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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
AN INTERNATIONAL VICE

AT LAST it is possible to define place
"A and visualize the legendary man with
out country.
He is the war profiteer.
He is plundering in Berlin and in Vienna
as industriousy as he plumbers in Phla-
.delphia or New York. In every warning
country he is aloof from the national In
-tterest. The obligations of citizenship. hu-
ananity or patriotism are unknown to him
An Germany or in America. He knows nc
flag and has no allegiance beyond the cir
Gle of his own selfish interests
Since he is an outcast and an outlaw
any weapon-taxes the law, brute force oil
a club-becomes legitimate when it is USED
against him.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19

habit continues to spread. Before the
Government took control of the railroads
you couldn't go on journey Of any length
without tipping everybody on the line
except the conductor, the fireman and the
engineer.
The case of the bartenders is illuminat-
ing. The bartenders, according to those
who have studied their plight. held out
long against the temptation. They were
known often to reject the tip with sim
cere show of offended dignity. But they
were overwhelmed. This proves what
observant persons have always suspected
that the real sinner in the matter of tips
is not the recipient but the giver.
The hardened tipgiver is not necessarily
either kind or generous or liberal. He is
| as a matter of fact, more likely to be
| selfish in oddly subtle ways. His tip
! springs from his sense of imagined su.
| perority. Ho has somewhere within him
Il taint of feudalsm. 1t pleases him to
be a patron and to use the gesture Of the
| tip to fix another in an inferior place
| Some there are who give tips from motives
| OF generosity. But wherever you find a
| lavish Upper you find a man in whom the
instinct of snobbery is likely to be upper
| most
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
FAIR WARNING TO PACIFISTS OF ALL
VA KINDS

TT TOOK more than four months to
agitators charged with attempting to dis
rupt the nations war program.
1t took the Chicago jury only an hour
to find the accused men guilty as charged
This verdict is satisfying to every manly
American. The nation is committed to
great task, and it is intolerant of every
one who attempts to obstruct it. The
leaders of the l. w. w. profess to despise
patriotism and are working to destroy all
orderly constituted government The
weak minded dupes who have been used
by them deserve little pity. They are
the victims of their own ignorance and
lack of moral stamina. Those of them who
have been convicted will have time while
In prison to take thought on their errors,
rand we hope that they may profit by the
Experience.
The sentmentalists outside of the l.
'ov w. who have been tolerant of all
sbacifist agitation will do we'll to take warn
ing from this Chicago verdict. Unless
they are careful to mend their ways they
also are likely to find themselves caught
in the tolls of the law and compelled tc
face a jury charged with helping the
national enemies.
The nation is in no mood to be lenien
with any one who sets out to make trouble
at home while its sons are risking thei
lives in France.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
DEMOCRACY THAT ISN'T DEMOCRACY

TCHITERIN, the Bolshevik Foreign
l. Secretary, boasts that the Soviet Gov.
ernment is the first in the world estab-
lished for the oppressed poor.
He thereby shows his failure to compre-
hend the essential purpose of demo-
cratic government. namely, to give equal
rights to all, the rich as well as the poor,
the ignorant as we'll as the educated.
Glass government dominated by the poor
is as abhorrent as class government domi-
mated by the rich. Bolshevism Is no better
than Junkerism and no worse.
We are fighting this war to put an end
to Junkerism, and If 1t should end by the
triumph of Bolshevism it would have to
be fought all over again in order that
democracy might triumph.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
TIPS AND TIPPERS

OF LATE the bounders around-those
" who consistently make it bit difficult
to distinguish between high life and low
have started the habit of tipping bar
tenders. The decline of the liquor business,
therefore, will have at least one reaction
acceptable to everybody. 1t will arrest the
tip mania in one field. at least.
1t hasn't been proved that the bar
tenders invited the tips that have begun to
shower on them. They were forced, by
emotional patrons. into the class with
Pullman porters, walters. BARRIERS. chauf.
feurs. buffers, taxicabbies, parlor maids,
garage attendants and all those others
who must be paid for things they don't d.
Despite the high cost Of living the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
THE CATHEDRAL REBORN

LIT WAS in the ancient and heroic city Of
Amiens that Jules Verne conceived
many of his wonderful tales His fertile
Sis mind forecast the submarine, foresaw the
Bel possibilities of aerial navigation, outlined
Ley other marvels still unattained, but antici-
Pr pated neither the world war nor the strik-
e ing role to be played therein by the city
- Of his choice.
The rededication of the majestic Amiens
ssCathedral, monarch of French churches,
nishe largest ecclesiastical edifice in the re-
ns5 ss55ublic and one of the first in beauty con.
u a.ludes moreover a chapter of miracles
to which even the ingenuity of Verne
& would have been hard put to explain
The high tide of titanic strife rolled up
10 within eight miles of the fair capital
Of Picardy. The hordes of barbarism raised
4 their binoculars and beheld the superb
minister cleaning in the spring sunlight.
vs. And yet through months of lombard.
~ unent three hits alone, and these unpro-
ductive of any structural damage, were
Z. Registered on the great Gothic pile The
Z shtowers of Amiens abide in strength and
Z e. 1oveliness. Here is indeed miracle 70
s Challenge even king Of fantasy.
# 1 Simple exercises reconsecrated the
= monument of medieval art and faith The
oclentific explanations of Verne would
knse been futile with regard to this al
esk mystical deliverance. Moreover the
nlinss Of the whole civilized world are
<nl1aHed up In gratitude. Amid our tears
Rheimss We have Joys for Amiens.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19

JUDGE RAYMOND MacNEILLE, of the
= Municipal Court, achieved his first
prominence as an apostle of sweetness and
light in the school of reform founded by
Judge Ben Lindsey His field of effort is
one in which good works are painless, easy
and not too sharply scrutinized.
Judge MacNelles appointment to the
Board of Recreation was made by the
Mayor to insure a good Job for Edward
r. Gudehus and to circup1vent the will
OF those others on the board who properly
affected to the Ware method of patronage
in this instance.
It always has been difficult for the
average rcformer to stay reformed. And
It is easier to reform others than to reform
ones self.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
ROYS OR MEN2

AFFECTION and sentiment are. OF
\ course. responsible for the general
habit Of speech which deslgnates our SOL
diers abroad as boys" Even President
Wilson uses, on occasion, what must seem
to many to be an altogether inappropriate
term.
The Job that Americans are doing
abroad is a mans Job. Many of the sol.
diers were boys when they went away.
They remain boys In the afTectionate mem.
ory of their friends and relatives. But
the nature OF their work and of their ex.
periences has brought them to a high state
of manhood. Properly. the Americans Of
the expeditlonary force might more often
be referred to by the stateier term They
are men.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19

The rejuvenated capital of Palestine Is
renorted TO have instituted "all-wheat" days
in order to reduce the drain on rice. barley.
rye and other cereals. The news fortifes our
faith in the Bible. which characterizes the
New Jerusalem as Heaven,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
THE ELECTRIC CHAIR
Recessional for the Profiteers
CA Father Speaks)

CA Father Speaks)
THE people have giren their labor,
L their food, their sleep, their sons,
They hare given their hands and hearts
and hopes to steel the drumming
guns;
And disciplined to giving, through all
these broken gears,
Now phat shall the people render to
their friends, the profteers?
My sons in France. Will you coin his
thirst, his hunger, his every need?
Will you make your profit on dusty
throats and marching feet that
bleed?
Do you think the souls of men are stirred
and the hearts Of mothers rent
For you to capitalize our loves at thou
sand or so per cent?
Do you think the saddened world that
rocks and groans in travail pain
Has bled in stole fortitude to fatten your
private gain?
Will you have the burning flame of
hearts that leaped for visioned
star
To glow your sooted forges, to drive your
motor car?
The flag that has never been humbled,
the hope of the human race,
You fly it as mock token, to cover your
own disgrace;
I'D of lNxyn
who covet an earth newborn
Hucksters of human passion, you shall
learn of human scorn.
Your hands, are they so spotless? Your
ways so lit with sun
That you can pour your virtued sneers on
Turk and Russ and Hun?
What will you say to the bitter ghosts
that whisper, frank and plain,
"The world was shaken in torment, and
you trafficked in mortal pain"
The people have given their labor, their
food, their sleep, their sons,
They have given their hands and hearts
and hopes to steel the drumming
guns;
And disciplined to giving, through all
these broken years,
No,U what shall the people render to their
friends, the profteers?
The other day we were wandering in
| Alder street, which is a narrow lane join
ing Spruce and Locust between Tenth
la
man, with a cart of junk, singing a
lugubrious anthem which amused us not
little. This was his ditty:
Hard working man
Amt nothing but a dawg-
| O-oo-o ragman
| Amt nothin but a dawg.
We wish we could reproduce the mourn
full minor air to which he sang this genia
verse. He was chucklng heartily to him
self, and seemed to enjoy his slogan i'm
mensely Is this a common cry among ras
and bone men, or Is II his own?
| Referring to our query. Can the Teen
Fight?" Samuel Abbott tells US that ther'
were more than a million boys Of eighteeI
and under in the Union armies during th
Civil War.
Is there a man with soul SO dead
Who never to himself hath said.
"If it takes me twenty years
I'll massacre those profiteers."
DOVE DULcET.
The Archdupe
The Kaiser is said to have approved tn
| suggastion that an Austrian archduke b
made King of Poland. Austrian archduke
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19

A dispatch to the effect that the Amiens
Cathedral was struck but thrice before the
Hun was compelled to retire is a beautiful
illustration of the eternal truth that three
strikes Is out
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
Teaching Fritzy the Game

Orders have been given for 6O,00o,Oo0 hand
grenades to be turned out at the rate OF
100000 month Our baseball players IN
E'rance need more exerclse.--Cleveland Plain
Dealer,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
The Crown Prince
His nose Is red:
His eyes are blue;
His chin recedes:
His armies too.

The selection of Tschaikowsky as leader
~ northern Russia speaks well for the es-
tablishment of harmony. Just at this time.
however, the pathetic Symphony" could we'll
be spared
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19

The news that soup kitchens have been
opened at Treviso, in the Italian war zone.
suggests the expectation OF using the Ger
mans as stock"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19

Referring to a pro-Hun who tried to
defend the Kaiser at a National Park camp
meeting, a headline says, offensive German
Elected" Which reminds us that a German
offensive experienced an identical punish
ment,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19

It begins to appear as if some one hat
put an extraordinary lot of con in the kai
sers conquests.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19

That Rumpler plane, which captain
Biddle, of Philadelphia, recently downed'
seems to have been appropriately named.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
We'll Know Next Winter

What Is 1t Doctor Garfield says-that there
will not be coal shortage, or that there
shall not be coal shortage Boston Globe
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
Beauty's Tribute

Tax on cosmetics? All right. Most girls
that can't afford to pay 1t don't have to use
'em.-Mllwaukee Sentinel. .-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19

1t is only necessary to
To Make Going Easy study the general AL
lied purpose to per-
ceive that the road to Berlin is paved with
good intentions.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19

As the flght-or-fght principle gains
force in Russia some of the Reds are making
notable records as travellers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
A Dandy AFFAIR

Turn about is fair
Dandy AFFAIR play. The Yankee
Doodle" boys have
captured Cohan. The latter however, cap
tured the Yankee Doodle" boys so many
theatrical seasons ago that some Of US are
by this time quite grown up.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19

German military
Terrible, but True writer says there will
be no chance of peace
until the frantic Americans have sown their
wild oats. They are sowing wild boats down
at Hog Island every day.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19

girl has Joined the marines. And
there s sure to be some one who will have
TO call her his sweet little devil hound.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19

Shell Shock as Exophthalmic Coiter
TO the Editor OF the Evening Public Ledger:
sr-At various medical meetings in Eng
land and France, and also in this country,
eminently at q medical meeting held by the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19

CETTING down to work and getting safely
" home again are no easy problems FOR
the laboring man of this year of our Lord
Trains, trolley cars and motor buses are
apoplectic with people, just before any week.
day morning, Just before 6 any weekday
afternoon
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
The Archdupe

The Archdupe
The Kaiser is said to have approved the
suggestion that an Austrian archduke be
made King Of Poland. Austrian archdukes
have been SO uniformly successful in the
last four years. haven't they9
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
NNE leaves his West Philadelph

nNE leaves his West Philadelphia home
~ at o'clock, In the cool OF a gray sum-
mer sunrise. His rght-hand coat pocket Is
stuffed with lunch, his hands are stiff from
yesterdays long grip on the bars and levers
of his big machine; there is still reminis-
cent pang In Just discovered little muscle
on the peak of the left shoulder: 1t Is no
pleasure to stretch out and swing his arms
There are many more people on the street
than sessos anyways credible-surprisingly
solid-looking business men. remarkably pert
and ciear-eyed young ladies. Five a. m. by
solar time-what a disturbingly energetic
world
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-06-26

ness TO choose Moderator to choose Clerk Treasurer and
octo to see the proprietors will lay anv div
sion IN u or any part thereof to the propeors will raise
any money to defray charges of laying said township and
nake road through said
for the benefit ofthe proprietors. ~
In compliance with this call the propretors and chose
Samuel Morse Moderator and Joseph Hnsd Clerk Voted not
10 take action on making division of said township
any money Voted choose three committee 90 and
make report at the next meeting of the quality thereof Chose
joshua May Samuel Cooke and Simeon Rood for said
voted to adjourn to the first day at this blaze
Ten OF the clock IN the forenoon July 1st 1884 Met voted
adjourn to the second day July instant to Hns
dill at six O'Clock in the morning. ~
Second OF July met and votedo let Samuel be commit
tee TO go and the and make committee
that shall be hereafter chosen Voted that this meeting stand
qourned to the tenth day of August next to house of
MAYOR samuel Billings in Bennington at of the the
afternoon Met tenth August and chose Samuel Porter to
60 and view the town and make return the committee that
shall be hereafter chosen Voted to let Samuel the man To
go and view the Voted choose committee to law ont
the town OF MorrstoWn Voted that the OF
three Voted that VIM. Farrand Alvin Bingham and Lieut.
samuel Day be the committee to lay out said Voted to
adjourn this meeting to the first Tuesday in November next to
meet at the house of Major Samuel Billings in Bennington at one
OF the clock November 2nd 1884 Met to adjourn to
the second Tuesday of May next at this place. the clock
in the afternoon. ~
be
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-06-26
The Coal Situation

The acuteness of the coal situation and
the unusual times in which they are
living are brought home to the people in
the following recommendation by State
uel Administrator Fl. J. M. Jones: 81
would suggest that every town in the
state open up a municipal wood yard re-
CARELESS of whether or not its charter
provides for it. Instead of building roads
l would use the employees for cutting
wood and / would do it now. If there
is any municipality that hesitates on &C.
count OF its charter, would forget the
charter until January first and then have
it amended by the legislature by giving
to the municipality the right 10 operate
a municipal wood yard. But in the
meantime, the municipality should cut
wood as it will be to late if the cutting is
put off until the legislature meets. These
are not normal times and my advice to
you is to cut your wood, then obtain
authority"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-06-26
Holsteins Bring High Prices.

Fifty-two head of registered Hostein
Gait e were sold at auction at the Pure
bred Livestock Sales company's pavilion
10 Brattleboro for good prices, the high
est being $525 paid by Abbott g. Clark of
Cor'landt, N, Y for COW eight and a
half years old. John F. Benjamin of
Barre paid $425 for four-year-old COW
and NJ. 7. Carrigan, Concord, Mass. $500
for cow seven years old. Abbott &
Clark also paidiS375 for four-year old,
daughter of King of the Pontiacs. Mr..
Benjamin's purchases amount to 81, 500.
Walter NJ. LOwney, of Mansfield, Mass,
the candy maker, bought a two. year-old
heifer for 1920.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-06-26
A Great Call for Youth.

Never have the boys and girls who are
graduating from our high schools and
academies and from higher institution
of learning, gone forth into a world IS
anxious and needy of their help. Army.
navy, Red Cross, Y. NJ. c. A, office, shop
and farm are crying for men and
women Never was the opportunity to
make good" so great as now. Never
was the remuneration SO great. Never
was there such an opportunity to render
patriotic service for ones country and
the world as now. Never was there a
time when the learning they have received
can be put to such profitable use. Never
were there times like these.-Barton
Monitor,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-06-26
MORRISVILLE

l.. @. Tillotson returned last Friday
night from brief business trip to the
middle west.
Lewis Martin has sold his farm in the
West part of the town to his brother,
George Martin.
Eli N. Bovat of Fairfield was a visitor
in town last week. Mrs. Bovat and
Ramona are spending soma time here
Mrs. Harlie Camp and daughter, Mar
iorie, went to Pike, N. H. Thursday for
weeks stay with her mother, Mrs
Brill.
H. c. Farrar. state manager for the
Provident Life Insurance Co., and Mrs.
Farrar, of Rutland. were guests at the
Randall last Wednesday night and
Thursday.
Miss Minnie Bliss returned Sunday
night to her duties as yeoman IN the
Uharlestown Navy Yard, Boston, after a
few days furlough, spent with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Id E. Bliss, on the
Randolph road.
A pair of used shells, which have been
made into vases, are on exhibition at
Town Clerk E. S. Robinson's office.
These shells we're picked up on the
battleflds of France and were sent home
by Harold Battye.
The Hardwick Gazette of last Thurs
day said: "a bouncing baby boy ar
rived at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. HI
Clark last Saturday morning, and Jim is
wearing a broad smile, thinking of the
added assistance he will have in his
garage in the near future"
Melvin G. Morse left Hardwick Satur-
day, June 10, to report for duty in Y. M.
@. A. work in which he enlisted. He
goesfrst to Princeton to take course
in the work. The many Morrisville
friends of Mr.. Morse, who has taken up
the work at great personal sacrifice,
will wish him success and safe return.
The fire company was called out last
Friday night at about six o'clock,
when a chimney burned out on the Dun
ham house, occupied by Grover Rice on
High street. The only damage was the
removal of few shingles and the danger
was over before the company arrived,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-06-26
The "Man's Job" at Home

1t has taken us over year to realize
that it is mans job "Over There -
And we now know that it is a mans ;o,,
over here. Don't cry out against the
multiplication of subscriptions and ,,on.
tributions and prohibitions. Did Won ever
stop to think that the boys over There"
can't stop after they fight one battle and
take their own time to fight the next one
It's life and blood and wounds Oyer
There; it's sordid dollars and cents over
here. Take your choice, It's taxes one
month, Red Cross the next, Liberty Bonds
the next, Y. M. c. A. funds the nezt and
K. c. subscriptions the next. That's ali
right. "over There" it is gas TO todov
shraPnel tomorrow, machine gun FIRE
day after tomorrow and Hell ever
night And our boys do not get Az ~,
cent interest on their investment % Ee.
and limb. Wouldn't you like them -
know that Vermont did not bes;ts.. -
invest money while they invested tbs;r
lives3-Bellows Falls Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-06-26
DaviSNoe

Last Wednesday, June l 9, in St. Johns
bury occurred the marriage of Alvin
Calvin Davis of Marshheld, formerly OF
Morrisville, and Miss Maud Mae Noe OF
Morrisville. The ceremony was per-
formed by Rev. A. S. Wordsworth,
pastor of the Baptist church, of St. Johns.
bury. Mr.. Davis returned today to
Marshfeld, where he has employment in
a mill. Mrs. Davis will remain at her
home on Bridge street. Congratulations.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-06-26
Assistant Judge mentioned

The Gazettelea that friends ofCapt
P. A. Hollenbeck of Wolcott have men,
toned him as a possible candidate for
side Judge of Lamoille County, asser ting
that the honor belonged to their town,
and that in presenting him with his bus.
mess experience and service in the Legis
lature, they have man whom La noille
County should be glad to honor. Owing
to the length of service of the present in
cumbents, it would seem quite probably
that our sister County of Lamoille will
elect new assistant judges to serve them
-Hardwick Gazette.