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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-30
HAS 53I
nv NEW 81 CLASS
Franklin County Leads the State in Reg
istration of 69-Total Figure Is More
Than Government Expected and
More Than Adjutant General
of Vermont Estimated.

The returns received at the Vermont
adjutant generals Office show that the
registration last Saturday was some 26
more than the government expected and
% more than had been estimated in the
adjutant generals office, a total of 53l,
OF which 495 are whites, three colored
and 80 aliens, including enemies. The
figures by counties, excepting the colored,
which are one each in Bennington, Rut-
land No. and Windsor counties, are:
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-30
EXPECT GENERAL COOPERATION.
In the Government Request for Gasoline.
less Sundays.

There having been many expressions
indicating that people believed that the
Sunday regulation relative to the oper,
alton of automobiles, motorcycles and
motorboats should have been an order
instead of patriotic request, one of the
reporters in Montpelier interviewed II.
J. NJ Jones, the state fuel administrator,
Thursday afternoon upon the matter.
Mr.. Jones said, q believe the people in
Vermont will show their patriotism in
this new request Of the federal govern
ment, just as they have in other mat
tiers of importance since the world war
began. / think that the end desired win
be accomplished as well as it would have
been if mandatory order had been is
sued / look for very general curtail-
ment in the operation Of the above mo
tor power driven machines Sunday"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-30
Card of Thanks.

We wish to express our thanks for the
many kind attentions to us, and TO our
husband and father in his illness. All is
gratefully appreciated.
Mrs. Theodore LaroeheIle and family.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-30
BARRE DAILY TIMES
FRIDAY, AUGUST 80, 1918.
The Weather

Fair tonight and Saturday; cooler to.
night in the interior Of Maine; light
north winds.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-30

LOST-Coat belt, blue, Wednesday evening
al dance or on street win finder please leave
a. tbis oa1ee1 l42t2s
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-05-16
&. NJ. MATTIS0N
TAXI SERVICE

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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-05-16
CLOSING OUT SALE
Ladies Fine tailored Goats. Suits and Dresses

Tt@ SEES 80 ia hr. q
sets 81 ~ isiesf shea~~
ard styles. 81 TIE fn~si ira.
feriai
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-01-08
THE RELATION OF SOIL TO THE
MAKING OF A GOOD
COMMUNITY

Few people apparently realize that
there is a very close relation between
the kind of soil in a given region and
tie kind of people which do or which
will eventually live in that region. In
other words, soil is a determinative
factor in the civilization of a country
and in the progress of community. l
Go not say that it is the only deter
minative factor, but it is an impor-
tant one. If one desired it and would
take time for it, he could easily show
this to have been true in history. The
earliest civilizations on this planet
were those in the valleys of the Nile
and of the Euphrates, both fertile val
leys. In each of these valleys there
were splendid civilizations at least
three or four thousand years before
the Christian era began. And every
one knows that there are to be found
10 regions on earth which were more
fertile than were those regions. The
fertility of the soil enabled the dwell
ers of the countries in question to
produce great harvests These har-
vests were great enough to meet the
needs of the people and even for eX-
port This export trade brought in
return wealth-at least, such wealth
as existed-frOm neighbOring peoples.
There were two inevitable results.
first, through a period of several gem
erations during which time there was
n more or less constant flow of trea
sure from outside peoples, there was
accumulated vast national wealth;
second, the people of these rich val
levs had time for other things than
merely earning a livelihood At least
some of them had. Cities had been
built. Monuments and pyramids and
temples and costly tombs were erect
ed. Literature and all the other
marks of a high civilization of that
day came into being. 1t may be in
teresting to recall that at the same
time in the mountain Businesses and
even upon the poor plains. of other
countless regions there were people
who did not and who could not make
such progress or advancement in the
arts of civilization. Their means o.
earning a livelihood were so limited
that it required all of their time ant
all of their thought and energies t.
exc out a bare subsistence. Centur
les passed before human ingenuit
made possible further progress
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-01-08
SOLDIER AND SAILOR INSURANCE

If a soldier or sailor is killed, and
he has a wife and children, the gov
eminent will provide compensation for
the wife, so long as she remains I'M
married, and support for the children
until they become 10 years of age.
These payments range from $50 for
a widow alone to $57.50 for widow
and four children. If the man is total
ly disabled the government will make
a fixed monthly payment to him rang
ing from $50 a month, if he is married,
to SIS a month, if he has a wife and
three or more children. Should he be
so helpless as to require a nurse or
attendant he will be given up to $40
additional. Should he lose both feet,
both hands, or both eyes. or be per-
manently bedridden, he will be paid
500 a month, whether he is a bachelor
or married.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-01-08
NNNNNNNNNNNNXNNNNxN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

among some of these peOples-and it
is a matter of common knowledge
that the descendants of these distantly
remote ancestors in many of these
countries are still impoverished in
all of those things which go to make
UP our modern civilization.
But we do. not need to go back to
ancient history to prove our conten-
ton that there is a relation between
the soil of a country and the prog
ress of it's people. 1t is a matter of
common, every day observation to
the man who reads and observes and
thinks for himself. The writer of
these articles was reared in the long
leaf, yellow pine belt in one of the
southern states, about seventy-five
miles from the Gulf of Mexico. The
soil, compared with many other parts
of the country which he has since
seen, was very poor. AS conse-
ouence, every phase of the whole life
of that section of the country was
correspondence impoverished In his
boyhood days the schools lasted only
three months in the year, unless the
public funds were supplemental
tbing which was rarely done. The
churches, like the schools, were in
cutQudlciy SuppOIltu IHeIe WERE
many churches in the country, but
the writer never knew one in a coun-
try district or in villages reaching
w to several hundred people, which
had full-time preaching, that is, a
pastor who lived among, and gave all
his time to, single church AS for
other institutions, they were practic-
ally unknown. Even in the towns.
which were built by and supported
by rural communities, were cores
pondingly simple and impoverished
in the better things of civilized and
cultured community life in rich com
munities.
But to carry the point still further,
the writer should like to point out
more clearly what has already been
implied: the poorer the land, the poor
CT the community in all of those ia
cilities which make for better living
Referring again to a bit of my boy.
hood and early young manhood ex
! periences, I recall very distinctly tina
as one travelled southwark toward thu
coast the land became poorer ant
poorer until for miles and miles be
fore one reached the coast nothin
grew but scrubby "black-jack' GA
bushes with now and then a scru
pine fifteen or twenty feet high, tn
5 same kind which back where he wa
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-01-08
HARTFORD FIREMEN KNI II
SWEATERS FOR SOLDIERS
international News Service)

VIHIGTHdIIUIdI INGWo RoTI VIZ
HARTFORD, Conn, Jan. Click,
click the boys are knitting, making
sweaters while they wait for fire
alarms. Periodically they purl-Just
as neat as any girl, Doing their bit for
the soldier boys in arms.
Yes, Hartford firemen are knitting
for the Red Cross. They are all
members of Engine Company No. 5.
They used to play setback to pass
the time away. Then some of the
women living near the firehouse vol
unteered to teach them to knit. At
first there were many dropped stitches
and some cuss words. But the needles
go like clockwork now In addition
to knitting, the firemen have all TAX
en- out memberships in the Red Cross
and bought Liberty Bonds.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-01-08

Young Doss's great-grandfathe
Elijah Adams, was among the leaders
70 the Mohawks, who staged the his
toric "tea party" in Boston Harbor
just prior to the Revolutionary War
His grandfather, Gardner Adams, MS
a cousin of President John Quincy
Adams, and fought in the United
States navy throughout the War of
1912. The boys uncle, another John
Quincy Adams, brother of Mrs. Bur-
rows, was with the Union forces in
the Civil War.
Mrs. Burrows sacrificed her sole
support when young Doss enlisted,
but, although she is aged, she declar-
ed she would manage to survive"
and was proud that her son had
voluntarily offered his services in the
cause of humanity. IAN Adams
couldn't do less" she said
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-01-08
30 RELATIVES IN WAR,
DENVER W0MAN'S RECORD

CBy International News Service.)
DENVER, Colo, Jan. 6.-Thirty-
two relatives sent to the war-all on
the side of the Allies.
That is the record of Mrs r. NJ
Campbell, of Denver, wife of prom
inent physician of this city. Four
kinsmen of Mrs Campbell, who ent-
cred the struggle at the beginning of
hostilities between England and Ger
many, have been killed All were
serving with Scotch regiments. Two
others in the same units were wound
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-01-08
WIDOW SACRIFICES ONLY
SUPPORT FOR WARS SAKE
(By International News ServiceD

(By International News Service.)
DENVER, Colo, Jan. although
widowed and in straitened circum-
stances, Mrs. Clara Doss Burrows, one
of the few living descendants of the
famous Adams family, urged her only
son, Earl Gardned Doss, to enlist for
service in Uncle Sans fighting
forces.
The young man is now at the Mare
Island Marine Corps training station
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-01-08

conservation. 1t is an old, old tale.
but it is one which need never to be
told on our communities in this fair
Garden spot of the west. But it is
one which will be told on every one
Cf them which does not see to it that
tie plot for the story is never laid by
the people of the community them
selves
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-01-08

ed The othed twenty-six are still
fighting with Scotch of Canadian
forces on the western front in
France.
A brother of Dr. Campbell also is a
dentist with the Cameron Highland
ers, having enlisted at Winnipeg
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
American Force
Growing Stronger
Each Day at Front

With the American Army in
France, May Except for artil-
lery firing and patrolling, there is
little new in Picardy.
Every day the Americans become
stronger. Apparently they are bet
ter entrenched than the Germans,
who are being continually harassed.
day and night. Despite the enemy
heavy expenditure in gas he has
obtained no advantage in this sec
tor, the Americans discounting his
every move.
A letter. freshly written, found on
the body of a German killed by the
Americans in Picardy discloses the
effectiveness of the American fire
against the enemy and the difficult
ties the Germans are having in
bringing up supplies. The letter fol-
lows:
Here we lie in a village which
has been completely demolished by
artillery fire. The village is near
Montdidier.
we dare not show ourselves. We
live in the cellar. We have to go
and get our food at night. Last
night | went out with a detail which
brought back food.
We got direct hit A shell hit
our party, which killed some men
and wounded several. / hope we
will soon be taken from the western
army"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
Over Score Districts
Will Be Exempt Under
May Is Call For Men

Between twenty and twenty five
local draft board districts may be
exempted from furnishing men un-
der the lat draft call for about co.
600 men from Pennsylvania to go to
four cantonments, in the opinion of
officers at the state draft headquar-
ters. Definite statements of the dis
tricts could not be made because the
credits for enlistment of men in Ma
tional Guard and Regular Army or
ganizations since last June and the
quotas under the call are being
checked up. 1t is expected to an
nounce the quotas within the next
twenty-four hours. Railroad officers
are preparing data for the train
schedules to move the men.
The exemptions will be based upon
the voluntary enlistments since June
and except under some special in
duction calls for men with certain
occupations. districts will be given
official notice that they will be free
under this call.
Under the first draft Harrisburg
and Lancaster were the only two
exempted cities.
Beginning tomorrow the move
ment of 2,106 men to Columbus bar
racks from Camp Meade territory,
will start. This movement will end on
MAY IA,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
ALDERMAN CHARGES
TELEPHONE CALLS
Continued from First Page. I

alderman at the end of the month
will receive as his share S1S5 of the
1915 costs. Fhe higher the costs
the more the alderman receives, it
was pointed out.
"Mileage" by Telephone
Chief of Police Wetzel said last
night no warrant was served. The
defendant failed to appear at the first
hearing. the chief said, so informa-
ton was made out. The chief affirm
ed, however, that no warrant was
served, and the man was summoned
by telephone to the hearing. But
in the costs was an item of 81 for
serving the warrant. There was an
additional costs of twenty cents
for mileage. This mileage. presum-
ably, was involved in the telephone
call
The last item on the list of costs
| made out by the alderman was ''ad-
ditional, $40" Queried on what lad
ditional" means, the alderman said
mileage" So evidently the mileage
was charged twice, making an item
of 40 cents for mileage involved in
arresting a manwho was summoned
to the hearing by telephone.
The Many Fees
c. O. Backenstoss, secretary to the
Mayor, who has charge of the money
turned in at police court hearings,
enumerated the alderman's fee for
the case as follows: Information, so
cents; dock entry, so cents; hearing,
rs cents; oaths, 10 cents, or $1.S5.
The entire list of costs including The
mileage" and the additional" fol-
lows:
Information .............. $50
Dock entry ............... so
Hearing ................ rs
Oaths .............. 10
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

increases and the average being
15.O21 per cent. advance over the
1917 pay roll.
Perhaps the provision of the rec
concentrations likely to encounter
most strenuous objection is the one
that all wage increases allowed by
the roads in 1916 and 1917 shall be
deducted from the amounts now to
be given. The commission declared
that its conclusions were based on a
principle, which was that the men
were entitled to recompense for the
increased cost of living and in basing
its recommendations on the payrolls
of December, 1915, in comparison
with present prices of necessities de-
cided that it would be unfair to al
low certain employees who already
had received wage advance to bene-
fit twice.
The commission declared in its
report that reductions in hours are
not to be regarded as increases in
pay. stand frankly at variance
with high railroad officials. No
changes will be made in the hours
of service now in effect. or in the
present method of payment for
overtime service. NO worker who
receives $3.50 a month or more will
participate, it is said. All who re-
ceive $S5 monthly or less will have
from $50 to S34 added thereto: the
$S5 per month man will get $119
by the findings of the commission.
it was said
Men receiving 50 per day, accord
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

ing to the recommendations will get
S2.S2; SO men will receive $4.23;
81 men $500; $5 men $6.05. based
upon salaries received in 1916.
General Increase
Men who received SIS per month
in 1916 will be raised to $1O5.75;
$S5 per month, to $119: $1OO per
month, to '$1S1.75; $110 per month,
to S14O.25; 1925 per month, to $153:
$3.50 per month, to s174.25; 5000
per month, to S216.75: $3.50 per
month, no increase.
Men who are paid on the hourly
basis rated in 1916 will be increased
according to that rate as follows:
Twenty cents an hour for an eight
hour day will receive 29& cents:
thirty cents, increased to AZ u cents;
40 cents. to Sc cents: so cents. to
65 cents; 60 cents to 1914 cents; 70
cents, to so cents; so cents, to 9O1h
cents; so cents, to SO cents; the in
crease in hourly rates ceases at
$1.191A, which rate remains un-
changed.
Employees who are now paid on
the mileage basis are to have their
mileage rates increased as follows:
Road freight engineers and motor
men, 15H per cent; road freight
engineers and helpers, 34h per
cent; road freight conductors, 20 u
per cent; road freight brakemen
and fiagmen, 391a per cent; road
passenger engineers and motormen,
l 1a per cent; road passenger fire
men and helpers, 2SA per cent; /;
road passenger conductors, ISL per
cent; road passenger baggagemen,
3SA per cent; road passenger and
'brakemen and tiagmen, 39h per
cent
The greatest number of employees
on all the roads fall into the class
receiving from $50 to $65 per
month; while the next group receiv-
ing ten more a month amount to
312,761. In 1917 there were Ill
Az clerks receiving an annual sal
airy of 5000 or less; the average pay
of the clerk class being $50 month
ly. There were 270,S55 section men
whose average pay as n class was
$5O.31 per month. There were 121,-
600 unskilled laborers whose aver
age pay was $5S.25 per month; $780,
075 station service emAloyes whose
average pay was $5S.57 per month;
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

comment. 1t is believed that Mayor
Keister and all associated with him
in the general conduct of the city
are aware of what is going on and
while it requires some courage to
regulate the misuse of paved high
ways it is pointed out as the duty
of the authorities to protect the in
terests of the community against the
invasion of community rights by cor
porations and individuals. There has
been some talk of a public meeting
of protest and some such movement
will undoubtedly follow a continu-
ance of the abuse which is recog-
nized all over the city.
No One Cares
An illustration of the absolute in
difference of individuals and cor
porationB to the unnecessary cutting
open of paved highways is to be seen
on North Second street, between
Liberty and North. During the past
year or two this particular block
has been ripped open for one reason
or another repeatedly. Only last
week an opening made last winter
for the Introduction of some service
pipes was closed by the Department
of Highways. This week practically
at the same spot the street was again
ripped open for the introduction of
another service pipe which might
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

have been installed months ago when
the street was previously opened. 1t
is said that the failure to do so was
owing to the refusal of a property
owner to install the necessary con-
nections at that time. AS a result
of this Indifference on the part of
the property owners builders, con-
tractors and others the streets are
constantly being torn up without
reason or excuse and at great cost
to the common purse.
There is said to be grave doubt
now whether the charges for re-
pairing streets opened in this way
equal the cost of the repairs. 1t has
been suggested that a good way to
prevent this sort of thing would be
to greatly increase the fee for per-
mits of this character.
Furthermore the principal drive
way of the city along the river has
become in recent monte a mere
traffic thoroughfare f~r trucks and
vehicles of every sort which reach
that highway from every intersect-
ing street and for no other purpose
apparently than drive along the
river. Other cities have regulations
IOr SuCH lraHlc ana nave preserved
for the people at least one main
boulevard. Harrisburg will be COM
PEELED to do the same thing or suf-
fer in comparison with more pro-
gressive communities.
Remedy Badly Needed
1T is up to those who know the
situation to provide the. remedy
was the eXasperated comment of
one who has been watching the de-
terioration of the highways. Com
missioner Lynch is a practical high
way director and people will look
to him to preserve the streets and
suggest such regulations for their
use as is necessary to protect them
further abuse. He knows the
cost and realizes better than any
other citizen what will follow unless
a stop is Immediately put to the mis-
use of the highways"
Those who are protesting against
the existing conditions declare that
streets have been constructed not
for the few but for the many and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09

Executing warrants .......... 100
Mileage 20
Serving subpoena .. so
Additional :. 20
Secretary Backenstoss explained
that the dock entry" means keep
ing a record of each case for which
an information is made out. The
Mayor is required by law to do this
when he holds police court, and the
alderman is required to keep the
record when he holds the hearings
in place of the Mayor, according to
Secretary Backenstoss. At the pres
ent time, the Mayors secretary, who
is paid by the city, makes the dock
entry, but the alderman gets the fifty
cent fee for doing it.
Another item on the alderman
costs was Subpoena" so cents. This
was said by the alderman to be the
fee for subpenaing the witness to the
hearing. The cnly witness to the
hearing was Patrolman Newmyer.
who made the arrest. The offices
sending a motor ordinance violator
into police court always appears
against the man, and subpenas are
not served.
In case the Mayor were holding
police court, the alderman's fee
would go into the city treasury. And
in case the Mayor yere holding po-