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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-12-10
METHODIST CHURCH.

METHODIST CHURCH.
d. H. Corkran, Pastor.
Morning worship 10:45.
Bible school at noon.
Epworth League, 6:45. Mrs. Atwood,
leader.
Evening service, z 80. Prof. Sanford
will talk on st. Paul's journey to Rome .
Service in Munger street school house
conducted by college students at Z
O'Clock.
Service in Case street school house
conducted by college students at 2
O'Clock.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-12-10

The National Life Insurance Com
pany of Montpelier is the most recent
addition to the strong Vermont financial
institutions advertising in the Register.
Mr.. Albert C. Laird, special agent, is
finding a cordial welcome for his COM
pany in Middlebury.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-12-10
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1915.

Speaking of old Thomas Tusser, as we
did a week ago, it was he who said
"At Christmas play and make good
cheere,
For Christmas comes but once a
yeere."
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-12-10
oHOREHAM.

Mrs. Lucy Wooster, who has been
quite i'll for several weeks, is improving.
DIR. Sharon Ia attending her.
Miss Ethel Smith of Bristol, who has
been caring for Mrs. Wooster, returned
home Tuesday.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-12-10

Dyspepsia is Americas curse. To re-
store digestion. normal weight, good
health and purify the blood, use Burdock
Blood Bitters. Sold at all drug stores.
Price $l.00 adv.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-12-10
Terms strictly in Advance.

Terms Strictly I'm Advance.
ONE YEAR IN VERMONT -------- 100
BLK MONTHS IN VERMONT -----.-- 80
THREE MONTHS IN VERMONT 49, .25
ONE YEAR Outside of Vermont, - $1.25
ONE YEAR Outside Of U. s.. ---- l.5O
Advertising copy must reach the office
by Thursoay noon to insure publication
in The Register for the current week.
The Register will be found on file at
the Congressional Library reading room,
Washington, d. G
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-12-10
c h otes.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
Rev. A. A. Lancaster, Pastor.

Morning worship, 10:45. Sermon by
the pastor. Subject: waiting For God"
Bible school at noon. Glasses for all.
Christian Endeavor meets in the ves-
try at 8 :45 p. m. Topic, 1.-THE Reason
ableness and Value of the Christian
Endeavor Pledge"
Evening worship, 1880 o'clock. AID.
dress by the pastor.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-12-10
ST. STEPHENS CHURCH.
Rev. John Evans Bold, Rector.

Kectory No. 11g Main street.
1880, Holy Communion (2nd, 4th and
9th ~Sundays.)
lO45. Morning Prayer. Holy Com
munion list and Bird Sundays).
1000, Sunday school.
7:30, Evening Pra, er.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-12-10
M%1DDLEBuRY REGISTER

PUBLISHED nv
JOSEPH BATTELL ESTATE,
vALLETTE BLOCK
MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT.
Entered at che Mddlebury Postopsce as Second
Class Matter.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-12-10
E d u G A N

You teach your children all sorts of things; read
ing, writing, arithmetic, geography,
literature, etc.
Why don't you also teach them thrift
Thrift hardly ever comes by nature.
Encourage saving. Let the boys and girls have
their capital, their own savings bank &C.
count-and keep adding to it.
$1.OO will start an account with the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12
GOOD MUSIC

T<HAT Harrisburg does like good
music and that it will attend
concerts when they are properly
advertised and when the people are
assured that they will receive just
what has been promised them is evil
dent from the crowd present last night
when the New York Symphony Or
chestra. under Walter Damrosch, and
Mischa Elman, the great Russian vio-
linist, appeared here.
Music that lifts one out of the world
of common things; that watts the
spirit to unaccustomed heights; that
makes one oblivious of his surround
ings, and causes one to see visions and
dream dreams; that is so perfect that
one may cease to be the critic and
forget everything but the wonderful
flood of harmony and melody itself
that is music worth while. 1t was that
kind we had last night. The size of
the audience ought to be a guarantee
to other stars who may be considering
visit to Harrisburg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12

down. Everybody is making money.
Incidentally, the city is entertaining a
political reform idea with torch light
professions, brass bands and oratory.
Here Lives Simon Lake
Most interesting of the Bridgeport
war brides" is the Lake Torpedoboat
Company, founded and managed
by the man who read Jules Vernes
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under
the Sea" as a lad spent his life try
ing to realize the romancer's dream,
and has lived to see the submarine
become the most dreaded craft of
war.
1t is believed to be upon the dis
coveries and inventions of Simon Lake
that the successes of the German u
Boats rest. When the Japanese
war broke out, it seems Lake had en-
tered into an agreement with Russia,
whereby a number of submarines
were to be built for that nation upon
his designs at the Krupp factories, in
Germany. The breaking out of war
caused the deal to fall through, but
the Krupps already had the Lake de-
signs and patents in their possession.
They are believed to have been using
these patents ever since, all attempts
at prosecution having failed.
Nevertheless the American inven-
tor has derived a vicarious benefit
from the German pirating of his de-
[COntinued on Page 49,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12
VISITING THE WAR BRIDES
IX.-Bridgeport
By Frederic J. Haskin

TTOME of Simon Lake. submarine
n inventor, and of his Torpedo
- - boat Company; site of some of
the largest small arms and ammuni-
ton factories in the word, and of in
Vulnerable smaller shops and foun-
dries, Bridgeport is well prepared for
a share of the war business, and she
is getting it.
From condition of industrial
inertia, with many of her factories
working part time, and some of them
closed, she has been suddenly boosted
into overfiowing prosperity. Fifteen
thousand people have been added to
her population within a year, and at
least thirty thousand more are sure
to come. Rents are jumping and
houses are building everywhere.
Bridgeport has got to provide homes
for 10000 families, and she has
neither the men nor the means to
build them. Eight hundred men are
said to have come here and turned
back, because they could not find a
place to live. Bridgeport is doing her
best, however, and bidding for New
York capital to help her, while some
of the factories are building towns of
their own.
New stores are opening here almost
every day. A brand new newspaper
made it's bow to the public day before
yesterday, and last week a chamber
OF commerce came into being. Wages
are going up and hours of labor
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12
FRIDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER IL
POSTAL SERVICE IMPAIRED

nEOPLE in the rural districts who
are exasperated because of the
inefficient postal service under
Postmaster General Burleson will be
Interested to know that urban inhabi-
tants are likewise afflicted. Complaint
of the poor service in Washington, D.
C., is quite prevalent, while in Phila-
delphia a committee was organized,
known as the Bourse Committee, con-
ssting of ten members of the various
commercial exchanges, which called
on Mr.. Burleson and made complaint.
The committee has announced its in
tenton to carry the matter to Presi-
dent Wilson, if Burleson does not
make some move toward the better
ment of the service.
OF course, this decentralization of the
postal service, resulting in inefficiency
and postal deficits, is but the logical
outcome of appointing men like Burle-
son and his first assistant, Daniel C.
Roper, to such positions of response
bility. Neither of them had practical
knowledge of postal affairs prior to his
appointment to his present position.
The Post Office Department ought to
be the most business-like department
of the Government, and if the letter
carriers, rural deliveries and star
routes could be let alone the public
would be better served.
During the last year of the Repub-
lican administration the postal service
Chad finally been adjusted to general
satisfaction and for the first time in
Hhe history of the department a sur
plus of nearly s4,OOO,OOO was record
ed. Immediately on taking over the
office Mr. Burleson issued a statement
denying that such a surplus existed.
and, having circulated that denial
throughout the country, some months
later the Democrats sneaked this sur
plus into the Treasury, under the head
of miscellaneous receipts" with a
foot note in very small letters read
ing, Including s3,SOO,OOO surplus of
postal revenues for the fiscal year,
1913"
The Post Office Department will not
be restored to efficiency until it is re-
stored to business basis. 1t will not
be put on business basis until busi-
ness man is placed at the head of it,
and not couple of professional poll
hicians. And the personnel of the
present administration and of the Ma
tional Legislature creates the firm
conviction that businessmen in the
Democratic party are doing their best
no keep out of public office.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12

less strained fashion for many months
and the absorbing interest which such
q book must have for every reader is
patent. Published by Scribner's in
September of this year, it was written
by an eminent authority partly as an
explanation of the efficiency of Ger
many, but primarily as a suggestion
of a new kind of social craftsmanship
which our own as well as other coun-
tries must take into consideration If
they are to be prepared 10 meet the
Germany which, in victory or defeat,
emerges from the war. The book is
the product of a rather intimate
knowledge of German life during the
past quarter of a century. No in
telligent person can deny that Ger
many is more intelligently organized
than is the rest of the world. The
name Germany is synonymous with
efficiency. Aside from the question Of
personal liberty, the individual Ger
man is better cared for in his country
than the individual American is in
his, and Mr.. Howe is undoubtedly cor
rect in his statement, when the aver
age is considered.
At the same time, the book is
powerful advocate of reforms that the
author says are needed in this coun-
try, such as wide extension of pub
lie ownership, a big program of so
cial legislation, a change in our sys-
tenn of education, and a diminution in
the power of the trusts. "Socialized
Germany" is the result of a combina-
tion of deep research, personal knowl-
edge and much of serious thought, and
whether the reader agrees with Mr.
Howe's sentiments or not, his view
point will be broadened and he can
intelligently form an opinion based on
knowledge as to whether the reforms
advocated for this country are as im>
minently needed as the author inti-
mates.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12
REFORM THE REFoRMERs

THE New Republic comments in
detected mood over the results
of the recent elections. In no
instance, its editor believes, has high
thought triumphed. Nowhere have
the proposals that stood for better
government been approved. Tam
many is in the saddle in New York.
Pennsylvania has been disappointing
to the New Republic and even Massa-
chusetts is blamed for expressing a
preference in party Objectionable to
the publication mentioned Says the
lRepublc:
The people don't know what they
want to vote for, so they vote ac-
cording to interest, habit, prejudice
or vague appreh ension. The cleo
tion reveals chiefly a temporary
anarchy and inertia of public opin-
ion.
The Republic does not go deep
enough. The people are not voting
under the banners of reform" this
year, because the reformers whom they
have but recently elevated to author
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12
TRUE TOWN SPIRIT

TT isn't every town that boasts of a
spirit that will take its men and
women down into a ditch to dig
without pay the cellar for new town
hall, and it's boys to harness them
selves as horses to drag away ex-
cavated earth. But that's the way
they do things at Wormleysburg when
money is lacking and the desire is
strong for public improvements.
A short time ago West Fairview
celebrated its centennial, and raised
money with which to pay for a new
firehouse in a manner that won for
it the admiration of all who heard
about it, and Wormleysburg, not to be
distanced by its neighbor, has resolved
to have it's long-needed town hall even
IL the people have to build it with
their own hands.
Little wonder that the West Shore
is growing like the proverbial green
bay tree. Little wonder that there
are those on the West Shore who are
looking to our City Planning Commits
sion to lay out additional roads and
provide for the time when the whole
cross river district adjacent to Har-
risburg will be one big city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12
The State From Day to Day

Whether actually. dead or not, Reu-
ben P. Rinkenbach, who failed to re-
turn to his home in Ontelaunee town
ship after leaving it more than half a
century ago to fight in the Civil war,
will be declared legally dead by the
Berks county court and his property
will be divided. If Reuben is alive,
'twere the part of wisdom for him to
come home anon.
In a seed-guessing contest to ascer-
tain the number of seeds in a certain
pumpkin in or near Tarentum, the
winner guessed 1876, while the actual
number was 1876, and the other an
swers ranged from a measly 20 to the
tongue-rolling number of 1000.
Seumas MacManus, the famous
Irish poet, writer and lecturer who
has delighted audiences in the past in
this city with his folk-songs, recently
entertained Sharon with a brilliant
lecture.
An upper lip" club has been form
ed in Farrell. is the news that strikes
our glistening eyes as we rove from
page to page in search of inspiration.
And it occurred to us that perhaps the
club might do well to incorporate a
little stiffness into their membership
by adding that adjective to the name
of their cloth. Surely the object of
the club would then be more worthy
than the mere commonplace one of
Disgusting the face.
Sunday afternoon, December 5,
Lodge No. ITS, Benevolent and Pro-
tected Order of Elks, will honor those
of it's members who died since the last
memorial services were held in De-
cember, 1914.
Amateur cracksmen are busy in
Lancaster this week. but their lack of
skill has been evidenced by the little
amount of booty that they. have got
ten away with, in spite of their many
attempts.
Mrs. Honbaum, OF West Hazleton,
is in a serious condition as the result
of having eaten some scrapple, which
seems to have poisoned her. How
ever, in spite Of this startling news it
isn't likely that scrapple-eating en-
thusiasts will break off their allie
glance, particularly when the vision of
a rich stream of goodly syrup covering
their favorite dish rises up before
their eyes.
Editor takes a wife" is the supris-
ing statement which one of the
newspapers in the State made yester-
day. And yet an editor. just like any
other human being, is not necessarily
always an advocate of the single
blessedness idea.
Mr.. A. Gish was married while at
Bath Wednesday evening. He form
erly lived in Philadelphia. but changed
his place of residence and is now re-
siding with his wife in. Bath.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12
BUSTED JOY
by Wing Dlnger

When came in the other day
With score of eighty-nine
For eighteen holes. my chest went out
And I was feeling fine.
hung around the club house. bo.
So others would ask me
How my game went, and could give
My answer with much glee.
At last some chap said to me: "wing,
How went the game today"
IAN eighty nine" I answered him
In manner blithe and gay.
Then some crepe hanger wandered in
And said: by love. I'm through.
It's time to quit when one can't get
Below an eight-two
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12

ity have disappointed them; have been
responsible for evils far worse than
those they proposed to correct.
Take the Wilson administration at
Washington, for instance. The Demo
Gratis were elected on a platform the
three chief planks of which were
economy in office, the curbing of
trusts and reduction in the cost of
living. Yet we find the President and
his colleagues spending more money by
many millions than did the Repubh-
cans before them, at the same time
levying taxes on the people which,
under Republican administration, they
were not required to pay. Not trust
has been curbed and not a penny has
been taken from the high cost of liv-
ing. Instead, prices are now higher
than ever before.
Indeed, the people do know what
they are voting for. They are voting
for practical men and practical meas
ures. They are through with the bun
combe of untried, high-sounding
theory. They have had their lesson
and until the New Republic can truly
reform the reformers the people will
be apt to ignore much of the high
thought for which the Republic
pleads.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

W. l. Stineman, son of the for
mer senator from Cambria, may en-
ter senatorial contests.
"A. C. Fording, prominent Pitts
burgh lawyer, long active in the sub
way move in that city, is again NOV
ing in that direction.
j. j. Sullivan, Jr., prominent
Philadelphia banker, is home from a
big game trip to Alaska.
"A j. Drexel Biddle will give his
annual concert in Philadelphia for
his Bible class.
Charles E. Rhoads, new mavor of
Altoona. has been active in politics
in the mountain city for years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12
TELEORAPH'S PERISCOPE

Jess Willard wants $4,000 to fight,
win or lose. That's all right. When
you're the best in the world in any
class you can always get your price.
A fresh trouble has arisen to be-
set our already harrassed President.
He doesn't know where to put his we'd
ding presents.
New ways to dress oysters" is
the title of column in New York
newspaper Can't these fashion writ
ers let even the helpless blue point
alone? Imagine trying to eat an oys-
ter with flare skirts and fur trim
mings.
There is something droll in talk
ing about Yale, Harvard, Princeton
and Penn as the Big Four" in the
football world.
What some of the college elevens
need is not an athletic coach, but a
baby coach.
-Sighs a poet in an exchange
"Oh, the winds are growing chill
Yes, and we might add, THE coal
mans sent his bill"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12
What Kind Do
You Use?

What is the brand of your
favorite soap, your favorite tea,
baking powder. tire garters Won
wear, the pieces on the talking
machine?
You know the names well.
They are advertised names.
The goods give good service.
You like them.
There are other kinds of ad-
vertised goods you will like
equally well.
1t will pay you to buy them
because they have character.
Do you know them?
Read the advertising columns
of the Telegraph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12
WHERE SAFETY LIES

81 see when a man runs for Office
he has to put himself in the hands
of his friends"
Yes, my dear"
IF a woman ran would she have
to put herself in the hands of her
women friends?"
81 suppose So"
We'll, don't imagine many women
will, rum Think of taking such
chances! s!"-Louisvi11e Courier j ournal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12

Should Auditor General Powell be
successful in forcing the coal barous to
make restitution to the consumers who
were mulcted for a State tax which
was never paid and which has just been
declared unconstitutional. he will earn
the everlasting gratitude of the thou
sands who gave up twenty-five cents
a ton when the Legislature imposed
the tax. If the readjustment cannot
be made as proposed, then the opera
tors can at least make a reduction of
twenty-five cents ton on the prices
of two years ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12

United States Senate which will be
vacant on the voluntary retirement of
Senator oliver, himself the most modest
and among the most useful men in that
distinguished body. Mr. Knox has been
tried and not found wanting. His
quality as statesman is the quality
of Root and Taft and Fairbanks and
the other leders of constructive force
and experience who have upheld Ameri-
can ideals.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12
EDITORIAL COrT1ENT

London in six weeks spent sixty
seven thousand dollars on a dancing
actress. No wonder England has to
come here to borrow money.-Phila-
delphia Press.
Who said the cost of living was go
ing up? Radium is reduced SS4, 1000
a gram, and a pound can now be
bought for about $13,43S, ,000.-New
York Sun.
The old-fashioned highwayman used
lead pipe, but cast iron pipe is now
known to be just as good for the pur-
pose.-KanSas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12

Governor Brumbaugh. with ever-in-
creasing appreciation of the State and
its proud history, may be trusted to see
to it that the interesting collection of
paintings and picture films, and other
features that have made Pennsylvania
talked about at the San Francisco ex-
position, are brought back to Harris
burg and placed in the Capitol That's
where they belong and the Governor
has already given the necessary in
structions. It's pennsylvania First"
always with M. G."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12

Elihu Root continues to grow in favor
iamong thoughtful Americans every
where. Ex-President Taft believes
Root is "the one man who answers the
requirements of the times" 1t is grow
Hng more and more evident that the
Wilson policies will be repudiated next
year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12

Frank r. Robertson has been delight
ing hundreds of Harrisburgers in his
wonderful travelogues under the au-
spices of the Telegraph. Tonight and
tomorrow night will close the series
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12
DO YOU KNOW
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
That Harrisburg is making
parts for automobiles?

The turnpike from Middletown is
supposed to have been the first public
road laid out in what is now this
county.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12

Warren Worth Bailey will fight with
Bryan and Kitchin against any armed
defense program, He favors gas and
hot air.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12
STrSPICOUS

Friend-"So this is one of you
jokes, is it? Ha! ha! hal"
Humorist (testily)-"Well. wha
are you laughing at. anyhow? Ism
lit good one?'i-Passing Show.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12

CoIorcd People Arrive For Reception
Hundreds of colored people from
all parts of the State are pouring in
to the city for the big reception to
be given by the Garnet League in
honor of the colored soldiers who
served during the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12
To Hold ThanLsgiving Ball

The Washington Library Associa-
tion announced to-day that a thanks
giving ball will be held December
in Brandt's Hall.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12

Town meeting at Allentown has
adopted resolution demanding that
the city assessment be reduced to the
former basis. This year the valuation
was jumped from s5O,OOO.OOO to $780,
100000. which was going some, the big
fair grounds having been increased
from 100000 to $926,00O. udoing from
some of the figures presented by the in
dignant taxpayers the assessment was
made in the dark.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12

There would be less profanity on the
street and in public places IL Alderman
Herbert's example should be generally
followed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-12
NO DOUBT.

Dodge: 1 see the
warning nations
claim they won't
give up so long as
there is even the
oretical food.
Hodge: What do
they mean by the
oretical food?,
Dodge: I sup
pose they mean
the dogs of war
ard the doves of
1eace ..+