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SOUTHLAND ECHOES FROM THE
EDITOR.

(This series of letters, hastily writ
ten, of which this is the first Install
ment, will be given our readers each
week of our sojourn in the Sunny
South" covering incidents that we
hope will be of service and interest
to them.)
Washington, d. c., Nov. 8, 1920.
Dear 0pinionites:-
Fifty-one years ago this very week,
as a boy of sixteen, l visited Wash
ington, the Nations Capitol, for the
first time. enroute for Marion, a
small village in Southwestern Vir-
ginia, where my father was taking
the family in the hope of beneftting
my mothers health. she having been
an invalid all her life up to that
time shall never forget with what
veneration had for my father, and
how fully we all relied on his judy
ment and fostering care, yet j nov
recall the fact that / am twenty
four years older today than he was
at that time, and wonder what my
namesake and grandson at three-and-
a-half years, who is an important
member Of the family party, really
thinks Of his grandfather, anyway.
At the time mentioned above,
November 1869. General U. S. Grant
had just been inaugurated as presi-
dent. Washington was a small city.
Hon. Justin S Morrill, Of our own
Orange County. Vermont, was in Con-
gress, having a home so far in the
suburbs that he was able to keep a
large number Of hens. allowing them
to run wild, without annoyance TO
his neighbors. Land where his home
was then. an acre could be bought at
a price less than a square rod car
be bought now. This location. No. l
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as we left it in apple pie order, and
it will soon seem as though we mad
not been away. The distance covered
from Bradford to Miami was 2058
miles, and it was certainly enjoyable
from start to finish. Only one
puncture of tire and no other
hold up was our experience for the
long trip. The Chandler" is a won
derful performer, and thoroughly de-
pendable. 181 gallons of gasolene
and Az gallons cylinder oil was the
extent of combustion and lubrica-
ton. Some trip and town here
worthy of any effort to reach !.
More later.
Sincerely,
Harry z. Parker.
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Jackson in 1882 had 219 to 67.
Some of the earlier divisions were
even more striking, but the method
of election was then so different
from the present that comparison
would be irrevelant. After all it
was a referendum, a plebiscite, a
popular vote, that the president
wanted, and it was that which he
had cast against him with numer-
ical emphasis never before known
in American political history.
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miles via st. Augustine, Hastings
and Bunnell. Seven or eight miles
between Bunnell and Ormond is very
rough and takes time to go over it.
Here we ran into the first rain of the
trip. At Daytoha our headquarters
were at the New Orange Villa, A
first-class American plan hotel at a
$500 per day rate. Tuesday we
motored to Stuart, 155 miles, via
New Smyrna, Titusville, Cocoa, and
Fort Pierce. Hotel Stuart, our home
for the night, is first-class, and l
can unreservedly recommend it to
the travelling public. Wednesday
noon, Nov. 18th, we landed at 1923
18th ST., Miami, Florida, our home
for the winter. We found everything
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Leaving Middletown at a. m. ia
Port Jervis, Stroudsburg, Pa, Della
ware Water Gap. Easton, Allentown,
Reading to Lancaster, Pa, arriving
there at 6 p. m. The Brunswick
Hotel where we spent the night was
one of the most complete and COM
Portable public houses we had ever
been entertained in. Most excellent
service and fair rates. Saturday at
quarter past eight we started for
Gettysburg, arriving there at 1890.
We secured a guide, born there, be-
ing but IL years old at the time OF
the battle July /, and 3, 1868. For
two hours and half, covering over
twenty miles by auto, we were re-
called by this man who had done
practically nothing else for more
than half century with vivid
description Of the three days strug-
gle of the great contending armies
of Union and Confederate forces
under command of Meade and Lee.
The victory of the Union Army being
the turning point of the Civil War.
Leaving Gettysburg at 100 p. m. we
passed through Frederick, Md. made
historic by Barbara Freitchie's pr
triotic waving of "Old Glory" in
the face of Stonewall Jackson's
Army, we reached Washington at
4.30. The Hotel Continental, under
the management of A W Chaffee, a
real Vermonter, provided us excellent
accommodations until Monday morn
ing. This hotel is situated near the
Union Station, opposite the Capitol,
and we can recommend it to our
friends both as to service and rates.
Sunday we visited the National
Cemetary and the New Memorial
Amphitheatre at Arlington. A most
wonderful experience.
Monday morning a start was made
for Richmond, Va. via Alexandra,
Frederick and Observation-Disclosures
ground all the way, 1873 miles-ar-
rivihg at Hotel Richmond at a p. m.
Tuesday an early start landed us
safely in the early evening in Dur
ham, N. c., 16S miles via Peters
burg. Dinwiddie, Clarksburg, Va.
and Oxford, N. c. A good hotel,
the Melbourne, was our shelter for
the night. Wednesday, Durham 10
Charlotte, 156 miles, via Greensboro
and Salisbury. A good, reasonable
hotel "The Clayton" accommodated
us there. Thursday we made Ander-
son, S. C., 156 miles, via Spartanburg
and Greenville. The Chiquola Hotel,
best there, but cannot recommend it.
Friday, Anderson, S. c. to Macon,
Ga, 179 miles via Affords Bridge,
Athens and MilledgevilIe. Hotel Ma
con is all right, good treatment and
fair rates. Saturday, Macon to Way
cross, Ga, ia miles, via Hawkins
Vile, Fitzgerald and Douglas. The
New Phenix at Waycross, very good
accommodations, but rates too high
for what you get in return. Sunday,
Waycross to Jacksonville, Fla, III
miles via Hoboken, Nahunta, Kings
land and Yulee. This is probably
the worst stretch Of trunk line auto
mobile road in America. We were
going some all the time, but were
nine hours in negotiating this dis
lance. and the only car out Of many
leaving Waycross that morning, ar
irving in jacksonville in season FOR
supper. The Senaea Hotel at the
latter place. which we always pa
ronize is a very satisfactory place to
stay while in the gate city.
! Monday we made Daytona il3
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STATE NEWS.

George H Putnam of Springfield
caught black bear near Chittenden
recently. 1t weighed 125 pounds
dressed.
Mrs Walter Whitney has blooming
at her home in Salisbury a small ma
genta-colored chrysanthemum bear
ing 1913 full-sized blossoms.
Edigo Traverelli, one of the. best
athletes ever developed in the Rut-
land high school, has had one of his
legs amputated at the hip in New
York hospital as the result of an in
jury received while playing in one
of the navy football teams last fall.
A handsome red fox, with one foot
in trap, the trap caught under a
tie on the Rutland railroad track,
held up a passenger train near Dam
by a few days ago, the train being
stopped until the fox could be ex-
tracted from his perilous position
and taken aboard the engine.
News has been received of the
safe arrival in Elko, New, of Miss
Billie o Lempie, on her long horse
back ride from St. Adams to San
Francisco. Miss Lempie left St.
Adams last June 80. Up to the
present time she writes that she
had splendid success and expects to
reach her goal in about three weeks.
Miss Lempie is enjoying perfect
health and her mount, Salem" which
many people thought would never
stand the trip, is in fine condition.
The aggregate sale of war savings
st amps in Vermont this year, from
Jan. l to Sept. l, amounted to $780,
900. The state now ranks sixteenth
per capita among all the states in
the union. A letter received re-
Gently from Mrs F L Higginson, di-
rector of the first reserve district, OF
which Vermont is part, contains
the following: "The response from
Vermont from the woman's clubs, in
taking up our conservation program,
is far ahead of any other state SO
far" Mrs G H Smile of Montpelier,
director for Vermont, has named Mrs
Robert Bliss of Montpelier chairman
of thrift for the Vermont Federation
of Woman's Clubs. AS shown by
Mrs Higginson's statement, effective
work along that line has been accom-
plished. Nearly all clubs have
thrift in some form of conservation
on their program.
1t is expected that Brattleboro's
new steel bridge, to take the placs
of the one carried off its foundations
March %, will be in place in January
1t is supposed to arrive from the
makers about the middle of Deem
Der and a month will be required &c
erect it.
Dave Morey Of Maiden, Mass, for
mer Dartmouth football star anc
twice mentioned for halfback on the
mythical all-American eleven, last
week signed a years contract a:
head baseball and football coach OF
, Middlebury college. He was assist
ant coach here during the season
that ended last Saturday. Alfred I
Gillinck Of Milwaukee, Wis, wa
elected captain of Middlebury's foot
ball team.
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Thomas Circle, for many years SEN
ator Morrill's home, the mecca" for
visiting Vermonters, is now owned by
strangers, the Morrills having ell
passed to the great beyond, but their
works do follow them in sacred re.
membrance.
1t is perhaps unnecessary to say
that for the past twelve winter
seasons, with one or two exceptions,
have been in tropical climates from
three to five months during the cold
periods, November to April. The
lure of the Southland had got so
thoroughly a part of my nature,
that on Wednesday, November Sd.
the morning after the men and
women voters of this great country
had passed upon Woodrow Wilson's
Solemn referendum" in which my
entire party who had the right of
freemen had registered their ballots
for Harding and Coolidge and "Amer-
lea First" started in an automobile
for Miami, Florida, where we would
be sure to find people who voted in a
majority for Cox and Roosevelt. We
knew it before we started on the
trip, we knew it before the election,
in fact we knew it before the demo-
cratic National Convention assembled
regardless of who the candidates
we're to be or what the platform
enunciated. l predict that this will
never occur again, as the Solid
South has been broken beyond re-
pair, and that the incoming admins
tration will be of more enduring
benefit to the South with a sane
protective tariff and liberal appro-
priations for development of its
waterways and all worthy commc;-
cial enterprises.
Excuse this Innovation please, and
will start on our journey again. The
party, consisting of Mr. and Mrs
Charles Parker. their son Harry FL
wood, Mrs Martha A Perrin and Mrs
Benjamin Daley left Montpelier
about ten o'clock, arriving at Brad
ford in season to add Miss Sara 4
Parker and the writer of this, and
to make a permanent getaway or
the 1000 mile trip from Vermont t.
South Florida, at little after noon
The new Chandler 7-passenger Sedsr
was completely equipped with new
Cord tires, including two spares foi
emergency and food for noon lunch
to last for several days, thereby say
ing time in making steps at res.
taurants and hotels. Our first cal
was made in Rutland, three hour:
after leaving Bradford, upon Mr. anc
Mrs Henry Farrar, who were with II,
in Miami, several weeks last winter
They are expected to accept an in
vitation to be with us again This
winter, as they were delighted witt
their former experience their. The
first night was spent at the Mt
Aeolus Inn at East Dorset, to enable
Miss Sara to visit Mrs Coping, ;
close friend. Distance from Brad
ford 1O3 miles. Thursday morning
at $50 we continued our journey
via Manchester, Bennington, vii
Jamestown, Mass. Pittsfield. Great
harrington, Mass, Salisbury. Conn
Poughkeepsie to Beacon and across
the Hudson by ferry to Newburgh. y
Y. thence to MiddletOwn, N. Y, 1ss
miles for the days run, arriving
the Mitchell Inn at 6.15 p. m. where
we spent the night. This hotel il
first-class American plan, $500 pei
day rate. Friday a wonderful trip
Of l75 miles was greatly enjoyed
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-01-15

of the constitutional safeguard and
requirement that treaties must be
ratified by a two-thirds vote seem
to us as unsound as the "peace-at-
any price" foolishness to which, in
logic it Is so closely related But
good Americans" in public as in
private life should insist that the
fate of the treaty be settled by SEN
ators voting as Americans and not
as parttsans. OF the L4Ger States
men who are said to favor ratitlca-
ton in some form, there should be
sixty-four with sufficient patrio tism
vision and breadth OF understand
ing 20 enforce the national will by
an acceptable compromise insuI-
ing ratification. The senate faces a
very plain duty and is not TO be
helped to its performance by per-
90nal advancement first and nation
al ard international needs after
ard--New Orleans Time Plea
une. Qnd Dem.)
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very largely by the military party.
The most interesting phase of
the japanese situation is the help
which powerful commercial inter.
ests In Japan are said to be- giving
to the liberal or civilian party.
These interests have become alarm
ed at the anti-Japanese feeling the
clanking sword diplomats have
stirred up in China, in Korea and
in Siberia, and at the suspicious
of japanese aims and motives
which have grown up in America
and in Europe.
The peaceful revolt Of the Chi
nese. perhaps more than anything
else, is said to be bringing com
mercial Japan to her knees. The
Mix ADDS government, 1t will be
remer bered, took advantage o. the
war to impose upon China the IA
nous "twenty-one demands" China
retaliated by Doycott of japanese
goods but the boycott was snort
lived, as China found 1t impossible
TO secure the goods he needed
from the rest Of the world. China s
opportunity came with tie ead Of
the war. No longer depend upon
Japan for goods, she instituted a.
other boycott which this tire is
playing havoc with Japanege trad =
An immediate victory for Japan
se liberals may he too much 10 eX-
poet; but 1t IS encouraging t. learn
mat the movement is maxim lead
way Win the militarisgs urhorsed
in japan, autocracy will have been
driven from its last strong old
St. Paul Pioneer Press On y
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LLOYD GEORGES
NEW PARTY

What has been predicted in Brit
ish politics seems likely to come to
pass. lloyd George has apparently
definitely committed himself to the
Tory party. abandoning all pre-
tense of Iv.naiAins a Liberal, much
less a Pa9ieel Following similar
advocacy OF new center party by
Winston Spencer Churchill Lord
Birkenhead, formerly Sir f. f.
Smith. who as attorney general, Wis
i,od America during the war and
INDUCED il some pointed illusions
70 the presidents policies) is out
in an opinion that Tine coalition
government is hopelessly inverte-
bral and ineffective" and urging the
immediate formation Of a new ma
ii al party including the TO- ma
iori-y and what liberals the Pre-
mier cen Aold. I.rkenhead, who
was made Lord Chancellor by the
Premier, admits the recent by-elec-
ton IN orfrhire ii which the La.
boz candidate efeatad both the
coalition candidate and Sir John
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NO LEVINE PEACE
WITH RUSSIA

Lenine's latest peace offer, which
tho dispatches say is on the way
TO London, is probably less propo-
sal that Allied troops be withdrawn
IAN A proposal that the BolsheYist
.ceime be accepted as both de tac-
to and de jure a. government with
which the western powers can en-
te. into negotiation. For the Allies
10 accede to this plan will sorely
disappoint and discourage those
factions and forces which have
been carrying en- q heroic resist
anco in behalf of Russia democra-
cy ever since the farcial peace OF
Brest Litovsk; and to accept at
their face value the present prom
ise Of he shifty Lenine, that the
terrorism will be abolished and the
activities of the revolutionary trlb-
unals stopped, requires rather more
Of credulity than could be expect
cd of allied craftsmanship. The
world would rejoice to see peace in
Russia, OF course. just as the world
would have welcomed peace at any
time in the great war now ended.
BIT the only peace that could be
considered then or that should be
considered now Is peace of the
right kind, a sound, enduring, hon
Orable peace-no such misnamed,
lreacherous, monstrous thing as
that which this same Lenine ne
gotiated with Germany in the very
darkest hour OF his eountry's allies
Heed-Salt Lake Deseret News
Qnd)
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ibition can be made effective only
by extending it to beverages
watch, as a matter of fact are not
intoxicating" declares the Philar
delphia Inquirer (Rep.), tfen "the
public common sense and con-
science will revolt against a palpa-
Bile and injurious ahjurdity." The
task OF enforcing new rule of
!. on an unwilling and unoonsent-
ing raction OF the population" the
Philadelphia Public Ledger Und)
thinks, will be long and diff ult,"
the New York Tribune Rep) re-
CARDS this particular itcT as only
an example Of the fraud, oumbug
and hypocrisy Of the wartime pro-
hibit'on measure, and the st. Louis
Post Dispatch De NJ is prompted
to ask: win the Constitution be
reduced by acts Of Cong ess, af-
firmef by the Supreme Court. to
onehalf Of one per cent of its orig
inal conten?"
The chief hope Of the "we.s",
apal, from the apparent latitude
given to Cor 1rcss 70 say what per
centage OF alcohol is ''intoxicat-
ing, lies in tie chance either chat
the eighteenth amendment itself
my he ee aside by the cour as
improperly ratified, or that it, lan-
gauge may be construed as ambig-
uors. The amendment provides
that Congress and the several
states shall have concurrent pow
er" Of enforcement. The New York
Sun Qnd. Rep) observes that the
amendment is unique" in this re-
spect, and leaves the question Of en-
foroement open to doubt" until in
teTpreted by the courts. AS to the
constitutionaItv OF the methods
pursued by several states in ratify.
ing the Pittsburgh Press Ond)
tells us that while it is probably a
'forlon hope. still it may be ar
gued that those states having refer
endum requirements, thus making
the whole people the Legislature"
have not legally ratified unless the
act OF ratification has been passed
on by the people. Rhode Island
and New Jersey are attacking the
validity OF the amendment on this
and other technical grounds. In
New York, Governor Smith has
asked the legislature to repeal it's
previous act of ratification and sub
NIT the question to the people, but
the Syracuse Post Standard (Rep)
is certain that, even could such a
repeating act be passed and accept
ed as valid, it would not postpone
the effectiveness of the am dment
a single day." since there are suf-
ficient notifications without that Of
New York. The Albany Argus
(Dem) thinks none the less that
"if the traditions Of democratic
government are to be upheld in this
state, it is imperative that the leg
islature take The action urged by
Governor Smith"
The country seems to be OF two
minds OF the liquor question, and
in fact the Youngstown Vindieator
Dem) sees in the Supreme Courts
close vote "only a reflection of the
division of public sentiment the
country over. Fla 1T and west. north
and south, among high and low,
opinion as to prohibition is pretty
evenly divided"
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OUR SOLDIERS ENTITLED
TO EXPLANATION

1t is announced IN Washington
that the 5000 American soldiers in
Siberia will be withdrawn next
month.
When they have returned to their
stations in the United States the
country will haze seen the end of a
military episode which has puzzled
the nation from the beginning and
Of which no adequate exclamation
has been made by the administra-
ton.
The men who served in Siberia
and the country they represented
are entitled to such a statement;
and the world is entitled now to an
expression of opinion from Wash
lngton as to the place the United
States is to have IN the rich Siber.
Ia of the future,-New York Sun
(Ind)
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sons is intact.-Manchester Union.
A busy man on his busiest day
has time to listen TO the fellow
who drops in to tell him what a
wonder he is.-Salt lake Telegram.
1t is reported that the shortage
OF the sugar supply is causing
deaths among the bees. But of course
not am ng the presidential bees
Daily Oklahoman.
1t hasn't happened YET. But we
suppose the extgencies of politics
make it inevitable that some one
viii call General Wood a IMAM of
traw."-Arkansas Democrat.
The former kaiser would like to
raise cattle in South America. But
what he raised during the war will
give him all the business he can
handlo-Tacoma Daily Ledger.
We would think more of Ford If
lie would cut out this bonus to en-
ployes for while ard put another
spring under the back seat.-Meri-
dian Dispatch.
One Paris scientist declares that
oman is the backbone Of the hui
aaa species. But it really isn't rec
essary for her to show 50 much OF
It. Des Moines Register.
LuGendorff says Eufore fsces dis
aster, but at least it dos not face
German army.-Ioui5sille Post.
There are always NO political
parties, not so much because there
are two sides to every question d
because there are two sides to ey-
ev Office the inside and the out
s. 5e.-AnaeonLa Standard.
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BRYAN'S PROPOSED
GOVERNMENT NEWSPAPE Z

1t is Mr.. Bryan'e opinion that
the newspapers OF the country do
not publish the news and that
they az partisan and color what
ever matter is printed to meet GER
tain individual views. Tor these rea-
sons NJ Bryan would have the
government establish, edit and dis
tribute an official newspaper for
the benefit and education of the
people.
Such q newspaper would never
do. 1t would be minus all news OF
local value and would contain only
items of national interest under
which arrangement no newspaper
can possibly succeed. Whatever
articles were published would be
old days before reaching the peo-
pie through the mails which would
be completely cluttered up with
the issuance of twenty-five or more
million copies per day. Then as the
various political parties alternated
in control Of the government reins,
the publication would be used to
carry long oratorical harangues of
the party leaders and other politi-
cal matters.
Since Mr.. Bryan has virtually de-
clared that he does not seek the
Democratic presidential nomination
perhaps he aspires to become Sec,
rotary of the Department of Public
ity and editor-in-chief of the gov
ernment's daily, then he will make
sure that whatever he has to say
will get into print.
But the people. having had an
opportunity to judge OF the gov
ernments newspaper work n the
publication OF the late and unla-
me ted Official Bulletin" the one
experience will probably prove suf-
misunderstanding Register Dem.)
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Eimon, Asquith's chief liberal lieu
tenant, is forcing the coalition to
face the possibility o. a Labor vic
tory at the general elections. and it
IS his object to rally all others be-
hind the premier in opposition.
If this maneuver, which would
virtually wipe out the old liberal
rarity of Gladstone and Asquith,
can be carried through, the next
election, perhaps in February, may
see clear cut fight in England be.
tween labor and conservative par
ty led by Lloyd George. The cues
ton Is whether the liberals will
consent to retire from the fed and
whether in the event of a three
colncred fight labor may not win
anyhow-Pittsburgh Dispatch (Ini.J
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THURSDAY, JANUARY is, 1919
Daily
Editorial
Digest
Critic Appld for U. S. Pat off
Edited by the Washington
Feature Service
JOHN BARLEYCORN-
DEAD. OR ONLY STUNNED.

DAVID LAWRENCE, Prest.