Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-11-23

launching of the barkentine Tired
Eugene" built by William Fish.
Henry f. Merrill of Portland has
been chosen chairman of the Maine
delegates of the New England
Council. At the recent New England
conference 1t was decided to select
10 men to form a delegation from
each State, and to elect one of these
IL as chairman. The New England
Council which will be composed or
these delegates will form the power
behind the drive to be commenced
for CO ordination of the New Eng
land States for q greater unity or ell
fort. Mr.. Merrill. as chairman, Will
represent the Maine delegation at q
meeting of the chairmen of the va
rious State delegations in Boston,
November 30.
The important issue at the Au-
burn Y. M. c. A. this winter is that
of promoting fellowship through the
sanitation of boys clubs. Several
were active .ast winter but the num-
her has almost doubled. 1t has
grown to such an extent that several
of the clubs are without a place to
hold meetings, having assemblies IN
the secretary's office. game room ana
everywhere except the swimming
pool. This situation will be solved
however, with the construction OF the
addition which is to include num-
Der of club rooms. Thomas II:
Leonard, boys work secretary ana
his assistant, Clifton Whiting are
promoting the club spirit.
The board of directors OF the
Bates College Outing club held
recent meeting in the Carnegie Sci
ence laboratory. Joseph Folsom '26
presided. The committee on the
plans for the new cabin at Thorncrag
awarded the first prize in the capln
plan contest to Edward GoldsWorthy
'27 of Yonkers, N. Y. The second
prize was awarded to David Wyllie
'26 of New Ha-en, Conn. Two new
directors were elected to the board to
take the place of the two members
who did not return to college this
year. Charlie Kinds 20 of Gardner
was elected in place OF Donald Old
dings, and Herbert Oviatt '2S of New
Haven, Conn.,. was elected in place
Of Robert Garner.
There is after all limit fixed by
common sense, beyond which legis-
latures in constructing laws. and
courts in interpreting them, may not
go. In the Revised Statutes OF
Maine, though now obsolete by rea-
son of the eighteeth amendment, is
a provision that the payment OF the
United States special tax as a liquor
seller shall be held to be prima facie
evidence that the person paying such
tax is a common seller. Notwith-
standing the fact that such a law
was passed by the legislature, a judge
a few years since instructed an OK
ford County jury that the payment
of the tax was not prima facie ev-
idence of sale. 1t was evidence OF
much weight taken in connection
with other evidence, but It was not
prima facie evidence, and the act OF
the legislature could not make 1t so.
! Oxford Democrat.
Those who attend the Golden Rule
dinner at the Near East Relief this
Monday evening at the Congress
Square hotel at Portland. will have
the novelty experience of eating from
tin plates and drinking from crude
tin cups fashioned by the boys and
girls of the Near East Relief orphan
ages from the condensed milk tins
which are sent over to them from
this Country. Knives and forks
fashioned in similarly crude manner.
tables bare of cloths and other
equally meager appurtenances will
reduplicate as nearly as possible the
atmosphere of the orphanages where
even the simple standards which pre-
vail seem luxurious to boys and girls
who were rescued from starvation
into this life of simplicity. Speakers
will include Mrs. Kenneth c. n.
Stills, Mrs. Morris H. Turk and Mrs.
Percy V. Pennybacker, all recently
returned from a visit to the Near
East, and Mrs. c. r. Gannaway OF
Seattle, WASH, herself a Near East
Relief worker and foster mother of
little Zadi, the rescued four-year- old
orphan, who will tell something Of
her impressions of America.