Courier Gazette : October 10, 1939
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M he ourier azette B T Entered as Second ClassC Mall Matter -G THREE CENTS A COPY Established January, 1846 By The Courler-Uaiette. 465 Main St. Rockland, Maine, Tuesday, October 10, 1939 V o lu m e 9 4 .....................N um ber 121. The Courier-Gazette Coolidge Memorial [EDITORIAL] THREE-T1MES-A WEEK THE COOLIDGE MEMORIAL CURBING OUR FIRE LOSSES “THE BLACK CAT" Editor Drive Has Its Formal Begin WM. O. PULLER Nothing should excite greater Interest and greater pride Associate Editor ning With Banquet In ln New England than the proposed "Calvin Coolidge Memorial” Citizens and Agencies Are Co-operating With FRANK A WINSLOW Boston Tonight which will have its Inception with tonight’s banquet at the Boston Chamber of Commerce, to be attended by 1000 com Subscriptions t3 00 per year payable In advance; single copies three cents. Plans to start raising funds for mittee members and friends. President Coolidge was vitally Fire Department In Avoiding Hazards Advertising rates based upon circula tion and very reasonable the new Calvin Coolidge Memorial Interested ln education and It Is eminently fitting that the NEWSPAPER HISTORY proposed memorial should be devoted to It. "Calvin Coolidge College to be built on Beacon street T h e r e a r e call for It upon the least hint of The Rockland Gazette was estab in Boston, are well under way, it College” will be a progressive liberal arts and educational Insti lished ln 1840. In 1874 the Courier was many .‘■peclal ob- fire, and this Is exactly what the established and consolidated with the was announced today by Mrs. Wil- tution, occupying 10,000 square feet of land, and overlooking s e r v a t i o n Oazette ln 1882 The Free Press was department wants. They are established ln 1850 and In 1891 changed Boston Common. Eminent men and women are lending their "week s” and Its name to the Tribune These papers equipped to fight fire and are on consolidated March 17. 1897 names and services to the powerful drive which will soon be "days" in the under way. and it is a matter of local pride that the chairman present day cal call 24 hours every day in the year. for the S tate of Maine should be a woman from Rockland. endar but it is The private citizen, by vainly try — I hive In imy heart, a tittle Mrs. Ellingwood. a former member of the Rockland School e x t r e m e l y ing to combat a blaze during those plant called reverence; I go to ♦ Committee, has always had at heart the interest of education, doubtful if any all important "first minutes" may ••• church to have It watered. and is socially prominent. Her organization for the Calvin Oliver Wendell Holmes ••• have the far- endanger his property and his loved Coolidge Memorial is proceeding on a systematic basis. reaching import ones. ■••••• ••• ••• ance of Fire Prevention Week, now Those Rockland citizens who being celebrated from one corner to have had occasion to call the de For High Schools FAMED SPECIALIST DIES the other of this great country of partment are amazed at the ab- ours. Its spontaneous growth is New England loses one of its most noted specialists ln the testimony of the universal accept (By Tlie Roving Reporter) Forty Plates, Illustrating death of Dr. Harvey Williams Cushing, international famous ance of its value. Life Of Elizahethian Eng brain surgeon. Dr. Cushing, professor emeritus of Yale Uni Fire departments, municipal and Searching through the attic of a i Capt. C W. Carver writes: Many versity, was 70 years of age—still in the prime of a career State governments, insurance com land Available house not many miles from Rock-1 thanks for the picture of the good which had shown such amazing progress ln the science of panies and thinking laymen co-op land the present owner found 116 old schooner, Polly, printed In your surgery, and which had done so much for the alleviation of erate with the newspapers of the A folio of photographic reproduc whiskey bottles. Tlie former owner Thursday Courier-Gazette, same to suffering in mankind. nation in bringing forcefully to the tions ilustrating the life of Eliza might reasonably be accused of be go into my scrap book. I have one public mind the seriousness of the bethan England, suitable for class ing a thirsty soul. of tlie Polly taken from the "Popu fire hazard and the great propor room display during the discussion lar Mechanics" of 1912 which said, A FEW THOUSAND LIVES tion of preventable fires which of history or literature, is available W. J. Hatton of Los Angeles, "Tlie National Society of United swell the nation's toll of human to High Schools in the State, ac An Associated Press despatch from Berlin credits Adolf whom I count as one of The Cou States Daughters of tlie War of 1812 death and injury and economic loss cording to the announcement of Mrs. William Ellingwood Hitler with being elated to find that the German losses in the rier-Gazette's most Interesting and recently presented the schooner, from fire. Fire Prevention Week Prof. John H HuddlLston, head of Polish campaign were only 44.000. Forty-four thousand faithful contributors, has my thanks I Polly, a privateer in the War of 1812 serves to an increasing extent to ] the department of fine arts at the liam A. Ellingwood. of Rockland casualties! Is Adolf Hitler elated to think that he, more than for a souvenir of the Oolden Oate I having a record of 11 captures with awaken the citizenry to the men University of Maine. State chairman of tlie Calvin Cool any other person is responsible for the great sorrow which Exposition in San Francisco, which . an honorary tablet. Tlie Polly was aces they tolerate dally in their High schools may' apply to Prof. idge Memorial committee in Maine. has descended upon almost as many homes? he has recently visited. Mr. Hatton built in 1805. Eleven ships were own home. Huddleston lor the folio which may The drive will be formally launched • formerly of Port Clydei expresses! forced to lower their colors to her. Chief Engineer Russell is leading be retained for a limited period. at a dinner to be held at the Boston doubt that he will get to see the As a merchantman she twice circled the local drive and is working The folio, which contains 40 Chamber of Commerce tonight. I World's Fair in New York, which the globe and now. although more ROY FERNALD IS COMPLACENT through many agencies to get over plates, is designed to be used pri- More than 1000 committee members would be a great pity, but when an than 100 years old. she is used ln his message of care. Through news marily by teachers and students of and friends will be on hand to hear 1 The Rockland correspondent of the Boston Sunday Globe other summer rolls around, it is the coastwise trade running to vari columns ln this newspaper, through > history, literature, and languages the many prominent speakers head- stresses the likelihood that ex-Senator Roy L. Fernald will be doubtlul if he will be willing to ous points with Boston as her home city wide information broadcast by issued through the extension publi- ed by Col. Prank Knox. Republican nominated for Governor in the June primaries if ail of the forego the temptation, when it port." word of mouth and through chil cations division of the Boston candidate for Vice President in 1936 present candidates remain in the field. This feeling is com means also a chance to look ln Museum of Pine Arts, the collec- j Col. Knox will speak on the subject dren, through inspections of bust- j The gentleman from the Third ing to be quite generally expressed throughout the State, and | upon the boys at the Port, and Mrs. E M. Torrey of Rockport, ness houses and public buildings, Ward. Francis D. Orne, Chairman tion on Elizabethan England is ac- J "Calvin Coolidge. Citizen, States- tlie only remedy that Mr. Pernald's opponents can see is the luxuriate with real clams. who has a summer cottage at Bay- companied by text and comments man and Individual." by uniformed firemen, through a of the Fire Committee. narrowing of the other candidates. Just how that can be side, Northport, read with special laboratory of potential hazards by Dr. Franklin B Williams of H ar The Maine County committees are accomplished nobody likes to suggest. As the nucleus of his Coming down town early Kundat j interest the account of Earl Perry's built by the Central Fire Station sence of destruction resulting from vard. Beginning with Holbein’s fa headed by; Mrs. Mabelle Brown, strength it is assumed that the Winterport lawyer would have morning I had occasion to chide an tame gull, for she also has a pet of captain and through a public ex their work. They subdue a blaze mous portrait of Henry VIII, the Kennebec County; Mrs. Maude most of those who supported him ln his fight against Gov. elderly feminine friend for being out this species at her seaside residence. hibition of fire department activi series moves down Into the period Clark Gay, Lincoln County; Mrs. Barrows last year, and that he would have gathered some with a minimum of water and axe at such an early hour sweeping “Peter,'* her marine visitor, hovers ties he spreads the gospel of pre work, using small streams and of Queen Bess, illustrating person- , Francis Smith, Waldo County; Mrs.