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Issued Saturday Tuesday Thursday Issu e Saturday he ourier azette T Entered Second Class CMall Matte, -G Established January, 1846. By The Courler-OaZette, 465 Main St. Rockland, Maine, Saturday, April 8, ,1939 THREE CENTS A COPY Volum e 94................. Number 42. thereafter his efforts were in the (EDITORIAL! The Courier-Gazette line of evangelistic, convention and THREETIMESA-WELK TIIE COUNTRY FAIRS educational work throughout the Editor THE SPIRIT OF THE EASTER SEASON It would seem to be a far cry to the Maine State Fairs, “The Black Cat” WM. O. FULLER United States and Canada. but the schedule printed on another page is sure to give the Associate Editor Following this came his service devotees their annual thrill, and even now will set many FRANK A WINSLOW as executive vice president for the ■ persons to making tentative plans for these late summer Subscriptions 83 GO per year payable recreational events. Here in Knox Countv there comes first In uutauie. music copies three ct-nis Alvin York Institute, executive sec Advertising rales based upon circula ln our affections the fair of the North Knox Horticultural tion and very reasonable retary for Asbury College and mem NEWSPAPER HISTORY ber of different college boards in and Agricultural Society, more generally known as the Union The Rockland Gazette was estab Fair. Ils increasing success is due to the able and energetic lished In !84C In 1874 the C ourier was the West and South. established and consolidated with the During the World War he served efforts of that fine group of officials, headed by Clarence Leonard as president. Oiven anything like a fair break on established in 1855 and m 1891 changed general speaker for the National lMarch b17?ei8»7Thei,e P,P' " War Work COunciI' and Was «en’ the weather this institution is certain to have the surplus necessary to carry on the Improvements and innovations s i ■ ■ ■ i z a o x = = ; a m eral public speaker In Camp Devens which the Association rejoices in making. O---------- O---------- 0 * Rise, heart! thy Lord la risen Z ® Period Ot six months—giving the WHY RUSSIA HESITATES By The Roving Reporter -H erbert — farewell message to all discharged £ men (from Devens) for three During the discussion of the war situation in Europe the past few weeks The Courier-Gazette has deplored the fact j months after the signing of the A reader of this column writes: that France and England have not shown greater tact and Armistice. "I am a faithful reader of The Cou- diplomacy in catering to that very necessary ally. Russia. In 1920 he was speaker for the rer-Gazette and also of The Black Meet Your Minister Department of Evangelism at the i Neither nation seemed to take the Bear very much into its Cat. so I came acrass your article Methodist General Conference in considerations, but when there arose the grave problem of about the pronunciation of the Oer- encircling Germany the Umbrella Man and his associates Rev Guy Wilson, D D.. pastor Des Moines. He served one year man word Wilhelmshafen. The cor of Pratt Memorial M E. Church, has <1934) as executive secretary of suddenly developed a great fondness and concern for that rect pronunciation should be Wil- covered much ground since he came the Maine Conference Claimants powerful nation. The position taken by this paper, through helms-hafen. I know the German untutored eyes, to be sure, now begins to reflect itself in the out of his native town of Madison- 1 Commission. language quite well and I am very columns of the metropolitan press. Under the caption "Russia ville, Ky | Then came his appointment as ( sure about this.” is Invited Back," there appeared ln Wednesday's Herald Descended from a line of preach- pastor of the Methodist Episcopal —o— Tribune the following editorial: ers it was entirely logical that his Church in Bar Harbor where his II Mr Chamberlain’s statement to the House of Commons Before me is a copy of the Rock education should be directed toward work during three years’ pastorate was. to a large extent, simply more of the same at any rate land Courier, dated March 2. 1875. that profession. He graduated from was blessed in all departments. A it was more of the same. The Prime Minister apparently has and edited by W. O. Fuller, Jr. Tlie Asbury College in Kentucky, the , year ago Bishop Herbert Welch, had no second thoughts; the new policy of resistance first and report of the city election showed Pacific Bible College, and Asbury presiding over the Methodist Oen- appeasement afterward is being actively pursued, and has "no choice," Samuel Bryant hav I eral Conference appointed him brought the Prime Minister himself to at least one point which would have seemed impossible for him only a few ing 608 votes, John Lovejoy 481, pastor of Pratt Memorial. M E. weeks ago. He has publicly admitted the existence of Soviet and Allen Bowler 301. One aspirant Church, where his pastorate has Russia; even more, he has now formally invited it back, in for office was "struck violently in been so well rewarded that the spite of its "internal system of government," to co-operation the stomach by an intoxicated In "in resistance to aggression." After the care used to exclude quarterly conference has expressed dividual." I find some local items itself unanimously in favor of his the Soviets from all hand in the great "peace with honor" at Munich, this must not have been too easy for Mr. Chamberlain. characteristic of Mr Fuller's strong return for the coming year It does not in itself go far toward clearing up the mystery vein of humor.—Messrs Vose St Dr Wilson Is in especially popu of Russia’s precise position in the new policy. It is anything Porter of the Gazette had bought lar demand on the lecture platform. but an announcement of the military alliance that some feel the stock and fixtures of the late Previous to taking up residence in is necessary if the new policy is to succeed ln pacifying Europe. But it does show that Hitler has. at any rate, made Rockland Daily Globe, and the Ga Maine four years ago. since his possible the return of Soviet Russia to that collaboration zette was to move into the Globe marriage to Gaynell Kimball of with the West from which the West was at so much pains to office—The large two-story board Fort Fairfield, he has resided in exclude it last fall; and by so much adds another element of ing house on Hurricane Island, oc strength to the position which Mr. Chamberlain is now build Brookline. Mass., and New York. cupied by M A Achorn. was de Dr. Wilsons hobby? Almost ing. Doubtless the Russians themselves are still somewhat skeptical of Mr. Chamberlain’s intentions. But his reference stroyed by fire, which communicat while these lines were being wrlt- shows him ready to accept the Implications of the bold line; ed to W P Hendrick's boarding j ten he was seen looking with avid and strength not only attracts strength but is able to com house, also destroyed. 1 eyes upon a windowful of fishing mand it. The speech does not add much but it adds a frac tackle. Tarpon in Florida, steel tion, at least, to the hope, as Mr. Chamberlain himself so strikingly puts it, that Europe may yet "gradually simmer The Northend woman who vainly heads in Oregon, sea salmon in down into a state of quietude." tried in five places of business to Maine—he has caught them all. O 4>i— — io get a ftve-dollar bill changed, was And wonder of wonders! He gets THE IMMENSITY OF MOVIES greatly chagrined, when she did recreation by reading the McFad The discussion as to Sunday movies, created by the Maine find a place, to discover that her Theological Seminary, doing post den true detective tales. Used to legislature debate, naturally compels attention towafd this fiver was a one. graduate work in the University of be a golfer, too. enormous industry. Here, for instance, are a few facts that cannot fail to edify and enlighten the public. Last year there Southern California and in the Uni Before the days of the linotype Mrs. Kenneth Mills has this were 28.500 employes in the production end of the Industry versity of California copy was set "out of the case Mark paper’s thanks for copies of the St and the payroll was $129,000,000 ; 455 feature pictures were He was ordained in 1909. and sub- Twain once asked if anybody in sequently served as student pastor Petersburg (Fla .) Independent con- produced at a cost of $152,500,000; capital invested in the his audience knew why there was in Lexington, Ky.. Pomona. Calif., tain reports of the Festival of*’ motion picture industry throughout the world was given as tallow In the D box. Old printers $3,000,000000; there were 93.128 motion pictures in the world, and Berkeley, Calif. For 20 years States. know, but if anybody else Is curious The R o ta ry Club EUROPEAN WAR IN A WEEK of which 15.700 were being operated in the United States. let him call Rockland 639-W. and 0---------- o---------- 0 Hears From Gifted Lips the ask for Helen SILLY SEASON WANING Story Of An Easter Sun With Albania’s 15.000-man army ; Zog moved to a mountain strong The swallowing of live gold fish by silly collegians has Tlie steps taken toward the con rise Service In Riverside, fighting valiantly for independence hold 25 miles away.