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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-10-04
Auto Party SIN q s he's Up.

Bennington, Sept. 29. Several young
men comprising an automobile party
which left here late last evening are
in the Samaritan hospital at Troy as
the result of q collision shortly before
midnight with another automobile about
four miles north of that city. Their
injuries are not believed to be serious
but an unknown woman who was in
the other car is thought to be fatally
hurt.
Merritt Simpson of Hoosick, owner
of the car, Guy S. Norton and Paul E.
White of Bennington are badly cut
and bruised and Whites back is badly
strained. Roy B. Perry, the fourth
member of the party was cut about the
face and limbs but was able to return
home this morning.
The cars come together on a straight
stretch of road and the accident is hard
to explain. When the cars collided
White was thrown through the wind
shield and his escape with so few cuts
is remark able. Norton lost some teeth
and was cut about the head.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-10-04
Notes on National Politics.

Chairman McCombs of the Democra-
tic national committee, who has been
i'll for two months, has practically re-
covered and his return to the active
leadership will be marked by a dinner
or Sept. % at which Governor Woodrow
Wilson and two thousand other Demo-
Gratis are expected to be present.
Oscar Straus says if elected governor
he will appoint to office 'men of char
acter and attainment, earnest men who
by their very appointment will cause
the people to know that we mean bust
ness" He thought.that the State need
ed business administration.
81 refuse to recognize the authority
of nine members of the Republican ma
tional committee in star chamber ses-
sion in New York to undo the will of
the people expressed through magisteriai
district conventions in West Virginia. 1"
declared Colonel William Seymour Ed
ward, member from West Virginia.
when informed that his seat had been
declared vacant. Free Press.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-10-04
Speeding Auto Hits Boy.

Sea Cliff, Long Island, Sept. %. -
Three young men in an automobile this
evening ran down and badly injured
Edward Donaldson jr., ten-year-old son
of the vice-president of the L. A. Thomp-
son Scenic Railway Company. After
the accident they put on extra speed
and sped away, having the boy uncon-
scious on the side of the road.
The boy was picked up and carried to
nearby store by August Fleischer, a
real estate operator. He summoned
DIR. Edward Burns, who had the boy re-
moved to the Nassau Hospital at Mine
ola. There it was found that the boys
right leg was badly fractured, his left
leg cut and bruised and his body covered
with bruises and cuts.
The doctors after much effort finally
revived him, but he was able to tell
little of the accident, except to say that
the car looked like dark red one The
last seen of the machine it was heading
for Glen Cove.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-10-04
SOUTH STARkSRORO.

Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Thompson Of
Weybridge, Sanford Tracy of Hineshurg
and Rolin Tracy and mother of Monkton
We're guests at Walter Young's the past
week.
Walter Orvis cut his leg quite bad
while chopping.
Miss Pickard and Miss Mullings re-
turned home TO Brooklyn Saturday n
last " eek
MIS-. Loretta Orvis is sewing for Mrs,
l. f.. Birdsall.
Mrs. John Pecor of Ferrisburg il visit
ing friends here.
David Underhill and daughter. Miss
Lucinds, who have passed their summer
vacation here. returned home Wednes-
day of last week.
We are having a large rainfall and
farmers find it quite difficult to harvest
grain.
George Elliott and Arthur Grace are
busy cutting corn and filling silos about
town.
Mr., and Mrs William Thompson of
Massachusetts We're recent guests of
Phlander Orvis' and Chauncey Elliott.
Walter Kimball is building silo.
Andrew Hallock and family are visit.
ing their parents, Mr. and Mrs Daniel
HallOck and Wesley Follansbee.
David Follansbee has finished drawing
the spruce lumber from the gore and has
taken the contract drawing the hard
lumber.
Mrs. Cullen Shattuck, who has been
ill, Is better. Mrs. Richard belong has
been visiting her.
The sad news was received here of the
death of Mrs. Fred MARCEL at New
Haven. Mrs. MARCEL was kind neigh
Dor, IA loving wife and mother. The
husband and daughter have the sympa-
thy of all in their great bereavement.
MIR. and Mrs. Vern Hnrlburt are working.
for Mr.. MARCEL.
Curtis Orvis lost horse by death
recently.
The first snow of the season September
29th, the ground being white with snow.
Frank Moody and an agent for the
Leader Evaporator Co. have been calling
on the farmers of this section.
Oats have been harvested and cutting
corn is the order of the day.
Potatoes are decaying quite bad
Daniel Birdsall, who has been a guest
of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. F. Bird
sail, b as returned.
Russell d. Young has returned from a
visit in Monkton and Hinesburg.
Mrs. Samuel Hill is a guest of her
daughter, Mrs. Arthur Atkins.
William Greene is a guest at the
Turner cottage in Lincoln.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-10-04

81 had just left my office a scant
hundred feet west of Ninth avenue"
Mr.. Pepper the victim, whose home is
in Newark, said yesterday, intending
to go to the New York County National
Bank, at Eighth avenue and 18th street.
| make the trip every Monday morning
to deposit the collections of the pre-
vious Saturday. and this morning | had
more than 81, 300 with me. The money
was in a small leather satchel which
carried in my hand.
" | usually go to the bank in rig"
he continued, "but this morning de-
cided to walk. Miss Frances Emme-
uch, the cashier of the firm, had made
up the deposit and put it in the satchel.
When less than fifty feet from the cor
ner of Ninth avenue and 18th street
passed two men to whom | gave no at
tention. The next thing l knew they
had crept up behind me and one grasped
the bag
There was a tussle, during which
one of the men made an attempt to
strike me with blackjack. l warded
off the blow, but an instant later he
swung the instrument again, this time
hitting me on the side of the head. The
other thief was trying to wrest the bag
from my grasp, and as l was struck
the handle broke and he got the satchel.
Then they ran"
Scores of persons in the neighborhood
saw the attack, and as the bandits left
Pepper staggering about they hurried
to his assistance. Patrolman Thomas
j. Martin of the west 18th street sta
ton, was not fifty yards from the spot.
Instead of giving chase Martin is said
to have hurried to Peppers side. The
robbers took advantage of the oppor-
tunity to enter red touring car anc
get away.
Pepper was in dazed condition
when Martin reached him, and mistak.
ing the officer for one of his assalants,
threw his arms around him. In the
meantime the red car headed dowr
Ninth avenue. When it passed the
corner at 18th street the man, who il
is alleged struck Pepper leaned over the
rear of the car and calmly took three
shots at Martin with revolver.
The bullets went wide of their mark
although one of them grazed the cheek
of Henry Becker, barber, of No. 40t
West 18th street. New York Tribune
Sept. "a.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-10-04
EDISON FOR ROOSEVELT.

Orange, N. j., Sept. 10. Thomas A.
Edison is for Theodore Roosevelt and
the Progressive party, first, last and all
the time. In an interview today he not
only declared that he was going to vote
the Progressive ticket, but said he
didn't see how thinking people of the
country could do anything else.
eyes, I'm for Roosevelt" said the
inventor, land he's going to win. 3"
Reasons? Why, because he's the man
for the job. He's real, he's alive and
he's needed at the present time. He
has brains, he has ideas, he has courage
and he has understanding of conditions.
Then, too, added the inventor,
''he knows how to handle the crooked
politicians and they are all afraid of
him. -
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-10-04
PROPOSED CHANGES IN THE ED
UCATIONAL SYSTEM.

The recommendations made by the
Committee of Nine at an open meeting
held at Burlington last Saturday are
deserving of more than passing atten-
ton, if for no other reason than the
personnel of the committee. When
men like Presidents Benton, Thomas,
and Spooner, of the three colleges, go
into consultation with men who repre-
sent every phase of Vermont's educa-
tional system, and then add to their
number a practical business man like
Mr.. Partridge, the result of their coun-
sci should come not far from meeting
both the theoretical and practical needs
of the day. And these needs are very
real in Vermont.
There has been for some time a wide
spread feeling, although it has perhaps
not been very often expressed, that
something was wrong with our educa-
tional affairs, that Vermont's peculiar
way of handling her educational bust
ness was antiquated, wasteful, not pro-
ductive of the best results. Vermont is
unique in the method she employs for
appointing her Superintendent of Edu-
cation, as one example. For years
there has been such a lack of harmony
in the working of different parts of her
educational system that interests have
been made to clash, one part to neu-
tralize the work of another, and con-
fiicting and contradictory elements have
been retained in the operation of her
system. 1t is not the intention of this
article to place the responsibility for
this condition, but to call attention to
the need of change. The educational
business of the State should be run in
as good business fashion as the work
of any other department. There are
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-10-04
NEW PERILS OF LIFE.

We do not know which is the most
destructive Of human life, the auto
mobile or the bicycle. Col Battell
prints in the Mddlebury Register every
week from two to six columns of auto
mobile accidents in the country at
large, but in the days when the bicycle
was young he might have given just
as much space to accidents to the
wheel. The odds greatly favor the
automobile in the long run, however,
for the bicycle came and went, but the
automobile has come and conquered.
1t promises to last as long as the human
race.
Its increasing use adds to the peris
of life everywhere, and particularly in
the large cities, where many dangers
unite with it in cutting short human
longevity.
This is strikingly shown in bulletin
of the Philadelphia board of health,
printed in the North American. While
science and an enlightened public have
caused steady decrease in the NOR
tally from tuberculosis, pneumonia,
heart disease, diarrhoea and enteritis
and kidney disease, the number of
deaths from violence increases from
year to year, the board says. The
record in Philadelphia is amazing to a
Vermonter. In 1906 there were 1440
deaths by violence; in 1907, 1893 deaths;
in 1908, 1879 deaths; in 1909, 1887; in
1910, 1890; and in 1911, 1882 deaths.
Continuing, the bulletin says:
Ninety deaths in Philadelphia dur
ing the first seven months of the pres
ent year resulted from accidents and
injuries caused by street cars, auto
mobiles and other vehicles. OF course,
the total number of injuries caused by
such means was far in excess of the
number which resulted in death. -
Burlington News.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-10-04

third. One canvass of over "a, 900
voters in eleven States, comparing the
votes for this year with those cast by
the same men in 190S demonstrates
conclusively that the contest is between
Roosevelt and Wilson, with Taft poor
third. This is conducted by the New
York Herald, bitterly hostile to Roose-
welt.
In no State polled does Mr.. Taft take
first place. In eleven Wilson was first,
in two Roosevelt. In nine States Mr..
TAFT was third, only Ohio and Wyoming
giving him as good as second place.
This test, like practically all the rest
taken, shows that the voting majority is
against Wilson in States which Wilson
needs to win the election. If the anti
Wilson votes that would be thrown
away on Taft were added to the Roose-
welt votes those States would cast their
ballots for Roosevelt in the electoral
college. In those same States the
Roosevelt strength compared to the
aft vote is now at least two to one.
The polls are test of voting senti-
ment as it exist today-five weeks from
the election. Meanwhile the Progress
sive movement is sweeping over the
country. Roosevelt, as Barnes has
said, possesses the minds of a large
part of the people, and he is making a
powerful appeal to the imagination of
the rest.
Every day it gets palmer that, with
Taft hopelessly out of the contest, the
only hope for the voters who are against
Professor Wilson to beat him lies in
supporting Roosevelt.
AS election day draws nearer these
anti Wilson voters should see that every
vote thrown away on Taft will help
Wilson to defeat Roosevelt, and that
the only way to keep the free trade
party out of power is for anti Wilson
voters to combine on the Progressive
candidate. - Boston Journal.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-10-04

two ways of improving things. The
usual way in school matters is to call on
the taxpayers for more money. The
other, less diligently cultivated, is
much in need today; it is through scien-
tific management, systematization and
improved service, Vermont may need
larger appropriations for schools; she
certainly needs a more strict account
ability for what she already spends.
A board of education, made up in
conformity with the evident intention
of these recommendations would be
able to do much toward securing the
desired results. Particularly would
this be the case if the appropriation
placed at the boards disposal permitted
it to secure the services of an expert in
education and to carry out the minor
changes suggested. Such board, com
posed of brilliant men and women will
ing to serve the State without pay, ap-
pointed for term long enough to ena-
BILE them to frame a consistent policy
and carry it out, beyond the possible
reach of gubernatorial club in their
deliberations, would soon elevate the
States educational counsel to the level
of that represented by the trustees of
our colleges. And is there any reason
why the whole educational system
should not be administered as wisely as
a part ?
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-10-04
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1912.
STATE EDUCATION BOARD.
Com mittee OF Nine Advocates
Several Important Changes.

Burlington, Sept. 29. Recommends
tons for proposed changes in the
State department of education were
made here yesterday by the committee
of nine appointed last summer for
that purpose The resolutions will be
introduced at the coming session of
the General Assembly. Definite an
nouncement of the committees rec
concentrations will be made public in
a few days but it is understood in a
general way, that the resolutions
includes declarations in favor of the
following proposals.
THAT State board of education be
established consisting of seven men,
bers appointed by the governor with
the concurrence of the Senate; mem
bers to hold office six years.
THAT this board shall appoint the
State superintendent of education for
three years and fix his salary. At
present the State superintendent is
elected by the General Assembly.
THAT the board shall have power
to control the certifcation of teachers.
THAT it shall inspect and report
upon the expenditure of State funds
set aside for the use of schools and
colleges in the State.
THAT it shall control State normal
schools.
THAT members of the board shall
serve without pay and receive no
money except for actual expense in
Cured.
Other resolutions provide for the
complete conduct by the board of pub
lie school affairs.
1t was further recommended by the
committee that local superintendent
shall have power to dismiss from
school, pupils whose personal habits, or
infirmities are such to make their
presence undesirable
A resolution was adopted favoring
the formation Of fund for the benefit
of retired teachers with provisions for
its increase at stated intervals.
Those of the committee present were
President Benton, of the University of
Vermont; President Thomas, of Middle
bury college; President Spooner, of
Norwich university; f. c. Partridge,
of Proctor; Principal M. D. Chittenden
of Burlington; Principal E. B. Smith,
of Brattleboro; Superintendent A. w.
Eddy, of Middlebury; Superintendent
E. A. Hamilton, of Newport and
Principal c. A. Adams, of Castleton.
Members of the legislative committee
of the Vermont Teachers association,
Vermont School Masters club and
members of the State Board of Educa-
ton, with the exception of Gov. Mead,
were present.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-10-04
BANDITS ROB MERCHANT.
Chauffeur Says Robbers Made
Him Drive at Top Speed

Stephen Dolce of No. IA Park street
Brooklyn, who admitted having driven
the red touring car from which two
robbers waylaid, blackjacked and
robbed John Pepper, cheese merchant
of $500, at Ninth avenue and 18th
street, at 10 o'clock yesterday morning,
was arrested last night.
Detectives under Deputy Commits
sioner Dougherty took up the clew fur
nished by partial Identification of the
license number on the car, and the ar
rest was made early in the evening.
Acting on information Commissioner
Dougherty called up the state depart
ment and learned that a car licensed
under the number 1909 had been
registered last April by Terry Dolce of
No. IA Park street, Brooklyn. The
car was of the Thomas make, but had a
four-cylinder engine. The engine was
of large bore, however, necessitating
long hood, which it was said would
give it the appearance of six-cylinder
car.
Inquiries at the Dolce home in Brook
Ign led the detectives to the Bedford
garage, at No. 754 Bedford avenue,
where it was said the car was kept.
Employees there said it had been taken
out early in the morning, had been
brought back at 10 o'clock, and taken
out again, the place was watched, and
yesterday evening when the car was
brought in the driver was arrested.
At Police Headquarters, where he
was brought by Police Commissioner
Dougherty. Lieutenant Dominick Rely
and three detectives, the prisoner said
he was Stephen Dolce, nineteen years
old. He admitted having driven the
two bandits from the scene of the hold
up at 18th street and Ninth avenue.
Dolce said he had never seen the men
until yesterday morning, when they en-
tered his car at Seventh avenue and
18th street, Manhattan. He had gone
there he said upon receipt of a telephone
call that came to Bedford garage at 7
O'Clock in the morning. He had been
offered So an hour for the use of his car,
he said.
After driving the men to Ninth Ave-
nue. and 18th street, he waited, he said,
until the two men ran around the cor
ner and jumped into the car. One
carried a bag, and the other, drawn
revolver in hand, ordered him to drive
with all speed and to stop at the peril
of his life.
Terrified, Dolce said, he ran the car
with all possible speed. He admitted
having heard shots fired, but did not
turn to see what was taking place.
After driving along Ninth avenue, he
turned into 10Th street driving along
that thoroughfare to Sixth avenue,
where he turned south. At 4th street
the robbers left the car, and Dolce said
he returned to Brooklyn.
The hold-up occurred in broad daylight
in the presence of scores of people.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-10-04
WHERE THE PEOPLE WILL WIN

The reasons given by Governor Nc
Govern of Wisconsin for his unqualified
support of Roosevelt and johnson reach
to the very heart of the contest. Nc
Govern is the head of State which has
proved its progressiveness and the solid
worth of it to the people. He sat in
the Chicago convention of June and
knows its history AS a man of COM
plete experience, he declares abso-
lutely that the nomination of Taft was
stolen and refuses to stand for it.
"ln Woodrow Wilson there is much
to admire" he says, ''but he is free
trade Democrat who believes in an anti
quated theory of States rights and
relics for his election upon the support
of boss-ridden political machines. "
Governor McGovern can see no advan-
tage to the Progressive cause in the
possible victory of Wilson over Taft.
"In such an event." he says, "the peo-
pie will have the satisfaction of having
rebuked Taft for his reactionary poll
ces, his defiance of public opinion and
his alliance with corrupt bosses but
this will be all the good they will ever
get out of it.
The governor praises the Progressive
party, its national candidates and its
splendid platform for human rights.
1t is in Roosevet's election that the
people can reap real benefit from the
election. 1t is the only outcome that
will yield results to the nation And
his choice was made by the nation. AS
Governor McGovern says:
If the will of the people is to be the
law of the land, his title to lead in this
great cause is clear. Boston Journal.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-10-04
Pu bile Library.

The circulation of books for Septem-
Der, 1912, has been 1899, of magazines
SO, making a total of 1868, an average
of SO day. Of the book circulation 6s
per cent was fiction; II per cent was
non-fction; p per cent was juvenile, of
which 26 per cent was not stories.
The number of those taking books
from the library since the library was
made public, but not before, has been
increased by 81, making that number
now S07. The entire number of those
who have taken books since May lst.
1911, is l174.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-10-04
ATTACKS INDIA MAIL COACH,
Elephant Kills Driver With Blow
of Trunk and Smashes Vehicle,

Calcutta, India, Sept 20. An attack
by wild elephant on the Mutation
Vilankulum mail coach, in the Northern
province of Ceylon, is reported in ad-
vices from Colombo.
Appearing Unexpectedly from the
jungle the elephant killed the driver
with one blow of its trunk and then
proceeded to smash the coach against
telegraph pole.
The passengers who were thrown out.
of the vehicle hid themselves in a near
by culvert from which the enraged
beast tried in vain to dislodge them.
When the animal disappeared into the
thick the frightened travellers climbed
tree where they remained throughout
the night.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-10-04

The following article is from the Bur-
lington Free Press of Saturday, Sep
TENDER 2S:
We believe some people who are try
ing to create a misrepresentation re-
gardng the program for the coming
legislative session will be surprised
when they learn of the extent to which
Hon. Allen M. Fletcher proposes to try
to increase the efficiency of the General
Assembly itself through modification
of methods as well as to promote the
material development and social in
dustrial uplift of the commonwealth.
Mr.. Fletcher does not hesitate to ex-
press the belief that the most far
reaching and therefore the paramount
issue at the coming session will be the
placing of the individual lender on an
equality with the banking institution as
regards loans and taxation, and the
consequent encouragement of the young
men and young women to remain in YER
mont and help develop the other natural
resources of our commonwealth
Mr.. Fletcher holds that thousands of
dollars are wasted at the present time
in various ways, and he proposes to
present to the members of the Legis-
lature early in the session some sug-
gestions as to the way in which he
believes by the adoption of good bust
ness methods they can save money and
devote it to some more useful purpose
than at present.
Everybody who has devoted any at
tention to the subject of the States
finances knows this TO be true, and if
Mr.. Fletcher were to do nothing beyond
bringing about this accomplishment and
the establishing of the equality
mentioned as to the individual and the
banking institution, his record would be
enviable among the Vermont governors.
Mr.. Fletcher, having been in the
State Legislature ten years, is in ex-
cellent position to know what the people
want in various directions, and he
makes no secret of his determination to
make a record which will put Vermont