MAIN that interna-
tional good feeling and confidence
which it was the prime aim of his
governments foreign policy to pro-
mote. His government proposed. he
said, 90 maintain only a nucleus" of
defenseS and armamentS and to place
its chief reliance for security on
good will, steps toward disarma-
ment." that sort of thing.
Lieut. Col. Amory, first lord of the
admiralty in the late conservative
government. replied. He begged the
government to reconsider. Noble ges-
lures could not be relied on to pro-
cure peace and good will. IN the re-
cent war Britain had suffered terri
bly, from unpreparedneSs due to the
excess of confidence Since the
war the defenses of the empire had
dangerously been reduced. AS for the
danger of hurting foreign suscepti-
bilities, were not the susceptibilities
sidered? The labor government was.
indeed. repudiating imperial coop
Grafton. He ended by observing that
the conservatives, on returning to
power, would at once resume that
policy of imperial defense agreed on
at the recent imperial conference of
premiers, a policy of which the most
important feature was the project of
a great naval base at Singapore.
The latter government could hardly
have decided otherwise. In view of
certain oft-repeated declarations of
the labor party, decision to proceed
with the Singapore project would
have amounted to f-stultification
and would probably have given NOR
tai offense to the superpacifists of the
party. But the decision taken has
aroused dangerous distrust and an
tagonism among the conservatives
and in Australia and New Zealand.
The British are going to hold naval
maneuvers in the vicinity Of the
could furnish deadly bases against
surface vessels plying between the
Mediterranean ports of France and
French Africa, the French are sus-
picIous. They fear. or profess to
fear. an alignment of Britain, Spain
and Italy against France
The Prince of Wales came another
cropper the other day in a steeple-
chase-one of the best sports and
perhaps the worst horseman in the
world.
A curious situation has developed in
the Irish Free State, Minister of De-
fense Muicahy and the army council
had been making vigorous effort to
run down the principals in the recent
army mutineers. But the executive
council of the government (of which
Mu1cahy was a member) conferred
special full powers to deal with mat
ters relating to the mutinies on the
commander-in-chief of the army,
Gen. O'Duffy, and-throush Mr.. O'Hig-
gins, the minister of home 1ffatrs-
promised friends Of the chief mutt
Evening star., 1924-03-23

The Story the Week Has Told

neerS that the government action
anent the latter would be conciliato-
ry. One wonders why Gen. Mulca-hy
did not upon these proceedings resign
incontnently: constituting them as he
did, as personally belittling to him,
as derogatory to his office, and as
reversing, with probability of con-
sequences fatal to the state, his
policy of stern dealings with trea-
son. He did not resign. but ordered
a raid on a certain hostelry in Dub
lin. where he hoped to bag the two
chief nutineers. Gen. Tobin and Col.
Dalton. These gentlemen were not
present. but severa! other guilty
officers of lower rank were captured.
On learning of the raid the executive
council issued a public statement de-
nouncing it. whereupon Mulcahy 1e-
signed. declaring that the raid was
defense forces act. which the govern
ment had no right to override or sus
pend.
From the meager dispatche it
would seem that Gen. Mulcahy
course was indefensble. however
much one may sympathize with his
attitude toward treas N
The general demands a thorough
investigation and airing of the Whoie
affair, intimating that he mas . sood 200
secret societies. and other curious
things in the army.
On the evening of March Il De
tachment of British soldiers had Just
, disembarked on a pier at queens
town, ireland, when a motor car con
tanning four men in the uniform OF
Free State army officers dashed up
and hailed on the beach nearby Inc
occupants whipped out machine gun
and fired on the Britons. killing one
and wounding twenty-eight, of whom
four are likely to die. The car then
dashed away. The heroes OF the
gallant feat are supposed 10 Nahe M,'1e
cahy may well cite this incident as
vindicating his uncompromislng at
titude toward fanatcal disaffect1on IN
the army.
The mutineer-deserters have ac-
cepted the governments terms, which
involve their surrender and release
on parole. Certainly all is not Well
with the Free State. The Indian leg
islative assembly at Delhi continues
Ito reject government bills.
ItaIy.-On March 16 Fiume was
formally annexed to Italy. King Vic
tor visiting the city to preside over
the ceremony, and add the crowning
touch, SO to speak, to the festivities
D. Annunzio was not there, and this
for sundry reasons was we'll: but the
king did the handsome thing by Gre
ating him, simultaneously with the
formal annexation, prince of Monte
NevoSo, Snowy mountain, on the
Jugoslav border, standing guard, one
, might say, over Fiume.
!. ;: X
Tie Caliphate-A dispatch from
Jerusalem states that King Hussein
of the Hejaz has assumed the title of
caliph and is about to summon d
pan-Islamic conference to discuss
matters Of general interest to the
world of Islam.
If the report is correct, it may be
doubted whether Hussein has acted
Wisely. Had he been content modesty
to submit to pan-Islamic congress
his claims to the Caliphate of Islam
in competition with other claimants,
le might reasonably have counted on
victory, for no other claimant could
present so many of those Qualifica-
Evening star., 1924-03-23

of the vexed question of German
minoritieS in Poland; it cleaned up
preliminaries relating to the league
project for Hungary'S rehabilitation,
and 1t made an appropriation for re-
lief of the starving Albanians.
Information is lacking as to the
details of the Memel report. but il is
said TO be extremely unsatisfactory
TO warsaw. which may refuse to ac-
cept its Recommendations
The French senate has passed
PoiEcare'S financial and decretory
measures, and preSuma bly, they are
now law.
They are rowing it again in
Portugal-everybod on strike. No
chance for Portugal. apparently, short
OF another Suevic invasion.
1t looks as though Shah Ahmad
Mira of Persia is going to be fired
and there is going to be d republic
of Persia. There are republics and
republics. one wonders whether the
benevolent Chicherin has his finger
in this pie.
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Real Workers in the National Capital

measure up to an exacting standard
in mind and strength and courage
and devotion to duty.
1T may seem hard job to get
the right men, said Admiral Billiard,
"but we do not worry. Well get
them. The wrong sort of a man could
not stay in the service"
That's where tradition counts. The
coast guard is the oldest maritime
service in the United States govern
ment. Born in 1890, it antedated the
Navy by some years. 1t began with
ten cutters, carrying two officers and
six men each. The duty then was
to watch smuggling in the ports and
enforce the maritime laws. Then
the spread of piracy demanded larger
vessels. The coast guard has taken
States except that against Tripoli.
1t fought and captured French and
British privateers in the early years
and German submarines in the great
war.
No Bribery or Dishonesty.
Without blot, mind you" says
the captain-command Not one
man of our service has ever been
charged with taking a b'-be or dis
honesty. Little things, yes. They're
husky, full bodied men in the coast
guard. They have to be TO stick to
the work. But no big things. The
service is clean"
Thirty years ago he gave up teach
ing Latin and Greek to the sprout-
ing youth to enter the service. 1t
seemed an odd start
II don't know why" he said. Not
the love for adventure, particularly.
1 wanted to serve the government at
sea, / think"
So he has been with the coast guard
ever since. Not long ago an effort
was made to merge the coast guard
with the Navy. That was defeated.
The coast guard service is entirely
distinct and naval officers are not
permitted to enforce civilian laws.
Militarism lies that way. But the
coast guardsmen had not been fairly
treated in the matter of pay or rank
or retirement until recently en-
acted law placed officers and men on
a parity with the Navy in all these
matters. Now the guard is to be still
further Increased, so that it can per-
form it's manifold duties to its own
satisfaction.
Spent sixteep Years mt Sea.
Sixteen of Admiral Billiards. thirty
years service were spent at sea. Then
that long buried pedagogic instinct
manifested itself and he was placed
in charge of the coast guard serv-
ices own academy, at New London.
There it's priced material is made
ready for any one of the varied serv-
ices the coast guard demands OF its
men. It's officers must know how
to board a wallowing ship at sea or
run a life boat through the surf.
They must have bookful Of laws At
their fingers ends: be able to lay a
five-inch gun or navigate a dismasted
hooker by dead reckoning, or reduce
a mutinous crew to order by a blink
of the eye
Anu they can, says Aumiral Bill
lard. He's the proudest man in the
service OF the United States. He
knows the coast guard will measure
up to any job that is given it. He
knows that when a coast guardSman
is told TO do he does not come back
with an alibi. There is a book filled
with the names Of officers and men
who have been commended for heroic
conduct. The Others" says Billiard
haven't had their chance
Evening star., 1924-03-23

1TSoTOoAlAS- TO supply very Sc
r. rious omissions in the Con-
L stitution which might leave
this government without a
PRESIDENT or any clear direction as
to how to proceed to fill the Office
OF Chief Executive will be given care
full consideration this week by the House
committee on the election OF Pres
ident, Vice President and representa-
tiyes in Congress, which has before
| 1t the Norris resolution for q consti-
tutional amendment, which passed the
Senate during the week.
The Norris resolution proposes an
anne ndment to the Constitution so
that a newly elected Congress shall
uary after its election and the Pres
1dent and Vice President shall be
inaugurated tho third Monday in
January A two-thirds vote is re-
quired in the House as well as in
| the Senate before this proposed con-
| stitutional amendment can be sub
rnitted to the states for ratification.
AS the House committee already has
reported favorably a joint resolution
that is substantially the same as the
Norrls amendment. Representative
Hays Il. White of Kansas, chairman n
or the House committee, is willing
to move substitution of the Senate
measure for the House measure to
Iacihtate its passage, and feels con-
ndent that the two-thirds vote can
be had in the House.
Would Care for EventuaIities.
But Representative White is very
anxious that if the Constitution is
anne ended in this respect the amend
ment should take care of any possi-
Bile eventuality and supply any long
| standing omission. 1t has been
brought to his attention that:
| ta) Any new amendment to the
Constitution ought to provide a way
TO take care of the situation that
might arise if both the President
elect and the Vice President-elect
should die between the time of their
election and the time of their inaugu-
ration. Attempts have been made in
the past to fill that omission in the
Constitution, but nothing definite has
been done.
fb) There is a. possibility that in
the coming presidential election the
choice may be thrown into the House
Tor President and into the Senate for
| Vice President. If both the House
and Senate fail 20 make their choice
presidential succession act comes into
play. This provides that the Secre-
tary of State would then assume the
once of President and should
promptly call a special session of
Congress-but for what purpose the
law is silent-presumably to see that
the will of the people is safeguarded d
against "A hold-over cabinet officer
from the previous repudiated admin
istration.
ConAtitutionaI Provision.
The Constitution provides for what
shall be done "in case Of the re-
| moval, death. resignation or in
ability of the President. 1t has
long been a moot question as
| to when inability" exists, and who
/ shall determine whether a President
is Unable This question was
thrashed out during President Will
i sons severe illness.