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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-06
DAILY KENNEBEc JOURNAL. SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1925.

Eastman, president OF the board Of
trustees. Principal and Mrs. T. w.
Watkins, former Principal and Mrs.
J. o. Newton, Mrs. A. e. Nickerson.
l.. p. White. assistant principal. Miss
s. Gertrude Mayo. precertress, Miss
Pauline McQuigg, Raymond Nuss-
picket. President of the Senior class,
and Leroy Black, president Of the
Junior class.
Much credit should be given the
Junior class for the attractive decor
ating Of the gymnasium Itself.
Any surplus which remains from
the admission receipts over and above
the expenses of the play and recep-
ton are used toward the purchase
Of the gift which the graduating class
makes to the school at commence
ment
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-06

National Education Association. At
that time committee was appoint
ed to 60 into the entire question.
It was first necessary for the COM
mittee to satisfy itself Of the edu-
cational need Of such an addition
to an already heavily burdened
curriculum. Having reached the
conclusion that such steps were
needed in order to bring the school
system Of the country to q point of
the greatest possible service, it was
then necessary to map out definite
courses Of study.
The preparation Of these courses
has taken years Of effort on the
part Of the National Committee on
Thrift Education Of which Mr..
Arthur H. Chamberlain has been
chairman since its organization at
Oakland, Calif- in August, 1915.
The task Il not yet completed but
courses Of study have been worked
out and introduced in the schools
in many parts Of the country.
Thousands Of our boys and girls
are today receiving definite instruc-
tons In thrift, and the number Is
increasing daily.
The point has been reached where
1t may be said that thrift in tho
schools Of America Is an accom-
plished fact, and great praise is
due the National Education Asso-
citation and the National Council OF
Education for the contribution Of
this gift to practical education.
A decade ago the teaching Of
thrift in the classroom WAS only
an idea Today 1t is a reality.
The time win soon be here when
every school boy and school girl in
this great land win be learning
thrift with their geography, gram
mar and history.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-06

1920; bulk good and choice 1s0-pound
kind 13.40@13.S5; top $50 pounds up
400; 100 pounds up 1890; packing
sows 10.40@1i.25: sorted killing pigs
mated holdover 5000.
SHEEP-Receipts $4,000; fat lambs
uneven; generally steady to % higher;
other classes mostly steady; good sS to
94-pound fat wooded lambs 1900
1875; good and choice light and handy
weights 14.00@14.5Q; choice fat ewes
upward to 800: good 20 to S0-pound
shorn lambs 13.00@13.25.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-06

improper adjustment give the car
rigid workout around this roadway.
It Is rfn first in low gear. then in
second and then for some time in
high-at varying speeds. The slight
est deviation from Ajax performance
standards is Immediately caught"
and no car is allowed to enter
dealers hands until its actual per-
Torrance has been favorably passed
on by the factory.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-06
Chicago Cattle Market
Chicago, March 5

CATTLE-Receipts 5000: fed steers
generally steady; kinds Of value to sell
at 9.75 downward predominating; best
yearlings offered at 1910: part load
1850; matured steers UP to 1895:
lower grades killing steers, stockers
and feeders fairly active; latter Is to
rs higher for week; choice stocks
strong; bulls steady: vealers strong to
rs higher; mostly 1S.ooQ1400 to
packers.
HOGS-Receipts 10000: market I'M
even; medium and heavy weight BUTCH
ers 10 to 20 lower, closing mostly rs
of: lighter weight irregular; qualified
kind strong to % higher; others weak
to 10 lower; bulk 240 to 325-pound
weights 12.00@12.50; majority desir-
able 200 to 225-pound averages 1880
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-06
Visitors Marvel at Network
OF Tests and INSPECTIONS

Visitors Of the factory OF the Ajax
Motors Company invariably are out
spoken In their amazement at the
lengths to which the company goes
to insure the soundness Of every part
which goes into the Nash-built car
before It Is sent to the loading dock
for shipment. The inspection policy
established at the Ajax Motors plant
10 identical to that which has always
been followed by The Nash Moors
Company, even to the actual driving
Of the car under its own power be-
fore It passes on into the hands OF
the dealer.
Al raw materials are unloaded at
the Ajax factory they are inspected
for strict conformity with the
Specifications agreed upon between
the factory and the supplier. II the
materials measure up to specin-
cations they are passed on to the
various departments.
Then as the materials proceed
through the factory, taking form and
shape in the various departments,
each part as 1t Is produced must pass
under the scrutiny Of a trained IN.
spector and the part is either okeyed
and passed on for assembly or is re-
jected and Immediately thrown out
Of production.
Crankshafts are tested on a
specially designed machine. so &C
curate that it Is capable OF recording
the weight Of q human hair. Cam
shafts In like manner are tested,
Motors are run in under inspection
and test. In fact, each completed
unit must pass inspection and test
before 1t passes on into assembly
with other units that 60 to make up
the car.
Then, to make doubly sure that the
Ajax Is entirely sound. 1t must under
go q thorough and exhaustive road
test before shipments. For this
purpose Ajax has a large oval test
ing track located Immediately adj
jacent to the factory building. The
track is surfaced with brick, Is slight
Iy inclined at turns and extends a
quarter mile in circumference.
Mechanics trained by long ex-
perience to detect any indication of
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-06

Smiling with this cold darn cold,
l gather close
The soft folds Of your gift,
The 'broidered letter. worked by your
fingers white,
Confidingly against my noses fire,
Blows in and out with every bellows
blast.
The lacy margin lies along my lids,
Blotting the griefless fluence of my
rheum.
Leg achings stab and twist as the
blight grows,
And flaming face, illumined beerily,
Parades the flu my snortings speak
aloud.
-Hymie, in "On Second Thought" by
Jay z. House.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-06

possible an annual production Of SOo.-
900 cars.
Although new high record was
made in 1928 when 201 900 cars were
delivered to owners and our financial
statement showed a gross business IN
the neighborhood of $275,00o.000, we
expect even greater things in 1926"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-06

Leon Wyman, Guy b. Durrell; town
clerk, Guy Sedgley; treasurer, H. Fl.
Landers; tax collector, e. H. Crosse;
school committee, A. d. Gray. Money
appropriated: Schools, s7175; high
ways. 24ss: support of poor. 5000;
other purposes, Mothers Aid, 5000;
town charges, 5000: street lights, $3.50;
town officers. $500; interest, $4,000;
town debt, $4,000.
MONT-Moderator, f. A. Mar
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-06

Old Brown had had a terrible
morning. He could not walk, and
had engaged a man to push him
about in an invalid's chair.
Twice they had nearly been crush
ed under a tram car once the invalid
chair man had nearly dropped his
charge into a river.
They had now reached the top of
a very high hill, and there they
haulted.
At first old Brown welcomed the
hault. After his perilous journey it
came as a welcome rest to stand safe
and still. But at last he began to
get restless.
What are you stopping here for?"
he asked nervously.
ITS all right, guvnor." the atten-
dant replied unconcernedly. I'm
only waiting fer my mate. with
another old gent. COS we're a-going
to ave race down the Ill fer a
pint"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-06
TOWN ELECTIONS

CANAAN--Selectmen Horace O.
Bean, John s. Goodridge, Walter
Crommett: town clerk and treasurer,
Lettie A. Foster: town agent. e. III.
Williams; tax collector. Ivory e. Bur-
rilI: school committee, Ivory Burrill
and Leland Jewell. Money appropri-
ated, S15,319: Schools, SCOTS: high
ways, s5233; support of poor, $500;
other purposes. $3411.
EUSTIS-Selectmen, Guy Sedgley,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-06

riner; clerk. c. r. Andrews. 3
men, assessors and oversesrs q
2. 2. MORRILL, E. r. Howard
Morse; treasurer, c. r. Andr...tl
lector and constable, c e Hesi n
Der OF the school board. Z. 4
Money raised: Support q, -
$1,000; highways ana bridges \
State Aid road, 5000: snow M.
debts and charges, 1920. ~.
poses, $779.60. V' otnef
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-06

Ss 80
n o ne Of these
b as grea err
progress been
shown than in
the m a tier Of
thrift education.
In 1915 the
nrst steps to-
ward the intro
duction Of thrift
teachings in the
9 c b ools were
= ~ Al
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-06
THOUSANDS OF SCHOOLS IN
U. S. NOW TEACHING THRIFT
BY S. W. STRAUS,
President American Society for
Thrift

TINE last ten years have Wit.
l. messed tremendous strides In
this country along various lines Of
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-06
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Evening star., 1926-03-26
FLETCHER DENIES
DECLINING TO RUN
Ohio Representative Says He Au-
thorized No One to Speak for
Him on Senatorship.

Reports from Ohio to the effect that
he had decided not to become a candi-
date for the Democratic senatorial
nomination in the August primaries
were denied by Representative Brooks
Fletcher today. In statement con-
corning the reports, Mr.. Fletcher. who
represents the eighth congressional
district and whose home is Marion,
where the late President Harding
lived, made 1t clear he had authorized
no one to make any announcement
for him. Mr. Fletcher said:
MY attention has been called to n
newspaper story in which 1t was I'M.
piled that word had come by way or
Columbus from Marion, Ohio, my
home, which presumed to announce
nv decision as to whether l am to
be a candidate for the United States
Senate in the coming primary or a
candidate for reelection to Congress.
I'm fairness to the different Demo
cratic county organizations that have
officially indorsed me for the United
States Senate and in fairness to a
number of leading Democrats in ONO
who have invited me to be candl-
date for the Senate l wish to state
that whoever inspired the article re
ferring to me politically did so on
Evening star., 1926-03-26
GEN. THOMAS WARD
DIES OF PNEUMONIA
Last Survivor of West Point Glass
of 1853 and Civil War Vet
eran Succumbs.

Brig. Gen. Thomas Ward, U. S. A.,
retired, 81 years old, Civil War vet
eran, who served in the Army more
than 40 years and who was the last
surviving graduate of the West Point
class of 1868. died Of pneumonia at
his home, in Rochester. N. Y, yester.
day.
lie was one of the oldest living
graduates OF the United States Mill
tary Academy.
Born in West Point, n. T., March
is. 1899, he was the son of the late
Bryan and Mrs. Eliza Ward. Follow
ing his graduation from the Military
Academy. where his father was regis
trar, he was commissioned second
lieutenant IN the 1st United States
Artillery. One year later he was pro-
NOTED to the grade Of first lieutenant,
receiving the laHter advancement for
gallant and mertorious services in the
battle of Cold Harbor. Va And to-
ward the close of the conflict he was
made a captain for the duration Of the
war.
In November, 1876. he was made a
captain on a permanent basis and on
June IS. 1884, he reached the grade
of major and was made assistant ad-
jutant general. He continued to serve
Evening star., 1926-03-26

joseph Didden, Greta Williams, Edna
Whipp, Albert Folsom. Catherine ,Jfr-
dine, Donald Seaton. Robert Ewing
and Carl Jetton The Chinese or
chestra is composed Of Hiram, Far
rell, Michael Farrell, Joe Lynch and
Ross Totten.
Those In the minstrel act are Rob.
ert Mccormick. Donald Craig. Frank-
lin Miles, Chester Miles, Elijah Sell
denburg, Charles Craig. Charles COT
tenkieny. Louis MilObsky, Ralph
Lloyd. Cornelius O'Brien, with Rus
sell Brown as accompanist.
The cast of 1.-THE Three Wishes"
includes Jennie Scott. Alma Nussear,
Jean Hickernell, Thomas Wollard and
Alton Helm.
Evening star., 1926-03-26

as assistant adjutant general through
a part OF September. 1897, In which
year he was promoted to the grade
OF colonel. He became brigadier
general in July. 1902. and was retired
at his own request.
Gen. Ward served as professor OF
military science and tactics at Union
College from 1873 to 1877 and was
president of the board Of visitors of
the United States Military Academy
in 1907.
In addition to being a member Of
the Metropolitan Club of this city,
Gen. Ward was a member Of the Phi
Reta Kappa and the Sigma Phi
fraternities. the Loyal Legion, the
Grand Army. Of the Republic, Army
and Navy Club, the Fortnightly Club
of OswegO, N. Y, and the Genesee
Valley Club of Rochester. N. Y.
Surviving him are two sons. Col
Philip r. Ward, Field Artillery, and
First Lieut.. John NJ. Ward, Reserve
Corps, who served in the World War,
and two daughters, Mrs. E. A. Steb..
bins. Rochester, n. Y, and Mrs. S. H.
Ottaway. widow, of Ensign F. H.
Ottaway, u. S. N. Another son of
Gen. Ward. Midshipman Thomas
Ward, jr.. U. S. NJ. was killed in the
performance of duty on the U. S. s.
Missouri in 1904.
Evening star., 1926-03-26

These money donations include hun
dretls of millions.
The payment of taxes as the citizen
of a State gives the taxpayer his pro:
portionate share in these financial
benefits. The WashingtOnian enjoys
M mart in these grants, b0unties and
benefits as citizen of State. Why
should he pay or have charged against
him as part of his equitable tax bur-
den the taxes which are incidental to
the status of State citizens and which
are one condition of the enjoyment OF
these financial benefits?
The WasilingtOnian has none. OF
these political or judicial rights or
privileges. Why should his fair tax
burden be held to include what the
State citizen pays in connection with
the actual enjoyment of these ineSti'
mable rights, privileges and benefits?
Bears State Burdens But No State
Benefits.
The proposition carries out the old
idea that Washington is to be viewed
as a State when burdens are imposed
and not viewed as State when bene.
fits or privileges or rights are to be
conferred. The District has been pro.
nOunced State under a treaty with
France, construction comforting
privileges on aliens, but not State
under the Constitution, whose pee. sic
can sue i'm the Federal courts. The
District is a State when direct taxes
are to be collected, but not State
when representatives are apportlOned,
though the Constitution couples the
two things. The District is not a
State to make and carry out through
a State legislature laws for its own
benefit, but it is now reprOached as
State because it escapes the tax bur-
den incident to the exercise OF this
privilege of a State. The District is
not to be a State to enjoy any OF the
p0litical, judicial and financial bene-
fits. privileges and rights of State,
but is to be a State to the extent that
the e1,IitabIe tax burden of its people
must include State taxes.
When Washington is part of State
and enjoys the expenditure within IL
Of its dine share of the State fund to
which thousands of State citizens out
side of its limits contribute it will be
lime to hermit State taxation to enter
, into its comparative per capita tax
figures, When Westinghouse are
like Raitim0reans, Marylanders again:
with all the Marylanders' rights ana
privileges as citizens OF stare, IL
win be time to charge against tne
Washingi oman. i'm comparison WIN
the Raltinlerean the State tax when
The latter pays. not as Bafflm0fean
but as Marylahder. When. wash
iurton has Senators, Representa- yes
and a State, Legislature 1t will De time
for il to pay for such luxurles IN the
shape of a State tax.
Evening star., 1926-03-26
In Comparing Tax Burdens
With Washington State Tax
Should EquitabIy Be
Deducted.
NO INCREASE or
PRESENT S1.70 TAX RATE
Editorial Correspondence of The Star.
RY THEODORE W. MOVES.
Article v.

In comparing tax rates, aggregate
taxes and per capitas, it is to be borne
in mind that the total taxes i'll other
cities than Washington include State,
county. school district and city taxes.
Washington figures show only city
taxes, the total tax and the city tax
being the same. Washington contends
that i'm comparing with her the State
tax should not be taken into account;
that Is she enjoys no Sta:e rights.
privileges, bounties and benefits She
should not be figured to pay justly as
part of her normal tax burden what
other cities pay i'm consideration of the
enjoyment of these State rights, priv
iieses. bounties and other benefits. tSee
arguments before joint fiscal commit
tee in 1915, House District committee
in 1919, and Senate appropriations
committee i'm 1930D
What is the showing of the 1878
census bulletins in a comparison OF
total taxes Gncluding city, county,
school district and State taxes from
which the State tax is SuhtraCted2
Evening star., 1926-03-26

their own Responsibility. No person
in my district or anywhere else has
been delegated with any authority
whatever to speak for me on the
senatorship or on any other matter" :"
Judge Florence Allen of the Ohio
Supreme Court has been indorsed for
the senatorial nomination by the
Democratic organization of Cuyahoga
County. Mr.. Fletcher has been in
dorsed for the nomination by both
the Huron County and the Fairfield
County Democratic organizations fop
the nomination. Mr.. Fletcher is a
newspaper editor and publisher.
Evening star., 1926-03-26
ALLEGES PLOT TO KILL.
Youth Say= He Was Chosen to
Slay German Official.

PRAGUE. Czechoslovakia, March
26 @.-A German youth was arrest
ed at Adeltort yesterday after telling
the authorities that he had been des
ignated by plot to assassinate the
German minister of the interior, Will
liam Kuelz. To avoid committing the
crime the youth says he fed to
Czechoslovakia, and fearing reprisals
by the Nationalist organization which
selected him to slay the minister, he
asked the Czech police to protect him.
The authorities are investigating
his story.
Evening star., 1926-03-26

Per capita property TAX IeFIfs
Thus in per capita tax levy eXpend-
ftures for city, school district and
county only, Washington. using the
1926 per capita for itself. surpasses
eight of the ten other cities.
The slight excess Of tax rate OF
many other cities when full State.
county ana city taxes enter into the
calculations disappears if the State
taxes are omitted.
The same showing is made If the
fraction OF the tax rate which repre-
sentS State taxation be deducted from
the total readjusted tax rate OF the
1925 figures of the National Municipal
Review, as shown in the following ia
BILE;
Evening star., 1926-03-26
HINE PLAY PRESENTED.
Spring Revue to Be Repeated at
Junior High School Tonight.

Hine Junior High Schools Spring
revue, including a Chinese play, "The
Stolen Prince; a minstrel act and a
playlet, 1.-THE Three Wishes" was
presented yesterday afternoon and
will be repeated tonight. The cos
tunes and stage settings have been
designed and made by the art de-
partment and domestic art classes
The cast of 1.-The Stolen Prince"
includes Paul Dunn, Charles Wise,
Evening star., 1926-03-26

At the II tax rate of the Municipal
Review Washington exceeds in rate
90 of the SO cities with which 1t IS
compared in the above table ana IS
exceeded by Z. The % cities which
when State tax rate is Subtracted. Il
exceeds. include Cleveland. Cincinnati,
10 out of II of the Ohio cities, all
but / of the Virginia cities. includ-
ing Richmond: out of of the
Texas cities, including San Antonio,
Dallas. Houston and Fort Worth.
Providence, Atlanta and Birmingham.
st. Louis is the only large city
U7.1S) which exceeds Washington IL.
If WashinSton's ratio of assessed to
true value (90.S0). fixed by the Census
Bureau in its decennial report of 1922
on wealth, debt and taxation is used
in the comparison. Washington with
a readjusted tax rate of 15.44 exceeds
% of the cities in the above table, IS
exceeded by IL. and has the same
rate as one. Six Ohio cities have a
greater rate and six Il less. 1t eX-
ceeds six of the seven Virginia cities
and four of the eight Texas cities,
including San Antonio, Dallas. HouS-
ton and Fort Worth. 1t exceeds
I-ovidence. Atlanta, Birmingham.
Little Rock and Wheeling. The large
cities which exceed Washington
kI0.4fl are 1ISNcLdIli, 1o.if, SiHSiAAi1eA,
1919, and st. Louis, 1918.
Why State Taxes Should BE Deducted.
Many of us contend that all State
taxes should be excluded equitably
from the comparisons of city tax bur-
dcns; that U) taxes to he equifaDly
compared should be paid by contribu-
tors substantially in the same area, to
L., ~ In, fs<,sR in
same area and for the benefit OF that
area alone; that in the Light OF this
principle the municipal tax and State
tax are as wide apart as the poles, be-
ing separate and distinct in personnel
of contributors, i'll purpose OF crea-
tiOn, i'm scope and area OF distribution;
that (2) Washington does not receive
the same benefits" that accompany
State citizenship md should moi there
fore bear tine burdens which cOmpen-
safe for these benefits.
Varying Factors of Comparison.
Let us consider if the principle is
not sound which requires that taxes
to be equitably compared should be
paid by contributors substantially in
the same area, to be distributed to
beneficiaries in the same area, and for
the benefit OF that area alone.
Large cities dominate or include the
counties containing them; and i'm the
case of these large cities it is fair to
consider county taxes as well as city
taxes. Indeed, i'm substance they are
part of the city taxes. The tax
payers, the DeneficiarieS, and the area
for the collection and distribution of
taxes are practically The same.
The cities having over goo, 600 p0pu-
lation constitute SO large. part of the
containing county that tine nominal
county contributions and payments
Evening star., 1926-03-26
Two Medical Officers Transferred.

Maj. Asa NJ. Lehman, Medical
Corps. stationed at Camp Lewis,
Washington, has been ordered to this
city for duty at Walter Reed Cen
eral Hospital. and Maj. Brown s.. Nc
Clintic, Medical Corps, at Walter
Reed Hospital. has been ordered to
Fort Benjamin Harrison. Ind, for
Evening star., 1926-03-26

Many districts in Java are perme-
ated with petroleum. In places, II a
handful of earth is, taken up ana
Squeezed, a stream OF OH may oe
forced from it.
Evening star., 1926-03-29
FOR SAIE--HOUSES.

CHEVY CHASE. ND. - NEW 7-R0oI
halt BRICK house. on large shaded lot just
north OF Bradley lane. 300 Elm ave. Price
Evening star., 1926-03-29
RENT--SUBURsAN PROPERTY.
LEno..Aa..alA

rent; store 2Ox4B; apartment optional: next
to Sanitary: rent. 500 per mo each: cx-
cellent for much-needed meat market.
a. II. SElDENSPINNER,
s02 Bait. Blvd Hyatts $50 Riverdale, Nd