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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18
MAY FESTIVAL
TO Be HELD At
OPERA HOUSE TONIGHT

The much anticipated May Festi-
val of the musical organizations of
the Waterville Senior high school
will be held at the City Opera House
this evening. preparatory to the de-
parture of the players Friday morn
ing Tor Boston where they will parti-
clpate In the annual New England
musical conclave to be held there on
that day and Saturday.
The program this evening will con-
tain many selections which will be
played by the local students at the
conc!ave and it will enable the Wa
terVille audience to get an idea of
what has been accomplished must
cally at the school this year. A fea-
ture will be a selection played by
both the orchestra and band togeth-
er, an aggregation of some so musi-
clans.
In Boston this year there is to be
competition of keener sort than
there was last year when the Water
vile orchestra was the winner of the
hrst prize. The players will arrive
In Boston shortly before noon. they
Will play their first selections. on
the next day the competition will
take place when the band and or
chestra compete in the Boston
Arena and on the Boston common.
Mrs. Dorothy Marden, who has hao
singular success as supervisor of
music in the schools of the city for
the past few years is the leader of
both the organizations. She was
graduated from the Senior High
school here and from the New Eng
land Conservatory Of Music in Bos-
ton. Walter Hood, leader of the or
chestra at the City Opera House has
also lent valuable assistance in
coaching the band.
Those who make up the band are:
Bernard Shaw, Justin Buzzell, Don
aid Hurd, Fred Laarrey.. Norman Par
ker. Willard Gilmore. Linwood
Brown, Henry McCrackson, David
Vigue, Dean Quinton, Stanton Weed.
Bernard Larsen, Brayton Larsen,
Arthur Pillsbury, Earl Trainor, AL
bert Foster, Arthur Roderick, Philip
Allen, Clarence Mccormack, Harold
Taylor, Kenneth Staples, Charles
Vose, Robert Stubbert. Wilbur
Johnson. Richard Johnson, Norman
Thing, Standish johnson and Robert
Brann.
The members of the orchestra are:
David. Staples, drums; Linwood
Brown and Henry McCracken, from
bones; Wilbur Larsen, Lame Ran
court and Edith Langlois. cellos;
Bernard Larsen, Stanton Weed
David Vigue and Dean Quinron,
saAophones; Harold Taylor and
Donald Hurd. horns; Leo Lessard
Clarence Mccormack, Earl Trainor
and Bernard Shaw, trumpets; Bray
ton Larsen, Charles Vose, flutes;
Philip Allen. clarinet; Meyer Pach-
owsgy. Adrienne DeLisle, Gerard
Johnson, Nathan Rosenthal, Miles
Allen, Juliette Houle. 1mogene Casey,
Harry Barron, Aaron Cook, Dorothy
Donnelly. Cecil Legendre, Francis
Smith, Justin Buzzell, Philip Nc
Leary, Romeo Bourgoin and Robert
Stubbert, violins; Francis Welcher,
manager; Mrs. Dorothy Marden, dir
eCtor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18
MelrOse Orator to
Give Commencement
Address, Waterville

w. Quay Rosselle, PHI, D. d D., OF
Melrose, Mass, will deliver the grad
uating address at the Commencement
of the Waterville Senior High school
to be held at the City Opera House
on the evening of June II, it was an
nounced yesterday by c. E. Glover,
superintendent of the schools.
Mr.. Rosselle is one of the foremost
preachers and orators in the country
and he will without doubt have a
message of much interest for the
graduates. At the recent meeting or
the eighth district of Rotary Inter-
national held at Poland Springs he
was one of the principal speakers
and he made a deep impression on
the Rotarians
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18
Waterville Safety
Club Will Parade
FRIDAY Afternoon

The parade of the Watervllle
Safety club which was organized
some time ago by the American Leg
ion is to be held next Friday after
noon at Ais o'clock it was decided at
the meeting of the Bourque post last
evening. There is to be music for the
affair and in the line of march will
be the great majority of the school
children of Waterville and Winslow.
On Saturday the club will hold a tag
day to raise money to defray its ex-
penses.
Comrade Hopkins gave an interest
Ing report for the home committee.
This week the various committees
are being organized and next week
the publicity is to start. During the
following week the drive to secure
funds for the purchase of the Pomer-
leau property is to be held and it is
planned to make it short and spirit
ed. On Memorial Sunday some of the
Legionaires will speak briefly in the
churches on the project and on the
first two days of June there will be
five minute speeches in the theatres.
Further plans call for special pos
tiers for all those who have contri-
buted.
Next Monday evening goodly
number Of the Legionaires will go to
Augusta where National Commander
McQuigg is to speak.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18
Colby Professor
Discusses Present
Affairs in Europe

DR.. William j. Wilkinson, professor
OF history at Colby College. speaking
to the members of the George N.
Bourque post Of the American Leg
ion at their meeting last evening
gave them discussion of affairs of
the day in Europe which was great
ly appreciated.
He first discussed the latest de-
velopments in the unearthing of the
true causes Of the World War, say
ing that although all nations are to
De blamed in some respects, the
responsibility for the conflict is
gradually shifting more and more 70
france and Russia and those men
who were her ministers when the
war broke out. He named a number
of books which deal with the SUBJ
Ject which he advised the Legion
aires to read. speaking particularly
highly of one by United States Sem
ator Owen of Oklahoma.
DR.. Wilkinson was of the firm be-
lief that this country was fully justi-
fed for taking the step that she did
as she had no other alternative. The
second rate statesman of Germany
at that time constituted another
cause, the doctor said. A fact of
much interest that the speaker
brought out was that the Kaiser
was strictly against the un-estrained
submarine warfare that the Germans
resorted to as he resorted 1t would
bring America into the conflict anG
seal the fate of his nation.
DIR. Wilkinson declared that in
many ways there was less democracy
in Europe today than there was be-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18
Regular Meeting
Of Rotary Club
Held Monday Noon

The meeting of the Waterville Ro-
tary club at the Elmwopd hotel yes
terday noon was devoted to the
memory of the late Sidney A. Green,
a founder of the organization who
was always prominent in it's activi-
ties. The three members who spoke
of Mr.. Green were Rev. William A.
Smith, pastor of the Congregational;
Ora A. Meader and Carroll n. Per-
kins, the president of the club.
Mr.. Smith said that although he
had never been intimately acquaint-
ed with the departed member he had
always held him in high respect, and
he spoke of the love that Mr.. Green
had both for nature and for children.
He characterized him as a deeply
religious man but one who was
thoroughly transformations in it.
Mr.. Meader told the Rotarians that
he had known Mr.. Green since he
first came here some 40 years ago.
In business he had had much to do
with him and he spoke of the absol-
ute honesty of the deceased member.
Mr.. Perkins said that he had first
become acquainted with Mr.. Green
20 years ago when he was in school
with his brother, Carl Green. The
friendship begun had continued until
his death. Mr.. Perkins spoke espec-
tally of Mr.. Green's generosity which.
though unassuming was in all ways
genuine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18
COBURN. NOTES

The one hour class Of the boys
Senior Religious Education course
which is held on every Monday
morning was taken up by Mr. Arch
ibald Adams. a missionary who has
recently returned from China, and
he gave the boys very interesting
talk on the people Of that country
and the experiences which he had
with them. He talked of the Chinese
students and how they were always
trying to put China in a position
which would make her better than
in the past years. He also outlined
some of the important things which
had to do with the trading in China.
Due to the lack of time of that per-
iod Mr.. Adams had to stop with his
interesting talk, which every boy en-
joyed to the utmost, and he gave
every one the opportunity to ask a
few questions and many responded
with questions which Mr.. Adams
gladly answered.
The greater part Of the usual chap
ell exercises was given to Mr.. Archi-
bald Adams, a missionary to China.
He spoke to the Coburn student body
in the assembly room yesterday
morning. He began his talk by writ
ing a number of letters in the Chin
csc language in which he explained
to the students the meaning, and al
so told of them writing backwards.
Following this he took a map and
located where he was situated in
China and also where the trouble
had been going on which needs the
help of this. country. He told the
students that of the gunboat policy
of America and what it meant, also
that it should be abandoned because
it is making things unpleasant in the
Chinese provinces. He explained the
opium trade and what effect it had
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18

on the greater part Of the population
ment allows them to use the narcotic
with a heavy tax on its users. Mr..
Adams said that conference be-
tween America and China to get to-
gether and save this country which
all the help it possibly can get. He
read several poems which students
Of China had written and won prizes
in England. He said what was need
ed was brotherhood. fraternity,
rightness and good will among men
and these should be in the mind of
every man. He told them that this
was his seth talk that he has given
since he came back to this country.
He Is scheduled to speak at the great
meeting in New York on May 80 and
this meeting will be represented by
the world. Mr.. Adams presented a
very interesting talk and it was one
of the best that the students have
heard for some time.
During the early part of the chapel
exercises Principal Drew L. Har-
thorn called the attention of the
student body to the scholarship cup.
The cup was decorated with gold
ribbon which indicates the winners
OIL the cup LOT the past Lei III lOI nav
ing the highest average. There is
two teams which represent the
scholarship of the school, the gold
team and the crimson team and
merry fight for the coming term Is
going on at present.
A meeting of adj the boys was call
ed Immediately after the noon ses-
sion by Principal Drew T. Harthorn
and he told the boys who were con-
cerned in the class day parts to be
ready and that they should give their
immediate attention to the speeches
which have to be in the Coburn
paper. the Clarion, within the next
few weeks. He also talked to the
boys on the scholarship standing and
what every individual should do from
the present time until the coming of
the commencement exercises. Sever
al of the faculty members were pres
ent at this meeting.
The game which was supposed to
have been played yesterday between
Coburn baseball team and kent's
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18
Toll Complaint
Set Before Utilities
Commission Monday

After a considerable delay com
paint relative to the toll charge of
five cents on telephone calls between
this city and Fairfield has been plac-
ed before the Public Utilities Com
mission by the committees of the
Waterville and Fairfield Chambers OF
Commerce which have the matter
in charge. 1t is expected that the
matter will be given a hearing with
In the near future.
It is hoped that residents of the
two communities who have any
specific faults to And with the in
creased expense will let the Cham
bers know of them so that when the
hearing is held the strongest possible
argument for the abolition of the toll
may be put up. Those who have a
personal interest in the matter are
urged to be present at the hearing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18
Coburn School of Music

An announcement of great interest
is the Choral Concert and Vocal Re-
cital to be given in the First Bap-
fist church, Wednesday evening,
May Goth. Solo, Chorus, Glee Club
and Ensemble numbers will be Civ
en- This concert is under the direc.
ton sof Mary Berry Manter, head of
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18

vocal department Coburn Classical
Institute.
Unquestionably this will be the
finest concert under the auspices Of
the Vocal department,
Detailed program will be given
later. Posters will be distributed
fhiS week
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18
TROY

The Ladies Aid viii meet at the
Grange hall next Thursday P. NJ.
Mrs. Fannie Bagley and Mrs. Gertie
Cook will serve as hostesses.
Mr.. and Mrs. George E. Townsend.
of Bangor, were calling on relatives
in town. Sunday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18

The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of the Methodist church will
meet Thursday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. p. II. LaBrack. Il
Nash street, instead of this after
noon. Mrs. c. E. Wiley will be in
charge of the meeting.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18

= A number of the members of the
wateryiIle Business and Professional
Woman's club journeyed to Skowhe-
van last evening where they attend
sd the annual meeting and banquet
of the Skowhegan Club.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18

FUNERAL services for William H.
xorton of South Hampton, Mass,
Iii he held at the cemetery at Chinas
yillage this afternoon at o'clock,
pav W. P. Palmer officiating.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18

There will be special conclave of
&, Omer Comnnandery at the Asylum
Tomorrow evening for work in the
orders of the Red Cross and of
Malta. Supper will be served in the
BANQUET hall at $50 o'clock.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18

THAT'S about the fastest time
i mothers know for cooking hot
and nourislling breakfast
Get Quick Quaker. Cooks faster
than plain toastl
Supplies the balanced food ration
Of protein, carbohydrates and vita
mines plus the bulk" to make
laxatives less often needed - that
doctors and authorities advise.
Has the wonderful Quaker flavor,
rich and toasty. You viii be de-
lighted Start every day, then, with
food that stands by" through the
morning.
Your grocer has Quick Quaker
also Quaker Oats as you have always,
known them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18

fore the war and he spoke at some
length to the relationships that now
exist in Italy. Russia, Poland, Greece,
Roumania and a number of other
nations.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18

Mrs. S. E. Whitcomb of Western
avenue is passing a few days in
Boston, the guest of her daughter,
Miss Mary Whitcomb.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18

nh. marriage intentions of Herman
nmnond Of Winslow and Miss Annie
poIduc, 5 Swan street. this city, have
hsen filed at the office Of the city
clerk
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18
Additional WaterviIIe News will be
s.und on PAGE Five of this issue.

nh. ladies' Aid of the Universalist
.,nrch will meet with Mrs. Eva B.
Carson at her home on Main street
tonorrow afternoon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18

.,.,res Theatre: Rudolph valenti-
no in his greatest picture; The
Tagle;" comedy and news reel; Wilfred
Trsmbley on the Wurlitzer grand or
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18
rpEATER ATTRACTIONS
,,oNnAy AND TUESDAY

-,.v onera House: Peter B. Kyne's
~rhe Shamrock Handicap" with an
.li.star cast; Lillian Rieh ana Robert
frazier in THE Isle OF Retrinution;"
tSro-nart comedy, "Peggy's Helper"
latest Pathe News; Walter Hood and
r,s orchestra.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-20
Board of Education
Ban on Free Speech
Rouses Big Protest

NEW YORK CITY, June 1S.-The
American Civil Liberties Union, which
was barred from using high school
buildings by the board of education
for a free speech meeting, a prohibit
ton approved of by the New York
board of trade and transportation, has
asked the latter to allow speaker to
come before the board to speak on the
purposes of the union.
The Teachers Union of New York
City attacked the ban of the board Of
education, declaring that this display
OF petty intolerance is unworthy of
those who stand sponsor for educa-
ton" The teachers added a demand
on the board to cease its repressive
tactics and hold public hearings on
the question of opening the public
schools to the discussion of all politi-
cal and economic questions by respon-
sible groups of adults
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-20
PRIMARY SLUSH
FUND NOW OVER
z MILLION MARK
Votes Stolen by Ware in
Labor Wards
Special to The Daily Worker.

special 10 ne Daily worker.
WASHINGTON, June 18. - The
known expenditures in Pennsylvania
recent three-cornered senatorial race
scared above the 100000 mark to-
day after Eric Fisher Wood, western
campaign manager for the Pepper
Fisher ticket, told the senate slush
fund committee that he had spent
100000 in thirty-one western counties
outside Pittsburgh.
This testimony brought the total
sum spent on behalf Of the candidacy
Of Senator George Wharton Pepper
and his ticket to $1,273,945. This
amount includes the 1927 1886 reported
by S. ]. Topley, the Pepper-Fisher
treasurer in Pittsburgh, as spent and
obligated for the campaign in that
city.
The total revealed cost of the race
at the same time mounted to s2,O75.-
III.
Mayor Chas. II. Kline of Pittsburgh
was forced to admit that he talked"
to city employees just prior to the
primaries. The committeeman were
dissatisfied with his denial that he
threatened to Gust any city employee
that refused to help the Pepper cam
paign
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-20
CONFESSES SACCO, VANzETTI INNOCENT!


about 100 or more injured carried to
the hospital"
What did they do with the dead
ones?"
"All the workers who were killed in
the plant were taken to William, Mar
shall & Goods undertaking establish
ment. You see, Williams is the mayor
Of Gary and Marshall is a deputy coro-
ner.
"The trust kills the workers, and
the honorable gentlemen bury them.
Everybody knows that there is an I'M
derstanding between the mayor and
the trust. And nobody knows exactly
how many were killed, except the COM
pany, the coroner and the mayor.
MANY workers were torn to pieces.
Parts of bodies we're found all over
the place of the explosion. Workers
picked them up and sent them to the
mayor"
What caused the explosion?" was
my next question.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-20
BY 3. K. eERERT.

THE Illinois Steel Corporation, a
4 subsidiary of the United States
Steel Corporation in Gary, Ind, is a
huge plant that employs more than
$4,000 workers. The plant extends for
three miles along the front of Lake
Michigan. The factory buildings are
surrounded by water, three bridges
connecting them with the mainland
On the bridges is heavy company
police guard, watching that no one ex-
cept the slaves get into the plant. In
the front is five-story building, look
ing like Jail; it is hospital"
Monday morning the plant was
shaken by an explosion.
How many were killed." I asked a
worker from the plant.
Il was there" he said.
Thirty Killed.
mot less than 20 and not more
than 30 were killed. l saw them and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-20

from 81 to S4.4O for one shift. But
even these small earnings we must
divide with the bosses. Before every
Christmas and on other occasions, the
bosses force us to give donations for
presents for them. The bosses get
from $500 to $500 in donations from
US every year. On every pay day
every foreman expects us to give him
some money. If you do not, we'll, he
will find way to kick you out. Also
in many cases the workers pay the
foremen for jobs"
l looked for more than half hour
at the workers as they were coming
from the Illinois Steel Works. Tired,
exhausted, they barely shuffied to
their miserable homes They were
workers of all nationalities and races.
Their were Americans, Negroes, Span
iards, Mexicans, Slavs, Greeks-thou-
sands of them.
The bosses went home in automo.
biles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-20

The Cause.
THE air-steam pipe was leaking.
The old foreman knew what was
wrong. We protested, demanding for
a week that the pipe be fixed. Moth
ing was done. A new foreman came.
You can not have more than 1890
pounds of pressure in the pipe. But
the new foreman, very young man,
didn't know this. Besides, he liked to
show the boss that he can speed up
the work. He put the pressure up to
5000 pounds, and it happened.
ut was terrible. No one can imag-
inc how terrible it was. Blood and
tar, bodies and steel mixed together
with the grosns from the injured and
dying workers.
Company Coroner.
The explosion happened on Monday.
Friday morning was chosen as the day
to make the official investigation of
the blast and its causes. And who do
you think is going to investigate?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-20

The very Mr.. Marshall who, by bury
ing the killed men, is actually on the
pay roll of the company. He is a
deputy coroner. The investigation
will be short. 1t will take place in the
offices of Coroner Evans. AS Mr.. Mar
shall said che already did much inves-
tigating."
In the meantime the wreckage
around the plant was cleaned of the
bodies and fallen bricks and slate.
1t is sure thing that the official
investigation" will be a company
whitewash A real investigation can
not be made without the representa-
ton of the workers, and until the pub
lie press Is permitted to see things
and move freely. Up 70 today every
thing is suppressed.
Conditions in the Shop.
I talked to another worker about
conditions in the shop. WELL" he
said, ut is like this: We work three
shifts, eight hours a day. We make
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-20

The statement of the International
Labor Defense was as follows:
THE International Labor Defense,
thru it's secretary, James P. Can
non, has issued the following state
ment on the resolution Of Congress
man Underhill
The attempt of Congressman Under
hill to use the Department of Justice
to suppress the protest movement for
Sacco and Vanzetti is in line with the
whole procedure from the very incep-
ton of this case, which is one of the
most outrageous conspiracies Of mod
ern times.
1t was the exposures by Sacco and
Vanzetti of the barbarous and illegal
actions of the Department of Justice
against Ella and Salsedo which brot
about their own arrest and conviction
on framed-ups evidence.
We denounoe the attempt TO sup
press the justified protest of the work
tl5 d6dlnSb Nuc ltBdA AuuiueI VI odCCO
and Vanzetti but we welcome a real
investigation of the great campaign
In their behalf which is growing in
strength and volume every day. This
campaign is 1.-THE expression Of the
opinion OF the American workers that
Sacco and Xanzetti are innocent of
any crime and are being sacrificed for
their activity in the labor movement.
We are wiring today to Congress
man Victor Berger requesting him to
sponsor a resolution demanding a con-
gressional investigation not only OF
the campaign of the workers In be-
half of Sacco and Vanzetti but also of
the Sacco and Vanzetti case itself
an investigation held in the light of
day before the eyes Of the whole
country and not In the star chamber
of the Department OF Justice-which
will reveal such a monstrous miscar-
riage Of justice against the two Italian
workers, Sacco and Vanzetti, and will
arouse such a storm Of public protest
that the contemplated legal murder
will be rendered impossible.