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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-31
The Feod Campaign.

The cry for subscriptions to Lib
erty Bonds is to be Immediately fol-
lowed by the cry for food converse
ton Some people naturally will be
annoyed by the continual cry for
something for the government. But
our nation is at war with one Of the
best organized, aggressive, fierce and
constituencies people of tire worlds
history. They wait for nothing but
push their armies, their submarines
into constant action in every direc-
ton. Every victory. Is followed by
the exaction of tribute, deportation
of able bodied men from their native
land to labor in Germany in order
that more Germans may be sent to
the battle line. The avowed policy of
Germany is to SO depopulate Poland.
Servia and Belgium that German sub
jects can take up the lands and turn
these countries into German prov
inces, subject to and serving the
Imperial German government. To
accomplish their purpose they fight
with incredible activity and with the
fierceness of desperation. To defeat
them and stop their career of world
conquest greater activity and strong
err fighting must be shown by the al
lied nations. So the pushing of the
food conservation campaign immedi-
ately is a military necessity this coun-
try must meet if it hopes to stop the
German beast at the eastern shores OF
the Atlantic.
Therefore complaint of the fire.
quency OF the government requests is
not warranted On the contrary. the
public must spring into It with ali
the zeal and all the spirit of devotion
we possess. There is no exemption
from this service to the country
Every man. woman and child can
practice economy in food because il
does not require capital. On the con-
trnry 1t will tend to increase the
amount of money one can possess
Intelligenfly followed it will increast
lfcalth and the efficiency OF every one
Universally followed it will produce
Tremendous results that will benefl
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-31
st. Johnsbury in War.

It is proper to review some of the
things st, Johnsbury has done since
war was declared with Germany. The
first war meeting in Vermont was
held in ST. Jollnsbury and more public
gatherings to discuss war and work
have been held here than in any
other village in the state. The mem
bers of Co. d. responded to the first
call for service and the company was
one or the first to report to the gov
ernor Of Vermont, that it was ready
to move at his orders. It stood third
in number of men sent to Fort Ethan
Allen for military duty. We doubt
fanny other within the state has so
many young men in the navy and the
naval reserve. 81
The people of St. Johnsbury res
pended as literally as in any town in
the state to the call to produce more
the past season. No other town can
report as large field of potatoes as
the sixty five acres planted on the
Fairbanks farm, and the individual
plots devoted to gardening, while
snailer plots of potatoes and beans
were to- be seen everywhere.
The women tof st. Johnsbury have
done their part. The large Red Cross
society has accomplished an immense
amount Of work for the soldiers. The
women at home have canned an un-
known amount of vegetables for win
ter use and have remodeled their
family tables to save wheat, meat
dairy products and sugar for the Allies
The men have responded liberaHy
to the calls for money to make a fund
for the boys of Co. D., for Y. M. c. A
work among the soldiers, for soldiers
libraries and to advertise and support
the public meetings that have beer
held. When the call for the frs
Liberty Loan came St. Johnsbury rails
ed moro than its>quota and, If we re.
m61lU6T. cOFTcCliy, was Aoui III SoWAA "
the state in the amount Of money
raised for that Loan.
All Of these things make a RECORD
that will be credit to ST. Johnsbur.
in NIL the coming years. The comm,
generations will recite with pride TIN
part st. Johnsbury took in the war
But we are facing another call--ti1
second Liberty Lean-and st. Johns
bury has not subscribed its quota.
will, however, because it will not al
low the good record 1t has made to b
marred by a failure to answer the cal
Of the country in it's hour Of need,
st.. Johnsbury has too many. boys il
the army and navy to disregard tn
cali for money to equip and maintaii
those boys. SO they can fight wit
liofior To their home town.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-31

We reprint elsewhere the comment
of the Barre Times on the statement
of the Middlebury Register that II
would not suppress the news even il
d lawyer did withdraw his five dollar
advertisement from that paper. The
editor of the Register has taken the
fight position. His experience, how
ever, is a common one in a newspa-
per office. Many a man whose crook
cdness has been made public through
a newspaper, resorts to the same
practice the Middlebury lawyer did,
doubtless thinking he is getting
even'' with the editor. A list of st.
Johnsbury men who have tried the
same thing would include the names
Of, some who pose as influential and
moral men. They evidently forget
that the same opinion is in the minds
Of the public generally, and that the
newspaper has told in the open what
their neighbors might only whisper
ct their backs.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-31

the people Of Europe who are fighting
with us against the most dangerous
monster the world has ever seem De
not hesitate to sign the food pledge
when IT. is presented and do not fail
TO do Your part in the conservation OF
food until full victory has been at.
tanned
Why is it necessary that I should
give up the food like il can secure
IT for myseafs That question natur-
ally comes to every person who has
been appealed to sign q food pledge
card or to substitute some other food
for part of his meat, wheat, dairy
products and sugar
The first thing that has caused a
ahortage in food production is the
fact there are $4,000 00 men in the
world under arms today. These men
in times Of peace were largely en-
gagged in some productive occupation,
many of them in the production of
flood. Now they are not only with
drawn from productive work but are
engaged in destructive work. They
| not only consume more themselves,
but make it impossible for the peo-
pie at home to produce their normal
| amount of food. So the world sup
ply of food is greatly reduced.
In times of peace England, France,
italy and Belgium were obliged to
buy forty per cent of their food from
| other countries. Now they have to
buy sixty per cent In times of peace
they could buy some of their food
from Germany, from Russia and from
Australia. Now none can be secured
| from Germany, Russia has none te
spare and the submarine makes i
/, impractical to ship any food thai
could be bought in Australia Sc
these countries must look to tht
United States and Canada for tllt
greatly increased amounts of food
they actually need.
/ Our allies have not only killed al
of the increase of their f1ocks and
/ herds of food animals but have killed
! over 3O,00o,0Oo of their original an
/ imals, thus greatly reducing thei
meat supply and the production OF
| dairy products.
! These facts make it plain thai
] there is a food shortage in England
France. Italy and Belgium, the coun.
/ tries that are fighting so valiantly tt
check the German beast that seek
| the destruction of them and us s.
the appeal to the American today il
to share with the people who ar,
4 lighting for and with him a part o
the food necessary to maintain thei
life and keep them in fighting con
dition.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-31

These figures are stronger than any
words that can be spoken of them.
They stagger thought and we question
how long they can last. United States
is spending the smallest proportion of
its income of any of the countrie; at
war, a quarter of it, but it will be re-
quired to spend more as the war con-
tinues. The figures show that Great
Britain, France and italy combined
have a daily income per capita of 1874
cents and are spending for war 1872
cents day. Such an expenditure is
killing and it will be long time be-
fore these countries can recover from
the effects Of the greatest war in his
tory
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-31

Liberty Loan for the purpose of fore
ing the government to pay a higher
'ate Of interest. Evidently Speaker
Clark had not broken himself of the
habit Of the politicians a few years
ago Of charging nearly all the Ills of
the country to the Wall street bunch,
and was placing himself in the same
class as LaFollette, who charges the
capitalists with the responsibility Of
the war. The injustice Of these
charges is shown by the tntriotfc
work OF the capitalists Of the coun-
try in assisting the country in financ-
ing the war and in giving their SER
vices to the government en- many of
the most important boards. The fact
is, though it may not be SO popular
to express. it, the capitalists of the
country have shown themselves more
loyal ana ready to serve their coun-
try than some other classes Of people
who are demanding unreasonable
compensation and monopolistic terms
OF the government and their en-.
pIoyers
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-31

It is a pleasure to note during
these days of strikes for exhorbitant
wages and the employment of only
union men that there is not a strike
IN the, state Of Vermont. Here every
man who can work is busy at good
wages doing his bit to help the
country successfully carry out the
great war upon which it has entered.
Some of the papers that have tried
to make out that Vermont is a
Stacker might make note of this fact
and compare the loyalty OF vernont
labor with that in some Of the larger
states.
The price of live hogs has taken a
big drop, but you don't notice it
when you pay for a porkchop or a
piece of bacon.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-31
Praise for Daniels.

For the past tour years it has been
popular in many. quarters to ritli-
Guile Jesephus Daniels, secretary of
he navy, but since the war started
nave you noticed that the one de-
partment OF the government nearest
ready to do its work is the Navy, ana
has proved it by meeting every stu
lt1on with which it was faced There
are lot of men in prominent places
in this country, and lot of publicaS
ions that claim to be leaders in
moulding public opinion, who ought
o take off their hats to Josephus
Daniels, though we hardly expec:
them to have the manhood. to do it
Bennington Banner.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-31

with his sister, Mrs. Clara Counter
returning to his home Monday,
George L. Eggleston and son, Master
Erlon. of Canaan Center, N. H., spent
Sunday at B. F. Humphreys. Mrs,
Eggleston, who has been spending a
few days there, returned home with
him.-Miss Lillian Smith of Methuen,
Mass, is spending q few weeks with
her aunt, Mrs. Clara Counter.-Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Phillips, Mrs. George
Phillips and Mrs, James MaGill were
business visitors in st. Johnsbury
Thursday.-Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Lucia
We're Sunday visitors of Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Thompson of Lyndonville.
Athol Manning of Newport spent the
weekend with his wife and baby at
w. III. Jeffrey's.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-31

The Italian defeat may not be so
bad as Germany reports it. but it is
altogether too bad. We hope the al
hes will not take enough troops from
their front in France to attempt to
save the: Italians to let the Germans
swing their forces back to France ane
strike a crushing blow there. Evi.
IDENTIFY the German is still terrible
enough to demand the best fighting
possible by Americans as well as
Europeans.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-31

The Western potato growers are
shipping potatoes into New Hamp-
shire, paying 40 cents bushel
freight on them and selling them
The New Hampshire growers are
boarding their tubers in the hope of
securing higher prices. They may
find their best market-the home
market-fully supplied when they
decide to sell their potatoes and have
to pay freight as the westerners do
to get their potatoes to customer.
It looks from this side of the river
as though those New Hampshire po-
tate men are trying to be too sharp
and may cut themselves before they
are through. More money is made by
selling potatoes when there is a de-
mand TO them at a good price than
by attempting to squeeze unreason-
able prices from the buyers. YER
mont farmers have an opportunity to
la<i New Hampshire brethren
81 heir potatoes now at the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-31
Staggering War Figures.

1t is said there are 3s.oO0,ooo men
under arms in the world at the pre-
sent time-27, 5000 with the Al les
and 100000 with the Germans.
The daily expenditures for war are
$3.50, 100000 per day and the total
cost of the war to date is one hundred
billion dollars. The daily cost Of the
per capita and the daily income per
capita in the various countries at war
are as follews:-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-31

War times seems to have put the
man who studies the corn husks,
building of musk rat homes and the
fur bearing animals for signs of the
kind of winter, out of business. We
have not noticed single prediction
about the kind of winter we are to
have, and it looks as though we would
have to go into it and take it as it
COMES. With wood at SIS a cord,
GOAL scarce and potatoes small, it is
safe to expect a cold winter anyway.
II The war and pre-war Indebtedness
OF Germany is placed at twenty-eight
billion dollars, and it il still growing.
Interest at four per cent on this sum
amounts to $I,120, 100000 a year, a
tremendous expense for the Germans
to meet after the war is over.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-31
Brown Swiss Cattle.

tock-breeders may be interested
n knowing that T. N. Wallis herd of
Brown Swiss cattle is still growing.
At the Chandler Pond farm, former
part of the Vail estate in Lyndon
hese dual purpose cattle are being
bred and cross bred in number OF
interesting experiments.
There are two distinctive types OF
Brown Swiss in the Vail herd. One
is big, rangy. beefy animal, running
Is high as 100 pounds weight for
COWS and close to ton for bulls, anu
yet a good milk producer and not q
hard animal to feed or fatten-
The other is pure dairy type, al
most as fine as Jersey and well able
to compete with Jerseys in milk and
butter records, yet rugged, robust, q
sure breeder and with something of c,
compact beef carcass, highly desir-
able when the animal comes to the
butcher after its producing days are
over.
Mr.. Vail is making these expert
ments as a private enterprise. partis,
through love of. fine cattle and partly
with a view to developing type OF
dairy COW for Vermont that ma
prove valuable in the future. Incl
dentally, the best specimen OF the
dairy-type bull in the Vail stables has
been sold to party outsof the state
- On account of the difficulty of get
ting sires and cows of a new strain
from Switzerland, Brown Swiss cattle
are irnpracticabIe for most Vermont
farmers at present. If Mr.. Vail kea 5
np his breeding farm, however. som =
thing extremely important may aorne
out of 1T Rutland Herald.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-31

The law restricting the trapping and
shooting of fur bearing animals in
Vermont is really conservation law
It simply requires the trapper and
hunter to conduct his operations at a
time when fur is the most valuable ant
it is much more profitable for him
to obey the law than to violate it. The
recent filming of two men at Barnet
will tend to make the public more
careful about the observance of the
law.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-31
PERSONALS.

Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Colby have
moved from No. 5 Pine street to No..
5 Ely street.
Mrs. c. j. Heon has returned from
North Adams and Springfield, Mass,
where she visited with her daughters,
Misses Blanche and Corinne.
James S. Weeks has returned from
a few days business visit to Tilton,
II. H.
James B. Campbell has returned
from a. few days business trip 10
Boston, Mass, and vicinity.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-31

average. with every chance that still
further Improvement in com 1ensation
win be forthcoming in the future.
The problems at the state normal
schools in Johnson and Castleton are
still great. but progress is being made
thereil and the various teacher
training classes throughout the state
are doing good work. Some of the
latter are costing too much per teach
er trained SO are the normal schools,
but apparently the policy of the edu-
cational board and the commissioners
is to utilize to the fullest the resourc-
es and instruments of training the
state has at hand
At all events, we are getting more
teachers and better teachers than VIC
had before, with many indications
that. as the merit system goes on. the
improvement will be still more mark
ed.
Particularly gratifying to practical
men are the efforts in many schoo,
districts and in most of the junior high
schools to develop the qualities in boys
and girls which will point out tho
| work in life for which they are hes,
fitted. There is less wire drawn edu-
i cation in Vermont than ever befors
and the teachers seem to have imbue6
the notion that, while it may not be
the duty of the schools to train farm
ers, carpenters, metal workers, cooks
seamstresses or accountants, industri
Gus and intelligent effort is being
| made to direct the efforts of the pupils
| into lines if work that will tend to
develop their bent and lead them
into useful and practical lines OF
/ study.
Solving of school problems for a
whole state is not task for a year
n even two years, but it is good te
| now that we seem to be workine
along the right lines and that inter
esting progress may be reported from
time to time.-Rutland Herald.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-31

That husking bee at Dartmouth
college when the boys marched to a
field of corn six miles away and husk-
ed the corn is likely to become ia
meus.N Tt certainly was a sensible
thing to do in these days of scarcity
of farm labor, and did not hurt the
boys a bit to be useful as well as en-
thusiastic. Half the energy put into
q football game expended on farm
Saturday afternoons would help out
quite bit in food production.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-31

IF our soldiers can't drink, VIC
won't" that is the declaration of a
Masonic lodge in Brooklyn. and is {
very commendable stand. It is not
only patriotic but beneficial to the
men who adopt that principle. Il
generally adopted this country woulo
be better able to do its part in tht
war.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-31

Vermont Methodists seem to retair
ability to do things. Despite the de
mands of the war they have raised
$4,000 towards the endowment fund
for retirement of ministers and are
making an intensive campaign TO raise
the 100000 still needed. If they can
do this under present conditions there
will be no limit to what they can do in
normal times
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-31

crrr THIS OUTFIT is WORTH MONEY
DON'T MISS THIS. Cut out this slfp:
enclose with Sc and mail 1t to Foley q
Go 2sg5 Shefifeld Ave, Chicago. Ill,
writing your name and address clear
" You will receive in return trial
rackage containing Fo1ey's Honey and
Tar Compound. for coughs, colds. and
Group; Foley Kidney Pills, for pain In
sides and back. rheumatism. ba.ckache.
kidney and bladde ailments: and
Foley Cathartic Tablets a wholesome
and thorough1y cleansing cathartic
for consffpat ton, biliousness, headache
and SILICA ish bowels.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-31
The government crop report TO

The government crop report for
the first of October estimates the
white potato crop this season at 452,-
923, geo bushels. The five year aver
age from 1911 to 1915, was 362,910,-
600 bushels. The figures show also
that there were on October i, 167,-
1856, 900 bushels more of potatoes than
on December 1, 1916. OF course we
know the potato crop in Vermont and
New England is not nearly as good as
it was last year. but the reverse seems
to be true in other sections of the
country. So it would seem hardly
for potatoes that prevailed last winter
and spring.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-31

George A. Porter of Greensboro re-
ports that about a week ago he saw 6
man in the mountain region OF
Wheelock cutting some of his frs.
crop of hay. This beats by about g
month what we saw in the town o.
Waterford and undoubtedly is the
record for late haying in Vermont.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-31

DR.. George Michaelis has resigned
the chancellorship of Germany, pub
licly acknowledging his failure to
carry out the designs Of his master
the Kaiser. It looks as though mon
archy is tottering and the world will
be glad to see it fall.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-31
Can't Intimidate This Paper.

We admire the good sense and the
luck of the new editor of the Middle
Jury Register in printing the legiti-
aate news of his section whether
aat news may reflect on persons OF
Ugh estate or low estate. Because iii
published the information about the
.rrest of Middlebury lawyer, al
,ther lawyer in the town withdrew
is five-dollar-a-year advertising card
rom the columns of the paper. III
ighteous indignation, not over the
oss of five dollars but because of the
presumption of the second lawyer
Fhe Register remarks:
1T would be a pitiful state of ar
airs were newspaper purporting t.
epresent the community to bargai.-
With any man or set of men to shield
hem from the consequences of their
scts. The Register never will b..
% low It will mercilessly expose any
nan or clique or men who would b.
he leverage of their patronage of oil
dvertising columns seek to threaten,
ntimidate or influence US into any
hing bNt a Straightforward policy of
.ecording facts deemed of interest or
Importance to the people of Addison
ounty. We Will sell prlne-
RS ink, but we do not carry white
yash.',
It is a creed worthy of any repur
BILE newspaper. and we are glad the
ehe Register expressed it SO clearly.
accidentally, let US express our opinion
hat The Register, under its new dir
ctor, is constantly enlarging it's pres
,ge among the newspaper fraternity
{ the state and it is even now regard
d as one Of the best weekly news
apers in Vermont. The people OF
Iiddlebury and Addison county can
sot be blind to the increasing value OF
he paper and we believe that the JOS
# the five dollars a year will be mate
p MANIFOLD by the increased support
accorded the paper because of its hon
st policy in this case.-l Barre Times.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-31

khamp Clark has had to
atatement that the New
nsts were opposing the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-10-31

A news dispatch to the Atlanta
Constitution says that hundreds of
negros who went in early summer to
the northern and middlewestern
states are returning to Georgia. This
movement is attributed to the APP
proach of winter and the unprece-
dented prosperity among the Georgia
farmers, both black and white, who
stayed at home. It seems that many
negroes who have come north have
been stricken with pneumonia during
the cold days Of the fall, and those
who escaped want to get back down
souf.' So it looks as though the ne
gro question will remain southern
problem.