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Republican farmer., 1920-03-19

Poughkeepsie, N. Y, March 1S- With the advent of women into na- tional politics, the students at Vassar College are expressing definite and well defined opinions on the coming Presidential campaign. Students rep resenting various college activities and coming from all sections of the country have been interviewed on the subject. The vast majority prove to be Republican A few, coming from the South, are Democrats.
 '"Yhe best man will get my vote," is the popular student outlook. Cues tions put to these highly educated young women were:
 What do you think is the biggest issue of the campaign?
 What man stands most clearly on this issare2
 . What type of man do you think the next President must be?''
 In asking for views it was assumed that the question of the peace treaty and League of Nations would be de- cided before the next Presidential election.
 Wood, Lowden and Hoover loom up as the popular favorites, although ! Coolidge and McAdoo were also men toned.
 One of VaSsar's foremost debaters, Caroline Ware, says: There is no big issue in this campaign I agree with the statement that both the Repub- lican and Democratic parties are like empty bottles with different labels The Republicans will win out what ever their platform, because the ma jority of the people are down on Will son. Wood is the most likely candi- date, but he doesn't stand very clear rNf1 5r like for the next President is one whc will do his "darndest' not to play politics"
 Another member of the debate committee, Margaret Pratt, from Bos ton, prefers Coolidge as q candidate but thinks that Wood has more chance of election.
 '1 like Coolidge" she says, 'be cause of the way he handled the sit
Republican farmer., 1920-03-19

Among the new publications is q novel by Henry James Forman, a Bedding resident. entitled Fire Of Youth Gertrude Atherton, herself writer of distinction, describes it as a real novel with real people.
 Rev. MT. Cunningham and wife left on Monday for Hoosae for a visit with friends there and at other places. They expect to return on the 24th
 The second lecture of the series ar ranGep for by the Woman's Mission ary Auxiliary and to have been given this week has been postponed Mrs. Mary Ryan of Pleasant Valley was operated on at the Danbury hos
 pital on Monday for cancer of the liver.
 R. R. WaIbridge has retured from l a two months trip to South America 1 The Sanford school closes tomor- row for the Easter vacation which will continue to April 6. George S. Banks is supplying large poles to the American Telephone Go: to replace some of those wrecked by 1 the late storm.
 | w. c. Sanford is able to be out l again after an illness which laid him up for about two months. f / Mrs. Joseph Busser has again be- l come 9 patient at the Danbury hos pitaL
Republican farmer., 1920-03-19
POLISH POLITICS.

Warsaw, March 1S-The president of the Polish republic is to he elected by the National Assembly which is to consist of two houses. This was decided recently by the constitution a commiss of the Polish Diet which has in hand the task of framing the constitution of the new state. Under the present arrangement, which has been in effect about a year. the Po- fish Assembly consists of but the one house-tne' Diet having about 325 members. The two houses as pro- vided under the constitution in the making are to be known as the Die and Senate.
Republican farmer., 1920-03-19
KOIChak General Says
 He Fears Another War

not Bo1shevist the General declared that Bolshevism is misunderstood here.
 "BolShevism as understood in Amer ica is not the Bo1shevism of Russia In fact, they do not use the word in Russia; they use Red. And it is not the murdering, bomb throwing affair it was two years ago. That's done away with. They are trying now to | fit it to practical use as a form of l government and there have been I many changes. As a matter of fact, as far as murdering went, the Kol- chak forces had the Reds beat on l that point. In Vladivostok alone, in | three days, Rosenoff, Governor Gen. | era1 of the Far East under Seminoff caused the execution of 700 persons
 He escaped to the Japanese when the 1 Reds captured the town Lucky for | him."
 Conditions in Russia and Siberia 1 as viewed by Gen. Thord- Gray, while | he was on the famous Kolchak re- l treat of 4,000 miles, are not as des-
 perate at they have been painted.
 '1Iast years harvest was the rich 1 est in the history of the country" he
 said. ''It would be well for the Allies to look alive and get into Russia l WlIle IIl0 IIIIl6 IS T1pe olneTWlSe the i Germans will. But as far as applyine the Soviet experiment to other part.
 of the world. I would say no. Le
 the Russians experiment with it an6
 see what it does. They are a pecu1ia1
 people and like to be let alone Bu put a circle around. them and keel
 the Soviet form of government insid, 7 Russia
 The General characterized the exc cution of Kolchak as a disgrace to tn Czech troops that handed him over t ) the Reds, and he blamed the F'rencl } General. Janin, who as chief of tn
 French Military Mission was in com ] mand of the Czechs and who permit ted Kolchak's release to the Reds \ On two occasions Thord- Gray wa f a mark for asSassins. He was clos !. to Kolchak, and his free access to tn = chief was resented by many of tn t Russians in command. At Omsk las s August he was shot and seriousl t wounded and on New Years Eve g | 1 Vladivostok he was shot at, the bu1
 let wdunding a fellow officer in tn s hand.
Republican farmer., 1920-03-19

New York, Mar. 1S.-The world faces another great war with Russia, Germany and Japan arrayed agalnst America. Great Britain and France in the opinion of Major-Gen- I. Thord Gray. lately commander of the First storm Division in Admiral Ko1ehak army, and the only foreigner 1n that army.
 Gen. Thord-Gray arrived 1n New York this week after having served aince November, 1918, in Russia. Prior to that time he had been known in New York as chief military speaker of the United States Shipping Board. He went to Siberia as a Colonel with the Canadian E1xpeditionary Force and in February, 1919. was trans ferred to the Russian army as d1rec- tor of organization in the Far East
 During last winter he acted as dip lomattc representative at Vlad1voStok of Ataman Semionoff, successor to Kolchak. When the Reds took Vlad- ivostok on January 31 he was made prisoner, but was later released and returned to this country.
 'Tt is the grave danger that Eng land, America and France face" he declared yesterday Germany has what Russia needs; Russia has wha Germany needs. There is no doub that Japan is ready to join any com bine She was in league with th' monarchistic Russia. When Ger many gets on her feet she will SC about to organize Russia, and onc' it is working effectively the conbina ton will laugh at the navies of Eng land and the United States. In fact plans for the invasion are alread under way"
 Gen. Thord-Gray has some interest ing tales of the Russian situation. Flo the monarchist or KoIchak forces h confessed that he bore away 1ittl respect.
 ''The only man in the outfit yo could trust was Kolchak himself, said Gen. Thord-Gray. 'Kolcha was surrounded by a lot of men ( whom you couldn't say a good wort Fraud, graft, deceit, and petty jea ousies were everywhere. The mos decent chap outside of Kolchak wa Semionoff. He at least knew whs he wanted and was not afraid to te ~ it."
 Though making it plain that he
Republican farmer., 1920-03-19
NEW COUNTERFEIT 20 DOLLAR NOTE

The details of a new counterfeit s2O Federal Reserve Note are described by the Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department in its Circular No. 40 as follows:
 'tOn the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; check letter c; plate number 10; W. G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury, John Burke, Treas urer of the United States; portrait of Cleveland.
 This counterfeit is printed on two pieces of paper, of good quality be. tween which silk threads have been distributed. The face of the bill is a photograph. The figures of the Treas ury number are made by hand, and arc well executed. The back of the bill is printed from an etched plate 1 EThis is a dangerous counterfeit, and care should be exercised in hand ling bills of this description
Republican farmer., 1920-03-19

New York, March 18.-Eamon de recognized republic" was the central figure of the most widespread and wholesouled celebration of the feast day of his country's patron, St. Pat rick, that America has ever known. Thousands of men and women with the blood of the Gael coursing in their veins marched in parades the country over, but nowhere was there more enthusiasm or a hearder re- sponse than in this city.
 And in all the parades, meetings and church services, here and else where, the clarion note of Irish free dom rang. All this must have been a welcome sound to the tall, slim man with the lined face, who has striven for months to obtain recognition here of the government" he heads. For | MT. de Valera feels that he has mis- 1 sion to perform, and he will remain | in this country until it is achieved 1 It is to win the acceptance by the United States, Government and peo- i pie, of Ireland as an independent 1 self sufficient Government.
 | My position is comparable to that | of Franklin and others of your great statesmen,' said MT. de Valera when | interviewed by a New York reporter | in his suite of rooms at the Waldorf l Astoria. "For seven years they wen l about Europe endeaToring to obtain for your newly formed country the
 recognition that was due it. Theil 1 courage did not fail. Nor will mine
 fail.
 "I shall remain here until my worl is accomplished. It is, of course, i'm
 possible to say when that will be l The sooner the better; not that an
 anxious to leave America, but I an
 anxious for my country to take it l place among the nations of tn world"
 The Irish leader, who has beel
 greeted with so much acclaim by large number of his felloy country
 men here, and also has met with hi
 share of criticism and abuse, talks i
 direct and sincere manner. Dresse
 simply, he walked slowly about tn
 room, but always finished his sen
 tences and made his strongest point
 leaning straight back, with his elbow
 on the mantel over the fireplace.
 was evident that in this posture h
 felt most at ease.
 ''St. Patrick's Day of this year, h
 said, ''gives the true friends of free
 dom for Ireland, whether or not the
 be of Irish blood-and many of oU
 staunchest supporters are members l your oldest Revolutionary families l the opportunity to show to the worl
 the overwhelming belief that Irelan
 should be permitted that which tf
 world went to war for, self detel imitation of nations. It is the san f fight you waged in 1776. and rea1izs F ton of that fact will come to mar a of you today, I believe.
 n ''The voice of the people of Ire1ar f has spoken. In the amazing election n amazing because so few thought l could be done-of last year they vo : ed overwhelmingly for freedom al n 1 absolute separation from Gre n Britain. Those who felt that the san
 thing should be accomplished throus f Home Rule were much in the III nority; those who still desired to Q slaves of England were so small f number that they were not evr
 counted.
 a "A year has passed since that tin "a and our movement has grown. IT ,- army of occupation, composed of t
Republican farmer., 1920-03-19
House Is Holding Up
 Aid For Stricken Europe

would report a rule for it's immediate consideration Mr. Kitchin said.
 The bill was then reported out, MT. Kitchin told the House, "and I was curious to know what has become of the assurance given to the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means by the Committee on Rules that if we did this, they would give us a rule.'' MT. Kitchin then told the House that since the committee re- ported out the first relief bill unani- mously month ago. at least 10000 people have died in the very countries in which the bill was aimed to give relief.
 The relief it is proposed to give, on the suggestion of the United States Grain Corporation, could hardly be said to cost the country one penny, because the 5,00O.000 barrels of flour which it is proposed to send to the famine stricken peoples of middle Europe has no market in America, and will soon spoil, unless used. And yet, for some reason still unexpIain- ed, Congress, from which authority is desired to make this donation, has failed to act. although it has beer several weeks since the first appea- for relief was made. This appeal has been made to all the world. In trans hitting it to the Board of Governors of the League of Red Cross Societies Arthur J. Balfour, acting for the League of Nations, said: FAThe ca. tastrophe is of such uneXampled mag.
 nitude that no organization less pow. erfu1 than the League of Red Gross Societies seems adequate to cope witt it. There can surely never be ar occasion calling more instantly fo, l action Mr.. Balfour added that tht calamity seems worse than the wal itself''
Republican farmer., 1920-03-19
BERLIN CROWDS IN UGLY HUMOR
Independent Socialists Re. ported to Have 12,000
 Armed Men.

Paris, March 1S.---Officid advices from Berlin describing conditions there on Wednesday night said the publi2 places of the city were filled with crowds in an ugly humor. The mil itary appeared to be of a paniclzy dis position. Many of the Baltic troops the advices addedy had joined forces with the independent socialists who were reported to have 12,900 armed men at their command.
 Up to 9No'clock last night 21o mem bers of the German national assembly including only five independent so- cialists. had arrived in Stuttgart It was announced that at today S | session of the national assembly the ! independent socialists would unre- l servedly support the constitution. i Members of the German popular i party, which is the old conservative 1 organization, met yesterday to discuss l participation in the government i Elections for the German Reichstag | will probably be held before July l. Stuttgart, March 17-(By the As sociated Press)-Two hundred ana
 fifty members of the German na. tional assembly held a meeting in the
 Art Hall here this afternoon. Milf htary forces are occupying the grea
 open place before the hall No dis
 orders occurred while the member
 were assembling.
 Airplanes are flying over the cit, l warning the people against demon i stratons.
Republican farmer., 1920-03-19

Washington, March 1S-Not fewer than 10000 persons have died of want inHthe famine-stricken countries of Europe while the House of Repre- sentatives has held up action on the request of relief for these stricken peoples, made several weeks ago, Repr Claude Kitchin charg- ed on the floor of the House of Rep resentatives the other day.
 Supplemented by Herbert c. Hoover, former Food Administrator, Treasury, asked Congress several weeks ago to extend aid to these stricken peoples. The Ways and
 Means Committee agreed to recom- mend an appropriation of $50,000,- 900 for this purpose, but no action was ever taken. The responsibility, Democratic leaders in the House are charging, is with the Republican steering committee without whose approval nothing ever gets to the l House calendar.
 Recently, the United States Grain Corporation advised Congress that it has on hand 5000. .00O barrels of flour
 which is clear profit from dealing in and selling wheat to foreign coun- l tries; that this flour cannot be dis 1 posed of in the United States because | it is made of the softer grains of
 wheat and is of an inferior quality
 to what American people demand, 1 therefore, there is no market for it
 at home. If not disposed of before | warm weather comes, it will spoil,
 and it was proposed to Congress that
 this be substituted for the proposed $50, ,00o,000 appropriation. The Ways 1 and Means Committee amended the l bill so that this might be done and
 i've were assured that if we did re- port it out. the Committee on Rules
Republican farmer., 1920-03-19

impossible for Germans to buy com modities abroad with German marks In a conference with Berlin govern
 nent officials here Che said: Until recently we have been able to buy American cotton with American dol lars that we picked up in nearby neu- tral countries at the best possible rate of exchange. We must not cease buying cotton so long as the means remain at our disposal, for the Ger man cotton industry is at present op- erating to the etxent of 30 per cent. of it's capacity. Of every two bales of
 cotton we import, only one must be
 used to clothe our people; the other must be converted into finished prod ucts, the sale of which abroad will provide us with means to pay for both bales"
Republican farmer., 1920-03-19

several important silver fields having been developed, and the large scale recovery of silver from base metal ores having come into operation dur ing that period.
 5.-Reduced production, increased consumption and accumulated arrears consequent upon the war will prob ably keep the supplies of silver short and the price of silver high for many years; but eventually history is likely to repeat itself and, with an expanded output from precious metal mines and plentiful supplies from base metal mines, production may again get ahead of consumption in, which case price reduction will ensue.
Republican farmer., 1920-03-19
DRY 2S5 YEARS,
 NEWBURY, MASS,
 CASTS 'WET" VOTE

Though scores of towns have this winter voted ttwet'' for the first time in decades, Newbury, Mass, shattered all records when it cast a wet ma jority for the first time since it was incorporated 2S5 years ago.
 The vote was: Yes, 51; no, 45. Last year, which was closer than the average, it was: Yes, 50; no, "A.
Republican farmer., 1920-03-19
MURDERER OF
 WIFE NOW IN
 BAD CONDITION

New York, March 1s-George Evans, who attempted suicide here last night by cutting his throat with broken glass and is alleged by the police to have confessed to the mur- Der of his wife at New Britain, Conn, was reported in a serious condition although holding his own'' at Bellevue hospital today. The police of New Britain have sent an officer here to question him.
Republican farmer., 1920-03-19
Some one has left s7oo, GOO to provide

Some one has left s7oO, 600 to provide better governmental conditions in Philadelphia Unfortunately brains for s00,000 voters cannot be purchased for $2.33 apiece
 An extensive "buy in Canada cam paign is now in progress in that coun- try to combat theehigh rate of ex- change charged on Canadian money in the United States
Republican farmer., 1920-03-19
POPULATION STATISTICS.

Washington, March 1S-Population statistics of 1920 announced today by the Census Bureau included:
 Port Jervis, N. Y, 10,171, an in crease of GOT, or 6-3 per cent.
 Beacon, N. Y, 10,9S6, increase 367 or 3.5 per cent over the 1910 com bined populations of F'ishki1 Landing and MatteaWan which were incor- porated as the City of Beacon in 1913.
Republican farmer., 1920-03-19
EXCHANGE HURTS
 GERMANY'S TRADE

Bremen, Germany. March 1s.---Pres- ident Craemer of the Bremen cotton exchange says he believes the time is not far distant when it will be utterly
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-07
BUILDING PROGRESS IN NORWICH

Building during the past week has of the tenement houses for the Ponemah company at Taftville This project is being rushed to completion Before cold weather and up to date eight of the houses have been put in such shape that the weather will not retard their progress. There are eight others to be completed before the cold weather and from the rate of progress now maintained it is probable that they will be ready for occupation be- fore the snow flies.
 Three applications for building permits have been filed with Fire Marshal How ard L. Stanton during the past seven days. These permits include two garagea and an addition to present building.
 Adam Stanilous asks permission to build a summer kitchen to his house near Mohegan avenue. This addition will be SxS and one story high, of frame con struction.
 Eben Learned is to erect a garage at his home. This will be of frame con- struction and large enough for one ma chine L. Ortman has the contract
 A double garage is to be erected for Mrs. W. c. Brown of PAS Washington street. This garage will be of frame construction, with accommodations for two cars. L. Ortman has the contract.
 Other building activities have been brought to stages nearing completion and every effort is being made to complete the jobs, although the shortage of cement and plaster is still acute.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-07
The Problem of Trees in Texas

The matter of reforesting the various states is a national concern, but is al- ways connected with the replacement or trees in the great forest states The states without forests are left out of the reckoning. The wet states of the North and Northwest can reforest with very little difficulty, but the arid states have a task in front of them. As for Texas the situation is that everything is going out and nothing coming in. The great pine, cedar and mesquite for ests are being cut down, and nothing is being done to replace them It is not possible, perhaps, to replace the mes quite and the cedar but the rain belt of East Texas can be reforested with pine, and the West can be planted with trees suitable to conditions.
 There is no tree in the whole country more stately and beautiful than the pc can. In contour it is equal to the elm of the northern states It attains a fine
 stature and makes dense shade i It is
 valuable for it's nuts above all other
 trees. Seeing that it will grow along all Texas streams and in the low places,
 there is an opportunity to forest the west and southwest of this state with the tree that is second to none. The hack berry, also is a fine tree for this sec
 tion. In it's smaller stages it is strag- gling and disappointing, but with age it | becomes a splendid shade tree.
 The old Scotsman who said to his son | Be aye planting a tree, Jock it will be growing while you're sleeping, had the | gist of this whole matter of reforestation
 The process is simple, in that all one has to do is to start the tree and let the ! tree do the rest. The after-care and at-
 tention is something. but the planting is the chief thing. It is not too soon for the state of Texas seriously to take up this | matter At present Arbor Day virtually l is mere name in Texas-and it could l be and ought to be an institution All 1 arguments are for this work and there l is none against it. The appeals of profit 1 beauty and comfort unite in one voice for
 the planting of these trees. It is to be hoped that, beginning with the legisla- ture and going down to the youngest | school child, there will be an intelligent ! campaign for more trees.-San Antonio [ Express,
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-07
POETRY
SEPTEMBER.

 Sweet is the voice that calia From babbling waterfalls In meadows where the down seeds are
 flying; And the soft breezes blow. And eddying come and go. In faded gardens where the rose is dying. Among the stubbled corn The blithe quail pipes at morn, The merry partridge drums in hidden And glittering insects gleam Above the reedy stream. Where busy spiders spin their hlmy laees. At eve, cool shadows fall Across the garden wall. And on the clustered grapes to purple turning; And pearly vapors lie Along the eastern sky, Where the broad harvest moon is rediy burning. An. soon on field and hill The winds shall whistle chill. And patriarch swallows call their hocks To fly from frost and snow. | And seek for lands where blow The fairer blossoms of balmier weather. The pollen-dusted bees | Search for the honey lees That finger in the last flowers of Septem- While plaintive mourning doves Coo sadly to their loves Of the, dead summer they so well remem-
 Der.
 The cricket chirps an day. 70 fairest summer. stay" The squirrel eyes askance the chestnut:
 browning;
 The wild fowls fly afar
 Above the foamy bar, And hasten southward ere the skies ars | frowning.
 Now comes a fragrant breeze Through the dark cedar trees And round about my temples fondl. ! fingers. | In gentle piayfulness.
 Like to the soft caress Bestowed in happier days by loving fin
 gers.
 Yet. though q sense of grief | Comes with the falling leaf .. And memory makes the summer doubl
 pleasant.
 In all my autumn dreams
 A future summer gleams. Passing the fairest glories of the pres
 ent. George Arnold, in Indianapolis NewI