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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-29
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

Barton's new curfew law went into eff
feet Thursday evening, the fire whistle
being used as a signal.
| In 1912, Vermont paid $40 904 so for
bountes for bears, lynx and hedgehogs.
Washington county led with a total OF
S. $4,000, while Waterbury was the ban
ner hedgehog town,
Mrs. James Hall of Barnet opened
can of raspberres for dinner few days
ago. which had been put up for rs years.
but which retained their original flavor
and seemed as good as when first put
up.
The state board of supervisors of the
insane have organized by electing Fred
f. Steele of Montpelier as president
DIR. W. NJ Bryant of Ludlow as secre-
tary and DR.. r. NJ. PeIton OF Richford
as treasurer.
Greensboro has been favored above
most of the towns in the state in its
production of maple sugar, though the
conditions there are far from favorable
Some sugar makers have made as much
as 200 pounds Ct sugar already.
Because he stole a pair of mittens.
last January from a man in a livery
stable, George Henry of Rutland has
been sentenced to 81 days in the county
Jail. Because of other small thefts, the
authorities determined to press the
charge.
H. p Morrison, who was injured at
the Fairbanks Scale works in St Johns
bury. recently. when heavy tool fell off
a dumb waiter onto his head suffered
fractured skull, but a piece of the skull
was removed and the man seems to
stand good chance of recovery. 1t is
probable, however, that his left foot
and leg will always be para yzed.
AT special meeting of the legal
voters OF Pittsford, it was voted to ac-
eept the charter granted by the last leg
islature for the Incorporation of Pitts
ford village. The vote was so to Ia.
A petition was presented by the resi-
dents of the plains asking that they
be allowed to be included in the vii,
lage corporation. w. r. Dennison was
elected president The annual meeting
will be held the first Tuesday in May.
Ninety feet OF track was washed out
Thursday afternoon about a mile south
Of Bethel. causing the passengers on
the southbound afternoon train to re-
main in Bethel over night. 1ncluded
N the IS passengers were Governor
Fletcher and State Forester Halves, who
we're on their way to meeting in
White River Junction. Dwellings locat-
ID near the banks of the river were sur
'ounded with water, which in some in.
stances entered the houses and covered
he floors. The damage done by the
iood was large. At Stockbridge the
ong bridge which crosses the White
River, and was over 100 years old, was
washed away. The chair stock mill of
Harry Allen in Gaysville was carried
lown the stream, as was a barn in
he same place, owned by Eugene Cham
berlin.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-29

RI. Rev. ,. 4. Weeks. coadiutor hish-
op Of the Episcopal diocese % Yer
mont. has decided TO make bis home in
Rutland and will locate there soon.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-29
DRINK
HABIT
RELIABLE HOME TREATMENT

Thousands OF wives. mothers and sis
tors are enthusiastic in their praise Of
.0RRlNE. because It has cured their
loved ones Of the drink habit and there
by brought happiness 10 their homes
Can be given secretly. ORRlNE costs
only si.0O per box. Ask for free booklet
Red Cross Pharmacy, leo North Main
strcez.-Advt.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-29
Hoods
Sarsaparilla
In hundreds of homes Is the favorite
Spring Medicine

Made from Roots, Banks. Herbs and
other ingredients, including just those
prescribed by the best physicians for
ailments OF the blood. stomach. kid
neys and liver. Creates an appetite.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-29

In 1912, Vermont paid sl9904s0 for
bountes for bears, lynx and hedgehogs.
Washington county led with total of
S5,34030, while Waterbury was the ban
ner hedgehog town.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-29

Mrs. james Hall of Barnet opened
can of raspberries for dinner few days
ago. which had been put up for rs years,
but which retained their original flavor
and seemed as good as when first put
up.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-29

Barton's new curfew law went into eff
feet Thursday evening, the fire whistle
being used as a signal.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-29

The state board of supervisors of the
insane have organized by electing Fred
f. Steele of Montpelier as president,
DIR. w. NJ Bryant of Ludlow as seere-
tary and DR.. r. NJ PeIton of Richford.
as treasurer.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-29

Greensboro has been favored above
most of the towns in the state in its
production of maple sugar, though the
there are far from favorable.
Some sugar makers have made as much
as 200 pounds Ct sugar already.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-29

Because he stole pair of mittense
last January from a man in a livery
stable, George Henry OF Rutland has
been sentenced to 81 days in the county
Jail. Because OF other small thefts, the
determined to press the
charge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-27
Motor Busses for Cities

From the Boston Transcript
report issued by a deputation Of
Edinburgh officials appointed to visit va
rious cities in England for the purpose
of inspecting self-propelled cars is likely
to be of some Importance in the contro-
versy regarding the choice of road ve-
hicles for municipal passenger traffic
The present cable tramway system of
Edinburgh, with its ceaseless rattle and
its imperfect means of starting and ac-
celebrating cars, is one OF the few points
for criticism left to southern engineers
when visiting the Scottish capital, and 1t
is therefore easy to sympAthze with any
action having for it's object the removal
of this disturbing element from a city
in which nature and art have success
fully conspired to produce architectural
and engineering harmonies.
The members Of the deputation express
the opinion that the self-propelled tram
car has attained such q degree of eff
cheney as to render 1t trustworthy, safe,
and suitable for public transit. The ini-
tial cost of the cars is necessarily higher,
hut the view taken by the deputation is
that this Is counterbalanced by savings
in construction of tram lines, conductors
and conduits or overhead work. and by
the absence of central governing sta
ton. II this type OF car comes into vogue
the question of the effect upon generat-
&afts.
ance.
Presumably the determining factor will
be the relative cost of coal and petrol
and 1t has to be remembered that under
present conditions of fiuctuation of prices
it Is practically impossible to estimate
what that relation will be, beyond the
date of consumption of visible stocks of
fuel. Another matter arising from the
report of the Edinburgh deputation,
though nots explicitly referred to by its
members, is the question of removing
the tram lines altogether and operating
by system of municipal omnibuses. The
self-propelled car, with its ease of loco
omtion, simplicity of control and drive
and comparative silence of working, in
deed seem sto open up the possibility OF
abolishing rails along public roads. The
trolley omnibus affords another means
of attaining the same end, but it has the
disadvantage from the aesthetic point of
view of entailing overhead wires with
their supporting posts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-27
An Europe Begins to Think It's Tariff Too High |

Copyright, 1913, by Curtis Brown.)
4 7 JENNA, July 2e-(speciaL) )-Eu-
" ropes high protectiOnist wave is
subsiding. This conclusion seems
hasty at time when import duties are
higher than they ever were, and when
Europe's whole continent is bound with
export bounties, state-limited production,
import certificates" differential railroad
freights and otter devices. None the less,
here, as in America demand for lower
tariffs is making itself felt. The collapse
in England, after 10 years vain work. of
Joseph Chamberlain new protectionism
is not an accident but is unquestionably
q reflection of the continental trend to-
wards freer trade. Chamberlains initia-
tive came at most inauspicious time,
for it began to tempt England with the
delights of continental nations at the very
moment when the protected continental
nations were themselves beginning to
doubt the merits of the system.
The new revolt against high protection
is all the more potent because ii is a mod
crate, opportunist revolt, sharply dstin-
guished from the free trade enthusiasms
of Yves Guyot in France and of the la ate
DIR. Barth in Germany The principles of
the new free trade moA ement are identi-
cal with the present practice of the Unit
ed States. 1t is seen that protection has
created vast vested interests. 1T is ad-
mitted that 1t is impossible to abolish in
a day the tariff conditions amid which
these vested interests have grown, be-
cause any such drastic action would dis
organize business. The new movement
demands gradual and cautious reduc-
tion of tariffs, with entire abolition only
where the industry concerned could GER
tainly bear abolition. When industry and
agriculture have time to adapt themselves
to the lower duties, thetime, it is argued,
may come to lower duties still more, and
in this way there would be no sudden
break, and no danger of crises and heavy
loss
The great organizations which stand at
the head of the European anti-protection-
ism all work in that spirit In Germany
the only effective free trade propaganda
is run by a body so working, the. Com
mercial Treaties association. The Com
mercial Treaties association is largely a
creation of the radical banker. Kaempf,
now president of the Reichstag. This as
sociation does not agitate for free trade
at all. but merely demands that duties be
progressively cut down by commercial
treaties. The strongest Austrian anti
protectionist movement is conducted In
the same way. Here the chief organiza-
tion is the Austrian Economic union.
which was founded three years back by
the Reichstag deputy Cheyalier Won
Pantz. Baron Chlumecki. the editor of the
"Oester Reichische Rundschau' and Pro-
1essor fIoffmeyer The immediate aim Of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-27
Entering the locks Lake


cut will disappear and the waters flow
in"
But how about the work then? What
kind of progress can you make in scoop
ing up the earth and rock out of that
mighty ditch of water 40 feet deep?
The, progress is all a question of
Sides, replied the engineer-in-c chief
I'VE expect to put in three dredges. and
Mr. Comber Nho is in charge of the
Pacific division. tells me that these three
dredges will take out half million cubic
yards in one month. I believe we can do
the work cheaper and quicker by the
dredges than by the steam shovels. The
arrangements are such that We will set
the dredges in about the first of October.
The contractors win finish one flight of
locks throughout the canal by that time.
We shall then blow up the dixie and let
the suction dredges in from the Atlantic
end. We will bring up the Cprozal from
the Pacific end, and we will have three
great dredges carrying the material of
the Cucuracha slide and other material
over the sides of the cut into the Rio
Grande valley on the west. I have also
installed sluicing plant which will carry
the top of the Cucuracha slide back into
the valley at the east
THAT means that October / you will
have three great streams Of earth and
rock flowing out of Culebra cut at diff
ferent places?i said l.
Yes that's it. and those streams will
keep moving day and night We shall
keep the machinery going for a hours
E of the day and for six days of the
week"
"'rhe stopping of the dry excavation
will greatly reduce the number of the
men employed. will II not7"
Yes. We shall begin to make a heavy
reduction in the force b., the first OF
October
How many men have you at work
now?9
About 10000, including those under the
contractors as well as our own"
What will become of them?'
The natives will go back home and
the Americans will be scattered
What win become of the skilled
force? 1 mean the thousands of engi-
neers and mechanics whom Uncle sam
has trained?"
Most of them will have to find Jobs
thals. 1T would be almost impossible
to transfer the organization as a
whole, and there is no other piece of
work which requires such an organiza-
ton. Indeed, the talk of transferring
the organization from Panama to other
places is more or less hot air"
What win become of Uncle Sans
machinery at the completion of the
canal?" I asked.
There is some talk of sending it to
Alaska to aid in the building of rail-
roads. and also to the Mississippi val
ley for the improvement of that great
waterway" replied Colonel Goethals
Il know nothing about that. / am
only interested in that we get as much
as possible out of it to cut down the
total cost of the canal"
rs there any possibility that we
win get very mueh?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-27

the Austrian Economic union is merely
the cutting down of the extravagantly
high corn duties imposed in 1906. The
union declines to raise the banner of all
round immediate free trade. Russia's
same modest form.
AT present the worst critics of Russian
protectionism are the Russian protected
industries themselves. The agricultural
classes have long groaned, but during the
last few years the manufacturers have
added their complaints. This came to a
Climax at the Moscow congress of manu-
facturers last autumn. The manufacture
ers-all themselves highly protected
came almost unanimously to the conchI-
sion that Russian protection is a failure.
The reason stated Is that while the man
ufacturers are protected with high tariffs
and enabled to put up prices they in turn
suffer from the extravagant prices of
raw materials which the protected monop-
olists in coal and iron are able to demand.
The machine manufacturer, Feodor Tch-
itcherine, presented tables to prove this
complaint He showed that the Russian
gets 81 per cent higher price for pumping
machinery than the Englishman gets in
the open market But the Russian, M.
Tchitchcrine showed, pays 40 per cent
more than the Englishman for his raw
material, and he also pays higher for the
work done, although nominally, Russia
is higher than in England, because ar
gued Tchitcherine, the pampered state of
Russian industries has prevented the
growth of qlass of really skilled and ef-
ficient working men. In the end the pro-
tected Russian manufacturers profit is
about % per cent less than that of the
unprotected Englishman
This revolt of the protected interests
against protection is not confined to Rus
sia. 1t might be said that everywhere
the main source of the anti-protectionist
revolt is protectionist discomfort. The
number of free traders on principle is
small compared with the number of dis
gruntled protectionists. who condemn
nigh protection because it will not work
out precisely in the way they want it to-
The argument of each class of producers
is That while protectionism is good and
desirable, it is being applied in way TO
berefit others and to injure them. This
Is the case In Germany and Austria as
well as in Russia. The protectionists
when il comes to details, prove to be far
more opposed to one another's notions of
protection than they are to the notions of
free traders.
year ago Austria gave good examples
of this. The cabinet of Baron Won
Steiskh appointed an enquiry into Aus
triaa 'kartells' or trusts, mainly into the
great iron and steel kartell Complaints
against the iron kartell came from all
classes, but IN chief from the agricul-
trrists and from the manufacturers of
finished goods. The manufacturers COM
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-27

are inextricaby intertwined. The intel
luctual fathers of state insurance were
also the intelluctual fathers of high pro-
lection. Bismarck who Initiated both
branches of legislation. took the ideas of
both. or these leaders, two, the venera-
BILE professors Wagner and Schneider are
still alive. and while they still with en-
ergy urge the imperial government to
fresh social measures, they also reso-
lutely stand for the maintenance of pro-
lection. And most other high protection
thinkers are also social reformers. The
abest of the generation after Schneider
and Wagner is Prof. Max serine, who
holds the chair of political science at
Berlin university. Sering is Schmollers
collaboration in the editing of Political
and Social Science Investigations peri
odical which strongly stands for state
interference in the economic and social
domain. This union of social progress
with protectionism is undoubtedly. a
strong asset in protectionists hands, and
it saves the protectionists professors
from the charge of standing in with the
rich. Against these men of science the
free trade school is relatively poor It's
Among the Austrian anti-protectionists
Hoffmeyer leads. The story of his associ-
alton with the low tariff movement is
itself an illustration of the decline of
protection. While the head of depart
ment in the ministry of agriculture under
the late Dr. Braf. Prof, Hoffmeyer was
asked the to make an enquiry into the
question whether Austria s farmers bene-
flied from the 1906 grain tariff, or not
Hoffmeyer was then pronounced pro-
tectionists, and he started his enquiry in
confidence that it would prove the in
creased tariff to have been a blessing
The enquiry proved the contrary 1T
showed that the mass of farmers were
losing by the tariff. Hoffmeyer's report
was so distasteful to the proteetionists
Minister Braf that 1t was suppressed
Rechstag Deputy Chevalier Won Pantz
ferreted 1t out and had it published
Pantz declares that he himself before
he read the report was a high protec-
tionists but that the evidence convinced
him that the tariff was doing more harm
than good. 1t was this which led Hoff-
meyer and Pantz to start the powerful
anti-tariff Austrian Economic Union'
The tariffs will be at most very
slightly cut down; but that they will cer-
tainly not be increased. Even this
is considerable gain, for two years
ago the high protectionists especially the
agrarians were clamorously demanding
still higher tariffs as the only salvation
against ruin. In Germany the agrarian
junkers have lost power; and the balance
in the Reichstag is held by the national
liberals. which though not free trade
party. has declared its opposition to any
increase Of the tariff. In Russia the new
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-27
BY STEPHEN ASPDEN

Austrias karteH inquiry showed well
the deep dissatisfaction of European pro-
tectionists with the way In which the
principle works in practice. For q whole
fortnight the fierce proteetioHists IIohen-
blum engaged in wordy feud with the
director of the Bohemian metal trust
Iohenblum explained how agriculture
was being ruined by the trust, and the
trust explained that it was on the point
of ruin (paying merely 25 per cent?, and
would be ruined entirely if the greedy
agrarians cut down the tariff Repre-
sentatives of a dozen other Industries
fought the trust on similar lines. The
general result of the inquiry was best
expressed in the presidents words: sit
seems that every producer In Austria
wants all tariffs done away with except
those tariffs which protect his own
branch
High protection in Russian and Austria
is undoubtedly in a worse plight than 1t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-27

copyrighted, 1913. by Frank G. Car
penter)
Washington, D. c.
TT was in little ten-by-twelve room
in the top of the Mills building that
4 talked with Col. George w Goethals
ss to the completion of the Panama
canal The colonel sat in front of win
dow looking out on the Potomac the war
department and the Washington monu-
ment. and the hot breeze which blew
through seemed like a north pole zephyr
in comparison with Panama. 1t made his
blue eyes bright, his dark cheeks rosy,
and he seemed as cool as the center seed
of cucumber. ! know now that he was
loaded with work, but he did not show
it then. Indeed. 1 find that the busiest
men are those who seem to have the most
leisure. They know how to use their
minds, and do not let their souls fly to
the four corners of the world while talk
ing to you. The chief of the great work
at Panama has had only week to spend
in Washington, and every bit of that
time with the exception, perhaps, of six
hours at night for sleeping, has been oe-
cupied with the President, Secretary of
War and anxiously inauiring members of
the Senate and the House. Big questions
were discussed, and matters involving
millions were weighed in the Balance.
1t was during one of the intervals of
such discussions that I got an appoint
ment for an interview. L put my ques-
tions and the answers promptly came.
Said I:
when will the canal be done?"
q don't know. 1t will be finally opened
In 1915. I expect to see it done long in
advance of that"
when will the water be let into the
Culebra cut?"
tEarly in October next
But will the cut be ready by that
timer"
1.-The cut is ready for the water now.
The difficulty is that we cannot get the
dredges in. The situation is briefly this:
When 1 went back last February | found
that two slides had developed and the
engineers told me that the cut could not
be made ready for the water until jan
uary l, 1914 So | had to figure back
ward and see how soon after that time we
could raise the level of Gatun lake from
the so feet. which 1t is now to the re-
quif-ed level of 81 feet. This could be
done only during the rainy season, which
does not begin until July, and it would
have been far along in November of 1914
before we could have the maximum lake
level. The canal had to be opened, thor
oughly tested and ready for work by
1915. and I could plainly see that this
was impossible if we relied upon excavat-
ing the balance of the Culebra cut in
the dry and did not finish it before jan
uary l. That determined me upon let
ting the water in during the coming rainy
season and completing the work with
the dredges.
1.-THE rainy season is now at about its
beginning. 1t will rise to the level of 75
feet by the first of October, when the
dixie which separates the lake from the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-27

is in Germany. Austria is suffering from
a severe crisis, and in Russia where eco
nomie conditions are ohronically bad the
anti-protectionist trend is Increased by
a clamorous agitation against the trusts
which has just led Minister of Trade
Timashem to frame law putting all
Russian trusts drasticaly under govern
ment tutelage. In Germany protection Is
most assailed by the producer. by far the
weakest political class. Also in Germany
the outcry against the trusts is directed
exclusively against the raw material kar-
tells; and the aggreived are a minority of
manufacturers. But there is another
reason why German protection is rela-
lively vigorous. 1t wears a certain ideo-
logical arrnor Which guards IL against the
accusation of being mere class legislation
and economic plunder This armor is its
association with social reform. German
protectionism and German social reform
have had the same origin and today they