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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-15
WHY NOT GATEsf

Three good citizens of the state have
announced themselves as willing to be
the Republican candidate for governor
this fall, and although the caucuses to
elect delegates to the convention that
will select candidate are less than two
weeks away, no one of the three has as
yet created any enthusiasm among the
voters. Two, four and six years ago
The Times advocated getting out of this
rut of always selecting the candidate
who put himself most prominently for
ward, but the custom prevailed with the
result that each succeeding election
brought smaller Republican vote. Will
the party continue the practice this
year, or has 1t learned by experience that
there must be change in methods if
the party is to continue in power in the
state9
II ever the party should make the
selection, it is this year.
If Republicans who strsyed away from
the party two and four years ago are
to he brought back to the fold. a can
didate must be selected whose very
name will be an assurance that if he is
elected governor the state will be guar
snteed wise, progressive and economi-
raj administration. He must be man
whose personality viii lend great
strength to the ticket.
The party has such men, and The
Times has in mind one in particular
who by his able public services in the
past eight years has won for himself
high place in the esteem Of alt our citi-
Eens, and has shown = capacity for even
greater duties.
This man is Charles ". Gates.
Although he refuses to become an active
candidate for governor while holding his
PRESENT Office as state highway commits
nonsr. he viii not refuse the nomins-
ion. The Times has assurances TO this
fleet.
Why rot, then. souinate him.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-15
vermonters' Duty.

st. Johnsbury can well congratulate
I itself on the improved hotel facilities
that it already has and those that are
to follow soon. No other town of its
size can boast of better hotel facilities.
But it is not time to stop as there is a
duty that extends beyond the village
limits if we are to get the best results
from our improved hotels. The new st.
Johnsbury House should be made the
base or center for large and profitable
tourist business. This can be done by
improving the smaller inns in Caledonia,
Orleans and Essex counties. In these
three counties is variety of scenery
and natural attractions that should be
source of great revenue.
Two things are necessary to make this
possible and one is attractive stopping
places at such points as Brunswick
Springs, Lake Willoughby, AverilI lakes,
Joe's pond and other points where tour
lists from this village would naturally
want to secure a good lunch or dinner.
The other is good roads and attractive
road sides. Vermonters have never APP
preciated the value of clean and well
kept roadsides. On the contrary they
have treated the roadsides as a dumping
place for articles they would not dis
figure any other part of their farm with.
The result is an unsightly and Ill kept
road sides with a dirty lane of road way
between them. This makes a bad inn
preston on the tourist at first sight and
creates a prejudice that is likely 20
give bad color to well kept fields over
the fence in case such exist. At small
expense q great transformation in the
appearance Of Vermont could be made
by cleaning and keeping clean the road
sides.
Under the direction Of the late II. r.
Ward Caledonia county has already BE-
gun the work Of caring for its road from
fence TO fence in this line viii work
wonders in this section. IL should not
be necessary 10 place the whole expense
lf this work on the town and state but
he owners Of adjoining land should &C
lively cooperate as il win increase the I
yalue and attraction ~ their private /
property. 10 would add 10 the amount 4
II money spent by tourists in the whole \
section because pleasant road vays will 4
Ittrsct them here IN increasing numbers. /
ant the people Of the village and THE /
arms JOIN hands in an effort 10 make j
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-15
"Heartp in War.

In the war of the American revolution
there was no room for question as TO the
spirit of the American soldier. He en-
dured the sufferings at Valley Forge be-
cause of his uncomfortable spirit of pa
triotism. II is silly to assume that
the German soldiers lack patriotism.
They will do their duty and die for their
fatherland, as Germans have done before
--as men OF other nations have done be-
fore. Yet there may be something of
truth in the report-one sided, OF course,
coming as it does from Brussels-that
the German soldiers showed no spirit in
their attacks upon Liege. Why should
they have the least desire in the world
to kill the people of Belgium who were
engaged in defending the integrity of
their frontier and the neutrality of their
little but populous and prosperous coun-
thyg Belgium had nothing whatever to
do with the European jealousies and am
billions which led to the war. All she
asked, and she had abundant reason to
ask it, having received pledge of neu-
trality from Germany, was to be let
alone. 1t is one OF the ironies of the
situation that il should have been Bel
gan youth WHO must INST NTAL give up
their lives in this tremendous and I'M
necessary war-Beleian youth against
German youth, who had nothing what
ever against each other. IL may well be
believed that the German soldiers who
were led 20 the assault on the forts AZ
Liege showed a lack Of spirit. Why not ?
The officers, trained to war and aeclls-
toned to look upon opposition TO Ger
many as a crime in itself, might urge on
the attack. But what OF the German
soldier from far away, a peaceful citizen. |
Ia the army Of invasion only because he |
20 BE- serving his term in the |
army when the war broke out. is he 4
likely 70 have much heart for killing the 4
Belgians, against whom he never had the /
slightest reason for personal enmitys
As to the Belgians, they are defending /
The neutrality Of their territory BY fight 1
ing. as they have had 10 do before. one 4
an understand their position and feel 4
nes a. they shoot down the German
Bows who are sent 70 march across their
territory. But Of the Germans. it is not
strange II u is true that they have lack
Y heart in their enterprisss.-Manches-
er Union.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-15
CURRENT COMMENT
"a Recognized Statesman. .

The highest compliment that can be
paid Senator Dillingham; is the fact that
he has at all times given matters per-
tanning to the interests of his oonsti-
tuents business-like consideration. no
Vermonter has ever called upon Mr. Dill
bingham for information or for service
of personal character but his request
has been given the most courteous at
tention. In other words he has been true
to the voters of this state and has new
err forgotten the fact that he is serv-
ing all the people regardless of party
affiliations.
1t is a good man that takes care OF
his states need and at the same time
is recognized as one of the leading
statesmen in the United States Senate.
Mr. Dillingham; has the latter distinc-
ton His record at Washington fully
warrants this statement.
People who know Mr.. Dillingham; best,
his Waterbury neighbors and friends,
are not surprised in the least to see the
old-time support railying to him as his
reelection time approaches.
The farmers Of this state know that
Mr.. Dillingham; has done everything in
his power to assist in legislating along
lines that would protect our agricultural
market. The same is true in his work
In the interest Of Nermont's leading in
dustries and at the same time has al
ways been mindful of the labor element, |
whose interests he has always guarded.
Mr.. Dillingham's record at Washing |
ton will stand the most rigid inyestiga
ton and the more his work is reviewed |
the more the voters of the state will find !
out that he has been a faithful servant |
Of the people and one deserving of fur
Their recognition.
Mr. Dillingham; will without doubt re-
,eive the Republican nomination at the |
state convention and we do not hesitate
N the least to say that his nomination
will be well received by the Republican
voters of the Waterbury Record.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-15
The War and the Peace Movement.

What does the European war near
to the peace movement?
/ 1t means that the world Is learning
/ the lesson the peace movement has beer
teaching, in the most difficult way and al
far too great cost to itself rather thar
through the normal easier method Of
being convinced by reason and facts.
| 1t means that the interdependence OF
nations, on which the peace movement ii
based, should henceforth need no demon
stration, and that reorganization OF gov.
ernnents in recognition OF its conditions
should be rendered simpler-by a hor-
rihle experience instead of through the
conviction which the peace movement
tries to build normally into institutions
of government.
II means that the military system,
bred by and itself breeding suspicion
among nations, should be discredited as
an instrument OF modern government;
that the peace cause should gain force
and adherents as the opposing PROPOSE
tion loses popular support.
II means that democracy should, as a
result, be expected to increase in Eu-
rope, rs democracy always has increased
when Bureaucratic government has over
played its hand; that governmental pol
icies Of friction should consequently give
way to other policies Of Cancellation,
honesty and fair dealing among nations.
II means that secret alliances, through
which the states of Europe have been
pvramided against each other, ought to
be wiped out, to be superseded by a
policy OF no alliances or Of open ALI
ances.
1t II to be hoped that il means the
dissolving of many antagonisms which
have estopped progress, for chastened
Europe should be a fairly reasonable
Europe.
II means that there win at the end
be called European Conference new
conference Of Vienna or new peace of
which we may hope
that new Europe will emerge, a Flu
rope as different from the old as the
Europe remade after Waterloo differed
from the Europe of the DAYS before the
French revolution. But the new Eu-
rope ic not likely to be changed SO much |
in its geography as in its ideas of gov
Even in Napoleon's time "the |
nations were too firmly set" for even |
that transcendent military genius.
The peace program has called for the |
establishment of methods OF Cancellation |
rs centrasted with those of suspicion in /
,rder that the governments of the world |
night correspond with the demands rem
Tered essential by the enormous changes
wrought by the development Of the cred /
I system, rapid transportation and the
Inevitably increasing unity of nations.
The peace movement finds no satisfac.
ion in its expectation that through the
eataelvsm in Europe its own
ause may be benefited. The horror
# the method is exactly the thing that
las given the peace movement its
trength. If it takes such an expert.
nee as the present to convince. graft
udc for the outcome must be tempered
" deep sorrow at the tremendous cost
n blood, money and international dis
rider which could have been averfed IL
ations through the years had but Civ
n more willing ear TO the reasonable
rogram Of honesty, fair dealing and
God understanding in international re.
by Vermont branch
t Peace society. HI
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-15

The driving Of automobiles by persons
In a condition of standardization Is a
crime against the innocent, and those
who drive cars wnen in that condition
should be dealt with in the most severe
possible manner.Maneheste Journal.
We should say that it is crime, too,
against those who are not innocent but
who have just as much right to safety
on the public highway. Laws for the
safeguarding Of the highways were made
for one and all alike, and so we believe
In going the Manchester contemporary
one better and declaring that the driving
of motor vehicles by persons in SENT
intoxicated state is crime against
everyone, innocent or not.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-15

It was unfortunate for all that the
bicycle riding on the sidewalk incident at
Putney could not have been concluded
with the ining Of the minister for a
slight offense of that nature. TO drag
the matter into public hearing some
days after the incident ought to have
been closed does not reflect well on the
dignity and self-restraint Of the parties
concerned, whether compliments or ac-
cused. and no good sufficient to counter.
act the harm could possibly have been
evolved from an unrestrained airing OF
the facts in the case. However, the
feature that does stand out is that BIZ
cycle riding on the sidewalks is forbid
den for the good Of the general public
elsewhere as well as in Putney.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-15
FAIR TIME AT HAND-THE NORTH
FIELD FAIR.

The directors OF the Dog River Valley
Fair association have issued handsome
prospectus Of the coming fair to be held
at Northfeld Sept. s, and 10, and the
prize offerings therein included should
bring to Mortified a large number Of
exhibitors with excellent entries and, in
turn an unusually large crowd of peo-
pie to witness the performances and to
inspect the products. In their foreword,
the directors make direct appeal to
the people of Washington county for
liberal support Of this institution, the
only one Of the sort in Washington eoun-
ty. They figure that, including some
outside territory which naturally in
clines toward Washington county, their
fair association has right to expect
patronage from a field of 10000 people
and that, therefore, the attendance for
the three days OF the exhibition ought
to be about $4,000 people. This il
rather ambitious aim, as it would ne
cessitate an average attendance of
slightly over 5000 day; but Dog river
valley fairs have been known to attract
as many people as that, and more, so
that possibly it is not expecting too
much to place the desideratum at 25,-
600 people. If the directors are success
full in putting on the sort of exhibition
planned by them it is possible that
those total attendance figures will be
reached. They certainly deserve the
support of all Washington county and
as much of the surrounding territory as
is closely connected with Washington |
county's interests. We look for big
fair at Mortified next month.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-15
Putting It Over.

ruLtfng IL over.
Unless all signs fail, the reactionary
wing of the Republican party proposes
to carry out its will in the coming Re-
publican state convention and put Per.
eival w. Clement across as the party's
candidate for the goyernorship.
Clement, the millionaire, whose inter
ests and associations are foreign TO
Vermont, who belongs to the Morgan
and Mellen school of business and f.
nance, whose connection with the Rut-
land railroad was typical of that kind OF
railroad manipulation which is being
Justly rebnked throughout the country,
who has persistently and bitterly OPP
posed the progressive policies and meas
ures which have been secured in Yer
mont and which have been endorsed BY
Vermonters, who few years ago boiteS
the party to satisfy personal ambition,
whose idea of economy in state affairs
was eXemplitied by his contesting even
to the highest court in the land the
law enacted by the Vermont legisia-
ture which taxes savings deposited in ma
tional banks and brings into the state
treasury $4,000 per year OF which the
state would have been deprived had not
the supreme court thwarted Mr.. Glenn
ent's desire TO escape a just and reason
able tax-this is the man who will be
the Republican standard bearer if the
stand-p pat element of the party acting
for the special interests succeed in their
present purpose and design.
An active and bitter opponent of Pro-
gressive measures and particularly OF
those placed upon the statute books
with the approval of the people during
The administration OF Governor Proctor,
IN enemy Of the direct primary, no more
fitting executive could be chosen if it is
The wish of the Vermont voters TO undo
he progressive work of the past, to give
'ein and license to the corporate inter
,sts and to go backward instead of for
ward in state affairs.
1t is a most opportune time to test
he strength and sincerity of Vermont |
,rogressiveness.- Enosburg Standard.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-15
A Change for the Better in the New
Fall Fashions.

In the September Womans Home
Companion, which n fashion forecast
number, Grace Margaret Could the we'll
known fashion editor, presents a great
array of news and suggestions which she
introduces with the following general
comment on the new fall fashions:
Good friends, change for the better
has taken place in the fashionsl
The American woman this fall will
be permitted TO wear clothes that At her
figure, and take real steps like SEN
sible human being, as she has honestly
in her heart loneed to do. appearances TO
the contrary notwithstanding.
Let me tell you just exactly what has
happened
The spineless woman has become a
stately creature. That tired feeling has
retired. and loose and careless has made
way for the 1.-THE and careful.
"The SLOUGH has retrested. as il is the
very nature OF a SLOUGH 10 retreat, While
the new style, trim and erect, has
marched in to victory.
Women are to have backbones this
season. They are TO have arms again,
clearly defined ones. ] mean.
Hips are coming into their own.
They are 70 be fashionable.
and the waist line is 10 put in an ap.
pearance again. The dear old waist line.
which brings back memories Of the tight.
prim basque. and the encircling arms OF
affectionate husbands.
But perhaps the best news Of all I
am keeping for the last. Women are 70 1
walk. really walk. again Little mincinE I
steps end odd. curious jumps are no 4
.onger the pitiful substitutes for walk I
nr.
skirts are 70 b. wider. The slit has
rome And after all. when you come 70
.hink Of e. i was q pretty hard tssk to
'onhins sslf-resPect and . slit skirt
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-15

Daniel McAuley Of Calais. an engineer.
has iled petition in bankruptcy with
Clerk p. s. Plstt Of the United States
court He has liabilities Of s54s and as
sets Of SOS.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-15
WASHINGTON.

Washington Baptist Church-Rev. c. o.
Durham. pastor. In the absence Of the
pastor, Rev. ". s. Hathaway will preach
Sunday morning At 1890. Bible school
at 1850. Christian Endesvor az :
O'Clock.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-15

One result Of the war has been to
suppress the nature faker Of Winsted,
Conn.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-15

President Wilson will find good hard
work blessed refuge in his present
state of mind.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-15

Caledonia county leader in beautiful
road ways and attractive stopping
places for travellers st. Johnsbury
CALIFORNIAN
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-12
CARDINALS CHOOSE new POPE
Giacomo Della Chiesa Will Be
Pope Benedict XIV.

Rome.-CardinaI Giacomo Della
Chiesa, archbishop of Bologna, Italy,
has been elected supreme pontiff of
the Catholic hierarchy in succession
to the late Pope Plus X, who died
August 20. He will reign under the
name of Benedict XIV. His corona
ton will take place September 6.
The conclave of the sacred college,
whose duty it is to elect the pope,
went into session the evening of Mon
day, August 81.
Prince Chigi-Albina, one Of the as
sistants to the throne in the pope's
household, was notified at 11:15
o'clock that Cardinal Della Chiesa had
been elected.
At 1920 o'clock Monsignor Miscia-
tell, subprefect of the sacred palaces
and governor of the conclave, received
a communication from the new pope
asking that the gratings of the basili-
ca of St Peter be opened because he
purposed in short time to issue his
proclamation.
At this same hour the master Of
ceremonies appeared on the central
balcony of St Peters and spread out
the red carpet
The crowd below, which had been
waiting for hours in the square in the
expectation of an announcement as to
the outcome of the deliberations Of
the sacred college, understood that a
selection had been reached and ap-
! plauded vigorously.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-12

Measure to Protect American
ShippingeGOes Into Imme-
mediate Effect.
INSURANCE BUREAU OPENED
Secretary McAdoo Appoints w. c. Del
anoy as Director of New
Department

Washington, D. C.-Uncle Sans
marine war risk insurance bureau, de-
signed to inspire confidence in Amer
lean shippers and aid American trade
expansion, has been opened for bust
ness at the treasury department.
President Wilson has signed the act
creating the bureau, and Secretary
McAdoo announced the appointment
of W. c. Delaney Of New York, an IN
derWriting insurance expert, as direc-
tor of the bureau.
Mr.. Delaney opened an office ready
to insure American ships and Ameri-
can ships. His bureau will be under
Assistant Secretary Peters.
Administration plans as to the meT
chant marine have also taken definite
form in other directions. At a con-
ference among the President, Secre-
tary Daniels and members Of the
naval affairs and merchant marine
committees of the house, differences
between the two committees were
smoothed out and it was decided to
press one measure for obtaining a
government owned fleet of ships.
Chairman Alexander of the meT-
chant marine committee reported IA
vorably to the house the bill provid-
ing for the organization Of a $4,000
900 company controlled by the gov
eminent which will buy or build
freight carrying vessels. A $4,000
600 issue of Panama canal bonds
would be used to buy the ships, the
government accepting bonds Of the
company as endorsement.
An executive order suspending GER
tain sections of the navigation laws,
as is authorized under the registry
bill passed last week, has been issued.
This and the signing of the war risk
bill remove objections OF various big
shipping companies to placing their
fleets under the American flag and
such concerns as the United Fruit
Company, the Standard Oil Company,
the United States Steel Corporation,
and the Dollar Steamship Company
are expected to make immediate ap-
plications These companies alone
would add 200 steamers to the Amer
lean merchant marine.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-12
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS

TO prepare for any emergency arts
ing from the European war the Presi-
dent and administration leaders are
endeavoring to assure the presence of
a quorum of both houses of congress
in Washington. House leaders have
made imperative demand for return
of absentees.
There were 1851 national banks
doing business in the United States
at the close of business August 81,
according to a statement issued by the
comptroller OF the currency They
had an authorized capital of SI,073,-
524,1T5. and circulation outstanding Of
SS77 ,54O,2S1 OF which s126,241,7 $50 was
secured by other than by United
States bonds.
The Canadian government is con-
sidering the advisabi1ity OF canceling
German patents and copyrights held
in Canada The question is being dis
cussed with the British Board Of
Trade The patents held N Canada
cover chiefly chemical preparations
and electrical apparatus
Ethel Ticker. 12-year-oId girl was
taken TO the isolation hospital at New
/ Orleans suffering with bubonic plague
! She lived in a district that was not
/ considered infected This was the
/ twenty-fourth case since the disease
made its appearance
The joint congressional committee
on railway mail pay has submitted Z
I final report recommending law which
| would increase annual compensation
| TO the railroads about 1900, 00a-
More than sixteen hundred Ameri
/ can refugees arrived here from Europ'
/ on the steamship St Paul Of the Amer
lean line from Liverpool. Il carries
a total OF 925 passengers and the Es
payne Of the French line from Havre
which had 769 passengers OF the ST
PauIs steerage passengers 197 wer'
returning Americans