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The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1920-06-08
LYNDONVILLE
Miss Flora Barber has been on thu

Miss Flora Barber has been on the
sick list for the last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. G. Morrison have
sold their grocery business to the
LaPoint Brothers, who are returning
here to run meat and provision
business
June salc--All trimmed hats at cost
Mrs. Rose Allen, % Main st. adv.
Harold Ahern, who has been spend
ing few days at home, returned
Wednesday night to New York, where
he has a position with an importing
company
Mrs. E. J. Blodgett has gone to
Worcester, Mass, to spend next
week, it being Commencement week
ut Worcester Tech, and her son, AL
bert Gerry Blodgett, one of the
graduates.
Miss Irene Stmson's piano pupils,
and Miss Marion Redfield's vocal pup
lis gave most enjoyable recital Fri
day evening in the Gable hall.
The Boulder's Tea House at Will
oughby Lake is to open June 20, un-
der the management of Miss Alice
Bancroft.
Miss Mary Wheeler of Irasburg re-
Gently visited her friend Miss Susan
Cunningham. Miss Wheeler is now
in the Museum at ST. Johnsbury.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-30
Courtesy Appreciated

The officers and men of the Second battalion, Fourth Alabama infantry, from Birmingham, were kept in touch with the home news through the cour- tesy of The Age-Herald while in camp at Camp Mcclellan, Anniston, recently" said Sergt. George Kitzinger of Com pany G. The paper sent Mir Bridges from it's local circulation department to camp with us and he was on the job right after reveille at s o'clock eVery morning. He~would come through ev- cry company street with his papers and they sold like hot cakes, for the boys were eager to know what wasrg ing on in Birmingham.
 Everybody from Birmingham appre- ciated the thoughtfulness of the paper in seeing that we were supplied with home news, and The Age Herald has won itself host of friends through it's action. It was the only local paper that did this:p
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-30
MRANGEI,S WIFE

From the Cleveland PlainNDealer.
 All reports of Peter Wran'sel are fla vorableI Of course. these reports all come through friendly channels. The bolshevik would have different stories to tell, but they are wasting no energy in anti-Wrangel propaganda.
 Wrangel was baron of the old em- pire, and was large landholder. He
 is still called baron. as a compliment, but he is not landholder. Wrangel realized early in his career as com mander that the old system of land- lords and peasants could never Ego" in the new Russia. Denikine tried to restore it, and see what became of Denikine,
 So Peter Wrangel ruled that the peasants could keep as their own the land they had taken. ,SHe also ruled that where the peasants had not taken the land it must be given to them. It was no cruel confiscation, for what the peasants were to be given was already lrightfully theirs. II was land whic h they ana tneli dnCcsloiS inu tiiicu anu lived on for no one knows how many generations. The rich could retain :; their home estates and pleasure grounds.
 | It happened that one of the great l properties to, be divided and distrib- uted was Wrangers own ancestral do- kmain. It also happened that wrangel
 was too busy commanding his army
 to take time to attend to it's distribu- tion. So he sent his wife to do it. The baroness, from all accounts, is help
 ful woman, just such a, wife as man like Peter wrangei ought ta have. She divided the land and distributed 1t con- 1 scientiously and the name of Wrange1 l is much beloved in this south Russian ] region.
 Such reports as this bring Peter Wrangel and his baroness into the ,light of comprehensibilitys They arc up-to-date, practical, unselfish Rus sians They are not tryisg tes SC tht immiscible old and new They gre al flor the new. There Is st Ieast n off chance that they mag orag aa4vaticr
 to the agonized nation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-30
Alabama Should Have
 a New Constitution

m OVERNOR KILBY will ask the Gl special session of the state leg islature, which convenes next month, to provide for a constitutional con- vention His decision will meet with the approval of everyone who has the welfare of Alabama at heart.
 The present state constitution has served it's day, and should be rewrit- ten. We have what amounts to a tumble of laws which handicap the state administration and work hard- ships on city and county govern ments. They have led to endless con- fusion. Everyone knows they have retarded progress.
 For years prominent citizens in all walks of life, and especially lawyers, who are the best judges of such mat ters, have urged new constitution for Alabama.
 k We are living under laws many of which are twenty years behind the times. Conditions change from year to year, in Alabama as wei as in all other states of the Union An alert and progressive citizenship must have up-to-date laws, to enable the state to advance and become what every Alabamian hopes it will be, a leader in the nation.
 We do not need more laws, In fact, we need fewer laws cn the statute books, but they should be tie kind, based on common sense and | justice, which can be enforced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-30
1.-THE TALE OF A TUB

tub and precipitated controversy that waxed violent Some readers were against the tub, some for it. A few praised it; the majority condemned it as an epleurean luxury, proof of the can conceive their earnest warnings against such folderols, their hesd- shakings their finger waggins. their solemn appeals for rebirth of the good old tubless days Medical au- thorities, declares ths writer in the Free Pree, attacked the tUb as pos 'itive menace to health.
 The bathtub. it seems, like so many boons forced upon a reluctantly inn proved makind, had hard sledding be- fore it became popular. Theslaw- makers opposed it. They put tax Of s30 a year on all tubs set up in the state of Virginia: Special and heavy water rates were plastered on tub owners in Hartford, Providence Charleston and Wilmington. Even Boston, enlightened city though IL was passed the anti-bathng law that was not repealed until 1862:
 It was left to President of the United States to rescue the bathtuo from disrepute and give it recognition and respectablitya Willard Fillmor
 while vice president, visited Cincinnati in 1850 on stumping tour inspected the original tub and actually used it. Then, and not till then, was the bath tub admitted into polite society. | Any number of morals may be drawn from this tale of tub, not the least of which is the observations, already made, that in some respects at least the good old days had drawbacks as well AS advantages.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-30
The South's Great Advantages
 Compared With the North

C7r1HE steady growth of the south,
 agric llturally and industrial ly, is attracting the attention of the country. The new south is what the west was forty years ago, as an in- viting section to home seekers.
 The Sun and the New York Her aid point out "In climate and cir- cumstances, where housing costs are relatively low, as in the south, where fuel bills for heating purposes are slight, where warm, heavy, expensive clothing is not necessary and where even food is more plentiful and gen. orally cheaper" are facts that make for the progress of this land Of promise.
 | If the south was fruitful in the years gone by, it is manyfold more productive now. The pleasant tenn perature in the southern states Is alone of distinct value. Industrial work goes on alike in winter and summer, and scientific farming has caused the output of crops to be more>than doubled.
 Settlers are now coming in this direction, and this without any great degree of organized effort. Before the European war, rail systems maintained land and industrial de partments and did vast good in up building along their lines.
 l During four years practically noth ling was done in this respect, but ac tivities have been resumed, and it il
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-30
IN HOTEL LCBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Must Pav the Price


 "The people of Birmingham cannot hope to have first-cNss streets until they are willins pay the taxes nec- essary for neir keep" said Ted Browner of sae Biownell Auto Com pany. "4sxe 'ttornia, for instance. The people there have first-class streets. parks and nis eways. The req son for this fact s chat he people pay taxes several times in exotss of wat we pay.
 Many people living in Birmingaam will kick like Texas broncho l iner taxes are raised few doli&rs. Ttt those same people will get out and themselves hoarse in condemnation 1f the bad streets of the city. They want something and don't want to pay the price. am not in favor of any bond issue. If the city has no money with which to repair the streets, I think the citizens of Birmingham should al- low tax levy that will bring in the required funds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-30
TsE GROUND STRANGERS.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 N CORRESPONDENT of The Dali A\ ly News at Warsaw says the S = Polish leaders. now that they can draw their breath freely, hope they will never again be compelled to rely so much upon green volunteers. The story of the retreat almost to the very walls of Warsaw demon strates time and again. he declares, that untrained and inexperienced volunteers are in no sense match for disciplined soldiers and cannot be expected to stand against them"
 Ancient truth, proved on thousand battlefields, ignored by sentimental ists and civilians. ignored by the American people while the grass is hardly green over the graves of thou- sands of their sons who paid the pen alty of it's neglect!
 The Polish green soldiers broke. So the green soldiers of the United States broke. broke in panic sometimes without cause, broke and ingloriously ran, as at Bladensburg. Yet there is no braver fighting man than the American soldier. whether volunteer or drafted man. The Polish volunteer was no coward. He comes of fight ing race. But native courage does not take the place of disciplined self control, nor of knowledge and experi-
 
 ic; that is, to mental confusion and nervous crisis, and the desperation of helpless ignorance. That is where
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-30
Goop-Ry TO THE FIRE HORSE

f
 From the New York Tribune. A
 With the passing of the last fire horse on the Issand of Manhattan fades the glamouI of the fire engine in the eyes of ySth. The insistent outcry of gongs, >the thunderous rush of the glitterlng machine, remain, and to these there will be an answering thrill in the blood. But it was the horses, after all. that gave heroic touch to the spectacle. The clatter of hoofs is a sound like none other. Its awakens atavistic impulses even in never willy be more. glorious horses than> the fire department had. The po- lice horses stir just admiration. but theirs is mflder, gentler order 0f beauty.
 The machine has romance of tts own. but you cannot get out of it the sentiment that attaches to flesh and blood. The solitary hof sman of G. r. R. James does any one read ais novels nowadays?-is properF thst cannot be duplicated in motor eass 1tstgs may happen in the latter aasa o9t ey will not be the same ki8a q snin gs The modern Turpins who pe&s elk getaway in an automob l@ FAVE est the picturesqueness of tisfl pr0S- types Therg~is excitemee4 m k nat no compelling surge of hlgh slnctaon. The lost rapture cannot be rees1t4s~ ~f
 In the city streets the fire horxe x3 the last symbol of breathlsss AEea~ ture. To see, from the top ol nWs the engines swing up Ffsth tyea'sS was better than anything in le NscFies. But the small boy had the vest o6 zts Running in a vain attempE te kfSP pace with the horses. dodgin9 'fs aAa out of the lines when at last he had overtaken them, stealing a ehaaesN le stroke their glossy necIs-ehss s77 it in that dawn to be alive. Als aEen will still go to fires, bat the isSH GsA 1 eration will miss the old fieres panAA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-30

Vernon Kellogg, in The North Ameri-
 can Review.
 17 the school year 191S-20, 10 per II cent ofthe public school teachers S in 392 cities scattered over the country were paid less than $500, per cent less than $500. 2per cent less than s1, 900. S9as per cent less than sl2oe' 9S% per cent less than sl,400, and 99l2 per cent less than $l,500. Only four teachers in a thousand, supposedly the chosen few of largest native ability broadest education, highest culture, and most extended and comprehensive teaching and administrative experience were paid as much as s1,5o0 a year. or s125 a month. :, Of the 12S teachers In one of the largest high schools of New York city. so per cent are doing, some thing outside of regular teaching hours to add to their own income. This is not~good for the teaehng hours. The ! average salary of elementary school teachers in the United states in 1918 wal ssos. and oT high school teachers s1,o31. The average shlaryof teachers 1 in New Zealand in 1918 was consider i ably over 50 per cent more than in the United States, the 'prdeful land of the 1 little red schoelhouse.
 1 The results of such a scandalous and impossible condition of slave labtr are l just what the more cynical of us would suggest as the alternative of this slave ! labor. We might say to the teachers You are not really owned slaves you ] are only slaves to your conscience or { inertia: you can quit if you want to. They may not want to, but they feel | That thev have to- So they are quit 1 ting And the students who had be- gun preparing themselves In the nor l nal schools and teachers colleges to be teachers are also quitting A re- I cent study made by the National Edu- ! cation Association shows that more l than 100, 900 teaching positions in the l public schools are now vacant or filled by teachers below standard, and tt at
 the output of normal schools and teacher training schools shows de- crease of 30 per cent in the last four years. The bureau of education states l that there will be at least 10000 va
 cancies in teacaing positions in the ele-
 mentary schools of the country this
 coming school year, with only So,e0( T graduates of teachertraining institu-
 tions to fill them. One-third of the
 S4.o0O teachers now in the high schools are reported as intending to leave theil positions to enter some other profes sion next year. The greatest possible
 number of new eligibles for |. higf
 school teaching is 5000, go that ls.oo' of the cs.0o0 vacant positions canno l, be filled by adequately prepared teach , CTS.
 Signed statements made by nor, = than HOO school -superintendents show that 52.7es teachers resigned durint l the past year, a resignation of P pc cent of the etal teachers On thi . 1 basis fthe total number oi teacher
 resigned for sas eitlge country <woul'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-30
poNz1 rRuE ro EnRMl

From the Phif~delphia Public Ledger.
 As the details come-o as to how Ponzi carried on his business by rob bing Peter to pay Paul, it is clear his get rich quick scheme ran true to form. For instance all the approved 520 per cent swindlers. who pay their liabilities to the first investors out of the money paid in by the dupes who rush in later. invariably Sport the innocent young stenographer who. while she knows everything really knows nothing. Ponzi had his eighteenyear- -old secre- tary who kept track of all his accounts and who now. after having been a be- fever in his wizardry, naively admits that the interest on the investments was paid out of the capital furnished by new investors and that Ponzi had no large dealings in international eou- pons but kept one or two around the office just to show to prospective in- vestors.'' This confession loses noth. ing of it's sinister character simply be- cause it is uttered by a sweet young thing, who knew what was going on but kept quiet about it and held her job.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-30
From the Atlanta Journal.

From the Atlanta Journal.
 6T7HE pessimist who 1aments the de-
 terioration of modern times and
 pines loudly for return to ''the good old days may find food for thought in the historical fact that, only seventy-five years ago, in the cultured city of Boston; it was against the law to take bath except on medi- cal advice.
 The statement is made by a writer in the Detroit Free Press, who sets forth further interesting information concerning that most unromantic but valued institution, the~ bathtub
 rhe first bathtub in the United states. he says, was installed in cin- cinnti December 20, 1S42, by one Adam Thompson. Ii was made of mahogany and was lined with sheet lead
 The curious contrivanee created a sensation. For a time MT. Thompson picture him locking the doors and plugging the keyholes before he rev. eled in his novel inventions Finally he chose a Christmas party as the oc- casion to let few intimate friends into the secret Imagine his pride as he revealed the tub and explained it's strange function. Imagine the com ments of his guests, some admiring, some skep+ical, all bit suspicious, no doubt Four of them, history tells us. took a plunge then and there. How they must have compared notes after ward, one does today following an airplane rideN
 < The Free Press states that the Gin cinnati newspapers got wind of the affair. Reporters besieged the Thomp- son home exposed the existence of tn;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-30
THE INCONSISTENCIES

 discipline, experience and system sup- port natural courage, sustain and guide it. They are essential to vic tory.
 The Polish people rose to meet the peril of their native land. Devotion willingness to sacrifice all for their cause was not lacking. But in the field it was, not enough. It seldom is enough. It was not natural valor but military skill and it's effective use of the best trained men at the disposal of the Polish command that turned the scale.
 If the American people will not learnN by their own experience and their own costly sacrifices. we cannot hope they will learn from those of another people. Nevertheless, we can but point out sgain the lesson men who know have been trying vainly to impress upon them, as against the fallacy of men like MT. Bryan. The Polish retreat proved the unreliability of green troops. however patriotic and naturally courageous. It illustrated that green troops are especially unre- liable In retreat and defeat, when morale most needs the braclng of dis7 cipline and when organization is most difficult to maintain.
 The success of the counter-of offen- sive was one of strategy and the use of trained men. Now that victory has changed sides, the untrained troops will be more available But it is when that nation must turn not to ground springers, but to seasoned soldiers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-30
WAS HAMLET A PRIG.

o. w. Firkins in the North American
 Review.
 We are told in so many words that he was model young man He has presented the English language with twolof it's stereotyped phrases for the( marking of a standardized perfection he is called the glass of fashion and the mould of form" The utterance of these words by Ophelia is as illumina-s tive as the words themselves. It is plain that the youthful Hamlet lives up meticnlously. not only to conven. standards of propriety and excellence. He is the perfect lady's perfect gentle man.
 But we do not need Ophelia's testi-1 mony, listen to the young man himself. His mother urges him not to return to college. T shall in all my best obey you, Madam, he replies with filal decorum which Samuel Richardson or Hannah More could not have mended. Observe the nature of his objections to suicide.
 cor that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon against self slaughter"
 He condemns the act not because it is cowardly or simply immoral, but be- cause it is uncanonicaL unscriptural
 Here is a. young man in whom his catechst or confessor may rejoice. With such a person it is obviously hazardous to joke. When Horatio, his fellow-student, calls himself truant, Hamlet solemnly defends him against the charge.
 | Il would not hear your enemy say so." Clearly this is young collegian who never .'veXt the souls of deans."~ We
 see him assiduous al lectures, methodi- l cal in his notes. Shakespeare has not
 forgotten to inform us that he kept a note book Within two minutes after
 his fathers ghost has ended the ap-
 palling tale of the murder in the gar
 den, the young prince is jotting down
 by moonlight an invaluable memoran- 1 dunn about the relations of smiles tc villainy Do mean that Hamlet~is a
 fool? Not at all. Hamlet has strong ! mind but is strength is shown at the outset in the docility and thorough ness of it's assent to the propositions ,. of it's teachers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-30
An Expert Swimmer

"The visit of David A. Yates, Red Cross life saver, is of distinct interest in Birmingham. Swimming has grown In interest during the past few years, until now> very few people do not know how to care for themselves in water" said George A. Lewis:
 Yates is a war hero as well as an expert swimmer His demonstrations at the Y NJ. c. A. and Y, W. c. A. will be sure to hold much for the lover of the sport.
 ! While giving a demonstration at the Y. NJ c. A. pool, Captain Yates will give the official Red Cross tests to all who care to take them. Those successfully passing the tests will be given insignia to denote proficiency in swimming"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-30
Travel and Movies

"The latest innovation in travelling to while away the time of the train passengers is to show movies on the train," said Anderson Smith. Several railroad systems where long trips are made are adopting this plan to make the trip as pleasant as possible for their patrons.
 tTo people who travel much, this news is certainly welcome for l know there Is nothing more boring than to have to watch the passing fields. Doc tors tell us it is bad for the eyes to try to read. and that leaves us almost nothing to do.~ Now that the railroad companies have stepped into the breach, we can look, forward to long trips with pleasure instead of dread"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-30
$ $. 4 Far Reaches of An Industrial Achievement

F T is far cry from the coal in the ll hills of Jefferson county to an international balloon race, yet there is connection.
 The Aero Club oE America offered Birmingham the American try-out balloon races on September 23, and the in.eratonal balioa event of Octaher provida4 only this city Nas soie to sspply the million feet s for yne one occasion and Ion feet for the other. The gss lad to have lifting capacity of orty pounds per one thousand feet
 The aviation committee of the Chamber of Commerce went out to the new by-product works of the Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron Com pany. They found gas that will lift forty-six pounds plus with each thou sand feet. The plant has a daily flow of seven and a half millions of feet of surplus gas. The conditions for the balloon events are there.
 The fields near the plant afford ample room for the assemblage and start of the balloons. A few feet of pipe will connect the gas and the balloon bags. The dull black coal dug from the bosom Of Jones valley will enable this city to stage a great international sporting event.
 The reaches of conservation are endless. Coke and tar come first from the by-product, then viscid fluids, then the family of headache cures, on their heels the perfumes and finally the most powerful of ex- plosives. Now, we have an associa- tion with the daring feats of real sportsmen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-30

justice, he did not deny the accusa- tion, but claimed that. in his capacity as lawyer he had right to accept retainers. Such conduct, to say the least, was not ethical and not in keep ing with the dignity of a public off cial, particularly a United States senator.
 This exposure ended the public ca reer of Bailey He has probably made his last attempt to regain his lost prestige.