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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-11-29
Abolish Proclamation.

Tomorrow comes the annual OBJ
servance of Thanksgiving Day. There
may be something new to say on the
topic but it does not occur to US.
Each year the president and the gov
ernor of our state attempt to tell
why and how to be thankful but
aside from a different arrangement
of words larger than those in daily
use we see little new in these rhe-
torical efforts. Gov. Mead's procla-
nation this year receives the usual
amount of comment. The New York
Sun expresses the idea that the rea-
son DIR. Mead wanted to be governor
was to write a proclamation. The
Boston Transcript thinks it would be
a fine thing for boy to speak as it
starts with the landing of the Pill
grims and strews fowery language
over all the economic, ethical and
social development of the POI sue
ceeding years. The St. Adams Mes
senger says it shows the impossibility
of a man who has been engaged in
commercial pursuits to suddenly be-
come to a litterateur, statesman and
publicist on the strength of nomin-
alton in a one-sided state. The Rut-
land Herald follows with the charge
that most of what is said about the
Pilgrims is not so and should the
governor succeed in making the
graves of the Pilgrim fathers he
come fountains with a ceaseless
flow it would not be very healthy.
Comments of a similar nature are
as regular as the appearance of the
proclamation itself, so Gov. Mead
need not feel there is any special
discrimination against him. But
why not abolish this annual grand
iloquence and buffoonery and have
Thanksgiving without a proclama-
ton. Let the law of the state fix
the last Thursday of November as an
annual Thanksgiving day and let the
governor and some of his friends rest
The proclamation cannot change the
status of the Pilgrims nor does il
make anyone thankful unless the
writer feels relieved to think it over
We want Thanksgiving day with
its family reunions, its display OF
the art of good cooking, with its
tender memories of those who in
former years have headed the table
and asked the blessing of God on the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-11-29

of big business is an administrative
and not a judicial function. These
trusts cannot be controlled by the
again, the history of the. regulation
of railways is most significant.
For more than quarter of a cen
fury the English people attempted
to supervise and regulate the oper-
ations of their railways through the
courts. The result was a failure,
and finally the attempt was aban-
doned and commission was Great
ed.
The United States had the same
experience. For 20 years it has
sought to administer the act to regu-
late commerce by judicial decree
Experience showed the futility of
the attempt; it was abandoned and
the commission was given admins
trative authority.
So it is with the regulation of
these trusts. To begin a suit today
and obtain decree of dissolution
five years hence gets nowhere. The
people who might be benefited are
already gone. The true remedy is
to prevent. You must lay your
hand on the thing itself and control
that. This is administrative in it's
character, not judicial, and we
should provide at the very outset
the machinery with which to exer-
else that authority, granting the
authority itself just as rapidly as it
can be safely and intelligently done.
/ Boston Sunday Herald.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-11-29
TRADE IN VERMONT.
Bradstreets Weekly Report Shows
An Optimistic Spirit.

Reports to Bradstreet's for the
week in summarizing general out
look for holiday trade are inclined to
be optimistic. A good trade is look
ed for and merchants are fully pre-
pared to meet it, beyond that there
is noticed a tendency to place small
er orders for furture trade, relying
more upon development of general
business. Among certain manufac-
turing lines now business has not
started up much. AdviceS from gran
tie manufacturers in monumental
line speak we'll of the outlook for
spring orders but at present work
now on hand is we'll cleaned up,
With knit goods line, travellers have
just started out for the new year
and returns have not Deen large
enough to warrant predictions; at
present that line is operating short
handed. Paper mills report new
business is coming in we'll. Machine
manufacturers have considerable
more business than earlier in fall.
Manufacturers of maple sugar ap-
paratus report plants behind on
orders as more have been placed
than last year. Retail merchants
report trade for the week in season
able goods has been active but a
good snow would help move stocks.
Collections in some cases are re-
ported prompt and satisfactory but
at large there has been slowness.
Two mercantile failures, bankrupt
cies, were reported for the week.
Burlington reports labor is reason
ably we'll employed and that plans
are formulating for resumption of
work at one of the cotton mills that
Rutland reports machine industry,
has been idle for several months.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-11-29
ADJUSTMENTS.
''Over Night" Coming to The
Colonial Tuesday, Dec. 5.

Farce comedies come and go.
Some of them live but for a night,
and others, particularly of the fast,
French kind like 1.-The Girl from
Rector's' and THE Queen of the
Moulin Rouge" depend for their
success purely upon suggestiveness
and horseplay. Of an entirely diff
ferent order is cover Night the
laugh compelling comedy which
comes to The Colonial, Dec. 5. 1t
is a sweet, pure, wholesome and
up-to-date play, and it is funny,
egregiously funny. Moreover, lit
gets YOU" There is no doubt about
that, and it ''gets over the foot
lights" From the first to last the
fun is of the rollicking kind, and
the lines and situations are intense
ly laughable. If you don't see it,.
you will miss one of the funniest
shows that has come to town in
many day. The original New York
production will be seen here.
The Gamblers. ~
''The Gamblers will be the attrac-
ton at The Colonial, Thursday, Dec.
z. This excellently constructed and
magnificently produced drama by
Charles Klein recorded the longest
run of any serious play produced in
New York last season, remaining at
Maxine E1liott's Theatre for over
200 consecutive performances.
The story of the play has to do
with Wilbur Emerson, a young and
ambitious Spectator, who has been
made manager of the Emerson chain
of banks. He is guilty of misusing
the funds in his efforts for expansion
and is trapped by the federal au-
thorities. One of the directors
turns states evidence and delivers
certain discriminating notes to the
federal attorneys house. But at
this point another big interest
enters. Emerson's efforts by theft
to regain possession of those notes,
especially to shield his father, the
banks president, who has been de-
ceived in the whole operations, in
wolves the young man with the
lawyers wife and stirs his jealous
suspicious of her.
It is in this situation where Cath
crime Darwin finds herself forced to
decide whether her duty lies in CIV
ing the notes to her husband or in
attempting to shield the man whom
it is the lawyers legal duty to pros
ecute. She refuses finally to assist
her husband, and under proVocation
which makes her conduct reason
able. The evidence eventually
reaches the lawyers hands and the
final curtain falls with the certainty
of a prison sentence for the wild
cat financier, but the steps by which
the denoument is reached is full
of surprises and dramatic suspense.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-11-29
Supt. Stones Meetings.

Being one of the men of Vermont,
who have responded to the invita-
ton of State superintendent Stone
to speak at his New Vermont
meetings held in different sections
of the state, the editor has felt it
hardly good taste to speak in their
defence. He has felt that the peo-
pie who have heard the speakers at
these different meetings were the
best judges of whether they were
serving a useful purpose or not. But
some of the papers are making
statements that indicate they do not
understand the nature of Supt.
Stones work and are trying to cir
culate their erroneous ideas among
the public to the detriment of Mr..
Stones work.
The Enosburg Standard says
These meetings are of decided i'm
portance to the educational interests
of Vermont and should be conducted
by men whose time and energy is
devoted (possibly a highly educated
mans grammar) to educational
matters. If such talent is not avail
able within the state, men of this
class from outside should be called
in. These educational meetings
should be of as high an order as the
meetings of the state boards of agri-
culture and of health and the talent
employed should be of as high a
grade as regards matters educational
as is that in matters relating to ag-
riculture and the public health.
Far removed from this standard
have been the educational meetings
carried on throughout the state
during certain periods of the year,
conducted as they have been largely
| by men who have embraced the
chance of extending their acquaint-
ance and increasing their political
influence and who could not be
classed as educators in the slightest
degree or considered as possessing
talent that would aid the educational
cause which such meetings should
help to promote.
Who are the men thus indicted
F. E. Howe the speaker of the
house of representatives W. C. Belk-
nap, editor of the Bellows Falls
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-11-29
Home Opportunities.

In accordance with previous sug-
gestion by The Caledonian that every
Vermont newspaper in this week
issue mention some opportunity for
development in it's vicinity it now
offers the following suggestions
After seeing the undeveloped wat
er powers in this section a Boston
banker, who has visited every state
in the union investigating oppOrtun1-
ties for investment, said that he was
convinced that any man who had
five or fifty thousand dollars to in
vest could find no better opportuni-
ties to invest it proftably than in
the state of Vermont. There is
an opportunity to create at
reasonable expense great water stor-
age basins in the Moose River and
the Sleeper River valleys. Joe's
Brook offers opportunity for devel-
oping much power and in the Wells
River valley is a water power where
thirty feet head can be bought for
$500 if the power will be utilized in
the village of Wells River.
The ST. Johnsbury Electric Com
pany is ready to build any reliable
manufacturing concern a building
and lease it for six per cent. per an
mum on it's actual cost providing the
manufacturer will use its power,
which it is able to furnish in any
quantity desired.
Caledonia county also furnishes
excellent opportunities for establish
ment of industries using hard woods.
Large quantities of land could be
purchased that would furnish an IN
limited supply Of hard wood and be
worth more money after it's removal
than it is today. Vermont certainly
offers the capitalist and the active
business man unrivalled attractions
for investment.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-11-29

silo plant and marble industry is
operating full time and that labor
is generally we'll employed. Retail
merchants report an increase in vol
ume of trade over what was done
last year at this time. ST. Adams
reports manufacturers are busy and
retail trade fairly good, seasonable
goods will move faster with a good
snow.
At ST. Johnsbury labor is said well
employed and volume of retail trade
about normal. Collections are ro-
ported fair to slow.
| At Montpelier manufacturers state
labor is not we'll employed.
At granite sheds orders for
year are being claned up; out
look for new business is reasonably
good. Barre granite men express an
opinion that prospects for a busy
period, after the opening of the new
year. Inquiries for spring delivery
are coming we'll. Manufacturing
plants at Bellows Falls are reason
ably well employed. Retail trade I'M
even but with good snow, business
would show an increase. Benning-
ton reports general business is quiet.
Special efforts are being made with a
1 VIC" oH Cne part oI Inc BUSINESS
men, to get one or two new indus
tries in town. Labor at North Ben
nington is reasonably we'll employed
with exception of one plant. Rich
ford reports it's principal manufac-
turing industries are operating nor
NAL but not to full capacity. Retail
trade is fairly good. Hardwick re-
ports granite interests there are
! fairly busy but note slow collec-
lions.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-11-29
A cencus bulletin shows that t

A cencus bulletin shows that the
average price of mature horses in
Vermont is $1OS.79; in New Hamp-
shire, $780,; in Connecticut,
$124.66; in Massachusetts, $780,
80; in Maine, $136 and in Rhode Is
land, $149.52. While Vermont has
been noted for it's horses in the past
it is at the foot of the list in New
England At the same time Yer
mont farmers and lumbermen are
paying more than twice the average
price for the kind of horses they
want from the West. But we will
not preach to. them because the pro-
gressive farmer will see before we
could tell him what should be done
and the unprogressive farmer is be-
yond the effects of preaching.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-11-29
Use American Liver Tablets.
LYNDONVILLE.

Mr.. and Mrs. W. L. Guild enter
tain at Thanksgiving a family party
of eleven: Mrs. Guilds brothers, L.
J. Brown and G. w. Brown and
their wives, from Bradford, her
uncle, Alonzo Brown, from ST.
Johnsbury Center, sister and
brother, Mr.. and Mrs. J. J. Guild,
from ST. Johnsbury, a niece and
nephew, Cora and Arthur Guild.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Nash and two
daughters have been at his parents
in Reading, Mass. They will have
the family dinner this year for the
Campbell and Dresser families.
Harris o. Allen and family have
moved into the Jeffers' house on
Center street, into the tenement va
Gated by the Kerrs.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. Hutchinson go
to Lowell, Mass, to spend Thanks
giving with her brother, Fred
Blunt. Miss Bess Hutchinson will
come from Boston to join them
here.
Miss Elizabeth Hills goes to Low
ell, Mass, to spend Thanksgiving
with relatives, returning Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Parker
entertain quite a large party
L uduhSSIN1uS udy. NIL duO NIL ..
Ed. Parker, Mrs. Lila Libbey, Mr..
and Mrs. Will Parker and son, Mr..
Parker's two sisters and Mr.. and
Mrs. Leroy S. Howe.
Schools close for Thanksgiving
day, but. there will be no vacation
until Christmas time.
Use American Liver Tablets.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-11-29
The Panama Canal.

Everyone connected with the
construction of the Panama Canal
is confidently predicting that it will
be completed within the specified
time, Jan. L, 1915, and within the
estimated cost of 100000, 1000. The
completed fact will be great
achievement but there is much more
to be accomplished. Sen. c.. S.
Page, who has recently visited the
work says that the three leading
features of the uncompleted work
are:-
First, What tolls should be
charged for the passing of vessels
through the canal?
Second, Shall the zone be opened
up to settlement or maintained sole
ly for military purposes?
Third, What shall be the form of
government for the canal zone?
These are of course weighty ques-
lions and it is not for us to predict
how they will finally be settled. But
there are other questions that must
be considered. One is the use of the
canal after it is constructed. What
preparations will the American ship
ping interests make to build up an
American shipping trade through
this great waterway. They have as
yet shown little enterprise in this
direction and unless they are more
active the foreign shipping interests
oh of
couraging incident has occurred in
this connection. Bernard N. Baker,
the man who developed the Atlantic
Transport line of ocean steamers
from a small line of Baltimore ships
and is now rich and Independent,
formed a steamship company to
build a fleet of large ships to devel-
op a shipping business through the
canal between the Atlantic Coast
and Pacific coast ports. He has re-
Gently made the statement that he is
being blocked by the great transcon-
tinental railroads. He found
shipbuilding company ready to sub
nit a proposition for building the
ships but now the company informs
him that it does not care to aid
any competition against the South
ern Pacific road which owns line
of south going ships. He also al
leges that eminent bankers have
told him they would aid him in the
operation if he would agree to join
in the prevention of competition.
This if true issa serious matter that
will require the attention OF the
government If the canal cannot be
kept open to unrestricted use of all
shippers it will fail to be of the ben
eft it should be to American trade
Of course the truth of these state
ments has not been proven and they
should not be accepted until they
are. If true the railroads are plac-
ed in a most unfavorable light. They
cannot hope to long delay a square
deal in the development of American
business and should not make such
a. foolish attempt. The canal must
serve the purposes for which it was
constructed even if the government
has to take a firm hand in bringing
it about.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-11-29

The general public will be pleased
with the verdict Of the Chittenden
county jury which heard the case
of Arthur Bosworth, who shot and
killed Mae LaBel1e at Essex juno
ton, and who found him guilty
of murder in the first degree and
subject to the full penalty of the
law This is the first time since
the passage of the new law that
a jury has recommended hanging but
this case certainly deserves it and it
is to be hoped that no one will ask
the next legislature to tamper with
the work of the jury.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-11-29

Times, F. L. Greene, editor of the
St. Adams Messenger, (who the
Standard expressly states is not
guilty of such low motives), w. H.
Crockett, editor of the Montpelier
Journal and w. J. Bigelow, editor
of The Caledonian. With the ex-
ception of Speaker Howe, who has
refused to speak at this session.
meetings because he feared his ap-
pearance at this time might be at
tributed to political motives, we
fail to recognize any dangerous po-
litical possibilities in the list given
above Some others have been call
ed to fill vacancies but they have
not been on regular list utilized by
Supt Stone.
Now what have these men stood
for and advocated at these meetings?
The education of the boys and girls
for the life they are best fitted to
lead whether it be professional or
agricultural or in business; that
Vermont's educational system should
not lead to the college alone but it
should aid and develop the great ma
jority of school children who will
never enjoy the advantages of col
lege training; that the child should
not be taught from the book alone
but from the actual conditions
in which he lives; that he
should be taught to acquire and
express ideas and not merely
words; that he should be edu-
Gated towards Vermont and not
away from it; that Vermont has a
complete educational system at last;
that the most serious problem in
Vermont today is the problem of it's
decadent and isolated communities
deserted by it's strongest young men
and women who have been educated
to the city rather than to the
country; how the educational sys-
tenn of the state can be applied to
the development of it's backward
communities; that Vermonters
should have a higher appreciation OF
the boy and girl, who can do things,
and not confine it's appreciation to
those who are adept at learning
things; the necessity of all the forces
for good and progress uniting in the
effort to arouse new growth in the
isolated sections; the productivity of
the soil of Vermont as compared
with other states; the opportunities
for success in ones own community;
the need of a closer interest by the
parent in the teaching of his child;
the opportunities for Improvement
that face the average citizen and
the awakening Of a spirit of faith in
and loyalty to the best interests of
Vermont because it deserves it and
will reward intelligent and persist
ent work along those lines.
That is as concise a statement OF
the doctrines advocated by Supt.
Stone and his assistants as we are
able to give. 1t is respectfully sub
mitted to the Standard for sugges-
tions as to where it is below stand
ard or dangerous to the educational
interests of the state.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-11-29

happiness that is felt around the
family board, and with it's renewed
appreciation of Iife's blessings; but
haven't we arrived at a stage where
we can have these things without
the serio-comic annual proclama-
ton?
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-11-29
Backache, Headache, Nervousness

Backache, Headache, Nervousness
and rheumatism, both in men and
women, mean kidney trouble. Do
not allow it to progress beyond the
reach of medicine but stop it prompt
ly with Foley Kidney Pills. They
regulate the action of the urinary
organs. Tonic in action, quick in
results. G. G. Bingham, B. S. Terry,
South Ryegate, Stearns and Stevens,
South Walden.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-11-29

Congress meets next Monday and
it is already being announced that
it will do as little as it can. We
would hardly be satisfied if the day
laborers should start a big job with
the determination of doing as little
as they could but are hardly expected
to criticize congressional loafng.
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WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 20, 1911.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-11-10
More Than ara,uitous.

Apropos of the custom of some hos
tesses to invite professional artistes to
their house in the expectation that they
will amuse their guests free Of charge,
n story is told of Nine. Berthe Bady.
the famous Partisan artlste, who was
invited 20 social gathering and asked
by the hostess to recite. She consent
ed, and then. In order that there might
he no mistake about the matter, the
hostess said:
How kind 1t Is Of you to work for
US in this friendly mannerw
The emphasis ON the word friendly"
was so marked. as to show clearly
enough that the service was to be gra-
tuitous. After the recitation was over
Nine Bady took silver card tray from
a footman, and. initiating the musicians
I'm the cafes chantants, she made tour
Of the drawing room and collected
whatever contributions were offered,
and they were substantial ones. Then
she handed them to her hostess and
left the house.