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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-03
WALKING INTO WASHINGTON
By Roy Helton

paint, render it unique among the tall
buildings of the world.
1t is a somewhat sad reflection on the
achievements of American art that the
development Of any national feeling in mat
ters of taste and beauty has so sadly Jagged
behind our power to express taste and
beauty in concrete, steel or stone. Our re-
cent public buildings seem to me not at all
inferior to recent European buildings, but
that is not enough
The buildings we are now creating will
endure for many hundred years. They
will be our landmarks for posterity and are
now our permanent greeting to the rest OF
the world today and tomorrow.
Therefore l believe they ought to be
American.
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The food shortage in Austria may be
fully realized from the comment of a Swiss
observer. who asserts that there is no
leather to be had"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-03

Uncle Sam is rightly confident that the
new ships which China is building for him
will not be Of the junk type. All the junkers
are in quite another part of the world.
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U-Boat Fugit

Captain Boy-Ed de-
U-Boat Fugit clares that the Kasers
C-boats cant waste
time hanging about for American transports"
He's right. for there's very little of that
commodity to spare when the conveys hit up
the tune of thirty-five knots
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The force of our latest drives must
indicate to the Kaiser that there are some
Americans with very pressing engagements
in France.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-03

Perfect thrty-sixes" seem also to be
wanted for the army
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-03

Further retreat" rejoices a patriotic
headline, thought to be near" And yet we
hope it will be far.
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Naturally enough Russia has become af
fiicted with cholera. She has been altogether
too choleric to escape 1t.
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x THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is eCclu-
sfrclp entitled to the use for repu Hication
OF oH netrs dispdtcha' credited 10 IL or mot
ofher,cise credited IN this paper, aud also
the local ns,cs pubtshcd therein.
Il All rights Of republication Of special dis
patches herein are also rcSGrred.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-03
Hog Island, So STYLED

THE most perilous episode in the his
L tory of Hog Island was in 1866. when a
Swedish surveyor Uindstrom) tried to give
1t the name Of KAISER Island" or "Island
Of Emperors"
The name Hog Island happily was re-
tanned It is a literal translation of the
Indian name for the island, which was
Quistconck, meaning place for hogs"
And now Hog Islands first ship is to be
called the Quistconck. Good luck to her.
Now that so many German notables
have fed to Switzerland, would It be per-
mitted to az that autocrsts desert sink
~ ahtp1 eocRATHk
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-03
HIGH ADVENTURE

IN READING the stories of the air
which have wittily been entitled plane
Tales from the Skies" one sometimes has
an uneasy feeling that the aviators are
trying to tell US of sensations and salts
factions that can hardly be described. We
can imagine. for our own part, how hard
1t would be to convey to a man who had
never been immersed in water any inkling
of the exhilaration and delight of bathing.
We can hardly blame the flying men if
they frankly admit the impossibility of ex-
planning to us groundlings the novel &C.
stasy of their course on the intangible
roads of the air.
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w over the new Alexandria road one
makes dramatic descent into the love
liest city in all the western world On the
right as one makes his way to the peak
of the hill that fronts the green acres of
Arlington the three curious spindly towers
of the wireless plant loom up with their
open network of stays and wing bracings,
the first hint of that new world spirit which
bows neither to space nor time-in the new
earth of which this shimmering city in the
valley seems destined to be a spiritual
capital
l. Arlington are half sunk behind the
cemetery hill on which the new amphl-
theatre Of white marble looms. The lights
are on down in the valley, though one may
still see the graceful dome and spreading
wings of the Capitol, clear but pearly blue
in the thin evening haze that has fallen
over the city. The lighted dome of the
library is behind it, the clocks on the old
postofice tower and below these an in.
finitude of shimmering points field of
Wesselton diamonds, blue and sparkling
Lights indeed this evening in thou
sand spots where till the year Of the great
war the city would have been dark and
deserted-lights from long rows of office
windows where a few months ago were the
tall. dark elms and naples of parks and
pleasure grounds.
AS we dip further into the valley toward
the Potomac bridge the acres of blue-mer-
curry lamps in the Bureau of Engraving
| and Printing grow almost too dazzling for
| comfort, but we can still see behind and
| above them the tall and majestic obelisk
| through which the nation was inspired to
| do honor to the memory Of George Wash
| ington.
| NOR. despite the cheap sneer that the
| L Victorian taste of Arnold Bennett
directed against the Washington Monu.
ment, that old shaft remains for daring
| the supreme daring of absolute simplicity
the finest memorial effort of the modern
world for any of it's great dead In the
| early morning when in quivering blues
| and grays it lifts against warmer sky
at midday when in the full brilliance Of a
southern sun it stands golden against the
| blues of the summer sky, in the evening
| when it rises dim and almost impalpable
| between one and the stars. in all these
| aspects 1t has been an inhuence-an In.
spiration to all who have looked on It,
That out of the half hundred fiorid de-
signs submitted for the monument this one
should have been selected-at time when
It is popularly believed the level of Ameri-
can public taste was distressingly low-was
almost an esthetic miracle.
AMONG American towers know of only
| Atwo that are at all worthy to COM
pare with this shaft In Washington, that
| show American taste risen to an equality
with American daring and American
power. These two are that much.praised
Woolworth Building-the supreme modern
embodiment of the Gothic dream-and the
tower of the City Hall of Philadelphia
whose splendid proportions. whose majesty
and whose remarkable beauty OF color,
lately tbut hope no longer threatensd
| Yith extinction ~ ~ heFser ef Alpnippp
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OUR building sciences are American,
~ our energy is American, our power to
create, to achieve dauntlessly Panama
Canals, Woolworth towers, undeterred by
any failure of the past is surely wholly
American. But we shall never be a great
people until our art, our architecture, our
sense of the beautiful is also wholly our
own.
Perhaps the most significant example
and surely the most tragic in the history
of American art of the failure of great
artists to sense in any fashion the ideals of
America is the new Lincoln Memorial in
the city of Washington. AS we come into
town in the evening it's huge and impress
sive mass seems to hover over the water
like second Parthenon.
For the Lincoln Memorial is a remark
able building, beautifully planned, located
with mastery art, delight to the eye, il
anything bit over artful in curve of line,
in the elimination of hardness, but alas!
thing surely and ptiably wrong and false
as our country's great tribute to our coun.
trys finest man.
Has America nothing of her own to give
to the typical, the undying product Of her
own life, of her own thought?
uERE at the end of triumphant
- century all we have to offer this man
and to present at the supreme opportunity,
is copy work, skilled stonemason crafts.
manship, reproductions from Doric Greek
temples built thousands of years ago by
the people of a small Mediterranean city
whose ffeemen numbered 10000 souls.
What has Lincoln to do with their
Parthenon? Lincoln was born in. a log
cabin in the State Of Kentucky and lived
and died on the soil of America. He was
less influenced by European thought or by
| Dorc tradition than any great statesma n
| that ever, lived Yet we Americans in a
moment of colossal stupidity have allowed
the memory of this man who showed us
what American soil could do with Ameri-
can blood to be entangled in the academic
traditions of conventional art.
| DERHAPs it is not without significance
that of the States whose names are
deeply cut into the marble above the en-
trance way Of the great memorial the
States of Lincoln's birth and OF his man.
hood are around somewhere to the side,
while centered over the doorway on par
ticularly white slab of yule marble is the
name of Massachusetts,. | do not regret
that the State intellectual should be so
honored--yet one wonders why. Surely the
birthplacs Of this man somehow dessrvea
- ~ A.
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CAPTAIN HALL one hopes, will be one
~ of those whose pens will remain en-.
listed in the service Of aerial literature His
book has all the humor, the fine sim.
plicity, the sef-forgetful modesty that we
would expect in the author of "Kitcheners
Mob" His experience of the war has been
remarkably varied, and perhaps in the en-.
forced atterrssage of German prison camp
(he was brought down on May slightly
wounded within the enemy lines) he will
be able to find time to put down some
phases of his whale of a story" that ac.
tive flying left perforce unwritten.
There is a singular fascination In all
these books of the air, a quality OF humor
and exhilaration that seems native to those
who ride their cunning chargers over the
abysses of empty space. The magniicence
of the sport reacts in an interesting way
on the men who learn 1t. Having mastered
this infinitely glorious and triumphant
game, they hate TO put it to uses that
seem ignoble. Hall describes his dstaste
when he was assigned to the task of at.
tacking German balloon observers. He, Of
course, would be armed with a machine
gun; they would have only automatic pis.
tolls. To his chivalrous objection his COM
mander replied ironically:
IN case any pilot objects to attacking
the observers with machine-gun fire he is
to strew their parachutes with autumn
leaves and such field flowers as the season
| affords"
AGAIN, Hail describes what he and a
| "A comrade saw in a French cellar one
moon.lit night last autumn when boche air
| raiders were expected:
| woman was sitting a cot bed with
her arms around two little children. They
were snuggled up against her and both
| fast asleep; but she was sitting very erect.
| in a strained, listening attitude, staring
| straight before her. Since that night we
| have believed that II wars can be won
| only by haphazard night bombardments OF
| towns where there are women and chill
dren, then they had far better be lost
And he adds, with. an honorable salts,
| faction. that his own work consists In
Ashtine equally armed adyersaries n I
AVA 4 pbttse ~ Alnesss
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-03

CAPTAIN JAMES NORMAN HALL, in
" his delightful volume High Adventure"
tells us as much of the flying mans Joys
and problems as any aviator has done; but
he, toe, admits that he has no language
that satisfies himself
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-03

TINE part of Chestnut street that is sur
L veyed by our balcony is a delightful
highway: friendly, pleasantly digniied,
with just a touch of old-fashioned manners
and LONELINESS. 1t is rather akin to
London street. And best of all, almost
underneath our balcony is a little lunch
room where you can get custard ice
cream with honey poured over 1t, and we
think 1t is the best thing in the world.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-12-21
Sheep VS.. Dogs.

New Hampshire has the worthless dog
and the sheepless farm as a problem
to be solved, exactly as has Vermont.
In the Granite state as here, the pre-
mise is assumed that it would be wise
thing for the sheep industry to be re-
vivifed 1t occurs TO the Messenger that
the first step which should be taken in
the solution of this problem is not to
determine what dogs to sentence to
death, but rather to determine whether
it would be a good thing to attempt to
raise sheep on commercial scale at all.
1t is not possible that the disappear
ance of the sheep industry in Vermont
was the natural result of economic con-
ditions, and that, conditions becoming
what they were, it was profitable for
the state to give the industry up? 1t is
true that during the war conditions were
such that sheep raising would have been
profitable in this state, but those were
abnormal conditions and viii not be con-
tinued long into peace time. When nor
NAL conditions return, will it then be
profitable for us to turn from some.
thing else into the sheep raising in
dustryi
Until we have the best opinion on
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-12-21

this point it is almost worthless and
| certainly it is expensiye-to have the
legislature devote much of its time TO
the matter 1t does not seem at all
probable that the sheep were driven from
the Vermont farms by dogs which all at
once assumed a great size and a sudden
viciousness which uprooted an industry
which up to that time had thriyed and
prospered. 1t is more likely that the in
dustry disappeared naturally and fol
lowed the fringe of civilization, where
economic history shows it thrives at its
best
But, If we must keep up the dog VS..
sheep agitation, New Hampshire throws
a new suggestion into the ring II is
that dogs over a certain weight be made
to pay a much heavier tax than would
be assessed on CANNES of lankier build,
the expectation being that people would
be content with breeds of smaller size
if their tax was less. And, of course,
small dogs are less able to at
tack and kill sheep. This is something
that has not been considered at Mont
pelier and the Messenger is glad it has
come up for the sheep debates have
become so stereotyped as to be of kill
ing fulness, and a new point to be wran-
gled over would be welcomed, even by
the wranglers st. Adams Messenger.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-12-21
SIR THOMAS LIPToN'S CHALLENGE.
Disappointing Reverses Have Been Met
with Smile by English Yachtsman.

II "the secret of success is constancy
to purpose" the America cup is in dan
ger, for Sir Thomas Upton, at the age OF
6S, has challenged again and for the
NTH time. According to Rory O'More
there Is luck in old numbers" but Sir
Thomas fourth challenge, in 1918, came
to nothing on account Of the war. A
sooth-sayer interpreting the new chal-
lenge could therefore give him little
hope but might point out that he ex.
pected to win with his four-leaf Sham
rock in 1914 and the test is vet to be
made.
When Reliance, the American defend
err, won two fairly close races from
Shamrock III in 1908 and the ehallen-
ger was lost in a fog in her third effort,
which was hard luck, Sir Thomas Lip
ton, good loser always, seemed TO have
had enough Three defeats would have
satisfied an ordinary yachtsman, but
after ten years of thinking it over he
startled the New York Yacht club by
daring it to another contest. Sham
rock | had been disabled in one race.
Shamrock II had finished first in race
and lost it by hair on time allowance.
and the fog mishap of Shamrock III
was no race at ALL
From review of these "might have
beens" Sir Thomas may have thought
that luck would come his way If he
never gave up; moreover, he could chal-
lenge with smaller boat and might
catch the Americans mapping. Shamrock
IN was a seventy five -footer She came
over good deal of a mystery and from
time antedating the war her forgotten
home has been in South Brooklyn. How
ever, there are no barnacles on Sham
rock Nv. She may prove to be magi.
cal boat in the capricious airs down
Scotland Light way, where so many
lovers of yachting have gone to see in
ternational races and returned YEARLY
home without seeing start or a finish.
After twenty years of coveting the
Americas cup and three years of trying
Sir Thomas Upton deserves another trial
for the cup, and he will have sympathiz-
ers. He has done az good deal for the
sport and taken his lickings with
smile. AT the same time, he will never
get that cup if the New York Yacht
club can outsail him by an inch or
second, which is as it should be-
The qualifying races of the Vanitie,
Resolute, and Defiance in the summer
Of 1914 were not inspiring, and de-
fender was not chosen. The Resolute,
however, pleased most Of the critics.
After four years of desolating and de-
pressing war honest sport is in order
again; and if there is any sport more ex-
hilarating than an international race on
sunny sea touched with whitecaps,
half a gale if you viii, human expert
ence has no record OF it.-New York
Times.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-12-21
THE BEST TEST
Is the Test of Time

Years ago M. /, Spaulding
painter, of 33 Branch street
Barre, told of good results from
using Doan's Kidney Pills. Now
Mr.. Spaulding confirms the for
mer statement - says there has
been no return of the trouble
Can Barre people ask for more
convincing testimony?
q had kidney trouble for five years
brought on by the fumes of turpentine,
says MIR. Spaulding. my back ached SC
that could hardly sleep at night. Dark
spots floated before my eyes, and my
kidneys acted irregularly, / got Doan's
Kidney Pills at Il. A. browns drug store
and they worked wonders"
SEVEN YEARS LATER Mr.. Spauld
ing said "The cure Doan's gave me has
lasted long time"
Price zoe, at all dealers. Cont simply
ask for kidney remedy get Doan's
Kidney Pillsthe same that Mr.. Spauld.
ing had. Foster. Milburn Co, Mfrs, Buff
falo, N, Y,--Adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-12-21
nnr Watch Rv the Rhine

1t IS disappointing TO many thousands
Of our people, in New England and 9th
er sections of the country, to find that
The soldiers who were first at the battle
front in France will probably be the las,
to return. Yet it is right that they
should remain until the peace for which
they fought shall be established They
and the veterans of the allied armies
constitute the forces Of victory, and
these are the forces that can fifty make
the fruits of victory secure. Gladly
would we welcome home the heroes who
had had the hardest fighting and have
won the greatest glory, but we may be
sure that they wish to finish their work,
and should be pleased that they are cho-
sen to occupy German territories and
stand as the American watch by the
Rhine.
The armistice is but an interlude II
is not peace. The defeated nations are
in confusion. They need time to attain
order, The liberated peoples have to be
protected while they form their new
and free governments There is no
knowing what the Prussian military
caste might attempt for the restoration
Of the beaten regime if there seemed a
chance of success The United States
and the allies do well to take no chances.
IT is an important task for which our
veterans are retained They are cho-
sen for a great work because they did
the great work which made it possible.
The choice is an honor.-Boston Herald.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-12-21
SEVERAL 10Th DRAFT MEN
Were Among Those Named in Casualty
List,

Several of the men in the casualty list
yesterday were seective service men who
went from Vermont as replacement
troops from the 10th division. These in
elude:
Roy Brown, wounded, resident OF
Miles Pond, a village in Concord, went
last May to the I'D company, 9th battal-
ion Of the depot brigade at Camp Devens
William D. kimball, Lunenburg
wounded, went to the same company and
left Essex county May rs this last
spring
Frank Shepard of Rochester was
wounded. He went to Camp Devens
about the same time and to France in the
18th division.
Dewey Tatro of Underhill went to
Camp Devens and was assigned to the
nth company, 5th battalion of the de-
pot brigade. He suffered wounds.
Frank j. Mitchell, who is mentioned
as wounded, from Bomoseen, enlisted
from Burlington, where he was employed
at the time, and went to Camp Greene
last spring.
John f. Carrigan, like Mitchell, went
to Camp Greene, but he was assigned to
Company D, 47th infantry, which went
to France early last summer. He was
wounded.
Ernest Labounty, who is listed as
wounded, and from Newport, enlisted
from Lyndonville last February and went
to Camp Greene and was assigned to
Company c, 58th infantry
John P. Morris of Rutland was a selec-
tive service man who was assigned last
May at Camp Devens to the 10Th depot
brigade. He is seriously wounded
John r. Barrett of Shelburne went to
the field artillery at Fort Slocum in Au-
gust, 1917.
Capt Robert Daniels of Burlington
was member of the United States field
artillery at the opening Of the war, ac-
eording to the records.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-12-21
DIED OF DISEASE.
Pvt. Kenneth Nourse of Rutland Died on
Dec. s.

Rutland, Dec. 2l.-Pvt. Kenneth c.
Nourse of Co. c, l02d machine gun bat
talon, and son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
K. Nourse of Convent avenue, this city,
died of disease in France on Dec. s.
Official notice of the fact has been sent
his parents. About six weeks ago Mr..
and Mrs. Nourse received word that their
son had been severely wounded
Private Nourse was one Of the young
men who enlisted with the LIST Vermont
regiment early in the war, going abroad
in September, 1917 He was 23 years old
and was educated in the public schools of
this city, later being employed by the
Howe Scale company. He was a mem
Der of the Methodist church and was ac-
tive in the Knights Of King Arthur. He
had been boy scout master in this city.
He was a member Of Killington lodge,
l. 0. 0. r., and the Sons Of Veterans.
He leaves besides his parents sister,
Mrs, Alice Smith of Rutland and four
brothers, j. Walter and Ralph C. Nourse
of this city, Carl G. Nourse, who is in
the United States navy and is at Bridge
port, Conn, and Paul d. Nourse of
Bridgeport.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-12-21
Bennington Privates Named
To-day, One Being Among
the Severely Wounded
ONE VERMONTER
MISSING IN ACTION
Total Casualties Listed Were
2,421, of Which Only
10 Were Killed

Washington. d G., Dec 2l.-To- day
casualty list contained 2,42l names, di
vided as follows: Killed in action, 10
died of wounds, 81; died of accident o
other cause, 10; died from airplane aeci
dent, Il died of disease, 03 wounded Sc
verely, Sic; wounded degree undeter
minedl, 1853; wounded slightly, ISL
missing in action, ISL.
The Vermont and New Hampshire meI
included were as follows:
Wounded Severely.
Pvt. Francis A. Larin, Bennington, Vt.
Wounded Degree Undetermined.
Sgt. Frank j. Mitchell, Bomoseen, Vt.
Corp. Herschel I. Marclcres, Craftsbury
Vt.
Pvt, Arthur III. Landon, S. Hero, Vt.
Pvt. John H. Larin, Bennington, VT.
Pvt Amos L. Vasseur, Burlington, Vt.
Pvt Frank Shepard, Rochester Vt.
Pvt Frank +. Clough, Manchester, n Fl
Pvt William D. Kimball, Lunenburg, Vt
Wounded Slightly.
Pvt Patrick ]. Finnigan, Nashua, N. Fl
Pvt Ralph +. Woodward, Nashua, N Fl
Pvt Patrick Conway, Portsmouth, n H
Pvt Timothy f. Linehan, Manchester
N. H.
Pvt. Forrest P. Nelson, Groton, Vt.
Pvt. Walter A. Bond, Lebanon, n H.
Missing in Action.
Pvt. Henry 4. Westoyer, Swanton, Vt.
Pvt, Raymond H. Boyle, Rochester, N. II