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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-01-16
FAVORS SCHOOL WORK ON
MORALS.

London, Jan. 2. -Simplification of
spelling will perhaps be accomplished
before the difficulty in regard to re-
ligious teaching in schools is solved,
according to Viscount Bryce, ex-British
Ambassador at Washington, who today
inaugurated at the University of Lon
don conference on education at which
q educational associations are repre-
resented.
A great audience listened to Viscount
Bryce's speech on "Salient Educational
Issues" He put in the forefront of his
address plea for the inclusion in the
school curriculum of moral training
based on religious principles. Bible and
religious instruction, he declared, must
not be left out of the schools.
He said he had learned how strongly
Americans felt the need of strengthen
ing school work in this direction among
such populations as filled England ard
America.
Parents and Sunday school teachers
could not, he declared, be relied on tC
do all that was necessary, although il
was the first duty of a parent to give
his child moral and religious instruction
The teacher, he continued, ought tC
be permitted to place his moral pre-
cepts as the basis of his duty to the
Deity, and not one out of a Thousand
of them would misuse his opportunity
He said he was struck with the fac
that both in the United States anC
England knowledge of the Bible wa!
declining among all classes, with an in
calculable loss to the life of the coun
try, the younger pupils. Boston Globe
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-01-16
FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1914.

This week we present to our readers,
in supplement, Chapter l, volume |,
ELLEN or Whisperings of an Old Pine"
There will be found in this chapter, we
believe, correct statements regarding
individual existence, success in life,
and ones highest sphere. True beauty
is worth, and the highest calling is
doing good.
There will be found on this page the
Preface of Volume l, which gives
briefly the conception and development
of the work. Two volumes have been
issued discussing Creation, Existence
and the Undulatory Theories. A third
volume is ready for the press. In this
will be found further discussion of
Sound, the action of the telephone and
graphophone, several chapters on Light
and one on Echoes.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-01-16

world fairly when you will neither guar
antee law and order in these regions
yourselves nor allow the Intervention of
some other power that would" And
he might also have said: you are not
treating the Mexican people fairly"
1t was reported how Admiral Fetch
er, in the interests of humanity, had
protested against the continuance of
the atrocities committed in wholesale
way by both Consttutionalists and Fed
erals in executing prisoners of war at
Tambico. Do the people of the United
States realize that these atrocities are
as nothing compared with the barbarous
pillage, arson, murder and outrages
which have been committed in Durango,
in Torreon, in Juarez, in Chihuahua-to
mention only the larger cities which
have been the scenes of carnage.
We have protested at the atrocities in
the Balkans. Are the Mexican people,
at our very door, less worthy of pity
than the fierce nations of that region?
Does our Government realize that about
three hundred Americans and about
thirty thousand Mexican people have
lost their lives during these last three
years? Of these Mexicans fully one
third have been non-combatants, and of
this number probably two or three
thousand have been women and child
rem.
Why call ourselves humane people;
why talk of ethical principles, if we
allow such terrible atrocities to take
place without lifting hand and without
allowing anybody else to interfere? To
one thatknows the poor Mexican Indian,
humble, indolent, happy-go-lucky and
withal lovable, it gives great sorrow.
1t is heartbreaking
A FRIEND OF MEXICO.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-01-16
RESIST INCOME TAX.

We clip the following from an ex-
change:
Washington, Dec. 80. Resistance
on the part of the women OF, the coun-
try to the federal income tax> law de-
spite the government ANNOUNCED
intention to impose fines of $1,000 for
each failure to report incomes, will
receive the encouragement of the Suf-
fragists congressional union, it is an
nounced in statement issued by the
Organization headquarters here. Re-
sistance to the law it is declared would
be thoroughly justified from a moral
standpoint.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-01-16
A PESsIMIsTIC TARIFF VIEW.


To the Editor of The New York Times:
While it may be somewhat premature
to judge at this time the probable re-
suits of the reduced tariff and the new
banking and currency laws, do not be-
lieve that the effect upon price of COM
modities and the cost of living resulting
from the former will be sufficient to
offset or overcome the continued and
constant enforcement of higher wages
and diminished labor. The investment
of capital in the employment of labor
has become so hazardous it is not likely
that capitalists or employers will find in
the increased money facilities of the
new banking law a sufficient inducement
to warrant them in assuming and under
taking a still larger and greater risk of
oppression and lost through the con-
tinued antagonism of labor unions and
adverse labor legislation.
EMPLOYER.
Wilkes Barre, Penn, Dec. 81, 1913.
From New York Times, January 5.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-01-16
THE TELEPHONE IN ENGLAND.
what an Expert Has to Say About
Government MANAGEMENT.

Ever since the government took over
the private telephone lines at the ex-
plration of the company franchises, the
London papers have been filled with
complaints of the service under the new
arrangement. AS the months havegone
by, with no improvement, the com
plants have been unusually numerous
for the past several weeks.
The London Times has had an expert
review of the situation for the benefit
OF its readers. His conclusion, pub
lished few days ago, ought to be in
teresting on this side of the ocean also.
he points out that the government de-
cided several years ago to take over all
telephone lines, and that the private
company, which was operating under a
terminal franchise, did not make the i'm
provements in its plant that it would
have made had it anticipated retaining
control of its business. But he saws.
even if telephone progress had not been
retarded by the impending government
control, the rapid advance that is
vital commercial necessity to the
country is not being made for the
simple reason that a government de-
partment is, to judge from experience,
unable to carry on great profit, max
ing commercial concern on a sound
business basis" During both periods,
therefore, the period of private control
and since the government has taken
| over the private lines, he concludes that
the telephones and the public "have
suffered, and still are suffering, from
the influence of government control"
The expert explains in some detail
how that influence manifests itself,
and he finds it more demoralizing upon
the employees. Under private control it
was possible to maintain discipline by
summary treatment of delinquents and
by rewards for efficiency and faithful
service. Under government control the
employees are civil servants, with an
assured tenure of Office, and practically
secured from dismissal. They cannot
be punished for carlessness or indif-
ference, especially, when that carless-
ness.is difficult to define, and results
only in general unsatisfactory service.
There may be an apparent appearance
OF efficiency and diligence in the ex-
changes, but with the removal of
the incentive to excellence, which
is the rule under private management,
the employees do only that which
is necessary to keep their jobs.
The London expert calls this the
'root-fault" of the conduct of business
by government department and he
sees no way of graduating it. Its evils
can be mitigated somewhat, but that is
all.
All these evils are known to every
open-minded student of the subject.
Yet because the government owns the
telephones in England we are told that
it ought to own them here and because
it owns the telegraph lines, and loses
money on them, there are credulous
persons who talk about the great sue
cess of government ownership on the
other side of the ocean, and urge that
we have more of it on this side. But
would it not be better to wait till they
had got through finding fault over there
, before we adopt their errors? -Phla-
delphia Public Ledger.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-01-16
WHEAT PRODUCTION OF WORLD
INCREASES.

Washington, Dec. PA cablegram
from the international Institute of
Agriculture, Rome, received today by
the United States Department of Agri-
culture contained the following infor-
nation:
The total production this year of the
staples mentioned in the countries
named below, being the principal pro-
ducing countries of the northern hem
isphere, is as follows:
All wheat, 1868. 900, 900 bushels, be-
ing g. per cent more than last year;
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-01-16
IAN APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE"
To the Editor of The American:

To the Editor of The American:
Sir:-The policy of "watchful wait
ing" towards Mexico has the defect
that it does not consider seriously
enough the atrocities th4t are daily
being perpetrated in that unhappy
country.
Lord Haldane we'll said: "If you
would yourselves secure good govern
ment there we should be quite content.
But you are not treating the rest of the
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-01-16
AUTOS KILL MANY IN GOTHAM.

New York, Jan. 8. Statistics COM
piled by Col. Edward S. Cornell of the
National Highways Protective Society,
show that automobiles killed almost as
many persons in this city during the
year just ended as they killed in the two
preceding years. The 1913 figures re-
veal that 302 persons were killed by
automobiles, or only 81 less than in 1911
and 1912 combined.
For although the December fatalities,
numbering %, were five more than
those of the corresponding period of
1912, they were so per cent less than
the November fatalities. The great
falling off is attributed to the rigid
enforcement of the municipal speed or
dinance, whose provisions the police
and magistrates began to enforce De-
cember
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-01-16
ELLIE N
OR
WAlSPERiNGS or AN OLD PINE.
PREFACE.

IN the conception of this book was all the
OF the author to critce science 1t true that he,
doubtless many others, having confidence the small
experiments by many scientists to prove their
hypothesis had always protested against postuae which
would make certain intimately related phenomena, heat
light etc. different in their the great majority of
things which familiar with but notwithstanding this
the author had supposed he had high respect science
and so far as he had thought supposed that he
believer in evolution. That he supposed evolution be
the best thought of the advanced thinkers and So
inclined to accept it. With such these
having determined write book should largely
with philosophy and physics the author with
using the information for such book began of those
subjects which in life of literature in
very different field had been largely neglected since college
days 1t took but short time perceive that large part
of the physics and philosophy of science only entirely
without evidence but also manesty that this
is especially in regard the unduatory theories
principle of evouon and hence the which intended
to be built upon the principles of SCIENCE has
become largely a criticism O science
But think that ALL whether laymen will per
ceve the business of the criticisms the inconsistencies
absurdies of the unduaory theories when pointed out are
too transparent be avoided and only evil
dence support evolution but perception open
day and which positive knowledge, that things
made in very different way, leaves alternative but
discard all of these impossible theories and accept Natures
way of doing things Not how scientists all
think the universe might be made the question: how
is made.
We that it is very difficult and in some if not
many impossible for those educated in system of either
politics. science religion relnquish that they have
always been instructed in and supposed be correct AS
years ago the Rev Horace BUSHNELL the great thinkers
of America and perhaps the greatest mind intellectually that
the continent has yet Produced said the writer at is
almost impossible to get out OF and" he added "when
do get out always getting again 1t therefore
slow process for the world to leave the paths however
in which has long travelled and many who
will be constantly slipping back. Still things made right
and wrong, that finally Truth prevails Thus the
Poemac system of Astronomy taught and upheld
superseded by system far consistent and pespicuous
though taught by many scientists bearing seeds of
For nothing be senseless the idea of
attraction at distance But the uncuatory theories
disappear and the conditions of recedes
from view understood to be hoped and expected
that the great of electricity magnetism gavtaton
will be dscovereda by this book has been great
of southland beyond these the material conditions of
thought and the emotions.
list of authors quoted in this book appears in the index
We particularly indebted for information the Chambers
Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia Britannica
JOSEPH BATTELL
BREAD LOAF INN,
RIPTON, VT,
May 1901.
The Pensacola journal., 1914-08-22
The Life of a
Modern Soldier.

In a very remarkable story OF the
civil strife. Order No. IL, in which
the warfare on the Missouri-Kansas
border 10 dealth with. the thought Is
impressed upon one how little Of real
glory there 10 in the theatre OF the
war. when prejudice and passion are
allowed to override all higher feelings
until the sense Of patriotism becomes
merged at last in a very vortex OF re-
venge and crime.
Il was Samuel johnson who said:
1t is wonderful with what coolness
and indifference the greater part of
mankind see war commenced. Those
that hear of it at a distance, or read
Of 1t in books, but have never present.
ed it's evils to their minds, consider
1t as little more than a splendid game
a proclamation, an army, a battle and
a triumph. Some, indeed, must perish
in the most successful field. but thew
die upon the bed Of honor, "resign
their lives, amidst the joys of con-
quest. and. filled with England's glory
smile in death" The life OF a modern
soldier is ill-represented by heroic
fiction. War has means of destruction
more formidable than the cannon and
the sword. OF the thousands and
ten thousands that perished in
our late contest with France and
Spain. a very small part ever felt
the stroke OF an enemy; the rest Ian
Euished in tents and ships, amidst
damps and putrefaction; pale torpid.
spiritless and helpless; gasping and
groaning, unpitied among men made
obdurate by long continuance of hope
less misery; and they were at last
whelmed in pits, or heaved into the
ocean, without notice and without re-
membrance. BY incommodious en-
campments and unwholeome stations,
where courage is useless, and enter
prise impracticable, fleets are silently
The Pensacola journal., 1914-08-22
OF
A RUSSIAN PORT
is WITNESSED.
SKIPPER OF SWEDISH STEAMER
WHO HAS JUST REACHED HOME
GIVES VIVID DESCRIPTION OF
ATTACK BY GERMAN FLEET.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Stockholm. via London, Aug. 21.-
The captain Of a Swedish steamer
which has just arrived from Libau.
tells the following story Of the bonn
bardment of the Russian seaport by
the German fleet:
"It was on a Sunday evening that
the rain of fire began to fall on the
city. The townspeople were thrown
into a panic. They ran into the
streets and other open places because
their houses were falling and burning
Fifteen women who were seated on
a pile of lumber were killed by the
explosion of a single she'll. The bonn
bardment continued for two hours.
Many buildings and bridges were de-
stroyed."
Advices from ST. Petersburg indi-
cate that life in the Russian capital
runs on in the ordinary way. The
streets, cafes and amusement places
are crowded as ever. No additional
military precautions have been taken,
it is said. The food supply is de-
scribed as plentiful.
The destruction of the harbor works
at Hango, Finland, by German war
ships is reported by the master of the
Swedish steamer Bifrost, which has
arrived from Hango.
I'VE received orders from the port
authorities at Hango on August to
moor with the Dutch coal steamer
Alcor across the entrance to the har-
Dor, where our ship was to be dyna-
mited in order to closs the channel" ;"
he said.
Later the authorities permitted us
to anchor outside in security but the
Alcor was blown up according to the
program, together with three valuable
cranes"
Grand Duke Michael, the younger
brother of the Russian emperor has
left for st. Petersburg. Steamship
freight traffic between Finland and
Sweden has been resumed.
The Pensacola journal., 1914-08-22

dispeopled, and armies sluggishly
melted away.
It Is difficult, at q time like this
to see events in their true perspec-
tive, and It Is easy to call good evil
and evil good.
And it ID for this very reason that
It would seem a safe thing and a sane
thing to go quietly about ones busi-
ness doing the daily appointed tasks
and giving thought to the duties OF
today, instead of wasting time in fu-
tile questioning.
Putting undue emphasis on any
question produces discord.
Let each and every one Of US 60
about our business, and let Europe
conduct her war according to her
own lights.
The Pensacola journal., 1914-08-22
The Automobile
Speed Limit.

Pensacola 10 evidently not rhe only
Florida city with foolish automobile
regulations. The Plant City Courier
speaking Of the Plant City ordinance,
says:
A local ordinance making It illegal
to maintain an automobile speed
greater than eight miles per hour on
the city street, is beginning to be
felt by the motorists as somewhat
unjust.
To regulate the speed OF automo-
biles, and to keep them well within
bounds is the duty of the city; but to
push the matter to extremes Is liable
to create a wrongful condition. Mo-
torists claim. and benevably honestly.
that a speed OF eight miles Is almost
too slow to run a car conveniently or
properly. And to constantly keep the
speed below this figure becomes
trial. The ordinance might better re-
quire drivers of automobiles to reduce
speed, well within fifteen miles per
hour, to eight miles at street cross
ings and intersections. In that, the
pedestrian would be protected and the
autoists allowed to use his machine
without constant attention to the
speedometer
This Is very sensible suggestion
and might we'll be adopted by cities
where a speed limit is desirable, al
th6ugh It should be remembered that
q limit on speed and a limit on reck-
less driving are two very different
things. Many fast drivers are alto
gether safe drivers, while some slow
drivers are extremely reckless drivers
The Pensacola journal., 1914-08-22
WROTE
A CONFESSION
NEGRO IN TROUBLE ABOUT EN-.
DORSiNG ANOTHER MANS GOV.
EMINENT VOUCHER, ADMITS
HIS GUILT.

A confession in writing was ma de
by Johnnie Holmes, the negro in the
county Jail for forgery. This written
instrument is now in possession of
the court, and of course will be held
against the negro when the grand
jury is convened within a few weeks.
The negro did not find the voucher
as was stated previously. He is said
to have admitted getting the mail of
another darkey, to whom the trouble
some check belonged, and without fur
ther ado, is said to have opened the
same and endorsed it. This, it was
stated. will be a more grave offense
than was formerly suspected. it was
stated yesterday, if such can be sub
stantiated.
The Pensacola journal., 1914-08-22
BIG CATCH OF
RED SNAPPERS
SMACK RETURNS TO PORT AFTER
SHORT TIME AT SEA WITH
FIFTEEN THOUSAND POUNDS
OF FISH.

A good catch Of red snappers was
reported upon the return to port Of
the fishing smack Favorite yesterday,
a total of $1,000 pounds having been
reported. This was especially good,
1t was stated. because Of the COM
paratively light returns which have
been arriving during the past few
days.
Another consignment OF red snap
pers which was received here yester-
day consisted of 2,200 pounds, this
consignment having arrived aboard
the Leda, an oyster boat, but which
made a search for a red snapper catch
with much show Of success. The Leda
is a comparatively small vessel for
the deep sea fishing trade.
The Pensacola journal., 1914-08-22
German Sailors
Present Problem
For the Officials
RY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

New York, Aug. 21.-What should
be done with two escaped prisoners
of war, Germans, who reached this
port as stowaways on the United Fruit
steamer Almirante (British), raised a
problem today for the solution Of the
Washington government. They are
now in custody of immigration Off
cials at Ellis Island awaiting word
from Washington as to their fate.
According to members of the Al
mirantes crew, the pair were put
ashore at Kingston, Jam. with other
German sailors, at the order of the
British military authorities there and
imprisoned. In some manner they es-
capped, boarded the Almirante again
and slowed away. The Almirantes S
captain on the ships arrival today,
turned them over to the immigration
inspectors as escape prisoners"
They are described as Frederick At
fensculler and Frank 1be.
The Pensacola journal., 1914-08-22
TRAIN TO
ARRIVE TODAY
RAILROAD EMPLOYEES WILL BE
G1ADDENED BY THE DISTRI-
BUTTON OF THOUSANDS IN
THEIR MIDST.

Two days behind schedule time, but
nevertheless not a whit less welcome,
the Louisville & Nashville pay car
will reach the ely at an early hour
this morning. and during the day will
square accounts with the horde of
the railroad company's employees at
this point. Early in the afternoon the
"shop" boys will be paid off, and about
4 o'clock this afternoon the car will
be parked at the passenger depot, to
continue a performance of the pre-
vious welcomed happenings. The car
will hardly go east until an early
hour Monday.
The Pensacola journal., 1914-08-22
WORKMAN HAD
FOOT CRUSHED
LOUIS PERRY SUFFERED VERY
PAINFUL ACCIDENT WHILE AT
WORK NEAR PEROIDo WHARF.

Louis Perry, an aged cOIored man,
employed near Perdido wharf, suffer-
ed a painful wound yesterday after
noon when his ankle was severely
crushed. His injuries were given at
tention by those who were working
with him, and then he Ids carried to
the bayShore car, several blocks dis
tant, coming to the city in that man.
ner. Leaving the car at the corner of
PalafoX and Main streets, he was
thence conveyed in the patrol wagon
to his home, on G. street, near LaRua
The Pensacola journal., 1914-08-22
HOME IS
PURCHASED BY
W.G.M|LL|GAN
HE BUYS THE CLUTTER HOME
ON EAST JACKSON STREET
STREET FROM MRS. ELIZABETH
LUFENBERY.

The Clutter home at the corner Of
jackson street and Seventeenth ave-
nue.. one of the prettiest in that sec
tfon of the city, has been purcha sed
by w. G. Milligan from Mrs. Eliza
beth Lufenbery The latter purchased
the residence from Geo. Clutter a year
or more ago. The home overloollS
Pensacola bay and has an unobstruct-
ed view Of practically the entire har-
Dor.
Mrs. Lufenbery has purchased the
handsome Upp home on North Hill
and will continue her residence in
Pensacola.
The Pensacola journal., 1914-08-22
To CELEBRATE
NJ 'CULlOUGH'
ANNIVERSARY
WHAT WAS ONCE A COTTON
FIELD is NOW A THRIVING
TOWN-ExCURSio THERE ON
AUGUST %.

The first anniversary of the town
of Mccullough will be celebrated on
August 29tn and the Gulf. Florida q
Alabama will run an excursion on that
date so that residents of this city as
well as all along the line can paru-
cipate in the celebration.
One year ago there was cotton
field where one of the best towns
along the road now exists. There are
stores, a bank, cotton gin and num-
erous handsome homes in the town
and the future growth Of place is eN-
pected to be as rapid as during the
past year.