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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-10-11

tioning the conduct OF the case so far as
the courts and the jury are concerned,
but what has society to say as to its re-
sponsibility for kelsie and his defective
mentality, blank and clear as child's
from the eighth year up, yet capable of
receiving and resctng to impulses and
suggestions that finally resulted in his
terrific erimey
We say that il is for the purpose of
discovering and segregating the kelsies
Of society that the Brandon school for
defective children was authorized by
law; that il is to follow up and commit
such children; that the board of char
tiles and probation was created and for
which purpose in part 1t does its work
that society, rather than retreating
along such lines must advance, and
presently say to men and women who
bring defective children into the world
or who are themselves defectiye--you
cannot, under Vermont law, bring ubon
the state the burden and menace Of your
imbecile or criminally incnned offspringl
It is q bold and somewhat advanced
thing to say, and the limitations of our
constitution are such that we cannot
perhaps 20 80 tNI III lHdl uAtCLlpH hs
some soeiologists and alienists might
prescribe, but even under present laws
we can segegate feeble minded girls
and women, and, unless signs fail, some
thing rather radical may be submitted
to the next legislature in the way of re-
straining the other sex.
Ii would be clearly unfair and impos-
sible TO hold individuals responsible for
Kelsie, but certainly the old, easy going,
not my .neighbor's keeper system and
method must be held guilty with the un-
fortunate and neglected defective, whose
childish mind absorbed and reacted to
criminal impulses when intelligent segre-
CATION and training might have made
him a fairly useful and certainly harm
less member of society.
We cannot electrocute society, but
certainly society is guilty with Kelsie--
at least for criminal negligence,-Rut-
land Herald
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-10-11
SOCIETY CONVICTED
Along with Bert E. Kelsie on the Charge
of Murder.

The refusal of the supreme court to
send back for another trial Bert E. Kel-
sic of Orleans, convicted of the murder
Of James Allen, brings directly home to
society the responsibility for taking the
life of this grown-up child who commit
ted crime against the laws of the state,
Of which he, at least, must have a very
vague idea.
Although the expert and supporting
evidence went to show that Kelsie was
responsible to the degree of knowing
right from wrong, it seems ndisputed
that his is a case of arrested develop.
ment; that, in brief, he is man of "a
with the mind and reasoning power of a
child. In fact, DIR. O'Neil of the state
hospital, alienist, testified that his men
tai equipment and attainment were
those of child eight years old.
Should Kesie, therefore, be held in
the same degree responsible as a man of
normal if limited mentalityg Has So
ciety a right to exact from him the ter
rife penalty of his life when that life is
so evidently imperfect and when society
has undoubtedly failed to do its duty to
him?
Laws, of course, cannot be enacted for
one specific case, and the orderly proc.
esses of the courts must continue along
accepted lines, but what shall we saw
to the social system that permits such
units as Kelsie, who certainly must have
been recognized as a defective as early as
his eighth year, to roam at large with.
out restraint or special study, until,
through some inexplainable atavism of
his mind, he picks up the iron bar, pur-
sues the aged man, strikes him down
and robs him of his money!
When Kelsie was first convicted and
sentenced to death, it is said that one
of the officers asked him as he came
back to the Jail, how he got along:
"Well, | got along a d. sight better
than | thought | would answered the
child.man who had been sentenced to
death in the electric chair.
When Justice Powers of the supreme
court asked him if he had anything to
say as to why the sentence of the law
should not be passed upon him, Kelsie
replied;
II don't know as | have" and, upon
the Justices repeating for his under
standing that he was convicted of the
murder of James Allen, Kelsie said 4:
Eyes. sir!" Do these two trifing and
from a legal ndpoint--probably i'm
material facts throw no light on Kelsie's
mental condition and responsibility
The Herald is not for moment ques-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-10-11
CHILE DROPS HUN UNIFORM.
With German Drill Masters Gone, Army
Adopts New Dress.

Another evidence Of the waning influ-
enee of German kultur in the world has
just come from Chile, that South Amer
lean republic to the gaining of whose
friendship the German foreign office of
other days devoted so much thought.
Chile has decided that it is about time
to drop into the discard the German uni
form and spiked helmet Of its army,
which were prescribed for it during the
time German drill masters were in
charge of the development of the mill.
tary arm of its national service.
For some time there has been a feel
ing among Chileans that the Prussan
type of uniform has outlived its useful
ness in their country, and the minister of
war has appointed commission TO con.
slider the question, and to evolve a uni,
form of greater utility under local con.
ditions.
The Chilean military uniform has I'M
dergone many changes. In the war for
independence it was patterned more or
less on that of the Spanish troops. Later,
for many years it was of the French
type. Then came the German military
instructors, with the prestige of the
Franco Prussian war behind them, and
with them they brought the Prussian
style, which has seemed out of place on
men of the average build and complexion
of the Chilean soldier.
Furthermore, there are other disadvan-
tages. One Chilean newspaper, summing
up the situation, said
Speaking frankly, the famous uni.
form, with its spiked helmet and all the
ornaments which accompany it, have
labelled us as Germans in time in
which ii is not desirable to be so, apart
from the fact that we ought never 10
carry our enthusiasm for system to the
extreme of Disgusting that which in all
places is the fullest expression Of ma.
tionality, the army"-New York Times.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-10-11
AMUSEMENT NOTES
my Honolulu Girl" Company Carries SIS
Artists.

"My Honolulu Girl" the prettiest,
most tmeful, and by far the best mu-
steal comedy sent on tour this season
by those whose business il is to pro.
duee, will be the attraction at the opera
house on Monday, Oct. 10. With com
pany of IS artists, including one of the
most captivating ehoruses ever gotten
together, the production offers additional
inducements in its scenic vestare Neither
money or work has been spared to make
the stage pictures just like Rembrandt's
or Cornot's The first act showing the
Royal hotel at Honolulu was painted
by Charles Gordon Ford, whose stage
conceptions are as popular as Charles
Dana Gibsons girls The second act,
showing the beach on the island of Hilo,
with a volcano in the distance, is from
the brush of the famous Ponder. There
is Just a plot in my Honolulu Girl" not
a very deep one, just strong enough to
keep you wondering what is coming
next. interpreted throughout the play
are some beautiful song numbers, in
which the beauty chorus distinguishes it.
self.--adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-10-11
TALK OF THE TOWN


Eight -cylnder Cadillac touring car for
sale. G. +. Millar, Barre.
Special values in all-wool underwear
from the Mills stock Lamorey's.
A new shipment of hats arrived to-
day. Mrs. Birnie, Laurel street adv.
Henry Abbott of Worcester was among
the business visitors in Barre yesterday.
Hundreds of pairs of all-wool trousers,
sizes 80 to SO, So, for this week only.
Lamoreys.
l.. j. Larivee returned to his home in
this city Thursday after a visit IN
Springfield and Boston.
Daniel Baddord, conductor on the
Montpelier and Barre electric road, has
resumed his duties after spending a few
weeks in Hartford, Conn.
The teachers in the Barre public
schools have returned from attending
the state teachers convention in Mont
pelier and the schools will reopen Mon
day morning,
About rs friends of Miss Lillian john
son gave her surprise party last even
ing at the home of Alex Colby on Maple
avenue in honor of her engagement to
Henry w. Young Of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mr. Young, who has been making brief
visit in Barre, returned to Brooklyn
last evening.
Goddard's football team left last night
for Burlington where, this afternoon, 1t
will meet the second team OF the Univer-
sity of Vermont. Coach Leahey picked
Is fast men to go to Burlington. Last
evening the Goddard boys were rendered
reception by boys of the fraternities.
These men will appear for the red and
white this afternoon, but the lien-up will
not be decided until the last minute
Foster Slayton, Wood, e. Thompson,
Fuller Slayton, A. Thompson, Long, Nc
Mahon, Poll, Sector, Barberi, Freeman,
Guy, Wilmot, Kelly, Kezer, Gaughan and
Sullivan.
Considerable speculation is in the air
concerning Bsrre's Victory arch that for
three months has been an added attrac-
tion to tourists and visitors, Its huge
life-like plaster symbols OF honor, bray.
cry and victory have withstood, without
any material change, the elements OF
Vermont and still stand intact, a credit
to Barre for her loyalty to veterans Of
the war as well as being display of
genius to produce the statuary and cary
ings in Barre granite. Some contend that
with the weather beaten spots touched
up with paint the arch could be retained
until the unwilling Of the substantial
and permanent soldiers memorial.
An operation was performed at the
City hospital last Wednesday on the
right foot of Warner Wheeler, young
man who sustained serious injury to
the foot while sliding fifteen years ago,
In the accident the bones OF the lower
| leg and foot were broken into about fifty
pieces and they were put back as well
as could be done Since that ime, how
ever, the muscles and cords have drawn
so that several operations were per-
formed to remedy the trouble and from
which temporary relief was secured. But
after each operation the drawing start
ed again, having tendency TO make Mr..
Wheeler walk on the outer side Of the
foot and causing sore to form as well
as giving great inconvenience. In the
aim to give permanent relief the heel
cord was cut and all the toes Of the foot
were taken off, it being hoped that Mr..
Wheeer's foot will take its natural po-
sition The patient is doing well at this
time
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-10-11
TALK OF THE TOWN

Plenty of mems suits, sizes "a to So,
S25. Lamorey's.
Halloween social at Presbyterian
church Oct. 3l.--ady.
Miss Cows classes in music will begin
Oct. l5 Arrangements should be made
at once.--adv,
Do your shopping on Saturday, as
stores will be closed on Monday in OBJ
servance of Columbus day.--adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-10-11
Now's Your Chance.

Here's bit OF timely advice from a
Missouri paper: Have you struck yet?
If not, organize yourself Immediately
and quit work at once. In these days
with an approaching millennium appar-
ent on all sides, no man really ought to
have less than $4,000 a year, four au-
tomobiles, a summer abroad each year
and winter vacation thrown in. An hour
day at, say, 500 an hour, with time
and a half for overtime, is all any citi-
zen ought to work, under the new order,
Walk out, anyhow If everybody can be
induced to quit work, things will pros
per marveously, and you with them. =
Boston Transcript.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-10-11
TALK OF THE TOWN

Dance in Rowland hall Saturday even.
ing; Gilbertson's orchestra, adv.
Attend to your shopping on Saturday
as stores will be closed on Monday in
observance Of Columbus day.-adv
An especially nice lot of household fur.
niture to be sold at auction at No 4
Cliff street Monday afternoon, Oct 10,
at o'clock See adv. on page Z. d. A.
Perry. auetioneer.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-10-11
Effort That Awaited.

SO at last you have made your lit
erary efforts count"
yes. | never sold story, but / kept
plugging away copying my own stuff,
until now | can command frst-rate com
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-10-11
Notice.

An Arkansas paper announces that the
postmaster at Batavia has received a let
ter with no name or address on it, and
he would like the person it is intended
for to please call and get it.--Boston
Transcript.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-10-11
observance Of columbus pay.

All stores, members Of the Barre Re-
tail Merchants association, Inc, will be
closed all day Monday, Oct. 10, in observ-
ance of Columbus day.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-10-11

Lots Of married people might study
harmony without taking music lessons.
Boston Transcript
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-10-11

A few mems suits TO close, mostly
small sizes, SIS Lamorey's.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-10-11
To prnmnte Peace

pensation as a typist. Boston Tran
script.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-10-23

NOTICED

AS you travel through the state you
pass through many small towns, all
of about the same size and all more
or less alike. And yet, as you look
at them through the train window,
they make different impressions upon
you. AS you pass through one town
you will think, what an attractive
town. | should like to live here" And
yet, town only few miles distant
will create in you a feeling of aver
sion.
What is the difference in the two
places? The answer can usually be
found in the fact that one gives the
appearance of prosperity and pep"
while the other does not. The streets
of the first will be clean, usually paw
ed, the lawns will be we'll kept, the
houses painted, and the people you
can see from the train will be hustling
about as though they had plenty to do
and were glad to do it. The second
town, on the other hand, will appear
slovenly and ill-kept. Tumble down
houses set in weed-choked lawns,
board walks, streets strewn with pa
per, will meet your gaze, and the peo-
pie on the station platforms and hang
ing around the unswept steps of the
village stores will give you the i'm
preston that they do nothing and are
nothing.
If we want to attract people to our
city we must be careful of the i'm
preston we make upon them. We
must try not to let slide the little
things which, added together, make
up the appearance of the town. We
want strangers to know that we are
up and doing, that we have a Give"
town in which it is pleasure to live.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-10-23
SEEN AROUND
7HETOWN

Recently the editor was strolling
around town on the hunt for some
item of news worth passing on to our
readers.
We found it.
In a certain home the mother was
toiling notwithstanding dishes,
pots, pans and kettles, sweeping the
floor, busting the furniture and tidy
ing UP generally.
But that was nothing new. That
mother is always doing the same. She
is a wonder.
On the front doorstep reclined a
young lady, daughter of the house.
She was perusing the latest novel.
That, also, was nothing new. Re-
clining and perusing is her favorite
pastime.
But think of it!
The parent shaving and the daughter
lazing! .zsaiss
Some day that daughter may in turn
become mother herself.
She may even see the day when ne
lcessity will force her to perform house
hold duties early and late, while HER
daughter idles away her time.
That dreaded "tired feeling" may
become her constant companion in life.
Then, perhaps, she may think with
regret of the time when she, a
strong and healthy girl, lolled the
hours away while her own mother
toiled that others might be content
with their lot in life.
The lesson may be slow in coming,
| but it will be bitter when it arrives.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-10-23
when KINGS
CONEOvER

The visit of the royal family Of Bel
GUM to the United States has been
something of disappointment to
some people. 1t has been a matter of
ratification to others.
A few years ago a tremendous up
roar and fuss would have been raised
upon the arrival of a foreign poten-
tate to our midst, and necks would
have been strained and stretched to
the breaking point in the mad scram-
bic to see real live king and queen.
Today they attract little more at
tention than any other people of in
ternational Importance.
There are so many really great peo-
pie right here in our own country that
the arrival of the elect from other
'ands is merely an interesting incident
IN the events of a day.
A few there are who would receive
the visitors with all the pomp and
glory and tinsel of the old world, but
the sane and sensible majority accord
this gallant ruler and his family a hos
pitable and courteous reception, and
continue their labors of the day.
The time of idolatrous worship of
the anointed has passed.
1t will never come again.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-10-23
TO BE
c u LTIV ATE d

Madison, Wis. Oct, 21.-A new and
better BURBERRY promises to be added
to Wisconsin's Crop list if the plans
of representatives of the College of
Agriculture and the United States De-
partment of Agriculture are carried
out.
Blueberries, as they are now known,
are of the small, wild kind which are
raked off the bushes and too often are
dirty and badly mashed by the time
they get to the consumer
With the cooperation of interested
parties living in the BURBERRY districts
better speciments are now being select
ed and new strains are being bred
from them. A $50 reward has been
offered for any berry considered good
enoungh to use for this breeding up
purpose.
A new species one-half inch in di-
ameter has already been originated in
New Jersey and natural conditions in
Wisconsin are such that there seems
an opportunity to get good start
here.
Large areas Of Wisconsin are adapt
ed to the culture of blueberries, says
r. H. Roberts, of the Wisconsin Ex-
pertinent Station. The plants thrive
only in acid soils, such soils as are not
fitted for the production of many other
crops.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-10-23

they go to foreign houses, and be for
ever lost to US who have produced them
by our energy and our thrift?
The answer is in our own hands.
Our local merchants will be we'll E.
quipped for supplying our demands.
The goods will be on their counters,
where we can see them, Judge as to
their quality, and know what we get.
And the name of local dealer stands
as a guarantee for everything he sells.
But if we buy abroad we lose from
our midst both the dealers cost price
and his profits. We never see them "a
gain.
And our community is the poorer to
the extent of the profits on every ar
ticle not purchased at home.
Which shall it be?
A constructive Christmas, or a de-
structive one?
Prosperity should begin at home.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-10-23
DON'T KNOCK

Just as no respectable man ever
ISLANDERS his family, so no respectable
citizen ever knocks or in any way
defames the town in which he lives
A man who will not uphold and praise
his own community, the community
where he earns his money and which
affords him many privileges, is not
worthy to be called a citizen If he
is dissatisfied with his surroundings
let him keep still and do his best to
better them, or go some place where
he can be satisfied. We have room
only for the, boosters.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-10-23
NOTICE TO
REPORTER
READERS

Under the rules of the postoffice de-
partment the second class mail priv
ileges are allowed newspapers only on
subscriptions which have been paid for
and publisher is not permitted to
presume that subscriber wants his pa
per continued beyond the period for
which he has paid. A newspaper is
expected by the department to collect
its subscription in advance and to dis
continue it at the expiration of the
paid period. After the. lapse of rea-
sonable time, the subscription in ad-
vance for another term remaining I'M
paid, the newspaper is required under
pain of loss of its second class mail
ing privileges, without which it could
hardly do business, to take the sub
scriber's name from its lists.
The Reporter does not question the
credit of its readers. But it cannot
safely ignore the rules. Nor can it
afford, at the low price charged for
the Reporter, price cut in two when
other commodities were advancing, to
maintain rate of 81 year in Wood
county and $3.50 outside it, unless all
subscriptions are regularly paid.
It wishes, therefore, respectfully to
advise its subscribers, whose paid-up
period has expired or is soon to expire,
to examine the label on their paper,
and if their term is up or soon will be,
to send in promptly their money,
checks or money orders for renewal of
their subscriptions. After December
s1st, 1919 the names of those whose
subscription is not paid in advance
will be taken off the lists.
We expect to enlarge The Reporter
back to its SPACE size on January l,
1920 and then the subscription price
will be $500 per year. We also ex-
pect to add weekly Art Gravure sup
plement of pages with world news
pictures.
St WOOD COUNTY REPORTER.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-10-23
TESTING SOILS

Madison, Wis, Oct, 20.-The States
Soils Laboratory is running over time
to keep ahead of the applications for
soil tests coming from the farmers of
the state.
The requests during the past few
months have been the heaviest in the
history of the work, according to E..
J.. Graul, who is in charge of the La
boratory. He reports that nearly $50
applications have been received during
the past II months and that large
number of these applications have
been made by owners or operators of
sandy or marshy soils.
Because this is the best time of the
year for farmers to apply for chemi-
cal analyses of their soils it is ex-
pected that the number of applications
will be considerably increased within
the next month.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-10-23
THEY GET ACTION AT ONCE

Foley Kidney Pills invigorate,
strengthen and heal inactive, weak
and diseased kidneys and bladder,
Mrs. o. ]. Ellis, sos 9Th Ave, Sioux
Falls, S. D., writes: "I suffered with
kidney troubles; used to have severe
pains across my back and felt miser-
able and all tired out, but after taking
Foley Kidney Pills l am we'll" Sold
everywhere. Foley & Co., 2835-2845
Sheffield Ave, Chicago, Ill. Sold Ev-
erywhere.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-10-23

Who a week ago made new Ameri-
can altitude record above Roosevelt
Field, L. l. reaching the height of 3d.
700 feet, where he was halted by a 100
mile windstorm and temperature of
25 degrees below zero.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-10-23
WHEN A CHILD HAS GROUP

Thousands of mothers say Foley's
Honey and Tar Compound is the best
remedy they know for Group, coughs
and colds. 1t cuts the thick, choking
mucus, clears away the phlegm, opens
air passages and eases hoarsness.
The gasping, strangling fight for
breath gives way to quiet breathing
and peaceful sleep. Sold Everywhere.
Foley & Co., 2935-2845 Sheffield Ave-,
Chicago, Ill. Sold Everywhere.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-10-23
LET PROSPERITY
! BEGIN At Home

Community prosperity is, or is not,
as we of the community make it.
Much money will be spent around
here during the coming Christmas
holidays. 1t is right that it should be
so, for every normal person likes to
partake of the joys of the yule time.
But where will that money go?
Will the profits remain here, and
continue to circulate in our midst, and
enrich our local community? Or will