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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-23
Winters New and Old.

In what Prof William James once
called "the endless making and unmak.
ing of weather. nothing is easier than
to exaggerate the kind we have and
forget all about some Of the kinds
that were once ours. Take the recent
falls of snow. Seeing what they have
left in the way of impedimenta, YOU
would vote the adjective 'prodigious
none too strong for the occasion The
piles which line the common have been
mere miniatures of the bastions that
turn up on every hand as soon a. the
attempt is made 10 pedestrianize Great
or Boston. Where the snow plows have
done their work great walls Of white
rise around YOU; where the deposit
has been left untouched you plod the
homeward way on a hummocky plateau
at least two feet above ground, care.
fully avoiding the knee-deep. some
times waist deep holes that have been
made by citizens who stepped out not
wisely but too well.
Now and then a southwest wind
sweeps down with thawing on it,
wing. until Il seems As If the oh
struction is going to be liquiied in a
few hours. But the snow will not
bulge; crystal dovetailed into crystal.
81 inertia deies the halmiest forebod-
ings Of spring Not a trickle reaches
the ear a. YOU pass the gutter outlets.
Then the wind veers round 10 north
and the just softened landscape ices up
again. At that rate il viii take tin
April 10 bring the snow into anything
ike melting mood.
AT the while the citizen i forget
ting the weather records and his own
past experience. Figures issued YES
terdav By :. X Pearson Of the Unit
"A States weather bureau show that
for q number Of widely separated on
cal stations in New England the win
ter SEASON ~ 1915 - is neither the
ealdest. The snowist. she Longest. nor
possessed of any superlafive quality
II you concentrate on TIE matter q
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-23
The Authorship.

The Free Press hears that W J.
Bigelow, formerly of that newspaper,
later Of the St. Johnsbury Caledonisn,
and now of the Brattleboro Reformer,
NAV be candidate for state auditor
against the incumbent, Benjamin
Gates. Also, that r. w. McCuen, for
mcrly Of the Vergennes list of news.
papers. has hankering the same way.
The candidacy of A w. Foote of Corn
wall for lieutenant governor might in.
terfere somewhat with the latter, and
the best dope" from Montpelier is
that Auditor Gates will succeed him
self.-Rutland Herald.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-23

1t looks like vulgar parading of
wealth to announce to the world that
young Marshall Field III. of the house
of Marshall Field has taken out appli-
cation for a million dollars life nsur-
ance, and to task on the announcement
that the young man is heir to an estate
of $l2o,oo00o0. OF course, the insur
ance company is responsible for the
publicity given the item, but the pub
Lefty must have been given with the
knowledge and consent of the person
chiefly concerned.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-23

As if the L. S. A. had not enough in
the disease line to contend with, along
comes a ship from Europe with several
well-developed cases of smallpox aboard
and, presumably, with many other pas
sengers exposed to the infection. How
ever, the quarantine regulations are
somewhat strict on this side of the
Atlantic, and it may be expected that
the smallpox viii be stopped right
where it arrives Besides financing the
greater part OF the world the United
States finds itself called upon to fight
the diseases of the world to the extent
that the diseases are able to get aboard
ship.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-23
The New England manager

The New England manager of the
Irish bond sale makes it plain that the
purchase of bonds of the Irish repub-
lie" is a contribution to the cause Of
Irish freedom. If the public is solicited
on that basis there can be little objec-
tion to the endeavor to float a part Of
the S25 100000 issue in the United
States. The public should only bear in
mind that it is asked to make con
trbution" to the cause of Irish free
dom. Whether the bonds will ever be
redeemed is something which each per
son solicited must consider in the light
of his own feelings.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-23

The discovery of the frozen body Of
a Weybridge man in the road leading
from Middlebury and the finding Of the
body of another man near his home in
the GaIlup's Mills locations in northern
Vermont, probably the victim Of an at
tack from COW and from exposure TO
the cold, were two grim reminders Of
the storms harshness. Taken in con
junction with the tragedy Of the Sher-
burne woman who froze to death in her
own dooryard, they make certain
commentary on the severity OF this
winter, which, happily, Is passing into
the milder stages As the calendar comes
around toward March The Vermont.
ers who passed safely through the win
ter OF 1919 ~ will Be capable Of meet
ing all-comers in the winter line
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-23

whose preliminary work the commits
sioner is highly pleased, can count on
public approval and cooperation as
soon as Il shows its ability to get re-
suits. The people have suffered too
long at the hands Of protiteers not to
be eager to hit back.
Retailers as a class, says Mr.. Nc
Claim, "have been very reluctant TO
lower their prices and follow the move
ment of the wholesale markets.
.'There is a sad awakening coming
that will be disastrous to their pocket
books and damaging to their reputa
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-23
A Vision Of Low Prices.

That wholesale food prices viii be
reduced within 4s hours; that retail
prices will go down in 10 days time
that in six weeks the prices of meat
foods, shoes and clothing will go lower
is the confident prediction of Federal
Fair Price Commissioner for Pennsyl-
vania Frank B. Mccain. He cannot
say how much of a reduction he ex
poets. A conspicuous reduction" is
the phrase he uses
But any reduction will be welcomed
by a skeptical community. The fair
price committee for Philadelphia, with
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-23

The former kaisers confidence in the
stability of Germany under his regime
is indicated by his personal financial
investments in other countries. 1t has
been said that Hohenzollern some time
before the outbreak of the war made
heavy investments in the western part
of the Dominion of Canada, and it is
known that he had heavy holdings in
banks in England.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-23
THE EDWARDS BOOM FOR
PRESIDENT.

The presidential boom Of Gov. Ed
wards of New Jersey looks like flash
in the pan, and it is believed that by
the time the San Francisco convention
cats TO work the name of Edwards will
be scarcely heard about the convention
hall. 1t will take something more than
disagreement between Bryan and
Chairman Cummings of the national
committee to make a presidential nom
inee although that disagreement may
be participated in by the person men
toned as a possible nominee, There
will have to be something more than
that back of Edwards to get him the
nomination at San Francisco and ii is
believed that there is not that some
thing Another thing that will initiate
against Gov. Edwards chances is that
he comes from the sape state which
has furnished the president of the Unit
ed States for the last two terms. II is
hardly probable, in view Of human ma
turr as now constituted, that the party
would permit the nomination to go
again to the state of New Jersey. That
adds powerful influence TO the belief
that Edwards candidacy at this time
is but an ephemeral thing.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-23
THE EARLY CENSUS RETURNS

The earliest returns of the 1920 cen
sus, as given out by the census bureau
at Washington, indicate the trend OF
the population of the United States to-
ward the larger cities and they may
give some inkling of what may be ex-
pected when the returns for Vermont
are all in and compiled. The two cities
whose population figures are tentative
" given out, are Cincinnati and Wash
ington. Both show large gain over
the figures of 1910, that of Washington
being abnormal while that of Cincinnati
is about what might have been expect
ed. Cincinnati went from 36S,5Dl to
40l,l5S, or a 1913 per cent increase in
the lO-year period. II is not so large a
percentage of gain as many other cities,
chiefly those in the eastern section of
the country, viii show, but it was large.
As already stated, the gain in Wash
ington-from 3002s2 to 49, ,4l4-is alb
normal, due in large measure to the
concentration Of the war activities OF
the country in the nations capital,
which activities have not yet been de-
centralized to anywhere near normal
conditions. Washington's population is
probably larger to-day than it will be
two years from to-day after many OF
the government activities incident to
the war have been stopped. Yet even
allowing for the abnormal influence OF
the war activities, Washington made a
tremendous gain in population in the
l0-year period because Of natural
growth, being one Of those large cen
tiers which have been drawing upon the
more rural sections Washington is
now one of the leading cities of the
country in population and is taking its
place in size more nearly with the Eu-
ropean capitals, which perhaps is a
misfortune rather than benefit.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-23

Rear Admiral Harry S. Knapp may
be ccnsured for his frankness in declar-
ing during public address in London
God forbid that we should ever have
war with Canada, but / don't know
whether l would apply that to the
country bordering the United States on
the south; but there is no doubt that
he speaks the almost unanimous mind
of the people of the United States.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-23

tions, Prosecutions under the Level
act will no doubt be useful as an cx
ample and a warning. But the hope d
far-reaching and effective remedy fci
profteering lies mainly in publicity
Let the fair price committee tell what
prices are fair and public opinion viii
do the rest.-Philadelphia Press.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-23

In some strange manner the tubes of
this. that and the other L. : shipping
board steamer continue 10 blow out
aud render the ships helpless IN mid
ocean The condition raises the query
whether the proper inspection Of the
boilers j. made before the ships set out
On their voyages. This inspection would
seem % = particularly imperative a.
this time WhtH mysterious aepncies
NAV ie al gork 70 cripple the con-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-23

The makeup editor of the Burling-
ton News must have been having an in
spired day last Thursday when he placed
the heading Amusement Co. for Saint
Adams" over a story giving the birth
statistics for the Railroad city during
January.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-23

merce of the United States in the com
petition with some other nations, when
heretofore were prominent in that ac-
tivity. The multiplicity of the mis-
haps to American shipping is something
to look into rather closely.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-23

There probably is no need to call the
voters attention to the bridge meeting
at the opera house tonight. Let there
be 4 representative vote.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-23
Deuced clevah!

New English conundrum Why is
Canada like courtship! Because it Dor
ders on the United States. Boston
Transcript.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-23

May the ex.kaiser be exiled to that
Doom from whence there is no return.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-23
RubberS

Don't go with wet feet, now
is the time of all the year
you need dry feet.
A pair of Rubbers is less
expensive than the doctor.
We can fit any style of Shoe.
and if you buy them here
you are sure Of the best
grade.
We also have a good line of
Lumbermen's Rubbers and
Mems and Children's Rubber
Boots.
Rogers Walk : Over
Boot Shop
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-02-23
wat Il we. nat Boo.tea Sugar.

Representsfise Tinkhsm was quite
alth.n bounds IN his speech in the
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-10
Mr.. McAdoo Has q Reason,
No Doubt

The frequency and circumstance with which
Mr.. McAdoo's friends announce that he is not
candidate for the democratic nomination do
him great injustice, in case he really isn't. We
don't know whether Mr.. McAdoo is candidate
not, but if he isn't he ought to be able to
improve upon the maginatons of those spokes-
men who are telling the country why he isn't
The latest announcement is that the former
secretary is too busy making living for his
family to run for president. 1t is noble amb-
ton and one calculated to keep most of US busy.
But most of us can do only one thing at time,
whereas Mr.. McAdoo, when he was member
of the administration. thought nothing of COM
bining the two jobs now held by Mr.. Glass and
Mr.; Hines and Of stepping out, at the same time
and selling few odd billions of bonds to a
public not accustomed to piking with the and
per cents.
Remembering these things-and remember
ing them quite to Mr., McAdoo's credit-we
may be forgiven if the plea of extreme preoccu-
patton in business does not altogether explain
his backwardness in the way of taking on a
little thing like running for president. We shall
have to believe there are other reasons.
Nobody knows what they are, of course. But
take any man of good ability and praiseworthy
political ambition. with nothing in the way of
that his father-in-law is president and won't say
what his intentions are-take any such man and
ask him if he is candidate, and what could he
be expected to says There you are-and there
Mr.. McAdoo is.
Nobody can blame him for feeling good
deal as Zekle did when courting Hulda:
He stood spell on one foot fust,
Then he stood a spell on tother,
An on which one he felt the wust A
He couldn't ha' told We nuther
But that's no reason why his friends should
keep assuring US, with perfectly bland counte-
nances, that he never felt more composed in
his life and is all wrapped up in matters entirely
foreign to politics and the presidency.-Kansas
City Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-10
Stick to Fundamentals.

~ The advice given the state constitutional
convention by John Lee Webster is timely 1t
may be summed up in stick to fundamentals" !"
Any effort to make catalogue of prohibitions,
limitations and restrictions, is to put straight
jacket on the commonwealth. Mr.. Webster,
with proper pride, pointed out that the princi-
Piles of government embodied in the existing
constitution had never been criticised during
its almost half century of life. Those clauses
that set limitations have been proved mistaken.
This example should serve we'll the present
body
An iron-clad, alright constitution will not
meet the needs of expanding people. If it
were true that Nebraska will never increase in
population, that its interests will remain the
same, without material growth i'll any way,
then establishing a definite and specific limit
against progress might be wise. We must still
be guided by experience, though and the man
who will undertake to set boundary for the
growth of this state is as lacking in vision as
were those statesmen who imagined they saw
in the great American desert" and the Rocky
mountains divinely established barrier against
the western expansion of the United States.
But this is not to argue that vision means
visionary. 1t is possible to forecast the future
by measuring it with the past, and those things
that have been found sound in principle and
safe in application should not be laid aside that
an attractive theory may be put to test A
constitution to last another half century, under
which we may look forward to social develop
ment, and intellectual as we'll as material
growth, will be one in which the ideas and ideals
of the fathers, for which this country has al
ways stood steadfastly in peace or war, "de-
clared in the form Of fundamental principles.
should not be made to yield to temporary
policies or temporary expediences.'
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-10
THE DEMOCRATIC DILEMMA.

| The net outcome OF the great gathering Of
democratic sachems. medicine men and TOM
tom beaters at Washington is wider split in
the party Two acknowledged leaders are as
| far apart as the poles on the paramount" and
harmony is absent from the camp. Mr.. Bryan
appears to have slightly the better position. He
comes back with the scalp of the Rum Demon
at his belt, while Mr.. Wilson is seeking to rally
his party again to the scene of his defeat on
the treaty.
The president obstnately clings to his de-
mand that the treaty with its League of Nations
covenant be ratified just he presented it to
the senate He will accept such interpretative
comment as he may understand but nothing in
the form Of reservations or changes in text. As
the latter is not proposed, it may be dropped
from considerations Fourteen reservations
have received approval of majority of the
senate. These have had democratic support
The treaty as championed by the president did
not receive the solid support of the democrats
in the senate when it was voted on, and this in
face OF the entreaty and command issued from
the sick room at the White House Just before
the vote taken.
What reason has Mr.. Wilson for thinking
these democrats will change their minds at
his behest? He proposes to appeal to the coun-
try. Assuming that the democrats hold their
present strength in the senate and that every
republican seat to be vacated on March 4, 1921,
is also filled by democrat, and that they all
vote for the treaty, the necessary two-thirds for
ratification will yet be lacking Does not this
indicate the faulty of the presidents position?
Mr.. Bryan, on the other hand, argues that
the majority's will should prevail The repub-
licans, being in the majority in the senate
ought to control. He is willing to accept rea-
sonable reservations, and especially does he
require that Article X be so interpreted as to
leave the power to declare war in the hands of
congress His challenge to the president on
this point is square and unacceptable He can
see nothing to be gained by adourning the
settlement fourteen months.
Whether Mr.. Wilson is candidate for
third term may only be decided by careful
reading of his message. 1t bears the surface ear
marks of request for continued power He
asks little short of revolution in his demand
that the people entirely modify the makeup of
the senate, so his will may prevail. Alongside
this very appropriately goes the equally revo-
lutionary demand for third term in order that
he may see his will carried out.
Chairman Cummings may say that "inevita-
Bile impulses" are carrying the democratic party
each day nearer and nearer to victory" but
some of the old war horses of the organization
will recall wildly the Wattersonian epigram
garding the progress through slaughter
house to an open grave"
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-10
POStmusters for Merit

There were score of candidates for the
position of postmaster OF Boston. which has
been vacant for sixteen months 1t will 60 10
George u. Crocker, former city treasurer, a re-
publican. on the excellent ground OF pre-emi-
hent fitness, Under the old patronage system
10 long cherished by both parties he would in
kvitably have been barred in favor of deserv-
ing democrat An executive order governing
appointments where vacancies occur in first
klass postmasterships has changed all that and
khat would have been fatal obstacle to Mr.
rrocker's promotion no longer counts in the
.east.
In the competition held at Boston, for in
5tance, the filing of applications was prescribed
Ind candidates were required to furnish proof
n their qualifications for investigation BY civil
Service examiners. In grading them, business
Experience counted so per cent education 20
Der cent and contrary TO all precedents, poll
hes absolutely nothing. Where former Sena-
|or Walsh and democratic representatives from
Boston would have busted themselves with
kassing on the claims of various local demo-
&rats Of their following, in the assurance that
.heir choice would be approved by the post
naster general and the president. their services
rere dispensed with and they were not even
|onsultcd.
This change Of methods in the selection of
Sostmasters may cause heartburning among
kcltcians who cling to old-fashioned views of
heir special rights as spoils-mongers. But to
ke public it means simply that IN cities like
|osson, postof6ce. are business establishments
hat need to be run on business principles
New York World.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-10
Portuguese Piracy Not Extinct.

One Of the peculiar twists of our commercial
relations with the world is developing in Portu-
gal Under the law of that country the owner
of a trademark must prove its use in Portugal
to retain its benefit. An enterprising Por-
tuguese has registered for himself in his native
land large number of American automobile
trademarks and proposes to proceed farther
and have these recognized at the international
trademark bureau at Berne. This will give him
control of the sale of these machines in thir-
teen countries, including the South American
countries with which we are trying to develop
trade. II sounds like a comic opera situation,
but American automobile manufacturers are
desperately striving to beat thi. suave pirate to
the registration bureau, knowing that if they
doInot they must, settle with him or carry on a
long and perhaps losing fight in court. Other
American manufacturers have suffered in this
manner through the piracy of their trademarks,
Portugal is not much to look at on the map, but
it contains the germ of great enterprise.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-10
What Shall | Be?
G Answered Gs M
~ Girls w
The Telegraph Operator.
BY ELIZABETH NATTER.

Janet and Edith decided in their
junior year in high school that they
would like to become telegraph op-
orators. By saving their allowance,
they were able to buy $5
apparatus. Edith's father, who was
an electrician, fitted up their bat
terry and made the connection be-
tween the two neighboring houses.
1t didn't take them long to learn
Morse's dot and dash code and they
were soon sending messages back
and forth. Visits to the local tele-
graph Office acquainted their ears
with the customary intervals. After
graduation. they passed the tests
required by the Postal Union COM
pany and started the service as
check girls. At the end of month
they were given newspaper switch
boards and in a year were trained
operators.
Schools in many of the cities
offer courses in telegraphy, but for
the girl who cannot avail herself
of these, the practical courses Of
fered by the telegraph companies
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-10
Figures for Egg BOycOtters.

Omaha, Jan. 4.-To the Editor of
The Bee: I will grab few minutes
this evening from my work as
census enumerator to put up some
figures for the egg boycotters to con-
slider when they start to get pledges
from the people to not eat eggs to
force prices down.
During the month of December
just past, my hens laid just 50 eggs
and the feed for them cost me over
$40 and my income from the eggs
was just $3.50.
] wish the ones who are making
such a fuss about the prices of eggs
would figure up and see how much
l made out of my eggs clear. l have
talked with others who have chick
ems and they either did not get as
many eggs as l did, or they did not
get any at all
. One man told me he got 81 eggs
and paid SIS for feed. The people
are always talking about the high
price of eggs ought to try it them
selves and see where they come out.
They would rather fight home
people because they can get at them
more easily. I suppose, than to make
any fight against the products Of the
big corporations.
The way feed costs, I would have
to get 25 cents each for my eggs
this winter to come out even on the
cost of feed.
So l would ask the people who are
going out to force the price of eggs
down. to find out that they are
simply fighting private people and
not the big corporations at all.
FRANK A. AGNEW.