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The Springfield herald., 1914-08-07
ABOUT Ind FLoAIS

consisted of, how made up, the
kind OF outfit or fixtures, and
what there should be in the pa
rade of the neighborhoods be-
sides their float.
First as to the make up of the
floats-to get that $25.00 prize
doesn't mean to have the prize
corn and the prize melons, ETC.,
but to have the most striking or
illustrative presentation of rural
scenes, or the pursuits and pro
ducts of Baca county.
AS we understand it, the float
will be taken more as TO it's typ
ification as whole than as to it's
prize units in products; elsewise
there would be too much of
IL sameness and a lack of novelty
and interest.
AS an illustration of a striking
variety, one neighboi hood might
depict nothing but a country
school-little fellows of all sizes
and ages, and the schoolmam
with black board earnestly en-
deavoring to impress those lit
tie and big pupils-sometimes
with a slipper and sometimes
otherwise. 1t might represent
the OLD style of school bundle
of withes, Ounce stool, etc, etc.
('rhe Herald believes that Prof.
Finley would be the right school
master).
Another float might represent
nothing but IL weady field--big
" eeds and stunted crops, though
this would want to represent
some crops il Baca county, and
not that particular neighbor
hood. 1t might be labeled
"The Way Not To Do IT.
Another might show up moth
ing but native products of Veg
citation, say with the largest
possiblessoap weed, one at each
end OF the float. 5ire tnrgesr pos-
sible hemisphere weed including
IA Russian thistle as one of them,
a patch of sage brush, various
kinds of grasses, with some
jack rabbits interspersed.
Another might represent
nothing but n du.sout, another
might represent the windmill
features of the county; while Of
course diverse floats would be
composed of Our cultivated
grains and products, displayed
as neatly and tastily as possible.
AT tie state fair Greeley had
nothing but a big potato, wagon
size, having rolling eyes, etc,
which suggests to the editor the
Baca county sheep indus
try, which we believe could be
easily typiiied by an immense
sheep, either with or without
horns in proportion. Having
thus suggested the idea, the
Herald will leave the matter
with our big sheep men.
AS to the kind of an outfit, al
wagon with Ii foot or 16
foot wood rack or lay rack, OF
two or three OF such coupled to
gether, and four to six of the
finest horses in the neighbor-
hood to pull them. Neighbor-
hoods having low wheeled wag-
ons would have the best in he
wagon line at least for certain
kinds of floats.
What there would be as the
neighbor's fractional part of
the parade besides the floats
would depend largely on the
ueighborhood's distance from
Springfield, and would be for
the neighborhoods themselves
to oplan, in accordance with the
official notice to that effect PUB
lished elsewhere in this paper.
If the neighborhood is near
enough, or if it decides to do
so anyway, there could be, be-
sides horsebackmnn and rigs of
various kinds, various scenes
typical of rural life; aud to make
this part of the stnrj short,
something along the line of the
Two Buttes parade would be APP
propriate.
Co,po or NAV of tho floats
The Springfield herald., 1914-08-07
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...NOT lCE...

Lamar wants a Baca county
exhibit. Bring in or send in
sample products next week. and
Springfield will send il on to La
mar. Do it now.
assas-ssssossssessesese.<ss.: /:
The Springfield herald., 1914-08-07
EtA@P6aT

a Sunday school was orGnniz-
.e1 'a Sunday at the Macl5ey
place.
A New uaatofice soon at j. b.
Wos5ward's 10 be'cal.ed Baker.
Ij G. Gfa'r is busy harvesting
oats
Z, a Rfnor L. c. sitton and
j. H. Sanders went to Spring.
field ibis well OH land business.
E r. import has about
uouuJ mp harvesting oats.
School election at Liberty
mex Saturday ., vote ON a new
district.
The Springfield herald., 1914-08-07
1 52odley
Crops are looking line.

Crops are looking ine.
Bert AicGowu and family
spent Sundayat lhe Knott home.
Ms. Ed Elmane aud daughter
Annie arted to Tennessee Sat
urdoy.
Mrs: John Hall now has
caarse OF RodIey postofliee.
Chickens have some kind OF
a dessasa .natis I0ilns them.
we i,DeU It's mltes).
Mrs CIaat Jehos .eit last
Neek lor am eNlended visit in
Kansas
The Springfield herald., 1914-08-07
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s24so PRIZE.

is urged prepare at least one
wagon or1 Float depicting some
rural seed Setting fourth in an
artistic manner, the pursuits and
the prodafts Of Baca County.
Said Floa TO form part of the
Grand Psfade wnich will be held
! on at lead tne Of the days the
Fair is ii se heldat Springfield on
/ Sept. l6, Z, and Is. For any
further ] Information address Sec
retary ofsthe Baca County Fair,
Sprinefiefd, Colorado.
eeee~~AR~e%S4Aeeeeeeeeeoe % =
the pers5 nal efforts of each one
to getllfpuo of it there is in it.
Wheth9r McAdams is the man
of the lIesir or whether he isn't,
there isiIt any questioning the
fact thT man of convictions
and l'Vsonalily-an old time
watch fog" IS needed just now
on the b9ard of county commits
sioners.;
In addition 10 Lhe county con
fidence Chat was always reposed
in Nc when hc ran for commits
sioner, tlere are these things to
his credit in serving in such ca
pacity, now as then: He drinks
no intoxicants, and in all his life
he never gambled.
The herald wants TO empha-
size these too necessary traits in
u Commissioner, and particular
ly as ID gambling. The man
who gahibies takes your money
withcugearni it-iust because
he can get it; and he takes if
withouta single compunction of
consciaisce
The S9rolary to this is that
u manswho would take another's
money under such circunstanc-.
es, wouldn't lose very much
sleep oyAx the problem of keeps
.ipa llas sllas other mans taxes.
There is this in Mes favor al
so, that, in addition TO being an
old timer, thus knowing what
the county needs, he wouLi
come to his work With years of
experience, and would know ex-
actly what to do and how to 90
at it.
In u board of commissioners,
when a bill CONES up for allow
ance or disallowance, there isn't
time fol' commissioner to go
through course of schooling to
know W hat to do with it-should
know at once whether a discus
sion is necessary, and whether
to say yes" or no and the
same with all kinds of expendi-
lures.
Of the matter of Mes troub
les, Of the sorrow that is weight
ing these two parents down in
their old days, there is this to b.
SAID, yhat they are deserving of
admiration in their determina-
ton TO hold up their he; ds and
keep their places in the good will
of the community
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ Adams are not
the first to be brought down in
sorrow to their graves, by the
wilful waywardness of child,
and they won't be the last.
OF the way they raised that
child the Herald Las 10 knowl-
edge whatever; but presumedIy
they raised their children all alike
and of those others Miss Wanda
has now been in Wheeler's store
for some years, and during
these years has had the entire
confidence and trust of her en-
ployer.
Miss Wanda is in pos Sition to
capitalize on her wrong breeding
if she had had any. Every hour
in the CAY she is landing her
employers money; and in this
same losition thousands and
thousands whose breeding was
unques tionably good, have fallen
victims to the temptation.
Again, their daughter Myrtle
has for some years been engaged
in q mercantile establishment
in Las Amlnas, las there been
pris d IN Me fire, and has come
The Springfield herald., 1914-08-07
MELCOME

A. Kicenehi and NJ u. McClen-
don arc attle osdar5 this week.
john Wiley and Theodore XII
cen4ai have been haying ON the
Cimarron.
Several have broomcorn al
most ready to pull
There 1lsa young folk 5 en-
tertarment 'uJ Kieensli's last
Weddssuay night, IN honor of
Nj Nellie Turner. There
were 30 present All enjoyed
themselves. There. was game
play g tilltwelye o'cIcck, then
a big oyster upper, afterwards
al few game- and tricks, then the
crowa went ,ome uappy, invit
ing HlISs Nellie to cume back tt
Colorado again Sometime.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-12-09

It WIN be right enough. right American
policy. based upon our accustomed
principles and practices, to provide a
system by which every citizen who
will volunteer for the training may be
made familiar with the use of modern
arms. the rudiments Of drill and ma
neuver and the maintenance and sani-
tation of camps. We should encourage
such training and make it a means OF
discipline which our young men viii
learn to value
1t is right that we should provide IL
not only. but that we should make it
as attractive as possible, and so induce
our young men to undergo it at such
times as they can command a little
freedom and can seek the physical de-
velOpment they need. for mere health's
sake. if for nothing more. Every
means by which such things can be
stimulated is legitimate and such
method Smacks of true American ideas.
1t is right. too. that the national guard
Of the states should be developed and
strengthened by every means which is
not inconsistent with our obligations
to our own people or with the estab-
lished policy of our government. and
this also not because the time or occa-
sion specially calls for such measures.
but because it should be our constant
policy to make these provisions for our
national peace and safety.
More than this carries with it a re-
versal of the whole history and char
acter of our pOlity. More than this,
proposed at this time. permit me to
say. would mean merely that we had
lost our self possession. that we had
been thrown off our balance by a war
with which we have nothing to do.
whose causes cannot touch us, whose
very existence affords us opportunities
Of friendship and disinterested service
which should make us ashamed Of any
thought of hostility or fearful prepara-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-12-09

farge them. and with every enlarge
ment. with the mere growth. indeed.
Of the country itself, there must come.
Of course. the inevitable increase of ex-
pense. The sort of economy we ought
20 practice may be effected. and ought
FO be effected. by careful study and
assessment of the tasks to be per
formed. and the money spent ought to
be made to yield the best possible re-
turns in efficiency and achievement.
And. like good stewards. we should so
account for every dollar of our appro-
priations as to make it perfectly evil
dent what it was spent for and in
what way it was spent.
1t is not expenditure but extrava
gance that we should fear being crit
cised for. not paying for the legiti
mate enterprises and undertakings of
a great government whose people COM
mand what it should do. but adding
what will benefit only few or pour
ing money out for what need not have
been undertaken at all or might have
been postponed or better and more
economically conceiy ed and carried
out. The nation is not niggardly; il is
very generous. Ii will chide us only
if we forget for whom we pay money
out and whose money it is we pay
These are large and general standards.
but they are not very difficult of appli
cation to particular cases.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-12-09

xets which we must supply, and we
must find the means of action. The
United States. this great people for
whom we speak and act, should be
ready as never before to serve itself
and to serve mankind. ready with its
resources, its energies, its forces of
production and its means of distribu-
ton.
1t is a very practical matter. a mat
ter of ways and means We have the
resources. but are we fully ready to
use them? And. if we can make ready
what we have, have we the means at
hand to distribute it? We are not
fully ready; neither have we the means
of distribution. We are willing. but
we are not fully able. We have the
wish to serve and to serve greatly, gen
erOusly. But we are not prepared as
we should be. We are not ready to
mobilize our resources at once. We are
not prepared to use them Immediately
and at their best without delay and
without waste.
To speak plainly. we have grossly
erred in the way in which we have
SluAlCO anu nlnQCIcu IuC OGNGlODLilGul
of our merchant marine. And now.
when we need ships. we have not got
them. We have year after year debat-
ed. without end or conclusion, the best
policy to pursue with regard to the
use of the ores and forests and water
powers of our national domain in the
rich states of the west. when we
should have acted, and they are still
locked up. The key is still turned
upon them, the door shut fast at which
thousands of vigorous men, full of
initiative. knock DANGEROUSLY for ad
mittance. The water power of our nav
igable streams outside the national
domain also. even in the eastern states
where we have worked and planned
for generations, is still not used as it
might be, because we will and we
won't; because the laws we have
made do not intelligently balance en-
cOuragement against restraint. We
withhold by regulation.
l have come to ask you to remedy
and correct these mistakes and omis-
sions. even at this short session of a
congress which would certainly seem
to have done all the work that could
reasonably be expected of it. The
time and the circumstances are ex-
traordinary. and so must our efforts be
also
Fortunately two great measures, fine
ly conceived. the one to unlock. with
proper safeguards, the resources of the
national domain. the other to encOur-
age the use of the navigable waters
outside that domain for the genera
ton Of power. have already passed the
house of Representatives and are ready
for immediate consideration and ac-
ton by the senate. With the deepest
earnestness l urge their prompt pas
sage. In them both we turn our backs
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-12-09

II certain mat transportation at rea-
sonable rates will be promptly pro-
vided. even where the carriage is not
at tirst profitable. and then. when the
carriage has become sufficiently profit
able 10 attract aud engage private cap
ital and engage it in abundance. the
government ought to withdraw
very earnestly hope that the congress
will be of this opinion and that both
houses will adopt this exceedingly i'm
pOrtant bill
The great subject of rural credits
still remains to be dealt with. and il
Is matter of deep regret that the diff
ficulties of the subject have seemed to
render it impossible to complete bill
for passage at this session. But it can
not be perfected yet. and therefore
there are no other constructive meas
ures the necessity for which ] will at
this time call your attention to, but
| would be negligent of very mani
fest duty were | not to call the atten
ton of the senate TO the fact that the
proposed convention for safety at sea
awaits its confirmation and that the
ilL4lL uASu III tie GOnN ClllAOn AboCAA III
its acceptance is the last day of the
present month The conference in
which this convention originated was
called by the United States. The rep
resentatives of the United States play
ed very influential part indeed in
framing the provisions of the proposed
convention. and those provisions are in
themselves for the most part admira-
bic. 1t would hardly be consistent
with the part we have played in the
whole matter to let it drop and go by
the board as if forgotten and neglect
ed. 1t was ratified in May last by the
German government and in August by
the parliament of Great Britain 1t
marks a most hopeful and decided adj
vance in international civilization. We
should show our earnest good faith in
a great matter by adding our own ac-
ceptance of it.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-12-09

sentatives of Il great people whose
thought is not of US. but Of what Amer
lea owes to herself and to all mankind
I'm such circumstances as these upon
which we look amazed and anxious.
War has interrupted the means of
trade not only, but also the processes
OF production. In Europe it is destroy
ing men and resources wholesale and
upon a scale unprecedented and ap-
palling. There is reason to fear that
the time Is near. if it be not already at
hand. when several of the countries of
Europe will find it difficult to 20 for
their people what they have hitherto
been always easily able to dO-many
essential and fundamental things. At
any rate. they will need our help and
our manifold services as they have
never needed them before. and we
should be ready. more fit and ready
than we have ever been.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-12-09
COASTS OF ALASKA
SHOULD BE SURVEYED.
Present Dangers to Navigation Ought
to Be Removed by Charts.


There is another matter of which |
must make special mention, if | am to
discharge my conscience, lest it should
escape your attention. 1t may seem a
very small thing. 1t affects only a
single item of appropriation. But
many human lives and many great en-
terprises hang upon it. 1t is the mat
ter Of making adequate provision for
the survey and charting of our coasts.
It is Immediately pressing and exigent
in connection with the immense coast
line of Alaska, a coast line greater
than that of the United States them
selves, though it is also very impOr
tant indeed with regard to the older
coasts of the continent
We cannot use our great Alaskan
domain, ships will not ply thither. If
those coasts and their many hidden
dangers are not thoroughly surveyed
and charted. The work is incomplete
at almost every point Ships and lives
have been lost in threading what were
supposed to be well known main chan
nels. We have not provided adequate
vessels or adequate machinery for the
survey and charting. We have used
old vessels that were not big enough
or strong enough and which were so
nearly unseaworthy that our inspectors
would not have allowed private own
ers to send them to sea. This is
matter which,. as | have said. seems
small. but is in reality very great Its
Importance has only to be looked into
to be appreciated.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-12-09
The Chief Executive DGpIOTeS
the Lack Of Ships, Declares
That the Government Must
Open the Gales of Trade and
Urges Passage Of the Pend.
ing Shipping Bill - Rura'
Credits and Safety at Sea.
Self Government For FilipiDOS
Again Recommended.
- OLLOWING is President Viii
sons annual message. deliver
ed at the beginning of the

" 0LLOWING is President Viii
sons annual message, deliver
ed at the beginning of the
short term of the Sixty-third
congress:
Gentlemen of the COngress-The SEES
sion upon which you are now entering
will be the closing session of the Six
ty-third congress, a congress, ven
ture to say, which will long be remem-
bered for the great body of thoughtful
and constructive work which it has
done in loyal response to the thought
and needs of the country. l should
like In this address to review the nota-
BILE record and try to make adequate
assessment of it. but no doubt we
stand too near the work that has been
done and are ourselves too much part
OF 1t to play the part of historians to-
ward It.
Moreover, our thoughts are now more
Of the future than of the past. While
we have worked at our tasks of peace
the circumstances OF the whole age
have been altered by war. What we have
done for our own land and our own
people we did with the best that was in
us. whether of character or of intelli-
gence. with sober enthusiasm and a
confidence in the principles upon which
we were acting which sustained us at
every step of the difficult undertak
ing. But it is done. 1t has passed from
our hands. 1t is now an established
part of the legislation of the country
Its usefulness, it's effects will disclose
themselves in experience. What chief
" strikes us now. as we look about us
during these closing days of a year
which will be forever memorable in the
history of the world. is that we face
new tasks. have been facing them
these six months, must face them in
the months to come-face them without
partisan feeling, like men who have
forgotten everything but a common
duty and the fact that we are repre-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-12-09
No Standing Army, but a
Trained Citiz8nTy For War.
I'VE Have Not Been NGglt
gent Of National Defense. "
A Powerful Navy Needed,
"But Who Shall Tell Us
What Sort of Navy to BuiId?"
To Learn and Profit by the
Lesson Of Every Experience.

as a whole, and we as clearly owe the
other in fulfllment of our repeated
promises that the water power of the
country should in fact as well as in
name be put at the disposal of great
industries which can make economical
and profitable use of it, the rights of
the public being adequately guarded
the while and monopoly in the use pre-
vented. To have begun such measures
and not completed them would indeed
mar the record of this great congress
very seriously. | hope and confidently
believe that they will be completed.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-12-09
EAST Carrot

Miss Inez Abbott was unable to 90
back to her school work at Hard
wick until Tuesday night on account
of illness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orlando Heath OF
Cabot were at Isaac Peck's Sunday.
Bert and Harry Houghton OF Cab
OF are attending school here and are
stopping with their grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs SiIas Houghton.
M. Il. Beckley OF Groton was q
business visitor here last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Armstrong
of West Danville were at III. A.
Young's Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Walbridge of
Woodsville, N. H., were at s. e.
Houghton's a few days recently.
School began Monday with Miss
Gertrude Bliss of Marshield as
teacher.
Mrs. Ida Barr spent Saturday at
South Cabot.
George Morse and George Heath
were at Woodsville. N. f., recently
on a business trip.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Abbott and
Miss Hazel spent Saturday at st.
Johnsbury.
Mrs. Kate Dawson who has been
with her brother, Carl Durgan, and
family the past few weeks has gone
TO Cabot to visit her sister, Mrs.
Fred Grace.
Mrs. 1. C. Peck and Mrs. Fred
Houghton spent Tuesday at Cabot,
the guests of Mrs. Olando Heath.
G. A. Drew and Dan Newton went
to Barre Monday returning Friday
night.
NorI n,,ro,on aud dauohtar CHI
ley, went to Burlington Tuesday and
Mrs. Durgan accompanied them
home much improved in health. She
received over 100 post cards and let
ters, also flowers while In the hos
pital
Mr.. and Mrs. J. G.. Wadleigh Of
Bethlehem, N. H., were recent guests
Of Mrs. G.. A. Drew.
Mrs. Ellis Leonard is sick and
MI Leonard's mother, Mrs. l.. @.
Houghton, is with them.
Leon Dow is helping at N. III.
Gates.
Mrs. George Durrette and sons Of
Marshfield were recent visitors at
George Drew's, also Mrs. M. r.
Briggs and daughters spent Thurs
day there, Mrs. Durette and sons re-
turning home with them.
Arthur Reed went Monday to his
school work at Lyndon. His friend,
Clyde Thompson, fell on the ice
while skating and hurt his head, 80
he went to his home in Hyde Park.
Word came he is gaining and will be
in school again soon.
Herbert Walker and James Steele
of Noyesville were business visitors
here Friday.