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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05
What the Allies Navies Have Done.

Frank Simonds, the well known edi
torial writer, and author, has writer
an article for Farm and Fireside, il
which he says:
what so far has been the new les
son of sea power in the greatest struggle
of history How far has that policy
known as navalism justified itself with
the rival doctrine of militarism?
Even at the present moment il is
possible TO say nqualifiedly that naval
power has achieved all that was expect
ed il could achieve. So far it has sup
piled the single decisive element in the
whole struggle British. sea power-and
it is not necessary now TO discuss the
relatively minor part played by the Rus
sian. the Italian. or even the French, ma =
vies-won the war, as Iar as the water
was concerned, in the first days of the
conflict and without battle, and now to
these fleets have been added that of our
own country.
with the declaration of war against
Great Britain three years ago, Germany
became an isolated nation so far as the
sea was concerned, save only for the
Baltic. First of all her merchant ma
rine was swept from the seas or in
termed in neutral ports. Almost with
the first note of the call to arms, Ham
burg and Bremen, the great German sea
port cities, were paralyzed; they have
been paralyzed ever since"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05
Platinum Metals Company Not Making
Tests for Government.

The attention of the United States
geological survey, department of the in.
terror, has been called number of times
to the fact that the Platinum Metals
Co. of Philadelphia, Pa, is reported to
be testing platinum bearing materials
for the United States government. In
view of the inaceuracy of this state
ment, il seems well to point out that,
though the geological survey is now
studying the platinum deposits of the
United States, no materials supposed to
contain platinum have been sent by the
survey to the Platinum Metals Co. for
testing. The geological survey has made
no investigation of the co-called "amag-
mite process" for saving platinum, though
it has received few samples of the So
called 'amagnite" from the company.
Among the advertising matter issued
by this company is a copy of letter ad
dressed to the geological survey special
list on platinum by the company itself.
OF course any statements made in such
a letter carry absolutely no endorsement
by government official, even if this inn
preston may be given to some readers.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05
THE CASE AGAINST
RATS AND MICE

Rats and mice are among the
worst animal pests in the world,
according to biologists of the e. S.
department of agriculture.
From their home among filth
they visit dwellings and store
rooms to pollute and destroy hui
man food.
The rat carries bubonic plague
and many other diseases fatal to
man and has no doubt been re-
sponsible for more untimely deaths
among human beings than all wars
of history.
In the United States rats and
mice destroy each year in homes.
in factories, stores and ware
houses, in ears and on ships. crops.
poultry and other property valued
at more than S3OOOO0OO0-an
amount equivalent TO the gross
earnings Of an army Of 100000
men.
Grain eaten and wasted BY rats
and mice on many farms would
paw all the farmers taxes.
Rats and mice breed from SIX to
ten times a year. producing their
destructive kind at an alarming
rate.
They are parasites without a
single redeeming Characteristic.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05
Administrator Assumes Con-
trol-Defines Fully the OBJ
jects Of the Regulations
ISSUES FORMAL
WARNING TO PUBLIC
Will Prevent Overt Charging
and Speculative Profits
To Keep Supplies Moving

Washington, Nov. 5,--.0ntrol of fooc
prices of the country was assumed Sat
urday by Food Administrator Hoover
acting under regulations issued by Presi'
dent Wilson, authorizing him to license
importers, manufacturers, wholesalers
Gamers, packers and large retailers.
Announcing the complete and definite
regulations governing transportation and
sale of foodstuffs, the food administrator
said in a statement:
Gives Principa, Objects.
"The principal objects of the rules are
as follows
ITO limit the prices charged by every
licensee to reasonable amount over ex-
penses, and forbid the acquisition of
speculative profits from rising market.
ITO keep all food commodities moving
to the consumer in as direct line and
with as little delay as practicable.
"To limit, as far as practicable, con-
tracts for future delivery and dealings
in future contracts.
Under the food control act, in add
ton to the power to promulgate rules,
the president is given broad powers to
deal with individual eases. This
power will be freely exercised to accom-
plish the three purposes set out above.
If every licensee will make those pur-
poss the cardinal principles of his bust
ness. obey the law and the regulations,
he will be free from interference by the
government. Violation is cause for re-
voking any license, as well as subjeeting
the offender to such criminal penalties
as may be prescribed"
There are large number of general
rules governing all licensees, with addi
tional special regulations for various
trades, in which there are special condi.
tions, or specific abuses to be overcome
Elimination of excessive prices by
small retailers, who are not subject TO
license, will be brought about by a rule I
forbidding licensees 70 sell foods to any
person who is taking excessive profits or
specializing.
An important rule provides that no Ii, !
,ensee shall import, manufacture. store, |
distribute, sell or otherwise handle any |
God commodities on an unjust, exorbi |
ant, unreasonable, discriminatory or un-
air commission, profit or storage
,harge."
With respect to large group of com
nodities, particularly non-perishables,
equations require that profits shall be
10 greater than reasonable advance
'ver the actual purchase price Of the par
ocular goods sold, without regard to the
market or renlacement value
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05
CAUGHT IN ACT
ON TRANSPORT
Lithuanian Carpenter Ar
rested as He Tried to Board
Vessel with Bomb in N. Y.
HIS ACCOMPLICES
SOUGHT OUT
Prisoner, Subject to Death
Penalty, May Save Him
self by Informing

New York, Nov. 5.-A carefully lait
plan to blow up United States trans
port was frustrated by the arrest lat
Saturday afternoon of a man carrying {
powerful bomb on board ship which il
to be turned over to the navy for The
transport of troops.
The prisoner is Matthew Vailiekounos
Lithuanian, who was employed as a
carpenter in a shipyard in this port
where number of German ships taken
over by the government, are being re-
paired As native Russian he had
a pass to 60 to and from work,
The federal officials refused to give
out the name of the shipyard or the
name of the ship, except to say that she
was one of the largest of the German
liners seized here. The repair work on
this ship had been completed and she
will, in few days, be taken over by
the navy for the transport of American
soldiers to France.
This carpenters duties were in the
shlpyard proper and he had no business
on the ship. About 4 o'clock Saturday
afternoon he was stopped as he was
walking out on the pier and asked where
he was going. He replied that he had
business ON the ship. He was told in ac-
cordanee with recent orders by United
States Marshal Powers, that he must be
searched.
This discounted the man, and he said
confusedly that he had suddenly changed
his mind about going on the ship. The
naval officers became suspicious and in
formed him that he was to be searched
anyhow He protested volubly, saying
he would quit his job and never come
back if they wouldn't search him.
BY this time he had sailor on either
side of him, while Others made the search.
In the left-hand outside pocket of his
overcoat was found a steel cylinder,
slightly more than foot long, and three't
and one-third inches in diameter When |
this was found, Marshal Powers was
sent for.
The marshal ordered the cylinder taken |
to the Brooklyn navy yard for exami-
nation, and took Vailiegounos to the of
fee of United States District Attorney
France.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05
STRAW VOTE FAVORS
TAWM4NY CANDIDATE
According to New York Herald's Can
vass, Hylan viii Have Al Per Cent
of Vote Cast Tomorrow

New York, Nov. 5-The Herald's com.
pleted straw vote canvass in all boroughs
indicates the election of John +. Hylan
Tammany candidate.
Although there has been very notice
able swing in the direction of Mayor
Mitchell during the closing days of the
campaign, Judge Hylan remains well in
the lead.
Mayor Mitchell, with a gain of per
cent of the total vote to his credit during
the final week of the canvass. is IG per
cent behind the straw vote percentage of
Judge Hylan. Morris Hillquit Socialist.
with loss of two-tenths of / per cent
to his credit during the last week. is not
great distance behind Mayor Mitchell.
William NJ. Bennett gets slightly more
than half as many straw votes as Hill.
quit.
The total straw votes of the two weeks
show the following percentage for the
four nominees: Judge Hylan. Al: Mayor
Mitchell 81; Morris Hillquit, %; VIII
liam H. Bennett, 0.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05
TREE VACCINATION
WORTHLESS FOR SCALE
Makers of "Fertilizing Scale Treatment
Fined 500 in Federal
Court.

| Claims that the insertion of white
capsule and brown capsule, containing
potassium cyanide and other substances
in the bark of fruit trees will kill scale
on the trees, led to fine of 500 in the
federal courts upon the makers of the
''fertilizing scale treatment who plead
ed guilty to the charge of misbranding
and adulteration.. This fine, reported in
a recently published notice of Judgment
States versus Albert D. Kleckner, May
belle B. Kleckner and Emma kleckner
tFertilizing Scale CO.., Attention, Pa,
brought under the insecticide act of 1910
at the instance of the United States de-
partment Of agriculture in the eastern
district court, Pennsylvania.
The department tested these capsules
for several years on fruit trees to deter
mine whether their use had any de-
torrent effect on scale and whether the
material also actually fortified the trees
as asserted by the makers. The depart
ment found that the capsules did not
kill scale and did not fertilze the trees,
but on the contrary, injured the tree
causing large cankers through which rot
fungi may enter and finally destroy the
tree. The departments tests were fur
Their supplemented and confirmed by the
scientists Of the department who visited
many orchards in Maryland and Penn
sylvanis and studied the trees which had
been treated by the agents of the com
pany.
The "fertilizing scale treatment has
been advertised and sold also as a remedy |
for other insects and for various tree
diseases. Department specialists fail to
find any reason to believe that the po- |
tassiumcyanide and other substances in |
serted in trees in capsules have any
value. whatever, in controlling plant
pests.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05
THREAT TO NORWAY
German Statesman Warns That Cam
paign of Indignation Must Be Curbed.

London, Nov. 5.-The Hamburg Frem.
denblatt prints an interview which a
leading German statesman gave to the
correspondent of Norwegian paper, but
which the paper declined to publish. The
interview concludes with the threat of
serious consequences unless the Norwe-
gian press curbs its campaign of indigna.
ton against Germany. The fear is ex-
pressed that the agitation, unless
checked, win produce such an atmosphere
of hatred and bitterness against Ger
many that some unimportant incident
will lead to consequences which even the
most bellicose agitator will deplore.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05
IS NOW OFFICIALLY IN
Count Won Hertling's Appointment An
nounced.

London, Nov. Count George F. Won
Hertling has been appointed imperial
German chancellor. This is announced in
an official statement received at Copen-
hagen from Berlin. Chancellor Won Hert
ling evidently will have behind him, at
the start at least, the united support of
all parties in the Reichstag except the
Conservatives and radical Socialists. As
in countries with the parliamentary sys-
TEN, he will be started on his way with
a formal vote of confidence from the ma
iority obtained after his speech outlining
his policy.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05
QUICK RELIEF
FROM CONSTIPATION
Get DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets

That is the joyful cry Of thousands
since DR.. Edwards produced Olive Tablets.
the substitute for calonel.
DR.. Edwards, practicing physician for
IL years and calomeIs old-time enemy,
discovered the formula for Olive Tablets
while treating patients for chronic con-
stipaticn and torpid livers.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets do not
contain calomel, but healing, soothing
vegetable laxative.
No gripping is the 'keynote" of these
little sugar-ooated, olive-colored tablets
They cause the bowels and liver to act
normally. They never force them to
unnatural action.
II you have dark brown mouth now
and then-a bad breath "a dull, tired
feeling-sick headache-torpid liver and
are consupated, you'll find quick. sure and
only pleasant results from one OF two lit
de Dr.. Edwards Olive Tablets at bedtime.
Thousands take one CT two every night
just to keep night. Try them. loc and
25c per box AL druggists
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05
Minimum Maximum
Calcare0us Mari in 1916.

Calcareous mari used for soil sweeten-
ing was reported to the United States
geological survey, department of the in
terror, in 1915 from Arkansas, California,
New York. Pennsylvania. South Carolina,
and Virginia, according to G. f. Loughlin.
The output was 1858 short tons, valued
at Sl07,76S, or S3.03 a ton. Individual
reports gave prices ranging from 81 to
SO a ton in the southern states and from
81 to So a ton in the northern states and
California. Sales of this material in
former years have been included in those
of limestone.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05
100000 PRISONERS
CLAIMED BY GERMANS
Berlin Asserts That More Than 1900
Italian Guns Have Been
Captured.

Berlin. Nov. More than 100000
prisoners have been taken in the Austro-
German campaign on the Italian front,
the German war office reports. There
was no important fighting on this front
Friday. The announcement follows:
"There has been no further important
military operations.
up to the present more than 100000
prisoners and more than 800 guns have
been enumerated The booty in machine
guns, mine throwers, meteor vehicles. bag
gage and other war material cannot be
estimated even approximately"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05

after three doctors said never would
staad up straight again. was mid
wife for seven years and l recommended
the Vegetable Compound to every wo-
man to take before birth and after
wards, and they all got along SO nicely
that it surely is godsend to suffering
women. If women wish to write to
me will be delighted to answer them. :"
Mrs. JENNIE MOVER, 342 E.North ST.,
Lima, Ohio.
Women who suffer from displace-
ments, weakness, irregularities, ner-
vousness, backache, or bearing-down
pains, need the tonic properties of the
roots and herbs contai:.ed in Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05
PASSED
HER MINIMUM
And Next Few Days Will Witness a Big
Hustle to Bring Food Pledges
Up to Maximum.

A number of towns are yet to be heard
from in several counties and the work of
canvassing in the food pledge card cam
paign is not fully completed in any part
of the state, but on Saturday night up
to date reports from all save three coun-
ties showed that Vermont had signed
81 200 food pledge cards. The minimum
was $4,000 The next few days win see
a big drive toward the maximum enroll
ment of S7,6Sl families.
Reports from the counties are as fol-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05

lady friends came To
see me and she adj
vised me to COM
mence taking Lydia
e. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound
and to use Lydia E.
Pinkham' s Sanative
Wash. / began TAX
ing your remedies
and took$6. 00worth
and in two months
WAS n well woman
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05
CHARLES TO BE
KING OF POLAND
Vienna Report That He viii Also Rule
South Slav States, Which Will
Have Some Autonomy.

London, Nov. 5.-The Munich Neuste
Nachrichten printed a report from Wen
ma that Emperor Charles Saturday,
which was his name day, was to be pro
claimed king of Poland and also ruler of
the south Slav states, embracing espe-
cially Bosnia and Herzegovina and that
part of Serbia already occupied by Aus
tfia. These states, it is added, viii re-
ceye a measure of autonomy.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05
Safeguards Health
of The Children

Constipation, or inaction OF the
bowels, IL . great menace to
health. Cathartio or purgative
remedies should never be given to
children as the violence Of their
action tends to upset the entire
digestive system. A mild laxative
In far preferable, and the combi-e
nation Of simple laxative herbs
with pepsin known ~ DR.. Cald-
wells Syrup. Pepsin, and sold in
drug stores for nifty cents o bot
tie, IL highly recommended. This
preparation contains NO opiate,
narcotic, or habit-formtng drug
OF any description, II mild and
gentle In Its action, and brings
relief in an easy, natural manner.
Its pleasant taste appeals TO chill
drsn ana they take It readily.
Thousands Of mothers have tss-
titled to the merit Of DR.. Cald-
wells Syrup Pepsin, and in count
less homes IL 10 the standard FAM
lily remedy. A trial bottle, free
Of charge, can be obtained by
writing to DR.. w. b. Caldwell, 456
washington St.. Monticello, ILL.,
nots.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05
Sterling Elliott Says,

Insurance is like giving a man in ad-
vance all the money he expects to make +"
We invite your thoughtful consideration
of same. Take plenty while you can get
that which is good. National Life ms.
Co., of Vt. (Mutual) S. s. Ballard,
general agent, Rialto block, Montpelier.
Vt.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05

Leonard and Noise Pineau, brothers
met for the first time in II years at Ben
nington Friday Both are natives OF
Prince Edward Island and after leaving
home at different times they lost the To-
cation of each other, and it was only
within a few days that Noise of Ben
nington located his brother in the en-
ploy of the Lowell Rendering company
at Lowell, Mass. The latter lost no
time in coming to Bennington to visit his
brother.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05
No Trousseau.

Bills marriage expensive!
Gill-Mine was. I married an artist 5
model, and | had 10 begin buying her
clothes right away-Yonkers Statesman.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05
SNOW MIDwEEK7
Fair Weather Predicted for First Half Of
Week.

Washington. Nov. s--Weather prejic-
tons for the week. issued BY the wealth
er bureau arc. Fair. although a day Of
rain or snow probable about middle Of
ths uesk-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05
BROKEN DOWN
IN HEALTH
Woman Tells How SIS Worth
of Pinkham's Compound
Made Her Well.

Lima, Ohio. -"I was all broken down
In health from displacement One Of my
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05
Topics of the
Home and
Household.

| A trap baited with sunfower seeds i,
one of the most efficacious means Of
catching rats.
Breadcrumbs can be used both to give
| body TO an omelet and to thicken the
custard. Use half cupful of crumbs
to three eggs.
Save Meat.
Housekeepers the country over, espec-
tally during conservation week, are
asked to save in the use of meat, es-
pecially beef, mutton and pork. They
are asked not TO use any one of these
more than once a day, and the Z. S.
food administration gives the reason as
follows.
The food animals of the allies have
decreased by 33,0000O0 head since the
war began; thus the source of their
meat production is decreasing. At the
same time the needs of their soldiers
and war workers have increased the nee
essary meat consumption. Our meat
exports to our allies are now already
almost three times what they were be-
fore the war. The needs of the allies
will steadily increase, because their own
production of food animals win steadily
decrease because of lack of feed for
them.
Each person in the United States
must average saving of an ounce of
meat a day ii our allies are to be
supplied and prices are to be sent down
to reasonable basis. 1t seems that the
amount of meat eaten by each person
averages nearly one-third of pound of
beef and one. fifth of pound of pork
daily. This must be cut down if we
are to send enough meat to keep up the
strength OF the allied soldiers in France
The food administration makes its drive
on beef, mutton, and pork because these
meats can be cured or sailed, when they
be otherwise shipped TO our arm
les at home and abroad, An additional
reason for reducing our consumption of
meat is the necessity of preserving the
dairy herds to furnish the necessary
milk, butter and cheese. The welfare
Of the youngsters is dependent upon the
dairy COW.
The food experts suggest an abundance
If substitutes as equally valuable food.
Chicken, turkey, goose, duck, Holsters,
'rabs, shrimp, fresh and salted fish, |
md rabbits in season are offered as some /
If the perfect protein foods. Besides
hese there are eggs, peanuts, butter
milk, cheese and liver
We are asked TO use a greater abund
nee of vegetables and fish, to serve
mailer pieces of meat at the meat
neal; to use stews instead of steaks, and
o have made dishes of all left overs.
Drop card to the U. S. department of
griculture at Washington, d. c., for a
opy of farmers bulletin, No. sos, and
earn something of food values and how
o meet the body needs in order to
ollow the food conservation program
nd still live well.
Dorothy Dexter. ]
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05

The counties have made the following
percentages toward their proportions of
the minimum goal and of the maximum
goal
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

VIII II. Tarbell produced on his farm
in Brandon last summer 10 tons of
eabbages,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05

Wesley Smith of Rochester North Hol.
low shot henhawk recently which meas
ured four feet and two inches from tip
to tip Of its wings. From its throat
were extracted small treetoad and two
small snakes.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05

Hog cholera has killed about Is large
hogs in Bellows Falls, weighing from
$50 to 300 pounds each. Animals that
have so far escaped are being vaceinated.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05

Wilfred Cummings, ID, son of Mr. and
Mrs. r. S. Cummings, while driving cows
over sluiceway near their home at
North Cambridge, Wednesday, was
drowned in the river as the bridge went
down, The body was recovered five
hours later.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05

One result of the widespread food
ing of the Winooski intervale is the driv-
ing from their haunts of hundreds of
large muskrats that find comfortable
homes along the river banks Howard
Calkins, the l5-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Fayette Calkins, who lives on the
intervale, shot 10 of them in one day
and hung their skins up to dry.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05

Leon Moon was badly injured al
Mountain Mills, Wilmington, Thursday
in one of the mills of the Deerfield Val.
ley Lumber Co. He was working around
the machinery when his clothing caught
in the gearing and he was drawn in
with it. His stomach was badly LAGER
ated and his condition is grave.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-05

George Norton, l4yearold Middle
bury boy, was found guilty of stealing
lead pipe and wire from different build
ings on the fair ground and was SEN
fenced to serve the remainder of his mi
nority at the industrial school in Yer
gennes. The cases of two other boys
implicated in the theft will be tried later.