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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-03-06
College Union Meeting,

The first meeting of the newly formed
College Union was held Tuesday even
ing in the mems chapel for election of
officers and committees. The new
union will supplant the disorganized Y.
M. G. A. but will be broad enough in
scope to include all men and will en-
phasize social, athletic and Student
Help" work, rather than work of a
religious nature. Similar unions are
being formed at Harvard. Yale and
u. V. M. and have been a success in
other colleges. 1t is hoped that by
means of such a unit that college loyal
ty and enthusiasm will be increased and
student government will be practiced ir
regard to everyday affairs. Officers
elected for the ensuing term are Pres.
ident, j. Homer Vail; vice president, E.
L. Triggs; secretary, Max T. Miles
treasurer, John Voss; chairman Of
standing committees are: Social serv.
ice, Day; social, Kimball; employment
Jones; finance, Floyd.
Instructions were given to the com
mittee chairmen at this meeting. The
constitution was signed by a majority
of the mems college.
A motion to assess a tax of $40 pei
year, payable in advance, was laid OF
the table until the next meeting.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-03-06

Metropolitan Magazine was held up be-
cause the morbid mind of a postal
subordinate found several pictures of
statuary Immoral. On appeal to his
superiors the prurient postoffice prude
was promptly overrued. The delay
caused no great injury, and may have
had some advertising value.
But time is the essence of advan-
tangeous use of the wires. There delay
in transmission is tantamount to sup
preston. Government ownership of
the wires would enable any and every
telephone or telegraph operator to
''hold up" any message which local in
terest, personal spite or mere stupidity
or "crankiness" found Objectionable,
and before decision on appeal could be
had from Washington all use or value
of the message would be gone.
Anything in the nature of dictatorial
bureaucracy is obnoxious TO every prin-
ciple of free government and hateful
! to every American instinct. 1t puts a
mere man, and usually very small
man, above the law and enables him to
destroy a citizen g rights with impunity,
AS the Tribune well says:
| Censorship when it becomes political
! is danger to freedom; when it becomes
stupid is a danger to intelligence
Bureaucratic censorship of intelligence
is to be combated and not extended
Punishment for misuse of the mails
should be severe, but it should not rest
as it does now, with a subordinate t.
determine that an offence is about to bt
committed.
Aside from its financial absurdities
and the decline of efficiency it would
infallibly produce, Postmaster Genera
Burleson's scheme will not do. Thu
situation in which it would inevitabl!
result is contrary to the whole spirit o
American institutions. Exchange.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-03-06
WEST CORNWALL.

Snow, wind and rain, but warmer a
grateful change.
Mrs. Summers Spauding was on the
sick list early in the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Dewitt and little
son have been recent guests at L. DeWitt'ss
Edward Weston has been quite poorly
of late.
Lucius White of South Burlington
visited his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
White, early in the week.
Fifteen from here attended the church
social at the town hall on Friday evening
of last week. r. A. Bingham furnished
conveyance.
Emroy Griswold is at her home after
quite stay in Brandon with her sister.
Mrs. Woodruff.
A number of the neighbors of Alex
Highter gave him surprise on Thursday
evening of last week, it being his sixtieth
birthday. He received over forty post
cards, many of them from patrons on his
old mail route. A very ENJOYABLE even.
ing was passed. 1t was also the birthday
of one Of the guests, Henry Vancelette,
his age being the same. Another coinci-
dence in the families is that Leslie Vance
lette's son and Frank lighters son were
born the same day. These are grandsons.
Miss Beulah Sanford has returned to
h erechool duties at Everett, Mass, otter
a vacation OF one week spent at home.
Give Angel is not improving as much
as was hoped for.
Mrs. Lucinda Wright, who has been lib
for long time, passed from this life on
Wednesday evening of last week of heart
trouble. She passed her eighty-fourth
birthday last October. She was the sec
ond daughter of Rev. Jehial Wright, 8
former resident of this town. Her hus-
band was George Wright and her married
life was lived in Potsdam, N. Y. Her
husband died several years ago and since
then she has spent much of the time in
town with relatives and friends. Several
winters she has spent in the West and in
Florida with relatives. A nephew, Carle-
ton Hawkins, resides in Florida. The
body was taken to Potsdam for burial
and where funeral services were held,
Mr.. Robbins. undertaken from MIDI
lebury, and Mr.. Spaulding ACCOMPANIED
it where it was to be placed beside that
of her husband. Much of the time dur
ing her illness her sufferings were great
but she bore them with patience, never
once was an impatient or complaining
word uttered, only longing to he freed
from it all and tObe at rest. She was most
tenderly and faithfully cared for by both
MIR. and Mrs. Summers Spaulding with
whom she had made her home for 2
number of years.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-03-06
Killed in Motorcycle Collision.

Fort Pierce is called upon to record
another terrible motorcycle accident,
the second within six months, in which
most popular young man lost his life.
A second is lowering between life and
death and two othere are seriously in
jured.
Shortly after O'Clock Saturday night
on the Miami Montreal highway, a little
more than a mile south of Fort Pierce,
two Indian motorcycles had a head-on
collision.
One machine was driven by Tom
Lennard, brother of eX-Sheriff R. w.
Lennard and carrying as passenger j..
H. Mcclellan.
The other was driven by Cader Hart
and carried Cecil Reaves as passenger.
Leonard was so seriously injured that
he died before reaching the doctor s
office, his arm being mashed into a
pulp. Cader Hart was most seriously
injured, with his face crushed and cuts
and bruises about his body. Internal
are ltdISQ QOClOIS Will pdSS
no opinion on his probable condition
until Monday.
Reaves is suffering with two broken
bones in one arm, cuts about face and
body and is resting comfortably.
McClellan's injuries are the slightest
but he is painfully bruised and cut.
Harold Hodge and Louis Jones on
third motorcycle, witnessed the ac-
cident, which is unaccounted for, as
both men had lights and the moon was
bright.
L. E. Whitney. of Jensen, passing in
an automobile was hailed, and he
brought the four injured young men to
town where they received medical at
tention. Jacksonville, (F1a.) Times
Union.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-03-06
Relief for the Kidneys

Lr. VIM. j. Calkins. 553Lain St., Hart
ford, Conn.,, says: "After having doc
tored for more than a year with best
physicians in Hartford and getting no
relief, l was advised by druggist in
Plainville. Ct, to try a bottle of DR..
David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy. I
was nervous and had complication of
diseases, especially kidney trouble.
started to use Favorite Remedy and the
first bottle gave me great relief. | con-
tinued its use for some time and was
permanently cured. | sincerely recon-
mend it to sufferers who are discouraged
in thinking there is no help for them !"
Forty years of success in kidney and
liver disorders. Write DIR. David Ken
nedy Co., Rondout, n. Y, for free
samples.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-03-06
20, 900 LOADS OF SNOW REMOVED.

NVJVOO lJOfAOO VI DlNOW hGmON Ell.
New York, Feb. %. Marked head
way in snow removal was made yester-
day both in Manhattan and Brooklyn,
and Street Cleaning Commissioner
Featherstone feels there will be no more
causes for complaint from owners of
factories and wholesale houses.
Fully 10000 loads were removed,
5000 being from streets in the lower
section of Brooklyn. Forty eight
gangs, including 5000 men, worked ir
Brooklyn alone, continually filling the
1856 trucks available.
In New York there were more thar
10000 men at work, 5000 being
shovelers in the contractors forces
Two thousand eight hundred and fifty
trucks were kept busy.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-03-06
vERGENNES.

At the city election Tuesday the fol-
lowing officers were elected: Aldermen
for two years, John Clark, Wayland S.
Bristol, James f. Donahue; city clerk,
George w. Stone; city sheriff, Fred Le-
beau; first constable, John NJ. Alden;
second, n. J. McCuen; lister for three
years, g. F. o. Kimball; auditors, j. w
Ryan, Frank Maldoon, Foster Young;
city grand jurors, C. l.. LeBoeuf, John
Amblo, John Clark; highway commits
sioner, Peter Austin; water commits
sioner, Edward ~ Gee. The tax voted
is 80 cents, The Memorial appropriation
was $50; Macdonough memorial celebra-
ton, $1,000.
The Rev. L. A. Vezina j. H. Donnelly,
State Senator Robert w. McCuen of this
city and Hon. NJ. F. Barnes of Addison
have been appointed as delegates from
this State to represent the Marlborough
commission at conference of commits
sions from other States to be held later
in Washington, d. c.
Samuel, aged seven years, who is
attending the Jewish school in Burling-
ton, is spending a week with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Cohen.
Miss Frances Clelland of Alburg is
visiting Mrs. w. R. Bristol in this city.
Il
Mrs. P. NJ. Carpenter was called to
Burlington Tuesday by the death of her
sister.
Dwight Daniels is seriously i'll.
|. E. Carpenter of Charlotte visited his
mother, Mrs. p. NJ. Carpenter, Monday.
a. E.Warner of Boston called on friends
here Monday.
Mrs. Arthur T. Clark is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. b. E, Bristol, of Burling-
ton.
The LAS You Like 1t" club was enter
tanned Monday evening at the home of
Mrs. Timothy Neville. Mrs, w. H.
Dougless presided. The following was
the programs Duet. Mrs. W. Ii. Doug.
lass and Mrs. G. w. Stone; "Vermont
Products and Resources" Mrs. George f.
Stone; reading, Mrs. George Thorne;
solo, Mrs. G. w. Stone; roll call, respond
ed to by quotations from favorite authors
closing with guessing contest.
Mrs. Sylvester Donaldson. who has
been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Strong,
returned to st. Adams Tuesday.
G. w. Stone has been confined with
the grip.
Mrs. E. G. Norton entertained the Seth
Warner chapter, Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution, Wednesday afternoon
at her home on Maple street.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-03-06
Three MortaiIy Hurt as Auto Hits
Street Car

Philadelphia, Feb. %. Three men
are dying in the Woman's Homeo-
pathic hospital and three companions
are under $500 bail, following an auto
mobile crash early today at Twenty
ninth street and Montgomery avenue.
The dying are Paul Mansock, twenty
nine; John Beck, twenty-five and Martin
Flynn, thirtyone.
The car, driven by Beck, while max
ing turn at a fast rate of speed
skdded into street car. Beck, Flynn
and Mansock were hurled to the pave
ment and picked up unconscious.
Five persons on the street car suf-
fered slight injuries. The conductor
and motorman of the car are held as wit
nesses.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-03-06
Dam age in Connecticut.

New Haven, March l. Much dam
age was done by a furious wind and
rain storm which swept Connecticut
today. The torrent of rain gave pros
poets of great rise of water within a
few days and increasingly heavy dam
age when the ice breaks up.
An unknown two-masted schooner
went ashore on Thimble islands, it is
feared that her crew is lost The shore
is blocked with ice and there is no way
of reaching the craft.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-03-06
GOVERNMENT o w N Z RSHI P
MEANS BUREAUCRATIC
CENSOR SHIP.

The Chicago Tribune offers a con-
vincing reason for all the newspapers OPP
posing Postmaster General Burleson' s
scheme for government ownership of
telegraph and telephone lines. Govern
ment ownership means bureaucratic
censorship. 1t would enormously en-
large the powers of bun eau chiefs and
of all their petty subordinates.
We already have bureaucratic censor
ship in the postoffice. How it enables
jacks-in- to strut in their "author-
ity" The Inter Ocean had an annoying,
though not a specially injurious, ex-
perience under a former national adj
ministration about six years ago.
The Inter Ocean originated, or was
the first regularly to use in the local
field, 1.-THE pink sheet"-the segrega-
ton of sport news into separate sec
ton. This section was at first called
1.-THE Sporting Inter Ocean"
Late one afternoon a postal clerk
walked into The Inter Ocean office and
delivered his command that this head
ing should be taken off that section,
instantly, under penalty of exclusion
from the mails He refused to hear
reason or argument There was his
"order." Obey it, or suffer the penalty
However, the annoyance and injury
that postal jacks-in-office may do is not
irremediable. 1t results in delay, but
not in suppression. The higher officials
usually have sense enough to reverse
tyrannic rulings" of overzealous,
stupid or spitefu. subordnates.
For example, recent issue of the
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-03-06
Mount Desert Bars Autos.

Northeast Harbor, Me-, Mar. 3.-The
ban of the town of Mount Desert
against automobiles will continue in
force next summer, it was announced
tonight as a result of action taken at
the annual meeting. The vote favored
exclusion, PSI to SO.
Residents of New York, Philadelphia
and Boston make up large part of the
exclusive summer colonies of this vii
lage, Seal Harbor and Somerville and
many, including President (Emeritus)
Eliot Of Harvard college, have declared
against the admission of machines.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-03-06
Albany Is Hard Hit.

Albany, March IA fall of heavy
damp snow which fell all day turning
to sleet at nghtfall paralyzed traffic
and left the city without lights for
hours tonight. The fire alarm system
was rendered useless and an extra force
of firemen patrolled the streets. The
Federal weather bureau recorded fif-
teen and half inches of snow at ten
O. clock when the sleet turned to rain.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-03-06
FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1914.
THE SHERMAN LAW AND THE
PUBLIC.

Before the federal government de-
cided to proceed against the Standard
Oil company under the Sherman anti
trust law the wholesale price of kero-
sene was six cents a gallon. After the
dissolution of the company the price
was advanced to eight and one-half
cents and now it is nine cents. The
price of benzine, another Standard Oil
product, has advanced 300 per cent. and
the price of gasoline has advanced 200
per cent. The public, not the company,
has been injured.
The Sherman law was not taken very
seriously at first Lawyers and we'll
informed laymen knew that whatever
was necessary to prevent undue con-
centration of control of industry could
be accom- lished under the common law
Demand for enforcement of the Sher-
man law was prompted by political con-
siderations. Certain politicians had an
idea that the prosecution of "big bust
ness" because it was big and success
full, would be popular. Large concern
were singled out for prosecution and,
so far as the public is concerned, results
have been unfortunate.
But there are hundreds of thousands
of other corporations, and it is not diff
ficult to imagine what the effect upon
the public would be if the federal de-
partment of justice should decide to
proceed against them under the Sher-
man law. Probably the action of the
government in enforcing this statute
has cost the country more than 500,
100000 through price advance alone.
The loss resulting from disturbance of
business is incalculable.
Under the common law there was nc
prosecution until some one complained
that he had been injured Under the
Sherman law men have been prescott.
ed for acts which were a distinct ben.
eft to the public. Under the common
law the public was protected. Any
person who could show that he haC
been injured as a result of concentra
ton of control could appeal to the
courts. Today the individual is ne
safer than he was before and the pub
lie is paying a high price for enforce
ment of the Sherman law. Before thi.
statute was put in operation, the mar
who believed he had been injured wen
to the courts for redress; now an off
cial at Washington decides what con
Germ shall be prosecuted. Under one
administration one so-called trust may
be pronounced good. Under the mex
administration the same company may
by pronounced bad, and there can bt
no doubt that results of this method o.
selection have been bad for the public
Rutland Herald
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-03-06
Laborer Struck by Auto.

Struck by an automobile while cross
ing Broadway, Maplewood, near the
Everett line, in Maiden, Pasquale Vezi-
no, aged 95, of Richmond street, Bos-
ton, was badly injured about the head
and body and died on the way to a hos
pital.
Guy F. Menut of 355 Lincoln avenue,
Cliftondale, owner and driver of the
machine. was held by the police on a
charge of manslaughter and later re-
leased on $1,000 bonds to appear in the
District Court here.
Vezino was employed in constructing
sewer and was carrying aplank across
the roadway when the accident occurred.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-03-06
STORM IN NEW YORK.
Most Destructive Since the Biz
zard Of 1899.


New York, March with tempera-
ture rising and fair weather promised,
New York and vicinity tonight began
to emerge from the storm which rail
road and telegraph companies declare
has been the most destructive in this
section since the memorable blizzard Of
1888.
Reports from other cities showed
the damage caused by wind, snow, rain
and sleet to be widespread. From
Cleveland on the west and Baltimore
on the south, to the Canadian and
Nova Scotia borders, the storm has
been general.
In New England, further damage is
expected from rivers and streams
swollt n by melting ice and snow.
In and near New York II persons
persisted yesterday and today and sew
eral fatalities were reported elsewhere.
Except by roundabout routes and
with the aid of few wires running
underground, commercial New York
tonight still remained cut off from tele-
graph communication with the West
and South.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-03-06
MEXICAN REFUGEE HERE.
Tells of His Flight and That of
His Family,

Compelled to flee from Mexico to es-
cape, as he belives, execution at the
hands of rebels, DR.. M. M. Doria, jr.,
who has an office at 1904 Menard street,
fears his brother and father, who re-
NAMED in the revolution-torn country
to protect their estate, have been killed.
The last word DIR. Doria received
from his father was on Nov. % last, and
from his brother, Joseph, last Septem-
Der. These men are near Lnares, in
the State of Tamanlipas, where each
owns a farm. The elder Doria has an
estate of considerable dimension, &C
cording to the son in ST. Louis.
Both brothers received professional
educations in st. Louis, Joseph, who is
20 years old, having been graduated
about five years ago as a stationary en-
gineer. DR.. Doria received his degree
in medicine from St. Louis University
in 1907. The men married sisters,
the daughters of outs Schulze of the
Menard street address. Joseph married
Miss Hattie Schulze and DR.. Doria Miss
Mamie Schulze. Joseph and his wife
have son and the other couple have
two daughters.
| Soon after their graduation both
young men returned to Mexico to follow
their professions. DIR. Doria settled in
Villagran and soon was appointed May
or of the town by the then President
| Diaz. For several months after the
overthrow of Diaz by Madero, DR..
Doria continued to hold that office.
"In Mexico" said DR.. DORA, Friday,
there is only one way to keep at peace
with the Government, and that is to
support it. l spoke my mind; l criti-
cized; l did not take an active part in
politics, but merely voiced my opinions
when they were sought.
Then lost my office. This action
was followed quickly by threats from
the rebels. In Mexico all who are not
supporters of Huerta are rebels. They
are of the Madero faction. | was told
that if did not Immediately come out
in the open and work for the rebel
cause | would be killed. Then the reb-
els became holder in their attitude of
daring toward me, and in February,
1918, sent my wife and two daughters
who are 3 and 5 years old, to her father
here.
81 thought could remain through
the revolution and protect my property
in Villagran, but | reckoned erringly.
l was informed my presence in Villa
gran no longer was desirable and that
the sooner l departed, the better it
would be for me. l departed immedi-
ately; that was last March; l abandoned
all my possessions, merely locked the
doors of my home and my Office and
caught train.
81 have been informed my home and
all it's contents have been burned, the
despoilers first taking such things of
value as caught their fancy. During
hall of Villagran was remodeled and
enlarged. l was very proud of that.
But the rebels did not even spare city
property; it also was looted and burned.
81 fear greatly that my father and
brother have been killed. Such terrible
and bold things are being done in Mex
leo. After the long silence, could
bear it no longer and last week wrote
to Charge d'Affaires O'Shaughnessy for
information regarding my relatives, but
have had no reply. st. Louis Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-03-06
Bess Governor to Veto RockefeIIel
Tax Bill.

Cleveland, Feb. %. Prepared to go
even to Florida if necessary to urge
Governor James M. Cox to veto the
amendment to the Warnes tax law,
passed last week by the Assembly just
before adjournment, John d. Fackler,
Deputy State Tax Commissioner for
Cuyahoga County, left tonight for
Columbus.
Commissioner William Agnew declares
that if the amendment becomes part of
the law chaos of taxing conditions will
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-03-06
Best Family Laxative.

Beware of constipation. Use Dr..
King New Life Pills and keep well.
Mrs. Charles f. Smith of West franklin,
Me, calls them "Our family laxative. -
Nothing better for adults or aged. Get
them today, Csc. All Druggists or by
mail.
IL. E. Bucklen & Co., Philadelphia or St.
Louis.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-03-06
Hundreds Flee Flood.

Springfeld,l Mass, March IA
bursting water main excavated front
yard on Water street and tumbled a
four family brick house and a big tree
into the pit, causing a local flood.
Hundreds of dodgers, mostly foreigners,
escaped into the rain half clad.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-03-06
CARD OE THANKS.

We wish to thank all our neighbors
and friends also the Odd Fellows who so
kindly assisted us during the illness and
death of our beloved husband and father,
c. A. Piper. and for the many express
sions of sympathy and beautiful flowers.
Mrs. c. A. PIPER
MIR. AND Mrs. W. H. SDiONDs.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-03-06
To Hold Joint Meetinq.

Preparations are under way for a
joint meeting of the Addison county
road commissioners and the newly
formed Middlebury board of trade to
be held in the town hall on March &c.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-03-06

Menut told the police he did all in his
power to stop the auto, but before he
succeeded in putting on the brakes the
machine struck Vezino.
Vezino, according to friends, has a
wife and three children in Italy.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-03-06

Heavy, impure blood makes a muddy,
pimply complexion, headache, nausea,
indigestion. Thin blood makes you weak,
pale and sickly. For pure blood, sound
digestion, use Burdock Blood Bitters.
81 90 at all stores.