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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1918-01-09
nan r,sr cRrp THREE WEEKS

with January C0mcS IaErIpp".
lingering colds seem - settle IN the
system. causing ono to ache all over.
fenT fevcrish and chilly. tired heavy
and dropping. Mrs Lizzie Tyics.
Henderson. KY. writes: My daugll-
ter had lagrippe Tor three weeks.
had the doctor and bought medicine
aud none of il did any good. ] gave
her FoJey's Honey and Tar and now
she is all right have told all mt
friends about it Jnsisr on the gen
uinc IT~Icv'a Honey and Tar.
CHARLES A. SEARLEs & 90
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1918-01-09

W. note some discussion of the
length of time it is necessary for the
american troops to train before go
ing into actual warfare. 1t looks as
though they would be obliged to
train until the War Department can
get some guns and rifles for them to
use and that will be some time yet.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1918-01-09

Speaking of the men who dares
not take definite position on local
matters for fear it will hurt my
business the Landmark says: Few
persons ever lose a dollar by self
respecting advocacy of things they
believe in. The people admire a fear
less man who expresses his opinion
good naturally and with some con-
fidence They hang around to see
what such a man will say. If his
business is one dependent on local
favor, he really gains by his out
spoken course provided that he is de-
cent and gentlemenly in expressing
his IDEALS There is much truth in
that statement. The only danger
when a man expresses his opinions
clearly and decently is that some
man who is not gentlemanly and de-
cent will take offenSe.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1918-01-09

Littleton is suffering from a short
age of water in its reservoir and has
only three weeks supply of coal to
operate it's electric light plant TOO
bad the Fifteen Mile Falls power has
not been developed so they could get
electricity from there and do away
with with the use of coal entirely.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1918-01-09

1t will not be good taste in 1918 to
make any great display of the pos
session of money. The liberal spend
crs of the past decade should be
forced into retirement because use
less expenditures Of money arc e1-
treuaely selfish when so much money
is needed by the government to
prosecute the war Expensive sup-
pers, 1uzurious. cigars, extreme cloth
ing. costly candies should all be
tabooed, The possession of War
Thrift Stamps Liberty Bonds decent
clothes, and labor hardened muscles
should give q person better standing
among his associates than any IN
necessary luxuriea sports have in
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1918-01-09

out of the pockets of the American
people by profteering. On the whole,
the disposition of the general public
is probably sweeter with moro money
and less sugar in hand.-SprinSield.
Reporter 1
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1918-01-09
The government asks to have anti

The government asks to have anti
trust suits against seven alleged
trusts postponed for the present be-
cause it does not dare interfere with
the finances and business OF such
large organizations under present
conditions. We may find that trusts
are necessary to win the war.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1918-01-09

The Bolshcvikists have given it up
but the Kaiser hasn't. He is pmomis-
ing u new peace overture but it is
not likely to be anything so sub
atuntial as !; "ccrap of paper"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1918-01-09

Hoover is talking of cheaper milk
produced on SIPS corn. Local deal
ers ere paying $2.06 for corn and do
not believe they can furnish it to the
farmers for $1.25. Unless the deal
crs src able to secure cheaper corr
there is little prospect of the farmer
being able to produce cheaper milk
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1918-01-09

The Brattleboro Reformer is pre-.
dieting an early spring. We hope it
will prove a good prophet. Certain it
is that, unless we have more delay
than we have had in the War De.
partment, more comfortable weather
sill be due early.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1918-01-09

ST. Johnsbury will receive a black
eye if The Caledonian suspends.
People rather look askance at
community of any size which will not
support daily paper.
Daily News
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1918-01-09

Editor Parsons of the Northlicld
News says: I'VE can all encourage
our local ministers by our presence
in some church at least once each
Sunday. This is a habit once you
get used to you viii enjoy How
long did it take you to get used to it
Brother?
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1918-01-09

They say that freight is moving fast
er under government direction than
it did under private management,
and that several trainloads of coal
are en- route for New England This
is brought about by the government
rcversing its own orders on priority
Of freight, but the public win not
condemn this if the government gets
the needed coal to them.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1918-01-09

With our nleatless. wheatless, fuel
less and pcnnilesS days. good Lord
deliver us q few zerolcss days.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1918-01-09

ThriftIess is one of the iesses that
is not called for by good citizenship.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1918-01-09
Kansas, state management.

We are in receipt of a copy. of the
Topeka Daily Capital sent by Myron
@. Harrington, former resident Of
East St, Johnsbury, in which d re-
port of the state business for the
past year is given by Gov. Arthur
Capper. He has the following to
say of the state manager: So
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1918-01-09

TIC Rutland Herald. has an inter
cStiag editorial concerning the found
or 81. that paper OH the Tooth ami
vcrSary Of his death. The editorial
describes him as "a scholar, profess
or, philosopher, historian and
preacher" That was the type OF
men who engaged in the newspaper
business in those days md their pa
pcl7y. did not give much news service.
Such news as they published was
colored according to the views of the
editor and the whole paper was an
expression of the personal ideas OF
the editor. The liberal infusion of
personality into the paper was what
made the few strong and widely
known editors who passed away with
former generations. There was even
less business than news among the
editors of those times and the papers
were supported largely by the private
fortunes of the editor or some of his
friends It would be Impossible in
these times to maintain a paper like
those old time journals, but it must
have been some pleasure to the con-
tetious minds of those days to
preach, exh ort and berate as they
did. There is some doubt whether
the public of those days enjoyed the
personality of their editors any bet
ter than the public of today would.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1918-01-09

Aside from this provision the bill
seems to be good one.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1918-01-09

! TERMS OF If1E CALIFORNIAN
one year to any addres.a. Z. !. sLss
EEEek9 - ..i - z ....:'............. Il
ClefRynnen ID Caledonia County .$1.0s
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1918-01-09

EHt4red at the st. Johnsbury pos
Once az second -class mail matter.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1918-01-09

1T was the Status quo ante
out of which this iniquitous war
issued forth. the power of the
imperial German government
within the empire and it's wide
spread domination and influence
outside that empire.
That status must be altered in
such fashion as to prevent any
such hideous thing from ever
happening again.
No territory must change
hands except Off the purpose Of
securing those who inhabit it j
fair chance Of life and liberty.
so readinstment of pewer
must be made, except such as
viii teud 70 secure the future
peace of the world and the fu
ture welfare and happiness Of It's
people
Nothing could bs more eonfrma
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1918-01-09
What We Are Fighting IIpr

The world has been given a good
idea OF England's war aims in the
speech of Premier Lloyd George be-
fore the trades unions in London
last Saturday. His exprassio.. O.
the purposes cannot be improved
The sanctity of treaties must be re-
established, the people of the diff
ferent territories allowed to recide
under what government they will
abide and an International organiza-
ton formed to limit ornaments and
diminish the probability of war
Germany must yield it's schemes of
military domination, Belgium must
be fully restored and PREPARATION
made, Serbia, Montenegro. and oc-
cupied parts of France, Italy and
Rornlania restored and Alsace-Lor-
raine returned to France, an indepen-
dent Poland established, the Darden
Giles opened to all nations, the At
rican colonies allowed to choose to
what government they will submit
and Russia left to fight out its own
salvation.
Englishmen are pleased with this
statement of aims and the French
newspapers endorse it. There is
nothing in it that America cannot
endorse. We are not vitality interest
ell in the restoration of Alsace- Lor-
raine to France. an independent Po-
land or the disposition of the African
colonies as mere map making but if
these changes will more surely curb
German nlilitarisn in the future we
must insist upon them. The Presi-
hcnt has spoken plainly on these
mattres, In a communication to the
Russian government last juno he
said:
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1918-01-09
ftJBItsHED WEEKLY NJ
WIG CAx.fsDoNaAN COMPANY.

W. 81 1sfHeaev. ksee
" Edst0f and Publisher
o sksstesn Ayentis. 81 johnsbury. VI
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1918-01-09

The federal control of trans
portation systems herein and
heretofore provided for shall
continue for and during the per-
iod of tie war and until Con-
gross shall thereafter order !
otherwise
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1918-01-09


Other states are watching With
deep interest, the work of our
new state board of administra-
ton and the state manager. We
are the pioneers in that method
of conducting state institutions.
So far the plan has worked adj
mirably L feel confident it will
pf owe an undoubted success and
that it will be only matter Of a
few years until most of the other
states will copy the Kansas
STATE manager" plan.
Probably there has mover been
year in which there were fewer
changes in the working force of !,
the states government than this
one. Beginning with my first
term as governor, I have made
it a policy to select men solely
for their qua1ifica tons and their
ability to render first-class ser
vice to the state without regard
to their political influence. I
have obtained good men and
kept Ln0IIl. - L He result Has DCCI
better and better service for the
state at their hands. Such a
policy is conducive to fewer and
fewer changes. 1t approaches
til strictly business basis Of the
most efficient private business
The. taxpayer is entitled to "a
dollar-for- dollar public service
and this is one Of the ways by
which he will get it, BY reason
or the recent death OF the state
architect it has been necessary
to find q successor for that post.
l nave sought out and selected
the man. found best qualified. r.
We wonder HOY this state 7nar
1&e. compares With the Vernon
Eoa;.d OF Control created by the In:
legislature. ana would suggest ths
the governor Of Vermont might 10
low Gov. Campers example and 4lS
the people of this state a resume
What the board has .accomplishe
the first year Of its cAistenc
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1918-01-09

,othing could " mere eonirma-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-05
Jazz, and Then
Some at Club
Rally Tonight

Real jazz played by the 361st
regimental orchestra, led by
man who dreams jazz, will be one
of the headline features brought
to the Commercial club tonight fol-
the monthly membership rally.
Lieut.. K. L. Damkroger Is bring.
ing the talent from Camp Lewis
and the az entertainers will be
dinner guests of the club.
E. B. King is to be master Of
ceremonies. He has seen part Of
the show and places his guarantees
upon it. The Latest in the Ma
tional Army" Is skit which mer
from the 361st will put over. Their
there are colored boys from the
depot brigade who have an awk
ward squad.
These boys may be a bit awk
ward in army drill but they ART
nifty on the stage for they were al
| professionals before being beck
oned to the. service by Uncle Sam
The show will start promptly q
1880.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-05
{. S.LONG
EXPLAINS
POSITION

A letter of George S. Long.
manager of the Weyerhaeuser
Timber Co. of Tacoma, to r. B.
Howe of the aircraft board, de-
clining the appointment to serve
on the Pacific Coast committee
of the aircraft board, has been
made public by Long today.
With it is made public a reply
from Howe dated Feb. 3 accept
ing Longs decision.
At the same time Long in q
statement declares his letter to
Howe, pointing out why he did
not think it wise to serve on the
board because of his position, was
written previous to the sharp
criticism directed against him al
the senate committee hearing.
For me to sit on this commit
tee and be called upon to decide
upon questions of timber value
and log value, and as to how tim
Der should be rived and where
when I, on the other hand, am the
representative of the timber own
er and am expected to look after
his interests, is putting me in a
decidedly awkward position, and
one where no government official
should allow himself to be placed,
says Longs letter.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-05
GERMAN
WORKERS
GIVE I'M!
Omitted Press Leased wire.)

LONDON, Feb. German
militarism is still supreme in the
central empires. Its iron heel
today had crushed out practical
ly the last vestige of resistance
by the starving, enslayed people.
Cowed by the threat of the
firing squad and fearful for the
fate of their women and chill
dren. thru reduction of their al
ready meager rations, the pro-
testing workers had practically
all returned to the factories.
Only one isolated case OF con-
tinued resistance was reported.
That was at Jena, where the
Tageblatt said a third of the
men employed had walked out
Saturday.
There is a disposition among
officials and students of econom-
les here in regard to waring of
the general strike as only a tenn
p0rary suTcease OF the central
empires industrial and political
problems.
The work OF the eXtraordin-
airy court-martial at Berlin in i'm
posing severe penalties on strike
leaders is expected to provide
fuel for further trouble.
Wilhelm Dittmann, socialist
member of the reichstag. was
sentenced to five years imprison-
ment for "inciting to high trea-
SON. and was given an additional
two months for resisting public
authority.
Chancellor Hertling previously
had refused to intervene in Dit
mann's case, declaring that he
could invoke no civil procedure
so long as the military was su-
preme in the capital.
Heinrich Schultze, another
popular leader, is under six
months sentence for distributing
strike literature.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-05
AM ERICANS EAGER
FOR REVENGE NOW

given up all hope of attacking.
When German shells cut the
communication wires, American
dispatch runners repeatedly at
tempted to penetrate the enemy
barrage. With splendid disregard
for their own safety, they took
their lives in their hands again
and again in their efforts to fight
their way thru the rain of shells.
One New York man was knock
ed from a ration wagon by a
direct hit. His wagon was de-
molished, his mules were hurt
and tie soldier was sent spinning.
AS soon as the New Yorker was
sure he had no wounds, he round
ed up the frantic mules and
calmly shooed them on to head
quarters.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-05
FOOD CONDITIONS
GROWING HARDER
Omitted Press Leased Wire.D

tUnited Iress LeHsed Ntre.b
LONDON, Feb. 5. - Secret
knowledge in the possession of
the British government regarding
conditions in Germany may have
influenced the uncompromising
attitude adopted by the inter-
allied council at Versailles.
Food conditions in the central
empires are known to be increas-
ingly serious.
The Russian "storehouse, y
upon which the central empires
were counting to relieve their
own hunger, is still locked-be-
cause Leon Trotzky, Russian for
eign minister, out-maneuvered
both the central empires and the
| Ukrainians.
Germany's plight is indicated
by the recent order forbidding
relatives to send parcels Of food
to officers held prisoner in Eng.
land and France and directing
that money be sent instead.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-05
Anything to
Get Service

Auto trucks to make morning
and evening trips, a boat from the
Municipal docks to the shipbuild-
ing plants, railroad cars drawn by
steam engines, and double track
ing Of the city tideflats car line,
were among the suggestions made
for furnishing better tideflats
transportation, at the monthly
meeting Of the Commercial club
traffic and transportation bureau
Monday.
Service to Camp Lewis and local
traffic congestion also were dis
cussed.
That the present service on the
tideflats is inadequate was the
statement Of G. s. Holmes of the
Todd shipyards and 8. L. Savadge
of the Foundation Co.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-05
EXCITEMENT RACES
IN BOY-BABY WORLD
(Special to The Tines)

Especial to The Times)
SYRACUSE, N. Y, Feb. 5. =
Charlie White, the Strong Man"
of the baby world, has come
back" at his challengers!
Charlie, at the age of two years
and four months, claimed the
championship of the world as the
strongest baby.
Immediately, the baby world
was aroused.
Other youngsters lifted weights
rs heavy as Charlie had handled,
dangled scuttles of coal weighing
30 pounds by one hand, and stood
up while the tape was used to
determine whether their measure
ments were better than Charles.
When Charlie heard about all
this he seized his 10-pound bar
bell, put his head on one chair,
and elevated his feet upon an
other and held the weight on his
chest for one minute without ap-
parent effort.
In this position, half his weight
n supported by neck and heels.
And here's the picture to prove
It," said Charlie, or something
. very like 1t.
: Charlie is exactly 80 months Of
age.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-05
UNITED Press Leased Wire

WITH THE AMERICAN ARM
IN FRANCE, Feb. 4.--(Delayed.)
The American army is hungry
for revenge today. The baptism
of big shells the Americans re-
ceived Saturday night just whet-
ted their appetites for more.
Those who were wounded in
the artillery duel are most anx-
ious for more fighting.
Many of them, after they had
been hit during the height of the
encounter, refused to leave their
places on the trench firing step.
They waited there in eagerness,
hoping the Boches would come
over No Mans Land.
They remained on the firing
step until certain the enemy had
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-05
SAYS WAR
ENGINES
STALLED
Omitted Press Les-ed Wire,

WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. g.
Lack of vision" has stalled
Americas war engine, Senator
Wadsworth charged in the senate
today, "and a greater breakdown
than the one from which we are
now suffering threatens unless
some directing body is created"
II entertain the deep convic-
ton that the end OF this war Is
not in sight; that we shall travel
a long, hard road before we
reach the GOAL" he said. IL feel
certain that the strain will grow
more and more severe as the
months go by.
Americas effort must con-
stantly expand; we must send
more and more troops abroad,
must build more and more ships
to carry them, must grow more
and more food to feed them and
to feed the allies; and we must
make use of an ever-increasing
percentage of our mines, trans
portation facilities and manufac-
turing facilities.
Stumbling, He Says.
Firing the second volley, de-
signed to rake the war admiais-
ration OF Secretary Baker, Wads-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-05
TWO KILLED BY TRAIN At
CROSSING NEAR SUMNER

truck at a rapid speed to make
the ascent. When 1t reached the
tracks the truck was hit squarely
in the center by the pilot of the
engine.
Either the men did not see the
approaching train or thought they
had time to cross in front of 1t.
Miller was picked up uncon-
scious and hurried to the Tacoma
General hospital, but he died be-
fore the auto reached Tacoma.
Miller had been a resident of
Tacoma Is years. He Is survived
by his widow and two young
daughters.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-05

worth declared that blindness
found this country pathetic In its
unpreparedness" at the opening
of the war. Since then, he ad-
ded, this great giant (the war
machine) has been stumbling,
cropping, exerting his tremendous
strength without always knowing
what he was doing or where he
was going"
He deplored the shipping sit
uation and declared the transpor-
tation facilities were hopelessly
jammed and congested. Condi-
lions today, he said, are "glar-
ing results of the lack of central
lied directing authority"
Scores Red Tape.
Pointing out that the govern
ment did practically nothing dur
ing the year preceding the en-
trance of the U. 8. into the war to
prepare for the inevitable, Wads-
worth declared:
I'VE werN so blind as to per-
NIT one of our government rifle
factories to operate much below
its capacity all thru the year 1915.
and other factories to cease alto
gether making rifles during that
period"
Turning to the committee's in
lyestigation of the ordnance and
quartermaster's departments,
Wadsworth declared that the ties.
|timony forced the conviction that
military men were not fitted to
handle the vast industrial prob
lem. This, he said, was compli-
Gated by the Anticipated red taps
sysem prevailing.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-05

Struck by a Northern Pacific
northbound train while driving q
truck over a private crossing half
a mile this side Of Sumner, Wal
lace Hoyle, 81, was instantly
killed and ]. j. Miller, his en-
ployer, was fatally injured at 5
o'clock Monday afternoon.
Hoyle's wife and 12-year- old
son were the only witnesses to the
accident.
The crossing was on Miller's
ranch. The men mad Just return
ed from Puyallup with load Of
hay. Because the approach to the
crossing is steep, Miller drove the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-05
ANSWER WILL
BE REPRISALS

LONDON, Feb. 5.-The British
foreign office, thru Holland. has
protested to Germany against the
sentence of 10 years imprison-
ment of two British aviators for
dropping propaganda literature
over the German empire, the Lon
don Mail asserted today.
After careful investigation, the
foreign office has been unable to
discover any breach Of interna-
tional law applicable to the avi-
ators, the Mail said. Germany,
Me foreign office said, has done
similar propaganda work on an ex-
tensive scale and unless the avia-
tors are released reprisals will be
taken.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-05
ANOTHER MRS. ROSE,

Mrs. Elizabeth c. Rose, age II,
has filed a suit for divorce from
her husband Claude, charging
that month after their marriage
last November she learned he had
been living with another MRS.
Rose" She says the former MRS.
Rose" of Seattle wrote letters to
her and her husband saying she
had prior claim" on him.