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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-28
GUNS DOOMED
NOISY SALUTE
To Mark the Opening Of
Names Centenary
Celebration
MUSIC FESTIVAL
DAY OBSERVED
More Than a Thousand
School Children Were
in Festival Chorus

Portland, Me- June 2S.-A general
salute of 100 guns, the ringing of bells
and blowing of whistles early to-day
officially marked the opening of
Names centenary celebration.
Designated as musical festival day, it
was given over to a program of musical
attractions. The consolidated bands of
the state, artists and chorus members
of the centennial music festival, led by
Professor William r. Chapman, found
err and director of the annual Maine
music festivals, marched down Congress
street, under an.arch of welcome, erect
ed at Longfellow square, to the city
hall. There the Maine centennial march,
written by Professor Chapman, was
sung.
More than 1000 children were in.
cluded in the centennial festival chorus,
numbering nearly as many more, which
with the combined bands and other
musical organizations gave a concert
in field off Brighton avenue this aft
ernoon. An address by Governor Mill.
ken was on the program.
Daylight fireworks and another open
air concert this evening conclude the
days events. The 10 days celebration
which continues through July 9Th, so
far has had ideal June weather.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-28
Poles as Neishbors.

An interesting experiment in neigh
borliness has been carried on for nearly
q wear in a section Of Toledo which is
populated almost exclusively by Polish
immigrants and their descendants. The
Polish business mems club Of the dis
trict conceived the idea that the needy
Polish families in the community should
be taken care Of in a neighborly way.
rather than by charity organizations.
The latter were requested not 90 extend
aid in the district. but 10 notify the club
40 that IL might meet all emergencies
This Is not done from the club treasury.
however. An investigation il made 70
determine whether the need Is for mon
ev. supplies or work. and the other
residents Of the block. including the
tradesmen. ap then informed that
their neirhlofs need their assistance
which the club reports, l. always forth
coming.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-28
ECLIPSED ALL RECORDS.
Great English Derby at EPSON Downs
Big Event.

EPSON Downs, Eng, June 2S.-Tht
great English derby, always fashion
show and carnival as well as a horse
race, this year eclipsed the records Of
! its $50 years with an attendance which
crowded the race course to standing
capacity and populated the hills in a
day with crazy patterned city of hun.
dreds of thousands of merry makers, ia
whom the racing was only an incident
in the celebration of the annual festi.
val.
My lord and my lady, the barmaid
and the coster monger, and all classes
of Britons between, were there, hob
nobbing with pleasure seekers from
other lands-Americans Frenchmen,
Belgians, Italians, Russians, Czecho-
Slovakiaus and titled as well as work
worn 0rientals and Asiatics. The low,
green hills and hedged-in fields about
the famous course were blackened with
a multitude of nearly 100000 per-
sons, thousands Of whom slept in the
warm sun throughout the day. appar.
emily unconcerned about the Darby"
contest.
The pilgrimage to the downs began
the day before the derby An unbroken
tide of strange equipage flowed into Ep-
som over all roads. Luxurious limou-
sines crawled along the crowded ways
in the wake of two wheeled donkey
carts, and the caravans were checkered
with the picturesque turn outs popu-
lar before motor driven vehicles limited
their usefulness--th chaise, the coach
and -four, the Irish jaunting car, the
dog cart, and odd home made wagons
and carts. Not infrequently appeared
disabled army officers riding through
the dust in motor driven wheel chairs.
Throngs afoot trooped in across the
fields. Children lounged in the grass
along the roads, hailing the fine auto
mobiles and their silk -hatted occupants
cheerily. Here and there. woman
with a baby in her arms begged
penny.
While yet mile from the course the
later arrivals were forced by the con-
gestion to park their vehicles and walk
carrying with them their luncheon
baskets, and jugs of ale or whiskey, of
which there was large and carefully
conserved supply.
The pienickers, who camped on the
course overnight, hastily pitched tents,
or ramshackle leantos, made tea and
served luneheons. Many slept in the
open, and down in EPSON a train of
cars were commandeered to house the
more fastidious. After dark bonfres
were built, flares put up and all the
was Enthusiastically IL
lumined.
Even when the king and queen and
attendant nobility appeared there was
only a ripple of applause, consisting
chiefly of prefunctory "hear, hear" and
a nodding of heads, indicating approx
al Above this the rancus cries OF the
tipsters and the hoarse iargon OF the
bookmakers could be heard.
Few persons, except those in the
stands, saw the races, and these dis
played no excitement, beyond calling
put they're off, or making premature
of winners.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-28
Working Vacations ON Farms.

Time was when city people were he
! sought to spend their vacations on a
farm and pay top prices for fresh veg
etables and fresh air. Now all that is
changed The farmers in this state
offer TO give you the fresh vegetable.
and fresh air for nothing and 10 pay
you if you will help to milk the cows,
hoe the corn, pitch hay, or do other
farm jobs which may be waiting when
your vacation happens to come. Moth
ing could give better proof of the deg
perate need for workers on the farms
than the fact that the farm lshor
committee recently appointed by Lieu
tenant Governor Walker, lends itself to
this sort of appeal for temporary and
casual farm workers. The committees
plea is directed especially to city fire.
men and to factory workers who have
left the farms to secure high shop
wages The idea that men who work
hard for fifty weeks in the year are
going TO put in their two weeks vaca-
tion working still harder on farms is
preposterous; especially so now that
the regular work is so well paid that
workers feel no need to earn during
vacation. Ministers, school teachers
and actors are almost the only classes
still left under the compulsion or temp
alton to earn in their vacations, end
they are for the most part so III pre-
pared TO speed the pillow or milk the
COW that they are not included in this
official invitation. A desperate and be-
lated effort 10 being made to organize
school BOYS for summer work on the
farms and to recruit the classes of
farm laborers who were organized in
war time. and chambers of commerce
are asked to find workers in the hope
of maturing the crops which have been
planted.
All this effort forecasts a desperate
food situation this coming winter, v it'll
prices which will force sharp depri-
walton on the poor. A few weeks ago
we were told that the farmers were
planting much less ground than in re-
cent years because they foTesaw a
labor shortage and were not going 10
plant more than they could harvest.
Now il seems that although they re-
duced the acreage they did not reduce
il sharply enough and that there is go
ing to be waste at harvest time for
lack of hands TO gather the crops. That
which is not confined TO the
state OF New York. is one of the most
serious in our complex commercial sit
uation. If prices Of food 60 up this
winter because of a genuine shortage
the people who pay more for their ia
hles will have less money TO spend
for clothing and the decline in the de
mand which is now troubling the silk
and cloth mills and the shoe factor
ies. will be still further extended and |
he risk Of liquidation will be increased. |
The situation il not likely to be per-
better until the country real |
zes that farm production is the cor
nerstone Of prosperity and until some
means is found Of insuring an ade-
luate supply Of farm labor One way
II doing that would be 70 close the |
luxury factories whose high wages
nave enticed away farrnhands, but that |
-emedy il 50 drastic that il VIII not
wen be considered until everything /
lee has failed Brooklyn Eagle.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-28
IMMIGRANTS SCATTERING.
That Is Why New YOrk's Population
Did Not Increase Faster.

New York. June 2s.--Marked defiec
tion of immigration from New York
City TO inland eenteTs during the last
year is given by immigration officials
at Ellis Island as one explanation for
the fact that this city's population was
shown by the 1920 census to be only
5.62l.l2I, instead of the 100000 ex.
pected.
Rowe. official money changer for in.
come aliens, asserted that money ex-
changed for immigrants whose destina
tion is New York City does not amount
TO one-hundredth part of the amount ex-
changed for those giving other points
as their destination.
"In former years" said Mr. Rowe,
immigrants poured into New York City
by the hundreds OF thousands. They are
now going TO manufacturing eenters
such as Pittsburg, Detroit and Akron,
O.. or to the coal and iron mining re-
gions. We are exchanging a hundred
times more money for aliens in transit
than for those coming TO New York
City
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-28
TAKE NITROGEN OUT OF AIR.
Syndicate Has Been Formed in London
for That Purpose.

London, June ga syndicate has
been formed to establish nitrogen
facory for the manufacture Of ammonia
alphabetically. from the nitrogen of the
air, says the American Chamber Of
Commerce in London. The syndicate
has purchased the extensive site in
County Durham which the British gov
eminent acquired more than two years
ago, for the purpose Of building a fac
tory. The capital required win be
f5,0O0.00o sterling
The process to be adopted, says the
American chamber, will he on the prin-
ciple Of the German chemist, Haber
Nitrogen and hydrogen viii be com
bined into ammonia, under pressure Of
a high temperature, the ammonia then
being converted into nitric acid. OF 9th.
er rfitrates az may be required either
for the manufacture OF explosives or
for use as fertilizers.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-28
National League Standing.
BRITISH NAVY MUST BE SUPREME
md at All Costs" Declared Premier
Massey Of New Zealand.

Wellington. New Zealand, June 81
'Femier William 2 Massey declared IN
sreech al an entertainment given by
be Savage club for the Prince o.
Wales. that the British navy must b.
.upreme AT ell costs"
n wss one II those who. at Paris
thought the league q nations would
= few years b. strong enough 20 ok
reise 4 profound influence in prevent
~ war. he continued. II must ad-
mt nos that the league Of nations is
great disappointmknt We look
around and Sc two great power. ia
ian ard Amerioa. Building bigger and
more poWerful ships thar ever Tho=e
7owers clearly DO not believe that the
league 81 nations can end var
lt wouid BE- calamifoua If. when
sar comes, ether nations should possess
mere naue-ous ard nnre psuerfal
-hips than Britain. whoss empire de-
Psnds o. her sea gouer
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-28
DALE SEEKS SOLDIER VOTE.
Congressman Writes Of His Work Dur,
ing War.

Added interest is given to the second
district congressional campaign by the
receipt by the service men throughout
| the district of letter from Congress
| man Porter H. Dale of Island Pond, in
which the congressman reviews his
work in behalf of the soldiers and asks
them to vote for him in the coming
primaries and to- notify him whether
they will support him.
Following is the text of Congress.
man Dales letter to the soldiers:
| Dear Mr.. ------.
/ write TO ask you for your vote at
| the primary election and I would con-
slider it great favor if you would
tell me whether you will support me.
Since we went to war my work has
been chiefly for the soldiers. In Oc-
tober, 1917. as one of 10 members of
the House, | went to France. After
the others, without inspection of the
American troops, came home, | went
alone to General Edwards and thence
to inspect the quarters of the 26th d.
vision, including the most distant at
Coetquidan. Because | stated the truth
about conditions to the war depart
ment and in speeches in various states,
! was called ''liar" by military Off
cials, but il helped to bring some re-
lief from bad conditions.
After months of work along this line
was made chairman of the above
named committee, which has jurisdic
tion of the bureau of war risk insur.
ance. Again | went to England and
France for information along this and
other lines. On.both these trips | paid
my own expenses and was free TO
voice my convictions. For nearly year
! have been working to help build up
this bureau because | believe it should
be made helpful to the soldiers.
Through 1t. have adjusted hundreds
of compensation allotment, allow
ance and insurance, and through the
war and navy departments have set
tied great many claims of vsrions
kinds.
! favored the so-called bonus bill, a.
! stated TO the Vermont representa-
tiyes of the American Legion, when |
they first came to Washington. As a |
member of the rules committee, I |
voted to bring it to the floor, and be-
fore leaving for the state convention
in Vermont ! arranged a pair ''for"
the bill with another man against
IT, Influence from powerful source was
brought against me for this, and as you
know, propaganda is being conducted |
against my position through the press.
While am classed with men favorable |
to wholesale graft and the extension
of profiteering to the ranks of the
khaki" I still maintain that Congress,
which drafted its soldiers into the hor
rors of war at $50 month and en-
dorsed the payment of from 50 to $40 a
day to men who filed their places, and
voted bonuses to all kinds of employees,
including forty millions to government
clerks drawing salaries 10 a maximum
of twenty five hundred dollars a year.
and compensated every conceivable
kind Of contractor to an amount now
in excess of two and a half billion
dollars, ought TO do what England,
France, Italy, Canada, Australia and
New Zealand did for its soldiers and
do il cheerfully. Porter H. Dale.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-28
But Barre Managed to
Have the Better Of
Richmond
BARRE TEAM OUTHIT
! THE VISITORS
Game Played at Intercity
Park Saturday Had
Lively Movements

Though the personnel of the Barr
baseball team was changed somewha
from its first appearance on Goddar'
seminary campus two weeks ago, tn
lineup for Saturday was capable of de
feating Richmond's town team IL to !,
at the Intercity ball grounds.
An abundance of hits, errors, and til,
unsteadiness of the pitchers made thu
game interesting to some and uninter
esting to others. TO those who like ac
ton and plenty of hitting this game
was to their ideals, but to one who
cares for tight BASEBALL, Saturdays
game was poor one. Every Rich
mond fan was "in the air" during the
fourth inning as the visitors were
bringing score upon score over the
plate until the six-score lead which the
Barre team had secured in the first
three innings was tied but for score
Four hits, one of which was two.
Dagger, base on balls, two infeld
hits, one resulting in put out and
the other allowing the base runner to
sremain at first because of an error
were the factors which gave Richmond
this sudden ascent on the score board
in the fourth.
1t was clearly nothing more than
better hitting that won the game for
the Barre team as errors were as fire
quent and as costly. Slayton, how
ynitnhirex rr,,,ah sta i.sr
game than his opponent. Only several
errors after the fourth inning permit
ted the Richmond players to score. In
the ninth inning his effectiveness was
faltering so the young high school
south paw twirler, Louis OLeary sub
stituted. Two men were on bases
when OIeary went in, one of these
scoring from third later on an error
made by Wilson when he and Comolli
attempted to catch Garrison between
third and home. Wilson's error was
counter balanced by catching McGsr-
CHAN stealing from second to third.
O'Leary had forced run across the
plate by hitting Berry, but when Shat
tuck flied to Wilson the game ended.
There were two outstanding features
of this game, first a ne-hand stab
by left fielder Goodrich, who pulled off
the wire fence in center field Fowlie's
drive that had all indications of being
nothing less than a two Dagger. The
second was Peduzzi's home run to left
field, the ball striking on the river
bank and bounding over.
This game was scheduled to begin
at o'clock, but nearly an hour elapsed
before Umpire Nicora could shout
play ball." as a crew of telephone
workmen had to take down wires and
telephone pole near shortstop terri
tory, this having been erected for tenn
porary use at the Beacon shows carni-
val, being held there this week.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-28
BIG PROBLEM FOR LEAGUE.
Is Settlement of Territory Dispute Be
tween Paraguay and Bolivia.

Buenos, Aires, June 27.-The famous
Tacna and africa dispute involving
Chile. Peru and Bolivia, is not the only
South American problem which may
go before the league of nations for
settlement. There has existed for
years a controversy between Paraguay
and Bolivia over strip of territory
in the heart of South America as big
as the state of California. This, it is
understood, is on the program for con
sideration by the league.
II is probably not generally known
that when the American peace experts
under Colonel House collected their
data on world problems, for use at the
Paris peace conference, Nley included a
report on the issues between Bolivia
and Paraguay over the possession of
this territory, which is called ON Bo-
livian maps Che Bolivian Chaeo and on
Psraguayan maps the Paragusysn
Chaco.
The case of the Chaco Is known to
have been also brought before the con.
ference by the Bolivian peace dele
gate, Senator Monies. II was decided,
it is understood. here, to postpone the
question for early settlement by the
league.
The problems hold for Bolivia,
hemmed in on all sides by other states,
the realization of her greatest politi-
cal and commercial ambition, her own
territorial outlet to the sea Posses \
sion of the port of africa would give
her an outlet to the Pacific, and curious
as it may seem, possession of the Cha
co. or at least a part of it, would give
her agrees TO the Atlantic. For the
Chaco borders the great river Para
quay, affluent of the river Platte, and
on the Chaco side of the river, 1000
miles from Buenos Aires, is little
port called Bahia Negra. Here ocean
steamships from the United States
and Europe could take on cargo trans
ported across the northern edge of the
Chaco from the Bolivian mines and
farms.
But in the year 1886, few years
after Bolivia had lost in war the Pa
cifc port Of Antofagasta and was
turning her eyes eastward, Bahia Ne
era was seized by Paraguay and has
been in her possession ever since. Par
aguay, furthermore, made land allot
ments in the Chaco, whose unsurpassed |
pasture and great quebraeho forests
were beginning TO attract the white |
man. A mysterious, UNEMPLOYED land, |
stretching northward from the Pilco
mayo river on the Argentine border
and westward from the river Paraguay
into undisputed Bolivian territory, il
has not been directly crossed by white
man since the days Of the Spanish con
querors. since the year l54S to be ex-
act. Except near the rivers, il is in
habited only by savage Indian tribes
to this day. but both nations looked
forward to its possibilities, which re-
rentlv have included that Of finding
petroleum.
Bolivia protested the seizure Of Ba
hia Negra and also made land allot
ments in the Chaco. IL Is true that
Bolivia had an eastern outlet already
py the river Paraguay, but her COM
nerce had 60 90 through the Brazilian
liver port of Corumba, a little north Of
Bahia Negra, moving down from the
Bolivian city Of Santa Cruz by mule
cam. along the northern edge Of the
7haco. a. il still does.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-28
LOAN OF szs.ooo,ooo.
Provided in Estimates to House Of
Commons for Grand Trunk.

Ottawa. June 2s.-A loan Of s25.-
O0O. 900 to the Grand Trunk railway
system. recently taken over by Cana
De a. government railway. Is pro-
vided for in the supplementary esti-
mates Of S6s,OO0.oOO,0OO presented in
the House Of Commons This loan IL
10 be made under the direction Of the
minister Of finance. towards meeting
expenditures made IN betterments of
the read. or for deficits or interest on
funded indebtedness incurred by the
system or is subsidiaries before
March 5. 1920. when the railroad was
taken over BY the government
Further items provided for are So
100000 for additional pensions for sol
diers. sl.7O0N00 for maintenance Of =
Canadian navy. sl25T go for public
works. ard s6.O00nO0 for increases in
salaries ~ ciyil servants.
The Hove Saturday also passed The
goyerumsnt railway estimates which
urre the suhjcct u considerable de-
hate
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-28

plants like a woodsman, since they eat
at crucial places, and topple down
many plants in single night.
ANY extensive insect book may list
dozen or more species differing but
little, but all capable of the same gem
eral mode of destruction and suecumb-
ing to poison bait,
The standard remedy consists in
the use of a poison bait made as fol
lows: Bran, 20 pounds, Paris green,
one pound. molasses, two quarts, or
anges or lemons, three fruits, water
three and one half gallons. Mix the
bran and Paris green, squeeze the
lemon juice into the water, finely chop
the peel and pulp, adding it and the
molasses, then pour all into the bran
and stir thoroughly. Scatter the mix
ture at night near infested plants. but
do not let it touch them.
Tomato, cabbage and similar plants
may be wrapped with paper collars
near the ground to repel the caterpil-
lars.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-28
GET "A GOOD GRIP
ON HEALTH

Look out for the unnatural weak
ness that indicates thinning of the
blood and lack of power. 1t means
that your bodily organs are starving
for want Of good nourishment; that
the red corpuscles are fewer, unequal
to demands of health. Hoods Sarsa-
parilla increases strength of the deli.
cate and nervous, restores red cor
puseles. makes the blood carry health
to every part, creates an appetite.
II you need good cathartie medi-
cine, Hoods Pills win satisfy.-Adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-28
BET ON PRINCES WEIGHT.
Asked Prince of Wales What 1t Was
and Latter Cordially Replied.

Auckland, New Zealand, June Is
When train was about TO carry the
prince of Wales from Auckland TO New
Plymouth, a man at the entrance to
the Auckland station, which was
crowded with sightseers, called out:
Hi prince win you tell me what
your weight isl"
"oh, certainly" replied the prince,
'it is lao pounds. ! suppose you have
a bet on IT,"
The man replied: Right you are"
WELL" said the prince, Il hope you
have won
mo. lost shouted the man, "but
you are a good sport, and / thank
YOU"