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Evening star., 1919-05-14
Foreign Trade Destroyed.

IL ask you what honest man will
say that Germany can accept such
conditions? At the same time as we
shall have to bestir ourselves to per
form forced labor for the benefit OF
the entire world. our foreign trade.
the sole source of our welfare, is de-
stroyed and our home trade is rem
dered impossible. Lorraine iron orc
upper Silesian coal, Alsation potash.
the Sarre valley mines and the cheap
foodstuffs from Posen and West Prus-
sia are to lie outside our frontiers.
We are to impose no higher tariff for
protection than existed on August /,
1914. while our enemies may do as
much as they like at every point in
strangling us at home. All German
revenues must be held at the disposal
of our enemies for payments, not for
war invalids and widows-al as
forced labor for products the prices
of which will be fixed by our GUS
toners.
Evening star., 1919-05-14

bers. Entrance is reserved to the holy
i, see."
Evening star., 1919-05-14
SENATOR CUMMINS
PRESIDENT PRO TEN
BY G. O. P. CHOICE

CONTINUED from First Paee.)
Evening star., 1919-05-14
6O.OOO,OOO Behind Bars.

sixty million are behind the barb
ed wire and the prison bars-sixty
millions at hard labor. for whom the
enemy makes their own land prison
camp. Should the peace conditions
be accepted Germany no longer
could call anything her own which
lies outside these narrow bounds.
Germany has ceased to exist
abroad. but, if that were not sufficient.
her cables have been taken from her,
and her wireless stations can send
only commercial kilograms, and then
only under control of the allies. This
would separate us from the outer
world. for what business can be done
under the control of competitors need
not be described.
THAT is the Jail picture in its eX-
tern;N aspects: without ships because
the mercantile fleet passes into en-
tente hands; without cables. without
colonies, without foreign settlements.
without reciprocity and legal protec-
tion-yes, and even without the right
to cooperate in fixing the prices for
the goods and articles which we have to
deliver as tribute.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-24

4 WON'T BE TAKEN
ALIVE" " SAYSCROWN
PRINCE TO WRITERS
Says Clemenceau and Lloyd
George Want Someone
to Blame War On
ENEMY BLOODTHIRSTY
Declares He and His Father Are
Gentlemen and Their Trials
Matter of Revenge

Berlin, Jan. 23-The German ex-
Crown Prince has made up his mind
to commit suicide rather than face
criminal trial by a jury composed
wholly or in major part of French
and British.
"They will never get me- he re-
peated several times in an informal
interview today.
| made the wearisome journey to
Wieringen from Amsterdam on the
chance Of catching his ex-Royal
Highness at home, and an unburd-
ening mood. AS I drove up to the
modest red brick two-story house
caught sight of him at his bedroom
window changing his pantaloons.
Though l had come to his dreary,
God-forsaken island unannounced, he
received my professional card and
sent word that he would be pleased
to see me, though his time that day
was very limited.
I was shown into the only sitting
room, the billiard room, containing q
shabby, moth-eaten, secondhand bill
lard table and two wornout leather
arm chairs.
A few minutes later the ex-Prince
entered wearing salt-and-peppel
sporting suit and decidedly self-con,
scious of his changed position. After
we had chatted a few minutes his
manner became natural and unaffect-
ed; he talked freely and answered
questions readily.
Perched on the edge of the sorry
billiard tabIe.5he- feFaaae Easiaaees q
cigarette (of no unique bratffds stfle TIP
being a thin straw and faced my in
formal cross-examination / had seer
his arrival on the Devils Island oi
Wieringen and l observed that since
then he had pulled himself together
had recovered his nerve and, in re-
lative solitude, had done some tail
thinking about his situation and fut-
ure.
| asked what he thought about the
much discussed possibility of being
"extradited" with the Kaiser, ane
placed on criminal trial.
81 don't give a hang about it," he
Continued on page six)
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-24
IS
TO PUT UP FIGHT ON
NEW PHONE RULING
Public Service Commission to Chal-
lenge Authority of Government
Ownership

Boston, Jan. 23-Attorney-Genera]
Attwill was formerly requestedSby the
pupllc service commission to begin i'm
mediate action in the supreme court
to suspend optraton of Postmaster
General Burleson's new schedule of
telephone rates which went into effect
at midnight and which generally in
creases charges for toll rates and
service in this state
The public service commission
challenged the authority of the fed
eral government to interfere with
telephone rates within the state or to
override the states commission. It
declared further in a letter to the
encouragement that the action of
the postmastergeneral was contrary
to the congressional act authorizing
him to take control over the wires.
Action by the attorney-general is
generally anticipated, although the
only comment he would make today
was that he would have to examine
the congressional act and other
phases of the situation before he
could make a definite announcement.
Gov. Coolidge is against any sur
render of the states rights.
81 can see no reason" he said TO-
day, 'why any state should surrender
its rate-making power to the federal
government. In time of war it
might be different, butat present 1
feel that the states rights should be
fully protected"
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-24

Montpelier, Jan. "a, 1919-ln joint
assembly, which. lasted for nearly
three hours yesterday afternoon, the
Vermont Legislature elected Senator
Sherman r. Moulton OF Burlington
as sixth Superior Judge, but one bal
lot being necessary for the Chitten-
den County Senator to defeat Attor-
ney-General Herbert G. Barber Of
Brattleboro and Ex-senator W. Il
Fairchild of Fairfield. Acting Adju-
tant General Herbert T. Johnson of
Montpelier, formerly of Bradford,
was elected to the Office of Adjutant
and Inspector General over Major
Lee S. Tillotson, who left the state
position over year ago to enter Fed
eral service. Gen. Johnson received
$50 votes as against 79 for Major
Tillotson.
The two contests mentioned above
were the orly ones in the long pro-
gram of electing five Supreme Court
Justices, six Superior Judges, ser
geant-at-arms, anadjutant general and
three trustees of the University OF
Vermont.
The House of Representative hall
was packed to capacity and the spec
tators, many of them women, were
treated to great deal of oratory
every Senator and Representative
seemingly striving to outdo his neigh
Dor in making complimentary ano
fowery nominating and seconding
speeches.
Following is the list of officials
chosen: Chief Justice Supreme Court
John II. Watson of Montpelier; asso-
ciate justices, Seneca Hazelton OF
Burlington, George NJ Powers OF
Morrisville, William II. Taylor Of
Hardwick and Willard w. Miles 81
Barton; Superior Court judges, Zee
S. Stanton OF Roxbury, Fred NJ. But
Ter of Rutland, Frank L. Fish of Ver-
gennes, Leighton P. Slack. of St
Johnsbury, Stanley C. Wilson OF
Chelsea and Sherman R. Moulton OF
Burlington; Sergeant-at-arms, d
W. Dwinell of Montpelier; Adjutant
and Inspector General, Herbert 7
johnson of Montpelier; trustees OF
the University of Vermont for siz
years, Fl. M. Mcfarland of Hyde
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-24
Strikes, Threats of Strikes
Points to Aims Beyond
Increased Pay
WANT A 80 HOUR WEEK
Representatives of Capital and Labor
Labor to Be Responsible to In
ternational Arbitration Board

London, Jan. 23-Serious strikes
and threats of more serious ones in
England over disputes which ordinar-
lily would be considered unimportant
have led some students of British Ia
Dor conditions to the belief that the
demands arc made, not in an effort to
better labor conditions, but in an at
tempt to rcvolutionize the whole con-
dition of labor oemployment.
Today $4,000 Yorkshire coal min
ers were iGle because their employ
ers declined to allow 20 minutes
"dead time" for meals for surface
workers. The employers wanted the
men to eat in relays and thus keep
the machinery going. The demands
of the men were later granted.
Stoppage of work in the great ship
building industry on the Clyde is
threatened over a meal-hour dispute.
Under the old 54-hour week the men
went to work with empty stennachs.
They worked two hours and then had
an hour for breakfast. Under the new
47-hour plan, which has been agreed
to, no time is allowed for breakfast
and work is to start at o'clock. The
discomfort is said to be caused by the
women, who do not like to get up in
time to prepare an early breakfast.
In the shipbuilding union is an ac-
tive minority which demands 80
hour week. A number of responsible
labor leaders have declared thew are
not IN sympathy with continued triyi-
al demands and they are represented
as being supported by the more con
seryatlve members -s.z---=-44,
fhe Dairy Mail, which is usually
well informed on labor questions, ir
this connection says: "These extre-
mlsts are a small minority, but are
exceedingly active. They are in re-
volt, not Only against capitalism, but
also against the union leaders"
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-24
BRITAIN HAS PLAN
TO SOLVE PROBLEM
OF THE UNEMPLOYED
COmmisionto Be Response
BILE for international
Labor of Nations
FOR TRADE UNIONS
Active Minority AS Yet Not Support
ed by Great Mass of English
Laboring People

Paris, Jan. 23-(By the Associated
Press s.)-Great Britain's plan for the
actual working machinery to carry
out the proposed internationalization
, Of labor was outlined today to the
Associated Press by George Nicoll
Barnes, minister without portfolio,
whose proposals will be considered by
the peace conference Saturday.
Briefly, his program calls for the
establishment of an international
commission made up of the represen-
tatives of both labor and capital for
the settlement of labor problems.
This commission is to be responsible
to the league of nations.
Under the Barnes scheme would be
the appointment by the peace confer
ence of small commission compos-
ed IF delegates from the great pow
ers.
This commission would convene the
| first labor conference, which, in turn,
would become the central internation-
al commission for the betterment of
| labor.
Because of lack of machinery, the
present peace conference would be
unable to establish a perfected COM
mission, although the peace confer
ence may make certain suggestions
and even bind the powers to them.
For example, such questions as the
right Of the people to form them
selves into trade unions might be
settled by the peace conference. The
matter of the hours of labor and sim
liar problems would come before the
international labor commission. In
case of non-f -fulfllment of labor agree
ments, the league of nations would
be called in to settle the matter.
The international labor commission
OF bureau, will not deal with purely
internal problems of the nations. Cap
ital and labor will still work out their
local differences, as before.
Asked as to what power the COM
mission would have back of it, to
enforce its rulings, Mr.. Barnes re-
piled in substance that if any nation
refused to play the game she might
be brought to reason by depriving her
of trade privileges with sister states.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-24
fisherman u MouIten of Burlington Selected Superior
Judge to Succeed Judge E. L. Waterman
Resigned
LEGISLATURE HAS JOINT SESSION WITH SUR
PRIsING RESULT TO MAJORS FRIENDS
Other Events at the Capital Yesterday Faded Into the
Background Besides of Importance of
Jont-SessiOn Decisions

Park. Senator Martin Villas of Bur-
lington and Edward w. Lawrence Of
Rutland.
The new Superior Judge, Senator
Moulton, was born in Randolph, was
graduated from the Randolph High
school, Dartmouth College and Har-
ward Law school. He was admitted
to the bar in 1901 and has since that
time been a practising attorney In
Burlington and also held the i'm
portant position of Reporter of De-
cisions Of the Vermont Supreme
Court. He will probably resign as
a member of the Senate before he
takes office as Judge February l. Gov.
Clement will undoubtedly appoint his
successor soon after Senator Moulton
resigns.
The large vote which Adjutant
General johnson received came. as a
distinct surprise although many were
of the opinion that he would defeat
Major Tillotson. Those who nomin-
ated and seconded the latter empha-
sized the fact that he had left the
position of Adjutant General to enter
federal service and serve in France,
and for that reason if for no other
consideration should be shown and he
should be chosen for the office he oc-
cupied for several terms.
Those who seconded the nomina-
ton. of General Johnson asserted that
the present incumbent had worked
faithfully and tirelessly to efficiently
carry on the duties of the Office and
had succeeded to a remarkable de-
gree.
Two of the three trustees of the
University Of Vermont elected Sena-
tor Villas and Mr.. Mcfarland will be
new members of the board, succeed
ing Ex.-Gov. Ormsbee and Nelson P.
Fiske of Isle La Motto. 1t was whis-
pered in the corridors that the retire
ment of the two gentlemen last
named might be due to the part they
played in the recent Applemann case
and at one time it was thought that
possibly some contest might develop.
However, the nominations of Messrs,
Villas and Mcfarland failed to bring
forth any opposition and they were
elected unanimously.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-24
THESE LABOR MEN
VIEW BOLSHEVIKI
in PROPER LIGHT
Leaders of Textile Workers Have
Small Use for Red Flag Propa-
gandists of Russia

Manchester, N. H., Jan. 11-Pres.
John Golden of the United Textile
Workers of America, and Thomas j..
Reagan of Lowell, National organizer
were in conference today with Agent
Herman F. Straw, Supt. VIM. Parker
Straw of the Amoskeag and Agent
Lewis Dexter of the Stark Mills, un-
der whom 10000 textile workers are
employed, in regard to the unions
request for an eight-hour day before
Feb. 8.
At the close of the conference both
Mr.. Golden and Mr.. Reagan express
ed themselves as much pleased at the
friendly way in which matters were
discussed
Mr.. Golden said the manufacturers
were apparently not opposed to the
eight-hour day, but believed, as he did
that it should be made a universal
custom. He said the manufacturers
were disposed to work in harmony
with the unions.
Speaking of the reconstruction pc
riod In textile manufacturing which is
to come, Mr.. Golden said he did not
anticipate serious labor troubles or
hard times for the reason that the
domestic market is bare.
Asked if the Bolshevik element
would cause material disturbance in
the country, Mr.. Golden said he did
not believe they would or could. He
had an abiding faith in the intelli-
gence of the working people and he
did not believe their better Judgment
would permit the Bolshevik element
to disrupt their organization or the
Government.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-24
Edward ]. Goss

Mrs. r. Fl. Nichols of 1T Railroad
street, has received notice of the
death of her elder son, Edward ].
Goss, which occurred at Meadsville,
Pennsylvania, Dec. %, 1918. Mr..
Goss formerly conducted an extern
sive granite business here, leaving.
about Ii years ago to accept a posi-
ton as manager for Briggs & Hall
Granite Company of Charleston, H.,
later living at Marshalltown and Ma
son City, Iowa, going to Meadsville
about three years ago, burial being at,
that place.
Mr.. Goss is survived by widow.
Mrs. Elizabeth Goss, two daughters.
Mrs. Florence E. Davis and Helen R.
Goss, and brother, w. S. Goss, all
of this town.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-24

TWO FACES

1aS
AltFios the bird of peace guards the
world humans III not forget the war, but, with
its instinct to shiele sensitive cells of mind and
heart SO long overcharged with suffering, will
consciously seek to blot from memory the darker
shadows of the tragedy. The clearcut moral issues
for which have fought may grow little blurred,
little dinmed in the mind. Not in order to perpe-
tuate bitterness but to keep Truth in focus sug
gest simple act Of symbolism. Cut out picture
of Foch and picture Of Hindenburg, frame them
side by side and hang them where you see them.
Those two faces represent the whole meaning
of the conflict. They are knight and Bully, Gentle
man and Thug. The stern, tender, pain-carved face
of Foch lit by some inner flame of loyalty; and the
gross, brutal jow of Hindenburg Set them as
neighbors, and no lapse Of years will obscure the les
sons we must remember.
The face Of Foch is face for honest to
study There is honor the troubled brow and noble
pain in the eyes
Those his goody eyes,
That DER the files and musters of the
Have glowed like plated Mars.
And the face Of Hindenburg? It speaks for itself.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-24
AMERICANS ALLOW
HUNS TO USE PHONE
IN CAPTURED LAND
Five Trunk Lines Now Running Into
Interior of Germany For Busi-
ness Purposes Chiefly

With the American Army of Occu-
patton, Wednesday, JAM 23-(By the
Associated Press)-Further facilities
for the conduct of ordinary business
were given to the inhabitants of the
Rhineland today when five trunk tel
ephone lines were opened betwn Cob
lnz and the interior of Germany
Communication across the line, both
by telegraph and mail, had been per-
mitted under the strictest censorship
by the Americans, but telegraphic
communication was limited to one
wire.
Permission to use the telephone
will be limited to business conversa-
tions. 1t was given with the under
standing that Americans would be
listening in" with instructions to
break communication at the slightest
indication of improper use of the
lines. The arrangement makes pos
sible easy communication with Ber-
lin.
In offering to the public privileges
VI NOAiIIi OliiCdtlOIl, Tie AIuSTlcdHS are
acting in accordance with their poll
cy of as FAR as possible not interfer-
ing with the ordinary affairs of the
people.
Neither the pres nor the public
IS displaying a tendency to take adj
vantage of the comparatively loose
rein by which they are held. Politi-
cal meetings are being held daily, but
they have lot been of character to
need American intervention.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-24
FIRE DOES $1,000 DAMAGE
St. Agnes Hall Blaze Calls Out Fire
Department at -Four O'clock
This Morning

A fire was discovered in st. Agnes
Hall at four o'clock this morning. The
alarm was given and the two trucks
responded at once 1t was a stub
born fire from the first as it started
IN the basement and went up into the
partitions, burning the floors and do
ing much damage to the fixtures and
furniture. 1t was well insured. 1t is
not known what caused the fire. Last
night there was basket ball game
played there and everything was al
right when the people left the hall.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-24
GEN. LUDENDoRFF
BACK IN GERMANY

Berlin, Jan. %, (By the Associated
Press)-Gen. Ludendorff,. former
chief quarterfnaster-g general of the
German armies, according to the
Nachtrichtsen of Leipiz, has returned
to Germany from recuperating trip
to Sweden.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-24
F. E. HOWE IN HOSPITAL

Ex-Lieut-Gov. Frank E. Howe of
Bennington entered the Putnam
Memorial Hospital at that place for
surgical treatment yesterday.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-24
The Presidents Aunt Dead

Denver, Jan. 24-Mrs. Helen Sill
Woodrow, aunt of President Wilson,.
died here last night. She was II
years old. She was the daughter of
Gen. Joshua Sill, after whom Fort;
Sill in Oklahoma, was named.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-24

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The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-24

Paris, Jan. 24-The second session
of the Peace Conference is to be held
tomorrow. Like the first session, it
will be open to the press. One of the
first subjects to be considered will be
some international legislation on
labor.
President Wilson tonight will make
his first visit to a theatre since leav-
ing Washington. The President is a
regular theatre attendant when at
home, the stage supplying the neces-
sary mental diversion necessary to a
man in his position. A gala night is
to be arranged at one of the local
operas in his honor. After the stren-
uous week at the peace conference,
he will be looking forward to the out
ing with much pleasure.
Paris, Jan. 24-The Lithuanian
troops have inflicted a defeat uporl
the Bolshevilki near Koszedary, about
midway between Kovno and wilma.
The Bolsheviki casualties were heavy
and they are reported to have lost
$500 in prisoners The Lithuanians
are said to be advancing toward Viii
ma.
Paris, Jan. 24-President Wilson is
likely to be offered the Presidency of
the Commission of League of Nations
says the Echo de Paris.
New York, Jan. 24-Over 3700
hundred troops arrived in New York
today on five vessels, the battleships
Louisiana apd New Hampshire,
which have been in service as trans
ports, the French liner, Chicago, Am
erlcan transport Goenton and the
steamer Accomac.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-24
Bolsheviki Foreign Minister
Failed to Make His
Escape Good =
BOLSHEVIKI is LOSING
With Lenine Fled to Spain Russian
Bo1shevists Are Apparently
Leaderless

Basel, Jan. 24-Leon Trotsky, Boil
shevist minister of war, failed to es-
cape from Nava after the recent de-
feat of the Bolshevists by the Estpon-
ians, and was taken prisoner, say the
news dispatches from Libau. Adj
vices from the same source state that
owing to the intervention of Finnish
trops in Northern Esthonia and liz
vonia, the country has been cleaned
of the oBlsheviki. The fate of Trots-
sky remains to be reported. This APP
parently leaves the Petrograd Bolshe-
wiki leaderless, as it is stated on re-
liable authority that Lenine has fled
Russia and escaped to Spain in dis
guise.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-24
WEATHER

Fair tonight and Saturday colder