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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-21
PUBLIC WHARF ADVOCATED.
AT Hearing Before Large Audience az
State House,

! 5bNlN AlOloCs
Drawing vivid picture OF the day
when single bargcs carrying forty car
loads of coal, should ply between New
| York and Burlington, transporting the
fuel at a cost of but fifty cents ton
for freight, the Hon. H. w. Hill of But
falo, \. y, addressed large audience
at the State House last evening on the
possibilities of inland waterways trans
portation. He declared that the compe
tition of the Champlain barge canal
meant new era in Nermont's CONNER
cial development and one of unlimited
possibilities. In the strongest terms he
urged the building of the public terminal
at Burlington for which the legislature
has been asked to appropriate $4,000.
Burlington, he said, was the logical and
indeed the only entry port for the lakes
freight. Mr.. Hill, who is Il New York
state senator, is former Vermonter and
a graduate of the university.
NJ. w. Williams, assistant state en-
gineer of New York in charge of that
states public terminals told of the build
ing of the New York canals and termi
mails. His talk was illustrated with
stereopticon views of the canals and
various terminals. r. w. MacCauIey of
Burlington showed the state features Of
the public terminal and said that Burning
ton was contributing ne-third of the
cost and that the per capita cost was
only eleven cents. He declared that the
saving to Vermont shippers in one year
would be four hundred thousand dol
lars, the cost OF ten such public docks.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-21

The raising of the blockade against
Greece and the return of the entente al
lies representatives to Athens mean that
King Constantine has acceded to the de-
mands of the entente allies. IT. probably
means more, and that is that the ruler of
the Greeks fears the fate of the Russian
car and rs ready and anxious to hedge
himself about with as close association
as possible with the nations which give
promise of ascendency in the war. The
Greek people have been near revolt for
many months and the revolutionary Sec
tion is in sympathy with the entente al
lies. Therefore, the move of the ruler in
accepting the demands of those powers
is confession of fear concerning his own
throne once the people take the cue from
the Russian revolution. BY show of al
lance with the entente the king OF
Greece hopes to avert the threatened
revolution in his own land There is a
possibility, too, that the beginning OF
powerful entente offensive in Macedonia,
the crumbling of the Turkish military
forces in Mesopotamia and the retreat OF
the Germans in France may have been
contributing factors in his belated de-
termination TO accede to the allies de
mands.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-21
At the outset of the great war a con

At the outset of the great war con.
siderable number of German commerce
ships put into American ports in order
to escape capture by the entente allies
They and their men sought the protec.
ton of the then neutral United States
and the latter by their very act in seek
ing hospitable haven proclaimed them.
selves ready to abide by the internment
regulations which are recognized all over
the civilized world. Yet during the pres
ent week party of those interned sail
ors violated their promise to the United
States government and attempted to es-
cape from the moderate restraint i'm
posed upon them at the Philadelphia
navy yard. Evidently they considered
their internment just another "sersp of
paper" following the example of their
distinguished hancellor-something to
be thrust aside when it became expedient
so to do. Their action is another shock
to the complacence of the United States
government. 1t is a warning that we
have most unreliable party to deal with
when we attempt to treat Germany with
any decent consideration.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-21
A Program of Granite Paving.

In deciding to use granite block paw.
ing upon the heavy traffic streets of the
city Commissioner Murphy OF the pub
lie works department has acted wisely.
The mayor and the city council shou
not hesitate to support this plan in
spite of the opposition which is sure to
be encountered from smooth pavement
contractors and TO some extent from
property owners along the streets con-
cerned. The experience of other cities
in this country has shown with fair de-
gree of eonelusiyeness that pavements
viii not give full return for the money
invested in them unless they are care
fully adapted to the nature and volume
of the traffic which passes over them
Granite block payements. when properly
put down, will stand unending wear even
under the heaviest and most constant
use and they are the only type of pave.
ment of which this can be said.
Much Of our past trouble with granite
paving and much of the popular dislike
of it has arisen from poor specifications
and faulty construction. The blocks have
been laid upon a defective base or upon
no base at ALL They have not been
smoothly cut or properly grouted 80
that the surface has too often been
rough, noisy and unsanitary. But all
these difficulties can be avoided by the
adoption of standard specifications and
by holding TO them strictly That, in
fact, is the most important thing for
the city council to make sure of in con
nection with the present program.
The plan TO repave. considerable
stretch of Atlantic avenue is perhaps
the most noteworthy item in Commits
sioner Murphy's list. This thoroughfare
ought to be one of the citys most i'm
portant heavy-trafiic arteries. But for
years its surface has been so bad that
teamsters have avoided it whenever pos
sble and traffic has thus been diverted
to other streets with resulting conges
tion.-Boston Herald.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-21
F. H. Rogers &
Company
AMUSEMENT NOTES
"A Daughter of the Gods" Featuring
Annette Kellerman in Movies.

The William Fox 81 100000 picture
beautiful, "A Daughter of the Gods,
featuring Annette Kellerman, is the
attraction booked for the opera house
for matinee and night. Monday and
Tuesday, March 20 and ~. 1t has been
the sensational success of New York,
Boston. Chicago, San Francisco and 9th.
er cities, and is undoubtedly the most
pretentious story ever attempted in the
history of the motion picture industry,
there having been no less than 10000
persons engaged in the production at ia
maica, British West Indies.-Adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-21
SOUTH BARRE.

Regular Meetingof South Barre grange,
March %. Programs Singing of grange
songs; THE Aims and Purposes of the
Grange; "The Grange in Politics.; a
discussion of "What the Grange Might
Do in South Barre; "The Seasons Work
on the Farm and in the Garden" A
social hour after the meeting viii be
devoted to practicing grange songs, prom
enading and just being social. Meeting
opens promptly at s o'clock.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-21

If the state of Vermont cannot get a
competent fish and game commissioner
for $1,000 a year it will be possible to
increase the amount at some later date;
but the experience during the years in
which John w. Titcomb served in that
capacity for $500 tends to show that
$4,000 ought to secure a reasonably good
man. Therefore, it is satisfactory to the
people of the state that the House and
Senate have had done with their squad
bling over this matter.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-21
Speeding Up Preparations.

The news columns this morning con
tain evidence of prodigious speeding
up of preparation for impending war. II
is plain that the United States govern,
ment has abandoned hope of avoiding
hostilities with Germany hope which
could not survive the latest contemptu-
GUS viola ton of American rights at sea
The cause for war is cumulative, and
formal declaration, unless q miracle in
teryenes, cannot be long postponed. So
much has been apparent for some time,
and especially so within the last two
days. The fact of compelling interest
now is that the federal government is
invoking every process of preparation
and loosening the national purse strings
that those processes may be facilitated
and expedited.
While there is nothing new in the
fact that a declaration of war is prac-
tically inevitable, and that the govern
ment is proceeding accordingly, the spe-
cific forms of preparation, some OF which
are made public, should have the effect
of arousing to a sense of the seriousness
OF the situation as many Americans as
may have been inclined to view it with
incident disregard, not to say indiffer.
ence. That the sensibiities of our peo-
pie should have become so dulled and
stupefed, even by the continued car
mage of more than two years, as to fail
to appreciate the meaning of the war
menace at our own gates is unthinkable.
The activity of the federal government
should serve as an additional inspiration
to patriotism There is every indica-
ton of an early call for the display of
alert Americanism. There
ought to be no manner of doubt as TO
the nature of promptness of the re-
,ponse.-Mancheste Union.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-21

The Bay state shows its patriotism as
well as its progressiveness by voting a
million for defense within three hours
after Gov Mccall asked for it. 1t is still
a little behind Vermont, however, in ar
ranging for a military census.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-21

If the Russian army and navy are
with the revolution, as asserted by the
American ambassador to Russia Mr..
Francis, there ought to be comparatively
little doubt as to the stability OF the new
government. There would be compare
lively little on which to base a counter
revolution or return to absolutism
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-21

The German people, kept in ignorance
OF the progress of the war on the Franco
Belgian front, must have been shocked
to hear of the great evacuation by the
German army even though the move
ment was explained as strategic move.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-21

Uncle Sam could scarcely keep a
straight face when solemnly rejecting
Carranza's proposal to end the great
world war.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-21

NOT A woAIAN'S WAR. Mr.. DANIELS
II seems to US that Secretary of the
Navy Daniels is INDUCING in silly talk
when be discusses at this time the prob
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-21

If this sort of thing keeps up, our sum
mer visitors should bring their snowshoes
and skates.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-21

The further the German line with
draws from scissors the easier breathe
the Parisians.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-21

Russia is likely to lose some of the
provinces which were merely stuck on
and held there by force.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-21
wEBsTERvILLE

st. John the Baptist Episcopal church
There will be no service this evening.
W. j. ~. Beattic.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-21

If you listen intently enough you may
hear Oyster Bay before long.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-21

doubts regarding the constitutionality o
the tax
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-21

France is recovering her ruins.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-06
Industry Of Genius.

Most writer's recognized as possessed
of genius or of great talent have been
yoluminous producers. In most cases
their talent or genius, as rule, after
being stimulated by success, has lit
orally taken possession of them and
forced them to work hard and persist
emily. Balzac used to have RACES of in
dustry lasting for many hours and
leaving him exhausted. Scott's prodigi-
Gus industry was due mainly to his de-
termination to pay off a heavy indebt-
edness. Dickens was marvelously in
dustrious. But Thackeray was lazy
and used to suffer greatly from the
thought of work undone. His RACES of
work were not voluntary, like Balzac's,
but inspired by desperateness. But he
could take a theme for a novel and
stick to it till he had produced a
monumental work. If he had loved his
work more. however, he might have
made the world even richer than he did
by his unique gift and he might have
discovered in himself unsupported
veins of genius.-Exchang
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-06
War Saving On Method Of
Ordering Text Books

Earlier ordering of school text
books by boards OF education offers
fruitful field for saving in war time,
according to Henry p. Kendall, of
the Plimpton Press, whose statement
on the subject has been transmitted
to the. Bureau of Education of the
Department Of the Interior.
Ii school boards can arrange to
adopt school texts before January LIST,
asserts Mr.. Kendall, instead of wait
ire until the end Of the school year
in June, a large saving in the book
binding trade viii result. Ordering
school textbooks earlier in the year
will, it is declared, help to regularize
employment in the school book trade,
making uniform hours Of work and
rates of pay possible throughout the
year. In one plant at the present
time the hours of labor so vary be-
tween winter and summer. than on
basis of 100 per cent as the fiat week
w wage. operators during the summer
months, because of overtime, earn
about 100 per cent, and during the
winter months about oU per cent
The workers are Obliged to work
very long hours in the summer time
and go without vacations.
Earlier ordering of school books
will also conserve human energy, be-
cause it will make it possible to run
factory with minimum number OF
employees; it will save machinery,
because less will be required to pro-
duce: and it will save coal in con-
serving the heat, light and power.
Furthermore, the efficiency of the
plant can be greatly increased where
work is uniform in quantity, and the
cost of production is much less in a
plant where the product is produced
more uniformly.
AS result of Mr.. Kendall's sug
gestion. the Commissioner Of Educa-
ton has written to every city school
board in the country asking whether
it will not be possible hereafter to or
der school books before the first Of
January.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-06
BLASTING With Lime.

When water is added to calcium
oxide, or quicklime, the lime expands
slowly with almost irresistible force.
This property Of quickllme was util-
lied recently to break up piers twelve
feet wide, twenty feet long and twelve
feet high. The piers stood between
similar piers that supported engines in
constant operation and therefore had
to be removed without injury to the
machinery. 1t was impossible TO blast
the piers, and hand cutting was too
slow and expensive. The work was &C
complished by drilling three-inch YER
teal holes, three feet deep and three
feet apart In both directions, over the
entire area of the piers and filling
them within six inches Of the top with
fresh slaked lime, in pieces one-half
inch to one and half inches wide. AS
soon as the lime was thoroughly wet
the tops OF the holes were filled with
brick dust, which was we'll tamped. In
about ten minutes crackc started in
every direction and the entire top Of
the foundation pier was broken int
three-foot cubes.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-06
Where Addiction IL oualIno,tlor.

An unusual advertisement appeared
in a Chicago paper recently, desiring
the services of five humpbacked meR.
The explanation OF this strange want
is even more interesting than the an
nouncement, says Popular Mechanics
Magazine.
1t seems that large envelope fac
tory, unable to fill its orders, decided
to work nights as well as days. Long
experience had demonstrated that I'm
the use of certain machines women
were better operators than men by
reason Of their hands being more deli
cate and nimble. The owner does not
believe in factory work at night for
women, and the men proved clumsy
and slow. II was then he set about to
seek men who were well but physically
incapable Of heavy work. He decided
that humpbacks had the necessary
qualifications Of more agile and SEN
sitive touch, and an actual test proved
such to be the fact. Hence the adver-
tisement.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-06
TORPEDO NINE NEW MENACE
weapons Released by U-6oats Now
Float When Power Is Spent and
Endanger Passing Ships.


The newest engine of war TO be In
troduced by the Germans is the ''tar-
pedo mine" according to the captain
of a British merchant vessel who is
also a reserve officer in the British
navy.
According to this captain, the new
idea is just what the name implies and
is nothing more than a spent torpedo
that has missed its mark.
In the past. when torpedo was nred
at merchant or war vessel by sub
l3arine and failed TO strike the mark,
the explosive tube kept on Its course
until its motive power died out, when 1t
sans Now. howevc:. the Germans have
perfected the torpetloes to such de-
gree that II one misses its target 1t
viii turn ever and floNt when the pro-
peller steps, becoming high explosive
mine. The torpedo nose becomes q de-
tonaiing cap. Is well as one or two
mere mat are distributed over the
tube
like the ''periscope mine" which
made its appearance when the British
admiralty gave the order for all mer-
chantmen to attempt TO sink subma-
rlaos by ramming them and offered a
reward for each. the new mine was
qHictly discovered and. according TO
the captain, is now carefully watched
for.
The merchant captain also had
something to say about the art OF
camou;iage which is now being used
on merchant vessels TO offset the sub
marines
81 have seen vessels painted so many
different colors and in such odd ways
| that TO attempt TO describe them would
be folly" he said. 81 don't understand
the work myself, but have seen some
evidences Of it at sea that have fooled
! me prettily.
"I remember seeing one vessel In the
danger zone not long ago that seemed
TO have a destroyer lying beside 1t.
| thought the captain very fortunate tc
have such protection, but did not have
time to envy him because of the dan
gers that confronted me. When / go'
to port the freighter came in and no
ticed, much to my surprise, that It hat
n full-slzed and rugged destroyer paint
ed on each side amidships."
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-06
THE DADDY LONG LrcS
Nsxt Attraction at the Colonial H..
Friday Night.

At saeh performances ~ ~
Long-Legs Judy Abbott" dr,y
amusing caricaturs OF Dsddv n
Legs using a piece OF box-ton - .OaE'
canvas and q stick OF whit. GG
This is done to amuGe the cb,IaSt
the scene OF the John Grier go
home, and when little "GlsdioI. , ~,
ply" shows it to the audience ',s S1'
cides that st looks just lrk. @
bug" one OF the hsartiss, lan.L -"
the play 10 created. IA
When Jean Webster uro,. -.
Daddy Long-Legs she draw ~. AO'a
tesQue and amusing illu,r,,,..'O'
which have as much humor n.., Oa'
as have the lines OF the stor, mes -,
Webster wished the drawings 70 I.lI
like those an uneducatsd youn, w. wv
might attempt and perhaps OF az :.
them in the book the "Jun. W
cartoon was the most l,nsh.St
Henry Miller, in rehearsinr m. ~"
did not know OF his lesdinr vora 49,
ability TO draw and had an id., 90 -
hiding her work from the sudI,1o.
and then substituting by star, A.
rectors leEerdemAin one OF NJ.
Webster's drawings However ~.
various girls who have played "JusvS
demonstrated at once that the, conf,
draw her own cartoon and har. bo,.
it at every performance.
Daddy Long-LeEs will play n, Il,
cal engagement at the Colonial Tia,
tire on Friday. November
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-06
INTERESTING TALK TO BOYS
At High And Grammar School What
Bows Are Wanted 10 Do.

A very interesting talk was given
to the boys of the Annapolis High and
Grammar School yesterday afternoon
in the grammar school hall by Mr..
Vail, State chairman of the Boys Y.
NJ. C. A. Army Work.
Mr.. Vail told II the Y. Nj. C. A.
work in the army environments Of
America and in Europe and gave many
interesting illustrations of the fine
work that the Association is doing in
the Irison camps in Europe.
A special drive will be m ade Nov
l1-19 inclusive, to secure at least fifty
boys in this county who will work and
earn ten dollars to donste to the Army
Y. M. C. work. The boys work in
this district which is composed of
Anne Arundel, Prince George, St.
Mary's and Calvert counties, is in
charge of Ivon 7. Morton as District
Chairman. The quota for Anne Arun-
del county is fifty boys and for each
of the other counties twenty-five boys
and it is hoped that many more than
the quota will be secured.
If each boy in this district will earn
ten dollars for the Army Y. NC. A.
work quite a sum will be realized.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-06
The war Garden.

Representative Mason of Illinois
said in Chicago the other day:
"One way to keep down prices is
for every family to set up its own
vegetable garden, but the trouble is
that most OF us are as ignorant OF
gardening as the chap who wrote to
the scotsman:
GAS / with to do my bit for the
allies by growing my own provisions
on a strip of rocky ground back of my
house, please send me, T. o. b, one
dozen potato seeds. one bee with hive
complete. one Gozen fruit seeds as
sorted. ten square Yards of grass, one
path. six feet Of wall flowers with
wall, and one dozen flour plants. I
am especially particular about the
grass. which should be green, and not
the brown kind see in so many gar
dens.'"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-06
CHEERFUL WORDS


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