Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1926-09-15


Contributed.
81 slept in an editors bed last night
1 laid me down with sigh,
For l thought, as l rolled in the
feathery nest,
How easily editors lie.'
y We cannot achieve an integrated
nation out of slipshod and ill-organ-
lied village and towns. Before we
can boast national, pride, national
sense, national conscience, and ma
tional will, we must arrive at COM
munity pride, community sense,
community conscience, and COM
munity will.-Glenn Frank.
The Election.
The message sent by the voters Of
Maine to the voters of the nation is
that Maine holds true to her republi-
canism. This is contained in an ag-
gregate plurality of approximately
$4,000 in the vote for the four re-
publican congressman, all of whom
are returned to Washington. This
is large plurality for an loft year"
the largest, in fact, ever given in
a year when there was no presi-
Dental election Immediately pend
ing 1t is a splendid endorsement
of President Coolidge and the re-
publican administration.
Governor Brewster is reelected by
a plurality of more than $1,000.
This, too, is gratifying. 1t was ex-
pected that he would fall far behind
the aggregate vote for congressman,
and a margin of 10000 votes would
have been satisfactory.
Hancock county remains solidly
republican. A detailed vote of the
county and of Ellsworth appears on
this page.
The proposed Maher amendment
was rejected by an Overwhelming
vote. The ultimate effect of the
amendment was too obscure, too
much a subject of disagreement, to
receive the approval Of the voters
Did you ever think how potent for
good or evil are those combinations
of letters we call words? Among the
most potent, perhaps, are the two
words "they say" for they are used
most often, too often, in a detrl-
mental way, and gather as they CO.
Did you ever roll very small snow
ball around, here and there, and
watch it grow? 1t gathers as 1t
goes until, it at last assumes such
vast proportions that you can
scarcely push it farther. 1t does not
always stay white, and clean, and
uniform either, but as it grows,
gathers the dirt that is beneath.
A story, when passed along from
mouth to ears, and from mouth TO
ears again, gathers as it goes TIL II
become s a tale of exaggerated al
mansions, quite as unlike the orig
inal and perhaps harmless woro
which it was when it started las
the hit of snow is unlike the huge
mound il becomes after being rolled
here and there But the story, I'M
like the SNOWFALL, is not harmless
lives have been spoiled and gooc
renutations have been ruined p'
tbese little words that look so harm
less in print. a,
WHY not store up in our mlnds d.
the good things we hear OF otheie
and pass them along? There arr
o1ontv of them waiting to be salo
aching to be said. All the gooo ".
SOW of others makes us so mucn the
better. all the evil we say hurts u
,nore than it hurts him of whom Il
Is said. Every man and woman na'
beauty of soul. If we fail TO ma IL
we ourselves are defective.
<Judge not the working Oh MS pi"i'
Of his heart thou can'st not see.
What to thy dim eyes may De d slaii'
In Gods pure sight may only De
scar
Won from some hard-fought nelo
Where thou would'st only 1alht am
yield"