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The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-26
A Castle Of Mercy in Italy


"Morc than eight million Ameri-
can boys and girls now members
Of the JUNIOR Red Cross have re-
Gently become joint owners of a cas-
tle--not III Spain, but in Italy. !.
"When, last year, the Germans
drove through the mountains upon
the Italians until they were held at
the Paive river, it became necessary
TO remove whole villages from the
threatened areas. In this emergency
work the American Red Cross render
ed service that will never cease to
be remembered gratefully by Italians
In fact, nothing that our Red Gross
has done in Italy has elected more
praise than this.
"One Of the towns on the. upper
Pave thus evacuated was that OF
Sprezianos. The Red Cross moved
bodily its considerable civilian popu-
lation, old and young, from Sprezianc
seven hundred miles southwark to thC
seacoast at Leghorn.
"On the pleasant hills that over
look the Mediterranean were numer
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-26
Margaret Wheeler

The many friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Wheeler, will sympathize
With them in the loss of their young
EST child, Margaret, She was. a
beautiful little girl Of four years of
9ge, who died at their home in Nor
real on Oct. % of pneumonia The
mother, Mrs. Wheeler, will be &c
nembered in Newport as Margaret
Ryan, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Ryan, who live on Coventry
;treet. The body of the little one
vas brought to Newport Wednesday
evening accompanied by Walter Ry-
N, and taken to the Ryan family
oome where private funeral services
we're held Thursday afternoon at $50
o'clock. The remains were placed in
he St. Mary's cemetery, while a
Durial service was read at the grave
~ Rev. Father Basticn. e.
The mother, Mrs Wheeler, and the
laughter, Mary, Is years of age, are
1ery sick and, were unable to accom-
)any the remains to Newport for bu-
'ial. MI. and Mrs. Wheeler have
our other children, three sons,
frank, Edward and Richard, and one
laughter, Mary, who is sick.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-26
SABOTAGE AS USED
IN. RUSSIA
Officials Did All They Could to Hin
der Any Progress

Moscow, July 26s Correspondence
of The Associated Rress)-Sabotage
is the faxcrite weapon of the Rus
sian. He. uses it more effectively
than the rife and understands it bet
ter. =. 4. s..
Il was, sabotage which overthrow
Emperor Nicholas. The Kerensky
provisional government suecumbed
to sabotage. ,. In neither case was
there an extensive military character
to the movement which gave Russia
q new government. Ess1~ 80. -.
And now the weapon which the
Bolsheyiki. and their supporters OF
the extreme left used on previous
governments has been turned against
them. In the food situation, on the
railways, in various government bur-
eaus, in public, service organization
of all sorfa. among bankers, business
and professional men, and ever
among peasants the government en-
counters hindrance and obstruction
of type which cannot be punished
and stamped out.
| Commissioner Tsurupa, who is il
/ charge of the national food supply
lrecently stated in speech that 1901
persons i'll his department alone hat
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-26
CITY OF NEWPORT

The Lawson Ford sales station
have sold Fordson farm tractor to
John Brigham. Mr. Brigham Is do
ing his fall blowing with it.
Miss Florence Place and her sister,
Mrs Grace Solomon, who have been
very sick, are improving. Miss
Strong is caring for them.
Traffic Officer Sweet was in Han
over, N. H, on Wednesday.
The Rev. and Mrs. L. A. Edwards
motored to Sherbooke Thursday call
ing on friends, returning to Newport,
Friday.
Don't fail to set your clocks and
watches ahead II hours or back one
hour, either way will do, when you
retire tonight. But don't do as one
Of our popular druggists did last
spring, on arriving home at a late
hour, he at once began to set the
house clocks ahead one hour. Sun
lay morning he reported at church
)ne hour ahead of time, thinking he
Hv"hRa8d
lad done as the government had or
1ered and that every one else had
forgotten to do it when later his
wife informed him that she had set
he clocks ahead an hour before he
.rrived home. Consequently his
clocks were two hours ahead and
'sU9q qoInqo eQl q4!M HuomIeq u! 4ou
We promised Charles we Wouldn' t
call any names.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-26

to their proper owners after the war
is a proposition in which Vermont,
so far as we know, leads. There
has been considerable grumbling be-
cause men like Burleson and McAdoo
have been permitted to use the nee
essities of the war as a foundation
for final confscation of the railroads,
steamship, telegraph, telephones, ETC.:
under the plan of government owner
ship, but Vermont republicans lead ir
demanding that such properties shall
be returned to their rightful owners.
Self-evident as the proposition may
appear, Vermont in this respect has
blazed q plain path for the republi-
cans Of the nation.
Brief session of the Legislature, -
Estate pay for the soldiers and sail
ors," "Tha return of the rural school
to the rural community and "Bet-
ter Highways" are all familiar terms
to Herald readers. They are not only
good slogans but they will appeal to
"a large majority Of Vermonters.
They ought not only to help the state
ticket but ought to become a part of
the Legislature program of 1919.
Deeper waterways" at first might
seem Of Importance merely to Yer
mont lake ports, but it is a big sub
ject and q big enterprise that lies
close to the people Of the whole state
through its important relation to the
transportation problem.
Altogether it seems to the Herald
that the republican candidates have
been well advised both as to what
they have uttered and what they
have agreed to differ on.
1t is the sort Of pronouncement to
be harbinger of a notable republican
vote at the November elcction.-Rut-
land Herald.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-26
PRESS COMMENT
Candidates and Principles

The statement of principles utter
cd by the candidates on the state re-
publican ticket must commend them
selves 20 the voters as sound and
conservative.
Issued IN lieu of the platform made
impossible by the epidemic it ought
to command respect and inspire con-
fidence. There is a noticeable alb
sence of mooted questions and dis
putaticus problems in the document
as set forth in Yesterdays issue.
There is evidence of a give and
take spirit. There are plain traces of
a desire on the part of republican
standard bearers to sink their person
al preference and sentiments in the
greatest good of the party.
The declaration of the republican
candidates might very properly be
Endorsed by every republican voter il
tho STATE 4 sound business admins
tration fer Vermont must appeal Il
business men, producers and wage
carners. The one essential and re
quisitc for the state is winning tht
war
The second "plank" is like the frs
and the third is like the second il
placing the party in an absolutely un
assailablc position as to making tn
war a paramount issue and as to sc
ting the face of republicans as d fin
against any peace that does not mea
the destruction of Hohenzollern mill
tary machine and the safety of tn
world for all people. The 4th an
LIST might have been rouped mas
much as the proposition that what
good for Vermont in the way of
business administration is good fc
tho nation must be sclf-evident
all.
The return of the public utilitit
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-26

retained positions for, months and
pretended to work, when. they were
in reality doing all they could do to
hinder the food administration.
Trotsky, Lcnine and other Bolshc-
wiki speakers and agitatofs have made
the most OF the sabotage directed
against them. by loudly proclaiming
in all sections of Russia that the dis
order they inherited from the Keren-
sky regime and the opposition direc-
ted against them by enemies within
the government, as well as outside,
has prevented the soviet republic
from lettering the food situation and
getting commerce and industry back
into normal channels.
This view was accepted by the
Flaboring masses very generally fol-
some time, but after eight months
of the BoIsheviki republic it is ap-
parent that the laboring men arc nc
tlonger willing to accept abuse OF var
ious -Rolsheyiki factions as :
complete excuse for the deplorable
lack of food
! The loss of the Ukraine grain sup
! ply and the cutting off Of the Siberian
/ wheat stores by the Czecho- sloVak'
t,stand forth so plainly that the dul
lest workman reads the handwriting
on the wall. Without gralnfields III
/ understands there cannot be grain
And the promises of bread through
grain crusades made by armeu force
do not impress him when he realize
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-26
HATS OFF TO THESE,

y
Timothy J.,Murphy Of Chicago, a
freight handler, is the father of 81
children, Is of whom are living. And
the 1S are engaged in war work.
Eight ec1,s, all of them six feet OF
more tall, ere in military service and
the ten daughters are engaged in Red
Cross, and other kinds, of war work.
For this the Catholic. Advocate
youchss. I.,,s..a
But The Crisis is authority for a
stiH more wonderful statement:
John Ward, a negro of Goldsboro,
S. c., has 49, of his 18 sons in the
Ninth and Tenth United States Cav
airy, and seventeen daughters doing
war work.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-26

Ten thousand more apple trees are
to be set out in the Everett orchards
in Bennington. The work of digging
the holes has been begun, but the
trees will not be set out until spring
The new trees will bring the number
of apple trees in the orchard up tt
more than $4,000, besides severa,
thousand ether trees.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-26
THE DAY!
By Richard A. Purdy
Member Authors Committee
American Defense Society

While the world was at work with
its tilling,
While the sewers were singing of
peace,
And the harvest, when all would be
willing,
That the battles of hatred should
cease;
In their midst was a council debating
And in secret devising a way,
To destroy with their pestilent hat
ing;
Then they rose and they drank to
"The DAY."
To the day when their clutch would
be certain;
To the day when their grip would
be felt;
To the day when they dared lift the
curtain,
And their blow at the world could
be dealt;
In whisper at first and then louder,
All of Germany echoed that toast,
With the rafting Of swords growing
prouder,
From a thought-to hope-then a
boast!
And the hearts of her people re-
fectcd,
All the hatred her masters had bred /;
Like fever that crept and infected,
III the soul of q nation was dead.
Then efficiency, proud and defiant,
AS the strange evolution began,
Was for building the form of a giant
And monster, in place of man.
When to torture and kill would be
pleasure,
Their divisions advancing, be play;
And their battles and conqucsts the
measure
Of their joy in the toast of "The
Day"
So they drank as they poured
through the passes
OF the trcaty-closed Belgian frontier;
And again they were lifting their
When the treasures of Paris seemed
near.
With an oath and a laugh came the
blinking,
AS the Germans with coarse brutal
jeers,
Heard the doomed Lusitania was
sinking,
While the rest of the world was in
tears.
Then a people, aroused from their
slumber,
Unbclieving and peaceful before,
With their ten times ten million in
number
And their forty-eight states, cried fol
War!
We will answer the toast of theil
making;
Hand the glasses to all our Allies;
With the knees of Autocracy shak.
ing,
Crush the Hun to the earth, as we
rise!
Lift aloft ev'ry glass and then drair
it;
Force the Huns to drink with us ane
say
"To Democracy! Fight to attain it
10 Democracy, Huns! To 'Th'
Day"
s- I'll
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-26

Gus villas Of prosperous citizens &c
Leghorn. These the Red Cross re-
QUESTIONED, and housed in them the
transplanted people OF Spresiaro. A
school building was. needed. The Rod
Cross thcle-upon acquired castle, a
new one, to be sure, but built along
medieval lircs by a wealthy owner;
and this is now the school. .s3
"Thc town industry Of Spreziafio
is shoemaking. Accordingly, The
great castle hall has been converted
into Ghoc factory, where the older
boys are taught the trade. S--Octobea'
.StNichoial5. IL (, s..us.sst r.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-26

that the portion Of Russia remaining
within the jurisdiction of the soviet
republic does not contain enough
grain 10 feed the republics popula-
ton, even il every bushel were under
government control and carefully
distributed
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-26

While Mrs. George Morcy was
visiting in Troy one day last week.
her hou3e in Wcstfcld caught fire
and burned to the ground with all its
contents. She has three young chill
dren and neighbors have contributed
clothing and furniture so that they
can live comfortably this winter in
another tenement.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-26

Dana Stafford of Brattleboro and
Bert Wilder of Wardsboro shot q
Dear in >Wardsboro which weighed
zoo pounds. They went out to set
trap and shot the trophy before the
trap was set.
Mayor Mitchell of Montpelier, has
received a message from the war.
department stating that an officer,
will be sent there to take applica-
ions for officers training school in
he infantry, from October 80 to Nov
ember 20. Details are meager
Swanton reports $50 cases of in
luenza and the doctors there are so
busy they have refused calls from
nearby towns.
The town. treasurer of Middlebury
reports that only about half of the
axes for 1918 were paid before the
he day after which four per cent is
added
The leaving of Paul R. Dunn for
the Clarl1son Technical college MAX
IS the fifth son of Mr.. and Mrs. J. H
Dunn of Rutland to be in United
States service.
The J. G. Turnbull Company,
which has run a butter factory in
East Swanton for Is years, has sold
the same tc H. P. Hood and Sons.
The factory has been closed and the
milk is drawn to St. Adams.
Thieves are again operating. at va
rious camps cover the notch in Men
don which are the property of Rutz
land people. These cottages and
shacks have been broken into on a
number OF occasions. Several guns,
as well as, field glass, the whole val
ucd at upwards of $500, were taken
this time the thieves remained in
one cottage long enough to mix d
batch of griddle cakes, which, fol
some reason, they did not cook. r
/ Last Sundays batch of correspon.
dcnce from Frank Sibley, the we'll
/ known war correspondent whose let
tiers appear regularly in the Boston
Globe, includes CONSPICUOUS mention
of Barre boy, Lieut.. Neal W. Hook
Ell, son of Mr.. and Mrs. B. w. Hook
Ell of Barre. The story concerns al
| encircling movement around the tow
of St. Hilairc, and Lieut.. Hooker wa
an officer in one of the parties which
dcployed.
| Mr. and Mrs. w. II. Bisse1 o
North Walpole, N. H., but who ha
lived in Bellows Falls, which wa
| Mr.. Bissell's5 native place, died with
H in a few hours of each other las
/ week, leaving an 18-months-old daug
ter.
HI The plant of the Foundry Mote
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-26

The plant of the Foundry Motor
Gar company at ST. Adams is to be
largely increased by a new foundry
of brick end steel, blacksmith shop
and hardening plant. Practically the
whole output of the shops, which will
employ 65 or 70 hands, will be on
l sugar machinery.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-26
MR.. JONAS I'll. BROOKS:
IT, NV dear Mr.. Brooks:

The Sheppard PrOhibitOry Amendment
10 the United States Constitution, which would
prohibit the manufacture, sale, importation,
expectation and transportaiorof Intoxicating
liquor, will come up at the next session Of
our Legislature and il is important for the
people TO know how each candidate would
vote on This question. The candidates for
Governor and County Senators have all pub
Iicly declared themselves i'm order that no one
should be nlisnforned or misled on Election
Day. I have publicly stated i'm the local
papers and elsewhere that am opposed to
tHsanlendment, as am i'm favor of retaining
our present local option law. *"
For anyone to naisstate your position
this important question would be doing you
an Injustice as well as misleading the VOTERS
After waiting since The Primary held
on Sept 10, l deem it my duty to ask you to
publicly state whether you are for or against
the ProElibit0ry Amendment.
Trusting that you will make early
reply, am tS*f@
Yours truly,
HARRY W. WRITER'S
for Town eprese
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-26
VERMONT NEWS

Dana Stafford of Brattleboro and
Bert Wilder of Wardsboro shot a
Dear in ardsboro which weighed
zoo pounds. They went out to set
trap and shot the trophy before the
trap was set.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-26

The J. G. Turnbull Company,
which has run a butter factory in
East Swanton for Is years, has sold
the same tc H. P. Hood and Sons.
The factory has been closed and. the
milk is drawn to St. Adams.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-26

The leaving of Paul R. Dunn for
the Clarlson Technical college MAX
IS the fifth son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
Dunn of Rutland to be in United
States service.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-26

Swanton reports $50 cases of in
luenza and the doctors there are so
busy they have refused calls from
nearby towns.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-26

Mr.. and Mrs. w: II. Bissell o
North Walpole, N. H., but who hac
lived in Bellows Falls, which wa
Mr.. Bissell'E native place, died with
in few hours of each other las
week, leaving an 18-months-old daugl
ter.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-26

The town. treasurer of Middlebury
reports that only about half of the
axes for 1918 were paid before the
he day after which four per cent is
added.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-26

Mayor Mitchell of Montpelier, has
:eceived a message from the war
department stating that an officer
will be sent there to take applica-
ions for officers training school in
he infantry, from October 80 to Nov
ember 90 Details are meager.
Charlevoix county herald., 1918-01-18

A movement back to the Bible" II
quite as important says the secretary
of the navy as back to the farm"
Neglect of the Bible and a decline IN
the authority and influence of the
home are twin causes OF much loss OF
moral fibre and OF much of the extrav-
agance and abuse Of liberty so char
acteristic of our day. The lawless
gangs of boys prevailing in so many
of our cities, the strikes among school
children, of grammar as well as Of
high school age, constitute an indict-
ment of the home for failing to live
UP to its responsibilities.
The condition Is not confined to
this country. The Austrian govern
ment some time ago had to take
strong action against a curious revolu-
tionary movement among school boys
in Vienna. A culture club" so-called,
which has existed privately among
boys of sixteen years of age and over,
became so large that the government
was applied to- for permission to put
the club on legal basis. On reading
their constitution. the officials were
Mortified to find that the first article
provided for the abolition of the home,
members being enjoined to put pres
sure on their parents so as to obtain
flats for themselves. The boys also
proposed TO elect their school teachers
and TO dismiss unpopular teachers.
and suggestions were invited for up
todate substitutes for such institu-
lions as the home and the school.
The Minister of Education, it Is
said, knew only too well what the
boys meant by putting pressure" on
their parents, as Vienna parents are
often bullied into acceding 10 the
wishes Of their children by threats
Of suicide. This was case where
pressure" was needed. but II ought
TO have been pressure" of the rod In
the hands of parents. II parents can't
govern their children, II Is not sur
prising that We have strikes and revo.
lutionary clubs among school children
and outlawry and anarchy In the state.
II is time We were getting back to the
bible, the home, and other first prin.
ciples.-From Leslie's.
Charlevoix county herald., 1918-01-18
WHof

Who Is ubiquitous?
Who is indispensable TO your comfoftf
Who is 1t from whom you crave
sympathy
Who listens to you with the great
est solicitude and most critical appre-
citation?
Who exerts the most terrifying IN
science?
Who possesses unruffled compos-
ure?
Who never fails to meet you with
an appraising glance?
Who inflicts the most painful neg
lect?
Who doles you with the greatest
accuracy?
Who in manner and bearing puts
to shame your awkwardness?
Who has you the most completely
In his power?
Who bends to you with the most
gracious smile?
Who is the most willing to aid In
seeing you fleeced?
Who is ever Immediately costum-
ed regardless of the hour?
Who realizes or dashes your hopes?
Who has the most lngratiatingly
pleasing or superciliously displeasing
manner?
Who possesses the most puzzling OF
personalities?
Who most nearly anticipates your
wishes?
Who dominates your Judgment and
leads you astray?
Who pulls the strings behind the
scenes?
Who inflicts on you the most cut
ting silence?
Who shames you into lavish dis
play?
Who scorns your use of a foreign
language?
Who can be both ardent and i'm
passive?
Who can be obsequious and not re-
pei?
Who disdains familiarity -
Who is intolerant of provincial good
humored complacency? -. -
Who does not find "rube" anus
ing3 -
Who is infalliable In his estimate
of human nature?
Who can turn interest quickest into
scorn?
Who despises snob?
| Who rejoices in q bon.vivant?
Who frowns upon temperance?
Who h 1t you part with after init.
mate converse with the least emotion
Who always on parting demands OF
you souvenir?
Who dismisses you with silent
blessing or smothered curse? =
THE WAITER!
From Judge
Charlevoix county herald., 1918-01-18
THE INNOCENT sYsTANprR

Statistics that have been carefully
prepared show that 1t IL more peril
Gus to be an innocent bystander than
It. is to engage actively In whatever
may be. going on at the time. The
sctapper either Hicks his opponent or
is himself beaten up. and that II all
there Is TO 1t. He then goes on about
his business before the arrival Of the
police. II any shots are fired. how,
ever, the bystander 10 sure to stop
the bullets, and 1t is for him that the
ambulance Ia called.
The bystander Is q man who refuses
to take any part In politics and the
next thing he knows his taxes are pill
ed so high that he sheds sealding
tears when the time comes to pay
them. About that time he realizes
that he has been standing still and
that others have had their hands In
his pockets.
Standing around on the streets is
one Of the most dangerous occupa.
tons man can follow. II may not ap
pear SO at first glance, but 1t is true
The police look upon the bystander
with grave suspicion. II brick falls
from the top of high building, the
bystander is always there to prevent
It from doing any damage to the side
walk.
1t seems strange that so many per
sons follow this occupation, yet limo.
cent bystanders are becoming more
numerous each year. Wherever blast.
ing is to be done with dynamite or
giant powder, the bystanders are
there In large numbers. Wherever a
dangerous building is to be pulled
down, thither will the bystander flock
in droves.
There is no pay day for the limo.
cent bystanders at the end of the
week. Not one Of them looks forward
to promotion for work well done. A
bystander follows the occupation for
nothing and boards himself.-From
Judge.