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New-York tribune., 1920-08-08

National Homes for Disabled Volunteer
Soldiers into tuberculosis sanatoria and
one of the homes into sanatorium for
the exclusive care and treatment OF
mental and nervous patients of the
World War, and it is the aim that these
national sanatoriums shall be made the
best of their kind in the world.
The transfer of patients to govern
naent hospitals is being planned with
every safeguard to prevent any injus-
ticc being done. In fact the govern
ment's disqualification program is being
carried out with the cooperation of the
United States Public Health Service,
War and Navy departments, the Nation
al Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.
and with the counsel and cooperation of
the National Welfare Committee of the
American Legion. the National Commit
tee for Mental Hygiene of the Rookie
feller Foundation the National Tubercu-
losi5 Association and other organizations
and individuals who by reason of their
experience and interest are competent
to render assistance to the government
in the practical development of its hos
ptal program for the disabled veterans.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-08
The Cox Acceptance

The Cox Acceptance
/ Thase who expected Governor Cox
70 speak out concerning the league
| chsrishel vain hope. His three
uumn contribution does not contain
single PLAN and unequivocal dec
Aration-
1 Standing en- platform which
faces two ways, the candidate swings
/ Ike pendulum. He stands like the
dakey who starved to death between
no haystacks because unable to de-
ade which way 10 turn. Death is
Oh the lower road and "Iniuns" are
On the upper. and he takes to the
woods.
On one side are TIE twenty-threc
3emoerate Senators, shown by the
Missouri and Oklahoma primaries to
re supported by nearly half of the
Democratic rank and file, who voted
fer ratification with the Lodge res
mvations; on the other side are the
wenty-n.ne Democratic Senators
Vho SO feared the ferrule as to vote,
contrary to personal convictions,
against ratification because the
President could not secure the flat
gatfcation he demanded. Brother
Cox sees these opposing millstones
and tries To avoid their pinch.
The vital issue, it is unnecessary
o say, is whether or not the Presi-
dents policy Of fiat ratification or
nothing IS to be followed. Governor
Cox, Of course, knows fat ratifca-
lion is impossible, and that to insist
on it is not consistent with practical
friendship for the league of peace
principle. lie is fully aware that
by no political miracle will the
twenty-nine Fat ratifcationists be
swollen into the sixty-four neces-
saTy to ra..fy. But he seems to care
little for the league. What he
wants is to be elected, and SO he
ducks, as politicians of his class
commonly do.
On the whole, the Governor more
fears the wrath Of the White House,
with its patronage. than that of the
+ Democratic reservationists. SO there
are passages which indicate that he
a0.ectly accepts tire Presidents die
tatlon-passaees which show that
the recent meeting between the two
great men. as Franklin Roosevelt,
who was present as an admiring
chorus, called them, was marked by
an Unconditional surrender, such as
was not asked Of the Germans.
But finding his collar uncomfortable,
the Governor later seeks to draw at
''ntion from tAe shame of his abase-
nent BY talking Of interpretive
'sssrysiloa lie sketches a couple.
Can It be that any one able to Sc
cure Presidential nomination is 50
''yaraaliy ,raoeant as not to know
-a Interpretation" is nuliity? In
case Involving the McEnery reso-
'~.oa, adopted al the same time that
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New-York tribune., 1920-08-08

effective in the case of the following
classes of patients:
1. Neuro- -psychiatric patients.
2. Bed patients.
3. Patients taking vocational train
New-York tribune., 1920-08-08
No Stone Untnrned

Every effort has BEEN made to leave
no stone unturned in order that nothing
but the best shall be given those who
have suffered either by injury or disease
as a result Of their military or naval
service and it is still the purpose of the
Bureau of War Risk Insurance to keen
a close vigilance over the entire hospi-
talization program so as to make Ger
tain that in the operation of this pro-
gram no injustces shall be done by rea-
son of a misinterpretation of any off,
cial regulation or communication.
The njoint regulation No. l, copy
of which is attached, was written for
the distinct purpose of being clear and
precise in the instructions to those in
trusted with carrying out the program
and is couched in language which should
lend itself to only one Interpretation,
that of the authors having had in mind
the best interest of the individual pa
tients. The following excerpts from
this document may substantiate this
point:
Paragraph i" 49,. it is the
evident intent of Congress that the
facilities now owned or operated by
the government shall be used to the
fullest extent whenever practicable in
the best interest Of the benehciares i"
Paragraph 3-"District supervisors
will in future, as heretofore, act as
distributing agencies for patients Of
the Bureau of War Risk Insurance.
When it is not indicated
by the condition OF the patient the dis
trict supervisors will encourage the
transfer at the earliest practicable
date of all patients Of the Bureau OF
War Risk Insurance now in civilian hos
New-York tribune., 1920-08-08
lNanijestly Unsaiis factory

and sanat torla.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-29
A PLANT THAT HAS TO BE FED

'"Tul-Tul." as the natives call 1t, Is the
most wonderful vegetable plant in the
world.
1t grows on certain South Pacific is
lands and in appearance is like a giant
turnip, but blood-red in color.
To the white man it Is a very tough and
tasteless vegetable, To the natives, how
ever 1t is main item of their diet, They
cook it and mix it with their cocoanut
and breadfruit, for 1t is supposed to be
very nourshing. They cultivate the
plant in a rough sort of fashion in large
bitches or swamps.
Its most peculiar feature Is that II
has to be fed, and for this purpose the
native children go over the island col
lecting all decayed vegetable matter.
This is soaked in plenty of salt water
ana Is then taken in armfuls to the
plants and put in the centre of the leaf
stems or on the short. thick stem from
which the leaves spread out on every
side.
SLOWLY, but surely, the decayed matter
disappears, the leaves stiffen and spread
out ereet-signs, apparently. that that
plant has dined heartily, for II really Is
case Of feeding plant. There is no
opening OF the stem or leaves the food
! is slowly and gradually absorbed in Il
silent and wonderful manner.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-29
MISS HUNT RESIGNS
viii BE Succeeded at blue Triangle
House by Miss Frances Snvilie

Miss Barbara Hunt. l.. V. NJ. eX15,
who has been director of the Blue Triangle
Hospitality House in this city since the
house was opened in November. has re-
signed her position and completed her
duties Saturday. She has accepted a posi-
ton as caterer in a cafeteria in Green's
boro. n. c., and will 80 there about
February Is.
Miss Frances f. Saville of Mneville.
n. Y, a graduate of the household arts
course of Columbia University and re-
Gently returned from Is months service
ias n diettian in a United States army
hospital in France. will become director
of the Hospitality House in the place of
Miss Hunt, assuming her duties here
!, February l. In the meantime. Mrs. d. O..
Smith of this city will act as director.
She took up the work Saturday, when
Miss Hunt finished.
Miss Saville has had vide experience
and much success in her line of work, and
comes to Burlington highly recommended,
she followed college eXtNlsion work in
| New York city for a time, this work
| being affiliated with the extension service
of Columbia. Soon after the United States
entered the war. Miss Saville went to
France and served in hospital work until
lington from Carlyle. Pa. where she has
been head dietitan in United States Army
General Hospital No. 81.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-29
PIGEON HILL WHISKEY
T.. W. Felt of Montpelier Found Guilty
of Bringing In 10 Cases

Another respondent was found guilty
Thursday of being implicated In the
Illegal importing of liquor in United
States court in trial by jury. which
lasted all day. in the person of Edwin
w. Felt of Montpelier who during the
last year of license was bartender.
Felt pleaded not guilty but was found
guilty on three counts when the jury had
been out less than half an hour. The
counts charged him with helping to get
five cases of whiskey over the line from
Pigeon Hill, F. @, on October 16, seven
more on November l, and seven more on
November Is.
Arthur Lawson of Sheldon testified that
Felt and a fellow respondent, c.. &.
Atwood also of Montpelier. hired him to
bring the liquor in over the line in his
machine. They paid him four dollars II
case for the work According to his
testimony, Felt and Atwood would take
an automobile and go to Pigeon Hill,
where they would purchase what liquor
they wanted Lawson would then drive
after ii and bring it across the line, leav-
ing it at any place designated. Once it
was concealed on the county fair grounds
and some one stole it but they later dis
covered it in another building. Atwood
and Felt would then take the liquor and
dispose of IT,
Atwood, who was arrested and indicted
at the same time with Felt, took the stand
and admitted his part in the transactions
while telling about Felt. His testimony
conceded with that of Lawson. The
prosecution had nine indictments against
the men but they We're tried on only
three.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-29
4 VALUABLE LITTLE ISLAND

In an article contributed to the London
Daily Mail, Thomas |. Mcmahon, f. r.
G. c., gives what may be assumed to be
an authentic account of what he calls
"the little spot of earth that nearly up
set the peace conference" a tiny island
in the loneliest part of the central Pa
cifC.
This island called Nauru is, the writer
adds, worth many millions of money on
account of its millions of tons of phos-
plate rock.
"A mere pinch of this magic tropical
product put into the most impoverished
soil has an amazing effect upon plant
life. In Australia, where some 10000 tons
is used annually, 1t doubled the wheat
crop,
In Japan farmers cannot now do with
out the aid of this fertilizer; japanese
farmers are keen buyers of the product
, Indeed every nation that farms extern
sively is placing orders for phosphate
rock
! "Nauru is only II miles in circumfer
| to the south of the equator, 1900 mile,
! from New Zealand, 1000 miles from Aus
| tralia, 5000 from Japan, and 400 mile!
| from America. 1t Is the treasure isanC
Australia claims. New Zealand wants
and Japan demanded as part of the Mar
shals but to which Britain has estab
| lished the most right"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-29
FORGETFUL TRAVELLERS
Leave Everything In Trains from Inns
hrelIas 10 Rabies

There is not limit to the amount and
variety of things people r id 4
in train will leave in the coaches
when they get to their stations,
according to the railroad men, and
the office of Harry Perry, agent at
the union station, seems to warrant this
belief There is everything there from
a manicure set to IA mans coat and vest,
and most of the articles seem to ba
things that no one in his right senses
could possibly walk off and leave OF
course, there are always umbrellas and
rubbers, as almost everyone sometimes
forgets those. but there are travelling
bags, suit coats. oVercoats and rain
coats toilet articles, etc.
According TO conductor on the Rut-
land road ii isn't impossible to even
leave ones shoes and later wonder
where they We're. one night when n
train from Burlington stopped at North
Ferrsburg a man alighted and the con-
ductor noticed that he had on heavy
red wooden socks but no shoes. Aren't
you forgetting something? he asked
The man was sure he wasn't. Where
are your shoes" asked the conductor
and the man said "Oh, in the train, I
took them off to rest my feet" II the
conductor had been less observing tho
man would have been wiring wildly
trying to locate those shoes.
Another man left a check for $50 000
in the berth in sleeper and after
much anxiety it was located for him
by Mr.. Perry at Montreal. one woman
alighted from the train without her hat
and got way uptown before she dis
: covered her loss. but the limit was
/ reached recently when woman who
got on the train at New Haven juno
ton came to the conductor just after
the train started and said Il left my
baby in that station" The train was
stopped, backed and she got her baby
and went on The only thing that hasn't
been left on the trains is a wooden leg
and the railroad men are expecting
\ that almost any time.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-29
THE AMERICAN LEGION
Bulletin Issued by Department OF YER
mont Tells What IL Being Done

4 recently issued bulletin of the depart
ment of Vermont of the American Legion
gives an interesting account of the
national and State activities of the
organization. The story is told of the
part played by the Legion in the recent
passage by Congress of the Sweet bill.
providing more adequate compensation
and many other benefits for wounded and
disabled soldiers and sailors and making
War Risk insurance payable in lump
sum instead of in small monthly install
ments covering a long term of years. At
the meeting of the national officers and
all department commanders of the Legion
at Washington in mid-December to con-
fer with the Government War Risk
Insurance Bureau, the Sweet bill came up
for discussion. An entire day was spent
in analysing and studying this measure,
il was approved and the necessity for its
passage made so apparent to the various
senators that 1t was favorably acted upon
the following day.
The Department of Vermont. in COM
mon with all others, now has war risk
lo1cer, whose duties are primarily to look
after compensation and insurance claims
for disabled soldiers and sailors,
whether members of the Legion or not.
In addition he is ready with advice or
information on the subjects of bonuses
liberty bonds purchased while in service,
alotments, and so forth. f.. w. Gibson
of Brattleboro has accepted the appoint-
ment as war risk officer for the depart
ment of Vermont.
During the month of January each local
post of the Legion elects it's officers for
the coming year Many of the posts have
already chosen their new leaders.
The recent national convention provided
for the creation of National American
ism commission ito endeavor to realize
in the United States the basic ideal of the
American Legion of 100 per cent. Amer
icanism."
Though the commission is a small
one OF fifteen members, Vermont is
one of the States to be honored
with the request to name a member. The
Rev. Fraser Metzger of Randolph has
been appointed to sit on this commission
as Vermonts representative by Depart
ment Commander President John NJ.
Thomas of Mddlebury College.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-29
HAUNTS OF RARE BIRDS
Species Of AlbntrOss md Others. Nest
ing Only There, Are Shot Despite LAW

Sticking out in the Pacific ocean 900
miles beyond Honolulu is a group Of lit
tie islands, the largest not more than
two miles in area, and several of them
barely above the waves at high tide. Yet
on those islands are many hundreds OF
thousands Of birds, and among them are
at least six species not found anywhere
else in the world In 1911 one of those
species was represented by six birds
all that We're left as the sole means of
perpetuating the species. and they con-
centrated on a single little island, where
one man might kill them all in one min
ute's shooting.
That species-the Laysan teal--has for
tunately increased until they are, by es-
innate. 80 individuals. For the United
States department of agriculture for a
few years has controlled the islands as
n bird reservation-the Hawaiian Is
lands Reservation it is called. But pro-
tecting the birds there is a precautions
business. The possibility has existed al
ways that one or more of the rare spec
cies might be wiped out in a day.
BY way of illustration, this: One day
in 1909 the crew of the cutter Thetis
found an old shed absolutely piled full of
albatross wings. search revealed the
fact that % plume hunters had landed
on Laysan Island and had killed at least
100000 birds. The men were captured.
taken to Honolulu and formally arrested.
Since that time there is not known TO
have been any repetition of such depre
dations, but it is always imminent.
Just now many fisherman-largely ma
tionals of countries other than the United
States-are extending their operations
from Honolulu out to the region of the
bird reservation. Landings on the islands
are constantly imminent, and such land
! ings would be menace TO one of the
most remarkable bird-breeding places In
the world. The Bureau of Biological Sur
vcy having direct charge of the reserva
ton, is calling attention 10 the fact tina
disturbing the birds on Laysan or any
of the smaller islands is forbidden, anC
announcing that the reservation will b'
protected, by whatever means are neces
sary, for the benefit of all the peoples
of the world.
The species that nest there and no
where else are the Laysan teal the little
! Laysan rail, tho Laysan honey-eater, the
Laysan finch, the miller bird "a small
warbler), the Hawaiian tern. and til,
Laysan albatross. Other species that nes
principally on Laysan and adjacen
islands and would be in danger of ex
termination If molested there are the red
tailed tropic bird, the black-footed alba
tross, the gray-backed tern, and the sooty
tern.
The islands composing the reservation
lare: Laysan Island, Ocean or Cure Island
Pearl and Hermes Reef. Lysanski or Pei
Island, Mary Reef, Dowsett Reef. Gardi
ner Island, Two Brothers Reef, French
Frigate Shoal, Necker Island, Eros
Shoal and Bird Island
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-29
BACK IN CIVIL LIFE
University of Vermont Men Get Old
Jobs or New Ones, Following War

Most of the University Of Vermont
men who were in the service are now
back to civil life, some of them in the
same positions, while others hold new
ones. Thomas L. Hills of the class of
1913 is employed in the Western Michi-
gan clinical laboratory at Grand Ra-
pids. Mich, as pathologist and bac-
teriologist; George c. Stanley of the
class of 1918 has recently been pro-
NOTED to the responsible position of
engineer of the Cherokee county high
way commission at Gaffney, S. c.; he
also holds the position of resident en-
gineer on two large federal aid pro-
jects in the same county; DR.. Leslie
II. Wright of the same class is a ply
stefan on the staff of the Connecticut
state hospital at Middletown, Conn.
and also w. Stanley, also of this class,
has recently been discharged from the
service and is farming in East Georgia
Or. Henry Ladd Stickney of the class
of "a who is major in the medical
corps of the u. S. Army, has returned
! from overseas and is the surgeon In
charge of the experiment station al
American University at Washington
! D. G. Joseph II. Johnson of the class
of 1919 is a craftsman with the Jones
& Lamson Machine company, Spring
class, has recently accepted a position
as craftsman with the Canadian Bridge
Company, Ltd, of Walkerville, Ont.
Miss Edith Scribner. also of the class
/ of 1919, is student at the New Haven
Conn, normal school of gymnastics
Chauncey f. Dunton, eX-'20, is mate il
the u. $. Merchant marine. During the
war he was in the navy. Almer Russell
of the class of '06, who has done era
duate work in history at Columbia, ha!
resigned the position which he held las
year at Wells College Aurora, N. y,
and is now acting professor of histor,
at the University of Nebraska, at Lin
coin. Paul l.. Ransom of the class o
1916, who saw much active service
overseas during the war, is stationed
at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky, a
major of infantry. He is with the Firs
division End machine gun battalion.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-29
MAKING
BIG MONEY JUST NOW
Twenty-Five Dollars a Day Not
Uncommon Return for Those
Who Pull Perch from Ice
Bound Waters of Missisquoi
and Maquam Bays

Fisherman are making as high as s25
per day on Misssquoi and Maquam bays,
according to the statement of F.. $.
Isham, deputy fish and game warden,
who has just returned from tour Of in
spection through the region. There are
far more fishermen than ever before ana
the fishing is better. With prices higher
than ever before the revenue derived from
the waters of Lake Champlain in this
year promises to be far greater than was
ever known before
Roy Moss and Oscar Jaquea of Swan
ton, who know the ways of fish as do few
men, are among the biggest money
getters. Tbey have made as high as $50
in one week by perch fishing alone. They
run several lines in through holes in the
ice and by tying the lines on to willow
branc hes, they can keep track of a large
number and run from one hole to an
other as they see the branch drawn down.
The perch are running heavy, about three
to the pound. and the fish sell for 20 cents
a pound just as they are taken out of the
water. They are shipped to New York,
where the dealers dispose of them The
number of cases. weighing between 100
and $50 pounds each, which are shipped
from East Alburg and Swanton every
night is between Is and 80.
| 1t is estimated that there are 300
shan.ies scattered along Mssisquol and
Maquam bays. There are considerable
sized villages larger than many of the
towns in the State SO far as number of
inhabitants goes, escounced on the ice
now. Men and their wives live there and
keep house in the limited space of his
fishing shanty:.
| About the first of February the fisher
men will change their tactics and will go
after pike instead of perch. Then the
glls, fish eyes. and other bait which has
been used to beguilc the perch will be
changed for minnows. The professional
have a large supply of these on hand
now for the pike fishing, which is even
more profitable than the perch. for New
York stands ready to buy anything in the
way of pike at a high prices Last year
pike sold to New York dealers for much
more than so cents per pound, undressed
and this year the market is even higher
The pike are just getting in out of the
deeper water about the first of February
and from all indications there Will be
wonderful pike fishing there from tha'
time on. The number going fishing this
winter has affected the labor market, ant
many of the men who could be hired FOL
various jobs during the winter. now have
no time for such occupations because OF
the comparatively low wages.