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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-31
ORANGE
Death of Louise L. Sargent Occurred
Monday Evening.

| Louise L. Sargent died at her home
in this town Monday evening, May 20,
at s o'clock She was the second daugh-
ter of Daniel f. and Elviora Sargent,
and was born January 80, 1898, in
Orange. One sister, Hannah lived with
her, and another sister, Mrs. Alice
Broughton, resides in East Randolph. She
always lived in this town, with the ex-
ception of two years, which she spent in
West Topsham. The funeral will be
held at her late home on Thursday at |
o'clock with nterment in the family lot
at West Topsham.
John Clark recently moved from the
Eli Mills place to Groton.
The regular meeting of the grange
will be held next Friday night and a
patriotic program win be given as fol-
lows: Chorus, Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
the BOYS are Marching; recitation, Or
lando Haynes; recitation, Hazel John
son; chorus, "Just Before the Battle,
Mother" reading. Mrs Charles Elan
ders; reading, Everett Wood; duet,
"Tenting On the Old Camp Ground
Mrs. John Emerson and Mrs. Fred Elan
ders; discussion, "How Can We Become
More Loyal and Patriotic Citizens? ?"
Frank Haynes. Royal Flanders, Edna
Beard and Mrs. Aiken; recitation, Vera
Flanders chorus, America"
Harry Magoon and mother, Mrs. Nellie
Magoon, have moved to the Eli Mills
place,
Miss Rosa Bison went on Saturday to
Fannie Allen hospital at Winoosk for
an operation and treatment.
Miss Gladys Richardson is at home for
4 few days from her work in New Hamp-
shire,
Mrs. Roy Nelson underwent an OPP
grafton at the Barre hospital last Sat
lrday, and is reported Is doing as we'll
rs could be expected.
Miss Beatrice Lancer of Goddard was
/ week end guest at Fred Gauthier's.
Hazel and Nathan johnson spent the
week end with relatives in Montpelier.
James Lord and Frank Haynes at
ended the Republican convention at
Montpelier last week.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-31
F. H. Rogers & Co.
We Clean, Press, and Repair Clothing

And the same is true con-
corning shoes. That is why
we feature the well-known
and popular WALK-OVER
SHOES for men and women,
$3.50 to $3.50. We have
other makes, $500 to $3.50.
Some special hobby col
ors, plain and combination,
for women. Very popular.
At $3.50 to $500.
Rogers Walk.Over
Boot Shop
The Washington times., 1916-07-13
HMBALMED FISH THIS TINE

II was embalmed beef in Spanish
war times, and the scandal that re-
suited from feeding it to soldiers
might reasonably have been serious
enough. to justify assumption that
there would be no more formalde-
hyde sauces with the soldiers entree
courses.
But not SO. Comes now the news
from Ell Paso that canned salmon
served as a special delicacy to COM
pany of Massachusetts, infantry sent
forty of the men to the hospital, and
interfered seriously with their work.
At least the authorities should be
able to provide safe food for the
troops. It hasn't been a question Of
getting it to them; merely q question.
whether common sense and common
honesty shall insure that decent, usa-
BILE food shall be bought. That's
about the least they could do, and If
there is a repetition Of the army food
scandals of eighteen years ago, the
results will be a lot more serious
even than they were then.
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You may not have known It. but the
cost of living went down last year.
The Bureau of Labor statistics. De-
partment OF Labor. announces that fact
after the study Of retail prices OF
twenty-nine food articles for last year
and Tor 1914. Inc bureau conciudes
prices were per cent less In isio than
the preceding year.
fhis is the first time since lSil tnat a
Init has been called on that grim OLD
High Cost of Living bugaboo. In that
year prices took slightly downward
trend. Previous to that they had been
incr easing since 1907. And after lSil they
went up until 1914 when they not only
went. but shot scared. jumped, and
leaned skyward, especially after the
outbreak of the war. ..
The bureau Of Labor is not inclined
to place much faith in the theory that
all high prices are caused by the war.
"A study of the retail price statistics
of the bureau will convince anyone that,
with the exception OF sugar. nour. ana
perhaps cornmeal, the prices OF the pr,n- piaii
cipal articles Of food since October, 1914,
have been mainly governed by local and
seasonal conditions. and not by the ex-
traordinary exigencies brought ABOUT py
4 the war" A.
dThe price Of sugar shot up b2 pc,
] cent from July ib to August lb' lsl%
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THE FIGHT FOR THE AIR

There has been no time since the
wars beginning when domination Of
the air was SO obviously important as
now. French and British on one side,
Germans on the other, are desperate
ly battling for supremacy, because
the privilege of freely observing the
enemy's movements while he cannot
observe your own, is of prime i'm
portance in the sort of strategical
movements now in progress.
The reports from French and Ger
man sources widely vary as to losses
Of the respective sides in the air
struggles. The allies have recently
insisted that they were gaining dis.
tinct superiority; that their planes
fly freely over the German lines and
make observations, while the Ger
mans are more effectively kept from
this sort of observation than evel
before. On the other hand, the Ger
mans are just as positive that they
hold the advantage.
Whichever side is telling the truth
it is plain that whoever enjoys th'
privilege of seeing enemy movement
and concentrations. while keeping th'
enemy from seeing his own, ha
everything in his favor. That is tn
real'purpose of the present desperat
air fighting. The fact that tn
, French, on the Somme, were able L
The Washington times., 1916-07-13
SCHOOL BOARD BATTLE ONT

The battle is on in the Board Of
Education, and right merrily may it
wage.
In the contest for q president, in
the matter of the superintendent's
recommendation for text books, and
in the question of using school play
grounds for municipal playground
work, issues were sharply drawn and
the more conservative element was
found lined up against the incoming
and more radical group.
Strangely enough, the "old guard"
clung to an erstwhile insurgent,
Ernest H. Daniel, in its effort to elect
one who had served as president of
the board. But with the aid Of that
other arch-insurgent, Mrs. Susie
Root Rhodes, the Rev. DR.. John Van
Schaick, jr., was chosen to head the
board.
If there continues to be a division
on important issues, carried on in
good spirit, the schools will be the
gamer. There is no particular vir'
tue in the boards changing to-
gether," as has been the custom ir
the past few years, and out of sharI
differences of opinion is likely te
come more progress than from thu
rather somnolent procedure intt
which the board had fallen.
The Washington times., 1916-07-13
DESPERATION IN GERMANY

There is report from Berlin that
the movement to oust Chancellor
Won Bethmann-H Hollweg is gaining
ground. He has been too concilia-
tory toward the United States to sat-
isfy the German extremists of the
Won Tirpitz school.
1t is easy to understand the SEN
timents of the Won Tirpitzes, who
depended on the utter shattering Of
all sea law to win the naval war.
They wanted free privilege to sail
up and down and under the seas on
missions Of unrestrained murder;
and the decenter public opinion of
Germany would not permit it. The
Kaiser especially was firm in stand
ing by the chancellor.
That former Chancellor Prince Won
Buelow is taking a leading part in
organizing the campaign for the re-
sumption of unrestrained submarine
operations, is hard to believe. He has
been a statesman of moderation and
reason. The bitterness of partisan
controversy might cause him to en-.
list against the moderates; but his
many admirers in this country will
be slow to believe him supporting
Won Tirpitz in an effort to defy
America and the respect Of all civil.
zation.
Yet it is perfectly possible that be-
fore accepting defeat as inevitable
Germany might undertake such 9
desperate resolve. Desperation, If il
ever comes to the country that rapec
Belgium and massacred Serbia, will
be a state of mind that modern time!
have not often seen manifested on ,
national scale. The things that tn,
German extremists expect to gail
by such a warfare on all shipping
would. of course. not follow.
The closing period of the war, ol
which seemingly it has entered, will
doubtless bring many difficult an,
critical incidents, due to the exas
peration and disappointment of tn
German extremists. There will b,
need for the calmest counsels, ant
for the strong hand in maintaining
rights that will receive less and les
consideration as a waning German.
yearns more and more for the privi
lc-c Of running amuck.
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takes away only one-third Of his in
come, then he would have to pay only
an equal share here; and one-third
would still be left to buy meal tick
cts, titles of nobility, and the like.
But IL he Is so morbidly, disrepu-
tably, and outrageously rich that he
gets into that restricted class from
which they lift 80 per cent in Eng
land, then automatically he would be
in the like class here; just 100 per
cent of his income would 60 to. the
tax grinders. Even a multi-million-
aire would have to figure mighty fine
to discover what he would have left
to live on, after subtracting 100 per
cent from his income.
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CAN 1T BE POSSlBLE9

Is it possible that the heroic crew
that brought the Deutschland to this
country is going to take on couple
Of American citizens as passengers
for the return trip, in order to rem
der the vessel immune from attack
without warning? 1t is so reported
from Baltimore, but admirers of that
splendid submarine heroism that has
been displayed In such noble in
stances as the Lusitania murder and
the Sussex attempt at murder, and
achievement of official falsehoods
will be loath to believe it.
For a couple of years now we have
been hearing from German sources
that British cowardice was system
atically putting neutrals on mer-
chantmen so that it might be impos-
sible for the Germans to destroy
them on sight. It has been charged
that Americans were paid to take
passage on British boats in order to
give this protection.
Is the German submarine service
now established in the eyes of all the
world as the most heroic and uncom.
promising organization of murder ir
the world, going to abandon all its
splendid ideals? Shall it descend te
the level of British pusillanimity al
the very first opportunity? No ad
mirer of Won Tirpitz will believe il
until it shall actually have happened
The Washington times., 1916-07-13
WENT TO HIS DEATH
JEER|NG At SHARK
Man-Eater's Victim Scoffed at
Idea That Monster Would
Invade Inland Creek.
Sharks Activities in
Last Two Weeks

Recent instances in which sharks
have attacked persons at resorts
near New York:
July l-Iharles Enting vansant Of
Philadelphia. attacked by nnarn
while swimming in the surf at seach
Haven. n. j., and died soon after
being taken to shore.
July 6--Charles Bruders legs bitten
of and his side torn by a shark at
Spring Lake. n. j.; died before neip
could reach him.
july lu-A shark chased a canoe IN
which Esterbrook Garter. nephew OF
Republican nominee Charles h.
Hughes, was padding at Bridge-
hampton. l.. !.
July lo-f'our large sharks believed
TO be OF the man-eating variety were
reported seen of Asbury Park, N. J..
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Complains That Dead Animals Are
Not Cared for Promptly.

To the Editor Of THE TIMES;
We read yesterday that 10000 people
had been called out in New York city
to assist in fighting unsanitary condi-
tions there. I wonder how many who
read that in last nights Times realize
that there are some very unsanitary
conditions In the beautiful city OF
Washington! How many know that dead
animals. ranging In size from good
sized dogs to hens. rats and mice. are
allowed to remain In the streets and
alleys until passing vehicles cut them
up. and the fragments are rolled about
In the streets until their identity be-
ing lcsD some street cleaner gathers
them up? sounds too lnucn TO ueileNc.
doesn't IL? But this state OF affairs
actually exists. and In not confined 10
a particular section. Ny attention was
| Ill st urawn to this matter last summer
VIXEN 1 undertook to get a dead cat re-
moved from the street in 'front.' Of my
windows. IL was III the hottest weethef
of last June. on rather busy corner.
near u large school, and within n lew
feet Of two stores where provisions were
sold; but II was three days before
got that cat taken away! / personaiiy
| interviewed several employed W the
street Cleaning Department. and was
| unable to find out from them Just whose
duty 1t was. l called up the Health De-
part,nent. There, l learned that sucn
matters were not exactly In their line,
! hut that there actually was some one
| who WAS supposed to attend 10 sucn
cases II I called him UP. Right there !
missed the opportunity to find out )us'
who or what is supposed TO preslde
over the destiny Of dead cats. l drop,
ped my temper when he said. III you ]
call up" and instead of getting thu,
address l told him I had already spent
10 certs telaphoning, and asked mn
TO attend to II. which he kindly cum
sented to DO. However. twenty-foui
hours later the cat was still, there. rt
called up again and told them 50
whcrcupon he agreed to attend to u
and did. Now, Mr.. Editor. please hell
us to get this matter before the people
| for II should be n subject OF common
interest. Don't you think that we arr
taxed enough that we might reason
ably expect immunity from such NUS
| ances MS this? Is II unfair to cxpec
tho Street Cleaning Department. TN
Health Department. and the Police De
partmcnt to cooperate In this matte
no that II any member OF either depart
Yncnt see or is told Of dead ANNA
lin any street or elsewhere. or OF an!
other menace 20 bealth or safety III
shall Immediately report It tn the propes
official. why appoint anyone especiali!
10 dispose of dead animals, and leav
,upon the public the burden OF huntinl
him up. leading him to his duty. ant
showing him where 1t iiesy,,r, iiesy
| Washington. July IL.
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The TAX ON ExPATRIATES

Casting about for folks with the
fewest possible friends, who would
make good pickings for the tax col
lector, the expatriated American mil
lionaires naturally looked good. The
man with an American fortune that
he is spending abroad, particularly
a fortune that he inherited rather
than earned, impresses the average
American as a pretty logical victim,
Commonly, he doesn't have many
friends on the other side, where there
is apt to be a feeling akin to con,
tempt for the expatriate. They
rather enjoy plucking him there; and
If now, as Senator Kenyon has pro.
posed, this country shall impose 9
special levy against his income de-
rived from America, to equal what
ever tax may be imposed on the fal
edge of the pond, it appears that the
poor rich man is going to have {
sorry time Of it.
In England they are fairly whoop
ing it up, tsxationwise, to the reall!
rich-American sort Of rich, 70,
know. Some Of the American-borl
taristocracy are being soaked for a
much as one-half their incomes. Now
if the United States reaches for tn,
other half, it requires no distin
guished mathematical genius to pip
the conclusion that a thoroughly
soddenly, besottedly rich man is go
ing to be in the very deuce of
scrape.
Curiously enough, too, the richie
| he is the worse of he will be.
he is just modestly rich, and get
into the British lists at a rate ths
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INDUSTRY Modified IN ENGLAND.

In England II is the same. Lloyd
George, upon assuming the post OF
minister OF munitions. chose as his
the mobilization OF industry,
which meant that the Industrial plants
OF the land should be organized TO
produce munitions and other needfuls
for the British army.
In Russia the difference Is vast,
Russia is an agricultural nation
Manufacturing corporations are few
compared to England's vast enter
prises, or to those OF France or Ger
many. Russia Is so per cent peasant
So the peasants got together with
the All Russian zemstvo Union, And
the townspeople and city dwelier'
got together In the Al-Russtan Mu-
nicipality Union. the two eating to-
Ssihsr In n; central no, VOL Of
manufacturer. not OF commercta
Kings. but Of rich people. poor people
gentry and peasants-offeIlns thei'
services gratis to the land;
Ranization resembling Lloyd-George'i
mustering OF English Industry. 1t 4,
called the war industry committee ant
is OF considerable Importance.
Manufacturers Organize.
Prior to six years ago there was M
Industrial group In, Russia. Manu-
facturers worked separately. ever,
man for himself. But with the com
ing OF the Duma, the Russian Con
gress, they felt the need OF an or
ganization which would look out 70
their joint interests in possible legis
lation to come. Also new com
merciai treaty with Germany was &
be negotiated in 1914 and here agail
Russian industry wished to make itsel
heard.
So about 1910. a Congress Of Repre-
sentatiyes Of Trade and Commerce me
and organized themselves into what cor
responds to American merchants an
| manufa cturers' associations. the objec
of which was to look out for the mutua
interests OF It's members.
Last year this group Of men, takin
the tip from Lloyd-George In Englanc
and seeing the necessity OF giving al
| to the army. particularly as regard
munitions and kindred military needs
formed the war industry committed
This body OF men today Is giving grea
help to the Russian government.
Moscow Began Movement.
This is the organization similar
Those In England and France. But III
Zemstvo and municipality unions. wit
their central committee, are In then
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selves uniQue-as Is the cooperative
movement Of Russia with its nearly a
hundred million adherents scattered
from the Paltic across the frozen stcppes
Of Siberia to the Pacific. from the White
Sea to the Black.
The city of Moscow began the mu-
nicipai!ty union after the big Russian
retreat. Mayor Chelnokov. the tremcn.
dously awe neao OF .ne n.unic'Pa'
es evui'n % % ,ho o,h.r ci,,os n nd
In RE towns of the empire to ioin in q
c,,S 6woiier.. orp,nIzation similar IN
tho Zemstvos, or rural one. and they
~, r.snnndnd
~" ,ra ,ha gar,.,yo tho mun,c,pnlt{y
,,.,t % Ia q, ar H,,.sian governsn snt
..mor,, s - -. ms. ,ss"'"
VIC aao,, oor .h., a.. tn. ,w,
~ wus so"n S.,nG -oo,io,iIx ,S" sams
un,ons Nh uo,S p,i.a ,a,ah, 'he ne oh',I,
work' mscn oNeriSppm,s ,,s. "nsmI n oe oon,, oon,
ni;shoT nv merger could he crrected'
"sneu u a,,,rei Cow, mt,taa or the All.
pn..,an z.m.ty, and Mur;cina, tSnion,
80 ,.rr,,od ahoU, tha f,rst ~ J,Iy Iei5
was iocnn cn1,ito.:s MVoSs wor1. sas % SeenS nhe
nomonoI ~ has sunn,ied the army M
,ha arr,,,.. r.ouost WITH n,,,nI,iona
.ne ,.,as daacors snodas ho as
hn,nhnta sn,,rers fo cut harhed- wire
n,n,,as .xoia ~ ring annara, horhe,
u,re hosnitaI surplies baths and score
The Washington times., 1916-07-13
BY WILLIAM PHILIP sIMMs.

PETRoGRAD, June is (By maD-Cty men farmers the
gentry villages today solid block Russia and
the The Central Committee working might and
main support the army and the country generally.
The organization composed landed gentry peasants village
property is called the Al-Russian Zemsvo Union
and cities Of Russia have also organized
into volunteer salaes citizens group
wage war; their being ARusan Municipality Union
And this group which, with the ARussan Zemstvo Union
pletes the Central Committee.
The Committee whose absolutely without
pay Sundays and weekdays Petogd acting coodnane
body centrazng the work Of the citizens Of the whole empire
So far find this committee and these great
Russian Unions combined it, have counterpart anywhere
Europe in the world
In France the people heart and soul with the government
their determination fight the victory what
that country all Of organizations abound providing hospitals
ambuance refugee homes feeding stations and the like There
end their abo But the government feeds clothes and equp
its army through commissions deal with industrial corporation
principally if not entirely.
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M'OILLIcUDDY BILL PASSES

BY vote Of 286 to 2, the McGilli-
cuddy bill for compensation of Fed
eral employees for injuries received in
service, passed the House last even
ing. 1t was a result assured for
many months, provided only that the
measure could get to a vote.
That there should ever have been
serious uncertainty about the pass
age of this bill is one Of the things
that show how little merits have to
do with legislative accomplishment.
1t took over twenty years to pass a
pure-food act, and~in all that time
there was hardly an honest, sincere,
straightforward argument advanced
against 1t. Gentlemen pretended to
fear that it would be unconstitutional
or something else, but they were
really against it because certain
food-manufacturing interests that
ought to be put under the restric-
tions Of such a law didn't want it
passed. When, after a score OF
years, the thing came to a show
down that could no longer be lodged,
practically everybody voted for the
bill. Constitutional qualms and bo-
gus pretenses were forgotten in the
face of tM Record.
It has been much the same with
the McGillicuddy bill and most other
sane legislation in the interest of Ia
Dor. When the issue could be forced
pretense was dropped and men voted
for, it because they didn't dare dc
otherwise.
This McGillicuddy bill goes now tc
the Senate, where there is a commit
tee-on Education and Labor-al
most unanimously in favor of it
But the chairman of that committee
is Hoke Smith Of Georgia. He il
the same gentleman who wanted t.
fight England because the price o.
cotton was low; he was still declar
ing war from time to time until th'
price of cotton climbed up to norma
and submerged his protests.
Senator Smith said the only faul
with the McGillicuddy bill is that i
isn't Sufficiently liberal" to the maj
injured without negligence. There i
always some such excuse. Senate
Smith has always opposed the legis
lation for Federal system of com
pensation for railway employees in in
terstate commerce; in that case, OF
the ground that i. would take ava,
the common law rights of the injure'
person. The fact that the employe
wanted it. and that public opinion i
overwhelmingly in favor Of it, wa
unimoortant; common law right
constituted good enough excuse TO
being against it.
Senator Smith may be able to pre-
vent passage of the McGillicuddy bi
this year, but he isn't entitled t
make people believe ne is killing
because he wants a more libers
measure. That sort Of excuses don
20 down so easily as they once did.
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Cost of Living Going
Down---Fgures Say So
Reduction of Per Cent in Prices of 20 Food Arti-
cles Reported by Bureau of Labor
Statistics Since 1914.

The elimination of beet sugar coming
from Germany, Austria and Russia
kept sugar prices high during 1915.
While flour did not jump In price so
spectacularly as sugar, the cutting
down. of the area devoted to wheat
cutting eff of Russian wheat from
western Europe, resulting from the
war. have so increased the demand for
American wheat and flour that flour
sugar prices.
Beef prices increased suddenly al
the beginning CT the war, but soon fell
again. since which they have behaved
normally"
The Washington times., 1916-07-13
Why SparroWs Quit Town

LANCASTER, Ca. July 13-Noticing
the scarcity of English sparrows. and
knowing Major Jim Burnside to be a
close observer of animal. mineral, and
vegetable life. a friend asked him the
cause.
He says that oiling the streets Is the
their feet, and then on their legs. will
not allow the eggs to hatch. He also
says many sparrows leave town for. the
country as soon as the oil Is spread. In
order to get their dust baths.
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Penny Rolls Doomed.

LONDON, July lathe famous Brit
,sh penny roll and tart are doomed. In
the interest of good white bread and war
economy the Amalgamated Union Of
Operative Bakers has decided to- aban-
don gastronomic furbelows despite the
fact that tarts and penny rolls have