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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-09
>Bolshevism Over ALI.

1t is being revealed at Washington
that bolshevism over all is the pur-
posed end of the diplomatic plots and
plans devised by the communist dicta-
torship at Moscow The supreme tri-
umvirate, Lenine, Trotzky and Tchitch-
erin, mean to do their utmost for the
fulfillment of the predictions which
they flashed abroad by radio as their
New Years message, that in 1920 there
will be soviet governments at Wash
ington, Berlin, Paris and London. If
the documents which were taken from
the captured bolshevik courier at Riga
have any meaning, they show that
nothing less than the world for bolshe-
vism is the end that the conspirators
have in view. No explanation offered
to the Senate investigating committee
bv Martens, the soviet agent, sufiiees
TO put different complexion on any OF
the letters or dispatches. They ARE not
examples of lawful political agitation,
but instructions for the carrying out
of violent revolution in the United
States as a part of the intended world
revolution.
Why should any nation heed one
word of the trade offers or peace pro
posals that the soviet government Is
COUGHING in fair words, when at the
same time 1t is telling its agents how
they are TO dupe and incite free peoples
to the overthrow of democratic gov
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-09
The Candidates.

Well, we have three candidates for
governor, and they are all good ones.
Not a deuce in the deck. When they
got started there was a rush. We will
soon know all about their platforms
and policies. Naturally there is diff
ference of opinion regarding favorites,
all depending on whom you are talking
to. The News picked up quite bit of
this passing through" Montpelier.
The way we look at it, Fred Babbitt
has the qualifications to give Vermont
the kind of government we are all look
ing for. He has the business training
that has been demonstrated time and
again as the kind that counts. Anyone
knowing him knows what he has ae-
complished, and there is no guessing
where he stands on any question. While
it is too early to make predictions, we
believe he has the edge on the others.
We all know that Mr.. Hartness has
done big things. He has made a good
record in the state, and no one can dis
pute this, He is handicapped by not
having wide acquaintance in the
state, only in certain quarters.
AuTllS n man We nav nv
acquaintance with, but those qualified
to Judge speak in the highest terms of
him. 1t is said by one of his supporters
that he would carry Orange county by
storm, owing TO his many friends in
there, where he formerly lived. Up in
the part of the state where he comes
from they call him the best ever.
Such then, is the lineup to date. II
has been limited local option candi-
date might enter the fray, for what
reason we are not informed, unless it is
to resent the prohibition amendment
and the way it is working out. If such
candidate should enter the ring il
would certainly be an interesting sit
untion.
The way il looks to us, taking every
thing into account, Rabbit has the sd-
vantage, and those who do not know
him very well, let US tell you he is
o. K, and if elected would give a good
account of his stewardship.-Northheld
News.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-09

II is evident that considerable per-
manent road building will be done in
Vermont in addition to the work which
the state will carry on and the cities
and towns will do with state aid. Fol-
lowing the decision of Manchester peo-
pie TO lay a boulevard through their
summer resort section, Bennington vot-
ers decided to lay a concrete Highway
between the villages of Bennington
and North Bennington, and now Rut-
land is advertising for bids for perma-
nent roads on two of the most prom
Inent streets of that city, the materials
named in the call for bids on the last
canned project being brick or concrete
Or asphalt blocks. No doubt other
communities have their own particular
projects under consideration and will
rarry out the program during the com
Ing summer. The state road projects
are going ahead with the usual regu-
larity and the system of state patrol
Of highways is to be followed this
year, as usual; and the minor road
construction will be done Taken alto
gether, vermont's program for improv.
ing the highways looks quite encour-
aging and indicative of promise to
tourists and locals alike.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-09
Erzberger's Resignation.

Matthias Erzberger, who yesterday re-
signed his post as minister of finance
in the cabinet of the German republic
under circumstances which if not
cleared up will leave a cloud upon his
name, was throughout the war an enig-
matte figure. He became best known in
entente countries by his peace in
trigues,' as they were called, though 1t
was never shown that they were part
of German plot and many things
went to show that the peace move
ment of which he was the leader was
OF the same sort as like movements in
other countries which got the support
of men who believed that war TO the
finish would be the ruin of Europe.
In the personality and methods of
Erzberger, however, there was always
a mysterious, not TO say sinister, ele-
ment which inspired distrust. He was
one of the principal leaders of the
clerical party and was in close touch
with the Vatican and with cosmopoli-
tan groups in neutral countries; wher-
ever he went there was a buzz of
propaganda, with rumors of mysteri-
Gus deals.
Very likely his efforts for peace made
him acceptable to the revolutionary
government, which had trouble in find
ing available public men Of experience.
On the other hand he was bitterly OPP
posed by some of the leaders of the
old regime, including DIR. Karl Helffer-
ich, who last September made sensa-
tional attack on ErTberger as "a men
ace to the purity of political life.
Some of his charges were too direct TO
be ignored, and ErEberger brought
libel suit which had evidently resulted
in some damaging testimony, including
the assertion that he had Struggled
large sums of money across the from
tier to Switzerland. President Ebert
has ordered a prompt investigation; in
the meantime Erzberger would obvi-
ously be out of place in the cabinet
Springfield Republican.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-09

do well to make what preparations
they can against the expected oncom-
ing of the flood when once the water,
now locked in several feet of snow, is
liberated by the warm spring sun and
the heavy rainfall. There is such a
great depth of snow all over Vermont
and on the other watersheds of the
streams running into or alongside OF
Vermont that serious time is antici-
pated during the next few weeks. Mu-
inequalities should take an ounce of
prevention by opening up as much as
possible the channels running under
bridges and culverts so that the rush
ing waters may have as free an outlet
as possible Perhaps the bridges and
culverts could bestrengthened to GER
tain degree by taking other precau-
lions before the water gets to any
considerable height 1t would be well
to institute an inspection of the bridges
and culverts Immediately in order to
see what can be done toward putting
them in the safest possible condition
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-09

II the early report of the census emu
merstion in the town of Hartford is
reasonably accurate 1t furnishes a
gleam of hope that Vermont as a whole
may not have lost so severely in pop
ulation as the reduction in many of
the back towns would seem to Indicate.
This early report of the Hartford cen
,us gives the population as 4,7O3, an
Increase OF $50 since the last previous
census. The town Of Hartford con-
iains the village of White River juno
lion and while that village is a rail
iosd junction point of considerable
prominence il nevertheless is not
ullage which has received the impetus
II great industrial boom as Springfield
vas received; and so an increase Of $50
people in 10 years makes a fsir-sized
increase. a. Vermont increases general.
90, and especially so in the present
'ensus following the marked withdraw
Il from the state through the lure Of
,ig wages in manufacturing plants.
While rejoicing in this reported in
Tease IN Hartford. one viii Be forced
o admit that i viii take many Hart
BIRDS to make up for the decrease in
population in the small towns Of the
aats
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-09
AGAIN AND THE REPUBLICAN
NOMINATION.

The promised pronouncement from
Frank w. Agan of Ludlow, in which he
is expected to state that he is a candi-
date for the Republican nomination for
governor of Vermont, will be awaited
with a degree of interest by the people
of the state. Mr.. Agan is at present in
California but is expected to return to
Vermont within a short time in order
to begin a campaign for the nomina-
tion. What his program will be is not
definite, but this much may be taken
for granted--that he will take some
sort of stand against the dry" re
gime inasmuch as he has been warm
advocate of the local option principle
from long time back. That stand
would probably be largely along the
line of criticism of the fact rather than
in the expectation of doing anything to
overturn the condition.; but at the
same time he could be most emphatic
in his presentation of criticism. In
this speculation as to Mr.. Agan's prob
able stand, it is interesting to note
that the announcement of his can
didacy follows the vote of Vermont
in town meetings, in which a large
number of towns, more than one'half,
in fact, returned majorities in the
Eyes" column of the local option vote.
Apparently, that result, on the face of
the returns, indicated to Mr.. Agan that
Vermont is heartily out of sympathy
with the national prohibition regime,
an Interpretation which has been main
tanned by many commentators on the
results. 1t is reasonable to suppose
that such an Interpretation was a
strong influence in causing him to en-
ter the contest when there were al
ready three very able candidates in the
field.
Mr. Agan, too, is capable man and
he would, no doubt, command con-
siderable vote in the Republican party.
His entry would add complication to
situation which already had become
quite involved, but at the same time it
would probably have tendency in the
long run to lend strength to the New
port candidate from the standpoint of
geographical position, if from no other
standpoint, because the other three
are grouped in the southern
section of the state while Mr. Emery
has the northern section TO himself.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-09
"vERMoNTERS, COME DOWN."
Latest Poem from the Pen Of Judge
Wendell p. Stafford.


Hon. Wendell p. Stafford Judge Of
the Columbia district court, Washing
ton, d. c., whose home is in st. Johns
bury, VT, has written a poem on the
interest Vermonters should take in the
suffering humanity of the Near East
countries. 1t is in the customary Wig
orous Stafford style and should be read
by all Vermonters.
The poem was solicited by Roland Il.
Stevens, state chairman of the Near
East relief, White River Junction, to
whom contributions in this worthy
cause should be sent.
The Judge touches on the idea of au-
tomobile owners levying tax of 10
cents for each horsepower of their car,
but Mr.. Stevens will not turn down
more liberal contributions. The poem:
Vermonters, Come Down.
(By Wendell p. Stafford
Once more to the border, Vermonters,
come down.
Not now in your deerskins and jackets
of brown
Come down in your autos come down
with your cash
With all the old pepper and courage
and dash!
Vermont was the first of new states to
come in
When the door was flung open-th
first to begin
On the work the seeessionist traitors
cut out
The work that was finished in slavery's
rout,
She was first to abolish that man
stealing trade;
She was first to make Tories turn in
and give aid;
She gave the first blood unto Liberty's
cause;
She was the first to make Freedom The
crown of her laws
Come on with your chsriots this is the
hour.
To show by your giving the gage Of
your power.
II the buggy is good and the horse
doesn't balk,
Just tell it in dollars: it's dollars that
talk.
And it's dollars they need; tor-what
do you think
Folks living like us upon victuals and
drink
Across the big water are dying like
flies
For the want of leaf from the wad
that now lies
Secure in your weasel-skin. Set it to
work
Let it feed full the hungry and don't
let IL shirk.
For moneys like fire: it may prove a
disaster;
IT'S very good slave but very bad
master.
So give ii big steady job to pursue,
And you'll master your dollars; they
won't master you.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-09
Handling the Snow.

Mr. Mayor-Sir:
| saw you working hard to help clear
the streets of snow. Where are our en-
,terprising granite men, who have made
our city famousf Being so public
spirited, building granite bridges, CIV
ing school teachers back pay they never
asked for, dipping into the corporation
treasury to pay the bills and taxing
the man of limited income to furnish
the money.
With all their public spirit for the
advancement of the city's development,
it is strange they do not give little
time to clearing up the streets for
traffic after this great storm, as they
are doing in other cities.
OF course, some of them have had to
spend good deal of time making out
their income tax reports, but their
profits have been so small it would
seem they might be at liberty now,
Observer and Non Progressive.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-09

ernments All nations would be pleased
to enter into commercial relations with
the Russian people under proper eondl-
tions, but ii will be better to do with
out such intercourse with the people $
tvrants than have it used as channel
for revolutionary propaganda. The boil,
shevists plan to undermine our social
and industrial structure, wreck our
trade union system, and reduce our
army to a rabble. There is ample proof
of this in the documents now before
the Senate committee. They state that
zone Of the most important tasks is
that of organizing groups of soldiers
among American armed forces for the
furious batting of officers" that the A.
r. of l.. must be broken up by work
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-09
LETTERS TOTHE EDITOR
The Price of Steak.
Mr.. sixty.cent.steak Man,

Mr.. Sixty .Cent-Steak Man:
Let me say to you, ], too, have been
one of the purchasers of sixty-cents.
pound steak, as long as ! could
pay the price.
| have found my purchasing power
is lust one half what it was in 1914.
When you all stop paying that price
there will be such a surplus on the
market the price will drop TO rea-
sonable figure.
In times past we required so much
waiting upon, demanded so much at
tention and were so particular, we
brought about this excessive expense,
such as order and deliverymen, sitting
down and requiring everybody to wait
upon us.
Take the situation in 1918 and 1919.
Our local marketmen We're paying iron
% to 26 cents for dressed pork. To-day
they are offering Is and 10 cents for
the same Do you find the price you
pay lessened in proportion?
The profits of our marketmen have
been so small in the past ! am afraid
Uncle Sam viii not realize very much
from the income tax law. A Purchaser.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-09

They are almost ready to declare
peace in the decorations war" and the
United States navy stands chance
once more of making progress toward
that efficiency which can only come
with reasonable degree of harmony
in all branches of the naval service,
whether it be in the swivel chair or on
the commanders deck of the man-o'-
war. The people of the nation have re-
GREETED the unseemly dispute between
Secretary Daniels and Admiral Sims
and are glad that there appears to be
an end of the matter in sight. No
great good could come of the dispute
because no vital issue was involved.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-09

In Mr.. Whitehill's own paper, the
Waterbury Record, appears this news
item:
H. G. Whitehill of Boston was in
town to-day to attend the bank meet
ing.
We trust that this does not mean
that Mr.. Whitehill has by any means
severed his residence in Vermont but
that he is merely sojourning in Boston
while carrying on the publicity work
he started upon some months ago.
There is a chance, too, that some mem
Der of the staff showed the item in, all
unbeknownst TO the editor; so we are
inclined to consider that the announce
ment was more or less of pleasantly.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-09
CURRENT COMMENT
Pocketing Treaties,

Ii the president should pocket" the
peace treaty with the Lodge reserva-
ton to article 10 attached, he would
only follow the example of his Repub-
lican predecessor, Mr.. Taft, who pock-
eted two arbitration treaties because
the Senate "cut the heart out" of them.
OF course, the Republicans would be
shocked at such an autocratic act by
Mr.. Wilson, but it never minded like
act by Mr.. Taft; it makes so much diff
ference whose OK is gored and whether
it is a political friend or political
opponent who performs the act. -
Philadelphia Record.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-09

ing actively in conjunction with the
|. w. w to organize a revolutionary
trades union movement" and that the
workers soviets must be fighting or
CARNATIONS" for the dictatorship of the
workman" Most obviously, our present
business is not to let the bolshevist
trade wedge in, but to keep bolsheyists
and holshevism out.-Boston Herald
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-09

Some idea of the difficulties of rail
reading in the mountain region is Civ
en- by the report of the 40-foot snow
slide which has buried one branch of
the Boston 4 Maine railroad in New
Hampshire. If it isn't snow, it is like
ly to be mud, which worries the rail
road men in the region of the noun
tains and the big hills.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-09

William G. McAdoo, once secretary
of the treasury and son-in-law of Pres
ident Wilson, denies for the second
time that he is candidate for the
Democratic presidential nomination,
Just once more and Mac will be out of
tiff the old saying goes in politics.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-09

If the recent blizzard had put the
wires out of commission, Barre's posi-
ton of isolation would have been we'll
nigh complete. We can get along fair
ly well without going or coming, but
when it comes to deprivation as to
knowledge of what is going on in the
world, that would go rather hard. Or
SO it appears to newspaper man.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-09
Duty, Not Pleasure.

What does my little man want TO
buy to-day-candyg" asked the kindly
shop-keeper, as the little boy entered.
you bet | do" was the reply, hut
I've got to buy soapl"-London Tit
Bits.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-09

Less than two weeks to spring. And
would you believe it by looking off on
these snow clad hills of Vermont?
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-09
PREPARE FoR THE FLOODS.

Dwsllsrs in the loulands and those
iving along streams IN vsrmoat would
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-15
Joseph de Forest Junkin Funeral

Joseph de Forest Junkin Funeral
joseph de Forest Junkin. who died
}i,gnterday in his home in the Wellington
,,oo!IiSoWyng m illness of several years -,
WV be buried tomorrow afternoon at
=, o,pC.orE from the undertaking parlors
=. ulv'r II. Bair. 1920 Chestnut street.
'inlerm'nt will hc private. He was
sm'y'ilyc years old and widely known
@ corporation lawyer. His Office
was was IN the Real Estate Trust Building,
o9I ne practiccd under the firm name
0'STankiR \ .Ncwbourg.
Mr Junkiu was member OF the
c% "OStg q OF trustees of the jefferson N[cdi-
"a, "a, .oiIeg@and Lafayette College, and
VA CaS solicitor of the Real Estate Trust
w., w., II" was director OF the LAWYERS
MUD S0nI, and other organizations. and n
%y',ocr =, .G Of the Union League, the Sons
Ch,t n tne American Revolution, the Art
tSo uO; 10" Philadelphia Law Association,
Cn, Tv rem Club, the Bachelors Barge
tbo Gb'uT; T. tne Philadelphia Country Club.
SOoiot %e iUtrphCqs Club and the st. Andrews
Vo,r VCvreIy. y lie was also a member of the
wv" York Yacht Club.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-15
PLAN BIG MEETING
TO BOOST HOOVER
Public Rally to Be Held Last OF
This Month Will Urge His
Nomination
ESQ IN SWARTHMORE CLUB

A Hoover mass -meetins. which Will
represent sentiment from Boston to
Chicago, will be held in this city dur
ing the latter part Of the present month.
The rally will take place in either the
Academy of Music or the Metropolitan
Opera House to urge Herbert Hoover
nomination for the presidency on the
Republican ticket.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made to have
representatives Of Hoover clubs from
ali the principal cities of the East and
Middle West present. Among the
speakers will be men representing all
walks of life.
The women Of Pittsburgh have been
quick TO respond to the plan adopted
by the Hoover committee in this state OF
not recurring them to be isolated in or
ganizations Of their own, and are on the
same committees with men for the pur-
pose of organizing and campaigning:
However, separate organization OF
women is forming in Pittsburgh to aid
in the work of pressing the Hoover can
didacy. This organization, it is said,
will be one Of the largest organizations
ever formed in Pittsburgh for the pur-
pose of furtbering presidential cam
paign.
In wiring her acceptance of the lead
ership Of the suborganization to BRING
the women Of Allegheny county into
one compact organization to work with
the men. Mrs. William G. Thaw said:
~ viii gladly accept the position offered
me and help secure Mr.. Hoover's can
didacy. as / believe that he represents
more of the American spirit than any
candidate since Abraham Lincoln"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-15
GIRL IS TOO PRETTY
70 GUARD SOLDIER
Norristown Judge Refuses to
Let Young PhiIadeIphian Act
as Mans Guardian
ROBBER IS PRISON { R

A Philadelphia girl. a representative
Of the National Health Service. today
was refused custody Of gassed veteran
cf the world war by Judge Miller, at
Norristown. ...
Henry $. Kiefer, the veteran, ap-
peared before Judge Miller and pleaded
guilty to the charge of breaking into a
house near Amber.
Judge Miller suspended sentence and
announced Kiefer would be paroled to
q representative of the National Health
Service.
A girl young and pretty. stepped for
ward aud. claiming she was repre-
sentative of the service. asked that the
..sodicr be turned over to her.
"Tf you think that We will deliver
big. husky. self confessed house
breaker to such slip of girl, you are
much mistaken" Judge Miller said.
We dent do business that way IN
Montgomery county"
Doctor Miller. chief physician at the
Norrstown Hospital for the Insane.
said that Kiefer was not normal men
tally. He is being held.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-15
WILLS PROBATED TODAY
Charitable Institutions Benefi'
Through Two Estates

Charitable institutions are to benefit
through two wills probated today.
Samuel ID. Rsley, Belgravia Hotel.
who left an estate valued at $50, 900,
bequeathed $500 each to the Inasmuch
Mission. the Hayes. Mechanics Home
and Baker Post No. 8, G. A. Il. The
remainder was devised to his widow
and son.
Louis E. Remms, 1854 North Camac
street, whose estate was valued at
$4,000, bequeathed $1,000 to the Semi
nary of st. Charles Borromeo. and
$500 each to the Little Sisters Of the
Poor, st. Johns Orphan Asylum, the
Society. for the Propagation of the
Faith, the Archbishop Ryan memorial
fund and the Church of St. Mary in
the Mountains at Mt. Pocono, Pa.
Other wills probated were:
Mary Laird, 4518 Chestnut street
$1,000; Laura E. Long, 6152 Nassau
street, $4,000; Margaret Fleming. 1900
Market street. S21, 700; Theodosia B.
Shultz, Oncologic Hospital, $40, 900,
and Catharine NJ. Wissmer, 1896 East
Washington lane, $500.
Inventories filed were for the es-
tates of Charles S. Mitchell, S15.-
992.I5: Frank F. Robb. S15, ,524. so,
and Ross Strauss, S13, 1914. 40.