Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-09-18
THE MELTTNG-POT

Nearly 300 automobiles are stolen in
New York city every month.
Because of worry over the high cost
of food, the mother of five children at
Newark, n. j., committed suicide.
An &-year-old widow In New York
hanged herself because she believed she
was becoming a burden to her son.
Some of the richest of the American
women who married titles in the now
impoverished central empires of Europe
are in actual want.
Seven officials Of an organization OF
1000 farmers and dairymcn in Cuyahoga
county, Ohio. were Indicted on the charge
Of violating the State antitrust law
A man at Millerton, N. Y, after July
l, when prohibition came into effect made
six gallons of home-brewed whiskey
drank it in three days and died in agony
Cardinal MERCER says: Better be dead
than dishonored is the rule for a man.
Better be annihilated than dishonored
is the rule for a country. No man lives
for himself; no country exists for IT.
self"
The main causes Of industrial unrest in
Great Britain are declared to be suspicion
fear of unemployment, unfair division of
profits and products, status in industry,
extremist propaganda and economic fall
lacies.
I'VE don't want drastic action, but
remedial acton for the high cost of liv-
ing" says Senator France of Maryland
THE three causes, I believe, are under
production of food, over production of
money and faulty distribution"
Governor Bartlett of New Hampshire
says; I'VE can by the ballot safeguard
But IL we attack our government and
ruin it. we can get nothing. save as We
may in the mad scramble Of a mob"
The Association Opposed to National
Prohibition says that owing to prohibit
tion hotel rates have increased In every
section Of the country since July / from
s1,W to 500 per guest per day The
higher rates will cost the public $500, 600, 900
in the next year.
In the Is years of it's existence the
appropriation for the Interstate Com
merce Commission has Increased from
$355,OOO to $j,741 .0OO and the number of it's
employees from 179 to 1888, and 1t has
done nothing to relieve the railroad situa-
ton.
woman Red Cross worker, recently
arrived from lover there" predicts that
most of the marriages Of American SOL
alers abroad Will be dismal failures
some of the brides. she asserts. were unfit
to enter this country and married only
to get to the United States.
More than $4,000 voters in Ohio have
asked for the submission To popular vote
Of Il constitutional amendment repeating
the Statewide prohibition Amendments
re-establlshing the liquor license system
and local option, and defining intoxicat-
ing beverages as those containing more
than two and three-fourths per cent
alcohol
The president of the Housekeepers,
club of Avalona, Pa, has issued a list
Of prices at which farmers foodsturfs
should be sold to consumers, and urges
the Imprisonment of any retail merchant
who asks higher prices, The list Includes
eggs at 80 cents per dozen, butter at 40
cents per pound and milk at II cents
per quart.
The mother of the late Scr cant Joyce
hi"ner' the FAMOUS poet who lost his
NE III 'he war has been refused by tho
war department a passport to visit her
sons grave In France. on the ground that
no passports we're Issued to relatiyes of
soldiers although trips for tourists TO
France are advertised
Former President Taft onposes III.
Plumb plan Of government ownership OF
railroads as being radically soc.alist.c.
He says; we should not let the soviet
'ystem gain even a toe-hold In America.
1t seems to me the mon are recurring a.
greater increaee of wages than the per
centage Of increase in the cost of living
warrants"
Father Bclford, Of Brooklyn n. Y, saws
some Of the strikes that-arc now going
on are absurd in their demands and Grim
| maj IN thcir methods. The worker de-
serves justice, but In these days he seems
TO demand not Justice. but everything
II ~ high time foi some one to tell him.
Ihns rar may"sl thou go, but no far
| thcr'n
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