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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-22
the pressure of this temptation. Why
should boy II years of age be entrusted
with a package containing $4,000?
NEWPoRT,s COOP FORTUNE.


Some unusual features are attached to
the conditional gift of Newport resi-
denee property and $4,000 for hospital
in the hustling city of Newport in north
ern Vermont, and most important of the
features is the stipulation that Newport
shall pay Mr. and Mrs. o. f. Williams,
the donors, an annuity of $1,000 as long
as either of them shall live, Acceptance
of this gift means, in all probability, that
the city Of Newport viii be required to
raise a certain amount over and above
the income from the property each year
in order TO make up the amount Of the
annuity, inasmuch as the normal income
from $4,000 and the rent from the resi-
dence property following that the house
were not to be used for hospital pur-
poses would not be sufficient to meet
the requirement However, Newport can
undoubtedly afford to make up this an
nuity in view Of the value OF the gift,
and the voters of that city have done
wisely in accepting the offer. The gift
will 90 far toward making ii possible
for Newport to have hospital Of suffi-
cient size and equipment to meet the
ordinary needs of the community and
surrounding territory.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-22
Blasting Rocks in the Fall.

Written for The Times by Daniel l..
Cady.l
When cutting corn is late
From wet or drought or smut,
There's time for little Jobs
Outside the usual rut;
And so you take a cut
Acrost TO Melvin Shields.
And hire him hard and fast
To come and help you blast
Some medder niggerheads,
Old easy-going Nell
Is glad to have you call;
He's jack Of twenty trades
But still his house is small,
And early in the Fall,
Before it's time to hunt,
If he can have his meals,
And work the way he feels,
He'll do friendly stunt.
And so next day he comes
Prepared to "smite the rocks"
And brings his fuse and drills,
And blasting powder box,
With two peculiar locks;
And iron spoon and wedge,
And grooved-out tamping tool,
And leather cushion cool
And hickory handled sledge.
You pick the buest mead,
And Nell, he holds the drill
And tells you how to strike
And keep his friendship still;
You whack with mighty will,
Until you'd give dime
TO try his leather seat,
And two to know what meat
There'll be at dinner time
When Mr.. Spoon won't reach
You guess it's time to load,
And Nell unlocks the box
Wherein "the stuff" is slowed
And, while he eyes the road,
1t tricllles through his hand,
And then he lays his fuse.
And lamps a Mortified News
Right in with dirt and sand.
Ao tHtll utSP up HdlcH
It's sure the hour Of Fate;
It's flicker sends you both
Behind the pasture gate;
But, Shucksl the blast you wait
Is jest a slimpsy fz,
The wad blows out entire
And sets the grass afre-
That's all the blast" there is.
A week you work away,
And when the job is through,
You find you've cracked one rock
And slightly iossIed two,
And killed a blooded eve,
And reused nest of skunks,
And powder-faced your skin,
And drove a knee-cap in,
And squandered forty plunks
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-22

After being in Boston when bolshevism
was having full sway following the
strike of the police, Editor Whitehill Of
the Waterbury Record vents his satisfac-
ton with Waterbury in these words;
Real nice to be resident of town
where it does not amount to tinker's
whistle whether the police go on a strike
or not. His report, along with the re-
ports of Others who were in Boston at
the height of the lawlessness, eonvinces
one that Boston was almost unrecogniz-
able as an American municipality, much
less the once staid old community Of
New England traditions.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-22

King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of
Belgium, with their son, Crown Prince
Leopold, viii be given rousing recep-
tion when they reach the United States.
Both the king and the queen are rated as
among the most democratic of monarchs
and they devoted themselves most self
sacrifeingly to the prosecution of the
war. For that reason they will be well
received by the people of the United
States.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-22

If President Wilson's reception in the
Middle West was lukewarm, it was
warm on the Pacific coast, strange as
that might be-strange because Senator
Johnson, the chief opponent of the league
of nations covenant, is called the favorite
son of California. The people of the en-
tire western coast, including California,
seem to have striven to show Wilson
that they appreciated his visit to the
limit.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-22

Gen, Peyton c. March may have been
as good a general as Pershing but he
certainly did not show it in the war be-
cause he was not in position to give
such a demonstration. Therefore, it
seems scarcely just to give him the same
rank as the leader of the American ex-
peditionary forces.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-22
Well Balanced Industries.

Barre, through the city's board of
trade, has absorbed S25O,O0O in stock of
the Peerless knitting mills and the re-
suit of this enterprise promises to be the
establishment of an industry that will
give employment to two hundred per,
sons. Barre presents advantages as a
location for manufacturing plants EN-.
ploying women not possessed by NY
other community in the state It is prsc.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-22

Hoover advises that people refrain
from buying clothes and shoes for pc
Rod Of three months, that method being
intended to drive down the prices of
those articles. Unfortunately, many
people have only two suits, the one they
wear daytimes and the other nighttimes,
so when the daytime suit wears out
they must do something in the buying
line
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-22

The eyes of the people in the western
part of Vermont are getting sharpened
in the get -his-number" game, largely
because the automobilists over there are
disposed to run away after colliding with
persons or property.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-22

Despite the road fatality in which
young woman was killed by an automo-
bile recently, speeding by automobiles in
that city is said by the Burlington Free
Press to continue almost undated One
might have expected that such tragic
happening as the death of Miss Hazel
Rugg would have caused almost all the
speed crazed motorists to lessen the pace
and that the law might attend to the
few who refused to take due cognizance
Of their responsibility. That event hav-
ing failed to stop the practice, whole
sale prosecution seems to be the only
remedy left.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-22

The average salary for the Baptist
ministers of the United States is $500
year. For large number of these min
listers there has been no rising scale Of
remuneration during the years of the
increased cost of living, and some of
them must be getting pretty low-down
wages in order to bring the average down
to $500 year. No doubt the same con.
dition, or something quite similar, APP
plies to the clergymen Of other demon.
nations. This is a profession which has
been woefully neglected by the public
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-22

Another messenger boy in New York
City has decamped with large bundle
of Liberty bonds and other securities
the amount of his haul being $4,000
1t is about time that the banking bond
ing and brokerage houses of New York
City were entrusting this job of carrying
valuables to someone who has gained the
complete confidence of the members of
the houses interested. The latest thief is
a boy only II years old, whose mind, no
doubt, had been poisoned by the lure of
sudden wealth and whose moral spinal
column was not strong enough to resist
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-22
That Didn't Suit Her Either

The Bride-Oh, Dick, you shouldn't
kiss me before all those girls.
The Groom-I'm glad my little wife
is so unselfsh, and just 20 please you
I'll kiss all those girls first Boston
Transcript.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-22

The decision of the Boston Central La
Dor union to hold in allegiance the matter
OF a general strike seems to be the first
real CLEAN of hope that a cessation of
Boston's troubles is at hand
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-22
Economical Strategist.

"Of for the South, eh2 | don't see
how on your income, you manage to
winter in Florida and summer in Maine.
You forget that by that plan / dodge
both coal and ice bills. Boston Tran
script.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-22

BY voting to exempt the Cary concern
for period of years, st. Johnsbury pro-
poses to keep after the title Of the maple
sugar center of Vermont. It was long
step in that direction.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-22

When Bulgaria gets through paying
that S45O,OOO,0Oo indemnity it will be
more careful what company it keeps
next time.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-22

The TIT insurance claims being adjust
ed by the United States government at
the present time tell the story of Yer
n<nt's sacrifice in the war in large part,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-22
Narrow Bridges.

Narrow bridges have been the cause of
several automobile accidents lately.
While prudence should be shown by au.
tomobile drivers yet the towns have a
part to do in making bridges safe and
eliminating narrow and dangerous curves
One of the most dangerous passages is
the bridge over the culvert on the Sand
Bar bridge between Milton and South
Hero. There is not room for two cars
to pass and the rise is so high that an
approaching automobile cannot be seen
Several accidents have occurred on this
bridge this summer, although the results
were not serious, Some day there is go
ing to be an accident with fatal results
and then the bridge will be fixed with a
two-way passage. Prudence would die
tate that the time to make this bridge
safe is before the accident happens 1t
is understood that money is available
for repairs and permanent work on the
Sand Bar bridge. If so, work had better
be commenced without delay Burling
ton Clipper.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-22
CURRENT COMMENT
Aid to Rack.to.Farm movement.

If the law is going to permit the
farmers to make as much as they like Of
hard cider, for their own use, the back
to the farm movement may receive a
vigorous boost from an unexpected quar-
tel. Boston Transcript.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-22
Thrift

Thrift than the saving is the practice of conservation
which contribute toward efficiency which, unfortunately often
garded in value a
the concentration accumulated the
est efficiency be produced.
1t seems difficult to make that economic
all tendencies that
curriculum of school this land its be left the
minds of youth a lasting
Schools colleges knowledge
They should
good citizenship.
Our government took the development Of thrift habits
during the We all recognized its then why shall now?
The Peoples National Bank of Barre
cen.Nationa f per
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-22
Ocean Is Still Warm

ADA respectable colored woman
wants place to wash. Boston Tran
script.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-22

Barre must have those freight cars.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-22

Along with other things, don't forget
the Washington fair this week.
The Republican journal., 1919-12-11
5&a&Z$@E L.; as

obtained 1t is objectionable for men to
guess to whom we are paying high salar
les for obtaining and publishing the
truth. The next, or perhaps we should
say corollary question is, what are the
rights and equities of the mine owners.
Hon. Robert Y. Thomas, Jr., Represen-
tative in Congress from Kentucky, in a
speech in the House, Nov. 18th, said 'the
dollar a ton, F. o. B., and that of this
about 90 cents per ton went for labor,
about 40 cents went for up-keep of the
mines" The maximum price which the
government allowed to be paid for btu
minous coal was 81. As per ton F. o. B.
MI McAdoo charges that the profits of
the coal barons have been shocking"
and Treasurer Glass says they have
been fabulous" If the statements
Of these two men are true, and they
ought to know the facts, the administra-
ton has been guilty of allowing the op-
orators to fleece the public. We suppose
the operators demanded and received
this maximum price which would give
them 145 per cent advan ce over cost of
mining and up-keep, and we suspect that
at the end of years business the gov
ernment took about seven eights of this
advance as "excess profits" On the
day when Mr.. Thomas delivered his
speech, bituminous coal delivered in
large quantities was quoted in Wash
ington, D. c., at S7.90 per ton. Assum-
ing that the price at the mines was So 45,
somebody between Kentucky and the
wholesale buyer in Washington got IS. As
for each ton of coal shipped. We do not
know who this was but our opinion is
that the government got most of it as
freight money to be credited to the earn
ings of the railroads under its inefficient
and extravagant control. Bituminous
coal costing about one dollar ton at pit
mouth in North Carolina or in West Viz
ginia costs in Boston about S11. Some
body is getting about $40 on every dollar S
worth of that coal. The public wants a
show down. 1t is willing to grant rights
and equities to the miners and to the
operators and when these are granted it
wants square deal for itself.
The Republican journal., 1919-12-11
GIVE US THE FACTS.

The coal strike has been in effect for
been under discussion by the miners, the
operators, the newspapers and by the
spokesmen of the administration. Every
thing which has been said or done seems
to have been for the purpose of settling
by some sort of compromise, Nine times
in ten compromise is not entirely salts
factory 10 either party and therefore is
usually mere truce. Nothing can be
really settled until it is settled on basis
of recognized right and equity. In this
strike controversy there are involved
three great interests, those of the miners,
those of the owners or operators of the
mines and those of the public. OF these
the interests of the public are greatest
because the well being of all is, directly
or Indirectly, dependent upon a supply of
coal obtained for fair price The MI
ners and operators are small units of the
great body polite, but their rights should
be scrupulously maintained and safe
guarded and, at the same time they
should he restrained from taking, by
force or graft, more than they ought to
have At the present time we ale face
to face with an economic exigency. A
compromise may be the only means by
which Immediately disastrous results can
be avoided, but when this crisis is passed
its recurrence should be aVerted by con-
sidering the whole matter as having be-
come moral question and in deciding
this question the rights and equities of
the men who work in the mines should
first be established and made known
The public is willing to pay fir wages
for honest and efficient work, but is not
willing to believe what it is told by
professional labor agitators or politicians
The public wants facts instead of fabri-
cations, figures instead of fulminations
I he public will never know the rights of
the miners until we have Fuel Admin
istrator or some other officer who knows
something about mining both theoretic-
ally and practically. A man who will
visit the mines and see for himself what
the working conditions are as to hazards
and health. A man who will inspect the
account books and learn how much wages
the men in different departments of labor
receive, and find out whether the men
have. employment 300 lays in year or
only $50, as has been asserted. When we
have such man he can go into confer
ence and what he says will have influence
because the conferees will feel that he
knows what he is talking about, the pub
lie will have confidence in what he says
and public opinion Will crystalize into a
force which will make itself fe,t. Prof
Garfield says the wages of coal miners
should be increased Il per cent. Secre-
tary of Labor Wilson says they should be
increased more than twice that. One or
both of these men are guessing. Neither
of them know much about coal mining
II is unwise to guess concerning impor-
tant matters when he truth can be
The Republican journal., 1919-12-11
UNFAIR

On the 18th day of last month Hon. Ira
G. Hersey, Representative in Congress
from the State of Maine, made a speech
on the government control of railroads
in which we find the following: 81 want
to say that down in my State the Maine
Central Railroad is one Of the best man
aged railroads in the nation and it has
been SO in the past. Their rolling stock,
plete at the time when the railroads were
taken over by the President. And yet
after billion dollars had been given the
railroads by the government, these gov
ernment railroad managers came down in
my State and went to the president of
The Republican journal., 1919-12-11

With five lines operating passenger and
freight steamers between Portland and
English ports the coming season Decem-
Der bids fair to open one Of the busiest
winter seasons ever known in Portland
At least score of ships will clear, 10
regularly scheduled, all carving freight
and several taking passengers. Both
elevators are filled with wheat, $500, 900
bushels awaiting shipment, loaded cars
are on the sidings and the Grand Trunk
will handle an immense quantity OF grain
to fill the regular transatlantic ships
and the tramp steamers that come here
for cargoes. 1t remains for greatest &C
tivity to prevail after the St. Lawrence
closes to navigation, sealing the ports of
Montreal and Quebec
The Republican journal., 1919-12-11

the Maine Central and wanted to give
him lot of this money. He told them
that the road was complete, that they did
not need any stock or equipment. But,
in spite of that, they sent to the Maine
Central, during government control, To-
comotives and box cars of the latest pat
tern, the best from the shops, to the
amount of So. 215, 3o2.48. The Maine Gen.
trail refused to receive those cars and To-
comotives which they did not need, but
they have been delivered and charged up
to the Maine Central, as they have in the
case of many other railroads throughout
the country. Railroads have been ruined
by the government in time of war by
sending them equipment which they did
not need, and charging it up to them, for
which they must pay in days to come"
We presume Mr.. Hersey obtained his fig
ures at first hand, because it is his habit
to get information from that source. The
government promised to pay for the use
of the road. 1t was little short of bunco
game to pay in equipment which the road
did not need instead of cash which it did
need
The Republican journal., 1919-12-11
KNOCKS OUT PAIN
THE FIRST ROUND
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The Republican journal., 1919-12-11

Ex-President Taft contributed an ar
ticle to the Ladies Home Journal in
which he advocated that the salary of
the President be increased S25, 900 year.
We do not think the voters of the United
States would favo- again employing Mr..
Taft or Mr.. Wilson as President even if
the salary was reduced to bargain count
er prices
The Republican journal., 1919-12-11

Howe's Monthly says: "The Americans
of the middle class have the majority and
the sense; but also they have no courage" }"
They have plenty of courage, and some
day, when they. can no longer submit to
the impositions of the /. W. W. on one
side and the corporation grafters on the
other they will give both a fight to a
finish.
The Republican journal., 1919-12-11
Your Money Back If Rat Snap Doesn
Come Up to These Claims.

RAT-SNAP is absolutely guaranteed
to kill rats and mice. Cremates them.
Rodents killed with RAT SNAP leave no
smell, Rats pass up all food to get at
RAT-SNAP. Their first meal is their
last. RAT SNAP comes in cakes. No
mixing. Cats or dogs won't touch it.
Three sizes, 25c, SOC, S1.O0 Sold and
guaranteed by A. A. Howes & Co., Hall
Ellis Co, and City Drug Store,
The Republican journal., 1919-12-11

The Bureau of the Census is part of
the Department of Commerce. 1t was
established as a permanent Bureau in
1902. Prior to that time the census work
was done by a temporary organization
known as the Census Office.
The Republican journal., 1919-12-11

During the first nine months of this
year we exported 1882. 600, 600 worth of
foodstuffs, 1929, 900, 900 pounds of sugar,
ETC., about So, 900, 900 worth of manufac-
tured articles and s715, 900, 900 worth of
cotton.
"See, saw, Margery Daw,
Sold her bed and lay in the straw"
The Republican journal., 1919-12-11
ALLENBY STOPS
CRAFT OF TURK
Persecution Of Armenians and
Confiscation Of Property Pre-
vented by English Officer.

The most arbitrary city boss in the
world, 1t seems safe to say, as well as
the most INSCRIPTIONS politician of
modern times. has turned up in Aintab,
Armenia, to judge from an official re-
port recently made by Major Stephen
Trowbridge, under Gen. Edmund H. h
Allenby's orders
He is Turk named Besim Bey. Until
the Near East Relief agents stopped
him, he practiced upon the terrified
Armenians such forms Of super graft
as might we'll make every other cor
rupt politician in the world green with
envy, and sucn cruelties as make all
other heartless rulers from Nero
down, seem sweet and gentle char
acters. His office was that of Munic-
ipal Chief Accountant of Aintab; but,
as all dishonest otfice-holders know,
it isn't the job that matters, but the
sugar-plums that go with it. Besim
Bey plucked sugar-plums with both
hands, night and day.
Even inspired city bosses have their
day Besim Beys came when the
Near East Relief agents found that no
thorough Armenian relief work could
be done in that city while such condi-
tions of terroriZatiOn existed General
MacAndrew ordered the arrest and
removal of the six worst Turks in the
ring that ruled the city, and Besim
Bey qualified, as usual, for first place.
Dr. Heber Bishop of Boston presented
an 18-pound landlocked salmon to the
Boston Aquarium recently DR.. Bishop
caught the fish, believed to be the largest
ever landed in New England waters, at
his summer home at Clearwater Lake,
near Farmngton, after fight of one and
one-half hours, with the aid of live min
nows as bait. DR.. Bishop carried the fish
to Boston in a specially constructed tank,
and it shows no i'll effects from the Jour
ney, A 10-pound female landlocked SAL
man, caught by DR.. Bishop the same day,
died before it could be transported
The Republican journal., 1919-12-11
Celery King

Get a package today. 1t costs but
trifle, but as health builder is worth its
weight in gold.
Normal bowel action, perfect working
stomach and sweet breath follow it's use.
The children drink it and enjoy it, and
it's the gentlest acting laxative they can
take, especially good when they are fret
full, cross and feverish.
The Republican journal., 1919-12-11

When you are doing your Christmas
shopping don't forget the journal. Only
81 90 for years subscription. 1t ought
to be in the home of every family in Wal
do county. Agents wanted.
The Republican journal., 1919-12-11
Home Employment

"CAN YOU BRAID YOUR HARP"
If so, you can obtain pleasant, easy and
well-paid work making braided rugs for
US right in your own home. When writ
ing for further particulars, send small
sample mat to show the quality of braid
ing and sewing you are capable of doing
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302 Washington Ave, Portland, Me
6m49
The Republican journal., 1919-12-11
Here's a Fine Tonic
Laxative, Says Druggist

Every other night for three weeks it's
your duty to brew cup of this great
vegetable tea-that is, if you want bet
ter blood, clear complexion and sparkling
eyes.