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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-21
The Future of Teaching.

A notable tendency exists for return
ing soldiers who were teachers before
the war to enter another profession or to
60 into business. From the women's col
leges too reports come that much
smaller percentage Of the graduates take
up teaching than formerly. Teaching
used to draw chiefly on the best element
in college, but it must now content it
self more and more with mediocre stu.
dents, This is partly due to the greater
choice of opportunities now open to the
educated man and woman, and partly to
the isolated life and limited facilities
offered by the small country high school,
where the distracted teacher must teach
five or six subjects for which she is by
no means equally adapted, The chief
cause for the decline of the teaching pro-
fession, however, consists in the dis
gracefully small salaries, which have
not been appreciably increased, for all
the enormous rise in the cost of living.
The entering pittance of about $500 per
annum would be spurned by any self
respecting munitions worker. There is
no prospect of getting much above ST.
600, and even in university work the
average man does not arrive at the max
imum salary of $500 till he is in his
late thirties or early forties. The max.
imum yearly remuneration for univer-
sity positions at the largest institutions
except in a few completely isolated
cases--is about $4,000, and only two or
three hundred men in the entire country
get that. So long as these conditions
continue IN hold husiupas Law and on.
cheering will strip our schools and col.
leges of their best men, and education
will suffer-Boston Herald.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-21
GERMAN MORALE LOW.
Soldiers Reported to Have Sold Battery
Of Artillery to Polish Priest.

Warsaw, Wednesday, Feb. 10 (by the
Associated Pressl The Germans are re.
ported not to be observing the provisions
Of the armistice agreement as to fight
ing in Posen, and it is said that Skin.
mishes have occurred at scattered points.
The morale of the Germans is declared
to be low, as is evidenced by the report
ed sale OF battery of artillery to a
Polish Catholic priest, the price being
5000 marks.
Colonel Halter, Polish chief Of staff. an
nounees In bulletin that there Is mill
tary activity all along the Galician from
tier. Attacks by Ukrainian troops have
been repulsed in that region. In Lthu-
ania, bands of bolsheYiki have been rout-
ed and so prisoners taken,
Two million pounds of -four have ar
rived here from Danzig, coming through
by railroad in record time without in.
reference from the Germans. It will
be distributed in this city, the LODI min
ing district, Cracow and Lemberg. Amer
lean officers will supervise sales of the
-four and win prevent spectators from
getting it,
There doubtless are large quantities Of
food in Poland, especially Of potatoes,
meat and sugar, but prices are prohibi-
tive for the poor Across the frontier in
Posen, as well as in East Prussia, the
best hotels charge five marks for meals,
as compared with 80 and 50 marks here.
Although the Warsaw hotels have been
full Of paying Russian refugees all win
ter, they have been raising prices since
the arrival Of the allied missions. They
now charge five marks a day for a room,
and restaurant prices are so per cent
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-21
ground it is manifestly to the eity's in
terests to try out the cause and see if
evasion is possible longer
A WEAK MIND sUCCUMBED.

1t seems more probable that the assail-
ant of Premier Clemenceau was person
who had been delegated by a group Of
persons, or who had volunteered from
among a group of persons, to rid the
world, and France in particular, of man
who was considered to be tyrant. There
is chance that the need for delegating
the task was not necessary inasmuch as
the poison was spread through the me-
dunn of vile discussion until it centered
upon the weakest intellect in the group
and the possessor of that weakest intel
leet took upon himself the obligation of
Kidding the world of the man against
whom the others had inveighed. 1t is
almost never the persons of stronger
minds in a perverted group that do the
act of violence itself; they play upon
the mentality of the weaker ones until
the latter become crazed to such an ex-
tent that they step forth voluntarily and
commit the crime. So it is likely to be
found in the Clemenceau case that the
youth Coffin had his mind poisoned by
listening to the talk of others until he
imagined he must be the "liberator" and
must begin by shooting Clemenceau.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-21
A JUST ASSESSMENT.

The taking over OF the railroads Of the
government surely does not mean that
the railroads can dodge their rightful
obligations such as the payment of dam
ages, assessments and fixed charges; the
act Of Congress which enabled the gov
eminent to take charge of the railroads
surely did not attempt to grant right
to the railroads to dodge responsibility
that belonged to them. Yet some of the
officials or attaches of railroads seem to
consider that government control gives
immunity to the railroads from the OBJ
legations which normally fall to the rail
roads We have a case in hand right
here in Barre, where the Barre & Chelsea
railroad apparently is evqding payment
Of paving assessment on South Main
street on the ground that the railroads
are now under government control and
that this railroad is not, therefore, hold
en- for the obligation. If the refusal to
pay the assessment is based on that
premise we do not believe that the rail
road would be upheld in any court in the
country; if it is based ON some other
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-21

Having retained the supremacy of the
sea, the British are now going after the
supremacy OF the air as commercial
route. In this competition the United
States will be more or less handicapped
because Of its isolation from many of
the best markets of the world. The Unit
ed States trade would have to cross a
great body Of water before it could get
to markets which would prove profitable
in commercial dealings, whereas the Brit,
ISL have markets scattered all along the
route and right at their door, so to speak.
Nevertheless the United States cannot
afford to let any opportunity pass to fit
herself fer the competition by way of
the air,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-21
BETHEL

Mrs. Mark Savage and Miss Jennie
Savage of Keene, N. H., former residents
came yesterday to visit friends.
Mrs. f. c. Putnam is teaching the
sixth grade this week in place of Miss
Ruth Leonard, who is i'll with mumps,
DR.. o. V. Greene, c. G. Clifford and
w, c. Clifford were in Montpelier on
Wednesday evening to attend a meeting
Of Mt Sinai temple.
Rev. 0. B. Wells of Rochester was here
yesterday to meet the Sunday school
boards Of the Second and Third Method
list churches, in both OF which mission.
airy societies were organized and the cen.
tenary quotas were accepted.
Miss Mary Wynn went to Springfield
Mass, yesterday to visit an aunt
Mrs. c. c, Dryer of Boston, former
resident, is visiting her father, Henry A
Eastman.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-21
Must Find a Remedy.

The so-called "luXury tax" has passed
beyond the joke stage, Few thought it
would be passed, for all knew that ne
cessity for such taxation had passed--if
the necessity ever existed.
But Congress Numbered into letting
the tax stay in the bill, until now it has
been passed, Another bit of carelessness
and the proposed repeating resolution
might fail Of passage before Congress
adiourns.
This luxury tax has no friends in the
country, either among producers or con-
sumers. 1t presumably is without friends
in Congress. A clumsly drawn war emer.
gency measure, it was designed TO tax all
sorts of merchandise which sold for more
than arbitrarily fixed prices. Congress
was drawing fine line to determine
for all of us what was and what was not
luxury"
Attempts to collect the tax would
mean whole new stats Of bookkeepers
for the government and for the stores.
But the armistice saved the country
from the luxury taX--oT so the country
thought Congress apparently intended to
remove it from the revenue bill. 1t was
once removed and in some unexplained
way was reinstated. Thereupon it was
discovered that, through circumstances
Ineligible only to parliameutarians, it
could not be removed.
So the only remedy-and committee
leaders of both branches of Congress APP
pear to invoke the remedy--seemed to
be to pass the bill with the luxury tax
to wait for the president to sign the BILL
and then to pass joint resolution re-
pealng the luxury tax section,
To do that should be matter of min
utes only. Time will be precious, and
delay, or another blunder by Congress
would be disastrous.--Boston Globe.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-21

Germauy's plea for admission to the
league of nations at the very outset of
that organizations existence is likely to
be held in allegiance Germany has done
nothing yet which would convince an i'm
partial observer that she is fit to enter
into such a solemn covenant as that pro-
posed at the peace conference. Moreover,
it would be bad for the league Of nations
itself to have such discordant element
in the membership just when the league
was getting itself established. The va
rious statements on the matter being
made by German officials can be laid on
the table for time without doing injury
to anyone.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-21
AID MUCH NEEDED.
Poland Said to Be Beset By Outbreak of
Typhus,

Paris, Thursday, Feb 20.-The first
contingent of the American Red Cross
commission for Poland left here for War
saw to-day. Another group will follow
on Friday. The groups will meet at
Berne and continue their journey by the
way of Innsbruck, Vienna and Cracow.
Lieut.. Col. Walter c. Bailey of Boston
heads the commission, which consists of
so members coming from all parts Of
the United States.
Messages received from Poland to-day
say a typhus epidemic is spreading to
ali parts of the country. The Polish
Red Cross urged the dispatch OF special
medicines, which are being rushed from
Red Cross warehouses at Danzig, Copen-
hagen and Berne. Cholera, smallpox and
trachoma also are ravaging the country,
ii is reported.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-21
CURRENT COMMENT
Clenenceau.

There will be general relief at the
statement that the wounds of Premier
Clemenceau are not serious. His death at
this juneture would be blow to the
peace conference, and would be deeply
regretted by the multitude OF his admir-
ers in this country who watched the in
.domitable spirit OF this strong -fbercd old
man in the darkest hours Of the great
struggle What France has lost at the
assassin's hand in the death of the So
cialist leader, Jaures, early in the war,
can never be fully estimated; IN a differ
ent way the death of NJ. Clemenceau
might have been equally disastrous, and
his opponents, like his supporters, will
hope for his speedy and full recovery. 1t
does not at present apepar that there
was any organized plot behind the at
tempted assassination, and ii the assail-
ant is an anarchist the crime may well
have been that of single fanatic, per.
haps with the cognizance of small ire
sponsible group. But of course the affair
viii be sifted with the thoroughness and
acumen for which the police of Paris are
famous The incident should cause the
lives of all the leaders of the peace con
ference to be safeguarded with even
greater vigilance than hitherto,-Spring-
field Republican.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-21

The anthracite coal producers begin to tel
their hard luck stories about the Difficult
ties of maintaining normal production OF
coal, even though some of the mines have
voluntarily curtailed production because
of the reserve supply of coal that is be-
ing piled up at the mines. That reminds
of the hard luck stories which used to
come out of the Yale football quarters
when Yale really had one of the best
teams in its history and expected to mop
the ground with Harvard.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-21
AUSTRIAN ARISTOCRATS
FEAR THE BOLSHEVIKI

They Hope Entente Will Send Troops to
Budapest, but in the Meantime They
Would Like to Flee the Country.
Vienna, Feb. 20 Correspondence of The
Associated Press Living conditions in
Hungary have reached the stage where
the only hope of the aristocracy is that
the entente powers will send troops to
Budapest and to other parts of the coun-
try to save them from the dread menace
of bolshevism. Many of the former arts
tocrats have gone to their country homes
and many others would like to go to
Switzerland but are unable to obtain per.
mission to leave the country. The streets
OF Budapest are considered unsafe after
dark, and wealthy persons employ sol
diers to guard their homes.
Thousands of unemployed in Budapest
and other towns are receiving from the
state 40 to 80 crowns a day, three
fourths of which is contributed by man
ufacturers, who are fast losing all the
money they made during the war. One
of the largest munition firms, which re
Gently employed 10000 persons, is pay
ing them 100000 crowns week 1t is
asserted that this is tending toward the
Generalization Of the workmen who pre-
fer to live upon state pay rather than
to return to work.
Many factories have been brought to a
standstill, owing to the lack of coal, and
it is feared that flour mills may also be
forced to shut down. The train service
has been reduced to one train a day be-
tween Budapest and Vienna, the journey
occupying TO hours instead of four.
The cabinet ministers, who before the
revolution received salaries of $4,000
crowns, are now taking 100000 crowns,
The number of under. secretaries of state
has been increased from IL to II, each
being paid 10000 crowns a year I'm
mense sums have been expended in pay.
ment to invalided soldiers. A plan was
suggested by which the sum of $4,000,
OO000 crowns would have covered all an
ual pensions, but instead of adopting
such plan, the ministry has spent TO-
100000 crowns in few weeks in tempo
rary relief, with the result that the re.
cipients are now elamoring for further
help.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-21

The chances are that if President vii,
son had not asked Congress to maintain
silence on the peace of nations plan until
he could explain it there would not have
been any discussion of marked impor-
lance; but the mere fact that he asked
Congress to keep still for brief time
was like waving red flag before an an
cry bull. Wilson still has something to
learn about human nature, at least about
human nature as cooped up in Congress
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-21
72s TEAMS ENTERED.
For the American Bowling Tournament
at Toledo.

Toledo, O., Feb. 2l-Entry of teams
in the 10th annual tournament Of the
American bowling congress closed last
night A. L., Langtry, secretary, an
nounced that 525 teams from outside
were on the books and that Toledo will
have two hundred. The tournament will
be held at the armory here beginning
March s and ending March 81.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-21
HANDBALL CHAMPIONSHIP.
Is Being Fought Out at Detroit, COntin,
uing Through Saturday.

Detroit, Mich, Feb. 2l.-The national
handball championship opened on the
courts of the Detroit Athletic club to-
day and will continue through Saturday,
With completion of the singles eHminat-
ing matches this afternoon the finals
will be decided tonight, and tomorrow
will be devoted to doubles play
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-21

The navy department FASTENED to pro
vide a convoy for Pres. Wilson's ship to
take the place of the dreadnought New
Mexico because of the knowledge that
the sufragettes were gathering at the
pier in Boston.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-21

The United States is mobilizing such
fleet of transports that once the word is
given to bring the American army of oc-
cupation back home the movement will
probably be carried out at surprising
rate.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-21

George Patullo, writing from Germany,
where he is with the American army of
occupation, expresses the conviction that
the Germans are simply playing possum
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-21

Senator Fall of New Mexico joins Sen
ator Borah in declining to eat at Presi-
dent Wilson's table. Wilson can prac-
tice food conservation.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-21

Anyway it is safe to say that Govern
or Clements efigy will not be burned in
public demonstration by the woman suf-
fragists.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-21

The increased fire protection in the
granite plant districts Of Barre was a
good investment. Events are proving it
beyond doubt.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-21

Morrisville tried hard to keep out the
influenza and was one of the last to sue
cumb, 1t is also one of the last to get
over the effects of it.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-21

Prof, Scott Nearing would do we'll to
keep out of the twilight zone of anti
Americanism.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-21

Guess we'll have to send Ole Hanson
over to bring back the 26th division,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-21
Bargains and Bargains

10 lbs. of Sugar for ..,..,....,...e7c
Fancy canned Peas or Corn, can. .-.,I5c
Holsum Pork and Beans 2 cans for 2sc
York State Marrowfat Peas, fancy Isc
Large can Tomato, No. ) can, lie
Large can Tomato, No. 2 can ......I4c
Campbells Pork and Beans, can, FAC
RoSEDALE PINEAPPLE AND PEARS,
best you can get, per can 3oc, or 3 for s5c
Large gallon can Apple, only .......45c
Post Toasties, pkg. ..,,..,,.,,..,..IIc
Quaker Corn Flakes, pkg &C, or 3 for 25c
I-gaL can Karo Syrup ..............75c
Golden Drip Syrup, gallon ,........ Soc
10 TBS. Of A and IA Oatmeal ... CSC
Cocoa in bulk, per ID. ............,,.7oc
Western Beef Round Steak, Roast,
Boiling and Stewing, Frankforts, Roast
Pork, Minced Ham, Pressed Ham, Boil
ing Ham, all at very low prices. Call ard
see us.
J. G. SHADROUI
Tel. 27S-W IFS So. Main Street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-04
With Other Editors
More Criticism.
Peoria Journal.

The season is still open criticisms.
AS during the months past one may criti-
else 20 hours a day without fear Of arrest or
even of suspicion.
And it makes almost no difference whom
Enthusiastically from the alderman TO
President Wilson.
President Wilson is still the butt of most
Of the criticism. Ever since the started
be has been between fires. He was criticised
by some people because he talked plainly to
Germany before we entered the war. He was
blamed because finally got into the war.
He was classified by others because did
not get into the fight earlier He cen
sured because he appointed Mr. Hoover as food
administrator. And he was condemned by 9TH
ers because he did not make Mr.. Hoover fUeT
administrator as well custodian of the fooG
supplies. He was bitterly assaiIed because he
went to Europe to attend the peace confer
ences. Others assailed him because he did
not go earlier. He was the butt of many as
saults because he advocated d league of ma
tons Now some folks criticise him because
he didn't originate the league plan at all Some
Criticise him because he has broken so many
precedents and others condemn him because
he did not smash enough Of them. He is criti-
cised by farmers because he would not repeal
the daylight saving law. City folks condemned
him because he wanted a guaranteed price for
wheat. And the criticisms could run on ad
infinitum.
Even this morning we pick up the pape4
and read of Representative Rodenburg's crti-
cisms Of the president because, as the con-
gresham states. he made adrOit move to
shift responsibility for the unrest to congress"
this referring to his tour of the west in the
interest of the peace treaty and the League
OF Nations.
One thing must be remembered criticisms
do not injure man unless he is guilty Presi-
dent Lincoln was asSailed almost as bitterly
as is President Wilson-and Lincoln's name
still lives and grows in influence while the
name of his critics are lost for all time.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-04

the representatives Of small nations. old and
new. is prompted by psrtisanship; but what
ever its motive its result is unmistakable-de-
lay of peace postponement Of reconstruction,
disturbance. Of business, hampering Of every
activity public and private
Disposition of the railroads is alone a sub
iect to which the senate should have been de-
voting a large portion of its time and best
thought. Production and distribution depend
in large measure on the railroads, and what
ever affects them for good or i'll has a CORE
spending reaction on every industry and activ-
ity in the land. But the senate not only has
failed to move but even to give a sign that it
regards the question with serious concern.
Meantime the senate, under the pressure of
its Republican leaders, lends ear to the repre-
sentatiyes of small minorities who speak not for
the United States but for other nations. 1t is
time that the American people are heard by
the senate
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-04
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
A Novel Flavor.

Two years ago l drank water
from a we'll that had not been used
for several years and was nearly
dried up. l drank but half a glass.
II tasted germie. Since that time
1 have been run down and do not
improve. Would the water from
that well have such germs in it as
to cause disease? c. S. P.
Answer-Water with disease
germs in 1t has no characteristic
taste, may taste fine, look clear, be
cold and apparently pure. Had you
contracted any disease from the
water the illness would have been
acute and within a period of a
month or less afterward. That the
well had not been used for 10
years would in no wise alter the
portability or purity of the water.
So you can't possibly connect the
well with your health.
Another Snag Encountered.
In one of your articles you rec
commended eating the skins of bak-
ed Irish potatoes for the iron and
other desirable mineral salts in the
skins and under the skins, but at
the same time you discouraged one
by remarking that the skins are
quite indigestible. II they are in
digestible, why eat them?
MRS. f. NJ.
Answer-Bless you, madam, were
it not for the indigestible matter
we take wily-nily with our food, we
could scarcely survive a year. The
part of the potato peeled away with
the skin is rich in mineral salts
Including from and is as digesti-
BILE as the part saved. The skins
themselves are not digested. but
serve a useful purpose in stimulat
ing digestive functions and acting
as a natural laxative. So eat the
skins and forget digestion. Every
thing is digestible enough, if it
tastes good and you do not think
too much about it. The idea of Sc
lecting this and that item which
purports to be easily digested and
avoiding this and that which is
supposed to be difficult to digest is
all poppycOck.