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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-09-06
The Home Purchase as an Invest
ment.


The more money you send away
from home, the poorer your town
grows. Is there anyone who doubts
it?
Out of every purchase made in
your own town, a certain percentage
is set aside to be added to our home
capital.
When home trade increases new
stores come, and old ones do big
ger business. That means more
clerks, larger profits for the en-
ployer. The inevitable result is the
building of more houses for those
people to live in. That makes more
taxable property, and your tax rate,
ii public funds are properly handled,
will decrease, and besides there is
more money available for public i'm
proven ents.
A purchase at home, therefore, is
in part an investment, some portion
of the money returning to you, in in
creased values of real estate, better
stores to trade in, the building of
more civic improvements.
A purchase in a distant city is eq-
ually an investment, but the invest
ment is for the benefit of the people
who live in the city where the pur-
chase is made.
Why invest your money in place
where no possibility can ever bring
you may return for it.-CSpringf1eId
Reporter.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-09-06
Vermont Should Act Now.

Every moving picture theatre in
Vermont should be compelled to
make it's exits as near panic proof as
possible. Of course nobody can for
see the folly of some idiot that starts
a cry of ''fire!" in such a place. But
moving picture theatre audiences are
largely composed of children and
young people, and, one may add,
good many adults that are hard
" more sophisticated about many
things, and some special precaution
against raising such alarms might
perhaps. wisely be spoken to the
company by a house employee i'm
mediately before each performance.
1t would be a constantly freshened
reminder and have more effect upon
some minds than all the newspaper
warnings or printed notices in the
world.-[St. Adams Messenger.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-09-06

propriate subject and might be made
more valuable if it was followed by
a paper on What I Ought to Have
Raised and Where 1 Failed" This
discussion would be profitable not
only for Changers but for oil bust
ness men. If we could determine
why we are not securing maximum
returns for our labor we would find
immense possibilities for develop
ment right in our midst.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-09-06

should keep tilling the little farm.
not particularly after the fashion of
his own in conformity with condi-
lions in which he finds himself. He
should also be admonished to be-
ware of the seductive circular of the
land agent in the far west, because
farming is a different proposition
there than in New England.
The large amount of waste land
and waste water power in Vermont
is another incident that has caused
SO much lack of development, but
shrewd fnanciers are noticing that
this waste of water power in partic
ular is worth saving and are acquir-
ing it.
Let the press writer keep on with
his work of agitating a new Vermont
1t will count for thousand of dollars
worth of good to those who follow
the idea.-[Vermont Journal.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-09-06
Farmers Waking Up.

Two very important undertakings
are under way by the farmers of
New York and Pennsylvania and the
potato growers of Aroostook county
in Maine. In New York city about
fifty farmers CT that state and Penn
sylvania met last week to devise a
plan whereby the farmers could sell
their produce direct to the retail
dealers of cities without the inter
vention of the middlemen. They
were delegates from the United
States Stores, the Changers and the
Dealers and Consumers Association
and they were said to represent a
million farmers in those two states.
They already have a fund of ST.
100000 and by a slight assessment
on their members could greatly in
crease this fund. They planned to
establish a central market in New
York city where the farmers could
send their produce and the market
distribute it to the retailers. They
claim they could reduce the cost
of farm products to the consumer
by forty per cent. from the present
prices. About 1000 retailers of the
city have already promised to take
their produce from the organization
and it looks as though the project
would be undertaken.
Patrick Egan, former minister to
Chilli, gave some figures to show how
much the middteman is costing the
farmer and consumer. He said:
81 have but to state that the po
tatoes for which consumers paid
$6O,OOO,O0O last year netted our
farmers less than $8,50O,000. Cab
bages which sold in this city for
$9,125,O 900 brought the farmers ST.
100000, and milk which sold to
consumers for from $48,00O,0O0 to
$49,O0O,00O brought the farmers
$23,OOO,O00."
In Maine the potato growers of
Aroostoock county have formed
combination for the purpose of SELL
ing their farm produce direct to the
consumer and to buy direct its COM
mercial fertilizers and all farm sup
plies. The combination is in the
form of a stock company with cap
italization of 100000, and with
president, secretary and board of
directors This plan is like the sys-
TENS of selling and buying common
and highly successful in European
countries.
The Importance of these efforts
is shown by the figures given by
Mr.. Egan. Of course their success
is not assured but it looks very
promising. An opportunity to do
something of the same kind is open
to the farmers of Vermont. If an
agency for farmers could be estab-
lished to take the farmers produce
and sort it and then ship large
quantities of the same grade Of
goods to a large market it would be
of distinct advantage to the farmer.
If they also through such an agency
could buy commercial fertilizer IN
large quantities they could buy it
cheaper, get better transportation
rates and so produce their crops for
less money. The possibilities along
this line are great enough to be CIV
en- serious consideration by the
farmers of this seation-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-09-06
Newspaper Agitation.

AS means of encouraging
young people not to forsake their
native state, if it is possible for
them to get any kind of a start, the
press of Vermont should always be
ready to point out the advantages
of the state in their editorial pages.
Loyalty to state we believe, is some
thing that has not been proclaimed
enough.
It is a fact that until the past few
years there was but little enter
prise shown in building up the inter-
nal wealth of Vermont, but what
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-09-06

Common Colds Must be Taken Seri-
Ous1y.
For unless cured they sap the vitali-
ty and lower the vital resistance to,
more serious Infection. Protect
your children and yourself by the
prompt use of Foley's Honey and
Tar Compound and note it's quick
and decisive results. For coughs,
colds, Group, whooping cough, bron-
chitis and affections of the throat,
chest and lungs it is an ever ready
and valuable remedy. c. C. Bingham.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-09-06
What Is the Mystery?

What do these mysterious breath
ings of the Free Press concerning
the governorship mean? A GER
tain man." railroad interests etc.,
are darkly limited at. We can't
sleep nights, so anxious are we to
learn the truth locked deeply in the
breast of the lake shore contempor-
Herald and News.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-09-06

last census was 355,956 and this
means that the state ranks high in
comparison with other states in the
amount per capita deposited with
it's banks
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-09-06

What I Planted-What I Raised"
i S the subject which member
of the Northern New Hampshire Po-
mona Grange is to discuss at
meeting Friday. This. is a most ap-
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WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1911.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-02

it's mission that the idea Of these
demonstrations seems to have struck
these national organizations here and
abroad independently and simultane-
ously. DR.. F. b. Meyer, the famous
London preacher, cabled to the Fed
eral Council of the plan conceived I'm
England. only to be told in response
that the very same plan had been con
ceived in the United States by DR..
Sanford, secretary of the Federal
Council.
Sir Edward Gray has lent his heart
lest cooperation to the movement.
He is anxious that it show forth above
all else the identity of purpose actua-
ting the churches in both lands. Out
of this great movement, backed by
the state and the church, ought to
come a benediction of tremendous i'm
port the world over for peace. What
an influence upon other nations will
be this bond of union between these
two great English-speaking countries!
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-02

If Governor Aldrich wants to use
his veto pen to good effect he will do
1t on the Omaha charter bill sent up
to him by the legislature at the behest
Of the Douglas delegation.
If this bill is vetoed by the governor
little damage will be done to any de-
partment of Omaha's city government,
and much damage to the taxpayers
will be prevented
This charter bill, framed by the
offce-holding authorities, carries a
large and uncalled for increase in city
taxes by adding 100000 to the
amount which the mayor and council
may levy. While a little increase in
different funds here and there might
be desirable, the bulk of it would vio-
late every rule of economy.
Increased taxation, however, is not
the only reason that may be urged on
the governor. The bill is designed to
put the city asphalt repair plant out
of business, something which the COM
bine of paving contractors have tried
unnecessarily heretofore to do in the
same stealthy manner. They would
succeed this time by making paving
repairs contract work to be assessed
back to the abutting property owners
and leave the repair plant nothing to
do except support idlers on the pay
roll.
Again, the removal of garbage by
the city, which we would very much
like to have, has been spiked in the in
terest Of the present garbage contrac-
tors and nullified by making it com
pulsory to continue the wretched con.
tract system so long as the contractor
is willing to haul garbage free and
make his profit on hauling other
refuse, Instead of affording relief to
householders, this would merely sad.
die them indefinitely with present bad
conditions.
The salary boosts are comparatively
unimportant, and still, with one OF
two exceptions, entirely unwarranted
When present elective officials sought
their offices they did so expecting tc
serve for three years at the then ex.
listing salaries, and they should be
willing to live up to their agreement
If any of them feel underpaid or over.
worked the resignation route will be
open.
Governor Aldrich may rest assured
that he would be doing Omaha a favor
by permitting 1t to do business under
the present charter unchanged unit
we can get one that is real improve
ment upon 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-02
England Taking Its Census.

Johnny Bull is engaged in taking
the census of England and Wales, de-
voting just one day to the job. Like
Germany, England pursues this sys-
TEN, which it believes to be superior
to the American way of spreading the
work out over a week or two. Our
method certainly is subject to i'm
provement, but we could scarcely
adopt the British plan, since our area
is so extensive and some of our popu-
lation so widely scattered as in the
newer sections of the country. 1t
would require an innumerable host of
enumerators to take the census in the
United States the way it is taken in
these European countries. What
changes we make, therefore, must be
of different kind, although there is
much reason to believe that we spend
too much time with our census. Dill
gent as the effort of the government
was in the last count to make it accu-
rate, admittedly many discrepancies
have crept into it.
Taking the census in a country of
nearly 55S persons to the square mile
/ is totally different from performing
the task in a land where $1,000 200
people are spread out over 3,O25,6OO
square miles, the area of the United
States, exclusive Of Alaska. England
and Wales, according to the last de-
cennial census, had a population OF
! 32,527,S43, and their combined area
is 58,324. One man, therefore, could
| in a country like that do the work OF
several in the great western stretches
of the United States. To give a
/ graphic idea of the British area, II
might be stated that twenty-five states
OF this union each has a larger area
and yet those twenty-five states have
a combined population Of more than
| 100000 less than England and
Wales There are several Of these
states whose area would make several
Englands and Wales.
The last census in England showed
a considerable population increase
and it is predicted that the one to be
taken tomorrow will show a consis.
Itent gain. II Is a question, however
if gain is what the country should
desire. The problem there is just tn,
reverse from the one in such countries
like the United States and Canada
where all the EFFORT is to encourage
greater population. Greater popula.
ton in England can only mean greater
social and economic completely.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-02
A Tammany Victory.

As it turns out, the New York sena-
torial election was a good deal of a
case Of heads l win, tails you lose,''
with Tammany on the long end. After
two months of persistent effort to
force the selection of Sheehan, Boss"
Murphy withdraws him and substi-
tutes Judge O'Gorman, and the thing
is done.
The most interesting feature in the
election of Justice OGorman, who
comes from the state supreme court
to take the position, is that, though
he has always been an acknowledged
Tammany man, he was acclaimed by
the leader of the democratic insur-
gents with as much zeal as If he had
been one of the boilers suddenly
thrust into the place. Il take pleas
ure in casting my vote for James A.
IO'Gorman," exclaimed Senator Roose-
welt, who had from the first led the
opposition to Sheehan. If Senator
O'Gorman as member of congress is
able to reconcile the differences be-
tween Tammany and anti-Tammany
by his services he will certainly prove
to be political prodigy. Just now
it looks a little as If somebody were
going to be deceived, and Mr.. Murphy
is not often fooled by his own men.
The new senator lays down a plat
form for himself at Washington.
which, as the press dispatches give It,
reads:
He stands for immediate downward re-
vision Of the tariff, reciprocity with Can
ada, the parcels post fertilization of the
Panama canal, direct election of United
States senators and the federal income tax.
He favors rigid economy in government
expenditures and is opposed to all special
privileges and private monopolies," to the
new nationalism and TO the centralizing
tendencies Of the republican party.
There is leaning toward far more
popular rule in government than Tam
many has ever advocated. Neither
Boss" Murphy, nor any other chief
tain Of that famous tribe before him.
has favored popular election of United
States senators. If Senator O'Gor-
man means what he says here and
stands by it, surely he and Tammany
will have falling out, for Tammany
puts men into office to do the bidding
of Tammany and the peculiar inter.
ests its represents. 1t will be inter
esting to learn what those democratic
papers that have so courageously re-
sisted the election Of sheehan will say
Of this other Tammany man. In the
meantime the new senator makes such
refreshing promises that he may be
entitled to suspended judgment, de,
spite his lifelong Tammany alliance
and allegiance.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-02
People and Events


Tho bewitchlng charms Of the Easter
bonnet are married by the nude figures
on it.
Happily the evil winds OF March dhd
with IT, and kindly nature pulled over all
spotless shroud.
The movement among Scottish societies
In New York to popularze the kits as
summer garments halts because the hairy
stomaoher is not convenient pocket
Regeneration" published at Los
Angeles, tells a woeful tale in huge head
lines: ELI Territorio Mexicano es un-
Nolcanw No doubt Of it. The Los Angeles
eruption is hot stuff.
Expert yeggmen have cracked more than
tcrty safes in New York City in the last
nine months, making away with about
$1,000 in cash and Jewels. Banker Robin
beat that record without half trying
The German invasion OF Great Britain
is the real thing. AS a consequence tho
patriotic Briton will sport in honor Of King
George in June a coronation medal made
In Germany" London is stocked with
them.
W. c. Brown, president Of the New York
Central railroad, talks Of hiking back to
his Iowa farm to make fortune At
last accounts he was still on the presidents
job and putting a fat salary in the right
pocket.
The cyclone belt shifted to Philadelphia
last week and woke up the Quakers in fine
shape. After sizing up the wreckage the
morning after the newspapers were forced
to admit that the eastern brand Of cyclone
puts the western variety on the back
benches
The town of Everett, in the state OF
Washington, having decided on a dry
spell, makes amends for the loss Of saloon
revenue by shaping a license fee on all
classes Of business ranging from $1,000 on
franchised corporations down to one days
pay year from each wage Garner.
SIxty-two conductors, brakemen and
porters have been pushed out into a cold
world by the Santa Fe railroad. The com
pany makes no charge simply a discharge.
Around Kansas City, whore some Of the
victims. reside, the impression prevails that
the company insisted on getting all the
money for cash fares.
No question is too complex for Kansas
to tackle and solve. 20, grave, where is
thy victory?' Numbered down the corri-
doris of time for nineteen hundred years
without satisfactory answer until It
struck Kansas. That settled it. There a
cemetery association makes a single grave
serve for three interments and three fees.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-02
Health Day in Schools.

In Georgia one day each year is set
apart as Health day" in the public
schools, when special instruction is
given to the pupils in sanitation. Ex-
hibitions and demonstrations are
made to show them more clearly than
words may do how to avoid disease by
observing the simplest rules of con-
duct. This is surely a step in the
right direction, but, after all, why
should not every day in a measure be
health day for the public schools?
This is a branch of learning quite as
important as any other. In fact, it
might even outrank the others, for
without clean and sound bodies it will
be difficult to give the children alert
minds and difficult for them to use
mental or moral training to the great
est advantage, even if they acquire It
with weakened physical systems.
The public schools of this country
are cosmopolitan in their makeup.
Children from all walks and condi-
ttons OF life attend them. Thousands
of these, children come from homes
and parents that know little of sani-
tary regulation, and if they learn any
thing of it they must learn it at
school. The school, then, becomes a
most potent factor in spreading and
advancing this gospel of good health.
1t is a matter of great satisfaction,
too, that in so many cities and states
full recognition is given this fact and
much good work is being done.
What a long way we have come
after all, in our simple progress as a
people! A comparatively few years
ago It would have been considered
usurpation Of the rights of the home
for schools to have attempted to teach
some of the things they are now teach.
ing about personal hygiene, a thing
about which they cannot be too solicit.
tous. 1t certainly is broadening the
scope of the public school system tC
make it serve more fully these newer
purposes.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-02

least one newspaper in every county
in the state for three months. In
Oregon publicity is provided through
the oficial campaign book distributed
at state expense to every registered
voter, the title and number over the
text corresponding to the title and
number on the official ballot. In
South Dakota publicity is secured by
newspaper publication, and also by
printing the full text on the official
ballot. In Nebraska the Official ballot
is to contain only the title, with no
assurance that the full text will! be
brought to the attention CT the voters
beyond the 10 per cent or 8 per cent
signing the petitions in which it must
be set out. The lack of publicity win
more particularly limit the use of the
referendum. The referendum is sup
posed to be available against any law
enacted by the Legislature providing
the petition is filed ninety days after
adjournment, But the voters have
no way to know what laws have been
passed, and whether a referendum is
necessary and desirable. The only
publicity requirement for legislature
enacted laws covers the publication Of
the session laws within sixty days
after adjournment, which, in fact,
however, has seldom been less than
ninety days, so that by the time the
printed session laws are accessible the
period for invoking the referendum
will have expired.