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Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-10-08
Gift by Mr.. Vail
Crescent Lodge, Il. & A. IL. OF
Ly lio1t lie Receives Handsome
Present

The regular meeting Of Crescent
LODGE No. &C, +. e. A. NJ, was held
Oct. 4. During this meeting Past
Master II. Montord Smith, in behalf
Of Hon. I. N. Vail, presented the
lodge with Bible bound in full mo-
rocco. On the front cover is the Ma
sonic emblem and Crescent Lodge
No. CO, +. d. A. M. embossed in
gold. On the inside of the cover, also
embossed in gold, is the inscription:
Presented to Crescent Lodge No. &C,
+. & A. NJ, by Theodore N. Vail,
Lyndonville, VT, September 1919.
MI. Vail has been member of this
lodge for number of years and this
beautiful gift is very much appre-
ciated.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-10-08
Her Other Boarder.

Tillie Ginger says that in asking for
accommodations at strange place
yesterday she inquired If there were
sny other boarders. "No," replied the
landlady, "unless it's my husband, and
he can quit any time he wants to-
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-10-08
DOCTORS MEET
Annual Meeting of the Vermont
State Medical Society in
Pp~1;Y, otoo

Otutc MEDICAL oOClcty In
Burlington
The 1O6th annua! meeting of the
Vermont State Medical society will
be held at the College of Medicine at
Burlington, October 8 and 10, with a
preliminary meeting Oct. 8. A sur
gical and medical clinic conducted by
DR.. w. F. Hamilton of Montreal and
DR.. j. C. Hubbard of Boston will be
one of the two day features of the
program.
The program covers wide variety
Of professional subjects and after
each paper is presented there will be
a discussion by other physicians
Among those assigned to discuss in
dividual papers are Drs. F. e. Farmer
and w. G. Kicker of st. Johnsbury
DR.. w. B. Woodman of Wells River.
Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-10-08
SWEATING and SWEARING.

When in fix, sweating will get you
farther than swearing.-Forbes Maga-
zine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-17
BILLIE, RECALL 1912?

A recent address before the
United States Chamber of Com
merce. Secretary Redfield said
that he has always felt, as a man
of business, that there are two COM
mon assumptions that are essentially
wrong, one of them being that COM
petition is of itself so desirable that
it should be restored if need be by
force of law.
Always" eh? Then we should
like to have Mr.. Redfield tell us on
what occasions during the campaign
of 1912 he protested against the fol-
lowing plank in the Democratic plat
form of that year:
I'VE regret that the Sherman
antitrust law has received a judicial
Interpretation depriving it of much
of its efficacy. and we favor the
enactment of legislation which will
restore to the statute the strength
of which 1t has been deprived by
such interpretation"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-17
SOME PLACE FOR THEM

TINE New York Sun calls atten-
ton to signs placed about the
city for the guidance of children,
reading: Don't play in the streets" ."
All very we'll, for the streets are
dangerous places in which to play,
not only in New York. but in cities
like Harrisburg.
But if children don't play in the
streets where are they to play?
To be sure, we have public play
grounds open during certain sea-
sons. but these are not available for
all at all times.
Clearly, if children are not to play
in the streets, we must provide some
other place where they may play,
for play they will.
This problem of the child in the
crowded section of the city is most
difficult, and about the only solution
appears to be removal to the out
skirts of town. The street-bred child
is not always a product that is a
credit to society.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-17
A Observation-Disclosures

TRANK ]. GREEN, manager of
II the Chamber of Commerce of
Janesville, Wis, writes in an
interesting manner for The Ameri-
ran City" magazine how the people
pf that town are preparing to alb
Iorb an increase in population of
from 800 to 400 per cent. in a period
Of only a few years. The Janesville
Chamber of Commerce saw the need
and led the way to the organization
of the Janesville Housing Plan.
Study of the subject revealed the
fact that local contractors and pri-
vate builders could be depended
upon to supply houses for those
desiring to pay $500 or more for
them. The greatest demand would
be for houses costing less than
$4,000, particularly of the type of
dwelling required by the laboring
class. The study embraced a com
prehensive investigation of the econ
Dmics of the community, and the
sroblem was TO create an organiza-
ton that would fully conserve the
interests of the workingman and his
family and give him the utmost in
house value.
The outcome was decision to
form the GAINESVILLE Housing Cor
poraticn, to be capitalized at $780,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-17
Leaque in the Balance

1t is apparent that so long as the
Orlando government is upheld by
the people on the issue of Fiume it
cannot for a moment consider an
offer of compromise. 1t is not too
much to say that the fate of the
peace conference and of the League
of Nations both are in the balance.
France and Great Britain would
have no trouble in reaching an
agreement with Italy If the United
States were to withdraw, but il the
United States withdraws. President
Wilson must come home with the
League of Nations still an unrealized
dream. There is only one solution
so far as can be seen now, and that
is retreat by President Wilson
from the rash position that it was
in his power to hand Fiume over
to the o-Slavs.-Rochester Dem
ocrat and Chronicle.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-17
IS KOLSHAK THE MAN?

rs Admiral KoIshak the coming
man in Russia; the great figure
that is to step forward to stamp
put Bolshevism and give the people
4 decent form of government?
There are indications that per-
haps he is.
At all events, he is surrounded by
strong forces that have shown abili-
ty not only to withstand the on
slaughts of the troops of Trotzky
and .Lenine, but TO make material
headway. against them.
koishak does mot believe the
Russian. people are ready for a
democratic form of government.
President Wilson, thousands of miles
front the scene and advised as to
conditions only by the radical Social
ists he sent to investigate conditions
in Russia, judges they are. So Kol-
shak is to be opposed by the United
States Government; or at least not
given any more recognition than is
Lenine, although he is a friend OF
law and order and is bent upon re-
storing Russia to the Russian peo-
pie. But great men have a habit
of declining to be stopped by OBJ
stacles and if Kolshak is the man
his friends think he is, he may be
IN power in Russia long after oul
pwn President has resumed the
routine of his literary pursuits.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-17
The Irish Outlook

The Limerick strike, which some
construed as the forerunner of a
new eruption of the extreme rebel
lionists of Easter, 1915, has been
declared off, and that danger ap-
pears now to be past. There is every
indication that the promise given
by Lloyd George that he would re-
ceive the American delegates las
served to placate the Sim Fein
leaders. They will await the result
of that impending interview; and in
the meantime there are rumors of
activities in other quarters looking
to a compromise on the basis of
home rule like that of Canada and
Australia. One thing is sure--the
American delegates are .ikley TO &C
complish more good for Ireland than
the Sim Feiners could by all appeal
to battle.-Philadel Record.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-17
LABOR PARTY TALK

TT IS doubtful if the talk of a
Labor Party for Pennsylvania
will ever amount to much. 1t is
just as practical an idea, and no
more so, than a capital party, or a
church party, and in all likelihood
would get just as far. Doubtless
those back of the movement are
prompted by sincerest motives, but
they have not fully sized up the sit
uation.
The interests of the government
are no more solely those of labor
than they are those of capital. Each
has its place in the scheme of things
and each should have fair play.
Some times labor does not get that to
which it is entitled, and again it is
capital that is injured. No party
that sees only one side can win.
This is shown in the long and pain
full career of the Prohibition party,
which saw only one issue. The re-
suit has been that though the prin-
I pie for wfifeh the Prohibition party
stood has come through triumph
ant, the party itself is a hopeless
minority.
So it will be with labor. The
things for which labor stands will
be enacted into law or worked out
in practice, at least to a very large
degree and insofar as they are fair
to other interests. But a Labor party
as such will not be the instrument
that will work them out.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-17

ago, in favor of the budget system
Mir. Penrose, the next chairman of
the Senate Finance Committee, re-
CARDS that budget system as the
capital essence of an intelligent poll
cy of national expenditure.
Whatever be thought of the essen
tial political wickedness of Mr.. PEN
rose, as compared with the essential
goodness of those illuStriouS states
men, of whom. apparently, only Mr..
Borah, so much nearer to the Town
ley League. is the most theoretically
logical, he has committed the Repub-
lican Party to two great policies of
construction. For the moment he
represents the intelligent thought of
the American people. 4 co-ordinated,
intelligent plan of national expendi-
tore is absolutely necessary. In the
heat of national patriotism we are
not looking closely at expenditures,
but for years and years to come we
shall be taxed, and taxed, according
to the ideas of thirty years ago, to
the utmost limit of reason and of
profit. If Mr.. Penrese. scarecrow
though he be of the Progressives. can
introduce an ordered system of ap-
preparation and expenditures, it is
not for the descendants of the Gran
gers of the '70s to raise their voices
in holy horror
Another thing. Senator Penrose
is one with a majority of Americans
in objecting to certain luxury
, taxes. For instance. one may happen
to be compleXedly in need of lenses
to correct his sight. He pays for
| the ordinary privilege of seeing a
luxury" tax. Is it necessary for
the Government. looking for persons
whom it may niulct. to be as foolish
as that? In his desire for n budget
| ard in his desire to introduce. il
possible. a certain faint intelligence
| among the Kitchin taxes. the Hon
| Boies Penrose. whatever his past
! wickednesses, from the Progressive
| uoint of view. will havc
| approval of everybody who has t.
nav taxes
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-17
MR.. PENROSE
[From the New York Timesl

TN itself the desire and pursuit of
lists would like to say, If diVi-
virtue is wholly admirable. Moral
sions were so surely sharp, that the
Hon. Boies Penrose is always wrong.
a wicked and n bunker parsonage
devoted to ideas rejected of the
people, and assuredly. Objectionable
to the Progressive. AS 4 matter of
| fact, MIR. Penrose, a gentleman OF
great ability and experience and Il
sufficient sense of humor, has ac-
cepted all the Interior signs of pro-
gressiveness. He stands for prim-
ary reform, for every reform that
doesn't change the essential notion
that he has of national policy. Alb
straction made. as the French would
say, of his natural Pennsylvania
theories and practices of high pro-
lection, MIR. Penrose is one of the
ablest and the most useful members
CT the Senate. That he has alarmed
the extra virtuous, that he has been
used as a symbol among the Pro-
gressive catechumens of the Middle
| West as Manichean capitalist
doesn't alter the essential fact. The
beautiful, extreme, William ID. kel-
| ly theory of exports and imports has
disappeared with the rising of the
new world.
Mr.. Penrose, in spite of all the ha-
| tired stored against him by the Pro-
gressives. most of whom are inheri-
| tors of Iowa Grangerism. retains n
! certain sense of actuality. He has
not to mention others, two policies
that are of cardinal importance. The
| capital and supreme reform is a
! budget system. The United States
especially under the new relations
and adjustments that it has accepted
and that will come to it under its
new and responsible relations to e
world, must know what its money
is spent for. The talk about a bud
get has seemed. for a gene
to be merely prattle. Mr.. Gillett
the Speaker Of the next House, de-
clared himself, a month and a half
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-17
In Russia

Russia is slowly but surely emerg-
ing from her distress. The Bolshe-
visits are taking to the woods. II
has been found there is nothing in
Bolshevism but anarchy and murder
and Russia is getting tired of thar
Lenine and Trotzky are becomIng
back numbers and are now anxious
about saving what they can of their
personal fortunes from the wreck.
1t will be fine promise for the
whole world If Russia should stamn
Bolshevism out of existence. There
are signs that she will. This conn
try might help her in her grand re-
action, but IT would be better If she
conducted it without our aid. There
are reports that they are addressing
themselves to the task over In nus
sia,-Ohio State journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-17
No Clun,SieS in the Bunch

1t was an orderly. we'll behaved.
gloom dispensing collection of ladies
and young men that graced the en-
CHANGING loveliness of Kleineider's
hall last Saturday evening and par
ticipated in the first dance staged
by the popular new social club
known as the Big Eleven. 1t was a
beautiful night, the stars in the
heavens were twinkling merrily and
the air seemed to be charged with
vibrating reactions of unreserved iov
and happiness that seemed to pre-
dominate in the hearts of all those
present. 1t was sight too beauti-
full to describe, as the feet of the
dancers glided, and their 1.-the bodies
swayed like thistledown before a
gentle autumn breeze. to the strains
of the latest fox trot or waltz
Cudahy (Wis.) Enterprise.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-17
The Bone of Contention


Before the bar Won Rantzau stands
And trembles at Allied demands
That he deliver to their hands
The skull of the Sultan Okwawa.
You stole the SKULL You know you
You must hisi you shall do as you're
Tell us at once where you have hid
The skull of the Sultan Okwawa." :"
A score of nations sit in state
Allied and those Associate
And fourteen tedious weeks debate
The skull of the Sultan Okwawa.
Serbia to Serbs they can't refuse,
Danzig to Poles, Jerusalem to Jews,
But Britain's ruler can but choose
The skull Of the Sultan Okwawa.
Whence come these cries that rend
the air?
What mean these mutters of de-
'Tis George the Fifth who won't
The skull of the Sultan okwawa.
Is it to be his drinking cup
That he may sit and vengeance sup?
Why can't he, won't he give it UP,
The skull of the Sultan Okwawa? .?
Though Wilson's peace terms were
fourteen.
Among them this was never seen;
Yet now we learn our aim has been
The skull of the Sultan Okwawa.
italians. French, Czecho-Slovaks,
Bengalis, Negroes, Yanks, Anzacs,
All fought and bled. both white and
blacks
For the skull of the Sultan
Okwawa.
EDWIN E. SLOSSON, New
York Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-17

100000 sheep in hide and meat,
beside great quantities of milk and
butter; and these in addition to vast
numbers of musk oxen, which yield
wool, as well as meat and skins.
But why go away up to Canada?
We have some millions of acres of
land right here in Pennsylvania
that might be made to fatten great
focks of cattle, sheep and goats.
Why not utilize this?
Some day we are going to get
awake to the possibilities that lie at
our doors. PENNSYLVANIA does not
produce one-fiftieth part of the
stock that is possible and immense
tracts are going to waste that might
be utilized. especially for sheep and
goats.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-17
TRADE BRIEFS

American plows. states the Brit
ish and South African Export Ga
zette, have certain excellent features,
but 1t is beginning to be recognized
that they are not usually strong
enough for the severe soil condi-
tions met with in South Africa.
katanga belgian Congo) copper
is henceforth to be shipped direct
to Antwerp instead of to England.
Goods invoiced at Roatan, Hon
duras, to be shipped to the United
States during 1918 totaled $1S4,00S,
a decline in value compared with the
1917 exports, $2S7,704, owing to the
smaller shipment of cocoanuts,
S277,550 in 1917 and $169,2S6 in
1918.
The total value of the articles in
voiced at Copenhagen, Denmark, for
shipment to the United States in
1918 $905,251, as compared with
$765,S29 in 1917, an increase OF
$139,422.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-17
A Good Start

TFrom the Philadelphia Press.l -.
The American Legion has started
ont we'll. 1t has succeeded in dodg-
ing many pitfalls that were in its
nath at the first meeting. 1t had
focussed upon it at st. Louis the
eyes of the country, and it had to
submit all of it's action and plans
to close and critical scrutiny. There
was on every hand the temptation
IN make mistakes. 1t emerged from
its first test with flying colors. Moth
ing that it did was in any way
irreconcilable with its professions of
strict nonpartisanship, although in
the list of delegates were many
strong partisans who were looking
for a chance to turn the meeting to
political advantage on one side or
the other.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-17
PLENTY OF GRAZING

~ ENNsYLVANIA news p a p e r S
= have been discussing with inter
est Mr.. Stefansson's suggestion
that meat prices may be reduced
and our supply greatly increased by
utilizing the vast grazing country
of Northern Canada for the paJtur-
age of reindeer. This land. he esti-
mates, could support 100000 REIN
deer, yielding the equivalent OF
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-17
Humanitarian Work

From the New York Herald.1
Henry D. Davidson, whose genius
for organization on large scale con-
tributed so much to the wonderful
success of the Red Cross in the war,
is at work on scheme to co-ordl-
nate worldwide relief work under
the League of Red Cross Societies
of the world, that all possible ma
terials and agencies may be ready ior
in,mediate call to prevent or allie
viate sufferings due to great disas-
tors This Is one humanitarian eff
fort that is developing as result OF
tbe war, and one item on the credit
side for those who continue to ask,
Did the war pay?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-17
Most Frightful Bore"

Stanley's laconic remark, "Dr. Liv-
ingston, I presume, made when the
two men met in the African jungle,
has a rival. During the early days
of the war. Brand Whitlock was busy
catching legations that were being
tossed in his direction by the dip
lomats of various warning nations
as they made their exits. In his
book, Belgium" which has recently
been published by D. Appleton &
Co.. he tells the following anecdote:
"Sir Francis Williers came, form
ally to turn over his legation. He
wore the British calm this dis
tinguished gentleman, whose hair
was grown white in his Kings SER
vice.
"A most frightful bore" was his
only comment on the impending de-
management"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-17
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Col. G. C. Richards, of the
112th. is being talked of as one of
the likely brigadiers for the new
Guard.
Col. D. ]. Davis. chief of staff, Of
the keystone Division, will resume
his duties as city solicitor of Scran-
ton as soon as mustered out.
Col. c. N. Berntheizel, judge ad-
vocate of the Keystone Division. was
formerly a member of the Legisla-
Admiral w. s. Sims is in de-
mand for speeches at many places
in Pennsylvania, his native State.
Attorney General Palmer spoke
at the Philadelphia Friends meet
ing on after the war problems.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-17
Rights For the Negro

[From the Philadelphia Inquirer.]
A meeting of the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of COL
ored People will be held in Cleveland
next month, and in the meantime an
effort is being made to enroll 100,-
600 to assist in the movement. AL
though colored officers and soldiers
fought well in France, they do not
feel that in all instances they have
received the treatment they deserv-
ed. This is not made the basis of
any complaint by the association. but
the fact that the colored people in
every way have discharged their en-
tire duties seems to call for grant
ing them their rights.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-17
Records of the Iron Division

lFrom the Philadelphia Record
It is part of the distinguished
racord of the 2Sth Division that II
sustained heavier casualties than any
other in the American Expeditionary
Force except three divisions of regu-
lars Those got into action earlier
and bore practically all the losses
previous to F'och's great counter
offensive. When that got going the
pennsylvania soldiers were in the
thick of the combat from the Marne
to the Vesle and again in the Ar
gonne. where they suffered severely.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-17
MiSSouridn Helps Late Bird

w. +. Norton has a pet robin at
his home which follows him into the
garden and hops on his hoe and
keeps pecking at it until Mr.. Norton
digs it lot of worms. At first Will
thought it just did it inadvertently,
but after the bird had repeated the
performance several days in success
sion he found out what was wanted
and now it is one of his tasks to dig
worms for the robin twice daily
From the Liberty Advance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-17
When Congress Is Needed

Advice and consent from the
elected representatives of the pco-
pie may not be needed, when a peace
treaty is to be negotiated, but when
funds begin to run low that is some
thing different again. The last con-
gress failed to pass appropriation
bills aggregating nearly $780,
100000. Hence the date for
the extra session was fixed at May
19.-Pittsburgh Gazette Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-17
Whene'er a Noble Deed Is
WROUGHT

Whene'er a noble deed is wrought,
Whene'er IS spoken n noble thought
Our hearts. in glad surprise,
To higher levels rise.
Honor to those whose words or
deeds
Thus help us in our daily needs,
And by their overflow
Raise us from what is now.
-Longfellow.