Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1925-05-20


of the will of majority of the PEG
pie of the State as expressed in the
anti-daylight-sayi time law, has
adopted Notwithstanding time for this
summer, and proposes to invoke the
initiative on the law in the forlorn
hope of having it killed. The init
alive petition will delay the date of
the laws taking effect, and Portland
will get by this summer without
actually being lawbreaker, except
in spirit A few smaller me, too
communities have followed Port
lands example.
But all the people OF Portland do
not endorse the action of the city on
this matter Judge Benjamin F..
Cleaves, in recent address before
the Kiwanis club of Portland after
reviewing at length the effect of
Portland's action on the agricultural
communities, tending to ALLEVIATE the
farmers from the industrial and COM
mercial interests of the State and
drive them into the arms Of the COM
munists as had been done In the
northwestern states, said in pa1t:
portland started this drive for this
summer alone. None of us need kid
ourselves into the belief that the State
of Maine is going to accept daylight
saving time If any of you gentlemen
have got the idea in your head that
there are people enough in this State of
Maine who will vote for daylight-saV-
ing time. get it out, because while you
may be able to get the 10000 votes 10
put this thing to the referendum, Wheh
the thing goes to the vote OF the
people. you will find four votes against
TO each one that there is for.
81 don't care how you feel upon the
matter of daylight saving time; but you
do have, as a good American cltlZeh'
as a citizen of Portland, an interest as
ia how people outside of Portland feel
and are going to feel toward fort'ahu
in the future. There has been crea'eu
a fairly comfortable view on the part
of outside communities with reference
to the big one; fairly comfortaple az
titude upon the part of the lariie' >
1egislatively toward Portland as the
big town; but what effect upon tho9e
communities is the present attitaoe VI
Portland going to have? leave 1t 70
you 49,.
..Suppose you were in oney OF those
-r,.11ar communities how would you
fool toward the big town? You would
fool exactly as they feel-that here IS
-, oou,nunitv. no matter what the
low is no matter what the desire OF the
- tho state may be. Portland is
undertaking to set up it's own standard
and is asking to be let ATONE '' -
80 think what class of people 1t is
that wants to be left absolute'S "toii'
Tt is the criminal class YOU cdii'0
think of a criminal but what II ne nav
+be privilege of being lett alone W'o''
he contented and happy; ana WH'H
,,,+ yourself in the class where No' 's IA
m he left alone, and not nav f''S
,,idirc or controlling influence 4'oi"
,,+sioe communities, then you are p
Two vourself in the class OF those WIZ
osL license to violate the law
81 Lrow travel perhaps more 'h""
.a+ many of you aVeras
Irfyanians. and average PoftIa"U C!',
come in contact with PeoplN
~ have that bitter leeil"s -
fo.anca TO Portland. I have trieo -
.1,,, II down, and have hao sum-
ask YOU, what am ! golhs ~
those people when ! go
Sor,, them this summer ma, 10
tt4t,,de and reaction of Port''H" CO.
IN ,,,,,,itv and of the cl'lZeH'
I'D toward a law when '',s
cta+e thinks that 1T wants o+
mont get an idea in your l'e''t are
nartland wholesale merchants $500
tne INV merchants in the oo,
1ne don't believe any OF you " an
- sacrifice any trade nicotine OILY
TO I S'' Cleaves is everlas'ih9 " "
Jtus portland's action on the f.a ua y =,
iieht-saving propositlonn ot n4 The better
49, much to counteracI w. tho+ wa,
sooiing toward Portland tern sec
lee onli9a throughout TINS east a nv
go of the State, largely 90
tlon d,,ct Of the State pier CAM ,s 'n tC
prouuC' n,nst not set herself up ~
Po rtl'Sn4 than the whole ouale so -,
be greal ,''ion Wv which she depends lo'
her life blood.
THE interscholastie track meet IL IL,
r-,,srorth last Saturday gave new
in,netus to athletics in the me-
snhoo1s of Hancock county. Oluel
tfa direction of school principals Wnu
recognize that the greatest IhIns ~
sncb competition is the deVeIoi. i't .,1'l,,
Of clean sportsmanship,thls splrll Iva, "of
20 Every boy gave the pes res,
Nat was in him for his team ana ms ms
cnbool hut if he did not win ne
9I.lor1d tho other fellow. There Il