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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-25
Mr.. Lancaster Receives Serious
In iIIrv

{ INJURY
Percy Lancaster received serious
injury Wednesday evening when he
was driving Ford truck loaded
with cattle, when in Cornville. He
was attemptig to make a hill and as
he tried to go into low the gear
would not work, and he begun to
run backward; he set the brake and
as he did so the cattle became
, frightened and crowded over into
one side Of the truck, tipping it over
and throwing Mr.. Lancaster out
through the windshield. The cattle
got out and went into the bushes,
but Mr.. Lancaster was able to re-
cover them. He received very bad
injury to inc eye and was otherwise
injured. He was brought to the
home of hhish sister and husband,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Crowell and DR..
l.. A. Dascombe was called and be-
cause Of the condition of the eye 1t
was considered bets to take him at
once to an eye specialist in Water
Vile. Thursday morning he entered
one of the hospitals, where 1t was
expected Thursday afternoon the
eve would be removed. The family's
many friends much regret this ac-
cident.
0dNSE
Miss Linnie E. Baker Of Bingham
and Thales Spaulding. also of Bing-
ham were united in marriage at the
parsonage of the Federated church
in Skowhegan, Thursday morning at
10 o'clock by Rev. George L. Thur
low. The double ring service was
used. The couple were unattended.
MIR. and Mrs. Spaulding left directly
after the wedding for a trip to the
White Mountains and upon their re-
turn they will reside at his farm
home on Austin Hill in Bingham.
Twelve Acres Of Lumber Burned
Twelve acres of lumber were
burned Monday on property now
owned by Mrs. Blaisdell in Brighton,
being known as the Ben Davis
place. 1t was thought that the fire
caught from carelessness of some
fisherman on Scribner Bog. BY the
use of the telephone. large crew
of men were soon gathered to fight
the fire but before it was under con-
troll about IL acres were burned
over.
A large number of tourists are al
ready visiting in Somerset county
and daily many out of State cars are
seen on the Skowhegan streets.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. p. Wing of Flag
staff were business callers in town
Thursday.
Mrs. Ernest Stevens of Smithf1edL
is in town to be near her husband.
who is surgical patient at the SOM
erset hospital. *
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-25
Dexter
Before Judge for
Abusing Livestock

Robert Scott, of Garland, was
brought before Judge A. w. Stone in
the Municipal court charged with
abusing a COW and horse, following
an arrest by Constable Charles Fish.
The respondent pleaded guilty to the
charge and gave evidence against an
other of his townspeop1e in Garland,
who will be brought into court Sat
urday. Scott was given a small fine
and costs Of prosecution.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-25
Change in Train Schedule

The new timetable for trains over
the kineo Short Line shows many
changes for Madison. The south
bound trains will leave as follows:
$3.50 A. NJ. daily except Sunday; 1882
A. M. except Sunday; 500 P. NJ
daily except Saturday. The north
bound trains leave Madison at 9:o9
A. NJ. daily except Monday; 1859 p.
". daily except Sunday; 4:3s p. NJ.
daily except Sunday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-25

W. r. Smith, of Albany, New York,
and president of the International
Papermakers' Union, was the special
guest of the Madison Union at a
meeting Wednesday evening.
The many friends of Morris Moore
of Blackwell HILL, will be sorry to
learn that he is suffering from the
effects of severe paralytic shock
Wednesday. Mr.. Moore was discov-
cred in an unconscious condition in
the barn.
A meeting Of Kennebec Valley
Grange will be held Saturday and
the Bird and 4th degrees will be con-
ferred on several candidates.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-25
Old Maids Have Vanished From Earth Says Kathleen Norr

country to see Kate. Rates girls are
Z and 5, and her boy delicious arm
full OF ten months old, staggering about
among dandelions and new grass.
Their little voices Skating Mummy :"
their cribs and silver bowls and pray
ers, the look in Hates eyes as she
bends over them-these things wrench
at Mary's heart. And when Tom
comes home to sit weary and content
cd on the moonflooded terrace, and
Kate stretches thin fingers TO link in
his, Mary wonders
Wonders. True marriage must be
n glorious thing, she thinks. A man
and a woman and their children.
What if debts and Group and school
ing doctors and cooks and commute.
ton tickets do take their inexorable
toll, every year-Kate's life is real,
Kate's life is the higher life, after
all.
Mary doesn't see the stupid drag
sing months of pregnancy; she doesn't
see the long rainy afternoons when all
three children are coughing like seals ;
she doesn't suspect that Tom isn't
ever going to be more than good
clerk, and Kate knows it; she doesn't
sfsre their trials Of broken furnace
sratings, trained servants, dentists
bills, and the inevitable fears-fears
fears for the priceless son and
daughters.
She asks: SKate. do you realize
how rich you are?" and Kate, with
a wise, sad, tender smile, answers,
"Oh, Mary, If only we all keep well. :"
l don't know what women do who
lose their childrenl"
But after Mary is gone, Kate fol-
lows her in her thoughts. Thet
bright, busy, office, that association
with intelligent men, the fun" OF
planning delightful houses, and OF
going to lovely country places to see
them built! The summers lettering
in England, the boat friendships, the
smart frocks. Eating what one liked,
when one liked, sleeping late, going
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-25

here and there as any within directed
Well, after all, if / myself had
ten lives TO live would marry early
in every one of them, for wifehood
and motherhood are postgraduate
courses in character-building, and TO
work her way through them to happi-
ness and usefulness must always be a
Great Adventure, for any woman.
But the fact remains that there are
not many real old maids left. Most
unmarried women could have married,
il they would. And it behooves us
others not to crow too loud. In the
last analysis, to follow the natural
impulse TO marry is a weaker thing,
and often a more selfish thing, thap
TO resist il.
The time has gone by when an
offer of marriage from a man is a
tacit indication of a woman's superior
ity.
Copyright, 1896, by the Bell Syn. Inc.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-25
MANY Young Women Today Who Do Not Marry Have Excellent
They Do Not Want to Marry But You Never Can Convince
Married Woman, Especially Young One of That"

$500 to $4,000 a year. She has her
spick and span little apartment, with
its bookcase, its blue china, its piano.
She has her friends, weekend trips
are always awaiting her. her clothes
interest her, her Italian lessons, her
summer plans. She is satisfied.
Above all, her freedom satisfies her,
the utter peace and independence of
her single way. All around her is the
wreckage and heartache of marriage;
divorces, money difficulties, the
agonies Of parenthood, whose very
joys are Swallowed by fear and change.
Why should she marry?
Men sometimes ask her, quite
abruptly to become their wives. Aud
sitting in their shaded offices, in the
heat Of a summer day, she looks up
thoughtfully from under the brim of
her smart business hat, and wonders
"Why?"
We'll, now, take this European trip
Of mine. once a year. You'd love it,"
CAN'T LOSE FREEDOM.
And what would be doing whit
you were off on business?"
Shopping, maybe. And then I'd
come and take my wife to lunch, or
the races"
~Ah, but l don't love you-that
way" She has to fall back upon tue
one indisputsble excuse. But that
isn't the real reason.
The real reason is that she per
ceives that in marrying him she must
give up the last precious possession
of the poorest of us-herself. She
imagines herself in a foreign hotel
waiting for Arthur. Buying a hat
II Arthur likes it. Taking an apagt.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-25

whitener. softener and heautifier.
Massage this sweetly fragrant
lemon bleach into the face, neck, arms
and hands IL can not irritate. Ia
nous stage beauties use il 70 bring
that clear. youthful skin sud rosf
white complexion; also as a fieckic,
sunburn and tan bleach. You nest
mix this remarkable lotion yourcen.
IL can not be bought ready 20 uss
because IL acts best Immediately after
il is prepared
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-25

the company last year gen.
Grated about one thousand
million dollars in wage
money.
Beginning with the first car, it
took US approximately twenty years
TO build q million cars--the millionth
was turned out on December 10, 1915.
On May %, 1921, we turned out our
five millionth car. On June 4, 1924,
we turned out our ten millionth car.
Since then our factories have reached
capacity of excess Of two million
cars year.
REDUCE PURCHASES
in 1922, we bought three times a.
much as we made ourselves. Now it
is only twice as much. We have rails
ed the minimum wage from five dol
lars day to six dollars a day. But
our cars are being sold at 40 per
cent less than they were in 1914,
when our average wage was $40
a day. The cars have steadily de-
creased in price, while almost all
other commodities have increased in
price. The touring car may be bought
at about twenty cents a pound a
highly refined piece Of machinery,
built with the greatest care and of the
best materials, costs less per pound
than beefsteak.
The profits Of the Ford Industries,
other than comparatively negligible
amount, have gone back into the in
dustries. The public built our indus
tries through buying our products.
The public subscribed, not throrSh
stock or bonds, but by purchasing the
commodities which we manufacture
and offer for sale. We have always
sold to the public at a price higher
than the cost of manufacturing-al-
though often we have reduced prices
10 a point where no profit was visible
and thus forced ourselves to find ways
and means of reducing costs in order
TO earn a profit.
PROFITS STUPIDITY FIXED.
Every year has seen a profit. Near
ly all Of that profit has each year
gone back into the business to provide
facilities for still further lowering
costs and raising wages. These prof
It's put back into the business have
not been invested in buildings, land
and machinery.
We do not regard the public's
money returned to the business as an
investment on which interest should
be charged. That money is the public's
money, and the public, having conf
dence enough in our product to pay
the money to US, is entitled to benefit
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-25

Dullulnk. we nave DOugut uUtniuS ~
the sake of buying. We make nothin.
for the sake of making. Our opera
tons all center on the manufacture
OF motors.
IL those who sell to us will moi
manufacture at the prices which, upon
investigation, we believe to be right
then we make the article ourselves. In
many cases, we have gone back to the
primary sources, and in other cases,
We manufacture just enough of q
product to get thoroughly familiar
with it, 50 that in an emergency we
may make it ourselves. Sometimes
also, we do this merely to test the
price we are paying.
In distribution, the same rule holds.
We have lake ships. ocean-going ships
and railroad, in order that We may
measure transportation charges. Al!
this is in the benefit Of the public.
for, excepting the railroad, which is n
separate corporation, each new branch
of industry merges into the industry
and the savings which ensue are foc
the eventual benefit of the public.
For instance, we have made rubber
tires, although We have no present in
tention of going into the tire business.
The price Of rubber may be forced in
ordinately high. In any event, we
have to be prepared. 1t would never
do TO have to shut down our produc-
ton for lack of tires.
We buy on cost and not on mar
ket price, and we believe We render n
service in so doing; IL we felt other
wise, We should not follow the prac-
tice. In our own production, We set
ourselves tasks--sometimes we arbi-
trarily fix prices, and then invariably
we are able to make them; whereas,
if we merely accepted things as they
are, we should never get anywhere.
We follow exactly the same practice
with those from whom We buy-and
invariably they prosper.
LOWER WAGES, HIGHER COSTS.
Take a specific case. Before this
policy was fully developed a manu-
facturer was making a certain style
of automobile body for US at a GER
tain price each. He was not manu-
featuring in a large way, and his prof
its were insignificant. We calculated
that those bodies ought to be made at
exactly half the price, and that is the
price we asked him to get down to.
This was the first time that real pres
sure for lower price had ever been
put upon him, and, Of course, he
thought he could not do any better
than he had been doing. His profits
showed him that he could not. 1t is
one of the oddities of business that a
man will cite what he has done in
the past as a proof of what he can
do in the future. The past is only
something to learn from.
This man finally consented to try
TO manufacture at exactly one-half his
former price. Then, for the first time
in his life, he began to learn how 10
do business. He had to raise wages,
for he had to have first-class men.
Under the pressure of necessity. he
found he could make cost reductions
here, there. and everywhere, and the
upshot of it was that he made more
money out of the low price than he
had ever made out Of the high price,
and his workmen have received
higher wage.
One frequently hears that wages
have to be cut because of competition,
but competition is never really met
by lowering wages. Cutting wages
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-25

Mary again. But things are not the
same. Marriage has its pathological
and psychological sides, as well as
its physical and financial aspects,
and Ethel is restless and dissatisfied
still.
She snatched at the bright bubble,
lived in a dream of sensual excitement
for a few months, and she is subtly
coarsened by the memory of that ex-
perience; an intimate experience with
a man unworthy of her, days Of cry
ing and quarrelling, sordid discussions
of money, anger and violence appar-
emily concerning trifles, but really
based upon the fact that her happi-
ness was only a thing of vanity and
delusion and she is unwilling to ad-
nit it.
Mary looks on, interested, but not
involved. 1t, is not that she dis
likes men; on the contrary. she likes
them immensely. Her brothers, her
male friends, play a part in her life.
But she can understand neither tho
wild ecstatsies of anticipation with
which Ethel flung herself into mar
riage, nor the agitation and amaze
ment with which she sees it fail.
Mary's whole disposition is high
above this savage obedience to inn
pulse and emotion, and there are great
philosophers who tell US that the sal
walton of the world-the solution for
all the terrible social problems that
so vex and confuse and sadden US
will come through the deliberate self
restraint of strong women.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-25

A GREAT many Of the young
"A women of today who do not
marry have an excellent reason. They
don't want to marry.
But you never can convince a mar
ricd woman, and especially a young
married woman, of that. The bride al
ways feels superior to her unmarried
sisters, even II she is marrying
pretty poor type of man.
Wives, familiar with the life we
call protected" although it is really
peculiarly trying and barbaric exist
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-25

Hurry Motherl Even a fretful
peevish child loves the pleasant taste
Of California Fig Syrup" and it never
fails to open the bowels. A teaspoon
full today may prevent sick child TO-
morrow.
Ask your druggist for genuine
California Fig Syrup" which has
directions for babies and children Of
all ages printed on bottle. Mother
You must say California or you
may get an imitation fig syrup.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-25
SHOULD PAY PUBLIC.

ence. wives who know all about hus-
bands and homes and babies, feel a
quite genuine pity for the poor girls
who remain single. The inference is
that no man wants them.
And that inference, in the days
when all women are financially de-
pendent, and when there was no other
life for a woman except marriage,
when the spinster was a despised and
over-worked upper servant, the old
maid aunt who took care Of every
body and got no thanks and no pay
that inference was perfectly correct,
a few generations ago.
TWAS DIFFERENT THEN.
Sweet young girls, families Of five
and six and seven maiden sisters,
prayed earnestly that God would send
them husbands-.-that they might not
wither superfluous and unwanted
upon the family tree. dependent upon
papa until the time came when they
must be dependent upon brother dear.
Girls took terrible chances in those
days. They flirted desperately, they
encouraged fast young men, veal
young men, horrible old men, to pop
the question" Did he propose?" they
asked each oth3r in anxious Whisper.
before he was fairly out of the house.
Half the old novels treat Of this sit
uation; the girl who will marry any
one rather than remain at home to
become the tittering. ringletted spin
ster Of the family, with the proverbial
parrot and cat. Poor girls-the world
laughed at them for the parrot and
the cat.
But we of today see that through
the birds and kittens they we're reach
ing pitifully, like David Copperfield's
landlady. for "summat as they could
love"
NOW HAS HER JOB.
Comic or sad, they have disap-
peared, and in their place we have
the woman of today who doesn't mar.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-25
Lemon Juice
Whitens Skin

The only hsrmless
way to bleach the skin
white is to mix the
juice Of two LEMONS
with three ounces Of
Orchard White, which
any druggist will sup
ply for a few cents.
Shake well in a bottle,
and you have a whole
quarter pint Of the
most wonderful Skin
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-25

a bewildered. ardent little boy of "a,
and the result is that one more of the
Spanish bungalows down by the club
is bought on longtime payments, and
everyone says that it is adorable and
cut and that they are like children
playing house. Presently they have a
live dolly to play with, they have chill
dren, the one and only object of true
marriage.
And If there we're a real woman
hidden under the shell of the gig
Cling little girl, n woman who is
willing to be patient, and to serve
and learn and change and develop
and if there was the making of kind,
good, gentle husband and father in
the little boy, then indeed there is
something that the unmarried woman
well may envy. Then there is mar
ried love a very different thing from
passion and desire, then there is a
satisfying and beautiful companion
ship, a life ideally full and necessary
and happy.
HOW MANY ARE HAPPY?
But how many marriage are like
that? How many young persons can
stand the shock and strain Of early
Establishments and disappointments,
the physical crisis of motherhood, the
financial adjustments, the self-denial
and forbearance that must be prac-
tised every day, and all day. the
courage to face that double life that
is infinitely harder than any single
life can be?
Perhaps Ethel can't stand it, and
dismisses Rob in bitterness and dis
like. leaves the baby with her moth
er, and comes back to her desk besiGc
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A DIRTLEss NINE.

The first job was to clean up-that
is always the first thing to do in order
to find out what you are about. The
place, having been abandoned for so
long, was dirty and overgrown. There
sive. Then We began to work into
mining, learning as we went.
The primary conditions were that
the miners should have good wages.
work and live under safe and com
Portable conditions, and that we
should have an ample supply Of low
cost ore. This we have achieved.
Continued Tomorrow
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-25
DOUBLE EFFICIENCY.

In order to make the Glassmere
plant complete, we had also to buy a
silica quarry at Cabot eighteen miles
away. There, with 20 men, We quarry,
crush and ship from eight to ten car
loads of salica sand a day. We use
is tradition that all kinds of mining
have to be dirty. We cannot afford
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ment-if it is convenient for Arthur's
business. More, actually consulting
Arthur's wishes and comfort regard
ing the most sacred, the most precious
privilege of all-the baby.
Plenty of her married friends, idle
women who waste their lives at clubs
and beauty parlors, bridge tables and
matinees, have said to her wistfully /:
I'D love to have a youngster. But
Harry says We simply can't afford
it."
The very thought Of such an atti-
tude angers and humiliates the un.
married woman. And unless shc
should be unlucky enough to fall sud.
denly in love-in which case the older
she is the sillier and less reason
able her action is apt to be !-unless
she experiences that strange fever aud
delusion We call falling in love-" she
not only feels herself wiser and
strong than her married sisters and
cousins and friends-but she is so.
The sickly, unsstisfied vapors Of the
proverbial old maid are a very differ
ent thing from the dignity and coli
tent of the deliberately celibate NC
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feet year, and less than 10 per cent
is unfit for our use. The principal
change We made was to put in the six.
dollar-a-day minimum wage.
In this plant, in order to avoid any
interruption of production, We have
kept the old way of making plate glass
as against the new way, which was
finally achieved in the plant at the
River Rouge. If you will compare
these methods with the new methods
described in the next chapter, you will
gain some idea Of the economies which
may be had in almost any line Of
manufacturing. il only the will TO get
away from tradition be strong enough.
The batch or mixture is melted in
clay pots, each of which will pour
800 square feet Of rough plate one
half inch thick. A furnace holds six
teen of these pots. When the glass is
ready to pour, the pot is removed
from the furnace by crane and car
ried to the casting table, where its
contents are poured and rolled to the
desired thickness. The plate is then
annealed, coming out at a tempera.
ture cool enough to handle. The next
step is grinding and polishing.
SLOW AND WASTEFUL.
This is done on circular decks on
which sheets of glass are set in plas-
ter, until the surface is completely
covered with glass. The deck is then
taken to the grinding machine. Seven
different abrasives. ranging from
coarse sand to fine emery, are used.
After the grinding is done, the deck
is washed free froD abrasiyes and
sent to the polishing table where a
high gloss is put on by large revolving
felt blocks.
Liquid rouge is fed to the table at
the center and the felt blocks spread
it evenly. The plate is then reversed
and sent back to the grinders, where
the same process is gone through With
again. 1t is all very slow and very
wasteful.
The manufacture of the clay pots in
which the glass is melted is the only
archaic process to be found in the
Ford industries. 1t is all done by hand
and by foot.
The clay is first kneaded by the
bare feet of the workmen until its
consistency is uniform and all grit or
foreign substances have been worked
out.
The pots are then built up by hand,
layer by layer, until all the air holes
have been closcd-cvcn slight defect
might cause the pot TO crack in the
furnace. No machinery has yet been
devised which will make glass pots
equal to those made by hand. In out
new system, we have none Of this hand
work-we have no pots.