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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-04-23
NO. 5
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS
244 AND 245 OF THE GENERAL
LAWS. RELATING TO THE RE-
TURNING OF VOTES FOR
COUNTY OFFICERS.

LAWS, RELATING TO THE RE-
TURNING OF VOTES FOR
COUNTY OFFICERS.
1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section l. Section 244 of the Cen
eral Laws is hereby amended so as to
read as follows
Sec. 244. A certificate of the votes
for county officers other than those for
senator's, shall be made and delivered as
prescribed in the constitution, list of
all persons voted for being included in
such certificate, and the names and post
Office addresses of persons voted for
shall be written on such list. The pre-
siding officer SHALL at the same time
make duplicate certificate, which, in a
sealed package with the same super
scription, he shall transmit by mail,
within six days to the secretary of state
at Montpelier.
Sec, 2. Section 245 of the General
Laws is hereby amended so as to read
as follows:
Sec, 245. The certificate of votes for
officers referred to in the preceding sec
tion shall be substantially iii .he follow
"'N 81 STATE A OF VERMONT
l own OF ............, SIS
At a general election legally warned
and holden at ......... in the county
of .........., on the first Tuesday next
after the first Monday of November,
A. d., Io... the votes for assistant
judges of the county court, Judge of
probate. states attorney. sheriff, high
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-04-23

nomination, or as many of them as are
required to sign nomination papers, to
make the required number of signerss,
in the manner provided for making such
nomination; or, if the nomination was
made by convention or CAUCUS. in such
manner as the convention or caucus has
previously provided; or, if such pro-
vision is not made, then by the regularly
elected general or executive committee
representing the political party holding
such convention or caucus.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect
from its passage.
Approved February 27, 1910.
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NO. 9

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE THE
SUM THEREIN NAMED FOR
THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING
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{ Signature of Officially

(official title)
Sec. 7. On receipt of such absent
voter ballots il shall be the duty Of said
town or city clerk to forward by mail
one of such absent voter ballots to each
applicant as shown upon his list of ap-
plications by absent voters, at least
eight days before such election. The
town or city clerk shall send with all
ballots to absent voters separate printed
instructions containing the following :
On receipt of these ballots you will
proceed to mark the same in accord
ance with the instructions printed there
on, then fold the same so that the
affidavits may be seen without unfold
ing the ballots.
Make out the affidavit printed upon
each ballot and acknowledge the same
before a notary public or commits
stoned officer of the army or navy, place
the ballots in an envelope addressed to
the clerk of the town or city in which
you are legal voter, and write there
on the words absent voter Ballot of
......... place the necessary postage
upon the envelope and deposit the same
in the postofice or in some government
receptacle for the deposit of mail mat
ter. Such ballots. in order to be voted
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I, ............,. do solemnly swear
that ! am a resident of the town, city
of ........ State of Vermont and
am legal voter in said town, city :.
and that | am necessarily absent from
said town, city and am unable to vote
in person; that this ballot was marked
by me personally and enclosed in this
envelope and sealed by me without
being exhibited to any person.
(Signature of absent voter)
Subscribed and sworn to before me,
this .... day OF .......... ~. go.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Democratic Woman
AssemblyMennber
DR.. Gillette Claims Vic
tory on Ground of Her
Humanitarian Platform,

BY GERALDINE H. MURRAY
TINE woman's vote is said to be
l. responsible for the state Of af-
fairs in the I'd Assembly Dis
trict Of Schenectady, where, for tho
first time in seventeen years, a Dem
ocrat has been elected. DR.. Elizabeth
Van Rensselaer, Gillette is to be the
new member, to take The place Of Ed
gar 0. Davies. Her district, for
years solidly Republican, switched
this year, when Miss Gillette ran q
second time for the office, on a labor
platform. Her plurality was 900.
Endorsement of the eight-hour day
and minimum wage bills is held re-
sponsible for DR.. Gillette's election.
DR.. Gillette has had wide experience
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

ling, prominent manufacturer Of
Rochester, is chairman. Other prom
inent men at work on this particular
commission are DR.. Maitland Alex
ander, of Pittsburgh; President
Henry Churchill King Of Oberlin.
and W. H. Danforth, the breakfast
food manufacturer.
Other members of this commits
sion are F. W. Ramsey. Cleveland: 4:
President Guy Potter Benton, Bur
lington, Vt; Lieutenant Colonel
Gerald W. Birks, Montreal; A. G.
Bookwalter, Cincinnati; John Brown,
jr.. Toronto; L. E. Buell., Detroit
William Knowles Cooper, Washing
ton, D. c.; E. ]. Couper, Minneap-
oils; W. H. Danforth, St. Louis;
Walter T. Diack, New York City;
Henry D. Dickson. Dayton, Ohio
Ralph W. HARRISON, Pittsburgh; Alb
ner Kingman, Montreal; H. P. Lans.
dale, Rochester; ]. G. McNary. Ell
Paso. Tex; John W. Pontius. Co
lumbus; E. B. Pratt, Colorado
Springs; l. B. Rhodes, Portland,
Ore: w. A. Scott. Dallas. Tex.
President J. Ross Stevenson, Prince
ton, N. j.; William e. Sweet, Den
yer. and Professor Henry B. Wright,
New Haven.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Continuance of Canteen
Service in Industrial
Centers and Near the
Large Lumber Camps
Adapting Work
To Peace Times
Detroit Convention Will
Demonstrate Benefits
of City Hut Life

W. OMAN'S part in the future
w activities of the Y. NJ. c. A.
will be a feature of the de-
liberations of leading men of the
United States and Canada, who
gather at Detroit November 19 to %
While the place of the canteen
worker in the convention proceed
ings is entirely unofficial, she will,
nevertheless, play conspicuous
part on the program.
A special commission is now
studying the question of whether or
not girls are to serve as canteen and
social workers in the association
buildings as they served in the "Y'
nuts in France. The report Of thi
commission will be made at the con
verfiO0
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
"Nancy" Astor,
Smasher of Precedents

Precedent-beloved as first-born
instinct by the entire British ma
tion-will be smashed to smith
Greens by the appearance within the
solemn walls of Parliament of this
former American beauty. English
by marriage, but American in
speech, manner and conviction, Wis
countess Astor's ascendancy to the
seats of the mighty will Se an even
narder blow for the reactionary ele-
ment Of her adopted land to bear
But, withal, she is contesting a Con-
servative seat, in Conservative dis
riot, and has won the undivided sup
ort of her Conservative constitu-
nts.
Lady Astor's entry into British
olitics as a candidate for Parlia-
nent, while not unprecedented by
he Viscountess herself, was occa-
ioned by the recent death Of her
ather-in-law, the late Viscount Wal
orr Astor. The present Viscount,
n husband, then Major William
aldorf Astor, was raised to the
erage. He automatica' receives
seat in the House of Lords, and
IS constituents Che had been elect
M. P.) we're forced to find a.
her candidate for the House of
onmons.
His Plymouth constituency, which
had elected him to Parliament last
December by an overwhelming ma
'ority, cast about for another can
didate. There seemed, from the
Conservative point of view, only two
possibilities. There was Captain
Jack Astor, younger brother Of the
present Viscount. who had been
severely wounded in the war but
had no liking for politics, and Wis
countess Astor. The former was
approached first, with an offer Of
the support Of the constituency.
He declined, and there was scarcely
need to ask Lady Astor. who ac-
cepted.
Viscount Astor seriously disap-
proved his wife's candidacy. He
exerted every influence to have his
brother contest the vacancy. He
used domestic persuasion. But it
was no use. Lady Astor had made
up her mind she was going into
Parliament.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Prophecy of 1910
May Come True

The Astor influence III Plymouth
has been manifest since the DAYS
when Waldorf Astor first wooed the
constituency. At the first election
in 1910, when, in a Parliamentary
contest with Sir H. Mortimer Du-
rand (the distinguished British Am
bassador at Washington from 1903
to 1906), Major Astor was narrowly
defeated, Mrs. Astor blandly de-
clared that, although disappointed,
she was not discouraged, and that
she would live to win Plymouth her
self!
Plymouth has a population Of
quarter of million, and none of
them will ever forget the vigorous
election methods of Nancy" Astor,
who took the stump for her hus-
band, proved an incalculable source
Of strength and was the chief factor
in his election, even in days when
women did not possess the vote.
An old Plymouth politician spoke
thus when | asked him f his rec
elections of Lady Astor in those
days:
GAS q canvasser she WAS ideal
persuasive, patient, persevering and
willing. Rebuffs? She had many.
but she smiled through them all,
working with heart and soul for the
cause in manner that inspired en-
thusiasm in the hearts of all Of us
who were associated with the party
She had joyous spirit Of abandon
in those days which fancy she may
have lost now that she has become
great lady"
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

". tn aDe.N Van K. Gillette
ID assembly District, Schenectady, N. Y.
in her twenty years practice in
Schenectady with the working ele-
ment- For two years she was ex-
amining surgeon of women in the
General Electric Company's plant
which is located there. She still
does large amount Of private work
for the various manufacturing con-
Germs Of that city. Previous to the
time that she opened her practice in
Schenectady DR.. Gillette was mis-
sionary and settlement worker in the
East Side of New York City. And
it was there, she says, that she de-
cided to become a Democrat. In the
wretched conditions Of the city's
poor she found that the Democratic
party had place, because, to her
mind, 1t was trying to cure the evils
which existed.
The platform Of the only Demo-
cratic woman Assembly member
embraces humanitarian measures.
Censorship Of motion pictures,
which she believes should be included
with baseball as Sunday amuse-
ments; advance Of the age limit for
child labor to eighteen years; in
dorsement Of the hydro-electric bill
and Of various so-called railroad
measures are included in it.
DR.. Gillette is native Of CRANKY,
Conn, where she was born October
21, 1874. She is a graduate of the
New York Medical College and life
member Of the National Society Of
the Daughters Of the American Rev.
olution. She was never q suffragist.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
For and Against,
And Why

But upon further inquiry in the
hyways of this old-fashioned towr
whence the Pilgrim fathers set sal
for America, I found that it was be-
cause she still retains this spirit of
irresponsible recklessness land the
term, to those who have seen Wis
countess Astor in action during 4
close campaign, will not sound
harsh) that some of the old-fash-
icned constituents viewed with dis
may the departure which saw this
gay and vivacious lady chosen as
their candidate. AS a canvasser for
her husband her methods were ap-
proved, for they undeniably brought
votes, but as the Official candidate
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
An international Organi-
zation Formed by Wom-
en- at World Conference
in Capital Recently
German Women
Are Included
Representatives of Many
Countries Draft an Adj
vanced Progra m
OMEN in industrial en-
w ployment should be pro-
hibited from night work

k<VV OMEN in industrial en-
w ployment should be pro-
hibited from night work
and men should labor only in day
light hours save in those continuous
essential to public service.
"Children should be kept out of in
dustry until they are sixteen years
of age and until they are eighteen
years of age they should be prohib-
tied from jobs in hazardous indus
tries. Only day time work is to be
allowed for minors that their growth
and development may not be stunted
through night work.
Men and women alike should
work only forty-four hours every
week, with 4 continuous holiday
weekly of a day and half and the
forty-four hours divided into the
eight-hour day, with half hour rest
period for each eight-hour shift.
The international labor confer
ences arranged under the peace
treaty should admit women as
equals with the men delegates.
Women should be prohibited
from employment in those trades
and occupations which because Of
chemical poisons are not healthy for
them as potential mothers.
Each nation should establish g
chain Of free employment Offices in
its cities and foster effective systems
Of unemployment insurance.
mo woman shall be employed six
weeks before nor six weeks after
childbirth; that every woman be en-
titled to free medical, surgical and
nursing care during maternity, in
addition to monetary allowance
sufficient for the full and healthy
maintenance Of herself and child
during the aforesaid period.
The working women of the
world should be organized into a
permanent international cogress to
work for the standards which have
been formulated in behalf of wom-
en- and Children
The foregoing is the gist Of meas
ures adopted by the international
Working Women's Congress, held
under the auspices Of the National
Women's Trade Union League.
The following officers for a per-
manent body were chosen: Mrs. Ray
mond Robins, Of America; Miss
Mary Macarthur, Of England; Betsy
Kjelsberg, of Norway; Nine. Stu
chova for Czecho-Slovakia; Mile.
Bouvier, Of France, and Mrs. Maud
Swartz, of America. \ fifth vice
presidency was left open to be filed
by delegate appointed by the Cen
tral powers.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Exhibit A,
The Canteen Girl

Visible evidence Of women's work
LOT the association will be brought
70 the attention Of the 5000
delegates. A special wartime Y. M.
y. A. hut, similar to those built at
nome and abroad during the war,
Will be on exhibition, along with its
'ypical accessories and activities.
In addition to this hut, there will
oe a replica Of a shell-shattered
PEASANTS cottage, such as used at
tae front by the Y. M. C. A. Giant
chocolate marmites are being shipped
.som France for installation in this
hut.
1ertrude Ely, Of Bryn Mawr,
a. pioneer canteen worker who
served with the famous lst Division
uur'hg the entire period of the war.
viii head the group Of canteen girls
VINO serve hot chocolate to the dele
gates Entertainment units that
p'ayed one-night stands for the
uoushooys in France and Germany
VIII play for the convention in De.
troit.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

in prohibition. This makes her
"pussyfoot," and would most GER
tainly have initiated against her in
the present election had she not
had the good sense to keep it we'll
covered beneath a multitude of other
planks. AS matter of fact, charged
directly with "pussyfootism," she
denied it, saying she simply wanted
to make peoples homes brighter
and happier. No, Lady Astor GER
tainly couldn't allow a prohibition
plank to be visible on her platform
and hope to carry an English con-
stituency.
The present campaign did not be-
gin until November i, and was
P AIMED to last a fortnight Lady
Astor withheld her first volley until
November s, circumstances in con-
nection with her father-in-law' s
death preventing her being at
Plymouth for the opening night.
The Unionist party in Plymouth
predicts a 10000 majority, almost as
much as her husband secured when
the coalition was in favor year
ago. 1t is hard to find nonpar-
tisan in Plymouth, but opinion gen
orally seems to be that she will win,
probably with a majority of about
3 OO0
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Transport Drug Addicts
Who Have Agreed to Go
to Riverside Hospital
For Treatm ent
Under Direction
OF DIR. Copeland
Physical Cure Complete,
But Social Conditions
Complicate Situation
WELFARE AGENCIES NAV

w cor come AXE and a'ssr'As war ssrriess %xy
NAV go, but the Moicr
Corps of America goes on forever.
Helpless children victims of the m
fantile paralysis scourge, blind wom-
en- and children, and now the drug
addicts who can be persuaded to
take the cure at Riverside Hospital
are transported from one place to
another by the faithful women of
the Motor Corps.
Colonel Helen Bastedo, who is still
called Major by those who knew
her during the war service of the
corps. has so many projects for her
troops that the military system Is
the only regime under which all
the business could be accomplished.
She starts each line Of service, and
then, when it is running well, turns
it over to the management of some
major or captain, while she herself
goes on to other new fields.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
A Three
Cornered Fight

The fight at the polls will be
three-co1nered Both the Lab
and Liberal parties have candidates
IN the field, fact which will en-
hance Lady Astor's chances of VIC
tory. Plymouth Liberals have Sc
lected Isaac Foot, a local lawyer,
thrice defeated for Parliament in
nelghborlng constituencies, the last
time by the ex-Lord Mayor of Lon
don. He is not particularly brill
liant campaigner, being naturally
completely overshadowed in this re-
spect by Lady Astor, and has no
particular political record. Labor
candidate is w. T. Gay, who was
$4,000 votes behind Major Waldorf
-Astor at the last general election.
The Labor party in Plymouth is
small but active. Gay himself would
make a good but modest member of
the House. IL should be content"
he said, a smallish man with droop-
ing mustache, Ito play the humblest
part. In this fight l have but one
ambition, and that is to give the
best that is in me for the uplifting
Of the common people"
Nothing Of this about our lady
candidate.
"a vote for me IS a vote for
yourselves" she tells them. "You
will get better government under
the Unionists than under any old
| L P Independent Labor
Party) -
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Picking Up
The Threads

The old organization Of the Motor
Corps forms nucleus for a peace
organization. The new organization
will have as its object the picking
up Of the broken threads Of various
social welfare societies which lapsed
more or less during the war.
Perhaps the newest bit of work
undertaken by the Motor Corps is
that of transporting drug addicts
from the narcotic drug clinic on
Worth Street to the ferry whence
they make their journey to the Riv-
erside Hospital for six weeks cure.
The corps is working under DR..
Royal Copeland, Commissioner OF
the Department of Health of the
City Of New York.
In accordance with a plan Of DR..
Copeland, the Riverside Hospital OF
North Brother Island was converted
on August /, 1919, into a sana-
torium exclusively for the treatment
of drug addicts. Five hundred and
twenty three men and one hundred
women can be accommodated.
Patients are self-committed for
six weeks. The hyoscine treatment
is given. The first ten days are
used for actual treatment, the Sec
ond week or ten days for GONZALES
cence and the remainder Of the time
for rehabilitation of the patients
mental and physical forces.
DR.. Copeland is pretty well salts
fed with the way in which these
drug addicts are progressing The
desperate side Of the problem is the
attitude of society toward them
after the physical cure is fact.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Sick Persons,
Not Criminals

These drug addicts should be
considered sick persons, not crimi-
nails. When they have been cured
they must not be thrown back
among their old associates. am
doing all / can for them physically.
But unless society takes care of
them after their bodies are cured
my work has been in vain.
Colonel Bastedo and her Motor
Corps are a help in getting these
afflicted men and women to take
the hyoscine cure. They present
themselves at the clinic and call off
the names of the men or the women
whom they are to transport. Their
Uniforms dispel the atmosphere of
obvious uplift work. The persons
upon whom the drug has its hold
must go to the hospital of their
own free will. But the manner Of
these uniformed motor women, their
unconscious kindness and their mat
ter-of fact bearing cannot our m
fluence those afflicted in making
their decisions. After all, most of
them are very young.
"Children." Dr. Copeland calls
the drug ajdicts, and indeed a day
watching them off to the hospital
confirms his ~erminology. The no
ticeable feature on the mems day
at the drug clinic is the large pei
centage Of addicts who are returned
soldiers. Many of them acquired
the habit when they had inAu-
enxs.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
An American Woman
From plymouth Town"

England narrowly missed the
election treat of it's life. The orig
inal plans Of the Plymouth Liberals
would have provided Lady Astor
with an opponent worthy of her
mettle. An effort was made to per-
suade ex-Premier Asquith to 60
down to Plymouth and contest the
seat. He intends to return to Par
lament shortly. Asquith, however,
declined when he learned that it was
to be a three-cornered fight. Posi-
bly,, too, he feared the outcome of an
electioneering battle with the viva
cious Nancy"
The constituency wherein Wis
countess Astor contests embraces the
older part of Plymouth Town, in
cluding the Hoe" on which Sir
Francis Drake is reputed to have
finished his historic game Of bowls
at the time when the Spanish Ar
mada had been sighted off port. All
that section Of the town where, dur
ing the war, a United States naval
base was established, and the quay
side, with its famous Mayhower
stone, whence the Pilgrims departed
and upon which Commander Read
and the crew of the NC-4 landed, are
included in the part of the town
Lady Astor is seeking to represent.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
A Real
Social Reforrner

Lady Astor's constituents know
her as a real social reformer. Her
social work at Plymouth has includ-
ed the establishment Of craches and
infant welfare circles. Throughout
the war she manifested interest in
the welfare Of soldiers and sailors,
both British and American, and was
extremely active In hospital work
She was also interested In the Sal
vation Army.
Lady Astor Is a stanch believer
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
What About
ihe Lumber Camp?

ine use Of entertainment units In
INDUSTRIAL centers and In lumber
lamps OF the Northwest and the
maintenance Of women secreta riea
I" specially constructed huts at these
psces is to be considered
or. Harry Emerson Fosdick.
nn"hop Luther B. Wilson, William
y. Murray and William Sloan. Cot.
nm OF New York City, are members
'nls comns.ssion. Joseph T. Al