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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-02-27
GUY v. BAILEY President
Chosen to Head Vermont Society Sons
OF the Revolution at Annual Meet
ing in Montpelier

Montpelier, Feb. 26.-The annual
meeting Of the Vermont society. Sons
of the American Revolution. was held
this afternoon at two o'clock in the
State House Vice-Presdent Guy w.
Bailey presided in the absence of the
president. Frank l.. Fish.
The annual reports of the officers
were read and approved. The treas
urer's report showed receipts of S514.61
and disbursements of s303.47. A bal
ance remains in the treasury of s209.14.
The historic memorial fund amounts to
Sl,932.12.
The following officers were elected:
President, Guy W. Bailey; vice presi
dent. w. II. Jeffrey; secretary, Walter
H. Crockett; treas urer, Clarence l..
Smith; registrar, l.. B. e. Kent; his
torian, Walter H. Crockett; chaplain,
the Rev. /. c. Smart; auditing commit
tee, C. W. Brownell, w. B. Howe and
A. w. Foote; obituary committee. H.
A. Slayton, c. A. Plumley and f. d.
Dewey: committee on historic memoir
ials, Walter II. Crockett, Byron n
Clark and H. s. Howard, The hoard of
managers will be made up of II. M.
Cutler, NJ. w. Dewey, Charles A. Plum
ley, G. NJ. Hawks, Frank l." Fish, Red.
field Proctor and Il. s Abbott,
Resolutions were adopted endorsing
n bill soon 10 appear in the State SEN
ate, relating to the gathering and
printing of vital statistics In Vermont
and authorizing the president to ap-
point a comm tee or three to confer
with similat committee from the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion to consider the prorriety of offer
ing medals or money prizes for essays
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-02-27

committee said the President held that
decisions of the leagues executive
council on disarmament would not be
binding, until specifically approved by
each signatory nation. and that con-
sequently the American Congress would
have the opportunity to pass on the
apportionment of armament for every
nation concerned The President said
this action had been misconstrued.
Concerning the clause giving the
right to the league to consider acts
threatening world peace, President
Wilson said the clause was indefl-
mite and would be made more clear
by writing in a safeguard which would
require that every recommendation by
the council should be unanimous.
1t also was said that the President
informed the senator's and representa-
tives that the disarmament provision
would not interfere with the military
training of men, but that it was evil
dent that a trained body of men would
not be a danger to world peace if their
armament supplies were kept in check.
| Mr.. Wilson said the provision for en-
forcing the determination of the council
| in case 1t was disObeyed by any nation
would apply in only one case, and that
was where the party against whom a
decision was rendered mad property, in
cluding territory. in its possession which
1t would not surrender.
| In conceding that some sovereignty
must be surrendered by membership in
| the league the President declared 1t was
inconceivable there could be any concert
of action by nations to eliminate war and
protect the weak unless each nation was
willing to give up some thing.
Denying the league meant usurpatior
of the powers of Congress to declare war
the President said the league merely was
a promise by the treaty making power
| that its congress would do all in its
power to carry out the agreement situa.
ton which prevailed in many present
| treaties
The President was said to have stated
that 1t was necessary that the United
states stand to the support of the
tCzecho-S -Slovaks, the Jugo- -Slavs. POLAND
and other weak and struggling peoples
made free as the result of the grea
war.
Senator Lodge refused to see news
papermen or make any statement after
the conference.
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sale Of butter, and he opposed the bill.
Mr. Connal. speaking for the second
time, maintained that every pound of
'oleo" sold dsplaces a pound of butter
and that in this way the butter industry
of the state is being damaged. He COM
pared butter with "oleo" as a food pro-
duct to be disadvantage of the latter.
Mr.. Howard of Fairfax, who introduced
| the BILL spoke in its favor, saying that
he thought the present tax was not fair
1 to the small dealer. Mr.. Dyer OF Sails
bury spoke from the standpoint of a
merchant, and maintained that the profit
on "oleo." was very poor. with the ac-
company tax. but the farmers insisted
that merchant keep "oleo," or they
; would go elsewhere to trade, for they
used it much as substitute for butter.
He thought that the tax ought to be
! lowered, as no other State in the Union,
with the exception of Pennsylvania now
carries tax on this product, and its
| tax is lower than ours. Mr.. Dyer asked
| If it was thought that Vermont could
control the butter and ''oleo" situation.
Mr. Luce of Pomfret opposed the bill,
and Mr. Hills OF Chittenden moved that
debate cease. which was voted.
| sENATE-MORNING
On motion Of Senator Daniels. II. 16s.
providing assistance for the attorney
general in certain cases, was Withdrawn
| from the calendar with the unanimous
| consent of the Senate, In order that the
bill might be considered Jointly by the
committee on judiciary and State and
| court expenses.
The Senate passed S. "a changing
the dates on which certain elections
shall be held. The following bills
were passed in concurrence: II. AZ re-
lating to transportation and board of
pupils; II. 122, relating to legalizing
defective or invalid abstracts: II. 129
relating to the change of name of a
railroad corporation.
S. 30, providing free tuition at the
University OF Vermont for students in
the academic department, was reject ed
HOUSE-MORNING
The House refused "A third reading
to II. 213 establishing the Vernon,
State Police and defining it's powers
and duties, Mr. Writer'S of St Johns.
bury opposed the measure.
PASSED BY THE HOUSE
H. 232. relative to the registratior
and operation of motor vehicles owned
by non-residents residing within Il
miles or the boundaries of this State.
ii. Pa, to enable Swanton village to
alter it's bounds.
II. 235, relating to the charter Of tn,
city of Barre.
237, relating to the supervision
or insurance rating organizations.
IL. 23s, relating to visitation of Stat,
institutions and to provide for the pur
chase OF supplies for the Soldiers
Home,
One bill of Importance went to
third reading in the House this morn
ing. This is S. SO, to provide meth
cd or voting at any general, special o
primary election by legal voters of tn
state who are in actual military o
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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-02-27
CHAOS IN EUROPE
UNLESS Il. s. ENTERS
LEAGUE OF NATIONS

President Wilson Informs Congressional
Foreign Relations Committees at White
House Dinner-Declares That If America Is
Not Member League Will Fall and Turmoil
Beyond Description Will Result Across the
Seas-Republican Members Oppos n g
Leagues Constitution Are Not Changed in
Their Opinions Senators Lodge and Knox,
Both at the Dinner Take Very Little Part in
the Discussion and Make No Comment Aft
erward
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preparation of $4,000 for repairs at the
States prison.
DEER BILL ADVANCED
After much discussion and an at
tempted amendment, Fl. go. changing
The date of the open season for deer.
and permitting the killing of does, was
ordered to third reading in the SEN
ate this morning. Senators Villas and
Rowland opposed the bill and interro-
gated the committee. Senators Bill
lings, Hendee. Root and McKillip de-
| Tended the measure. Senator Villas
moved to amend by striking out the
provision allowing the killing of does.
Senator Amey opposed the amendment,
while Senator Rowland favored it. The
amendment was defeated, 10 to 9.
| "OLEO" BILL REJECTED
Debate in the House this morning
centered on H. 1O7. the "oleo" bill, re-
pealing tax on oleomargarine in the
State. The bill was reported adversely
on Friday. and the friends of the meas
ure succeeded in making it a special
| order for this morning. After more
| than half hours discussion, the bill
was rejected by a rising vote of 172
to 80.
Mr.. Wheeler of Hartford opened the
debate on the BILL upholding the re-
port of the committee and opposing the
bill. He thought that the States rev.
enue should be kept up.
Mr. Austin of Watervlle maintained
that the law Is unjust, working hard
ship upon small dealers who cannot afford
to pay the State tax out of their small
sales for the year. He thought it would
be fairer to put on tax by the pound
instead of lump sum for all dealers.
Mr.. Austin of Hlghgate said that he
had not heard any good reason why the
bill should be rejected. He thought Il
was unjust to discriminate against
"oleo" as a commodity, when there was
no tax on other such commodities. He
said that the Legislature Is here to rep
resent the interests of the people ant
that the lifting of the tax on "oleo'
would mean the reduction of the price
to the consumer.
Mr.. Connal OF Newport defended th'
committee report at some length. HI
declared that Vermont needs this extr;
revenue and that taking off the tax OF
: "oleo" would not reduce the price to tn
consumer as had been claimed for "oleo
is now selling in New Hampshire. wher
B there is no tax, at practically the SAM
r price as It sells in Vermont. He main
, tanned that, although the farmers us
"oleo" to some extent they do not wan
the tax repealed and are not asking 70
[ It. He claimed that the sale of "oleo
: is an injury to the sale of butter an
milk
Mr.. Austin of Highgatc maintaine
4 that the manufacture and sale o
= "oleo" does not affect the sale of butte
! and milk Mr.. Belknap of Rockingham
= said the gist Of the matter was tn
revenue Of $4,000. which the State re
y ceives He said that the consumer woul
= never receive the benefit IL the tax wer
= lifted, and he thought that the bill shoul
e be rejected Mr., Sleeper Of Straffor
n said that anything which would cheape
= the price Of "oleo' would injure tn
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-02-27

Washington, Feb. 26.-Presdent Wilson
eign relations committees tonight that
unless the United States entered the
league of nations the league would fall
and chaos and turmoil beyond descrip-
ton would result in Europe. Views of
republican members opposing the league
constitution as reported to the peace
conference apparently were not changed
by the conference. This opinion was ex-
pressed by both democratic and republi-
can senators.
Discussion of the constitution as pre-
sented to the peace conference was said
10 have been quite general and the
President was questioned closely, espe-
cially by Senator Brandegee of Con-
necticut.
Republican Leader Lodge and Senator
Knox of Pennsylvania. former secretary
of state, took very little part.
The President, after making an open
ing explanatory statement. answered al
questions freely and specifically en-
phasized that his guests were free tc
discuss the conference and all its in
formation with newspaper men ol
others.
One question on which much time wa:
spent was whether nation once in the
league could withdraw, raised by Sena
tor BrandeEee. The President was sale
to have held that any country coult
withdraw. but Senator Brandegee con
tended this would be Impossible unde
the constitution as now drafted.
President Wilson denied the leagu,
plan would interfere with the Monroe
Doctrine. declaring the doctrine would
be guaranteed by all the member powers
in the world society.
The President was said to have helt
that the manufactures in the constitution
were not compulsory, but required tn
consent of the nations to which tn
mandatory was assigned. Senators salt
he expressed the opinion that the Uni
ted States would desire to become a man
datory for Armenia.
On the question of American SOW
ereignty, the President was said I
have taken the position that recession
of American sovereignty was not
new precedent, being an incident O
| every treaty.
Chairman Hitchcock of the Senat
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-02-27
IMPORTS S3,26l,5S4
DutinbIe Merchandise S112.53i-Exportg-
Were S4,6OI ,S69

st. Albans. Feb 26.-Tho report Of GUS
toms district, No, ., of Vermont for the
month of January is as follows: Free
merchandise, 50, si9, oS9; duitable merchan-
disc. sil2534; total imports, 81 2Gl,5Si;
duties collected, ~. i.7SS,77; domestic mer-
chandise, si,+16 +S6 foreign merchandise,
sls5,Ss3a; total, s4,69l, 500 The total i'm
ports for the corresponding period last
year amounted to 2,922 $50, and the duties
collected were s37 j66.9i. The total ex-
ports amounted To A,754,455
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-02-27
MOUNT PHILO LIBRARY
Articles Of Association Filed for North
Ferrisburg Institution

Montpelier, Feb. 25-Articles of asso-
citation of the Mount Philo Free library
establishing and maintain NJ free
library at North Ferrisburg have been
filed in the office Of the secretary Of
state. The subscribers include Miss
Emma Ball. Mrs Mary NJ. Parker, Mrs.
Daisey p. Noonan and Mrs. Gerte X,
Harrington. of North Ferrisburg, and
Mrs Edna S. Bull of Ferrisburg,
A proposed increase OF capital stock
from $4,000 to 100000 has been filed with
the secretary of state by the George c.
Cary company of st. Johnsbury. &.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-02-27

Washington, Feb. 26.-Renresentative
Mansfield of Texas introduced 4 bill
to-day to reduce the postal rates on first
class mail. Under his measure, drop
letters, after January / next, would be
at a rate Of one cent an ounce with other
letters at a rate of two cents and after
January l, 1922, the rate on all letters
would require one cent an ounce.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-02-27
NEW TRUSTEES
swift, Proctor and Mccullough ON Mid.
dIehury College Board

Mlddlebury. Feb, 26.-Acting President
Collins has announced the acceptance by
the Hon Charles NJ. Swift, Capt Redfeld
proctor and Hail p. Mccullough Of their
election as trustees of Middlebury Col
lege.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-02-27

Washington, Feb. 26-With adoption bv
the Senate and House to-day of the con-
ference report on the SOS, 100000 legislative.
executive and judicial appropriation bill
the measure which provides for salaries
Of most federal officers, was ready for
President Wilson's signature. The bills
provisions include those for continuation
of sub-treasures in nine cities and for
pay increases Of s2io yearly FOR govern
ment employees.
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The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-01-02
PLAYING blackboard.

Do you know what blackboard is!
It's q kind Of a game first played in
a primitive and mild sort of fashion
by Rocky mountain goats and since
modernized and made difficult by the
American army. The apparatus on
which one plays blackboard is mixed
breed contrivance, by WashbOard out
of Corduroy Road, to use the racins
vernacular. 1t is made up Of narrow,
slippery strips of rounded wood laid
crosswise about two inches apart, and
is supposed to keep ones feet out CT
the mud. It does! While playing duck
board ones feet are usually in the air.
It Is called blackboard, suppose, be-
cause Of some silly belief that duck
could walk it without falling. Even
airplanes flying at a height of less
than 5000 feet have been seen to wig
gle and dip drunkenly while passing
above trench lines flOored with duck
boards. And when 1t Is laid upon the
surface of the earth and there are no
handy trench walls to help out-weil,
it's lucky for Charley Chaplin that the
wide world didn't see me operate.
Nothing could ever again be funny to
q man who saw me play blackboard out
there in the comparative open Of that
wood William Stevens McNutt, in
Golfers Weekly.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-01-02
DUBLIN BOOTBLACKs IN 1880
Polish Used at That Time Was Com
bination Of LampbIack and
Rotten Eggs.

Among the populace Of Dublin in
1850 the shoeblacks were a numerous
and formidable body. The polish they
used was lampblack and eggs, for
which they purchased ali that were
rotten in the markets. Their .imple-
ments consisted of three-legged stool,
q basket containing a blunt knife.
called spudd, a painters brush and
an old wig.
A gentleman usually went out in the
morning with dirty boots or shoes,
sure to find Shoeblack sitting on his
stool at the corner of the street. The
gentleman put his foot in the lap of
the shOeblack without ceremony, and
the artist scraped it with his spudd,
wiped 1t with his wig and then laid on
his composition as thick as black paint
with his painters brush.
The stuff dried With rich polish, re-
curing no friction, aud little inferior
to the elaborated modern fluids, save
only the intolerable odors exhaled from
eggs in a high state of putridity, and
which filed any house which was en-
tered before the composition was quite
dry, and sometimes even tainted the
air of fashionable drawing rooms.-
University Magazine.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-01-02
UNITED THOUGH FAR APART
Ceremony Known as "Handschoen"
Recognized Under the Dutch Law
as Legal Form Of Marriage.

Not so very long ago Boer In Pre-
toria was married to girl in Amster'
dam, Holland, the ceremony constitute
Ing what the Dutch call handschOen,
or glove marriage.
In spite of the fact that distance
Of 6, 700 miles lay between the bride
in the Netherlands and the bridegroom
in the Transvaal they were just as eff
fectively married under the Dutch law
as If both had been present in the
same church.
The bridegroom sent to his friend,
or best man, in Amsterdam a power
Of attorney to represent him as his
proxy at the ceremony, and at the
same time forwarded his glove, which
at the proper moment, when the two
were made one. was held by both the
bride and the proxy. The wedding
was duly registered at Amsterdam
and at Pretoria, where the bridegroom
6led an affidavit with the proper mag.
istrate.
This curious form Of marriage is 8
purely Dutch institution, the custom
having originated, it is said, In the
old times of Dutch-Batavian rule. II
is, however, a dead letter in the Trans
vaal since the English took over that
colony.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-01-02
CALLED FOR QUICK THINKING
Skipper Of Burning chip WIN Cargo
Of High Explosives, In Ne Posi-
Il ton to Hesitate. -

The Cephalonia was deeply loaded
with shells, and her ehill-FaanAs were
filled with 4. N. T. for the Italian
army, writes r. e. Cropley in the At
lantic. She was well in the midst
of the convoy proceeding down the
Thames, and had just passed beyond
the submarine net, when thin p9ncii
of smoke was seen to rise from the
corner of No. / hatch. It happened
to catch the third officers eye hrst'
and he called Sammy's attention to it.
In two shakes Sammy had sounded
four blasts on the siren, and a nag
fluttered from the yard-arm. which
caused all other ships to give him a
wide berth, as the propeller of the
Cephalonia churned up the sea In her
frantic effort to back and turn as If
to return to London. A ship on fire
should return to port, but Sammy, with
q cargo Of T. N. 7. wasn't the kind of
q skipper to risk blowing cottages and
kiddies into the next world in an eff
fort to save his own skin. No; he
turned the Cephalonia till her stern
was head to the breeze, and slowly
kept her backing seaward to restrain
the fire, if possible. from spreading
aft to his chambers of T. N. T.;
backed her away from port and other
ships, so that, If she did blow up, the
military loss would be confined to the
Cephalonia alone. And all the while
he was wondering what moment u
boat would pop up and send torpedo
into him, or he would strike q drift
ing mine.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-01-02
Thursday, January 2, 1919
pAzED BY HUN ATROCITIES
Emotional Faculties Of Afflicted Bel
CLANS Probably Paralyzed by the
Horrors They Had Witnessed.

Mr.. Brand Whitlock, former Ameri-
can minister to Belgium, has been
talking about the horror Of Louvain in
the London Daily Telegraph:
~ was struck by the lack Of pas
sion displayed by all those who had
30 terribly suffered. l seldom heard
any of them express hatred Of the
Germans or any desire for revenge.
"None Of them, as far as I could
learn or observe, even acted in the
tragic manner. There were no he
roles and - histrionics: they did
not even demean themselves as do peo-
pie ia the cinema or the romantic nov
els.
"In moments of great danger, or
great strain and tragedy. people are
simple and natural; they do not act
in the theatrical sense of the word"
To say that play could be acted
without gesture or other expression
of what we feel is absurd. Nor
would, I think, history support Mr..
Brand W1itlock's inference, whatever
may have been the story Of unhappy
Belgium.
When Nine. du Barry died upon
the scaffold in Paris. her shrieks de-
lighted the knitting women. The Due
de Guise ran wildly from his assas-
sins to throw himself at the feet of
Henry Of France. Pitt wept for his
eour nys misfortunes-the family of
the Inflated Louis XVI did not cease
their lamentations all night when they
heard that he was to be guillotined at
dawn.
The choler of Judge Jeffreys found
expression in the rawlings and rantings
of a mailman. Boabdil wept when he
was driven from Granada. Henry VIII
could swear like Observation-Disclosures
Howard shrieked at Hampton court,
and the superstitious hear her shrieks
to this day.
In my view, the unhappy Belgians
were dazed by the very horror of the
circumstance. The r.rJcities commit
ted by the Hur we're too awful. Shall
we wOrdo IA the emotional faculties
WEIR 4alyzed ?-London Dispatch.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-01-02
Soldiers Appreciation.

Recently a woman well known In
America, who has devoted all her
time to relief work since the war be-
gan, was visiting hospital. The COM
manding officer had sent a military
car for her. She entered the car just
as an ambulance filed with wounded
passed by. AS she noticed the thin,
pale faces, tears came into her eyes.
The soldier-chauffeur asked if she
was ill.
"No," she said, these are tears OF
gratitude and pride"
Madame" replied the boy, simply,
'if l thought that my being. a soldier
was worthy of but one Of your tears.
should feel that had not i@e1 2
vain."-1a9 Cross Magazine.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-01-02
TRY 1T! SUBSTITUTE FOR
NASTY CALOMEL
Starts your liver without making
you sick and can not
salivate.

Every druggist in town-your
druggist and everybody's druggist
has noticed a great falling off in the
sale of calomel. They all give the
same reason. Dodson's Liver Tone
is taking its place.
"Calomel is dangerous and people
know it, while Dodson's Liver Tone
is perfectly safe and gives better
results" said prominent local drug
gist. Dodson's Liver Tone is person
ally guaranteed by every druggist
who sells it. A large bottle costs
but few cents, and if it fails to give
easy relief in every case of liver
slugishness and constituting, you
have only to ask for your money
back.
Dodson's Liver Tone is a pleasant
tasting, purely vegetable remedy,
harmless to both children and adults
Take a spoonful at night and wake
up feeling fine; no billiousness. 8
headache, acid stomach or constipat-
ed bowels. 1t doesn't grippe or cause
inconvenience all the next day like vi
client calomel. Take a dose of calo-
mel today and tomorrow you sill feel
weak, sick and nauseated. Don't
lose a days work! Take Dodson's
Liver Tone instead and feel fine, full
of vigor and ambition.