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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-08-27
FRANK w. AGAIN
His Views on State Highways


favor of good roads, but hardly two men
agree as to the best way to get them
Merely talking about good roads won't
help things much. Who's got real plan?
Who's prepared to give US :" new deal
in building good roads? Who's running
for governor without consulting the politi
cal road machine in the State of Vermont?
Not Mr.. Emery, whose district has the best roads
in the because the present road commissioner lives
there
Not Mr. Babbtt, who merely proposes to extend
the present system and re-appont the present highway
commissioner;
Not Mr. Hardness, whose campaign centers about
establishing new industries for Vermont and letting the
roads take care of themselves
In his various speeches, Mr. Agan has pointed out
that bad roads wear out standard cars per cent
faster than good roads, that the difference in the cost
of gasoline is about per cent say nothing about
tires
Figuring 10000 Vermont cars at $1,000 each this
yearly loss something like 100000 year.
Worth saving, isn't it?
What's the Agan plan? It's told in two words
Surface and Drainage
Nothing about that, you say? True enough,
France has had rods of the gas-savng upkeepsaving
type years French good roads helped win the
Mr. Agan favors the French plan.
What's the French plan Merely deep bitches and
side drainage, with as good surface as your money
can buy water prooied if possible That plans good
for stone roads, gravel roads and dirt roads. It's
oood for ca1ected HIGHWAYS Countrv hiohUavc
cross-state highways and town highways. 1t tells
the whole story of bad roads good roads and how
get them.
Costs money you say? True again, but we've got
the money to spend and can get much if
need it and can show something in the way of improv
ment.
II motor-car owners could any part Of that
100000, wouldn't they be willing to pay more tax?
Wouldn't you be glad to have money spent for
town roads and cross roads
AS a matter of fact, we're not using all the money
we raise now, due to various causes. There is more
money in the treasury right than the highway
department knows what to do with.
Ordinary folks are paying all the taxes they can
stand at present; what ais tax system is not the
lack of something to tax but the unequal way that
| taxes are assessed.
man buys $4,000 house and is assessed-say
$4,000 At $2.5o the grand list the tax on his house
would be 500. A man buys 10000 car and he pays
probably $40 horse power the first year, with slid
| ing scale after that. Anything right about that?
Once more The light car, which costs less than
$1,000 pays horse power of $40. The big heavy,
expensive car, which costs than five times as
much and Injuries the highway ten times as much pays
perhaps $780, Is that fair distribution of the burden
Mr.. Agan owns heavy and he says No!
So here's program Better roads by better
methods tax, if necessary, by readj sting The
burden No bonded debt. No heavier burden on the
ordinary taxpayer
Has any one else better plan
on1, Otbar candidate anv de finite Dlanp
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-08-27
WILL SHOOT" ]. E. CRANE
Local Honey Man Will Face Squad OF
Picture Men

j. E. Crane, local honey merchant,
who last week amazed large farmer
gathering at Durham, N. H., when
without defensive armor of any kind, he
persuaded into docility bothersome
hive of bees, is going to enter the
movies. A Motion Picture Weekly
corporation of Boston read of his
stunt" and will come to Middlebury
to film bis act.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-11

by Major ELMER HASLETT
Thirteen stories OF sky spy. both true
and thrilling SO OF
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-11
AUDACITY
EQUAL TO JEFF,ERSON'S
The Purchase of the Suez Canal Shares Required the Same
Kind Of Courage the Purchase OF Louisiana

Lord Redcsdale, in his delightful
memoirs, remarked that the early
volumes of the six volume life of Ben
jamin Disraeli, by w. F. Monypenny
were du,l and unintcresting. but that
George Earl Buckle, who took up the
work when Monypenny died, was much
more successful in revealing the man
TO his readers. The last two volumes,
which have recently appeared. cover
the period from 1868 to the death OF
DisraeIi in 1881. 1t was during these
years that Disraeli became an inter
national figure and achieved his great
est fame.
Buckles volumes describe in detail,
with many Illuminating incidents. the
part which Disraeli played in British
ana European affairs during this long
period. The great triumph of his career
which he achieved in the Berlin congress
Is described fully. Mr.. Buckle quotes
Bismarrk,s comment during the con =
gress, THE old jew is the man." to
indicate the predominant position which
he occupied in that famous gathering of
statesmen.
The story of the purchase of the
Suez canal shares from the Khedive of
Egypt is rCto,d, n purchase which re-
lurCd the same kind of audacity that
jefferson displayed when he bought
Louisiana from France. Parliament
was not in session when Disraeli acted
and Congress was in recess when JEFF
trrson took over the great Louisiana
territory. AS to the details of the Suez
transactions, it has been commonly
understood that the first information
that the III 900 canal shares held by
the khcdvc could be bought came to
DisraCli from Frederick Greenwood,
editor of the Pail Mall Gazette. Mr..
Buckle admits that Greenwood did give
this information to Disraeli, but he
says that there is ground for the belief
that the information reached the foreign
Office from another source on the same
day that Greenwood interviewed Dis
rac,i. 1t took only ten days for the
cabinet to decide to make the purchase.
to raise the necessary money and to
complete the transaction. The money
was obtained from Lionel de Rothschild
by private agreement. lie was to pro-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-11
BIOGRAPHY THE SOURCE o OFHZSTORY
CONSTANTINE
Paxton Hibben Tries to Set the
Deposed Greek King Right
Before the World

Paxton Hibben, who was n news
pnper correspondent in Greece during
that rart Of the war when Constantine
still held the throne. has written book
about the dcposed king which will make
mighty interesting reading now that the
Greek people have voted In favor OF his
return.
Mr.. IIibben was convinced that the
censorship on Greek news prevented the
truth from reaching the outside world
When Constantine was dcposed hc re.
turned to America, but he waited until
Tho war was over before he offered his
version of what had happened in Greece
during the critical period. His book is
an attempt to vindicate Constantine
from the charges Of pro Germanism. He
insists that the king was always In
favor Of joining the Greek army to the
army of the Allies and that only the re-
fusnl Of the Allies to guarantee the in 4,
tegrity Of the Greek state prevented
union from the beginning.
The author was in frequent touch
with both Venizelos and Constantine
ud he has much TO say about the mo-
tives of the two men. His feelings to-
ward Constantine are indicated by the
dedication Of his book, Constantine |
and the Greek People" 1t runs in this
way: "To his majesty the king of
the Greeks, Constantine-Sirc! do not
believe in kings nor in the business of
kings. But l believe in you, sir, as n
man. 1t is therefore, not to the king
of the Hcllenes that l dedicate this
book, but to the sincere democrat, the
leader and comrade Of his people. the
brave and able soldier, the loyal friend,
the devoted patriot and the generous,
open hearted man that have found
you.'
CONSTANTINE I AND THE GREEK PEG.
PIE. BY Paxton Hibben. New York: The
Century Co
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-11
PRESS-ACENTING OF
THE SOUTH SEAS
T,Uo More Books That Make
the Region attractive to
Irresponsible Youth

The amount Of press agcnting which
the South Seas have had within the last
two years or so must make the leading
ladies of the theatre envious. SOmer
set Vaughan turned popular attention
to the Tahiti by his THE Moon and
SiXpence," in which the experiences of
an artist in that dclCctablc isle were de-
scribcd. The discovery that the orig :
inal of the artist was Gauguin. an er =
rntic French painter, was followed by
the translation into English of his book
about the island and its life and about
his own experiences. Then came Fred.
erick O'Bricns book, hailed by Mrs.
Jack London as the very quintessence
of the essential spirit of the region,
and 50 entertaining that it has gone
+ into three or four editions.
How many other books about the
islands have been issued only bibliog
raDhcr can tell. Two new ones, how
ever, have appeared within few weeks.
One is by Licutcnant Hector MacQuar-
'io well known in Philadelphia. who in
Tahiti Days" writes of his expert
enccs while recovering from the effects
Of a gas attack in the war. The other
is South Sea Foam" by A. Safroni-
Midd eton, an English wanderer. who
has seen adventures in many lands. A
Philadelphian who spent several weeks
in Tahiti and knows the island and its
atmoSnherc says that MaCQuarrie' :
Look is far superior to that Of O'Brien
TE;, means that the Tahiti which he
saw is much more Ike the Tahiti that
MarOuarric saw than is the Tahiti OF
OBricn. The invalidcd officer gives a
good virture Of two civilizations In
iuytauo ition, the civilization of the
mainland and the civilization Of the
one time heather islands on which q
veneer of Christianity has been imposed
without making any radical change ir
4 the basic habits of the people.
Mr.. SafrOni Middleton writes NOR,
at length and more in detail than Lieu,
tenant MacQuarrie, for he lived in thu
islands longer and got into more init
mate touch with the people. He knew
Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa. FL
was entertained by chieftans and chief
tainesses. He Consortcd with strang
out avs from civilized lands and HI
helped a gay dog to elope with n Poly
uPsian lady. lie tells OF these thing
with all the details to make the rcade
understand the pccularities OF the peo
nle and the wonders of the part of tn
world in which they live. 1t is booI
I ~ romantic adventure that will stir tn
b;ood of the irresponsible youth dissat
isfed with the calm life of civilized
cities and will entertain the more elder
" who are now taking their advGntur
yicariousy while seated by the fire il
their libraries or by the steam radiato
in their living rooms.
.r,IITI DAYS. By Hector MacQuarrie
NV York; George II, Doran Go, ,,,.,,,
SOUTH SEA FOAM; ny Al S4tronl'Miad'e
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-11

vide $4,000, 900 and was to receive a
commission of 2h per cent. ms
agreement with II private banker was
severely criticized in Parliament when
it became known, just as the agreement
of President Cleveland with j. Z.
Morgan & Co. to borrow several
millions to protect the gold reserve was
criticized in this country. But both
Cleveland and Disraeli were justified by
the event. As to the canal Queen Vic.
toria congratulated her minister and
told him that what she liked most about
it was that the purchase was blow at
bismarck, referring. as Disracli said
in letter to a friend, "to his insolent
declarations that England had ceased to
be political power"
Indeed, Disraeli never shonc more
brilliantly than in his consummation Of
this brilliant guarantee of British con-
troll of the route to India and in his de-
fense of it. When Lord Harrington
criticized his course and asked why he
had not waited till the French interests
had put obstacles in their way and then
obtained satisfaction by the use of naval
force, Disraei made this splendid reply !:
''If the government of the world was
mere alienation between abstract
right and overwhelming force, | agree
that there is good deal in that OBJ
servation; but that is not the way in
which the world is governed. The
world is governed by Conciliation, com.
promise, influence, varied interests. the
recognition of the rights of others,
coupled with the assertion Of ones
own. and in addition general
conviction, resulting from explanation
and good understanding, that it is for
the interest of all parties that matters
should be conducted in a satisfactory
and peaceful manner
These two volumes will be invaluable
to the student of the history of the
period which they cover. Indeed, they
Illustrate the truth of the remark that
the best history is biography, for, as
Contrarini Fleming rcmarkcd--"th is
life without theory"
LIFE OF BENJAMIN. .DlsRAELL, EARL OF
B,EAC0Ns,FIELRw 81 w ~ Georgg gg Ear BG.Sk;,e
lsGs.ls7G., Vol. VI, 1s7G-lSsl. With pYr-
traits and Illustrations. New York: The
Macmillan Co. Sl2.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-11
Books for Christmas

Your bookstore should be able 10
supply Adj these books; II no.
they can be had from the publishers,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-11
Books for Christmas
FROM THE DUTTON LIST

Your bookseller should be able to
supply ALL these books; n not,
order direct from the pubHSher'
.OVELs
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-11
The Cathedral of REIN ;
Luck on the Wing

by Monsgr. NJ. LANDR1EUX
with Illustrations OF its former beauty
and wanton destruction. $500
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-11
Far Away and Long Ago
Memoirs of the Count
de RochechOuart
The Ordeal OF
Mark Twain
The Dickens Circle

BY J. w. T. LEY
A soy to any Dickens lover
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-11
The Romance of the
Battle Line In France

By J. Z. {. BUDLEY
| Tells OF the rich associations OF CEN
| turtles with the terrain OF the French
front. $3.50
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-11
The General Staff
and Its Problems
.eneral IITDENDORFF

Offcial documents. records Of com
fdential conferences and correspond
ence which portray with ahsOlut AZ
thor!ty the Internal condition OF Ger
many in 1916. etc. In two vols.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-11
Sir Archibald Murray'S
'DeSDatcheS, 1867

Records the preparations for Genera,
4 Allenby's successful campaign. W'th
n case OF sppCial maps Sl5, 20
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-11
SOME SERIOUS
PROBLEMS OF TODAY
Moorfeld Storey and Others
Discuss Capitalism, Socialism
and Other Subjects

Moorfeld Storey, diplomatist and
publicist, has collected in book form
under the general title Of "Prob'ems Of
Today his f, L. Godkin lectures de.
livered Mt Harvard last month. The Cod
Kin Foundation, on which many JIM
portant lectures have been delivered.
was established in 1903 by friends Of
the late distinguished editor Of The
Nation. with the purpose Of making
available to students tho views Of nota-
BILE thinkers and d)crs on the gcnn"al
subject Of 'The Essentials of Free
Government and the Duties Of the Cili-
zen. Mr.. Storey has contributed ad-
mirabIy to this platform in these papers
and addresses on such Immediately ur.
gent topics as THE Use of Parties"
''ThN Labor Question" and "Our For
eign Relations" AS a man Of affairs
he has been participant in many If the
issues that confront this democracy.
Harley Withers, perhaps the greatest
British authority on finance and cdito"
Of the chief British organ devoted t.
the subject, presents 1.-THE Case for
Capitalism Naturally he takes an
Cx partc view, but he is not a thick
and thin partisan. lie believes in the
essential necessity for the canita'istic
organization of society. which has
grown up Concurrcntly with modern
civilizat 'On. and believes it must survive
as the only system that will preserve
individuality, initiative, enterprise and
persona freedom. lie makes it cIcnr
that in his view no form Of socialism
that hns vet been nroDosad con insure
the increased output of goods and serv-
ices on which material progress depends.
PROBLEMS OF TODAY Rv Moorne,d
Storey Bosom: HOughton VI Tin Co.
THE CASE FOR CAPITALISM BY Hartley
Wthnrs. New York: L. p Dutton G. co
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-11
The Diary OF a
Journalist

lBy Sir HENRY LUCY
II Racy accounts Ot important events
L vivid with the Impressions OF the nc, mo
y ment OF experience. Sooo
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-11
FOR THE WAR LIBRARY
THE Australian
victories In France
I'm 1913

lBy Lt.-Gen. Sir JOHN MONASH
Contains an interesting account OF
American cooperation in breaking the
Hlndenburg line. so"u
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-11
lSir Douglas Haig'S
lneSnatcbeS. 1915-'19

The final authority as to the british
Army on the Western Front. WIN n
case OF special maps. slo.OO
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-07-29

bought from Russia after the Civil
war.
Fighting the wolf, the grizzly, and
the puma, some perishing from the
intense cold of winter and others dy-
ing of thirst in vain efforts to cross
desert and plain, the Asiatic forbears
of the American Indian finally fought
their way into every corner of two
far reaching continents. When Euro
pean exploration of North and South
America began in the latter 18th and
early 18th centuries, aboriginal
Americans were everywhere encount-
cred. Ponce de Leon met them in
Florida where he was seeking for the
fountain of perpetual youth, the Ca
bots found them in Newfoundland;
Balboa vas accompanied by Indian
guides when he reached his famous
peak in Darien" and saw the broad
eXpanses of the Pacific, the first view
of that great ocean ever vouchsafed
a white man. And Cortez in Mexico
and Pizzaro in Peru found and wreck
ed the best developments of the
Americans Indians civilization.
The battling search for satisfactory
evidence that the islands of Polynesia
represent peaks in what was once a
continent stretching from the Malay
peninsula to the Andes, continues.
But there has never been found evil
dence of a kind to enable scientists
to accept the theory. Early this sum-
mer announcement came from New
York that an expedition was being
fitted out to spend three years visit
ing every considerable Pacific island
in the hope of getting new facts
about the mythical continent. When
this exploration has been finished we
may know more than we do today
about the mysterious sunken city of
Easter Island and other indications of
a former high civilization in mid
Pacific.
But Asia's gift of a barbarous pop
ulation for the New World was not
altogether a gratuity. For Ameri-
ca, In return, gave Asia both the
horse and camel according to the
evidence of archaeology. Remains of
the prehistoric forbears of these two
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-07-29

South Amrica. Two kinds, the llama
and the alpaca, have been made
beasts of burden like their eastern
cousins. Two other varieties, the
guanaco and the vicuna are wild.
1t was about the vicuna that a
Spanish chronicler who trooped with
Pizzaro wrote n of the first fake
stories ever syndicated from America.
The Indians of the Inca kingdom,
said he, were very systematic and
had developed their agricultural
methods tremendously. One of their
schemes was a biennial roundup of
wild animals. From the deer they
cut the horns for use as bone. The
llamas that were young, they kept
and trained as beasts of burden. The
older llamas and alpacas they sheared
for their fine wool. And the vicunas
they skinned for their fur, then turn
ed them loose to grow another COW
ering. Despite the harshness of this
treatment" the vicuna has persisted.
His pelt is still one of the most valu-
able in the world. Alpaca is also a
valuable hide, and better known. 1t
is a kind Of ''camel's hair"
DuIlDS LILO pdoI JOoi ~ OS1y Ph1Nn
have been discovered on the founda-
ton stones of the pyramids of San
Juan Teotihuacan, 27 miles northeast
of Mexico City, which go still further
towards solving the problem of his
and psychologists. The dis
found the characters similar
to Chinese. So they sent for Fong
Tsiang, Kuang, charge d'affaires of
the Chinese legation in Mexico. After
examining the runis he declared that
the hie~roglyphics were similar in
many respects to certain symbols now
in use in China. He said the words
Getty" and "eye" were clearly
depicted. Mexican anthropologists
who have interested themselves in the
discovery have declined to pass final
until further excavations
are made and more evidence obtain
ed.
The pyramids of San Juan Teoti-
auacan as well as those in Cholula in
he state of Puebla are among the
oldest marks of primitive habitation
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-07-29
CON F. KELLEY TO
TALK TO BANKERS
AT LEAST $50 OFFICERS OF
BANKS EXPECTED IN BUTTE
FOR CONVENTION.
j.. Brue Kremer to Deliver Address
of Welcome on August 6; Automo-
bile Drive, Dance and a Variety of
Other Entertainments Arranged
for Delegates.

Cornelius F. Kelley, president o.
the Anaconda Copper Mining com.
pany, will be n of the principal
speakers at the convention of the
Montana State Bankers association
in Butte August 6 and z, according to
announcement by William G. Rae OF
the DAILY bank, secretary of the execu-
tive committee.
J. Bruce Kremer will deliver the
address of welcome to the visiting
bankers. An automobile drive on the
Roosevelt highway and a dance and
reception at the Silver Bow club are
among the entertainment features
contemplated for the convention.
At least $50 out-of-town bankers,
in addition to their wives and fami-
lies are expected to attend the Butte
convention. Already requests for 28G
reservations have been received by
the Butte committee.
J. X. Heslet of the Clark bank is
chairman of the executive commit
tee for the banquet. J.. S. Dutton of
the First National bank and David
Charles of the Miners Savings bank
are members of the entertainment
committee. E. j. Barker of the Clark
bank is chairman of the hotel com
mittee.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-07-29

in the main a single stem or strain
of people, one homotype. This stem
is identical with that of the yellow
brown races of Asia and Polynesia
and the main immigration of the
American has taken place gradually
and by the northwestern route in the
earlier part of the recent period,
after man had reached a relatively
high state of physical development
and multiple secondary ~differentia-
tions. The immigration in all prob
ability was a ~dribbling and prolong-
ed overflow, likely due to pressure
from behind, or want, and a search
for better hunting and fishing in a
direction where no resistance of man
as yet existed.
"This was followed by multiplied
tion, spread, and by rapid variations
of language, due to isolation and
other natural conditions, and by the
development on the basis of what was
transported, of more or less localized
American cultures.
cit is also probable that the west
ern coast of America within the last
1000 years, was on more than one
occasion reached by small parties of
~Polynesians and that the eastern
coast was similarly reached by small
groups of whites, and that such par
ties may have influenced locally the
culture of the Americans; but such
accretions have nowhere, so far as we
know today, modified the native pop
ulation."
So marked is the resemblance of
American Indians in the warmer
countries to Chinese that in Argen-
tina it is a common thing to refer
to the native man as a Chino" The
eyes show a tendency to slant and the
hairs of the beard are few and
stringy, like those of the Chinese. In
fact, with the Mongolians, the Ameri-
can Indians are the least hairy of
races. This is another bit of evidence
linking them together.
The modern Russian invasion of
Alaska and the northwest coast of
North Amrica is taken by many as
nothing but a repetition of a perform
ance that was inevitable where two