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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-04
TROOP TRAIN
IN ODD WRECK
Rails Completely Torn from
Tracks Of Illinois
Central
80 SOLDIERS
ARE INJURED
Federal. State and Railroad
Officials Begin Inves-
tigation

Chicago. Dec 4--Forty-two persons
were injured, il was announced yester
dav. in the wreck of an Illinois Contra
troop train south of Bartlett, ILL.,, Sun
day night. They include thirty mine
soldiers, a woman and two civilians.
The train was bound from Chicago t.
the national army cantonment at Rock
ford, ILL.,, with more than 500 soldiers
aboard Eleven of the thirteen steel
cars left the track. None OF the injured
was dangerously hurt
Several members of the train crew
declared their belief that the train was
wrecked by plotters. Three rails were
completely torn from the tracks. They
said this could not have happened I'M
less the spikes were deliberately loos-
ened
Albert Cliff, general manager of the
Illinois Central, said yesterday he be-
lieved the wreck resulted from Some
thing draggng--possibly brakebeam-
when the train crossed switch" He
said the train was going fifty-five miles
an hour when it left the rails.
Federal. state and railroad officials are
co operating in an investigation.
The train, which was bearing soldiers
back to Rockford after a two days fur
Tough incidental to the Camp Grant
Camp Custer football game here Satur-
day, left Chicago at 7:45. 1t had just
passed Wayne when the third car from
the engine was derailed, dragging the
succeeding cars with it.
Lieut. Col r. c. Moore, in charge of
the train, directed the removal of the
injured and ordered relief trains sent at
once. Camp was made in an adjacent
corn field and guards were posted about
the wreck. The injured were placed
aboard relief train and detoured to the
base hospital at Camp Grant.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-04
WILLIAM E. CHANDLER BURIED.
Federal, State and City Governments
Represented at His Funeral.

Concord, n. H., Dec. 4.-The federal
state and city governments were repre-
sented in the large gathering of personal
political and business friends at the flu
neral of William +. Chandler. former
secretary of navy, Sunday. Congress
man Sherman f. Burroughs of the first
district was also in attendance The
service was in the Concord Unitarian
church and was conducted by the pastor,
Rev. Howard Rees Williams.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-04
CAN BEAT GERMANY-pERsHING.
Bishop Wilson Brings Back Terse Mes
sage from American Commander.

New York, Dec. 4.--Bishop Luther B
Wilson, who recently returned from Eu
rope, where he went on a mission fol
the Y. NJ. c. A.. brought back with him
message to the American people from
General Pershing, American commander
in France. The message said:
Tell them there is no ground for the
heresy that Germany cannot be beaten
Germany can be beaten. Germany must
be beaten. And Germany will be beat
en-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-04

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Washington, d. c.. or from any district
or cooperative Office of the bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-04
Do You Work? Do You Think

Do you do anything by which you earn
money? If you do, your life is of some
value, and if your health is good, you can
be insured. Act now. National Life ms
Co, of Vt. tMutual) S. S. Ballard,
general agent, Rialto building, Montpe-
lier, Vt.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-04
LEVINE FAILS TO
WIN ASSEMBLY
Vote in the Provinces Indi-
Gates a Bolsheviki
Defeat
PEACE PARLEYS
UNDER WAY
100000 Cossacks Are Re-
ported Marching on
Moscow

pctroprad, Dec 4.---Returns received
from the province show that in the cleo
ton for the constituent assembly tn
Maximalists (Bosheviki) are in the mi
noritv, it was announced here yester
! day.
The Bolsheviki government yesterda,
suppressed all the newspapers which pub
lished the -Bolsheviki manifesto OF
the kerensky party last week
| Berlin, via London, Dec. "A truce
ION many sectors from the Pripet marshes
to point south of the Lipa" and prog
ress in the negotiations for an armistict
with Russia are reported in yesterday s
official bulletin.
"A Russian deputaton is arranging
for general armistice," the statement
says.
1.-THE front between the Pripet marshes
and the Lipa is roughly that between
Pinsk and the vicinity of Tamopoll
Kaledines on the March.
Copenhagen, Dee. IA report that
General kaledines, with 100000 Cos
sacks, had captured Rostiy and was
marching toward Moscow was received
here to-day, via Haparanda, Sweden
Stockholm Dec 4.--Russias Bolshe
Wiki continue to play their grim joke of
peace with Germany while their regime
totters and sways. There is every indi-
cation that majority of the Russian
democracy will never recognize any pact
which the Trotzky. Leuine ring may
patch up with the enemy.
The comment of the Rabochoya Ga
zetta yesterday was regarded here as
epitomizing the opinion of the best ele-
ments and the majority eIements--in
Russia
"Bolshevkism is facing destruction"
the editorial declared. 1T viii not come
from Kaedines or from the adherents
of the provisional government. But il
viii come as a result of internal military
disorganization deliberately promoted
disappointment and establishment
U. S. Combating Bolsheviki.
Washington, Dee. 4.-The United
States is to combat as vigorously as any
Of the other allies the disposition of the
Bolsheviki government of Russia to eff
feet separate peace with Germany |
early dispatches from Petro |
grad said that the protest of Ambassa- |
Tor Francis against the peace negotia |
lions was made on his own responsible |
~, it was learned yesterday that the |
state department advised or directed the
protest.
Shipments Of war supplies to Russia
already have been shut off. and they
will remain embargoed until il is certain
hat they will not fall into the hands
II the Bolsheviki. Russia also has about
1870, 100000 remaining OF the credits the
<erensky government obtained in this
ountry, but this also will be withheld
until a stable government is formed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-25
By II. J. Davenport
Professor Of Economics in Cornell
University

Professor Of Economics in Cornell
University
TIME old notion that the present
may shoulder its burdens
upon the future, that future
production may be made to provide
for present consumption, dies hard,
but is mostly dead. Nevertheless,
when rightly interpreted there is q
beat Of truth at the heart Of it. 1t
must be obvious that new school
houses can be built only out Of exist
ing brick. Future horses cannot
grade present roads. The men that
are waging the present war must be
men already born. The Germans
that need killing now must be at
tackled with present shells, propelled
by explosives already produced out
of cannon already cast. The men on
the firing line must eat present food.
The transport ships must be con-
structed from ore dug and smelted
now, or from forest trees that have
already grown. The motive power
cannot be furnished by coal from
mines yet to be opened up.
But it Is still true that arrange
ments are possible by which, while
present income receivers advance
the funds for present necessities,
submitting to sacrifices Of present
consumption or of opportunities for
civil investment, these receivers OF
income may be compensated ade-
quately for their advances through
promises Of future payment to be
rendered by future taxpayers. 1t
still is true that the buyers Of the
bonds bear the present burdens. But
they bear these burdens willingly as
an attractive inyestment-do not re-
gard the case adversely and accept
gladly the opportunity to lend. They
feel themselves burdened in sense,
il is true, but at the same time well
compensated for the burden. They
do not object in the net balance, but
are content with their contract, in
elusive both of its burdens and OF
its promised payments. The only
people who will ever have to make
sacrifices for which they can collect
no compensation out Of some one
else are the taxpayers who at some
future time must provide for retir-
ing the loans.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-25
Industrial Conditions In Canada

The cessation OF orders FOR certain
kinds Of munitions has necessitated the
readjustment Of several manufacturing
plants. but generally speaking there Is
no dimunition Of industrial activity.
Orders for equipment for the new
army OF the United States have been
placed In Canada and, in some in.
stances. Canadian manufacturers are
operating plants in that countrv for the
same purpose. --Canadian Bank Of
Commerce.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-25
IL 1t Were
Only Truel

How simple and ineligible all
this would be il only 1t were true
or better, to the extent that ii were
true. This is, indeed, precisely what
bond finance would mean II the lend
ers bought their bonds out Of their
current incomes, on terms Of cor
responding restriction of their out
lays for living expenses or in civil
investments. But it is not at all
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-25
Selecting the One
Who Shall Pay

1t must be clear, then, that taxes
and loans are merely different ways
of selecting who shall do the paying
now and not at all Of deciding
whether the paying shall be done
now. With taxes, once they are col
lected, the tale is told-the books
closed. The loan method provides
that future taxpayers shall indem-
nifty the present advances of lenders
NOT that the future shall provide
the ships, the shells, the cannon, the
food, but that the present furnishers
shall in the future be reimbursed
for what they have now advanced.
The taxpayer of the future time will
merely repay them then-with the
addition Of interest, it is true-what
present taxation would have COM
PEELED him to pay now. AS a tax
payer he merely gets a postpone
ment. But the present does not get
rid of the burden; the present tax
payer gets rid of it only in the sense
that the present bondholder as
sumes it.
But note that at the future time
Of payment no cannon will be pro-
duced to be turned back to the lend
ers or their representatives. They
restrict now their present consump-
ton, or their alternative invest
ments, through turning over their
funds to the government for war
uses now. A generation hence
some one else must submit to a cor
relative restriction Of resources in
order that these lenders may have
correspondingly larger resources at
that time. War production and
consumption must in war time dis
place civil production and consump-
tion-a redistribution Of productive
power, a functional redistribution.
A generation hence will come an
other Observation-Disclosures a redistri-
button of production, but only re-
distribution Of the things produced,
a personal redistribution solely. The
individuals that did not pay at the
time that the things Of war were
displacing the products Of peace
must now assign to the war lenders
an offsetting share of the products
Of peace. The lenders went without
civil goods that war goods might be;
the taxpayers now go without civil
goods in order that the lenders may
have more civil goods.
If 1t Were
Only Truel
How simple and ineligible all
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-25

Consider the whole problem from
another angle: During the present
fiscal year-the year ending June 30,
1918-the Federal government will,
II is estimated, need $50 1000, 600, 900,
an average Of over 5o,000,O 900 day.
Where In the last year Of the war
England had TO raise an average of
$12,000,000 a day, America must
raise $50, 900, 900. That measures the
intensity which the struggle has
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-25
Borrowing to Save

Another method, not quite so good, is
tor the government TO borrow largely.
The money which | spend for Liberty
bond | cannot spend for luxuries. The
government has 1t to spend on the
necessaries of war. Up to this point
borrowing accomplishes much the same
result as taxing. However. after
have got my Liberty bond my credit Is
a little better than il would have been
if / had paid in taxes same amount as
I paid for the bond. This may lead
me to purchase. on credit. little more
literally than ! would otherwise have
done. In that case shall still be try
ing to keep capital and labor in the
unnecessary industries and out Of the
war industries.
There is no more elementary. funda-
mental or important truth to be learned
by our people than the simple truth
that every time any one spends dol
lar for an unnecessary thing he is
furnishing an inducement to capital
and labor TO continue In the produc-
ton Of unnecessary things and to stay
out Of the war Industries. He should
turn that dollar over to the govern
ment to be spent for the necessary
things. Then the government can use
it 10 induce capital and labor to 90
into the necessary industries. That is
very much better In every way than
CONSUMPTION.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-25
A Vital
Propaganda

All Of this is important and funda-
mental; but, as l have already said,
that does not lessen the Importance
of the present nationwide propagan-
ia for Thrift. Quite the contrary.
That propaganda is thing Of CAPT.
tai import; and it derives its signi-
fcance largely from the fact that it
takes the form Of an appeal TO the
patriotism and sense Of personal re-
sponsibility and self-respect Of every
individual citizen. II Is, in the last
analysis, the formulation Of ma
tional idea. II should be considered
in that light.
The one great task, then, that all
Americas patriotic citizens, young
and old, can at once undertake is 70
practise Thrift. England has already
found that the stay-at-hornes fight
the war just as much as those at the
front. Those at home wage the bat
tie by furnishing TO the soldiers and
sailors the enormous supplies Of all
kinds that they require in their des-
perate work at the front. This
means not chiefly guns, munitions
and air-craft-vital as these are
but food, clothing, shelter, fuel
transport. hospitals, medicines, sur.
geons, nurses and all the prodigiou,
quantity Of material absolutely re,
CURED 10 keep the millions Of soldier,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-25
A Measure
OF Our Task

~ make.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-25
How the
Initiation Came

But, in its net effect, the bank
loan was an initiation Of the circu-
lating medium Of the country. This
will be easier to understand if it be
assumed that what the bank loaned
was some new banknotes that it
printed, lending out its promise to
pay, charging interest for the fact
that it is going into debt. 1t goes
into debt in such fashion as to in
crease the circulating medium Of the
country by the amount Of its loaned
Indebtedness. To discover, then,
whose are the burdens by which wars
are bond-fnanced through CONNER
cial banks, we have merely to trace
the effect of these bank issues OF
notes or Of deposit credit. To the
government is assigned the purchas-
ing power thu. the borrower obtains
from the banks. This purchasing
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-05
TOWNSHEND
All Stars Meet Match in Chaplin.

After batting the delivery of Stowell
nd Murphy for two successive victories
over the strong st. Michael s A. A. OF
Brattleboro it remained for Chapin,
pitching for the No Stars, to show up
the heavy hitters of the All Stars, which
he had done to the queens taste for
five innings Saturday afternoon when,
in the sixth, in the act of delivering
the ball to the batter he snapped bone
in his arm above the elbow, probably
ending the career of as promising q
pitcher as has ever been seen in West
River valley.
In the six innings that the All Stars
faced him he struck out eight, Manager
Stone going out twice on strikes. The
only score of the All Stars was due to
muffed fly in center field by Timson.
In about every inning the All Stars
had men on bases, but Chaplin put on a
little more steam, preventing the needed
hit, in one inning retiring two by the
strikeout route with a runner waiting
on third.
Moore pitched good ball. but was
touched up rather freely with men on
bases. The only run of the No Stars
was of the earned variety.
For the All Stars Halliday, who had
been easy for Chaplin throughout the
league season, seemed to be the only
one who could connect with his terrific
speed. One of his three hits was a drive
through the box which hit Umpire Lin
coin and was DETECTED into right field.
In the field the All Stars had rather
the best of it. Barry, Stone and Kings.
bury turning in some gilt edged work.
For the No Stars Washer at short
and Clark in left field were especially
good, Washer also turning in two hits
as his share.
Much sympathy was expressed fol-
Chaplin and a collection was taker
among the spectators which brought il
nearly $40, both teams also voting tC
turn in the gate receipts towards his
hospital expenses.
DIR. F. l.. Osgood aided by one of the
students, did his arm up temporarily
after which he was taken by automobile
to the Memorial hospital in Brattleboro
The game called in the last half OF
the sixth inning, Chaplin, breaking hi
arm while delivering a ball to the bat
ter, II. Sparks, after two were out Thu
summary:
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-05
VERNON.

w. f. Tyler is having his house slated
b. A. Streeter and Henry Carr have
erected new round silos.
Mrs. Cora Gale of Worcester, Mass, is
a guest of Mrs. c. f. Davis.
Mrs. j. A. Brown, who has been suf-
fering from "A severe cold, is better
There will be a regular meeting of Yer
non Grange Saturday evening, Oct. 9.
Julius Lackey is staying at the home of
his brother, Frank Lackey, at present.
j. Z. Wright and family recently visited
in the home Of Horace Gale in Town
shend.
Mrs. II. A. Streeter came from Green
field Wednesday for few days visit with
relatives.
T. c. Stoddard has moved from the
brick house to the tenement in the Whit
he'd house.
Rev. d. f. Trout will preach in Union
church Sunday at 245 p, m. Sunday school
at las p, m,
\. f. Weatherhead has job of painting
in Bernardston. He makes the trip by
train each day,
Miss Lucy Hale of Leominister, Mass,
is guest of her grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs w. NJ. Hale.
Addison Adrch of Boston came Mon
day to spend few days with his cousins,
Mr. and Mrs. II. A. Staten
Mrs. C, A. Harmon, who has been i'll
several weeks, went Saturday to "A
Springfield, Mass, hospital for treatment,
Miss Martha jackson of Amherst,
Mass is spending a few days with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur jackson.
Mr. and Mrs Abbott Stone and Miss
Marion Stone were guests Sunday of his
sisters, Mrs. Lydia Wilson and Mrs. Sa-
rah Brooks.
Corporal w Atherton Hale came Sat
urday from Camp Bartlett, Westfeld,
Mass, for a brief visit with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren NJ. Hale,
Frank Clarke, who has been employed
at the power plant for some time and
made his home at A. +. Weatherhead' s,
has gone to Hoosac Tunnel to work.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Amsden and little
son, Lyle, went to Jamaica Friday, sum
moned there by the critical illness of Mr.
Willis, father of Mrs Amsden. Mr.. AIMS
den returned Sunday, but Mrs. Amsden
and son will remain several days.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-05
JACKSONVILLE.

Mrs. f. P. Reed visited relatives in
Wilmington recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. Faulkner were in
North Adams Monday.
Mr., and Mrs. C. H. Waste attended the
funeral of Mrs. Fred Gleason in Heath
Sunday.
Miss Madeline Reed of Monroe Bridge
isted her grandmother, Mrs. E. P. Reed
recently.
Raymond Fredenburg of Troy, N. Y.
visited his cousin, Miss Bertha Faulkner
over Sunday.
Mrs. Mary Hancock is spending few
days with her daughter, Mrs. Ward, in
Shelburne Falls.
Mrs. Musa Dalrymple and her father
o. G. Fairbanks, and Miss Murphy mo
tored to Greenfield Saturday.
Albert Allard was business visitor
in North Adams Monday, making tn,
automobile trip between mail times.
The Ladies' social circle will meet
with Mrs. Frank Cross Thursday, Oct
II. Dinner will be served at noon. A
cordial invitation is extended to every
one.
Mr.. and Mrs. Murray J. Bliss, Mr.. anC
Mrs. Leon Harris and two daughters mo
tored from Keene, N. H., Sunday anC
called on relatives and friends en- rout'
over the Mohawk trail and HON,
through Greenfield, Mass.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-05
SOUTH NEWFANE.

b The re.surfacing of the road between
Bingham Brothers mill and this village
has progressed rapidly this week.
Mrs. Henry Getting, after spending a
month with her sister, Mrs. John E.
Morse, left Friday for her home in Mel
rose, Mass.
Dwight f. Bailey and automobile
party of Agawam, Mass, came Monday
evening. Mrs. Charles II. Kelsey was
included in the party.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. Milton Dexter, who
Hall, early in June, returned to Phila-
delphia Friday for the winter.
Mrs. Lyman II. May has been visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar +. Perry this
week. On Wednesday morning Mr.. Perry
accompanied Mrs. May to Springfield,
Mass.
The Misses Setter, students at North
field seminary, were weekend guests
of their mother, Mrs. Setter at Liberty
afternoon.
I1r. and Mrs. Clarence Worden of
New Jersey and Mr.. and Mrs. Green
Worden of Marlboro early this week
called on their uncle, James p. Bruce,
and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank f.. Bruce of
Brookside attended Saturday the golden
wedding anniversary of Mr.. Bruce Is
sister and husband Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Moore, at Brattleboro.
Mr.. Grout, who boarded with Mrs
| Lyman G. Powers last year, has been
visiting this week at A. f. Halliday s.
Mr.. Grout expects to spend the winter
with his sister in Greenfield, Mass.
Miss Ruby Ingram came from Brat
tleboro Sunday and visited her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira NJ. Ingram, until Mon
day morning. Lester Ingram, who has
been at home q number of weeks, went
Monday morning to Boston, where he
will take a position until he is called
to camp life.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry S. Powers OF
Brookside on Saturday visited theii
daughter, Miss Ethel Powers, at Bel
lows Falls. They made the trip by auto
mobile with Rev. F. II. Perkins of Eas
Dover. Miss Powers came home will
her parents and visited over Sunday, re
turning to Bellows Falls Monday morn
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. IT. Wallace Adams wen
to Boston Saturday by autombile ant
were accompanied by Miss Elsie Brow
and Miss Louise Murphy of Salem, Mass
Mr.. and Mrs. Adams visited thei
nephews, Edward and Charles Tibbetts
in Revere and returned home Monday
leaving Boston about 10 o'clock a. m
and reaching home at about 6 o clock.
The Woman's Mission circle me
Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Love. Mrs
Willard had charge of the program. Mrs
Bishop gave a report of the woman
meetings held at the Baptist state con
vention in Richford last week. Mr.. an
Mrs. Bishop reached home from tn
convention about O'Clock Thurs
day evening. Next Sunday mornin
and evening Mr.. Bishop will give hi
reports of the state convention.