1945 8PRINC 1945 (A privately supported, state-wide, non-partisan, non-profit organization for the promotion and development of Maine's agricultural, industrial and recreational resources). 1945 8PKING 1945

c A Jlis CJiM PAGE Looking A h e a d ...... Gov. Horace A. Hildreth 3

Farms and the Fu t u r e ...... Hon. Carl R. Smith 7

W ire Me Co l l e c t ...... J. Brooks Power 11

Maine Meets the Pacific Margaret Chase Smith, M. C. 15

Sky Trails Into Maine Maj. Henry S. Beverage, CAP 18

A lewives A re Ru n n in g ! ...... 21

T he Making of Ma i n e ...... Richard A. Hebert 23

A round the Cracker Ba r r e l ...... 28

A rtistry W ith W o r d s ...... Arthur G. Staples 31

From My W i n d o w ...... William R. Robbins 34

Cover Design and Art Copy by Walter Johnson

THE PINE CONE SPRING, 1945 VOL. I, NO. 1

Published Quarterly by THE STATE OF MAINE PUBLICITY BUREAU PORTLAND • YORK CORNER • BANGOR • NEW YORK Main Office: 3 St. John St., Portland 4, Maine

GUY P. BUTLER RICHARD A. HEBERT Executive Manager Editorial Manager PINE CONE SUBSCRIPTION: $1 A YEAR (Printed in Maine on Maine-made Paper) Looking Ahead

by Governor Horace H ildreth Maine plans for the return of its men and women in the service.

TN these days of uncertainty there is -•■considerable risk in attempting to prognosticate, or to gaze into the crystal ball to see what the future may hold for the State of Maine. And yet it is absolutely necessary that we do look ahead and plan for the postwar period. As these words are written, the Russian armies are hammering at the very gates of smoking Berlin, while General Eisenhower’s Allied Armies are fighting their way through a beaten Germany. Once again we are holding our breath, hoping victory is per cent of loans under $4,000; (4) around the corner, but not allowing Broad educational pi-ivileges up to optimism to slow down our Wax- four years of college training, includ­ Effort. ing a maximum of $5,600 depending In the Pacific, General MacArthur on age at time of entering the ser­ and Admiral Nimitz ai'e looking vice, educational qualifications, etc.; toward Tokyo, their ultimate objective. (5) Mustering out pay x-unning from The road to that Imperial City is a $100 to $300 depending on length of long, hard and bloody one and al­ service; (6) To the disabled veterans though we know in our hearts victory every conceivable type of assistance, will ultimately be ours, we dare not including hospitalization, l-ehabilita- and we must not relax our war effoi-t. tion, financial benefits, etc. While our Nation’s manhood give Locally, the American Legion, Vet- their all on these distant battlefields ex-ans of Foreign Wai-s, American of the world, it is well for us on the Red Cross and other local welfare home front to pause and ask our­ organizations have banded together selves this all-important question: and have in operation at the present “ Are we doing our best in Maine moment machinery to assist our Vet­ to be sure that our returning vet­ erans in securing the benefits accru­ erans will find a type of economy ing to them under the G. I. Bill of operating so that there is the great­ est opportunity for dignified work Rights. for all with adequate wages?” Many times in the past several The Federal Government has months the question has been asked: planned and still is planning well for “ What is the State of Maine doing for the sociological welfare of the veter­ the Veterans?” In view of the work ans, as evidenced by the G. I. Bill of being done on the Fedei’al level and Rights. This bill provides the follow­ on the Community level as just out­ ing benefits: (1) To aid the vetei-an lined, the principal job for the State in getting his old job back or to assist is to encoui-age an economy within him in securing a new job; (2)' A our State which, as I have stated be- maximum of 52 weeks’ i-eadjustment foi*e, will help to create jobs for our pay at the i-ate of $20 a week for service men and women and in the those who ai-e unable to find employ­ following paragraphs I have at­ ment; (3) Assist veterans in pur­ tempted briefly to make a few help­ chasing a home, entering business or ful suggestions. securing a farm by guaranteeing up A recent survey, authorized by the to $2,000 of the loan granted provided 91st Legislatux-e and made by the the loan is for $4,000 or more and 50 Maine Development Commission, re-

rnDiKl^l m/r veals that 343 communities of our own postwar work. The State, how­ State have postwar plans for spend­ ever, by having up-to-date knowledge ing approximately $14,000,000 on lo­ of the overall picture of private em­ cal projects and the State, through ployment in the State, will better de­ its various Departments, will spend velop its own plans and better inform approximately $10,500,000. Private the municipalities. industry throughout the State is I would make clear at this point ready to start immediately when that all such planning is to insure not labor and materials are available on a only government getting the most for tremendous program of building, ex­ its dollar, but also providing work for tension and expansion of its physical veterans at a time when work will be structures. most needed. The overall picture in Maine for a Another problem in connection with prosperous postwar period is, without postwar planning is that of expecting resorting to over-optimism, decidedly the Federal Treasury to match funds favorable. However, there are some with State and municipalities for con­ fundamental problems connected with struction work. Too many of our the avalanche of spending, which will projects might be based on such a inevitably take place in the postwar matching proposition. Already one period, that must be studied carefully and one-half billions have been appro­ and the State should attempt to solve priated for the Federal Aid Highway these problems. I will mention only Act and bills are now before Congress two of them. which will provide one billion dollars As i have just intimated, the end on a Federal, State, municipality of the war threatens to let loose the matching program in airport con­ greatest concentrated spending pro­ struction. gram in the history of the United States and the State of Maine. It The problem of matching this Fed­ would be utter folly for State to com­ eral appropriation puts financial prob­ pete against State and community lems on the State of Maine which are against community for materials and difficult indeed and we might well labor, and both State and community bear in mind the old saying, “All is to compete against private industry. not gold that glitters.” Sound business principles dictate that both State and municipal government I HAVE BEEN get the most it can for its tax dollars. asked to comment The State should help to provide ef­ on “ New Indus­ ficient leadership in coordinating tries in Maine/’ State, municipal and private postwar Maine is not pri­ plans. At the State level it is a marily an indus­ simple procedure of assembling for trial state and consideration by the Legislature such probably never projects as the Executive and De­ will be. Yet Maine, partmental heads think desirable. with its three The Governor and Council could then great waterways and its lesser time the actual launching of the streams, unlimited hydro-electric pos­ projects on the flood tide of greatest sibilities, its forests of hard wood, its need where most indicated. nearness to the markets of Europe, At the Municipal level the State has much to offer the industrialist service would be promotional and ad­ who is looking for a new location for visory, but attempting to 'coordinate his plant or for the man who is con­ the launching of projects so State and templating a new industry. Some one municipalities would not be bidding recently asked a most pertinent ques­ against each other in an inflationary tion: “ Why, with Maine's vast forests era caused by shortage of materials of hard wood, are there not more and manpower. furniture manufacturing and wood­ As related to private industry, the working plants in the State?” This State activity should be limited to is a good question and a challenge fact finding and modest promotional to our energy, vision and ingenuity. service. Private industry is going to If I have been informed correctly depend upon its own management to by servicemen returning from over­ determine extent and timing of its seas, it is apparent that a great num- ber of our veterans are thinking ser­ If we are to develop this activity iously about taking advantage of the to its maximum we must take every Government’s offer to assist them fi­ means at our disposal not only to im­ nancially in the establishment of a prove the present techniques, through business of their own. an educational program, but to en­ courage more men to enter this field We have about 75,000 men and of endeavor. And again I am think­ women from our State in the ing of our returning veterans in re­ armed forces. Is it unreasonable lation to this industry. With financial to expect that at least one per backing from the government, with cent of them, or 750, will be inter­ our Extension courses available to ested in going into business? them, why shouldn’t we expect that Some will fail, but many will a great many of our more rugged succeed. Here is a real field of type of veterans will interest them­ new enterprises in our State. selves in commercial fishing as a Constant efforts should be made profitable business enterprise? to see how best we can help these E ven as state and municipal gov­ veterans to establish their new ernments are piling up financial sur­ businesses in our State. pluses during these years due to their In the field of Agriculture there inability to secure either labor or ma­ are great opportunities for the re­ terials to carry out their normal cap­ turning service man. Not only will ital building projects, so it is that the government assist these men in millions of people in our country are purchasing farms, but it will assist piling up not only huge financial sur­ them in securing training in the field pluses, but also considerable enthusi­ of Agriculture. Our State Depart­ asm and anticipation for the day ment of Agriculture is second to none when Victory comes and restrictions and as I pointed out in my inaugural on gas, tires, travel, etc., are removed. address, “ Farming in Maine is stead­ It doesn’t take a prophet to predict ily progressing from merely a means the tremendous boost the recreational of livelihood to an up-to-date busi­ business will receive when that day ness operation.” arrives. To a young man returning from Maine is a vacation state, and the wars, there is a real opportunity we certainly have a great deal to in Maine in the field of Agriculture offer. If we lay our plans care­ if that young man is ambitious and fully now, we are going to enjoy not afraid of hard work. The State the greatest recreational business Department of Agriculture in cooper­ in the entire history of Maine! ation with the State University can render invaluable aid to these veter­ This business won’t come immedi­ ans choosing the field of Agriculture ately the war ceases. It will start for their life work. gradually and increase in direct ratio to the ability of the automobile in­ Turning to Com­ dustry and the tire industry to pro­ mercial Fishing duce cars and tires the motoring pub­ and the part it will lic is looking forward to buying. play in the period Here is another Maine industry, that lies ahead for which, like the commercial fishing Maine, I would field, is still in its infancy. The pos­ again refer to my sibilities for expansion in this busi­ inaugural address: ness are tremendous and we should be “ Likewise there is constantly alert to the strategic posi­ need for some form tion we hold in the Nation as a Va­ of an extension service for the fisher­ cation State. men of Maine. This service could be The recreation business of a State similar to the Agriculture Extension might well be likened to a hotel busi­ Service now operating in this State. ness. No matter how splendid the ap­ Thousands of our citizens earn their pointments of a hotel may be, how ex­ living as fishermen and this great cellent its food, how impressive its source of economic life is a long way setting, unless friendship, cordiality from its potential maximum develop­ and interest in the guests’ welfare are ment.” manifested in the attitude of the man- ager and his staff, it can become a well and wisely so that when you colossal failure. And many hotels come home, the machinery is set up have failed due to lack of these ni­ and ready to operate and produce dig­ ceties. nified work for you. I’m confident Our visitors, or, as I like to think you are mainly interested in rejoin­ of them — our guests — will judge ing your loved ones, to find work and Maine not entirely by its scenic to take your place in your commu­ beauty, its good roads, its good fish­ nity as a citizen of Maine. ing and hunting, but also by the The passage from military life into courtesy extended to them by their the pleasant pattern of civilian life in hosts. We are the hosts— our state your old home town shouldn’t be too and local police, filling station atten­ rough. It needn’t be, because your dants, hotel staffs, wayside camp country, your own State of Maine, proprietors, the staffs of eating your community and many public and places, guides and all others directly private organizations are ready to or indirectly connected with this vast give you a hand to assist you to enjoy business. a productive and happy civilian life. I understand that the Maine Public­ The State of Maine is your ity Bureau is plan­ State and I am proud to be your ning a “ courtesy Governor. I pledge not only my campaign” , stress­ personal support, but the support ing how important of the State in helping to create it is to the contin­ that “ world” you so strongly de­ ued success of our sire to find on your return. recreation business that we build up our reputation as a “ friendly state” . Maine is a State of opportunities, I strongly urge wholehearted cooper­ notwithstanding the perennial cry of ation of our people in supporting this the pessimists who claim that our campaign. Friendliness and courtesy youth must go elsewhere if they are are the two least expensive, yet at in search of opportunities. We have the same time the most effective me­ many undeveloped resources crying diums of advertising known to man. for youth with brains, imagination A nd finally, I have been asked to and a willingness to work. Your address a message to the Maine men State and its many departments are and women serving in the armed anxious and willing to assist its vet­ forces. I understand this publication, erans not only to find work, but to The Pine Cone, will find its way into lend assistance in helping you to all corners of the world where you enter the fields of agriculture, com­ are serving your Country. As the mercial fishing, business and indus­ Governor of your State, I am at times try. nearly overwhelmed with the great Wherever you may be and what­ responsibility that rests upon my ever duty you may be performing, let shoulders to so direct the affairs of me assure you that we State of Main­ state that you men and women will ers are justly proud of your achieve­ find, on your return, the kind of ments. No reward can be too great “world” of which you often dream. to compensate you for the sacrifices I think I know the kind of “ world” you are making. Our duty on the you want to find when you come home front is to stand solidly behind home. It is a “world” composed of you and see that the weapons with people who fully appreciate the sacri­ which you destroy our enemies are fices you have made, but you don’t the best that the brains of this coun­ want these people to be over-solicitous try can produce and that there is an of your welfare. In other words, you ample supply flowing across the would like to be left pretty much oceans to you. We are looking for­ alone to make your own adjustments ward to the great victory which is to and to work out your own destinies. be yours and which will hasten your You don’t want a lot of “fuss and return to America and to the Pine feathers.” Tree State. In peace, as in war, we A “world” which has had you con­ shall ever be conscious of the debt of stantly in mind and which has planned honor we owe you. Farms and the Future

by Carl R. Smith Maine Commissioner of Agriculture

The door to success in farming is wide open in Maine.

"A/fAINE has greater farming po- can provide pasture for feeding two tentialities than any other State animals per acre! in the Union! • Owing to favorable climatic con­ This flat statement was made re­ ditions and the absence of disease in cently by a leading national agri­ our poultry flocks, this type of farm­ cultural authority. ing has even greater possibilities for expansion. It is a declaration with which 1 am in full accord, and in this brief article • The production of sheep and I intend to give some of the reasons hogs, as well as other livestock, can . why I believe it to be true. also be greatly increased. • First of all, I believe that Maine, • We have fifty modern vegetable whose agricultural tradition goes back processing plants already in opera­ to the first settlers of the region, tion. With very small areas in the stands on the threshold of a tre­ State devoted to vegetables for the mendous development in the ever- “fresh market”, opportunity for ex­ changing farm economy picture. pansion in this field is virtually un­ limited. The chief canning crops— • We are located close to the large sweet corn, snap beans and peas— Eastern markets. acquire a flavor from Maine soil and • There is a great diversity of climate that can be duplicated no­ crops and livestock which can be and where else in the Country as expe­ is being produced successfully in this rienced buyers of vegetables have State. testified. Field corn yields can be brought to a point well above the na­ • Our per acre yield, if not at the tional average. top, is far above the national average. • And Maine apples have a • Although the potato industry is color on them and zip and zest in the most fully, developed, there is still them that is found nowhere else much land in the State which can be on God’d green earth! turned from its present use into the production of potatoes, which is at present a $50,000,000 industry in T hese are only a few of the many Maine. reasons why the door is wide open on farming opportunities in Maine. Our • Although we have many excel­ agricultural experts all agree that lent dairy and beef herds, we have there are always available good farm­ not yet scratched the surface in the land bargains in Maine and highly production of livestock. We have ex­ productive acreage at reasonable cellent summer pasture and winter prices. As in all farming operations, roughage, we are as free from dis­ careful planning and hard work are ease as any section in the C ou ntry- the only keys that will unlock the far less affected than many areas in treasure-house that Nature has stored the United States— and where the up in Maine agriculture. traditional beef sections of the Na­ tion require an average of 10 acres It is, however, a healthy and inde­ of pasture per animal, we in Maine pendent life. If one is made to real- ize all the obstacles and still desires erally realize that the entire State to find peace and abundance on a has a vital stake in farm prosperity. Maine farm by working for these Most of the taxpayers realize that goals, the chances for success are unless we take steps to prevent the good. And I know of no other in­ abandonment of farm property, the dustry where counsel and assistance time may come when rural towns will are so readily given as from the es­ have little or no taxable property left tablished farmer to an earnest be­ to help pay the costs of government. ginner. Surveys show that a substantial The decentralization of industry percentage of the men in our Armed that has already begun and which will Forces desire to make farming their be accelerated after the war finds an life work and whether these men de­ ideal situation in Maine. Industrial sire to enter commercial farming or science has found out at last that peo­ part time farming, their chances of ple are happier, do a better job and success are equally as good. This De­ work more efficiently in the small partment receives many letters of in­ community. And in Maine, where we quiry concerning farms from boys in have a lot of small communities, we our Armed Services and we also re­ find the best workers in the world— ceive many letters from civilians liv­ honest family folk whose native in­ ing in the urban sections who desire genuity is not only a matter of rec­ to settle on farms. ord, but has contributed so vastly to We give all of these people every all phases of the war effort. consideration and assistance and the There will be a revival of industry Maine Extension Service at Orono in these small communities and with has recently published a bulletin, it people will want to live in good “ Choosing and Buying A Maine homes on part time farms, where they Farm,” which offers invaluable in­ can keep a cow, raise a garden, have a formation along these lines. pig or two and get in some good nearby hunting and fishing in season. Two hundred years of constantly improved farming methods stand be­ A major facility for this type of hind the success of Maine agriculture peaceful, abundant living will be the and I confidently believe that the frozen food locker plants, of which I same spirit which has enabled Maine predict there will be 150 to 200 in farmers to conquer every problem strategic Maine communities in the over those years will, in the decades next few years after the war. An ad­ to come, bring us a greater farm junct of these will be the deep-freeze prosperity than the State has ever home cabinets for storage of smaller known. amounts. This development will serve to stabilize farm markets and prices and enable consumers to live more The people of Maine as a whole cheaply and abundantly than ever has are solidly behind their farm pro­ been possible before. gram. They extend a welcome In building for the future, the Maine and an invitation to our service­ Department of Agriculture also con­ men and others to fulfill their tinues to press for better rural roads, lives here, to find the peace and better schools and extension of elec­ prosperity that has made Maine tric lines, because Maine people gen­ farm life the envy of the world!

T he Maine blueberry industry is supporting a bill before the Legislature seeking the establishment of an experimental farm devoted to research work in this particular field. Blueberry growing is an im­ portant industry in at least three Maine counties.

ME COLLECT

by J. B r o o k s P o w e r Rod and Gun Editor Station WLBZ, Bangor When the ice goes out, the wires hum, calling the spring fishermen to their favorite streams and lakes. T~V)N’T forget, wire me collect!” in the day time and, as the sun goes To the uninitiated just a col­ down, we witness a stiffening of the lection of words, but to the spring ice and snow. That is, without the fisherman the above words are his warmth of the sun’s rays, the melt­ passport into a sportsman’s paradise. ing ceases. As days go by, the sun Hundreds, yes, thousands, of fish­ begins to climb higher in the heavens ermen have spoken these words as and we see more and more snow they said goodbye to their guide or a turned to water. This water, flow­ sporting camp operator after the last ing into the lake, has a tendency to of a Summer’s fly fishing, or, per­ cause the great sheet of ice to float haps, the end of a successful deer free from the shores. hunt. A floating sheet of ice is at the The hunter knows when the open­ mercy of the winds and also at the ing day comes around. The angler mercy of our spring storms. It is also knows, in some cases, when the now that both the rays of the sun and opening day arrives for spring fish­ the constant shifting of the ice field ing. But most always your open wears away the thick sheet of ice un­ water fisherman depends upon some til nothing remains but a “ rotten” , guide or sporting camp owner to in­ honeycombed mass just waiting for a form him when a certain lake or pond good wind to send the weakened field is free of ice and how the fish are bit­ crashing and churning onto the shore. ing. When this wind occurs, your guide or This clearing of our Northern lakes sporting camp owner hurries to the and ponds of Old Man Winter’s ice nearest telegraph office and your wire blanket is looked forward to by thou­ comes through. sands of anglers. Along about To many anglers, the wire means a March or the first of April, your release from work that has been grip­ guide or camp owner begins to take ing the fisherman* for days and some­ stock of just how the snow is settling times weeks. and also as to the head of water run­ ning in the various inlets to a cer­ TO MOST PEOPLE, tain body of water. the going out of Many people are of the opinion the ice means that that the ice in our inland waters our salmon, trout sinks. This, of course, is entirely in­ and togue ponds correct. In most cases, this is what are free and ready happens: for the angler. With the coming of mild days and But there is an­ lots of sunshine, we find that the other type of fish­ snow in the woods and along the erman that hits the shores of our lakes and streams be­ trail and that is the brook fisherman. gins to melt. With each passing day That hardy soul, who fears neither we find the water in the inlets rising high water nor mud, a man who,

Filling the creel from a Maine brook through his boyhood days cherished will cross the brook on a slippery log and held the common brook trout as and like as not end up by falling flat tops and although age may have on his face in the middle of the pool. climbed into the driver’s seat, still The State of Maine has hundreds of holds the whip hand as far as fishing fine trout brooks, many of them teem­ is concerned. ing with small trout, while others, This type of angler is a separate depending upon their size will give breed from all other disciples of Izaak the fly fisherman a day well spent. Walton. You can have your high- priced rods and tackle—your out­ Perhaps the board motors and what nots— but just exact opposite to give this fellow a telescope rod, a few our brook fisher­ feet of line, plenty of hooks and a man would be that few sinkers along with a can of angle fellow with the worms and he is king of all he sur­ fourteen - foot sal­ veys and a little bit more. mon rod. That The day may be rainy, the roads rugged individual almost impassable, but does it phase gets up bright and our brook fisherman? Nary a bit. early on the open­ All he wants is to be left alone on ing day of the salmon season, clothes some brook and he asks nothing more himself in heavy woolens and goes from mankind or the Lord. down to the river in a canvas-covered This brook fishing is becoming a peapod to do battle with the king of lost art among our angling fratern­ all fishes, the mighty Atlantic sal­ ities. Years ago, before the motor mon. His numbers are few, to be car and the outboard motor, there sure, but he is with us from year to were as many brook fishermen as lake year, a constant reminder that once and pond anglers, but nowadays, due our own Penobscot River lured to its to mechanical means, we find that the shores each year many well-known majority of our fishermen hit for the salmon fishermen. This type of lakes and ponds. Your dyed-in-the- angler has the same patience as the wool brook fisherman has the patience brook fisherman, for he may fish an of sixteen men. If you doubt it, entire day without as much as a watch one of his breed as he tries to strike, but when that strike does get the tip of that telescope rod come, he feels well paid for all the through a maze of alders and small empty days. bushes. Something should and is being done Watch him take a minute or more to bring back this glorious fish to our .to get that hook and sinker through Maine rivers. Perhaps the greatest the maze and with the patience of foe of any fish is pollution and some Job he lets the baited hook enter the of Maine’s rivers have been sadly pool. And sure enough, he knows neglected in regard to this, the great­ what he i*. doing, for soon a ten- est enemy of fish life. incher comes flopping and squirming Last, but not least, is the open through the alders. This getting the water angler, who takes his sport hook to where it will do the most good with the salmon, trout and togue. is O. K. early in the Spring, but His numbers are legion and his ways watch the same fisherman a little are various. He may fish from a later in the month, when a hatch of canoe or he may troll his lures in the flies or some other insects pester the depth from a leaky row boat. What­ life of the angler. Will he quit? Not ever the method, whatever the fish, on your life. It’s all the same to the you will find him on the surface of brook fisherman. He takes those our lakes and ponds from dawn un­ pests in his stride. til dusk. Most always he is a true He will spend an entire day on his sportsman, giving and taking each favorite brook, fishing this and that and every happening of the day with hole and cursing the new-fangled fish­ a grin and a word. erman who leaves empty bait cans He will curse his luck in one breath and beer bottles on the bank of the and in the very next one give praise brook. He will wade through ice cold to a more successful companion who water to reach a spot from where he lands a fine salmon, trout or togue. can fish a certain hole best. Then he He will argue as to the various good points of this or that bait, under cer­ Y our spring fisherman may thrill tain conditions, then turn around and at a lengthy run of a landlocked sal­ tie on a bait that he has just con­ mon, or at the great rise as the fish demned and like as not ca'tch the best comes to the end of the line. He may fish of the day. see for years to come a picture as the Your spring fisherman is a great fish breaks through the surface in a guy. He will fish until nearly ex­ gleaming bar of silver, and as he falls hausted, then go ashore for lunch, back into the water the rays of the rest a few minutes after eating and spring sun catch the spray in a tiny be back on the water again, always rainbow of many colors— a fitting expecting to get that big one around background for one of the finest of the next point or in the next cove. fish that swim, our landlocked sal­ Sometimes he fails, but most often mon. he comes home a winner. Ask him Your spring fisherman may hold what he goes fishing for and most his breath in awe as he catches a always he will say, “ To catch fish! glimpse of the square-tailed trout What do you think I went for?” But that is fighting a few feet below the down deep in his heart, he knows that surface as he gradually and care­ catching fish isn’t all there is to a fully leads the great fish within day in the open. reach of the landing net. And after He knows that in the clear, wine­ the fish has been netted and fallen like air of spring, he will find that through the bottom of the net into certain something that the Winter the bottom of the boat, you sit back has denied him. Lifegiving sunshine, and watch the light slowly fade from laden with the aroma of the balsams a day that has brought health and and with the smell of the good earth happiness. While across the lake from whence comes life itself. Man against a golden spring sky, the lord­ was never meant to be cooped up ly spruce rear their crests into the behind a desk or behind a lathe, or heavens, cathedral spires of a wilder­ in some factory building laden with ness. the soot and dust of decades, without Worth coming back to, isn’t it, a chance to break away for a time brother? and get out into God’s great out-of- doors.

Lieut. Gov. W ilbert Snow of Connecticut, Wes­ leyan University professor and poet, was born on Whitehead Island in Penobscot Bay and grew up among the fisherfolk there and at nearby Spruce Head on the mainland. He was a commercial fisher­ man for three years before, at the age of 17, he en­ tered Thomaston High School. He completed a four year course in two years and matriculated at Bow- doin College, graduating in 1907. He once said that two forces in his early life, “ a Celtic imagination” inherited from his mother and “ the surging sea about the cliffs” of his island home had driven him into poetry as a means of expression. Penobscot Bay and its residents are the subject of many of his poems.

/T 'H E United States now has the Our Fleet Admiral of the Pacific, A greatest Navy in the world. The Chester W. Nimitz, is a great man. war in the Pacific is a naval war. His long experience in various bu­ It has hardly started, although many reaus of the Navy, his understanding islands have been taken and lives and of his men, his keen sense of humor ships have been lost. It is a vast and ability to relax contribute to his area, out there, with thousands of efficiency as a naval commander. islands hundreds and thousands of Admiral Nimitz knows the Pacific, miles apart. knows the Japs. All of this—with All of this has made a more vivid the love and loyalty of his men—will impression upon me since I returned advance final victory by months and from a 25,000-mile air trip to the perhaps years. Pacific. I have traced the progress of the Ten members of the House Naval war from day to day on maps in my Affairs Committee including myself office and supposed I knew something were asked to go to the Pacific in De­ about world geography. I have cember by Chairman Carl Vinson of known all along as you have that Georgia. Mr. Vinson is one of the transportation is the Number One ablest men in Congress and has problem, but it is only when being im­ worked toward one goal for many pressed with the vastness of the Pa­ years—the greatest Navy in the cific and the number of islands and world for the United States. He feels distances between them that one can that committee members should visit know the seriousness of transporta­ naval establishments in order to un­ tion. The more the war progresses, derstand requests for authorizations. the more acute is the shipping. Un­ Our assignment was to get an over­ til the European war is won, trans­ all picture of the Pacific war area in portation in the Pacific cannot be preparation for expected legislation. eased. We called at naval establishments, spent one day aboard a large carrier during battle practice at sea with W hen there are shipping prob­ Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, lems, the Number One morale item— looked over hospitals, enlisted men’s MAIL— is affected. Mail is first in quarters, visited Australian govern­ the minds of the service people, ment officials and learned about some whether in training or at the front, of the problems of the Pacific. in the hospital or on guard duty.

Above: Congresswoman Smith shakes hands with six feet seven Wayne M. Garland, formerly of Bangor, during a visit with Pearl Harbor Navy Yard workers from Maine at Pearl Harbor. Below: Mrs. Smith chats with one of her former neighbors, Albert Sirois of Skowhegan, at a South Pacific island hospital where Sirois was resting after two years with the Seabees where he saw action at Tinian, Guam and Saipan. When I asked one young man over caves. There are still thousands of there in a hospital what he wanted them left on the islands that we oc­ me to tell his mother when I got to cupy. We hope to starve them out, Maine, he replied: “ I guess she but that is a long process. doesn’t care about hearing from me. I haven’t heard from her for three The executive of­ months.” There was a sadness in his ficer on one atoll voice which disappeared after I ex­ was a Maine man. plained to him that his mother had He has been there been writing to him twice a week, for two years. The but probably the letters were on the only diversion sea somewhere trying to catch up from regular du­ with him. He had been wounded at ties at this place Saipan and was in his third hospital. is hunting for Many factors contribute to the non­ shells and studying delivery of mail to our men and wo­ birds. There are 54 atolls, all con­ men in foreign fields. Transfers, nected by a road which is only seven illness, progressive treatment in a miles long. There is plenty of rain— series of hospitals— all of these 200 inches a year. Maine has about changes of address slow down speedy 45 inches. There are cocoanuts and delivery. The immensity of the dis­ interesting birds. The only women tribution job itself is breath-taking. at this base are those service women I’m told that 62 million pieces were who are on their way to the far west dispatched overseas during the last area, or on their way back to the Christmas period and 90 per cent States, landing there for an emer­ were delivered by Christmas Day. gency. Truly an amazing effort under most difficult conditions. There are other complaints besides A t Manus I saw the magnificent mail. Failure in the rotation plan job our Army and Navy engineers for furloughs and lack of fresh foods did when they converted an area of in the Southwest Pacific are talked jungle swamp and mud into roads. about most. I am convinced that These men had to fight not only the both will become more and more of a Japs, the jungle and the heat, but problem as the shipping situation be­ they were constantly exposed to trop­ comes increasingly acute. ical disease. Tents were first pitched on the mouldy, wet and swampy ground. Rain falls daily in such tor­ If you will look at your map you rents that drainage becomes a major will see that almost anywhere in the problem. Men sleeping on the ground States we are nearer the European forget how dry clothes feel. Setting fighting than the people in Pearl up of a drainage system was one of Harbor are to the Pacific battle front. the first jobs. The remarkably low Many of the islands, one and two incidence of disease on this island is thousand miles apart, are now oc­ proof of how successful this has been. cupied by our troops and make up In about four months a steaming what is known as the “ back area”— jungle of thick undergrowth and tall without action— except as casualties palm trees was transformed into a are flown through, planes landing for well-drained little city where supply refueling and other emergency stops, ships have been loaded and unload-d all of which is essential towards win­ and sent on their way to the Philip­ ning the war. pines with combat forces. The har­ Many of the islands we visited are bor was full of these ships the day I not very large, just long enough for was there. an airstrip, a refueling point for There are many men from Maine ships and for land emplacements. on this island. Many were in the These bases are not only important convoy which we saw on its way to as links in a chain to our objective— Lingayen Bay. they are still important active fight­ For years to come we will hear ing fronts! A part of the job of our about the heroic deeds of our Maine soldiers stationed at these islands is boys at Saipan. My first view of this to root the Japs out of hills and island was from the air when we cir- cled around waiting for the B-29’s on these isolated islands, hundreds of that our C-54 flew in with to land. miles from anywhere, to hold them Looking down, Saipan was like one while new islands are taken and then great airfield of white coral. Actu­ prepare for evacuation of casualties ally, it is a beautiful island with a and emergency landings. It is not a mountainous jungle running through happy existence. the middle of it. When we landed on the airfield and stepped out of the plane, we saw the B-29’s being re­ I sometimes wonder that the popu­ fueled and made ready for another lation of Maine does not decrease, attack on Tokyo’s war plants. especially after the Naval Affairs Committee assignments which take I visited hospitals, officers’ quar­ me so far away from home. Every­ ters and enlisted men’s barracks. where I find Maine people—people Everywhere I went our men looked who are either born in Maine, whose very well. In the islands where there parents were born in Maine, or those are not any tropical diseases, the who have summer homes in Maine health record is excellent. and have spent vacations there. This applies to both service people and T here is so: civilians. much to talk about, On the Pacific tour I found Ad­ but much of it miral Melvin Pride, Naval Air, de­ must wait until parting for the front. His folks after the war. For ■ came from Richmond and Norridge- instance, the effec- . wock. He knows Maine. tive work of the < There was Lieut. Kennedy Crane, submarines, ^ of Skowhegan, very important in sup­ manned by many plies out there; Chester Clayton, Maine men, will Storekeeper 2/c, also from my home not be thoroughly known until then. town, keeping the Navy boys happy Many of the problems and hardships by feeding them well; Capt. Don will not be understood until the war Knowlton, USN, formerly of Fair- is won. It is only when seeing mil­ field and Winthrop, a noted eye and lions of gallons of oil in storage and ear specialist in Washington before in use at the front that one can real­ the war, in the thick of the fighting ize the reasons for rationing here. It at Guadalcanal and now back near is only when thinking that the com­ the front doing his usual excellent plements of one carrier or battleship job; Wallace Hall, Marine, of North alone is three thousand, a small town, Anson, wounded earlier, now ready to that the enormity of the shipping return for further action. There problem is recognized. were many boys from Maine in this I wish I could get the entire story group. to everybody. I would like to tell One day while flying from island how Pearl Harbor has been built up to island, I looked down on a large since 1941 through the patience and convoy of ships which I. was told later perseverance of the natives and the included Staff Sergeant Edward cooperation of our workers going out Thompson and many other men from there for the duration. We met home. I just missed them. many Navy Yard workers one even­ I found Maine doctors and nurses ing in the Hall of Flags. There living in the heat and wet without were many Maine men and women, conveniences, yet working long hours working there, a large number of and relieving wounded men from whom responded to the call of the their suffering. government after the Japs attacked Perhaps you believe I should have Pearl Harbor. found more cheerful items to write I would like to tell you how the about, but I know you want my hon­ Marines, the Seabees, the men of the est impressions. We here at home air and the men on the ground—all don’t know anything about sacrifices. with their quota of Maine stock— The boys at the front, and the par­ have captured the islands, blasted ents and wives of those who will not them to destruction and built them up come home again, are carrying the again. Many of our men must sit burden so far. By Maj. H enry S. Beverage, CAP

TN considering the ' opportunities Presque Isle in Northern Aroostook which the State of Maine offers in County and Millinocket, in the shadow the field of aviation, we naturally of Mt. Katahdin. turn first to recreation, an industry These are modern, hard-surfaced already developed beyond the $100,- airports capable of accommodating 000,000 mark, and destined to greatly transport planes. With few excep­ exceed that figure in the postwar era. tions they are now available for com­ Maine’s strategic location in the mercial operations. It can be antici­ overall military and naval picture pated that others now operated by has provided the State with many air­ the military will be transformed into ports, ranging from relatively small commercial ports in the postwar two-run-way fields to several that are period. among the largest in the Country. With the development of amphibian In addition, the State has numerous planes awaiting only the end of the small turf flying fields and others are European war, it requires little im­ being developed each year. agination to visualize the possibilities Add to these the almost unlimited that Maine offers on its 2,486-mile water areas capable of being de­ coastline and its 2,465 lakes. veloped as air harbors or seaplane The almost certain popularity of bases and you have a field for avia­ airparks with sports and recreational tion development that is almost un­ attractions for air travelers and va­ limited. cationists will place Maine in the If we consider the available air­ front row of air development because ports in relation to their importance of its already preponderant favor in the recreational picture we think with vacation-minded people. of Portland and its proximity to the How can these ready-made aviation Casco Bay and inland resort areas; facilities be made available for de­ Brunswick and its popular coastal velopment? In most cases the air­ area; Rockland, gateway to the ports are owned by the municipalities Penobscot Bay region; Bar Harbor in which they are located and oper­ and the Mt. Desert section; Water- ating rights may be leased from the ville and Augusta and their nearness towns or cities. to the Central Maine lakes. Operators from land or water Others of equal importance are at bases in Maine can be sure of a Princeton, in the heart of the famed volume of recreational flying from Washington County fishing and hunt­ sight-seers, fishermen, hunters and ing paradise; Greenville, gateway to those who want fast service back to the trackless North Country that be­ metropolitan points. And they can be gins at Moosehead Lake; Caribou and certain that thousands of vacationists will soon be flying their own planes more or less isolated in their own to Maine. communities will be able to travel by Although it is outside the purpose air in the future. Commercial travel­ of this article to predict what the ers will also make use of fast air extension of airline travel may offer travel to reach localities which are in Maine, it is no secret that airline now many hours away by present operators are already considering the methods of transportation. promotion of special vacation flights The greatest potential opportunity to many Maine points. in the aviation field in Maine at pres­ For example, one of our present- ent is a chain of seaplane facilities day airliners could bring twenty and fishing accommodations on some fishermen to Moosehead Lake from of the state’s otherwise inaccessible New York City in three hours. A lakes. large flying boat might bring twice Many resident and non-resident that number. Week-end travel of anglers are waiting for the oppor­ this kind is bound to be a postwar tunity to fish some of Maine back- vacation feature. woods trout waters when service is Air travel will also be a big factor available. in developing Maine as a winter It will take men who combine prac­ sports region. Runways will be tical flying experience with business plowed on many large lakes and thou­ acumen and vision to realize the full­ sands of winter sports enthusiasts est of Maine’s possibilities in the avi­ will fly to Maine resorts on ski- ation field. But the opportunities are equipped planes. here, ready-made and awaiting pro­ Turning from the purely recrea­ motion. tional picture to commercial flying, To give an overall picture of the we find that Maine offers a big field present status of landing field facili­ in non-scheduled air transportation, ties in Maine, I am appending an up- both interstate and intrastate. Thou­ to-date list of airports and flying sands of Maine people who have been fields now in existence: Location RunwaysType Facilities Present Use* Augusta 2 Paved Hangar Navy Bangor 3 Paved Complete Army Bar Harbor 3 Paved Complete Navy Belfast 2 Paved None Commercial Biddeford 2 Gravel None None Brunswick 3 Paved Complete Navy Brunswick (Douglas Field) 1 Sod Hangar Commercial Caribou 2 Paved None Commercial Dexter 1 Paved None Commercial Eastport 2 Paved None Navy Greenville 2 Paved None None Houlton 3 Paved Complete Army Lewiston 3 Paved Complete Navy Millinocket 2 Paved None None Norridgewock 2 Paved None None Old Town 2 Paved None None Pittsfield 2 Paved Complete Commercial Portland 3 Paved Complete Commercial Princeton 2 Paved None None Presque Isle 3 Paved Complete Army Rockland 3 Paved Complete Navy Sanford 3 Paved Complete Navy Scarboro 1 Sod Hangar None Skowhegan 1 Sod None Commercial Waterville 3 Paved Complete Commercial West Minot 1 Sod None Commercial Winterport 2 Paved None None * Army and Navy airports are not available to the flying public but it is anticipated that they will be after the war is won.

'C ' ACH year, over a period extend- patches of water, their shiny scales 'in g from late in April to the mid­ flashing in the sun, while sea gulls dle of June, the coastal streams and fish hawks wheel overhead. and brooks of central and eastern Then as one of the great birds swoops Maine are the scene of one of the down, the riling of the water spreads most amazing and mysterious mira­ away from that spot, reappearing in cles in the incomprehensible book of a few minutes many yards away. Mother Nature. Sometimes the great schools hang It is the run of the alewives—mil­ off shore for days, waiting until the lions and millions of them—jamming spawn inside them is at just the right the streams and brooks and sluice­ stage of maturity. Then they make ways from bank to bank as they head for the streams and the rush is on. for the coastal ponds and lakes to In each town along a coastal spawn. stream the next few days are hectic. Where they come from out of the Every available man and boy is busv limitless spaces of the blue sea, no dipping out the alewives, either for one has ever known, for few, if any, family use, or for the thousands of are ever taken where the deep sea barrels that annually are processed fishermen drag their nets. Yet, by the alewife industry. Thousands marking experiments have shown of people come from far and near that with unerring instinct, the fish to watch the sight when the word is always return to the same stream passed along that “ The alewives are and lake where they were spawned— running.” Just a few years ago and to no other. And if they are un­ more than 1,000 persons were counted able to return to their native pond lining the banks of the small stream and stream, because of dams and that passes through the town of War­ other obstructions, the alewife re­ ren, in Knox County, on the first day turns to the sea to die. In the nomen­ the alewives began their run. clature of the naturalist, the alewife is anadromous. T he method of processing has not The alewife is of the herring fam­ changed greatly in the past century. ily, although much larger than the Ten of the fish are strung through the common herring. Average fish weigh gills on a cedar stick and then put from two-fifths to a third of a pound. in a salt pickle for three days. After When coming in from the sea, the this interval they are removed from schooling fish have silver sides and the pickle barrel, washed in clear pronounced blue green backs. In ap­ water and hung up to dry on the pearance they resemble a small shad smokehouse racks. After they are and have the same bony structure. thoroughly dry, a fire is made of Schooling of the fish off shore as small kindling and then smothered they get ready to make their runs up with sawdust, which produces the the coastal streams is watched close­ smoke necessary in this method of ly each Spring by the veteran shore processing. fishermen. The first sight of them is During the past several years sev­ as they rile the surface of large eral fish packers on the Maine coast

Gathering the alewives at Warren and Damariscotta have canned the alewives under the habitants. This custom was adopted trade name of river herring. The generally in Maine towns where the fish were packed in round cans and annual run of the fish was a com­ cooked or processed with slight sea­ mon thing. Each family of a town soning of onion, spice and vinegar. was permitted to buy a “ fish ticket” , Most of these are retailed for civilian which entitled them to buy 300 fish use in this country as a war food. at 20 cents per hundred. Many fam­ The 1944 pack was about 80,000 ilies smoked the fish on shares. cases. As the original idea of the town In terms of the annual catch the control of the fishery was to benefit manpower shortage has been a con­ the local poor, the rights to the an­ trolling factor. Recent records show nual run were and still are auctioned that the annual catch did not ap­ of to the highest bidder by the town proach the number of fish that came officers. Widows of the town, follow­ into the Maine streams. In most ing the ancient custom, are allotted cases the towns sold a specific amount 400 of the fish as their part of the from their river and when that was run. taken the fishing ceased and the re­ The importance of the annual run mainder of the run went on to the of alewives to some of the towns on spawning grounds. the coast is expressed in a jingle At Dennysville, in Washington composed by one of the early inhabi­ County, every sixth netful taken tants. “ Thomaston for Beauty, Rock­ from the river is put into the nearby land for Pride; If it had not been for pond to insure the catch for the fol­ the Alewives, Warren would have lowing year. In this particular river died.” there have been times when the During the latter half of the 19th schooling fish were so thick that it century the catching and smoking of was impossible to dip them with hand alewives became an established indus­ nets. It is not unusual for one man try from which the town government to dip 100 barrels of fish from the gained substantial income. The river in a single day. catches were auctioned to dealers, who processed them either by salting or smoking. Many went into the win­ A lewife dipping is one of the old­ ter cellars of homes within an easy est fisheries in Maine, so far as early radius of the coast, but the bulk of coastal settlers were concerned. In the crop was shipped in Down-East 1680 it is recorded that the schooling vessels to the West Indies where they fish were so thick in the coastal were in great demand by the Negro streams the inhabitants took them inhabitants. A sort of soup, made from the water by hand. from alewives and bananas, became In 1782, at the close of the Revolu­ an important staple in the diet of tionary War, the inhabitants of what Puerto Ricans. is now the town of Warren were suf­ From the early days until the pres­ fering from a “ shortage of pro­ ent, the catch of the fish has gradu­ visions.” The situation reaching the ally dwindled until today the amount breaking point in April. Then, provi­ of fish caught is but a fraction of the dentially, on the last day of the number landed in the 1890’s. month, the alewives came into the St. But in the towns that have taken Georges River and saved the inhabi­ care of their fisheries and sluiceways, tants from starvation. The town the annual run is still a marvel and fathers restricted the fishing and di­ an important source of sustenance vided the catch evenly among the in­ and profit.

Maine lobsters are shipped almost daily by air to points as far away as the U. S. Pacific Coast. I. The Goodall-Sanford industries, enriching the life of a State and a Nation.

By Richard A. Hebert 'T 'H IS is a story of the “ making of Maine”, a romance of the coalescence of Nature’s marvelous works with the creative genius and the persevering labor of men. It is the story of a Maine town and the industry that made it a true community—an “ American” community of diverse national root­ stocks, whose honest civic pride and industrial enterprise have en­ riched the life of a State and a Nation. The broad stream of Maine’s history has many fountain heads. First, the inscrutable wisdom of a Creator placed in this “ sentinel of the North” the hills and valleys, the lakes and streams, the rugged coast on the North Atlantic. The explorers saw all this and marvelled. Then came the settlers, who cleared the land and carved out of the wilderness with their own hands the civilization that has lost none of the pioneering, none of the daring, none of the respect for man’s labors that have entitled Maine to bear on her shield the motto, “ Dirigo.” Then came the inventors, the organizers, the builders, merging with the streams of men and women from other hearths, all joining to­ gether their minds and hands to fashion the monuments to industry and culture that have spread the name and fame of Maine through­ out the world.

In a pleasant valley along the start of the Civil War gave him a shores of a comparatively small river big start along the road to success. in the Southwestern Corner of Maine It was the capital saved from this are spread the homes and shops and venture that enabled him to establish factories of Sanford-Springvale. It a mill for weaving mohair plush fab­ is the largest community in the State rics at Sanford in 1867. This was the still retaining the historic town form beginning of what has since been of government, with selectmen, an­ known as the Sanford Mills. nual meeting day, direct vote on ap­ In 1889 the Goodall family, in par­ propriations, etc. Sanford was a ticular, three sons of Thomas Goodall, typical Maine farming community in formed the Goodall Worsted Com­ 1866 when Thomas Goodall selected pany to construct and operate mills it as the site for his new woolen mill. for spinning wool and mohair yarn His was a typical American saga. and weaving worsted textiles. He had arrived in New York from Despite their separate corporate England in 1846 at the age of 23— identities these mills were operated penniless, for his money had been substantially as one enterprise, the stolen from him on the long passage buildings being located across the over. He obtained his first job at street from one another. During the South Hadley, Mass., having been an past year a corporation merger was apprentice to an English woolen effected, bringing the enterprises in­ manufacturer. Later he launched to one corporate structure now known out for himself at Troy, N. H., where as Goodall-Sanford, Inc. he was the first manufacturer to This was brought about through make blankets shaped to a horse’s the efforts of Elmer L. Ward, now body. A government contract at the president and treasurer of the new corporation. Both he and other of­ world is testimony that none have ficers have been associated with the ever succeeded. Goodall-Sanford enterprises for many The “ open secret” in the manu­ years. These include William S. facture of Palm Beach cloth lies in Nutter, vice president; F. Everett the fibers from which it is woven. Nutter, vice president and clerk; Angora mohair—wool from the an­ Frank M. Sugden, vice president; gora goat— has a peculiar character­ and Arthur M. Jones, comptroller and istic among woolen fibers. When assistant treasurer. placed under a magnifying glass, It is the expressed intention of angora mohair fibers are seen to be these officers and the remaining smooth, that is, they have no fuzzy Board of Directors not only to con­ little tentacles along the surface of tinue the forward-looking and pro­ the fiber as do most wool and other gressive policies which have made fibers. Goodall-Sanford preeminent in its In the process of weaving with field, but to expand and improve these ordinary fibers, the fuzzy tentacles policies wherever possible in line with tend to mat together, closing the air the company’s vital position as an spaces between the fibers. Thus they integral part of the community. produce a cloth that is relatively air­ tight, serving to retain heat and moisture, no matter how light the F rom the small wooden building weight. By using the smooth fibers established by Thomas Goodall in of angora mohair, the Palm Beach 1867, the physical plant at Sanford has grown to scores of steel and con­ weaving of Palm Beach cloth does not mat the fibers, thereby providing, crete and brick buildings occupying as the manufacture claims, a fabric a site of 50 acres at Sanford alone, that has 1,600 tiny “ open windows” with lesser mill buildings at adjoin­ per square inch. This allows for ing Springvale. The company also quicker evaporation of bodily heat, owns or leases subsidiary plants in which is the process that produces half a dozen cities of the East and the cooling effect on the human skin. Middle West, most of them used for Independent laboratory tests of 23 the making of garments. fabrics, including Palm Beach, seer­ Growth of the Goodall-Sanford suckers, linens, gabardines, syn­ operations is testimony to the wide­ thetics, tropical worsteds and others, awake policies which have always have shown that Palm Beach cloth characterized these enterprises. They has a rate of evaporation 22 per cent have always maintained one of the faster than the average of the other outstanding research organizations of fabrics. Another advantage of Palm the entire textile industry, keeping Beach cloth is that it is washable by abreast of, and in some cases pioneer­ soap and water, as well as dry-clean- ing in the latest advances in textile able. manufacture. Another far-sighted policy has been that of promoting and encour­ Prior to 1931, the Goodall com­ aging employees within the ranks, pany sold its Palm Beach cloth to whose creative genius and business clothing manufacturers and dealers ability have contributed in no small to be made into suits and other gar­ measure to the success of the com­ ments. In that year, however, a sub­ pany. sidiary was formed to be the chief One of these was William S. Nut­ manufacturer of apparel from Palm ter, present vice president of the com­ Beach cloth and other fabrics of the pany, who has been associated with company’s line. This step was con­ the mills since 1891. In 1906 Mr. sidered something of an innovation Nutter invented the patented “ Palm in the industry at the time, but the Beach” cloth, which became world far-sightedness of Col. William N. famous and is said to be worn where- Campbell, then president of the com­ ever in the world the temperature goes pany, has since proved justified, for above 75 degrees. it gave Goodall unified control of its Many manufacturers have at­ product from raw fibers to finished tempted to imitate this cloth, but the suits. fact that the Palm Beach is still the It also made possible a nationally outstanding summer fabric in the advertised uniform price within the reach of every man’s pocketbook. For finished automobile upholstery fab­ the 1944 season this was $19.50 for rics. men’s “ Palm Beach” suits, $24.75 for During the current war, both di­ men’s “ Sunfrost” suits and $29.75 for visions have done a substantial men’s “ Springweave” suits. “ Sun- amount of direct and indirect war frost” and “Springweave” are pat­ production, including the manufac­ ented trade names for new develop­ ture of woolens, alpaca pile fabrics, ments in fabric for summer apparel, coated fabrics, duck, military and the former being a blended fabric naval uniforms, Army ties, shirting, with the feel and appearance of Cash- bunting and other materials. mere and the latter having a super­ The foregoing description of prod­ resistance to wrinkling. One of the ucts gives some idea of the diversity customers’ tests for “ Springweave” is of operations of Goodall-Sanford, Inc. to tie the sleeve into a hard knot, then But, more important, it reflects a untie it and the resultant wrinkles steady growth and development quickly disappear. The “ open secret” through changing times of war and here is again found to a great extent peace, of constant alertness to in the angora mohair characteristics, changes in public tastes, new textile one of which is that the fiber is two methods and constantly improved and one-half times as strong as most products. Starting with the manu­ grades of wool. That, plus years of facture of horse blankets in the Civil Goodall research, finally resulted in War, the Goodall operations have the “ Springweave” fabric. weathered three subsequent wars and While the bulk (58 per cent in every major and minor economic de­ 1944) of Goodall’s products was in pression. finished garments, the diversity of As for postwar prospects, no se­ the operations is shown by important rious reconversion problem is antici­ percentages in other categories, such pated, because all products manu­ as cloths for service and commercial factured directly or indirectly for war uniforms, neckties, women’s suits and purposes have been manufactured dresses, cassock and nun’s habit cloth, with existing plant and equipment cloth for shirtings and lounging from raw materials similar to those robes and drapery, upholstery, bed­ used in its normal business. Also, spread and other decorative fabrics they are of the same general char­ for homes, hotels, offices, hospitals acter as the company’s normal prod­ and certain transportation uses. ucts.

One net result of the company’s Products of the Sanford Mills Division have a foremost reputation diversity and unhesitancy to adopt in trade and transportation circles. progressive policies has been the These include pile upholstery fabrics stability of its labor force and the for automobiles, railroads, and other good will and loyalty evidenced on transportation users, furniture manu­ many occasions by its employees. facturers, jobbers, distributors, etc. This labor record is outstanding even Also produced are woolen cloakings, for Maine, where the general tone of carpeting, coated fabrics, rubber rolls employer - employee relationships is and processed fibers. far smoother and on a more rational basis than perhaps in any other sec­ At one time more than 85 per cent tion of the Nation. Exemplary of of the plush upholstered seats on the community of interest between America’s railroads were covered by labor and management is the fact that the products of the Goodall-Sanford in all the years of its existence there mills. And when the automobile, has never been a serious labor dis­ especially the now predominant closed pute at Goodall-Sanford since the car came in, the Goodall-Sanford gates were first opened to employees. company was ready and manufac­ In years of service there are scores tured enormous quantities of pile of employees who have been with the fabrics for this market. During the company forty and fifty years and past two years they have developed many more count their tenure of em­ new types of pile fabrics to meet a ployment there at upwards of twenty change in public taste for smoother years. As AN in t e g r a l and vital part of Sanford today also boasts of one the community it has helped to build, of the most outstanding park and the Goodall-Sanford industries have playground developments in New an important share in the civic, England. There is a Memorial Park philanthropic and cultural life of of many acres of rolling, wooded land Sanford-Springvale. bordering on the Mousam River be­ In the Central Square of the town tween Sanford and Springvale; there stands a bronze statue of the late is a large playground near the center Thomas Goodall, founder of the in­ of Sanford directly across from the dustries. The statue was conceived, baseball park and it is fully equipped financed and erected by the employees with the latest in sports courts, wad­ themselves as a token of their appre­ ing pool, field house with showers ciation for what man had wrought in and all necessary paraphernalia; Sanford. When, in 1910, the town Springvale also has its up-to-date voted to erect a municipal building playground; and a new playground is and raised $15,000 for that purpose, being developed on High Street at George B. Goodall, chairman of the the eastern end of the town, which building committee, put up $65,000 will combine park and playground de­ of his own money to construct an velopment. The Memorial Park $80,000 structure— in those days a project is being coordinated with the mighty and imposing project for a high school athletic field and recre­ town of its size. ational program. All of these projects have been When the housing situation became made possible through the active in­ acute in the summer of 1919, the company had 100 modern houses terest of the Goodall family and built, which were sold to the em­ other individuals connected with the ployees at less than cost. Today, the mills and through the medium of their percentage of people who own their gifts, legacies and endowments. own homes is higher in Sanford than The Goodall-Sanford group also in any other town or city in the State. has been a major factor in the de­ The company some years ago built velopment of the Bauneg Beg Coun­ an outstanding baseball park for this try Club, one of the most attractive community and for years the Goodall- in New England, and development of Sanford team was tops among indus­ the Town Club, whose attractive trial teams in the state. quarters are used for meetings of the In 1928 the Henrietta B. Goodall Rotary, Kiwanis and other commu­ Memorial Hospital was constructed nity groups. Both these projects on Sherburne Heights, a handsome, have been assisted as instruments of modern institution of early Georgian civic improvement and encourage­ architecture. This hospital has for ment to civic morale. years ranked among the first ten in One of the outstanding libraries the Nation on standards of equip­ in Maine, the Louis B. Goodall Me­ ment, operation and general excel­ morial Library was built in 1937 as a lence. gift to the community by Mrs. Lelia With community support and the Goodall Thornburg. It is on Main generosity of the Goodall family an Street near the original Goodall resi­ airport was laid out in 1930, which dence. has since been expanded and is now being operated by the Navy as one of To LIST THE OTHER myriad ways the finest airports in Maine. In the in which the entire area of Maine postwar era, if the Navy does not centered on Sanford-Springvale has need it, this airport will be a tre­ benefited by the existence of the mendous asset to all of Southwestern Goodall-Sanford mills would be im­ Maine. possible. The modern town improve­ Sanford and Springvale, joined to­ ments, the creature comforts, the gether in one town administration, earnings and savings that made pos­ both have outstanding high schools sible college educations for so many, and in the former the town’s domi­ the encouragement to the professions, nant industry is recognized by a the support for cultural activities, all course of study in textiles, the first these and other categories of commu­ to be established in the State. nity life have found their well- springs in the achievements of the humble task, who have contributed in men and women who, over the years, the past 80 years to the building of have developed Goodall-Sanford. this monument of man’s humanity to From heterogeneous origins— Eng­ man, the State of Maine gives un­ lish, French, Canadian, Scotch and stinting praise. And to the men and Irish— has developed a unified com­ women of Goodall-Sanford who have munity and a community esprit that gone to war goes the assurance of stands today as a beacon light in the an industry and a community that broad panorama of American life. their town, their people, wish them a To all the men and women of safe and speedy return. Goodall-Sanford, in high office or at

T h e W a d s w o r t h -W o o d m a n Company in Win- throp is the oldest oil cloth plant in the nation still operating under its original management. Besides oilcloth for essential civilian use, such as table and shelf covering, hospital sheeting, infants’ sanitary wear, mattress covers, etc., it recently completed a contract for oil cloth covers used in wrapping air­ plane motors during shipment overseas. It is one of only three plants in the country producing this es­ sential commodity. Under normal capacity the plant can turn out 15 to 16 miles of 46 or 54 inch oil cloth every day, so that in 10 days the plant could turn out a strip of finished oil cloth reaching from Win- throp to Boston.

A NEW INDUSTRY to use pine pulp in the manu­ facture of fibre board is planned at South Windham. Organization of the new company recently was an­ nounced and production is scheduled to be underway during the coming months. The process was brought to this Country from Austria and the originator has been making experiments in the fibre board field in Maine for more than a year. The product is ex­ pected to be used in the shoe industry, among other users, and the plant will be the only one in the United States operating under this special patent. The South Windham area has a large supply of pine. A ROUND the cracker barrel at his efforts a grant for Calais Acad­ ^•one of the famous old country emy was given by the State. Mr. stores near here they still tell the Smith experienced a great deal of story about the man who has since difficulty in securing the grant, but *isen to be president of one of our kept hammering away until one day argest Maine corporations, a story he achieved his objective. vhich he has told on himself very “ He started talking at the opening >ften. of the session early in the morning. It seems that in his younger days, The day wore on and Noel kept talk­ vhen he was first starting out on the ing. Noontime came and other mem­ ■oad, he was very much pleased with bers went out for lunch, but Noel limself and with his job. On his first kept on talking, only stopping at in­ risit to this particular country store tervals to sip from a glass of water. le walked in with all the cockiness in The afternoon came and drew to a he world and introduced himself close and Noel kept on talking. Ad­ musquely to the typical old Maine journment time came and Noel was ifankee proprietor. In rapid fire still talking. Finally a thoroughly >rder he stated his name, the com- beaten-down legislator jumped to his >any he represented, the purpose of feet and shouted: ‘For Heaven’s sake lis visit, etc., etc. give him his old grant. He’s the only When he finally finished his spiel, windmill I ever saw that could run he old Yankee calmly looked at him all day on nothing but water!’ iver his glasses and said: “ Mr. Smith incidentally went on to “ How do you do! Have a chair, higher things, becoming Secretary of iave two chairs!” the State of Maine and later Secre­ — C. R. S., Augusta. tary of the United States Senate, an office he held at the time President T n its story on Lincoln was assassinated.” ■^the recent fire —J. L. M., Calais. which destroyed famous old Calais T he “ Old Lady” Academy, the nobody wanted has | Calais Advertiser achieved world ^ raked over a bit of fame and brought f j ancient history a new dairy record [ which depicts the to the State of A I ww! rugged perse- Maine. Sheis vv^* erance— some call it doggone stub­ Gilsland B. Foxy bornness— typical of Maine folk. The Poetess, a regis­ .ccount follows: tered Jersey owned “ In 1856 the Hon. Noel Smith of by Dr. George L. Meylan of Casco, Calais was Speaker of the Maine and named a national and state louse of Representatives and through champion by the American Jersey Cattle Club. In the 305 days of the “ I guess so. How much?” record tests, the “ Old Lady” produced Dick told him the Government esti­ more butterfat than any Jersey over mated about $100,000 each. 12 years of age since the Club began “ How many?” keeping records 76 years ago! Dick said maybe five or six at that The “ Old Lady” was bred by David particular yard. E. Moulton of Portland and Fal­ The old builder went back in the mouth and was sold into the herd of kitchen, presumably to do a little Walter F. Nolen at five years of age. quick figuring. Then he returned: When the Nolen herd was dispersed “ All right. When do they want to in 1940, many experienced breeders start?” made their selections until the 50 Dick said he would let him know sister-milkers were all gone. Mills C. as soon as he could get the Govern­ Aldrich, herdsman for Dr. Meylan, ment agencies to complete the ar­ said the cow was too good to go out rangements. They said goodbye. of production when the war effort “ Half a million dollars’ worth of was beginning to look for more milk. business,” smiles Dick, “ and he didn’t The herdsman’s appeal brought her even invite me into his kitchen!” to her new home and now to world — C. S. S., Portland. fame as one of the greatest Jersey cows of all time! Maine folks forgive, but they — W. S. R., Portland. don’t forget. In a story announcing the arrival in town of a certain re­ L ^ i \ i— Dick H allet, spected gentleman to speak for the ■ 'jjJ- — whose latest book formation of a very worthy organ­ || —— “Foothold of ization, the Skowhegan Independent l| — Earth” is “ typi- Reporter notes: “ Incidentally (Mr. Blank) is no '"JU'Y ca^y Maine”, tells about the time at stranger to Skowhegan, since he was O w J the beginning of chased out of town nearly sixty years ago with his Augusta baseball team. • v/l f \ s th e w a r produc- / | |/\ |i tion effort when he He clearly recalls Ed Heselton, one went along the of the well known proprietors of the Maine coast trying to interest the Hotel Heselton.” old-time Maine boat-builders in con­ —J. B., Skowhegan. structing wooden barges that the Government said it needed fast. A ir A ge N ote: Down Thomaston way he was di­ A small plane rected to the home of one of the vet­ equipped with eran builders whose small boats skis landed on made fame when that Maine coastal snow - covered industry was in its heyday. He found Gilman Street the place, up on a point of land, and in Waterville re­ knocked on the front door. The only cently and while response was a dog barking inside residents of the the house. He went around to the vicinity believed the plane had been kitchen door and knocked there. Still forced down, it was learned later that no answer. He headed for the wood­ it had landed there for the conveni­ shed and knocked there, just as the ence of a passenger. kitchen door opened. The plane was piloted by Win The gruff old boatbuilder asked him Bowen, who has a field at Pittston what he wanted. The conversation and with him was Arthur Brann of then went something like this: Silver Street, Waterville. “ Can you build barges?” Dick Brann said the landing was made asked. at the closest spot available to his “ Maybe.” home and he termed it a “ convenient” “ Can you build them [— ] (giving place. the specifications)?” — Waterville Sentinel. “ I might.” “ Can you build them with Maine S. J. T upper, 98, of Waterville, is spruce?” the oldest pensioner of the more than 2,500 former employees receiving an­ nuities from the Socony-Vacuum Oil The Pine Cone will pay $5 for Company. Tupper was a kerosene each lead item and $2 for each salesman before he retired prior to subsequent item published in World War I. Around the Cracker Barrel. The — C. S. M., Waterville. material can be anything of fact, fiction, or phantasy, so long as it T his is undoubtedly the worst conforms to the description of storm since the one that all but “ typically Maine.” Contributions obliterated the standpipe, according must be not longer than 250 to the pictures. But there is no words and cannot be acknowl­ truth in the rumor that the sardine edged or returned. Address: factory owners have sent in an order Cracker Barrel Editor, State of for 500 pairs of snowshoes for the Maine Publicity Bureau, 3' St. out-of-town packers. John Street, Portland 4, Maine. — Bonar, Lubec Herald.

Capt. C. E. A llen of Gardiner, Army Medical Corps, home recently on a 30-day sick leave, walked into the R. P. Hazzard Co. shoe factory at Augusta wearing a pair of Hazzard-made paratroop boots that had seen him through 14 months of duty over­ seas, including many weeks of muddy, frontline slogging. Purpose of his visit was to compliment the company on the excellence of their product, for the boots showed little evidence of serious wear. He received his boots on Christinas Day in 1942 and wore them almost constantly while in France. Many times, he said, they were caked with mud a half-inch or more thick.

Mount Katahdin, rising one mile above the Cen­ tral Maine Forest, is the first spot in the United States to greet the morning sun. On a clear day it is pofesible to see more land and water from the top of this mountain than from any other known point of land, as there are no other ranges to cut off the view. The greater part of this area has been deeded to the State by former Governor Percival P. Baxter as a State Park in memory of his father. Because the following’ article is so de­ But there was no place where Per­ scriptive of Maine, where the late Arthur Staples gave full expression to the in­ fect Days could all abide at once. spirations of a lifetime, The Pine Cone is Not in the South, where Winter could proud to reprint his tribute to a great region— New Kngland. not go, and where Spring could not be born. Not in the North, where Summer dies and Autumn never was. Nowhere in all the Universe, a fitting HP HERE is a story that, once upon place! So Jove again assembled all a time, the gods decided to make the gods and they created New Eng­ four perfect days, each different land as the abiding place for the from the others. Four Perfect Days and custodian of So Jove summoned the makers of the Four Seasons — The Temperate days from their shy retreats and bade Land, which has and holds in keeping them to their work. And one took these marvels of the works of the the vesture of the morning mists and gods, both great and small. fashioned a day of the color of the plumage of the gray dove. It walked T hey ask us amid apple-blossoms over carpets of why we love New violets; and tiny birds burst into song England and we at its coming. And they called it say it is because Spring. we have spring, Another took the hour of noon and summer, autumn made of it a Summer day. It was and winter. After like a beautiful woman, her garments a winter of blaz­ strung with amethyst and topaz. And ing beauty and su­ the fire of her sleepy eyes was full perb glory, come of the passion of the Southland. the brown patches through the snow, the budding of trees, the running of Another flung away all of the trap­ the sap; the spectacle of renewing pings of the high noon and out of life; and Spring comes through the the languorous hours of mid-after- April shower to the days when the noon, made such opulent loveliness, apple blossoms empurple every hill­ that the gods had never seen its like side and the great trout leap to the before. Of the ochre of the dust, he lure, in every brook, stream and lake. made the settings of this perfect Au­ Soft winds sigh imperceptibly, day tumn Day; rubies, amber and jade and night into June and July when were its jewels, in settings of yellow the roses bloom, the bluebird rambles gold. from place to place and that bobolink And then Winter came, riding on has his own job to do, singing Orion and the Pleiades, and made the choruses from every fencepost. Me- one perfect day like the cold dead thinks there is a brook I know, that form of all loveliness, a pale princess meanders through a velvet meadow; of the snows. She lay on a royal a bending elm casts shadow; cows are bed of ermine, her garments sprinkled knee-deep in buttercups; white clouds; with diamonds; in her hands, lilies; a village spire; a caressing air of on her bosom, strings of priceless coolness on my cheek! This is New pearls. England summer. I have dwelt where the tradewinds with sunlight streaming down among blow, all day, all night, rattling the the trees as in cathedral aisles; wind­ palms— lovely indeed it is, perfect ing roads over hills, down valleys, peace, if you can have a change after breaking suddenly into vistas of a while. New England guarantees streaked mountains of sky-blue lake the change, slowly at first, through or peaceful villages. Here amid all crimson leaves and amber days; into these shy retreats there is place for the gentle coming of the first frosts four hundred perfect days— all per­ and snows, so fine and fair that chil­ fect days in all years, storm or shine, dren leap in glee to welcome the first fog or fine, each with its variety and feathery flakes of winter—lovelier appeal. The gods knew what they than can be described. I have even were about when they made a casket, passed a time on the shores of Huron, such as New England, for her gems where the people of the great South­ of perfect days. west go for summer rest. Lovely in­ deed! But not our Atlantic Coast, the Ocean itself singing, with N ew E ngland! We love her also “ haughty husky lips” the songs of for her traditions and her history; romance and of adventure. In Huron, for her records of loyalty; the graves is none of that appeal of vast distant on the hillside; the dead by the sea, shores, whence pirate and free-booter and nameless graves of heroes in the sailed; where Cabot touched; which sea; the graves on every battlefield Raleigh held; which Pilgrim settled. where the cause of freedom has been The gods made New England topo­ fought. On every side it presents a graphically as an abode of the FOUR new tale of romance, a field of endless seasons— none other has them. That research for scholar and historian. is why we love it and why we ask you Every hamlet has its traditional to come and participate in our regard. hero; every village its unique posses­ Everywhere is something different sion in native-son achievement in from what had ever been before— as statesmanship or letters. Beauty, different as are the four Perfect variety indeed! but also it appeals to Days, one from another. the imagination and the intellect. One moment a glimpse of the We love New England because it is ocean; next a towering mountain; unique in the making. Heavy moun­ next a mighty cataract; next a lake tain ranges cross it from south to miles long, miles wide; next forests north, out of the Appalachian. Pounding seas intruded on it; cupped deep bays and estuaries until its The late Arthur Gray Staples’ coast-line is the most wonderful in literary gifts were enhanced by a the world. Down its mountain-sides personal charm that made him be­ rush a score of the noblest rivers of loved throughout the State. A the east. Away to the north from its native of Bath and graduate of foot-hills, flow, in lazy, meandering Bowdoin College, he began his fashion, ideal canoeing waters career with the Lewiston Journal through vast forests, across wondrous and, despite flattering offers from purple lakes, blue as amethysts, on other periodicals, he remained down to the sounding seas of the far loyal to the last to his first love. north, between Maine and Canada. In public affairs and education cir­ Umbajejus, Umbazooksus, and Alle- cles he wielded great influence and gash waters! Beaver flap along; gained repute throughout New deer and moose stand knee-deep in England as one of the most fasci­ their mirrored summer flow; wild- nating of after-dinner speakers. birds flutter away at the paddle- Maine owes him a debt for his stroke. Great, lone hills of solid flint promotion of progressive meas­ arise round about and snow-capped ures, proclaiming of the State’s Katahdin stands sentinel. Lake-side multiple assets and the heritage camps ai’e there, silent and remote, of good ltierature and highly de­ save for the cry of the loon or the scriptive writings he left to startled leap of the deer or moose. Maine posterity in book form. And everywhere lakes, lakes, lakes. — Alice Frost Lord God was good to New England. W e love New England because it of New England different from the is the home of Thrift, Education, In­ song of the palm, yet passing beauti­ dustry, Agriculture— a balanced ra­ ful. There is a restless beat of mu­ tion for a real existence. Fields, sical waves on the keyboard of its pastures, sea, forest, towns and cities, majestic beaches. There is a song of valley and mountain, commingle in a courage where the rollers from off land of boundless energy and restless the windward shores break upon its courage. It pleases the eye to see the crags. Perfect rest and dreamless college tower against the outline of sleep are in the retreat of some for­ the factory chimney and see the trig est cabin, by some lake where the New England home amid the harvest waves ripple and sing all day, all glory. Here pressed early the foot of night just outside your window. the adventuresome pioneer and ever There is regained strength in canoe onward and inward from the first trips down New England streams foothold on the rugged coast rang the and the camp by night under the shel­ woodman’s axe to carve a domain ter of the tent. Here is the finest from the wilderness. We love New mountain range east of the Rockies England because she built the school with Mount Washington supreme in and the meeting-house first, of all her height and one lonesome mountain possessions. We love her busy towns far to the north, Katahdin, silent in and cities ; her a wilderness. broad spaces; her We love New England because of roads ; her her perfect days and nights; her va­ s. kindly people; her riety and charm. Let others sing of winding highways; winter in the tropics; we bespeak all h e r elm-shaded seasons in New England — today, streets. We love alert as she is, prepared and waiting , her for her fathers for the coming guests, her highways sand mothers o f ready, her people eager and waiting. „ the stock that built Down the galleries of the past we republics. see the pioneer. From the Gulf of St. Lawrence down all the shores to the quieter waters beyond Cape Cod, Elemental and fundamental is this, this was historic ground. Civilization v.»ur love for New England; and this found here an early and fertile field. is why we seek to set before the And he who comes will find not only world its unique appeal and offer its the things that minister to health and treasures freely to all comers. It of­ comfort but also vast treasures of his­ fers vast entertainment different from tory and tradition wherein, amid any other, in its healthfulness and perfect days, of the Four Seasons, he invigoration, throughout the Four may refresh both mind and body, to Seasons. Over it sweeps the tang of his lasting benefit and joy. the sea and the balsam of the pines. Its air is most pure; its perfume This is why we love New England. sweet. Songs are sung in the pines (Copyright. Lewiston Journal Co.)

Maine lobster fishermen in 1944 sold 14,500,000 pounds of that marine delicacy at an average price of 28 cents a pound. It was the largest haul since 1892. In returns to fishermen, the lobster is the most valuable seafood in Maine and one of the most valuable in New England. Reports of fishermen making $300 to $1,000 in some good weeks were numerous. And officials expect an expanding post­ war market. fGLUVAS

TFOREWORD: Eight years ago William L. Robbins came back, after many years of absence—mostly spent in large cities— to his native Island, to take over the newspaper which has served Deer Isle and other communities of eastern Penobscot Bay for 60 years. He found the location of the Messenger office greatly to his liking. From its front windows he can look out upon the village “ square’' and up the hill with its magnificent trees overhanging the street to where the Church-on-the- hill stands on the summit. He can see the ebb and flow at the postoffice as the mail comes and goes— the youth and life surrounding the school buildings; familiar faces and the friendly wave of the hand as neighbors and summer residents go by afoot or in their cars. From the rear windows he looks out upon the peaceful and soul-satisfying view of the Beautiful Harbor, the friendly white houses nestled in the trees on both sides, and, across the waters of the Bay, the Camden Hills. As he writes:

“The scene here is never twice alike— always changing but always satisfying. Varying conditions of weather and atmosphere; wind and calm; high tide or low; dawn, daylight, dusk and dark; clouds and sunshine— it is always an inspiration to look out of my back windows and it is from here that I see the varied life of sea and shore— the gulls, the eagles, the fish hawks and the little diving ducks, as well as the movement of the boats, the boys and girls swimming around the float— and, when the sun goes down, the glories of the sunsets.” So it was that Bill Robbins began to set down these incidents andr impres­ sions in a little editoHal column of the Messenger, entitled, appropriately enough, “From My Window.” Folks in general apparently liked the same things he did and many said so in letters and by word of mouth. Many sug­ gested that he assemble some of his sketches in book form, which he finally did. His friend Gluyas Williams, a summer resident of Deer Isle, drew him a cover for the book and a heading for the weekly column, which is reproduced above. Except for the length of the nose it is a good likeness, Bill admits. Then Frank P. Sibley, the famous Ed Pointer of the Boston Globe, wrote a foreword for a “ book he had not read, written by a man he had never seen." Nor had Sibley ever seen Deer Isle. Yet he could certainly say he knew the author, and through him he had come to know Deer Isle. Week by week, from the day he first discovered the modest off-shore newspaper on his desk, Sibley followed the ever-changing scene at Deer Isle and Northwest Harbor, and he could say, of Bill Robbins: “ He has shown me the bay, iced up or bringing home the flounder fisherman; the roads and the rabbits, the dog and the cat; he has made me acquainted with the sturdy, friendly neighbors and carried me along on the adventures of the wayward old horse who had the run of the place. “ Most of all, he has shown himself, which is what every man who puts pen to paper must do. And the man who can write with enthusi­ asm of sunrise and breezes, with love of his neighbors and with a keen eye for tiny incidents, is a man to cherish.” Bill Robbins got out his book in 19US, printing it in attractive form on the Messenger Press. That issue is now exhausted. He is trying to find time now to get out a new 19U5 edition, containing some of the best-liked sketches that have appeared since 19U3. The Pine Cone likewise first “ discovered” Bill Robbins in the columns of the Deer Isle Messenger. Because we believe his writings typify to a super­ lative degree the simple strength and beauty that characterize the Maine scene and Maine people, we obtained from him permission to reprint several sketches of our own selection from his book. — R. A. H.

NICE FOR THE NERVES T T ’S a panacea for tired nerves—this early morning scene from my window. A Not that my nerves are particularly frazzled, but I have been thinking as I have looked at it for a few minutes before beginning the work of the day how restful it would be to many if they could watch the changing scene with me. As I first look out the sun has not been up very long. It floods against the green bank on the opposite side of the Harbor, glinting the white trunks of the birches and gleaming from the white houses nestled in the trees. There is scarcely a breath of wind and the water is like a mirror. Presently a faint breeze gently ripples the surface and it is like a piece of moire silk. Off in the distance the hills are soft with blue haze. It is still, for the cars of the ship­ yard workers have all gone by and never a man-made noise disturbs the silence. Neither is there much motion. Evidently it is too early for the gulls, who are probably commuting from their sleeping ledges out in the Bay. Only a pair of little yellow birds flit about among the apple blossoms in the tree below my window and a pair of fat robins hop about the beach. Oh, yes, there’s a crow seeking what he can find in the rockweed on the ledges. The tide is going out and the boat down here on the beach which was floating a few moments ago is now resting on its side on the sand. It’s beginning to get more lively out there and the business of the day is under way. The first gull just floated by my window and they are beginning to appear, spotted on the ledges and floating on the water. A fish hawk is out for his breakfast, swirling around with his sharp eyes searching the water below. He spies something and stops short in his flight, rearing up on his tail as his wings fan the air to stop progress. Then he zigzags down and plunges into the water. Up again with a shake of water from his pinions he rises for another reconnaissance, and his m&te joins him to see what’s cooking. A flock of a dozen ducks in ragged formation flies south over the mill dam. As I finish it is still peaceful and beautiful. The scent from the huge bouquet of lilac blossoms which grow beside my building mingles with the salty tang from the Harbor. The sky is cloudless and the sun shines full over all. It is hard to realize that the world is in turmoil, but just as sure as the seasons change and the sun shines to bring warmth and light, the turning cycles of time will bring peace and calm and security to the world again— and soon, I hope.

NOSTALGIA IV/TADE me just a little homesick to wander around the old home place on Buckminster’s Point the other day. I looked over the cellar hole and foundation stones of the old house where first I saw the light of day and Aunt Edie got one of the severe shocks of her life when she saw the infant and asked my mother if that was the prettiest baby the doctor had. I remem­ bered the fence by the orchard under which I used to crawl on my tummy and swipe the plums. I looked up on the ledge where my grandfather’s little black­ smith shop used to be and which I haunted by the hour, fascinated by the glow­ ing forge, the sparks from the anvil and the ox-to-be-shod hanging in his sling. I wandered over to where the barn used to stand and could again see the cows with their necks in the old wooden stanchions, and up high, the loft where I used to sweat in haying time. Again I looked up the lane to the pasture, (if you can call 150 acres of woods and ledge and field a pasture) where old Shep and I and any boys or girls who were handy used to hunt the cows—clean over the Settlement quarry hill. I wandered down to the shore on the cove side to the ledge where I sailed my boat and the steep rock I used to fish off of and fall in from. Then across to the shore and beaches on the ocean side through mowing fields, now growing up to spruces. Up on that ledge was where I burned my barefoot toe at a clambake. The thorn tree looks just the same as it did fifty years ago. I wandered around the shore toward the point— over the sandy beach where the more hardy of us occasionally bathed in the cold ocean water— over the big ledges covered with the bleaching shells of clams, sea urchins and mussels, dropped there by the gulls so they could get at the meat. I looked at the great boulder— still big to my adult eyes, but which was enormous when I viewed it as a boy—which I used to scramble up and slide down, to the horror of the seat of my britches. The lobster traps are piled up on the ledge just as they used to be 50 years ago. Off there is Sheep Island, where Grandfather Buckminster used to turn his sheep out in the spring, bringing them back in the fall, and where I used to go “ rozbring” and step into hornets’ nests with my bare feet. Beyond is wide-spreading Merchant’s Island and farther ’round to the south is the multitude of isles of all sizes, with lofty Isle au Haut in the background. Back again in the cove I can see the little white peapod as it used to swing at its mooring just off the big ledge. In it I used to play and guide the sailing of the miniature “ Volunteer” which Father carved and rigged for me. But the house and the barn and the blacksmith shop and the bars in the pasture fence are all gone and while the beauty of the spot still remains, now it is back to nature again and only memory peoples it and makes it live— and makes me homesick. But, thank God for the memories.

GRANDSIR N town meeting I was seated immediately back of Roswell Davis. Most 88, Ihe said he was, and this was his 66th town meeting without a miss. About every third person, seems if, who passed him on their way to the ballot box, hailed him affectionately as “ Grandsir.” I was intrigued. “ How many de­ scendants have you on the Island?” I inquired. “ Well,” says he, “ I was figur­ ing up the other day and counting my 11 children and children’s children, with their husbands and wives— there’s 186 of ’em.” I could see after that why he was so interested in town affairs.

A TRIP IN THE TANGO NCE in many moons comes an experience that borders on the perfect, and O as I look back on that cruise in A. Cressey Morrison’s “Tango” last Mon­ day it seems as if that was one of ’em. I know I thought so at the time— I’m sure of it now. A smooth running boat on a smooth sea, clear vision to see leaping porpoises, spouting whales, slithering seals, passing sails, the seamy cliffs of the ages—old shore lines— pleasant companions with whom you can talk or be silent, eloquently. Whales? Sure! First individuals, then a school of several with three spouting at the same time with roars that came clearly over the half mile or so of distance. Enough of fishing to know that the fish were there— lunch on the lee side of craggy Seal Island. Ashore at quaint Matinicus and again at Vinalhaven. Then the ride home across the Bay with the sun astern sinking in a haze. Something of a burn, a fish or two, good appetite, the sloughing off of petty worries, the urge to sleep the sleep of utter relaxation and the memories of fine friendships and a wonderful host—that’s part of what I netted in a single perfect day.

T he travel industry is expected to be Maine’s No. One postwar business. A recent survey con­ ducted by the Maine Hotel Association shows what type of vacations people coming to the State prefer. A total of 47.3 per cent of the visitors coming to Maine would spend most of their time in one place, 6.8 per cent would spend most of their available time touring and 45.9 per cent would take a combination of both. Swimming led all other outdoor sports in preference.

If there is a postwar unemployment problem, Maine, because of its diversified industrial program, will be able to absorb the shock better than the ma­ jority of other states, in the opinion of Llewellyn C. Fortier, chairman of the Maine Unemployment Commission. On Ja n . 23, 1895, it was announced that the pine cone had received 11,411 votes for first place in the contest to choose Maine’s floral emblem in the na­ tional garland. Goldenrod came second, with 4,014 votes. Appleblossom was third with 3,134, others be­ ing mayflower, 318; pond lily, 76; violet, 41; pansy, 24; clover, 20; and scattering votes to 11 others, in­ cluding corn, rose, sweet pea, columbine, daisy, dan­ delion, pink, Canada thistle, sunflower, poppy and chrysanthemum, in that order.

Old time Maine woodsmen forecast immediate weather prospects by noting the antics of wildlife. When the deer, foxes, rabbits and other game fail to move around much, it usually means a storm is on the way. Usually these animals will forecast a clearing, too, by coming out before the storm is over. This warning was evident recently at the Water- ville Airport where, just before a snowstoi’m ended, several foxes appeared on the runways. A few days later, even following a good storm, there were no tracks around and another heavy snowstorm came within 24 hours. — Gene Letoumeau, Waterville Sentinel

F rom the standpoint of snow cover and other natural conditions, the past Winter was the best for winter sports in Maine for many years, but the absence of so many young people in the services and the necessary wartime restrictions which cut down such activities resulted in only limited participation in this form of recreation, winter sports fans report. If conditions are more favorable next Winter, Maine should have a banner winter sports season, they predict.

jp lto tv CstediU: Cover photo: Jordan Stream, Seal Harbor. By W. H. Ballard, Anchor Light Studio, Southwest Har­ bor, Maine. Pasture Scene and Brook Fishing by George F. French for Maine Development Commission. Maine in the Pacific, official U. S. Navy Photos. Alewives, by Wayne Buxton for Maine Development Commission. (Continued from Back Cover) tem of the Senate and Chief Justice Fuller presided over the Supreme Court,— almost the whole govern­ ment of the United States in the hands of men from Maine. MAINE of the hundred harbors! How many pens have praised her beauty, how many brushes traced her charms! How many hearts in all America delight in the memory of Artemus Ward and Bill Nye and Sarah Orne Jewett, of C. A. Stephens’ Old Squire and Kate Douglas Wiggin’s Rebecca, of the Maine stories of Elijah Kellogg and radio’s Seth Parker, and of many another neighbor ‘way down East’ ! On a summer night the stars stand out like beacon lights above the silent hills. Trim farms sleep in the moonlight. A trout leaps for a gnat, a deer steps lightly down to the brook, the harsh cry of a loon cuts the darkness. And hosts of America’s men and women and boys and girls are drinking deep of the pine-scented air, burying the cares of a weary winter — it’s vacation time in M AIN E! If your heart be homesick for the pound of the surf on a rockbound coast, for a clear blue sky above a deep blue sea— if you long for misty mountain tops and rock-sheltered beaches, for the quiet of a campfire beside a peaceful lake— if you would find “blueberries lying purple on the burnt pine barrens” and rasp­ berries weighing the bushes along a lazy country road — then it’s time to be off to M A IN E ! PINE TREE STATE, our nation salutes you! Accept our tribute to your industry and your rich tradition— and to the haunting loveliness that lures the traveler back and back again to your open, hos­ pitable door!

As broadcast to the Nation (Arranged by General Motors Co. in cooperation with Maine Publicity Bureau) A Tnlbuta to MAINE By Bruce Barton

AINE has been a valiant soldier. Her men battled for their empire against M the Indians and the French. They marched with Arnold up the Kennebec to storm Quebec. MAINE has been a dauntless sailor. Her fishing boats routed British warships in the first naval battle of the Revolution. Maine- built ships and Maine-bred seamen sailed the seven seas long before the days of the Yankee clipper. MAINE has wrested the bounties of Na­ ture from the sea and from the soil. Her fisheries enrich our tables with herring and lobster, haddock and cod. Her quarries yield granite monoliths for our great cathe­ drals. Her timber becomes lumber for our houses, paper for our'books. Her farms grow America’s richest crop of potatoes. The rushing waters of a thousand streams speed the looms of textile mills, the whir­ ring wheels of the shoemaker. Most of all, and best of all, she has been a mother or foster-mother of noble men and women. Here Henry Wadsworth Longfellow walked with Hawthorne on the campus of old Bowdoin. Here Edna St. Vincent Millay puts singing words on paper. Here Lillian Nordica hummed her earliest melodies, and Robert E. Peary and Donald MacMillan mapped Polar expeditions. Here James G. Blaine won his countrymen’s affections as the Plumed Knight; here Hudson and Hiram Maxim worked out their early inventions. Here Robert Hallowell Gardiner opened agri­ culture’s first school, and Frank Munsey and Cyrus H. K. Curtis dreamed of magazines. At one and the same time, Thomas B. Reed was Speaker of the House of Representa­ tives, William P. Frye was President pro

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