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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-07-12

most precious kind OF self-goEern-
ment. IL none of these openings suit
the ambition of our educated col0red
men and women, there is another
field that is ripe for the harvest. that
of education There are 100000
negro children of school age who do
not enter any school in the south,
and there are hundreds of thousands
of others who are in school only three
months out of the IL months We
need 10000 additional schcolhouses
built in the south, and we need at
least 10000 additional negro school
teachers. But if the vision of the ed
ucated colored man cannot be realiz-
ed in any of the ca1lings to which /
have referred, there are still further
openings IN the south. I refer to the
opportunities in professional direc-
tions. There are individual locations
in the south for at least $500 addi-
tional doctors and 5000 additional
pharmacists, 20.v additional dentists
and 1000 veterinary surgeons.
Here are plenty of opportunities for
the negro but the demand for negro
business and professional men is not
likely to be filled so long as a mill
lion and half of negro children
are growing up without any school
education whatever.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-07-12
Not Created EQUAL.

DR.. Charles w. Eliot, president
emeritus of Harvard University, de-
hvered a patriotic address in Faneuil
Hall, Boston, on July Fourth in
which he stated that all men are not
created equal nor have they any un-i
alicnable rights to%life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness. He said:
The statement that, all men are
created equal is manifestly not true
in every sense. Men are not born
equal in capacities, powers or dis
positions and under regime of Hber-
ty the Unborn diversities of capacity
and character in different individuals
increase as life goes on, and newt
ably produce great inequalities in re-
gard to property and general condi-
lions of life.
Neither have all men any uralien-
able rights to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. We and all pre-
ceding generations have constantly
seen men deprived of liberty, the free
pursuit of happiness and even of life.
Any rights of that sort with which
men have been endowed by nature
are clearly alienable in practice.
Pres. Eliot is of course a high au-
thority on such subject but it seems
to US he has given a wrong impress
sion in the statements quoted We
cannot believe that the trainers of the
Constitution intended to declare that
all are born equal in capacities and
powers. That they are not so born
has been evident through al, the his
tory of the human race. 1t would
seem more reasonable interpreta-
ton that all men are created with
equal rights before the law. That
is every man has a right to life,
liberty and the pursuit CT happi-
ness. The protection of life, the
right of labor in a chosen field, the
right to conduct any legitimate bust
ness, and the right to choose for
himself what he shall do are the
equalities the Constitution declares
for and are all the rights it can be ex-
pected to grant. They are unalienable
so long as person observes these
| rights in others but ii a person de-
prives another of the right to live
he forfeits the right to live himself.
In these respects the Constitution is
just as valid as ever and there is no
cause to advocate to the contrary.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-07-12

During such extremely hot spells
as we suffered last week each person
is apt to think of himself only but
there are some classes OF people on
whom extra demands fall notWitfa-
standing the increased dificulty the
hot weather brings 20 them. For
instance every one doing laundry
work, hot and uncomfortable work
in moderate weather, is called upon
to do extra duty and the hotter it liz
the more they are asked to do. The
manufacturer and dispenser of cool
drinks are not allowed time to enjoy
the fruits of their own labor but
must rush to supply the abnormal de-
mand that is made upon them.
All persons employed by the public
service corporations have their dim
culties increased at time they most
need relief from regular duties. Think
how the trainmen on the railroads
are rushed in their efforts to handle
the crowds that are hurrying away
from their regular duties to find rest
and more comfort along the shore
or in the country. Extra work and
extra hours is the toll required of
them each hot spell.
Another case where operators suf-
fer is in the telephone Office. In
Boston last week thousands upon
thousands of men renamed at home
or in their Office and did their bust
ness by telephone. The result was
an increase of from fifty to 100 per
cent in the number of calls the opera
tors had to answer. The customers.
hot and cross, were unmindful of the
extra demand upon the regular oper-
ators and added to their discomfort
and confusion by being supercritical.
Then in the midst of the rush and
wrangling came the destructive
storms which disabled many lines to
multiply their hardships. Between
Salem and Boston on Thursday last
there were 1900 toll calls. The high
est number made previous to that
was HOO. OF course there could
not be enough extra operators to
handle such an increase in business
and the regulars had to rush harder
than ever despite the killing weather.
They We're loyal to the service how
ever and passed through the hot
wave without fatality. But one
should think bit of others during
such trying spells of weather and
perhaps he would not feel quite so
uncomfortable himself if he remem-
bers how much more uncomfortable
things are being made for others.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-07-12
WEST BARNET.

Miss Marion Bole is the guest Of
Rev. and Mrs. Andrew Bole Of Pas
sumpsic.
F.. g. Strobridge picked cucum-
bers in his garden July 4th.
Mrs. Dresser and children from
Lisbon, N. H.. are guests of Mrs. o.
C. Flint.
Marion and Marjorie Meader of
Whitinsville, Mass, are visiting
their grandfather, w. F. HASTE.
Miss Olga Martin visited friends
in Whitefeld, N. H., last week.
Miss Dorcas Judkins has been the
guest of Mrs. Ruth Strobridge for
the past week.
Mrs. Jean Blaine died Monday.
July 8, at the home of Mrs. Charles
Carter. her daughter, by whom she
had been most tenderly cared for
during years of illness and suffering.
The funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon, Rev. S. P.
Brownell officiating. Interment at
Barnet Center.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-07-12
Opportunities For Negroes.

DR.. Booker T. Washington in re-
cent address at Wilberforce Univer-
sity said:
There are openings in the south for
at least 5000 additional grocery
stores, for $500 additional drug
stores. There are openings in the
south for 1000 shoe stores, 1000
millinery stores, and there are COM
munities in the south where 1000
additional negro banks can be OPEN
ed and supported. Further than this,
there are places in the south where
at least rs self-governing, self-sup-
porting and self-directing towns or
cities may be established where the
colored people can have their own
mayor, their own board of alder
men, their own self-government from
every point of view. In the last an
alysis. local self government is the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-07-12
Why Good Hotels Prosper.

Speaking of the hotels in Burling-
ton Editor Johnson of the Randolph
Herald and News said
At first thought one would con-
clude that so sumptuous house as
the eight story Hotel Vermont, which.
is not surpassed in elegance or ap-
pointment by any hotel in New Eng
land, outside of Boston, could pos
sibly make a live of it, faced by
the keen competition of the scarcely
less elegant Van Ness house, and the
New Sherwood, but it is a fact that
nice hotels create business by draw
ing tourists and regular guests, so
that the volume of aggregate income
is materially increased. Besides sup
porting the hotels, nothing helps bus
ines generally more in community
than plenty of nice accommodation
for the travelling public. Guests ex-
pect and demand more than they once
did in this way. Most of them are
well-to-do, and when they travel they
want as good or better than they have
at home. They are willing to
pay for what they have, but they
will go where they can get it. Such
offer, combined with the natural
beauties and advantages of the city
and it's environment, cannot be ex-
celled anywhere and will surely re-
suit in a large tide of travel which
will benefit not only Burlington, but
the entire Champlain valley and the
state at large.
There is no question that good
hotels. can be made to pay, but st.
Johnsbury is waiting for outside cap
hotel. They should remember that
the Lord is still little partial
towards those who help themselves.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-07-12

How many Vermonters know that
up in the extreme north eastern cor
ner of the state is located the 1arg-
est furniture factory in New England?
Such is the fact and it uses not only
the native woods of that section but
veneer and solid mahogany which
has to be freighted a long distance
to be manufactured into furniture
and the furniture shipped back to
the markets. 1t is a prosperous in
dustry in Beecher''s Falls and shows
what can be done in the extremity
of Vermont territory. With this ex-
ample before them people should
talk up about Vermont as a field for
successful manufacturing undertake
ings.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-07-12

by President Taft and his cabinet and
by the British Foreign Office.
TO the list of controversies already
made public, to be settled by arbi-
tration, are added those tof vital in
terest and national honor In
other words, it is proposed to include
everything which shall prevent the
possibility of resort to force no
matter what may be the subject of
dispute.
Theodore Roosevelt as president,
would never sanction or approve any
such treaty, but the country is learn
ing to be more than satisfied with the
changes in policy introduced by VIII
liam Howard Taft. 1t is not too
much to say that the conclusion and
ratification of such a treaty will mark
the most advanced step ever. taken in
the promotion of worldwide peace
EWoodsville News.
A Wandering Aspirant.
The Morrisville News and Citizen
imparts the information that "Allen
G. Fletcher has been taking an au-
tomobile trip through northern Yer
mont. Further description of the
autosist leads to the belief that it is
Allen M. Fletcher, republican of
Cavendish; was born in indianapolis
in 1853; occupation, farmer; was ed
ucated at Williston seminary; was
member of the legislature in 1902,
1906, and 1908 (also 1910); re-
ligious preference, Congregationalist;
post Office address, Proctorsville, VT
To which might be added: aspiration,
Vermont governorship. We trust
the autoist found the roads fine in
northern Vermont. We know that
the weather is splendid for auto
mobiling.-I Barre Times.
AS Others See Us.
Speaker Musgrove of New Hamp-
shire, said few things at the ban
Quet of the Vermont Press associa-
ton that were good to hear, and as
he was entirely truthful and sincere,
not speaking in spirit of flattery,
his remarks were. all the more well
come. He spoke Loyalty of the beau
ties of New Hampshire, of her COM
handing mountains and her rugged
scenery, but he said Vermont had at
fractions, that, while different were
real and valuable. He was parti-
cularly impressed with the rapidly
changing beauties of Vermont's land
scape as he travelled through the
White River valley.
He also said that Vermont was for
tunate in having good road bed ma
teriaL He thought that we enjoyed
natural blessings in this respect far
beyond his own state. New Hamp-
shire had spent a great sum Of
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-07-12

Lyndonville likes the oiling of
streets sc well that business men are
contributing money to have more
streets oiled. Possibly st. Johns
bury would present little more at
tractive appearance if it had smooth
dustless streets than it does at pres
ent. Think it over little and see
what can be done.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-07-12

Speaking of undeveloped Vermont
We note that Emperor Norman Matti-
son of Glastonbury is boasting that
there has not been death in town
for seven years. There is certainly a
chance for limited development mt along
that line in Glastonbury, the town
having a population of twenty-seyen
in. the last census.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-07-12
Hay Fever and summer colds

must be relieved quickly and Fo1ey''s
Honey and Tar Compound will do it.
e. M. Stewart, 1884 Wolfram Street,
Chicago, writes: ST have been great
ly troubled during the hot summer
months with Hay Fever and find that
by using Foley's Honey and Tar
Compound I get great relief Many
others who suffer similarly will be
glad to benefit by Mr.. Stewards ex-
periences. G. G. Bingham.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-07-12
If You Have A Place

that doesn't heal, try HILLS S. R. & s.
Ointment. It will cure it. 25 cents
at G. G. Bingham's and Frank Lam
dry's.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-07-12
ADVERTISING RATES.

Local notices, wants, for sale, ETC.,
Z cents per word first insertion. Legal
notices 10 cents line, three insertions.
Probate notices $500 each for three
insertions. Dissolution, liberation and
similar notices $3.50 each for three
Insertions Card of thanks, rs cents.
Obituary poetry. 10 cents line.
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Entered at the St. Johnsbury post
efEice as second-class mail matter.
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This paper is entitled to a place on
the Printers Ink Roll OF Honor.
THE CALIFORNIAN CO.
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The most profitable advertising
known is the space in the Farmers
Exchange. It never fails to bring a
customer. We can help you sell
your horse, cow or farm.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-07-12
Want Dollars Not Beans.

The acreage given to agriculture
in New Hampshire has materially de-
creased since the census of 1900, &C
cording to recent report from
Washington. The Laconia Democrat
suggests, in explanation of the same,
that ga very considerable number
of our Granite state farmers Gull
tivate sumner boarders to the exclu-
sion of everything else but the raw
material to feed them" 1t more like
ly indicates that these New Hamp-
shire farmers are after what the
most of us are, not grass or potatoes,
or beans, but dollars, and if they
have found out that there are more
dollars in potatoes fed to summer
boarders than marketed or fed to
hogs, who blames them? Isn't that
scientific farming to get the most pos
sible return from the least possible
land? Like many other poor sinners,
these farmers are only seeking the
shortest and easiest cut to the dol
lars Editors of weekly newspapers
who conduct their business for bene-
violent purposes should not be too
severe on their more worldly breth-
rem of other callings.-[CoosC County
Democrat.
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Our good printing helps others, LET
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OUT OF TOWN AGENTS.
Ro@tOn-Eagle News CO., 597 Wash
angton and rs Summer Streets.
LxndOnviIIe-Campbe and B1odgett.
Rardwfck-F. A. Shipman.
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Scientific Farming Next.

Congressman Foster has come
back from Rome, and he could not
have seen Italy and her intensive
farming without being impressed
with the waste of Vermont farming;
or for that matter, of American
farming. He will have done some
thing practical if he studied the
question enough to tell Vermonters
how well the Italians make their land
pay three fold where we make ours
pay once. But the telling is not all,
scientific farming must be our next
stage in the development of our
state. We are making start that
way with our agricultural schools. It
is not yet necessary that we econo-
mize land as the Italians do, for we
have smaller population to support,
but it is necessary that we know how
to make our land produce bumper
crops and that we know what crops
our land will produce to the best adj
vantage. Haphazard farming may
pay with virgin soil; it will not pay
even after hundred years of land
ivation.-L Bradford Opinion.
A Promise of Arbitration.
It is announced apparently on good
authority that an agreement has been
reached upon every important pro-
vision of the Ang1o-American arbi-
tration treaty, the tentative draft
prepared by Secretary Knox and AM
basador Boyce having been approved
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY By
THE CALIFORNIAN COMPANY.
w. }. BIGELOw,
Editor and Publisher.
ze Eastern Avenue. St Johnsbury, Vt
The evening world., 1911-11-01
THE HONOR OF THE BENCH.

IRON time to time the community has been uneasy over rumors
affecting the honor of the judiciary, but has seldom had the
issue sharply presented. Events at last have brought the issue
home. In the Second Judicial District, including Brooklyn and
Queens. the candidates for Supreme Court Justice named jointly
by the Democrats and Independence League began suit for criminal
libel against the publisher Of the Brooklyn Standard Union because
1t charged that "Tammany methods had been used in nominating
the tcket-that is, that money had passed. Suddenly they withdrew
suit and apologzed to the publisher for the annoyance given. For
two OF the three the Independence League has cancelled its indorse-
ment.
The case against winett, Callahan and Ketcham stands in this
wise-that all three, apparently under orders from Murphys pro-
consul McCooey, declined the indicating processes Of a libel suit;
that Wilett drew $4,000 in bills from bank the day Of his nomina-
ton, and that Ketcham, as Surrogate, gave McCooey a $4,000 job,
and a little later received the judicial nomination. Such are the i'm
llications Of this scandal that the District Attorneys of Kings,
Queens and Manhattan are at work on one part Of il.
The community will fail of its lesson if it assumes that this is
a Long Island matter alone. The allegation is just that they have
been doing in Kings and Queens as Tammany is supposed to do in
Manhattan, and that the master.fgures in the judiciary convention,
Cassidy and McCooey, are more sub-bosses Of Murphy than leaders
Of their own right. Manhattan has q scandal Of its own in the can.
didacy OF Cohalan, whose original appointment to the bench was the
product OF q miserable bargain between Murphy and Gov. Dix-a
bargain that the Legislature ratified but no free electorate would
indcrse.
1t is time the people read a lesson to the sordid and plotting pi.
tcians who would dishonor the judiciary. What matters it whether
money actually passes when a judicial candidate is named, or whether
the nomination comes in return for a fat job already given the boss.
or whether, as Croker testified, judges paid "seven or eight thousand
dollars in political assessments; or whether they paid for their nomi.
nations by awarding refereeships and receiverships to the Tammany
inner circlee In every case do not these practices seal and advertise
. bargain against the public interest and the honor o. the bench?
Twice this community has shown how high Is its ideal Of judicial
conduct. 1t shattered the power of McKane at the polls and sent
the man to prison because he tore up a court injunction. It buried
the pretensions Of Maynard because he had misused the judicial novor
for political ends. There is need that the lesson be sharply repeated
and the opportunity is at hand.
The evening world., 1911-11-01
THE SERVICE OF ROAD MAKING.

IY7EALrHY MEN could not be in better business than making
M roads-which, indeed, is q task whcreto embittered radt.
w Gals would constrain them. Several milionoires have
cvaned Of their opportunity. John ID. Rockefeller has improved the
roads near his Pocantico Hills estate. J. Pierpont Morgan has footed
the bill for repaving the street on which his town house fronts q
Rowland Leavht, called "the millionaire farmer Of Bayside, L. )"
has come to the rescue of the Queens highways, the worst in the chv
and will defny the expense-perhaps $1O,OOo-of repahin, Jack.
con avenue and Broadway over a stretch Of five miles.
This is commendabe work for wealthy men, since nobody will
be ~pauperized by it, and even should the funds required be tainted.
the faint would soon be worn away under the wheels of traffic II
il an old American tradition that the private citizen should renair
roads, and in many States he pays his poll tax by work in kind
What 10 proper for wealthy men is proper for every one with ambi.
ton enough to WELD hoe. scythe, hammer and paint brush.
In the suburbs and open country it is plain duty for residents
to plant trees along the highway, keep down the weeds before their
yards, drain neighboring %mudholes, repair small breaks in the road
and maintain good, attractively- painted fences beside it. In the
city, people can do less, but at least they can desst from throwing
fruit skins and trash about, can whisk the treacherous banana noel
from the sidewalk and can protest vigorously where the authorities
let the paving get in disrepar.
To have regard for public roads is a substantial form Of natrot
ism. The Chinese lack the patriotic sense and their roads-tbc vor,
in the wond-ates it,
The evening world., 1911-11-01

TN company with Prof. Ponsoho>
Pomfret OF Pompton land good COM
pany he wasD. Mr.. Jarr rested ~.
large right foo on the third rail- OF
tho bar in the sumptuous cafe OF the
Hotel st. Vitus.
This way OF going to a hen parry OF
a pink tea d,g"ght Is ths way IN
best" said Mi. Jarr. "While they se
hurting the javel!ns into each other IN
the Cerise room you n ! are on ths
blessed Isles Of Somewhere. 30 to speak,
picking highbalis OF the vine. where no
skirt car pursue"
at 10 my favorite way OF minsiins
with the upiift movement"
the Professor. ITS also the way l hKs
TO attend lodge banauets and othel
deadly male affairs Of the kind. ! 90
n good dinner before I 20 TO a banquet
and always leave before the speech
making begins; hence I enjoy them
greatly.
But in this case" here the Professor
sighed. II must 90 on the firing LII
ana answer 'Here!' for duty calls. III
a performance which ! detest as onlI
a man detests the thing he Is paid 4
DO.
.But you stay here. Jack" he added
meiodramaticaliy. and take care o