THE FOOT ARISTOCRATIC Taste - the expression of individuality Shoes of Vici kid offer unusual possibilities for the ex- Vici kid is a delight to the eye in its fine grain and lasting Notwithstanding the radical changes in shoe designs during PERSONAL GLIMPSES Continued encouragement, vie with each other in accomplishing their several tasks, with neatness, thoroughness and dispatch as their watchwords. In my judgment, no prison or penal institution can be satisfactorily operated on any other plan. Confidence in the inmates as you get to know them and can trust them is paramount." If you were to visit the place, you would think upon approaching it that you were coming to one of the modern small cities with all modern improvements, including electricity, for, notes the reporter, As you enter the farm gates you can see on the left on a little knoll the residence of the superintendent, a frame structure two stories high and composed of ten rooms, with a beautiful set of lawns and walks, and a small grove of oranges, and on another side the starting of the grape industry. The administration building, where all the farm and financial records are kept, along with the prisoners' records and personal property, is located near the superintendent's house. Here the drive turns south and a row of white cottages for the employees can be seen; and then comes the big stockade. Inside are four large dormitories, all of like wood construction, each one containing the sleeping-quarters, bathrooms, dining-rooms, and a hallway between for the night watchman. All dormitories are electric lighted, well heated with large wood-stoves, and well ventilated. One of the large dormitories is used as the institution hospital, drug dispensary, dental office and operating room. The women's department is divided into separate sections for white.and colored. Separate sections for white and colored are provided in the hospital. Separate dormitories for white and colored men, and one central kitchen are maintained, where all the food is prepared and placed in vessels, then carried to the various dormitory dining-rooms. Daylight-saving time means nothing to the prisoners, because Working on the farm is from sunrise to sunset, with one hour and a half recess at noon in the summer and one hour in the winter. The wake whistle blows at forty minutes before checking time. The men are allowed twenty minutes to dress and twenty minutes to eat breakfast; then the work whistle blows and all male prisoners, with the exception of the night watchman, house orderlies, cooks and hospital subjects, pass out the main gate, and the captain with book and pencil checks them out in squads of ten to fifteen to a prisoner foreman, who had previously come out to get the day's working orders. Then he takes the men that are checked out to him, first either going to the barns to get the teams, or to the tool-house for hoes or other implements, then to the fields or to the woods, wherever his day's work has been outlined, within a radius of three miles. The captain makes a notation of the number of men in each squad and where they will be working at noon, and if it is at too great a distance to come in for dinner, he makes a note of it and sends out the dinners to them in a regular dinner truck. The negro women are checked out at another gate to work in the fields, and the white women remain inside and do the sewing, making of new garments, coats, shirts, and trousers, or sheets, pillow-cases and sleeping-garments. One of the white women is in charge of the other women, both white and negro, and maintains discipline, looks after meals and directs the house-cleaning. Men do the patching and laundry of the men's clothing. Women do the laundry for the officials and for themselves. The superintendent and the manager ride from one squad to another in the fields and woods to see after the work as to its quantity and its quality. Saturday nights either motion pictures, minstrel or vaudeville shows are given. The last two mentioned are put on by the inmates. To these shows all the inmates are allowed to go exeept the night watchman, and such other inmates as have had that privilege taken away from them for some infraction of the rules. Sunday mornings are spent in reading, writing, or rest, and the afternoons are devoted to religious services, Sunday school and preaching and, after the services are over, baseball games are staged between inmates and visiting teams from near-by towns. All are invited to attend the religious services, but are not compelled to do so. Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, and Christmas are the only holidays observed. There is no work of any sort carried on during these days and these are largely spent as Sundays, but usually motion pictures or some vaudeville acts are given. On Christmas there are the usual Yuletide exercises, and a Christmas tree from which each inmate receives a bag of fruit, candy, and nuts. HALF-MASTING THE FLAG FOR A DOG "HONOR me, honor my dog." Thus spoke Percival P. Baxter, Governor of Maine, when the State department of the G. A. R., other patriotic bodies, and scores of indignant citizens protested against his ordering the flags at the State Capitol half-masted recently because of the death of Garry, his Irish terrier. Lowering Old Glory in such fashion is customary when public personages pass to the Great Beyond, but it was unprecedented for an entire State officially to go into mourning for any animal; therefore in many quarters this strange command of the Governor was denounced as downright sacrilege. According to Maine's Chief Executive, however, the American flag has undergone no humiliation by being half-staffed while the body of Garry was on its way to the tomb of its ancestors, in a quiet field overlooking Casco Bay. Be it understood distinetly that Garry was no mongrel cur, no derelict of the gutter, but a thoroughbred, of what corresponds in Dogdom to Mayflower stock. In explaining his action, Governor Baxter said, as quoted in the magazine section of the New York World: "My Garry was a part of my life, for my dogs constitute my immediate family. Moreover, he was recognized as a member of the 'State House Family' as much as any of us who work beneath the dome of the Capitol. There was no reflection upon human kind, nor was any desecration done by the lowering of our flag for a few short hours while I bore my trusted companion to his grave. "Dogs have played their part in peace Shave Free For a week. See Here is an easy yet conclusive test to show you how extraordinarily good for your skin Williams' is. Send the coupon for a week's supply of Williams' free. Shave with Williams' as long as the free tube lasts. Then observe the fine condition of your skin. You see the benefit of Williams' in the finer, smoother faces of its users. With every shave, their skin is left soothed, soft, delightfully refreshed. 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The names of the State and Nation have not been tarnished because their flags were placed at half-mast out of respect to one of God's humble but noble creatures. A fitting tribute has been paid to my dog and to the dogs of ages past; a tribute well deserved but long deferred. I hope that the comments made upon my action will arouse our people to a new realization of their responsibilities to dumb animals, and if this be so one of my purposes will have been accomplished. If it is unselfishness and devotion and loyalty that my State honors, then I only hope that when I die my right to be so honored will be as clear as Garry's." These statements may lead those living outside of Maine to jump at the conclusion that Governor Baxter, admittedly a bachelor, is some eccentric old codger entering upon his dotage. Instead, he is, to all outward appearances, a specimen of the successful young business man type, and a writer in the New York Times remarks: He does not look the forty-seven years credited to him in "Who's Who." This fat, red volume adds that the Governor is unmarried and a graduate of Bowdoin College and Harvard Law School, but doesn't deem it necessary to explain that he looks ten years younger because of an outdoor life divided between Maine's rugged seacoast and her silent forests. If such details were set down after the name listed as "Baxter, Percival Proctor," they would imply that here was just the man to take camping with you; a man who would do his share and more of the chores; who would appreciate the value of silence in being a tolerant listener; who could be counted upon to speak his mind, but not so often as to become monotonous. As for the half-masted flag incident, probably the best visible explanation is on the wall of Governor Baxter's Portland office. Between the national colors and the personal flag of the Governor of Maine is a small placard reading, "Be kind to animals." It was in this modest but immaculate office to which the Governor comes from Augusta two or three times a month to transact personal business that he told of ordering official mourning for his dead Irish setter. The majority of Maine people have shown that they like their Governor. They know him as a man of refreshing outspokenness, whose utterances have a deliberate bluntness rather than unrestrained invective. They know him as a fighter who keeps his temper and is willing to shake hands when the smoke has cleared away. And they like him because he has shown a disconcerting tendency not to know when he is licked. In fact, the people of Maine like Percival P. Baxter so well that he is now serving his second term as Governor Picking up the World narrative again we learn that For thirty-seven years Irish setter dogs have been inseparably connected with 66 Governor Baxter's life, and they have all heen of the same family, of which the late Garry was the most distinguished member. Baxter says that when he was nine years old his father gave him his first dog. "And the day that little-ten-weeks-old, tawny colored pup was brought to my house will always be remembered by me. As the precious crate was placed on the grass, the tiny inmate poked her nose through the slats and lapped the hand of the one she was ready to acknowledge as her master. She knew little, but loved much." In the fulness of time this dog became the maternal ancestor of a long line of horoughbred aristocrats. Young Baxter Built up a thriving business by selling the male pups for ten dollars apiece and the females for five dollars. He resented this discrimination between the sexes, and perLaps he may have muttered, after pocketing a five-dollar bill: "Some day I'll hit that thing, and when I do I'll hit it hard." In any case, in later life he became an ardent champion of equal suffrage. But, tho he disposed of the pups when they reached their majority (ten weeks of age he was never without a member of the family as a pet for himself. At length he built a mausoleum for them on the island where his summer home is located. It is Bot an ostentatious vault, but appropriate for its purpose. There is a low, circular wall. made of rough stones in the New England manner, and in the center of it is a large boulder. It is in a quiet field overoking Casco Bay. On the boulder is a tablet which tells its mute story of this zan's long and intimate friendship with the dead Garry's forbears. The great Garry, like any political potentate, had friends in every walk of life. He made daily trips from the Governor's Lome to the Capitol. During his long illness, which he bore so patiently, Garry was given the same care that a human being receives from his friends. He had a special permit, granted by the President of the Maine Central Railroad, which enabled him to ride with Lis master instead of in the baggage car. There are those who objected to the honor that was done him at his deathbut they didn't know Garry personally. But even those who did object to the Losor done to Garry experienced later a change of heart, it seems, for The Times quotes the Governor as declaring: "A few days after the Grand Army protest reached my desk, I attended the annual tampment of the Maine Department. While I was there nothing was said about the flag incident, but just as I was about to have a group of old soldiers approached me and thrust a slip of paper into my hands It announced that, by vote of the convention. all criticism of my act had been expunged from the records and that a vote of confidence and appreciation was tendered me. If the old soldiers, defenders of the flag, thought differently of the matter after reflection, then I knew that my lesson had 'gone across.' "Since Garry's death I have received probably a thousand letters and telegrams from all parts of the country. Only one was unfavorable. That was a denuncialory communication from a New Yorker. Apparently he had read my criticism of Governor Smith's approval of the repeal of the Mullan-Gage law, for his letter, taking que to task for my belief in Prohibition, merely concluded with an attack upon my tribute to my dog, so I regard him as prejudiced from other causes." 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Full cloth binding gold stamped. $2.00 per copy. WAR AR looms over the horizon in the athletic world-war which threatens to disrupt international relationships in sports, and also to make the amateur and collegiate athletic authorities hostile factions, both in this country and in Europe. The remote and likewise immediate cause of this impending struggle is, according to an article in Sporting Life (Philadelphia), nothing else than the long-drawn-out controversy between Charley Paddock, the phenomenal sprinter from California, and the heads of the national body of the Amateur Athletic Union. The magazine refers to this track star as a "stormy petrel," because "ever since Paddock flashed into the public eye with the most sensational feats the cinder-path has ever known, continuous dissension has followed his performance." For one thing, the Californian and his followers believe that the A. A. U., dominated by Eastern officials, has systematically "persecuted" him because he, a Far Westerner, dared lay claim to having equaled the 100-yard dash record, and to having broken several others. Sporting Life purports to summarize in non-partizan fashion the events leading up to the international complications now in the offing because of Paddock's clash with the A. A. U. heads, and it begins with the sweeping statement that Never in the entire history of athletics' has any figure attracted so much attention as Paddock. Aside from the pure brilliancy of his feats as a star of the cinder-path, his is a dramatic personality-the most dramatic figure the track world has known. Every performance of his has been followed by dissension and endless bickerings, each new feat has been heralded by antagonistic rulings and sectional jealousies, and all have been greeted by the dramatic Californian going out and eclipsing the performances that caused the initial arguments. Even his dramatic and now famous "leaping finish" has been made the subject of endless arguments and criticism, track authorities dubbing it a "grand-stand play." From the beginning Paddock has been made the target at which the "Wise Men of the East" have deemed it their privilege to throw bricks. No sooner had the athletic world begun to ring with the echoes of his feats performed on the Pacific coast than the merits of these feats were openly doubted, Eastern critics and athletic authorities condemning him for not having competed in the East against the best of Eastern track stars. Then when Paddock accepted the challenge and announced his intention of competing in the Eastern intercollegiates this spring in open competition with the best track stars the East could produce, the entry of his college was refused and he was prevented from doing that which he had been criticized for not doing. detailed statement of the university eligibility rules. The Southern California officials nat rally took this as a personal slap at the and they resented it. Feeling that the U versity of Pennsylvania was one of leading bodies of the I. C. A. A. A. A., that Penn must have supported the mo to set aside the application of the Paci coast college for membership, the athle officials of Southern California would enter Paddock in the Penn relays and th provide a big gate attraction for one of universities that would not allow him compete in the intercollegiates. So Paddock also was prevented fr appearing in the Penn relays. During the winter Paddock establish seven sensational records out on the Co that were vouched for by the South Pacific Association and by Robert Weaver, then president of the A. A. but these records were thrown out by Eastern authorities of the Amateur Athl Union because in their minds it was possible for any human being to run |