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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-15

The kindly nature of Chaplain Marcel.
lus w. Farmsn of the Vermont Senate
had caused the man to be greatly beloved
by all his associates at the State House
and the news of his death this morning
came with feeling of personal loss.
Though afflicted by physical infrmity
early in life, he resolutely went about
the task of fitting himself for the Chris
tian ministry; and that very affection
Cblindnessl seemed in later years to have
accumulated his power as a preacher and
as friend.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-15
WILLIAMSTOWN

Ralph 9. George is another OF our
young men to 60 to southern New Eng
land to help fill the demand for labor
in manufactures there. He is now in
the employ of the New Departure Man
ufacturing Co. at Bristol Conn.
Williamstown lodge, No. "a, /. 0. o. f.,
will hold a meeting for practice on FRI
day evening next, Feb. Is,
Everett &. Waldo is back from a few
days stay with relatives in Plainfeld
and is at work for Theron Williams.
II. A. Thurber has finished printing
the town reports and they are now in the
hands OF the binder. 1t is thought they
will be ready FOR distribution by the
first OF next week.
Miss Emma Camp has finished her en-
gagement with Mrs. y, G. Townsend and
is at home in her rooms at Mrs. Mary
Staples
The quadrennial weighing of all mail
received and dispatched from the post.
Office fas begun last Tuesday under in
structions from the office OF the super
ntendent of the first division. r, NJ. S.
at Boston
Miss Gertrude Geakc of Barre, book
keeper and stenographer for the w. b,
Jones Granite Co, for the past year, fin
ished work for the firm last week.
Rev, george w. Keeling is able to be
around town again, after being confined
to the house for about week with
severe cold
Rural carriers and substitutes, who
served between July, 1914, and the same
date in 1915, lately received the welcome
news that balances due them at 1920
per year instead of $ll00, the rate at
which they were paid at the time, were
now available for payment. Those who
will be benefited here by this settles
ment are regular carriers Sivright and
Drury and substitutes Cowles and Seav.
err. The heir OF Charles d. Brockway
will also get share, as will DIR. Vernon
ii. Edison of Woodsville, n. H., who
served both as substitute and as tenn
porary carrier for short periods during
that year
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-15

Another demonstration of Carranza 5
incapacity to rule northern Mexico was
given in the raid on an American ranch
in New Mexico when three American
cowboys were carried off by bandits.
Safe in the capital OF Mexico many hun
dreds of miles to the southwark, Carran-
"a sticks his head in the sand, figurative-
ly speaking, and then asserts that he can
and does rule Mexico. 1t is both pitiful
and ridiculous.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-15
HEALTH OFFICER ILL
And Unable to Attend to Throat Epi,
demic in st. Adams.

st. Adams, Feb. l5.--Dr A. O. Morton
health officer for the city of st. Adams,
is among those who are i'll and is eonse-
quently unable to make the examina-
tons necessary in the prevailing sore
throat epidemic in the city. In view of
this fact, DIR. Ladd of the state labora-
tory at Burlington, arrived in the city
yesterday to confer with DR. Morton and
acting upon his suggestions to make
some examinations.
Miss Anna l.. Davis, the school nurse,
has warned school children to keep away
from moving picture shows and other
public gathering places for the present.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-15

However, | am a German, and my
plans may be changed by the wishes of
my government"
The above words from the retiring am
bassador TO the United States typify the
German mind in the whole empire. The
German is not his own master in Ger.
many; he is owned, body and soul, by
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-15

We are fond of baked potatoes but not
the way they are being baked in Maine
these days of careless transportation Of
one of earth's most valuable products.
Thousands upon thousands of barrels of
tubers have been burned as they lay
stored in freight ears. There is crime
somewhere, if nothing more than Grim
inal carelessness.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-15

Announcement that Thomas w. Law
son made only $4,000 during the market
excitement incident to the Teak" on
President Wilson's peace note suddenly
shifts the serious to the ridiculous. The
wonder is that Lawson would turn his
finger over in order to take such com
paratively small sum.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-15

A Vermonter left S2,0O0,00O for the
public library in Boston and nothing to
his native state Still the matter is not
taken so badly by Vermonters when they
realize that the man made his money in
city to which he left the large sum.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-15

Won Bernstorff thinks his ship may be
able to dodge the British and the French
dangers of the sea but does not feel so
certain about escaping the hazards placed
in the sea by the Germans. Coneeited to
the last.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-15

The opposition to Governor Graham !
administration measure in the Senate
was more talk than votes, as shown
when it came to the yeas and nays. Up
to the present time the executive has had
remarkable success in putting through
his legislative program.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-15

tablishing facilities only where they dc
! not exist, or where public facilities can
not, for financial reasons, be made to
meet the local problem. The practice
/ has become more and more estab lished
of placing private facilities under the
supervision of appropriate public school
officials, and OF turning over to the lat
ter such facilities as rapidly as financial
and other reasons viii permit. The re-
! suit is to-day that the evolution of
education has forced a larger measure
Of cooperation on the part of all agen-
cies and individuals interested in the
training of immigrants for citizenship
in America Although this is the transi-
tion period, yet principles, policies,
standards and methods are now more
clearly delineated than ever before, while
the most effective procedure of ALEC.
operations daily teaching those inter
ested its potency in the Americaniza
ton movement"
kindergarten Education Extending
Throughout United States.
approximately $40 kindergartens were
opened last year in public schools that
never had them before, according to
recently completed survey by the bureau
OF education of the department of the
interior. This means one extra year
of education for about $4,000 children
the bureau reports, "and as the boys
and girls of this country average only
little over five years in school, the
value Of this additional training can not
be overestimated.
"A number of states have shown in
creases which are noteworthy. Califor-
MIA stands out particularly for having
reported 81 additional kindergartens in
rs different cities and towns Montana
has also made stride forward BY
changing, in one year, its record OF six
kindergartens in one city to 81 in six
cities.
Several cities have reported that they
were carrying on experimental kinder
garten work with view to proving the
value of this kind OF training before
definitely incorporating ii in the school
Youngstown, o., introduced
methods in this way last
February with the result that a kinder
gsrten has now been permanently estab
lished A similar experiment made in
Houston Heights, Texas, proved SO sat
isfactory that the school authorities con
template kindergarten in each OF the
grade schools for next year.
Pasadena, Cal, with population OF
10000, conducts Ia kindergartens. 1t
has had a kindergarten connected with
each of its elementary schools for years,
and is thoroughly committed to this de-
partment of education, believing it to be
the most important single phase in all
elementary work. Kansas City, Mo-, hav-
ng a population OF 24s,0o0. conducts n
opening additional ones
ust as fast as there is demand for
hem.
MANY OF the kindergartens opened
or the first time in 1916 were secured
IS result of petitions signed by par
nts. 1t is estimated that at least Sl00-
'00 was spent by school boards last year
or classes started in this way. This
as proved such successful method OF
extending the movement that in a mum
er of states, including Kansas, Maine
Jew York. Oregon, Utah, and Texas
ills will be introduced in the state legis
atures this winter providing for the es'
a blishment OF kindergsrtens on petition
+ parents"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-15

The suspicion grows that ex-Ambassa :
dor Won Bernstorff took upon himself
many of the duties Of German govern
ment which did not usually devolve upon
an ambassador
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-15
Deacon Blimmer Saws:

a Teller kin forgive his enemies easy
enough, but consarned eff it don't come
pooty ding hard sometimes fer him to
forgive his friends. "-Browning's Mag
azine
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-15

Poly Sci Prof.--What has been the
dominant character OF Americas mill
tary program up to the last three years !?
Stude twho was at a party the night
before Not prepared, sir.
Prof.-Correct.-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-15

It looks as if one would not have to
undergo such great hardships hereafter
in order to see the full beauties of Snug
glers' Notch.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-15
JINGLES AND JESTS

Jake-Why is it that Professor and
Mrs. Strapper have so many wrangless
Blake-It's because she never gives
in and he never gives out.-Orange Peel.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-15

series OF business mems banquets will
be held within few weeks announce
ment OF which will be made definitely
later.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-15

There are said to be a thousand sick
people in st. Adams. The wonder is
that business is not suspended.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-15

RutIand's efforts to enforce scarlet fe-
yer quarantine by police power are APP
preeiated by the remainder of the state.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-15

Remember the municipal caucus this
evening and the ward eaucuses in three
wards tomorrow evening.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-15

Don't curse the railroads too much
they are doing all they can under very
trying winter conditions.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-15

Jack Frost is merely taking a much
needed vacation.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-15

There the Cubans are, itchin' for a
fight again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-25
NOTED ZIONIST ID
 SPEAK HERE TODAY
Mir. Lipksy to Outline Plans and Accomplishments of
 Zionist Movement

Jewish Problems of Today" will be the subject of Louis f4ipksy's talk at a mass meeting at the Temple Emanu-El this afternoon at 3:SO o'clock. The famous Zionist and Jewish leader will appear un- der the auspices of the Tikwath Zion society and will deal with the questions confronting the Jewish peoples of the world today and after the war. L Abelson will preside.
 During the afternoon collection will fund of the Zionists. The money obtained will be applied to the maintenance of Jewish farm colonies, industrial and art institutes already established by the Zion ists organizations in Palestine,
 Mir. Ipksy, who is the chairman of the executive committee Of the Federation of American Zionists, will maintain that the re-esta blishment of Jewish nation in Palestine is essential to the proper so- lution of all Jewish problems. An Inter- esting part of his address will be the account of what Jewish settlers have actually done for the rehabilitation of the Holy Land. MT. Dipsky is one of the foremost Jewish publicists of America, being editor in chief of the Maccabean and having formerly edited the Ameri- can Hebrew
 In addition to the address there will be violin solo by MT. H.. Lanzner. ac- companied by Miss Sadie Epstein. The public is invited to attend.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-25
PLAN B|G FEATURES
 FOR THE BIENNIAL
ZOellner Quartette and Lee lures on Musical Topics
 Will Be of Interest

The importance of the approaching biennial convention of the National Fed eration of Music clubs has been further emphasized by the announcement that the Zoellner quartet would be on one of the concert programmes. The Zoellners bear an international reputation, and their Birmingham performance will be even more interesting because of the fact that they will render the prize compost tion for a string quartet. The date of the convention is April 15 to A.
 The string quartet composition prize was won by Frank E. Ward of Columbia university the judges being Frank Kneisel and pr. Edward Stillman Kelly
 But aside from those who will make melodic contributions to the occasion the intellectual atmosphere will be height ened greatly by the lectures. Mrs. Edgar Stilman Kelly, Henriette Weber and Mrs. Mcdowell, widow of the famous com poser, will be the principal lecturerers. As the director and originator of the opera concerts at the Art Institute in Chicago, Miss Weber achieved notable success. These concerts have become known all through the United States be- cause of their extreme popularity.
 Mrs. Mcdowell is perhaps the best medium through which one may get an insight in the works of her noted hus- band. Mcdowell is considered by many critics as the peculiar time-defying genius developed by the American people thus far. Like every other composer he drew his inspiration from many sources, but his works were his own.
 Mrs. Mcdowell was a pupil of her husband before they were married, and she interprets his works with a keen sympathy. In her Birmingham pro- grammes, she begins by giving a talk on the work of the MacDowdell Memorial associa tion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-25
FAMOUS SUFFRAGE
 LEADER IS COMING
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw to Speak in
 Birmingham April II

Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, famous suf- frage leader. will speak in Birningham mingham Equal Suffrage association The address will be at the Jefferson theatre, and Mrs H. H. Shell Is chairman of the committee in charge of the sale of seats.
 Dr. Shaw spoke in Birmingham sew eral years ago, and at the time it was necessary to make arrangements for an overflow meeting in another building. All seats in the lower floor will be reserved. but the balcony and gallery seats for the lecture will be free, according to an- nouncement of the local officers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-25
INSPECT S|TESFOR BESSEMER SCHOOL Proposed High School Will Be Constructed on Lot
 Covering Block
TO WELCOME TROOPS
Plan Reception for Bessemer Guards men When They Return From
 Montgomery-Other News

Bessemer. March 24.-(Special) Committees from the board of educa- tion and the city council looked over sites offered for the proposed new high school building this afternoon. It is the intention of the board to purchase a city block so as to have some play grounds for the pupils. The sites which consist of a city block offered for the building and among those in spected this afternoon by the com mittees were Fourth avenue between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, Second avenue between Thirteenth and and Fourteenth street All of the above mentioned locations are some little distance away from the business section of the city, but it will be nec- essary to go some distance to secuA, city block. The present schools have very little ground around them and the high school has absolutely none, it covering the entire lot on which it is built.
 Mrs. Nora Golson. the librarian at the Carnegie library, has sent her al- nual report to the Carnegie corpora tion in New York and same shows how the membership of the library has in creased within the past year. During the year 1916 12,000 volumes were cir culated. which was more than 1000 over 1915, while at the present time there are 2616 members holding cards while during 1915 there were only 2413. There are now 5093 volumes on hand while there were 1882 volumes in 1916.
 When the library was erected the city contracted to pay 5000 per. year to the library, but last year only $500 was paid by the city and that amount has been cut to s4S0 this year. Last
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-25
PERSONALS

Professor Appleby of Lafayette is the guest of friends in Bes--mer.
 Miss Mary Snider of Pennsylvania is the guest of Mrs. George Woodrow.
 H. E. Bumby has gone to Orlando, Fla, where he was called by the illness of his mother.
 Mrs. T. A. Knight and children have returned from a visit to relatives in Nix on, Tex.
 Mrs. Cliff Williams of Georgia is the guest of relatives in Bessemer. having been called here by the Illness of her mother, Mrs J. T. Pearson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-25
Removing Ugly Hairs
 Entirely New Method
(ActuaIIy Removes the Roots)

The question is often asked whether really permanently efficacious hair remover exists, and the answer has Fortunately, there's new and remark ? able process that really removes. every hair entire, root and all! It is different from and far better than electricity. l. depilatories, the razor or any other method. If you'd like to try it, just get stick of phelactine from your drug gist, follow the simple instructions and with your own eyes see the hair roots come out! Roots are removed in stantly, easily, leaving the skin per fectly smooth and hair-free.
 Phelactine is non irritating, odorless. and so harmless you could eat it. It is so reliable that every stick is sold on a satisfaction -or-money back basis.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-25

hopes that the United States will be awakened to realization of this sit uation. There can be no such thing as country. If we enter into war we will have to give up our claims to Chris tianity."
 Dr. Jones declared that the hero IS not the man who goes to war to fight for his country, but the man who. realizing the wrongfulness and bru- ta1ity of war has the moral courage to stand by his convictions. S
 'You may say they are towards"
 he said. "If so. then Jesus Christ
 was coward from the military
 standpOint; for 1t was He who
 said to Peter. sLay down your
 sword and take mp the cross. The
 only way to be Christian cOun-
 try is to be crOss-bearing cOun-
 try. And until such condition is
 reached cannot truly say that
 we are civilized. I had hoped that
 the United States would come out
 as crOss-bearing country"
 Dr. Jones declares his views are not reached without study and actual knowledge. He has been through war and he declares that he knows what it means. He followed the Stars and Stripes in the civil war and he isn't willing to do it again.
 ''I am willing to get shot," he de- clared. but I am not willing to shoot. If I could go out and shoot the powers that are making war it would be dir- ferent. But I cannot go out and shoot the peasant and the men of German J who are being offered to appease the appetites of the high powers"
 If the United States enters into war it will be for years according to Dr. Jones. who seorns the idea of a short war and one which will bring to an end the worldwide war.
 Science has advanced too far to per init of short wars" he declared. Science has attained, too, a too dew ilishly efficient standard to permit of short wars If we go into war we are there for long time and until thou sands of sons of American womanhood have been offered on the altar of sac- rifice.
 What though we have lost may be 300 lives. We have not the right to sacrifice even 5000 more lives in mis- directed effort to atone for those we have lost
 'They say that if we have war an army of a million soldiers must be organized at once. Whose boys will they be? Not the sons of the men who are crying for war They will come out of the fields and the shops, and not from the fields of capital"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-25
STRESS ADVANTAGES
 OF NIGHT SCHOOLS

The advantages of the day and night classes being conducted in Birmingham by the public school authorities in CO., operation with the bureau of naturaliza- tion will be outlined to Birmingham cit izens and prospective citizens at mass meeting in the fedora, courtroom next Saturday morning.
 D. F. Smith, director of public night schools and others comprising the com mittee on arrangements, are expecting a large crowd to be pre--nt at the meet ing, including representatives of Birning- hams resident foreign body, citizens by birth and officials interested in alien ed ucation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-25

The Thursday Whist club will meet Thursday afternoon with w. K. Couch as hostess.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-25
BILLY SUNDAYS OF POLITICS ONES WHOCLAMOR FOR WAR;"
 DECLARES PEACE ADVOCATE
Dr. Jenkins Lloyd Jones Says Common People Will Be Victims if Country Fights Germany-Nation Would Be Dragged into Dishonor if She Yields to Clamor of the
 Capitalists for Conflict, He Says 5ff

"It Is a question of mistsking
 greed for patriotism. These Billy
 Sundays of Politics. who are going
 over the country crying for war
 are not the ones who would be on
 the firing line If war were de-
 clared. They might go If they could
 make some money out of 1t, or If
 they could enlist brigadier gem
 erals; but they are not going to he
 in the ranks and neither are their
 sons. The common people will be
 the victims if the Cnited States
 enters into war with Germany"
 In the words quoted above, Dr. Jen- kins Lloyd Jones. self acknowledged pacifist, and who was a member Of the Ford peace ship, attacked the per sons who are favorable to war.
 He declared that notwithstanding the fact that he has the utmost confidence in President Wilson. he is afraid that the great pressure being brought to great capitalists and the advice of navy and army officers, coupled with that old southern chivalry'' will bring the President to declare war upon Gel : many.
 "The United States will be dragged into dishonor if she permits herself to be pulled down to the level of the warning countries, which is what she will do if she enters into war with Germany" he declared There is no such thing as honorable warfare"
 Dr. Jones, who will spend today and tomorrow in Birmingham and will de- liver three lectures during his visit here. declined to talk of the Ford peace trip to Europe further than to say that the activities of the persons behind the movement were grossly misrepresented by the press
 ''Ames'ican jourpalism reached it's yellowest level in handling of the Ford peace party and it's proposed activ- sons among the 62 newspaper men on board the ship who handled the prop ositiony fairly. but they were not the reporters who were sent out by the metropolitan papers,
 When asked why Henry Ford, sup posed pacifist, had offered the use of his plant to the government in case of war, Dr. Jones declared he believed 1t to be because Mir Ford hoped to talk } the wind out of the sheets of some Of the large capitalists and industrial magnates, who hoped to make capital for themselves out of the war.
 Dr. Jones believes that there is still hope of averting the war. This can only be brought about by practicing the teachings of Jesus the Prince oi Peace" he said. "and I still have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-25

year the library was badly in need of repairs and the women of this city raised s3S4 to aid in this work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-25

For a few cents you can get g. small bottle of the magic drug freezone recent ly discovered by a Cincinnati man.
 Just ask at any drug store for small bottle of freezone. Apply few drops up cn a tender aching corn or callus and in- stantIy all soreness disappears and shortly you will find the corn or callus so loose that you lift 1t off with the fin gers.
 Just think, Not one bit of pain before applying freezone or afterwards. It