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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-15

lack of money are responsible for the de-
lay, and in this connection there is rea-
son to believe that the movement to loan
China fifty millions is finding favor
among the financial men of America.
On the surface the sum seems negligible;
we are spending that much every day to
keep the wheels moving. Yet it viii GO
farther than money usually goes, for it
viii bear in upon the Chinese mind the
truth-that the United States desires to
stand by the open door policy. And if
the United States stands aloof that pol
icy cannot be maintained.
China learned its German lesson when
the Teutons, upon a mere pretext, seized
the bay Of Kiao Chau, possession which
Germany, in turn, lost to Japan. Earlier,
German savagery was brought home to
the Chinese in the Boxer rebellion. If a
flow of man-power ever begins in China
and heads toward Berlin, woe unto the
baby butchers The Germans may as
well hang up their implements What
China has already done to aid the allied
cause may be seen almost anywhere
along the western front, where Chinese
stalwarts, not the coolies of the large
cities, but the harder race to the north,
are working harder and accomplishing
more than the non-combatant peasantry
Of the entente allies. Germany learned
to her sorrow that they can fight as we'll
as dig, for their prowess was well DEM
onstrated in Picardy last spring when,
in an emergency, they stemmed Hun
nish tide until the French reserves came
up. China is building ships for the Unit
ed States. She is furnishing wheat and
beef for the allies and she has other
foodstuffs to spare. 1t should be kept
in mind that Chinese famines are due to
faulty distribution rather than to actual
shortage.
The conviction will not down that
China declared war against the Germans
in large measure because of the action
taken by the United States China asks
for assistance and if we mistake not the
vast majority Of our people believe that
we should give it freely She is sister
republic and in the measure that she
was able to respond she has rendered as
sistance graciously and without thought
of reward.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-15
Quaker ouips.

Conscience is the filter Of the soul, but
even a filter is apt TO get clogged up.
The pen may be mightier than the
sword, until it comes to making a caval-
ry charge.
You never can tell Many a bluff old
chap doesn't get any farther than the
bluff
It's the unexpected that happens. Luck
seldom comes to the man who depends
upon it.
No woman Is so humble that some
man. at some time in her life, hasn't told
her he was unworthy of her.
There are five senses, and the chronic
borrower can always be distinguished by
the sense OF touch.
You never can tell Many fellow
who complains that he doesn't get all
that's coming to him is really in luck
Philadelphia Record.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-15
Copying Prussian Tactics.

During Candidate Howes illness, nat
urally gubernatoral politics comes to
halt Rutland Herald
The Herald reckoned without Charles
IT. Darling He isn't man who fails to
grasp an opportunity, and so, instead of
one seeing a respite in hostilities while
Mr.. Howe lies so i'll in Montpelier hos
pital that not even his friends are adj
mitted to his bedside, the Darling crowd
lays down a barrage Of filth and misrep-
resentation hoping, one must Judge, that
while Mr.. Howe is in such condition
that he cannot protect himself from a
type Of attack that recalls Allen M.
Fletcher at his best Tor worse), to SO
bespatter their opponent as to injure his
chances Of being nominated at the pri-
maries 1t has become apparent that a
little thing like the truth is no obstacle
to the Darling crowd. A mans reputa-
ton is as dust under their feet They
know nothing of fair play. The same
ruthless methods which the Prussians use
in war are considered by the Darling
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-15
WILLIAMSTOWN

Misses Nellie Tillotson and Cora Ken
nedy of this village and Miss Grace Til
lotson Of New York City were IN Berlin
for an outing at Mirror lake the 18th, re-
turning by way Of Barre.
Miss Edna Waldo was in Moretown
last Tuesday afternoon to engage board
for the school year beginning in Septem-
Der. She was accompanied by Mrs. r.
g. Waldo, Miss Evelyn Covell and Mrs.
WILDER as far as Montpelier.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram 5. Drury have
lately spent a few days with relatives
at Woodstock, N. H., and Mrs. Drury
remains there for time. Mr.. Drury re-
turned Tuesday afternoon, his mail route
being covered on Monday by Substitute
Carrier w. NJ. Williams Of route No. !,
substitute on route No, 2, in place o.
Albert s. Cowles, resigned
Mrs. Harry M. Lasell, who has been
making her home of late with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs Isaac Recore Of Barre
Town, was in town yesterday for short
stay, accompanied by Miss Ruth Gordon.
She, with her eldest son, Harry James,
spent last week with her husband, who
is employed at the Gear Shaping works
at Springfield, Vt,
A number Of our farmers, mostly from
the south hill, were in Montpelier on
the evening Of the l4th, to attend a
meeting Of the New England Milk Pro-
dueers' association. Among those attend
ing were Charles L. Hayward, Heman b..
Smith, G. W. Cram, j. J. Bailey, Jules
Tlexander, Charles Riddel and Fred II.
Alger.
Mrs. Frank f. Currier and daughter,
Christine, now Mrs. Constable OF North
Carolina, were in town calling on friends
recently. Mr.. Currier, formerly pastor OF
the NJ e. church here, now owns small
farm in the town of Cabot.
Miss Lena Seaver and Miss Gertrude
JefTords are spending the week in camp
at Nelson pond, Calais, with friends.
Miss Louise Waterman, who has been
visiting Mrs. w. NJ. Williams, has re-
turned to her home in Royalton.
Arthur NJ. Smith and children, Har-
riet and Everett, of East Randolph, were
in town as the guests of Mr.. Smiths
sister, Mrs. Clarence Bailey, the 18th,
calling on Mr.. and Mrs Albert Denni-
son OF Chelsea on the way home.
Miss Margaret Kanaly of Montpel-
Ter is in town visiting her cousins, Ruth
and Richard Martin, and other relatives.
She il to return next month to the nor
NAL school at Fitchburg, Mass, for her
second year
Mrs. Eta M. Coveil would be glad to
sell or rent her home on construction
hill. Anyone interested may address her
! for further particulars, before Sept. /,
at 3542 Warden street, n. w, Wash
ington, d. C.-adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-15

Italian editors who are touring Amer
lea to get in touch with the American
viewpoint so far as It touches on the
war received a refreshing message from
President Wilson when they were pre-,
sented to the chief magistrate Tuesday.
What he said is Of no small moment, al
though in declaring that America is
serving, not America alone, not Italy
alone, but mankind, he reiterated an oft
quoted saying of his in the earlier days
of the war. That which seems to have
impressed the editors from Italy, how
ever, was the convincing and friendly re-
assurances voiced by the president as he
urged them to study closely American
affairs. The meeting ended happily with
a luncheon.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-15
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Appreciates Reception Given Them.

Editor Barre Daily Times; Kindly per.
nit me, through your valuable paper, to
thank the public for the splendid way
they turned out to our concert Tuesday
evening. 1t has been an uphill job re-
organizing the band and the encourage
ment we received was very gratifying
and convincing that there should be a
place in the public life Of the city for
the band. / also wish to take this OPP
portunity to inform the parents Of boys
who are learning to play band instru-
ments that we would be gid to have the
boys attend our rehearsals. They can
sit next to experienced players and in
this way receive good musical school.
ing,
The band win be ready at any time to
respond to any occasion Of a patriotic
nature Again thanking the public and
all who have helped to make the band q
reality. James Robertson,
Manager Barre City Band
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-15
CURRENT COMMENT
The Howe Way.

The Brattleboro Reformer brings out
the fact that when war was declared
Frank L. Howe Of Bennington, candidate
for the Republican nomination for gov
ernor, opened up an informal recruiting
station and secured something like 100
soldiers for Uncle Sam. This is the
Howe way of doing things. The need of
the time was soldiers, and to get soldiers
Howe devoted himself, with singularly
good results. It was bit OF applied pa
triotism of the most practical sort, and
it is this kind Of initiative, both in the
military and civilian ranks, that makes
the United States formidable in war
st. Adams Messenger.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-15

crowd to be fair in politics. These tao
tics may give momentary advantage to
their users, but reaction against them
is certain. The people of Vermont do
not believe in such tactics, and once they
sit down to analyze them they viii dis
cover their shallow pretense, their lack
of worth and truth, and then Mr.. Darling
will have to pay the price. Mr.. Darling
and his fellows have deliberately lowered
the campaign to a level which is not
pleasantly greeted in this state, where
fair play is demanded above all other
things The Herald will have to amend
its comment about gubernatorial politics
coming to halt.--St. Adams Messenger.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-15
CHINA IN THE WAR

We are not accustomed to think of
China as being possible factor in the
conflict and of nation which has been
Iingularly backward in practicing the
lrts of war it is surprising to hear that
China is eager to send to France 100000
soldiers. Only the lack of ships and the
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-15

This is the year of the quadrennial APP
praisal and if you have a bone to pick
with the assessors the board of civil au-
thority viii give you hearing at city
hall tonight. The prerogative of siren
uous protest, which is one of the bull
warks of our New England democracy,
may be exercised within all bounds of
reason any time after o'clock
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-15

If one Of the gubernatorial candidates
includes in his reading the Burlington
Clipper he may be able to discern some
where between the lines the words from
the old refrain, Darling, | am growing
colder"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-15

just at this moment it will be quite
as imposing task for the Germans to
capture Petrograd as it would be for the
Scotch to enter Aberdeen. The Huns
show themselves to be the farceurs that
they are when they talk largely of in
yesting the Russian capital.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-15

Maybe sabotage is the biggest, strong
est, most wholesale weapon of the work
ing class" We don't believe it, though
and perhaps Big Bill Haywood, general
secretary-treasurer of the |. w W., win
have long period of confinement in
which to ponder over his definition.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-15

Contemporaries are landing the course
of the city authorities in Lawrence,
Mass, where all the new streets are to
be named after Lawrence young men
who have sacrificed their lives overseas
1t might also be well to change few of
the old street names in honor of the men
who have fallen.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-15

Undoubtedly if he were up and doing,
Candidate Frank E, Howe would ask no
quarter from those who oppose him, but
to accuse sick man Of being pro-Ger-
man in his sympathies in these days Of
righteously infamed public sentiment
seems a bit too much like jumping on a
fellow when he is down.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-15

State politics is down with bad case
of anamia if the lack of interest to be
noticed in these parts is indicative of
apathy up and down the line. Start out
with the ayowed purpose Of precipitating
a political discussion and the only people
who will talk are the candidates them
selves.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-15

Our idea of the non essentially occu-
pied person is the young woman who
takes up half column of the editorial
page to prove that eating artichokes
with spoon is bad etiquette.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-15

Symphony orchestras seem to have
formed the bad habit Of not being in
tune with the United States Federal
agents now are investigating members of
a well known Chicago musical organiza-
ton.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-15

Smoking-car statesmen who anathema-
tie the Russians should begin to remem-
Der that the bolsheviki, at whom they
are usually aiming, form only a small
part of the Russian people.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-21
PRESS COMMENT
In Glare of Publicity

Some Is violators of the food adj
ministration regulations in Rutland
have been caught and are being very
severely dealt with. The violations
consisted of getting sugar fer can
ming in excess of the legal allowance.
The sugar has been confscated and
sold for the benefit of the Red Cross,
the regular sugar cards taken away
and the names of the offenders pub
lished. The exposure was the re-
suit Of an investigation made by
State Food Inspector Wood. 1t is
understood that Investigations will
be made in other cities and towns of
the state. The people have got to
play this game fair or they will get
into trouble. The strong hand of
the law is getting after the slackers,
the food hogs and the sugar hoard
crs. Publish their names-the peo-
pie want to know who are traitors
and who are Burlington
Clipper.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-21
WAR HITS VERMONT

Vermont is hard hit by war condi-
tions-no doubt about that. Indus
trially, she isn't profting materially
except in perhaps a dozen centers.
What these gain, others are losing.
Montpelier hes over a hundred va
cant tenements, Barre probably as
many, while Brattleboro could house
1000 people mere than it has at pres
ent. Springfield, Windsor, Swanton,
Bennington, Ludlow and Winooski,
the machine, munitions and cloth
making ceEters, are best circum-
stanced now.-Randolph Herald.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-21
CITY OF NEWPORT

The Newport Branch of the A. c..
r. is required to furnish 400 pounds
of clothing for French and Belgian
relief, to be collected ready for ship
ment on Wednesday, Sept. 25. This
appeal ought to and will arouse every
patriotic and humanitarian person to
respond, as they will be asked to do
through a letter that will be sent out
by the committee having this cam
paign in charge. Those having con-
tributions to make will please notify
Rev. L. A. Edwards, Mrs. H F. Ham
ilton or Mrs. H. A. Flint, SO that an
automobile may call for the same.
Collections will be made on Wednes-
day and Thursday of next week, the
25th and 26th. Someone will also be
at the school hall on that day to re-
ceive contributions. We urge you to
read the letter carefully and beg of
you not to ignore it, or consign it to
the waste basket. It is a strong per-
sonal appeal.
Rev. Arthur Leonard Wadsworth is
supplying the pulpit of the First Bap-
fist church for the last three Sundays
of September. Tomorrow evening Mr..
Wadsworth will discuss "The World
War and the World Future" Some
of the points will be, When did the
war begin? Who started it? When
will it .end?; also the moral values of
the war, some by-products of the war,
and the challenge to Christians of to-
day by the war. Interesting facts of
a historical and scientific character
will be introduced. The public is
cordially invited.
Special attraction at the Premier
theatre two days, Monday and Tues
day, Sept. % and a. "The War
rior" admitted by all to be the Great
est Novelty Picture of the year.
The Sophomores gave a reception
to the Freshmen last evening at the
school hall. While the weather was
somewhat damp on the outside it did
MT dampen the spirit of the young
people on the inside. The evening
was spent in promenading, and light
refreshments of punch and waters
were served.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. McCarten are
taking a ten days leave of absence
visiting friends in New York, making
the trip by auto.
The latest reports received yester-
day from O. G. Miller, who under
went an operation at the Mary
Fletcher Hospital, Thursday, we're
very Encouraging, and very much bet
ter than the physicians could ex-
pect, his many friends will be glad
to hear this report.
Mrs. Muriel Brooks is having a
few days vacation from the Wood
ruff jewelry store and in company
with her husband who is home. on a
10 days furlough, are stopping at
their home in Coventry.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-21
NEW WORK FOR SUB CHASER
Rescues Drowning Aviators on Gulf
Coast

Fort Worth, Texas, Sept. 21-A
submarine chaser, tuned and groom
ed, has been transported into the
heart of Texas and put to work-not
hunting down lurking German u
boats but in rescuing unfortunate
American aviators, who fall into the
water.
This is a rev venture for the sub
marine chaser, or the sea-sled, as it
is more commonly called. Ordinarily
this craft, which attains a speed Of
so miles an hour under the lashing of
it's powerful eight cylinder motor, is
undersea boats. They have been sue
cessful in hunting down foes and
guarding coasts. Sixty-one of the
lightning sleds are in use-sixty
along the Atlantic coast and the six
=, ty-first on Lake Worth in Fort
Worth
Several months ago, when the fatal
falls among the aviation students
around this city grew alarming in
number, United States army officers
concluded that simplifying and adj
vanced training would be less deadly
over the waters of Lake Worth than
over the dry land. The problem of
how to rescue the aviator, should he
tumble, was solved by the sea-sled.
The cost of constructing the boat
and getting it to Fort Worth was
$17,012. It draws eighteen inches of
water. It's length is "a feet and its
width feet. inches. 1t has IS all
pockets and the walls are about s
inches thick. The sled has V shap-
ed bottom Credit for suggesting
this shape to the manufacturers is
given to Captain S. V. Schermerhorn
who was formerly stationed at the
Fort Worth air fields.
A crew of three men is required tc
operate the sled, which is kept
readiness for action all the time like
a fire engine. Quarters have beer
erected for the men on the lake
shore.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-21
An Emergency Ration

The Quartermaster Corps has
worked out a special reserve emer-
gency ration for the Army, consist
ing of hard bread, corn beef, hash,
roast beef, salmon, sardines, soluble
coffee, sugar, and salt, to be packed
in camoufaged galvanized-iron tins
and Theoretically sealed against gas
as well as moisture.
Wheat, meat, and sugar make up
most of the menu of this 'lunch be-
tween shots for our boys. That is
the reason civilians are asked to eat
war bread, to save the heavier cuts
of beef, and to make our national
allotment of sugar go around.
The abundant American harvests
have brought riffs in the food cloud,
it is true. But now is the time for a
national reserve ration to make i'm
possible any such dire conditions as
faced the allies early last spring. Re
member those words of Lord Rhond-
da when he heard our wheat supplies
had been eaten up: "The war is over
we are beaten"
America did her part then, and she
must do her part now by preparing
against any possible repetition of
that call of distress.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-21
THINKS 1T IS GRIP
DIR. Dalton Does Not Believe 1t Is
Spanish Influenza

Burlington, Sept. 2O-Dr. c.. F.
Dalton, secretary of the State Board
of Health, received a telephone call
today from physician in Washing
ton county which stated that there
were fears that four cases of Span
ish influenza had broken out i'll that
section of the state. The cases are
being Investigated.
DR.. Dalton indicated shat the rainy
weather of the past week was result
ing in much grip and influenza of the
ordinary type, and that in all prob
ability the cases reported were notil-
ing more.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-21

Wednesday morning while working
IN the Bobbin mill using small saw
Alphonse Perrault of Lowell had the
misfortune to cut off the thumb and
fourth fingerof his left hand.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-21
VERMONT NEWS

Through the local Office of the
United States employment service the
Mad River Lumber company of
Waitsfeld and the Waterbury Last
Block company of Waterbury have
secured contracts for the manufacture
of aviation stock to be used by the
United States navy. They have two
rush contracts and the local employ
ment is trying to secure additional
help.
Wednesday morning while working
in the Bobbin mill using a small saw
Alphonse Perrault of Lowell had the
misfortune to cut off the thumb and
fourth fingerof his left hand.
Theodore Romprey of Winooski
through his father has instituted a
suit against E. A. Gay, of Burlington
to recover $4,000 damages and costs.
DR.. Ernest L. Tracy, who some
time ago passed the examinations for
naval service, will leave Brattleboro
Friday, having received orders to
report at the naval hospital at Pei
ham Bay, N. Y, eight miles from
New York city, September 20. Doc
tor Tracy is to be assistant surgeon
with the rank of lieutenant.
Perley Orville Downey, victim of
the Spanish influenza in Nashua, N.
H., whose death occurred Sept. II,
was native of North Sherburne and
"a years old. He went from Vermont
to New Hampshire IL years ago.
The cottage at the Mormon noun
ment in South Royalton caught fire
Sunday from defective chimney and
caused some damage.
Miss Anna Beam of New York and
Rutland, whose stage name is Anna
Sands and who appeared in this vic
nifty in the Flo-Flo company, goes
soon to France as a member of a
company organized to entertain the
American expeditionary force.
A free class in radio instruction
was started in Burlington Friday and
a number of young men have already
joined.
Henry D. Wellman, whose father
was the late Henry Wellman, and
whose mother was the late Mrs. A.
J. Bowen, of Brattleboro, arrived in
Brattleboro from New York for a
rest of several weeks, following in
juries in the Atlantic transport SER
vice.
The funeral of Bert Daily of Wat
erbury, who died Monday, was held
Thursday afternoon. He was chop
ping down tree when in. some man
ner was struck by falling limb. He
did not recover consciousness, dying
a few hours later. He was AZ years
old and leaves a wife and six children
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-21

dation, the sleeping and living space,
the hairdressing establishment, which
was equal TO anything that the West
End of London could show, the ar
rangements on the American ships
showed higher level than our own"
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-21
BARBER SHOPS
Now Important Part of British
Grand Fleet

London, Sept. 20-Barber shops on
American battleships now forming a
part of the British Grand Fleet equal
in comfort the fashionable establish
ents of London's West End, Victor
Fisher, founder of the British Work
ers' league, asserted on returning
from visit to the fleet.
ut struck me-" Mr.. Fisher said in
detailing his impressions of the
American ships, "that in such minor
departments of service life as the
laundry work, the kitchen accommo-
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-21

The modern banjo was introduced
into England from America, to which
country it was probably taken by the
African slaves, who originally OBJ
tanned the idea from India. The
name "banjo" seems to have been
derived from "banya," the name of
Senegambian instrument of the
guitar class.
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