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The Republican Journal
Belfast, Thursday, June 9, 1921
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY
The Republican ]oumal Pub. Co.
A. 1. BROWN. Editor.
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QUOTATION
“We are all as God made us and often
times a great deal worse.”
—Cervantes
FREIGHT RATES
A few days ago we noticed some nice
loo king cabbage in one of our stores, the
price being six cents a pound. This seem
ed to us to be a very high price. It hap
pened that on the same day we read a
statement, from a reliable source, that
the freight on a carload of cabbage from
Texas to Nebraska was $425. This led
us to investigate further. We found,
according to a report of the New York
Market Commission, that Texas and
Florida truck farmers had shipped a very
large amount of produce to New York,
which had not sold for enough to pay the
freight and commission charges. We
found proof that enormous quantities of
perishable agricultural products were un
harvested because high freight rates
made it unprofitable to ship them. The
Texas Director of Markets says that
3,000 cars of early vegetables are rotting
»n Texas fields. He says, too, that Texas
rice can be shipped by water to Europe
and back to New York cheaper than di
rect by rail across country. He says
Texas cotton can be shipped to England
for 35 cents a hundred pound and that
it costs 95 cents a hundred to transport
cotton by rail from the interior of Texas
to the seaboard, a distance of 300 miles.
Not ail the testimony comes from Texas
ana r loriaa. viovernors oi otaies, Doaras
of Agriculture, and trade and manufac
turing associations, are deluging the In
terstate Commissions with testimony
showing that the greatest obstacle in the
way of a return to normal conditions and
the restoration of business, is the high
cost of railroad transportation.
Some seven months ago there was in
this country a shortage of half a million
freight cars. About this time the Inter
state Commerce Commission yielded to
the plea of the railroad .executives and
authorized an increase of twenty per cent
in freight rates. It was expected that
this increase in rates would largely in
crease the receipts of the roads. As we
have shown above, the increased rates
proved in many instances ito be prohibi
tive. The shipments fell off so that to
day there are half a million idle freight
cars in the United States Only a few
of our railroads are earning enough to
nay expenses. 1
On the twentieth day of last July, un
der a pressure which was lit tle short of a
threat, a wage increase was granted to
railroad men which added 5600,000,00(1 to
the annual operating expenses of our rail
roads. The Federal Railroad Hoard to
which the matter of a wage reduction
was recently referred has handed down a
decision which would reduce the wage
scale to about a total of $400,000,000. It
is proposed that this scale shall be in ef
fect on the first day of next month. We
assume that the labor leaders will rave
and wring their hands but' we believe
that at least 90 per cent of our railroad
workers are sensible men and will not
kill the goose which has laid for them so
many fairly good-sized eggs. We believe
they will accept the cut and will consent
to an elimination of that code of McAdoo
rules under which, in thousands of in
stances, high wages have been collected
.for work not done.
After the above concessions have been
iioade by the railroad employes, the rail
road executives must promptly reduce
freight rates. If they do not do this they
will ride to a fall. The business of the
United States cannot stand the present
rates of freight transportation. There is
one other thing which the railroad execu
tives should do. They si ould cut their
own salaries at least fifty per cent, and
do real work, instead of spending their
time in devising schemes for skinning
the public.
CUT IT OUT.
United States Senator Curtis held up
some appropriation bills a few days ago
by offering amendments thereto^ One of
.hese bills carried a large sum for print
ing. Senator Curtis moved to (imend by
requiring that heads of departments
should discontinue the printing of an
nual or special reports when tjie appro
priation therefor was expended- This is
well as far as it goes, but it wou'd be bet
ter to strike at the roots of the matter.
A very large percentage of the stuff sent
out by the major departments of the gov
ernment at Washington is certainly
worthless. Much of it is transparent
propaganda. Several of these depart
ments maintain an editorial staff whose
business seems to be to feed the public on
husks. We hope the United States Sec
OOCTORS SAY CONSTIPATION
POISONS SYSTEM
The majority of people suffer from con
stipation which poisons the whole system
and causes coated tongues, bad headaches,
foul breath; ir children often results in
high fever and actual illness.
These conditions may be quickly re
Sieved by Dr. True’s Elixir—the Family
Sbaxative that has worked wonders for
naen, women and children since 1851.
“I have great faith in your Dr. True’s
Elixir. I give it to my boy, it is doing
him much good and I would not be with
out a bottle for anything.’’—Mrs. Joseph
Boyce (Tracey Station, N. B.)
You know the 8ymptoms of chronic
constipation—sour stomach, belching, bad
breath, heavy dull eyes, constant head
aches, and general out-of-sorts feeling.
Ur. True’s Elixir will help you.—Adv.
retary of Agriculture will some day find
time to read the "Weekly News Letter,^
which emanates from his publicity bu
reau. If he does we think he will order
its editors to cease work until they know
better than to recommend the cultiva
tion of sunflowers for ensilage on which
to feed milch cows. The Weekly News
Letter is neither practical nor scientific.
The money spent for its preparation, pub
lication and distribution is wasted.
For more than twenty years following
the close of the Civil War, Henry W.
Grady of Georgia did more than any
other son of the South in reconciling the
antagonisms between the South and the
North. Mr. Grady was a forward-look
ing statesman and a scholar and as a lec
turer he was without a peer in all the
South. In addressing the New England
club in New York City in 1886 among
other things he said: "We have learned
that one northern immigrant is worth
fifty foreigners, have smoothed the path
southward, wiped out the place where
Mason and Dixon's line used to be and
hung out the latchstring to you and
yours." As a result of this wise policy
he remarked: "We are now ready to lay
odds in favor of the Georgia farmer who
is squeezing pure olive oil out of his cot
ton seed, and against the downeasters,
who, before the war, swapped their
wooden nutmegs for red flannel sausages
in the valleys of Vermont.” A well
known Belfast man, recently sojourning
in Tennessee, had his attention called to
a large factory and asked what was be
ing manufactured there. His guide
proudly answered: “The girls of Tennes
see are making silk hosiery out of Geor
gia cotton."
“The South is in the saddle.” There
is no longer any doubt about that.
In the treaty of peace the Germans ob
ligated themselves to bring to trial those
officers who had been accused of abusing
Allied prisoners of war and to punish
those who were found guilty. The Allies
furnished the German government with
a list of some 800 offenders and it is said
that between forty and fifty of these
cases have been marked for trial. A ser
geant and a captain have been tried,
found guilty and sentenced to imprison
ment, one for six and one for ten months.
We have not been informed how many
have been acquitted, are wearing iron
crosses and are receiving the plaudits of
the German people. There are few peo
, pie in this country who are credulous
| enough to believe that these trials will be
more than well staged farces or that
those convicted will receive any real
punishment.
In this issue of The Journal we publish
an article written by Hon. Charles P.
Barnes, which gives some important in
formation concerning our water powers.
Mr. Barnes was for some years Asst. At
torney General of the State of Maine and
is an able lawyer. The water power
discussion is now', and will for some
time continue to be both lively and im
portant, and it is probable that some
time the voters of this State will be call
ed upon to decided whether or not they
will make a plunge into State ownership.
The chief of police of Chicago says:
“History tells us that after every war
• ome the pirates. America is invaded
by the automobile pirate. Instead of
ships, these pirates hold up automobiles
and rob the occupants. In place of high
seas the roads are plundered.” We shall
be surprised if there are not many hold
ups in Maine during the vacation season.
W hen we go motoring we shall leave our
diamond ring and our wad at home.
President Harding has nominated Hon.
Frank J. Ham as collector of internal
revenue for the District of Maine and
the nomination will doubtless be confirm
ed by the Senate. Mr Ham has espec
ial qualifications for this position and
will be as eminently efficient as collector
as he has shown himself to be in other
public positions with great credit to him
self.
A great many people think that poultry
raising is a small business, but in the ag
gregate it is great industry. The last
census figures show that in 1919 Maine
produced $7,725,000 worth of poultry and
eggs. The production in the United
States amounted to $1,250,000,000.
The officials of the League of Nations
are not happy at Geneva. They say they
want a “permanent seat” somewhere
else. Most of us are of the opinion that
“up a stump” would be a very proper lo
cation.
We notice that the directors of the
Bangor and Aroostook railroad have
closed nine stations along the line of the
road. This ought to save enough to pay
half the salary of the president of the
road. ___
Editorial Notes ftom Courier-Gazette.
That there are not a thousand men
among the millions of citizens of the
United States who can make out an aver
age income tax statement and do it right,
was the assertion of Senator Reed Smoot
at a recent hearing before the finance
committee of the Senate. His assertion
was approved by the nodding of heads of
many business men who had been through
the nerve-racking experience of trying
I to comply with the requirements of the
I income and excess profits tax laws.
On May 1, 1921, Germany is reported
to have owed the United States $218,840
000 for expenses of the American Army
of occupation. She has paid 17,160,000
paper marks in the shape of foodstuffs
and materials furnished. That huge
debt may be one of the reasons that im
pelled President Harding to appoint rep
resentatives to sit with the reparations
commission and the other European
councils that are arranging the peace
settlements. _
A valued correspondent calls attention
to this paragraph:
“Why were the saints, saints? Because
they were cheerful when it was difficult
to be cheerful, patient when it was dif
ficult to be patient; and because they
[ pushed on when they wanted to stand
1 still, and kept silent when they wanted
I to talk, and were agreeable when they
| wanted to be disagreeable. That wae
I all. It was quite simple, and always will
1 be.”
Exhibition of Miss Frances Clark’s
Dancing Class.
On Tuesday evening, May 24tb, an
occasion pleasantly anticipated for some
weeks, Miss Frances Clark, a pupil of
Mrs. S. C. Pattee, assisted by her sisters
the Misses Louise and Dorothy Clark,
presented the pupils of her dancing class
for young misses in a most charming en
tertainment at the Hiramdale Gun Club
house, East Side. Because of inadequate
accommodation the number of patrons
was limited, the hoyise being filled to its
utmost capacity by an appreciative and
enthusiastic audience, including auto
parties from Searsport and Lincolnville.
The winsome faceB, graceful poses and
dainty costumes of the little maids won
the immediate admiration of all; and the
precision and grace with which they
executed their fascinating steps did great
credit to themselves as well as to the
ability and painstaking efforts of their
young teacher. The Misses Clsrk them
selves contributed enjoyably to the enter
tainment, Miss Frances demonstrating
he skill and spirit which so well quali
fies her for instructing her young friends,
and Miss Dorothy showing herself to be
an apt and advanced pupil of her sister.
The dramatic reading of Miss Louise
Clark was given in the highly finished,
artistic manner characteristic of her
work, and Bhe, as well as the others,
gracefully responded to an encore.
THE PROGRAM
Exercises, Class
Irish Jig (in costume), Miss Dorothy Clark
Farmerette Dance (in costume),
Misses Thais Harding, Ivy Robertson,
Eleanor Brierley, Virginia Robertson.
Dutch Dance with “Dutchies” (in
costume)
Miss Sadie Holmes, Misses Belle Moss
man, Winifred Lamb, Ruth Larrabee.
Italian Dance (in costume),
Misses Ivy Robertson and Eleanor
Brierley.
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Miss Winifred Lamb
Highland Fling (in costume),
Misses Frances and Dorothy Clark
Reading, “The Martyred Mother,”
Miss Louise Clark
Sophomore Prize Recitation, B. H. S. ’21
Jingle Bells Dance (in costume),
Miss Eleanor Brierley
Columbia Dance (in costume),
Miss Frances Clark
Alabama Dance,
Misses Ruth Larrabee and Sadie Holmes
Solo Dance, Miss Thais Harding
Vocal Solo, Miss Mona Burgess
B. H. S. ’21
Motion Song,
Misses Thais Harding, Eleanor Brierley
Winifred Lamb, Sadie Holmes.
Exhibition of Modern Dances—Waltz
Fox Trot,
Misses Eleanor Brierley and Sadie
Holmes, Thais Harding and Ivy
Robertson.
Grand March Class
and Tableau, Little Master James Clark
as “Uncle Sam”
Miss Mona Burgess, accompanist, show
ed herself to be a spirited and sympathetic
musician. As a compliment to the excel
lence of the exhibition, invitations have
been received to repeat the presentation
in the city and in neighboring towns
where a larger number may have an op
portunity to attend and where ample ac
commodations may present these charm
ing little misses to even greater advan
tage.
A Southern Woman
While we all know why we observe
one day each year as Memorial Day to
honor the memory of the brave boys who
laid down their lives for their country,
there are, perhaps, many who do not
know the origin of the custom.
Its observance came from a suggestion
made in 1866 by a lady of Columbus,
Georgia. She was the wife of an officer
who commanded the first Georgia Regu
lars, and who died in the service. After
his death she devoted her life to the care
of the Confederate soldiers, doing every
thing in her power for their comfort and
welfare.
One of her annual customs was to
decorate with flowers her husband’s
grave on the anniversary of his death,
April 26th. On one occasion her little
daughter accompanied her and assisted
in the work. Finally her mother missed
her and at the same time noticed a large
proportion of her flowers were missing. I
When the child returned her mother I
said, “Why, Florence, you have carried
away nearly all my flowers.” “Oh, but
mamma, they were all soldiers, too.”
The little girl had scattered her flowers
as far as they would go on the graves of
the soldiers buried nearby.
This incident brought to mind the idea
of devoting one day annually to decora
ting, in loving memory, the graves of the
men who wore the gray. The idea was
readily adopted and ever since, April 26th
has been observed throughout the South
as Memorial Day, with the exception of
South Carolina. That State for some
cause, unknown to me, observes May 10.
And now to the nation’s credit every
State in the Union unites in honoring and
keeping green the memory of the brave
sons who sleep in hallowed ground, the
blue and gray alike, for it is a national
holy day.
She died in 1874 and was buried with
full military honors, and every year lov
ing hands decorate her grave with beau
tiful flowers.
WAS IT YOU?
Some one started the whole day wrong—
Was it you?
Some on robbed the day of its song—
Was it you?
Early this morning some one frowned;
Some one sulked until others scowled;
And soon harsh words were passed
around—
Was it you?
Some one started the day aright— •
Was it you?
Some one made it happy and bright—
Was it you?
Early this morning, we are told,
Some one smiled, and all through the day
This smile encouraged young and old—
Was it you?
Stewart I. Long, in New York Sun.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER’S
CASTORI A
NORTHPORr
George Wadlin was at home over Me
morial Day, the guest of his parents,
Capt. and Mrs. Bartlett' Wadlin of East
Northport.
The post office at Bayside, Northport,
Mrs. Hattie Wadlin Whiting, postmis
tress, was opened on June 6th, and the
store of C. O. Dickey & Co. also opened
at that time.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Mortimer of New
York, have arrived and are looking after
the erection of their new cottage on the
Temple Heights road, which they expect
to occupy this season.
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Jennings and young
son George H. Jr, have arrived from
Cambridge and are guests for the summer
of Mrs. Jennings’ mother, Mrs. Henry G.
Hills, East Northport. Mr. Jennings has
received his discharge as first lieutenant
in the merchant marine and will be lo
cated with a Boston electrical house,
traveling in Maine.
A section of wharf from the fertilizer
plant in Searsport was torn away in the
wild storm of Sunday, May 22nd, and
drifted across the bay to Northport. A
man picked it up and went to consi ler
able trouble to tie it up and save it, and
when the owners came for it, he was un
willing to let it go without salvage. The
matter was reported to the officers, and
the wharf was taken, but the matter of
salvage is yet to be decided.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald A. McLennan
Mrs. Martha F. Peavey of Newton ^Cen
tre and guest, Miss Elizabeth Daniel of
Boston, motored to Northport May 28th
to spend the holiday at Loch Haven, their
summer place on the South Shore, North
port. They returned May 31st but plan to
come for the summer in about ten days.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph A. Peavey of Newton
Cenire were to come at this time but the
former was called to Charlotte, S. C., on
business.
ISLES bOKO
Fields P. Dodge of Philadelphia arrived
recently for a brief visit with relatives.
Raymond Pendleton has returned hom
from his medical work, to be the guest of
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roderick Pen
dleton.
Alfred Decker is at home from Boston
for the summer. He will resume his du
ties as caretaker of the Frothingham
place at Dark Harbor.
To complete the sum needed for gradu
ation, the Senior class of Islesboro high
school presented the farce, How the
Story' Grew, at the Town Hall Monday
evening. May 30.jThe proceeds were very
satisfactory. The following is t e list of
characters: Mrs. Brown, Winnifred Kel
lar; Mrs. Green, Martha Smith; Mrs.
Bean, Celestia Smith; Mrs. Rice, Katha
rine Pendleton; Mrs. Doolittle, Dorothy
Sylvester; Mrs. Snow, Leona Williams;
Mrs Taylor, Alice Williams; Mrs. White,
Madaiine Dodge. The entertainment
was followed by a social dance.
(LAMSONl
HDBBARDl
STRAWS!
SOLD^m/ BY
Dwight P. Palmer
and Owens Bros.
OVERLAND
MOTOR CARS ARE A
GOOD INVESTMENT |
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 ycur 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 3ml5
FURNISHED
TENEMENT
TO RENT FOR THE SUMMER.
HARRY A. FOSTER,
22 , 26 Miller Street.
SDCDNY SERVICE!
A wide variety of mixtures are being sold j
under the name “gasoline”. The best way j
to be sure that the gasoline you buy meas
ures up to quality standards is to insist on
SoCOny — uniform, pure and powerful.
Sold by the dealers listed below. Look
for the red, white and blue SoCOny sign.
The Sign of a Reliable Dealer
and the World’s Best Gasoline
» |
DEALERS WHO SELL SOCONY MOTOR GASOLINE
BELFAST E. A. BANKS’ GARAGE
JITY GARAGE, JEWETT & HILLS, Proprietors
W R. GILKEY & SON
HALL HARDWARE COMPANY
HARDING & RACKLIFFE
LORD & CO.
B. O. NORTON
C. A. PAUL
HARRY E. WALKER
WINDSOR HOTEL STABLE
EAST BELFAST 1 MASON co.
RALPH W. PATTERSHALL
FRED A. ROBBINS
ISLESBORO COSTELLO M. WILLIAMS
LIBERTY WALTER A. YOUNG
BANKS BROS.’ GARAGE
HERBERT C. TOWLE
WORTHING BROS.
MORRILL CHARLES MESERVIE
JOHN F. VICKERY
NORTHPORT CAMPGROUND—C. E. PERKINS
SATURDAY COVE-F. W. EBERT
SANDYPOINT victor a. gray
SEARSMONT V. A. SIMMONS & C( >.
NORTH SEARSMONT harry c. pall
SEARSPORT W. R. GILKEY & SON
C. O. SAWYER & CO,
NORTH SEARSPORT Ernest carter
STOCKTON AMES GROCERY CO.
PERCY L. HUPPER
SWANVILLE NICKERSON & DAMM
WALDO L. R. STEVENS
STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEW YORK
26 Broadway
“Fine as silk,” is one way of
expressing quality, but it is true
to the letter when you say it of
WILLIAM TELL
FLOUR
because it is actually as fine as the finest
silk can make it.
Every pound of William Tell is sifted
through silk, so fine that there are 21,000
meshes to the square inch.
It must go through this silk—not just
once, but thirteen successive times.
Because we take no chance on William
Tell being clean and fine and pure, you
take no chance in using it for all your
baking.
Ask your neighbors who use it. They’ll
tell you William Tell. Tell your grocer,
SWAN-WHITTEN COMPANY
PNEUMATIC TUBES
It is difficult to find any logical expla
nation for a mentality which refused the
splendid service pneumatic mail tubes
rendered in distributing mail in congested
areas, but approved a flying machine mail
service between New York and Washing
ton, where there was already ample and
adequately' frequent service. Perhaps it
wasn’t the mentality which was affected,
after all.
John E. Milholland, for many years an
eminent figure in American public life,
and well known as a journalist and speak
er, tells in the June Forum of the amazing
corruption in the recent administration,
which went far in destroying the costly
system of mail tubes erected by the gov
ernment, the efficiency and worth of
which has been repeatedly proved by
numerous investigations. Mr. Milholland
says:
“Away back in the Victorian era,
pneumatic mail tubes were introduced in
the chief European capitals. Today, Lon
don, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Budapest and
Rome have hundreds of miles of these
efficient devices. America took the lead,
however, in 1893, and held it for a quarter
of a century, with a type of tube lar su
perior to anything in Europe. This sys
tem consists—I use the present tense
writing of the physical properties becausa
I they exist today, readv for resumed use
j on a week’s notice—of double lines of
j iron tubes, under the streets, skilfully
designed dispatching and receiving ap
| parati, speeial types of air compressors
at each connected post office, and cylin
drical steel containers which were shot
through the tubes at thirty miles an
hour. * * *
“The climax of this tragedy of govern
mental sabotage was dramatic. On one
side was the Pneumatic Tube System,
built at the Government’s urgent solici
tation, tried in the fire of ten investiga
tions, and proved by a quarter of a cen
tury of unequalled service. * * *
“On the other side stood Albert Burle
son, who candidly admitted to a Senator,
‘I don’t know a damn thing about the
tubes,’ but was determined to reduce the
postal facilities of a combined population
of fifteen million to the level of his home
town of Waco, Texas.”—From Kennebec
Journal.
Men Are Four.
Men are four: He who knows, and
knows he knows—he is wise—follow
him. He who knows and knows not he
knows,—he is asleep—wake him. He
who knows not and knows not he knows
not,—he is a fool—shun him. He who
knows not, and knows be knows not,—
he is a chil l—teach him.—Arabian Pro
verb.
A DISAPPOIS
Governor Baxter’s a d:
Maine meeting in Bang,
was certainly a disappn
a review of his actions im
gusta which the public
veryconversant with am*.
at this time. It was ni".
natorial boomarang for
1922 than just the oppomt
of Maine just now' are '
ested in what is the best t
exploit her natural far
lines rather than being P
terested in any ones polite
In his address at the clos
going to run his administi
ing to his own political ' ■'
possible and let his politic *
care of itself. If that had '
reference to his political as
he had said it at first and -
he would have escaped '
criticism. Every one adn!
along that line, and lie w
much political strength on
Humanity is weak so it is a
tation for aspirants for pc1
and honors to take advantage
j public occasion to be mil then
j —Old Town Enterprise.