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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-06-17
BETHEL
Frederick Whitney Hit BY Auto But Not
Much Hurt.

G. Y. Clahin was driving his automo
bile down Main street near the Bethe
inn late Wednesday afternoon wher
Frederick Whitney, the l0.year-old sol
of Mr.. and Mrs. l.. II. Whitney, who wa'
playing tag with another boy, appeared
suddenly from behind freight Wagon
from the tannery which Mr.. Claflin was
in the act of meeting, and almost i'm
mediately was struck on the forehead by
the radiator of the automobile knocked
down and run over. His forehead was
bleeding so badly when Mr.. Clafin sue
ceeded in stopping. his car that he and
the witnesses OF the accident were fright
ened very much. IL was found that his
only injury was to his forehead, none of
the wheels of the automobile having so
much as touched him. At first the boy
was somewhat stunned, but soon recov-
cred and the next day was out, feeling
fairly well Four vertical marks caused
by the radiator show plainly on his fore.
| head, but he will not be permanently
disfgured.
No books will be given out from the
free library after this evening until after
July |. All books due or overdue should
be returned at once.
A. A. Storrs has been excused from
further service as petit juror during the
present term of Windsor county court.
He and G. w. Douglass returned yester-
day from Woodstock, as did Mrs. Doug
lass, who was visiting there part of the
week.
Gordon Batchelder accompanied his
parents on their trip to New York and
Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Wheeler Of Rut-
land, Mass, and H. H. King of New York
City were here yesterday to call at
Charles w. Wilson's.
Cards were received yesterday an
nouncing the marriage June Ia at 0g-
densburg, n. Y, of Floyd E. FELTON,, for
merry of this town, and Miss Pearl E.
Walker of ogdensburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Forrest S. Blossom are |
away for few days automobile jour
ney.
W. r. Miles and party OF five from
Barre were dinner guests yesterday at
the inn.
Rev. R. C. Wilson is in Boston to visit
his brother, Charles, and sisters, Susan
and Jeanne. He will spend Sunday in
Mass, with Mr.. and Mrs. Jo-
seph G. Wilson.
Work is in progress on the frame of
the new tannery building, for which the
cement foundation was finished some
time ago.
Mrs. Rix Tenney and her daughter,
Arlene, went Wednesday to Riehford to
~. x,.h, Lr~ r.
here several weeks.
Yesterday marked the close of the
pring term in most Of the rural schools. ,
n several cases picnics planned for were
abandoned or were held indoors because
II rain.
Children's day exercises will be held
o-morrow morning at the Congregation
] and Universalist churches.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-12-07
The Case Of Grant

a Democrat writes the New Mexican a
rather crisp letter, taking up recent com
ment In this paper regarding Grant coun.
TVS failure to come to the bat for p. G. de
Baoa. He points out that w. B.. Walton had
a peculiar combination of circumstances to
face in his home county; that he was out In
the state himself, campaigning, most Of the
campaign; that the Bursum forces staged a
determined and systematic fight on De Baca
in Grant county, with the aid of large sums
Of money and corporate Influence, especially
in the big mining camps and that no reflec-
lions should be made upon Billy for Grant
county's failure to come across for the head
of the ticket.
In justice to Mr.. Walton this side Of the
Grant county situation should of course be
considered. There is no gainsaying the fact
that the Democrats had their job cut out for
them in Grant county this year. A few days
before election the Republicans were claim
ing that Bursum had all the big mining
camps grabbed. and that this fact alone as
sured his election.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-12-07

center Of the companys activities. It -
the intention of the management to make
the paper helpful to the highest degree IN
the development Of the resources Of the
Santa re state, and to this end offers its
cooperation to farmers associations, com
merciaIx clubs, chambers OF commerce, and
kindred organizations, as well as to indi-
yidual farmers and bus.enss men, in move
ments calculated to bring about the greatest
prosperity for the largest number OF people
The cpmpany's officers and employees, who
are interested In the upbuilding of their re-
speetive localities, are invited to write to
The Earth about local Industrial progress,
agricultural development, municipal i'm
provement, etc. The ain Of the manage
ment will be to make every issue Of The
Earth Of sufficient interest to direct the at
tention of h~omeseekers and other desirable
investors to the advantages found in com
munities along the Santa Fe, and the infor-
nation thus obtained from santa re sources
win be used for that purpose. The company
viii give The Earth an extensive %circula-
ton in the north, east and south, whence
comes the immigration.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-12-07
How People Act When
Forced to Take to the
Sea For Their Lives
(Kansas City Times


With a paddle for a banjo, one man sang
comic songs and thumped against the wood
with his fingers for an accompaniment as
he sat on a raft and drifted away from the
Arabia, sunk by a submarine in the Medi-
terranean November 6. In tha smoking
room a moment before the shot from the
submarine struck. another had Just declared
"No trumps:p He still held hts cards in his
hand. spread out in order, when the lifeboat
in which he had taken refuge was rowed
away from the sinking vessel.
Such is the way people act these days
when they are forced to take to the open
sea for their lives. There was no panic.
When the Arabia was hit the sea was as
smooth as glass. A man was leaning over
the rail just above the spot where the tor
pedo struck. He called to his companions,
"Come and look at this silver streak" The
next instant the concussion came, d mass
of water splashed on deck, and the man
was thrown against the wall Of the smoking
room and stunned,
The passengers quietly and quickly put
on life-belts and took their places beside
the boats In which they were TO leave the
ship. One or two boats were smashed in
being lowered, and the women and children
were ushered to other boats by the men.
When the boats were safely riding on the
water the men and women slid down ropes
into them. The only mishaps were a twist
ed ankle and the Women's tender hands
burned in the slide.
a nurse and a child were in a cabin close
to the side where the torpedo struck. Tho
|explosi0n smashed the cabin, but the nurse
orawled out of the ruins with the child.
Both were unhuft, The ships doctor was
in his cabin and was covered with splinter
led glass. He, too, was uniniured. In thir-
ty minutes the vessel was abandoned.
The Arabia sank gently. There was no
great explosion, only two big puffs Of smoke
and SCOT. AS the inclination Of the hull In
creased all loose objects slid down the
decks toward the stern. The Arabia dived
quietly. Pieces of timber, chairs and many
light articles, including a cradle, shot yerti-
cally out Of the water. Then the only trace
of the ship was IN only, sOoty patch Of
water with two planks floating in the mid
die.
Trawlers picked up the Survivors. The
women's hands, cut by the ropes, we're ban
Idaged. A heavy sea came, and the rescued
sat or lay on the open decks with the waves
splashing over them and a driving rain
beating their faces for thirty-six hours. The
crews Of the trawlers gave up their oilskins
and blankets to them, a tea for them
and took the babies into the tiny cabins
and fed them milk. The babies got more
milk in those thirty-six hours than they ever
before drank in the same length Of time.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-12-07
Wilson Interested

Il am interested to learn Of the success
Of the sale OF the Red Cross Christmas seal"
says President woodrow Wilson in a letter
to the National Association for the Study
and Prevention OF tuberculosis made public
today.
q note with genuine interest and salts
f~action,T he says, the growth and increas-
ing success OF the work Of the National AS
sociation for the Study and Prevention Of
Tuberculosis and hope that the devotion
and enthusiasm Of its active members may
be crowned with lstill greater success during
the present year.,
Il am, interested to learn Of the success
Of the sale of the Red Cross Christmas seals
as a means for raising funds for the work,
and ] hope that the many people of the
country will avail themselves of that ready
and easy means Of showing their interest in
a work which is Of so universal Importance.
Secretary of Wa Baker is another Red
Cross seal enthusiast. He say in a letter
ordering his supply OF Red Cross seals for
himself and his children, Betty, Jack and
Peggy, mo other one thing means SO much
to the life, health and happiness Of the peo'
pie OF Cleveland as the fight against tuber-
nulQsis.
Seals to the number Of 325,OO0,OO0 are
now on sale In every state and territory Of
the United States, even in the Canal zone
the Philippines, Hawaii and Porto Rico.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-12-07
War Looms Large

The grim possibility OF an enormous Ia
Dor war this winter that will dislocate in
dustry and transportation and bring dis
tress to the country is seen by some in the
general mobilization of the forces of labor
and capital behind the eads of railroad la
Dor and railroad capital in their pending bat
tie over the enforcement of the Adamson
eight-hour law, says the Literary Digest.
The railroad companies, according to one
of their official spokesmen, are agreed 70
fight to the end against the enforcement Of
the Adamson law, which they are attack,
Ing in the courts as unconstitutional, indef-
mite and unjust. But "a strike vote Is still
in e~ffect,v retorts w. G. Lee. head Of the
Brotherhood Of Railway Trainmen, land II
the railroads do not 1--we up to the very
spirit Of the law there is no reason why the
brotherhoods should not take advantage Of
their strongest card" And Samuel Com
pers declares that whatever steps the rail
roads may take to kill the Adamson law,
that law is going into effect on January l.
and it will be enforced
El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-12-07
The Mann Act
(Chicago Tribune.)

The essential question raised by the
Mann act or white slave law" is now be
fore the spreme court. 1t is whether i'm
morality wholly divorced from financial
profit is punishable under the interstate
commerce clause.
The law was passed at~the height OF the
sensational white slave crusade Of some
years ago, which followed the Rockefeller
Investigation of commerciallzed vice and
went to the extreme Of hysteria in some
cases. Black as the evil was, the evidence
never justified these extremes, but It did
fully justify corrective legislation by con
gress, since it established the existence OF
an actual Interstate commerce In women
which local police power could not deal with
as effectively as is desirable.
The Mann act ~ostensibly provides this ad-
ditional safeguard. It's title, the white
slave act" indicated plainly enough that its
purpose was to reach whyite slavery-that
is, commerce in women. But its phraseolo-
gy was made SO inclusive, through the
moral zeal OF it's proponents, that it includ-
ed voluntary immortality without any COM
mercial element.
AS a result the Mann act became a fire.
quent instrument of hlackmail and wpuld
be more often used in this way If sane pros
ecuting officers did not discriminate IN its
enforcement and refuse to prosecute in
cases which, though within the strict phrase
ology Of the act, they believe to be mere
cases Of extortion.
Moralistic 1zeaIots heatedly defend the
Mann act because they say II has done more
good than harm. They hold that innocent
men cannot DO h~lack-mailed and that men
who are taken ia immortality deserve all
they get. They ignore all other considera'
ton. But the courts and the public should
not do so.
The chief Of these is the wise distinction
Of the constitution which leaves to the state
the police power and places upon the CEN
trail government only such responsibilities
as the state cannot well fulfill. Impatient
idealists and short sighted reformers may
be willing to break this distinction down.
But those who look farther ahead realize
that it is necessary to continued govern
ment efficiency. II we load the central au-
thority with all reforms we abolish local
El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-12-07
Control Of Food Prices

That the public may, whenever II Is SO
disposed, completely upset the plans Of food
manipulators and monopolists is hardly, at
this late day. a debatable question, says the
Christian Science Monitor. Whenever the
mass of consumers decided to shun an artt
Gle of food. artificially inflated in price,
that article win become debated to a nor
NAL, or even to a lower than normal, value.
The law Of supply and demand is none the
|iess active M operative in economics be-
cause modern m~anipulators and monopolists
disregard it in fixing prices.
The boycott of itself is usually a poor wea-
|pon, and its employment would be ~inexcus-
able If it were used solely to combat peri
odical advances in food prices deemed by
consumers excessive. 1t is easy to see how
1t might be a dangerous instrument If used
for selfish purposes. Where there is a pop
ular refusal to buy, and where the movement
is carried on with the purpose Of serving
the community rather than individuals, the
method that has come to be known as the
boycott may be excused and even commend
ed, but as a means only, not as an end,
In refusing to pay the prices fixed by
manipulators or monopolists, regardless OF
the relation of production to consumption,
and simply because il seems to be within
the power OF the seller to dictate to the buy
er, the citizen is playing a courageous and a
useful part. Whether acting as an indiyid-
ual, or as one in a group, or in a multitude
Of individuals, he is performing a duty to
his kind when he refuses to countenance
frnroaikt0o IA h4c c,,naooo oonu0f hn nnna.
sured by what he accomplishes in a special
instance or In a certain quarter, He is
helping better than he knows to o~vertnrD
the evil system that has been gaining
strength In the United States for the last
twenty years and that aims, through dis
honest and oppressive means, at preventing
q great percentage Of producers from find
ing a profitable market for their commodi.
ties. It is through the exclusion Of pro
ducts of the soil from the markets; through
processes that consign millions of tons OF
produce to decay in the fields, through OPP
~erations that keep the supply at a point
which makes the cornering Of foodstuffs
possible, that prices are inflated artificially,
and the public is forced to pay tribute to
extortion.
The business of manipulation and monop-
oily should be made improbable. This is a
far more certain way of getting rid of It
than by repeatedly declaring It to be illegal.
The moment it ceases to- pay, it win cease
to exist. The public has a perfect right to
defend and to protect itself against those
who prey upon it, An effective way Of de-
Tending and protecting itself is to destroy
the wrongful occupation Of the predatory
horde.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-12-07
How We Got" Villa

Pershing's column went into Mexico to
"get villa" It went for 500 miles, and it
was hard on its. job SO long as it was al
lowed to do the work given it. Then 1t was
checked by orders from Washington, and
since then its melancholy record ii n Of
defeat and retreat.
American soldiers have been defeated be-
cause they were not allowed to fight. They
have retreated, on orders, to within lis
miles Of the American border. villa is
stronger now than he we when they went
into Mexico. They have done nothing but
fill some raw
Americans do not know much about this,
but Mexicans know all about it. II a Ca
madam contingent had pentrated 500 miles
into the United States, had been checked
in one or two skirmishes, and had begun to
retreat. burning supplies and getting out Of
the way as rapidly as possible, we should
understand hat the invaders were on the
a
The Mexicans understand that the invad
Iefs are on the run. They have seen them
in their retreat. Whatever respect Mexi.
cans might have had for American determ-
ination-and it was dangerously little-has
been destroyed by this achievement Of a
disguised expedition which has been pulled
back every time it tried to accomplish any
thing. tlN
About $50 miles from the present base Of
the American column the man the soldiers
were sent in to get is reported daily in at
tacks upon Chihuahua City. We have for
gotten all about Villa, all about Columbus,
all about the invasion of Mexico.
We do not want to get Villa. We want
to get out.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-12-07
MORE MEN WITH plNERo.

Des Moines Swastika: What New Mexico
needs is more men that have dinero to build
good farm houses, break out more cultivat.
able land and put more livestock upon a
thousand hills. ANY citizen that can induce
a settler to come to this section and grow
up with the country is building for the fu-
tufe. We have health, all Of us. Some Of
us have a little wealth. But more men with
more wealth is what is needed in a new
country. Not that the country should be
turned over to monied men, but they should
be encouraged to come and help. Good
homes, good schools, good churches and
good governments are synonymous terms.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-12-07
CALIFORNIA DEALER EoulPs MULES
WITH TAIL LIGHTS

Ludlcrous as it may seem, necessity has
demanded that a Los Angeles driver equip
his mules with tail lights. Without being
facetious, it may not be amiss to point out
that the devices he employs are literally
the first real tail lights ever used. Some
time ago when a number Of the mans mules
were being driven along a highway At night.
a motor car plunged into the drove with
disastrous results. This caused the leader
to resort to the Warning fights so as to avoid
similar accidents IN the future. The de-
vices, which are identical to those used on
many bicycles, are strapped TO the mules
tails. When the glare from the lamps of a
motor car strikes them, bearis aI ruby light
are reflected. incidentally n a mule swings
his tail, the warning signal becomes an the
more, noticeable.-Popular Mechanics Maya
zine.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-12-07

selkgoEprnmsnt and insure q oentraligation
which Will soon become more inefficient
than any local agency feformers now dis
trust.
The Interstate commerce clause was i'm
tended to cover interstate II
should not be distorted to include acts,
however h%einous, which are in no sense
commercial,
America suffers from hasty reforms
which correct one evil while creating an
othet. Striking local responsibility 10 cast
it on the central authority ID not going for
ward but back.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-12-07
Mothers Pension Law
Big Success in Ohio

tOOAaAAAbNot Oy 0tpRotNAO aH
The law granting mothers pensions In
Ohio is one Of the most humane or the
statutes. In Franklin county the benefcient
effects have been to enable them to keep to-
gether a little home for themselves and
their children.
Under the mothers pension law three
hundred mothers in Franklin county are
now drawing pensions. and seven hundred
children are supported at home. under the
care OF their mothers. In other counties OF
the state similar conditions are in evidence.
The first pension under this law was paid
through the juvenile court in April 1915.
At that time Franklin county set aside taxes
to the amount OF 500 900 for the purpore.
This was less than the amount allowed by
law, but at that time the fund could not be
drought to its full amount.
For this year OF 1916 $4,000 was allowed
for mothers pensions, and at this time the
maximum amount being paid to mothers is
lS30 a month. The minimum Is So. The
amount allowed depends upon the needs OF
the familN applying for the pension. ]
some cases the children are all so young
that they cannot be left alone and more
money has to be paid the mother.
Under the law the pensions are granted
for six months at a time, and then renewed.
This Is done because conditions in the fam
lies change. No pension is allowed for chill
dren more than i6 years old, as they can
then help in the support of the family.
The mother is entitled under the law TO
sis a month for the first child and $3.50 a
month for each other child.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-12-07

The New Mexican is rather pleased to be
favored with the bits Of verse which ". p.
Lawson is contributing from time TO time,
Lawson is a writer of verse and prose who
has arrived" and whose work appears in
the leading magazines Of the country, Is
sort Of a Santa Fe product-at least he has
gathered up a lot Of his inspiration here-
and his work Is Of particular interest to
Santa Feans. That it is 4topnotch' work
need not be said.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-12-07

Some figures recently worked out deal
ing with the economies Of crop production
show that our grandfathers had TO work
a full nine-hour day to produce two bushels
of corn, says Farm and Fireside. In many
cases it required another full day to carry
a t~wo-busheI bag of<that corn on horseback
to a distant mill to be ground into meal
from which were made corn meal, johnny
cake, hoecake or corn pone, according to the
locality.
Today the grandson by the aid OF improv-
led horsepower or mot0r-driVen machinery
can produce two bushels OF corn in an hour
and a half in SO far as the labor element Is
concerned. Put In another way, the grand
son, by means Of mechanical and cultural
helps, can accomplish six times as much
in d given period as did his grandfather six
ty years ago in the work Of feeding the
world.
Calculating the results OF increased eff
cheney on this basis. should the corngrcwing
grandson receive six times as much for a
years planting, management, and labor as
did his grandsire? II 40, does he get it9
Is his land investment, farm equipment. and
labor bills six times greater, and do his liv-
ling expenses, taxes, Insurance, and upkeep
of his farm plant calf for a c~0rrespondingly
greater outlay2 Unless the grandson's re-
ceipts have kept pace with the increase Of
farm efficiency OF his generation, thus en-
aiding him to secure and equip a farm for
himself, pay expenses and have q reasona-
BILE surplus Of profit, something IS still out
OF joint In the farming business. Further
more. even though the grandson may have
lhoooyAa aix finaa mara nfffcient than hfa
grandfather in the production Of food sup
plies, unless he has advanced to where he
can take his rightfui place in the worlds
civic and social duties and enjoy an equita'
Bile share Of it's recreationa' the grandson
has still the most important Of his accom-
plishments before him-getting these things
El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-12-07

Old Lady-Here's a penny, my poor man.
Tell me, how did you become SO destitute?
Beggar-I was always like you, mum. a.
giving away vast sums ter the poor and
needy.-Facts and Fancies.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-12-07
STATE POLITICS
YOU FORGET BOB

you FORGET BOB
Sierra Free Press: If the Republicans
are going to keep open state headquarters
for two years they ought to appoint a food
dictator for their o~fficeholdeFs.
|sTRAWS SHOW 8.a
IT. Sumner Leader; All Of the newspa-
pers are commenting on the low man on
the Rpublicsn state ticket-Gregory Page,
of Gallup, swho ran for state treasurer.
There is no secret about this Vote, and It
shows that the wet element IN our state
is in the minority Senator Page is an es-
Unable gentleman. but Is in a poor bust.
neSs, and the dry" are now IN a majority
in both Of the great parties. The defeat Of
Mr.. Page shows which way the state will
vote on the amendment for statewide pro-
hibition.