The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-06-23
Interstate Commerce Com
mission May be Embarrassed
Panama Canal Commission Has Found
Ordinary Variety Of Bachelor an
Incubus in the Social Economy
Of the Zone.

Washington, June 2s.--The Interstate
Commerce Commission may be embar-
raised considerably in Che near future
with y large active, strenuous, and loud
White Elephant, unless its officials can
figure out some way in which to side
step the burden.
AT its last session Congress delegat-
III TO the commission The task Of regu-
lating the street car lines OF the Nation
al Capital. Washingtonians brought q
lot of pressure ON the legislators for q
universal transfer system for the city,
and demanded sweeping improvement
IN conditions Congress was simply
besicged with petitions And the leg
islators hadn't tire TO delve deep IN
to the ntatters being so busy connecting
gag rules and listening to roll calls.
Therefore the matter was shclved on to
The Interstate Commerce Commission,
which is new experiencing the same in
hiix Of petitions
Citizens residing In Brightwood, a
suburb in, the northern part of the city,
recently came forward with a vocifer-
Gus howl for through car service AT
the present time they must transfer at
the city Limits to another car They
demand that the Brightwood Car com
pRny give them through ear service To-
downtown points. The Brightwood Car
company declares this impossible, and
asserts they would lose money. The
BriGhtwond suburbanites came out with
another petition. asserting the car COM
pany was subvertEng the truth, or
words TO that effect The Interstate
Commerce Commission dutifully for
warded this def To the company.
Now the Brightwood car people come
forth with an astonishing uIfimatum.
In brief they declare that If the COM
mission wants to accede to the citi-
zarls demands and run through cars,
thcy can just take the old Brightwooi
line themselves and run it and see how
II works. The officials wash their
hands Of the affair. Either that, or
they swear they'll 20 into voluntary
bankruptcy and stop the line altogeth.
VITA the Briehtwoodites breathing
dire thre6ta and demanding their
through cara on one hand, and a car
c0rnpasig TINT processes to be entirely
safs&Hed to hand over the whole She
bang. the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion is considerably worried.
IN this era Of campaign times, mana
cement III a street ear line BIZ 4 branch
of tsyn federal government would never
dot would make too good material
for william Jennings Bryan in heart
to heart talk about governmental
ownership.
Verify, the commission II Up against
III
Washington, June 23.--The Panama
Canal Commission has found that the
ordinary variety of bachelor IL ain in.
cubus III the social economy Of the
zone. Suggestions have been made By
the married members Of the pay lists
to institute a cuTfew ordinance to make |
them 10 TO bed hit i proper time Now
the commission has discovered that the
West indian variety Of bachelor doesn't /
know how to feed himself properly and /
AID q result has undertaken to do that
for him since June Fl
The West Indian bachelor, according
To record. .'is 80 frugal Or careless that |
be actually denies himself the food nee
essary to sustain himself at the high
est point Of efficiency for his arduous
work. 10 protect him from this IA the |
object Of requiring him to get his food |
at the mess Kitchens"
He is left no choice in the matter.
Like our own boyhood experiences when
mother made III eat horrid string beans
or squash before we could have cherry
pie, be Is obliged To file up to the long
counter and receive his rations He I
might Just as well do this as he has to
NV for ii anyway. 30 he usually docs /
fThc cost hi the mess IL checked against /
Eis wages.
This + only one Of the lamentable T
defects Of the bachelors-that has been
brought to light BY canal experiences.
According 10 protests Of the domestic |