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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1921-02-03
1908 LEGISLATORS REUNIrE
Sixty Members Have Biennial Meet
ing, Followed by Banquet

Montpelier Jan. 27-About 60 mem
bcrs Of tie Legislature Of 1908, in
cluding II members OF the Senate,
held their biennial reunion in Repre-
scntctivcs' hall this evening with
Speaker Thomas c. Cheney Of Nor
risville in the chair and Charles A.
Plumley Of Mortified as clerk. John
w. Untiedt secretary Of the pcrman-
ent organization Of the Legislature Of
1908, played an important part in the
proceedings. Letters were read from a
number of absent members and ex-
speeches were made by
many Of those present, much to the
delight Of the members and the large
audience. Following the meeting the
members adjourned TO the Montpelier
House where a banquet was served
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1921-02-03
SOME NOTES ON ETHAN ALLEN

Every war has its D'Annunzio; in.
deed, that camp Is happy which doe.
net have more than one Of them
though its misfortune is always his
Itory's delight Ethan Allen burst on
our scene in the name Of the great
Jehovah and the Continental Con-
gress; he left it on a too cold morning
after riding to a neighbor's farm to
borrow the hay he was sure three
morths before he would not need
For this sort Of man is good at
starting but inadequate at finishing.
Back in the obscure days before the
glorious moment at Ticonderoga,
Allen and his Green Mountain Boys
captured Justice Spencer, who persist
ed in upholding New York's claim to
the New Hampshire grants. A great
trial was arranged for him; the fear
full, admiring Vermonters looked on;
a judgment seat was raised but no
doubts as to who should sit in it;
Spencer was amply arraigned.
From rocks to rocks resounded far
his name, the poet assures us. Spen-
Ger was condemned to suffer his house
TO be burned; all acclaimed the judg
ment. At this point, however, the
prisoner put in an unexpected plea; he
reminded Robin Hood and his merry
men that his wife and children would
perish without roof. Winter in the
Green Mountains is not what it is in
the Forest Of Arden Allen and his
men deliberated long, and finally came
to decision. The roof Of Spencer's
house was solemnly taken off, with
great shouting" and then it was put
back on under the New Hampshire
title. The boys threw up their caps,
the people dispersed, and justice was
The New York lawyers had asked
Allen TO come down to Albany. He
came; il gave him a change to declare
g-andly, "The gods Of the valley are
not the gods Of the hills" and forth
with ride back to his pleasant life Of
llunder. The New York lawyers /
lfered 600 bounty for him: Allen
promptly offered as much for thel
Attorney General. When the glow Of /
hat piece Of repartee wore of, Allen
locided 70 beard the lions in their den
Ie clatters into Albany; while he
riders q drink at the inn, crowd
athers outside. sheriff Ten Eyck
morg them. wondering what he
urht y d5; while .Hl rs i- wonder
4g. out comes Allen leaps . hi
tringy horse; up roe his haf "Huzza
Or the Green Mountain Boysw ard /
q he goes.
The style IS indeed the man. Here /
ie some samples of Aliens "Hs
euish visage was beyond an deserip-
ion; snake-eyes appear innocent iri
Of his; his features er- +
orted; malice. death. murder. and the
Trath Of devils and damned spirits
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1921-02-03
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~De man dai tends strictly 70 his
own business said Uncle Eben. some
times douf git 20 credit cey' foh beln'
unEOciable
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-26
THE WORK CURE.

Voices all around us tell us that the
tide has turned, that we are on the
upward trend in business, that liqui.
dation is at an end, that a new Pc
riod of prosperity is about to break
upon US with unequaled splendor.
This is true under certain condi-
tions.
We can have prosperity if we will
to have it, but we shall not have it
merely by exclaiming that it is on
the way and will be with us soon.
It will be with US that soon, and
no sooner, that we brace ourselves
to make the effort which can alone
bring it to US.
1t is time for us to take off our
coats and go to work in dead earnest.
Work! Yes, that is the secret tails
man that will induce prosperity. The
United States has every natural re-
source that a country can need
coal, iron, oil, copper, fertile soil for
every agricultural product-and the
best climate in the world. 1t is rich
enough to be self-sustaining and self
sufficient. But the riches that must be
worked; not taken from a treasure
chest. In order to prosper we must
produce and produce and produce
But producing means work, and I'VE
are not so very much in love with
work.
+. Our ancestors who settled this
country and built it up were workers
Few of them were philosophers OF
gentlemen of leisure; mostly they
were men who had not become suf.
fciently educated to hate work. Why
an ancestor would think nothing OF
blowing a few acres, beating out a
few bushels of grain with fail, cut.
Ing down sundry trees, quartering
cow, doing little. backsmithing
whipping a dozen of his children
and then going out and killing ar
Indian or deer by way of amuse-
ment. 1t was all in the days work.
Many of US, however, have come
to believe that work is habit in
. .dulged in only by the unintelligent
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-26
MARSHAL FOCH WILL
TOUR U. S. IN OCTOBER

Washington, Sept. 26.-Elaborate
plans are being made by the Ameri-
can Legion for the reception and en-
tertainment of Marshal Foch, of
France, who will arrive in America
;ate in October to be the guest of
the Legion. A committee will meet
he marshal at New York, accom-
panying him to Washington, where
he will remain a few days, and to
Kansas City, Mo-, where the organi-
zation will open it's third annual con-
vention October 81.
Marshal Foch will return to Wash
ington Armistice day to attend the
ceremonial at the burial at Arling-
ION of the unknown American soldier
killed in France during the World
war. During his stay the distin.
guished Frenchman will make tour
of the United States, but plans for
this have not been completed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-26
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Parent.Teacher Meeting

The first regular meeting of the
Abbeville Parent-Teacher associa-
ton will be held Tuesday afternoon,
September q in the graded school
buildings at 4:30 o'clock. No
tices have been mailed to all of last
years members of the association
announcing the meeting and re-
questing their presence at this first
meeting. No set program has been
arranged for tomorrow's meeting
but the election of treasurer will
come up, as will plans for the future
work of the association. An oppor-
!,tunity will also be afforded the par
apts to meet . the new teachers as
$ome parents we're forced. to be alb
Sent from the. recent reception given
the association to the teachers.
An important factor IN tomorrow's
meeting will be the payment of dues
for this session. The yearly dues for
women are so cents and for men
$1.o0.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-26
Visitors At School

Mrs. Frank Wilson and Mrs. T. G.
White were distinguished visitors to
the high school Monday. They visit
ed all the grades during recitations
and were quite complimentary in
their remarks concerning the work
observed as well as "Hafner's Army
doing setting-up exercises at recess.
We wish every parent would visit our
schools and give US full benefit of
their constructive criticism. Criti-
cism which doesn't carry with it logi-
cal suggestions as how secure better
results than you are now getting is
wasted breath.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-26
REFUSES TO RESIGN
President Harding's Request Ignored
By Land Surveyor.

oy Lduo SuEvGyoIs
Salt Lake City, Sept. 23.-Presi-
dent Harding's attempt to force the
resignation of I. C. Thoreson as sur
veyor General of the Land Office for
the Utah District has precipitated a
policital row which threatens to oc-
cupy the attention of the United
States Senate, Senator King, Demo-
crat, having announced his intention
to fight the nomiation of E. D. Sor-
enson, sent to the Senate by the
President yesterday.
i, Mr.. Thoreson has twice refused to
resign. Early in September he re-
ceived personal letter from Presi-
dent Harding dated September 8,
reading as follows:
"My dear Sir: Those of US who
are responsible for the activities of
the new Administration never like.
to do anything in an inconsiderate
way. We are anxious to have men in
positions of responsibility who are
in full sympathy with the purposes
and plans Of the Administration. I
need not tell you Of the current de-
mand for the recognition Of aspir-
ants within your party for considera-
ton in the matter Of patronage. !
take you to be a practical man who
knows Of these developments with
sweeping change in national admins
tration. Under all these circum-
stances I would very much like to
have a new appointment in the Office
which you occupy. In all courtesy I
would infinitely prefer to have you.
recognize the situation and make
your resignation available. I am writ
ing this letter in kindly spirit to
express a request that you recognize
the situation and let me deal with
the situation as you would probably
wish to do if our positions were re-
versed."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-26
PROBLEM OF THE sPINNERs.
The State.

The State. = ..-" 49,.
The fact that the cotton crop in
the United States will this year be
around 100000 bales, which is much
less than one-half the maximum crop,
is staggering to the world. But for
the circumstance that the poverty
of Europe has reduced consumption
temporarily and that the surplus
brought over from last year is large,
sp;nners would be in panic. Had the
consumption of the Lancashire dis
trict been normal the last "a months,
all England would be excited about
the cotton question.
Now it is perfectly clear that the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-26

reduction Of the Southern cotton crop
is not an incident that will pass with
1921. More cotton will be raised per-
| haps in 1922 and in other years but
there is no reason to look forward in
many years to a cotton crop of 49,
100000 bales. Probably for long
time 100000 bales will be consid-
cred bumper crop" and, mean
time, the demand for the commodity
will steadily increase.
Perhaps by 1880 a Southern output
of 2O,OOO,0O0 bales would not be too
great for the worlds need. Where
is the cotton to come from? 1t must
be had. and it will be had. The So
called monopoly that the South has
enjoyed is not explained by climate
and soil. 1t is conceivable that cot
ton production may be immensely in
creased in other regions.
Further, it is perfectly clear that
cotton can be produced in the South
under boil weevil conditions. There
is no doubt about that. The contin-
uing diminution in the output will be
for the most part caused by the aban-
donment in despair Of their farms by
the poorer and more ignorant farm
ers. If they can be encouraged and
supported in this crisis, the Southern
states as an organized cotton pro-
ducing community supplying the
world with the commodity with the
maxim of economy in production will
survive. .>.. ..
The spinning world, of Europe,
America and the Orient, can obtain
its cotton from the South in the fu-
ture as in the past at cost far lower
than by creating new cotton grow
ing industry if another region. Be-
Sides, the day will come when every
cotton area will be infested by boil
weevils or other pests. !
1t occurs to The State that it would
be to the interest of the cotton spin
ners everywhere to address them
selves to- the preservation and en-
largement Of the Southern cotton
growing industry. The one thing
required to meet and dispose of the
boil weevil evil is intelligent and
trained labor.
"A wealthy New England cotton
mill company could purchase $4,000
or 100000 acres in South Carolina
and raise the cotton for it's spinners
and looms, despite the weevils. This
it would do by employing expert
managers to guide the labor that is
already here, though it would be ad-
visable to send considerable number
of white laborers to it's plantations
or group of plantations. The crux
of the matter is that the small farm
ers, especially the blacks, are with
out capital and without credit, as
we'll as without the training and in
itiative to grapple problem utterly
foreign to their experience. -
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-26

Our occupation too often is the
game of securing the maximum OF
pay for the minimum of effort. This
is not thing that leads to national
prosperity.
Only work does that. =
Let US take off our coats and 60
to it.-Richmond News-Leader.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-26

that France would regret deep;y the
departure Of the American forces.
The French government regards
the American soldiers on the Rhine
as the keystone of the arch and alliea
solidarity there, and their presence a
great help in enforcing the treaty
of Versailles.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-26
COLLEGE EXPENSES

Mr.. C. P. Hodges has written the
Columbia State with reference to the
expenses of sending students to the
colleges of the state, both state and
private institutions, suggesting that
something should be done to lessen
the charges made by these institu-
ton. In today's State is letter from
a college president replying to Mr..
Hodges in which the side Of the col
leges is given.
Those of US who are called on to
rsy the charges made by the colleges
of the country can sympathize with
Mr.. Hodges in bis desire to see the
expenses of educating our children
lessened, but we think that fair con-
sideration of the question will con-
vince most of US that the statement
made by the college president is bas-
ed on facts, and that the public, IN
Ger present conditions, cannot look
for lower expenses in our institutions
of higher learning. -. .
( It is fact, as stated, that only in
recent years have members of the
teaching profession, even those in the
colleges, received sufficient salaries
to keep body and soul together. A
man who held professorship in one
Of our colleges, on the salary paid
few years ago, if he had medium
sized family, had little with which to
offer his own children the benefits of
an education. Even today, his posi-
ton is little better. There is little in
the teaching profession to attract
good men to it at present salaries,
and a man who turns to it must do so
either from love of the calling or
from some kind Of necessity. Ger
tainly he may not expect to build
fortune or even to lay away some
thing for the comforts of old age
from the meagre salary paid. IL,
2 There is something else which
should be said too. We have had oc-
casion to investigate the expenses
charged in the colleges in South Car
olina as compared with the expenses
of colleges and universities in other
Z states. We have found that the ex,
penses in our own institutions are
much lower than in many of the out
side institutions. In some of the col
leges and universities in other states
enough is charged in one year to pay
the whole four years expenses in
some Of the colleges in South Caro-
lima. On the whole, according to our
investigation, a young man or a
young woman may secure college
education in South Carolina for less
than in any other state of which we
have any knowledge. .%x.E, r.. T..
This does not mean that. expenses
should not be lowered wherever it, is
possible to lower them. But the stu
dent these days must have many
things. He must have good fare; he
must have a comfortable room, well
heated and well lighted; he must have
a good bed, and the convenience
which 60 with comfortable living. He
wants all kinds of service; and all
Of these things, must be paid for
When it is all counted in the cost, il
will be found, we believe, that the
colleges are run on as economical q
basis as it is possible to employ.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-26

fed
The French ftreign Office has re-
ceived no official information that
such action is intended, but NJ. JUS
serand, the French ambassador in
Washington, has been instructed to
watch developments closely and to
point out at the opportune moment
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-26
FRANCE ALARMED OVER
REMOVAL OF U. S., TROOPS

Paris, Sept. 25.-French official
circles are greatly disturbed over re-
port received here from Washington
that the American troops on tine
Rhine may be withdrawn when the
treaty with Germany has been ra.i-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-31

Copyright 1921 by International Feature Service inc Great Britain Right Reserved Registered IT. Patent oFics
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1921-11-03

The Poor Sap who leans against the
Drinking Fountain Is Entitled TO Men,
tion among the Town Pests, for he's
Always in the Way. Why doesn't he
20 Park himself against q Building.
20 Us Citizens with our Tongues
Hanging Out can lap up Drink with
out first Pushing h!Is Awayf
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1921-11-03

Notice Of Resale OF Lots and
Tracts Of Land for Deiinqusnt Ts1es.
Purchased by Beaver County, OK
ithonA al 1919 Delinquent Tan
New Britain herald., 1921-08-20
ALI IS NOT LOST.

The mayor is reported to have board was considering a modified sys- tenn (of the two-platoon system) Mr. Macomher would not have been re- moved as he was last Saturday,"
 It is quite certain that he will be informed by the new commission be- fore the special meeting of the Com mon Council, at which he has prom ised some plan will be submitted, he will be informed of the plan that, it is asserted, would have been submit ted last Wednesday night if the dis turbance had not arisen over the re- moval of MT. Macomber. Probably the mayor is informed of that plan already as a. partially detailed account of it las been printed. Whether or not ths mayor may mako such a prom 1 ise for a commission is another story. It is natural that he, as ex-Qficio member of the board, would want to | know what sort of plan was to be SuDIlIIlCO, anu lIldL He SlOulu nave d chance to study it before it was sub mtted But the sudden removal of | the chairman of the board may not properly be predicted upon this one action. There must have been other | actions of the chairman, perhaps
 quite proper, perhaps not, which led
 up to the removal of the chairman n
 at a. critical period.
 l But all is not lost! If the plan now
 made public is as good as it seems | to be, or if notifications of that plan l may make it even better, the work
 done by the board whil MT. Macom-
 Der was it's chairman, and the hours
 spent on perfecting tRs plan. need not be wasted.
 October 1st is the time for the two.
New Britain herald., 1921-08-20

dren may not feel humble and chaS-
 But there is another class. There are "homes' in which no bits of cloth are found decent enough to make into clothing for the little ones. Perhaps the mother has had to work out" or to take in washing-perhaps she has been able to do neither, and the Father- has been out of work. Perhaps there has been no father. Perhaps their greatest worries through the days have. been to get something to oat for children and selves that they may continue to hope and to live.
 In such homes how welcome would be a childs dress that had been out grow, a, sweater, a pair of shoes, dis carded by more tastidious children, blouse, a middle, a pair of little trous- CTS, coat. Perhaps one who reads has seen the glow of happiness that comes into the eyes of the poor child when 9 garment comes to them, for their very own," which has mot many noles'' and is only just a little worn.''
 The though of such children who have been wearing rags through the tacation time because they could stay lear home or play out where their I5canty attire was not noticed-the bought of them should send every | moderately situated mother or any women mother or not-to her attic | or cellar, to her closets or storeroon | in eager search for something to send | o the Welfare" Association at 52 Cen
 ter street, or to call up it's num- Der 79C md give the information that clothing
 S there for some children.
 If the people of New Britain wht are able to do anything to help these children, sit back and do nothing there will be many little ones who vii
 have to stay at home and watch other
 running past on their way toward tn
 place where they will learn the. frs
 rudiments of the things one mu;
 know
 Few are the women, few are tn
 men in this city who will not heed thi
 call from the destitute little ones.
New Britain herald., 1921-08-20

Epicures whose forte is roast sheep are anticipating with pleasure the first biz political gathering locally in many months. That's the Third War1 club outing at Lake Compounce. O; course, which will be held on Sep tember 10. They can talk about the fried chicken in Dixie. the oysters on tho hall shell at Harvey'a in Wash ington and the roast venison in the northern wilds, but for real eats tho road always leads to a Lake Com pounca sheep roast
 In past years the attendance at the Third Ward outing has been large The question presents itself whether the ward can muster big crowd this year unless members who are en- dowed with the worlds riches buy large quotas of tickets and distribute them to their friends. The average man actually will not have the price this year even though he has a strong yearning tor the menu.
 Republicans are pleased at the an- nouncenent that Governor Lake will De one of the speakers. The Chief Executive stands well in New Britain and should prove to be strong draw ing card The speaker of national prominence will have his work cut out for him. He will be expected to explain the why and wherefore of the present industrial condition and it would not be out of place for him to say a word or two about the tariff question which IS believed in some quarters to be not what it should be. However, the outing is sure to be a success from the standpoint of those | who have the wherewithall to buy a | ticket.