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The Republican Journal
Belfast, Thursday, June 2, 1921
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY
The Re Journal Pub. Co.
A. 1. BRGWN. Editor.
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QUOTATION
‘Hail banner of lative land,
Great ensign of the free.
We love the glorious stars and stripes
Emblem of liberty.
Hold high the cross, unfurl the flag,
May they forever stand
United in our hearts and hopes
God and our native land.”
THE SALES TAX
The bill to provide for a Sales Tax was
Introduced several weeks ago by Senator
Smoot of Utah. This matter is of great
Importance and, although public senti
ment seems to be favorable to the enact
ment of this bill, few people have any
definite knowledge concerning its pro
visions and requirement. They have
become thoroughly disgusted with the
tax on ice cream, soft drinks, passenger
tickets and other petty taxes. They
know that the income tax and the excess
profits tax have caused the withdrawal
of vast amounts of capital from business
and its retirement into government se
curities. They favor the sales tax be
lieving it can be no worse and hoping it
may be better.
The Sales Tax is not entirely an ex
periment. It has been in operation in the
Philippines for sixteen years. The testi
mony of the Philippine Government and
of prominent merchants having offices in
Manila and New York is, in substance,
that the Sales Tax is equitable, produc
tive, simple and economical in adminis
: ration and collection. This cannot be
truthfully said of our income tax nor the
excess profits tax.
I nder iitle 11, Section 201 of Senator
Smoot’s bill it is provided that “there
shall be levied, assessed, collected and
paid upon all goods,'wares or merchan
dise sold or leased On or after July 1,
1921, a tax equivalent to 1 per cent of
the price for which so sold or leased; such
tax to be paid by the vendor or lessor.”
In computing the tax due under this title
■every tax payer shall be entitled to an
annual exemption of 46,000. Few of our
farmers will have to pay a tax on their
sales under this law. On every thing
they buy for themselves, their families
or for use on the farm, as ultimate pur
chasers, they will have to pay a sales tax
ion every turn over from the raw material
to the finished product. To illustrate
Suppose a man buys a suit of all wool
clothes and pays $60 for it. Beginning
with the raw wool, which sold to the
wool dealer would cost him about $6.50;
sales rax would be .065 cents. The wool
dealer scours the wool and sells it to the
spinner for 58; tax .08 cents. The spin
ner converts it into yarn and sells it to
the manufacturer for $10; tax 10 cents.
The manufacturer weaves it into cloth
and sells 3 1-2 yards at $4 a yard to the
tail r for $14; tax 14 cents. Tailor buys
linings, trimmings, etc., for $8; sales tax
and turn over tax on these, is 8 cents.
Then he maxes suit and sells it to retailer
for $45; tax 45 cents. Suit sold to cus
tomer for ,$60; sales tax 60 cents. Total
of sales taxes $1,615.
The Sales Tax will be computed and
paid quarterly by each seller who will
keep a daily sales account on blanks fur
nished by the Revenue d partment. The
totals for the quarter, less exemption,
will show how much tax he has to pay.
The extreme simplicity of assessment
and collection of this tax will vastly les
sen the expense of employing costly ex
perts and auditors. It will of course take
a great deal of money from the pockets
of the people and will be burdensome and )
to some extent unsatisfactory. On the
other hand, if it is enacted, we shall be
well rid of the petty, irritating an 1 dis
criminating tax, s which now amount to
several hundred million dollars every
year. We shall see the last of the excess
profits tax which gives an official, per
missive wink to the profiteers. We hope
that it will produce sufficient revenue to
warrant Congress in putting a decent and
understandable income tax law in place
of the present ill-advised, enigmatical
and expensive monstiosity.
A PUBLIC DUTY
The municipal officers of cities and
fvowns shall, before the first day of June
of each year, cut, burn and destroy all
weak
nerve
1Yhen digestion is good
and the body is properly^^^*
nourished, the ner vcs|^^H RlB
seldom give trouble. But|^^HI|*
if the stomach, liver,T
Kidneys or bowels be- H.
•come deranged, the U
nerves are sure to be af
fec-ted. You know the i
symptoms — depression, 4
irritability, loss of sleep, A
poor circulation, head
ache and a hundred
other forms of “mis- _y
ery.’ Constipation fre- Ip
-juently exists and then \J
.there is real danger. -y
Don't delay a day but | I
begin at once with \J
small doses of the pure ~
'■L. F.” Atwood Medi- C
cine. Improvement will IJ
be steady and perma- —
nent if you follow direc- ^^R L
tions faithfully. Satis- U
faction or money back.
“L. F.” Medicine Co. ^^R
Portland, Maine.
MEMORIAL BUILDING.
'
COURT HOUSE.
dead or worthless apple trees, and all
wild cherry trees within the limits of
the public ways, streets and parks of
their respective towns and cities. For
neglect or failure to perform the afore
said duties each of such officers shall be
punished by a line of not less than fifty
dollars.” Chap. 38, Sec. 11. R. S.
The trees mentioned in the above
statute, and a few others, are the breed
ing places of the tent caterpillar, the
brown-tail and the gypsy moth and other
insect pests. The red cherry trees are
often infected with black knots which
are the home of a fungi which, blown by
the wind or carried on the feet of birds,
find a lodgment on the plum and cherry
trees of the orchard. The black knot
should be burned. Unrelenting warfare
should be waged against the black knot
and the insect pests we have mentioned,
both on the farm and on the roadsides It
is hoped that those whose duty it is to
patrol our highways have faithfully at
tended to the execution of the above
law. jn a year from toda. there should
not be left one of these worthless and
harmful trees growing within the high
way boundaries in this state.
Speaking of this matter reminds us
that summer tourist travel in this state
is increasing every year and these vis
itors leave a great many dollars in the
pockets of our people. In these days of
travel by automobiles, the roadsides
have become, more than ever before, a
part of our scenery. We can readily re
call many a tangle of scrub growth and
weeds by the roadside which mars the
beauty of the field, the forest or the lake
beyond We can also recall roadsides
which with little expense to the owners
of adjacent lands, have been made to
enhance the beauty and the value of the
farms.
One of the most attractive open
country roads we have seen in this state
runs for some three miles along a ridge,
perhaps a hundred feet high,sloping grad
ually towards the valleys on either side.
On each side of the road is a row of
large maple trees standing about forty
feet apart, and between these trees the
traveler looks out upon fine fields and
pastures backed by forest lands and a
mile or two away on either hand, he sees
quiet little lakes glistening in forests of
oak and pine. Here is the place where
the boys and girls stay on the farm.
The descendents of those who cleared
these farms, even to the third and fourth
generation, are living here, proud of
the work of their ancestors and happy in
their homes. One sees here a fine illus
tration of what a forward looking and
united community spirit can accomplish
in making its highways beautiful. Here
is an object lesson for community leaders
all over the state of Maine. Improve
ment of our roadsides is a public duty.
A LONELY JOB.
A Harvard graduate has signed to be
the lonely summer guardian for the sea
gulls on Four Brothers Island, a breeding
place set apart in a lake near Burlington,
Vt., by Edward Hatch.
Every year Mr. Hatch advertises for a
Robinson Cruso, who is willing to live
alone on the island, without pay, to keep
oil poachers, who raid the nests for the
eggs. No man is hired for two succes
sive seasons. There were 1600 applicants
answering his advertisements this year
for "a man to live alone, no work, no
compensation.” Among them, he said,
were lawyers, poets, artists, authors and
naturalists.
Mr. Hatch’s reason for protecting the
breeding birds is his belief that gulls are
the best seaside scavengers. He esti
I mates there are at least 200,000 gulls
around New York harbor and that each
one consumes an average of two pounds
of refuse daily.
It is not usual that sea gulls seek breed
ing places remote from the seashore, at
least in the northern Atlantic states. But
we have found their nests on ledges and
seen young gulls swimming, unafraid, in
(lakes a hundred miles north of Bangor.
Waldo Co. Gen. Hospital Shows
Great Improvement.
The State Board of Charities and Cor
rections in its report of its last inspection
of the Waldo County General hospital at
Belfast, made April 26ti>, says in part:
Superintendent, Miss Alice Wescott,
graduate of Massachusetts Genera] Hos
pital and registered nurse in that State,
but a Maine girl, medical staff on active
duty, three physicians from Belfast and
one from Searsport. Hospital open to all
physicians for treatment of their paying
patients. The nursing stalT, besides the
superintendent, consists of live pupil
nurses.
“Tile Waldo County General Hospital,
incorporated as a charitable institution
under the general law, has been in active
operation, with varying fortunes and va
rying degrees of prosperity, since 1904.
Us object is to provide hospital treatment
both for those who are able to pay for it
and for those who are not, any possible
excess revenue which may be obtaiurd
from its private rooms being applied to
the cost of the care, in its wards, of those
who are unable to pay for their own treat
ment. About a year and a half ago an
entirely new board of directors, nine in
number, seven men and two women, as
sumed charge. At that time the liospita
buildings were considerably out of repair,
the daily average of patients was very
small, the corporation was in debt for
current running expenses and it did not
appear to have the confidence of the com
munity. At least, it had the confidence
of only a part of it. There is now a mar
ed change for the better. It is stated
that the opposition, or at least the la k of
confidence, has disappeared. The hospi
tal buildings have been placed in good re •
pair, the community is gradually coming
to the support of the institution, and the
patronage is reported to be increased.
Recommendations and Suggestions:—
Superintendent to attend regular meeting
of directors; regular meetings of medical
staff for discussion of medical problems;
duplicate purchase orders; duplicate re
ceipts for mouey collected; advance pay
ments of bills for board and care; record
of financial situation of patients who are
unable to make such payments.
“The community and Board of Direct
ors and superintendents are to be con- I
gratulated upon the marked improve
ment since the previous inspection.” I
UNPLEASANT TRADE EXHIBIT,
There was a recent trade exposition in
the British House of Parliament. Ger
man articles predominated, and it was
shown that German prices, as compared
with British costs, were less to the ex
tent of 60 per cent, in electrical special
ties, 50 per cent, in fabric gloves, 50 per
cent, in gas mantles, 55 per cent, in sci
entific glassware, 65 per cent, in domes
tic glassware, 70 per cent, in ordinary
thermometers and in talking machines,
72 per cent, in metal in instruments, 78
per cent, in violins, 45 per cent in pianos,
35 per cent, in surgical instruments, and
56 per cent, in scientific instruments.
This must have shocked the free trade
notions of some of the members. Any
how it was an impressive exhibition of
Germany’s resolve to go after trade. We
want no such expositions in our country,
but there is evidence one could easily be
had.—Kennebec Journal.
The Germans are what we Yankees call
“smart.” Neither Belgium, France nor
Great Britain can safely put |an embargo
or even a prohibitive tariff on the im
portations of German manufacture with
out rendering it impossible for Germany
to pay the indemnties reqiuired of her. If
we shut off the importation of German
goods into the United States we shall in
cur the hostility of the Allies and make
it difficult for them to pay what they
owe us.
Yes, the Germans are smart.
DOES IT PAY TO WORRY
ABOUT APPENDICITIS?
Can appendicitis be guarded against?
Yes, by preventing intestinal infection.
The intestinal antiseptic, Adler- i-ka, acts
on BOTH upper and lower bowel remov
ing ALL foul, decaying matter which
might start infection. EXCELLENT for
gas on stomach or chronic constipation.
It removes matter which you never
thought was in your system and which
nothing else can dislodge. One man re
ports it is unbelievable the awful impuri
ties Adler-i-ka brought out. City Drug
Store, Read &|Hills,|proprietors, Postoffice
Square, Belfast.
IN MEMORIAM
The Bad and untimely death of Mr.
Volney Thompson of Montville has just
reached me in California. As we were
not aware he was ill his death comes as a
great surprise to us, and we hasten to ex
tend our sympathy to the bereaved family
in this hour-of their deep sorrow. It is
hard to lose our ioved ones, but God
knows best and we humbly bow to his
will. His passing seems especially near
to us, because when a young man he
learned the carriage trade of our late
father, Mr. George A. Gowen, and was a
member of our family for some time. As
a little boy playing among the shavings
in my father's shops at the Center I can
see “Vol” as he looked then, a young
vigorous fellow, pushing the plane and
occasionally asking father a question
about the work. I also remember his
hearty laugh and gayety of spirit. After
learning his trade he entered into busi
ness for himself. *He bought the old
schoolhouse which had stood for so many
years at the Center and converted it into
a blacksmith shop. Then he built a large
building which he used for his wood shop,
painting and trimming of his carriages,
and it was here for fifty years he carried
on a large and extensive business. But
“Vol” is dead. After an active, success
ful business life bis spirit has joined that
choir invisible “whose music is the glad
ness of the world.” Hail and farewell to
him. I am glad to pay this brief tribute
to the memory of my tri-nd who has
answered thj summons of the Great
Master.
“Cold in the dust the perished heart may
lie,
But that which warmed it can never die.”
Frank W. Gowen
Long Beach, Calif., May 19, 1921.
ILAMSONl
Hubbard!
STRAWS*
SolBy
Dwight P. Palmer
and Owens Bros.
OVERLAND
MOTOR CARS ARE A
GOOD INVESTMENT j
Take you slate and figure it
out for youiself.
There are 5000 satisfied
Overland owners in the State
who have found that in an
Overland you get the most
for yc ur mone.
Prices delivered, Belfast:
Sedan .... #1585
Coupe .... #1545
Touring . . . #995
Roadster . . #995
HARRY E. WALKER
Distributor for Waldo County
Special Notice
X-RAY PICTURES
of bones, joints and teeth, fractures and
dislocations may be obtained at the office
of DR. CARL H. STEVENS,
35 Church St., Belfast, Me.
Tel. 15 3m 15
For Sale
One Dodge car, new last July. In
excellent condition. Driven a little
over a thousand miles. Good reason
for selling. Inquire at Journal office.
H HIGH ESTER S PlLli
TIIB DIAMOND BRAND,
ladies! Ask your Druggli
Chl-cheii-ter a Diamond Bi
V Pills In Red and Bold
1 boxes, sealed with Blue
I Take no other. Bu;
r Drnntnt. AskforCHL
DIAMOND BRAND i
years known as Best, C^fest, __
SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVEPHfHBif
ALGOLA PILLS
Regulate the Stomach, Liver and Bowels.
Make Pure Blood. For Constipation. Relieve
Gas, Indigestion, Biliousness, Sick Headache.
Try them. 10c. 25c. At druggists. Duane
Pharmacal Co., sole proprietor, P. O. Box
1103, City Hall Station, New York. See
signature on each box.
WANTED
A woman for kitchen help. Good wages
paid. At Temple Heights Inn, Northport,
Maine. F. R. BOWDEN, Prop.
For reference—Ben Woods, at Perry’s
Market, Belfast. 3w21
FOR SALE ~
CUTHBERT RASPBERRY PLANTS.
Apply at NEWELL FARM,
18tf Citypoint, Maine.
Six good successive scourings! If you
thoroughly scoured your silverware
six times, you’d know that it was
clean, wouldn’t you? T hat’s the way
we feel about the wheat for
WILLIAM TELL
FLOUR
One or two scourings might do for an or
dinary flour, but William Tell is not an
ordinary flour. So we scour our wheat six
times, one after another, until we know
that it is perfectly clean.
We then take off the outside hull and use
only the fine rich inside portion of the
grain.
Considering the way it’s made, it’s not
surprising that William Tell is so clean
and pure and fine.
Your grocer knows. Tell him—
William Tell.
SWAN-WHH TEN COMPANY
SIX
GILLETTE
BLADES
WITH
HOLDER
$1.25
PREPAID
In Attractive Case
Satififac'ion Guaranteed
or Money Refunded
This offer for a limited
time only.
Remit by money order or
cash—(no stamps)
FRAD RAZOR CO.
1475 BROADWAY
NEW YORK CITY
tw22
MOST MEN
are good providers; a few neglect to pro
tect their time should they become dis
abled.
Buy your accident policy while you are
insurable.
MASSACHUSETTS
GUY A. GRAY, Agent
BELFAST, MAINE
6w21*
LADIES!
Belfast consumes $5000 worth of domes
tic thread annually. As our agent this
volume of business would net you $2500.
Are you willing to investigate? Send
name and address and we will forward
particulars. BON TON SALES CO.,
28 Washington St., Haverhill, Mass.
SUMMERCOTTAGE
WANTED
JULY or AUGUST, for three adults;
Penobscot Bay preferred; two to four
weeks. Give location and terms. Ad
dress COTTAGE,
2w22 Box 315, Providence, R. I.
The City Council of the JCity of Belfast
having determined that the following streets
and portions of streets in said city shall be
sprinkled in whole at the expense of the abut
ters thereon: Church street its entire length;
High street, from end oi square to top of Otis
hill; Northport avenue from end of Square to
City Park; Main street, from westerly side of
Postoffice square to Water street; Water street
from Main street to M. C. R, R ; driveway on
westerly aide of shoe factory; Beaver s.reet its
entire length; Grove street from Church street
to Court street; Cross street in front of Farm
ers’ Union; Washington street from Main
street to Preston’s stable; notice is hereby
given that the Municipal Officers will be in
session on Monday, June 6. 1921, at 7.00 o’clock
in the afternoon, at their office in Memorial
Building for the purpose of determining the
amount to be assessed on the estates abutting
on said streets,to defray the expense of sprink
ling said streets, at which time all parties in
terested may appear and be heard if they see
fit. C. W. WESCOTT,
J. B. DARLING,
R. L COOPER,
W. G. HATCH,
V. A. SIMMONs,
lw22 WM. VAUGHAN.
Municipal Officers of the City of Belfast.
FOR SALE
Low nrice second nand parlot
and kitchen stoves,
J. AUSTIN McKEEN.
Many of our customers, whose light
lulls come well within the minimum
charge, say that they run their iron
all summer without extra cost.
If you buy now you can get a $7 or
?S iron for $5.57. The number of
irons that we have for sale at this
I price is limited. Why not buy to
| da y ?
At any of our 27 stores
Central Maine
Power Company
Granite Monuments
We take them from the ledge in the ■
cut, polish, finish, letter and place them
lot in the cemetery. One continuous proec
one small profit.
You avoid the high cost of stock, tin
freight and the middle men’s profits, whiei
your monument down to the lowest possibu
Call and see for yourself.
A. S. HEAL, Bridge St„ Belfast,
Sale of Used Cars
Largest stock of used Cars in Waldo
County—Buicks, Reos, Dodges, Dorts,
Studekakers, Velies, Overlands and Fords,
etc. All prices,Ifrom $50 to $3,000, cash,
trade or terms.
Two garages—Waldo County Motors
Company, Belfast, and H. C. McCorrison,
Thorndike.
If in need of anything in the motor
vehicle line it will pay you to call.
2w21
FOR SALE
LIME AND ASHES MIXED for grain
and grass fertilizer. Also straight land
lime. Car load lots a specialty. For price
and other particulars address
J. F. SULLIVAN,
>w21 Damariscotta Mills, Maine.
Children Gry
FOR FLETCHER’S
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At the Home for AgeJ W'"1
particulars apply to
DR. ELMER SMALL, l,;s