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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-01-19
NATIONAL FORESTS.

The suggestion of President Thomas
that there should be large national
forest in the Green Mountains, Is timely,
and worthy of the careful considera-
ton of the Legislature, 1t is we'll for
the people Of the State to consider
whether they will have large areas Of
State owned forests like New York,
and a strong forestry department, or
whether they will encourage the owner
ship of national forests as in New
Hampshire, Before the government
can buy any forest lands in any State it
Is necessary for the legislature Of the
State TO pass an Enabling act, New
Hampshire and Maine are the only New
England States which have passed such
acts, Two years ago the State forester
brought this matter to the attention Of
the Vermont Legislature with special
reference to Essex county, which has
the largest area Of unbroken forest At
that time the members of the House
from that county opposed the idea of a
national forest because it would reduce
the taxes Of the towns affected. The
government pays into the county
treasury % per cent Of the gross re-
ceipts from a national forest located in
a county, but Of course the receipts
from cut over forests would be small
for number Of years. In the case of
State forests the State pays taxes to the
towns just as private owner, I'm
doubtedly the main Green Mountain
range should be under public ownership
of some kind.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-01-19
SHEEP RAISING AGAIN.

To the Editor Of the Register;
Your suggestion that there may be
some good business for the Vermont
farmer in the breeding Of mutton sheep
is feasible because of present scarcity,
and if the markets for the sale of farm
products simpynatural and normal,
not dominated by adverse interests,
many farm enterprises might go for
ward with some certainty to just re-
ward for labor well performed concen-
trated into merchantable products.
Somewhat illuminating on the sub
ject is the report of Senator Charles w.
Wicks, chairman of the Wicks lnvesti-
eating Committee of the New York
State Legislature. This committee has
made a survey of the fundamental facts
concerning dairy products and their
marketing. 1t finds that the farmer
has little or no voice in naming the
the price he receives for his products.
Farmers are unable to make both ends
meet from the sale of dairy products.
At the end of the year some are from
$3.50 to $500 poorer than at the beginning.
More middlemen are levying tribute be-
tween the producer and the consumer
than there are farmers engaged in
production. The committee secured
correspondence of retail feed asso-
citation which had so fastened itself
upon the dairy industry that its men,
bers dictated by unfair and possibly
criminal means where and how dairy
men should buy feed.
The condition so described will hold
good as to New England and the Boston
and other down country markets.
They have direct bearing on mutton,
beef, pork, and poultry production as
well as milk, here in Vermont, and I'M
til these adverse conditions are over
come there can be but little prosperity
in the farming community. Artificial
conditions quite as bad effect other
products, in fact the parasites of
commerce have so multiplied that the
only remedy is their complete elimina-
ton, and the producer and consumer
deal with each other direct.
E. WILLIAM BARNARD.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-01-19
LETITHE PEOPLE RULE.


The trouble in Mexico continues.
The industries of Pittsburg have a
payroll of 81, 600, 900 day.
1t cost theiState of New York $780,
600 to count 1000 soldiers ballots.
1t is proposed to take the heavy tax
off oleomargarine and thus reduce the
cost Of butter.
A demonstration was given in New
York recently.of how to prepare meal
for six costing 10 cents.
Australia, which advocates arbitra-
ton of labor deputies, has passed a bill
to suppress.the |. w. w.
Frank A. Vanderlip, president Ma
tional City bank, New York, says eve
are a country of economic illiterates,
A l9-Year-old girl in Brooklyn, N. y,
is sueing home for girls for $50,
charging brutality and gross neglect
Two members of New York's "vce
squad have been arrested on the
charge of criminally assaulting a girl
IA years old.
A New York woman who thought
she had married wealthy baron is sue
ing for divorce. She had married
pauper.
A noted insurance man says that
Americans are a nation of suicides
hurrying to death at AZ years because
they live too well.
John D. Rockefeller, jr, and other
wealthy New York men have formed
corporation to assist Billy Sundays
New York City campaign.
Checks, drafts, money orders and
securities to the value of 81, $50, 600
were sent to the dead letter office last
year because of wrong addresses.
Twenty-Five great nations are ex-
perimenting with laws to avert or adj
just railway strikes. The United States
alone is without an efficient system of
strike prevention.
John N. WHY'S says that motor We
hicles in the present war have twice
saved France from determination.
Horse-drawn wagons never could have
brought the necessary supplies.
The meals of 400 Berea college
students, without coffee, tea or butter,
cost seven cents day and the students
thrive. The meals of the Carlisle
Indian school, which is producing
notable athletes, cost 16 2-3 cents a day.
Atlanta, Ga, elected a millionaire
business man, Asa G. Chandler, to the
by more than a two-to-one
vote over a brotherhood locomotive
engineer who claimed to have the sup
port of all the labor element.
A woman in Chicago is circulating
a petition for the passage of law COM
polling men who smoke cigarettes to
walk in the middle of the streets,
and some of the men are circulating
a petition in favor of the passage of
law compelling girls whose dresses
are over six inches from the ground to
walk in the middle of the street also.
Let the people rule !-Leslies.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-01-19
D. A. R. ENTERTAIN.

Hands Cove chapter, D. A. R., en-
tertained their gentlemen friends and
other guests to the number of eighty on
the evening of January IL, in the
Ladies' rooms in Orwell village. A
delicious chicken pie supper with all the
accomplishments, was served at 8 p. m.
and after all had done justice to the APP
petsing meal they were invited to the
audience room where, after a most
feeling welcome from the regent, Mrs.
Delano, piano duet by Mrs Rowe and
Mrs. Louis Bascom was listened to.
Then three moving picture reels were
exhibited, the first one consisting of a
series of Revolutionary pictures be-
ginning with the famous ride of Jowett
in Virginia, while the other reels were
comedy sketches, all very pleasing. A
social hour was much enjoyed, then the
guests departed in the cold, wintry
moonlight feeling that once again
'The Daughters" had provided very
pleasant evenings entertainment.
Much credit for its success is due to
the committee, Miss Bessie Brown,
Mrs. Laura Rowe, Mrs. Lottie Allen.
Miss Zoa Brookins, Mrs. Julia
Gregory and Mrs. Julia Bassett who
had charge of the affair.
NELLIE PLATT PREBLE, Historian.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-01-19
The 8ES! PROOF
Given by Middlebury Citizen


Doan's Kidney Pills were used-they
brought benefit
The story was told to Middebury res
idents. Time has strengthened the evil
dence. Has proven the result lasting,
The testimony is home testimony-The
proof convincing. 1t can be investigated
by MiddIebury residents.
Mrs. John Slgnor, 81 Seymour street,
Middlebury, gave the following account
of her experience on June 10, 1911: Il
had torturing pains in M back through
my kidneys. got Doan's Kidney Pills
at Sheldons Drug Store and they bene-
fitted me quickly. They also corrected
the action of my kidneys"
No TROUBLE SINCE On September 18,
1916 Mrs, Signor said: kidney trouble
has never returned since Doan's Kidney
Pills cured me of the trouble. | confirm
what said in their praise and recon-
mend them whenever have an oppor-
tunity."
Price SOC. at all dealers. Don't simply
ask for kidney remedy-get Doan's
Kidney Pllls-the same that Mrs. Signor
has twice publicly recommended.
Foster Miburn Co., Props, Buffalo,
N. Y.-adv.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-01-19

scenic highway built along the ridge,
Such a road would rival the world
famous "top of the world" scenic high
ways of Colorado. The views on either
side the Adirondacks and Lake Cham
plain to the west and the White
Mountains to the east, with all the
varied landscape between, would make
this one of the great attractions Of the
world, Let's all help push this magni-
leent scheme along.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-01-19
MIDD'S EMPLOYMENT BUREAU
Burlington News


Middlebury College has departed
far enough from the abstract teach
ings of Aristotle, Plato, Virgil, Ovid,
and a few other of the old boys
whom we used to gallop through
with the aid of something swifter
than mere donkey-to establish
an employment bureau for its students
as they graduate from college. While
no authority for this can be found even
in the modern proponents of the elusive
fourth dimension, we rise with one ac-
cord and proclaim it an excellent insti-
tuition. 1t may aid college boys to be-
come specialists. Many a young man
completes his last two years in college
with no visible object. He wonders
what he is going to do, and, being
unable to find out becomes frequently a
mere drifter. Under the influence of
this state of mind he too often looses
ground in his studies. II, as Middle
bury proposes, young man can begin
to locate his future job while still in
college he can begin to specialize. He
becomes man with definite object. He
gets more out of college and is turned out
sounder individual and better
equipped man. Generally speaking, if
there is one great evil, in the American
college of today, which stands out, it is
the lack of definite and constructive
objective on the part of majority of
the undergraduates.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-01-19
Eiahty-Seven Years Old

Backache, sore muscles, stiff joints,
dark putfs under eyes and bladder dis
orders are symptoms of disordered kid
neys. II, H. Adams, Springfield, Mo-,
writes: II had a very severe attack of
kidney trouble. l am getting old, eighty
seven. / tried different treatments, but
none did me so much good as Foley Kid
ney Plls. | consider it the best Foley
Kidney Pills are tonic in action, and
quick to give good resuIts-adv.
Frost's Pharmacy 81. Main st. Middle.
bury, E. j. Whitney, Salisbury, Vt.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-01-19
FAR REACHING.
Hardwick Gazette.

A decision of much interest was
handed down by the supreme court of
the United States Monday, in which it
upheld as constitutional the Webb law,
prohibiting the shipment of intoxicat-
ing liquor from wet into dry States. The
court even went further and sustained
a recent amendment in the law Of West
Virginia, which prohibits the importa-
tation by nter-State commerce of liquor
for personal use. The first law has
often been cassed as unconstitutional
and when ex-Presdent Taft was in
office he vetoed it, but it was repassed
over his veto. With the number of
States now in the prohibition column,
the law has opportunity Of far-reaching
effect
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-01-19
COMMUNICATIONS.
LETTER FROM CIVIL WAR
VETERANS SON.

Douglas, Arz,, January s, 1917
Mr.. and Mrs Melvin Wilkinson,
Bridport, VT
Dear Mother and Father:
We of the medical department that
have been retained at Fort Sam
Houston, Texas, for some time past,
have been transferred to Douglas,
Arizona. We arrived at Douglas a
week ago, am usually well, Nothing
new is happening. Raids have not oc-
Cured lately. All quiet at this time.
! like Texas, but | don't like Arizona
much. We are quartered a quarter of a
mile from the border Of Mexico now,
WILLIAM MCKINLEY WILKINSON.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-01-19
MADE UP LOST TINE.
Springfield Reporter

A Topeka Kans,) woman, Mrs.
Cordelia Kirkpatrick, who had been
deaf and dumb for 6S years, or ever
since she was four when she lost
speech and hearing as the result Of i'll
ness, had both suddenly restored to
her last Friday while in court suing
for a divorce from her husband. In at
tempting to acquaint the judge with
her tale of woe through an interpreter
of the sign language she found that
means of communication so inadequate
to express what she really thought
of Mr.. Kirkpatrick that in a moment
of overpowering Indignation the string
of her tongue was loosened and she
spake plain, yea, exceedingly plain.
This may seem to indicate that the
days of miracles are not past, but it
would have been more miraculous if
any woman but a dead one had re-
manned dumb under the circumstances
of the case with such an opportunity
to say what she really thought. Mr.
Kirkpatrick, also a deaf mute and
guilty of being ID years younger than
his wife, did not recover his speech
and it wouldn't have been of any use if
he had with Mrs. Kirkpatrick making
up for 6S years of lost time in freeing
her mind
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-01-19
FIRST.CLASs MANAGEMENT.
Brattleboro Reformer.

bfhtleboio NelpIH'I'
The Patrons Cooperative Fire In
surance company with headquarters in
Middlebury, undoubtedly is under
good management, but it must have
played in good luck to have sustained
a fire loss of only 500, after being in
existence 16 months and holding poll
cies of an aggregate amount of nearly
$500 900. Its success in the counties
Of the western part Of the State has
led it to plan to enter the fields of the
eastern counties.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-01-19
HIGH TENSION NERVE.
bennington Banner.

A news dispatch says that the fac
ulty of the University Of Vermont has
passed resolution advising President
Wilson to break diplomatic relations
with Germany on the ground that
Germany is too coarse and rough in
making war. This is approximately
the same faculty presumably that a
few years ago proposed to eXpel any
member of the college if he took a
drink or kissed girl, From this dis
lance it sort of looks as though the
University of Vermont hasn't entirely
gotten clear of prep school stuff.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-01-19
VERMONT OPINION
NATIONAL PARK.
Barre Times

Inasmuch as the United States gov
eminent is the beneficiary of A, 900 acres
of wild mountain land in Vermont from
the will of the late Joseph Battell, 1t is
the duty of the federal government to
improve the property into a national
park or transfer it to some governmental
to carry out the wishes of
the donor A park of 1900 acres amid
the widest and mostpcturesque scenery
in the Green mountains would be very
attractive.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-01-19
FAVORS NATIONAL PARKS.
Morrisville Messenger.

President Thomas of Middlebury
College has just issued a timely bull
letin in re the noble gift of about 1000
acres of Vermont forest lands for a
National Park. He holds that this
great park should be enlarged to take
in the top of the Green Mountain ridge
from Cancels Hump to the highway
from Brandon to Rochester, and a
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-01-19
COOPERATIVE FIRE INSURANCE
Barre Times.

Barre Times.
Good fortune and careful scrutiny of
risks must have gone hand in hand with
the Patrons Cooperative Fire Insurance
company, which operates on the western
side of the State, nasmuch as the total
losses for the l6 months of its existence
have been only one hundred dollars, &C
cording to the published statement of
the company. Having total risk of well
toward $4O0, 900, the company enjoys
splendid conditions; but we venture the
opinion that that concern cannot expect
to repeat the first sixteen months of its
business. No other concern could eX-
pect to, either.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-01-19
OVER IT'S HEAD.
Brandon Union.

The University of Vermont has lost
its footing and fell in over its head.
The State of Vermont should not handi-
cap it with the weight of an additional
penny until it regains firm ground-and
RECEIVERS its senses. 1t appears that in
stead of teaching its students the
beauties of peace and the comforts of
prosperity its faculty have been dab
bling in diplomacy and at this time of all
times has stumbled into delicate
situation. The wise men of Vermont
should write the university note
brim full of advice.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-04-05
FIRST LOVE OF DR.. LANDWRTH

TELLS HER STORY
The other side of the tangled free
love story of DR.. Henry Landwirth,
whose trial is now pending in the
morals court, was told yesterday by
jeanette LandWirth, first love Of the
radical doctor and mother of his Z
year-old daughter. It was Jeanette
LandwiTth who caused the arrest OF
DR.. Landwirth and his second love,
Lillian Drescher, when she found
them living together in fiat at 1O46
N. California aV. The case will be
heard April u.
Jeanette Landwirth says she met
the doctor when she was a young girl
in London, that she was impressed
bv his talk in favor of free unions;
that she lived with him for eight
years, and that out of this union was
born the little girl, whom she accus-
es Landwirth of negleCting and final
Nv abandoning. To a reporter for
The Day Book she gave the following
answer to Landwirth's free love SEN
timents:
HE claims present society is
founded on force and brutality. His
statement is correct when he refers
to characters such as himself.
Eyes, love and truth are everlast-
ing, but when he puts evil behind
love and falsehOOd behind truth, can
it be everlasting? Love is not a crime
at present, never was and never will
be. He states, I committed a crime
because I love No doubt he is re-
sponsible for what he says. His love
is-money plus animal Eternal love
can that ripen in Is days?
What is the character of he who
lives on the earnings Of his wife, at
the same time loving another, keep
ing his wife and child ignorant of
that love, knowing also that his free
dom would be given him at any time
he desired it. But consider a mo-
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-04-05

work to help him along. Did Lillian
Drescher know of the condition of
his wife and child? Yes, good friends
Of his informed her, but his assumed
titles were deareT to her than the life
of his wife and his 7-year-old child
'He. compares himself with Maxim
GOrky. Maxim GOrky, at the age of
II, wanted to kill his stepfather be-
cause he insUlted his mother. What
would Maxim Gorky do to him that
left the fruit of his former love to IN
known fate?
He also states Christ, the Great
Savior, quotes: UpIift and ennoble
society," The individual must first be
uplifted and ennOBled. Did he do
what Christ said? He left a woman
and child to their fate. What if the
WOman's character had been weak?
What would be her fate and the fate
of her child? Did he help Uplift and
ennobIe their lives? No. How then
dare he quote the great words of
Christ?
"Landwirth claims he thoroughly
believes in the vital and abiding
union with one woman as a true ba-
sis of the family, but he says we shall
have few unions until we have a free
family. What's the idea? How many
victims does he intend to make and
how many lives does he intend to
ruin before he thinks of a definite
choice?
HE further says: Men and women
must be free from interference of
legal and ecclesiastical force? Under
these conditions, what kind of unions
would result and what would become
of our women? What protection
would our children have?
Another thing wish to say and
that is, when he wanted to justify his
action through the paper, did he
mention that he ever had a wife and
child. He just mentioned he had to
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-04-05

Village of Wilmette granted 20
year franchise to Milwaukee electric
road.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-01-30

- ITTd I-.-7'l-- TT'NU 'TTT T'ITf-
Advertising makes the wheels buz.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-01-30
You Can Do More To Remedy it Than
the Government

Read every word of the following
it is to your interest: '-'
We ask your advice and coopera-
titon in a matter of great import
TO YOU. to US and to the COMMUN-
ITY IN GENERAL. obi. ..,. - d.
You will agree with US that the
PROSPERITY of n community de-
ponds largely on the prosperity OF
its MERCHANTS and of EACH and
EVERY INDIVIDUAL therein.
PROSPERITY, THRIFT and GER
TAIN SUCCESS can be attained
only through the rigid PRACTICE
of ECONOMY and the constant
AVOIDANCE OF DEBT.
Recently there has been consider
able agitation throughout the coun-
try on the all-important question OF
r"THE HIGH COST OF LIVING
and various bureaus of the Govern
ment were empowered to make eN-
haustive Investigations with view
to determining the CAUSES THERE
OF, and recommending possible
REMEDIES
,r Several OF these officials, whose
partial Investigations have beer
made public, are apparently united
in the opinion that. this SERIOUS
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-01-30
THE HIGH COST OF LIVING

STATE of AFFAIRS, can be attrib-
uted largely to the GROWING ABB
USE of the CREDIT SYSTEM. They
place the blame at the door of the
merchant, arguing that in FREELY
EXTENDING CREDIT to the public
he ENCOURAGES EXTRANA-
CANOE in many homes, that already
have a tendency to live beyond their
means. The ultimate result in most
instances is a WOEFUL STATE OF
INDEBTEDNESS from which the
average family finds it difficult ii
not well-nigh impossible, to become
extricated. THE MERCHANT
THEN, WHILE INTENDING A FA-
NOR, Is REALLY DOING HIS PA
IRONS AN INJUSTICE WHEN HE
OFFERS THEM CREDIT. ''-l,'' '-.'
b This condition could not exist were
all business conducted on STRICT
LY CASH BASIS, the pay as you
GO" method OF living, that has al
ready been restored in some locali-
ties resulting in their FINANCIAL
salvation. The universal restoration OF
OF the CASH BASIS SYSTEM is rec
steps should be taken 10 compel all
commended, pending which strenuous
persons to LIVE WITHIN, THEIR
MEANS by cXacting the full and
prompt payment of their debts when
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-01-30
Whenl saths Became FashIOnsble.

Baths hrst came into fashion In the
COS, according to sorae recollectiOns in
the "C0rnhill' of George Pollock, who
died last year ut the age of ninety-four.
They caused much annoyance 10 an old
colonel because they incumbered Off
GERS luggage. These young men," he
complained, keep washing themselves
till there Is not bit Of natural smell
about them.H The only objectionable
smell, was, of course, tobacco. Even
onions We're preferable. = London
Globe. 'f''A'' "
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