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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-10
Array Of Speakers
Me. Bankers Assn
Bar HarhOr. June ~

At tho meeting Of the Maine Bank
ers' Association at Bar Harbor, on
JUNE ct, the speakers for the ban
quet are to be Hon. Garrard B.
Winston, Under Secretary of the U.
s. Treasury. Hon. John E. Nelson,
member of Congress from the Third
Maine District, and Hon. William s.
Linnell of Portland, chairman of the
Executive Council.
At the big forenoon meeting OF all
the bankers the speaker will be Mr..
Walter s. Wyman of Augusta, pres
ident Of the Central Maine Power
Co.
This is an unusual array of speak
ers and the atten iauce is expee ted
to be a very large one.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-10
Prominent Trio
From Central Maine
In Auto Accident

Charles Hill of Belgrade. Byron
Boyd of this city and Arthur g..
Staples of Lewiston were members
of an auto party which came to grief
early Tuesday morning at Olamon,
Maine. The three men were in Mr..
Hills car when the wheel caught in
the car track and the machine
plunged over an embankment, 1t
was overturned and was badly
damaged but the occupants of the
auto were not hurt. They were I'M
able to continue their trip in the
machine because of its damaged
condition,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-10

Miss Alice Louise Rideout, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Harold NJ. Stone of 172
State street, graduated from Miss
Wheelock's school in Boston, when
the graduating exercises were held
Monday at the Central street church.
Boston. The class contained rs
members and Miss Rideout has Just
complied the two years course in
kindergarten work. She has two Of
fers. on at Orono and one at Auburn
tor the fall term. She was a men,
Der Of the school glee club. Her
mother attended the exercises and
Mrs. Stone and daughter returned to
Augusta. Monday ,evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-10

were Indians, too, big, little and in
different, heap big chiefs and squaws
papooses. The Eastern element
found expression in the Arabian
acrobats, the Zouaves. And there
was touch of Russian, the dancers
and the Cossack riders that added to
the store of thrills handed out.
The show was given in the wide
open space, surrounded by the can
opted seats. 1t was an ideal circus
day. The chilly breeze only added
Zest to the performers and only made
the audience more keen in their OBJ
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-10
SPECTACULAR RIDING AND
INTERESTING EPISODES FEATURE
101 RANCH Wild WEST SHOW

Absence of Burning Sun And Oppressive Heat Made Tuesday
An Ideal Circus Day For Two Splendid Exhibitions By
Miller Brothers Wild West and Far East CombinatOn-A
Cean.and Refreshing Production With Thrills in Swift Sue
cession-Famous Pioneer of Oregon Trail Distinguished
Member of Troupe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-10
CROSS HILL

Russell e. Foster who came home
Friday from U. of NJ, returned sun
day to that institution to attend a
house party and ball at Theta Chi.
Monday evening and to attend to
closing the fraternity house for the
summer vacation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-10
SIDNEY
LOCAL NOTICE

A mock trial 1.-The Umbrella Case"
will be given at Sidney Grange hall,
Wed. eve, June 10, by the Modern
Woodmen of Fairfield. Play follow
ed by dance, refreshments served.
June 9d2t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-10

dom village Saturday, June 6, p. F..
Bessey was elected chairman, H. N.
Harmon secretary and p. F. Shibles
was reelected superintendent for the
ensuing year. A committee consist
ing of Bearl Berry, A. w. Jackson,
R. w. Howard ard H. N. Harmon
was appointed to confer with the
trustees of Freedom Academy in re-
gard to maxim G the Academy the
High school of the towns composing
the class union.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-10
AUGUSTA LOCALS
Logan Clark of Sidney was a bust.
ness visitor Tuesday in this CITY.

Harry Cochrane. the well known
artist from Monmouth, was a visitor
Tuesday In this city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-10

Mr.. and Mrs. e. X. Sawyer and
TWO children and Jack Lane Of
Riverside were in this city on Tues
day attending the circus.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-10

Mr.. and Mrs Herbert Folsom of
Newburyport. Mass, formerly of this
city, have arrived here for a few
days visit with friends and relatives.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-10

Miss Helen Dyer has completed
her studies at the Boston Museum of
Art school and has returned to the
nome OF her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. ].
Frank Dyer of Sewall street,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-10
June10d1t
Of Freedom, were in town last week

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Vose and Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Cox and Norman
Vose of Bristol. Conn, are expected
soon to visit Mr.. and Mrs. Willard
Vose and other relatives here.
Norman Vose of Bristol, Conn.,, is
expected to arrive soon to spend the
summer with his uncle, N. S. Vose.
At the joint meeting of the school
committees of Knox, Montville, Free
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-10

For satisfying lunch or full meal
visit the Young China Restaurant
next to the Colonial theatre. A full
dinner for SIZE and dandy accent
supper specials.
Junel0dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-10
LOCAL NOTICE

Dance every wednesday at Con-
vent hall, North WHITEHEAD. DICKS
Harmony Boys wedstt
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-06

ed by Congressman William S. Ware. The Ware
organization is hard-boiled, resourceful, cold
blooded. 1t knows nothing of sentiment
John M. Patterson, a popular jurist, had
been nominated for district attorney. He was
taken i'll a few days before the election and on
election day he took sudden turn for the
worse. He died that night
When the news of his sinking spread over
Philadelphia on Tuesday, there were general
sorrow. But not at the Ware headquarters.
There Ware and his associates were issuing
orders to carry out piece of cold, carefully
considered political business Death threatened
their control of the district attorneys office
and it was necessary for~heroic measures. It
was no time for tears
Messengers were rushed from headquar-
tiers with bundles of stickers containing the
name of another candidate. While Patterson
was dying the machine was making last min
ute effort to elect live man in his stead Death
was to be cheated. 1t was a grim iob-and
Shoyer stickers were pasted on ballots by the
thousands. Had the news spread earlier in the
day, he would have been overwhelmingly
elected
In his work at Philadelphia, General But
Ter time and again stepped on the toes of the
Ware forces. He fred their personal police
men and broke their control over the police
department. The politicians want the police
back in their hands
President Coolidge's action will serve
their purpose.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-06
Not a War ak
\ HE inheritance tax was war measure
and the emergency is now past.

xAte>wI ILL luu6ElLducC LdA Was q w al AAOnoUAO
l and the emergency is now past. "
You hear this assertion frequently from
the forces who are working for the repeal OF
the estate tax law.
The truth is that the inheritance tax law
WAS passed by Congress September 8, 1916. We
were not at war then. Two months later we
reelected Woodrow Wilson on the ground
that he had kept us out of war. 1t was seven
months preceding our entry into the war; the
country in general and Congress in particular
did not then anticipate our entry.
We were waxing fat and prosperous. The
war in Europe was making fine new crop OF
millionaires in America. No emergency had ar
rived-or, at least, none that was officially rec
ognized.
The inheritance tax was not the outgrowth
Of an immediate necessity. It was the result OF
steady development of taxation intelligence
over many years. it resulted from the same
process sof thinking that had brought about
the income tax after wearing down decades of
opposition on the part Of the very wealthy.
Disinterested students of taxation had long
been practically unanimous that the fairest of
all taxes would De an 1nHorICdHCo LAX. LII uHl-
versity class rooms it was so taught.
Congress happened to catch up with the
idea seven months before we got into the
Great War; it wasn't seeking money to carry
on our part in the war.
Nothing, indeed, could be more ridiculous
than an inheritance tax for emergency pur-
poses. It's collection depends on the death of
persons possessing wealth. That is no way in
which to meet an emergency. With dire dis
aster confronting us, we couldn't sit around
waiting for John D. Rockefeller, Andrew W.
Mellon and our other wealthiest citizens to die
No matter how patriotic they are they prob
ably would fail to die in time
The value of the inheritance tax is only
realized over the years. AS one generation sue
ceeds another this tax returns to the whole
country small part Of the great accumula-
tions Of wealth that have come into few
hands. 1t is effective and fair But it is a peace
time tax, not war emergency measure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-06

devoted anti-slavery men who
risked their lives and fortunes in
helping slaves to escape from their
masters. The underground railroad
system, by which fugitves were
received at a dozen points along
the Ohio River, fed. clothed and
transported in secrecy across Ohio
and Indiana to freedom, goaded
slave owners OF the South to fury.
Probably the actual extent Of
the underground railroad traffic
was exaggerated.
Speaking in Congress in 1860,
Jones of Georgia said: I'm the
non-slaveholding States regularly
organized societies-underGr
railroads-are established for the
avowed purpose OF stealing slaves
from the border States and carry
ing them off the free States or
Canada. The border States lose
millions Of dollars worth of prop
erty by this system Of larceny"
John T. Hanover. superintendent
OF the Anti-Slavery League in In
diana, and one OF the founders Of
the underground railroad system,
declared that for seven years an
average Of more than four thou
sand fugitive slaves a year were
passed through his district.
Yet the negro population Of Can
ada, according to the Dominion
census reports. only increased APP
proximately $500 between 1850
and 1S60--the decade in which anti
slavery societies and the under
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-06
INDUSTRY AND
FATAL ACCIDENTS

f"1HR EE HUNDRED AND
SEVEN workmen in Hoosier
IL industries died during the
fiscal year ending Sept. 80. 1925.
as the result Of accidents occurring
in the course OF their employment
according TO the annual report
Of the State Industrial board.
The Sullivan mine disaster.
which occurred during the year,
alone snuffed out flfty-one lives.
But even with that wholesale
tragedy deaths from industrial ac-
cidents in the State last year only
numbered few more than ten
years ago.
Indiana is an industrial State.
It's principal industries-in the
number OF workmen employed
are steel making, coal mining. and
stone quarrying. All hazardous
occupations.
Yet the annual industrial death
toll of the State is less than one
half the number OF auto deaths in
Chicago during year. And even
Indianapolis street traffic takes
one-quarter as many lives as all
the mines. quarries. mills and
factories in Indiana combined.
Safety campaigns, the coopera-
ton OF industrial boards, employ
ers and workmen in recent years
have materially reduced industrial
hazards. Industry isn't in the same
class with the automobile as
cause OF fatal accidents.
A person is safer in a Hoosier
coal mine or quarry, handling
dynamite and high explosives.
than he is crossing a Hoosie-
street with a load Of bread under
his arm. Some OF the safety mea-
sures, proved efficacious in in
dustry, ought to be turned loose on
the streets where the jaywalkers
and reckless drivers are thinning
out the population.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-06
RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON

leading citizens of the community.
all for less pay than a brick
layer.
a small-town cashier gets less
for his years work than Babe
Ruth gets for a single home run,
or than 'limber-lunged Lew" may
receive from a few weeks in vaude-
vile. Isn't it surprising that
more cashiers don't get myopic and
mistake their banks roll for their
own?
Still. s175 a month is not mi
scrospoic wage. It's moro than
three-fourths OF the wage earners
in the country receive. A salary
Of that size will provide a man and
his family with all the necessities
Of life. IL not with the luxuries his
pride Graves.
Social position is. no doubt. i'm
portant-but social position can be
cut to fit the salary without caus-
ing any real suffering. It is hardly
worth maintaining at the cost OF
a penitentiary sojourn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-06
Church Loyalty Sunday

fT71 HE churches Of Indianapolis are foster
1 ing "Church Loyalty Sunday, tomor-
row. They are suggesting that the people Of
indianapolis go to church. It's not bad idea.
At least, it is worth trying.
Seriously, the most impressive part about
this church loyalty movement is that the Indi-
annapolis Church Federation, which is back of
it, is pointing out that there are 257 churches
in Indianapolis, all deserving of support. A
little research will reveal the fact that the 257
churches referred to include churches of all de-
nominations and faiths. The Federation is not
leaving anybody out. Their principal idea is
that the people of Indianapolis should go to
church.
It is a splendid indication of our growing
spirit Of tolerance-and this spirit is growing
that ALL the~ehurches of the city are pulling
together in this movement. Nobody is asking
anybody to agree with his neighbours religious
beliefs. That would be too much to expect.
The Church Federation merely is pointing out,
IN effect that all the churches are trying to
guide their members to the same ultimate des-
tlnation. 1t is not asking everybody to 90 by
the same road
Why not try going to church Sunday?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-06
Congress Could Save
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

EY1HILE Senator Curtis is advocating the
wv looping off of all useless Offices, to save
taxes, we might put again to the men who
make our laws, the question of why they have
always found it necessary to convene the first
of December for three weeks and then collect
mileage back home to spend Christmasf
To the housewife this seems foolish as
well as an extravagant custom. While the item
may be small when compared to the huge sums
spent, yet lone taxpayer can soon figure that
this money uselessly thrown away year after
year, will finally make vast amount
The records show that no important legis-
lation is ever enacted during the short session
of Congress, just before the holidays Thous-
ands of minor and utterly insignificant bills
are merely ntroduced-propagand for the
folks back h6me-but little of consequence
can be accomplished
Every Senator and Congressman collects
nice sum for mileage which is allowed him by
the Government over the Christmas vacation.
and the Representative from the far south and
west can hardly get settled for the beginning
OF the term until he must needs go home for
Christmas or stay in Washington and collect
his money for mileage anyway
Nobody blames him for this. Every one
OF us would probably take all we could get un-
der the circumstances, but why does not some
brave and energetic Savior of his country"
take steps to abolish this foolish custom and
let us have Congress meet when it normally
and sensibly should, upon the first of the year
when Christmas is well over and merry making
is doneY
This is one example that the power of Gus
tom has over our common sense We will work
our brains to madness devising WAYS and
means OF cutting expense, but We seldom de-
eide to change simple habit to our advantage
To men, of course, who deal in millions
this small item of extra mileage probably seems
very trivial, but the woman in the American
home who goes to the bargain basement for
her hats and to the cash and carry grocery for
her prunes knows better. She understands
that it is the small items like this which. when
saved, pay off the mortgage and buy the new
car, and swell the family savings account. Con
gress needs some feminine economy TO conn
ter balance its masculine extravaganza.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-06
A Sermon for Today
by Rev. John r. Gum

But oft-times misfortune proves to
be but the shrine OF a larger
fortune.
The day comes when we find our
selves under the cloud Of sickness or
physical infirmity. Surely" some
one says, there is no bright light
in this cloud" And yet, some OF
the biggest contributions to human
ity have been made by men and
women with weak bodies. The man
who gave the world it's most
marvellous music was deaf. Fanny
Crosby, who gave to the church
some OF the sweetest and most soul
stirring hymns we sing today, was
blind. The man who perfected the
telephone never heard a sound.
Some Of our most wonderful poetry
was written by a man who was
dead from his waist down. Some
Of the best Christians I have ever
known have been the most afflicted
people I have known.
God often conceals His riches in
the night. Sometimes the cloudy day
Is our best friend. Even the cloud
OF death has it's bright light. Death
is not a terminus, but a thorough
fare; not blank wall. but an open
door Surely the pure heart can
not fear the breaking down OF the
last barrier that stands between It.
self and God.
Copyright. 1925. BY John r. Gunn)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-06

ground railroad were most active.
Whatever the number Of slaves
the underground railroad system
actually carried to freedom the
greatest work Of the movement
was in crystallizing northern SEN
timent against the moral wrong OF
human slavery.
1t seems incredible that within
the memory Of living men the
slave question was the most vital
issue before the country. From
the underground railroads of the
'flfties to the beer runners of to-
day seems a far cry. Perhaps
that's progress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-06
Philadelphia

XVI HlLE President Coolidge at the White
wv House was debating his letter refusing
TO extend the leave of Brig. Gen Smedley D.
Butler for another year in order that he might
continue his clean up of Philadelphia, the
Republican organization which dominates that
city was demonstrating why the God-fearing
people of Pennsylvania thought it necessary
for Butler to continue
Philadelphia is ruled by the machine head
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-06
SKIRTS AND
CAR STEPS

c~1HE New Century Cuban
| organization affiliated with
IL the Local Council of Won
EMS petitioning the indianapolis
Street Railway Company to lower
it's car steps. Boarding street
cars is too much of an acrobatic
feat, complain the ladies.
Quite likely the suggestion will
not be heeded-although it is as
difficult for active citizens, male
or female, to mount some Indian
apolis street cars of an early
vintage as for an old soak to
Chamber on the water wagon. On
several city lines the patrons
ought to be crossed with the
kangaroo.
But the principal impediment to
the easy ingress and egress of
feminine passengers is not that
car steps are too high but skirts
are too scant both in latitude and
longitude. The situation can be
remedied as easily by the feminine
passengers as by the railway COM
pany.
If the street car company tried
to alter it's car architecture to fit
the changes in women's fashions
all it's energies would be absorbed
In the task. 1t wouldn't have
time to worry about it's deficit or
operating problems.
About the time it fixed its car
steps to sweep the ground skirts
might be gone entirely from the
landscape-and the ladies be clad
in Knockers or gooseflesh from the
waist down.
AS long as the present style of
feminine apparel persists, probably
feminine passengers will have to
get on and off street cars as best
they can. They may be subjected
to some inconvenience-but they
should be consoled by the thought
that knees are no longer the treat
to motormen, conductors and gen.
eral public that they were in the
plush-and-bustle Victorian age.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-06

Text: "Now men see not the bright
light which Is In the clouds. Sob
S721.
l-1 HE sky is not always clear;
not all our days are days OF
- sunshine. Sometimes the
skies are overcast with clouds. Often
these clouds are dark and threaten
ing. And when that Is true some OF
us allow ourselves to become pos
sessed with feeling of melancholy
and dependency. That ought not
to be, for, as suggested in my text,
there is a bright light In every
cloud.
There is the cloud of sin; and
what black cloud 1t is. The bright
light in this cloud is divine grace
Gods forgiving love and mercy. "I
will blot out your transgressions as
a thick cloud"
There are days which are over
cast with the cloud of disappoint-
ment. Disappointment crosses my
path. My ambitions are checked.
My plans are halted. regard 1t
as an evil day. And yet, after all,
1t turns out to be not such an evil
day. Disappointment makes me
think. And through my thinking
attain to a wider and wiser discern
ment. My disappointment proves to
be but 1.-THE shadow OF the Al
mighty"
Misfortune comes. Most OF US re-
gard 1t as a dark day in our lives.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-06

the main these are the commercial
rubbers. There are many others that
give more or less good rubber.
Among them may be mentioned
Latex plants, milkweeds, Indian
hemp, bell flower and sow thistle.
1t was from the SOW thistle that
Germany extracted some rubber dur
ing her wartime isolation.
Are women students admitted
to Harvard, Yale and Princeton?
Women are admitted to some of
the schools of Harvard and Yale.
Princeton is entirely for men.
Which are the leading wealth.
est States?
New York. Pennsylvania, Illinois,
Ohio and Massachusetts,.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-06
THE UNDERGROUND
RAILROAD

kVGILLIAM f. DAVIS of Foun-
NV tin City. Ind. last OF the
49, conductors on the under
ground railroad that struggled fu-
gitive slaves from the South across
Indiana to freedom in Canada in
the abolition days preceding the
Civil War, is dead.
He was the last surviving active
participant in one of the most stir
ring enterprises Of practical IDEAL
ism that this country has ever
witnessed.
Among the minor causes of the
war between the States were the
activities of the enthusiastic and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-06

an orchard crop. Other commercial
rubbers, gutta percha, balata and
chicle come from the wilds and
jungles of South America. Indians
gather it in Central and South
America and natives do it in the
Far. East. Singapore is now the
world market for gutta percha The
gutta percha trees that the natives
slash for gutta (gym) grow in
jungle forests of Indo-China, Siam,
The Malay States and adjacent
islands. Balata a heavy stiff rubber,
is obtained from the bully tree along
the Amazon River. Chile, found in
Yucatan and British Honduras is a
species closely related to balata. In