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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16
FARMERS COMING EAST,

Greeley said, go West young man.
but that was before the lands of the
great West became fully occupied. Stu
dents of economic conditions in different
parts of the country are now advising
the young men of the West to go East, "
and indications multiply to show this
advice is being accepted and acted upon
to a marked degree. The Malone Farmer
shows how "a few weeks ago announce
ment was made that a firm of real es-
tate brokers in Omaha was organizing
parties to visit certain portions of the
State of New York 10 examine farm
property with a view to settlement. the
idea being that the land was really
cheaper, considering its fertility, than
much of the western territory and could
be developed into a highly profitable
state of production by the modern meth
DDS of western agriculture.
"The project still lives, and it's reason
ableness is attested by S. b. Howard
of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
land department at Omaha, who has just
been visiting central New York, his
headquarters being at his old home near
Syracuse. He reports tnat many OF the
farms there are being bought by west
ern men, notably Nebraska and Iowa
people, and that the tide of
migration has become strong. He cites
a number of farms that nave already
been taken over by western men and
have been much more successful than
similar property worked by New Workers
on the old plan. He considers these
lands an inviting investment for western
farmers
Vermont offers still greater induce
ments in view of the fact that our farms
are selling" cheaper than are similar
lands in other States, for no good rea-
son except that we rave so legislated
and so run down our own iano invest
ments that we have discouraged other
driven some of our own best blood away
from the Green Mountain Sta,c.
We should share in the benefit of this
migratory movement from the West east
ward, and in the meantime people will
find no better investment in the long run
than good farm land in m
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16
JURORS FOR L. S. COURT.
Considerable Criminal business to Be
Taken Up October 81.

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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16

in the meantime criminals galore must
needlessly have been allowed to escape.
What did happen? Or, rather, what is
happening? The Lapoint case gives us
an inkling on this point.
Lapoint found the door slightly opened.
so that no breaking in the sense OF fore
ing a lock or even lifting a latch was
necessary in order to enter. Lapoint's
lawyers had the numerical weight of de-
cisions with them. If the old technical
construction were to persist under
changed conditions, the lower court must
have been a~djudged in error because II
ruled that these facts did constitute a
breaking and entry. If the spirit of the
law were to be given force, the lower
court must be upheld.
Although presidents were few and far
between, our Supreme Court found nc
difficulty In adapting the law to the
changed conditions with the result tina,
Lapoint will not get off merely because
he was not put to the trouble of turning
a Knob or breaking a lock, and with the
further result that the common law is
shown to have grown in this particular
TO Keep up with the times, just as it has
been growing for the past four hundred
years.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16
CONSERVATION CONGRESS
Many Women Will Attend Ses-
siOns in November.
Mrs. Smile, President of Vermont
Federation of Women's Clubs, Ap-
points Delegates to Represent
This state.

Club women will find much to inter-
est them in the Fifth National Conser-
walton Congress to be held in Washing
ton November IS, 10 and 20. Perhaps
no city in the country affords the pos
sibilities for social features that are
to be found in the National Capital.
The Influence of many of the leaders
in Washington official life will be ex-
erted to give the congress the social
prestige to which II is entitled and this
Will give the gathering especial interest.
1t Is expected that a reception at the
White House will be one of the !mpor-
tant incidents of the Congress. If such
a reception Is held it will be only one
of many social features that would not
be possible elsewhere than at the seat
of government.
Especial significance attaches to the
return Of the Congress to Washington.
This years session will be the first to
be held in that city since the historical
Conference Of Governors was held at
the White House in 1908. 1t was from
the Conference of Governors thai the
formation Of the National Conservation
Congress arose, and the coming ses-
sion will therefore mark a return to
the birthplace of the movement. The
chief question to be discussed at the
congress will he Forestry and Water
Power as benefits a gathering to be held
in the National Capital, especially in
view Of the fact that these are the
subjects with which the conservation
movement was inaugurated.
Several women Of national prominence
are deeply interested in the plans for
the coming congress. At the White House
Conference nf GoyerporS Tho ,rI-. -1.
an present was Mrs. Sarah 5. Platt-
Decker of Denver. Mrs. Decker, now
dead, was the representative of Ae Gen.
eral Federation of Women's Clubs az
the difference of Governors. Woman's
interest in conservation has shown rapid
growth since 1908.
Mrs. Philip y. Moore Of St. I<uis
is vice-presldent of this years congress,
and Mrs. Emmons Crocker of F%itchburg,
Mass, is a member of the executive COM
mittee, Mrs. Croker is also chairman Of
the Conservation Department Of the
General Federation Of Women's Clubs.
The participation OF Mrs. Moore and
Mrs. Croker in the leadership of the
Conservation Congress gives assurance
that women will find the congress in
teresting in its deliberations as well as
in its social features.
Invitations have been extended 90 the
state presidents Of the General Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs to appoint dele
gates to the Congress.
In accordance with this request Mrs.
Harriet Fisher Smile of Montpelier.
president of the Vermont Federation Of
Women's Clubs, Mrs. Bingham Stone
Of Burlington, chairman of the State
Conservation Department, Mrs. II. z.
Folsom Of Lyndonviile, Mrs. Orrin Ashton
of Rutland, Mrs. Guy w. Bailey of Es-
aex Junction, Mrs. George 7. Chaffee
of Rutland are delegates from the Yer
mont Federation.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16


The decision of the supreme Court in
the case of State vs., Louis Lapoint,
while in one sense not involving any i'm
mense interests, is of unusual signiti-
question was whether a man was guilty
of the offcnse of burglary. According to
law it is one offense to steal a thing in
the open. but crime is called burglary
and the penalty attached is even greater
when the culprit ~wronEfully breaks into
certain Enclosures with intent to steal
or commit some other specified crimes.
SO the question of what constitutes a
breaking and entry within the meaning
of the law is sometimes of great i'm
portance both to the criminal and TO the
prosecution. In the Lapoint case a
freight car was entered. The door or
the car was open about an inch or two
inches.
The old law from which present-day
law has grown and is growing was al
most b~rutally severe in its punishment
of crimes. That was not unnatural In
rougher times. To counterfeit this sever
ity there gradually grew up a policy of
hedging in very literally and narrowly
the definitions of the different crimes,
so that the accused man might be forced
to suffer these extreme penalties only in
extreme cases. One instance of this strict
and technical construction in favor Of
the accused may be found in the old de-
cisions as to what constituted break
ing and entering. 1t was held that IL
a window were left up so that a man
could squeeze through, he was not guilty
of this particular offense, ana the same
was held where the window was partly
open and he opened it wider. But II he
had to force the latch he was guilty.
Gradually as time went on, the fero-
cious penalties of the old law were modi-
fled to make the punishment fit the
crime, When this change had taken
place, it became necessary for the law
to adjust itself slightly in the other di-
r%ection. The old technicalities In favor
or the criminal which justice had de-
manded as an antidote to unnatural PEN
alties became unnecessary now that
those penalties had been hange If
the gentlemen who maintain that the
letter of our common law is as unalter-
able as the law of the Modes and Per-
slams had been right, this lopsided con-
dltlon must have gone ON until some
Legislature had modelled 1t all over, and
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16

But Columbus was the first to go from
crurt to court of Europe seeking the
financial backing necessary to turn these
theories into a paying enterprise uoou
or bad, there was something American
about that. And there is a kind of fore
casting of American traits In the indom-
table will which forced the rebellious
crews OF those little ships farther ana
farther on into the unknown, and In the
shrewdness which caused him to deceive
the crews as to the speed at which their
ships were travelling and the distance
they were putting between themselves
and Spain.
Columbus was the first promoter. Like
most great promoters he failed OF the
immediate returns he sought. He writes
back: when I discovered the indies,
| said that they composed the richest
lordship in the world; I spoke Of gold
and precious stones, of spices and the
traffic that might be carried on in them;
and because all these things were not
forthcoming at once, I was abused He
died poor like most promoters. And yet
it was a glorious undertaking., and he
has his reward in the grateful reverence
of a nation he never dreamed Of. dwell
ing in regions he left undiscovered and
under conditions of general enlighten-
mcnt and freedom witch his discovery
made possible.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16
THE FIRST PROMOTER.

1t is remarkable that October IL
should be set apart to the memory Of
the great American hero who was not
an American. on first glance, and in
deed on a second inspection, there seems
to be very little American about Christie
pher Columbus except that while seek
ing a shorter route to the riches of the
Indies he raped his shins against our
eastern stands,
He was an Italian navigator in the
service Of a Spanish king, His achieve
ment was the outgrowth of an old world
impulse. The chaos of the dark ages
was passing into something resembling
order, and out of the melee of contend
ing peoples nations were beginning to
arise. Nations We're reaching out for
power and the means to power was
wealth. They had ceased trying to man
macture 1t by alchemy and were begin
ming to trade for 1t. Their imaginations
were moved in a more practical way.
down to us, Columbus says of gold;
Gold Is the most precious Of all COM
modities; gold constitutes treasure and
re who possesses 1t has all he needs in
this world, as also the means of rescu-
ing souls from purgatory and restoring
them to paradise" The old world ma
tins wanted riches for their old world
needs. Therefore Columbus was fitted
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16

at in this light, it seems strange that
a great American holiday SHOULD be dedi-
Gated to this extremely foreign seeker
of gold.
Viewed in a more general way there
are traits in the character of this Cen
oese sea captain that seem phophetically
American. He was a curious mixture of
imagination and practical daring, ideal
ism and an eye for the main chance.
He set out to capitalize the ideas about
the roundness of the world which had
been familiar to thinkers since the time
OF Aristotle, Seneca seems to have
known that the world was round Roger
Bacon knew it. Certainly Toscanelli be-
lieved In this theory. and sent his onin-
ions and proofs to Columbus when the
practical mariner asked him for them.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16
CUTS HIS THROAT IN JAIL.
Thomas Calian Of Fairfield Failed in
Attempt TO End Life.

st. Adams, oct. l4.-Thomas Callan
of Fairfield, who was confined in
Franklin county Jail, attempted 10
commit suicide by cutting his throat
with a razor this morning about 1O:45
o'clock. The jugular vein was NOD
severed, though a wound about eight
inches long was inflicted. 1t ID
thought the man will recover. DR.. 81
w, Paige and DR.. w. j. Upton werd
called and dressed the wound.
Callan was arrested on the chargd
of a second offense of i~ntoxication and
in city court Yesterday was fined S1j
and costs for the offense. He could
not raise the money, but probably
would have made arrangements to pan
and would have been released today
He is about 2S years old and has 1
mother and father living in Fairfield
The deed was committed in thd
large detention room upstairs where
the prisoner was with several othe{
men. Callan had finished shaving
when he turned to his companions and
said, See. here goes now and Id
drew the edge of the razor across hi{
throat. Help was summoned by the oc}
cupants of the cell Immediately, but
the wounded man lost about a gallon.
of blood before the physicians arrived
After the wounds had been dressed
Callan asked to be released and said
he was able to get home and requested
that none of his relatives be told o.
h he had done. His evident desire
to be left alone made the ~officerS
suspicious that he would max %anothet
attempt to kill himself.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16
DISTINGUISHED HONOR FOR COM.
MISSIONER PROUTY.

The citizen of Vermont who looms
largest on the national horizon at the
present time is the Hon. Charles A.
Prouty of Newport, the New England
member of the interstate COM
mission, who has just been designated as
director of the bureau for the physical
valuation OF the railroads of the United
States.
Commissioner Frouty has come into
conspicuous prominence in connection
with his investigation of the railway sit
uation in New England in behalf Of the
commission, his decision in relation to
the New Haven having been recognized
as so broad and strong and impartial as
to preclude the necessity of a govern
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16

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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16

a shorter road to India. And the land
he discovered gave evidence of contain
ing the richest of all riches, gold.
Therefore even after they had learned
that it was not India these nations Of
southern Europe fingered to ransack
tn land, and incidentally to explore 1t.
Columbus and the men he represented
seem to have thought of the new world
merely as a place in which they might
get things to bring away. The real dis
covery of the new world, the realization
of it as a place in which to work out a
life and civilization, was the work of
north Europeans who came after the gold
had been monopolized. The most of what
America stands for in the development
the world was contributed and in
vented by these latter Corners, Looked
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16

President Schurman of Cornell Univer-
sity, recently United States minister to
Greece, says that little country has prac-
lation as a result Of the recent war. She
promised the allies 125, 600 soldiers and
she actually furnished 10000. President
Schurman believes the modern Greek
soldiers We're as brave and heroic as
their ancestors who fought at Marathon
and Salamis." Higher praise could not
well be given modern Creek.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16

inent suit to bring about the r%eorganiza-
ton of the New England lines. This
service has been regarded as his crown
ing work as a member of the commits
sion, and the distinguished honor now
conferred was bestowed upon him by
common consent as the man deemed
most worthy of general confidence in
that connection, as a mar of conspicuous
ability as well as of the highest integrity.
The physical valuation OF the railroads
of the United States is a gigantic task,
and one that might well stagger most
minds. The work is estimated to cost
3d. Oo,OOO and 1t can not be completed
for a number Of years. 1t goes without
saying that Mr.. Prouty will need
to have the assistance of a small army
of aids in order to get the data in shape
SO it will be Of any use before the first
part Of the work is out of date.
Mr.. Prouty's selection for this i'm
p~ortant task is based upon his demon
strated fairness as we'll as his compre.
hensive knowledge of railroad affairs
gained during a long period Of years
He was long a railroad attorney but no.
body ever owned him, as his service as
commissioner has abundantly demon.
strated. Although a republican he was
appointed a member of the interstate
commission by President
Cleveland in 1896 and he has been success.
sively reappointed whenever his term ex.
PRED. His present term would end ir
December, 1914, but he will retire from
the commission to take up his new worl
at once.
1t has been generally understood tina
Mr.. Prouty would not accept another re-
appointment to the commission, and wher
physical valuation of the railroads 0
the whole country, his was natural.
the first name to suggest itself in con
n~ection with the dictatorship of tn
bureau charged with this importan
service.
The idea of physical valuation of rail
roads of the whole country originate
with Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin
COMMISSIONS Prouty believed in the pre-
ject and will therefore undertake tn
work under the most favorable possibl
conditions.
According to the Washington CORE
spondent of the Boston Transcript Nj
Prouty in his new position will receive
salary of sl2,5o or $4,000 as compare
with $1,000 which he now receives a
commissioner His retirement from tn
interstate commission will leave a va
cancy for which Patrick j. Farrell
chief counsel of the commission and
Vermont democrat, who is recognized a
without a superior as a transportatio
lawyer, is regarded as the most likel
appointee.
Inasmuch as the work of valuation
under the auspices of the commissio
Commissioner Prouty is in reality sti
in the same or similar service, but
was thought best that he devote his er
tire time to this great work, and he ac
cordingly determined to resign as con
missioner with this object In view.
The recognition which has thus com
to COMMISSIONS Prouty is a marke
honor for the State which is proud t
claim him as citizen, and our peopl
will watch with gratifying confidence fc
the still higher success and distinctio
sure to crown his public service.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16
TOO MUCH SEX IN LITERATURE
(From the Universe.)

Literature is oversexed. If we were to
believe the fctionists and the play
wrights, sex is the one morbid, absorb
ing and exclusive topic of thought and
conversation, 1t is a Misrepresentation
Of fact. When God created man He made
him to the likeness of God. Male and
female He created them. The revolt
against the order of being and the
blurring of natural and inevitable dis
tinctions by a would-be new species OF
women-men and men-women is surely a
melancholy sign of decadence both in
tellectual and moral.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16

Water tight bulkheads and the wireless
telegraph and rules of the road and so
on lave tended to hasten the era of the
able thus far to guard against the posi-
bility of h~olocausts at sea, whenever a
ship takes fire. Not until a non-com-
possible to guard against the burning Of a
steamship, and until electric propulsion's
mystery is fully solved there must remain
the combustible fuel supply.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16

In future naval warfare the captain
of a ship must guard his vessel against
the submarine craft, the floating mine,
the automatic torpedo, the aerial scout
and the long distance weapon. The bat
tleship which can withstand these myriad
menaces will be a wonder.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16

The income from the automobile fees
of the last ten months amounting to
s1G 62S 10 reported in another column
with other figures given out by the sec
rotary of states office indicates only
one phase of what the people of Yer
mont get from the immense automobile
traffic which is growing up within our
borders. The bulk of this money goes
into better roads.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16
WHEN FARMING PAYS.
CFrom the Chicago News

Ut IUTI IHV VIIVdEO -NCNs.J
University of Illinois has purchased a
farm of 800 acres, costing $50, 900. Per-
haps it is steam heated, electrically light
ed and possessed of excellent transporter
ton and all modern c~onveniences. Any
way, this shows that it pays TO be a
farmer-if you can sell your farm for
$500 an acre.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16
MEUICS.

(From the Brattleboro Reformer)
The members Of the State Medical So
ciety in their annual convention in Bur-
lington demonstrated that they are gall
liant by ~electinp Miss Grace Sherwood of
st. Adams vice-president of the organiza-
ton.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16

When you want anything, advertise
In the new special column Of this
paper. Some bargains are offered
there this week which it will pay you
to read about. See page two. This
every week ana one cent a word will
reach Il hem all.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16
DIURNALLY DIAPHANOUS.
(From the New York Press.)

IFrom the New YORK Press.)
Los Angeles has put the ban on the
X-ray gown. Los Angeles, you will re-
member, is one of those cities that boasts
of perpetual sunshine.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16
PARAPHRASED,

(From the Providence Tribune)
who was 1t that said, Let us eat,
drink and be merry, for tomorrow We
ride on the New Haven road"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16
n WHITEWASH.
the PHILADELPHIA Press.)

CFrom the Philadelphia Press.)
1t is no surprise to learn that Ameri-
cans are the greatest consumers of sugar
in the world, We use a great deal of it in
our politics.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16

President Wilson'S spectacular opening
of the great canal was wonderful and In
spring but that did not save 1t from
being eclipsed by the world series.