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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-13

William e. Lawless OF Auburn has
leased the Elm House in Auburn for
long term of years and will assume
the management Nov. 1st. Frank I.
Wheeler of Auburn, a widely known
New England hotel man, has been en-
gagged as manager. Mr.. Lawless plans
to spend about $4,000 in renovations
and improvements among which will
be the installation of 25 private baths
and An elevator. The Elm House is
one of Names oldest hostelries, hay
ing been used continuously as hotel
for more than a century.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-13

"Auntie. If married would l have
to marry a man like father?"
Eyes, probably"
But If l didn't marry, would /
be like you?"
Eyes"
"Well, there doesn't seem to be
much choice for a woman. does
there?" - Sentagness- Strix (Stock-
flolm).
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-13
The Oxford Democrat: Did you

The Oxford Democrat: Did you
ever see anything more gorgeous
than the foliage has been for the
past week? To be sure, it is easy
to say that 1t was never so highly
colored, and all that, but it must be
that it varies little from year to
year, and 1t really seems as if there
was never more brilliance than there
has been in the forests for the past
few days. The very warm weather
of the first of the week gave addi-
tional opportunity to get out and
take in the effect. The forests are
still brilliant. but the leaves have
begun to fall, and the height Of the
coloring is doubtless past.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-13

81 think it's silly for men to- go
without hats"
"Why?"
IT work in a checkroom at the
hotel.'-Detroit News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-13

A bear weighing $50 pounds was re-
Gently shot by Mrs. Parker Johnson
residing on a farm near Robbinston
Ridge about 10 miles from this city,
and part of the animal was brought
here by friends who later called at
the farm. Bears are not plentiful
but each fall a few are seen in East
Washington county woods and occa-
sionally one is shot, but 1t is not
often that a woman managed to fire
the lucky shot as in the above case.
-Eastport correspondent in The
Bangor News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-13

The Maine State Parent-T eacher
Association will hold it's annual fall
meeting in conjunction with the Maine
State Teachers convention in Bangor
on Friday, Oct 90. A detailed pro-
gram of the P. T. A. meetings will be
published at an early date. The ses-
sions will be held in the high school
building, the room to be announced
later. Coming as 1t does at the same
time as the teachers convention, it is
hoped that many teachers will attend
the sessions. Those who attended the
very enthusiastic meeting of the
Maine P. T. A. in Augusta last year,
are reminded that this meeting is sure
to prove just as interesting and help
full
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-13

Coot shooting at Bald Head and
,, Small Point is commencing and the
next two weeks will be busy ones for
the gunners in that section, The Bath
| Times asserts.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-13
Editors Letter Box
Visit the Navy Yard
And See What's Doing

U. S, Navy Yard,
Portsmouth. n. Fl.
October 9, 1926.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-13

Thomas c. Skinner of Chester, Pa,
long term prisoner at the naval pris-
on at Kittery, lost his right arm
Saturday morning when 1t accident
ally was caught in the machinery of
the prison laundry. Skinner was TAX
en- to the naval hospital, where it
was necessary to amputate above
the elbow.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-05-14
FARMERS DAY AT UNIVERSITY


the American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton and formerly president of the
Illinois Agricultural Society, one OF
the largest and strongest State units
of the Farm Bureau, has been
secured as the chief speaker for
Farmers Day at the University of
Maryland Saturday, May 20.
Other speakers OF the day will be
James w. Davis, president OF the
Maryland Farm Bureau Federation,
the Maryland Agricultural Society,
and A. G. Ensor, master of the
Maryland State Grange. Both OF
these speakers are from Hartford
county and qualify under the title
of dirt farmers both being farm
owenrs and operators.
An all-day program has been ar
ranged for the event. In the morn
ing visiting farmers and others will
be shown through the buildings and
laboratories and over the crop ex
detrimental plots to gain an idea OF
the agricultural work under way at
the institution.
Two conferences are scheduled te
be held at 1880 O'Clock. One will
be meeting of Grange lecturers OF
the State and the other session and
field meeting of the State, Bee
keepers Association. At the same
hour an auction sale of seventeen
purebred Hampshire rams will be
held under the auspices of the Mary
land Sheep Growers Association.
A competitive drill by the com
panies of the Reserve Officers Train
ing Corps, rally and athletic NEE
sy the graded schools of Prince
Georges county, and a concert at
noon by the University Of Maryland
Military Band will be other feature.
Of the program.
Mr.. Thompson and the other
speakers will be heard at 2 o'clocf
in the Richie Gymnasium.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-05-14

IL, 1776, that the Committee for
preparing Declaration of .Indepen-
dence should consists of five persons,
Roger Sherman was one of the men
chosen for membership
He performed his greatest public
service in the Federal Constitutional
Convention. In the bitter conflict
between the majority and minority
state political parties he and his
colleagues, Oliver Ellsworth and
William Samuel Johnson, acted as
peacemakers Their share in bring
ing about the final settlement, which
provided for equal representation in
one house and proportional repre-
sentation in the other, was so i'm
portant that the settlement itself has
come to be called the Connecticut
Compromise.
In the Federal Congress (1789-
1889 he favored the assumption of
state debts, the establishment OF
national bank and the adoption of a
prospective tariff policy.
Sherman was not deep and
original thinker like James Wilson
nor a brilliant leader like Alexander
Hamilton, but his conservative tenn
permant,. sound judgment and wide
experience qualified him to contrib
ute vital service to his country in
its most critical periods.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-05-14

When local politicians are unable
to drag. public utility companies into
politics over rate questions which
are under the jurisdiction OF the
state public service commission, they
periodically attempt to discredit
the commission. Practically every
state has witnessed examples OF this
kind. VI
The average public utility..or rail-
road commission is today rendering
decisions which in most instances are
on. par with courtsrulings, from the
standpoint of the thought and con-
sideration given to them.
It takes whole lot OF nerve for
state railroad or utility commits
sion to hand down decision based
upon fact, which is contrary to
political pressure that is brought
against him. To the everlasting
credit of the commissions, however,
many decisions of this nature have
been rendered within the past few
years and the public has gradually
come to see that rate making is a
business question and not political
issue. The farther the two can be
separated, the better it is for the
people.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-05-14
SWISS LAW OFFERS GOOD
SUGGESTION

Standardization and unificatiOn OF
rafic regulations throughout the
United States, in order to reduce
accidents and aid in law enforc-
ment, was the program discussed by
the Second National Conference on
Street and Highway Safety, recently
held at Washington under the
auspices of Secretary Hoover.
The committee on statistics show
ed that in 1924, there were 23,300
deaths and nearly 100000 serious
personal injuries, as the result OF
street and highway accidents. Auto
mobile traffic was involved in at least
IS per cent of the accidents.
The large number of automobile
accidents reported furnishes the
background tor continued agitation,
political circles, for compulsory
automobile liability insurance, us
tally under a state fund, in plain
English, state automobile liability
insurance.
1t is a grave question whether
compulsory automobile liability in
;urance, either with private com
panies or at hands OF the state,
would reduce automobile accidents.
1t would seem that the natural re
suit would be for careless people to
become more careless, with resulting
Increase in accidents.
Inasmuch as accident prevention
IS the end sought rather than the
writing OF insurance, it has been
suggested that our law-making bod
les take a leaf from the old Swiss
aws--that the person responsible
for the accident should be assessed
something as a punitive example.
in other words, if the law provided
that 20 per cent of the verdict, with
a maximum of $500 for personal
damages and $50 for property
damages, should be paid by the
owner of the car which caused the
accident Gin case it was insured),
there would probably result an i'm
mediate decrease in accidents. But
simply requiring wholesale insur-
ance, either with private companies
or the state, would not reduce
accidents. ~f4
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-05-14
FRIDAY, MAY IA, 1925

Many farm relief measures have
gone before the House agricultural
committee, and every one has come
out crippled by the assaults OF those
who want. something else.
There is no doubt of the willing
ness of Congress to pass any farm
relief measure that seems to have
the support of those who are to be
relieved, and of common sense. But
there are so many kinds of farmers,
so many problems of transportation
and marketing, that no universal
measure seems to fit.
The genius is yet to be born who
can wipe out differences in geo.
graphy, elevation, distance, climate,
farming ability, and reduce farming
to one standard of profit. 1t has
never been done in other business;
the ruins of 10000 creameries, fac
tories, sawmills, railroads, that tried
to buck Nature, dot the land George
Shima, Western Japanese potato
king, recently died in California,
worth $3,O0O,000, all made in grow
ing potatoes, largely on leased
lands. He knew how to grow
potatoes, and relief laws didn't
worry him. If any part of the farm
problem lies in better farming, that
is beyond all laws.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-05-14
WHAT FOODS SHALL WE EAT
FOR VTTAMINs !?

For 20 years scientists have been
working on those all-important but
elusive things in foods called Wit
amins. Though nobody has yet
succeeded in separating from food
materials chemical substance which
he can point to as pure vitamin, five
distinct vitamins are known to exist
because of the effect each has in
promoting health and preventing d
certain disease or undesirable phys
ical condition. Some foods have
been found to be sources of one
vitamin, some of another. BY COM
pairing the effect of one of these
foods with another when used in an
experimental diet, something has
been found out, too, about the rela-
tive values of foods as sources of
the different vitamins. So the list
of foods known to contain the diff
ferent vitamins has increased along
with the facts about the functions
and properties of the Yitamins them
selves. The intelligent person seek
ing to apply this newer knowledge
of nutrition to his everyday food
habits consequently wants to know
what foods to eat SO as to obtain
a good supply OF these vitamins.
He has got beyond the point where
it is enough to say that a certain
food has vitamins. What vitamin,
he asks, and how, does this food rank
as a source Of this vitamin :?
The most recent table prepared
and followed by nutrition and re-
search workers of the United States
Department of Agriculture lists
about $50 foods according to their
value as sources of vitamins A, B,
and C. Bata on vitamins d and E
are still so incomplete that it was
not considered advisable to include
them.
Spinach, egg yolks whole milk,
butter cream, cod and other fish
liver oils are indicated as excellent
sources OF vitamin A, one of the
growth4promoting vitamins. Fish
liver and, meat liver range from good
to excellent sources of this yitamin.
Spinach is also an excellent source of
vitamins sB and q very good source
of yitannin c. The best sources of
vitamin B. often called the antineu-
rite vitamin, widely distributed in
many common foods, are spinach,
tomatoes, peas. beans, asparagus,
okra, and whole-grain cereals. Wit
amin Ct, the antiseorbutic vitamin, is
more easily destroyed by cooking
than the others; hence foods con
tanning it should be eaten raw or
cooked as little as, possible. 1t is
found in greatest abundance in
citrus fruits, tomatoes, cabbage,
and turnips. The outstanding foods
which should never be neglected as
sources of vitamins in the diet are
citrus fruits, cabbage, greenleaf
vegetables, tomatoes, whole milk,
butter, and cream.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-05-14
Roger Sherman, Signer

A ccbblers' trade would seem a
strange apprenticeship for one who
was destined to be stateman and
signer of the Declaration, of In
dependence, yet such was the first
calling of Roger Sherman, of Con-
necticut. The one hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the adoption
of the famous document will be
celebrated by the Sesqui-Centennia
International Exposition in Philadel-
phia from June J. to December L.
AS shoemaker he supported him
self, his mother and several younger
children by his industry, at the same
time spending his leisure time in
study In 1743 he joined his elder
brother in keeping small store in
New Milford, Conn, and the next
year was appointed County Sur
veyor of Lands. Meanwhile he
studied law and was admitted to the
Bar in 1854.
Roger Sherman was one of the
most useful men of his time, and
served the state and nation in
variety of ways. He was elected to
the Connecticut Assembly several
times and in 1859 became a judge
of the Court of Common Pleas. In
1874 he was chosen a delegate to
h e first Continental Congress.
When Congress resolved, on June
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-05-14
WAS YOUR BABY's BIRTH
REGISTERED +?

From State Dept. of Health.
One baby Que of every twenty
five that was born in the counties
of Maryland in 1925 was not listed
In the State records according to a
careful checking up of the births
registered during the year. The
total number births recorded was
1880. Tests made to prove the
completeness of the registration
showed that 95.42 per cent-in
round numbers, So per cent-of all
the births that occurred were re-
ported. The four per cent not
registered means total Of 79l
babies whose names are not down
on the State records. An annual
omission of nearly eight thousand
births from the State records in
ten years.
AS result of the survey referred
to above, the State Board of Health
has recommended the prosecution of
twenty-five physicians and four mid
wives for failure to report births
in accordance with the State laws.
1t is expected that other prosecutions
will follow in number OF cases
still under investigation. Authority
to take the necessary action has been
placed in the hands of Mr.. j. Davis
Donovan, Chief of the Division Legal
Administration of the State Depart
ment of Health.
Speaking of the reasons for the
drive to make the registration of
births in Maryland 100 per cent
complete, DR.. F. v. Better, Chief Of
the State Bureau of Vital Statistics
said: Birth registration is of equal
Importance to the State and to the
individuals. The State Department
of Health is the official record
keeper of the income and outgo of
the population, that is, the records
of births and death. Every plan
made by the Department to safe
guard the health of the people OF
Maryland is based upon these facts
of life and death.
THAT is the States side of the
story. The child's side is of es-
pecial concern to the individual and
to his family. Here are some OF the
uses of the official records of his
birth
ITO prove his identity, his age
and his citizenship, to prove his
right to go to school, to prove his
right to work, to- prove his right to
an inheritance; to prove his right to
marry, to prove his right to hold
office, to prove his right to secure
for foreign travel, to prove
his mothers right Ito widows
pension.
Compared with some other |
states, Maryland record for birth |
registration is good, but we want to
make it 100 per cent complete.
Nearly all of the violations OF our
Maryland law requiring the prompt
and accurate registration of births.
are due to carelessness. Busy doc
tors forget to fill out and send in the
records of births, not realizing that
they may be depriying individuals
Of records that may be of the
utmost Importance to them in
later life."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-05-14

Entomologists of the United
States Department OF Agriculture
were recently very much interested
in inspecting "a section OF test-pole
line of the American Telephone Il
Telegraph Co., between Quantico
and Fredericksburg, Va. Square
pine poles, after having been i'm
pregnated for their entire length
with coal-tar creosote by cylinder
pressure process, had been set in
1897. This is one of the oldest
lines of creosoted poles in the United
States, and after being in use almost
80 years they were found in excel
lent condition. The very few fail
ures due to insects or fungi were
accounted for by season checking,
which extended into the wood
more deeply than the preservative
treatment.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-05-14
GREAT PUBLIC INTEREST
ss. SHOWN

More than 400 requests for in
formation on the Walter Hines
Page School OF International Rela-
tions have been received at Johns
Hopkins, University, Baltimore. be-
fore it has even started to assemble
its organization The School will
provide the facilities for research
withAregard to the underlying facts
and forces determining international
relations It VIII also provide a
more systematic and comprehensive
study along lines having to do with
this general field, and correlate the
results.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-05-14

1.-The obligations of citizenship do
not rest solely or chiefly in the
exercise of the privilege of voting,
or in conducting campaigns, or in
holding offices. Important as are
all these duties, their performance
will amount to nothing unless our
citizens are imbued with the spirit
of our institutions, which means
respect for government of law,
sincere desire to better in every
practical way the conditions of
human life. loyalty in all relations
of life, and the disposition to be
kindly and fair in all dealings with
ones men.',-ChaFles y. Hughes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-05-14

A western professor on Washing
toms birthday circulated a petition
in a high school which was largely
signed by the students. When read
it disclosed the fact that the young
men had carelessly signed paper
asking to- have their left arm cut
off. VI o. &*g
The Chehaiis,. Washington, Bee
Nugget comments sarcastically on
this neat exposure Of the modern
system of government by petition.
NOTHING is more familiar than the
fact that petitions are circulated and
readily signed by taxpayers creating
new laws and offices to burden them
selves and deprive themselves. OF
liberties, apparently ignorant OF
what they are doing.
Few people win take the time OF
go to any trouble to inform them
selves, or if they do, they lack the
nerve to refuse the solicitation OF
the petition peddler,
Those who. sign petitions care
lessly, and think that Dement'S provld-
ed by taxation are. cheap and paid
for by somebody else, are badly
mistaken. 5.
Increased cost OF government is
reflected in higher rents, higher
prices for food and clothing, and a
decrease in surplus of wage earners
The reason that governments are
extravagant is because citizens show
lack OF interest, and themselves
pass numberless laws without even
knowing it,. Government has nc
fear of insolvency, because it keeps
no capital accounts. The capital
wasted by government extravaganza
1.-THE peoples extravaganza is the
capital of the taxpayers, even though
they faEey that they are only wage
earners, and do not see that they
pay taxes through cost of living
shown in the bills they pay every
day. Rich men do not pay the
poor mans tax bills. Those who
levy taxes are discovering this.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-05-14
ADMINISTRATION REORGANIzA-
TION PROGRAM

TON PROGRAM
Patriotism and sincerity should
prompt the wet bloc in Congress to
support the entire Administration
program Of prohibition Legislation.
This course was adopted by the vets
in the House in connection with the
Reorganization bill. The various
measures now before Congress or
committees are based upon expert
ence and are advanced not by dry
organizations but by sthe Govern
ment. The vets have recently pro-
fessed profound distrust of the Gov
ernments ability to enforce prohi-
bition, and the. drys have frankly
acknowledged that in many places
prohibition enforcement is not salts
factory Ii the opponents of prohi-
bition wish to come with clean hands
to the people, they are bound to at
ford the Government every needed
facility for the discharge Of its duty
In addition to appropriation bills
for the Prohibition Unit, the Gus
toms Service and Coast Guard, the
bill III. r.. 10729} for reorganiza-
ton of the Prohibition Unit and OF
the Customs, Service, which passed.
the House ON April 9th and has
been referred to the Senate Com
mittee on Finance, should be passed
1t makes effective coordination Of
prohibitions customs and coast guard
under one Assistant Secretary Of the
Treasury. a.. .ss
Senator Colts bill Is. 1929, now,
before the Committee ON the Judic-
larry, makes seven changes in and
additions to Volstead Act all of
which are required. This bill
would, for the first time, permit the
proper oversight of the manufac
ture Of cereal beverages, provides
for better control of denatured
alcohol and imposes penalty for
forging or counterfeiting applica-
lions, permits and similar docu-
ments.
There is bill to make six
changes in the Harrison Narcotic
Act for better control of the drug
evil, and there are six new statutes
designed to aid in stopping Snug
Cling. Particularly important is the
Hudson-Jon bill to establish
United States border patrol. These
bills are now before the Committees
on. the Judiciary in both houses and
should be of interest to every Amer
lean, whether or not he is prohi-
bitionists. The Cramton bill, plac-
ing agents under civil service, is
also generally approved.
Mr.. Salker's bill for increased
penalties for violatings of the Pro-
hibition Act is still in the House
Judiciary Committee. The Admin
istration considers this bill partic-
ularly important to law enforce
ment The Government also desires
the creation of group of mobile
federal judges and law for extra
dition in federal cases., and it is
anxiously awaiting the passage Of
the supplementary appropriation bill
which. will provide for general pro-
hibitSon activities. The Johnson bill,
which includes a provision for de-,
portation of aliens for violations OF
liquor laws. has been favorably re-
ported to the House and is on the
calendar. Certainly if Americans
can afford to take care of the large
number Of alien detectives now in
our institutions. they might at least
be relieved from further annoyance
by alien criminals.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-05-14

Foreign observes state that the
secret of Americas astounding
condition Of prosperity is, the use Of
time and trouble-saving appliances,
unhostility to high wages, elimina-
ton of waste, workers welfare Ell
forts, exchanging ideas with other
manufacturing, ana encouragement
of research.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-05-14

Dairying utilities electricity on an
extensive scale; not only electric
machines being used for milking,
but electric machines for washing
bottles, filling them. making refrig
ting plants, electric churns, and
other appliances of electricity.