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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-13
Lessening of Fowl
Pest Danger Permits
Revocation Order

The emergency order of December
"a, 1924, placing restrictions on ship
ments of live poultry consigned from
other states to points in Maine be-
cause of the prevalence of the Eu-
ropean fowl pest and numerous oth-
er communicable diseases of poultry,
has been revoked by Herbert Nj.
Tucker, chief of the division of ami
NAL industry, State Department. of
Agriculture.
The U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture order pertaining to the same
question still remains in force, how
ever. This order forbids the ship
ment of live chickens, turkeys or
geese affected or directly exposed to
European fowl pest or other conta-
gious diseases, and requiring con-
tanners used in the shipment of such
diseased poultry to be cleaned and
disinfected under the supervision OF
the u. S. Burau of Animal Industry
BY the revocation of the State or
der no permit is now required on
poultry entering Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-13
CASH AWARDS IN
JOURNAL LIMERICK
CONTEST LAST week

Winners for last week in the Jour
nails Cross Word and Limerick Con-
test were as follows:
First prize. S25, won hy Mrs. Dennis
Donovan. Davenport street Augusta,
with the following limerick:
II your lawn mowers squeaking and
squawking,
Til your neighbors in anger get talk
ing,
To Webber's just send It,
He will sharpen and mend it,
And twill cut in a manner that's
corking.
Second price, SIS. won by Mrs Flor
ence NJ. Dugas, Skowhegan, with the
following limerick
You need not be like Jack and Jill,
Who for water climbed up a long hill,
II to Husseys you'll go.
For pump, | well know.
1t will bring water In from the rill.
Third prize, $40, won by Mrs. Ger
trude Judkins, r. z, Augusta, with the
following limerick:
If for friend you would find.
A gift Of the most pleasing kind.
A photo from Mansur,
Will give you the answer
And more closely your friendship will
bind
Fourth prize. IS. won by Donald
Manning, % Capitol street, Augusta,
with the following limerick:
Mr.. Hillman has papered our walls,
And so now. when anyone calls,
Mother murmurs aloud,
Were all of us proud,
Of the looks of our rooms and our
halls.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-13
STATE HOUSE

nual destruction Of property which
even now in the United States is
equivalent to the total taxable ply
steal value of the State of Maine
In other words, one state of the as
in the Union is burned every year
This record is unnecessary, ridicu-
lous and pathetic, for only one-flfth
of the population of the world is
properly housed today. Building
costs are prohibitive and rents are
adjusted to replacement expenses.
The past year has witnessed very
heavy fire casualties throughout the
United States. the report shows.
There were reasons for this severity
1t was a period of reaction in in
dustry-the first serious depression
since the World War.
Such a depression always results
In excessive fire losses for the reas-
on that the owner takes less concern
in the care of deprecated property
and the criminal is tempted to make
the public assume mis- bad invest
ments through. the medium of legi-
innate insurance.
But the percentage Of reimburse
ments for arson is still about nor
NAL, and the greatest single cause
of fire losses has been found by ma
tional experts to be due to careless
smoking habits from which only one
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-13
Cigarettes Cause
Of Big Fire Waste,
Word Com. Spencer

III the smoking habit could be
suspended wholly for three months
the decrease in fire losses would be
apparent to everyone, and would be
reduced by more than one-half OF
our present fire waste" State In
surance Commissioner Wilbur D.
Spencer announces in his prelimi-
nary report Of Maine fire losses in
1924.
This report discloses premiums
amounting to $6.944,763 and losses OF
$4,546,370. to which is usually added
rs percent for unreported fires.
Only a few Of the insurance mag
azines, Mr.. Spencer states, yet rec
ognize the enormity of the offense
OF the cigarette against humanity
The public press notes with alarm
the increasing magnitude Of fire
losses, but is afraid, 1t is said. to
announce the real cause to the Of
Tending public.
The Indifferent attitude of others
should not discourage insurance Of
ficials from disclosing the truth and
the truth only can prevent this an
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-13
New Corporations

The certificates of the following
new corporations were approved on
Saturday at the office of the attor-
ney-general:
Levine's Clothing Co., organized
April at Portland to engage in the
clothing business. Capital stock,
$4,000. all common stock; $500 paid
in; par value of share 500. Pres
ident and treasurer. Jeneva NJ. Le-
vine; clerk, Robert w. DeWolfe, both
of Portland.
Pioneer Cleaners Inc. organized at
Portland April 9 to engage in the
cleaning business. Capital stock,
$4,000. all common stock: par value
of a share S100; three shares sub
scribed; nothing paid in. President
and treasurer. Edward L. Geldert
clerk, John w. Hill, both of Port
land
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-13

The SInu leSlSid luIe, WHICH du-
iourned Saturday night. enacted 1926
public laws and 1913 resolves. The
titles are as follows:
Public Laws
Act to provide for an issue of State
highway and bridge bonds.
Act relating to corporations.
Act to enable cities of over thirty
five thousand to regulate and re-
strict the construction of buildings
and the use of land by coming ordi-
nances.
Act relating to the enforcement of
liens on watches, clocks and jewelry
for labor and materials furnished in
making and repairing same.
Act to authorize the recording of
marketing agreements of co-opera-
tive agricultural associations, and
requiring that liens hereby attached
to crops before delivery to the asso-
citation, and to the members inter-
est in the association after such de-
livery be collected through the as
Sociation.
Act to provide for an assistant
county attorney for the county OF
| Androscog
Act relating to the payment of ex-
else taxes.
Act relating to a tax upon gaso-
line.
Act relating to driving motor We
| hicles while under the influence OF
| intoxicating liquor or drugs and the
penalty therefor.
Act permitting sterilizing opera
! lions in certain cases of mental dis
! ease and feeble -mindedness.
| Act for the assessment of a State
tax for the year one thousand nine
hundred and twenty-five.
| Act for the assessment of State
tax for the year one thousand nine
| hundred and twenty-six.
! Act relating to registration of mo-
| tor vehicles by non-residents.
! Act relating to amateur boxing
! contests.
Act relating to the payment of ex-
else taxes.
! Act to provide for an issue of State
highway and bridge bonds.
| Act to regulate the sale of oleo-
| margarine or any other substitute
tor butter.
! Act relating to the Passamaquod.
| dy and Penobscot Indian tribes.
| Act to give certain powers to the
!
J to State highway, interstate and in
, ternational bridges.
Act relating TO aircraft.
| Act relating to convicts sentenced
to the State reformatory for men.
Act TO authorize the PRONUNCIATION
of rules and regulations of the com.
missioner of inland fisheries and
game.
Act to prohibit advertising signs
upon public highways.
Act relating to certain State parks
Act relating to the care and treat
ment of certain infectious diseases.
| Act relating to apothecaries ant
the sale of poisons.
Act to give additional powers tt
the public utilities commission.
Act relating to appropriations fol
the several normal schools and the
Madawaska training school.
Act relating to application for H.
cense to build or extend wharves OIL
fish wcirs.
Act relating to apportionment Of
moneys for highways.
Act to reimburse towns for sup
plies furnished certain Indians.
Act relating to the salary of coun.
ty attorney of Somerset county.
Act relating to the definition o.
banking.
Act to provide for yearly limit
Of one deer in all counties of the
State.
Act to create State broadcasting
station.
Act to define certain grades Of
| milk offered for sale within the
State.
Act relating to inmates escaping
from the reformatory for women.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-13
State House Chat

Owing to the death of Mrs. A. NJ.
G. Soule the offices of the Depart
ment of Agriculture will be closed,
except for calls. today.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-13

tenth Of the cigarette fires can be
identified.
Evening star., 1925-06-21
What TomorrowMeans to You
BY MARY BLAKE.
Gemini.

Tomorrow's planetary aspects are.
on the whole, favorable. although
there will be two brief periods of ad-
verse conditionS-the first between
noon and pm, and the second after
8 pm. These. however, are both of
short duration, and need not inter-
fere with the work outlined for the
day, provided they are carefully
borne in mind, and impulsive acts
or decisions avoided. The signs de-
note that all professional work will
hold out great promise Of success.
and any venture along artistic or
literary lines will not be abortive.
The indications preSage that any i'm
portant change. in either business or
private relations, made tomorrow,
and always provided that 1t is not
based on emotion, but founded on
mature judgment, will be beneficial
to all interested parties.
Not much of a positive character
can be said about the child born to-
morrow. Health conditions promise
to be uncertain and indefinite, and,
while serious consequence need not
be feared, sickness Will cause worry
and anxiety, and demand Watchful
care and unremitting attention. Boys
apparently will enjoy better physical
condition than girls. In disposition
and temperament, the future can be
prognosticated with sureness and re-
liability. Children brought into the
world under tomorrow auspices will
be patient and cheerful, and they will
with very few and rare exceptions,
possess high ideals and keen con-
sciences. They will at no time be pre-
pared to sacrifice what they know is
right for the sake of eXpediency, or for
self advancement. Only in rare in
stances will great material success
be achieved, but they will all leave
their mark, and the world will be a
better place for their advent.
If tomorrow is your birthday,
steadfastness and loyalty are your
outstanding virtues. Although your
exalted view of the obligations of
friendship and the responsibilities of
setbacks, this will in no way abate
what may almost be called the quix-
oticism of your ideals, and, in their
names and because of them, you will
always be ready to forgive and for
get.
You are conscientious in all duties
that you undertake. and, while lack
ing both initiative and originality,
the plodding and persevering habits
that are characteristic of you will
insure for you succesS-solid, but not
glittering.
You are at your best in home life
as everything denotes that, as d
mate. you are loving and affectionate
Evening star., 1925-06-21
NAVAL AV|AT0RS
AID WEATHER MAN
"Soundings" Taken 10000
to $1,000 Feet Up Make
Forecasts More Accurate.

The problem of how to obtain more
accurate weather forecasts and for a
longer period in advance Is in the
process OF solution by naval aviators,
naval aerologists and officials of the
United States Weather Bureau here,
who for the past four weeks have
been conducting upper air sound
ings" from 10000 to $1,000 feet over
the District of Columbia.
While the daily airplane flights over
the city by naval plane from the
air station at Anacostia carrying in
struments for the "soundings" have
been of much value in predicting
thunderstorms, their influence on
other meteorological disturbances have
not been SO marked, because, the
Weather Bureau states, there is only
one reading available, and such is
comparable to one barometric pres
sure reading in some distant part Of
the country at hand for predicting
Washington's weather.
However, Forecaster Mitchell and
Lieut.. F. w. Reichelderfer. aerologist
of the Bureau of Aeronautics, believe
that If daily flights similar to the
ones now being made here are accom-
plished at strategic weather points
throughout the country. a marked
improvement in the prognostications
will be noted. ut is the method of
the future and the only way" de-
clared Mr.. Mitchell yesterday. land
in due time it will be brought about"
Carried Up 10000 Feet.
Mounted on the center section of
the top wing of a Navy Gought land
plane. an "aerometeorograph" is car
ried aloft daily except Sunday to an
altitude of not less than 10000 feet
Evening star., 1925-06-21
Weeks Concerts
Begir, Tomorrow,
With TaUO RecituIs

The director Of public buildings an6
public parks announces the following
park concerts for the week beginning
tomorrow:
Tomorrow-Montros Park, Thrift
eth and r streets northwest, Army
7:30 to 3 pm.
Tomorrow-Logan Park, Fourteenth
street between V and w streets south
east, Anacostia, Marine. 1880 to 9 pm
Tuesday-Meridian Hill Park, Six
teenth and Euclid streets northwest
Navy. 7:30 to pm.
Thursday-Sylvan Theater, Monu
ment Grounds, Marine. 1880 to 9 pm
Friday-Iowa Circle. Thirteenth and
streets northwest, Community Civic
1880 to pm.
Saturday - Sylvan Theater, Monu
ment Grounds, Army, 7:45 to 9:15 pm
Evening star., 1925-06-21

by the naval aviator on watch at the
station. The flights are begun at s
o'clock in the morning and the descent
is made about an hour later. The
instrument, inclosed in a case and
held by rubber bands to eliminate vi.
bration >of the plane. records on a
graph the temperatures of the air at
various attitudes on the trip up, the
air pressure and the humidity. When
readings are taken after the plane
lands, If it Is found. Lieut.. Reichel-
derfer explains, that the humidity is
high. there Is a large decrease in tenn.
perature and the air pressure Is low,
a thunderstorm is imminent.
An example of the close check the
aerometeorograph keeps on the air
aloft Is given in the readings of this
instrument for Tuesday morning, one
of the hottest days of the week. The
Thermometer at the ground read Ss
degrees Fahrenheit and the humidity
feet the temperature was 1926 de-
grees Fahrenheit and the humidity "A;
at $500, 59.18 degrees and 70 per cent
humidity; at $500 feet. 47.3 degrees
and II per cent, and at 14,570 feet 1t
was 81 degrees, or l degree below
freezing, and the per cent of humidity
was II.
Similar Tests in West.
Experiments of this type have been
made in Europe for long period, and
the Weather Bureau requested CO.
operation of the Bureau of Aeronau-
tics for more comprehensive tests.
Flights of this nature have been made
at the naval air station, San Diego,
Calf. for a number of months, and
have proved of assistance to the
Weather Bureau there.
Forecaster Mitchell said yesterday
something new Is learned from the
upper air surroundings almost every
day He cited the instance of a few
Evening star., 1925-06-21
DESERVING CREWS HALT
LA SAVOIE HAVRE SAILING
French Liner Victim of Indigna.
tion Over Imprisonment of
Sailors Union Official.

BY the Associated Press.
HAVRE, France, June 20.-The
French liner La Savoie, which was tt
have left for New York at O'Clock
tonight. was prevented from sailing by
the desertion of about 200 members oi
aboard later also deserted.
The hawsers of the La Savoie's
tugs were mysteriously cut.
The officials of the line hope that the
steamer will be able to leave tomorrow
Meantime the agitation among the sea
men is increasing, owing to discomfort
due to the sentence of a months i'm
prisonment imposed on the secretary
of the Sailors Union on the charge OF
having caused the desertion of the
crew of the French steamer Caroline
Evening star., 1925-06-21

without being mushy, and. as a
parent, ideal. without being foolish.
You are devoted to children, and they
are to you, as age never dims the
spirit of youth that lives within you,
and that finds unrestrained and un-
affected expression in both speech
and action.
Well known persons born on this
date are: Richard Hildreth, author;
Arthur Gilman, author; Julian. Haw-
thorne. author; Walter Learned. 'au-
thor and poet; Cy Warman, author
and journalist; Frank Damrosch.
musician.
Copyright. 1925)
Evening star., 1925-06-21
James Rites Monday.

CHAMPAIGN, H., June 20 LP)-
Funeral services for the late Edmund
j. James, president emeritus of the
University Of Illinois, viii be held in
afternoon at o'clock. The body will
arrive at noon Monday from Covina,
Calf, where he died. and will lie in
state in the auditorium.
Evening star., 1925-06-21

days ago when there was nothing on
his weather maps to indicate rain.
but the soundings one day showed
slight drop in temperature at 1000
feet and this was followed by a small
amount of rainfall. The next day
there was a heavy drop in the ther-
mometer reading and heavy rains
were tho result.
Evening star., 1925-06-21
Rejects designations.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, June 20 up.
President Solorzano has declined to
accept the designations of the cabinet
members, rendered him on June 8.
The designations were offered to give
the new president a free hand in or
ganiZing his cabinet
Evening star., 1925-06-21

Increase of freight rates in Abys-
sinia is forcing the producers of goat
and sheep skins to return to the use
of camel caravans.
Evening star., 1925-06-21
Changes Affect Barometer.

So intensive is the desire for ma
tional highways in Panama that
grading was continued through the
rainy season.
The Delta independent., 1925-03-27

There is a man who believes he can
make it pay by using this power for
the fixation of nitrogen. If the gov
ernment cannot do anything with this
power plant it certainly had better
lease il to Henry Ford than to have
it lie idle.
The greatest hydro-electric plant
vet established in the United States
bv private capital is the dam across
the Mississippi River at Keouk,
Iowa. It has so far been a poorly
paying proposition. Had it been con-
structed at government expense 1t
would have been a dead horse from
the very day of its completion. Priv
ate capital. however, is enabled to
keep the plant going, pay the neces-
sary expenses and fixed charges, for
taxes. ETC. but so far this has been
largely at the expense of the stock
holder and bondholder. However,
with the incentive for interchangeable
search for markets for power and
lightning which private capital has
in such investments, 1t seems that
the day for making this plant pay is
not very distant.
In England a huge plant is under
process Of construction for harness
ing the ocean tides, That which
meant to julius Caesar surprise and
embarrassment in finding his anch-
ored fleet 20 to 80 feet high and dry
at low tide now means England's op-
portunity for cheap power and ad-
ditionel Industrial wealth.
The Delta independent., 1925-03-27
To Remain In Delta.

Following an announcement by
Thurman Blackburn that he would 20
into the Northwest to take a position
there, a number OF Delta people made
demand upon him that he should re-
main here He has started a number
Of students in music and besides this
they felt that he is valuable asset
to the community. Mr. Blackburn
has number OF business interests
here and VIII remain, at least. until
next fall.
The Delta independent., 1925-03-27

thwart invention and improvements?
II is needless to say that with gov
ernmental ownership the state, coun-
ty town and school district would
be prevented from exercising their
power to tax the capital invested in
such plants.
Some may say that governmental
ownership is necessary in order that
we may have cheap prices for this
power and in order that some octopus
may not engross all of our available
water power
The answer to this bogie man is
that the governmental function of
rate regulation is fully adequate to
protect the public against eXtortion.
All of the benefits of public owner
ship can be had and all of the mer-
its of private ownership and opera
ton retained by effective rate regu.
lation. Whoever invests his capital
in the service of the public thereby
places such capital under the regula-
tion and supervision of the Public
Utility Commission, and while these
commissions cannot and will not
take from the private owners that
which would confiscate his invested
capital, yet it can regulate to the
lowest adequate rate the return in
vestment which he shall make. It can
insist upon all the economies and it
is not engaged in fostering lucrative
and easy positions for its own public
servants to occupy to its disadvant-
age. | believe in rate regulation.
cannot believe in government owner
ship.
on the standpoint of efficiency.
contrast our privately owned rail.
roads with those of England and
continental Europe-not under pres
ent conditions, but on their pre-war
records. Did they have better pass
enger service or lower freight rates
than we with our privately owned
transportation sytems?
But it might be said there is one
brilliant success which the govern.
ment has made Of an hydro-electrical
power plant, namely, the Roosevelt
dam in the Salt River Valley. It is
true that the revenue from the cleo
trical energy developed from the wat
er impounded by this dam Is suffici-
ent to free the water users in the
Salt River Valley from all assess.
ments for the maintenance of their
ditch systems We must not forget.
however, that in order to effect this
special benefit the power OF taxation
over the capital investment OF some
ten million dollars is entirely waived.
and above all things we must bear in
mind that 1t is not governmental op-
GRAFTON Of this power plant, but a
wise lease to private capital that ef.
fects this great benefit for the favor.
ed subscribers to water rights In tho
Salt River Valley.
As against. this fortunate invest
ment for the benefit Of the water
users of the Salt River Valley con.
template the huge fiasco Of the
Muscle Shoals plant This is the
worlds greatest single unit power
plant. The United States has al
ready invested somewhere from 13O
to 40 million dollars in the plan,
and apparently It is just as en-
barrassed to know what to do with
| it as II It had invested the same
amount of money in white elephants
The government cannot make It pay
The Delta independent., 1925-03-27
coIorado Hard to eeat.

Mrs. Grace Journey departed Tues
day afternoon for her home in Max
Well Nebraska. For more than a
year she has been a Delta resident
making her home with her son. c. ].
Journey. Mrs Journey came to Del
Ia for health benefit and the i'm
proyement IS so marked that she
stated It was her intention TO return
TO Delta and make II her home.
The Delta independent., 1925-03-27

The more we see It tried out, the
more We get TO believe that while Re
form doesn't make the world any bet
ter, II makes It more uncomfortable.
The Washington times., 1925-11-28
CITY AVVA|TI
RETURN OF
CONGRESS
House Frames Legislative Pro-
gram-Many Statesmen
at Big Grid Classic
4 great influx Of members Of

A great influx of members Of
Congress for the new session,
which is to, begin December z, is
expected to begin Monday.
Before the end of next week all
preparations will be completed for
the opening of the session and
House leaders expect to have plans
laid for the creation of their legis.
lative program.
Next week will mark the begin
ming of committee organization Ct
the House.
The House and Senate office
buildings were practically deserted
today, scores of the Senator'S and
Congressman having gone to New
York for the annual Army-Navy
football classic. A majority Of the
members of the Senate and House
have been away from the city
since the middle of the week, many
of them having gone home for the
Thanksgiving holidays.
BY the end of next week, prac-
tically all of the members OF the
old House District Committee will
be in the city and 1t is probable
that steps will be taken formally,
under the direction of Congressman
Frederick N. Zihlman OF Maryland,
who will be chairman of the new
committee, to frame a local legis-
latiVe program.