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The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-02-05
GEORGE STOUT HELPS
GET WHISKY RUNNERS

CONTINUED from Page One)
a small fine in the morning or the
next day, as their turns are announced
and allowed to go free. There is no
more punishment for the 10th offense
than for the first and the runners
know it. For this reason they cal
culate that if they can get through
from Toledo six or seven times for
every one time that they are caught,
there is still good money in the bus
mess and that handsome profit will
still be left from the sale of the
liquor after paying for the fine.
Most of the people engaged in this
Illicit business, according to Mr.. Stout
are foreigners, or people of foreign
birth or extraction and it is very sell
dom that the officers find an American
engaged in the business, although the
latter are just as ready to pay the
high price demanded for a draught Of
the booze as are the other classes
Of people in the city.
In addition to the work being ex-
citing it is also dangerous and while
Mr.. Stout is making good in this line
he is always glad to get away from
the border and get back home for a
short time.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-02-05
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT PLACE ..a.asu.a......
THE COMMUNITY BUILDER


The United State- has spent each
year for liquor $1,000, 100000 which
now it will have for the purchase of
other things. Doubtless there are
thousands of families whose first de-
sire is a comfortable home and much
Of this money should be turned in the
direction of making it possible to
build homes. Each community
throughout the United States is go
ing to share in the redistribution Of
this great sum. To what better use
could it be put than to build homes
that are needed and TO improve homes
already built?
There is nothing like paying taxes
on real estate to give you an interest
in the expenditure of public money.
You have to pay taxes when you rent
and interest on the owners invest
ment too. Better build a home and
get the interest on your own invest
ment- -
No genuine observer can decide
otherwise than that the homes of the
nation are the bulwarks OF personal
and national safety and thrift.z-J. G.
Holland.
Chief among the considerations that
should present themselves to the av--
erage family is the influence of a
home on children. The spirit of
pride in the home and family, one of
the strongest elements in the charac-
ter building is fostered and enhanced
only when there is a real home,
permanent home, one that children
can regard as "our home.
Buy home on the installment plan
if need be; your little folks will make
the payments in love for the place and
your home will earn dividends of
happiness that exceed those of any
other investment you can possibly
make.
You can own home; no man is SO
poor and none so rich as not to find
profit in home ownership.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-02-05

Home Proof, Here, There and Every.
where.

When you see Doan's Kidney Pills
recommended in this paper you most
always find the recommended Beld-
ing resident It's the same every
wherein 1880 towns in the u. s.
Fifty thousand people publicly thank
Doan's. What other kidney remedy
can give this proof ofmerit, honesty
and TRUTH Home testimony must
be true or it could not be published
here. Read this Bedding recommen-
dation. Then insist on having Doan's.
You will know what you are getting:
Claude Cowles, proprietor Bedding
Vulcanizing Co., West Main street,
says: Several years ago ! suffered
from a weak, lame and achy back.
The kidney secretions were also too
frequent in passage. I-had heard a
lot about Doan's Kidney Pills and got
some at Connell's drug store. The
first box helped me and continued
their use until cured"
Price Coo, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask,for q kidney remedy--get
Doans Kidney Pills--the same that
Nr. Cowles had: Foster Nilburn
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-16
Auditing the Auditor.

That there will be some reorganization
Of the auditing department of the state
seems assured. No one is more anxious
to have it done than the present state
auditor, Benjamin Gates He wants the
work of his Office reorganized so there
will be no opportunity for any such ir-
Irregularities as are alleged to have oc-
Cured during the incumbenecy of his pre-
decessor. He has formulated recommen-
dations that will appear in his annual
report soon to be made public.
He recommends that the auditor act
as an auditor only and not be allowed to
issue orders on the state treasury. He
would have the board of control meet
weekly to inspect the accounts passed by
the auditor and upon its approval of the
accounts turn them over to the state
treasurer, who would pay them This
would do away with departmental vouch-
ers which have caused so much trouble
in the past and would pay the costs of
any department so often that advances
of money would be unnecessary and UNI
warranted.
The recommendations have merit Mr..
Gates has eliminated departmental
vouchers quite largely and with the re.
moval of all the headquarters of the de-
partments of state government to Mont
pelier expects to eliminate them entirely.
That is good work. The trouble with
the present system is that settlements of
accounts Of the various departments are
made quarterly. These compel the head
of department to pay the running ex-
penses of the department for three
months and then receive HIS nav from
the state. The expenses of many de-
partments have become so large that it
is impossible for the head to pay them
and wait until the end of the quarter for
his pay, The practice of advancing him
money by the state auditor has been
common in the past but has been found
unsafe and unsatisfactory Mr.. Gates
recommendations would do away with
quarterly settlements and provide for the
weekly payment of wages and salaries in
all departments, something any good
business man would pprove-Brattle-
boro Reformer.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-16
A HISTORY OF VERMONT IN THE
WAR.

Vermont's part in the great war is of
sufficient Importance to demand special
presentation in historical work by it,
self. From the time when the Vermont
legislature appropriated a million dollars
for carrying on war work down through
the vicissitudes of year and half, pos
sibly two years, to the time of the sign.
ing of the treaty of peace, Vermont
played an honorable part; and the activ-
tiles of the state should be collected and
placed before the public in suitable shape.
Therefore, the proposal before the Yer
mont Legislature at the present time to
prepare a history of the state in eonnec-
tion with the war should be carried
through; and a historian should be Sc
lected who can, and will, give studious
attention to the work. The history need
not be voluminous but it should contain
all the facts of Importance relative to
Vermont soldiers and the Vermont com
monwealth in the war.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-16
CURRENT COMMENT
The States Accountant.

As expected Gov. Clement in his inaug.
ural message dealt with the states sys-
TEN of accounting, his recommendations
having been previously published. Most
of his plan is practical and would eff
GENTLY protect the funds of the state.
Making the auditors office a bureau Of
audit only seems desirable; the pay
ment of all bills from the state treas.
ury is proper, The suggestion that Ger
titled public accountants examine the
books of the state twice year sounds
expensive, but it is the commonly ac-
cepted method among private concerns
whose business is the size of that Of the
state and is the most certain method Of
securing thorough examinations.
If the state board of control could be
recognized so it would not include the
state officers who spend the states mon
ey and its members were made inspec-
tors of all bills presented to the state
for payment, giving their approval to
all bills before they are paid, such a
board could prevent misuse of state
funds. If the misuse of funds was made
impossible the employment of certified
accountants to detect any such irregu-
larity would be unnecessary. Protection
rather than detection is what is de-
sired and we hope the legislature will
work to secure it as cheaply and effec-
lively as possible.-Brattleboro Reform
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-16

Coblenz was glad enough to call itself
French under the first Napoleon. COblenz
has been in Prussian hands only since
1915. Within it, on the so-called Ger
man Corner" the point of land at the
junction of the Moselle and the Rhine
stands, or lately stood, the immense
equestrian statue Of the Emperor Will
liam l, of Germany, the figure itself
forty-six feet high. BY this monument
the Prussian power sought to mark its
supremacy over the left bank Of the
Rhine forever. What a commentary on
the vicissitudes of human affairs, that
this emblem of Prussian triumph, this
token of German rule over central Flu.
rope, this sculptured threat against the
peace and rest of western Europe,
should, in the chill December days Of the
eighteenth year Of the twentieth cen
ury, pass into the hands OF a crusading
band of Yankees Has there been any
thing stranger in history?
Standing with wonder on the beauti-
full Rhine here, the American crusaders
will gaze across at the frownng walls
Of the famous fortress of Ehrenbreit-
stein, which to them will seem to repre-
sent the very essence Of German military
power. This fortress was indeed mainly
built in modern times to guard the Ger.
man Rhine forever, but it occupies the
site Of feudal castle around which the
fables of the Lorelei clustered. And on
the river above, within reach of the sol
diers' easy excursions, is that "Bingen on
the Rhine" which has been the theme Of
tender English poem, surely familiar
to every American sehoolboy.
The Americans will feel themselves
here in the very heart of German TO
nance and may well be impressed by the
historical Importance of their presence
on the Rhine Among our soldiers are
many men who speak the German Ian.
guage, because it was the tongue of their
fathers and mothers, This fact win be
an advantage to them. But they will be
found to be true Americans, strongly
impressed with the American sense OF
the dignity of responsible citizenship
and setting all European corners an eN-
ample of sturdy republican discipline
under the law-the seIf.discipline of the
free citizen. Our soldiers presence I'M
der the shadow of Ehreubreitsteiu will
be like strong rock Of republican self
control in a weary land torn between
the two forces Of autocracy and anarch-
ism.-Boston Transcript.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-16
Soldier Publications.

The amount of journalistic talent in
Uncle Sans army and navy appears to
be inexhaustibIe. Evidence for this view
has been found in scores of papers
| springing up at camps on both sides of
the water. But there will surely be a
hearty welcome from the public for a
new paper, which, even under the gen
orally unusual circumstances of war,
must be called unique This is the Come
Back, published by the soldier patients
at the Walter Reed general hospital in
Washington, d. c., where the work Of
| physical reconstruction will be undertake
en- on large scale. The hospital is soon
to have a capacity of $500 The mum
Der at present enrolled there is not
stated, but it includes enough men with
newspaper instinct and enterprise to get
| out a siX-page paper full of good sense,
good information and good fan. The good
| sense and the fun are expressed in pic
lures and in letter press; the informa-
| tion, naturally is wholly in the latter.
If one purpose of the paper is TO assist
in the maintenance of cheerful atmos-
phere at the hospital, that purpose is
| abundantly achieved The Come. Back
is so sanely and solidly cheerful that
it carries an optimistic message to the
| public as well.
The full story Of the army papers is
yet to be written, but there is every
reason to believe that they have &C.
complished all that was expected Of
them by the morale branch Of the army.
In no other war, and in no other coun-
try than our own even in this war. has
the same kind Of attention been paid to
this psychological phenomenon nown as
morale. Various means have been en-
ployed; even the army chaplain has be.
come more an agent for heartening the
soldiers and keeping them in a whole
some frame of mind than bearer of re-
| ligious consolation. The power of print
has been ayailed of on a wide scale The
| camp paper has not only informed and
amused the soldiers, but has strength.
| ened loyalty TO a particular detachment.
The men have taken pride in their pa
per and thus in the camp of which it
has been a symbol. Some of the larger
papers-such as the Stars and Stripes
or the weekly periodical published at the
Pelham Bay station of the naval re-
SerFe-haYe borne every trace Of prOtes-
sional editing and producing; indeed.
their stats have been largely manned
by professionals. But the absence of
amateurishness has been noteworthy.
even in the smaller papers, some of
which have obviously been printed with.
out the best facilities.
Along with this increased interest in
the reading of papers has gone an in
creased eagerness to write. For one
thing, the amount of soldier verse pro
duced during the war, at least By Amer
leans, is remarkable If this eagerness
in expressing thoughts and in seeing how
others express their thoughts is brought
back to the United States, the public
mind-and possibly also the public press
will gain thereby.-Springfeld Rcpub,
| lican.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-16

gin to dim within short time, A Ger
man helmet hung in the home would
serve as reminder of terrible days
while at the same time it would repre-
sent service if bestowed by the United
States government under the above con.
ditions. But if it should prove imprac-
ticable to dispose of the helmets in this
way, there are thousands of historical
societies and Others Of like nature which
would be glad to receive the specimens
the same to be kept as relics of the war
Fifty years from now these souvenirs OF
the great war will be in demand in the
United States; and we would advise the
possessors Of them to hold them against
that future demand
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-16
GERMAN FAITHLESSNESS IN THE
ARMISTICE.

1t will scarcely be excuse enough to
satisfy the allies that the Germans are
far behind in meeting the terms of the
armistice because of the press of internal
disturbances. Germany's first obligation
is to the allies, to whom she promised in
good faith that certain war materials
and equipment should be turned over to
to the allies 1t is said that in only one
particular, that Of airplanes, has Ger
many complied with the demands of the
allies and with the promise made by the
German emissaries. In transfer of guns,
ships, rolling stock, engines and other
things Germany is far behind the SEIZED
ule; and, moreover, it is now said that
German submarines in various stages Of
completion were concealed from the al.
lies for the purpose of being held by
Germany for future uses. There is grow.
ing evidence that Germany is not playing
fair with the allies in the period of the
armistiee any more than she played fair
in war. The only thing that made Ger
many play fair and decent in warfare
was the pressure of the allies brought TO
bear through superiority on the field Of
battle, on the sea and in the air. Ger.
many's peridious attitude in complying
with the terms of the armistice can be
corrected only by the threat of punish
ment; and it would seem that the time
to make such threat had arrived.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-16
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Has Many Old Books

Editor, Barre Times: I read in your
paper to-day of an old Walton's Regis.
ter and now will mention few of my
old books and you can insert them in
your paper if you wish to do so, or not
One small book, western Travels
(l706l, one, 1.-THE Freemason's Monitor
tls0Sl, one Practical Grammar of the
English Language" published by Il. P.
Walton, Montpelier tls2si, one '"The
Sabbath School Guide" published at Bur
lington (ls2Sl, one Spelling Dictionary
tlSl5l, one "The English Reader" Cls07)
the Old Testament (lsl5) the New Tes
lament tlS04 and one IAN Account Of
the Experiences Of Mrs. Hester Anne
Rogers" Oct 90, 1884.
have many more old ones of all dates
and about 200 more books, also a collec.
tion of stamps of all nations.
f. d. Barnes
Chelsea, Vt, Jan. IA, 1919.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-16
Under Ehrenbreitstein.

The American zone of occupation in
German territory extends from the hor.
ders of Nuremberg northeastward to the
river Rhine, and includes the larger
cities of Treves and Coblenz, and the
lesser Zell, Cochem, Mayen and Wittlich.
in a general way the line of march of
the American army will be down the riy-
er Moselle-an exceedingly pleasant re
gion, agreeable to the eye even in its
winter garb, and undevastated by war. At
Treves, which the Germans call Trier,
the American soldiers have already be-
held some of the most remarkable Ro-
man ruins in Europe. They have Wis
tied an amphitheatre, built by Traian or
Hadrian, capable Of holding 1000 spec
tators, where victims were butchered By
gladiators to afford amusement to the
Romanized natives, and where the great
Constantine had the brave captive
Franks flung to wild beasts. The SOL
diers have entered a veritable Roman
palace, and looked in envy at once lux
urious Roman baths. Abundant remind
ers they have found that Treves has
been Latin much longer in it's career
than it has been Prussian; and if the
people of the city, dazed by the sudden
change in their destinies, and half fear
ing to find the American soldiers red In
dams with tomahawks and scalping
knives, have been timid in their recep
ton of their true deliveries, they have
nevertheless already become treasured
and will presently be found we'll content
ed with the change.
As they move on down the valley to-
wards the Rhine, the Americans will
find the population rather more typi-
cally German, perhaps, than at Treves,
and when they swing into Coblenz and
behold the fortress of Ehrcnbreitstein
across the Rhine, they will be in the
center Of mediaeYal Germany. though
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-16

Horace F. Graham made a suggestion
in his retiring message which should be
favorably received by the legislature.
He said, speaking Of our participation in
the war, that NOW is the time when
Vermont's part in the great struggle
should be written by competent minds.
I hope that you will see to it that pro.
vision is made for this before you ad-
iourn, 1t can best be done now by
those who have lived what they would
write"
The story of Vermont's participation
will not be exclusively military, by any
means, The whole state was put on a
war basis and there were countless civil
ian activities which bore directly on the
struggle and helped to made this nations
contribution what it was. The war
should be written up from every angle,
else the record will not be complete.
1t is not going to be an easy thing to
recount Vermont's military contribution.
We did not send any unit as a unit to
the front, We wanted to, but the old LIST
Vermont was broken into a thousand
pieces, almost SO there was no distinct
ly Vermont regiment the doings of which
can be told.
The men of that regiment, however,
were in the famous Yankee division
which was the first National Guard out,
fit overseas and which fought week aft
err week, month after month, all along
the line, gaining for itself reputation
second to none and superior to most.
And we know, in the various ways it is
given us to know, that the men from
Vermont played their full part in build
ing up this enviable reputation.
The story Of what our men did in the
field is a brilliant one, Of which we are
not yet fully acquainted because of the
censorship which worked so effectively
in blotting out personalitv. Il is q story
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-16

If A. Mitchell Palmer should be APP
pointed attorney general to succeed
Thomas W, Gregory it would be quite
certain that President Wilson had Sc
cured an energetic official and, too, one
who had been quite closely linked up
with the attorney generals Office during
the past year and a half, His work as
alien property custodian during that pc.
Rod had stamped him as a most forcefuI
man who would be likely to carry out his
duties fearlessly. That there is album
dant necessity for a man of that stamp
to take up the work of Mr.. Gregory is
evident from the underground work that
is going on in the United States in an
endeayor to undermine the foundations
of the republic.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-16

With a trainIoad of foodstuffs already
arrived in Vienna from the British army,
and several more trainloads on the way,
the people of the Austrian capital are
having some of their hopes realized. The
furnishing Of the food by the British
army demonstrates to Austrians, per
haps, where their real friends are. Ger
many, which got Austria into the present
mess, is powerless to help the struggling
people of the former dual monarchy out
of their difficulties over the shortage of
food; and it fell to the lot of former
enemy nation of Austria to come to the
relief
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-16

And still the retirement of the Demo.
cratic leaders continues, with Vance Me
Cormiek resigning as chairman of the
Democratic national committee. He ha:
not yet stated that he resigned for 'pe
cuniary reasons; nor is it likely that he
viii. Perhaps the full story back Of
thee various designations has not been
written.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-16

President Wilson win be staggered by
the size of the figures which the military
experts are figuring for the damage done
by the Germans in the war. He might
as well begin to make up his mind for
the shock.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-16

A food of hot lava would have little
more terror than the current of warmed
molasses which was let loose by explo.
sion in a Boston plant Wednesday, bury
ing many people in its sticky mass as
the more than two million gallons spread
over a wide territory. The fate of the
injured who were caught by the swiftly
flowing mass must have been terrible.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-16

The unnamed person who generously
paid 5000 coal bill which was hanging
over the Hardwick hospital has the salts
faction of doing good deed even if he
does not permit himself to enter into the
limelight,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-16

The oldest thing about the world sit
uation at the present time is that Mexico
has been free from bolsheyik uprisings,
One would expect that Mexico would be
fertile ground for the exploitation of
that nature.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-16

If there is surplus of German SOL
diers' helmets there would be a good way
to dispose of them by giving them to
men who served in the American expedi-
tionary forces, to be kept in the family
as trophies Of the service, Of course,
there are not enough of these helmets to
60 around but as far as they go they
would make fitting souvenirs of siren
uous days, the memory of which will be-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-16

that should be written and it is the duty
Of the commonwealth to preserve it for
the edifcation and qualification of Yer
monters yet unborn. Surely the pres
ent legislature will provide ample funds
for the undertaking Of this important
work. st. Adams Messenger.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-16

The Vermont Historical society con.
tinues to be fairly vigorous organiza-
ton notwithstanding its age. 1t serves,
too, as good connecting link between
the past and the present and ought,
therefore, to maintain its influence, pos
sibly to increase it.