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The Republican Journal
Belfast. Thursday, August 4, 1921
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY
The Republican ]oumal Pub. Co.
A. 1. BROWN. Editor.
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QUOTATIONS
"Some people wt o are inclined to crit
icise their neighbors should step aside
and see themselves go by.”
HOW RICH ARE WE?
The belief that the United States is the
richest country on earth is world wide,
and this belief is probably well founded.
A year ago last June a prominent Eng
lish financier, in an address read before
the Bankers’ Institute, London, estimat
ed the entire wealth of this couutry to be
three hundred and fifty billion dollars,
and that of the British Empire was about
one-third that sum. These estimates
were based on the after-war money value
of the two countries. The war inflated
values in this country and deflated values
in all Europe and it is evident trat the
above estimate of our wealth is too high
and that of England too low. In 1912,
the Census Bureau estimated^our wealth
to be one hundred and eighty-seven bil
lion dollars, but there is a very larg;
amount of intangible wealth in this coun
try which the census failed to discover
nd it seems safe to say that in 1912, the
mount of all the property of the United
States and its people was not less than
two hundred and twenty billions. The be
lief prevails that the United States has
largely increased its wealth since then,but
we do not share in this belief. It is true
that during the period from 1912 to June
30, 1920, our exports exceeded our imports
about eighteen billion dollars, but we
had losses. Mr. Houston, Secretary of
the Treasury during the latter part of
President Wilson’s administration, said
that 524,010,000,000 represented the “ad
justed” expenditures of the Treasury for
the actual prosecution of the war from
April 6, 1917, to June 30, 1920. We do
not know how many war claims have
been “adjusted” since then, but it is a
fact a few weeks ago Mr. Mellon, the
present Secretary of the Treasury, set
tled with Great Britain for the transpor
tation of our soldiers and paid $32,000,
900, the balance of the account due, and
we presume he has paid other large bills.
W’e have loaned nearly half a billion dol
lars ,to countries which will never pay a
cent of either the principal or of the in
terest. We have donated another half
billion to the famine stricken people of
other lands. The government took over
the management of the railroads and
spent a billion dollars in tiying to oper
ate them. W’hen taken over the roads
represented a property investment of
some nineteen billion dollars and today
that investment is worth not more than
eighty per cent of that sum. There have
been hundreds of other property losses,
some large, seme small, but in addition
to everything else is the indisputable fact
that during the war, national advance in
the prosperous paths of peace were at the
dead point. Individuals and corpora
tions, thousands of them, accumulated
wealth during the war, not so did the na
ion. Whether we fought to "make the
world safe for democracy” or to sawe our
skins is not i nder discussion here. All
will admit, however, that we did not
fight for more territory nor for an in
demnity, and we are not going to get any
of either. We must stajid our losses,
and some time we mustjpay what we
owe. The nation, the State, the munici
palities, the corporations and individuals
must pay or go into insolvency. Given
in round numbers our national debt is
$26,000,000,000 The iota! debt of our
forty-eight States is $1,600,000,000. The
bended debt of our railroads is $12,000,
000,000. Our cities having a population
of 30,000 and upward have an aggregate
debt of $2,000,000,000. We do not know
how much is owed by the smaller cities
erud towns. Neither do we know the
total indebtedness of industrial organiza
tions, electric railroads, power compa
nies and other corporate borrowers, nor
the debts of individuals, although census
figures just issued show that farm mort
gages amount to $4,000,000,000. The
above figures total $45,600,000,000 and it
s safe to say that the debts if the indus
trials, the electric, power and corporate
borrowers will swell the total indebted
ness of and in this country to nearly or
quite $60,000,000,000.
MCADOO AND BAKfcR OUTDONE
The Shipping Board and Emergency
Fleet Corporation was created in 1917.
On June 30, 1920, a report covering its
three years of existence was made up,
hut it was not made public until six
months later. The financial tyart of that
report is before us and it stktes that at
different times Congress made appropria
tions for carrying on the operations of
the Board to the amount of $3,213,217,
'i 10 and the Board spent every cent of it
and $837,529,756 more, a total of $4,050,
746,866, on an average more than $13,
€00,000 in every working day during
three years was expended. j
The revenues from operations and sales
ol ships were reported as beipg $1,148,
928,155. The expenses of opeVation and
;3Qst of ships sold amounted to $1,662,
294,204. Here was a loss of $613,366,049.
educt this from the total amount ex
pended and there remains $3,537,380,817
to be accounted for. The following sum
mary discloses what the Shipping Board
had to show June SO, 1920, for the enor
mous expenditure of public money:
Vessels owned $2,670,612,755
Real estate, Bhip yards, oil
stations, etc, 158,895,243
•Other constructions, 69,604,977
MfJfflEDT
!n One Month,"Fryit-a-tives”
Gave Complete Belief
608 First Ave., Troy, N. X s
“I have been a great sufferer
lor years with Kidney Trouble and
Constipation. I tried ‘Fruit-a-lives’
about a month ago, and with almost
immediate results. The Kidney
Trouble has disappeared and the
Constipation is fast leaving me”.
HENRY DATER.
‘Fruit - a - tires’, or Fruit Liver
Tablets, the medicine made from
fruit juices and valuable tonics, is doing
a wonderful work in bringing health
to sick people.
50c. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 25c.
At dealers or from FRUTT-A-TTVES
Limited OGDENfcBERG, N. Y.
Supply ships, ships’ stores
and material, 143,400,297
Other accessories, 3,360,912
Accounts receivable, 293,792,558
N otes receivable, 70,248,537
Cash and cash funds, 96,547,95!
Investments, 30,917,587
$3,537,580,817
All the above except accounts receiv
able, notes receivable, cash and cash
funds and investments are,not listed at
their value June 30, 1920, but at their
actual cost which was more than three
billion dollars.
No balance sheet has been made up for
the fiscal year following June 30, 1920.
Mr. Lasker, the new chairman of the
board, appointed by President Harding,
has 200 auditors at work on the books
and they have been unable thus far to de
termine what the losses of the last year
have b een, owing to the lax and imper
fect method of booking which the Board
allowed. Speaking to the President about
this, Mr. Lasker said: “Had the books
been kept with the view of cheating and
deceiving Congress and the country,they
could not have been kept in much differ
ent shape than they have been and I
measure the words I am saying. It has
almost worn me out physically and men
tally to get anything from the books
■ that could be regarded as complete.”
Mr. Lasker estimates, however, that
during the last year the Board spent
about $680,000,000 and that the net loss
of the year’s operations had been more
than $200,000,000. The admitted loss
during the first three years and the esti
mated loss during last year amount to
about three quarters of a billion dollars.
The Shipping Board now has property
in charge acquired by paying war time
prices and some of it at cash plus prices,
to the amount of nearly two and a half
billion dollars. If Mr. Lasker succeeds
in disposing of it at half its cost he will
do well. In wastefulness and incom
p etency the Shipping Board has out
footed McAdoo and distanced Baser.
BETTER READ THE RIOT ACT.
The workmen in the plants of the In
: ternational Paper Co. in Livermore, Me.,
and in several other places, went out on
a strike a few weeks ago. In some of the
mills the company tried to employ strike
breakers and there has been some trouble
and it is feared there will be more. The
Livermore Falls Chamber of Commerce
sent a telegram to the president of the
International asking him not to send
strike breakers there and his reply was:
“We will not tolerate interference, that
j we will employ directly the men that we
i desire, and we will hold the town respon
sible for disturbance of peace and injury
t o persons and property. It remains to
j be seen whether the Chamber of Com
merce stands for Bolshevism.”
A similar telegram was received by the
Board of Selectmen of the town.
This matter has become more than a
wage controversy'. It has resolved it
self into a contest of the open shop
against the closed shop. The president
of the paper company evidently intends
; to invoke the law. The law of the
State of Maine penalizes'assault, unlawful
; assembly and riot and makes the munici
pality liable for damages caused by per
sons unlawfully and riotously assembled,
when the damages exceed fifty dollars.
If the strikers and the selectmen of the
town read the law carefully we do not
think there will be any very serious
trouble at Livermore Falls or anywhere
else in this State.
The Federal Executive d epartment of
the United States are made up of the
President, 10 cabinet officers and about
200 boards bureaus, commissions, com
mittees, etc. It is the duty of the Gen
eral Supply Committee to purchase all
t he office equipment. Notwithstanding
this fact it has been the general practice
of all of the departments to buy these
supplies in the outside market with iittle
or no regard to what the Supply Commit
tee might have on hand. A new depart
ment, the Budget, has been created. Mr.
Dawes has been appointed Director and
he has decreed that supplies are to be
furnished only when actually needed and
only from the Supply Committee. Mr.
Dawes has also ordered every bureau to
make an inventory of its office equip
ment and hand it over with such surplus
supplies as it may have, to the Supply
Committee. There has been a wicked
waste and a prodigal superfluity of office
supplies for Washington .or a long time,
especially of furniture and typewriters.
Mr. Dawes proposes to put a stop to this.
Orders have been issued to abandon
seven of the training camps established
after we entered the war. The real estate
will be retained by the government The
buildings will be salvaged and be trans
ferred to other camps. The work of re
ducing the army to 130,000 men will be
finished in a few days, 70,000 men having
asked for their discharge. The Secretary
of War is not a slacker. Here “Seest
' thou a man diligent in hia business.”
Off to Baffin Land
(From Knox Messenger)
Dr. MacMillan has left Sydney and on
his way to the far North will skirt the
west coast of Newfoundland northward
to the Straits of Belle Isle, visiting Battle
Harbor, where one of Dr. Wilfrid Gren
fell’s hospitals is situated. Then they
will push north again along the coast of
Labrador to Cape Chidlley, crossing to
the southern end of Baffin Land, on the
first leg of their final objective, 75 miles
north of Cape Chidley. They will follow
the west side of Baffin Land north and
locate a station at a point near the mag -
netic Pole, wintering there.
They will then take observations and
procure scientific data regarding terres
trial magnetism. Picture them there, in
this land of semi-eternal twilight—6 long
months with never a sight of the sun
They will measure the distance to the
various plants. Dr. MacMillan has also
in mind the securing of data regarding
electricity in the air, in order to strength
en the opinion of experts who think it
possible to draw electricity out of the
air. Dr. MacMillan says that one can
hear the electricity snapping in the air,
the atmosphere is so full of it.
Soon after arriving, a bouse will be
erected on the shore, but Dr. MacMillan
and the crew wilt live aboard the Bow
doin. Everybody will sleep in the for
ward cabin in order to save fuel. The
ship will then 1 e housed over with lum
ber which they took with them from
Boothbav. About 7 feet of snow will be
piled on top of the structure. She is
housed over thus after a suitable place is
found to be frozen into the ice which will
form around her in a solid sheet. In or
der to withstand the pressure of the ice
her hull is sheathed all around with white
oak planks, her frame being built as stur
dily as that of a 3-masted schooner. She
has an egg-shaped underbody so that the
pressure of the ice will force her up out
of the water instead of crushing her.
Over the oak sheathing above the water
line is a 3-inch sheathing of Australian
green heart, which is next to lignum
vitae in hardness, just as Peary’s Roose
velt was, and a wood commonly used by
whalers. Ice cannot splinter this adam
antine wood, but only serve to polish it.
Around the bow she is protected by iron
bands. She has a 2-blade propeller, which
may be feathered and protected from the
ice as she passes through it by an excep
tionally broad stern post.
Dr. MacMillan is his own wireless op
erator. They carry a transmitting ma
chine, but have no receiving apparatus.
When the Bowdoin made her Boston trip
those on board got the news of the
Dempsey-Carpentier fight when they
were off Egg Rock, and picked up mes
sages from France. They will receive by
wireless the noon signal, by which they
regulate their chronometers, which is
sent out from Ailington, Va., daily at
noon as well as 11 p. m.
The coast of Baffin Land, which they
will explore, is one of the few uncharted
regions of the world. They also intend
to push inland to Big Lake, which, Esqui
maux say, has never been seen by white
men. In addition, specimens of rare
birds, flora and fauna of Baffin Land will
be collected, and deep sea soundings will
be taken.
This schooner carries a crew of seven
men. Jonathan Small, the hardy mate
from Provincetown, Mass., was formerly
with Dr. MacMillan on his 4-year voyage
of discovery in Crocker Land, when he
went to find what Peary reported as a
new continent, but which turned out to
be but a mirage; Thomas McCue, the
cook, is a Newfoundlander; Dawson How
ell, a graduate of Trinity College, and R.
H. Goddard, Dartmouth, 1920, were sent
by Carnegie Institute to secure scientific
data regarding terrestrial magnetism; j.
H. Robinson and Harold Whitehouse
complete the crew which, owing to limit
ed space could not be larger.
The Bowdoin is probably the smallest
vessel ever used for such work. She
measures 88 feet overall; has a 20 foot
beam; draws 8 1-2 feet of water; is
knockabout rigged like a fisherman; has
a spoon bow and an elliptical stern. She
carries two extra heavy anchors and four
small boats, has a sailing canoe and two
dories, the latter being what they depend
on to come back in should any misfortune
overtake their vessel. Should they lose
their dories, they would have«to make
the trip back by komatiks, or dog sleds,
provided they reach shore safely. It is
thought, wisely it seems, that a small
vessel has a better chance to make its
way through icebergs where a large one
might be caught. They carry on board
supplies for two years, although it is
possible, unless they get caught in the
perilous Fury and Hecla Strait, they will
return in one year.
They expect to visit Etah on the west
coast of Greenland and journey inland by
komatik. They will live largely off Arc
tic fowl, ptarmigan, etc., for these re
gions are the greatest bird breeding
grounds in the world. It is not likely
that any member of the expedition will
care to take advantage of the hospitality
of the Esquimaux for their igloos, or
huts, made of sods, are exceedingly dirty
and vile-smelling; these Esquimaux live
in tents called tupiks in the summer.
Dr. MacMillan will use, however, auite
extensively, Esquimo canoes made of
stretched hides, called kayaks. They
hope to bring back many specimens of
birds which the doctor will stuff himself,
as well as polar bears and walrus.
WATCH YOUR STEP
In life’s subway have a care,
Watch your step.
Danger threatens everywhere,
Watch your step.
If you’re young you’ve much to learn,
If you’re poor you've much to earn;
If you’re good you've much to spurn,
Watch your step.
In the crowded streets of life
Watch your step.
There is peril in the strife,
Watch your step.
If you’re old you've much to tell.
If you’re rich you’ve much to sell,
If you’re bad you’ll go to—Well
Watch your step.
MT. BATTIB MEMORIAL TOWER.
The Mt. Battie Association, composed
principally of our summer residents, has
completed the Memorial Tower on the
summit of Mt. Battie. It stands where
the old Mt. Battie Club House stood, and
is modeled on the old Round Tower near
Newport, R. I. Owing to the fact that
the stones with which the tower is built
were placed weatherside out to give it an
ancient look, it has the appearance of be
ing about as old as the Newport tower.
The architect of the building is Par
ker Morse Hooper of New York, one of
our summer residents. The contractor,
who had charge of the work, is Andrew
M. Tolman of Camden, and Charles A.
Wood and Gershom Walden did the ma
son work.
The tower is built of stone and cement
and the whole is a wonderful piece of
work. Iron and concrete stairs lead the
way to the look-oil above. There are
three open arches on the side towards
the ocean, and three false arches on the
northwest side. The latter gives shelter
from showers that may come from that
direction. There is a concrete bench
against the north wall. The total height
of the tower is 24 feet. The height of
the look-otT platform is 19 feet, being
same height as floor of the old Mt. Bat
tie building tower.
A memorial tablet of bronze will be in
stalled in August in honor of the men
and women of Camden, who participated
in world war work.—Camden Herald.
LET'S HELP THE GOOD WORK.
(From Kennebec Journal.)
The reports coming in of efforts which
the State authorities are making to en
force laws governing motor traffic in this
State are encouraging. The need was
apparent to every sane person. Ordi
nary safety on our highways was fast be
coming a thing of the past. Had the
conditions not been so menacing they
would have been ridiculous- The arro
gance of the haughty chauffeur of the big
car, exercising his position to the utmost
for display of his petty importance and
running wild without consideration for
anyone, would have been amusing but
for the peril of it. And he was not the
only rampant and obnoxious absurdity
misusing our highways; the inexperi
enced, the reckless youth, the half
drunken driver, he whose head, never
level, was filled by the speed mania, all
had a share in the orgy, for that is what
it was. It became a State- wide nuisance
and threat. It should not be longer tol
erated. It is humiliating to think that it
has been permitted as long as it has. If
continued, it must inevitably serve to
keep people from use of the highways
except in cases of absolute necessity and
so would prove an injury to the makers
of cars as well as to others.
Many will note with approval that the
overload on the truck is being taken
from it and left beside the highway.
Trucks so loaded are ruinous. The c>tate
has not and is not in a way to get the
money necessary to provide highways
for conveyances so loaded. The law is
plain. No mercy should be shown. And
do not forget to say an encouraging '
word of this work which the State is do
ing. It is, in the last analysis, in the in
terests of all of us that it is being done.
Let's help all we can.
DEEP SEA TALK
Judge Shark—What became of the
dogfish prisoner, officer? j
Officer Lobster—Er—he escaped, I
your honor. Someone handed him a'
sawfish.
SLOW
DEATH
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Look for the name Gold Medal ^on every box
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Shingles
Second Clear Shingles at
per
thousand
Why pay more for shingles !
ofjjoorer quality.
Cooper&Co.
SDCDNY SERVICE!
A wide variety of mixtures are being sold
under the name “gasoline”. The best way
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
CITY 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 l- 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 & CO.
NORTH SEARSMONT HARRY C. PAUL
' SEARSPORT W. R. GILKEY & SON
C. O. SAWYER & CO.
NORTH SEARSPORT ERNEST CARTER
STOCKTON AMES GROCERY CO.
PERCY L. HUI’PER
SWANVILLE NICKERSON & DAMM
WALDO L. R. STEVENS
STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEW YORK R
26 Broadway K
“Fine as silk,” is one way of ex
pressing 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 tl rough 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
b aking.
Ask your neighbors who use it. They’ll
tell you Willliam Tell. Tell your grocer.
SWAN-WHI1TEN COMPANY
[)nce Used—Always Used
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Makes Ironing Easy
Used as cold water or cooked stare
rith equally go od results. 3m22
ELASTIC STARCH
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER’S
CASTORIA
W. L. COOK
Undertaker
Licensed Embalmer
License 377.
Belfast, Maine. Tel. 61-3
BROOKS BRANCH
Christine A. Jones, Manager
Pays 4 Per Cent Intferest
on savings accounts.
Special Notia’
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are doing business all the time
wish to buy or sell real estate of '
we would be pleased to talk wit’
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