Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-10-10
Woodstock Business cardo
NOTES FROM WASHINGTON
Especial Corbespondence.)

expenditures Exceed HecelptS-Ino
monthly comparative statement of the
government receipts and expenditures
shows that for the month of Septem-
Der, 1908, there was an excess of ex-
penditures over receipts OF $4,583,5 ,571,
as against a deficit for August Of 49,
909, ,128. The receipts for September,
however, were over $3,O00,O0O in ex-
cess Of August and the expenditures
$S,7O0,O00 in excess of August. The
customs receipts were $24,94G,S36,
which is an increase in the last 80
days of over 100000 and only $685.
600 less than for September, 1907. In-
ternal revenue receipts increased
from SIS, 9,S06,200 in August to $40, 1884,
148 in September. Miscellaneous re-
ceipts also show material gain. The
total receipts for September, $4S,320,-
ia, were only about $S,118,OOO less
than for the month of September, 1907,
which was before the financial depres-
sion set in. The total expenditures
for the month were $52,9O4,OS5 and
the increases are principally shown
In the war; navy and pension accounts.
Education Is Needful-"Of more
Importance than any other feature in
the crusade against the scourge of
the white plague is the campaign of
education" This emphatic declaration
was made by DR.. Robert Koch, the
eminent German scientist, who figured
prominently in a controversy on tu-
berculosis before the national congress
on tuberculosis last week. This ut
terance was made just after a report
had been submitted by DR.. G. A. Heron,
delegate of the royal society of medi-
cine Of London. on "The teaching Of
elementary hygiene in the training
colleges and elementary schools of
Great Britain and Ireland" and which
was read and discussed by the section
OF the congress on Elementary and
popular education" DR.. Koch, in his
comment on the report, regretted that
thus far most Of the educational eff.
forts in the campaign to stamp out
tuberculosis have been largely confined
to adults. He emphasized the inn
portance of teaching hygiene to chill
dren, and called attention to the duty
which imposed itself upon the teach
ers to instruct their scholars In all of
the sanitary measures and precautions
to be. taken in combating tuberculo-
sis. He added that both teachers and
scholars must be thoroughly and COM
petently taught.
Labor Vote Observation-Disclosures
ing that it would be suicidal to the la
Dor movement for "any man or set
of men" to deliver the vote of organ
lied labor to any party, President Nor
man e. McPhail of the Boston typo
graphical union has written a letter
to Chief Willis l.. Moore of the U. S.
weather bureau, declaring that the la
bor vote as body cannot be delivered.
The letter follows: Dear Mr.. Moore
Your letter of Sept. 20 has just been
received and read by me, as l have
today returned from a tour of some
of our New England cities for our
organization. In reply to the ques-
tion ycu ask me. will state that in
my opinion the vote Of organized Ia
Dor in this country as body will not,
should not and cannot be delivered to
any one party by any man or set of
men. To allow such a thing would
be suicidal to the labor movement Of
the country. Members of labor un-
ions, as citizens, have the right and
should carefully consider the plat
forms and promises of the different po-
litical parties and should vote as they
believe the broadest and best inter-
ests OF our country lie. There can be
no objection to this from any source
and 1t is something which every citi-
zen should do. To claim that any
man or set of men as has been blaz-
oned forth in the newspapers, will de-
liver the vote of organized labor to
any party is absurd as 1t is an impos-
sibility. Sincerely yours, Norman q.
McPhail."
African Hunting Party Named-Au-
thentic information as to President
Roosevelt's hunt in east Africa was
given to. the public the other day. The
arrangements are far from complete,
but In the essential features the presi-
dent has fixed ideas. All the reports
about Seth Bullock, Bill SewRll and
other mighty guides, and hunters haV-
ing been invited to accompany the
president and his son are less substan-
tlal than moonshine. In the first place
the president is not intending TO make
the hunt an armed expedition into the
dark continent for the extinction Of
big game. In the second place the
men mentioned know no more about
hunting in Africa than the President
does. While the President is willing
to concede that they are fine fellows
and might probably assist him in hav-
ing a "corking time," the hunt is not
to be a distinctly social festure. Third,
and most important OF all, nobody,
other than the shikarees and other
hunt funetionaries, is to join the Pres
ident on the other side. Should any
titled personages be loafing around
the place where the Roosevelt party
plunges into the hunting territory,
they will be there without invitation
from him. The possibility Of having
a dozen or two grand dukes. a small
company Of plain dukes and mar
Quises and barons waiting at the
place of the hunts beginning. has not
entered the presidential mind, where
fore, what to do, in case any should
happen to be there, has not been
thought out. Theodore Roosevelt and
his SON Kermit. one taxidermist and
one naturalist from the national mus
cum viii constitute the Roosevelt par
ty. They viii be the only Americans
in 1t. Just how large a following OF
natives win be necessary the Presi'
dent himself does not yet know.