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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-02
Why the Roads are Under Control OF
Secretary McAd0o.

| To-day all the engineers conductors
brakemen. the officials in the railroad
offices, and the employees along the lines
become accountable to Uncle Sam in his
new capacity as director and controller
Of the railroads
Because the United States becomes
both the paymaster and the banker Of
the roads, they have been put in charge
Of the treasury department In the
past, the railroad executives have been
obliged to submit their plans for ex-
penditure to the financial authority in
their corporations. As the United States
is now financially responsible for all the
railroads, requests for new equipment,
and authority to issue new stock with
which to purchase ii must be made to
Mr.. McAdoo's department from which
the money for operation is guaranteed.
The actual direction OF railroad oper
ations should be in the hands of small
board of the ablest technical railroad
men that can be found in America Such
a body can not be tied down by bud
get No ore can say in advance how
must the gill be obliged to snend or
how great the savings of unified opera
tion will be. The financial problem could
not be met BY Congressional appropria
ton
If the increased untication OF trans
portation which began when America en-
cred the war had not resulted in great |
savings, the country would be far worse +,
of than il is to-day Absolute unfit |
cation viii mean even greater savings. |
Large salaries now paid 10 railroad pres.
dents may possibly be cut Depart
nents to solicit business have become
'upertluous. In the past freight has not
always been shipped by the lines which
'ould carry it most cheaply. A change
: to he made here Some authorities
wen 60 so far a to predict that the
government will make money on The
lew plan.
Efficiency i, the eud sought America
an do with nothing less than system
f transportation as perfect a. the best
rains in the country can make it, The
est of government operation will be
net il facilities are 50 impaired and OPP
ration so simplifed that the railroads
ease TO he a great American problem
,oston Globe
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-02
Where is the Blame ?

Small wonder that the average mar
is bewildered and disheartened by the
CONSTITUENCIES of the coal situation
by the shortage which is undeniably
serious in many quarters and by the
widespread apprehension of far more
serious situation before the winter Is
over. He knows that coal production
has been greater than ever before, and
he knows that for months past the gov
eminent has been in absolute control Of
prices and of distribution. Priority boards,
railroad war boards and national. state
and local fuel administrators have been
on the lob early and late. The opera
tors at the mines. the railway managers
and the wholesale dealers have been left
with virtually nothing to say or do
Where, then, is the blame?
They tell us here in New England that
New York is the narrow neck of the big
bottle and that everything is congested
there Yet in New York. there are long
professions of men and women with
push carts, baskets, bags and even baby
carriages before the gates to the coal
dealers yards, waiting for coal that no
body knows why is not ferried from the
New Jersey shore. And in the harbor
of New York there are to-day more than
hundred vessels, of more than mil
lion gross tons, held up by lack of coal
from sailing with the supplies that our
troops and our allies desperately need.
The owners and captains are told that
conditions arc no better at Norfolk, Phil
adelphia, Baltimore or Boston. Where
lies the blame There is coal enough, |
and the government has long been in |
cont rol of dist rihutiou
In this section it has long been the |
fashion to blame the New Haven sys.
tenn for everything. In the past eleven |
months that system has brought 6,437.- /
974 tons OF coal into this section, which |
is 390,505 tons more than il brought in /
The corresponding months last year. The
blame is not there. Where is itl The
coal output at the mines is far above
normal and the government is in abso-
lutte control of distribution. Where !,
The incompeteney, or worse! Does the
president Know? Can Congress find out
Herald.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-02

An astute French mathematician has
found that in certain watches the mo-
tions exceed 2o0,000,000 year In little
equal jumps. In the same time the
outside of the average balance travels
1900 miles. Yet despite this astonish-
ing distance travelled by the ordinary
watch the amount of power consumed
is trifling, states the Popular Science
Monthly. One horsepower is sufficient
to run 2To.oooO00 watches. This is
probably all the watches that are in
existence. But if there should be more
there would be enough power left in
the one horsepower TO run an addition
al thousand watches or so.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-02
War Savings.

/ War savings stamps mark an epocl
I in our national life Secretary OF the
Treasury McAdoo.
Many successful business man ha.
said that the saving of his first dollar
was the most important single act of his
life that it marked the beginning of a
habit and course OF conduct to which
he attributed his success.
Something very analogous to this. il is
believed, is going to be the effect on the
American nation Of the war savings cam
paign Not only are millions Of individ
ual citizens going to begin to save. but
this habit Of economy and saving is go
ing TO be a collective movement. a move
ment not OF individuals alone but of the
nation.
The habit OF saving formed now has
deeper incentive than ordinary. We are
saving now not alone for selfish rea sons
We are saving now from patriotism, saw
Ing not alone for ourselves but for our
country. The combination of patriotism
and thrift is. indeed. going to make the
war savings campaign an epoch in our
national life. Ii j. not only going TO be =
thing of tremendous benefit 10 millions
OF citizens. il Is going 20 bc a thing Of
tremendous advantage 10 the nation a.
q whole and affect our whole national
life. IL marks the beginning Of new
era in American life. an era Of economy.
good sense. and ustriotism
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-02
Good, Hearty Laughter.

Hygienic experts can say what they
like, but they will never compose diet
or discover a better health promoter
than good, hearty laughter
Laughter carries everything before
it. 1t sweeps away the blues" shakes
up the old bones an0 stirs new life
into every corner Of the brain.
1t fills the lungs with good, pure,
new air and drives out all the bad, i'm
pure breath 1t Is the worlds friend
and one of the few human Characters
tics which are universal
Promote real laughter, the genuine
result of humorous incidents: not gig
giles. sicklv smiles or sardonlc and sar-
castle grins. but honest, open, whole
hearted laughter!
That's the only royal road to health.
London Opinion.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-02
How TO Make Eggs Go Farther.

In the December Farm and Fireside
the national farm paper published a
Springfield o. a writer says
Eggs are high, and likely to be high
er ON account of the price of grain anC
labor. There are many ways of econo
MIXING in the use Of eggs and still hay.
ing good food too,
When breading fish. outlets, or any
similar food 60 be fried try beating
one egg and adding two poonfuls
of cold water to il in place of using two
eggs, or set half of an egg aside and use
one tablespoonful of water with the 9th
er half. Roll the oysters, or whatever
is being prepared. in this and dip in
flour or crumbs the same as usual
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-02
HANCOCK

Daniel Durham was in 1iddlebury last
week
Mr. and Mrs G. X. Church spent
Christmas with their daughter, Mrs John
Aldrich of Rochester
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Scott visited rel.
atives in Ripton last week.
Elmer Eaton of Hancock and Miss
Gladys Boutwell, of Stockbridge Were
married al Rochester Dec IL by Rev.
O. b. Wells. Mr. Eaton, who enlisted in
the navy, has gone TO Newport, r. l.,
and Mrs. Eaton is working in the family
of Carl Eaton
Charles Blair, sr suffered severe
attack of heart trouble Saturday night.
He is more comfortable at this writing
and Lawrence Blair is driving the stage
to Rochester in his place.
Leonard Marsh passed 2 few DAYS in
East .Braintree last week. visiting
friends
Miss Leah Blair of Randolph was at
the home OF her parents, Mr. and Mrs
Charles Blair. for short stay recently.
William Sprague and Thomas Comes
were in Burlington recently to see Fred
Sprague, who is still in serious cond-
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Church and
children were weekend visitors at Charles
Blairs. They went Monday 10 Norwood.
Mass where MIR Church has employ
ment
Miss Lola Fifield has been at home a
few days from Castleton Normal school
and Miss Phyllis Farr from Goddard
seminary.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-02
GO VERMONT ONE BETTER.
Is the Word Which Granite Cutters
Journal Gives to Other States.

The Green mountain state in general
business and political affairs has got
more or less of a mossback rating, Tor
you will remember il and Utah were the
only two states sometime ago which
cast their electoral votes for TAFT, the
reactionary The men in the granite in
dustry in Vermont are doing their share
| in a business way to redeem that state
from its backward history and procedure,
and when the historic fact of Vermont s
diatory procedure in business, in poll
tics, and in its judicial system is con
sidered, how much more, therefore, are
we expecting of progressive states like
Massachusetts, Ohio, and Minnesota
Massachusetts as state leads in many
particulars, several of them for which
it is not being directly humanitarian In
accordance, therefore, with its progress
sive prociyities, and with Rhode Island
having the finest granite in the world,
what may be expected of those two
states, but to show their heels, as the
saying goes, to Vermont by presenting
supplementary agreements proportion
ately progressive Ohio with its great
history cannot lag behind and other
places in the middle west and in the
south encourage accordingly, the man at
the banker will be coming into his own
those who have left it will be encour-
aged to return, and with new aggressive
and progressive trade atmosphere thus
provided, young America will not be
passing by the granite yard, but will be
looking for an opportunity to display
and artistic ability.
With this general round up in long
delayed partial betterment. we would ex
pect wage rate to be offered to appren-
tees at least after they had been six
months at the trade which would in.
'ite them to look for employment at it
In this way the slough of despond
through low wages and other adverse cir.
in which our trade has been
'weltering will be changed to agreeable,
interesting, and profitable conditions, and
which in accordance with the evoluti onal
orces touching all affairs of life will be
effected in better work. higher art in cut
Tanlte, and more plentiful supply of il
10Th cut and polished, From Granite
'utters' Journal
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-02
FISH AS A FOOD.
Not Nearly Enough Of II Is Used In
This Country.

his Country.
The average American eats twenty
pounds of fish year This includes
oysters, CLANS. crabs, lobster. shrimp
and mussels. One dietary authority
states. according to Leslie's Weekly,
that 200 miles inland from our three
coasts the consumption of fish food per
person is less than half pound annu-
ally.
Each inhabitant OF the British isles
has fish on his bill OF fare to the ex-
tent of 100 pounds every twelve
months, while the fish consumption per
capita In Germany is 100 pounds; Hol.
land. 1870 pounds; Norway, Sweden and
Denmark, 100 pounds; China, 225
pounds, and Japan, nearly 500 pounds.
Latin Americans are the only people
who eat less fish than do the inhabit-
ants of the United States.
There is absolutely 10 sane argument
against the larger and more extensive
use of fish as a daily diet throughout
the length and breadth of this land. 1t
is ideal as food 1t is highly nutri-
tious and rich in proteins. 1t is most
easily digested. 1t contains in great
abundance the chemical ingredients for
me King bone, muscle and tissue. AS
food nothing detrimental can possibly
be said against 1t. Fish. with the excep-
ton of few species, are clean feeders.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-02
Splendid Financial Solidarity of Yer
monters.

The statement of Frank S. William,
II Newport. state bank commissioner. OF
the condition Of the savings banks aud
trust companies of Vermont as of No.
ycmber 20 cannot fail to be source OF
qualification to every citizen DESPITE
the fact that the Vermont banks az
well as individual depositors have IN
vested many millions of dollars in Liher-
~ bonds. the deposits are only $500.
600 less ON the date Of the report than
they were ON June 30 last This shows
conclusively that the Vermonters did not
have to draw upon their savings in or
der 20 purchase Liberty bonds
Furthermore. the amount Of money
invested in Vermont real estate loans by
the banks has increased in the period
named. whereas the amount invested IN
out of the-state loans has somewhat de
creased, showing the growing tendency
of Vermont money To he invested in
Vermont securities, a feature that gives
kecnest satisfaction-Ru Rutland News.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-02
DRUG FIENDS DEVELOPED
FROM USING COUGH CURES
New York Probe Reveals A Danger Which
Threatens The Entire Public;
Doctors Sound Warming

Witnesses testifying before the Whit
lnev Joint legislative committee at tity
Han. New York. have declared that they
first began using morphine, heroin OF
some other opiate derived from the same
base. by taking a cough syrup. o. cold
cure which depended for is effect upon
the nerve deadening drugs which il con
tanned
While the national law requires that
the narcotic Drug contained in such nos
trum. shall be stated plainly ON the la
bel. Il j. none the less a fact that large
number IS them depend for their effect
unon opium. morphine heroin. codrinc
g other deadly drugs be
cause 81 their power r. give an immcdi
ate effect by deadening the nerves. When
this effect has worn ofi you arc worse of
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-02
FOR PURPOSES
OF THE WAR
Much Money Is Wanted at
Once in Various De-
partments
THE NATIONAL
DEBT AS 1T STANDS
Already Five Times Greater
Than When We En-
tered the War

! Washington, Jan. Am urgent def
cheney appropriation of approximately
| 81 1888 100000 for the army, navy, fooC
and administration and other govern
ment war work will be asked of Congress,
soon after the holiday recess.
The largest item for the army will in
clude one of $700000,000 for the quarter
master corps for supplies; S450,000,00t
for ordnance, and Sl40,000,000 for engi-
neers. The department of agriculture
will call for $G000,000 for the purchase
OF seeds to be sold to farmers for replen-
shing the nations crops in addition ia
the S2,500.000 provided for the same pur-
pose in the food survey law.
The food administration will ask for
S2,000,000 to make total OF S4,500,000
available in addition TO amounts allotted
from the presidents hundred million dol
lar fund
The navy department already has
asked for $50, 100000 deficiency appro-
priation. The war department has al.
ready asked for Sll23,00O,000 in addi-
tion to the regular estimates already
submitted.
The United States enters the new year
with a national net debt of S5Gl5,000,
600, more than five times greater than
when it entered the war nine months ago,
but only one-third of the debt which
promises to develop by the first of next
year. The debt per capita is about S5l
and the percentage of debt to estimated
wealth is 2H per cent The
treasury financial summary statement,
issued June 80, shows that actual dis
during the first half of the
fiscal year have fallen far below the es
Inmates. particularly for the military
The actual outlay for the military es
adjustment up to Dec. ] was 81 81 600
100; the estimated outlay for the whole
fiscal wear is ss,70000o,000 The navy
ipent s426000000, and the estimate for
he year is 81 0,000,00o. Shipping board |
were SllS,000,000. while the |
ears estimate is 1901 100000.
Great as the national debt seems to
his country. whose debt before the war I
vas only little past the billion dollar I
mark. it is only about one.fourth that i
i either Great Britain, France Russia
r Germany. The debt of all OF Amer-
ais belligerents il about 8s4 000000
90, or IA per cent. Of the estimated
-ealth of those nations, and the leu
onic allies debt is about S40000,000 900,
r % per cent. of their estimated wealth.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-02
FUEL MEN WANT
SALOONS CLOSED
Much Coal Could Be Saved Thereby, Says
the Boston School Com
mittee.

/ Boston, Jan. 2.-Boston schools vii
open Monday, Jan. I, as planned, the
school committee announced Sunday ait
ernoon, after a conference of nearly two
hours, in which il was in conference with
David A. Ellis, chairman of the fuel com
nlittee of the city.
This decision was reached, in spite Of
the fact that as of the city schoolhouses
have less than weeks supply OF coal,
and that OF those some have less than
enough to last As hours, so that there is
great danger that the schools in many
districts may have to close before Feb
ruary.
The committee put itself on record
vigorously in behalf of policy that
would refuse coal to social clubs, saloons,
industries that manufacture things that
are not essential to life, and to compel
many stores that now keep open even
ings to close at p. m, If the committee
propaganda were put in operation, 1t
would close the Boston City club the
Woman's City club, the Somerset, Union,
St Botolph and other clubs OF social
nature throughout the city, Chairman Jo'
seph Lee said. He was particularly in
sistcnt that saloons should not be al
lowed to do business if schools We're to
close because of coal shortage. Even lin
iting the hours of business of saloons TO
the period between a. m and p. m,
he said, would save five hours of heating
and lighting. He also advocated closing
candy factories, and although this was
met with the objection that it would de.
prive many young women and Others OF
employment. he declared that by closing
one at time the employees could be
to other lines of work with
nut disadvantage in these times Of labor
heritage He deplored the prospect OF
seeing any OF the public schools forced to
lose while Office buildings We're main
aimed at a higher temperature than is
equired for health or comfort. and even
.ited the State House as an instance of
IN office building that is kept hotter than
t needs to be.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-02

Storrs Clough, a seaman on the E. $. S
| America, has been visiting his father
Guy Clough, OH three days leave
Mrs. Eugene Brooks has been spending
several days with Mrs Walter Seanlon
of Waterbury
Mrs. Ellen Hills is recovering from her
recent illness. She has been at Wake
Robin farm for few weeks
Martin kidder of Boston and Mrs Ad-
die Gage of Lynn, Mass. were called
here last week by the serious illness of
Mrs. Ella Kidder
Prof Awkward spent last week at his
home in Ludlow.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Martin Dec. 20.
Miss Marjorie Ford is with her parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Q. NJ Ford, for few days
Eugene Martin, Frank Kosher and Eula
Bean are at home fron Albany business
college for two weeks
Mrs. VIII Hubbard has gone to New
York City hospital for treatment. Mrs.
Kate Fifield is keeping house for her.
Mason Ball of Boston spent last week
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Milo
Ball
Caleb Eaton is quite comfortable and
is doing as well as could be expected
after his recent accident
Dana Goodno and Louis Hubbard have
purchased the grist mill Of Claude Farr,
possession being given Jan. |.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-02
BOSTON DAIRY MARKETS.
Jobbing Quotations for the Week on But
ter, Cheese and Eggs.

Boston, Jan 2-Jobbing quotations:
Butter Fancy northern creamery. in
tubs 4sls a acc boxes, 1870 SOC. prints
500 50lsc, fancy western creamery 4G@
46lec fancy storage creamery 47@ 4sc,
good TO choice creamery 400 46tac, fair
to good Ala Ace renovated butter 42Aa
ABE, ladies sec 391ac
Cheese New York twins, fancy 25@
2jlac, fair to good 2S@ 24c, Young Amer
lea 27t2@2sc.
Eggs Fancy nearby hennery 7O@7lc
choice eastern ESQ soc, fresh western ex-
tras 65@ 66c, prime firsts 63a 64c, frsts
6l@ 62c, storage extras 45@ 46c, frsts II
a BE
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-02
Is 1t Good Bye to Russia !?

The wide gulf that lies between the
i latest Russian proposals for a separate
/ peace and the German answer to those
proposals apparently does not lessen the
certainty OF the Russians withdrawal
from the war. The Russians say with
draw your troops from Poland in 80
many words. But Germany answers, also
in so many words Separation from the
Russian empire for Poland, Lithuania,
Courand and portions OF Esthona and
Livonia!' Only on the conclusion OF a
peace satisfactory to Germany and the
complete rehabilitation of the Russian
armies does Germany withdraw and
then. as everybody knows, she will not
withdraw. BIT Russia, though her beau
tiful terms are tlouted. knows that she
must submit. Already the Bolsheyk pro-
cessi is are celebrating peace in the
streets of Petrograd. with an accompan-
ment of drunken raids on the wine eel.
lars and of the hurting of bank directors
into prison while their vaults are plum
dered
This promises, therefore, TO be the end
and the great achievement OF the Rus.
sian revolution Ito desert the cause Of
the entente allies and turn the economic
resources of Russia over to the German
conqueror. In his despatch from Petro-
grad to-day Harold Williams, the last of
the correspondents there, says the allies
must not desert Russia that they can
not afford to abandon her to Germany.
But we look in vain for any indicat ion in
his mind, or in his disclosure of the facts
OF the situation, of the means by which
the allies can help the loyal Russians to
resist the great betrayal Boston Tran
script
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-02
Jseka's and Crocodile Eaas.

jackals and hyenas are very fond or
crocodile eggs. The former is the more
successful poacher OF the two. Ma
lives of central Africa say that the
Jackal has sixteen eyes, with one OF
which he watches the eggs and with
the fifteen others he looks out for the
crocodile. The hyena, on the other
hand, being very greedy, has all his
eyes on the eggs and so often falls
tioness hiding. The natives say, too,
that the crocodile sometimes knocks
its prey Off the bank or off TIE canoe
With its tail aud then seizes it with it's
wide opef Jaws.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-02
EVERYONE LIKES
THIS COLD CURE
"Pape's Cold Compound" Ends a Cold or
Grippe in a Few
Hours

Your cold will break and all grippe
misery end after taking dose Of .Pape' 5
Cold Compound every two hours until
three doses are taken
u promptly opens clogged-up nostril-
and air passages in the head, stops nasty
discharge OF nose running, relieves sick
headache. dizziness. fevcrishnes-. sore
throat. sueezing, soreness and stiffness.
Don't stay stuifed-up, Quit blowing
and snufflingi Ease your threhbing head
nothing else IN the world gives such
prompt relief a. -Pape's Cold Com
pound. which costs only a few cents az
any drug store. II arts without assist
ance. tastes nice. aud causes M neon
veuienee. Accept M substitute Adv.