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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-06-06
WEEKS PROGRAM
AT SPAULDING
Will Begin with Prize-Speaking Contest
Tonight and Will Close with
Graduation Friday Night.

The following is the weeks program in
connection with the Spaulding high
school commencement:
Tonight, prizes speaking contest at OPP
era house.
Wednesday evening. Spauldng alumni
concert and ball, school assembly hall.
Thursday afternoon, class day exer-
cises, opera house.
Thursday evening, alumni banquet at
Hotel Barre.
Friday evening, graduation exercises at
opera house.
Prize Speaking.
The prize speaking contest this even
ing will begin promPoly at s o'clock.
The program is as follows;
THE Parsons Conversion Murray
Charles Ralph oliver
THE Little Gentleman" ........ Harrington
Grace Irene Bxby
"A Call to Individual Responsibility Wade
Alexander Allen Mortimer
Music-"Spring Song ,s....... Mendelssohn
Girls Glee Club
THE Recompense'. '................ DonneI
Marion winifred Anker : ','''''e''
''The Man in the Shadow w'....... Childs
Eldon Wesley Ball
Captain January's Star ....... Richards
Marguerite Currier
Richard cruiekshanki' - '''e'
Music-"croon, Groom" n".,..,..........Ric Rich
Girls Glee Club
The Heart OF Old Hickory DromgooIe
Georsina Macaulay
Russia and the Jews. ..,.........S Stafford
Dean Chandler Davis
THE Bear Story. Riley
Madeline Nicholson Macdonald
Music Onward. Bonny Boat -. Kueckan
The judges are Miss Agnes NJ. Stafford,
Principal Edward S. Abbott, and Frederic
Edwards.
Alumni Ball.
The alumni concert and ball, to be held !
1t the new assembly hall, is for alumni
and the graduating class of the high |
school
Glass Day.
The program for the class day exer-
Uses is announced as follows;
Address Of Welcome Cyril Cornelius Marion
lass History. ~. Elizabeth Surilla Skinner
Lass Ode. ''yeritas Regina"
bfavis Claire Barnett
lass Will ...,...... Donald Wianifred Smith
fusic
WHO viii Come with Me" fGlucki
THE Owl and the PuSsy-Cat1 (Bullard)
Glee Cipb
lass Prophecy Rule Elizabeth Angel
EdmundFraneis Loranger
'ssay. American Music"
Lorraine Hester Claire Loranger third honor)
resentaton TO School Wendelin John Beck
ddress TO Graduating Glass. /
winona Eunice oneill Il
That Around Us Hover"
Gee Club
From Mariana"
Alumni Banquet. Il
The alumni banquet will be held at
otel Barre Thursday evening, and
rge attendance is expected IL
Graduation Exercises.
AT the graduating exercises in the OPP !
"a house Friday evening, the speaker of :
Ie evening will be Prof Chauncey Brew. y
er Tinker of Yale college. The pro-
am for that evening y as follows; h
nior March
-ayer
isic. Night in May" Silver q
Senior Semi-Chorus &
Sign Of the Cross" Barrett /,
da Margaret Josephine Carusi tsecond honorl =
Address Work and Leisure s.
Chauncey Brewster Tinker a
rofessor of English literature. Yale college !
isic Peacefully Slumber" Randigger Z
Chorus Of Senior Girls y
say-"The Fashion Of Poetry h
Mary Bishop first honor
esentation of Diplomas y
hool Hymn 81
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-06-06
Grey--McKerron.

At the Presbyterian parsonage on Vel
lington street this noon Mrs. Catherine
Mckerron of laurel street was married
to Loman Grey of Barre, the ceremony
being performed by Rev. Edgar Cross
land. Bride and groom were unattended.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grey are to make their
home in this city.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-06-06
VAUX ASSAULTS
AGAIN REPULSED
BY FRENCH FIRE
Paris War Office Announced Failure of
Two German Efforts to Make Head
way Between That Village and
Damloup-Fort Also
Bombarded.

Paris, June 6-Two attacks by Ger
mans on French lines between Fort Vaux
and Damloup on the Yerdun front we're
rePulsed by the French last night, ac-
cording to- the war office. Heavy bonn
bardment of Fort Vax continues, with
cannonading on the west
front.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-06-06
MILLAR-PUTNAM.
Barre Manager for Tenney Co. and
Springfield, Mass, Woman Welded.

In Springfield, Mass, Monday. June 5,
Miss Minnie Selma Putnam of that city
was married to Clinton f. Millsr of
Barre, son of Mrs. c. G. Millar of this
city. Only near relatives and intimate
friends of the bride and groom witnessed
the ceremony. After a wedding trip to
Boston and New York, Mr. and Mrs. Mil
lar are to return to Barre. They will be
at home after August ] at A Cliff street.
The bride has been an occasional visit
or in Barre and numbers many friends in
this city. Mr.. Millar is the Barre man
ager for the c. Fl. Tenney Co., which has
extensive power holdings in central Yer
mont.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-06-06
President Yuan Shi Kai Of
the Republic Died
at Shanghai
FOUR YEARS
AT HEAD OF NATION
Came into Office When the
Empire Was Torn Apart
by Rebellion

Shanghai, June 6.--Yuan Shi- -kai, pres
ident of the Chinese republic, died yester-
day morning.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-06-06

lContinued On ffth pags.l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-11
WILL NOT ACCEPT PLAN
OF SECRETARY LANSING
Entente Allies Oppose Disarmament
Of Belligerent-0 Owned Mer-
chant Ships.

The entente allies will inform the
United States that they cannot accept
the proposal in Secretary Lansings re-
cent circular memorandum that a
modus vivendi be entered into for the
disarmament of belligerent- owned mer-
chant ships.
In their replies the allies will ex-
press appreciation of the high motives
which moved the United States govern
ment in the interest of humanity to en-
deavor to remove the dangers to the
lives Of non -combatants. But they will
express the view that the proposition to
surrender the right of merchant ship
to carry arms for her own defense
would really amount to a change in the
principle of international law itself, in
stead of being, as viewed by the State
Department, merely a change in the
application of the law or of the rules
framed under the law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-11

lars. I believe that the people prefer
to have the federal employees stimu,
lated to greater interest in their good
rather than be compelled to suffer the
effects of an injustice, which d:scour-
ages initiative and the natural hopes
of men and women trying to live as
useful citizens.
The way to increased efficiency and
productivity in the federal bureaus is
not by lengthening the hours of labor
in a climate which tends to sap the
vitality of men and women, but by
increasing the incentives for useful,
creative, beneficial service; by estab-
fishing conditions which will cause
employees to feel that their work opens
upon career for them, and that the
government is not trying to exploit
them, but trying to promote the gen.
eral good of the whole people by bet
tering their conditions and cultivating
their talents.
"Monotony is the foe of efficiency.
Dull routine in the face of bitter dis
couragements will undo the work of
years of planning and education. What
is needed is more spirit, not more labor
time. in the government bureaus-more
human contacts, more knowledge,
more useful action. Increase the re-
wards and incentives.
II trust that you will reconsider your
position and use your influence to pre-
vent grave public injury; for any
thing which impairS the useful func-
lions of the federal government must
work to injure the whole people"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-11
SEES NEED OF US.
At END OF THE WAR
The Nation Says America May Be
Necessary in Attaining
Durable Peace.

LONDON, March 1.-THE Nation. in
an article discussing the position of
the United States as world power.
says:
America is slowly moving away from
her old mornings and shortly will have
entered more consciously and definitely
into world politics as a great power.
1t would be idle for the European bel
ligerents to pretend that they will and
can settle the affairs of the world with
out her.
Americas strength. both material
and moral, will be relatively so much
greater that her will and intentions
must operate with weight upon the
policy of reconstruction in Europe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-11
YOUTH RESPONDS TO CALL.
Sundays Tabernacle Resounds to
Cheers of 5000 Young Folks.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, Nd, March 11.-Balti-
more's boys and girls of high school
age turned out last night to the num-
Der of approximately 5000; filled twice
the space originally allotted to them
in Billy Sundays Tabernacle; infused
into the meeting a ginger that swept
the balance of the audience of 10000
along on remarkable tide of enthus-
iasm, and afterward hit the trail in
solid phalanxes.
The revivalist called for converts, and
twenty-five minutes later banged shut
the trapdoor of his platform pit for the
last time with a smile of jubilation and
stood up to dismiss the meeting. In
that brief time 5s6 persons had walked
up the sawdust trail to clasp his hand
and signify their intention of leading
Christian lives. OF that number all ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-11
$4,000 FOR COLOR TESTS.
House Increases Item for Expert
ments With Dyestuffs.

Because of the precarious condition OF
many American Industries in the race
of the dyestun famine, the legislative
executive and judicial appropriation
bill will carry $4,000 with which the
bureau of standards is to make expert
ments in color standards. The House
increased the item from $4,000 yester-
day afternoon, on an amendment from
Representative Mann following LONG
talk on the subject of the lack of dyes
arising from war conditions.
While the discussion was in progress
the House received a communication
from the Treasury Department asking
that a bill be passed allowing the free
admission of $4,000 pounds of dry
color which has been ordered from
abroad by the bureau of engraving and
printing. The request was referred &c
the ways and means committee. and
favorable action is expected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-11
Various Federal Agencies
Seeking Way to Bring
About Reduction.
FEDERAL TRADE BOARD
is DIRECTING ACTIVITY
Is Corresponding With Producing
and Refining Companies to As .
certain Cause of Increase.
Federal Officials Active.

Federal activities to determine
causes for high price of gasoline
and to effect reduction:
Federal trade commission max
ing thorough investigation of
facts, considering this the most
important work now before them.
Will make report before Con-
gress adjourns.
Director of bureau of mines
states that the Rittmann process
was offered free to all producers
and refused on account of clause
which prevented monopoly.
Bureau of mines issues bulletin
describing the Rittmann process
to minimize the cost of refining.
Representative STEVENSON or
Minnesota. drafting new bill to
present to Congress which he
says will prevent the high price
of gasoline
Sentiment in Congress shows
any measure for relief Will be
heartily indorsed by members.
Members of Congress besieged
to take action, by letters from all
parts of the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-11
Balance of Sentiment Here.

THE votes taken this week in both
houses of Congress show that the in
science of Germany is keeping the bal
ance of public sentiment in America
where it always has been-strongly on
the side of the entente allies. But let
us not expect that America should
come at once formally into the fray.
For the present, America probably
thinks she can do better for the world
by keeping out of the war. even at a
considerable sacrifice of pride and self
esteem. But the time will comet is
fast approaching-when her interven-
ton may be Europe's only means. not
only of ending the war, but of attain
ing a tolerable and durable peace"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-11
s., ZOO, 900 ADDED TO BILL.
Indian Appropriation Measure Re
ported to the Senate.

The annual Indian appropriation bill
has been reported by the Senate COM
mittee with 100000 added to the
total Of 100000 carried by the meas
ure as it passed the House. Increases
include 100000 for irrigation projects
on Montana Indian lands, s275.O00 for
common schools in Oklahoma Indian
districts and s175.O00 for an irrigation
ence, Ariz.
A provision inserted by the Senate
committee would authorize the Indian
for final settlement of any outstanding
tribal claims against the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-11

averaging around seventeen years OF
age.
In the afternoon Sunday had made
his FIRST daytime call for trail hitters,
and fifty-eight had responded, so the
days total was brought to S44-a rec
ord for Baltimore.
Last evenings service was far and
away the most enthusiastic that had
been held IN all the ten days OF cam
paign.
The days attendance totaled $1,000.
making the grand total for the cam
paign 264.000. Collections for Thurs
day. announced yesterday. were sS34.55.
bringing the total for the ten days Of
the campaign to $14,276.46.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-11
NO DANGER Of CANAL
BEING SWALLOWED UP
Donald F. Macdonald Expects Pan
anna Slides to Be Con-
quered.

Troublesome slides in the Panama
canal territory eventually will be con-
quered, and then there need be no fear
that the canal will be swallowed up.
according to Donald F. Macdonald,
former canal geologist and now mining
geologist in the United States bureau
of mines. He says there Is no danger
of the canal being swallowed up in an
earthquake.
Mr. Macdonald, who spent several
years on the isthmus making careful
study as to the fra gility of the earth's
crust, has just made an official report
to the effect that. while through seis-
mic disturbances the whole isthmus is
rising at the rate of three feet every
hundred years. this will not necessarily
injure the canal AS far as he sees, 1t
will merely mean little additional ex-
pense in the dredging of the big water
way. The cause of this rising. ne says
is the sinking of the ocean bottom out
time there is little movement of the
ocean bottom. the isthmus, to be IN
harmony, joins in. He also suggests
that If the rising motion be rapid, tneh
there would be serious danger for the
canal, but that from what has nap
pened in recent geologic time 1T may
be concluded that the canal Is not IN
any appreciate danger from the m
stability of the isthmian land. Ihe
rising of the isthmus, however. mas
been responsible for the many sides
that have been encountered. in that the
motion of the ground has dislocated ana
crushed the rocks, leaving them weak
and unstable.
Greatly Increases Cost.
eat any rate" says Mr.. Macdonald,
80 far as the digging of the Cuiebra
cut is concerned, these faults have IN
creased the cost of the canal several
million dollars.
LAS to the slides. Culebra cut Is a
vast ditch that passes through many
varieties of rock in the nine miles OF
it's length Some of these are weak and
unstable, and where the slopes OF the
cut were steep and 100 to 300 feet high
the weaker rocks crushed down to nat J.
ter slopes. Whenever the slope got
fat enough the sliding stopped. Al
no time did the engineering stan con
structing the canal believe that tne
slides were a menace to the uitlH1als
completion and successful operation OF
the canal. in spite of the fact that az
times they were somewhat troublesome
THEW have made necessary the excava-
tion of about 100000 cubic yards
more than was included in the nrst
estimates for Culebra cut, but tney
have not in the past and Will not IN
the future endanger the ultimate sue
cess Of the canal"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-11

eldest Of five children, and at an early
age, on his fathers death, became the
breadwinner Of the family. At nine
teen years of age he was a farmland
on q Maryland plantation, having re-
linQuished opportunities for an educa-
ton in favor of the younger children.
His great business career began when
train. His rise was rapid. At that
time railroad trains did not run at
night-it was too dangerous. At the
approach Of dusk they made for the
nearest stations and waited for sun
rise.
ut is a waste of time" insisted young
Davis, who was then master of trans
portation.
Sends Out First Night Train.
He startled the veteran operators by
sending out the first night train be-
tween Baltimore and Cumberland. II
marked a new epoch in railroading.
Mr.. Davis increased his wealth and
fame rapidly. AS a merchant, he made
a small fortune. Then as a landholder
in West Virginia he came into possess
sion of coal lands which were destined
to enhance his riches.
their existence and prosperity in large
part to the multi-millionaire statesman.
One bears his name, Davis. and the
other Elkins. name of his son-in-law
In the latter city stand many memo
rails, hospitals, schools, children
homes and churches commemorative
Of Mr.. Davis generosity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-11
.H0LLANDERS IN THE US.
ARE ASKED TO GIVE AID
Dutch Country Has Suffered Great
ly Because of Inun-
dations.

Descendants of Dutch families and
native-born Hollanders in the United
States are asked to contribute to the
Dutch inundation fund" in an appeal
which has been allowed by the Dutch
government by permission to the Meth
erlands minister in this city, and which
is made public through Hendrix Willem
van Loon of the department of modern
European history of Cornell Univer-
sity.
The explanation for the name of the
fund is given by Prof. van Loon, who
states that during the first six weeks
of 1916 severe storms attacked the
northern part of his country and the
waters of the ocean. the principal de-
fensive weapon OF Holland, turned trail
tor, with the result that more than
100. 600 acres Of rich farming land We're
flooded. $4,000 persons We're made home
less and an immediate damage done
amounting to more than 100000
guilders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-11

is asked for in a bill introduced in the
House, by Representative Carter of Ok
lahoma& The bill would authorize the
director of the bureau of mines to col
lect and publish the statistics, which
should include facts concerning the
production Of crude petroleum as wen
as facts concerning its manufacture
into gasoline. and the best ootainaole
facts concerning the marketing OF gas
pline.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-11
Interested as a Citizen.

Il am not government employe,
have no relatives that are employed by
the government. and never expect to
be. and do not want TO be employed
by the government. l am interested in
this question because it concerns me
as a citizen. and appeals to me as a
close thinker. 1 believe in human
progress. not the accumulation Of dol
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-11
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT.


Schooner Brooklyn. from Leonard
town. Md, at 18th street wharf with
cord wood for ]. H. Carter & Co.; pow
er barge Raymond. at Alexandria with
oyster shells for the crushing plant
and Old Point to the Norfolk and
washing ton Steamboat Company; Unit
ed States Army steamer Capt. A. NJ:
Wetherill, from Fort Washington ana
Fort Hunt after army stores and pas,
sengers; schooner Josephine Keas. cord
wood from a Virginia shore. at 10Th
street wharf for L. A. Clarke & Son.
Departures.
Schooner Mildred. light, from Alexan-
dria for lower Potomac creek after
pulp wood for Alexandria; schooner
William oliver, light. for lower river
point to load and return: steamer
Northland, for Old Point and Norfolk
with passengers and freight: steamer
Wakefield, for river landings as far as
Colonial Beach and Mattox creek with
merchandise and passengers, power
boat Grace, from Alexandria for a Po-
tomac point with merchandise.
Tugs and lows.
Tug Louise is due to sail from Balti-
more for this city with oil-laden barge
in tow: tug General Warren left with
lighters laden with material for the
Occoquan workhouse; tug James o.
Carter left. seeking vessels bound here
and returned with an oyster boat: tug
Walter F.. Meade arrived towing light
ers from sand beds down river; tug
John Miller left the Eastern branch
with lighters for Swan creek: tug J. T.
Selectman arrived at Georgetown with
lighters; tug Herbert arrived with sand
and gravel laden scows and left with
light scows for Oxon run.
Memoranda.
Schooner Elizabeth Carter is due to
sail from Mattox creek for this city
with cord wood; schooner Richard Tall
is in Upper Machodoc creek loading
wood or lumber for this city; schooner
Josephine Smith is at a river point to
load back to this city: schooner James
Il. Anderson has sailed from Baltimore
for a bay port with mercha ndise
schooner Willie Clarence, loading oys-
ters in the lower river, is due to sail
for this port; schooner S. r. White is al
Maryland point making ready to re-
sumo service with the wood and lumber
feet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-11
Bureau of Mines Bulletin.

In this connection the bureau of mines
as prepared Il bulletin giving the his
cory Of the Rittmann process and the in
tricate chemical process which, it is
hoped. may assist materially in reducing
the price of gasoline to the consumer.
The Interior Department has also filed
replies to all the inquiries from the SEN
ate as TO why the price Of gasoline has
ris Y so rapidly.
Representative STEVENSON OF Mime
sofa. who called upon the Department
of Justice recently, asking through a
cute the refining cornpunies under the
antitrust law. stated today that he in
tends to continue his investigations. and
has had the judiciary committee report
and the Department of Justice reply
placed with his resolution on the cal
endar.
Representative STEVENSON is now
drafting another bill. which he expects
10 have ready within week. He be-
lieves that this new measure will be
effective to stop the high price of gaso-
line and prevent repet..:on of such price,
boosting" He has been in conference
or the subject with many associates in
Congress. and feels very confident that
they will support his measure.
Other members of Congress are deeply
interested in this mater and will them
selves introduce bills looking toward
government restrictions and a reduction
in price to the cons~:ner, IL measures
already introduced or oeing drafted are
not effective.
Data Asked For in Bill.
The collection of statistics concern.
ing the production and use of 3a soljn IN