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The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-23
Evening Caledonian
MONDAY, JUNE %, 1919
LOCAL NEWS
Established 1897

Miss Alma Hasley was weekend
guest of friends at the National
Hotel, Waterloo, Que.
Z Wendell Cobleigh has returned
home from week spent in Boston
and other places in Massachusetts,.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. J. Delaney of
Springfield, Mass, are visiting reia-
tives and friends in town. f
Clayton Daniels and family motor
ed to Sawyerville, P. O., Saturday af-
ternoon and returned Sunday.
Philip Beck, who has been in Bos-
ton since April for medical treatment,
has returned home much improved in
health.
MI. and Mrs. w. E. Trip and
Mr.. and Mrs. C. M. Moulton Of East
Charlestown were here Sunday to see
Mrs. Irving Wolcoutt, at the hospi-
tai.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. ]. Bigelow spent
Saturday in town en- route to their
home in Brattleboro. They were
most cordially greeted by their many
friends here.
Mrs. Irwin Wolcoutt of East Char
lesion is recovering from an opera
ton at Brightlook hospital. Mrs.
Wolcoutt is reporter for the Barton
Monitor
Mr.. and Mrs A. F. Lawrence re-
turned Sunday from trip up in
Orleans county calling on friends in
Charleston, Derby, Newportand New
port Center. Mrs. George Story and
Mrs. Fred Carr of Newport City re-
tuned with them for short stay.
Midshipman Edwin E. Wod, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. F. S. Wood has COM
pleted his first year at Annapolis. He
is now on the U. S. S. Maine on a
two months cruise making several
stops including Guanpanmo, St.
Thomas and Colon and expects to
spend his months leave from August
20 in town.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-23
NO MATTER WHAT 1T is, IT'S THE
BEST!


The remarkable part of the program
offered by the Community Chautauqua
has always been that while every form
of high class entertainment is present
ed it is hardly possible to say which is
best. Each attraction is different from
all the others on the program and from
all others in the same line. But 1t has
to be the best to get on the program of
the Community Chautauqua.
This years program surpasses the
high standard set by the Community
Chautauqua in previous years and is
but an additional reason for the
unique reputation possessed by Com
munity Chautauqua of presenting the
RSest five-day Chautauqua in America.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-23
The Bargee.

"American soldiers in London" said
Gen. Samuel A. Ansell, "take great
deal of interest in the bargees who
row enormous canal boats up and
down the Thames.
"a soldier stood on the Blackfriars
bridge one day watching bargee row
his canal boat, or barge. 1t was an
enormous barge; half dozen oarsmen
could hardly have managed it, but the
lone bargee welded his oar undis-
mayed, and the barge approached the
soldier on the bridge at the rate of
about an inch minute.
"The soldier watched the barge a
long time, and, when the bridge was
at last reached, he took the cigarette
from his mouth and shouted down to
the plucky oarsman:
"'Well, so long, old timer! Don't
forget to bring US parrot back with
your"
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-23
KEEPING MONEY AT HOME
(Nat Suitable


In every town there are few peo-
pie who see in everything new and I'M
usual a possibility of harm and who
oppose bringing into the community
any outside ideas. Even in this en-
lightened day few-we are glad to
say of our community that there are
very few-oppose so useful and bene-
which is to open here next week.
The chief reason these non-progres-
sives advance against this great insti-
tuition of entertainment and education
is that at doesn't belong to our town,
so why should we give it our money
and support?" The first part of this
statement, "it doesn't belong to our
town." is the greatest advantage
gained from the Chautauqua, because,
coming as it does from outside our
horizon, it brings new thoughts, new
ideas and new suggestions for the So
luton of present day problems. We
all need this new inspiration. 1t doesn't
mean that we are to change our ideas
and ideals, but it is useful to know
how the other fellow thinks.
But" it is asked, "why should we
pay our money to an out-of-town at
traction?" The most direct answer is
because ii keeps money in the town."
Almost everyone at this season of the
year is planning to take a vacation,
and many are wise enough to take it
at home when the Chautauqua comes
to town. For through it they enjoy all
the best entertainment that the city
offers and are saved the expense and
inconvenience of travel. They stay
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-23
What Is Biggest Woodcock?

What IS said to be the heaviest
woodcock was one shot by Arthur
Duane near Whittaker's, L. l.. about
thirty years ago. The woodcock was
mounted by Bell, the leading taxider-
mist of the day, but unfortunately it
was later on destroyed by moths.
This woodcock was weighed on
druggists scales at Southampton and
weighed exactly Ia ounces. There are
several witnesses living who can tes-
tify as to the weight The naturalists
give the average weight of woodcock
as ranging from five to nine ounces.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-23
Smoking a Cause Of Cancer.

Cancer of the mouth in civilized
countries has been greatly reduced by
good dentistry. Eighty-five per cent
Of the cancers of the lip occur in
smokers. Formerly clay pipes, which
became very hot, were much used, and
there has been a notable reduction in
the number of cancers of the lip since
the clay pipe has gone out of fashion.
Smoking, however, is the cause of
most cancer Of the lip, the tongue and
the floor of the mouth.-Maj. w. ].
Mayo, War Department Lectures.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-23

family, have all the comforts of home
and spend their vacation money right
in their own home town. In addition
to this money the town gains from the
Chautauqua, because every member of
it who comes here spends money here.
Therefore the Chautauqua brings
money to the town and keeps money
here. Our best advice toNeveryone is
to take the whole family down to the
big brown tent next week and enjoy
together the most delightful and prof
anywhere.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-23
He Was suppIied.

Billy had just been going to school
short time. but considered himself
wise in the ways of schoolboys. One
day while playing with his. younger
brother he said, "Jean, when you start
to school you want to pick you out a
girl. I've got me one"
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-23

The apportionment committee of
the Baptist state convention of YER
mont, which assigns the amounts that
the various churches in the district
are expected to raise during the year,
met at the Hotel Bardwell in Rut
land Wednesday.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-23
E1yptian pyramids.

1t took 123000,645 slaves, working
ii hours day for three centuries to
complete the pyramids of Egypt, and
the mummies exported from them
have not brought, all told, $1,0O0,0O0.
New York Sun.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-23

appeared to be in excellent shape.
The loss is extremely heavy to the
owner as the boat was but lightly in
sured. 1t was the largest boat in
Lake Bomoseen and the only steam
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-23

The secretary Of state is delayed in
the publication of the first edition of
the state automobile book because
the paper has not arrived for the
printing of the book. This has been
ordered for some time, but has been
materially delayed.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-23
Classifying Time.

That man has great tomorrows be-
fore him who has great yesterdays be-
hind him and is trying to put a great
deal Of greatness into his todays.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-23

The steamer Arthur B. Cook, own
ed by C. A. Dagg, of Hydeville was
burned to the waters edge at the
steamers dock on Lake Bomoseen.
Mr.. Dagg made trip up the lake
with about go young women from the
Castleton normal school that day and
when the boat was locked everything
The Dolores star., 1919-05-16
Encyclopedia of China Is
Most Stupendous Literary
Work in History of World

The first European encyclopedia
was probably the work of Abulphara-
giu, the first volume of which was
published 676 years ago. To the Chi
nese, however. belongs the credit of
having originated the encyclopedia
idea, and China boasts of having the
largest of these. The Great Encyclo-
pedia of China is by far the most stu
pendOus literary accomplishment in
the history of the world. The work
of compilation has been carried on
for centuries, and has engaged the
labOrS of over 1000 scholars. The
"Yung LO-TaTien," as the work is
called, comprises over 22,OOO sections
and is bound in 1000 volumes, each
half an inch in thickness. The work
contains total of 917, ,4S0 pages. The
volumes when laid fiat one upon an
other form II stack of books 45O feet
high. There are only few complete
sets of this gigantic work in exist
ence. The first English encyclopedia
was issued in 1920. and the great
French one was published in 1851 and
succeeding years. The Encyclopedia
Britannica was first published by Will
liam Smellie, in 1771.
The Dolores star., 1919-05-16
St. EtheIbert, King of Kent,
Was First English Ruler to
Be Given Christian Baptism

The first Christian king of England
was st. Ethelbert, king of Kent. Ethel
bert reigned over Kent from $50 to GIG,
and he also held imperial sway over
the other Saxon monarchs as far north
as the banks Of the Humber.
Like all his predecessors on English
thrones he was pagan. To increase
his power he married Bertha, daughter
of the king of Paris. His queen was a
Christian. and she brought with her to
England French bishop, who held
services for the benefit of Bertha and
her attendants in small building near
Canterbury. King Ethelbert was not
very favorably impressed with his
wife's newfangled religion and pre-
ferred that of his fathers until an Ital-
ian missionary, st. Augustine, arrived
in England. The king and his stall
wart pagan warriors gave a hearty
greeting to the missionary, and Angus
tine soon convinced the Kentish king
that Christianity was an Improvement
over the old faith. Ethelbert was duly
baptized, and the lesser chiefs and
common people soon followed his ex-
ample. Go great was the eagerness
of the people to embrace the religion
of Christ that on one day 10000 pee
pie were baptized.
The Dolores star., 1919-05-16
Air Smuggling ).
Is New Problem

ing. To him airplanes are not auto
mobiles but seagoing vessels. Serious
inquiries from business men on the
island have caused him to make this
ruling:
IN the absence of specific instruc-
tions from the department, I shall re-
quire airships clearing from Porto
Rico for foreign ports to be properly
documented under the rules of the de-
partment Of commerce in the same
manner as seagoing vessels are regu-
lated, entries and clearances to be
made and all dues paid at custom
houses in districts where landings are
effected or voyages started"
This is very simple, but airplanes
are peculiar In their mode of travel
The collector does not say how he pro-
poses to enforce this requirement. and
has received suggestions from some of
the Porto Ricans that an aviation
school for customs men be established
to bestow degrees of "sky inspector"
and custom ace" Service windows In
The Dolores star., 1919-05-16
Great Advance With More
Unity Has Been Made in
VI Grammar and Spelling

In the days Of Chaucer there were
undoubtedly differences among writer's
which made their grammar and SPELL
Ing seem singular to us; yet crude
though they were, the art of literary
composition was well advanced. That,
however, says the Christian Herald,
was not the greatest age;it came in
the Elizabethan period; and while the
literary peculiarities Of Shakespeare's
style were strongly defined, it could
not be snid in any sense that they re-
vealed lack of knowledge in either
grammar or spelling, the standards Of
that day being suited to the culture
OF the time. And a great advance had
been made over the days of Chaucer.
In the days of Addison, Johnson, Swift,
Congreve and Goldsmith, we find a
great advance with more unity In both
grammar and spelling. The authorized
version of the Bible in the line of lit
erary workmanship noted the greatest
advance of all, and reached point
which has not been surpassed If, In
deed, eQualed. There was a certain
latitude in spelling. it Is true, to which
we today look back with interested Gu
riosity; but even that was not the
result of ignorance, but rather of GUS
tom, which allowed the latitude, and
1t was in no sense literary disfigure-
ment.
The Dolores star., 1919-05-16
Customs Officers Puzzled to Find
Way to Prevent Threat
ened Evil.
HARD TO ENFORCE RULES
Treasury Department Bombarded
With Requests for RuIings-Air-
planes and HydropIanes cIassed
as Automobiles for Time
Being.

hington.-Smuggling by airplane
sounds exciting, and is proving so to
the customs division of the treasury,
which Is, so to speak, "up In the air"
about 1t. For the time being, the de-
partment has ruled that airplanes and
hydrOplanes are automobiles so far
as ills concerned, but 1t is well aware
that calling a bird wagon will not
bring 1t down to earth where it can
tell what kind of a bird it is.
So far there has been no report Of
Illicit importations by air line, but ex-
Dectation of such traffic is not denied.
How to prevent it Is a perplexing prob
lem, growing more and more pressing
us requests for rulings come from dep
uty collectors on our northern and
southern borders. In the latter case
they have had to do with tobacco
brought in from Cuba by way of Key
West and Tampa.
Here is an entirely new problem for
the treasury to deal with in the col
lection of revenue through customs du-
ties. 1t is one to be solved by treas
ury regulations (born of decisions) for
which no additional legislation is need
ed. That it may be solved by COM
prehensive order is almost despalred
of because the best thought of the de-
partment. although the need of deal
irg with the situation has been long
foreseen, has not been able to hit upon
n method to close this door to secret
impOrtations thrown open by mod
err method of transportation most diff
ticult, if not impossible, to control.
May Require Registration.
1t is believed that some scheme may
leaving the country will be registered
at the nearest custom house on the
border, where a certificate will be is
sued to be presented at any custom
house in returning, as is done now in
the case of automobiles. This would
In most cases be mere formality, but
would permit search in suspicious
cases and would tend to keep down
smuggling. "Will be registered" is rec
ognized as putting it strongly. as 1t
Is admitted it would be impossible to
compel such registration of machine
miles above the clouds. The auto
mobilist finds it best to comply be-
cause without his certificate to surren-
der on return he must prove his car
is of American make or pay perhaps
45 per cent ad valorem duty. There
would be no way to stop the flying ma
chine, coming or going.
Deputy Collector Hayden L. Moore,
mt San Juan. Porto IScO, seems to
think he has them going. if not COM
The Dolores star., 1919-05-16
WORK FOR DISABLED

sands of men from their student
bodies, their faculty and their staffs.
Hundreds of men formerly agricultur-
al extension workers and agricultural
county agents will never return to
those occupations. These places We're
temporarily filed by unprepared sub
stituteS who will be replaced by
trained men as rapidly as possible.
The experience abroad, wherein op-
portunty was given to study the in
tensive and scientific agriculture of
France and other countries, has great
ly stimulated interest in these lines,
and disabled men with background
of agricultural experience are mani
Testing keen interest in training for
the lines mentioned. Many others
who, by reason of their disabilities,
are compelled to equip themselves in
other lines, and preferably for out-of-
door occupations, are also manifesting
keen desire to take up the special
lied branches of agriculture In the
training offered by the federal board.
The Dolores star., 1919-05-16

the custom house also are urged bear
ing the legends "Airships entered" and
"airships cleared"
Deputy Collector Bragassa, at Key
West, has his troubles over what is an
airplane. He recently wrote to CollecI
tor Arthur G. Watson, at Tampa, that
it was almost daily occurrence for
airplanes to go over to Cuba and re-
turn. One day his messenger boy over
heard n man who had been q passen-
ger on boat from Havana tell the
difference between travelling that way
and by airplane. He said he had just
paid $50 duty on a lot of cigarettes,
when the other day he had brought the
same amount home by air and did not
pay a cent. Collector Braeassa want
ed to know, "How about it?" Collec-
tor Watson told him to talk to the
navy people about it. He replied:
"I have conferred with Admiral
Decker, who has issued instructions to
the Key West air station that civilian
passengers will not be permitted to be-
carried in airplanes unless permission
has been granted by the customs off,
Ger in charge of the port, and also have
issued instructions that all airplanes
arriving at this port from foreign
countries will comply with the navy's
end of the regulations in connection
with the reporting to the customs Of
fcer the arrival of American naval
vessels from foreign ports"
The Dolores star., 1919-05-16
Waste Not
"Clean-Up" Movement Rewarded
by Government

The definition Of waste Is apprecia-
bly, narrowed by the war which the de-
partment of commerce, in conjunction
with the national "Clean-Up and Paint
Up" campaign bureau of the savings
division the United States treasury,
has declared on the city dump. That
institution is notorious prodigal.
How extravagant are its destructive
methods, says the Philadelphia Ledger,
is demonstrated by the governments s
plan to exchange War Savings stamps
for sufficient quantities of trash"
gathered together as result of the
spring housecleaning.
Old paper is especially valuable.
The practice of burning it on the dump
has been glaring example of Ameri-
can extravaganza. England was cured
of this sort of wantOn destruction dur
ing the war. The opportunity of the
American housewife is now at hand.
She can augment her collection of War
Savings stamps, make the cellar neat
md at the same time aid the govern
ment II she deals with the "Clean- Up
agents who will visit her.
The individual who will venture to
call anything worthless trash" nova
days is likely to be way off in his eco
nomIcs.
The Dolores star., 1919-05-16
As Animals of Earth Grew
Smaller SO Did the Humans

That the human race, like the ami
mails of the world, was In prehistoric
times Of marvellous size Is a theory
that has been advanced by many stu
dents of antiquity. 1t was, however,
only the French orientalist, Henrion.
member of the academy. who fixed ex-
act sizes for the earliest members of
the race, declaring Adam to have been
123 feet 8 inches tall and Eve lis feet
e.75 inches. He also gives table say
Ing that Noah was 1O3 feet tall, Abra-
ham, p feet tall; Moses, 13 feet tall !;
Hercules, 10 feet tall; Alexander the
Great. 6 feet tall, and Julius Caesar, 5
feet tall. This proves, according to his
theories, that great men are not all
big men, and also proves that as the
animals Of the earth grew smaller, so
did the humans, until today the man
who Is more than six feet tall Is con-
sidered above average height.
The Dolores star., 1919-05-16
Greek Refugees
Tell of Outrages

Saloniki.-High upon the hills of the
bustling Macedonian city is pic
turesque settlement where 5000
Greek refugees, driven from Asia
Minor by the massacre of 1914, make
their homes. Hundreds of other
Greeks who We're interned by the Bull
garians in Dobrudja during the war
have Joined them recently. The
houses in this refugee camp We're con-
space equivalent to large New York
furnished room is allotted to a fam
lily OF from five to eight.
The settlement has been given the
pretentiOus name of "The Quarter of
the Triumvirate" in honor of Greece'S
three great modern patriots-Premier
Venizelos, Admiral KOuntouriotis and
General Danglais, who, repudiating
King Constantine, espoused the cause
of the allies when Germany sought to
win over the Greek army.
Grateful to United States.
Many of the people have been
helped by the American Red Cross
Sptdh VI lhC - hiltt
States and its people.
AS the Associated Press correspond
eEt was visiting the village, two OK
carts loaded with Greek refugees who
had been driven by the Turks from
the villages along the sea of MarmOra
in 1913 and 1914, and who, during the
present war. were expelled from Mace
donia by the Bulgars, made their way
slowly up the steep mountain road.
The refugees had just come from
Dobrudja, to the south of Roumania.
where they were practically exiled by
the Bulgars. They had been nearly
two months on the way, and virtually
all the food and aid they got came
from the American Red Cross. which
has relief posts along the line leading
The Dolores star., 1919-05-16
PLAN TO ENDoW MOTHERHOOD
British Family Endowment Committee
Seeks to Increase Marriage and
Birth Rate.

London.-The family endowment
committee would endow motherhood.
The proposal, as laid before the ns. +.
tional birth-rate commission, is that
the state provide regular weekly In
come for families with children undes
10 years of age.
Emile Burns, representative of the
family endowment committee, con-
tends that the effect of the endowment
would be to induce earlier marriages
and tend to remove the economic re-
striction of the birth rate.
The cost to the government would
be about 81 200, ,OOO.OOO a year.
The Dolores star., 1919-05-16

from Bulgaria into Macedonia. Many
We're little tots from one to five years
oid. The wonder was how these lit
tie ones, sickly and under-nourished.
were able to survive the long trip by
train, motortruck and OK cart
The faces of these returning refu-
gees wore an inexpressibly sad and
harrassed look. For five years they
were driven hither and yon by Turk
ana Bulgar, and had never known
what it was during that time to have
a roof and shelter. Under the Bulgars
they were forced to live in the open
helds or In dugouts or stables. Eight
cen hours day at hard labor under
constant intimidation was the lot of
some of them. Three-fifths of
pound of black bread a day was the
pitiful recompense they received from
the Bulgars. Often those too weak to
work were beaten by their ruthless
masters.
One refugee declared TO the CORE
spondent that at oE.. time there were
more than sixty deaths day among
the refugee colony In Dobrudja from
malnutritioE. exhaustion and expos-
ure. In certain sections, he said, the
Greeks were forced to live largely on
the rinds of watermn,ons which the
Bulgarian soldiers threw in the
streets.
Tell Bitter Experience.
The older residents of this refugee
suburb" of Saloniki. most of whom
had fled from different parts of Asia
Minor during the wholesale massacres
there in 1914. have bitter experiences
to relate about their treatment by the
Turks. Some of these people lived in
the city of Phocis. where the whole
Christian population either had been
The women wept as they told about
the outrages of the Moslems. The
worst story was that told by an intel
liGent peasant woman. who declared
that in a butchershop opposite her
home in Phocis she saw the Turks
take a young girl who was considered
the most attractive in town and cut
her body into pieces. They hung the
pieces on meat hooks and offered
them for public sale, she said to show
the Turks contempt for Greek Chris.
tians.
What most impresses the eye of the
visitor in speaking with these unfor.
tunate people Is their sad, wan and
furrowed faces They have been
driven about by the invading foe
until they have reached the point al
most of despair and distraction.