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Evening star., 1926-10-04
VILLAS SLAYER TELLS
OF u. S. THEATER OFFER
Quotes an American Proposal Of
$4,000 for Stage Appearance
Covering Two Months.

By the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, October 4-Con,
gressman Juan Salas Barrasa Of the
State of Durango. who confessed to
killing Pancho Villa in 1923, according
to a story published by Excelsior, has
, refused an offer Of $4,000 for two
months appearance in theaters in the
United States as the slayer Of the
notorious bandit.
Excelsior says Barrasa told Mexico
City newspaper men that recently he
struck up an acquaintance with an
| unnamed American on a train be-
tween Durango and Mexico City and
that the American, learning Of his
record, promptly offered him $4,000
to exhibit himself in theaters.
Barrasa refused with considerable
| indignation, but says that when fur
| ther conversation revealed the Amer
ican was unaware his offer carried
offense, he contended himself with
making 1t clear that he did not in.
tend to become 'sideshow freak
Evening star., 1926-10-04
Deaf Dance to Vibration.

CHICAGO. October R~Al-
though the music fell on deaf ears.
$50 man and woman members Of the
National Fraterna1 Society Of the
Deaf did the intricate steps OF the
Charleston and other dances Satur-
day night by sensing the vibratioSs
Of music furnished by an orchestra.
The occasion was the annual ball and
carnival for a new unit OF the organ
iZation.
Evening star., 1926-10-04

A floating debt isn't a. success as a
life preServer.
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A DIseRAcEFUL SCANDAL

If we would treat our prisoners
in institutions humanely we should
provide them with employment. The
Federal Government is noticeably
lax in this respect at Leavenworth.
for instanc-. The labor vote is
feared by the politicians, who appear
to lack ingenuity enough to provide
methods under which prisoners may
work, for their own salvation, if
nothing else, and without destruction
of any considerable opportunity
afforded to free labor.
But it hiss been even more clearly
demonstrated that if we would &C
cord our prisoners humane treatment
they should not be farmed out to
contractors. The use of convict labor
by private enterprise always is at
tended by grewsome scandals.
One of these is now agitatins
humane people in the State of
Alabama, where the attorney gen.
eral finds that a prisoner leased into
bondage was so cruelty mistreated
that he died from the effects; that
to escape discovery his killers in
jected poison into the body and re-
ported that the prisoner committed
suicide. That sort of thing is a dis
grace to any State
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OCCASIONAL ECONOMY

The Government purchases through
the Post Office Department for the
annual ;e of the executive depart
ments 300,000,000 envelopes. Some
years the items run as high as BOG
including many varities, of sizes,
types and quality.
The Postmaster General, this year
proposes to have the specifications
revised to conform as far as prac-
ticable with specifications for com
mercial envelopes, resulting in sub
stantial saving for the Government
One recalls that only few years
ago one department was insisting
on buying new broomS for its use,
notwithstanding another department
was overstoc.led with brooms, which
were suitable for the needs specified
for the new brooms. 1t has been
stated on what appears to have been
good authority that there have been
times when it was much easier to
obtain from the Government allow
snees for new furniture to be used in
Government buildings than it was
to secure allowances for repairs of
the furniture previously installed.
We should be thankful for occasional
economies.
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COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT OF
RAILROADS

From Hookset, N. H., to Barnstead
runs the Suncook Valley Railroad.
which was turned over by the Bos-
ton & Maine to the folks" year
ago last September. Since that date
it has had what is termed communi-
ty management. The results may be
Of interest to those who are interest
ed in community management of the
Burnham Belfast branch in our own
State.
Here are some of the conclusions
Of the president Of the Suncook VAL
ley road following the first years
experience:
Because the Suncook Valley was
able to continue to run a railroad
train, furnished by a friendly road,
over it's irons and pay running ex-
penses for a year is no criterion or
guarantee that these lines have per-
fnanently demonstrated the wonder
full success of short line roads,
possible under private management.
1t is needless for me to discuss this
question with you because you must
know that the success of the Sun
cook Valley for that first year was
limited to its ability to operate the
road from income, and there could
not be any opportunity Of providing
for reserves and contingencies.
I'VE are still mighty far from
being able to provide, except in a
small way, for the necessary re-
serves and even then, what is the
future of the road? All we can see
is, there is possibility of the short
line road continuing only so long
as the community served will put UP
with the very simple and most
ordinary railroad service, operated by
employees who are willing to work
at the prevailing daily wage paid by
that same community in other lines
of business, and after that, the CO.
operation and assistance in helping
over the rough places; for instance.
when we have winter with very
heavy snowfall, putting up now and
then without railroad service, for a
day or So"
1t is evident that the people who
participate in these efforts to run
railroad receive dividends in in
formation, if not in cash. 1t also is
possible their attitude toward rail-
road management in general may be
somewhat enlightened.
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ETNA

Supt. w. G. Bailey of Carmel was
in town Friday visiting schools.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. A. Clewley and
son Arthur of Auburn. arrived We'd
nesday and have opened their cottage
on the Camp Ground.
The friends of Grace Elston are
glad to learn that she is gaining rap
idly.
Miss Grace Pickett returned to her
duties as teacher in the public
schools of Pittsfield after passing the
weekend at the home of her pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Pickett.
Mrs. Florence Stuart of Newport
was the guest Friday of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Graves.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Green and
daughter left Wednesday for South
Paris where Mr.. Green has employ
ment in the Turner Center Creamey.
Geog Haines is visiting relatives in
Bangor for several days.
E. A. Tarr was drawn to serve on
the jury for the April term of court.
Miss Thelma Tarr. of Brewer Is
visiting her grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Z. A. Tarr.
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dLlittlejacF
4 Rabbit

Stop! motioned Bobbie Redvest.
Swiftly flying back,
AS the yellow buggy wagon
Went creaking down the track.
"Just little way out yonder
That wicked Danny Fox
Has stopped to take two pebbles
From out his tiptoe sox,"
whispered that dear little bird in the
right ear of the Old Brown Horse
AT once the obedient steed held back
on the traces and the old creaky bug
gy stopped just like that, almost
throwing out anxious Uncle Lucky
Aunty Hen and her little chicks.
Nov let us consider what is best
to do suggested the old gentleman
rabbit, scratching his left ear with
his right hind foot. Il declare, my
ideas are all jostled out of nav head.
"Tiptoe after me-" whispered the
bright little robin, and, softly flying
ahead. he guided brave Uncle Lucky
on his tippy toes. Pretty soon, by
peering around an old stump, the old
gentleman rabbit made out the hairy
back of the old fox, who was steop-
ing over as he sat on fallen tree log
"He has taken out a pebble from,
his left soX," whispered the little rob-
bin from a branch overhead. Now
he's taking off his right stocking
The next minute he whispered excit-
eddy: squirrel Nutcracker has crept
up behind him and is gnawing a hole
in the sack!" Dear me, your Uncle
Dave is getting SO keyed-up that he
can hardly explain what is happen
ing. But listen, Little Reader. Don't
make noise, for that brave little
squirrel has already cut hole large
enough in the sack for the little rab-
bit to poke his head through. Just
another minute! Yes. the Little Rab-
bits OUT! Ssh! Danny Fox has
taken the pebble out of his sox and
is pulling the stocking up over his
toes, but Little Jack Rabbit and
Squirrel Nutcracker are not waiting
to see if he has the sox upside down,
with his. toes In the heel Of it. No
sireebus! They are both tiptoing
after the brave little robin, who has
fiuttered softly down to the ground
to beckon them to follow him.
Creepy creep! Creepy creep!
Soft as a dream when you're asleep,
Back to the old horse christened
Dobbin.
Tiptoe Little, Bunny, Squirrel and
Robin
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the issues in the quarrel. This will
be the first formal and official in
quiry made. If the men and the
roads agree before this stage is
reached, IL wages and other agree
ments affecting the public are made
within the industry, the public can
have nothing to say about them.
This bill was introduced in both
houses on January and passed in
the House by a vote of 3S1 to 10 on
March l. 1t has been attacked as
unfair to the public and defended as
the only possible way to lay the
ghost OF rail strikes. 1t abolishes the
old Rail Labor Board and sets up in
its place a structure of conferences
and boards crowned by what amounts
to a "Gentleman's Agreement"
There is nothing new in the
measure. The Rail Disputes Act of
1883 provided for voluntary arbitra-
ton and emergency Investigations.
The Erdmann act of 1898 had a
truce provision. III 1913 the New
lands act amplified the Erdmann act.
All the policies and principles of the
bill have been tried out in the past,
with varying success.
It's machinery, if passed will have
swift and severe testing in the
effort now being made by the rail
unions to restore the wage levels of
1920.
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A NOTABLE INSTANCE OF HUI
MAN INTEREST

For days a feature on the pages
of the metropolitan press has been
reports from a little village under the
lowering shadows of the great hills
OF Vermont, bulletins from a small
STORY and half farmhouse, where
the life Of a sturdy old gentleman,
q typical son of New England, lived
in that rugged environment, has been
slowly ebbing away.
The city dweller has read of the
neighbors, of their homely ministra-
tions after the customs that have
long obtained in the rural communi-
ties, of the groups at the village
store, OF the lifelong friends, whom
the sick man wished to see once
more, admitted to his bedside.
These accounts, at times perhaps
including overmuch description and
detail, have not been feebly sentl-
mental, rather. sincerely simple, told
in language suited to our common
understanding. They have strength
ened the bond, the kinship of in
terests between those who strive in
the marts and those who dwell In
the atmosphere Of natures verities.
They have appealed to that within
us which respects the real, the clean,
the wholesome, the common virtues
demonstrated in the life of the ages,
10 a,rcinSifv
To all this the fact that John c.
Coolidge, a Vermont country squire,
twas father of Calvin coolidge, that
he administered to his son in the
old home the oath Of the chief
executive of the greatest country on
earth, undoubtedly contributed, but
public interest was nowise less be-
cause this self-reliant American
sought no glamor from his sons
eminence, but was content to abide
on the foundations he himself had
builded. He neither sought the lime
light nor an abiding place with his
son in the White House. To him
at the approaching end of the jour
ney. came the convictions: Home :
a pretty good place after ALL" 1t
was the home he had made the
outward symbol of his personality;
it was surrounded by those with
whom he had long associated, those
whom lie knew and feared not, who
knew and respected him.
And so, fittingly has passed, in the
fullness of years, one of the day
by-day builders of the nation, con-
tent to close his eyes in the last
sleep, unashamed and trustful among
the friends and neighbors, who knew
him well. 1t is important to consider
that such passages as this from the
record that is being written of our
varied activities, interests and re-
actions, yet have power over the
hearts of the multitude, whether
their paths lead among the laby-
rinths of the skyscrapers or out in
the silent places among the valleys
and hills.
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BOWDOINHAM

Mr.. and Mrs. Fletcher White have
returned from visit in Lakeport. n.
I'll. They were accompanied home by
their daughter and husband, Mr.. and
Mrs. Bert Ames and Master James
Ames.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Wallace are
receiving congratulations on the birth
of seven pound boy. The young
son has been named Raymond. Mrs.
Belle Bush is employed as nurse.
Mrs. Helen Britt and Mrs. George
Cutler were Brunswick visitors We'd
neSday.
Mrs. Will Given was an Augusta
visitor Wednesday,.
Mrs. Nellie Rideout, who is work.
ing at the home of Grace Nelson,
Richmond, was in town Wednesday.
Mr.. Norcross. who is an employee of
the Maine Central Railroad was in
town Wednesday. He visited the
high school and gave a very interest
ing and instructive talk endeavoring
to interest the student in the art of
biography.
Herbert Stewart. who has been
working in Connecticut, has returned
and Is stopping at the home OF Mr..
and Mrs. George Powers
Those attending the Emerson Lane
Post No. 1872. A. l.. Minstrel show at
Richmond, Wednesday evening. We're
Mr. and Mrs. r. f. Ferguson. Verona
Moore, Myrtle burlington, Iona Hack
EFT, Emily Rideout. Thomas Bories-
son, Walter Pratt and Walter Frye.
The whole program was carried out
in very able manner.
The usual fine supper was served at
the Methodist church Wednesday eve
ming. During the evening fine pro-
gram was presented. There was
singing and readings by the children
and the farce His Methodist Foot"
was staEed.s
Dwight l.. Moody. supt of schools.
was business visitor in town Thms-
day.
Zina Maxwell of Topsham attend
ed the practice meeting at the Ma
sonic Temple, Wednesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. r. Jack returned
Thursday from a few days visit with
friends in Gardiner and Augusta.
j. Taylor of the State High School
Department, was. in town Thursday.
Mrs. Huntley and Mrs. Fowler were
Viailowell and Gardiner visitors
Thursday.
Hattie Knights was the dinner
guest of Mrs F. NJ White, Wednes-
day and also made many calls on
friends in that locality.
the town schools closed Friday for
a two weeks vacation.
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The next minute or three, although
it seemed hours to anxious, waiting
Uncle Lucky. they were all in the
yellow buggy and the good Old
Brown Horse was galloping off to the
dear Old Bramble Patch. But just
as they reached the crossroads. the
old gentleman bunny remembered
that he had left the Luckymobile in
Bunnybridge. So the Old Brown
Horse galloped across the River Sip
pi Bridge to that little city, where
dear Uncle found his wonderful car
whiting patiently for him.
Don't know how to thank YOU"
he said to the nice Old Brown Horse,
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CLINTON !

The members Of the Areas.
will be entertained on Tuesas,. s~'
ternoon at the home of Mrs =, y Y
line Besse. The following IT,
program will be carried out. s..
Call, Quotations. Maine ARD ~
Sketch. Sarah orne Jewett Il.
Besse; Reading from countrv :,
Pointed FRS. Mrs. Lotto ~. ~
Sketch of Ralph d. Paine M. -
zie Holt; Reading, Mrs. jennie D. e
nels.
Mrs. Albert Cain and Franz NJ,
ardson were In Fairfield yesterd .''sa T.
attend the funeral of Mrs. Cairis 4,
ter, Mrs. Alice Whittier Lewis
The Misses Alice c. Wakeiv ~
Goodrich, Moreno Roundy. Oles ~
ley. Nera Grant, Frances Char.
lain and Madalyn Harding. st,,ass.
at Pennington State Normal scSs.
arrived yesterday at their resns s.av0
home where they will pass ttns
Easter vacation of 10 days. ''''a
All the children ofsthe Free D..
fist Sunday school, who have ~
pieces for the Easter concest asi
asked to be present on Sundav ~
noon for a rehearsal. During he ! :. !.
cation Of two weeks there viii :.
several rehearsals and they viii y
announced later by the program ao,0
mittee, Mrs. Edith c. Brown.
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FLOOD WARNING

The warning sent out from Wash
Ington by the u. S. Weather Bureau,
predicting higher temperature on
Saturday with rains, is one to heed
Excessively high temperature and
heavy rains in this State would un-
doubtedly produce disastrous conse-
tuences.
We have been favored by lack of
Sain thus far this month: the sun
has been melting the snow rapidly
as was suited to the conditions of
full water sources and thick ice.
The storms, of the past week have
been in the eastern portion of the
country quite cratic. There has
been frost damage in the Southeast.
There has been a noticeable back
wardness in the spring in New Eng
land. If a radical change comes
suddenly, pent-up forces will be
ioosed, which we will be we'll advised
10 guard against without delay.
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Editorial Comment
Vital Weakness in Rail Bill
public Ledger

t1uDlic LedBCG)
This FEAR of the farms has broken
down the loose alliance existing for
years in Congress between the farm
and the labor blocs. Labor members
have been supporting priceflxing
farm legislation. Now rail labor and
the roads having agreed upon leg
islation permitting them to fix wages
without consulting the public. Labor
naturally expects the farm bloc to
return the favor.
The farmer has baked. He
wants an amendment to the Watson
Parker bill empowering the Interstate
Commerce Commission to protect the
public from excessive rail rates,
which may come out of advancing
wage schedules.
The Grange and the Farm Bureau
are striking at a vital weakness in
the measure. This bill ends the
limited measure of protection offered
in the Rail Labor Board. 1t aban-
dons every principle for settlement
of disputes laid down in the Rail
Act of 1920. 1t is a return to the
days of the Eineties when roads and
their men fought out their disputes
with scant regard for the public.
The Parker bill is a COM
plete surrender of the theory of
compulsory arbitration, which failed
SO utterly in the Rail Labor Board.
1t proposes conferences between rail
officials and the men, mediation
and Cancellation by a Federal agency.
voluntary arbitration and finally, if
these fail, an investigation by an
Emergency Board named by the
President. This board must report
in thirty days.
During that period and for thirty
days more the existing situation"
will be maintained. In this "cool-
ing-off" truce of sixty days pub
lie opinion is expected to make
itself felt. Until the board is named,
the public may be in the dark about
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DETROIT

Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Field, have
Moved into the rent of Charles San
born, which they will occupy this
summer.
e. u. Brown is i'll with the grip.
He is somewhat improved at present
G. II. Seekins was business visi-
tor in Pittsfeld, Wednesday.
Mrs. w. r. Webendorfer of Pitts
field, visited her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. G. L. HoXie, last Wednesday.
j.. l.. Brown has accepted a posi-
ton in the finishing department of
the Waverly mill at Pittsfield ard be-
gan work this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Head of Pitts
field. were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. G..
IL. Seekins on Wednesday.
Mrs. Myrtle Morton and daughter
Ruth, were guests Wednesday OF Mrs.
Helen Ward in Newport.
Mrs. Eugene Fields and children.
arrived home Tuesday from a visit of
several days with her mother. Mrs.
waiter Symonds In Madison.
Miss Nina Foss of Kenduskeaa. is
visiting her sister. Mrs. Rodney Roll
Tins this week
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Railroads and Steamb0ats
MAINE CENTRAL E E,..,a
TeAiNs 1 FAVE AUGUSTA FoR

y
TRAINS LEAVE AUGUSTA Foe
Bangor. f122l a. m. sl2.4O a M. f = q 1,
1926 am. tl2.25 pm. 1928 pm 20
B. & 4. Pts. f12.21 am, t1225 pm
Bar Harbor. ti2 81 a. m. tl2.25 p ~ n
Bath. t5.54 a m. 1881 a. M, ftvop
Belfast, GAIA a. ~. TO- &c a. M, re- e ! n,
Boston. 1921 a. m. t5,54 2, NJ ly TEX = n,
Sl0.0S a. m. 1906 p. m. "a Pm. law
ti0.55 .. m.
Calais. t12.21 a. m, fI2.25 p. m.
Dover ,Foxcrost, GAIA n m. % p ~ q, q.
Gardiner 1921 a. m, t5.54 a. NJ, W. Ssh 4,
fl0;0S a. M. 1906 p. m, s. "a ?. m, t1'O
t5.l5 p. M, t719 p m. s10.55 p. m; % no q,
Halloweli. t554 q. M. 1881 a. m. ssu Ss Z d,
taos p M, 1894 ?, m. tt.05 p. M, io'ls =
f719 .. m. *10.55 p. m.
Harmony tl2 c5 p. m. .,ons 4 o.
Lewiston. t5.54 a.. m, 1881 Q. M,
TAOS p M. sl0.55 m.
New York, 1884 p. M, n .O5 p. m A ., o.
Portland. 1921 a. M, tJ.5i a. M 1T !, o..
st00S M, f305 p. m. 1884 p. m tf.o0
ITO p. m. 40 So o. nj. ,os, n.
Rocsand t5ai a RI. 1851 q. m, lt, s., y no
Skowtlcgan. GAIA a. m. 500 a. m, IL fs n.
So Gardiner IS "A a. M. o.3l a. n, 3 y "a al.
t305 p M. 1894 p. NJ, to.lo pm '"s
*l055 p. m,
St John, t122l a. m. 1AAn.
Watsrville, tlo2l q. m. 81. 90 an. q 3doa,
10 20 a. m, f1225 b. m. f2.zS D. %, 90
t7,l4 p. M. 1888 p. m. ,a niosd,s
Z Daily, except Monday. Daily. excep' -
fSunday only.
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RICHMOND
Successful Legion
Minstrel Show Given

The Minstrel Show given at the
Opera House, Wednesday evening"
was a huge success financially and
otherwise. This is the third annual
minstrel to be given on March 18th,
by the Emersonl Lane Post, No. 132,
A. l..
The music and the arranging and
staging Of the entire show was under
the direction of Thomas Puace and
the manner in which it was put over
showed Mr.. Place to be an efficient
director.
The stage setting was in blue and
white decorations, and the American
/, and Legion flags, the words, Elmer
son and Lane, No. 1872, A. L." above
the stage.
DIR. Victor r. E. Carey was the in
terlocutor, carrying along the show
in an easy and pleasing manner The
endmen were Earl Preble. Charles
Rogers, John Dixon, Joe Doyon, Lee
roy Dickinson, Cecil Richards. The
soloists, Edward Heath, Sib Gilbert,
Charles Blake, Henry Plouff, Clifton
Melvin, Chester Foster. The chorus,
Frank Rice, William Champney, Nat
Fitzpatrick, owen McGurty, Ray
Merrifield, Don Cate, Charles Loon,
Harold Hartford, Merle Thompson,
Dwight Moody, Harold Richardson,
r. Fl. Gilpatrick. Andy Monroe,
Wesley Weber, Frank Chamberlain,
Mayford Morris, James Roberts. Pr
anist, Thomas Pease.
Part Two was a pleasing part of
the program and was in the following
order: Buck and Wing, Bill Champ
ney; song, "The Mighty Deep"
James Roberts: song, "A Cottage
Small" Mrs. Lawrence A Bond ;
songs and dances. Miss Verena
James and Master Kenneth James;
song, I'm Old Madrid Thomas
Pease; song, 'In the Garden of My
Heart Mrs. c. p. Richards; song,
Lonesome, That's ALL" Edwin
Bailey
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PALM YRA

Several men and women from this
town attended the town meeting in
st. Adams. Monday, March Is.
Mrs. Annie Brewer and Mrs. Sadie
Robertson of st. Adams were recent
callers at w. A. Blaisdell's
Mrs. Philip Bradford is i'll at this
writing. Her mother is with her.
Harold Brewer passed the week
end in Pittsfield, returning home
Sunday afternoon.
Many old friends of Edmund @
Frost were saddened to hear of his
death which occurred at Togus. Mr.
Frost resided in this town for many
years and was respected by all.
Mrs. Erma Hilton is visiting at
the home of her father, F. NJ. Berry,
in ST. Adams.