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And then, we take a vacation,


up in some little midtown OF foul
or I'VE thousand people, that has a
general store and postohice, public
library, weekly boiler-plate news
paper with the homely personals
about people whom everybody else
in the community knows Intimately
there are two or three white church
es, miles of dusty roads bordered
with wild cherry and briarbloom. And
ranged around are the everlasting
hills of Gods country.
The people in these towns work
hard and earn their dollars honestly.
They read the current magazines and
all the new fiction at the public lib
rary. Most of them own small mo-
tor cars. Sunday is day of rest,
with well-attended services morning
and evening. Everything makes for
American life at it's best
The bulk of the population of great
America is made up of this sort Of
people in these little towns. They
are the ballast of our civilization.
There is no more in common with
them in the poor miserable ~illiterates
of the peasant population in seething
Europe than Kaiser Bill has in COM
mon with small boy playing Injun
in his back yard. Don't worry over
Bolshevism getting serious foot
hold in America!
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to Greenfield and with two exception:
be upon good road bed for the entire
distance. Most of the main roads
throughout Caledonia county are in
surprisingly good shape. They are
narrow in places but machine car
travel over them at much faster
and more comfortable rate than on
any of the tarvia roads which are put
down at great expense to develop bad
holes and bumps and rack a vehicle
into pieces at a great deal faster pace
than the road made of gravel.
st. Johnsbury has been fortunate in
having both the gravel for road
building and few men who know
their business when it comes to MAX
ing a surface. The long hill just
outside the village to the south is a
case in point. A few weeks ago the
frost coming out of the ground made
some bad holes in the road up the
grade south of the gas-works. 1t
made an abominable approach into
town, quite on a par with some of
st. Johnsbury's sister communities
and their approaches. The super
visor covered the entire hill, mat
ter of an eighth of a mile, with six
inches of loose gravel, then waited for
a few transforms and the traffic to
hammer it down. A road scraper was
sent over it a few weeks later and
the whole smoothed off into one of
the finest stretches of road in this
vicinity. 1t has macadam beaten to
FRAGILE and has been done at frac-
ton of the expense.
Anyone who has toured Vermont
is convinced that what is
holding Vermont road conditions in
the primal state isn't due to lack of |
funds half so much as lack of sprawl. |
A good road scraper and drag drawn
over eighty per cent of our Vermont |
would ameliorate eighty
per cent of the adverse comment that
Green Mountain highways receive.
A good many Vermont communities
could send their road commissioners
over here to st, Johnsbury with bene-
it. It's hard work to get excited over
IN abuse from which one is not a suf-
'erer. st. Johnsbury is smiling!
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poIiteness Didn't Paw Here.

Down on Water street, Augusta, Me.
the other day, two men met at the
corner of the street and they both step
ped to the outer edge of the walk to
avoid two ladies' whom they met. Both
men said in chorus: Pardon me-" then
both sidestepped to the left When
they met again both sidesteppcd once
more, this time to the right, and met
again. Then they both stood still, and
as one man turned to the right and
extended his arms above his head as
he flattened himself against the build
Ing. he said to the other man: "Say,
when you get by, whistle. "-Kenne-
bee Journal.
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Kings Sport

"What has become of the Caledonia
County Fish & Game Association" is
a query which one hears from time to
time.
The fishing in the lakes, ponds and
rivers in this quarter of the state has
never been better than it has this
year. Excellent catches of fish are
being recorded with each passing
week. But most of the stocking
seems to have been done by altruistic
individuals. The Kings Sport is one
Of the great attractions of Caledonia
county and northeastern Vermont in
the summer time. But it will suffer
if a good live organization does not
keep up the good work of maintaining
the supply of fry and lingering. What
has become Of the Caledonia County
Fish & Game Association? Has it
been put away with the seasons
tackle in someone's woodshed?
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OLD PEABODY PEW
Continued from page one)

Then came the first act, which was
certainly unique.
The pulpit of Grace church had
been removed to allow room for the
meeting of the Dorcas society be-
hind the altar rail, and the three
front rows of pews were supposed to
be those of the little Maine church
One by one the good ladies gathered
to sew a new carpet-or was it to re-
pair the old one?-and the usual
amount of small-town gossip took
place, principally about Nancy, the
heroine, a bachelor girl (the term
cold maids" went out of the fashion
with the wary who in years past had
loved a ne'er-do-well named Justin
Peabody. Justin had bungled every
thing he undertook and started on
the journey for the harbor of broken
men, the great west, his most valu-
able mortgage being that on Nancys
heart.
In act two he comes back, having
announced his arrival by the unique
method of sending two letters in each
of which was written reference to
a verse of Scripture. He finds Nancy
in the little church late on a Satur-
day evening, fixing up" the old Pea
body Pew. And he makes up for his
former lack of sprawl by foreclosing
on his mortgage before the two leave
the church together.
The plot of the piece was as simple
as air, but air is sometimes very
sweet and refreshing if you're out in
summer meadows with the wild flow
ers growing round, or in the hallowed
depths of a quiet country church
And the simple and natural manner in
which the parts were taken and the
costuming after the fashion of &c
years ago, finished off an entertain
ment that carried many a person in
the audience back to the days of yes
terday And just a wee bit of q
choke came in the throat at the rem
dition of the old Sloan hymn that
we used to hear when we went to
church with father and mother who
have gone these many years, and sal
in the family pew and wondered what
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'eligion and God was all about any

way.
Miss Madeline Randall showed her
self an artist in choosing the char
acters for the cast and in addition,
the good ladies showed by the rendi-
ton of their lines that they had given
care and thought and thorough re-
| hearsal to their parts. No one had to
be prompted; the Dorcas society
meeting passed off with easy natural
conversation that combined both fun
and charm and when Nancy herself
came in with the minister's wife, it
was plainly evident that any chap
who would go off out west and leave
a peacherino like her to pine away in
hill-town because of his departure,
had a screw loose somewhere even if
he did tighten it up long enough to
return east and make up for a bad
blunder. Miss Florence Hall took
Nancy's part and Harold Guy Don
Scott carried off the Characterization
of this Peabody chap who
lacked the screw-driver Nancy
had curl in the curve Of
her pretty neck that we'd give box
of chocolates to know whether it was
real OF bought at Woolworth's, and in
her old-fashioned costume, and "ber-
tina" bonnet made as winsome hero
inc as a st. Johnsbury stage ever
saw. No, this isn't newspaper gulf.
Scott should have been made to pay
for the privilege of making love to
her. We would! This is a standing
Offer
Mrs. Frank Taylor took the part OF
the president OF the Dorcas Society
(if d. SIS have presidents) and was
lust a buxom, good-natured small
town church worker with heart as
big as Caledonia county and Mrs. Il.
N. Randall as the minister's wife was
one of the sweetest old ladies IN her
quaint cape and bonnet that ever
stepped out of a photograph album IN
your grandmother best parlor. MIS-
George Martin, Miss Lillian Martin,
Mrs. Herbert Lougee, Mrs. Mamie
Houston and Mrs. Fred Foam COM
nleted the cast, and the applause
which came at the end for eacn lauy
wasn't at all conventional. 10 see
those old dresses with the Planners ana
basoues and bustles, was worth the
price of admission. Anyone who
dares to claim hobble-skirts' and
sheath gowns have anything on them
for style and grace is a freak and a
bore and someone should use Win
dow and throw him out.
Of especial interest was the acting
of Miss Lillian Martin. AS an old
m-bachelor girl and man-hater
with a two-edged tongue, she shared
honors with Mrs. Houston whose leg
o'mutton sleeves and terrific head
dress would win a prize in Saman-
thy Allen movie. A good church
member was heard to remark on the
way out anent Miss Lillian: "Too bad
she's a minister's daughter; Broad
ways the loserw
Many love scene on a profession
al stage has been put over with far
less art and realty than the one be-
tween Miss Hall and Mr.. Scott and it
was good for the soul to see it end
up in a regular old honest-to-good-
ness "clinches." For he kissed her,
yes he did, right there in church be-
fore all those people. But you
couldn't blame him. Nancy was one
of the most charming little-but we
said that before. Anyhow, Scott
seen his duty and he done it. And all
credit to him.
(We're wondering if his moustache
tickled).
Between four and five hundred
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At the Enc-Ycuih-

If I had created men and women, |
should have framed them on a type
widely different from that which has
actually preyailed-that of the higher
mammifers. l should have made men
and women, not to resemble the great
apes as they do, but on the models of
insects which, after a life as caterpil-
lars change into butterflies, and for
the brief final term of their existence
have no thought but to love and be
lovely. | should have set youth at The
end of the human span.-From "The
Garden of Epicurus," by Anatole
France.
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Checkmating Bolshevism

There are disturbances on every
hand. In the great cities parades Of
would-be Reds are marching in def
ance of the police and their demon
strations ending in bloodshed. Strikes
and rumors of strikes furnish materi-
al for the columns of the newspapers.
We are solemnly told by those who
are returning from Europe, that the
world is going to the dogs.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-14

AS members of the Associated
Press that organization is entitled
exclusively to the use for republica-
ton of all news dispatches credited
to it or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news pub
lished herein. All rights of republi-
cation of special dispatches herein
are also reserved.
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The Roads Question

We publishers on the eastern side
of the state have been approached
from time to time with suggestions
that we apitate the question of good
human nature to work oneself into
hysteria over something from which
one is really sufferer and in this
regard, the people on the eastern side
of the state haven't suffered as much
as the folks on the western.
One can travel from St. Johnsbury
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people packed Grace church to its
doors and from every angle the event
was a huge success. The whole piece
had tender moral and every line
and part was true to life. 1t was
pretty little evenings entertainment
and those who missed it were losers
indeed.
But the town must surely have
wondered why Grace Church bell was
tolling at nine o'clock in the evening
Of Friday the 18th.
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TERMS-By mail, 81 a year; six
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80 cents a month. All subscriptions
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Entered as second-class matter
May 1, 1916, at the post Office at st.
Johnsbury, Vermont, under the act
of March 1879.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-14

Most men have a rather sickly feel
ing when the go into postofice and
buy one three-cent stamp.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-14

The Senate is still talking about the
League of Nations. Put on a new
record!
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-14

Oh for the days when the posses
sion of cent looked bigger than the
possession of a ten dollar banknote!
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in st. Johnsbury
Editor and Manager w. d. Policy
Local Editor Chas. G. Lord
Reporter Mrs. Alice Massey
Bookkeeper Robert Mackinnon
Office Manager Miss Florence Rouse
Subscriptions Mrs. w. e. Barrett
Foreman Raymond Packard
Operator Miss Ruth Impey
Operator Myles S. Gilman
Pressman Arthur Boucher
AID. Compositor Mrs. Annie Moran
Press Tender Maurice Barrett
To save time on phone business, call
for the person desired by name
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Will Mrs. Taylor now kindly send
along those flowers We're getting
neryous!.
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SATURDAY, JUNE IA, 1919
Life's Dreary Path

1t takes milady to grind the gears
of the old tin-lizzie.
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sion of a cent looked bigger than the
possession of ten dollar banknote!
Both sides in the telegraph strike
are reported satisfied. This is certain
ly new and novel way of settling
strikes.
A good many people besides the
Germans at Brest-Litovsk don't know
enough to be satisfied with what they
can get.
After all, if men had to wash the
dishes twenty-one times a week, they
might go in for something far more
vicious than suffrage.
Many man says the old grass left
to rot on the lawn is good for the sod
when he means to say that he is too
darned lazy to rake it up.
What we can't make out is, why
some of the folks most rabidly OPP
posed to national prohibition are
those who never use the stuff them
selves. ]. ,,,rt
In a few days the click of the now
ing machine will be heard in the land;
the good old refreshment of molasses,
ginger and ice water will be increas-
ingly popular.
There are two great moments in
mans life: The moment he slips the
ring on her finger and promises to
love, honor and cherish and the mo-
f1lent the new Tin lizzie starts to skid
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KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS

Regular meeting in z. of P. Hall,
Tuesday evening, June IL. Special
business.
Fl. w. Clark, C. C.
q. E. Anderson, K. R. & g.
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Published daily, except Sundays
w. D. Policy Publishing Co., Inc,
IFS Eastern Avenue
st. Johnsbury, VT. Telephone $50
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THE CALIFORNIAN STAFF

Responsible for a Good Newspaper
in St. Johnsbury
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A good many people besides the
Germans at Brest-Litovsk don't know
enough to be satisfied with what they
can get.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Tuesdays Affair

The President is glad to receive and
talk to the Foreign Relations Committee
of the Senate. But he would take no
unnecessary chances. He will have a
stenographer present to perpetuate the
exact words spoken in the momentous
interview
The Senate committee is delighted to
make the call, but it also would take no
unnecessary chances. 1t will take a
stenogra pher along. If there are various
versions of what was said, double rec
ord will be available for counter checking.
Besides having a stenograpner in each
of the corners, the information is vouch-
safed that the proceedings, while not
confidential, will not be publc-that is
to say, there will be no report, but neither
the President nor his visitors will be
forbidden to mention, if so inclined, what
was said. Here is an interesting nnova-
ton. There is to be publicity, but not
pitiless publicity. The light of informa-
ton is to shine, but behind a shade. as
it were.
Some have thought that the height of
the absurd was reached at last springs
White House party, from which the
President rose to come to New York to
denounce his guests. But the recent
single file summons to the White House
has raised Righteousness to new
height. But all records are surpassed
by the arrangements for the new con
terence"-for going through the motions
OF consultation when there is no con-
sultation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Wasting Farmers
(From The Wichita Boaco7)

western fruit growers are getting rich
this year; that is, rich for farmers We
note that one strawberry rancher cleared
more than So 900 from six acres. and OK
poets to clear twice that next wear. when
his plantation gets into full bearing. That's
fine, and we all enthusiastic about this
to-thesoil movement for the family
And in the next column we read short
note 20 the effect that the government was
furnishing free transportation to $50 Mon
tana dry land farmers to get them to the
harvest fields of Nebraska where they
could get a job to support their families.
These $50 were few of the hundreds
cleaned out and dried up by the Western
drouth, and days work in the harvest
field was their reward for all their invest
ment and effort and waiting.
And that gave us pause.
We have fairly adventurous spirit. but
this farming game, that gives one chap
profit and that sends $50 five hundred
miles to look for job, is bit too much
of 2 gamble for even our sporting snirit
Maybe Uncle Sam will discover in time
that there are wide areas in his domain
that are not suited to farming, and he will
prevent good citizens, faithful workers.
eager agriculturlsts, from venturing their
ali Of health and fortune in such fields.
We believe there are still enough farms
In this country, where the chances are rea-
sonably sure for safe reward for the
honest worker; enough SO that the deserts
and the swamps and the wilds need not he
dared by individual effort.
A real, sure-enough, worth while farmer
is too precious national asset to risk on
a desert these days
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Sugar for Guns
By William L. Dreher
Berlin Correspondent of The Tribune
ID ERLlN, July 23.-That sugar was used

ID ERIN. July 23.-That sugar was used
extensively in Germany during the
WAY III making explosives was gener-
orally known here That use of it was put
forward TO explain the great scarcity of
sugar, but no information was allowed to
leak out as to how it was used, except
that it was the raw material from which
to recover glycerinc. This in turn is the
material from which trinitro- gycerine is
made, which is employed IN making a
number of powerful explosives. Hitherto
glycerine had been recovered as a bvprod
uct of fats in the manufacture of soap. but
the great scarcity of fats of all kinds dur
ing the war rendered substitute process
an absolute necessity for Germany.
At a recent meeting of the German
Chemical Society the veil of secrecy
shroudlng the process was partly lifted
1t was known already before the war that
sugar could be made to yield glycerne.
process having been discovered by the
German chemists, w Connstcin and X.
Ludecke, but the percentage obtainable WAS
so low as TO render it worthless for prae-
teal purposes. The difficulty was that.
with the means at hand, the fermentation
process was too short-livcd. The inventors
found that it could be prolonged by add
ing sulphate OF soda. or common Glauber's
salts. In this way sugar was made to Weld
20 per cent of glycerine, 27 Of ammoniac and
3 Of aldchyde.
company was at once formed. called
the Petrol Company, for carrying out the
new process, and within a few months not
less than sixty-three factories were using
It, They turned out 900 tons of glycerine
every month, using nearly 5000 tons of
sugar as material 1t is not believed how
ever, that this process Will be able to COM
pete in peace times with the old method
Of making glycerine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
The Nou-Con fscation
Doctrine

Have we any assurance that the German
property so seized legally, at least un-
der international law be applied to the
satisfaction Of such claims? And, if that
be the intention Of our government, can
1t not be specifically agreed to in the treaty
of peace, thereby avoiding all possible
ambiguity and ground for dispute?
Since the earliest days Of the Republic
it has been declared by the Supreme Court
OF the United States that private property
OF an enemy found in this country at the
outbreak of war should not be confiscated
believe we have advocated that doctrine
at all the international congresses and
conferences, including the Hague Tribunal.
(See instructions of Mr. Adams as Secretary
OF State to United States Minister at St
Petersburg, July 5, 1920
This doctrine was fully discussed bv
Chief Justice Marshall in 1914 in Brown vs.
U. s., II U. S., Cranch, 1913, and later in
cases arising out of the Civil War. (Mrs.
AIeXander's Cotton, ? Wall, 419; U. S. v.
Klein, 13 WALL 1879 See also U. s. Y.
Percheman, Peters, S6-87; Sprott v. U. S.
81 U. s., 1853
Under the trading with the enemy act"
WIG maj ui0Posl'loh OF the seized German
property is to be determined by Congress.
which would undoubtedly have the legal
flght to direct its application to the paw
ment OF these claims; but, if it does so
SO Tar as private property is concerned
1t Will expressly repudiate the doctrine If
international law which we have fouoht for
for more than 100 years But. ASSUMING that
congress will take such action. is thara
'o' iurther and far more serious ques
no" wal the citizens of Germany whose
property has been SO appropriated not have
legal claim against their own government
for reimbursement?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

Mr. Bernard ". Baruch, economic adviser
TO the American mission at the peace com
ference, testified upon this point before the
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
SENATOR sWANsON-Take the German
property that there is in the United States
Under Section 3, how would that propcrtv
be distributed?
MR.. BARUCH-G property that has
been seized by the custodian?
SENATOR SWANsON-Yes.
MIR. BARUCH-That property is left in
the hands OF Congress, to do with it as it
wishes.
SENATOR SWANSON-Under this treaty,
MR.. BARUCH-Abs olutely.
SENATOR SWANSON-Then the treaty
does not make any disposition of that prop
erty, | understand
MIR. BARUCH-No, sir It leaves II in
the hands Of Congress to dispose of. But
III addition, under that treaty it has been
given additional rights of use. 1t can be
held as set-otf against American propertv
IN Germany. 1t can be used for the nav
ment of pre-war claims like the Lustania
and other pre-war claims.