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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-18
FULL MILITARY HON0RS
INSTEAD OF OBLIVION.

New York, March ls.-A grave
in the potter's field prepared for
Oliver ID. Dyer of Leominster,
Mass, former private in the
l02d machine gun battalion, 26th
division, who died here Tuesday
as a result of wounds received
in action, was abandoned to-day,
when it was announced the body
would be buried with full mill
tary honors. The knights of CO.
lumbus have taken charge and
burial will be in Calvary ceme-
terry tomorrow. A squad of sol
diers from Governors island will
fire salute at the grave.
The Knights Of Columbus be-
came interested in the ease when
it became known that the boys
only near relative WAS young
half sister, Thelma Tucker, who
has been an inmate of a chari-
table institution in Massachu-
setts. She was sent for by the
organization. and arrangements
have been made to provide for
her supports
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-18
DEATH FROM NATURAL CAUSES
Thomas H. O'Shea of Peabody, Mass,
Found Dead in Bed

Peabody. Mas, March ls.-Thomas
IT. O-Shea. a leather manufae.urer
widely known in the trade. and the
principal real estate owner q this city,
was found dead in his bed today He
was - wears of age. Tae medical eX-
amiHer reported death due % natural
causes.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-18
WALSH MJNIHIZE.S
PRESIDENTIAL TALK
He Calls 1t Local Enthusiasm" When
Two Massachusetts, Men An
nounced Their Candidacy to
the National Conven-
tion Pledged to
Hin,

Washington, D. c., March ls.-Sena-
tor Walsh of Massachusetts, said to-
day he was not a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for president.
He characterized as local enthusiasm"
announcements yesterday by w. J.
Buckley Of Southbridge Mass, and
Major r. P. Shea of Ftchburg, that
they were candidates for district dele
gates 10 the national convention
pledged to him.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-18

The Olockson. vessel Of 6,076 gross
tons, is owned by the United States
shipping board and operated by the
Pacific Steamship company. Radio ad-
vices Ia the naval communication sery-
ice in New York state that she was
loaded with gasoline
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-03-18
FINNISH TROOPS RETREAT.
After Severe Fighting with the BOlshs.
vik-A Village Almost Destroyed

Helsinvfors. March Is Finnish
troops have been forced 20 evacuate
their positions north q Lake Ladoga
snd retire no-thwessxari IN the dlrec-
tion q Porapaervi. srcordinV - an Off
rial statement by the Finnish general
ttsff. whicA reports severe fighting with
ihs bolshevik yesterday. The village
q Soutiervi j. ssid 60 have been al
uost DESTROYED
New-York tribune., 1920-10-01
Cost Of Strikes

We hope all our readers, of every
persuasion of political faith, VIII
read the interesting series of arti-
cles, begun on this page to-day, de-
signed to record the cost Of strikes.
The point of view of the writer is
that neither of capital nor labor.
The question Of blame is left aside.
The aim is simply to present facts
the appalling cost to the nation, to
labor to the capitalist, to consumer,
to producer, to every one, of the un-
precedented era of strikes through
which the country is passing That
cost has been suspected, guessed at,
by every one, The chief object Of
these articles is to assess this cost
with statistical accuracy and bring it
home wildly to every member of the
community.
Remedy is another matter. Mr..
Olds proposes to treat of the rene
dies under discussion in his final
article. But the first point, we con-
ceive, is to bring home to every
American, whatever his way of life,
the unbelievable waste and colossal
expense of this method Of settling in
dustrial disputes.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-01
Lecointc's Ar VicforY

Sadi Lecointe's air victory at
Etampes won great glory for France.
The famous French ace established
worlds record for speed by covering
The 183-mile course in one hour and
six minutes. He also won permanent
possession Of the Gordon Bennett
Trophy for his native land, as it was
The third successive victory for
France
The Gordon Bennett Trophy be-
fore the war contributed greatly to
the rapid development Of aviation.
In the five years preceding the war
it resulted in advancing the speed of
airplanes from As to 129 miles an
hour The world of aviation looks
anxiously forward to further stimu-
lation.
SO the race in France was one of
keen disappointment. First, because
it had been expected that speeds in
excess Of 200 miles an hour would be
achieved; second, because of the poor
showing Of the really remarkable
American entries, and, third, be
cause Italy and other European
countries which had made entries
failed to appear. Even the British
entries were finally reduced to the
lone Martinsyde Semiquaver of Cap
tain Raynham.
Another disappointment was the
unfortunate condition that kept the
Cactus Kitten out Of the race This
remarkable monoplane of American
design and manufacture has already
in tests shown its ability, and would
surely have exceeded the coveted 200
miles an hour.
The direct lesson of the race is the
need of well laid out airdromes.
The accident to Roland Rohlfs, while
only Of minor nature, emphasized
this. 1t also demonstrated that air
planes are safe to-day, even the
super-speedsters built specially for
this race, provided ample landing
New-York tribune., 1920-10-01
Senator Myers's Bolt

Senator Myers has bolted the
Democratic state and Congress tick
ct in Montana because the Demo-
cratic primaries were raided by the
Nonpartisan League, just as the
Democratic primaries in Colorado
were. Mr.. Cox, during his recent
trip through the state, consorted
with the league intruders, but the
Senator refuses to be delivered to
another party.
Mr.. Myers prefers Republican state
officers and Congressman to Nonpar-
tisan Leaguers. Many Republicans
in North Dakota prefer Demo
cratic state officers and Congressman
to Nonpartisan Leaguers. Thus the
politics Of the states in which Mr..
Townley's machine is strongest is
being strangely bedeviled. The con-
servatlves and moderates of the ma
jor parties are being driven into an
alliance. The relations of local or
carnations TO national organiza-
tions are being deranged.
In North Dakota and Montana
and, to large extent, in Colorado
the Presidential campaign has been
divorced from the state campaign
The Nonpartisan League candidates
are for themselves and generally
against the League Of Nations. In
North Dakota they are for Harding
as against Cox. In the other two
states they are ostensibly for Cox,
but against his league policy. No
wonder Democratic leaders in Mon
tana and Colorado are in despair.
Senator Myers advises the Demo
cratic State Committee to "take
such action as will assure the car
rying Of the state by the national
ticket but the rejection of the state
ticket" But he admits that "this
will be hard thing to do" Straw
votes and other indications from the
Rocky Mountain states suggest that
carrying them for Cox is about as
hard a job as could possibly be
wished on the present Democratic
state MANAGERS.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-01
Home Owners

Whether or not the exemption of
housing improvements from local
taxation will be a sufficient offset to
investment builders to brave the ter
rors Of the rent laws remains to be
determined,
But, happily, there is no doubt
that thousands will be induced to
become home owners. To these the
rent laws carry 10 terrors, for they
build to occupy, not to let To them,
therefore, the tax exemption is
velvet
Chairman Hilly of the Rent Com
mittee estimates the net saving to
the home builder from the tax ex-
emption at 20 per cent Mr.. Hilly
understates rather than overstates.
Assuming that the Improvement,
to which the exemption applies, is
worth as much as the lot, then to
build your own house is as good as
9 per cent on your money, and the
saving is 25 per cent to the small
capitalist who is now satisfied with
6 per cent ON his money. The saving
VIII approximate so per cent to the
bank depositor who now gets 4 per
cent on his money.
The general gain to the city from
home-owning is incalculable. It
means more intelligent interest in
public affairs, lower taxes, better
training Of the young, more comfort
in life-in a word, all the good
things that real home implies.
New York is the most be-tenanted
city in the world. To the majority
it is doubtless more economical and
satisfying to rent. But to a large
minority, now annual chasers TOR
new apartments, there is no substi-
tute for ones own roof-tree
The tax exemption is to call new
houses into existence and thus to
protect the public hy competition.
This will be blessing, but an even
greater blessing VIII come inciden-
tally. Perhaps the time is not far
distant when New York will lose an
unenviable distinction and settled
families viii assume, as formerly,
that an owned home is an essential
New-York tribune., 1920-10-01
The Pedestrian Largely to Blame

The Pedestrian Largely to Blame
To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: According to published state
ment of our Police Commissioner, who
has at hand the daily reports of the
traffic department as well as the records
of the city courts 78 per cent, or prac-
tically four-tifths, Of the accidents re-
sultng in personal injury from motor
vehicles in our city streets result from
the negligence or carelessness of pedes
trians themselves. Has your corre
spondent, Mr. Rusk, taken the trouble
to examine the available records? Or
would ne prefer to leap lightly over, in
pursuing the path of his thesis, such
triAing obstructions as facts?
At Forty-second Street and Fifth
Avenue is an example Of the finest
system for eXpediting and Safeguarding
traffic that any city of the world has
yet produced. But if Mr. Rusk will
station himself there for fifteen minutes
and use his eyes he cannot fail to OBJ
serve that six pohcemen-four stationed
at the corner curbs-are insufficient to
restrain reckless snd law-defyinc pedes-
trians from Guiding control and dashng
headlong into the swiftly moving stream
of vehicles.
There is no doubt that our traffic
laws must be revised. Ten per cent Of
the people in the United States now
come within the definition drivers Of
automobiles.' Mr.. Ruak hints. but re-
frains from saying directly chat he is
one of these. To assert that these mil
lions of Americans become "potentia]
criminals as soon as they arc seated
at steering wheel is an absurditv that
needs no comment. From an experience
Of seven years owning and operating
4.ous cars through the highways of
a dozen states, I should say that about
one driver in fifty ought to be disoual-
fed either as inexpert or reckless.
1t is obviously necessary to keep the
city's traffic moving and With expedition
Owners Of motor vehicles pay large
tax and are just as entitled in common
fairness to protection in their part Of
the street as are pedestrians in the
part reserved for them. Vehicles must
keep off the sidewalks Pedestrians
should be compelled to keep Off the road
ways except at crosswaIks.
This system would require that We
F
New-York tribune., 1920-10-01
American Labor's Reply

Samuel Gompers, in the name of
the American Federation of Labor,
repudiates the entire philosophy and
program of European labor radi-
calism.
American labor declares unshak-
able opposition to every form of Boil
shevism, whether the Red variety of
Russia or the pink varieties of Great
Britain, France and Italy. 1t has
no community of thought with them;
is hostile to the whole scheme and
theory of progress through revolu-
ton. The workers, it proclaims, will
be the chief victims of an era of
violence and clawing selfishness.
The heart and citadel of sovietism
is attacked-its principles even more
than its practices. Reforms are to
be striyen for, but with the ballot,
by the political power majority
exercises. Whatever folly other
lands may be prey to, the organized
labor Of America is the uncompro-
missing foe to the new tyranny.
The Federation's answer to the
invitation to join in coddEng Lenin-
ism shows that the American school
has not been open in vain. The
ignorant may be fooled by artful ap-
peals to class feelings. bat not so
men and women taught to think and
to know. Our great national bull
wark is in a popular intelligence.
This sees why the Russians are eat
ing sawdust bread. This forbids
surrender of the gems civilization
has painfully made.
All wisdom is not with Mr.. Com
pers and the great organization of
which he is spokesman. But on the
main issue Of our times he is ever
lastingly right and has set up a
standard to which the real friends
OF labor throughout the world may
confidently repair.
Free American labor would con-
tinue free; by no tricks is it to be
cajoled and deceived into abandon
ing democracy. II is not fooled by
the claim that the new cars would
be different from the old czars. All
human history, of which our edu-
Gated masses fortunately have
knowledge, attests that czars are al
ways alike - surround themselves
with armed agents and a privileged
class and rule by force for the bene-
fit Of the few.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-01

makers name? Not muchl BY sell
ing music"
In his volume Mr.. Durstine sug-
gests that publishers might try the
experiment of selling culture in
stead of selling titles or authors
advertising and selling the reading
matter that is within book covers
"as a force for culture and breadth
Of vision and information. Ap-
preaching the problem from an
other angle, he asks why should pub
fishers feel that new books, how
ever poor, must be brought out to
supersede old books, however good.
"If a book is sound and true and
fine, why stop advertising it as
soon as only 5000 people have
bought it, when perhaps $4,000
would buy it if they got around to
hearing about it?"
Whether books can be advertised
profitably as are music machines
and canned soups, however, is n
question. Once a book is purchased
it can be kept indefinitely 1t is
not soon consumed, as is a can of
soup. Now chapters cannot be in-
serted every few weeks to keep up
interest. But when this much is
said, something remains to be said
in favor Of Mr.. Durstine's interest,"
ing proposal. A good many book
lovers would like to see it tried
with as much care, with as high 1c-
gard to artistically prepared adver
tiscments and with as much libcr-
ality of moneycd expenditure as
characterizes the sales promotion Of
other products.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-01
A Blue Day for Humans

That small boy who looked up
pleadingly into the great Joe Jack
sons face and asked: You didn't do
it, Joe; did you?" said a mouthful
Of human commentary on the great
baseball tragedy. For thousands of
small-sized fans the news out Of
Chicago is not far from what a
sudden discovery that George Wash
ington was a liar and thief would
mean to the rest of us.
The singular feature of the whole
wretchedly dishonorable perform
ance is the queer remnants of honor
which surround the men and their
confessions. Or rather such shreds
would be singular if they had not sur
rounded every human misdoer from
Launcelot down. Of such is the tribe
- humans. The bah player who sold
his birthright and betrayed his en-
ployer and his faithful fans had
enough perN erted sense Of honor to
deliver his goods to the man who
bought them. The whole crooked
proceeding rested upon good faith
essentially. Here was honor among
thieves with vengeance.
The moral is as old-fashioned and
according to rule as anv Sunday
schcol could desire. We wonder if
there could be a greater punishment
of q Joe Jackson than the question
of the small Chicago fan and the
answer he was Obliged to make.
Even the high sum which these
players expected looks pretty smal
alongside the brand Of crookedness
and treachery which is on them
They almost got away with it? Let
that be any comfort to a traitor f
he wishes. But the facts are rather
that they were extremely lucky tc
have got away with it as long a.
they did, and that there was never
clearer illustration of wrongdoing
running on to its inevitable dis
covery.
A blue day for ordinary. loyal
SHINING humans, but a swell occa-
sion of triumph for all the copy
book maXims
New-York tribune., 1920-10-01
Population and Power

Census totals for four more states
Illinois, Montana, New Mexico
and Louisiana-emphasize the de-
cline of the country's rate Of
growth in the last decade. Illinois,
the third state in the Union, has
held her own fairly we'll in the ten
years. But that was only because
her percentage Of growth between
1900 and 1910 was abnormally low.
Her increase then was 1863 per cent.
In the decade from 1890 to 1900 it
had been 26.01 per cent The per
centage since 1910 is only Is.
Montana shows an increase in
population Of 45.6 per cent That
is very high for the decade Just
ended. But between 1900 and 1910
Montana grew 54.5 per cent and be
tween 1890 and 1900 1903 per cent.
New Mexico has suffered a more
considerable check than Montana.
Her rate of increase is only 10,1 per
cent. In the preceding decade it was
67.5 and in the decade from 1890
to 1900 21.9 per cent Louisiana
also makes poor showing Her
percentage is only SIS, compared
with 1919 between 1900 and
1910 and 23.5 between 1890 and
1900. Even with this very slight
gain Louisiana has in 1920 108,936
more inhabitants than the War De
partment was willing to credit her
with in 1917 for draft purposes.
How will these population fig
ures affect representation in the
lower branch Of Congress and the
Electoral College? Illinois has now
twenty-seven Representatives, on a
ratio of 2l1,877. She has a debit
balance on the twenty-seventh seat
OF $4,000, If the ratio is raised in
accordance with precedent, to 230,-
600, she will be entitled to twenty
eighc members, with a credit bal
'ance of $4,000. Montana cannot
gain seat in the House on a $780,
600 ratio, because in the 1911 ap-
portionment she had deficit Of
47,701 or her second seat. She will
continue to have two Representa-
tives, with q leftover credit frac-
tion of 87,593.
On the other hand, New Mexico
viii gain Representative by virtue
#g y rnsjer fraction of 130,247.
1AsrssiSna ia sligAkly eyer-represent-
New-York tribune., 1920-10-01
A Dubious Peace

CFron The Los Ar1eles Tmcs)
One Of the Bolshevik delegates to
the Riga conference says that they
want peace with Poland, but only on
conditions which would make it per
manent, He lies as he speaks. His
Folshevism doesn't want peace Of anv
kind. Even the complete and abiect
surrender of the opposition does not
moan peace. There must still be a
harrying If the opposition be forced
to accept Bolshevism as its creed it
IS at once modified for wa2like SER
ice n smother field. Bol4hevism lu.4
live as lives the tiger. There is a
passion for blood-letting. The Reds do
not want an enduring peace any more
than did Attila. Under the test of
peace communism fails. Any peace
treaty signed by Lenine or Trotzky
would not be worth whimper in &c,
henna.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-01
The High Cost of Strikes
ChabtcrI
Strikes and The II Ugh Cost Of Food
Bp Marshall O[ds

ever-increasing variety of all kinds Of
palatable and healthfuI products, which
each year tended to become cheaper in
proportion as the supply grew till even
the poorest among our population have
been able to reform the family diet on
more healthful and palatable basis.
The Dock Strikers
The main arteries which supply this
important food element to our millions
Of families in New York and vicinity
are the Clyde, Mallory and Old
Dominion steamship lines Early in
the present year the dock workers of
each Of these lines struck. Following
the usual practice of modern strikers
of striking just when they could in
Auence their employers most by pinch
ing the public hardest, and in spite Of
the fact that they had a wage agree
nlent with six months stin to run.
the dock workers on each line planned
this strike for just the time when
the Southern vegetables for the
-NOA NtlVA II III al hSC WSIc D6ElnlllQP TO
rive on the dock from their particular
section.
These dock laborers, which in the
South were chiefly negroes and in the
North almost entirely foreigners, had
been receiving $35 week for nine
hours a day. They struck for s44
week, eight hours a day, four hours
on Saturday and 81 an hour for all
overtime. These three steamship lines
are on record with the Interstate Com
! merce Commission as having been run
at a net loss of over $6,00O,0OO last
year, so that any increase in wages had
to depend on an allowance by the COM
mission Of an increase in freight
rates. 1t is not proposed to go into
the ethical phases or the Justice Of
such strike here, but this is sufficient
to indicate that at least this strike was
not forced on labor by unbearable wages
or conditions.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-01
Making a Book Market

Recently it was announced that
an interesting experiment would be
made this autumn in advertising
books. For a variety Of reasons
Americans do not seem to be a book
buying people at present. But pub
fishers believe good many more
Americans might get the habit of
buying books if ttsy were made to
realize that books are worth buying.
In his new volume, Making Adver-
tiscments, Roy S. Durstine touches
upon this point. Book publishers,
he says, usually take small adver-
tising space, prominently display
the authors name if he is popular,
or the books title il he isn't, add
sentence or two quoted from favor
able book reviews, and call it an
advertisement.
"Would your wife buy a new
soup" Mr., Dursttne asks, "if she
knew nothing about it except the
looks of the container and if some
soup critic merely said, Very tasty,
indeed? Not on your trade-marked
success. She buys the soup because
the soupmaker sells appetite How
have the piano-player people and
the photograph people put their
products into the amazing number
Of homes in which you find them
to-day?" he continues. by selling
New-York tribune., 1920-10-01

cd at present, with eight members of
the lower house. She VIII retain
eight seats, however, under a 230.-
600 ratio, with deficit of 5000.
1t is striking feature of the
census returns so far that no Demo-
cratic state has gained in represen-
tation. Of the normally Republic
can states California will gain four
electoral votes, Washington one,
New Mexico one, Illinois one, Con-
necticut one and Massachusetts one
"a total Of nine.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-01
Vegetables The Year Round

One of the most important develop
ments in the last dacade-one that has
contributed very much not only to keep
ing the cost of living down but in rails
ing the standards OF living in New York
and all the North Atlantic section of
our country-has been the rise of the
fruit and vegetable growing industry
in the Southern seaboard states. For
merly people in the northern sections
of the country were limited during a
large part Of the winter months to the
few fruits and vegetables that could be
carried over in cellars from the pre-
vious summer, and which not only fur
rlshed the meagerest diet of this kind,
but which, in proportion as thew were
consumed or spoiled, rose higher and
higher in price. The development Of
fruit and vegetable growing in the
South has meant that from January on
cur markets have been supplied with an
New-York tribune., 1920-10-01
When VIII Retail Prices Re
spond2

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Tie statements in tbs morn
ing's Tpbune regarding the towering
of manufacturers prices for theH
produ6s are extreraely ;snportant Inc
question we consumers are partica-
larry interested in Is when VIII the
retal prices respond?'
When the market was going tts
oher way retsders advanced their
rices Immediately upon the ansonnce.
nents of msnufacturers advasces 40
took big profits. :,
viii they act as quickly now WIN
they try to hold up prices on aeeouns
of cost to them of present stocssF
If wise they Will take their losses o.
they took their profits: the public have
determined not to buy until prices CONS
Down; they will MT submit to teFss'
caught coming anf going.
CONSUMER
New York, Ser @S' a'aes